Cirrianetta: The 56th Hunger Games

Chapter 10: A Change in the Lineup

Later that night i see that the cannon i heard was for Mastiff. good another strong competitor gone. then they show Savv and i smile slighty to myself.  there are still 12 of us left. at this rate i'll be out of here in a few days. Savv is the only typical career dead. that part is scary. a day goes by where i daydream hunt gather and nap. its a relaxing day and  i sleep well with Menina taking watch, though we probably have nothing to worry about. no one had been killed today and something big would probably happen soon, that is whenever the Capitol audience starts to get bored with it.

when i wake up we decide to eat a heavy breakfast. we've collected too much food, and if we dont finish off some of this meat it will start to go bad. we are all thoroughly filled when we finish. i get bored so i start cartwheeling. they all laugh so i do a front flip and some other stuff before the pine needles get stuck in my hands and i sit down so i can try to pick them out.

a cannon sounds around mid afternoon and is followed by some blood curtling screams. it sounds to be on the other side of the arena so i think we're fine. i'll find out later who it was, but for now we divide up our supplies again. by nightfall the anthem plays and a face lights up the sky. Bria from district 12 is the one who died today. i offer to take watch hoping that i can assess the last 11 tributes.

everyone  goes to sleep and i settle down on the tree stump. okay other than me there are still 10 tributes left. theres Menina and Princeton from one. Me from 2. Catillia and Milan from 3. Kyleea and Axl from District 4, and then theres Adlam from 5, Osephanie from 6,Adella from 8, and Lendsi from District 10. Princeton milan and Axl are surely after me. Lensi and Adella i havent seen since i slashed Lendsi's chest. they most likely wont come back around soon. the other 2, Adlam and Osephanie i'm not afraid of because their training scores weren't very good, and i dont think either one has made a kill yet. i wonder where Princeton and the guys are? i hope its somewhere far away from me. theres no trace of any one around here so i guess i shouldnt worry that much. i debate whether i should take a nap.but i soon decide against it just in case. i have a spear ready just to protect myself if anyone comes by in the night. alot of people use that as a strategy. hunt at night while other people sleep. but then again those people are usually low on sleep themselves.

i think about waking up Menina so i can sleep, but they all look so peaceful and i think they really need the sleep more than i do. eventually the sun rises and i wake up the girls. i pass the water around and hand everyone some rabbit, and a couple of peices af beef jerky. we hear a cannon in the late morning while i'm trying to braid Menina's hair. i hear a moan scream type noise coming from my right. we arm ourselves and take light careful steps in the direction of the attack and hope that the murderer doesn't come this way.  i hear a footstep that sounds close but behind the sound of my heart pounding out of my chest, i cant tell where its coming from, but i can definatley hear something snap a twig under its foot. we're still looking in the direction where the kill took place and i can't even make out a scream before he grabs me.

a hand covers my mouth, muffling my scream so well its almost painful. i can finally open my eyes and make out the face of the person hovering over me. oh no. its Princeton. his force is so strong i cant get up and he picks me up and throws me over his shoulder and whacks my forehead with a rock. i can barley move past the pain corsing through my veins. my vision is blurry but i can feel him running away and the girls are no where to be found.

great. its only day 6. i guess day 6 is either the day i die... or the day Princeton dies. although the odds are not in my favor today telling from how much pain i'm in right now. after a while of flopping around on Princeton's back i can feel them stop. too add to my pain i can feel him throw me to the ground. i open my eyes and see him grining at me with an evil look.

"you should have listened to me, sexy. i told you you'd end up with me whether you like it  or not." he's laughing at my pain. i guess this is what the games feel like for most people. the pain gets to be too much and i black out. the last thing i hear is the 3 guys laughing at me. i have multiple nightmares before i come to.  when i wake up i find that i'm tied up and leaning against a tree. they doesnt notice that i'm concious again so i close my eyes and listen to their conversation.

"why don't you just kill her. she's a waste of food and water to just carry around." Axl whispers. cool they dont want to kill me yet.

"no. i need to make as big of a gruesome painful show out of her as i can. i know how much it'll destroy her little lover boy, Sage." Princeton says. my heart sinks. what does he possibly have against Sage?

"what is it with you and that guy?" i hear Milan say. i hear Princeton take a deep breath and continues in a hushed tone.

"lets just say we've met and it wasn't the best experience for him." he says. " it was a couple of years ago at that convention for young people interested in animal studies. i met him there. annoying kid. all he talked about was some short little blonde girl named Cirri. he was in love and i just laughed at him. i know the kids probably dying right now, and if he has to watch me torture his girlfriend i'll totally put him out of his mind and he'll lose his sanity." they all just laugh. what is that supposed to mean! is really just going to torture me just over a petty grudge he held from years ago. if i could move my arms i would pull my hair in front of my face. but instead i silently say i'm sorry to Sage that he's going to have to watch this.

"hey i think shes waking up." Axl says before i feel someone kick me in the stomach. ow that really hurt.

"what the hell was that for!" Princeton brushes off the tip of his boot and smirks. "you a-" before i can finish hes all over trying to kiss me. my hands are tied so i can't get him off of me. but i keep trying to turn my face away to no avail. this is just like training. but worse. i can't defend myself, and now he could kill me off at any second.  i glare at him and he smiles again. he hits me in the back of the head with the back end of his spear. and i black out again. this happens on and off all day. i wake up. he assaults me. he hits me with something and i black out again. but at night when Axl snd Milan go to sleep its worse than ever, and never seems to stop. i'm sprawled out on the ground with Princeton on top of me. i keep trying to scream for help but he always muffles it with either his fist or his lips. this has absolutley been the worst day ever. i think about my family watching this back home. i can even see Blare flinching at it, even though shes not too happy about me and Sage.  i may be in alot of pain but Sage is probably wallowing in emotional pain.

at some point while trying to pull my shirt down he finds my locket. oh no not my locket! my heart starts pounding again as he opens it. he pulls out the picture of Sage and rips it up into tiny pictures and laughs. he ripsup the other pictures too. but when he finds the note hes rolling around, laughing hysterically as i glare at him. he throws it in the fire and a tear rolls down my face. "wow, sexy, thats pathetic." he says through his laughing fit. he tosses the locket deep into the pond nearby. i sigh as he starts to kiss me again. you, know back home i could go to the justice building and get a restraining order or maybe even get him turned into an avox if things got too graphic. maybe if things get too innapropriate here then they'll turn the cameras away, thus sparing Sage.  but things never end and hes pretty much worn out my body by sunrise and i fall asleep again.