The Maze Games

8 - The Maze

I slowly stand up and turn around slowly in circles, observing my surrounding. Green vines decorate the grey walls, that stretch miles and miles ahead and when I look up, I see no end of the walls. The walls are arranged strangely, all in different directions and sort of form passages for people to walk, like a maze.

Wait...

Will the Gamemakers really build a freaking maze for the Games? 

They will.

I am going to take my first step to explore when I hear the screams and multiple cannon sounds. I stop dead in my tracks and listen to the agonized scream. It is from the corner of the wall beside me and before I can turn or run away or make up a plan, a girl comes out from the wall and runs towards me. I step back on instinct but the girl keeps advancing. Blood is dripping out and soaking her shirt from the huge gash on her neck. 

"...go..." Her lips move and she pushes the word out her mouth with all her strength. That is the last thing I hear her say before a knife flies towards my direction and the girl in front of me collapses, letting me see the knife lodged in her back. A cannon sounds when she stops moving.

I look up just in time to see another knife flying towards me. I bend down and the knife wizz past me by millimeters and goes right into the wall. Without wasting time I pull the knife off the dead girl's body and run as fast as I can in the opposite direction. I turn into a corridor and continue running until I see the Cornucopia in front. There is a bloodbath going on there, around 5 tributes are around there, not counting the dead bodies on the ground, killing and fighting each other. 

I hide behind a bunch of vines and scan the Cornucopia, where all the supplies and weapons are. Not many things are left, but I spot a set of bow and arrows and a backpack. I take a deep breath and make a dash towards the bloodbath. I reach the backpack first and grab the handle and sling it across my shoulder, I make the move to grab the bow and arrows next but a male tribute stop me from reaching the weapon by throwing an axe at me. He then charges towards me and I throw the bloody knife I pulled out from the girl at him. It hits his chest, right on the spot where his heart is. He looks at me with disbelief and collapses a second later. There, my first victim. And I don't even know his name or which district he is from.

I grab the bow and arrows before any other tribute notice me and flee from the Cornucopia. I run until my lungs are burning and I start to feel dizzy only I stop. This place is really a maze, like literally a maze. I hide behind a wall and sit down, catching my breath and use this opportunity to assemble my things. I open the backpack and take the things out of it one by one. The first is a torch light the size of my middle finger, a bottle full of water, a huge pack of dried fruit, a plastic sheet and a pocket knife. And my bow and arrow. 

I lean my head against the wall and sigh. I put everything back into the backpack and put it on, and inspect my new weapon. It is a fancy one, with silver paint and intricate patterns carved on the body. The string is stiff and I need to pull really hard in order to shoot an arrow.