Fighting For Freedom

Fighting For A GoodBye To The Arena

I'm running, and running. My heart is pounding in my chest. I can hardly breath.

Multi-coloured fire works shoot into the sky.
" MIDNIGHT!" I reach out for Dustin's hand. But my tube comes down. It picks me up.
" NOOO!" I'm yelling and hitting my tube. " IT CANT END THIS WAY!" I look up and a pink gas comes from the celling.
" FROM THE KNOCKOUT BERRIES!" No. This can't be happening. Then it's black.

I find myself in a room. With a make up table and a shower. I'm lying on a bed. Two girls walked in.
" Names?" I ask.
" Violet." Replies one.
" Hannah." Replies the next. Hannah has blond hair with black streaks in it. She has blue eyes and a style for least amount of clothing. Violet has violet hair and brown eyes. And her sense for style is spikes. They throw me in the shower and give me soap. Soap is very expensive in City 5. After my shower, the two girls get me in a short dress, just until a guy named 'Zandora' arrives.
After an hour in the dress, Zandora arrives. One of his ears have piercings all of the way up, but except of that he's pretty normal. Just a bit of make up here and there.
He walk around and looks at me. I feel only the slightest uncomfortable around him. With Ava we don't have a problem with it. It's only us anyway. I remember I just came from an arena. I look at me cuts and scars. Hardly visible.
" Do you like orange,yellow, and.., let's just say sunset?" He asks.
" Yes!" I say. I haven't spoken much.
" What about Natural colour?"
" Anything will do!" I say a bit to exited.
" Can you swim?"
" Pretty fast!"
" That's all I need to know. Goodbye!" And he walks out.
The two girls walk in. They give me what I wore in the arena, but with a bow and arrow on the back.
" Does everyone have there weapon on there top?" I ask.
" Yes." Replies Violet.
" Keep still!" Says Hannah.
They show me the changing rooms and I get changed alone. The top and pants have all of the cuts and scratches and blood still on it. I don't mind. I'm just happy I'm alive.
I get into my uniform and the girls escort me out. They lead me to the one person I've been waiting to see.
I run towards her. Her arms stretched out like mine. I'm running so fast I nearly knock her over. Tears roll down my eyes.
" Ava!" I say. I pick her up and swing her around. This is one of the happiest day of my life. Then I have to go. It's all over so fast. Ava leaves. Screaming and crying for me. I reach for her, but I'm then escorted with the others. I run into Dustin first. I give him a big hug.
" It's not over yet!" He whispers in my ear. " They don't like big alliances." He's talking about the government. They only like one to two people alive. Then we walk in silence. I see Coby. He's got a sword on his back. I only just realised Dustin had many weapons on his. Meg would of has the same. I look for then last contestant. And there she is. Half dead.
" Lucy! Oh God!" I say. She looks healthy enough. No one else talks. Is there a reason?
Then we are each lead into different rooms.
I see mine has a blue dress with fishes and things.
" The government wants to ask you about the experience." It's Zandora. He hands me the dress and I get changed. Again. It fits perfectly. I don't want to ask any questions.
" Just be yourself!" He says and leaves.
It's time for the interview.