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Elise

Poor District 10 Male. He was too anxious and goes straight for the golden horn full of goodies in the middle of the circle of tributes. And gets blown up in the process. I can see that Elijah and some other people almost went for the horn, but only the District 10 Male died.

I think we all get that we're supposed to wait until they release us, so I take note of where I am. 50 yards ahead of me, there is a giant golden horn on an island with food, water, and weapons. Around me is a large, circular lake that stretches out 10 yards behind everybody. Past the lake is a giant field of green grass that seems to stretch on forever.

Are we going to be released? I think. Might as well be prepared. I get ready to dive into the water and swim to the giant horn. A couple of seconds later, a gong rings, and I'm guessing this means we're released.

I dive into the water, and start swimming toward the horn as fast as I can, knowing full well that Fish and Sadie will get there first. They swim like kids of Poseidon. And they do get there first. Luckily, we're in an alliance, so they don't kill me when I step up on the small island that holds the bits and pieces needed for survival.

I look around in the horn for weapons, and I see the sword that Elijah was practicing with so much. I dig it out, and I also find a spear. I turn around and the first thing I see see a giant bloody battle, and Elijah running toward me. This probably is what Louis meant by throwing myself into the thick of things. I just hope I don't die in the process.

"Here you go!" I yell over the clank of weapons. I chuck the sword at Elijah, and he catches it.

"Come on, let's help out Fish, Sadie, Diamond and Crystal!" He shouts back. Okay, Elise. You can do this. It's just. . . people. Show honor to your district, right? Help me out here, Ares! I step in, and throw myself in the thick of things like Louis told me to do.

It seems that District 6, 7, and 8 have made an alliance of their own, and are crowding in on us. I fight them back, and try and not remember that they're humans.

I'm currently fighting the District 7 Female, who has salvaged a knife from the cornucopia, isn't that what the ginormous horn called?

Yes, so I jab around and go easy on her, and I end up letting my guard down too much, because her fellow District 7 tribute comes and slices a nice gash on my shoulder blade. I subconsciously turn around, and then stab him in the leg, and then push him off the Island and into the water.

I turn and almost get the District 7 female, but I get her in the lower leg, and not as deep. She grabs a loaf of bread and jumps into the water to try and save her fellow tribute, but he bobs back up dead. She just leaves him alone and flees with the District 6 female, who's fellow tribute Elijah just killed as well.

I then go rummaging in the cornucopia for a first aid kit for my shoulder. If only there was some Apollo kid here! They'd know what to do! But then again, I highly doubt that there's anything demigodish here when it comes to terms of healing. I think. It takes me a few minutes to find an ACE bandage, and I wrap it up in my shoulder to stop the bleeding, just as I remember the Apollo kids doing it.

"Elise! Get over here!" Elijah yells. District 11 is crowding in on him. They immediately turn around. One of them has a bow and arrow and the other a spear. The male throws his spear at me, and I dodge it, and run back to pick it up. I now have two, and chuck one back at the male, who gets impaled in the abdomen. He falls down over, and District 11 Female bends over at him and pulls the spear out. He is dead.

I take this time to throw my second spear at her. I don't know what happens, or if she dies, but I go over to help Elijah and Fish after retrieving another spear.

"Diamond!" Crystal screams, who is 30 feet away from me. Someone shot him with a bow and arrow, and it looks like he's going to die. I run over there, with Crystal panting. I think that they knew each other, because most of the tributes don't care about each other.

I keep watch while Crystal watches Diamond slowly bleed to death, but nothing more comes our way.

"He's dead," she says.

We keep fighting and fending off other tributes, but nobody else in our alliance dies. District 3 puts up a very good fight at the end, but Crystal finishes both of them off because the Male shot the arrow at Diamond.

After what seems like an hour of fighting, everyone had cleared off with about half of the stuff, and all that is left is my Career buddies and I. The fighting is done here at the Cornucopia. "Man, there's so much blood here!" Elijah says, trying to step over the blood puddles, with supplies full in his hands. "You could fill a bath tub!"

"Elijah!" I yell at him. I almost drop the containers of water I'm carrying. Ever so conveniently, the lake was salt water, so everybody out of the Career Pack, as we've been named, has to go find water themselves, because we managed to get all the water available.

"It's like. . . a bloodbath!" he says. Just then, a canon starts firing. It fires invisible canon balls one, two, three, four. . . . eleven times.

"What does that mean?" I ask.

"I think it's how many tributes died," says Sadie, who's counting the bodies.

I set the water containers down, and I jump into the lake. Unfortunately, we have to transfer everything to land by hand. Luckily, the water's only about 5 feet 6 inches deep. I grab the containers, and then I have to walk the whole 50 yards to shore with everything but my head under water.

"That should be the official name for this fight: the Bloodbath!" Fish says. He smiles.

After we transfer everything to land, we come up with what to do.

"Since there's all this stuff we have, everyone's going to think we're just going to stay here because we don't want to move it. I vote we pack everything up in these giant mother backpacking bags the Game makers have put here and move somewhere else." Sadie suggests. Now she's acting like a daughter of Poseidon and Athena.

"This is a lot of stuff," Crystal points out. It is. We all have hunting knives. I have my spear, Elijah his sword, and Fish managed to find a trident. Crystal has a bow and arrow, and Sadie has a freakishly awesome axe.

Along with this, we have a heck-load of food consisting of bread, fruit, and vegetables. We also have about four gallons of water. We have first aid supplies, matches, five sleeping bags, five heavy duty coats, and a tent that fits six.

"I think we can move all this stuff," I say. We then begin to divide up the load among ourselves, with the girls taking the huge packs and stuffing food, first aid, and other miscellaneous stuff. Elijah takes our water and Fish our tent.

We then begin to hike. The cornucopia and the lake seem to get smaller and before you know it, it's just fields and fields of nothing but grass and blue sky for about ten minutes.

"What the heck is that?" Elijah yells. He sets down water, and then points ahead. I was thinking about other stuff, and I didn't notice it, but 100 yards ahead of us is a line of trees. Just a long, straight line of trees that I'm guessing are woods.

We all are kind of tired, and my shoulder wound is killing, but we all hike a bit faster to get to these woods that offer some sort of protection.

"Isn't it weird that there's just a straight line of woods here? I thought those fields would go on forever," says Fish.

"So what? We can go another mile. At least, I think it was a mile from here to the Cornucopia," Sadie says.

"I don't know about you guys, but I'm whooped!" Elijah says.

"Great. Then you can make it another mile," I say. I then keep walking ahead, with the others close behind me.

We're slowing down from all the walking, so it takes us another fifteen minutes to walk the next mile through the heavy woods.

"I don't see anything, and I swear it's been two!" Elijah says. He groans, and about a minute later, we see another dramatic landscape change.

"Desert?" Crystal asks.

"Yup," I say. There's another sharp line that separates landscape. I step onto the warm sand, and the temperature seems to dramatically increase. It is HOT.

"Holy moly," I say, then step back into the woods.

"I vote we pitch camp somewhere and have lunch," Fish says. "Looking up at the sun, it looks to be about 3 o' clock in the afternoon. Then maybe we can go hunting and knock some other tributes out of the way."

"I like that idea," I reply. We end up going back some into the woods, and we set up a tent. We don't dare make a fire now, so we just munch on bread and strawberries for lunch.

Half way through lunch, things start to get interesting. We hear someone step on a twig, and it breaks. Someone is spying on us. I immediately get up, grab my spear, and go investigate with Crystal, who has her bow and arrow.

15 yards away from us is a boy who looks to be about 17 years old. Before we can do anything, Crystal shoots him in the neck, and he drops down dead. I have to say, I am a little creeped out by that. Who are you kidding, Elise? You're supposed to be like that. Kill everyone you see out of your alliance!

"Wait!" somebody screams. A girl, who looks to be about 18, comes out from behind a tree.

"Don't," I tell Crystal. She lowers her bow and listens to what he have to say.

The 18 year old girl gulps as if we're going to kill her. She slowly starts, and says "We. . . well, now I, want to make an alliance."

CLIFFIE:D

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