I was surrounded by darkness and it felt as though I was in a tight tube. I had no idea where I was and my mind was racing. It felt as though the platform I was standing on was rising. I looked up and saw a small circle of light, slowly growing larger as the platform rose.
Finally, I reached the top of the tube and I rose into a wooded area. As I looked around the area, I saw twenty three other platforms, equally spaced apart, each with a disoriented person riding it. I squinted my eyes and realized that I recognized most of these people. They were all YouTubers. Shane Dawson was trying to regain his balance and Tobuscus was waving at Sean Klitzner, who was on the other side of the circle of platforms, waving back at Toby.
A voice echoed throughout the area, making half of the people in the circle jump. Jacksfilms nearly fell off of his platform.
"Welcome to the Hunger Games!" The voice boomed, "The battle will begin in 59, 58, 57, 56…" The voice counted down and I knew what I had to do. Most of the people in the arena now also knew what they had to do, so they prepared to run into the center of the circle, the Cornucopia.
Joey Graceffa was in a weird fangirl state, being totally excited to be in the Hunger Games, yet, knowing that his chances of survival were small. He looked like he had to go to the bathroom as he tried not to jump in excitement.
"20, 19, 18, 17…" The voice continued to count down as everyone else who wasn't already prepared to run prepared. My mind only now settled on the thought that I would have to kill some of these people. My favorite YouTubers, people who I looked up to, would die today; I could even die, and there was nothing any of us could do about it.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1…" A cannon fired and everyone ran, some to the Cornucopia, others into the nearby woods. I ran to the Cornucopia, grabbing anything and everything that was on the ground, in my way. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Anthony and Ian, from Smosh, each grabbing swords. Anthony quickly turned around and slit Ray William Johnson's throat. Ray fell, grabbing his throat as he bled out.
I finally reached the Cornucopia and I grabbed the only bow and arrow set there was. I turned around and saw KassemG coming at me, wielding knives. I shot him and the arrow embedded itself in his eye. He was dead before he hit the ground. I walked up to his lifeless body and pulled the arrow from his head. The knives were still in his hands, so I took those as well.
I looked around the inside of the Cornucopia and grabbed as much food as I could, stuffing it into the backpack I had grabbed on my way there. I reached out to grab a sack of apples and just as my hand touched the bag, another hand touched mine. I notched an arrow and aimed at the other person. It was Tobuscus.
"Wait!" he cried, holding up his hands, "Don't shoot."
"I don't want to," I said as something exploded outside.
"Then don't," Toby replied, taking a step forward, "I'm Toby." He held out his hand.
"Ambrosia," I said, lowering the bow. I hesitated to shake Toby's hand.
"Ally?" he asked, motioning to his hand. I paused for a second, then, deciding it was best, shook his hand.
"Ally."
