The Afterlife of Rue, District 11
I stood there watching Katniss Everdeen, my only ally in the 74th Hunger Games, put a rainbow of flowers on my stone cold speared body and sing to what was me. I'm glad if I had to die, at least it was with a friend. Just then the hovercraft comes to retrieve the body and the one mockingjay sends out the warning tune. I watch my body soar into the air as I follow it.
In the hovercraft I watch as Katniss runs into the forest with the belongings of me and the boy from district 1. I then hear from one of the doctors, "Which tribute was this again?"
I say, "The girl tribute from District 11." No one hears me so I scream it even louder. "The girl from District 11, Rue!" Yet I still stand unheard, so I just watch the doctors from The Capitol scoop out my eyes and brain and put them in a jar filled with what looks like water and then they add some unfamiliar chemicals for preservation I heard a doctor say.
I just stand and watch the jar sit there as the days pass. With every cannon shot, comes a jar marked "Rue 11" "Marvel 1" "Clove 2" "Glimmer 1" etc. I'm guessing they are in random order, if not I want to know the abnormal logic they have in The Capitol.
On the 15th day of being dead, give or take, I watch the jars be emptied into a weird human wolf mutt. They all have the same hair color as the human bodies. All have collars made of something to represent their district. Mine is an 11 woven out of straw. Glimmer's and Marvel's are a 1 made of a beautiful emerald. The others I cannot see.
When the mutts are dropped into the arena, they chase the smell of human. I then see the last 3 tributes Katniss, District 12, Peeta Mellark, also District 12, and Cato, from District 2. They all are running to the Corninicopia. They start climbing it, but I can't watch this because this is a horrid event.
After a few hours I hear a cannon go off and I turn to see Cato dead. Then Caesar Flickerman comes on and says "The earlier rule of pairs winning has been revoked. Have fun and may the odds be ever in your favor." Then I watched as Katniss and Peeta stood there and talked. Then Katniss pulls nightlock berries, which kill almost instantly, out of her bag. They both put one in there mouth after a long kiss.
Just then the ceremonial trumpets play and Caesar announces "Congratulations to Peeta Mellark and Katniss Everdeen from District 12 for winning the 74th annual Hunger Games." Peeta and Katniss spit out the deadly berries. I guess two victors is better then none. Then a hovercraft comes to take them to The Capitol and I just stay in the arena for the rest of my afterlife. I wonder what is in store for the 75th Hunger Games', the 3rd Quarter Quell, tributes.
