The boys were silent as they heard noises in the next room, then they heard gun shots being fired. All of them ducked down onto the floor hoping not to be shot. But they realized that there was nobody else in the room other then themselves. This meant that the gun shots were coming from where the girls were. The boys got up off the floor and began yelling and banging against the cement wall. But there was no response; they could only here slight mumbling. They continued their attempt to find out what was going on; when they realized that the mumbling had stopped. Soon they heard heavy foot steps coming from outside of the room and they looked towards the door in the far corner where the door was. The footsteps got louder and louder and then silence, again. They heard someone unlocking the door and then the handle began to turn. Within seconds about 10 soldiers walked into the room.

"SIT DOWN" On of the larger, more built soldiers commanded, though none of the guys moved even an inch. They were all too shocked and curious as to why all the guards from the prison where dressed like they were in the army.

"I SAID SIT DOWN!" The built soldier commanded again. And then all at once bullets were being shot towards the ground. The students panicked and ran towards a seat, all except for Cory who stood by the wall still pounding and yelling for help.

And like in slow motion as the gun shots stopped, the built soldier lifted his gun and shot Cory as he was turning around; the bullet hit him right in the middle of his fore head. Blood splattered against the cement wall turning its original grey color into red. Some students stayed in their seats, obviously dazed at the fact that another person was dead. Others rushed towards Cory trying to see if he was alive still.

BOY #3 CORY BASKAS ELIMINATED

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The girls heard gun shots in the other room but remained seated not wanting anyone else to be shot, injured or killed.

"Now," Said Manswell "We will watch this tape explaining how to play a proper Battle Royale, so that our ratings can be as high as the last show"

One of the guards brought in a TV, pushed a tape into it, and pressed play.

In fancy graphics the title came onto the screen 'BATTLE ROYALE FOR JUVENILE DELINQUENTS' then a women appeared on the screen and began to speak.

"WELCOME, to the first EVER Battle Royale for juvenile delinquents. Congratulations on receiving this great honor!" In the background there were sounds of clapping and cheering as if this video was taken in front of a studio audience. "Now in this video I will be telling you the right and best way to fight a proper Battle Royale" More cheering and clapping in the background. "Now settle down kids, I know you must all be very excited to have this great honor bestowed upon you but we must move on. Now we are currently on an island that looks something like this," In the background, clearly on a green screen, a picture of an island appeared with a grid across it "We've evacuated all the people living here so it's absolutely empty. Now unlike in the other battle Royale competitions we will not be using the danger zones as part of our game. We've decided to mix things up a little bit. And I will explain this to you right now. As you probably have already noticed, you are in a separate room as your other jail mates. And this is why. You will leave the room by number, remember your number it is very important. When each of you leaves the room this game becomes strictly battle of the sexes, with a twist. You see each of you girls has a number from one to twenty-one and so do the boys. Once you leave this building it is your job to find the person with the same number as you before he or she dies or else so will you. Wanna know how?" The mock cheering was combined with voices saying 'how?!' and 'Tell us!' "Okay, you see those fashionable bracelets you're all wearing?" The girls looked down at their individual bracelets as the women on the television continued to talk. "Well they're 100 shockproof, waterproof and permanent. And guess what they do?" Again cheering and children's voices asking 'what?!' and 'tell us!'

"Well first of all I must warn you, do NOT, I repeat do NOT try to take them off because it will make the trigger go off and then 100 bolts of electricity will shock and then, well you'll be dead. Oh, and also if you try to escape it will trigger too so lets not do that okay?" The women had such a fake attitude it was almost sickening. There she was on the TV telling them about the program that would basically end all of their lives and she was SMILING actually smiling! "Oh! I almost forgot! If your partner dies that's how you will die, the trigger will go off and you get to join them!" The smile plastered on her face was disgusting, Carla suddenly felt really sick. And then they heard it, it was back. The buzzing.

Samantha looked down at her bracelet and suddenly she became sick as well.