Joey scrambled back as she saw Caroline holding her riot gun at her. Tears rolled down her eyes Caroline was her friend from English and she was a good friend but something in her eyes which made her know that she was playing the game.
"Please no Caroline!" begged Joey as Caroline clicked the riot gun and pointed it towards her.
"Fool these are the rules" Caroline hissed.
She looked at Joey and fired at her. Joey's chest exploded in a haze of blood and gore as she slipped onto a grave stone. Caroline looked around as it was getting dangerous being in a built up area Caroline decided to hide and headed quickly under a underpass and headed back into the wood sector E3 and hid she was playing a waiting game if she saw someone she would kill them no risky encounters. She sat down and took a drink from one her water bottles she had been supplied. She then ate some of the supplied bread which tasted horrible but then she couldn't complain safety first she thought. She had killed three of her friends and she knew that now she could never return to a real normal life. She kept thinking about why she played and then she knew it was survival of the fittest and she knew she was the fittest in the class no wait the year she thought win and I'll have my life taken care of by the party.
"Dave?" Scarlett spoke up.
"What is it?" asked Dave.
"How many do you think are playing the game?" Scarlett replied sounding nervous.
"I don't know but I'll guess five maybe more." Dave said with a sad tone. "Some will be up for the game and they will stop at nothing until everyone else is dead that is just the way they gave into fear and they are using that adrenaline to keep themselves going and block out any ration thoughts of why they shouldn't play."
Andy nodded and sighed. Dave was right.
Matthew and Laura had run along a disused railway track and had climbed up some stairs by an old railway bridge they could see a windmill which hadn't been used in years they headed down and looked around. Matthew saw a petrol station and had
an idea but that could wait. First they would need to find cover. They ran down a side alley and Matthew looked up.
"Laura climb onto the wall and then up onto that flat roof we'll get up there and then hide in that part of the house ok?" Laura nodded and climbed up onto the wall and then onto the flat roof. Matthew followed her and they both lay on the roof. Matthew lay down by the window and started to try to open the window after a few minutes he managed to open it. The two scrambled into a one bedroom flat.
"Am so glad I found you!" smiled Laura as Matthew closed the window and she hugged him
"It's ok I'll protect you to the end I swear that I won't let anybody hurt you." Matthew smiled at Laura and the two sat down on a sofa which was hidden from sight of the window.
"Fifteen of the year are dead Matthew I can't believe it. This is so unfair. What did we do wrong?" cried Laura.
"It just a terrible game we have to play and this I guess is what all of us as school kids will fear is this game and it will continue to get the youth of today to conform." He held her close to him. "Listen I have an idea but we'll have to wait till it gets dark and then we'll put it into operation."
"What is it?" asked Laura her eyes lighting up with hope.
"I'll show you!" Matthew said smiling as he unfolded his map.
He pointed at his map being careful not to say anything he had rightly guessed that the collars where wired for sound he never watched the program but had seen highlights on newscast and for example a resent program held on an island the highlights had shown a boy and girl get blown away but he heard voices clear and crisp but they where all in the middle of a field so there was no chance of getting a clear sound. He had also spoken to people who watched the program and they said it was all live transmission including all speaking.
"Ok but we'll have to wait till it gets dark and if that fails I have another idea but that can wait till the end of the game. I'll get you out of this game I promise" Matthew smiled a thought had occurred to him.
Rachel Prichard looked around sweat was dripping off her forehead she was terrified as she looked around the castle which was in ruins. It had used to be a tourist attraction when the town was populated. She looked nervously down from the battlements if this was a holiday she would feel so much better but this was no holiday it was a holiday from hell and she just hoped it would be over soon. Her assigned weapon was a mouse mat which was useless she just had to hope that everyone else would kill each other before the game time ran out and she would live. She looked over the battlements again and looked down at an abandoned fairground. She saw someone there looking around she saw it was Zoe Thompson.
Zoe had been hiding in a bumper car and had poked her head out. She had then looked around the fairground, she thought she was alone. Then from behind a confectionary stand James Fairfield stepped out holding an Uzi 9mm he opened fire on her without saying a word blowing Zoe's away in a hail of bullets. Zoe fell on the floor dead. James smiled evilly as Zoe hit the floor dead, He thought to himself this game was easy kills so far but since the announcement he did know that other people where playing the game and they would make a good encounter. HJe picked Zoe's kit bag up and after taking the rations and Zoe's fillet knife he looked around and saw the looked up towards the castle.