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I would highly enjoy the beach if there wasn't a 5 in 6 chance of me dying. The game makers apparently replenished the drained sea. The waves are beautiful, crashing on the shore constantly, with more coming towards the shore all the time. The sand is warm, but not too hot. There are palm trees near the edge of the beach, swaying back and forth in the wind. It is almost paradise, except for the fact that Sadie and I need to keep up our guard 24/7 and hope that nobody comes our way while we're separated from our group.

Sadie and I hang around the beach for the day. We make a fire, and I help gather seaweed so she can make a net so we can catch fish. "I thought ahead and I brought a pack with loaves of bread," Sadie tells me as we gather seaweed. "But, there's only 7 or 8 loaves in there. I need to make a net so we can fish. This bread can't sustain us forever." She looks at me and I can see a sparkle in her eyes. Maybe it's just that the landscape feels like home to her, or maybe Elise was right about her liking me. I smile back at her.

After gathering seaweed, Sadie immediately starts doing complicated knots to make a net. I take my sword and go keep watch. I climb up a palm tree with my sword, looking in the direction of the desert. I sit down, and I take a look at my sword. "Is it weird that this is gold?" I wonder aloud. I mean, I'm really great with working with it, but why am I clumsy with any other one?

I run my hand over the blunt edge. The gold shines in the sunlight. Snap out of it. You're supposed to be keeping watch. "Ugh!" I say. I look back at my hand, and I see a streak of red shining on my hand. "Dang it!" I yell. My hand starts stinging. I cut myself with the edge of the sword. Wow am I stupid. Cutting my hand on the edge of my sword. I think.

"Is everything alright?" Sadie yells up to me.

"Everything's fine," I yell back. "I-I just accidentally cut myself on my sword." I look back to where she's sitting. She has a good portion of the net done in this short time, and I can see her cracking up. "Shut up!" I yell to her.

She just smiles, and says, "You're just so cute." I just smile back at her. She goes back to weaving the net. I turn my head back around to where I'm sitting and I see a trickle of blood going down my hand. I don't care about that. She said I was cute. I smile. She said I was cute.

When Sadie is done with weaving her net, which surprisingly only takes about about an hour, we go ahead and start fishing. "You know, I would totally rather keep guard than fish. This is so boring. And you guys do this for a living?" I tell Sadie.

"Shh! You're scaring all the fish away!" she says to me. She blushes, and I smile.

After fishing for a while, Sadie and I decide to go out hunting for a while to see if we can find some tributes. We gather the food we have- which consists of about ten or so fish and six or seven loaves of bread- and store it up in the tree that we use to keep shelter. As I finish putting the food we have up in the tree, praying that nobody stumbles upon our camp and notices it, Sadie immediately starts towards the border of the beach and the snowy hills.

I start to climb down the tree. I'm pretty clumsy at it, and I almost fall to the ground multiple times. "Wait a minute!" I yell over to Sadie, who stops abruptly.

She turns around and yells, "What?"

"I don't-" I start, but then I run over to where she is. "I don't think it's a good idea to go through the snowy hills again. I mean, we've already been through that and the desert today, and we don't have jackets or something. Maybe we can just look around here on the beach," I tell her. She contemplates this for a while.

She eventually shrugs and says, "Fine with me."

We then start walking along the beach. The waves keep crashing on the shore, the palm trees keep swaying back and forth. We keep moving. Nothing changes except that we move in a slight curve. "I guess the Arena is circular," I tell Sadie. She just nods.

The audience is probably getting bored. I mean, we've already had a death today, but is that enough to keep things peaceful? I wonder. I keep an eye out for the small chance of the two other tributes to stumble upon our way.

I don't know how long we walk, but all I know is that the sun was in a different spot when we started walking. My mind keeps wandering and we keep going.

"Elijah," Sadie says. "Elijah!" She shakes me, and I am taken out of my haze.

"What?" I ask. She points up ahead. What I see terrifies me. A mutt. I think. Twenty yards ahead, there is a giant lizard-like creature that has black scales and five heads. It has many rows of razor-sharp teeth that looked perfect for biting little Sadies and Elijahs, its hands are clawed and sharp, it had a ginormous scary tail, and spits acid that looks deadly.

I guess a death isn't enough to keep things peaceful, I think. "I'm guessing we're supposed to fight this?" I ask Sadie.

She gulps. "Yup. I guess so."

"Well, might as well get it over with," I say. I draw my sword, and I charge in. Sadie takes out her axe, and immediately starts attacking the mutt with it.

"WHAT?" she yells. She's hacking at the mutt, but her axe goes straight through the mutt. She takes out her two knives and tries stabbing at the monster. "It's going clean through! Try with your sword!" I zone in, trying to dodge the acid the mutt is spitting and the fire that might kill me.

I try and hack at the side of the monster, totally expecting my weapon to go through it, but it doesn't. It makes a nice gash in the mutt's hide and it cries out in pain. In a half a second, after the weapon makes a gash on the mutt, and before the mutt strikes again, a gazillion things click in my mind.

Why doesn't Sadie's weapons work?

Because this must not be a mutt, and her weapons don't work on what it is.

Well, then, what is it?

A monster, der. You're the sister of a demigod. Hasn't she mentioned at some point that only magical bronze can attack monsters?

Probably once or twice. My sword definitely doesn't look like bronze.

So what? Oh, yeah, you're going to die now if you don't move, so you'd better get a move on that.

I then dodge a wall of bright fire that comes toppling over me. Or, well, almost dodge it. My right shin is exploding with pain, but that's beside the point here. "Yoohoo!" Sadie calls. She's standing 20 feet away, and I immediately realize that she's trying to distract the mutt- well, monster. I take this opportunity to ignore the pain in my shin and somehow get underneath the monster and stab it in the heart with my sword.

I find that getting under the monster wasn't necessarily a good idea. I ditch my sword and leap out from under the monster as fast as I can as it falls to the ground in pain. My left hand doesn't make it out in time and I hear a CRACK! and I know that I've broken my wrist.

After this, the least expected thing I thought would happen happens. The monster disintegrates, leaving an injured me, a pile of dust, and a broken sword.

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