Garnet steps into the cylinder and Cinna closes the door behind him. "Good Luck" Cinna yells and Garnet is pushed up the cylinder.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, let the seventy-fifth Hunger Games begin!"
Garnet looks around him; the bright sun blinds him for a few moments. Sixty seconds he says to himself. He notices that the Cornucopia is almost half a mile from him. A sword is about a fifty feet in front of him. He looks to his side. A small girl Lisle from District 6 is to his right. She is already shaking from fear. To his left is a boy from District 11, Yarrow Garnet seemed to remember. Garnet remembered that the boy made a score of 8 from the Game maker's assessment... He had to have something that the Game makers thought was important to winning these games. . The boy catches him looking at him. The boy looks back in front of him and looks at the sword. He is going to run for it. Garnet immediately knows that he has to beat the boy to the sword, or it will be his death. Garnet looks to see if he can see any of his friends. Pearl is about 10 tributes down on his left. He looks over to his right. Amaze is there about sixteen tributes down. Most of the tributes between them are smaller. He sees at least one of the girls from District two between them. Garnet focuses on the sounds around him. Waves are crashing against the shore in the direction of the Cornucopia. Birds are singing in the trees behind him.
The gong rings out, and Garnet begins to sprint towards the sword that he noticed in the first seconds of arrive. Yarrow runs in the same direction.
"Crap," Garnet whispers when he notices that Yarrow is faster than he originally thought. Garnet managed to make it to the sword first. Garnet picks up the sword without stopping and tries to balance himself. Yarrow picks up a small knife that Garnet had overlooked. The look on Yarrow's face was one of panic. He begins to swing at Garnet with the small knife. Garnet lets a laugh escape his lips as he watched Yarrow try to attack him with the knife. A sharp pain hits him in the shoulder. The warmth of blood quickly alerts him that Yarrow managed to stab him. He looks at the wound. It is not near a major artery. Garnet manages to balance himself. Yarrow lunged toward him, just as he was beginning to swing the sword. The sword catches Yarrow just below his rib cage. The force of the swing was just hard enough to slice into Yarrow with ease. Garnet looks around just in time to notice that the little girl Lisle was running towards the forest. Garnet takes the knife from the hand of Yarrow and immediately throws it toward the little girl. His throw is so perfect that even though she is a good 500 feet from him that it hits her in the back, and she falls over dead.
"Are you ok?" Pearl asks as she runs over to where the little girl lay and pulled the knife out of her back.
"Just a little shock, did not expect to have to run to fight off him." He says as he motions over to the body of Yarrow.
"Duck!" Pearls screamed and she tossed the knife in his direction. Garnet barely had time to hit the ground before the knife the Pearl threw lands into the chest of girl from District 2. The girl was just a few moments away from hitting Garnet with the ax in her hand.
"Shame, I though Ursa there may have been helpful later own! I mean she looks like a bear, which had to help scare others later right?" Amaze said as he approached carrying a spear.
"We have to find the others!" Pearl said pulling the ax out of the hands of Ursa. She pulled the knife out of her chest.
"If we target Districts 2 and 4 now, they will be easier to pick off. They will be expecting a sort of agreement with us." Amaze said
"Did you not just notice that Ursa was District 2, and she just tried to take off my head?" Garnet asked
"She is rouge. I heard the others in training talking about how she would not even speak with them." Amaze said.
"We have to get to the Cornucopia for more supplies." Pearl said. Somehow in the fighting they had managed to get further away from it. "
Garnet looked around. The first thing he noticed was Glint locked in a hand to hand fight with a huge muscular boy from District 2. Glint was trying his best to just keep the other boys hand from around his throat. He motioned to Amaze, to attack. Without even speaking Pearl tossed the blood stained knife to Amaze who immediately went up behind the bigger boy and cut his throat.
"Thanks," Glint said.
"Why did he attack you?"
"He asked if we made a decision about an alliance. I told him that it was not discussed so he decided that meant no. Odd he would have made a good teammate."
"Yeah and he was kind of cute too," Pearl said looking around. The Cornucopia sat onto of a hill a few hundred feet away. Fighting could be heard on the other side of the hill. Garnet assumed that mean that some were more interested in getting the supplies so they had made a dash to it.
"So we can assume now that we have had to kill two members of District 2 that they are not going to be in an alliance with us. Are you armed?" Garnet said looking at Glint.
"Not yet," He responded.
"Here take this," Pearl said tossing him an ax.
They began to make their way closer to the cornucopia. A group of three were standing over the body of a smaller tribute.
"We have to attack them. It looks like it took three of them to take down that boy." Pearl nodded. Amaze lifted the spear and threw it. It landed in the back of a tall dark haired boy. Glint quickly tossed the ax into the head of a tall girl. Garnet lifted his sword and swung it at the other boy, chopping off his head.
"Sad," Pearl said as she walked over to the body of the little boy. "His name was Tec. He was so cute at training. He managed to make this electricitical trap. He was so proud of himself."
"Those three were District 4. The girl was Morgayne. Those were her two lugs Hurley and Firth. They did everything that she told them to in training." Glint said he pulled the ax out of her head.
"We have to keep going, the Cornucopia is just over there. We need to make sure that we can get as much as we can carry." Glint said pulling the ax out of the girl's head.
Garnet barely caught a glimpse of a dagger being hurled in his direction. He barely moved out of the way, when Pearl noticed it. Quickly she threw her knife in the direction the dagger came from. It landed in the chest of a muscular boy from District 2.
"Well with Marius trying to kill you too, would say that an alliance is defiantly off the table with District 2." Amaze said almost laughing.
A scream on the other side of the cornucopia caught the attention of Garnet before he could speak.
"That was Diorite." He picked up that dagger that Marius had tossed, and ran in the direction of the scream. The others did not speak just followed. As soon as they got to the other side of the Cornucopia, all they saw was blood. This was where most of the fighting was taking place. There were at least a dozen bodies on the ground. Fighting was taking place by the water on the beach. The smell of salt water hit is senses almost taking away his breath. Garnet allowed his eyes to dart across the landscape. It did not take him much time before he noticed where the scream from Diorite was coming from. Garnet quickly noticed that Diorite was fighting with a sword. She was near Jasper, Silk, and Iridian who were all trying to fight off some remaining tributes that were still fighting. "They are outnumbered we have help." Garnet screamed at his friends.
Quickly he ran to where Diorite was he blocked a blow to her head with his sword. The girl from District 4 was confused. She had not seen Garnet come to the aide of his friend. He was quick to overpower her and stab her in the chest with the sword. He reached over to help Diorite up from the ground. She quickly picked up her sword and ran to assist the others. A small boy over near the Cornucopia tried to steady a bow to shoot at Garnet. The first arrow fell without much effort just in front of where he stood. It took a few moments as the boy was trying to reload for Garnet to register what was happening. The boy was trying to kill him. The boy could not have been more than 12. That was the power of the games, kill or be killed. Garnet threw the dagger into the boy's chest. The boy fell without much effort. Garnet just looked at him. He was so small, he should have never been allowed into the games. A small girl who was friends with the boy from District 10, Garnet remembered seeing them together in training, peeked out of her hiding spot near the cornucopia.
"Come out," Garnet ordered. She tossed a stone at him hitting him in the shoulder. Sadness took over him as he shoved his sword at her, killing her when it entered her throat. Garnet turned his attention back to the fighting which was almost over. Iridian quickly killed the girl that she was fighting with. The others just simply ran off into the woods.
"Let them go," Garnet said as Amaze and Glint were preparing to run after them. "If you are not armed, make sure you get armed. Tonight is going to be rough." He picked up the bow that the boy was trying to use, and slung it over his shoulder. He pulled the body of the little girl from out from under the cornucopia. "If there is anything you cannot carry, but you think will be useful, put it under here. This girl dug out a hole in the fighting. It may come in handy."
He went and looked at the remaining supplies that were stored in the cornucopia. He found an empty bag that he began to fill with medicine and food supplies."
"The water, is it salt or fresh?" Pearl asked.
"It is salt. A lot of the tributes thought they could swim to safety, but were killed before they could get far. One of the girls from District 4 is handy with bow. She killed a handful from over there." Jasper said as he pulled a sword from a body.
"How does the other side look?" Diorite asked.
"There is a forest over there. Looks like the cover will be a good sanctuary," Amaze said as he looked around the area.
"Wonder if that is where the tall girl from four and those two idiots are." Iridian said "I watched them chase some kid that way.
"No need to worry about them." Pearl said. "We took care of them already. They will not be harassing anyone anymore."
"Ok, everyone did you get what you can?" Garnet said looking over his friends. "We need to get as far away from here as we can before nightfall. We have some good tent material here, and five sleeping bags. If you are hurt, I will try to doctor it when we are far enough away from here. I promise that any remaining careers will be trying to stay as close to here as they can. We have to make sure that whatever is left will not be of any value. The other continued their search for supplies in silence. It did not take them long to join Garnet back at the mouth of the cornucopia.
"Which direction do we head in?"
"Let's head into the forest where I started. I killed the only person that was running in that direction. Most were coming this way. "Garnet started to walk in the direction of the forest. The others just followed. Once inside the forest they began to look around. Most of the trees were pine trees, and they were fairly spaced apart from each other