Amy's eyes are shut as she rises up to her platform in the arena. She can tell that she is now at her destination, but remains still, on her circle.
The place where the tributes will fight is known as the arena. It is a massive place, more like a wilderness park, allowing for entertaining and creative deaths. The tributes would all start in one place, of course, with nothing but the uniform clothes on their backs. That's why it all starts at the Cornucopia, a giant golden horn willed with survival equipment, weapons, food, and anything else one might need in the arena. This would be the starting point for everyone in the games.
Amy opens her eyes, to see, for the first time, just where she is. It looks like a pine forest. The air is cool and crisp, as if it is just becoming dawn. The ground is stiff with frost and pine needles.
She sees the Golden Cornucopia, and its array of stuff inside. She wanted to run right to it as soon as she was allowed to, but her mentor Sarah Jane Smith, had instructed her and Ten to get away from it as soon as possible, to be away from the bloodbath.
She looks to her side, at Ten, who stands on his little circle not far off. They lock eyes, and then look away. They'd become good friends in the past week, and decided to stay together for as long as possible, then to split up later in, to avoid having to kill each other.
Amy scans the other tributes, taking them in for one last time. She'd seen a lot of them in the past week, but tried not to interact. Except for with Rory. He was her husband, after all, and, even on the brink of death, she didn't want to lose him to Madame de Pompadour. She looks to Rory, but he is too bust judging the Cornucopia. She desperately wants to run to him, but she can't, because leaving the circle before time results in immediate extermination. Her mind is blasted away from the thought of her husband by a cannon blast. The cannon blast that signaled the start of the games.
She looks to Ten, who nods. Then, all hell brakes loose. Of course, Amy and Ten don't see it. They are too busy running for their lives. They can hear it, of course, the running around, the screaming, and the fighting. Another cannon boom echoes in the air, signaling the first death of the games. Amy looks back, but Ten grabs her hand, and pulls her onward, running into the trees.
Back at the Cornucopia, Lorna Bucket is fighting for her life. She wrestles a small backpack out of the hands or Martha Jones, and then dashes for the trees, happy with her small token. She'd decided not to stick with Vincent Van Gogh. He was very nice to her, but much more of a liability than an asset.
Martha, after losing her supplies to Lorna, turns back around. She sees, in front of her, a sonic device. She dives for it, having to knock aside an old man who she vaguely recognizes, then continues to fight her way through, picking up weapons and supplies as much as she can. Satisfied, she runs away.
Nine, having lost his companion, Martha, in the frenzy, looks for more supplies to use. He finds a backpack, a knife, and a metal rod. Since he'd avoided fighting, Nine decided to accept he's not going to find Martha in the melee, and turns to run for cover.
However, he is stopped, when a woman grabs his ankle, hindering him from moving. He reacts swiftly, bringing the metal rod down upon his assailer's head. The grip loosens immediately, and Nine dashes into the trees, hearing a cannon blast follow in his wake.
Sexy and Jack had stayed together in this time. They'd each gotten some supplies, and then decided to escape. At the end of the long day of walking, Sexy and Jack found a large rock lying in clearing of the trees. They decide to camp here. In the falling light, the sky lights up with a hologram. This is the daily broadcast. An Ood's voice rings loud over the arena, and all surviving tributes look up.
"Congratulations," says the voice, "You have finished the first day." After other pointless courtesies, the screen in the sky begins to display the casualties of the day, so that the tributes and the spectators can know who is left.
The first face to show up is that of Lucy Saxon. She died quickly, when Tom Milligan took the gun she'd found at the cornucopia. He decided not to use it, to save the bullets for later, but he gave her a hark knock to the head. As she fell, she was trampled.
Next is Vincent Van Gogh. Lorna had been right to leave him. He stumbled into trouble right away, foolishly trying to take Christina de Souza's sword. She used it against him.
The next face to show was that of Pete Tyler, who was stabbed by the Master while trying to grab a loaf of bread from the cornucopia. From where Rose sat in the arena, she stood and whispered, "Dad…" as her final goodbye.
The last face of the night was the face of Harriet Jones, Former Prime Minister. Nine had not seen who he'd hit with the metal rod, but he is sure that this was it. His first kill. And he hadn't even meant to.
And, as the sky goes dark and televisions are turned off for the night, the whole universe fears what is next to come.