Iris

I raised an eyebrow, me and Rolex and just walked back to complete chaos. Morpheus was sitting on top of the cornucopia waving his spear and eating cooked cactus. Diamond was trying to grab the spear from his hand and Michael was attempting to shoot Morpheus down.

"What the hell?" I exclaimed, storming towards my brother.

"Stay back you ugly pirates, I'll kill you. I'll kill you all!" Morpheus screamed, stabbing his spear in mid-air.

"Morpheus, we are not pirates get down from the cornucopia and drop your weapon." Diamond pleaded, jabbing a stick at Morpheus's legs that made him wobbler but he kept his balance.

"What have you done to my brother?" I asked calmly, all eyes fell on me.

"Thank god your back! He's gone insane, keeps saying were all pirates and he tried to stab me-twice. We don't know what to do, Diamond thinks he might have eaten or drank something that's sent him crazy." Michael explained he notched another arrow on his bow and aimed it at Morpheus's hand; it missed and bounced off the horn.

"Right, Morpheus stop being an idiot and get down right now, we are not pirates and you know it." Morpheus blinked his eyes glazy. "Do as I say or I'm going to punch you and you know I will do it!" Morpheus gripped his spear and threw it at my head, I ducked and it sailed over me. I scowled and leapt up, climbing quickly up the horn, I punched Morpheus in the face.

"I'll kill you pirate!" Morpheus screamed, he kicked me in the chest and I skidded off the golden surface. I quickly took my sword from my belt loop and charged at Morpheus. Something grabbed me before I could reach him and dragged me to the ground.

"Let me go, let me go!" I wriggled in my restraint but my captor was stronger than me. Morpheus laughed and picked up his spear, but Michael was faster and he dragged Morpheus to the ground.

"What the hell are you doing, Iris. Morpheus will kill you; he doesn't know who any of us are." Rolex muttered in my ear. Diamond stood in front of Morpheus and bent down to face him.

"Calm down. Morpheus it's me, Diamond. I'm not a pirate I'm a tribute from district 1, you're in the hunger games, what happened to you." Morpheus blinked; I could see his whole body was trembling.

"Hunger games" Morpheus said, saying the word like it was a strange taste in his mouth.

"Yes the hunger games, Morpheus I told you not to eat stuff you weren't sure on. It's your own fault you've gone crazy." Morpheus's dark eyes gleamed and he squirmed in his restraint. Michaels grip on Morpheus loosened, in one clean movement Morpheus picked up his spear and leapt towards me. I twisted in Rolex's arms and scrambled away, my heart racing. A thunderous sound ripped through the desert. Cannon fire. I gasped standing up. Everyone froze. Lying on the sandy floor was Michael, a spear straight threw his heart.

"What have you done?" I looked up at Morpheus who was standing very still. The glazed look in his eyes had disappeared and all I could see now was a deep fear. He had totally lost control.

"I don't know what happened! Michael just grabbed me and I stabbed him, but it was weird everything was hazy. Oh god- Iris, I didn't hurt you did I?" Morpheus grasped me in a massive hug, tears rolling down his face.

"Get off me! Your crazy, you're out of control. You just killed our ally who was trying to help you." My fist slammed against Morpheus's nose and I heard an unnatural crunch. Morpheus's covered his nose with his hand; he turned around and hurried away, sobbing as he left. Everyone was deathly silent, the only sound breaking the quiet was the hovercraft and the occasional loud sob from Morpheus who was hiding behind the cornucopia.

"It's only the second day and the arenas already broke him…" Rolex muttered, he stood up and walked away into the distance. I twisted the bangle Morpheus had stolen and given to me around my arm. It was really starting to burn my skin but I didn't want to take it off. The burning was a nice sensation; it reminded me off where I was.

"Diamond, you had better explain what happened to my brother." I said in a low and deadly tone. Diamond bit her lip, thinking.

"He was just sitting and eating, everything was so normal; and then-I don't know, he just changed. He started pacing and talking about pirates stealing his treasure and then he tried to attack me." Diamond showed me a deep red mark on her arm where Morpheus had gripped it far too hard. "Michael managed to get him off me and he crawled on top of the cornucopia. That's when you guys came back, I wish I knew what started that whole reaction but I don't, sorry Iris." I shrugged and stood up, brushing sand from my jumpsuit.

"Let's hope that doesn't happened again or he'll kill someone else, someone I actually care about." The sun was starting to sink below the sky in an amber blaze, in the hazy distance I could see Morpheus was lying down in a tight ball. I walked over to the golden horn and climbed into the metal, it was still hot but the sensation was nice, like the bangle on my arm. A rucksack was open and something white was spilling out, I picked it up. It was soft and very squishy but it smelt, edible. I took a tiny bite, if it was in one of our packs it would have been given to us by the game makers and they don't want to poison the careers. The thing was delicious. Sweet flavours exploded in my mouth and overcome my senses the white thing turned to dust in my mouth and was like eating a mouthful of air, before I realised it I had grabbed another handful of this sweet delight. Rolex's head popped into my little den, he raised an eyebrow as he noticed I was pigging out of white stuff.

"What's that?"

"Haven't a clue!" I giggled, my voice sounded all weird, like a really hyper child on their first time trying chocolate. Rolex raised an eyebrow and left me alone. I wonder why? I crawled out of the cornucopia just as the last of the sun slowly sunk across the sky. Suddenly a blinding white light exploded in my face. I screamed and fell to the floor, my whole vision blocked by pure white light that burned worse than the hottest sun. I crawled across the sand, trying to find the cornucopia. My fingers traced the hot metal and I quickly snatched my fingers away, the horn was red hot. I bumped into someone who shrieked and gripped my shoulders.

"Who's there, what's going on?" Diamond asked, franticly.

"I can't see anything!" Diamond hugged me tighter and I found a strange warmth spread through me, I felt safer in Diamond's arms. The white light faded and the arena was plunged into an unbroken darkness. I felt dizzy, the sudden contrast had confused me and nausea clawed at my stomach.

"Iris?" Diamond muttered her voice trailing away as I collapsed into the darkness.