Guys, I promise I'll get more frequent with the updating. It's been a little bit of a struggle balancing free time/binge watching shows that I can't during the year, but the good news is since I have no life I'm all caught up. Lol oops.
You played me like a piano.
You made it sound pretty stringing me along.
I fell for every note.
I guess I didn't know it was heartbreak song.
I'm not a stupid girl, I should have known.
I let you play me like a piano.
Ellie Zweigle
Reawakened Tribute #12
Iris' Group
Why am I wet?
I hear noises that sounds like they're far away. There is a bright light in my eyes, and I'm definitely underwater. Almost as if I'm swimming.
When the bright light goes away, the first thing I notice is I'm in a tank. The tank is full of some light purple liquid, and I have tubes going up my nose. When I realize that they're in my eye, I immediately start choking, because who wouldn't freak out when they're having various tubes go down their esophagus?
I trusted them. I remember that much. I remember Zach and Emmie ran forward to get supplies leaving me on the edge of the forest, and that's when Emmie turned around threw something. I was surrounded by flames. They were whipping around me, and they were closing in quick. She laughed and walked away like it was no big deal.
My death was not a big deal.
"Ellie can you hear me?" ask a man in a white lab coat. I wonder why I'm in the hospital. Did I not die? I nod my head, because you can't exactly talk to a man when you're underwater, and your only source of oxygen is coming from tubes in your body.
"I need you to look down at your hands, Ellie. Do you see any burns on them?"
I look down at my hands, there is a bit of scarring, but there isn't any burns per say, especially with how the flames were whipping around me, I should be charred and boiled.
I nod my head no, and he smiles. He begins to drain the purple liquid, and the tubes begin extracting themselves. I don't remember having that in year 7. I feel like that's something we would see.
"Ellie, I need you to hold out your wrist. The solution made it to where your burns are gone, but I need to do this quickly if you want hopes of not scarring. Your skin will shrink so it'll be condensed and-"
"Okay?" I say, sticking out my wrists.
He slaps a watch onto my wrist and presses a button, and I'm surrounded by whirls of colors. I feel as if I'm flying, and then I remember my life.
"Let the 7th annual Hunger Games begin!" says the announcer as the timer dings off.
"Mom, I'm so happy to FINALLY not be the other girl!" I say to my mom.
"It's a girl." and I'm staring into my mothe-
10 Years after Reawakening
Ellie Zweigle, 10
Iris' Group
District 10 Female
I wake up to a loud scream. It shakes the entirety of the house, and is ear splitting to my ears. This is so not the way that I wanted to wake up.
We all run to the bathroom and see Katarina standing in the mirror of the bathroom. She is jumping up and down, and looking super mad. We all just kind of stare at her. It's two hours before the rest of us normally get up. Has she lost her mind?
"MOM, I HAVE A RED THING ON MY FACE. WHAT THE HECK IS THE RED THING?!"
"Katarina that's a pimple." says mom as she sighs and throws her head back.
"A WHAT?!"
Ha, she deserves that. Don't get me wrong, I love Kat, but she's a little bit of a jerk. I'm on her good side, and even then sometimes she gets a little crazy with me. Waking me up two hours early though is not a way to make me sympathetic towards her.
"Can we go back to sleep now, or?" ask Hazel
"We are already all up." says mom. "Kat, you'll just have to share your bathroom time today. I'll make us a hot breakfast."
"Wait, wait, wait." I say angry. "So because she lost her mind, we all have to suffer for it?"
"Gee, thanks, L." says Kat.
"You know I'm not kidding." I say looking at her, and mom.
Mom rolls her eyes and motions for us to go back to sleep. She says that she'll still make us a hot breakfast, and we can all get up at our normal times.
Walking back to my bed is annoying though. I already know that I'm not going to get any sleep going back in that room. I already woke up, I'm not one of those lucky people that can fall asleep on cue.
"Night, L." says Hazel as she tucks herself in under the covers.
I've been thinking a lot about the Hunger Games lately. What is this all about? Out of all children in Panem, why were we chosen? What makes us so special. I, of course, will win. I have no time for all these other people. I'm not scared of them, I'm not scared of any of them.
Some people think they'll beat me, but they're just wrong.
Twenty minutes of me closing my eyes, and praying to the sleep gods that they will grant me slumber, and I hear the door crack open. Kat is standing in the in the doorway using the light of the hallway to hold outfits up to herself and then nods her head as she throws it to the floor.
I've never seen her routine. It's interesting to sit back and watch. The look of desperation to look nice falls on her face, as she is consistently second guessing her outfits. She holds up a teal dress with a white bow around the waist. It's pretty.
"That's a nice one." I say looking at her.
She jumps as she didn't know I was still awake. Hazel's snores are still filling the room as she is knocked out. Kat crosses over to the room, and sits down next to me on my bed.
"I'm sorry I woke you guys." she whispers as she looks sad.
"Don't be, those lazy cows needed to get up anyways."
She laughs, and it's nice to see her laugh. I go out of my way to make her smile, because honestly, she deserves it. She's such a sweet person. She's my best friend, my sister, my confidant. I tell her everything, and though I do get a tad upset with her, and that happens often, I wouldn't trade her for anything.
"Still though, I know I can be dramatic."
I bring her in for a hug. I smile as she eases into it.
"You're my sister, they can all eat mud."
We laugh until we hear Hazel start to stir in her sleep, and then we try and quiet down.
"Let's go see if mom needs help." I say.
Hey dad look at me
Think back and talk to me
Did I grow up according to plan?
And do you think I'm wasting my time doing things I wanna do?
But it hurts when you disapprove all along
Nickle Parks
Reawakened Tribute #13
Iris' Group
I'm sorry dad, I tried.
Those words still ring into my head as a white light flies into my eyes. Where the heck am I? Did I not just die in the Hunger Games? I thought for sure I was a goner. Wait, what if I was a goner, and I'm actually just in Heaven right now?
The bright light disappears from my eyes, and looking around this room I frown. If this is Heaven, people on earth have a hell of a lot of explaining to do. This is a complete let down.
"Hello?" I call out from the bed. I'm in a bright purple room, and the colors of the couch, which is green, it's a real eye sore. No one comes into the room as I call, so I decide to get up and head towards the door.
I walk out into the hallway into what has to be the busiest hallway I've ever seen. There are surgical beds flying left and right, doctors are screaming and patients are wailing, then there is me. I'm just horrified.
You think being a career you'd be used to seeing blood. I love the games, don't get me wrong. They are what I dreamed about for so long. However, I'm a little squeamish when it comes to the gorey stuff. I never saw it fair to someone if I just surprised them and made it a super rude and gruesome death. I always wanted to warn them. I always did warn them.
A nurse in a bright orange scrub uniform notices me, and her eyes widen. She runs me into a room, and a dark skinned lady with a stroller full of babies is running down the hall.
"YOU HAD ONE JOB! TO KEEP THEM IN THEIR ROOMS!" screams the stroller lady.
She has a certain intensity about her that makes me nervous, and I run back into my room. To my horror, not only does orange scrub run in carrying a weird watch thingy, but stroller lady also walks in.
"Ms. Dupree I'm sincerely sorry for this, I had to use the restroom-"
"I don't want to hear your excuses!" she says as she snatches the watch out her hands. "This is the worst day in Panem history, and you are letting the future run around like a chicken with his head cut off!"
"The future?"
"Shut up, Nickle!" says psycho stroller lady slapping the watch on me. She presses a button, and then everything starts spinn-
10 Years after Reawakening
Nickle Parks, 10
Iris' Group
District 4 Male
"Now, we are in the last phase of this simulation test." says Uncle Huck as he strolls around the room. The simulation test are fun, but at the same time nerve wracking. You're graded on how well you do. If you place in the top 5, you get an A. Top 10 gets a B, and so on so forth. We are in the top 6 right now. If I can knock out one more tribute I keep my perfect score.
There is a special eyewear we have to wear that generates where we are in the arena. It's a virtual reality headset, and it's probably just about the coolest thing I've ever seen. The arena that we are currently in is a clock arena. At different times, certain mutts and traps get released. They say that this was one of the most popular ever. I don't see why though. You just stay out of the way of the clock hand.
The final 6 is Wyatt, Ares, Honora, Kat, Joseph, and me. None of us even know how Kat made it this far, but she seems to be doing well. Definitely making her way through everything she needs to. The beaches that they use to keep the time on the clock are wide. I can make out two figures going at it, and then I turn my hearing to the classroom noise, rather than the arena noise. Honora and Ares are going at it again, and all I have to do is stay out of the other tributes way until one of them gets eliminated.
"Now, the rest of you are in a great situation." says Uncle Huck. "You get to ride your way into the finale. Can you guys pull it off? Will the winner of this fight between Honora and Ares be the ultimate Victor of these games?"
Something flying close to my head jerks me back into the reality of the games going on. I turn and see Joseph sitting there smiling at me.
"It's time for some payback." he says as he runs at me.
I am the reason it's the final 6. Ava was with Joseph when I threw a knife and it hit her in the head. Her hologram disappeared and I heard Joseph let out a monster yell, and started to chase after me. I thought I got away, but apparently I didn't.
"You don't have to do this." I say staring at him. "We can still get our A. All we have to do is let Honora and Ares duke it out."
"You killed Ava, and that's not acceptable."
"She's still sitting right next to you when you take this goggles off, I bet."
"Probably." says Joseph as he runs at me.
He tackles me into the sand, and I begin to get a face full of the grains as I take a sharp inhale. I have to remind myself that I am not actually experiencing the sandy, but sitting in a incubator with Ares sitting next to me.
I flip over and kick him off of me, and he flies backwards. He clearly has a hard time distinguishing that this isn't a real fight, because he is hardcore struggling to get the heck up after I kicked him. I get on top of him, and allow him to catch his breath before talking.
"I-"
I'm interrupted by a cannon fire, and then Ares is screaming next to me. I look up and see Honora on the other side of the arena jumping up and down and smiling. She turns to me and Joseph and then gets a glint in her eyes. She runs towards us, and is speeding her way across the rocks.
I look at Joseph and he nods. We decide that we are going to take her out, because honestly I'm tired of Honora always placing within the top 3 when we have this test. She can have fifth for a change.
Wyatt appears out of nowhere, and tackles her to the ground. She is shocked as he plunges the knife into her heart, and I hear a high pitch scream from outside of the virtual arena, and in the classroom.
"I did not see that coming." says Uncle Huck as I hear a incubator door opening and Honora running out of it.
"THIS ISN'T FAIR!" she screams.
"Haha!" says Ares.
Tuning back into the arena, I see Wyatt has already made his way over to the beach front, and is wrestling with Joseph. I begin to plan my attack when the words GAME OVER, appear on my screen. I press the reply button, and see Kat sneaking my behind me, and plunging a knife into my back.
Good for her, she needs the up in rankings.
The entire class watches on the projector as Joseph and Wyatt duke it out. To our surprise Joseph overtakes Wyatt, and he appears out of his incubator enraged, and then the unthinkable happens.
Joseph is jumping up and down in happiness, as Kat sneaks up behind him, and does the exact same thing she did to me. Kat just won the simulation.
"Well, tributes, I do believe we have a Victor." says Uncle Huck as Kat appears with a huge smile on her face from her incubator.
"SHE DIDN'T EVEN DO ANYTHING!" screams Wyatt at the top of his lungs.
"Yet I killed the boy who killed you?" she said tauntingly. "Yeah, I didn't do anything."
Wyatt is about to respond when Uncle Huck steps in between the two of them.
"Now guys, where did our final 5 go wrong?"
Ava is the first to raise her hand. If the Hunger Games was a written test, Ava would be the victor every time.
"Joseph got to cocky towards the end."
"As well as Honora." says Vera with a smile.
"Shut up." says Honora.
"Guys back on track!" says Uncle Huck. "Joseph and Honora, your siblings and cousins are right. You celebrated the win before you actually got it. Don't do that. Wyatt, you just need to work a little harder at hand to hand combat. Nickle, observancy is key. You were in this room rather than the arena. That's the difference between Kat winning this game, and her not. Kat, your mom will be proud. It's your first win."
Kat beams as she goes back to her desk, and plants a seat. Ellie is close behind. I'm just upset. This was my simulation.
Oh well Nickle, at least you get to keep your perfect score.
Crowded hallways,
Are the loneliest places.
For outcast and rebels.
And anyone who just dares to be different.
Amandus Porter
Reawakened Tribute #14
Iris' Group
I was so quiet.
Or at least I thought I was. The girl from District 1 knew better though. She knew, she knew, that I was close. I should have sensed it sooner. I should have payed closer attention.
But I didn't. I didn't and I ended up with a freaking mace against my face. Now I don't even know where I am. Or better yet, why am I alive after getting a mace swung at my face.
"He remembers. Look at his face." says a female voice as she is rather close to me.
"This formula must work a lot worse for the kids that are from the newer games."
"He had a shorter time to be dead. It's probably easy to recall when he died."
Dead?
I feel a hand clamp on my wrist, and a circular object appears around my wrist. I'm to scared to move, I can't move, I can't breathe.
Then I-
10 Years after Reawakening
Amandus Porter, 10
Iris' Group
District 9 Male
Well, that simulation today was a total bust. However, being 24th place has it's advantages. I managed to sneak into the backpack closet in Aunt Chanel's room. I found some awesome goodies! There was a lot of cool mechanical pencils, and Jayanti had a silver coin! It was super cool, so I took it.
I don't normally steal, but I was so mad. Sylvia ran right at me during the bloodbath, and pushed me down. I ejected before she got the stat of killing me. She doesn't deserve that number.
"Kids can you gather in the auditorium."
We gather up our lunch totes and drop them in the bucket. Walking out of the cafeteria and into the auditorium, we all know something big is going to happen.
"We have some announcements to make." says Uncle Huck as he stands on the stage at the front of the room. Aunt Chanel, Mack, and mom are all surrounding him. It's a mix of excitement and sadness as they stare at us.
"As you know, all of you will be 11 next year." says Aunt Mack excitedly. "So it's time to choose an elective you'd like to get better at. So we are giving you the option to sign up today. We are even bringing two new teachers on board!"
We all gasp. It's been five years of being in this academy, and we have never had to worry about an adult that hasn't been in the family.
"Please welcome them now! Mr. Obsidian and his sister, Ms. Caridee!"
A tall dark skin man walks out onto the stage followed by a girl with dark skin, but not quite as dark as his. She has really pretty hair, and her face is shaped like a heart. He has no hair, and he's scary looking. I do not want to take his class at all.
"Hello Children, we are super excited to get to work with you over the next few years." says Obsidian.
"Yes, totally." says Caridee not nearly as enthusiastic.
"We brought them on board to help with two very important categories. Perception, and group mentality understanding. You have to know the people you're around, and these two are trained in not only body language, but psychology!"
"Those are a lot of big words I don't even understand." says Vera as she throws her head back and sighs.
"Now, another reason we called you back in here is for the rankings."
A projector screen starts to fall down on the stage, and the light comes on. On it is a list of all the tributes, and according to this year and the previous ones, where they would fall in the Hunger Games.
Victor: Honora/Wyatt
2nd: Honora/Wyatt
3rd: Ares
4th: Joseph
5th: Nickle
6th: Hazel
7th: Orion
8th: Shawn
9th: Caius
10th: Katarina
11th: Sylvia
12th: Jade
13th: Keanu
14th: Artemis
15th: Carmen
16th: Vera
17th: Julian
18th: Ellie
19th: Edith
20th: Ava
21st: Baptiste
22nd: Jinx
23rd: Tycho
24th: Jayanti
25th: Sashen
26th: Amandus
Well I can't say I didn't see that coming. I don't do particularly well in the simulations. It kind of sucks. I feel like the kids at the top of the list have it easy. They just seem to get this stuff. The kids at the bottom have to work harder, and it's more difficult on us.
"Keep in mind please that these rankings are not how you have to do." says Aunt Mack. "This is very much a system that can change. So people at the top, don't get comfortable, and people at the bottom don't lose hope."
"We are all so proud of you, and we can't wait until next year so we can start all over again." says mom.
"We are excited for this next year as well to work with some new students." says Obsidian as he waves to us.
Well I guess I'll just have to work extra hard for this next year. I can't come in last place. If anything, I can't come in last place.
Keep in mind this wasn't grammar checked. It's 2 in the morning, and I just wanted to get this out. Anyways, I'm so sorry this is late, I need to step this up if I want to get this to the good stuff. Remember that these rankings are really what you should be expecting. They change hella lots by the time these kids are 18.
Do you recognize any bad guys?
Next time you seem them they'll be 14! Wow, they grow so fast ;)
Keep it classy,
Caleb