Today was the day when the actual Hunger Games start. I sit with Elizabeth on her bed.
"Well another Hunger Games down, a lot more to go," Elizabeth says. She's one of those people who don't like he Hunger Games. Most of the kids in our district feel like it's a big honor to be in the Games. Most of the boys feel that. Some of the girls, including me, feel that way too. But not Elizabeth.
"I think it would be a good experience to win it, I mean you know how to hunt and you survived 23 other people who want you dead. That's pretty cool, plus everyone would admire you," I say, in my own dream about the Games.
"I don't want to kill anyone, I wasn't made to kill people. I'm not going to change, and if the Capitol thinks they can change me into some killing machine, they can't," before Elizabeth finished, I clamp her mouth shut.
"Elizabeth," I hiss, "don't you ever think about if the Capitol can hear us?" Nobody is safe if you are one of the districts.
"I don't care anymore," she murmurs.
There was static on the television and a man with a deep voice counts down from sixty. They show all 24 tributes standing on metal plates around the golden cornucopia.
I see Marvel in the exact same clothes as all the other tributes, but his face looks absolutely flawless. Three people away stands Glimmer. Her curly blonde hair flows perfectly down her back.
"Ugh, why does Glimmer have to be so beautiful but so popular at the same time?" Elizabeth says, apparently noticing Glimmer as well.
"Let the Hunger Games begin!" Caesar Flickerman yells from the television.
All the tributes run off their plates, some run into the woods, others run towards the cornucopia. Most of the Careers get weapons right away and get to work. Marvel takes a spear and throws it into a girl's gut. I stop myself from cheering out loud because I would defiantly get a scolding from Elizabeth. Glimmer takes a silver bow and shoots and arrow and it hits a boy in the hand, and a muscular boy from District 2, named Cato, goes up to the boy with a wicked looking knife and finish him off.
The bloodbath is soon over that the boom of the cannon indicates that almost half of the tributes are dead.
An hour later it turns dark and the camera shows a girl huddling around a fire.
"Idiot!" I practically scream.
"I don't see what's wrong. Isn't that how you are supposed to stay alive?"
I was about to reply when the Careers, including Marvel and Glimmer, come and kill her. They walk away, laughing about their kill. The cannon doesn't boom.
The girl from Twelve was sitting on a branch right above them,
"How don't they see her?" I ask myself.
The boy from her distinct, whom they call Lover Boy, starts talking and runs off to finish the girl.
They just move on and go back to the lake. They had the boy from 4 replant the explosives from the pads that the tributes stood on and planted them around the base of all of the food supplies.
The next day the Gamemakers show a fire and the girl from District Twelve is running away from it. A huge fireball hit her leg and she finds a pond for cover.
Out of nowhere the Careers come out and they are chasing her.
"Come back here Katniss!" Glimmer yells to her.
"Like she would listen to Glimmer," Elizabeth says and I have to laugh. Nobody would welcome their death like that.
The girl named Katniss climbs a tree and Cato tries to climb the tree with a knife in his hands, but he falls down.
Next, Glimmer tries to hit Katniss with her bow and arrow, but she misses by a long shot.
Elizabeth laughs as Katniss taunts the Careers by shaking the arrow above their heads, but I scowl. She's good, too good, I think.
"Twilight, why so grumpy?" Elizabeth asks.
"That Katniss girl, she's good," and she might beat Marvel.
"Sweetheart, Marvel is better."
"Why don't we just wait her out? I mean she has to come down sometime," Lover Boy asks.
"Fine," Cato says and they set up camp. From what I hear Glimmer is supposed to be on watch, but she quickly falls asleep.
The camera moves up and they show a small girl pointing above Katniss' head. Caesar comes on the screen.
"Are those tracker jackers?" He asks the guy next to him.
"I believe so," the guy answers.
"Tracker jackers?" I wonder.
"For those of you who don't know, tracker jackers are genetically engineers wasps, and if you get stung, you have horrible hallucinations, and in rare occasions, death."
I gasp as the little girl makes a sawing motion and Katniss begins to saw the branch with the tracker jackers down.
"That's her escape!" Elizabeth exclaims.
I repeat what Caesar said about the wasps. Oh, I wish I could tell Marvel to run.
Katniss is about half way through the branch and about two or three of the tracker jackers have stung her. Finally, the branch snaps and explodes on the ground right next to Glimmer.
Glimmer screams as the tracker jackers sting her the most. Marvel got the least of it, luckily, but Glimmer, they are all over her.
Ten minutes later Glimmers body is full of grapefruit size lumps which is oozing with green puss.
The cannon signals her death and Elizabeth shuts off the television.
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