District 3 train ride

Trains suck, I would know. I'm on one right now. Clara sat on a couch listening to the rediculous conversations her fellow tributes were having. "I'm so totaly gonna be epic and own all of the noobs in this game" At fist it was funny but eventualy it got annoying. Normaly Clara would of tried (and probably failed) to make friends with these people but she just couldent find either a thing they had in common to talk about or a use for them in the games. They would probably die in the first battle. If they survived the only use would be as a decoy. "so, what do you wanna for a stratergy in the games?" Clara actualy started listening to their tactics. "I'm gonna get a weapon and kill people in their sleep." the coversation went extremely stupid from then on, it made Clara even more certain that they were going to die first. "Hey, did you notice that the peices of paper with our names on it were diferently coloured then the rest?" The two boys looked at each other then at Clara. "I did notice, they must think our parents are rebels or somthing." Clara stood up and walking out of the room. "Your wrong, my parents are dead, they cant rebel."

Clara closed the door and began to walking towards her mentor. "Hey jeny... oh, your asleep" And she was, Claras mentor was passed out on the floor. Clara cautiously began poking her untill she woke up. Jeny suddenly Darted up awake and Tried to kick Clara off her feet. It was her winning move in the hunger games, it was 5 people left and her group of three was ambushed, Two of her friends were killed and she pretended to be dead, she even stabbed herelf with a throwing knife in a non vital organ so they couldent tell she wasnt dead. When the two others decided everyone was dead they started fighting each other. As soon as one killed the other, jenny tripped the other tribute and made him land on the knife that was recently inside of her. From that point on jenny became a break dancer. But Clara was expecting Jenny to do that move and jumped before her feet hit her. However, when She landed she tumbled back and hit her hand on a bookshelf. Jenny began laughing and so did Clara. "Whats up Clara?" Clara looked disturbed and Jeny could obviousy see it. "Tidus and Vein are saying that our peces of paper were diferent coloured then the rest." Jeny couldent see what was strage about this. "Yeah, and?" Clara frowned and began explaining

(a few minutes later)

"Yeah, it does seem a bit suspicious. Maybe its in their heads? They do seem a bit off dont they."

"Yeah, im not sure if they will be any good in the games. What do you think of them?"

"I think they wont survive an hour in the arena"

"I'm placing all my hope in you, ill try to do what i can, however have you seen some of the new rules?"

"What new rules?"

"Exactly. Look at this."

shadow game new rules

1) there are new rules for getting money. Along with money from sponsers, you will gain money every time you kill a person (money gained depends on how many days in the arena have been spent.) you will also gain money for the amount of pain you inflict on a person before their kill, example: Jumping from a tree and landing a knife in some ones throat will give an average amount. But throwing a knife into their stomach, cutting both their hands of and then stabbing them in the face will give 10X as much money. Any involvement in a kill gives points example: Tribute A tell's Tribute B to kill Tribute C. Tribute B kills C and then A kills B. Tribute A will receive Money for the kill of both Tribute B and C.

2) for one minute in every hour all lights will be turned off and the sun will be blocked out.

3) There will be no cornocopia. Instead, a large tower will be placed in the center and in 2 other locations. If you are inside the tower at midnight you will receive Money. At 12 am a random (Often deady) event will take place in each tower. Each tower is filled with food, 99% of the food is edible and 1% is poisoned.

4) Each day spent in the arena, the lights will be dimmed a small amount untill it is entirely black, once it is at 90% darkness, each tribute will be given a high powered flash light.

5) Money can be spent on things other then items. Example: Location of a tribute of your choice. Knowing what event will take place in your current tower. how many tributes are inside one of the three towers. Knowing if a food you are holding is poisonous. The current amount of money you have. There are other peices of information you can buy but these are the main ones.

6) Bodies of Dead tributes will only be taken an hour after they have been killed.

7)No cannon will be fired when a tribute is killed. If you wish to know how many tributes are alive you must buy the information.

8) tributes will receive a wristband that can send messages to their mentor. The wristband cannot receive messages, only send. This is the only way to buy information. The wristband will not be locked on and is not indestructable or waterproof. if it is lost, destroyed or stolen. You will have to buy a new one.

9) if the game makers send out mutts, any mutts killed will give money to the slayer.

10) every five days, all unspent money will be erased. So expect a large amount of deliverys every 5th day.

11) money can be given from one tribute to another, but only willingly and only by the Tribute.

12) money sent in from sponsers will not be erased on the 5th day. Although they will be erased on the 15th

This hunger games is especialy diferent as it marks 25 years since the second rebelion and 100 year since the first.

"Wow, those are some prety weird new rules." Clara was thinking about how the new rules would affect the game.

"OK, So the main things people will do in this game is stay inside of towers." Clara nodded as Jeny began talking about her plan

"every day, just before midnight, there will be a bloodbath of people going into towers. But if people stay inside, they will get killed by the events inside the towers. So people will enter at midnight and leave at midday. Eventualy no one will even go near a tower because they will know it means death." Clara thought about this for the moment

Clara and Jeny talked about stratergies for the rest of the day while Tidus and Vein goofed off. They didnt know about the new rules, and they wouldent know untill it was almost to late.