As I look around, I take in the look of the arena. It's a meadow covered with flowers as far as the eyes can see. Though their is a forest pretty far off in the distance. I take a deep breath and try to see who's next to me. I count the tributes in the half circle. I'm the 16/24 in it. At first, I just feel disappointed. However, then I realize that this is a bigger issue than it should be.

I'm pretty much dead center in the middle which means that if I run in there, I'm dead. I grit my teeth in annoyance. I had some hope that maybe I could get in and get out relatively quickly. All I needed was a bag. Though throwing knives would also be pretty good, I need to focus on surviving. As far as the tributes go, I'm sandwiched between the girl from 3 to my left and the boy from 7 to my right.

I'm at least glad that the careers aren't in my area. That'd be VERY disastrous and would add to the problem of running into the bloodbath and escaping. I look around a bit more. Byke is actually close to the District 1 female. I'm hoping she turns around. The District 3 female is pretty small, not big of a deal. The boy from 7 is a bit better looking so he might be a big deal if I go in.

Matter of fact, a lot of the tributes in this arena... seem pretty small from the looks.

Otherwise, all the careers are on the outside. At first, I feel a little better knowing that I'm nowhere near them... but then I realize something. If all the careers are on the outside... and all of the other tributes are on the inside...

I look the the cornucopia. 30 seconds...

A few of the best looking weapons seem to be on the left and right areas. They didn't have to make this too obvious. The careers are stationed on each side for a reason. Strategical advantage.

They're supposed to grab their items before quickly wiping some of the smaller tributes down. Because most of the tributes here are small children then this would mean... oh shit. They're going to mow us down.

10 seconds remain on the clock...

9...

I see a small bag. It's to the left so I have to take a sharp turn and get to my best efforts, get out.

8...

I look at Byke again. From here, I can tell she's looking over at me. She looks a bit nervous but she looks behind herself. I can assume that she's running.

Hopefully.

7...

My heart pounds against my chest.

6...

My thoughts turn to my brother. He's not in this arena, but I wonder how he'll do...

5...

I take a deep breath and make realize what I must do.

4...

I will have to go into the bloodbath and grab the bag as quickly as my small body can.

3...

Such a beautiful arena...

2...

How quickly will it fall apart...

1...

Ladies and gentlemen, let the 100th Annual Hunger Games begin.

The first thing we hear is the shrieking piercing sound of the gong. All at once, we all leap off our pods and dash straight towards the cornucopia. I rush in, not bother to even look back. As I run towards the bag , it slowly seems to be getting further and further away from my location even though I'm clearly dashing directly at it. My heart is pounding heavily.

By the time I reach the bag, most of the other tributes have reached the cornucopia and are already picking up their weapons. The District 4 female (Taller one) pulls out a spear. Another District 4 tribute actually keeps his distance as she points her spear at him. One of the District 2 tributes is grabbing a curved sword that laying around while the District 7 male runs past me and into the cornucopia.

By the time I grab the bag, chaos has begun to enfold around me. The District 2 female targets the District 9 male who attempts to run from her at the best of her abilities. The District 2 male has targeted the District 3 female. The District 6 male (Who runs directly passed me) gets attacked by the girl from 10.

I watch in horror as the District 3 female is mowed down by the larger career tribute. A fight between the males from 5 and 4 begins. Though I was praying to goodness that my bag was a safe distance from the cornucopia, I was wrong.

Really wrong...

I'm slipping the bag on my right arm quietly as chaos enfolds. However, before I can begin running though-,

"SLISH!" I cry out in pain the moment I feel blood spilling from my arm. Now my right arm feels almost out of commission. I turn around me, my eyes widening out of fear. A knife thrown at me by a career tribute. District 1 I think. I have literally no chance of escaping this situation at the moment. It's over! It's ov-, Actually... I should at least try.

With my left arm, I pick up my bag and attempt to dash away. "Don't even bother!" The District 1 tribute shouts before throwing another knife at me. I quickly turn around. With barely a fraction of a second, I duck.

"Woooo-," The knife goes right past me to my luck. However, that doesn't stop her next knife. "Aaaah!" She shouts before she can throw is at me though. I don't even bother looking back as I run away, past the pods and all the chaos behind me. However, I do turn around and notice another tribute targeting me.

Just leave me the hell alone.

The District 10 girl with an axe. Of course, she's running at me with it since I'm the only one who's managing to get out as of now. I don't stop running though. I'm praying in my head that this is my top speed and that she won't be able to get me. However, it's all in vain. I can hear her footsteps directly behind me. By this point, I'm making it back to the pods and I quickly jump onto it. After this though, I quickly jump off and continue running.

I actually turn around once more, she's slowly starting to move slower making me hope that she's going to stop at some point. Past the pods seems to be an endless field of flowers. One step-,

I quickly fall in and discover that the flowers are knee deep. At least for me. "Oh no, oh no." I whisper to myself before turning around. I'm easy picking back here! I gotta move quicker! My thoughts are frantic, moving around with little time to slow down and register any feeling outside of fear. I feel so worried, anxious that somebody is ready to take my life at any moment that it feels like I'm counting the ways it can happen.

I'm almost peacefully moving through the flowers though. I'm walking through them as if I was walking through a pond. Though the flower seem innocent and colorful, I know they're just another part of the danger zone that is the bloodbath. It's meant to slow anyone who makes it out of the bloodbath in order to make them easy pickings. I swallow my saliva.

I feel as if hours have passed but in actuality, the sun is in the same place that it was in when I began. I turn around. The scenery is bright. The sky is bright blue but everything feels orange and yellow. As if it was a hot afternoon. The scenery reminds me of 11...

Not too far off in the distance, some of the remaining tributes that managed to escape the cornucopia now have to survive the flower patch that seems to never end. Thankfully, by this point I've gotten myself a pretty big lead. I stop running and begin walking in order to catch my breath a little. I feel some confidence coming back. However, I have no weapons once so ever...

I sigh. However, I feel a smile coming up. I survived. I survived the cornucopia bloodbath...

I try and raise my right arm real quick. "AAH!" I grit my teeth as I realize how badly I got cut. I wish I had time to grab the knife but oh well. The next best thing is to... I guess hide somewhere. I haven't had too much practice with climbing trees but I'm pretty sure I can hide up in the trees without being spotted. The forest seems pretty far away still though...

I almost want to check my bag already. However, I remember that the tributes are still all racing out and possibly right behind me. I turn around. Since we're still out in the open, I can tell who's behind me. Their are some tributes running around in the flower fields but nobody seems to be heading in my direction. I take a deep breath. Another thought pops up at this moment.

What happened to Byke? Now, I'm worried. Though I'm quite surprised that I'm worried for her because she seriously didn't seem like she'd be doing anything useful in the games, especially not in the opening. However, I think the sign she gave me is enough to assure me that she ran away. It was actually quite the decision honestly. Even if we made it past the careers in the bloodbath. Even if we made it in and out, we'd still have the flower patch to go through. Even if you didn't get mowed down in the cornucopia, people were going to get mowed down somewhere around there.

This makes me question, how the hell did I survive? Luck. Obviously.

Eventually though, I make it to the forest that surrounds the meadow. I breathe a sigh of relief. I'm glad I've made it this far but... but I don't know how longer this can go on. Anyways, the sun is out but the air feels moist and warm, I don't know why, but it feels almost relaxing outside. However, I'm reminded of all the people I watched die in the bloodbath. Of course, I've seen the games before but watching them take place in person is over a thousand times worse.

Eventually, I make it to the forest that stands outside of the meadow. Though I'm already wondering something else. I haven't had too much practice with climbing trees but I can probably do that. Even then, I look behind myself before entering the forest.

I sigh. "Okay... let's see what I've got." I carefully take my bag off my shoulder as I go to see what's inside. I unzip my bag and begin pulling out some of the things I have. The first thing I have is a water container. Thank goodness I have one of those. Though I lack the knowledge of where I can find any water...

The next thing I pull out is a small candy bar. Well, I think it is. I want to open the wrapper but I decide it'd be best to save the food for if I begin starving. I sit down and lay my head on a tree out of boredom. I'm alive... and that's all that matters at the moment. I breath in. All I've got to do is survive... that's all...

However, my thoughts turn to two things at the moment. Byke? Is she okay? What about Alma? Is he going to be fine as well? Matter of fact, how long will I be able to survive? I'm grinding my teeth like a mad man now. However, I shake my head and try not to worry too much. However, I already feel paranoid. Though because this is the first day, things shouldn't be too hectic at all.

I put my backpack back on and begin to traverse through the forest.

From the looks of it, the forest is quite hilly. If I had the upperground than I'd be less paranoid. However, the area is quiet (Sans the light chirping of the birds and other insects). The light is bleeding through the trees as if it was a beautiful painting. It all feels relaxing... too relaxing. I swallow my saliva and begin climbing a hill. After making my way up the hill, I stand high above the forest. Well, not really since there are much bigger hills. However, I feel a little better up here knowing that I was being a little paranoid.

I notice a tree not very far off and decide to climb it to get a better view of my surroundings. I begin to get my hands into position before slowly making my way up the trees. When it comes to climbing, I'm a little better than I thought I was. However, even I have my limitations. I stop on a branch and look.

I can see the cornucopia from here. Unfortunately, I can't see if any tributes are over there but I can assume that the careers have taken over the cornucopia. Looking at the arena from up here, the place looks very amazing. Also, I notice an area I hadn't seen before. What's possibly a beach far off in the distance. I'm almost inclined to head over there but I decide it'd be best to stay in the forest. I can also see the whole meadow from up here.

However, what I'm really looking for is a pond/river/lake to get river from. However... I don't see one. I swallow my saliva again. You've got to be kidding me...

Either I'm not looking hard enough or there isn't a clear water source in this arena. I grit my teeth in annoyance. I shouldn't wear myself out too quickly in this arena. At least until there is a clear way to find water.

Almost an hour passes as I sit on the tree branch. I'm glad this can actually support my weight but as the sun begins to come close to setting, I already feel like passing out asleep. However, I keep myself awake for as long as I can manage. By this point though, I'm bored. Even though I was using it as a pillow for the most part, I take my backpack and start shuffling through it some more.

First thing I find is a flashlight. I'm not exactly sure what I'm going to do with it once night falls but flashlights are scary when it comes to Hunger Games. I mean, do you want to bring all attention to the giant light in the trees? Dumbass.

The next thing I pull out is a bag of crackers. "Thank god. I'll have something to hold me over for the most part." I whisper to myself. However, sadly there isn't much else in the bag sadly which disappoints me.

"BOOM!" However, I'm interrupted by sudden canon shots. One by one, the canons go off signaling another death in the arena. I count them as each canon goes off. After a few seconds, I count up to

The District 1 Male

I'm almost completely shocked. A career was taken out? No less, the one that spent his free time in training antagonizing the younger tributes. I mean, I guess he had it coming but damn... I'm curious. Who could've done it.

District 2 Female

Another career? Huh? What's the pattern here? And how...

District 3 Male

The boy from 3. I don't know anything about him other than that he was 12 so...

District 3 female

Thinking about it now. I'm quite lucky that she was taken out and not me. We were both kind of centered in the middle of the action but I took that random detour praying that it'd give me an excuse to not be there. However, thinking about it now she's probably be alive if I hadn't done that.

District 4 Male

Now I'm a little confused. That's three careers taken out? How did this happen? He looked like he would have fared pretty well... oh well, I guess.

District 5 female

I remember this face a little bit. She was running in the flower meadow outside of the pods far behind me. She was probably mowed down by the careers. Also, is it just me or is this a completely unbiased gender pattern... Whatever. I don't care because I'm more concerned about Byke. She better be alive...

District 7 Male

I breathe a sigh of relief realizing that Byke must have run off from the bloodbath. Looking back to District 7 though, he was next to me. Unsurprisingly, he died.

District 7 Female

Just like 3, 7 has been wiped out. At least in this arena. Then my mind begins to race a little. So this must mean that they're only showing the deaths of one arena and not to another...

District 9 Female

By this point, I'm reminded of that rebellion from the 2nd training. How 5 and 9 were an alliance that stuck together through training. However, the fact that two of their people are down makes me wonder how they can continue with that ridiculous plan.

Blowing out the arena? Were they really serious? Even me, a 12 year old, doesn't think well of that.

District 10 Male

I think he was also one of the younger ones. Though I can't be sure because I rarely saw him in training.

District 12 Female

And that was about it. It was good news that Byke was okay but I don't know about Soya or Alma. I know Ceres is alive though... and I'm worried about that.

The sun has gone completely down now and as the first day seems to be wrapping up... nothing seems to insane... yet at least.

I was lucky today, but luck runs out... it will...

End of the 1st Day...

The games have begun... and Altar is going to have a tough time. I came up with the arena idea last second. Originally I was going to combine a bunch of previous arenas but I found the boring and decided with the multiple (Now Duo) arena idea. Then, I decided it would be cool to make it like a killer Candy Land (After watching one of the recent One Piece episodes... weird series) but went against that because... obvious reasons.

Later on though, I try'd to avert creating a full on 50th Hunger Games. The games will have something to do with past games but you'll understand it more over time...

Though the flower meadow is literally the only connection to 50th Hunger Games so don't get the wrong idea. This chapter should have been longer but I'm currently writing this out of town in a hotel room and I want to go to bed...

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Icytopia - (Chapter 3), I was probably half sleep writing this story. Like I am right now... That or I was on some laughing gas... which I am right no-, Okay I should stop letting people know my day to day activities...

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