Day 2
Dreu Anders
"Dreu, wake up!" Kate whispers into my ear. I open my eyes and she puts a hand over my mouth. I listen and can hear footsteps outside. "The careers." She mouths. We flattening ourselves against the wall in our stone hut and wait in silence as they pass. We stay silent for a few more minutes and then Kate starts to roll up her sleeping bag. "We can't stay on the main island. Its the most dangerous, since the careers are living here. I shove my fleece blanket, package of dried fruit, and hunk of cheese into my knapsack and we run silently through the streets, heading towards the docks. When we arrive, there aren't any boats left.
"You a good swimmer?"
"I don't know. I'll try though."
"Good. They're all pretty far, but I can see that one over there, The winter island. Its our only option."
"Okay." I pull on my backpack and she attaches her sleeping bag to her back, and we dive in. They'll dry. The water is pretty warm, and we swim for a while. Then it starts getting colder.
And colder.
And even colder. I start to shake. "I can't see. Are we close?" She nods. "I don't think I can go much further."
"Yes You can. You can go further. These waters are designed to kill the weak tributes, not us. Were not weak."
"Its so cold."
"Dreu, were almost there." I just want to close my eyes and sink into the water, but I keep swimming. Kate grabs my hands and pulls me up. "We made it. I can't believe we made it. Lets start a fire. They're searching a different island today. Well be alright." She gather wood, snapping branches off trees and piling them up. She rubs until a small fire starts, and she lays out her sleeping bag by the fire. "You sleep in there, I'll take the blanket." I crawl into the bed and immediately fall asleep.
Aaron Locke
"Guys, wake up! Its time to get going!" I jump out if my sleeping bag at Sawyers order And go outside the tent. "Yesterday we made a lot of kills, and we should continue that! I vote we search this island today, and then the others for the next few days."
"Okay, come on!" Ruby shouts.
"Cassia, you stay here with the supplies." Cassia smiles.
"Sure." She sits down and grabs a sword, ready to defend our stuff. I don't really fit into the pack, but I wouldn't dare save them on my own.
"Come on guys, grab a weapon." I s house a spear and follow the pack. We search the island for hours. It seems like this year's tributes are good at hiding. Or maybe swimming.
"Lets split up." Cleone finally says. "That way, if they run from one of us, another can get them. I am given the job of watching the docks. Cleone waits in the middle of the main street, Ruby waits on the left street and Sawyer waits on the right. Charlotte patrols the other shore.
Meanwhile~
Julian Bird
I wait until I hear nothing outside if my little stone house. Then, as quietly as I can, I head to the far shore. I'm going to try to swim out to another island before the water rises, which I know is inevitable. The games are pretty predictable, and I have a feeling that this island is either going to be blasted with a volcano or mostly covered in water. I walk for quite a while. I wonder what Ron is doing right now. Maybe she and Pine are watching me here. Or maybe they're eating breakfast. Ron. I miss her so much.
"What are you thinking about, eleven." A mocking voice says from behind me. I spin around and the two girl smirks. She grabs my arm and I pull myself away, punching her in the process. "Don't you DARE!" She shouts. She kicks me in the stomach and then slams my face too. I can feel blood in my mouth but I don't cry out. She raises her sword above her head and then stabs me in the gut. The most agonizing pain I've ever felt shoots through my body and I scream in pain. She kicks my ribs hard and then walks away. I lay on the ground in a pool of my own blood.
I'm never going to see Ron again.
"Pine" I say quietly, my voice hoarse. "Tell Ron I love her. Don't let her.. for...get." the sky starts to turn back and I go numb. No, I need to live. Goodbye Ron. I love you. Goodby... BOOM!
Alec Johnston
I hear a scream and a loud boom.
Maybe it was a ghost! Ghosts scream a lot, I think. I've been running around all day trying to find ghosts, and I haven't found any! I haven't even seen any other teibutes, other than the two kids who I briefly saw going swimming or something. The truth is, I'm lonely. I miss my ghost hunting team! Anyhow, there aren't any ghosts here, So I'm going to go search somewhere else tomorrow. Maybe in the volcano- they won't make it erupt yet!
I hum to myself.
I kniw I should be more scared, But mainly I'm just disappointed that I haven't found any ghosts. I was so sure I would.
Jon Arrowsmith
BOOM! I hear the sound of a cannon in the distance. I wonder who it was.
I guess it doesn't really matter. What matters is that I'm still alive, and if I win, I can save Richard. Richard. He's the only reason I survived the bloodbath.
I hate the capital now more than ever before. They judge people, CHILDREN, by how well they can kill, how brutal they can be. Personalities are nothing to them. Love is nothing to them. Everything is about the death, the cruelty. They stole my brother. They stole me. They took the lives of innocent children, Shae, David, Chloe. All of them. I talked to one of the other boys on the second day of training. He said his sister wants to start a revolution someday. And I talked to a girl, who's brother is dying back at home. They'll probably die! I hate the capital, I hate them so much! They turned Richard into a slave. And they let that boy kill Chloe, my friend, my ally.
I am still on the main island, though when the careers head out to search the jungle island tomorrow, I'm going to try swimming to the close one, the winter island. I don't think anyone else went there, though I can't be sure. For now though, I will just wait in this hut and wonder who died today.
Gwen Oliver
BOOM! My eyes open and I sit up, immediately making sure my friend are here. Good, they're both waking up. I sigh in relief.
Day Two.
I'm still here, still alive.
I guess optimism saved me again. Muffy takes my hand.
"Gwen? Gwen, I know this sounds silly probably, But I'm really scared. Really, Really scared."
"Its not silly. But you need to remember that dying isn't horrible. Because you have memories that will live on."
"I know. Its just... I'm not ready to die."
"My mum used to sing me a song. She said it was really old, from before Panem even existed. But her grandmother's grandmother's grandmother sang it to her daughter, who sang it to her daughter, who sang it to her daughter, who sang it to her daughter, who sang it to her daughter who sang it to my mum who sang it to me." I laugh a bit at my sentence. "it goes like this.
Golden days, in the sunshine of a happy youth
Golden days, full of gaiety and full of truth
In our hearts we remember them all else above
Golden days, days of youth and love
How we laughed with the joy that only love can bring
Looking back through memory's eyes
We will know life has nothing sweeter than its springtime
Golden days, when we're young
Golden days.
So you see, even if we don't make it out of here, we did have those golden days. When we hadn't seen people die, when we weren't afraid. We had those days. And no matter what happens, we won't lose them." Muffy looks at me.
"That was beautiful. I guess I see what you mean. I guess life and death just aren't fair. But we did have good times. I nod and we sit in our tree.
I miss those golden days.
But those days are something that can never, ever come back.
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17. Julian Bird