So i know its past when I'd hoped to have it up but I was just waiting for my friend to get back to me after beta-ing this! This is by far the longest chapter i have written to date so enjoy x If you have any questions or concerns etc feel free to review or pm me xx

Chapter 1

Carrie POV
We sit side by side in the hovercraft that is taking us to the arena. No one speaks. They're all thinking the same thing as I am, that in just few hours we'll have to kill each other. I fidget with the sleeve of my arena outfit. Some sort of stretchy material, I'm pretty sure I heard one of the trainers mentioning something about fireproof. That can't be good.

We land just over 20 minutes later and are immediately escorted under the arena where our pedestals await. Mine is side-by-side with Jason's. Jason, who has no idea what the other careers plan on doing to him. I'm given a hair-tie by one of the Peacekeepers and then they push me into my tube.

I tie back my hair as we're raised into the arena. I spot the other girls with long hair doing the same. The Cornucopia is set on the side of a mountain. From what I can see, most of the arena is covered in vegetation.
Our plates click into place and the sky lights up with the Capitol logo. I frown, this isn't supposed to happen.

Patty Walters' face appears on the screen and he smiles down at us.
"Your Games are about to begin. Thanks to our wonderful President, I am allowed give you this one warning: get to the bunkers. As soon as this screen goes blank the countdown will begin. Happy Hunger Games and may the odds be ever in your favour."

The screen goes back to just being the sky and a beeping starts to indicate the countdown.
60...59...58...
I fixate on the bow and arrows just meters from me.
43...42...41...
I take a deep breath and ready myself for what's about to happen.

Zoe POV
The countdown reaches zero and I take off towards the Cornucopia. Just as I get there, I look to my left and I see Tanya taken down by a knife to the stomach from Tom. Behind them I see Marcus beating a collapsed figure with a mace. Two bangs of the cannon.

I grab a blue rucksack at the foot of the Cornucopia and sprint in the opposite direction, back where I came from. I'm running towards the dense forest that's looming up ahead. It's eerily dark in there but I can use that to my advantage.

I run farther and farther in, running until I can't run anymore and then, finally, I make myself stop. There is a fallen log just in front of me. I sit down and open up my rucksack. Inside is an empty water bottle, some knives and a spile. I tuck a knife into my boot for quick access and take the bottle and the spile to a nearby tree. I hear a crack from behind me but I can't turn around. I'm being held in place. I look down and see the top of a spear protruding from my stomach and the tip is buried in the tree. The spile and bottle fall to the ground with a thud and I slump forward as the cannon sounds.

Jesse POV
I swing my axe and watch in awe as it slices right through Phil's head. His body slumps to the ground and his head bounces away. The cannon sounds and I grin. Jeana is at the Cornucopia, scavenging for arrows from mis-calculated shots. I spot a figure crouched behind some rucksacks behind her and I yell out.

Quick as a flash she loads an arrow and fires. It pierces Hazel right in the chest and the cannon sounds. All the other tributes have either left the Cornucopia or lie dead, except for the Careers of course. I call the others over to me. Once we've gathered together, I nod and whisper one word, "now". Everyone except Jason knows what to do.
Jenna grabs Jason's arms and Marcus throws punch after punch into his stomach and face, all the while yelling, "We know what you did!"

After a few minutes of this, he starts coughing up blood. Jenna lets go and he slumps to the ground. I take my axe and chop off each limb, one after the other, relishing in the screams. I leave the head for last. His screams end as soon as my axe hits him and the cannon booms.

Carrie hands me the firestarter we found in one of the bags and we roughly pile the body parts together and set them alight.
"Right, let's set up camp here" I say. Carrie looks at me skeptically.
"Do you have a problem?" I snarl, waving my axe haphazardly.
"I just think we should follow Patty's advice and try to find a bunker," she replies, looking straight into my eyes.
I scoff. "I call the shots in this alliance, got that? And I say we set up camp here."
"She's right," Jeana says from behind me, "We'll be safer."
"Leave if you want to, I'm staying put," I say in a menacing voice.

They look at each other and pick up their stuff. They walk towards the other side of the mountain as a rumble echoes throughout the arena and the ground shakes slightly. Smoke starts to billow from the top of the mountain. I'm safe here. They'd never destroy the Cornucopia.

"I'll enjoy seeing your faces on the screen tonight," I yell after them. I don't think they hear.

Jenna POV
We walk along in silence for a while, heading towards the desert that's sprawled out in front of us. The ground shakes every now and then but the farther away we get, the less it seemed to affect us.

"Why are we heading towards the desert? Isn't that the stupidest thing to do?," Marcus asks, slowing down. Carrie shakes her head.
"These bunker things aren't going to be in plain sight. We're going to have to search for them. It'll probably be easier to spot ones that are underground on flat land like this than the ones in the forest," she replies. Marcus nods his head and we keep walking.

Carrie POV
After about an hour more we finally stumble upon a metal ring in the ground. Marcus pulls at it and it reveals a spacious, well lit room. We climb down into it and look around. A plaque hangs on the wall. It says that the bunkers are here to keep us safe and to help ourselves to any water or bandages or herbs we may need. It also says that the door to this room will be deadbolted 15 minutes before the explosion - "Explosion?!" Jeana exclaims. We shush her. - and will open 30 minutes after. We have to be out within a half hour of the door unlocking or we will suffer.

"This answers none of my questions," Jeana sighs. We nod as the screen on the wall switches on.
The Capitol anthem plays and the logo appears. We are watching the arena from the same cameras as the viewing audience at home. The deadbolts slide into place on the door and we realise what is about to happen.

"We... get to see whats happening..?" Marcus asks. We shrug.

The camera switches to a group of people pulling at a metal ring in the side of a huge rock. It's a bunker but it's deadlocked. They are going to die. I recognise the people there. Candice, Tom and Catrific.

We sit back and stare at the screen as they panic, looking for somewhere to go. Tom spots a tree and the other two follow his example, climbing trees of their own. At that moment the mountain explodes outwards. The camera switches to the Cornucopia.

Lava and ash spew from the mouth of the huge volcano. Jesse was right, they wouldn't destroy the Cornucopia. The lava parts neatly around it. But that doesnt mean he's safe. The heat from the lava is unbearably hot for him and the smoke is filling the air around him. He sinks to the ground, deathly pale and sweating from every part of his body. Coughs rack his body and after a few more minute he grows still and the cannon sounds.

The camera switches to the three in the trees. The explosion has shaken Catrific from her tree and she's desperately trying to get back up. She's too slow. The lava catches up with her and she screams once, and the cannon sounds. Candice and Tom start to cough as the smoke and ash clouds around them. Candice coughs so hard she falls sideways. She scrabbles at the branch she was perched on, but to no avail. Her hands are too sweaty and she slides off with a cry of terror. Tom on the other hand has stopped moving completely. The air has smothered him. Two cannons sound.

The TV cuts to the Capitol logo again and the names of all the deceased tributes pop up.
Jesse, Tanya, Jason, Phil, Hazel, Zoe, Chris, Candice, Tom and Cat.

We make sure we have all our supplies so we are ready to go when the deadbolt opens, most of us in shock. Jeana seems distraught at Jesse's death but, we all silently agree to let her grieve alone.

This is gonna be one hell of a Game...

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