The hunger games:
1st annual hunger games
Chapter one: The start of it all..(also a little begginers chapter, the others will be much longer :D)
It was a cold first day of fall, we had electricity for the first time in 3 months. All these men dressed in all white, jackets and all. There faces, unknown...they always wore a white helmet enclosing the face with a black glass that only they could see out of..barged into our house and stood there for 3 minutes until one of them suddenly said "turn on the tv..." My little sister Cora rushed over to the tv and pressed differant buttons till it turned on! This was the first time I had ever watched somthing on a telly, it was amazing! At first the picture was blury and we were unable to make out what was on the tv but over time a man agaisnt a mahogany podium started to speak.
"Today, we rejoice! The war, the rebellion, the uprising! Is finnaly over, we have won. And to celebrate our win we would like to hold somthing...satisfying to keep the memory of this historic moment in time. We like to call it The Hunger Games!"
There was now a devilish stare in his golden eyes.
"The Hunger Games shall be a competition were one boy and one girl aged 12-18 will fight to the death in an enclosed arena!" At this point people of the capitol and laughing and cheering! On the other hand my family, the whole district, in fact all other 11 districts were in a state or shock! Could this be true I thought to myself? I so wanted this to be a joke because if it wasn't, I was 13 and eligable to "fight"!
My mother calls my name and my sisters "victor! Cora! Go fetch the men some water!" Me and my sis were about to leave the room when the men in white said "don't leave!" Me and my sis responded wisely to this and sat back down iinstantly.
"Now to symbolise this special occasion, your districts capitol member of state will read out who shall be competing this year!"
" At least my sis wasn't old enough for this.." I mutterd to myself...
"Now for district one!" My district...
"First the girls!" He rustles his hand in a glass bowl and takes out a piece of paper and opens it.
"Freya whilhome" I hear a cry from another house...freya was in the class above me I've never really met her properly but I guess she never was the one to socialise..
"Now for the boys!" He once again rustles his hand in another glass bowl.
"Victor..forton.." My mother screamed! Tears ran down my face as she and my lil sis ran over to me and squeezed me in a never ending hug. The two men in white said I had 3 minutes to say my goodbyes.
"Mum I promise ill win for you! Remember dad taught me how to use a dual axe and Throwing knives, and you taught me what foods to eat and not to eat and how to make shelter! I promise I could win this!"
"You can do it victor!" Said my lil' sis who was acting strong and holding back the tears.
"*sniffle* you come back home victor..you go out there and win this for your family...don't...don't d...don't d..."
"Don't say it mum, don't say it.."
She nodded as the two men grabbed my arms as they dragged me to the train station.
"Where are you taking us!" I screamed
"The capitol where you will be trained to KILL!"
They both laugh, what was it that they found so ammusing about this? People killing each other for entertainment?! I heard freya's family scream as she too was dragged out to come to kill..