The Capitol Games

Chapter 3~The Fight

The blow was hard, knocking me to the ground with great force. I had been hit in the cheek and it was screaming in pain. Rebecca's foot came down and stomped on me hard in the stomach. The edges of my eyes were blacking out but I refused to give up, refused to let all of Panem laugh at me, watch the grand daughter of President Snow suffer. If I was going down, I was going with a fight. Just as Rebecca's foot was coming down for a second stomp I rolled out of the way and grabbed her toe pulling hard as she went down with a surprised oof. I stood up so fast it made my head spin and kicked Rebecca in the sides hard. She winced in pain and tried to stand up but I threw my whole body weight on her and punched her in the face till her nose started bleeding. Rebecca screamed in rage and flipped me off of her as if I weighed nothing and I went flying off the stage and to the ground. The last thing I saw before I blacked out was Rebecca standing up shakily then fainting. 

I was surprised to see Tessa Graystone when I woke up in a hospital bed. Tessa told me that after both Rebecca and I passed out, Katniss instructed her to send me and Rebecca to the hopsital being she was the only conscious tribute who had already fought. 

"How much did I miss?" I asked urgently, inside I was silently cursing myself for passing out, I could've caught onto all the other tributes techniques. "Did I win?" I asked, the questions bubbled up in me threatening to erupt.

"Woah" Tessa said, "Slow down a bit. You probably missed 2 or 3 fights, the boys are probably starting now. They called your match a tie, no one won". Half of me soared with joy that I didn't lose but the other half wished I won. 

I jerked upwards from my bed ignoring the strong pang in my head, "Let's go! I wanna see the boys fight, it'll be fun".  I dashed out of the place so fast that Tessa had to run to keep up. I swung around the blocks dashing around the huge fancy fence that surrounded the reaping square. I pushed open the gate and jostled past the crowd making my way to the front. Two boys were in a fight and as I got closer I realized it had to be the first match because Brian and Jake were fighting. The brothers wrestled each other to the ground and boy could they take blows. Jake was slugged in the face so many times I couldn't even count them all. In the end Brian won, it seemed that every tribute caught on that the first person to fly off the stage would most likely lose, which crowned the other as victor. In Jake's case he was thrown into the weapon rack. Ouch. 

The boys fights all generally took longer than the girls and they included the wooden weapons a bit more. By the time all the fighting had ended the sky was a variation of pink and orange and the stage lights were on. The crowd was starting to get impatient and cranky from the long hours of watching. "One last announcement! The ranks! Please pay attention!" Katniss yelled to the crowd which worked pretty effectively. I was a bit nervous of what rank I got, all I hoped is that I got into top 10. "RANK 12!" Katniss shouted as there was still a chunk of audience not paying attention, that finally got them focused. "Misty Dawson and Trevor Thompson" Katniss said and Tessa's opponent and a very young boy stepped on stage frowning slightly at their low rank. "Rank 11! Rank 10! Rank 9!" as the ranks were called I was getting more and more surprised, the lower the numbers got, the higher the ranks became and by now I was top 5! "Rank 4! Rank 3!" Katniss called and I was starting to think maybe they forgot my name somewhere in there. "Rank 2, Alice Snow and Jake Anderson" and then there it was, my evidence I was dreaming.