We continue our confusing escape from the cornucopia as we're thankfully not getting chased down. We surprisngly got all the weapons we wanted from the place. "Holy shit. Wasn't expecting to get that amount of goods from the cornucopia honestly." Troy smiles as we walk past the flower patch surrounding the cornucopia.
Troy probably isn't the brightness of people if he didn't expect to get anything good from the cornucopia... However, my attention is still focused on whoever was following us earlier. I could assume it was 5 and 9 but looking back, they didn't look like that. It wasn't the careers either so I can guess it was possibly Ceres and the girl from 10. Anyways, we continue trecking through the plains. We're pretty much in the wide open but we're surrounded by grain or something like that.
"Guys, be quiet. We don't know if anybody is in this area." I whisper to Troy and Byke. They take the order and quiet down. The girl from 4 is on looking. Making sure there aren't any tributes in here.
We don't really plan on running into anybody as of now because obviously, that wouldn't be good. I'm pretty anxious just thinking about it. I still don't even know what to think when it comes to the girl from 4. Is she really trust worthy.
I sigh before the girl from 4 suddenly turns around. "Hey, didn't you pick up some weapons?" She asks me.
I blink before pulling a knife out of my jacket. "Yeah." I nod.
She smiles. "So, you plan on using throwing knives?" She questions me.
I nod back. "Yeah. It's kind of hard to explain but I'm pretty good with them." I admit.
Honestly, the fact that I'm even good with them feels weird. The District 11 boy, 12 years old, somehow good with knives? Complete bullshit. But hey, it's so unbelievable that it's true. The girl from 4 laughs. "Hey, we'll see when you try them." She shrugs as we continue.
I'm now almost certain that the girl wants us dead for the most part. However, I'm inclined to keep my mouth shut and just wait. When will she turn on us? How will she turn on us? What can I do? I know for a fact that I'm not going to survive by just stabbing her because she has a spear...
I'm grinding my teeth just thinking about it so I just try and ignore my fears. However, that only makes the feeling worse and I feel as if I'm tearing my teeth apart thinking about it. "Hey uh. Alt, right? You seem anxious." Byke turns back to me.
I facepalm. "Hunger Games. Of course I'm anxious." I remind her.
The girl from 4 chuckles a bit. "Don't worry, I don't plan on hurting any of you." She tells us.
I roll my eyes. "You keep saying that an you expect me to continue buying into it. I'm 12 but I'm not stupid." I remind her.
She shrugs. "Hey, you said it. Not me." She sighs.
We continue trecking through the high grass. I really don't know which one I'm worrying about more. The girl or what could be hiding behind our backs ready to pounce on us. I sigh before looking back up to the sky.
Grey...
I'm reminded a little bit of home. Though it was annually sunny, it became cloudy during the late fall to mid spring months. I feel a bit of nostalgia. Though I'm quickly snapped out of it. Nostalgia, for home? Tch, 11 was a hell hole and I know that.
"Snap"
The girl from 4 stops. Byke and Troy do the same. I look behind myself. For a few seconds, there is silence and it's a possibility that we just got a little anxious. However, we still don't move. I don't want to. Something could be behind us. It could be ready... The girl from 4 turns back to us. "It's possible that it's another tribute, stay close." She tells us.
I got an odd feeling when she says that. Almost like we're small children and she's our parent wanting us to stay close. I pull off my backpack and slowly begin to take out one of the knife packs I got from the cornucopia.
My heart pulse accelerates faster than it has before. It could be another tribute or a mutt and both of those are potentially dangerous. One obviously over the other...
However, my thought process is cut off when I see a muddy, giant brown creature slithering towards us. For a second, I'm so shocked that I'm possibly knocked out of reality. Thankfully, the girl from 4 pulls me out of its way and we both fall down. The creature moves right past us. It's moving slowly... like a snake.
However, it turns around quickly.
"SCREEEECH!" I screams at us and that's the moment I realize. It's a snake, but inflated 10 times...
"Run!" The girl from 4 shouts. Byke and Troy are already on it before I can get on it. I quickly begin to get up and escape while the girl from 4 follows. My mind is racing, possibly faster than my feet are running. My heart is literally pounding against my chest. For the first time, I really feel like I'm about to die. All the cards are stacked against me.
I almost feel tears, like I know this is it. However, I persevere. The giant snake moves past me, rushing right beside me for some reason. I jump back before pulling out one of my knives. Thankfully, this giant snake is also a giant target.
I throw one at it, causing a direct hit. It screeches loudly, crying in pain.
The girl from 4 is catching up to me. "Try and distract it! I'll have to hit it in the head!" She tells me.
She rushes right past me and holds her spear to the snakes head. I quickly pops its head back up before angrily looking at me. My face quickly turns to distress. I throw a knife at its face, praying to goodness it hits.
"SCRREEE!"
Okay good.
Currently, the girl from 4 is stabbing the snake over and over. Not really sure if it's working but I pull out my packet of knives and start running a little further away. The snake cries in anger before charging at me.
Oh shit! Oh shit! Oh shit!
I only barely jump out of the way of the snakes fangs. I throw another knife at it. However, it quickly avoids it before striking down at me. "MOVE!" The girl from 4 pulls me out of the way. It rushes straight past me, nearly getting me.
I'm breathing heavily now. I look back up to the girl from 4. She's also breathing pretty hard. "Keep your eyes on the prize." She reminds me, looking towards the serpent. It turns around and begins charging at us at a high speed. I narrowly hits me as I jump out of its path once more. I begin running off in order to gain some distance. As I do, I'm pulling out knives. However, it only begins charging at me from there.
"NONONONONO!" I say to myself as I struggle.
"HEY YOU! YEAH! LOOK OVER HERE!" Byke shouts from afar. The serpent stops dead in its tracks. Both me and the girl from 4 can see Byke and Troy trying to get its attention.
Troy is staring over at us making a signal telling us to take advantage. At once, the girl from 4 charges at the serpent before stabbing it across. It screeches once more. I pull out a handful of knives and I swiftly throw my first knife at it. It flies right past him...
I throw another one, only for it to miss. "COME ON! COME ON!" I shout at myself as I continue missing.
"You're putting too much pressure on yourself! Calm yourself!" The girl from 4 yells.
I listen and quickly take a deep breath. I pull out another knife and I aim it at the serpents eye. Right as I throw the knife, it turns around right into the knife. It screams louder.
"Now!" Troy shouts to the girl from 4 who takes the opportunity to start stabbing the serpent like a mad man. Over and over again, she thrusts the spear downwards, striking the serpent. Its screams get louder and louder. I rush up and throw another knife at its head.
Thankfully this time, it actually hits it in the eye. "YOU GOT IT!" Byke cheers from afar.
"Thanks." I tell her. The girl from 4 turns back to me. "I got this." She tells me before rushing to the front of the snake before swiftly stabbing it right in the face. The scream it produces is ear raping but it stops moving after that.
"Yes! I think it's done!" Troy rushes up to us.
I take a giant gasp of air. I honestly felt like I was going to die right there. If this girl wasn't here with us, we would've probably died. "Yeah, it's dead..." I breath in a bit.
Byke runs up to us. "Thanks, uh. What's your name again?" She asks the girl from 4.
She smiles to Byke. "Monica." She tells her.
"Let's get going. I think it's about to be around 5 or so." I tell them.
And so, we begin to leave the grain field of the arena...
Far Later...
We sit around in the night, camouflaged by the trees and shrubs surrounding us. Byke had complained about it being too cold for her so I just handed her my sleeping bag just to get her to shut up. Troy went to sleep under a bush thinking it would warm him up. Currently, I can't sleep but I probably wasn't going to do that anyways. I wanted to dedicate this night to watching Monica (The girl from 4) just to make sure she doesn't try and pull anything. "Can't sleep?" She asks me.
I look up. Her eyes seem exhausted. I nod in response. She just lays back against a tree in response. "Yeah, I can't either. Even with the careers down a few in numbers, we still have a few other tributes to be on edge about." She admits.
I look up to the sky. The sky is darker than usual. I can't seem to see the moon so... it's cloudy. I look back to Monica. "You know, you were pretty good out there." She admits.
I smile. "You too." I shrug.
It's still strange. She protected us from whatever that beast was. I feel grateful that she didn't just leave us to die or anything like that. Maybe she really wants to watch us or something. Though that is questionable. I don't think anybody has ever done that with plans on keeping them alive...
It kind of reminds me of last year, however the big children alliance didn't kill each other. Instead, they got picked apart by rigged traps in the arena (Well, one of them did survive, District 9). Suddenly I'm reminded of something. Back at the reapings, she was the one who volunteered for that smaller girl. I look back to her. She seems to be looking up at the grey and black sky.
"Hey, about the reapings..." I begin to ask her.
She interrupts me though. "I volunteered in place of my sister, yes." She sighs.
I'm quiet for a moment. Volunteering... in place of a sibling? She cared for her sister that much? I wonder if Alma would have done the same... "Isn't your brother also here in the arena?" She asks me.
I stop dazing out and nod. "Yes. But... if he's alive..." I start to worry. I never really thought about that. Is he alive?
Monica seems like she wants to say something about it but she instead keeps her mouth shut. I take a deep breath before looking back up at the sky. I notice a spark of light. It's small though. Lightning?
It's quiet. A little too quiet for my tastes but we've already been in enough danger today. "Hey... do you think it's gonna-," Monica begins when suddenly, we hear a small boom of thunder.
"Storm? Yeah. Definitely." I groan.
Monica gets up. "Let's find some shelter. I don't wanna get struck by lightning." She begins to shake Troy and Byke awake.
"Wha-, huh?" Troy says groggily, getting up.
"Storm. We gotta find shelter." I tell them. Byke hands me my sleeping bag quickly. However, I'm unable to put it together again. "Damn it. Damn it. Damn it." I shout in distress.
"Gah. Here." Monica takes it from me before quickly shoving it in my backpack.
We swiftly begin moving soon after that. The night is cold, just like back in 11. Though I'm curious... Do the gamemakers plan on doing anything to us tonight? Well, hopefully not. They have 11 other tributes to play with...
End of the 2nd Day...
Tributes Currently Alive
District 1 Female
District 2 Male
District 4 Female (Monica)
District 5 Male
District 6 Female (Byke)
District 6 Male (Troy)
District 9 Male
District 10 Female
District 11 Male (Altar)
District 11 Female (Ceres)
District 12 Male
First true action sequence has been completed. Also, I just noticed a mistake from the first two chapters. It says Troy (District 6) was killed in the bloodbath... somehow he showed up last chapter (Though not written as alive) and I've only just now noticed this mistake. God damn it XD
Also no deaths on the 2nd day. Weird huh. Also, this was obviously my shortest chapter in the actual games and sorry about that. I meant for it to be longer but it just didn't happen.
Icytopia - Don't worry. Criticism is good because it teaches people to improve. Also, I'm surprised I missed those mistakes. Thanks for reviewing.