District Nine

Tiberius

I can feel panic beginning to spread in me, I choose to be here yet still I am nearly shaking. The only thing from me fully breaking down is the knowledge all of Panem is watching me. I look around as soon as I can get a look, I was curious of what the Arena would be ever since I changed into the tribute uniform. A fitting white shirt and white pants, and white combat boots. It was like snow in a way, it was so strange. They didn't even give us jackets… that frightened me.

Looking around now though something tells me a jacket might not be necessary, at least not where I stand now. All Twenty-four of us circle the Cornucopia with all those goodies spilling out the mouth of it, with a few supplies closer to the tributes, but we are in a huge white room. Almost like a gymnasium except the floor is a clean marble, even some tables scatter the room, and the wall is a faded white. It looks old with the paint chipping in sections. It was so strange. As much as I wanted to analyze the Arena I know that I shouldn't worry about it since I can't see the entire Arena at the moment, just this one room. But I do see that there is only two double door exits on both sides. With such a small getaway area it will lead to battle, no doubt.

Other than that I need to focus on my plans. The clock is ticking, nearly half of my minute already used up. I glance to my side to see that District Five girl on the metal plate next to me on my right. Then the boy from Three on my left. On the other side of that District Three boy's side though I can see Natalie. Maybe I should have made an alliance with her after all, with us being close together when we are about to be launch could definitely help us out.

What am I thinking? She will probably just kill me, yet still that option of an alliance is always there.

I know I need to get some supplies, I won't stick around to fight it out but I need some supplies. From the looks of it this Arena is more of an indoor one, with little plant life to feed someone starving. So getting supplies here at the Cornucopia can be brutally significant.

Ten seconds? How can the time have possibly slipped away so quickly without me even noticing it? That little bit of doubt in me is enough to get my heart racing quicker and my mind spinning. I need to calm down… I need to calm down.

I need to get supplies; there is a bag not too far away from me. I might have to fight that District Five girl for it but she doesn't look like she is a real threat as a fighter, and there is a dagger close to the bag. A dagger is pretty lame to be honest but it is better than nothing, and as much as I would love to go fight it out for that deadly looking gladiator sword I know I could very well die from that battle. I need to be quick, and unfortunately the dagger is the only weapon close enough to the backpack I wish to retrieve so that I can make a quick getaway.

So it is decided.

Just in time.

District Six

Carrie, 12

The gong is fired, the games have begun. I got unlucky though and I knew that from the second I looked around me. Not only are Siva and Tundra on the complete other side of the Arena but next to me is Hazard. I wanted to go in for supplies but I know that I can't now, from the second the gong was fired and everyone started running Hazard just smirked at me and ran towards me hoping for an easy kill before getting into the battle.

Bet he didn't expect me to be so fast.

I throw as much speed as I can into running, I try so hard to remember times with my friend running around the streets of District Six and the races on the schoolyard, I have always been fast. Fast enough to outrun Hazard though? The kid could seriously probably run five miles without breaking a sweat and that fear is what drives me to pump my legs quicker, but the door is far away from where my metal plate was and Hazard quickly grabs onto the back of my snow white shirt and drags me across the ground.

No this can't be happening! I had a plan! To just make a run for it and then meet up with Siva and Tundra, I made an alliance to help me. How can I just end up dying so quickly? I want to wake up. So badly I try to wake myself up but this is a real nightmare, one I will never be able to escape. Then again there is an escape.

Death.

My only option being the one I have no choice but to let happen I stop screaming, my lungs hurt from the second or two I was screaming anyway. I squirm trying to escape but I won't let them watch me scream. I turn and see Tundra holding back a screaming Siva. Siva looks old for a moment too, maybe fourteen. Her face looking old in the moment of stress and panic. I see they have some supplies though. I know Tundra will manage to get her away from this alive. At least they don't have to die too I guess.

I look around, people are fighting but blood has not yet been split on the white ground, I will be the first kill. Just wonderful. I guess I never expected to win but coming in twenty fourth place is a little bit of a downer. I just wish Hazard would hurry up, I obviously can't escape.

This is it.

He drops me letting me hit the cold ground hard, my mind spinning I feel dizzy. Has the world always spun like this? I can't remember, I try to scramble to the ground but my senses are failing and as much as I push myself by the time I get to my feet Hazard has already returned with a knife.

I scream once before he grabs my arm and uses all muscle power to force the cold metal knife into my skin, the blood coming immediately. Painting his hands and arm a crimson red. I collapse to the ground.

This is it.

District Five

Theresa

I need to get supplies; Kaya and June are already together with a bag. They have supplies and I don't, I am tired of being the weak link! I will get supplies for us, and I can see a backpack so close to me when I force my wobbly knees to push me towards it the idea seems so brilliant. Until I see that District Nine girl running after it too with her District Partner also after it.

Suddenly I don't want that bag too much, but my hands already find the straps before I can turn around. That Natalie girl is really fast, she grabs at the bag and for a moment something comes up and I try to get it from her, but then she glance downwards her eyes finding a knife. I let go of the backpack about to turn around, she seems insane. She has seemed so normal before this but right now she looks anything but sane, she looks angry.

She picks up the dagger kicking me so I collapse backwards onto my back and she comes forward, I hear a scream as she approaches me. What a shame what the Games do to people really. Maybe if I had real physical strengths and not good intentions I could actually fight back, I hate violence. I hate violence enough to not even attempt to impress during Private Sessions. But maybe if the roles were reversed I would be approaching this girl with a dagger with that same look.

She brings the dagger down into my stomach, I will die, I just wish it was a fatal enough shot to kill me right away. All that I have now is to watch as the girl back away shaking looking at her bloodly hands and the blood that splattered a little on her jeans, she looks so innocent I almost think that she wasn't in control. Maybe she wasn't.

I yank the long dagger from my stomach groaning and grinding my teeth together, I let out a yelp as I yank it from my skin and even more warm blood spills out. I get to my knees my body going into shock and I can see someone pick up the dagger but my vision is too blurry too see. I am regret not just sinking that dagger once more into my heart because then all this pain would be over with, now I am stuck here to bleed out.

I fall on my back the world spinning above me and look around at the chaos. The floor that was so pure and clean is now scattered with blood and supplies thrown all over the floor, I can see another dead body not too far away, the girl's angelic blonde hair remind me of one of those two twelve year olds. I guess one of them died. Sad, they were so young. And now there are footsteps of her blood, her pure white clothing now red and tattered. Just like mine.

All I wanted was to get supplies for my alliance. I can see them running and just as they wait so Leon can get out the door without them intercepting with the June turns around catching my eye, her eyes widen and she tugs on Kaya's shoulder and now Kaya sees me. The darkness is getting heavy though, I am losing too much blood to live.

Just as the darkness and spinning world take over I see them both mouth something, "Goodbye."

District Twelve

Jazz

I run with my hand grasping onto Zai's arm so I don't lose him in all of this chaos. Everything started so quickly it is hard to even process I am no longer in the Capitol, in here murder is legal. I could be killed very soon.

Good, that is what I came here for didn't I? I wanted to be reunited with Aschen and now I can. I glance towards Zai as we reach Curtis who meets us half way at the door, we got lucky though. We can make it out the door now without having to fight anyone or have any conflict, but we have no supplies. I told myself I would die eventually. I allied with Zia because that is what Aschen did. But I can't make it as far as he did; this has to end all now. I want it to; I lost my will to live.

I know it is selfish. I just don't know if it is worth it, life is hard and brutal especially in District Twelve. It takes soul to make it through and Aschen took that with him when he died and now I am going to reunite with him while getting my allies some supplies. It will be a wonderful way to go out and if Aschen could see me now he would be proud.

Turning to Curtis and Zai I remember the stories they have told me. Curtis has a girlfriend in Six and Zai has someone who is like his sister, they both have someone waiting for them at home. They still have hope and that will to survive, I don't.

"I am going to get us supplies wait here." I tell them and they looked shocked and confused at first but I give them no time to process it because I am already sprinting towards the Cornucopia, I can see a scythe. A curved blade that I know while Curtis tried to hide it that it is his favorite, and I see a backpack too. I run right into the chaos past that District Two girl and for a moment my sudden surprisingly action catches them off guard and I have enough time to scoop up the bag and weapon and run back but by now they are following me.

I see that District Four girl raising her spear; she is great with a spear. No surprise since she is from Four. I just need to get these supplies to Curtis and Zai before she can send that spear into my skull.

Knowing my time is limited I take a strap of the backpack and launch it underhand so it slides across the floor to Zai and I do the same yet flicking my wrist to send the weapon down to Curtis. They pick it up just as I smile and turn around to the District Four girl.

Time to be with Aschen.

Forever and ever, just how true love is meant to be.

District Two

Hazard

I watch as those two from Three and Six leave closing the door behind them just as Maria's knife sinks into the door, honestly with the lame throw I assume she was just winging it. If she ever wants to survive the Games she should put in more effort, though with me in the Games it doesn't matter how prepared she is because in the end I will be victorious.

The Bloodbath is nearly over; the only idiot not smart enough to run off by now is that District Eleven boy. The moron desperate to be a Career and who the Capitol hates ever since that little twelve year old called him out for being a cowardly delinquent. I don't know who he thinks he is but he is getting on my nerves. He smirks at us like suddenly he isn't some weakling, which he still is.

He glances to Rhett, she just glares but as much as she has a hardcore she still is that part of the careers that doesn't really fit. Obviously that makes this Dustin kid go to her first even though she has a long blade in her hand, a long machete shaped like a sword but a little thicker and diffidently not heavy like a sword. Not a katana either, I am not sure what it is called. That is saying a lot coming from me.

"So what makes you so special? Because of your daddy?" He mimics and Rhett's grasp on her weapon tightens.

I smirk, perfect time for her to truly prove herself. "Kill him Rhett." I say.

She glances at me nervously like she didn't believe I was serious, she has an angry nature but I don't doubt she has some issues that will be her downfall. "Why don't you do it Hazard?" She asks crossing her arms as Dustin gets closer rolling his eyes like he knows she won't do it, maybe he is right. At least I can tell Maria I told her so now because she was wrong about Rhett.

"I will do it this guy is getting on my nerves." Frank says walking forward.

I stop him grabbing his arm which for it he sends daggers at me with his eyes. "Don't, Rhett needs to do it."

Now all eyes are on Rhett. She swallows and shakes her head. "This is stupid." She pouts but she can't talk her way out of this.

All of a sudden Dustin leaps forward at her, it is a sad attempt yet still Jacinth raises his weapon to kill him off along with Peridot and Maria.

"Let her do it!" My voice booms across the room and it is no real challenge. He tries to grab at her hips but I guess Rhett really did deserve that Eight because she shoves her elbow into his stomach and flipping him over onto his back with her foot on his chest, I bet she couldn't do that with someone heavier like me though. Still not Victor material.

She looks angry and as Dustin tries to grab for a knife lying on the ground near him she forces her blade into his chest and the blood almost right away pools out from his mouth in a dark crimson blood pool. The lights go out of his eyes quickly, beautiful.

I smirk but as soon as Rhett yanks the blade from Dustin as he is officially dead her dark brown eyes look empty and shocked. She looks around. "Look what you made me do!" She says loud but it has no power behind it like she knows herself she doesn't mean it.

"Rhett it is fine he had to die." Peridot says glances at her nails which were painted a glittering blue.

"Well I have a problem with it." There it is again. No power once so ever, this girl will die anyway. I shouldn't worry about her. She looks so broken after one single kill, her pants barely got bloody. Before anyone thinks about it she grabs her blade and a bag near her and dashes away and just as I begin to run I am stopped by a pain in the back.

The world starts spinning and I fall backwards as the knife is yanked from my blade so that Frank can let me hit the ground his eyes gleaming with a certain madness even I don't understand, maybe I wanted power and didn't mind killing but I kill for honor not for pleasure.

He caught me off guard; I couldn't have planned it out better myself. Still he did it. He would have never have been able to kill me if I was paying attention but I was busy trying to get a second kill under my belt. I guess that makes me an idiot, which that Branch moron did it last year and now it is my turn.

My turn to fall into darkness.

District Four

Frank

Power, the electrifying sense of power sends through my body and as Hazard tumbles to the ground his arrogant face not expecting it one bit.

Maybe it was wrong to kill him this way, kind of like a sucker punch, but I could care less! He was bothersome and because of his antics and attempt to make Rhett prove herself she has run off with some supplies. I just wish they gave us something other than white. My shirt already is stained with blood. My shoes too. Looking around I realize they all have some blood on them. Jacinth the second most other than me, his pants sprinkled with splotches. Looking around though I only see five bloody bodies. And we are in a room… how the hell do they expect to get these bodies out of here? I hope they don't expect us to just live on with these bodies here.

"Frank…" Sedna whispers looking up at me.

"Shut up!" I snap and anger boils inside of her eyes as soon as it passes through my lips but she holds herself back. Smart girl, maybe smarter than I gave her credit for. "Hazard is dead so I am leader now." I say glancing at Sedna and Jacinth. The only two I would expect to even think about challenging me. Being leader isn't Maria's style and Peridot is too ditzy to run the pack. A pack that's numbers went from seven to five… I wasn't expecting Rhett to leave though. I guess I overestimated her. "As leader I say we wait to see how these bodies are taken away then we start going through supplies." I say.

I am the mayor's son; power was always in my future. They should have known… a week ago I wouldn't have been able to foresee this. But this is glorious, and exhilarating. Madness? No! How can this adrenaline and acute sense be called madness? That would be insane.

We stand there waiting until finally the sound of gears shifting shocks us all and we look up as a metal claw is extended downward toward Hazard's body. Four other claws come down too and snatch up all the bodies. I see that Theresa girl, no surprise there. Then Dustin and Hazard who I saw die. Another not shocking body is that of one of the twelve year olds, can't tell though since their blonde hair is so similar in appearance. Finally I see the body of that beautiful District Twelve girl. Maybe that is why she came, to die. She was always so depressed looking the whole time anyway. Coward, suicide is selfish and cowardly.

As soon as the bodies are picked up by the claw and taken into the ceiling I can't help but wonder where they are being taken to, when I win I will make sure to ask.

Then the first cannon is shot. Then it goes on and on until the fifth cannon is shot, nineteen alive.

I smile at the rest of the Careers. "Well let's get started with going through the supplies."

I planned on having this up tomorrow but it is Thanksgiving and nothing is going on so I decided to give you guys this little Thanksgiving Gift even though a lot of you probably aren't Americans and don't celebrate, still here it is. So happy Thanksgiving to the Americans! And I guess happy Thursday to those not celebrating it.

Also I decided after being such an awful updater lately I might as well update a day early instead of a day late, just so you know now on my profile at the very top is the chapter name and it basically is how far I am with writing it. It gives how many parts there will be and how many I have done and the predicted release date, so if you are ever curious about how long I should be to update check out that.

ALSO- all the tributes who died were bloodbaths, meant to die in the bloodbath. I am pretty sure I still have a double submisson BUT the thing is that character in the different story simply has the same name and everything else other than name and District are different... so I let the character survive the bloodbath because the background isn't exactly the same. But I still am going to be harsh on the character.

And I know Tundra didn't die but you guys seem to not hate him and I feel like Siva could use an ally, he won't go that far and he won't win but I decided he wouldn't die in the bloodbath.

BYE! :D