Chapter Eight:
Still don't own The Hunger Games...
With the lights out, it's less dangerous
Here we are now, entertain us
I feel stupid, and contagious
Here we are now, entertain us.
~Day One~
Sixty seconds. That's all I have to take in the arena. The platforms are on the top of a circular hill that surrounds the Cornucopia. Going around from the person on my right to the person on my left, this was the order other tributes, including me: Aqua-Asher-Prim-Chuck-Karlie-Cyrus-Maya-Jack-Constance-Edward-Rosie-Bob-Rayvenn-Hunter-Tonya-Alex-Sam-Parker-Sophia-Blaze-Victoria-Edison-Stingra-Rayn-Aqua. There were only two people in my alliance that were to my right; the other five were on the left. After I located them, I realized just how large the Cornucopia actually was: About ten feet tall, six feet wide, and twenty feet deep, the perfect size to camp in. I finally realize that I only have five seconds left. This is my time.
Five…
Four…
Three…
Two…
One…
Everyone sprints off of their pedestals and either head over the hill or to the Cornucopia. My alliance and I are some of the first ones to the Cornucopia, but before we grab weapons, some people, like Chuck, Sam, and Rayvenn, had grabbed a backpack or something else. I go straight for the trident, but before I can grab it, Rayn, the twelve year old boy from five runs into me. He would be my first kill.
I grab onto his shirt collar before he can get up from his fall, punch him in the stomach, shove him to the ground, and step on his throat with my boot. BANG! The first kill of the Games. When I see Constance running away with some daggers, I grab a throwing knife that's in front of me and throw it, but she's too far away and it only hits her shoulder. BANG! I turn around to see Hunter taking a spear out of Karlie's stomach and picking up the backpack she was carrying. I turn around to find someone else to kill, and I see Stingra is busy stabbing Blaze from six with a sword she acquired. BANG! And Edward was being corned by Parker, who has a large pair of hedge trimmers, and odd thing to find in the Cornucopia, but obviously a good weapon. BANG! Parker killed him. BANG! Rosie had just thrown a knife at Alex of eleven. Finally I see Asher running away. I run after him with my trident, easily catch up, and stab him in the back, literally. BANG! He falls to the ground, dead. Once the helicopters come to pick up the bodies, the only people still at the Cornucopia are the Careers, none of which were killed in the Bloodbath.
"Aqua," Tonya quietly says to me, "I think someone's behind you."
Sure enough, Bob from nine is curled up in a ball inside of a leafy bush. I definitely was right about the tributes being stupid. I don't even think he knows the Bloodbath is over, since his eyes are closed and he's got his hands over his ears. I tap him on the shoulder.
"Come on out now, I swear I won't hurt you," I calmly say to him, which is totally not true, but the rest of us muffle our laughter so he thinks I'm serious.
He does, which was a terrible move on his part, and the results are him getting a double-sided axe to the stomach. BANG! His cannon goes off immediately. Now we are the only ones left.
Jack says what I was thinking, "We can hunt tributes later, but now we need to gather the supplies."
None of the dead tributes have anything on them, so we all grab the stuff around the Cornucopia and decide to separate the stuff into piles based on if they were food or water, medicine, weapons, survival objects, and just random items. Before we can empty all of the backpacks, we hear a high-pitched scream coming from the rocky area to our right.
I take charge, "Jack, Hunter, and Rosie, grab a weapon and come with me. The killer is still probably there, since the cannon hasn't gone off yet."
I grabbed the trident I killed Asher with, Jack got a hammer, (another strange weapon), Rosie got a black vest of throwing knives, and Hunter got a spear. As we run off, we get to a cliff a bit over six feet underground. Below us, Rayvenn, the thirteen year old girl from nine was trying, yet failing, to stab to death Victoria from five.
"Why won't you DIE!" Rayvenn screamed at her, clearly not thinking about the consequences of being loud.
"Obviously because you're weak, and you're hitting her in the arm," I very quietly whisper to the other three, who snicker under their breath in response. Somehow saying things like this make me feel better, I'm a really awful person.
Rayvenn finally thinks to hit the red-headed girl's neck, and her cannon goes off. BANG!
She throws her arms up in the air and shouts out loud, "FINALLY!" to nobody in particular.
"Hey Rayvenn!" Rosie tauntingly yells down to her, and Rayvenn goes as white as a bone, "We can show you how to kill a lot quicker!"
Her only response is running away, which doesn't work out very well since we had just jumped down after her and were laughing as she got to the dead-end.
I start taunting her some more, "So what you have to do is either aim for the heart, neck, or skull, but-"
I'm cut off by her doing what I'd just suggested, which is throwing the knife at my heart, but she has such a bad aim that it isn't even close to hitting me, or anyone else, in fact, she might've been aiming for my neck. I laugh some more.
Seeing that that didn't work, Rayvenn start to plead, "Please Aqua, don't kill me, I'll do anything you say!"
This was just sad, "Ha! You couldn't even kill Victoria, so you're clearly not competent enough to help me!"
And with that, I throw my trident at her neck, which lands with the middle spear in the very middle of her neck, just like I did in my Training Session, she's dead immediately dead. BANG!
"I sure showed you, didn't I?" obviously she can't hear me, but it gets a lot of laughs and high-fives from Jack, Hunter, and Rosie.
"Guys, I've gotta admit, I was pretty nervous when I was in the launch room. I was wondering what would happen if I were to die… But now, even though I'm killing a bunch of teenagers, I feel better," I confess, "But what bothers me is that we're all friends in the Games together. It really won't end well, only one of us can survive…"
While we're thinking about my comment, Jack notices what the rest of us have disregarded, "Ummm…How are we supposed to get back up?"
We stand here in the middle of a ditch, stunned. I'm pretty sure Hunter's the only one that was tall enough to get out, which he realizes too, "I'll try to climb up, and then come back with rope or something to get the rest of you out. But if I can't escape, I guess we'll just have to yell for the others."
Luckily, he's able to climb out. I don't even know if he had gotten back to the camp when we hear a scream that sounded way too much like Hunter's voice, and a cannon. BANG!
"He could've killed the other person…" says Rosie with a worried tone, but we can tell that she's just trying to avoid the obvious.
Even though we haven't come back to camp, our alliance hasn't come to rescue us. We sit around the ditch, bored, as it starts to get dark. That means that the killer wouldn't be able to see us, but we have weapons just in case. Just then, the Capitol's anthem starts to play, and we see the face of the fallen:
To confirm our guess that Hunter was dead, his face was the first to appear in the sky, since he was from District one, which probably comes as a surprise to the rest of the Careers, and probably the other tributes as well. Then there was Victoria and Rayn from five, Blaze of six, Karlie of seven, Edward of eight, Rayvenn and Bob of nine, Asher of ten, and Alex of eleven. Ten dead, fourteen left alive.
With no hope of getting out today, and without the need of food or water yet, Rosie, Jack, and I decide to spend the night in this ditch. It's cold and uncomfortable, yet bearable.
I'm worse at what I do best
And for this gift I feel blessed
Our little group has always been
And always will until the end
'Smells Like Teen Spirit' by Nirvana
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Tributes:
District One
Stingra Heart, 17, 9
Hunter Topaz, 16, 9- killed by someone, (?), when he went to the camp in the dark- 15th place
District Two
Aqua Pyrette, 18, 11
Parker Brown, 18, 10
District Three
Tonya Locks, 15, 8
Edison Well, 14, 9
District Four
Rosie Caspar, 13, 10
Jack Zellman, 16, 9
District Five
Victoria Willow, 15, 4- killed by Rayvenn when he repeatedly stabbed her in the shoulder and neck- 17th place
Rayn Simon, 12, 3- killed by Aqua when he stepped on his throat during the Bloodbath- 24th place
District Six
Maya Kallos, 16, 8
Blaze Hummin, 14, 6- killed by Stingra when she stabbed him in the stomach with her sword during the Bloodbath- 22nd place
District Seven
Karlie Percy, 16, 6- killed by Hunter when he speared her when she was running away from the Bloodbath with supplies- 23rd place
Chuck Woods, 17, 9
District Eight
Samantha McCollin, 13, 7
Edward Karin, 15, 5- killed by Parker when he cut his stomach open with hedge trimmers during the Bloodbath- 21st place
District Nine
Rayvenn Bright, 13, 6- killed by Aqua when she cornered her and then threw her trident at her throat- 16th place
Bob Corrmin, 12, 3- killed by Aqua when he came out of hiding and she stabbed him in the stomach with her battle axe- 18th place
District Ten
Constance Peng, 18, 8
Asher Trett, 17, 5- killed by Aqua when she stabbed him in the back with her trident during the Bloodbath- 19th place
District Eleven
Sophia Cherrey, 12, 4
Alex Tanner, 15, 6- killed by Rosie when she threw at knife at him during the Bloodbath- 20th place
District Twelve
Primrose Everdeen, 18, 7
Cyrus Juniper, 17, 3