Chapter 3

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In the arena

"Please tributes stand on your respected places for the games to start," The speaker announced. 

This was it, the games would start, he needed to win this for Lea, cause how could he die without ever telling her he had a massive crush on her? "I can do this," Finnick whispered to himself. He then walked over to the Platform, stepped on it and before he knew it, he had risen into the arena. 

Once in the Arena, he looked around and saw a forest with a large river all around it. This would be to his advantage as he was a very good swimmer and fisherman, as he was from District 4. He learned from mags that he needed to be careful with the food from the different plants as they could be poisonous, fish in the river should be fine. 

The counter started with 60 seconds on the clock, he looked at the cornucopia and didn't see a trident, he was very disappointed as he was very skilled with a trident so a spear would have to do. 

"10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Let the 65th annual Hunger Games begin," Claudius voice sounded over the speaker. 

Finnick ran as fast as he could to the cornucopia, taking a spear and a bag. He saw two people, who he recognized as the tributes from District 8 coming at him with a knife, but Finnick was quicker, he kicked the male tribute and sent him flying backward while pressing the spear into the female's stomach and by the time the male tribute stood up, Finnick's spear was already into his stomach. 

He realized that he just killed two people, but no time to think about that. This is a game of survival, if he wanted to get out, and get back to Lea, he would have to kill people. He ran into the woods and hid in a tree. 

Once in the tree, he looked at what was inside the bag, He found some dry food that would be enough for 2 days, a large bottle of water, some rope, and a pack of knives. He planned to hide in the tree until he had no choice but to come out. 

The first day had passed, and Finnick managed to see hidden in the tree for the entire day, Suddenly he saw faces appear on the forcefield. District 3 male, District 3 female, District 5 female, District 6 male and female, District 7 male, District 8 male and female and lastly District 11 female and District 12 male. The first day and already 10 people were dead, and only 14 tributes were left. Mags told him that the cornucopia would be a bloodbath, but he didn't expect it to be this bad. He didn't plan to ally with his district partner but he was happy that she wasn't dead yet, after all, she was very nice to him during their time in the Capitol and of course, all of the career pack was still alive, the career pack was his biggest competition, if they were out, he would have no problem with winning this. 

The next morning came and Finnick heard voices coming near him. He saw the career pack walk by but they didn't see him hiding in the three. He needed to be smart about this, he couldn't come out of the tree and start attacking them cause 4 against one that wouldn't end well. He could throw one of his knives, but then there was a risk that they would see him. 

"Who is going to be our next target," Alex, the District 1 male tribute said. "I say we just hunt down the first person we see," Alexa, the District 1 female tribute said. "I would like to kill that boy from 4, I think he could be a real threat," the District 2 male said. "Nah don't be ridiculous," the District 2 female said, "He might have charmed the Capitol people but remember he is only 14 years old," she said. "Right and if he is as weak as his District partner, then he will be an easy kill," The District 1 male said. 

They had killed Elena, he didn't particularly care for her but still, she was his district partner, the one he had lived with for the past week. So he felt the need that he had to get his revenge and kill those careers but not immediately, he had to be smart about this. 

Luckily the careers went away for now. 

Since it was already the second day that he was in the tree, his food and water would run out soon and he didn't know that with his spear, he would be able to kill as fast as with a trident. Suddenly something came from the air, it was a sponsor gift coming at him, a trident. He was sponsored a trident. This must be one of the most expensive sponsor gifts that anyone had ever gotten in the arena.

 On the trident was a note that said 

You are very lucky, this doesn't normally happen, Best of luck with it!

 xx Mags

He realized that staying in the three was no longer an option, as he was going to run out of food and water soon. But now that he had his trident, he could easily catch some fish. 

While coming out of the tree, another sponsor gift arrived, wow he must have really charmed the Capital he thought by himself. It was a bottle of water and some bread. 

While walking through the woods, he saw the male tribute from District 10, he sneaked behind him and stuck his trident through his back. 

Next, he did the same thing with the male and female tribute from District 9. Then he saw the female tribute from District 12, and before he could kill her, she turned around. She was only 12 years old and he simply couldn't do it. 

"Please don't kill me, I can help you kill the careers," The girl said. "How?" Finnick said. 

"The careers have a camp, about 20 meters left from the Cornucopia, each day around noon 2 of them, go to the cornucopia to get more supplies and food, leaving two of them unattended, I could distract one of them, while you kill the other one and after you killed the first one, you kill the second one. When then, the other two come back, we do the same thing, and bam all the careers gone." The District 12 girl said. 

"Wow, you are very smart, sounds like a plan". Finnick said

They hid in the bushes and saw that the male and female tribute from District One went to the cornucopia,  The girl from District 12 then ran past the camp where the other two careers were sitting, making the female tribute run behind her. Finnick ran to the camp and took the District 2 male by surprise by piercing him with his trident. One career down. After some time, the female from District 2 saw her partner lying dead on the floor, but before she could react, she was pierced by Finnick's trident. 

"That went better than expected," The female from District 12 said. "Thanks for the help," Finnick told the Girl. 

After a while, the other two careers from district one came back. Finnick and the district twelve girl repeated the plan. Finnick successfully killed the male tribute from District 1 but when he looked in the direction of the Female tribute, he saw that she had caught the girl from District 12 and before Finnick could get there, she stuck a knife right into her heart and killed her. 

"Nooo," Finnick yelled but he had no time to react as the female tribute from District 1 was already walking towards him, he had to react quickly and threw his trident at her, hitting her right in the stomach before she could throw a knife at him. 

He had killed all of the careers but had lost the only ally he ever had in the game, he sat by her body sobbing but it didn't take long before a hovercraft took the body away. He promised himself that he wouldn't get emotionally attached to anyone in the games, but he had failed himself. 




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