The starting of scars the hunger games

Chapter 28

Thalia's POV

I descend the hovercraft using the ladder again which freezes my limbs as they lower me. The winds aren't as strong here but there still is a slight breeze. The wind blows weakly through my black hair that falls to my shoulders and I just stare at the sun at the horizon.

When all the tributes finally descend safely we are escorted into a building and down a narrow hallway where we find an elevator. We step into the elevator and the doors close then it darts downwards. When the doors open again they usher us into rooms with our pressure plate launching tube inside.

The room looks dull and still, it's walls are painted white and so is the ceiling, the floor is concrete which you can see small cracks in. In the room lays a clothes rack which has a grey T-shirt, a black fleece and a slim coat that has white, grey and black faded stripes. Also on the rack lays a pair of black track pants with a small and skinny white stripe that leads to the bottom.

On the floor beside the rack are a pair of black winter boots with grey laces. I walk over to the rack and start putting on the clothes.

When I finish putting on all the clothes a robotic fills the room. "30 seconds till launch." It says.

I breathe in and out trying to calm myself but its impossible, I'm going in an arena to fight and I may never come out.

I walk over to the tube, and i feel my eyes start to water. i cant let the tears fall but one manages to slip. It slides down my cheek then falls on my fleece, it landed in a chest pocket. The pocket has a little weight to it so I reach my hand in and grab something out. The leather string, the faded silver heart, the picture inside.

The bracelet Amina gave me the day of the reaping, the heart with the picture inside represents friendship forever.

I give the necklace a squeeze wishing Amina were here right now to help me, but I know that she's not. I'm on my own.

"10 seconds till launch." The robotic voice says.

I drop the necklace back into my pocket and make my way to the tube. I make it there without falling but I still feel a little wobbly. When I regain my balance I place my feet on the pressure plate slowly, the plastic door slides shut, I start to rise from underground.

When it stops rising I know I'm in the arena, at the same time a giant splash of light flicks on my face and I'm blinded for a moment. When I regain my vision, I recognize the landscape that surrounds me. The big mass of greenery, the thick, brown trees, the scent of pine. It's a forest. I put on my brave face and take a deep breath, "It's now or never."

Jason's POV

The scent of pine fills my nostrils as I scan my area, big long trees tower in the sky around me, but about all in front of me is an open area of long stretches of grass. The smoky grey cornucopia lies in the middle of the grassy stretch and supplies are spread out in front for us to grab.

"Ladies and gentlemen! let the 100th hunger games begin!" booms from a direction.

60 seconds, until we are allowed to move from our pressure plate and either dash for the cornucopia it run into hiding and hiding is not an option for me. A soft breeze passes by me but I ignore it and focus on the games.

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1...

I throw myself off my pressure plate and land on the soft grass. My legs start moving before my mind and I find myself sprinting towards the smoky grey cornucopia.

I scan the area around me and see people already with weapons and starting to attack.

I focus on trying to get my supplies then get the hell out. I find a black bag just in reach on the ground and scoop it up as quickly as I can. Weapons go flying past me in almost every direction.

I hear something whistle past my ear and notice a person a few meters away from me with a vest of knives. He holds two knives in his other hand ready to attack if anything happened.

I keep running trying to ignore the person but another knife flies right past my face and I start to scramble for a weapon.

No weapons come in my reach so I find a metal water bottle full of water adding weight to make it heavy, and toss it in his direction.

It spirals in the air until it finds it's target, with the impact it knocks him to the ground with him holding him temple.

I start running again and continue until I make it to the mouth of the cornucopia. The air is thick and the scent of the blood is almost suffocating. I look around hopeful to find something good and just in arms reach I find a machete, I yank it free from the rest of the supplies and turn around and start running away, unfortunately I'm interrupted by an ax barreling towards me. I throw myself to the ground and into a roll, I'm pretty sure I dodged it until a sharp pain erupts from my calf. I look back at my leg and my eyes snap on the ax buried inside my calf. My eyes grow big as I reach for the ax then pull with all my might. An even more painful amount of pain starts coming even harder and I give a small yelp in pain.

I gain the strength to stand up and I notice the person that threw the ax hurtling towards me, I find a good sized knife and throw it at the person with all my strength and with a flick of my wrist. The knife cuts through the air until it finds it's target, it hits the person right in the thigh and I start running away from the scene. As I run I scoop up a few more things that were scattered around the cornucopia, I found a weird looking package, a net and a loaf of bread.

When I make it to the boarder of the forest I turn around and take a few quick glances at the blood bath.

About 6 dead bodies lay limb on the ground of the soft grass. People are still fighting in almost every direction of the field and the odd person would run away from the action.

"You coming?" I hear from behind me. I turn around to see Dawn staring with her hands on her hips. She wears a belt around her hips that holds a sword and she wears a vest of knives.

"How'd you get that?" I ask pointing at the vest, I remembered the tribute I killed wearing one exactly like that.

"Found it from a dead tribute." She says happily.

I notice a small pair of eyes coming from a small bush behind Dawn and Annalee emerges from the shadows of the bush.

"Ok, we're all here." Dawn says.

I nod my head towards the forest,"Lets get out of here" I add before we all start to run into the forest.