So this chapter WILL be the first day of the games! I hope you like the arena
Katniss Everdeen D12
This is the second time this week that Caesar has told us we will get to see the arena. I hope there isn't another round or Lea is definitely dead.
"Welcome everyone, now we will see the actual arena!"
A huge screen turns on behind him and shows the arena.
The cornucopia is in a huge cavern with the sky up above and vertical walls all around leading up 100m to the top- virtually unclimbable. Around the shiny gold cornucopia are all the supplies as usual and it's grassy. In front of all the pedestals is a hole, about a metre in diameter. Caesar says that each tribute will be told before that they can jump down it and away from the bloodbath. I hope that Lea does that.
The camera follows a path down one of the holes and when someone jumps down it, it closes up, so only 1 person at a time can go down therefore splitting everybody up. This is the only way to get into the space below. There is a way up, but you have to go to the very bottom of a cave network going down miles before you can find a flight of stone steps to get up to the top.
The cave network is enormous and spans for miles in each direction, including downwards. There are enormous caverns each with different climates; one has a forest in it, one has a tropical climate which once a day has a 20m tsunami, one is a freezing cold wasteland and another is a sort of treat land, full of every supply you could ever want however it is crawling with horrible mutts. Only someone who is about to die of hunger or thirst would ever go there. The arena is almost like lots of arenas packed into 1.
This arena, as Caesar says is designed to test the tributes and push them to their limits so just because there's only 16 left, it will still last a full week.
So that's the arena. It sounds terrifying.
Connectus Jones D3
I'm rising up my tube. My stylist told me that if I wanted to I could jump down some hole to avoid the bloodbath. I don't have a clue what she was talking about until I rise into the arena.
It's beautiful. In front of me is a hole and about 20m away is the cornucopia filled to the brim with a bounty of goods. I spot a machete and decide I will get that and maybe a backpack and then jump down a hole.
"Let the 100th Hunger Games begin!"
Right 60 seconds until we go. I can imagine the whole of District 3 back home rooting for me to do well. I can't let them down. I just can't.
30 seconds.
Right so to my left Lea from 12. Maybe when I get the machete I can kill her. To my right is Lucy. Right.
"Lucy!" I whisper."
"Connectus, I think the holes close up once jumped through."
"Right so I get a machete and a pack, you get throwing knives and a pack then we jump together?"
"Sounds good. Can you defend me while I get knives?"
"Yeah sure but you better be quick, Iris is after me!"
She giggles and nods. We look forward.
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I shoot off my pedestal and straight to the machete. I'm the first there by miles and take a pack. I see a pack of knives and throw them to Lucy who has already got some axes. She collects a pack and we sprint the other direction and to a hole. I'm about half way there when I see a sword swoop at my neck. I duck just in time but it slices some of my hair off.
I turn around to see Yoko has swung his sword at me. I lunge at him and leave my knife in his stomach.
He looks down in horror that a puny untrained 14 year old has given him a fatal wound.
I get up and run to Lucy who is already there and has just killed the District 12 girl.
I get there and hold Lucy's hand.
"Right, 3, 2, 1, jump!"
We jump down and slide down into darkness.
Iris Hound
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I run straight for the cornucopia and grasp a spear and a sword. I throw another sword to Yoko which he catches and goes to kill Connectus who is already running away. I look around and see that about half the tributes have already gone down. The other half are scrambling around for supplies.
I catch a glimpse of the District 6 boy, Oliver I think his name is a chuck my spear straight at him. I shoots straight through his neck and he collapses to the ground, crimson red blood spewing from his neck and onto the grass. I throw at 9 but he dives down his hole.
I turn around and see Connectus and that Lucy girl from 7 gone but Yoko is lying on the ground, a knife in his gut.
Great. Now I have no ally because Krystal will definitely want me dead.
A searing pain runs straight through me and I look down at my calf. Krystal has sliced at my calf and extremely quickly, I slice my sword right through her neck, making her body fall and her head fly to the side and down a hole. The hole for some reason closes round the head. That's really weird.
I look around after the body has fallen and look around. I'm the last here, about 5 bodies lie around the cornucopia and I'm all by myself.
Danny Draddock D9
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I shoot off my pedestal like a bullet, do a forward role to avoid a knife thrown at me and get to the cornucopia. There I take 3 packs of throwing knives, a backpack, a sleeping back and a couple of knives.
I begin to run away. I see the boy from 6 who I think was called Oliver have a spear thrown straight through his neck. His blood splatters my face and my body. I look around and catch a glimpse of Iris throwing a spear at me. I'm a couple of metres from my hole and go to dive down.
If I had gone to dive a fraction of a second later I would be dead on the floor. I dive head first into nothingness and the hole closes around me.
I hope you enjoyed the chapter. Lea is dead so Katniss has no tributes left!
Here are the deaths:
Krystal Karr District 1
Yoko Suki District 2
Oliver Emerson District 6
Rick Williamson District 10
Lea Berry District 12
The living:
Iris Hound District 2
Connectus Jones District 3
Henry Tring District 4
Trina Trout District 4
Zachary Dandi District 5
Violet Anderson District 6
Lucy Sycamore District 7
Jimmy Richards District 8
Nicola Velvet D8
Danny Draddock D9
Simone Caracas District 11
5 already dead, just 11 left out of the initial 576! It's getting tense. Remember to follow and review!