A/N: I just got my whole Hunger Game idea approved by my friend! So I don't know how many chapters it's going to take to get it all in. REVIEW! If you have any ideas for the games, I would surely take them into consideration! I came up with my idea in 5 minutes at 12 o'clock at night. Enjoy…
Disclaimer: I do not own the Hunger Games, or any of Susanne Collins writing.
Katniss's POV:
By disobeying Haymitch's rule, I run full force into the dreadful blood bath. Every second it takes me to reach upon the cornucopia; I watch a tribute get their neck broken, a knife to the heart, or a sword to the leg. I'm overly surprised that I have yet to be touched. My eyes are still locked on the shiny metal bow and arrows. I was determined to do whatever it took to have them in my possession.
A sudden pain in my left legs causes me drop to my knees. I slowly get the energy to twist my head to see that there was blood dripping down the back of my leg. Then I see Glimmer running faster than usual to me. She must have been the one who hit me. What did I ever do to her? Then I realize she isn't determined to kill me, her eyes are focused on the same and only bag of bows and arrows. This was going to be a big fight.
I pick myself up and limp as fast as I can toward the bag. By the time I get there, Glimmer is right on my back. She jumps on me and we both go tumbling to the ground. This is almost like the intense chick fights that always happen back in district 12. Usually they are over some guy; like Gale. She pulls out a knife from her backpack and points it at my nose.
"Now how are you, district 12." She moves the knife down to my neck and is nearly choking me with it. I roll her over and take a knife out of the ground from a nearby killing.
"What do you want? The bow and arrows are mine." I inform her. She slaps me across the face and rolls back on top of me.
"Oh what makes you get them? I'm surprised you know how to use one? Did your daddy teach you, district 12?" she asks me. I get so much anger in me that I take the knife and cut her forehead. As she suffers in pain, I make my way over to the bag that is still sitting there untouched. Before I can run away from this terrible battle arena, Glimmer stands back up and slowly heads towards me; I begin to run away.
"Wait! I have a proposal for you!" This takes me by surprise. What would a career want to do with me? So as requested, I turn towards her; yet I was too afraid to move any closer to her. The fact that she almost tried to kill me didn't make me trust any more than I did in the training center.
"How would you like to become my ally? Join me and the other careers. From what just happened a second ago, with you on our side, we will be unstoppable!" She skips over to me while swinging her long luscious blonde hair back and forth.
"What's the catch?" I ask her, knowing that there would certainly be a catch. A career wouldn't just ask a tribute from a district 12 to be their ally.
"No catch! You are just really…how should I word it…."talented"." I stop and think for a while. Was I making the right choice? What would Peeta do? "So you in?" she asks one more time as if she is getting irritated.
"I'm in." I softly whisper but apparently loud enough for her to hear my response. We both pick up our bags that we got during the blood bath, and we head off to where Glimmer claims the groups planned on meeting.
The walk is full of screams from all over, people were still getting attacked. We walked east into the woods until we got to a small little pond. To look impressive, I take a bow and shoot a small innocent bunny that was hopping along near it. We continue walking into the wonder of trees. The arena reminded me of the woods back home.
Finally, we come up upon a pretty large cave hidden beneath a hill of grass. Once we get down there, we both hear yelling coming from Cato.
"Why did you get this guy! I told you to get the girl from twe-" Before he finishes his sentence he turns his head in surprise to see me standing next to Glimmer. I could tell he had been yelling at the boy from district 1, because he was in the corner not talking anymore.
"Well, hello Katniss. I see you decided to join us. Your help is greatly appreciated." I find this hard to believe, because in the training center he looked as though he just wanted to come and stab me. I just nod, and on that note and he begins to introduce me. "Over there we got Marvel, district 1; I see you have already met Glimmer, district 1; this is Clove, district 2; and I am Cato, district 2 as well." He says as he goes around pointing to each person individually. Then out of know where, I figure stands up from behind a large old rock.
"Aren't you forgetting about me?" I knew that voice….why was it so familiar? No.
"Oh yeah this is Gale, district 12. You know him already; guess that was pointless of me." He begins to chuckle. Why was Gale with the careers? This doesn't seem like something that he would do; from hunting with him, I thought he was more of an "independent" type of person.
"Well stop just standing around everyone! Get your butts up and let's head out!" Cato screams at us. That was mean. But I follow his instructions and follow behind everyone out of the cave with the bow and arrows in my hand.
First we run out to the cornucopia to kill any people that decided to come back after the blood bath. Both tributes from district 9 are there grabbing some spears. Cato decides to send Marvel and Clove to kill them both. I can't see them kill them, but I hear a high pitched scream then the boom of the canon. 2 down.
As we move on from section to section searches for innocent kids to kill, I can't help but thinking why it is so easy for these guys to kill these poor people. They have family back home, maybe even a boyfriend or girlfriend. With no areas left to investigate, we head back to the cave for the night. I'm on lookout first, so the others can sleep.
Approximately 20 minutes into my scoping job, I feel someone put their hands gently on my shoulders. I turn around and see Gale starring down at me. It takes me a while to realize that we haven't even talked to each other since days before the games.
"What are you doing here?" I ask him, when I have no other idea of what to say.
"Well, I thought I would come out here and join you. I can't seem to fall asleep anyways." He comes and sits on the rock next to me. Suddenly, I look up when the Panem anthem begins to play. They begin to show us all of the tributes that had died in the blood bath from earlier today.
District 3: Boy and Girl
District 4: Girl
District 5: Boy
District 6: Boy and Girl
District 7: Boy and Girl
District 8: Girl
District 9: Boy and Girl
District 10: Boy
Then the pixilated sky turns back to being pitch black and the anthem finishes. It took me by surprise to see Rue was still alive. She was right, we shouldn't underestimate her. Without notice, Gale pushes me off the rock.
"Go get some sleep, I can handle it out here." he requests while helping me up.
"No I'm fine. You need help, don't you?" I suggest. I know he would refuse, but it was worth a shot.
"No, no, no! Go get some sleep. Is something wrong?" he asks me. I sat there thinking for a minute. What was wrong?
"It's just-" I stop and shudder. I know I couldn't say it that loud, so I bring my tone down to a whisper. "I-I am kind of afraid of them. I feel like they are just going to wake up in the middle of the night….and kill me." he doesn't look too surprised by my answer.
"Yeah I know. That was one of the reasons why I couldn't sleep. Just sleep out here, I'll make sure no one touches you, I promise." I trusted him when he said this. I lay down next to the rock where he was sitting, pull out my sleeping bag that I got in a bag I picked up at the cornucopia. I wrap myself around it and begin to sleep. I dream about home. My mom, Prim, hunting, Madge, the Hawthorne's, my bow and arrow, school, but most important…Peeta. When I wake up, Gale is still sitting silently on the rock watching me.
"How was your sleep?" He asks me. Did he end up getting any sleep?
"It was fine. Did you sleep?" I ask him back.
"Nope. In the middle of the night, Cato and Marvel came out, but I sent them back in. I promised you I wouldn't let anyone touch you. I knew that if you woke up with one of them on your side, you'd be scared to death. By the way, you are a very pleasant sleeper." Did Gale care about me that much? If we both ran off together right now, would they come to kill us? "What's on your mind?" Gale asks me. He can probably tell I've been thinking about something from my distinct thinking face. I use it all the time when we go hunting.
"Do you just want to ru-" Before I can finish my sentence, Cato and Glimmer come out of the cave giggling with each other. Odd. Eventually, they have all followed them out and we are all in a group huddle discussing our plans for the day. Cato says that we are going to split up into groups of 2, and just go wondering.
Gale and I are put together. I don't bring up the question I was thinking earlier, this wasn't the time. We wonder the woods together looking for food, shelter, people, or weapons. The only thing we actually find at the end of the day is a bush of berries. I have to remind Gale and all the others that they are "night lock" berries; they would be used as a weapon opposed to a food. I give them to Cato, and he puts my bag into a pile of other weapons. At the end of the day, we have set up a huge pile of our resources. It's about 10 feet tall and 10 feet wide. Inside this pile, is probably every single kind of weapon and everything you would need to survive. Then Cato begins to talk again.
"Okay guys. Shut up!" That gets everybody's attention. Reason number 2, why they scare me. "Now everyday our goal is to have at least one kill, two if it's a good day. Today since we spent the most of the day searching for resources, we are only going to kill one person. We decided this person last night before we went to sleep, if you don't remember. Sorry Katniss, you weren't there to vote. But we got everybody to agree on one person." Who could it be? We would probably kill anyone if we all go in a group to kill each and every one of them. I hope it's not Thresh; he is so tall and muscular, he'd crush us all.
"S-so who did you pick?" I mumble under my breath. I shoot Gale a worried look but he tries to ignore contact with my eyes. What was his problem? We just spent nice quality time together, and he can't even look me in the eyes.
"Rue" Cato announces. No
A/N: Sorry this is coming really late. I just was having troubles writing this chapter because I find it hard to write the games! I wrote this on my way to my soccer tournament this weekend, and we didn't have wi-fi there so I'm posting it now! REVIEW PLEASE! YOU GET COOKIES! (::) (::) (::) Don't worry, they are not raisin! ;)
