Lilly Young POV
"Mum, what happens if I get picked" I sob "Then you'll try win" says my mum Denise comfortingly. I smile at her and she smiles back, I love my mum so much, I have one 20 year old sister a 10 year old brother and a 9 year old brother. My brothers can get annoying at times but sometimes I just can't wait to see them after school, my sister is really the one that make my life difficult, she's always breaking my stuff on 'accident' and she seems to be able to boss me round everywhere.
5 years ago when our new president had just taken over he announced a punishment for us districts, the punishment was this, the hunger games where twenty-four kids from my age to eighteen fight to the death.
This had never happened before, and when I walked into the 12 year-old girls section only small murmurs could be heard through our giant town square.
I saw Kade and Reana and moved towards them so I could be with my friends, but before I got there a capitol man dressed in jet black who was called Speer Dalkwood walked onto the stage and coughed into the microphone. Now nothing could be heard apart from the man shuffling nervously on the stage, "What's he waiting for" says a girl next to me.
He must have heard her say that because he immediately signaled to someone behind him and a video started about the dark days. There was also a very bloody promo for the hunger games that we don't need to go into detail about.
The video stopped abruptly "Welcome, district 7 people happy hunger games and may the odds be ever on your favor."
"Ladies First" he said in a surprisingly dull tone, I looked at Kade who looked at Reana who looked at me, and we were all scared out of our minds.
The man reached into the bowl where my name would be somewhere "The lucky lady that will be participating in this event and go to the Capitol is…
Lilly Young" I saw Reana bury her hands into her face and Kade ran up to me and quickly sobbed on me before I was escorted up the steps and onto the stage. My shock was obvious, and there was no way I could change it, well I won't get any sponsors I think.
As I walked onto the stage I thought about the possible ways that I will die, but I'll have to try, Mum said so herself.
Bjorn Ax POV
My brother joked with me as we walked back from our morning shift; my job was to cut down tree after tree after tree in a place called Branchwoods. Branchwoods is a place where the Capitol has decided will be best for us to grow trees and cut them down for paper and wood in general. When the war was over and the Capitol had won they assigned each district a job and district 7 was Lumber. I wish I lived in District 1 it has an awesome job, Luxury.
When we arrived back home we were reminded what day it was as we flicked on the TV. This was going to be a horrible day no matter what the outcome is, it has been quite a while since our president announced our punishment and there has been rumors that District 1, 2 and 4 have actually trained for this horrible event, Jeez I couldn't imagine training to kill, to have no mercy, to see the sight of blood dripping on the end of your sword.
My mum came into the room my brother Gaze and I stared at her wonderful blue eyes, her short jet black hair and her stocky body, people say that I look just like her, I wish. She gave us each our clothes and a hot chocolate from all the work we have been doing. The reaping bells rang and I skulled my hot chocolate and untidily put my clothes on.
When I walked into the town square with my navy pants and grey t-shirt, I could feel the anxiety grow as I walked past many people from my District. A Capitol person jabbed me in the arm, I kept walking until I found the 18 year old section, and I stood there waiting for someone to walk on stage and announce who would probably die.
The Capitol man Bernin walked out of the justice building and onto the stage, I gave a nervous glance to my brother who was standing in the 15 year old section clearly shaking.
The man showed us a short clip that I couldn't bear to watch, "Alright happy hunger games and may the odds be ever in your favor" he yelled, something inside me thinks that the odds won't be in my favor today. "Ladies first" he said in a bored voice, "Lilly Young" I see a tiny girl that looks eight but apparently twelve walk up to the stage, I felt sorry for her.
Bernin walked over to the boys bowl and plucked a name out…
I put my fingers over my ears because his voice was so loud, I wonder who had been reaped I thought as slowly my fingers twisted out of the small gaps in my ears.
Suddenly peacekeepers were dragging me up to the stage. "CRAP."
With the district 1,2 and 4 tributes the have trained but that doesn't mean they were careers, and also the careers have to start sometime so they are going to start in the first hunger games. District 8 next. YAY not to far to go.
