Chapter 6- The Arena
Hermione
I opened my door in the morning to see Seamus and Kim nervously walk out of their rooms as well. "This is it." Seamus was talking deep and shaky breaths.
We made our way downstairs and all the tributes were silent today. For some it was really just dawning on what we were all about to do.
"Today is it." Chaff told us, putting his hands on Seamus and Kim's shoulders.
We all gave him still nods before going in our respective tubes to be raised up into the arena. At first the fake sun of the arena blinded me, but when I saw my surroundings I couldn't help but gasp. We were in the center of something that looked like a town square, but I could see further out that there was more vegetation like a suburb.
The voice of Claudius Templesmith boomed out around me while I stood on my metal circle. "This arena's setting is to… make the Mudbloods feel more at home." He paused and we all gasped and growled in anger. "Ladies and gentlemen, let the very first Mudblood Battles… begin!" The gong sounds and all the tributes are off running for the items in the center of the square.
'Get to a backpack, get to a backpack." I chanted in my head. I picked up a small knife and kept running. I found a dark green one closest to me and tried to grab it. Just as I was about to snag the strap, and knife buried itself in the ground, less than an inch from my hand. I wrapped my hand around it and tugged it out as I looked up to see who it was. It was Mathias Kolstad. He cursed and began stalking towards me with his jaw clenched just as he was stabbed through the chest with a spear. I looked over to where it had come from to see that Joy Molyneux had been the thrower. She ran over and ripped off his backpack and darted off into the suburbs.
I realized then that I was still frozen in place, and picked myself up, running to over where Claire, Seamus, and Kim were waving me over. We ran away from the blood bath and kept running until we reached an apartment on the border between the town and the suburb.
We were all breathing heavily as we slammed the door shut of a room on the second floor. "All right, what did everyone get?" Seamus asked as we gathered around the small coffee table as spread out our items.
I had my backpack that was medium sized and the two knifes. Seamus had a large backpack and a spear along with a kunai, which was a small Japanese knife. Claire had managed to grab a backpack half the size of mine, but did grab more weapons than any of us. A throwing knife, a snare, and a short sword. Kim just grabbed a small backpack and a small bow with five arrows.
"Ok, lets divide what's most useful to each of us and have our own backpacks." Claire suggested.
Opening up the backpacks we found a small first aid kit, a short strand of rope, five packets of dried fruit, a knife belt, two water bottles, and one sleeping bag.
"Let's have Kim keep the bow and arrow." She pushed the weapon towards her. "Hermione, take a throwing knife and… the kunai. Seamus… you want a knife, sword, or spear?"
He shrugged. "I'm better off with the sword." She handed it to him and took the spear for herself. "Okay, who should have the last knife? Kim?"
She shook her head. "Give it to Hermione, she's the best with them." They nodded and pushed it towards me.
"Now the other things…" She muttered. "We'll separate those when we leave this place."
"Should we wait a bit to get water?" I asked. "You know… until everyone else leaves?"
"There's not going to be a point where they're all gone right now, we should go soon, also set up that snare and look for other food."
Ron
"This arena's setting is to… make the Mudbloods feel more at home." The cameras switched to an aerial view of the arena and we saw a town square where all the tributes were as it drew back so you could see the field, lake, and suburbs of the arena.
"That's vile." Neville breathed, his face twisted in disgust. The room filled with cries and protests.
"Ladies and gentlemen, let the very first Mudblood Battles… begin!"
The gong boomed and the tributes were sprinting to the pile of weapons and survival gear. The camera switched to Alpin Ulseth fighting Emily Chevalier. She had a sword in hand and he wielded an axe. Then the view switched the Justin Finch-Fletchley. He didn't make it; he appeared to be trying to run out of the square when an arrow shot him in the back. A Gryffindor girl next to me, Mary Hilland, tensed up and then broke down crying. I wanted to comfort her, Justin was one of her friends, but I was too focused on the screen. I just wanted to know that Hermione was safe.
Finally I saw her, reaching for a backpack as a knife just barely missed her hand. Mathias Kolstad was shown then, stalking towards her, but then Joy Molyneux came from nowhere and thrown a spear at his chest.
It switched back to Alpin and Emily, just as swung the axe's fatal blow, right down into Emily's skull. Ginny gasped behind me and buried her face in her hands.
Next was Natalie, leaning over her lost dying friend. "Who did this?" She whispered to Michelle, bleeding out on the ground. Michelle just shook her head slowly, her eyes beginning to flutter closed. "No. NO!" Natalie screamed. It was her fatal mistake, lingering by her friend's side gave someone enough time to sneak up on her, take a curved knife, and decapitate her in five seconds.
I didn't keep track of who all died today, just made sure it wasn't Hermione. Once the bloodbath was over they finally showed all the survivors. First it showed Joy hiding herself in a crevice in the earth. Brutus, Lucas, and Alpin were running into a large office building. Finally it came to Hermione, Seamus, Kim, and Claire running into a building with a sign labeled 'Apartments'. We all let out a huff of relief to see most of the Gryffindors alive.
It showed the tributes scrounging for food and water, examining what they had, and before we knew it, night fell. The tributes were shown in the sky one after another. Michelle, Emily, Natalie, Justin, and Mathias. Low number. Usually it's at least half of the tributes, if not more.
The show ended for the day and the common broke into sobs and mourning. Even those we didn't know like Natalie and Michelle, it was horrible enough for us to miss them as if we did.
Hermione
We gathered some berries and roots in the small garden in a house next door. When we went back we tended to minor wounds and ate. The sound of the dead tributes being shown in the sky began and we looked out the windows to see. First were the trio, Michelle, Emily, and Natalie. Then Justin came and then Mathias. That was all. I suppose we should be grateful, usually half or more would be dead, but only one would survive in the end anyways.
I looked over at Claire and she had sat down in a big armchair, her head in her hands. "I'm sorry Claire." Seamus began.
"It's all right. Only one is going to survive in the end." It was as if she had read my mind. I felt bad for her, Hogwarts and Durmstrang only lost one each, while Beauxbaton already lost three of their five. All best friends too.
"Let's take watches." Kim spoke, still staring out the window, even though there were no more images in the sky. "I'll take first."
Seamus and I began to protest before she cut us off. "It's alright, I really don't think I'm going to get much sleep anyways."
We reluctantly agreed to let her take the first watch and snuggled into our separate sleeping areas.
Author's Note- There you go, I hope you liked it! The deaths are sad, but in Hunger Games/Mudblood Battles that can't really be helped.
Anyways, thanks for my reviewers and story alert/favorite people!