The Hunger Games: My Story

The Games

I panic. Leia comes and gives me a outfit. She gives me a sympathetic smile and is apparently wiping tears from her eyes. She hurries out of the room to go see Ian. I  put the outfit on, and put my hair in a bun. I brush my teeth, and sigh. I'll die today, won't I? Then I realize. I'm teaming up with the Careers!! It's a delight. I just hope Blair doesn't kill me instantly. Ill be brought to these tubes that I'll go up, and I'll be brought to my pedestal, and wait until the gong goes off. There's a sixty second timer, and occasionally some tributes step off before the gong goes off. They die in the process. They basically get blown up. One year a boy tribute-from District 6 I think- stepped off right as he was brought up to his pedestal. Died instantly. They had to scrape off bits of him. Leia kisses me and Ian on the cheeks. "Good luck, loves. You guys can do this!" She has tears running down her cheeks. A peacekeeper brings me and Ian to the roof where we wait for a hovercraft. Im a nervous wreck. Finally, the hovercraft comes. I climb aboard. I sit next to Amethyst and the District 8 boy. Just then, a woman comes to me with a tracking device. "This is your tracker, Cassandra. We give you it so we can track you in the arena." I nod. The woman smiles. "Good luck, okay?" I nod.
*************************************I'm brought to the tube I'll go up into the Games. I see Tara, and she's smiling. "You can do this, Cassandra. I know you can. Okay?" I smile, and I suddenly begin to cry. I just need a hug. Tara hugs me, and wipes the tears from my eyes. "Good luck." I get into my tube, and I'm brought up. It reminds me of an elevator. There's 60 seconds on the clock. I could die. No, I'm definitely going to die. But I should think positive. I have to. Claudis Templesmith clears his throat. "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to the 79th annual Hunger Games!" My palms start to sweat. I look around. The cornucopia has a bow. That was meant for me! My bow! I just can't get distracted. I'm next to the District 3 boy and Blair. I get ready to run.

The gong goes off. I run past everyone. Unfortunately Amethyst gets the bow, so I'm left to fight with knifes and axes. I see Ian go into the woods. The District 6 girl falls to the ground as a knife goes into her stomach. She's breathing heavily. A cannon goes off. She's dead. Amethyst sees Ian. She shoots a arrow at him. It hits him in the  back. He falls to the ground. A cannon booms. "Ian!!!!!" I shout. Amethyst looks proud. "That's my 4th kill today!" she says. "Are you insane?" I demand. "No, but Blair is!" Blair is making a beeline towards me. She has Augustus's sword. Augustus sees this. "Blair wait! Cassandra is helping us!" Blair pauses. "Oh okay then."  The field is full of dead tributes. "Where's Ian?," Augustus asks. Amethyst kind of looks down. "He's dead....and so is Sabrina and Sebastian." Augustus groans. "HE WAS SUPPOSED TO HELP US! DAMN YOU, AMETHYST!" Augustus needs to calm down. But he can't.  He sees the District 7 boy running away. Augustus runs towards him.  The boy shrieks. "Please- please- NO!" The boy's neck is snapped. He begins to gasp, like a fish out of water. He's about 14. I gasp as Blair takes out a knife. "Time to die!" she says with evil excitement. She takes a knife, and throws it. It goes into his heart. He gasps one last final time, and a cannon sounds his death. I look at Blair. "What?" Flint begins to crack up. "What's so funny now Flint?" Blair demands. She throws a knife at him. He dodges it. "Okay okay ok! I'll stop!" "You better stop," Blair snarls. Augustus rolls his eyes. I finally speak up. "Hey Amethyst?" "Yeah?," she says. "You better be careful about the tracker jackers." She stares at me for a minute. She then remembers how Glimmer, the gorgeous District 1 tribute, and how she died. "HEY!" She shoves me. I fall down. I take her down with me. We start giggling. Flint looks at us like we're absurd, and Blair keeps on  staring at us.
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The moon is shining, and Augustus is sharpening his sword on the fire he made. We survived the first day. Yay.  The anthem lights up in the sky. First the District 3 boy. Both tributes from 4.  Ian. Both from 6 and 7. The boy from eight. The girl from 10. The boy from 11. The anthem finishes and the sky goes dark. I look in the distance. "Guys, look! A fire!" Blair looks at me. "Yes, dumbass. There's a fire right here. Do you need me to spell it for you? It's F-I-R-E."  I grimace as everyone laughs. "No, look," I say. I point up. You can see the moon and smoke with red-orange flames below. Augustus instantly gets up. "Let's go. Now," he says. Amethyst springs up. Flint picks up his spear, and Blair just stands there. She crosses her arms. "Guys, watch this." She takes a big knife, steps back, and aims towards the sky. The knife flys over the trees and finds it's target.  We hear a scream. It's a girl's scream. The scream is cut short.
Impressive. So now I have to look up all the time to see if Blair is sending a knife to enter my body and end my life. We run towards the fire. We see a girl, laying on the ground. She's  unconscious. The knife went into her neck. Her brown red hair is very close to the fire. Augustus takes her hair, and is about to stick it in the fire when her cannon booms. He takes her hair and sticks it in the fire anyways. It singes her ends of her hair, but Augustus blows it out. He starts to laugh. "12 down 12 to go! Yes!!!!!!" I notice something moving in a bush. It's Rose. It's hard to ignore the girl. She has these big brown eyes, and brown skin. She comes out from behind the bush. Augustus sees her. We all stare. Blair freezes. "Please.....don't hurt me.."  Blair looks at me. "Dumbass! Now you got me upset! Now I look weak!!!" I stare at her, applauded. "Oh so it's my fault? It's my fault on how you display your emotions? Nice, Blair." She turns towards me. "I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOU! TIME TO DIE, CASSANDRA!" She's about to throw a knife when  points towards the woods. It's not hard to see fireballs coming towards us.