Let the Game Begin
Amy adjusted her eyes to the sun and the cornucopia was the first thing she spotted aswell as a woodland bit off to her right.
She looked around trying to see if she could find Sonic.
She did, but quite far to the left.
"Let the 51st Hunger games, begin" the game-makers voice came booming around everyone.
The countdown began from 30, with a voice saying each number.
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Amy spots a bow, arrow and quiver leaning against a crate, and spots a backpack, making her plan.
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When the countdown reaches 10 the voices stops and a gong sound fills the arena instead...and a loud explosion.
BOOM!
Every tribute focused their attention to the empty podium, they wonder who it was that went too early, but Amy figured out quickly that it was Fiona, the district 8 female.
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The horn sounds and some of the tributes run away, including Sonic.
Amy was quick enough to grab a bow and arrow and went to run for a backpack, but got tackled by Zavok.
"You're mine!" Zavok went to strike Amy with a knife, but someone else stabbed him in the neck.
Zavok dropped the knife and fell down dead.
Amy looked to who stabbed him, it was Zooey.
"Get out of here!" Zooey shouted.
Amy grabbed the backpack and ran away, hearing the screams of the tributes, but just as she entered the forest area, she tripped and fell behind some bushes, where she could see the Cornucopia, but she couldn't see the dead bodies, only the people standing.
From what she could see however, is that the careers have got two allies to their team, the district 3 tributes, Rory and Zel, they grab as many supplies as they can, in which, she spots each person nodding except for Rory, who has his back turned to the group.
Rover hands Zel a sword, in which she stabbed him in the throat and struck him again and again until his head came off.
Amy ran away further into the forest and bumps into someone.
They end up toppling down a hill and when they stop they get a good look at each other.
"Zooey?" Amy called out.
"Amy?" Zooey said. "This is a surprise"
"Yeah, thanks for saving me" Amy praised.
"No problem, I may be small and weak, but I have the brain of a genius" Zooey said. "What's in the back pack?"
"Huh? Oh right" Amy took off her back pack and opened it, she took out a hunting knife, a water bottle and a medicine pack. "Looks like I hit the bullseye"
"I lost my knife during the scuffle, falling down the hill" Zooey says.
"You can have mine" Amy said giving her the knife she got from the bag and the bottle.
"No, you keep it" Zooey insisted.
"You take it, I've already got something anyway to defend ourselves with" Amy said pulling out the bow and arrow. "Speaking of which"
Amy pulled back an arrow and flew it into a charging Scourge who came from the bushes behind Zooey.
"Nice shot" Zooey said, before Scourge collapsed to the ground.
Amy pulled out the arrow as they heard cannons go off.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
"9 cannons" Amy said.
"What do you want to do now?" Zooey asks.
"We hunt for food, find water and tomorrow, we find our district partners" Amy said.
"Tails is dead" Zooey said. "That tiger broke his neck"
"Crawford" Amy said.
"We'll find yours, then we'll plan something" Zooey said, smiling.
"Let's find a place to rest first" Amy said, zipping up the backpack and travelling through the wilderness.
They come across a large tree which has a lot of large branches near the top.
"How do we get up there?" Zooey asks.
"We climb" Amy says, placing the bow on her back.
"That'll be too hard for me" Zooey says.
"Just watch what I do" Amy starts climbing the tree and manages to get to a bit, where even I she falls, she'll survive. "C'mon"
Zooey does the same as Amy, but just as she reaches where Amy is, she slips, but Amy is able to grab her in time and pulls her up.
"Are you okay?" Amy asked.
Zooey nods in fear.
"Alright, you stay here and I'll find something that we can use to stay here for the night" Amy said and began climbing down the tree.
As she reaches the ground.
"Wait" Zooey calls out. "Use this"
Zooey drops her the water bottle and Amy grabs it.
"Thank you" Amy said and went off to find supplies.
Amy wanders around for a while finding hardly anything, but then hears a river running.
"Water"
Amy rushes to where the sound is coming from and finds the river and fills the water bottle with it.
"Bingo" Amy closes the bottle, just as a spears flies right infront of her and misses her by an inch.
Frightened, she rans away and over the river where she hears a voice calling out for her.
"Get back here!" it was Shadow, the district 4 male.
Amy runs through the forest, with Shadow close behind her, but she knows he has throwing knives as she dodges one and decides to swerve in and out the trees.
But it's not enough to dodge them all and Shadow lands a hit on her leg, she tries to use her bow and arrow to shoot him, but he has his foot on her wrist.
"Goodnight, Rose"
A cannon goes off however and distracts Shadow long enough for Amy to grab one of her arrows and sticks it in Shadow's abdomen, therefore letting go of her wrist, she is about to kill him, when she hears multiple voices from behind her.
Thinking quickly, she pulls out a bandage for Shadow, gives it to him and pushes him into a bush, hiding him.
She then runs off, with only a bottle of water.
She returns to Zooey who is sleeping in the tree.
She climbs up it and goes to a second branch beside the one Zooey is sleeping in.
The arena turns dark and Zooey wakes up from this.
"Amy?" Zooey calls out quietly.
"I'm here" Amy said. "I didn't get much, but I did get water"
She pulls out the bottle and gives it to Zooey, who drinks about half of it, before giving it to Amy who finishes the rest.
"Now what?" Amy asks.
An anthem starts playing and the Capitols symbol appeared in the sky with the message 'THE FALLEN' written underneath.
The first image shows Rory from district 3, then it shows Wave from 5 aswell as Jet, Monkey Kahn from 6, Espio from 7, Scourge and Fiona from 8, Knuckles from 9, Zavok from 10 and finally Tails from 11.
The anthem stops.
"Your partner is still alive" Zooey said.
"Yeah, sorry about Miles" Amy said.
"It's ok, I didn't know him that much anyway"
Amy and Zooey rest on parts of the tree so that they don't fall off and they go to sleep.
Amy drifted in and out of sleep, because she was always worrying about something, was someone going to find her and Zooey? Would the game-makers try to make them move away from their locations?
Amy sighed in sadness, but then noticed something in the sky, a basket of some sorts.
She stood up slowly and grabbed the basket noticing a basket of water and food.
Along with that, it was a note saying 'Keep her alive as long as possible.' - 11.
District 11, Zooey's district.
"I'll try as much as I can" Amy responded to the note.
She heard a cannon go off, which woke up Zooey.
"Ah!"
"Stay quiet!" Amy whispered, quickly.
"What have you got?" Zooey asked.
"A sponsor, from your district" Amy explained.
Zooey first noticed the note and read it. "I'm sure you'll try your best"
"Thanks"
"Who's cannon was that?" Zooey asked.
"I don't know, I'm thinking district 10 female or Shadow, D4 male" Amy said.
"We'll find out tomorrow" Zooey said, but as soon as she said that the sun rose up.
"Convenience" Amy joked.
Zooey giggled a little. "We're near the cornucopia, right?"
"Yeah, we're pretty close" Amy said. "We should try and get some resources, if I climb higher, then I should get a better view"
"Be careful" Zooey said as Amy began climbing up the tree.
Amy climbed on small branches and used holes in the tree to climb up, before getting a good view of the cornucopia.
She then noticed, she has an entire view of the arena, it looked quite small, but the tree they were on was the tallest in the arena.
Standing on a large branch, right hand on the tree and left arm down by her side, she looks over the arena, feeling powered and unstoppable against the other.
Looking down in the centre, she spots the Careers, who are hunting for supplies around the cornucopia.
"You're not getting out of this alive" Amy muttered to herself.
She began climbing down the tree and ends up on the same level as Zooey.
"The Careers are there" Amy said. "They are looking for supplies aswell"
"Are you going to risk it?" Zooey asked.
"Maybe" Amy said. "If they spot me, then I may have a chance of injuring or killing on of them, stay up here"
"Ok" Zooey said.
"Alright, I'll see you soon" Amy climbed down the tree.
Once she reached the ground floor she began climbing up a hill and eventually hid in the bushes spying on the Careers.
She is able to hear what they are saying from a distance.
"Who did you kill?" Crawford asked Zel and Viper.
"That stupid fashion-hungry greeny, or the D10 girl" Viper responded handing Rover a sharp sword.
"Brilliant, though I do wonder..." Rover said.
"What?" Zel said.
"Was killing Rory a good idea?" Rover asked.
"Possibly, he did get a low score" Crawford pointed.
"NO, NO!"
They got distracted by a scream and then Celia, held Nicole captive and threw her on the floor.
"Ay! Another one!" the group exclaimed.
"Another one?" Amy thought to herself. (Who is still hiding, in case you have forgotten)
"Tie her up with Bluey" Rover commanded.
Celia dragged Nicole and tied her up beside Sonic, they are both now tied up on a pole.
"Sonic!" Amy whispered.
"Alright, you three run off, hunt for others, Zel, you and I will guard these twats" Rover commanded.
"Right"
Rover and the others except Zel ran off into the forest to hunt while Zel and Rover guarded the duo.
'I'll need to cause a distraction' Amy thought.
"You guard the front, I'll stay round here" Rover said.
"Right"
Once she did that, Rover called out: "You don't need to hide anymore!"
He was staring at Amy's location.
Zel came running round. "Find someone?"
Rover said nothing and grabbed a throwing knife and threw it at Amy's location.
Amy quickly dodged and launched an arrow at Zel.
Zel held her arms up to defend herself, but Rover caught the arrow.
"Hello Amelia" Rover said.
"What do you want?" Amy asked.
"Nothing, we just want to win, everyone has the same goal" Rover said moving forward. "We wish to live, go home, the same dream every wishes to live when they are in this bloody arena"
Amy drew an arrow. "Stay right where you are!"
She didn't want to fire an arrow after what he did.
"I'll leave you to her" Rover said speaking to Zel.
"With pleasure" Zel said as Rover moved back and unknowingly to Zel he ran off.
"Time to die" Zel threatened.
Zel took out a trident and the two girls circled round.
Amy didn't have anything except for a bow and a small knife.
"Hmm, how about a fair fight?" Zel handed Amy another trident. "Go on"
Amy was sceptical, but grabbed the trident, nothing happened.
"Good" Amy said, holding her trident ready.
The girls rushed at each other and clanged the tridents together, Amy jumped over a swipe and Zel knocked Amy back, but was not strong enough for her to fall down.
"Tough one aren't you?" Zel said, but had a hidden knife in her pocket.
They rushed at each other again, but this time Zel was strong enough to knock Amy down, but Amy was able to knock the trident away from Zel.
Zel took out her knife and launched herself onto Amy who was blocking her with the trident.
"Shouldn't have gave me this!" Amy said referring to the trident.
Zel was pushing down on the trident almost reaching Amy's nose.
"DIE!" Zel shouted.
Zel knocked away the trident and now Amy is using her arms to hold the knife of off her.
"You shouldn't have done this!" Zel shouted.
Amy noticed rustling in the bushes behind Zel and noticed a familiar figure, holding a spear.
"Yeah, and you should watch your back" Amy kicked Zel of off her and as she was about to rush her, Zel received a spear in the back, which came out the front of her chest.
"No" Zel weakly said, before falling to the ground, dead.
Amy looked in the direction of where the spear came from and saw Shadow, now with a bandage around his abdomen.
He then quickly ran off, just as a cannon goes off.
Amy went over to Nicole and Sonic and used her knife to cut the rope.
"Nice work" Nicole said.
"It's like rescuing damsels in distress" Amy said.
"Hey!" Sonic said.
"Sorry, look get out of here, grab what you need though" Amy said and went in to grab supplies and then ran off, leaving Shadow's spear on the ground.
She made her way back to Zooey ontop of the tree, who was having a bit of fruit and a water bottle from the sponsor Amy was given.
"Make sure you save some for me" Amy said.
"I will" Zooey said. "What happened?"
"I got stuff and I got a Career, Zel, I think" Amy said.
"1 problem down, 4 more to go" Zooey said, handing her a bottle and an apple.
"We keep this up, then we might be able to go home" Amy said, just as the night sky filled the arena.
"Let's see who has fallen" Zooey said.
They heard the anthem, and this time, Zel from district 3 and Zeena from district 10, then the anthem stopped.
"12 gone, 12 to go" Amy said.
"Are we going to be fine?"
"What do you mean?" Amy asked.
"What if someone finds us?" Zooey asked.
"If they do, then you have a knife to defend yourself"
"Okay"
Zooey then fell asleep as Amy looked into the night sky.
(Elsewhere)
The game-maker was meeting with Jaden who had figured out something that the game-maker is planning.
They met in a room which looked like the living room of an expensive mansion, fireplace included. ;)
"You can't do this to her!" Jaden shouted, grabbing the GM's jacket.
"You know what she did" The GM said, getting out of Jaden's grasp. "Snow ordered it himself"
"What happens if she wins? What will you do to her family, to her?!"
The GM sat down on a chair, leg crossed over his other and holding a glass of blood-red wine. "Now that you mention it, if she loses her family will be fine...if she wins, well, we'll do the same as what we did last year, are you aware?"
"Yes I am aware, you already killed her mother!" Jaden stated furiously.
"She is unaware at the moment, of two things, one is her mothers death, the other...I'll leave that for later, now off you go" The GM said.
Jaden reluctantly left in anger, as the GM pressed his finger in his ear. "You know the plan, her mentor is onto us though, Snow must not be informed"
An unknown voice fills the GM's ear.
"Brilliant, kill her when you get the chance" The GM stood up and went into a white-lit room, which was where the GM could see what is going on.
The GM commanded the other people who were also monitoring the arena. "Alright! 1 hour after noon, set the rain to occur at these coordinates"
A string of two locations appeared on screen then turned into a red dot which landed east of the Cornucopia from a top down view.
"Activate on my command and have it go down to South"
Status:
D1:
Rover: Alive
Viper: Alive
D2:
Crawford: Alive
Celia: Alive
D3: (Eliminated)
Rory: Deceased
Zel: Deceased
D4:
Shadow: Alive
Blaze: Alive
D5: (Eliminated)
Jet: Deceased
Wave: Deceased
D6:
Monkey Kahn: Deceased
Sally: Alive
D7:
Espio: Deceased
Nicole: Alive
D8: (Eliminated)
Scourge: Deceased
Fiona: Deceased
D9:
Knuckles: Deceased
Rouge: Alive
D10: (Eliminated)
Zavok: Deceased
Zeena: Deceased
D11:
Tails: Deceased
Zooey: Alive
D12:
Sonic: Alive
Amy: Alive
Placements:
24th – Fiona, District 8 (Went too early and blew up)
23rd - Zavok, District 10 (Killed by Zooey)
22nd – Tails, District 11 (Killed by Crawford)
21st - Monkey Kahn, District 6 (Presumably killed in bloodbath)
20th – Wave, District 5 (Presumably killed in bloodbath)
19th – Jet, District 5 (Presumably killed in bloodbath)
18th – Espio, District 7 (Presumably killed in bloodbath)
17th – Rory, District 3 (Killed by Zel, his district partner)
16th – Scourge, District 8 (Killed by Amy)
15th – Knuckles, District 9 (Presumably killed by Careers)
14th – Zeena, District 10 (Presumably killed by Careers)
13th – Zel, District 3 (Killed by Shadow)
12 left to go, who will win and who will fall in the game?
But what is the Game-maker planning?
Stay tuned...tribute(s).
