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To: The guest that keeps trying to write a review.
My e-mail shows the review you posted and I appreciate you saying what you said. By the way in the book Katniss said that some people from her District had fair chances but most of the time they died in the bloodbath, so the odd time you will read that they aren't dead after the bloodbath.
The 10th Annual Hunger Games
Name: Broderick Jovers
District: 3
Age: 15
"Waking Up"
My eyes slowly open, my vision blurry at the beginning, I can only make out shapes and colours, nothing too detailed. My sight slowly files back to normal and I see my surroundings.
I lay here, under a shaded tree that I am not sure as to what kind it is. A small pool of water laying beside me, but the rest of my surroundings just sand as far as the eyes can see. The sun beats down hot although I am in the shade, it still manages to penetrate through. Slowly cooking my body, as if I an oven that is set to the lowest heat so the meat inside takes the longest time to finish. Right now I'm the meat and I may soon be finished.
I slowly sit up, I groan as I move around, my muscles soar and tight. A pounding pain in my head, and a gash across my palm. I dip my hand in the water, it's cool, and soothing on the open flesh.
Thoughts jumble back in my head.
What happened to me?
Slowly but surely the thoughts come back.
I remember being chased, the 3 remaining careers hot on my tail. I remember the girl, from 1, throwing the knife that gave me that gash on my hand. She has horrible accuracy, but she could probably have killed me if closer. I remember falling, stumbling over a sand dune. Falling and tumbling down, like a ball in a pinball machine, hitting every possible obstacles. I remember the cactus that I managed to clip as I fell down, the thorns stabbing into my left arm, drawing blood and giving me excruciating pain. The last thing that crosses my mind is me hitting that rock, right across my forehead. My vision went blurry and I felt sick, the last thing I saw was my ally Lain jump from behind that rock, defending me, and that's when I pass out.
I look down at my left arm, no thorns. I swear there were thorns when I passed out, where are they now? In my skin slowly, drifting through my veins, ready to penetrate my heart? Or were they in there just for a few moments to get their poison out and then once they finished they dropped out? Or did Lain take them out?
Once I think about Lain my ears perk up?
"Lain," I say in a hushed tone. "Lain," I say it again but in a normal toned voice. "Lain!" I shout loudly, it echoes off the open space but I hear no answer. I get up and start searching around, behind the tree, around two dunes behind cactus', but I can" find her. What if she is dead, and when she saved me she was killed by one of the careers? What if the careers now are torturing her, just for fun?
I sit back down against the tree and but my face in my palms. I groan, and rub my eyes, when I hear a familiar voice.
"Oh good your awake," the voice says. I look up out of my palms and gaze around, I see nobody, not a soul in sight.
"Who's there?" I shout, looking back and forth making sure nobody is out to kill me.
"Look up smarty pants," the voice calls. My head slowly looks up, into the tree and its thick green leaves. I slowly make out the figure and it is Lain.
"Oh my god Lain, I thought you were gone," I say with a huge smile on my face. "Now get down from there I need to talk to you."
"Ugh, fine," she says slowly climbing down from the tree. She hits the ground with a thud and then looks up at me, I look over her body to see if she looks any different. Her blonde hair still flowing free without an elastic, her cheeks still full of freckles, and her lips still the light pink colour. She looks normal.
"What did you want to talk to me about?" she asks.
"It's not really talking to you about something, It's mostly questions," I reply, sitting back down on the ground and patting the ground beside me, gesturing for her to sit down. She does and then looks at me.
"Well then, ask away," she says a little exasperated.
"Oh okay," I start. "How long was I out for?"
"I would say 2 days, so not too long, it's day 6." I register what she says, I figured that I was out for longer but I guess not.
"Who's left?" I ask curiously, this being the only question that really mattered in my head at the moment.
"There is the boy from 4, he managed to escape from when I attacked the careers. I killed the girls from 1 and 4 though," she pauses for a moment to clear her throat but then continues. "The boy from 5 is alive, I think he is strong, but I don't know. There is also the girl from 9, as small as she is, she has still managed to survive. Then finally there is the boy from District 11, Forest is his name. He is really fast."
I take a second to take in who is left. We are the only District that have both of their tributes alive. Three would be proud of us. But there are still 3 very strong other tributes. In training the boy from 4 got an 11, the highest score in the games yet, the boy from 5 an 8, and the boy from 11 got an 8 as well for his speed and knowledge of plants, which wouldn't come in handy out here, since there is hardly any wild life.
I am still very surprised that the girl from 9 is still alive, she is so small, and so weak. You could easily snap her arm in a fight, she probably hasn't seen combat so she is just hiding, probably found water and is staying there for good.
I have mixed feelings about who is left. The boy from 4, career. The boy from 5, strong. The boy from 11, fast. The girl from 9, highly intelligent. It could be any one of these tributes that end me, even Lain if things come to it.
If I do die though, it won't matter, I don't really have a life back home to cherish and love. Just my dad and he is always on patrol as a peacekeeper. But if I do win, I hope it changes everything, I will have enough money for my dad to quit his job and we can have the life that I always wanted for us, a life of happiness.
The 10th Hunger Games lasted for a total of 1 week and 1 day. 11 tributes like last year were killed in the bloodbath, including the career male from District 2 that shocked the Capitol of his death being the very first person to die, let alone dying in the bloodbath. After the bloodbath most tributes were challenged to find water, some succeeded and found small ponds or streams, while some drank the juice from the fruit of the cactus' called a prickly pear, while most didn't find water and suffered from the lack of hydration. On day 4 the Gamemakers sent a sandstorm barreling through the arena, taking out two out of the remaining 5 careers out. The boy from District 1 and the girl from District 2 were lost in the storm. Two other careers that day were killed by Lain Northcraft, those two being the girl from 1 and the girl from 2. The next day the boy from 5 was killed off by dehydration, he hadn't had water since the starting of these games, he was lucky to last to day 6. The next day the boy from 11 fell into the trap of the boy from 4 and was killed instantly. The last day was upon the tributes and the Gamemakers used a swarm of locusts to bring the remaining tributes together. The boy from 4 fought against the pair from 3, it was a long process but he managed to kill Lain Northcraft, he stabbed her through the stomach with his sword, she then bled out on the sand floor. Enraged by his partners death, Broderick attacked the boy from 4 and defeated him with his own sword. He managed to rip it from his hands and stab it through the boys throat, giving him the Victory Spot in the 10th Hunger Games!