I'm sorry for the lack of uploads in the past two weeks, I just honestly didn't feel like doing anything. But here's the next chapter so I hope you enjoy it, and leave a comment!
The Surprise
Shey Nox, 17, D10 Female
I woke up to an alarm sounding. It was probably an alarm telling us to get ready for the interviews. This was the best chance I had to get sponsors.
"Get up, up!" Rossetta screamed, bursting into my room. "There's been a change of plans, let's go, now!"
I quickly threw on my training clothes and followed her to a platform with a hovercraft. She ushered me into it and I saw Falco and a bunch of the other tributes already inside. As soon as I was buckled into the seat, the doors closed and I felt us lift off.
"Any idea what's going on?" Falco whispered to me.
"Maybe the interviews are held somewhere else," I whispered back, shrugging. Or maybe they'd changed it completely and something else was happening.
Ajax Romero, 18, D2 Male
We were on a hovercraft, and I knew for a fact that the interviews were not held this far away from the training center. Darwin and the rest of the Careers were on the same hovercraft with me. Plus the tributes from 3 and Blaze. He spent the entire journey glaring at us all. I couldn't help but wonder if it was because we messed up his plan by refusing to let him join our alliance and replacing him with Cobalt.
After about an hour in the air, we landed. Very soon after, we were rushed out into a large hanger, then were escorted down a bunch of metal hallways, until we were all slowly split up and placed in seemingly random rooms. I was the last one to be assigned a room and when I got in and looked around, I completely stopped in my tracks. At first glance, it was a normal room, but when you actually looked, you saw the giant see through tube in the middle. There were couches and on the coffee table there was so much food it was incredible. I sat down, still in shock. This was the prep room, the place we went right before we went into the arena.
A peacekeeper came in with a giant needle and a package.
"Arm, please," he asked. I stuck out my arm, bracing myself for the needle. It hurt. A lot. This was the tracker. And I guessed the package held my clothes for the arena. I opened it and found a tan wetsuit, with a grain stenciled onto the front. I assumed that meant I had the powers of Demeter.
I quickly changed into it, then ate as much as I could. Then I started preparing myself to kill.
Stitch Wilson, 12, D8 Female
I was sitting in my dark green wetsuit, shivering. I was not ready for the Games. I thought I still had at least another day to get myself ready for them. But no, they decided to cancel the interviews and put us straight into the Games. My arm finally stopped stinging from where they injected the tracker, and I realized I should probably eat.
I ate as much as I could, only stopping when I heard a loudspeaker crackle.
"All tributes, please step into your tube, I repeat, step into your tube now."
It was time to go. I wanted to cry, but refused to give the Capitol the satisfaction of seeing that. So I stepped into the open door of the tube. It zipped shut the second I was in. Then the floor lurched and I was moving up. The ceiling opened, and the sun blinded me. Once the floor stopped moving, I looked around. We were in the most beautiful place ever. The sky was so blue, and the sand looked so soft. In the middle, there was a pond, with the cornucopia on a small island. Amazingly, Falco was right next to me, and he smiled, nodding towards the palm trees behind us. That was where we would meet.
Above the cornucopia, the number 60, appeared and it started counting down.
10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1…
Here's the wetsuit colors and stencil in the same color, but darker, based on the gods:
Aphrodite - Pink, with a heart
Ares - Crimson, with a sword
Athena - Royal Blue, with a weight
Poseidon - Turquoise, with a trident
Zeus - Dark Purple, with a thunder cloud
Hermes - Orange, with a lightning bolt
Artemis - Dark Green, with a bow and arrow
Apollo- Yellow, with a Caduceus
Demeter - Tan, with a grain
Hades - Black, with a skeleton
Dionysus - Light Purple, with grapes
Hephaestus - Red, with a flame
Questions:
Who do you think will die in the bloodbath?
Who do you think will win?
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