Chapter 4
The next morning was the day of the hunger games. The three tributes were in the waiting room about to go into the games.
"Aren't you excited?!" Pea ranted to Aleisha. She blinked excitedly.
"No," Lim said, in a strangely calm voice. "I am NOT."
"WHAT IF WE GET OUR PERIODS?!" Morris screeched.
"What do you mean we? I'm a guy!" Lim frowned.
"Look, guys. I feel like we're really close so I have a confession to make." Pea cleared his throat. "I actually drew this monobrow on. It's fake."
There was silence for a few seconds.
"Thanks for sharing that." Boris sighed.
"Yeah, THANKS A LOT FOR NOTHING, OLD MAN." Lim yelled.
"Ooh would you look at the time! Time to go in!" Persuliosianio chirped while patting Pea's arm in a comforting manner. He forced the twins into their tube, and then tried to stuff Lim in as well.
"I'M SUPPOSED TO GO IN A SEPARATE TUBE!" Lim screamed. Unfortunately the door closed on his big nose with a thud.
"OW! that scared me!" Boris moaned.
The tube began to rise. The tributes tried to get into better positions as Persuliosianio, Pea and Aleisha disappeared beneath them.
The three people surfaced to the arena and the first thing they noticed was that the Cornucopia was in the centre of a ruined, desolate city. Lim tightly hugged the twins to prevent himself from falling off the podium.
"Get off me!" Moris fumed.
The rest of the tributes stared at the sight. The careers noticed them from their own podiums and began to laugh.
"It's the famous district nine tributes!" One gasped in between their laughter.
"Hey Lim! Or should I say Limyoung!"
"SHUT UP!" Lim screamed at them. "YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF-"
Suddenly the countdown began.
10. 9.
"-BRATTED-"
8. 7.
"SPATTED-"
6. 5.
"FATTED"
4. 3.
"SHRIVELLED PRUNES!" Lim finished
2.
"Hang on, do we get off when it reaches 1 or 0?" Boris asked.
1.
The horn sounded and all the tributes ran towards the resources.
"SO LONG SUCKERS. I HOPE I NEVER SEE YOU ANNOYING TWINS EVER AGAIN!" Lim ranted as he sped off. Surprisingly, he was quite fast. He sprinted ahead of the twins and didn't look back.
Moris and Boris started running, but they tripped and face planted into the ground. This turned out to be good, though, because one of the careers had just thrown a knife at them and it had missed due to this and hit another tribute in their face instead.
"What the even heck?!" Moris screamed at the male career who had thrown the weapon. Her voice startled him and he fell over into a pile of rubble and stabbed himself with a bit of broken glass. A canon promptly went off scaring the girls, especially Moris.
"Moris, I'm so scared. We've gotta get out of here!" Boris cried. In the corner of her eye she saw Lim grabbing a bag and ducking, then sprinting off into a ruined building. However, Moris seemed to be paralysed with fear.
"We need to go now!" Boris screamed at her twin who finally seemed to get a hold of herself.
"Y-yeah, let's just go."
The Siamese Twins picked themselves up from the ground and turned to leave the Bloodbath as everybody else fought for at least a bag and a weapon.
The twins continued to gallop further into the ruined city before finally ducking into a building. They were safe from the Bloodbath for now but could still make out the horrid sounds of screaming accompanied by occasional canons of death. Boris and Moris ran up to the second floor where the roof and part of a wall were missing. They sat against a complete wall to catch their breath for a full minute.
"Oh great," Boris moaned.
"What?"
"We forgot to take a bag!"
Moris' eye twitched as she puffed her nostrils.
"Are you kidding me!"
The girls groaned in anger.
"Do you think we can go back?" Morris suggested
"No way, the careers have probably taken over the Corn by now." Boris thought for a bit. "at least we have Pea's advice..?"
"You're kidding, right..?" Moris disapprovingly spat out. Then she cried. "Oh no I just spat out all the water I had left in my system."
"Yeah I'm pretty thirsty too." Boris contemplated. "How are we gonna get water?"
"Do you think we'll be able to quench our thirst if we just kept a mouthful of water in our mouths for like 1 minute and spat it out, then repeated that everytime we're thirsty?" Moris suggested.
"EW WHAT, ARE YOU CRAZY?!" Boris screeched.
Morris started to cry more.
"Geez what's gotten into you?" Boris asked.
"I'm trying to collect my tears so I can drink them!"
"SALTY WATER MAKES IT WORSE, IDIOT"
Morris was stunned into silence.
"I'm going to die with the world's biggest idiot." Boris inaudibly whispered with great sadness.
Just as Boris was about to die of grief, suddenly they heard footsteps and yelling right outside their hideout. The two twins peered out of a small window in sync to see who the threat was. And there, right before their eyes, was a pair of siamese triplets about to be killed!
"What the heck?" Morris frowned. "HOW COME WE NEVER NOTICED THEM BEFORE?!"
"Because the authors only just thought of it? Don't ask me." Boris shrugged.
"HOW ARE SIAMESE TRIPLETS EVEN ALIVE? WHAT DISTRICT ARE THEY FROM?" Morris kept at it.
The triplets, co-joined by their hair, look up. "We're from districts 5, 7 and 8."
"Wait how is that possible?" But they couldn't reply to Boris because they were surrounded by 3 Careers. One of the careers, brandishing purple hair tickled them with a feather until they laughed so much that they fell unconscious.
"I knew this would come in handy!" the career villainously pulled out a goose from her back, to which her allies just rolled their eyes. She turned to the twins who had come down the building in an attempt to rescue their fellow siamese community.
"You're next!" She cackled and threateningly waved the goose at them.
"Wait, Floyd Sprinkles, why don't we just kill them with swords and stuff?" One of the Careers said. "Like NORMAL people?!"
"BECAUSE THATS WHAT THE CAREERS ALWAYS DO AND SOMEHOW THEY END UP LOSING TO DISTRCT 12 DIMWITS." Floyd Sprinkles raged.
"Huff," The Career huffed.
While they were busy arguing, the twins slowly snuck away.
"That was close." Boris said. "Phew."
"Not so fast, we're not that stupid!" They heard the careers yell. They froze, but the careers ran off in the opposite direction after the goose that had escaped.
"Woohoo!" Morris cheered.
"Yeah whoop dee doo it's not like we're still DYING OF THIRST OR ANYTHING." Boris screeched in her sister's ear.
"Shut up before the careers come back!" Morris said.
Boris turned to the sky. "Pea, Aleisha," she said. "If you ever had any good in your hearts, if you ever planned to help us at all, please send us water. And food."
"And a bazooka while you're at it!" Morris yelled at the sky. "And a helicopter maybe!"
Back in the Capitol, Aleisha and Pea were staring intently at a TV screen. Aleisha was blinking in uncontrolled excitement and Pea was biting his nails in anticipation so much he had run out of fingernails and was now biting his toenails. Persuliosiano strutted in only to find the two mentors staring at a blank TV.
"Lads, yer supposedta plug the telly,"
"Shhhhhhh" Pea shushed. "This is getting intense."
Persuliosiano began to feel a little bad for the tributes because of their weird mentors. Sure, they were quite odd but it was their life on the line and he knew that if he was in their situation he'd want to be looked after. So Persuliosiano took matters into his own hands.
The twins were resting by some rubble with all hope lost when a package floated down to them. Boris and Morris looked at each other in shock and quickly stood up to catch it. Their hands shook in excitement as they opened it slowly. And Inside was… a note.
Sorry but your mentors can't hear you and I'm not allowed to send packages.
Persuliosianio.
"WHAT! THEN HOW DID YOU SEND THIS?" Boris screamed. There was no answer.
"Hey elephants!" A voice called. It was a tribute in overalls behind a building. He looked like he was a farmer. "Keep the STINKIN noise down and I'll show you where some water is."
"REALLY WHERE?" Boris screamed. "I mean, really where?"
"Around the side of the building if you guys actually LOOKED instead of bickering and attracting all the careers, you would have found this giant river."
Little did they know, this mystery tribute had poisoned the water with sparkling water.
Morris and Boris galloped to the water source, bent over the river and generously gulped in the impure water.
"UGHDJ UDKI YUCK YUCK GROSS I HATE SPARKLING WATER."
"What an idiot!" Morris spat. "He could've killed us but he just changed the water!"
"SUCKAHS! LOOK WHO'S THE STINKIN' IDIOTS NOW" The mystery tribute's voice floated down towards them from wherever he'd gone. "You're a stinkin' idiot, and you're a stinkin idiot, and that's a stinkin-"
He started to dance an Irish jig in pride when suddenly, out of nowhere, a giant meteorite fell from the sky and crushed him. The cannon promptly went off.
"What the…" the twins muttered before looking up.
The loudspeaker crackled. "Ahem. That tribute was an idiot so we had to remove him from the arena promptly."
Morris raised her eyebrows at Boris. "You better be careful if they're killing idiots."
"OI!" Boris hollered. "ARE YOU CALLING ME AN IDIOT?"
"Look, let's just get out of here and try to gather as many resources as we can."
"Yeah we're still like right next to the corn which the careers have taken over," Boris admitted. "Maybe we are idiots."
The two began to trek further into the arena, with the fresh memories of their encounter with the Careers motivating them. Eventually they stumbled into a random patch of grass which was oddly placed in the vast expanse of dust and rubble. Morris took a cautious step on the patch of grass.
"Ow!" the grass sang.
Suddenly the patch of grass rose up from the earth to reveal… Mr Cat. The two were gobsmacked and began gulping air like fish out of water. Yet little did they know that Mr Cat was a massive game changer. He would turn their hopeless odds into their favour...