The 80th Hunger Games: A Time for Revenge

Day Two

Chapter Nine:

We wake up to the sound of a high-pitched scream directly above us. I see that Constance of Ten has Sophia of Eleven pinned against a tree with a dagger to her throat.

She slits the little girl's neck. BANG! Her cannon sounds as soon as Constance releases her. She runs off while the helicopter takes Sophia's body away. One more dead.

Apparently it had rained last night while I was sleeping. We were dry, but the dirt packed around us had turned muddy.

That gave me an idea. "Since the dirt wall is all muddy, I can stick my trident into it to use as a foothold for us to climb out."

The trident slides in easily, and it works for Rosie and Jack as they escape. I take it out, give it to Rosie. I know she won't leave me in here or kill me since we've been friends all through Career Training. I'm friends with almost my entire alliance, excluding Tonya and Edison, who I just met a few days ago; I would kill them in a second if I had to.

Jack pulls me out, and we set off for our camp at the Cornucopia. The walk doesn't take very long.

"Why were you gone so long?" Parker asks. "We kept waiting for you to come back, but eventually went to sleep because it was too dark to venture out."

"And what happened to Hunter?" adds Stingra.

"We found the source of the screaming when we got to the rocky area. Rayvenn was stabbing Victoria in a huge pit with dirt walls. I killed Rayvenn, but then Jack realized that Hunter was the only one who could get out of the ditch. So he did, and he was going to come back to the camp to get rope, but he was killed before he could even get to you guys. Since it was getting dark, we decided to spend the night in the pit. So when we woke up, we realized that it had rained last night, and I slid my trident into the wall, which we used as a foothold to climb out," I explain to Parker, Stingra, Tonya, and Edison.

"I was really worried that the cannon that just went off was for one of you," says Parker.

"That was for Sophia from Eleven, Constance of Ten slit her throat right above us," explains Rosie.

"So can we eat now?" asks Jack.

"Yeah," says Stingra, "take anything from the food pile, just not a lot, and you can have as much water as you can drink; there's a spring close by that hasn't been poisoned."

"While you were gone, we figured out that the area has four sections: A bog, a forest, the rocky area, and a meadow," says Edison, "we think that Chuck, Sam, and Prim retreated to the forest, Cyrus went to the bog, and Maya to the meadow."

"And we were thinking about going to the bog later today," adds Tonya. "Edison and I already went there and found that the water's poisonous. Edison dipped his darts in it."

I think about the proposal, then reply, "I think we should wait until tomorrow morning to go to the bog, when everyone else is sleeping. Today, someone should go to the spring to collect more water in case of an emergency. Also, I'm pretty sure Constance ran to the bog after killing Sophia."

"Tonya and I can go get the water," says Stingra, "the rest of you should stay here until we come back."

"Fine," agrees Rosie.

Stingra gets her sword, Tonya grabs a knife, and they leave. While the Careers and I are sitting around waiting for Tonya and Stingra to get back, another cannon booms. BANG! They'd probably killed someone that was also getting water. Not long after we hear the cannon, Stingra comes running back with some filled water bottles and her sword.

"We got water, but after we'd filled the bottles, a ginormous squid-mutt appeared in the water and killed Tonya!" she exclaims.

Oh well. I didn't know her enough to care about her death, it was just another step closer to my victory. Now we don't have anything to do except wait for tributes to come to us, but I think our performances in the Training Center were enough to scare everyone away, sadly. In the meantime, I decide to set up a sleeping bag inside of the Cornucopia.

Without Hunter and Tonya, there are enough sleeping bags for everyone to be able to have one if one person is on watch at all time. Since there were only four people sleeping at the camp last night, the bags are spread out away from each other, but adding more people means that they'll have to be closer to each other.

Today was boring. First, I was trapped in a hole, then I escaped, then another member of my alliance was killed, and then literally nothing else happened. It's getting dark, so the Careers and I decide to take approximately hour-long shifts at night. But before we sleep, the faces of the fallen come on. While the Capitol's anthem is playing, I see only Tonya and Sophia.

Clearly it has been an uneventful day.
The Gamemakers will have to think of something to kill off more tributes.

I take first watch while the rest of my alliance crawls into their sleeping bags in the Cornucopia. It's very eerie; there isn't even the rustling of little woodland creatures nearby. My hour goes by pretty fast, and after it's over, I wake up Parker and switch sleeping bags with him. It seems strange to me that I could go to sleep faster here than I could at home.