The 48th Hunger Games {Editing} ( #Wattys2017 )

Day 9: Getting Near to the End

Day 8:

We swam through the waters. Doves' face was filled with fear but also determination. I kicked my feet splashing the water behind me. My body grew in pain as some of the salty water seeped into my wounds. We could see the second island in the distance. After that we will need to swim to the third island and we would be able to swim to the cornucopia.  After the one specific announcement changed our game plan and forced us into the cornucopia. The announcement was clear as day. 

"Hello Tributes, We are only going to say this announcement once. The Force field will start closing in moving you to the cornucopia. This is the only announcement." Claudius announced. We all took a moment to repeat that announcement in our heads. This may be the end of our ally and the Careers could be lurking anywhere. God, they could be on one of the islands. We all gave each other a good stare before we said anything. "Why?" Ruth finally broke the silence. "Guessing they got bored." Ace mumbled under his breath.  Ace was most likely right. "They are breaking our ally." Dove said coldly not showing any emotion to the subject. "So here is our game plan," Dove started. We all stood silent waiting for the game plan. 

"We will start moving to the cornucopia and then we may need to go all man for himself or herself." Again we took a moment to process the words threw our heads then gave a small nod. "Well then shall we get going?" Johan said. 

And that brings us back to now. Swimming for our lives. 

Day 9: 

We are now swimming to the last island. My wounds felt like they were burning on my skin but I had to bare threw the irritating sting. The water suddenly changed direction. Pushing us to the middle. "What the hell?" I hear Johan say in confusion. We try to swim through the water but it only pushed us back further. "Guys?" I yelled trying to figure out what to do. Dove completely lost it and started to cry for some reason and starting yelling "NO NO!". I wonder what is bothering her so much. She already looked terrified enough. Abruptly something triangular like emerged out of the water. The worst thing came to mind. Sharks. My hands were latched on the the shark's fin and it carried me around on it's back. 

So many sounds were going on, The water splashing and the sounds of yelling. I was getting dragged in the water by a shark and I knew if let go I would drown in the water from the speed the shark was going at. The shark's fin was the most hardest thing to grip onto. My hands kept slipping off from the water that used to be on it. The shark started to jump up into the air and back into the water in attempts to get me off of it's back. I let out a scream when the shark bucked backwards almost knocking me off. I made a quick glance to look behind me to see sharks all swimming in a perfect circle. Ace grabbed Dove and try to drag through the water but she look petrified. Then a blasting sound of a cannon went off.

A shark was right behind Ruth and it kept chomping at her feet. Each time she barely got out of the sharks grip. "Ruth!" I cracked a Scream. Johan was swimming with his sword in his hand and slowly making his way to Ruth. I turn my head forward and used one hand to hold on to the fin and my other one to try to search through my backpack. I finally was able to grip one of my throwing knives and took it out of my bag. I raised my hand above my head and quickly stabbed the shark several times to make sure it is dead. The water current kept making the shark move in the circle. I looked at the middle of the water cicrle to only realize then it was a whirlpool. Who knows what the game keepers could've added at the bottom of that whirlpool.

Just then I heard the most ear piercing scream. The voice of the scream was Ruth. Their was a pool of blood forming around her. She was still alive but so much blood was coming out of her foot. Wait.. She does not have a foot anymore. "Oh my god" I gasped. Ruth just kept screaming and crying in pain. "Ruth! I'm coming!" I heard Johan yell. With his sword he threw in air killing the shark who trailed behind her. His sword sunk his sword to the bottom of the ocean and Ruth couldn't swim. Johan scooped Ruth up in his arms abandoning his sword. "We need to get out of here!" I heard Johan yell. To our luck the whirlpool stopped and closed back up with water. The so called sharks sunk back deep into the water. When the one I was standing on started to sink I dived back into the water and swam through the calm water.