The Shadow Games

Chapter 1

I've never truly been a good kid. I guess it was a cannon event because being who i am now brought me to this. It brought Aria Nightshade into The Shadow Games. And i will tell you all about it.

The Shadow Games aren't world-wide. They only happen in North America and Great Britain. And so only native Americans and native British people could participate in the games.

My family immigrated about 73 years ago, from Europe, hearing about The Shadow Games. They came here when the law wasn't yet written, but with the luck we've had, 20 years before the 10th game, the law regarding immigrants was applied and written.

It was apparently because people from other countries or continents other than North America and Great Britain possess greater power regarding the shadow magic. And so in the 9th game, a freak accident happened, where a persian girl who couldn't control her powers killed almost all the contestants and almost stopped the whole game by "accidentally" intruding in the operating room, where the Presidents were watching and directing the game.

I don't know why the law took 80 years to be written, for it only states that immigrants aren't allowed to participate in the games due to their increased power.

To be fair, the law was planned by President Bonneville, who was a witness to the accident, but he died 3 years later of a disease. I'd suspect the law was only rembered after a few years, and that it took even more years to actually write it and put it in action.

My parents are anyway scared of The Game, because when my grammie immigrated here, she'd heard of the accident and had told us fake stories that would freak us out, that would make us avoid the games.

I was only 17 when they chose me, and i was only 17 when they'd made me a killer. The whole thing was diffused on TV screens through cameras.

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•Prior to being selected•

It was a Monday. I hated Mondays. I hate everyday actually. And i had been thinking of skipping school again but if i do, my mom would be even more disappointed than she actually is right now.

I used to be really good in school, untill my brother had entered 1st grade. He always got good grades, and he was the youngest so he got more attention than i did.

I was so desperate that, one time, i had faked throwing up just so i could get attention. Let's just say it didn't go according to plan.

I was in my brother's shadow (not literally, it'd take a great deal of energy to do that) until Corliss acknowledged me and asked me to be her friend.

She was the kind of person that was friends with everyone, that was cheerful and that would always know how to handle people with problems.

But 2 months ago she was asked by the government to participate in The Shadow Games and she'd accepted, for her family's been winning the game ever since the 7th game.

And it was a big problem for me because she was my reason to get good grades, and she made me happy. In the time i was with her i'd been thinking of actually becoming someone after school, not of skipping it.

But after she left my whole world broke apart. I fell into an even deeper hole than i was in before and I'm still there.

There are 5 five more days before The Shadow Games and at exactly 6:00 PM tomorrow the contestants are going to be shown on the special TV canal called TSG, short for The Shadow Games.

They'd usually show a picture of every contestant, their age, height, hair colour, eye colour and their ethnicity.

They usually take them months prior to The Game, to train them for survival. Give them less food each and every day, get them to know their enemies, make alliances that will soon fall for only one may succed.