Let the Games Begin!

I was awoken to a low rumble of noises in the other room. I got up and walked over to the door and put my ear up against it. "We can't tell him," a voice said. "We need to. He could get angry if we don't and he's not good angry," said another one. I pressed open the door and they all froze, their wide eyes on me.

"What are you guys talking about?" I asked, smoothly.

"N-nothing," Jayjay stuttered.

"Tell me!" I practically yelled.

"We didn't want to. Lexi found out, so I guess it's only fair to you." Ellie started. "Okay. About seventeen years ago, it was the 82nd Hunger Games, I was a mentor. A young man of about fifteen came into the Games. It terrified me that such a young boy had to be in these crimes of nature, the Capitol call games. I mean, I was in at thirteen, but I was older now and the Games terrified me. Anyway, the boy's name was Clint Clark."

I let out a weird mixture of a moan, a sigh, and a sob. "I helped him as much as possible. I raised him sponsors and got money for gifts. One of his sponsors was a woman named Leticia Cook." Again came the noise. "After your father won the 82nd Hunger Games, Leticia fell in love with him. They got married at sixteen and two years later had you, a year after having your sister." She took a slight pause, taking in what she had just said. I was getting nervous now. I didn't know how my parents died, only that the fact that they did, and I didn't want to know.

"Stop. Stop it, I don't want to hear the rest!" I yelled.

"But Colton," Lexi started.

"No! Now leave me alone!" I yelled back yet again. I stormed out of the room and to the elevator. I hit the ground button and it took me down. I entered a room that was empty except for a few chairs and a coffee table. The rest ran out of another elevator at me. They didn't speak, but I knew they were sorry. We went outside and a hovercraft froze us as the ladder brought us up. They injected me with a locater and let me off the ladder, unfreezing me. Eventually we got to the Games headquarters or whatever it was called and they split me and Lexi up into different areas. "Run and I will find you!" I yelled to her instead of at her, before we split.

Ellie went with me, Jayjay with Lexi. Ellie gave me my outfit for the arena and helped me into it. It was silky shorts under big, puffy sweatpants. They made me kind of hot right now but I knew I would be grateful later. I also was wearing a white tank top under a tannish t-shirt under a light jacket under a big, puffy coat. I also had tennis shoes under my big, water proof boots. Ellie helped me into the tube and said goodbye through the plastic or glass, or whatever it was. The tube started to raise up into the arena. It seemed to take forever but I finally got there. Immediately the weather dropped at least sixty, seventy, eighty degrees. The mini-thermometer on my arm told me it was -15 degrees. The tube finally stopped and I was standing in the middle of a snow covered meadow. In the center, about two- or three-hundred yards away, was the golden Cornucopia. About a few feet from me was a little what looked like a sock. But at the Cornucopia was where it all was. There were spears, swords, knives, backpacks, bows and arrows… I spotted a specific item I needed: a tan sheath of maybe a dozen arrows and a white-brown arrow. Next to it was a small backpack. I would get them both, for me and Lexi.

After sixty seconds, the gong sounded. I pounced forward as did others. I spotted Lexi sprinting into the forest, like I told her to. Focus, focus, I lectured myself. Get the arrows, get the arrows. As I sprinted as fast as light, there was blood everywhere. Already, I saw the boy from 12 throwing the boy from 5, Nathon?, over the edge of a cliff. Oh no… Still, I had to get the stuff. I was so close, I could practically taste it. I bent over to pick it up and someone flew over me. I didn't even bother to look. I snatched up the sheath of arrows, the bow, and the backpack and sprinted, practically flew, to the spot where Lexi was supposed to be hiding. As I slowed down, I could see her footprints and I decided to cover up mine as I went. The trail kept sloping downward and I was getting closer to Lexi. This coat was keeping me fairly warm. Eventually, I found Lexi hiding about 20 feet up in a tree. "Don't worry, it's just me," I yelled up to her. She climbed down.

"What did you get?" I showed her the bow and arrows and decided to ponder the insides of the backpack later.

"We need to get going. They will be on us at any minute." So we kept walking, and slowly it warmed up…

NEW P.O.V.

Hope Leveret

What to get? What to get? I couldn't find the right weapon. The gong would sound any minute, leaving me clueless. Then I spotted it: A dart tube! And next to it was a little pouch of hopefully, darts. The gong sounded and I flew with it. Before I knew what was happening, the pouch and tube were in my hands and I was running down a slope. I couldn't bear to see what was happening at the top… Where were we anyway? This is a different arena. Cold, windy, white.

As I ran, I bumped into a girl and almost knocked her down. "I'm sorry," the girl said. Why was she sorry? She didn't do anything.

"Why are you sorry? You didn't do anything?"

"I don't know." She seemed nice enough to ask the next question.

"Do you want to ally with me?" I asked her nicely.

"That would be wonderful!"

We walked in silence for a while and the temperature raised somewhat. We spotted people in the distance. "Who the…" the girl, who's name I thought was Rae, started.

We took cover in a tree, that was pretty slippery. "Shh," I told her.

It was some Careers. The boy from 1, the boy from 2, the girl from 3, both from 4, and the girl from 6. "We don't have that many Careers this year," the boy from 2 stated. "It only seems like it because of the girls from 3 and 6."

"Yeah, we should try and get the girls from 1 and 2, where did they take off to?" the boy from 4 asked.

"Didn't see-" the boy from 2 started but didn't finish because at that point me and Rae jumped out of the tree and landed in front of them.

"What do you want?" I asked bravely, yet rudely.

"We want you two, you girls could be a big help to the Careers, and would have a better chance of making it," the boy from 1 told us.

"Like we'd ally with you," I said again, rudely.

"Get 'em!" the boy from 2 yelled and they ran after us. I pulled out my dart gun and shot a poison dart into the Careers randomly. It missed terribly. Before I could react, a knife slit down Rae's whole chest and stomach, spilling her blood and organs all over the beautiful white snow.

"No!" the boy from 2 yelled and cut off the boy from 1's head.

I couldn't take the pain of watching death happen, especially right in front of me. I had to flee. As I ran, dart gun in hand, two cannons sounded. That makes three for right now. Great, now I had no ally. I guess I will have to go solo, for a while at least…