This isn't the actual beginning so please hold your horses.

I just wanted to show off my story with a little flair.

Here we go.

*Prologue*

My friend Titania's eyes widened when the Career girl from Four pulled out a wickedly long knife that had an evil looking back hook on one side. No doubt it would cause deplorable damage to anything it was turned against. Everyone knew my friend had no weapon to counter the Career girl's. The fight would be short lived and messy.

Without a second thought or hesitation Titania whipped around and ran as fast as her long legs would take her.

Never before had I felt so nervous watching the Hunger Games. Titania wasn't just my friend, she was the only girl I could see myself having a life with. She was beautiful sure, extremely so, but I had fallen in love with the way her mind works. I honestly can't stand stupid people and Titania was most definitely not.

Not there, I begged her mentally, all the while knowing there was nothing I could do to prevent my friend on screen, my friend who was in the Hunger Games, from going where she was so obviously headed. The jungle life tore at Titania's dirty uniform as she sprinted with the Career girl close in pursuit. No doubt Titania was trying to buy some time to find another weapon. Without one she was dead meat.

"Don't go there." I begged out loud and my Father, the only sicko in District Twelve who actually like the Games, shushed me harshly.

Nearly a week ago my friend had been in this same section of the Arena. It had caused quite the stir between the Host and the announcer for the Games. This particular part of the Arena contained snakes. Giant. Poisonous. Snakes.

"The serpents in this part of the Arena easily reach a ton in weight and nearly thirty feet in length. Their heads are large enough they wouldn't even have to dislocate their jaws to swallow either of these tributes whole, Claudius!" Caesar Flickerman commentated from his studio with such gaiety it made my stomach churn with hatred.

Caesar's co-star chortled next to him, and then made his ever famous joke, "It looks like the odds aren't in either of their favor."

Focusing back on the tributes, the cameras caught the Career girl tackling my friend's legs and dragging her down into the mud. After pinning my friend, the Career girl raised that evil knife over her head.

"It just has to be this way, Twelve." The girl from Four whispered with a twinge of sadness.

Titania simply nodded. She knew what was coming next. The girl that had been so chummy with my friend just a few days ago was going to plunge a knife into her chest. Not able, or possibly willing, to stop her, Titania accepted it.

Don't do this to me, I pleaded, Whoever's listening up there, don't take her from me.

Before the final blow could be dealt something large slammed into the would-have-been-Victor. A coiling mass of slick, cobalt blue scales and deadly spikes that had snuck up on the girls, hungry for its next meal; a nearly thirty foot monster snake.

The triangle shaped and horn ringed head appeared as the two girls got to their feet, their backs to the meadow they had come from.

"Right." Titania murmured out of the blue.

"Left." The Career girl nodded.

The Snake attacked. One of the girl's went down. The snake was in the camera's way. No one could see even a strand of hair from the girls. A familiar wail hung in the air and pierced my heart.

I couldn't contain my shout, "No!"

My father glowered at me, "Haymitch Abernathy, you had better shut your trap."

Before you ask this story is NOT ABOUT HAYMITCH.

If that wasn't clear in the story description then I am sorry. Also, if you have questions feel free to ask because I will answer them at the end of the next chapter.

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