As my platform rises I look around. I am surrounded by mud and behind me is a forest. Each tribute is placed in a circle around the cornucopia, which is overflowing with weapons and food and other useful things that I will never have.
"Fellow tributes!" I shout and some faces turn toward me, "Fellow victims of the Capitol's cruel games! When the gong sounds I will not run to the cornucopia or to the woods behind me. I will stand here on this plate and protest the Capitol's sadistic games! I will not take part in the hunger games! I ask you to let me do this! You may join me in protest if you wish. Or you can rush in and embrace the games! Send the message that they are not that bad! Or you can run and hide! But you can never hide from the games, you all know that! You have seen the games, seen what happens to the tributes!" I start to lose attention because the gong will sound any second now.
"Even the victor will never really go home. Every day will be haunted by the twenty three lives lost in this arena! So I ask you to stand with me if you dare. If you dare to defy the Capitol!" And then the gong sounds.
Tributes run to the cornucopia, though it looks hard with all the mud. Others run to the forest. I look around to see if anyone stayed with me. No one. Of course no one did, they want to live. In fact, a career will probably be here to kill me soon.
And then I see another tribute, the girl from district eight. She is strong and she actually stood a chance in the games. But she stayed. I'm happy but then I realize that I need to act quickly because I might be dead soon.
"Gamemakers!" I scream, "I know that you can hear me! I also know that you are probably manipulating the video that you are shooting so that the people in the districts will not see or hear me. But they are smarter than that! They will know that we stood up to you! And it is my hope that that knowledge will push them to the rebellion that is inevitable!"
And I notice that the clouds are getting darker, and right then a lightning bolt strikes the ground about three feet to my left. I feel immense heat and I almost fall over. We can kill you, they are saying and I know they want me to run. But I don't.
I look to the girl from eight and she is still standing there. I see a flash of light as another lightning bolt comes down. This time it hits the girl in the head. And even though the fight at the cornucopia is still going on a cannon fires, because they want me to know that she is dead.
I don't move, because dying is part of my plan. And I see a flash of light and feel an electric current enter my skull.
THE END