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3 Years later

After my morning exercise I retreat to my room. Unshared, now that my younger brother is dead after the tunnel bear (giant, scary, digging bears) attack last year. I quickly scrub down my suit before I have to go to the battle room for my first mock space battle.

The space battles are held in a big dome with solograph projections (solid holograph), usually in the the form of a asteroid field or destroyed space ships. Obviously there is no gravity but there is air to breathe. They first got the idea from an old earth book called 'Enders Game' and it progressed from there. There are a few Battle rooms spred around the catacomb. Its basicly the future equivalent of soccer only less professional. Except in the Capitol. Its one of their main forms of entertainment apart from the Hunger games (the reapings are next weak, eep! D-:) You can enter one of the games from when your 14 but I've only managed to work up the courage to enter one now (I'm 15 now for those who aren't good at maths). I started to perspire, the games can get quite violent sometimes, in fact they usually do. There are different styles of the the game you can play but usually they make it team battles. It works like this, both teams are placed at either end of the dome, you wait three minuets before you move. You set your weapons to stun, which they should allready be, when your hit it sends an electrical current through your suit, shuting it down for half an hour. To win your team must have disabled all other players.

I walk down to the the battle room and instead of turning right down the spectators corridoor I fo left down the players. I enter a room full of shouting teenage boys and girls Joyous. I weave in and out of the hyped up mass of metal, tying to find someone in charge. Aperently there wasn't. Suddenly the wall opened behinds me and I was pushed foward by a surging mob of teens, trying to get the best spot on the battle field. Panic siezed me. Oh my god, I'm gonna be trampled here. Trying to stay calm as I was pushed and shoved chanting 'You're okay, you're not going to die' over and over again. I was about to lose it when the rush lessened and became more barable as the crowd all jumped in to the dome. I slowly walked up to the door. I looked out at the dome. It was huge! Giand chunks of smashed upships floated around lazily. I Launched my self out, the slight disorientation of loss of gravity followed but I was used to it now. I scrambled around on a chunk trying to get into a good position.

Suddenly the game started, I could hear lasers firing in the distance. I glanced around, some of the other first timers were hanging back as well. Some with uneasy faces. I could see that most of them were unexperianced at moving around in null-gravity. I pulled my self up over the metal chunk and launched my self to another part of the totaled ship and set my self in a defensive position. I peered over the top of the chunk but quickly ducked back down as a barrage of lasers sailed over my head.(I'm strugling to find for words to call the chunks. I'm sure there is an obvious answer but I'll just call them mounds) I sent a few random shots in their general direction before jumping to another mound. I peered round the mound to see three enemy soldier coming towards me. They were all clumsy and inexperienced, unlike me who had spent months of practicing zooming around the null-gravity room (yes, we have one of those too) To pass my space manovering exam, Required to become a space hunter. (they hunt stuff in space if you didn't pick that up, just clarifying) No, matter what I do not want to spend the rest of my life In catacomb 10. It doesnt matter how beautiful the forrest is I'd prefer to be on one of district 12's mining ships than be in the crowded hall ways of 10. That is also the reason for me taking part of the game, you need to have entered at least three of them to qualify

I Look at them again and mime laugh (its like laughing but beacause I'm mute I don't make any noise) they have no idea where I went and one of them has drifted and is now stuck helplessly in between two mounds flapping around with the other two trying to get him back. Now's my chance. I dive from out under the cover of the mound and shoot the first one in the chest, I then fire my graple hook behind them and real it in. The result it that I start flying towards them. I shoot the one that was drifting then plant a two feet kick at the remaining guy, sending him flying into a wall. I land on the mound my graple hook conected to and quickly unhook it. I turn around and shoot the guy I kicked, he was doubled over in pain. I feel slightly sorry for him, but that quickly passes. He signed up for it, his fault. Maybe I'm a heartless person but hey, if your gonna spent most of your adult life killing majestic beasts then you can't be soft.

I manage to take down 5 more people before I'm finally frozen. Then the game ends. I wait as I'm unfrozen by one of the staff and hurry to the score board. I came in the top 15% of our team so I did pretty well. We won by the way. 73 down out of a hundred. Not the best score but not too bad. When I return home I'm greated by my parents and celebrate my victory. So, my first game, it wasn't so bad. Then I remember the guy I kicked. He's going to have a big bruise in the morning. I shrug the feeling of guilt off. He shouldn't have entered being so inexperienced in null-gravity. Still I can't help feel guilty. Maybe I'm a cruel heartless person who only cares about himself? Who cares what type of person I am. I'm going to to get off this rock as quickly as I can.


Yay, big chapter! I told you this chapter would be more exciting. A big thanks to my reviewer its nice to know that people read my stroy and yes I did edit this as wel as I could on my I-pod before I posted it. Hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. See ya.