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The Games

"Its beautiful"... The arena is I giant meadow not unlike the arena in the 50th hunger games but unlike that games there is also a forest and a river in between the other competitors and the cornucopia, well that's unfair... inside the cornucopia is many goods. Backpacks, spears, swords, maces, dart guns, crates of who knows what and a bow and sheath of arrows... MY bow and sheath of arrows. Our mentor (Louis) wasn't very good this year but I know I shouldn't go for it but I will I'm fast and anyway, I wasn't planning on surviving too long. I'm going for it. I look at the timer, still thirty seconds left. I look for James. He nods at me then at the woods. Go for the bow then the woods. The buzzer sounds and I'm off. I grab three backpacks, two sleeping bags, a blade, a bow and arrows and a sword and am running away before any of the other tributes are halfway to the cornucopia. I'm running to the woods stockpiled. I can see James not far ahead but I can hear someone behind me as well. I look behind and its a nineteen year old named Kir and behind him is his sixteen year old brother named Fir who is screaming like a mad man. I would shoot an arrow at them but I haven't got my hands free I have two bags on my arms, one bag on my back, the blade and sword in one hand and the bow an sheath of  arrow in the other. So I run like hell hoping he will go back to the cornucopia and he does... eventually. I have lost sight of James although I'm not stupid enough to run around screaming, 'James, James. Where are you James?' I walk and walk and walk into I see a river. I sprint towards it, not thinking about anything but the water but I stop dead in my tracks when I hear somebody behind me, far enough that they didn't see me, close enough to see me soon. I scale a high tree and watch as the intruder comes. Its Lonnie and Cray. I stay as silent as possible. Lonnie gets two bottles out of her pack and hands one to Cray, they both fill the bottles up. Cray takes a swig as he's looking around. He sees me. His eyes open in shock. I am readying my bow and Cray drops. Lonnie drops down on her knees and grasps Cray's hand as a cannon goes off she runs away looking as startled as I am. I wonder what killed him. The only thing that happened is he was... Drinking the water. Damn it. I climb away from tree to tree until I see a hovercraft coming to pick up his lifeless body. Once the hovercrafts gone I climb back down a little but I'm too scared to go back all the way on the ground so I sort out my supplies on a lower branch. I have just emptied out my bags onto my sleeping bag but I hear footsteps. I get my bow and arrow ready but I think the water will do the job for me. I see a hooded figure walking up and looks around to make sure no-ones around and I see my brothers face, "James! James, don't drink the water!" he looks up at me and smiles, "Amanda!" he says and I shush him.

"Are you trying to get yourself killed?"

"No, why?"

"You are walking around weapon less, drinking poisoned water.." I begin but he cut in before I could extend my list.

"... Poisoned? Ha! Yeah right! Prove it!" He yells bending down to take a drink

"STOP!" I scream, "RUN!" I yell, a little quieter. He is running around like his life depended on it which, well it does everyone around would of heard me scream stop, it they hadn't heard him calling me a liar. Him running around like a chicken without his head would almost be funny if the situation wasn't so serious. James runs into a tree and then scales it. I cant see him.I pack up my bags and put them aside, grabbing my bow and readying it. I see 6 tributes come out of the trees all armed but one. The unarmed one is Columbae and the armed ones are Kir, Fir, Otto and Floodplain. The went underneath us and as I am too scared to move I cannot see who is talking but I see one of the group members walking to the river

"Bloody hell, Floody. You said it came from here!"

"It did, I sware''

"Well, obviously not!'' The mystery person sighs, "Lets go to where I heard them."

They walk away but its several minutes until we move.

“They’re gone” James whispers but I can still see one of them. A cannon startles us meaning the initial bloodbath is over. I count them, “ One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Six, Seven, Eight” Eight gone in the first day.

“I don’t think they will leave that easily. I screamed run loud enough” I whisper back to James’ statement. Just as I finish saying that another cannon explodes.

“So what will we do?”

“Climb away!” The look of horror on his face would be funny… again, if it wasn’t life or death. “Look, it is easy” I say as I climb over, first to his tree then to his branch, “let’s go James we haven’t got all day we can’t stay here. They just have to look in the right place and they’ll see us”- For the first time I actually look and pay attention to what we’re wearing. Black suites that will attract heat from the sun, decent joggers and a belt that holds weapons and of course our tokens mine is a locket with dad, mum, James and I. Not bad, I remember one year the tributes where naked. Nothing on and the Cornucopia was empty. They had nothing but their district tokens. It was embarrassing. The Victor of that year never wore clothes again. Eww- “These uniforms are very visible in the day light." I look ate the sky, "We still have hours of daylight left!"

“I can’t do that Amanda; I can’t climb like you can. I was lucky to climb the tree in time.”

Okay, okay your right. You were lucky.” I empty everything that was in one of the bags into out two, wishing that I could sort it out now. I put branches, leaves, and tree nuts -Anything that could add weight - into the bag. I pick up the backpack and feel that it’s a decent size, “I wish I could put rocks in there though” I say to myself and I throw the bag off the branch. Just as I thought all four came out of the bushes, eyes closed, screaming on the top of their lungs, slashing their swords in every direction –very smart... Not- Floodplain cuts Kir in the arm. Kir screams a string of profanities. I shoot Kir and Fir, there cannons go off announcing their dead. I also shoot Floodplain in the leg, he runs away after ripping out the arrow, by the blood he's lost I don't think he will survive. Columbae runs away an I lost track of Otto. “ Come on we need to run!” I whisper loudly. We climb down the tree and James runs away while I’m collecting my arrows and their packs and weapons Columbae left behind. I hear a noise and I run off with him.

James and I don't stop running until nightfall. I see a lake up ahead, "James do you wanna camp by that lake?" I ask my twin, who looks exhausted

"Yeah...Thanks" we walk over by the river and I'm looking around for a place to camp

"James, what about that tree?" I say pointing to a high tree. James just shakes his head.

"Amanda, I can't climb!"

"Right, fine!" I snap back looking around, "What about that rock shelter?" He nods and crawls in.

Ï get out a sleeping bag, "I'll take first watch" I say to James, throwing the sleeping bag on him but he's already asleep. I need to find something to do so I sort out my bag. Inside the six bags that I have -the three from the cornucopia and three from the group that tried to kill us- there is; canned food, apples, crackers, marshmallows, bread, a box of matches, a knife, six water bottles, a bowl, a pot, Flint and steel, three plastic bags, water-purifying tablets, two long pieces of rope, a first aid kit, a pair of socks, an army knife and a hammock. I am about to put the supplies into packs but the anthem begins meaning its time to see who is no longer in the arena with us. First up comes Kir from District one then Vibia and Beaufort from district three, after is Laurel from four then Fir from six, Pomeline from seven is after and then from nine is Otto then Wade from ten is gone so is Majoris from eleven and both tributes from district twelve, Lonnie and Cray, "Wow, so many people gone!" I say to myself. I go back into the cave and pack away the supplies evenly. Once I have done that I just sit and watch the stars wondering if there real or a holographic image...