The 9th Hunger Game

Chapter 2: The Bloodbath

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The gong sounds out and I go off running. I see the weapon designated for me, a spear with an extra serated blade added to the other end. I had found the weapon discarded at the bottom of the weapon pile during training, and well, I'm not going to boast but I'm pretty good with it.

But there was one small problem; someone was already heading towards it. I picked up speed and was almost there, when I heard a scream. I turned my head to see the girl from District 8 to fall to the ground, an arrow in her head. The first death of the game. Then I heard a suprised yelp and noticed that the boy had seen me and thrown my spear at me. I reached and, to my surprise, caught the spear in my hand. I clamped my other hand on it and kept on running. As the boy reached for the bag with a blue number 4 on it, I swung down my spear and the serrated tip sliced through the boy's throat.

Blood splattered all over my face and clothes, and as the boys limp body fell to the floor, I whispered. "Sorry."

Sorry! Sorry! That's all I can say to a kid that I had just murdered! Sorry! That's the stupidest thing I've ever done! Yet. I grabbbed the bag and hauled it over my back. I headed towards the forest. Halfway I turned and started to walk backwards. I didn't know why I did that.

I saw the boy and girl from District 11 run across the clearing. they were siblings if I remembered correctly. The girl was 18 whilst the boy 13. I never saw the boy as a threat, but the girl seemed to scare me. Even more, as I saw her run across the arena sword at hand. Then I saw the Career trailing them. I wondered why the girl didn't try to face the Career, but it must have been that she wanted to save her brother too. I saw another girl, from district 5 I think, running in front of them. the big girl picked on speed and swipe at the other girl across her chest and she fell lifeless to the floor.

Then the little boy tripped over a rock fell and screamed for help. the girl turned on her heel only to see her brother be decapitated by boy from District 2.

"No!" The girl screamed in anguish. Theh there was a whoosh and an arrow appeared out of the girls thigh. I looked up and saw the girl from District 2, Occisora was her name I think, fire two arrows neatly into the girls heart.

5 down, 19 to go. I thought as I entered the forest. Then there was a shriek and I saw Fernando use his weapon, a rope with three curved blades attached to one end, to grab a tribute by the leg then pull it out benith him. Then he raised the weapon high above his head and struck it down on the tribute's head.

He looked from left to right then ran of into the woods. I turned around, and got ready to run when something lodged itself into my back. I pulled it out and noticed it as an arrow. It must have been a stray one as it wasn't followed by another one. I decided to run an sped off, half-running, hal-tumbling down the hill, until I tripped over a tree root and landed face-first into the mud.