Disclaimer- I aspire to be Suzanne Collins, does that count?
Chapter 1
The arena
Sickened and terrified, I feel my plate begin rise. "Ladies and gentlemen, let the seventy-fifth Hunger Games begin!"
Something clouds my vision. Where am I? There is what looks like a swirling whirlwind of, what, soot? I struggle to see through it as it stings my eyes.
It settles at my feet after a few seconds, and I can finally see clearly. I can see the golden cornucopia in the distance, which looks so out of place in this grey world around me. It seems I am in an abandoned city, but all that remains of it are a few unstable looking concrete buildings which are empty and lifeless.
No trees. No plants. No form of life. Then I realise something. I can't see the other tributes.
"Peeta," I scream. The gong goes and then I'm running. I don't know where I'm going, but I have to find him. I scream his name over and over and then I see a figure in the distance. He's running towards me and I'm running towards him. Then I see the golden bronze glint of the figures hair.
Damn it. It's Finnick.
I start running in the opposite direction, still screaming Peeta's name, but Finnick is fast. Before I know it he is jogging beside me and talking really fast .I don't have any weapons and it would be impossible to outrun Finnick if my life depended on it, which right now it does.
So I turn to face him and start out with why he should kill me quickly, but Finnick interrupts
"We're on your side."
Now I'm confused. Because this is exactly what Bonnie said when I met the escapees from district eight in the woods. I don't know if he means on the side of the rebellion and the mockingjay or just of an alliance and also I'm not sure who he means by 'we' but right now it doesn't matter.
"Where is Peeta?" But Finnick comes up blank. I turn and start running again.
He is following me, but if he wanted to kill me he could have done it earlier, so I ignore him and just keep going. I can hear a distant voice screaming my name; the plates must be spread out by about a kilometre.
I can see Peeta, who is frantically running as fast as he can, so I scream his name louder. He turns to look and for a moment I just stare into his clear blue eyes, but then I stop dead. Because I've just realized something that I've missed. I slowly turn around and scan the arena, I've seen it before. Not as an arena, but something much more important. Then I see a mockingjay.
Ah! The mockingjay is nearly out! Anyway, review? Please?