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All the reviews great! Thanks guys! Now ready yourselves for an awesome chapter 3.
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Annabeth POV
A sliver of light met my eyes. I tried to shield the light, but it just wouldn't go away. Before fully opening my eyes, I tried to register where I was. I could feel that I was lying on the ground, that much was obvious. But of course, I didn't know where.
I was lying on something that felt a lot like sand, or a beach. The last thing I realized was that it was hot.
Very hot.
At that point, I decided to open my eyes. I slowly opened them, and waited for them to adjust to the bright light. As soon as I could see, I gasped in shock. I was in the middle of a barren waist land.
I was in the middle of a desert.
I got up off the floor, and dusted myself off. How did I get here? The last I knew, Percy and I were at camp. But then, there was there was the black hole, and us getting sucked into it…oh no. the black hole must've been a portal that transported me here. But then if I was here, and Percy had also got sucked into the hole, where was Percy? How could I find anyone in this place?
That wasn't the only problem.
I was trapped inside a glass cylinder. The entire thing went around my body, so there was literally no way out. I felt around, trying to see if there was any mistake in the architectural design, any crevasse that I could break, but I found none. I searches, and searched and found nothing. By then, I had started to bang on the glass as hard as I could, but it wouldn't budge.
i was at a loss. I didn't know what to do. I stopped banging on the glass to recollect my thoughts.
Ok, so I was in a desert with no sign of anyone in the nearest ten kilometres. So I was trapped in a glass cage. So I couldn't find Percy. I could find a way to solve all of those problems if I just waited and observed.
So that's exactly what I did.
I stood in the glass cage, surveying my surroundings. I turned three-sixty in the cage. All around me, there was nothing but sand, sand, and more sand. I did that for five minutes, trying to find out ideas of how to break the glass, and what to do once I did.
When I was on my third three-sixty, a flash of light caught my attention. I looked in the direction the flash of light had come from. In the distance directly across from me, I could see a cylinder, similar to mine coming up from beneath the ground. It slowly rose until the bottom of the cage finally came to a rest atop the sandy ground.
There was a person in there too. I tried to see who it was, but I couldn't get a good look at his face properly. All I could see was that he wasn't wearing a shirt. He was only wearing ripped jeans. I wondered why, but didn't have long to dwell on it.
Just as he was stirring from his position on the ground, I saw another cylinder rise up from the ground. This time, when I could fully see who it was, my heart sank.
Percy was in it.
I saw him laying on the ground as well, stirring from the position. I wished he would wake up more quickly, even though we wouldn't be able to talk or communicate with each other if he did.
Just as Percy's platform came up, another platform, and another, and another popped up out of the ground. Unfortunately I recognized about eight of them. I recognized Thalia, Nico, Grover, Clarisse, Rachel and…Luke.
Wait a minute. Luke? What the hell? I swear he died. Could it be a ghost? No…it couldn't. He looked solid enough and he had his signature scar and everything.
But if Luke's alive, then that means I could have a second chance with him! But then again, I had to accept the possibility that he could still be evil. I sighed in grim defeat, when I thought about it and realized that whoever had brought us here, would at least have someone evil against us.
The other eight, though I didn't recognize, though there was a guy with a weird eye patch, a guy with a pointy hat, and a girl with fiery red hair in those eight. Everyone had started to wake up and were panicking when they saw that they were in a cage. I counted sixteen cylinders in total, all placed in a huge circle. Eight people were from camp half blood, and another eight from who knows where.
The most interesting thing I saw was, that in the middle of the circle made by the cylinders, was a horn shaped dome. In the middle of the dome were tables piled with all kinds of things. There were jackets, backpack, water bottles, and I even saw a suitcase that looked like it was made of metal.
Though, the thing that really caught my eye was not good.
There were a lot of weapons in that dome. I saw swords, and guns, and knives. One particular knife caught my eye.
MY knife.
My knife was lying on a table in the middle of the dome.
How had it gotten there? Just to make sure it was mine, I checked in my sock. I always kept my special knife there. I shoved my hand in my sock and hoped that my knife would somehow be there. It wasn't there. Now I was sure that that knife was mine.
How was I going to get it back? I had no idea how to get out of this damn cage, let alone get my knife.
I looked over to Percy who was across from me. He was fully awake by now and looking around. He saw me looking at him and he made a tiny heart with his hands. I smiled at him and made a heart with my hands. He seemed satisfied enough, and went back to looking at the desert.
2 minutes passed and nothing happened. Everyone stood in their platforms not doing much of anything, because frankly, you can't really do anything in a small glass cylinder.
After another couple of minutes though, something did happen. A voice happened, to be specific.
"Welcome tributes."
I looked around, bewildered, trying to find out where this disembodied voice had come from. It seemed to have filled the entire desert and come out of thin air.
"You sixteen have been chosen to participate in a game."
Game? This is a game?
"Doesn't look like a very fun game to me!" Thalia shouted into the air from her cylinder.
"Oh this will be a very fun game, I assure you."
Thalia gasped. Apparently the voice can hear us too.
"We are the game keepers. We will be monitoring you and controlling this here game." The voice that was probably the gamekeeper said. "8 of you are from Camp Half Blood and are half god, half human, with one exception who is an enemy."
I sighed gravely. Luke.
"The other 8 are a part of the avengers, a superhero team, with an exception of one person who is also their enemy."
So that's who they were. The other eight people I didn't recognize were superheroes. That explains all the weird gadgets and weapons in the dome.
"This game is called the hunger games. That black hole that you saw was a teleportation device used to bring you all to the future. This is the year 2070." (AN: sorry if the dates wrong, I forget what year it was in the hunger games)
What the hell is this? Now I was totally confused. How were we in the future? As far as I know (and I know a lot) it is impossible to travel to time. Physics just doesn't allow it. How could we have traveled to the future?
But then again, we were defiantly nowhere near USA. The voice was probably some guy talking from a computer. I looked around to see if there were any speakers nearby, but couldn't find any. If there were no speakers, then whoever was talking had to be taking through something very high tech. I had no choice but to trust what he said and accept that we were in the future. There was no other explanation for this.
"The hunger games is a traditional game that all of panem plays." Usually 24 tributes are chosen, but in this case there are only 16. The objective of the game is to kill each other." I gasped. "There can only be one tribute left at the end of the games. The games last until everyone except for one person is killed. So it could last as long a seven months, or two weeks. There will be many obstacles in this game. For example, the problem of water."
I nodded grimly in realization. This was a desert. It would be very hard to find any water in this place. We would only be able to survive for 3 days without water. After that we would die. I looked around and saw that the only water in this place was in the dome in the middle of all the tributes.
"The area in the middle where you see all the supplies is called the cornucopia. That is where you can get you're specific weapons, extra food, and most importantly, water. I think you have noticed that you're favourable weapon is in the cornucopia. You will have to get that if you are to have any chance to survive here."
I realized that it would be a mad dash to the cornucopia once we were let out of our cages to get our weapons and good enough supplies.
Suddenly, in our cylinders, something rose up out of the ground. It was a piece of clothing. A one piece jumpsuit to be exact. It was hanging from some type of futuristic nail. The entire thing was gray with an owl design on its left side. I looked around and saw that everyone else were getting similar jumpsuits, except with different colours and a different design on the left side. I looked at Percy's and saw that his was a pretty sea green with a trident on the left side.
"You all will have to wear these jumpsuits while playing the game." The voice said. "You absolutely will not be able to wear your own clothing in the games." It paused "I suggest you put it on now on top of you're clothing or I will not hesitate to electrocute you very harshly. The electrocution will be so powerful that even Thalia and Thor will be burnt, so put your jumpsuit on now."
I looked around, wide eyed. How had known Thalia's name? I didn't know any amount of electricity could burn her. And who was Thor? I groaned in frustration as I took my jumpsuit and slipped it over my normal clothes. I looked up and saw that everyone was doing the same.
Just as I finished putting my jumpsuit on, the voice came again.
"Very good. Now I will lower your glass cylinders. If anyone chooses to step outside of your platform, I will make sure you die on the spot."
The glass slowly lowered, until I was standing on nothing but a metal platform on top of the sand. I slowly looked around and was met with the eyes of all the demigods. We all made a silent agreement to quickly take our weapons from the cornucopia and leave as soon as possible.
"There will be a countdown from 10. Once it reaches 0, you will be able to leave the platform. Remember, if you get off before that, you will die. Good luck, and may the odds be ever in you're favour. The countdown starts now."
I frantically looked around the desert, trying to form a plan, any plan, but for the first time none came.
A robotic male voice started counting.
10
9
8
My heart started beating a mile a minute in anticipation.
7
6
5
I looked around at everyone standing. They all looked as nervous as I felt.
4
3
This would be the moment of truth.
2
1
…0
It was dead silent for at least 5 seconds after the voice said zero. Then everyone exploded and ran toward the cornucopia. I stood stock still on my platform for 20 seconds, not knowing what to do. Then I felt a hand on my arm pulling me over to the cornucopia.
It was Percy.
I told myself to pull it together, and ran with Percy to the cornucopia.
Well, did you have fun?
Ok…I sounded like a creeper to myself…weird.
Anyways, ill probably be posting an update every 1-2 weeks. I don't have a computer at home and I have to go to the library every time I have to do something on a computer and apparently im not allowed to go on the weekdays. So I'll try to get my updates posted every week – two weeks, and sometime maybe 3. But of course, I'll try for one week like I did with this! ;)
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-Detective DG