The 31st Hunger Games

Train Ride

Everything was dark. My face and head hurt. Where the hell am I? I thought. I moved my head side to side, which killed, to try and figure out where I was but I still could't see anything. Are my eyes even open? I thought to myself. 

        "You can't see anything because you haven't opened your eyes yet." A familiar voice said from beside me. Aaaaand I was right. I couldn't remember how to open my eyes for a minute. It didn't help that the familiar stranger beside me also saw me fuck up so I couldn't even remember how to function for a minute. 

Then I remembered. I started to open them but it hurt. They felt glued shut. I was as if someone decided to stitch them closed while I was sleeping. I got the right one open but I still couldn't see much. Everything was blurry and there was barely any light in the room. I tried to sit up. It felt like the floor was tilting hard to the right, and then I felt the soft surface of the bed against my face. I closed my eyes as the room continued to spin.

        "Ahaha, maybe you shoudn't sit up." said the voice from beside me sounding more amused at my fall then she should have. My response was a series of gurgling noises and gibberish. My mouth was so dry I couldn't form any proper words and it didn't help that when I fell over I had fallen face first into the bed.

        "Come here." sighed the voice. I felt someone lean on the bed. I then felt two hands on my shoulders pushing me up so I was leaning against the headboard of the bed. As they pushed me back my head rolled to the side and smashed into the wall. 

        "Guhhhhh" I mumbled in response. 

        "Yeah, yeah," the voice huffed, "Suck it up and drink this." I felt the edge of a glass against my lips and a liquid trying to make it's way into my mouth. I opened my mouth and drank. It tasted sweet and warm. It took me a few seconds to figure out that it was tea I was drinking. Why can't I think straight, I thought to myself. After drinking about half the cup I felt it leave my mouth and the figure sit back. 

        "You know you can open you eyes right?" The voice snickered. I felt my face heat up. Of course I knew that! I screamed inside my head. Well I knew it I just couldn't processes it. I started to open my eyes but it hurt. Eventually after about a minute of slowly trying to open them without damaging my eyes I saw a dark figure sitting in front of me. 

        "Feeling a bit better?" they asked. 

        "Yeah," I managed, "But why can't I see you?" My voice came out rough and talking didn't feel right, but with the state my mind was in I was surprised words came out at all. 

        "Oh... Give me a second." The figure said as they walked towards the other side of the room. What could they be doing? I wondered in my head. The next thing I knew there was a bright flash of light and a searing pain in my eyes. 

        "GUUUUAH" I hissed. I swung my hands to cover my eyes and was met by a horrible stinging pain in my left eye. I gasped loudly and removed my hands from my eyes only to be met with the bright light again. "Ahhh!" I screamed in frustration as I swung to my right and shoved my face into the soft mattress. It hurt to do so but it was better then hitting myself in the face again. Or having to deal to with the light. 

While all of this was going on the person before me was laughing. Laughing was actually an understatement, they were laughing hysterically. They acted as if this was the funniest thing they had ever seen and I started to blush again. Hopefully this is just one of the train attendants laughing at me, no one important. I thought to myself. That was until I remembered all Capitol attendants couldn't speak since they didn't even have tongues. So who the hell was watching me...?

I slowly lifted my face from the mattress. I had to squint due to how much light was coming from the window but I could make out enough of the room. I looked to where the figure was standing. They were still laughing on the other side of the room. It took a moment for my eyes to adjust but once they did I saw that whoever was here with me was dressed in clothes from back home, so I assumed that's where she was from. Once I looked toward their face I saw the features of someone who was from the Capitol. They weren't as distorted as other faces I had seen but they were obviously wearing eye makeup, which no one in District 7 wore, and their cheek bones were unnaturally angular. After that I noticed their whole face and I saw the she was actually a he...

        "You're a man?" I accidentally wondered aloud. After it escaped my mouth I pinched my lips together and my eyes widened. Then my eyes widened even more when I realized who I had insulted. It was the victor of the 26th Hunger Games. 

        "Either you figured out who I am and regret what you've said or you just realized you said that out loud." He said with a smirk. "Or my mind powers are finally starting to work and you just felt like you were punched in the stomach by no one." He said as if he was actually pondering the matter. 

        "Uhhh... The first two..." I replied as I ran a hand through my hair to get it out of my face. As soon as I did though I winced and inhaled a sharp breath. 

        "Yeah I may sound like a girl but you should see your face." He said with a snicker.

        "What do you mean?" I said as looked around for a mirror. I settled for the shiny metallic base of the lamp on the night stand to my right. I looked into the distorted image. Instead of having a right eye and a left eye I had a right eye and a purple mess on the left. I could still open my eye but it was visibly swollen and a large section of it was purple and black.

        "What the hell..." I mumbled under my breath. How did I get this? And who's bed was I in anyways? And house? My bed didn't look like this and my night stand was on the left... 

        "Do you not remember what happened?" He asked with what sounded like genuine concern. He started to walk towards me and sat down on the side of the bed.

        "What do you mean I don't remember what happened? What happened?!" I was almost yelling now and the anxiety was building when I got the sudden flash back. All I could see was my fathers head....

        "Well you put up quite the fight." I gave him a confused look but he didn't seem to notice as he continued, "Yes, yes, it did go against several laws, but who cares! The Games are all about the Capitol audience getting a good kick out of this and what's more exciting than a runner?" He laughed. 

The Games. The Games... It was all coming back now. Having my name called, being dragged to the front and then refusing to go down without a fight. I reached around the back of my head to find where I knew there would be a cut and I was right. There was a long cut at the base of my skull from where I hit the ground when I was tackled. I then moved my hand around to the front of my face and touched my eye very lightly. It stung a little but a smile still spread across my face. I remembered now. I was going to The Games. I was going to raise hell.

        I turned to him and asked "Did people see it?" while still smiling. 

        "What the fight?".

        I gave small nod.

        "Of course they did! You're the talk of the Capitol my friend, although I'm not entirely sure the talk is good..." He said. My smile broadened. I wasn't gonna just give up now. Sure I was going into the Hunger Games but I wasn't going to just submit to it, I was gonna go out with a bang. He caught my smile that I assumed looked almost psychopathic at this point and he grimaced a little bit. He then seemed to sense what I was thinking and let up a little bit and smiled a little as well. 

        "Come on we should get you some breakfast." He said breaking the silence. I agreed and he helped me out of bed. 

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Auther note: Okay sorry its so late i suck guys whoops XD anyways i mean to update it every ten reads but no promises cuz im so fucking busy lol anyways hope you enjoeyd this chapter!!! I wonder who the other tribute will be?!?!?/!