Our meeting yesterday was cut short due to our laughing fits. Now we have to have another meeting at 9 in the morning! So early but what can I do? Johnny held up the reaping until now so I really have no choice. The other Gamemakers walk into my office and sit. I motion to Christopher and he stands, clearing his throat again. That could get annoying. "The tributes for District Two are being reaped as we speak," he says quickly and presses a button on the screen, instantly I hear the mayor of District Two droning on and on in his monotone voice.

This is stupid, I'm not going in. I'm here waiting while the mayor gives his silly speech about how great this is. All the rich kids have fewer names in that crystal bowl then those poor loosers over there, their the ones who are gonna die, not me. I amuse myself by throwing toothpicks at the ground, never missing exactly where I want to hit the ground. Oh he's choosing the names now, that creep, I'd hate to be a tribute and have to be around him and Mr. Hollines.

Mr. Stern-Morgan pauses before reading the name, "Sapphire Lew, the female tribute!" I can't breath, I can't move. Serena elbows me, breaking me from my transe, trust my best friend to keep me from humiliating myself. I quickly mask my face with a look of excitment and determination and proudly walk up to the stage. I look at my parents, my father's nodding aprovingly at the way I reacted and I see my mother masking her own face into one of pride. Mr. Stern helps me up with his good hand, the one that isn't a hook and looks at me expectantly. I smooth out the blue silk skirt that had been specially designed to make me look innocent and angelic and say in a clear voice, slightly higher than it should be from nervousness, "I, Sappire Lew will bring pride to District Two!" People scream and applaud, just like they should and I sneak one more glance at my parents. My father stands proudly, clapping at his little angel, and my mother, my poor poor mother, smiles at me in a way I'm pretty sure is supposed to be reasuring. Great, just great.

After the appause dies down Mr. Stern reaches into the other bowl, and pulls out the name that makes me faint dead onto the stage.

"Solomon Lee!" The crowd is completly silent as Sapphires 12 year old cousin, small and sickly, walks up to the stage and helps up Sapphire, who starts screaming and crying. Without thinking a stand up and yell, "I volenteer! I'll go instead of him!" Instantly the mood of the entire stadium changes from pity to relief.

Sapphire pulls herself upright and plasters an aristocratic look of greatfullness on her face and Solomon runs off the stage into his mother's arms. Gulping I stand up and wipe my dark brown bangs out of my eyes. Making my way to the stage I hear a lone person clapping, followed by another, until one by one the entire stadium is clapping, screaming, and stomping. I here my name being shouted, "Orpheus! Orpheus! Orpheus!" I jump onto the stage and stand next to Sapphire and Johnny Stern-Morgan hands me the mic and I barely cough out, "Thank you District Two for your support." The crowd goes crazy again and in the back, the people screaming the most, are Priapus my very proud father, and my mother, crying and screaming at my father for being happy.

Hey! I'd just like to say that I got the idea of the arena from Ella and Jakito AKA Caitlyn the sponcer, she submitted an idea of islands and I made the rest up myself while at a dim sum restraunt with my grandparents. Right now I still need both people from Districts 3, 5, 8, 10 and 11. I also need the girl from 6 as well as the boys from 1, 7 and 9.

Oh and because people liked the arena so much I'd just like you to know how it came to be.

So Ella and Jacko submitted a tribute and an amazing idea to have a bunch of islands. I LOVED it! Plus it gave me a way to use everybodys ideas! :D

Anyways, I went to go eat dim sum with my annoying siblings and my oh so asain grandparents and I drew out the idea and decided to put bridges to each island... But that was too easy...

So I desided to do underwater bridges! Or metal planks, because those are awsome...

I like things to be logical so I thought about how the planks would connect to the islands and then I remebered that in the second book they used a clock! (Random note... I havn't read the last book yet! o_o I'm WAIIITING to get my hands on it!)

Being a biter I decided to use the part where the center spins when their fighting... Except I'd use it on the whole arena except the center.

Me being a nerd wanted to have each of the six islands spin ones a day every day so I did some division and viola! The perfect arena!

Oh and BTW I made up Sapphire... Like her?