Don't Count Me Out
A/N- I do not own The Hunger Games or any of the Characters. Suzanne Collins does and to that I owe her my life!
Chapter 1
The gong went off and I couldn`t move it`s as if I were frozen in time. Then I saw her.. the girl the one with the flames the one with the intense eyes that were full of hurt . This Girl this one girl she was like no other.. she wasn`t vicious but she wasn`t she was determined as if she had something on the line that she couldn`t lose. I finally snapped out of it, "Rue stay focused" I said to myself! I started running almost everyone had already left their place... luckily I saw a camoflage backpack just laying out in the open for my taking. I saw some Boy take a second glance at me then noticed what i was staring at. I was lucky that I had the upper hand and was closer to the backpack then him. I snatched it before he could realise what I was doing.
Thats when it all began the blood bath that end the lives of children who never had chance. I started sprinting from the cornocopia not even stopping to see what was in my backpack. I needed distance- a tree far away from anyone else. With branches for shelter and warmth. Eventually I will need to go looking for food but for right now I need to stay high up in case anyone followed me. The first tree I spot is a tall, thick evergreen tree. You don`t see many of these back in district 11. I started climbling soaring from branch to branch. Trying to stay as quiet as I possibly could. I finally came to a branch that I could put my backpack down and look through it. It had socks, dried bananas in a silver packet, a pack of matches( a great advantage for starting fires), a bottle to store water in and a blanket (just thick enough to keep from dyeing of frost bight at night).Eventually the cannons went off signaling the lives that were sacrifised for the Capitals humor. I scrambled down my tree trying to search for a source of water when I came across a pool only near 15 meters away. I filled up my bottle and was just prepared to climb up my tree when I heard a branch snap! I scrambled back up to where I left my belonings and and waited to see what had caused the branch to snap.
To my horror it was the careers. The careers consisted of 6 strong, vicious looking teens who had atleast 3 years over me. These were the people who thought that I didn`t have a chance, the people who thought I was a dead man, the people who thought they could kill me but I`m not going to be the one to die today. They had torches and weapons that could end a life in a second. The tall blonde boy I saw training with the girl on fire was with them. I thought he was in love with her now he is going to kill her? I saw them slowly start to walk onward. When they were atleast a kilometer away I heard a scream of girl. This was going to be a long night and we all knew it.