HALLOW! CX I'm proud to tell you that we are, as of THIS chapter…IN THE HUNGER GAMES!!! =3 And pov is Heracles~! Well…most of the time anyway…
'Kay! Chapter…what is this, seven? Wuteva! Go!
Heracles blinked open his eyes.
He was still sleepy.
He looked out the window of the space craft that was flying him to the arena.
It landed and he and his stylist walked into the large building. They descended a flight of steps and came to a metal plate that lay on the floor. Heracles stepped on a plate and then he was frozen. No muscle in his body could move. The plate descended into the floor; when it stopped moving, he looked around to take in his surroundings.
To his back there was nothing but sand. Sand, sand and more sand. It exceeded his back and went up in front of him for about forty feet. When it ended, it gave way to water, more than likely salt water. The water went on for as far as the eye could see. It looked as if there was a small island in the middle of the ocean, and it was covered in trees. Like a rain forest compressed into a ten foot by ten foot circle. To the right and left of the ocean there was dense woodland, with trees that seemed to touch the sky and then disappear through the clouds.
But, maybe that was just sleep trying to come over Heracles again.
He then looked for the Cornucopia. He couldn't find it. Or, wait! What was that in the sand a mere five feet behind him? It was a circle about four feet in width. About the size a person his size could fit into.
The next thing he noticed was that the other eleven tributes were spread about ten feet away from each other, in a straight line. They all also had a circle, all different sizes as if to accommodate each of there sizes.
No one knew where the cornucopia was, all they knew was that there were twelve holes in the ground that seemed to all lead to the same place.
Ludwig looked at each individual person and when he had got a nod from each tribute he stood ready to run for the hole. Ludwig apparently knew more than the others, how, Heracles wasn't sure.
The voice came across the intercom, "Let the Hunger Games BEGIN!" it screamed, and with that the tributes took off.
Well, some of them did anyway. A few walked causally to the holes and peered inside.
Inside, there seemed to be a rope ladder. Heracles put his foot on the first hold in a testing way. It didn't break, so he decided to descend the ladder.
His feet hit the dirt floor. It was dark all except for the light that streamed through the twelve holes in the ceiling.
He realized this was where the cornucopia was, and walked to the middle of the cave like structure, arms outstretched to find it.
He found it and realized he wasn't alone. He waved a kind hello to Arthur as he searched through the boxes and bags and apparently found what he was looking for.
What was that? Some sort of stick? It wasn't even sharp! Heracles ignored him and strolled over to Ivan as he picked through the stuff inside the large thing.
Heracles didn't even know what he was looking for. He grabbed a bag and opened it.
Bad idea.
Inside the bag there was a bomb and when the bag was opened the timer started to go off. Sixty seconds.
He pulled the bag on his back and climbed up the ladder he had came down moments before. He jumped onto the sand and threw the bag as far from everyone as he could.
The bomb exploded and no one was hurt. Luckily.
But, what was that in the distance? It looked like a wave. But it was sand. A sandstorm?!
And it was heading strait for the holes that contained the cornucopia.
His first instinct was to run. Just run. Run into the forest, but he was part of a team. A Capitol-defying team, but a team.
He tried to think if anyone was still in there. Yes.
He stuck his head down into the hole. "IVAN! GET THE HECK OUTA THERE!"
"I can't find it, da~!!" He was heard yelling back, he obviously had no clue about the storm.
"IVAN! THERE'S A SANDSTORM!" Heracles yelled back, getting a bit frustrated.
"WHAT???? OH SHIT!" Ivan yelled and was soon seen coming back from the inside of the hole.
Ivan and Heracles took a quick survey. They were the only two left.
But, where did the others go? The right side or the left side of the ocean? They took a random guess and went to the left.
"Oh no…" Yao said walking back and forth. "Where is everyone else, aru!? Where's Ivan…?" He leaned against a tree and slid down to sit at the roots.
"I'm not sure, but he'll be okay…I just hope Heracles is okay, desu. He better not of fallen asleep and have died ALLREADY…" Kiku grumbled as he sharpened a stick with the small pocket knife he was able to grab in the few seconds he was in the hole.
They sighed. Where were Arthur and Alfred? And Roderich and Gilbert and Francis and what's his name? And then the pasta guy and the German?
Obviously Yao and Kiku hadn't really spoken to Mathew or Feliciano or Ludwig very much.
"I'm telling you we are lost." Arthur grumbled; arms crossed as he followed the 'hero' through the vines and trees that he claimed to know like the back of his hand.
Arthur wouldn't tell him that that was impossible because they hadn't been there before in their lives. But the group continued following him, mostly because Alfred was the one who had grabbed two guns, a knife, and a sword. Arthur had spent his time looking for a wand.
…which he had found…
"Oui, do you even know how to get us back to the dessert?" Francis inquired, flipping his blonde hair back behind his shoulder.
"DUDE! Just let the HERO take the lead and the little towns people should just keep there TRAPS SHUT and figure out where the others are!" Alfred screamed as he sliced a vine that blocked their path in half. He jumped back when water spilled out of it.
Mathew ran up and caught the vine and held the end up so no more would spill. "Alfred! You found water, ay! They have water vines here! That's really good, ay!" Mathew said as he poured some of the water into his hands.
"Good job, Mathieu!" Francis said as he patted the boy on the back and then took some water himself.
After replenishing their thirst they kept walking. Alfred in the lead, and angry Arthur following directly behind him, and Mathew and Francis walking side by side a few steps behind.
The water splashed against the sand and Feliciano drew in the wet sand with a stick. "I hate this." He stated flatly. "I hate the Capitol. I hate it all."
Ludwig sat next to him, "I know Feliciano. I know. We all do." He rubbed his back awkwardly.
"QUIT IT!" Roderich screamed as Gilbert splashed him YET AGAIN. "I mean it Gilbert." But his anger gave way to laughter as the Prussian snuck up behind him and pulled him down into the water to lie on top of him.
"Roddy, you're so light! When the hell do you eat?" Gilbert laughed as he pushed Roderich off him and the Austrian started flailing in the water. "Don't tell me you can't swim!"
"Well…" Roderich said as he was able to flail his way over to where he could touch the ground, "It just never came up."
"Well now it has, so what are you gonna do?" Gilbert said as he put his hands on his hips, he stood right in front of Roderich; Gilbert's shirt was white and now see through so you can imagine the blush on Roderich's face.
"I'm just gonna stay out of the water…obviously." Roderich said walking out of the water. A fish swum up and starting nibbling at his toes, he screamed and jumped back and fell into Gilbert's outstretched arms.
"So that's it." Gilbert said a bit devilish, "You're afraid of fish. Honestly, fish?"
Roderich blushed. Gilbert sighed and carried him out of the water and sat him down on the sand.
"I-I still can't believe that the sandstorm just died before coming anywhere near here." Roderich said, regaining a bit of his usual demeanor.
"Yeah…" Feliciano said, still doodling in the sand. One would think he was drawing pasta, but actually it seemed to be the President…well…the President with a knife slicing his head off and a sword stabbed in his chest.
"Its okay, Feliciano…" Roderich said squatting down and placing a hand on Feliciano's shoulder.
Feliciano shot up, "NO IT'S NOT!" He screamed, "How is it OKAY to send people that haven't done a thing wrong into a arena with eleven people that they love and force them to kill them?! WE. DID. NOTHING. WRONG." He screamed before running off toward the forest on the right of the ocean.
"Feliciano!" Ludwig shouted before taking off to chase after him, "Wait!"
Gilbert watched the couple before looking back at Roderich. He shrugged and they went the opposite way, to the left of the ocean.
"YAO!" Ivan yelled as he saw Yao and Kiku sitting against the trees. So they did go the right way!
But where was the rest of them?
Kiku stood up at the sound and realized it was Ivan and Heracles that were making there way to them.
Heracles hugged Kiku and fretted over weather he was okay or not. Kiku said he was fine and then asked him the same thing.
Ivan and Yao were in a tight embraced and about to kiss when they heard a new couple arrive, "THE AWESOME HAS ARIVED!" Gilbert announced; Roderich facepalmed. Idiot, he thought.
Yao looked up from Ivan to Gilbert, "Oh no…" He cursed.
Kiku looked over at Yao, "I know we wanted to find someone, but not HIM!" He quietly thought to himself that he wished Ivan and Yao weren't there either.
Heracles didn't exactly like Gilbert either, but the guy was strong and would more than likely stay pretty far in the game, and the Austrian, Roderich, he had brought with him was smart, and probably a good addition to the team.
They still had to find the others but not today, it was getting late, and they had to find a place to make camp and set up a shelter.
Gilbert took the lead through the woodland until they found a nice area and started to make camp.
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Feliciano and Ludwig had met up with Alfred, Arthur, Mathew, and Francis and were now setting up camp.
They pulled down branches and leaned them against a large tree and after a while had something along the lines of a half tee-pee. Because there were so many of them, they had to make about three of them, but luckily the spot they had picked had a lot of large trees.
They all crawled into the shelters, Feliciano with Ludwig, Alfred with Arthur, and Mathew with Francis and they all laid on the hard floor and tried to go to sleep.
After sleeping in the comfy Capitol beds for weeks, the floor felt like…well the floor.
On the sky a hologram of the Capitol's seal appeared, and the national anthem played.
After about an hour of tossing and turning, all twelve tributes drifted off into a light sleep.
Mathew and Francis were the last two awake.
The lack off canon fire made Mathew feel good that people were listening to him for once.
He turned to Francis and murmured, "You'll tell them for me tomorrow, ay?" He asked.
"Yes, mon cher, of course." Francis answered as he put an arm over Mathew. Mathew blushed and curled into a ball and cuddled up to the Frenchman.
And there they slept until the next morning.
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End note: YAY! I FINALLY got them to the Hunger Games!
Although, I really don't want to write the first death…I kinda have to for the story to progress…DX
I do still want to know who YOU GUYS think we'll win, da~! …am I gonna have to sic Ivan you guys, da~? ...
Well…yeah, I don't know about the small bit of French, It's supposed to say "Yes, my dear, of course." That's what I could remember from another FF I read…CORECT ME IF ITS WRONG! DX …pwease? ...
Also…PLEASE REVIEW! Y/Y
Ivan shall give you cyber-sunflower through the computer and it shall pop out of the screen and you will be like, "WTF??" And then Ivan's face will appear on your computer and…okay I'm probably scaring all of you non-Ivan fangirls, aren't I? Fine. He won't appear on the screen. But the flower thing is true. If you a squint your right eye, and close the left one, and stand on your head, and hold a picture of a sunflower in front of the screen, THEN YEAH!
'Kay, I shuddup now~!!!