This is the intro to my new story, The Aqua Games! Told from Annie's point of view! There will be Odesta, just not in this chapter. Now without further adieu, The Aqua Games!
The grounds starts shaking violently, and I start to scream. Finn's smile flashes before my eyes, then Mags' laugh fills my ears, and just as the dam breaks, I hear my sister's last words to me before I left District 4 'I love you Annie, you'll come home' I told her not to count her chickens, and she told me 'I'm afraid I have to, just remember that I will always hold my breath for you.' It strikes just as the water is hitting, I'll always hold my breath for you, time to return the favor to Atti. I take a deep breath, and jump into the air now thick with water. The water surrounds my body and I hear a cannon fire. I start swimming kicking and pushing myself upward, another tribute dies, their cannon rings in my ears and I force myself not to think of Kai's death. Just a few more strokes, I think, my legs and arms ache from the strain of gravity and the air deprivation in my brain. My hand breaks through the top of the water, and I pull myself out of the water. Air fills my lungs and suddenly I can think semi-clearly. I'm about two miles above the tallest tree in the arena, three cannon shots ring out and I realize there are only two of us left, Crystal and I. Then I see her about 20 yards away struggling to stay above the water, then she slips below it and I'm suddenly swimming towards her. I grip Crystal's hand and pull her from the water. Her lips are blue. She gasps for air, then she looks up and sees me Annie Cresta, the girl people thought had gone completely insane, holding her hand.
"I thought…y-you had died," she coughed, tears in her eyes, "Why did you.." she breathes deeply, "Why did you save me?"
"I don't know" she seems surprised to hear me speak so sanely, "I guess I couldn't let you die because I didn't do something" she laughed,
"You have to win now" she whispers "Because you're the better person, you would save someone you barely know, someone that you're supposed to kill, someone I don't think you like very much, because you think that it's right" Crystal laughs again manically this time, then she reaches up to my ear and whispers, "Show them they don't own us, and make sure they remember me…" then she pierces my hand with her nails, and my hand instinctively retracts from hers and she slips under the water once more. At first I don't notice I'm checking the severity of my hand (it's bleeding), but now I see that she's gone from my view and I'm screaming trying to swim and grab her hand but my leg is caught on a stray piece of wood. As soon as I free myself I slip down into the water, I see Crystal's face, her lips are as icy blue as her hair, her hand out stretched. My heart jumped she was alive! Her cannon fired. No! I thought, scrambling down to her, but I was being lifted back into the air, just above the water.
"I present to you the victor of the 70th Hunger Games, Anastacia Cresta, the girl from District 4," since I'm thrashing so much they pull me up like I'm a dead body instead of the victor. As soon as get in they inject some aqua liquid into my arm, and everything goes fuzzy then black…
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