When Merida opens her eyes again, she is in a big wooded arena.

She looks around and sees all of the other teens, all of them on metal plates like she is. For some reason, this does not seem to be good. Why she is here, she has no idea. The only instinct she has is to survive, because she knows something bad is about to happen.

Then the gong sounds.

She is dumbfounded for a moment, before she realizes. This is the Hunger Games. And she's in it. The second's hesitation it takes to make the connection, everyone has already ran towards the giant cornucopia in the center that she knows all too well.

Merida silently curses to herself, then takes off running towards it. She knows from watching the movie and reading the books -the only books she'd bothered to ever finish- that the best stuff was at the top.

Making her way through the fighting teens, she somehow manages to get her hands on a few things. She is about to end up with the bow, but then something flies past her and cuts one of her curls off. She looks back and sees a girl she thinks she recognizes, but has to move away from the bow because another dagger is soon to come flying at her. Without thinking, Merida grabs the first one that was thrown at her, then takes off into the woods.


Back at what Rapunzel guessed was District 12, she was watching the whole thing on screen. She was watching Merida, who was her older sister. Rapunzel was hoping, praying that Merida would be the winner. With her, was her and Merida's mother, as well as Hiccup, who had promised Merida that he would help take care of her.

Most of the people in District 12 didn't know what to make of Merida yet, but thought that she may make it to at least the second day before she died.

As for the male tribute, Jack, they did not hold as much hope for him as they did for Merida. There were some who were betting that he would not even last the whole day.

His mother, a woman who mostly no one liked, was one of them.