A/N: This chapter takes a completely new turn. The HUGE shock still comes next chapter, but I watched Battle Royale, so... This happened. I know, this is probably stupid, but I started and couldn't stop. So, R&R, see ya later?
Training- Survival Course
Katniss P.O.V.
October and November flew by. My film was coming along very well. Basically, it's about a zombie apocalypse. What can I say, I love horror movies! (Almost as much as I love food!) Basically, the cast list looks like this:
Zombies
Clove
Cato
Finnick
Rue
Thresh
Humane Humans
Peeta
Marvel
Glimmer
Government Pricks
Prim
Johanna
Gil
Gale
I still had Gale on board, tough I now hated him. I had him get eaten by Cato and Clove. Prim and Gil get eaten as well. Johanna, Peeta, Marvel and Glimmer survive by blowing up the zombies. After the film was done, I submitted it to my teacher. He said that later that day he would decide which one was best. The cheerleader girl that was going to represent team 7 in the Survival Course got a concussion, so Johanna took her place. We started getting to skip school so we could train for it- apparently, it was going to be very taxing, and safety was not guaranteed.
When the day came, we were presented to the whole school and to the parents and school board. Team 1 were dressed in jewels, team 2 as gladiators, 3 as computer chips, 4 as fish, 5 as power plants, 6 as train conductors, 7 as trees, 8, 9, and 10 as stupid things. 11 as an apple for Rue and as a farmer for Thresh. Peeta and I were dressed as coal, with flames.
They all clapped, and we were shipped off to the Arena. Apparently, it was in Hawaii. Free trip to Hawaii? Hell yeah!
There were two planes, I don't know how they sorted us, but I guess this is how. On my plane were Cato, Clove, Finnick, the girl from 4, whose name is Annie, Foxface, both from 6, Johanna, boy from 8, both from 9, and myself. Principal Snow stood up right before we were about to land. "Attention, attention. This is not some dodge-ball game in Hawaii like you were led to believe. This is a real Survival Course. Only one of you, or two if you are from the same team, will come out alive. I decided this after watching Battle Royale. I love that movie. In two weeks, the victors will be crowned, and earn points for their team. Thank you. You are about to jump out of this plane. Here are your parachutes. Goodbye."
We were handed parachutes and pushed out of the plane. WTF? He was joking, right? I mean, no one is such an asshole to lead us to believe that this was a friendly competition, only to pit us against each other in a death match like some YA novel, right? I landed in water, and pushed out of the surface to see a strip of land to run on. I got up, and started heading inward. I looked to find Peeta being choked by the boy from 9. "Peeta!"
Then, Marvel tackles the boy and holds him under until he drowns. A deafening sound is heard. I assumed that meant the boy was dead. A classmate of mine, it doesn't matter that I didn't know him, he's DEAD. Marvel and Peeta resurface and swim to me. Cato comes up, and joins us on the strip. We run to the center, grabbing several… weapons? I see a bow, and out of instinct grab it.
There's a quiver with arrows. I take one out, and let it fly… into the chest of the boy from district 3. I start freaking out. I just murdered someone. I'm a murderer. I just killed someone's baby. "Katniss!" it's Peeta.
"Katniss! Katniss! You're okay, come on, we have to get out of here."
Glimmer and Clove met us on the beach. Finnick was there to. We all ran into the jungle. And then we kept un running.
Sorry, don't hate me!