The Second Hunger Games

Enigma, District 6, 16

I wasn't suprised when the games where back again this year. Everyone at the Orphanage was shocked, but I could care less. That was until the pulled my name. Then I started caring.

I snap back to reality as the countdown lowers. I push my black hair behind my ear and begin to run toward the cornucopia. 23 other pairs of feet echo through the arena. I snatch up a few bags of supplies, completely ignoring those around me. Only when I look up, I see at least 5 bloody tributes lying on the ground, and more older tributes fighting to kill eachother. I ignore everyone and turn around. This is when I notice the lack of woods. I guess I just assumed the arena would be the same every year. When I look at my feet, I see the long grass and decide that this arena must be some kind of prarie.

I run for about an hour, until I fall to the ground. I dig through my bags of goods and I'm rewarded with Crackers, beef jerkey, two bottles of water, a blanket, matches, rope, and a knife. I begin to search for a camp, but I suddenly feel an agonizing pain. My foot is caught in a hole in the ground. I begin to pull it out, when blood leaks down my leg onto the ground and I see some kind of underground animal's teeth latched on. I let out a short scream as two other girls, the females from nine and ten, run in my direction. A whole entire pack of the ground animals chasing them. We begin running together, picking off a couple of them at a time, each of us armed with small daggers. A few more fleeing tributes join our pack, and we eventually have the whole army of animals killed. After we all stop to rest, a tense silence fills the air.

"I'm Jack, District 7, and this is Ava, my district partner!" A boy shouts. He tries to lighten the mood, but it really doesnt work. I know the two other girls are from 9 and 10.

"Who are you?" The girl from 10 says, pointing to the last member of the group, the boy from 5. He stays silent, sharpening a spear.

We decide to form an alliance, and we all gaze up at the sky as it lists the deaths for the first day. The tributes from 1, The boy from 3, the girl from 4, the girl from 5, My district partner, and the boy from 12.

The mysterious five boy and I take first watch. I collect the other tributes daggers while they sleep. The boy watches with curiosity.

Without warning, I whip one of my five knifes into his heart. His cannon sounds and I begin to run away as my allies awake and realise what just happened. The girl from nine tackles me into the floor and goes to grab her knife from her pocket, but of course, I have it. I take her brief confusion to my advantage and shove her off me. She falls to the floor and lets out a grunt and I send my dagger into her heart. I throw one knife at the girl from 10, and another at the boy from 7. They fall to the floor in pain, as the knives hit them in the legs. I only have two knives left, so I need to make them count. I send the last knife into the girl from 7's chest. It doesn't make it into her heart, but I know its a bad injury. I run off without my bag into the dark.

When I reach a place far enough from my "allies" I fall to the ground, my only supply a water bottle tied to my waste and a knife in my pocket.

I look down at my bloody hands and begin to see the horror of what I just did.

Enigma is a girl if you couldn't tell. Enigma doesn't have a last name as her parents died when she was very young, so of course she could not remember.

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