Chapter 9
Tom
As the tube started moving towards the surface, Tom was sweating, scared, he thought his heart might escape his body from the way it's beating. The tube went up, up, up. Tom started seeing the sun light, as the tube went fully up, it took 5 minutes. Every tribute was lined up in 2 circles, inner circle and outer circle, Tom was in the inner one, every tribute was randomly selected into a spot. The arena was huge, and that's just the beginning, the starting point, there's still thousands of leagues to cross, there were 4 parts, north is ice, south is desert, east is forest, west is mountains. Tom was closest to the west. The announcer started counting down. 60,59,58... Tom was thinking of friends he made, and if they'd help him. The only one he remembered was Barge, no one else payed Tom any attention, Tom and Barge spent the weak together, training together. Tom thought he could run with him at the beginning and then they could team up, but he didn't trust him as much so Tom decided to go to the centre towards the items, loads of items were there, weapons, bags, medical supplies, food, water, everything!
30,29,28,27... Tom saw someone starting to lose it, he rushed forward before the start, and an explosion sent him flying to the surface, hit the sky and got electrocuted. Tom wet his pants. 10,9,8,7... Tom made his mind on going to the middle, he needed weapons. 3,2,1 VAROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH a blow sounded, everyone started running, chaos, people pushing each other, Tom ignored them and went for the spear, he thought he can get it, kill anyone in his way and hold the centre to himself, but things didn't go as he wanted, he got pushed by a buffed huge guy and fell to the ground, a bow arrow went rushing to him, it hit his shoulders,blood ran down and he passed out with all the dead bodies around him.
He was getting shot at with spears by everyone while he was stuck to the wall, they had bows, kept shooting at him, all shots at his shoulders, although some of the shots strayed somewhere else. He kept on getting shot, shot, he couldn't die, the pain was the worst part, he kept feeling the pain with each shot, he wanted to move but he cant, he cant do anything. He then opened his eyes. Barge was on top of him. Tom went back, scared, afraid. Barge rushed to fetch him water. Tom was in a cave, he realized. Someone else came rushing towards him, Tom could barely know him, it hit him after a minute, it was Ciren, his brown hair, those green eyes, his height was the same as Barge, he was 13 as well. "He's awake? Did he do anything suspicious? Are you sure we shouldn't kill him?" He heard Ciren say. "No! We cant kill him, he teached me allot of things, we spent all our training time together!" Barge said. Tom sat with his back against the wall. "What happened? Last thing I remember was getting shot with an arrow." He looked at his shoulders to see the horrifying hole the arrow had left. "We found you in the centre along with the dead bodies, we thought you were dead until all the dead bodies were taken except you. We checked your heart and you were breathing, so we took you back here, it has been a day since the games begun.
A day, Tom thought, surprised, astonished, he was still alive... After all that pain, he made it through the first day. He was glad he could make allies, specially this early on. He stood up, drank the water that Barge gave him, they were near a river. Tom went out to see the time of day, it was still very early on the day. Ciren and Barge followed him outside. THOOOSHH Thunder came banging, it was clear sky when he went out, suddenly thunder now, dull grey sky with clouds. Boxes were flying everywhere. "What in the world is that?" Ciren asked."Boxes." Barge said. Tom looked closely, "Those are not boxes," They looked at him."Those are cages!" The shock on his face was as strong as the one on theirs.