Michaela
It's three o' clock and I made my way out of the Herbology greenhouse. I walked with Luna pretending to listen to whatever she's saying when I spotted Harry, Ron and Hermione coming toward us. We all greeted each other and walked together across the long field that separated the greenhouses from Hogwarts. Luna ran off saying she needed to catch up on some homework. We all keep walking until we bumped into Draco, Pansy and Goyle. Wonderful.
"Hey Potter. Mud Blood. Half Breed. Disgrace to Purebloods." Draco sneered at us. Just as we're about to tackle him to the ground, a ring fell out of nowhere. No. Literally, out of nowhere. It fell to the ground, and all seven of us stared at it.
"What the hell?" Goyle asked. Pansy was about to bend down and pick it up, when, all of a sudden, a weird blue mist came out of it.
"It's cursed! Get away it's cursed!" Hermione shrieked. We all jumped back a foot away from it. The smoke encircled all of us. "What's going on?" Ron shouted.
"Help! Get us out of here!" Pansy yelled.
"What's happening?" I asked as the smoke completely covered us. Then, out of nowhere, the ring lit up golden and the engraving "Twitter Games" on the side of the ring became visible. I started to feel numb and that's when our screaming cut off. I couldn't feel anything. I couldn't smell or see anything. I lost all my senses as I blacked out into unconsciousness.
Mia
Here we were, three hours later, and we were still doing wrestling matches. But now, we're in our favorite baseball clearing. Later, we're planning to play the baseball when it starts to thunder, like Alice predicted. It's now Jasper vs. Emmett. I watched with silent laughter as Jasper tackled Emmett to the ground. Newborns are Jazz's specialty, which Emmett can totally resemble. But Emmett's brute strength gives them both a perfect match-up. I grinned as Emmett tackled Jasper to the ground
"1,2,3! YYYYYOOOOUUUUUURRRR OOOUUUUUUTTT!" I exclaimed. Jasper looked annoyed as Emmett did a little victory dance. Rose laughed and hugged him. I'm about to vomit. I would if I could but I can't. Bella looked at me as if to say, "Do you get this a lot?" I laughed at her and nodded my head. She grinned.
"Hey! Me, Rose and Bella are going home! There's a special surprise waiting for you!" Jasper exclaimed. I try to read his mind or Rose's but he was thinking about our national anthem and Rose was thinking about puppies. Weird. I smiled and waved to them as they headed toward Emmett's Jeep and as they drove away.
Edward looked at me confused. Emmett and Alice had the same face of confusion. Then, Alice grinned and Edward and I see her vision of them trying to surprise and tackle us at home. We all laughed and explained to Emmett.
The three of them have been gone for 15 minutes.
"Okay, let's go home." Alice suggested. Just then, I heard Edward growl mentally. I turned my head towards the three "voices" that I had heard. Just then, Victoria, James, and Laurent came out of the forest. I had known their names by reading their minds. Shoot! Alice did have a vision about these three nomad vampires who were passing through.
They came toward us and greeted us. Edward did most of the talking. Thank God Bella isn't here. I thought to myself. Edward mentally agreed with me. I could tell from Emmett, Alice, and Edward's thoughts that none of them liked the vampires, including me.
It got tenser between us and I wondered if we're going to have to fight them. I tried to look at Alice's thoughts to see if she had any more visions but something shiny fell out of the sky. We all stared at the ring on the grass. We encircled it. Alice and I bended down as the nomads looked at each other in confusion. I picked it up and stared at it. Just then, blue-ish looking smoke came from the ring itself and I dropped it to the floor. It startled me. Victoria looks at it wide-eyed and asked,
"What is it?" We all stared as the smoke engulfed us. Suddenly I saw Edward crouch down low, like he was going to make a run for it. I tried to run but it felt like my legs were glued to the floor.
"Why the hell can't I move anywhere?" Emmett asked, his laughter completely wiped from his face. Suddenly, I heard a cry from Alice and then from Emmett. Then I cried out in pain as I felt the smoke enter my body. It was in my blood streams- Wait! I don't have blood in me! I'm a vampire for crying out loud! James cried out in pain and then Laurent and then soon after, Edward and Victoria. I turned to them but I couldn't see them through this thick fog. I screamed as something burned in my chest. Like someone stabbed me real hard. Right where my heart should be. I passed out.
Katniss
I'm scared, as we all have to go back outside to find out the seven that have been reaped. I clutched my sister as we go back into the crowd, and reluctantly let her go to her age group. I saw the huge screen light up with the Panem crest and then it shows President Snow. I watched intently as he explains the reason we have the Hunger Games and our history of what happened during the war and what happened to District 13. Then, after he was done, I grew extremely anxious as the large glass ball containing all the children 12-18 from every district and every time they had their name entered more then once, appear.
"I shall now randomly draw out seven people who will be tributes for this year's Twitter Games as we now call it." President Snow's hand went into the ball seven times, each time taking out a slip. After his took out the seventh one, he announced the names.
"The people who are to attend the Twitter Games are: Clove from District 2, Thresh from District 11, Rue from District 11, Peeta from District 12, Cato from District 2, Katniss from District 12 and Marvel from District 1. Will the tributes so kindly follow a representative to lead them onto the train." As President Snow left, the screen was filled with the Panem crest. I was in total shock. I saw Gale and Prim trying to force their way toward me, but several security people have asked if I was Katniss. I told them yes and they asked if I would follow them to the train. I couldn't deny them, so I followed them. I boarded the train with Peeta, the son of the baker that Gale and I traded with and the boy who goes to school with me. Peeta looked worried and I know that I mirror his expression. We were each given a room and one of the people from the Capitol said that family and friends are allowed to visit me the day before I'm thrown into the now called Twitter Games. I fell asleep crying.
Day 3
Mia
I woke up from a nightmare. I dreamt that everyone I had known and loved had been killed and I watched them fall to the ground. I realized that I was covered in sweat. I pushed aside the covers that have been thrown on me. The last thing I remembered was a wrestling match. Wait…. how the hell am I in a bed? Was I really dreaming? Was I asleep? Did I actually fall asleep? Vampires don't sleep! I sprinted out of the bed and spotted a huge oval mirror propped against the wall. I looked around to see the room that I am in. It was foreign to me. It looked like a hotel room, only bigger. I've never been in this room. Ever. Then how the hell did I get here? I walked towards the mirror and shrieked in surprise. I jumped backwards and fell onto my back. OW! Owowowow! That had really hurt!
Vampires don't feel pain, but as I had looked at my reflection through the mirror, I wasn't sure what I was anymore. I stood up and looked again. On the other side of the mirror, a stranger was looking at me. She had the same straight, jet-black hair that I have. Her skin is tanner, like she lived somewhere sunny. She was my height. She wore the same clothes that I had been wearing when I was wrestling Emmett and everyone else. But, the only thing that caught my attention was her eye color. She had piercing aqua eyes that were staring straight at me.
I connected this stranger as myself and almost passed out. I steadied myself as I saw the ceiling touching the floor and everything else spinning. I closed my eyes and slowly counted to ten. I opened them and everything was where it should be. I started to get worried. Where were the others? Edward, Emmett, and Alice? Where were my enemies? James, Victoria, and Laurent? What's going on? AND WHY AM I HUMAN? Am I daydreaming? No. Vampires can't do that. I have to stop saying vampires this or vampires that because I knew that I wasn't one anymore. I was human. I started to cry. All I wanted was this crazy world to go back to normal. I wanted to play-wrestle with my brothers, go shopping with my sisters, and go hunting with everyone in my family. I hadn't asked for this. I didn't want this. Just then, I heard a knocking on my door. I nearly jumped three feet in the air.
"Come in?" I'm so confused it sounded like a question. The door swung open and Edward, Emmett and Alice stepped into the doorway. They're human, too. All I saw were Edward's green eyes, Emmett's human skin color, and Alice's expecting look as she saw that I was human as well. I blacked out.
Michaela
I opened my eyes from a dreamless sleep. I tossed the covers to the floor and rubbed my eyes sleepily. I glanced around to see that I was in a muggle room. I knew this because I had seen pictures of my muggle father's house. This looked like it could be from one of his pictures. A place where muggles stay. I think it was called an apartment room except this was only a bedroom.
Had I been kidnapped? Are there deatheaters close by? What has happened? What is happening? I sat up straight in my bed; swung my feet so that it was hanging on the side of the mattress, and stretched. I got out of the bed and headed for the door on the other side of the room. I opened it and step into a hallway of many doors. I walked to the one across from me and started knocking. Whoever had brought me here should have the decency to explain to me what was happening. I saw Harry Potter open the door.
"Michaela! Do you have any idea what's going on? I can't find my wand or anything magical anywhere. This place looks like my uncle's house." I stared at him in shock. So we're in the muggle world?
"No, I haven't found anything either." I told him. He frowned and put his glasses on. What could be going on? Why is this happening?
"Come on then, let's go find Ron and Hermione." He suggested. I nodded and we both headed out.
Katniss
"Oh my! Dear, you could've given me better raw material." Octavia, one of my prep team members, told me. She ripped the final wax strip from my leg. She had been removing excess hair from me for the past hour.
"Now, now! It's not her fault. Poor girl was raised in District 12. You can't blame her for this. Besides, you're all done anyway. Nothing to worry about!" Venia scolded Octavia and turned around to see Flavius walking in.
"Time for a bath!" Flavius exclaimed. They rushed me into another room to what looked like another hour of torture.
Day 3
Michaela
"Who could possibly do this to us? I mean, wizards wouldn't even dare take us to a muggle home. Although, this doesn't look anything like a muggle home if you ask me…." Hermione keeps rambling about everything. So far, Harry and I found Ron and Hermione who were actually both looking for us. We have no idea if Malfoy, Pansy or Goyle are here, too. We all hope not. Just then, a lady in weird clothing comes up to us.
"Well well well. What are you doing out of the rooms? I'll have someone get you each your own prep team. You four must be like those Malfoy, Pansy, and Goyle kids." She looks at us, expecting an answer.
"Yes, we know them. Can you tell us what's going on?" I ask her.
"Oh dear. Haven't you heard of the Twitter Games?" She asks. We all look at her in confusion.
Mia
I was so confused. When I woke up, Edward explained that we were sent here to compete in this thing called the Twitter Games. He says that the nomads are here, too. We are all supposed to fight to the death. Supposedly this is all for entertainment. The winner gets glorious prizes. The loser gets nothing except death. But as Edward can somehow still reads minds, apparently the "game makers" or whatever they're called don't want to start a war with the other dimensions. That is why, if we die, we are sent back to our home world. We are to go against twenty-eight other people. Seven of us, seven of the people that live in this world called Panem, seven of people from another weird world, and seven normal humans that have no idea what the hell is going on.
This is going to be freaky. The thing is, we're not supposed to know that we can't actually be killed. They just want to say that everyone can kill everyone else so the people at their Capitol thingy can enjoy the excitement. This is one messed up, sick world. I snap back into the present as my own prep team is putting makeup on me and doing my hair.
We also need a tribute token. Something that represents us. The people who work here see our Cullen crests that we each wear, and say that it will do. So my token is a necklace with the Cullen crest hanging from it, Alice's is a choker necklace with the crest on in, Edward's is a black wristband with our crest stitched to it and Emmett's is the same except that the crest is a weird metallic blue instead of black. I look into the mirror and see that my hair is down and there have been simple makeup put on my face.
"You look beautiful! We have done a good job here!" One of them squeals.
"Oh yes! And you didn't even need that much makeup! Pretty!" Another one compliments. I thank them as they lead me back to my room. Well it isn't mine but this is where I am staying.
Day 5
Katniss
I look in the mirror of my current room as I tell Gale, Prim and my mother good-bye. I cry as I watch them leave. My makeup is done and I am in some new outfit. The Twitter Games does not require a big entrance from the tributes, thank goodness. One year, to represent District 12, the two tributes went stark naked, only being covered in coal dust. The Hunger Games had a big entrance. The Twitter Games don't. What else is going to be changed?
Peeta and I have already been in the Training Center, but when Peeta suggested we personally get trained from Haymitch, our mentor that was a winner of the Hunger Games himself, it sort of angers me. I still can't process that the Twitter Games are tomorrow. I hear a knock on my door, interrupting my current thoughts. I get up and open it, only to find Madge standing there.
"Can I come in?" She asks, there is sadness in her face.
"Of course." I tell her.
Michaela
I am beyond tired. This Twitter Games thingy is way too weird for me to handle. We all got back from the Training Center and now my prep team, I don't know their names, is fixing my hair and doing my makeup. It is strange makeup, not something that us witches would wear, but I don't complain. Harry, Ron, Hermione and I met the Slytherins at the Training Center, though. That was yesterday. Now, I was being personally trained by one of my mentors. I forgot her name.
We did some weird things about survival skills. It is going to be weird without a wand, and I may die during the games. I am scared. As my prep team finishes, they allow me to go back down to the Training Center if I want to do any more classes. Wanting to learn how to shoot a bow and arrow, I go down for one of my last classes before I am thrown into the arena tomorrow. I head towards the elevator and go down