Chapter 5: The Games

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        (Yesung) 

        His plate began to rise, until he was in the arena, and he could see it clearly, a lake, a forest, and there was the cornucopia, full of backpacks and weapons. He clenched his fists, he had to fight, in order to save his family. 

        The gong sounded and he jumped off his plate, he ran towards the cornucopia, grabbed a backpack, and ran, "Allies?" Sungmin shouted, running up alongside him, "Kay!" Yesung shouted and the two disappeared into the woods. 

        (Ryeowook) 

        "Kyuhyunnie I'm scared." Ryeowook sobbed into the others shirt. Shindong, their other ally, watched sadly. 

        "Shh we'll be alright Wookie I promise to protect you." Kyuhyun stroked the others hair lovingly. 

        Suddenly, a canon sounded. 

        (Kangin) 

        He picked up a gun and looked around. And there he saw two people, running together. Zhoumi and Henry. He squeezed his eyes shut, he couldn't kill them, he just couldn't. And then the President's voice echoed in his head, Your family. His hands shook as he aimed and shot. 

        And Zhoumi fell onto the floor, "No!" Henry screamed, falling onto Zhoumi's body, hugging him, "NO!!! MIMI!! WAKE UP! MIMI!" he cried, "MIMI!" he shook his hyungs body. 

        "Henry...go now...I order you...to go now....." Zhoumi closed his eyes, "I love you little brother." 

        And then the canon fired. 

        ***

        (Eunhyuk) 

        Eunhyuk grabbed Henry with one hand and together, with Donghae right in front of them, they ran for cover, "Zhoumi, Mimi." Henry sobbed. 

        "I can't believe he's dead." Donghae said in a strangled voice. 

        "He can't be he can't be." Henry cried. 

        "Henry, I know its hard for you, for all of us, but he is. And he wouldn't want you to be like this, he'd want you to fight, okay?" Eunhyuk asked gently, "Don't worry, you have 2 allies now." 

        ***

        Only 1 person died on that first day of the games. The gamemakers were gonna try to slow things down a bit, seeing as there were only 15 of them this year. Maybe 1 death a day? Who knows? 

        Eunhyuk handed around some crackers he had found in his pack and set Donghae on guard for the night. He sighed and hugged Henry close to him, he was still crying in his sleep, "Poor boy." Donghae said suddenly. 

        "Yeah," Eunhyuk sighed, "He never even got the chance to tell Zhoumi he loved him." 

        "Well then I better tell you quick, before one of us dies." Donghae said. 

        Eunhyuk couldn't help but smirk, "Tell me what?" 

        "Love you." Donghae smirked back, leaning down to kiss him. 

        ***

        (Kyuhyun) 

        "Who do you think that was?" he heard himself asking. 

        "Who knows." Shindong said, "Could be anyone. We'll see tonight." 

        And they did find out that night, when they flashed Zhoumi's face into the sky along with his district number: 4. 

        "District 4, Zhoumi down." Kyuhyun said in a hushed voice. 

        "Zhoumi- Mimi- is dead?" Ryeowook asked, his eyes filling up with tears once more. 

        "Shh sleep little Wookie." Kyuhyun murmured, "Everything will be alright." 

        *** 

        (Kangin) 

        "I killed him." His voice shook, how could he have done it? 

        "He's dead." Leeteuk said, as he watched the hovercraft collect Zhoumi's body. 

        "Try not to be sad, eventually, only one person will be left, and it might not be you." Heechul said. He had teamed up with Kangin, Leeteuk, and Hangeng. 

        "Try not to be sad, how can you not?" Hangeng snapped, "He was the brightest, happiest boy I ever knew."

        "Thats not something you say in the arena." Leeteuk said in a quiet voice, silencing all of them as they made camp.

        *** 

        (Sungmin) 

        He and Yesung hid at the edge of the woods, "Do you think you can shoot them from here?" Sungmin whispered to Yesung. 

        "Maybe only enough to injure one of them, not kill." Yesung whispered back. 

        "Should we do that? Will it draw attention to us?" Sungmin asked. 

        "It will, but if we run the moment I shoot, we could make it away." Yesung replied. 

        "Okay." Sungmin whispered, "Having one of them hurt will come to our advantage anyway. 1...2...3..." 

        Yesung shot, he could hear a cry of pain as it hit one of them, he couldn't see who it was in the dark, but it was Hangeng's voice, "Shit! Run run run!" he scrambled up and ran in the opposite direction, Sungmin right at his heels, "If it kills him we'll hear the canon and find out." 

        ***

        (Hangeng) 

        Hangeng swore as the bullet suddenly entered his leg, it seemed to come from nowhere.

        "Bandages bandages!" Leeteuk looked in the bag for a first aid kit. 

        "Wouldn't it be easier for you guys to just let me continue on like this, injured, because unless I'm treated I'll die eventually. It would hurt you less than to just kill me yourself later on." Hangeng found himself saying. 

        "Shut up." Heechul said as Leeteuk cleaned the chinese boy's wound, "I'm not killing you and I'm not leaving you injured either. 

        ***

        (Yesung) 

        "Theres no canon." Yesung said numbly. 

        "He didn't die." Sungmin stated the obvious. 

        "I don't know if I should be angry about that or happy." Yesung said, his voice still numb. 

        "Angry, and sad, because if he didn't die immediately, that means his suffering will be long." 

        *** 

        (Kibum) 

        Kibum shivered up in his tree. He was alone. Ally-less. He had seen earlier in the sky that Zhoumi was dead. 1 dead, 14 left. How did he die? Kibum wondered. He had long since finished his bottle of water and his pack had no food. Go to the lake tomorrow. He told himself. And set some snares, or hunt. Would he even be able to bring himself to kill his friends when the time came? Who had killed Zhoumi? Whoever it was, Kibum couldn't help but admire him a bit, though he also felt angry and disgusted. Whoever it was, he was brave enough to kill his friends. 

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  A/N 

i just wrote all their names down on pieces of paper and randomly pick one, whoever i pick dies. From now on one person dies a day.

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