I look around. It seems to be a forest, and I'm relieved that it is, because I wouldn't survive more than a week in a desert, let alone have killing machines chasing after me with cleavers. I look around, and know exactly what to do. As soon as the cannon goes off, I'll charge full speed to grab a mud colored hiking supply pack, a sword, and a bow and quiver of arrows are within feet of each other. On the way, I can pick up a knife. That way, if I fail to get the other stuff, I'll still have weapon.

I hear an explosion, and feel something sticky land on me. One girl decided to go on a suicide mission, and set off her mine, to give others a feeling that it's time to go, which kills about ten people, including her.

All I can do is hope that my ally isn't one of those ten.

I hear a cannon shot, and race towards my back pack and weapons, picking a knife up on the way. In a matter of seconds, I reach the weapons, but everybody is a lot slower than me, so I speed up to grab a bag of first aid scientifically engineered stuff, and go on my way, but discover three people approaching me.

I load my bow, and shoot of the first two, but leave the other one, because she happens to be my ally.

"Come on, let's go." I say, and we begin to charge into the forest and make a hasty retreat.

After we span ourselves a safe distance, from the cornucopia, we look through all of our stuff. As it turns out, Poppy raided the lesser value stuff, and got a large, empty pack, in which she stuffed as much of everything she could. She has a few knives that are normal knives, and about fifty throwing knives. She also managed to find a book of herbs to give to me, a hundred square feet of plastic, and five water skins, which was quite a pack.

I take my turn. I go through the knives, the twenty arrows, two bloody arrows, my bow, and sword. Now to get to the packs.

My back pack has some crackers, rope, gauze, a blanket, and a quiver of twenty arrows. Perfect.

Now I open up the first aid kit. There's stuff that helps burns, helps heal gashes, slows blood, and some medicine that cures minor sicknesses. Not bad.

"So, let's get back on the road and look for water." I say. She nods. The only water that we had was what was in Poppy's skins, which would last a week at the most. We gather every thing back together, and I put my fist aid kit in my back pack, and put it in my back, along with my quiver stuffed with forty arrows, and my bow. I strap my sword to my waist with a throwing knife. "You know, do you think it would be a good idea to hunt a little bit? I mean, at least we'll have some meat in our stomach." I say, and once again, my ally nods.

We walk silently through the woods, keeping an eye out for any mud. As I look around and scan the perimeter, I can sense something behind me, and tackle Poppy to the ground. Sure enough, a spear whizzes where her head had been seconds ago.

"Show yourselves." I say. From the bushes, steps a defenseless boy from district four. I draw my sword and pin him to the ground, pointing my weapon at his neck. "Listen here. I'll spare your life if you swear to be an ally, and only turn against us when we're the last ones living." I say. He nods vigorously. "Okay, grab your spear and follow us." I say. He scampers over to his spear, picks it up, and joins us.

Eventually, we have walked far enough, so I begin to build a lean to, which is very successful. Now all I have to do is find a rock that has been heated in the sun, and hunt nearby it. I have a good catch, and hunt down three rabbits. I gut each one, and set them on the rock, which is very hot to the touch, but it does take a few hours for it to cook enough so that the rabbit meat isn't raw.

I pick up the meat, and I take it back to camp, where I see that Poppy has been picking berries off of the bushes, while the boy weaves.

"Poppy, can I have a few sheets of plastic?" I ask. She hands three to me, and I divide the meat. Then, Poppy gives us a handful of berries, and each of us get a drink of water, along with a good dinner.

"Oh *swallow* I found an opening in a rock, so I'm gonna make a lean to against it so that we're safe from the- the other careers." The boy says.

As we finish our dinner, we hear the anthem play, and we look towards the sky, where it shows the kids who have died. In total, there were twenty. Ten that were blown up, the two that I had shot, and others that had seen die in the cornucopia., except for one, and that one, was my brother. I hold back tears, and I set up camp inside the rock, which seems to have a long winding tunnel inside of it.

At the very end, it has a large space, where I decide to tell my allies something.

"You know, I sort of want to be alone from now on. I don't want to get too atatched to anyone else." I say. My allies nod.

"You will hunt for us, right? And give us supplies?" He asks, with his hopeful eyes looking up at me. I nod.

Poppy gives me the book, and a few sheets of plastic. She also allows me to keep my first aid supplies and a water skin, which I gladly take.

I set off deeper and the cave becomes a distant rock behind me. I find a small bush, and cover myself in the thicket, with the blanket that blends in with the mud. I yawn, and put my weapons within my reach, and my knives and first aid supplies in the back pack. I put my head on top of my bag, and use it as a pillow. It's amazing how peaceful an arena forest can be.