Hey! Well it's been a long long time since I uploaded and I'm so sorry for that! Silly life getting in the way. Anyway, I have some free time so I intend on getting these done while I can!

Okay, I tried something different with part of this chapter, I'd love to know if you guys think it worked or not! So please review!

I promise chapter 11, hopefully today!

You wake up early the next morning and just sit. Sit and think about all you're about to lose. Is today the day that you die? That your new friends do? You know from watching the games how unlikely it is that everyone you care about will survive the bloodbath of day 1. Will you become a murderer? Are you willing to kill to avoid being killed? Or to save those that you love? There are so many questions that need answers, and yet you don't want to seek the answers because of where they'll be found.

Thinking about it all is unbearable. So you leave the room, looking around one last time in case you never return. You eat breakfast with your team, making small talk with everyone but avoiding eye-contact, knowing that if you see the fear and sadness in their eyes, you wont be able to hide it in your own. So you all pretend there isn't tension in the room when really it's destroying the last moments of happiness you could be having. That you'll ever have.

After breakfast Vione and the triplets usher you away to get ready for the games. Your hair is done into it's pretty curls again so that you can appear like a seductive warrior to the sponsors . The uniforms are black leather, with the district number and last name of the left side of the chest. When you see yourself in them, you cant help but be pleased with how you look knowing you'll at least make an impression before you die.

You're taken back to your quarters, where you've lived with your team and "prepared" for these games since you left your real home forever. You've bonded with your team, yes. But prepared for the games? There's no way to. So you pretend you're ready anyway. You talk awkwardly to your team again and then say goodbye when the time comes. Theore takes you away with Isaac to where you'll board the ship to get to the arena. And for the first time you think of the arena. You wonder if it'll be water, desert, grass, forest, stone themed or something else they've come up with. You've been so focused on what will be lost in there that you forgot to consider the arena itself. Will you like the last place you ever exist in? On your way you feel nothing. Nothing but numbness.

The arena is big. Huge. Probably about the same size as district 5. As home. Home seems so far away as I stare out into the forests on my left. To my right there's only stone land that leads into mountains that seem all too volcanic. I'll be going to the left then. I catch Isaac's eye and gesture ever so slightly to my left, receiving the smallest of nods to confirm my plan is what we'll do. I look to the weapons. It all seems so simple to get. We just have to walk forward, take what we need, and go. What's to stop us? Well, we are. I assume they want us to kill straight away. No obstacles, just pure determination. Beastly.

We all stand in a circle around the cornucopia, waiting for the claxon to sound and tell us we can move. It's all quite magical. There's water behind us all flowing from the forest area that the sun bounces off. I'd like to think it'll be a good supply for survival later but somehow I doubt the gamemakers would ever be that kind. It's probably salt water or something. We'll soon find out. At least we will if we survive this part.

And then I hear it. The call of death. Some of you jump, you see Aliona is frightened by it's loudness, and then what it means. I can tell none of us want to be the first one to go, but after seconds that feel like hours I see Marbella Jones from district 2 leaping down and sprinting towards the weapons. But before she can reach them, there's a sudden burst of lightening from the sky which I swear was sunny seconds ago. Its as if her movement has triggered a storm. And then I understand that's just what's happened. We've been lulled into a false sense of security. The nice, welcoming arena from before is gone. Everywhere seems terrifying. But there's no time to think about it all anymore because everyone is moving now, towards the weapons and the food and the survival means, hoping that the time I spent thinking didn't already waste too many moments that you cant afford to spare.

I get there around as quickly as everyone else, maybe just a little bit quicker, and start grabbing everything I possibly can. I pull a bow and arrow case over my head and attach a belt of knives to my midrift, picking up rucksacks of food and other useful things as I pass them. I feel rain on my face and realise we're in a full blown storm now. I hear a scream echo from behind me and turn to see the district 7 girl being flown backwards as her fellow lies motionless on the ground where she previously stood. Lightening has struck and the arena has it's first victim. As the first death is the trigger, you hear the wind of an arrow go past your ear and turn to see it collide with Rosiel Stonch's risen arm. Her hand holds a sword. A sword, that was going to remove your head from your shoulders. You hear her cry out and turn to thank whoever is responsible only to see that it was Michael.

"We've got enough now Avery, lets go before it gets too bloody!" he shouts to you, reaching out his hand. You take it and smile. "Isaac's with Aliona, they're waiting so we need to hurry before they're seen!" We around the cornucopia, picking up the odd item I can reach as you pass.

"This is horrific!" You yell to him as you see lightening set fire to some grass to your left. "Do you think it's safe in the trees? The lightening isn't too dangerous is it?"

"Avery, I think everywhere is dangerous!" He says, actually managing to laugh as we reach Aliona and Isaac.

"Doing okay Aves?" I nod as Isaac checks up on me, regaining my breath. He walks over to me as Aliona and Michael walk towards the opening of the forest and hugs me, and in all of danger I feel as safe as I always have with him. "We have to keep moving, it's too dangerous to stay here while everyone else is. Too many unseen attacks."

We start walking towards the trees, keeping an eye out for any threats appearing behind us. Except when one does appear, I'm too slow to see it and on the floor before I've realised what's happening. I sit up as quickly as I fell and Look for Isaac beside me. But he's not there. I spin around, panicking until I see him.

There lies my brother, my only family in this damned world with a spear standing in his muscular form. And I lose it.