I wake up. I look around me. I see a fire coming up from the trees. I can hear footsteps in the mud, and a scream from a girl. Another bang.
The Careers come back, and wait for the rope to snap.
I look down, and see the girl from district 2, Tasha. She has the bow, arrows, and dagger. I sigh. Aven is the Careers leader. He created them. He is still awake. "I am going to kill you, you know" he whispers.
"It is going to be a long ride for you, then" I whisper back. He gets suprised because he didn't know I was still awake. I start to loosen the rope. He got up, and grabbed a spear. After about an hour of waiting, he finally falls asleep. But I don't.
I look over at one of the other trees. A girl is in one. She puts her finger to her mouth. I nodd, and she points on top of me. A tracker-jacker nest. They sting you and are able to track you with the sting, like a Frilled-Neck lizard tracks it's prey. It can also cause hullucinations, and sometimes worse. Death.
I look back at her, and give her a thumbs up. I climb up, out if my ropes, and place the rain jacket carefully on the branch. I stand up, and start climbing. I pull a dagger out of my pocket. I get up to the branch with the nest. I start cutting. One wakes up, and bites me. "OW!" I flinch, and I loose my step. I fall about eight feet. I land on the branch, and scrap one of my legs really badly. I pull up the part that covers my legs. I cut both of the leg-sleeves off, so I have short pants, that go from my butt, to 16 centimetres down.
I remember something. My pin. I pull it out. I take it off, and put the little peice in my mouth. I grab the peice with the sharp end, and climb up, and stab it into the tracker-jacker nest stalk. I start pushing it around, and it looks about to fall. I put the pin in my mouth, and pull the nest off. I throw it at the Careers. Eveyone wakes up. They all start screaming, and running around. Tasha gets stung, and falls to the ground. Everyone else runs off, and she is there dying. A great team, I know.
I jump out of the tree, with all of my stuff, and try to grab the bow. I look at her, and her whole body is dissolving. It is probably a hallucination, and it is not real, but it is scaring the crap out of me. I close my eyes, and try to pull the bow from her shoulder. I finally do, but she grabs it, and says "waatch out" what does that mean? She lets go, and stops breathing.
Today I need to find a teammate. At 10:15 tonight, Diamond will be released. At 1 in the morning, I look up in the sky, and see all of the tributes dead including the anthem of the Capitol. Another bang goes off for Tasha. 5 more bangs go off. I breath really heavily. All of Berk, and the other Islands are watching me. I steady my breathing. I take out the pins, and murmer "sorry, Hiccup" I put the pin back on. I look at my scrape. I didn't notice it for a while, but it has been running down my leg, and into my shoes. No longer want those shoes.
I go to a stream that I saw in the tree. I take my clothes off hoping no one will look. I bathe, and the stream fills with blood.
I hear a crack coming. I look around to see Aven. He has a spear. I stand up, naked. I feel embarrassed. He jumped back. Then ran. I grabbed my clothes and jumped out of the pond. I ran far, trying to get my clothes on. Ifinally succeeded, but fell over. I had a few cuts on my face. I grabbed my bow ofmy shoulder and shot an arrow at the running Aven. He jumps out of the way, and runs faster. I shoot another arrow, then switch to my dagger. I throw my bow under his legs then slide under too. I grab the bow and put it behind me. I run at Aven, looking like a vicious killer. I stab his chest, but he stays up. He pulls something off his shoulder. The medicine bag. He got it. He heals himself.
I run next to him, and run away. I think I lost him. I pant. "Good that is over". I look at my leg. It stopped bleeding. I gasp. Then I sigh.
"Pssst!" I hear a whisper. I look around. "Pssst! In the tree" I look at a tree, and the little girl is up there. I climb up, and sit next to her.
"My name's Reece"
"My names Rue. I saw you score"
Flashback
Me, Raven, Nina, Porcha, Valka, Dylan, and a few peacekeepers were sitting on the couch looking at the score everyone got for showing off in front of the gamemaker.
"District 1: 5 7
District 2: 6 4
District 3: 2 2" and so on, but when it came to us, we were shocked.
"District 12: 8" everyone was cheering. For Raven" and, um, excuse me, 11" my mouth drops open. I gasp. Everyone is silent. They all stare at me.
"Reece" Valka says "you just got an 11. It only goes up to 12" I stay silent.
End of Flashback
"Yeah, bad score, I know" I say.
"I got a 10" answers Rue.
"You are pretty good, for what? 12"
"13"
"Wow"
"How old are you?"
"16" Rue stops talking. "So, team up?" I ask. She nodds. I tie the rope around both of us, and give her the jacket. I hear 5 more bangs. 7 people died.
Tonight couod be the one night I have a good time in the arena.
