The tributes were escorted to their pods shortly after the hovercraft landed. Tributes give the possible final farewells to their mentors and stylist before stepping into their pods. They all nervously wait for the pods to rise into the arena. Shortly after the final tribute stepped into their pod, they pods glass doors close shut and lock. There is no wait out anymore, it is time. Let the Hunger Games begin.

The pods slowly rise into the arena. Tributes blinded by the light from the arena, but soon get their vision again. Looking around the arena it appeared that everything was a party-like theme. The cornucopia laid in the middle on the pods. All the supplies the tributes need will be there, but will have to risk their life if they want to get something.

The tributes soon realized that on their arms they had something written on it. It would say "Tracker A-D) depending on which tribute. This confused the tributes, what does that mean? Is this a special tracker? As the tributes looked at the surroundings a booming voice came on, which can be heard all around the arena.

"Good luck tributes, and may the odds be ever in your favor!" The gamemaker says.

60, 59, 58, 57, 56, 55

Styx looked over at Cora, smirking, Cora smiles back at him.

44, 43, 42, 41, 40

Clyde got in a position ready to run when the countdown was finished.

32, 31, 30, 29, 28

Nemo and Capri look at each other nodding and both getting in a ready position.

23, 22, 21, 20, 19

Whiskey looks nervous at Elektrik and Teff.

16, 15, 14,13, 12

Jordan and Vista look at each other. Vista mouths to Jordan "Be Brave".

10, 9, 8, 7, 6

Everyone got into a ready position.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1, BOOM!

Tributes started running all over to place, most of them ran into the middle to grab supplies, while some ran into the woods, moving away from the bloodbath.

Ford Jackson, 15, District 6 Male (Non-Pov)

I ran into the cornucopia as fast as my small legs could go. As I arrived at the entrance I gasped for breath, I sure needed my inhaler. As I reach my hands out to grab a backpack with food and water. I felt a sharp pain hit my back. I yelp in pain and fall to the floor. As I fall down I look up to see the boy from 1 standing over me, holding a sword. My eyes started to tear up, as I knew this was it for me. That I would never see my family again. He looked at me and only said one word to me. Which I was shocked about, as he has never spoken.

"Désolé" He said with a rather tough voice.

I didn't understand what he said as it must have been another language. He raised his sword as I closed my eyes, hoping the pain would be quick. He plunged the sword into my chest, I felt a quick sense of pain. I took my final breath as my body went limp.

CANNON BOOM!

Vista Ananova, 13, District 3 Female

I ran towards the cornucopia but decided it was foolish to go in all the way. I quickly saw two backpacks on a pink rock. I scooped them up and quickly handed a backpack over to Jordan.

"Take it! Now go run as far as you can into that weird party forest. I will catch up to you in a minute!" I quickly tell him, as I watch him run off safely into the forest.

I turn around to find Clyde in front of me. I gasped as I saw he was holding a battle axe. I thought he was gonna kill me. He walked up to me as I tried to back up. I closed my eyes thinking he was gonna attack me but when I opened them, he was handing the battle axe over to me. I was a bit confused at first why he would be giving me a weapon, but I thankfully take it.

"Thank you, but you don't have a weapon now?" I say fairly, even though it was the hunger games I still think he should have a weapon.

He smiled at me and chuckled a bit, as he opened his backpack to show me he had another weapon already. He picked up the throwing axe in his bag as he turned around and ran off.

By the time he ran off, 6 cannons had fired. I sighed, only 19 left. As I turned around the boy from 4 charged at me. I quickly run to the side, just before he was able to reach me. I then proceeded to attempt to hit him with the battleaxe. I used all my strength as I swung it at his face. It hit right in his forehead. I heard a grunt from him as he fell down the arena ground. His body twitched for a second, but then stopped.

CANNON BOOM!

I covered my mouth in complete shock of what I just did. I just murdered another person. Oh god, I really did. As I panicked I took the axe out of his forehead, but as I did a bit of blood sprayed on my face. I gasped once again, but I knew I can;t be playing games and standing here. I decided to run off into the forest to find Jordan. As I ran I kept running and running, not looking back for a second.

Pamela 'Pam' Viyella, 17, District 8 Female

As I witnessed Vista killing the boy from 4, I was sneaking over to grab the last backpack. Once I got close to it, I quickly grabbed it and took off running. Once I reached the outskirts of the cornucopia I opened my bag to see what was inside. I run my hand through the backpack pulling out a turkey sandwich, a survival book, a swiss army knife, and a map of the arena.

I sighed in relief at the items I received, thankful that I grabbed a good backpack. I put everything back into the backpack, except my swiss army knife and my map. I will only use my swiss army knife on another tribute if needed, or ifI need to cut something. The map I can use to get around the arena easier and quicker. I decided to get up and to explore the arena.

As I walked through the forest I noticed that the trees were actually giant party cone hats, and had mini gummy candies growing from the tree. I finally realized the arena must be a party theme, considering the cornucopia was an actual cake. However I made my way over to view the candies on the trees. They look really weird. I decided to look in my survival book what these candies were.

Once I finally found the page they were on, I read it outloud quietly.

"Tree Candies are very poisonous. They appear as candy, but are just a trick to get tributes to eat them." I say in shock.

Then an idea hit me. I decided to grab a few of the candies off the tree and picked up a rock on the ground next to me. I then proceed to hit the candies repeatedly until the liquid inside oozes out. I take my swish army knife and set the blade into the liquid for a moment as I took it out. Maybe the liquid can kill someone faster? I hope so.

I put my survival book away as I got up and continued to explore the arena. Maybe I can survive longer, maybe I can make it to the finale, maybe….I can win this.

Deaths

24th Place - Ford Jackson, 15, District 6 Male - Stabbed in chest with sword by Carlos D1M

23rd Place - Berry Luis, 17, District 9 Male - Neck snapped by Styx D2M

22nd Place - Kia Sarahea, 14, District 6 Female - Neck slit by Cora D1F

21st Place - Cole Trame, 18, District 11 Male - Stabbed in stomach by Troy D3M

20th Place - Vivian Bamea, 13, District 10 Female - Stabbed twice with dagger by Styx D2M

19th Place - Troy Hemmey, 16, District 3 Male - Stabbed in back with trident, and left to bleed out, used by Nemo D4M

18th Place - Nemo Bellock, 17, District 4 Male - Took a battle axe to his forehead from Vista D3F

ANNNNDDD with that 17 tributes are left! Now I have decided that tributes can be affected by thirst and hunger. Each chapter or 'day' they will lose 1 point in each, you have 3 points starting out for water and hunger. To keep your hp up you can buy food and water for 10 sponsor points for both, have a friend sponsor water or food for you, OR managed to find water or food in the arena, which will be fairly hard for the tributes to find. I hope you enjoyed the bloodbath chapter, and I will update as soon as I can. Have a wonderful rest of your day!

NO QUESTIONS THIS CHAPTER!

Kill Count

Carlos - 1

Styx - 2

Cora - 1

Vista - 1

~ Gomex