Break The Rules But Be Smart About It: The Second Quarter quell

chapter seven

8:30, I think.

Light to dark and then back to light in seconds. The annoying voice of Ceaser Flickermen echos in the distance as the whole arena beams with the dawn, and a fresh breeze of cold air flashes against my face. The traditional hunger games countdown begins, clouting down from sixty.

60

As the lady in a capitol accent goes from sixty down, my eyes wander to the layout we tributes are in nothing like I have seen before. Side by side, I am next to Fauna and Mathis Zavien from district four. I don't know Mathis well, but he can be a potential threat. he is tall of stature and 5x taller than fauna; he will have no problem sticking an ax against her tiny body. Fauna scared half to death. She is shivering as almost as fast as my hand does. I Turn my body as the bright sunbeams on my face... the Arena is beautiful... heavily Arena the sun positioned at the right angle, flowers everywhere. Still, I can see the evil in this bloody place already.

50

I can smell it. Taking a breath and organizing my thoughts for the next couple of seconds, I have most likely survived or living, and I come to realize there are four different rows of tributes circling the gold cornucopia. Roughly around sixteen each if they were divided evenly.

40

I turn my back to The outer row, where I see Maysilee and Ajax lined across one another. Maysilee in front of Ajax and us in the end. The outer collum is a dirt ground with mud and rocks... about 3 miles in the distance. The capital gifted them success. The second row is oil, black dark hot oil moat. Bubbles are puffing out of it... perhaps boiling oil. They will most likely have to swim their way to the cornucopia and figure out a way back.

30

The tributes have to swim to get to the cornucopia. I cannot tell what the capital has sent ahead of me... all I see is flowers and fresh green grass... the capitol will be granting us success, but they can't do that... they are forcing us to have me killed or anyone for the matter. We can see each other, but there is a clear forcefield dividing us all, I'm guessing, so nobody dies before we reach the cornucopia.

20

The capitol lady says, "20 seconds," I recognize it. the capitol lady talking is Evian, she has a very settle clean voice, but I couldn't imagine her doing it... by all means, we are the worst district among the capitol.. only one person has won, and we are sentenced to death if we dare even to

Say her name. Evian counts down slowly... her face flashes onto the sky, but I can barely keep my eyes on it.

10

I am so fixtured on what I do... do I reach straight for a knife and kill the first person I see?. I get my last glimpse at the glistening cornucopia, and the lights flash off. We are in pitch darkness, and the temperature drops incredibly. My skin becomes dehydrated because of the climate. I am not used to this moreover my body. My skin crinkles up in a matter of a second.

5

"five, four, three, two, one." I run in the direction I can only think of. Straight towards the cornucopia, I blast, slamming myself against a clear forcefield that seems to be right in front of me. I turn my body and head towards a left direction, but I attack my body again and again, but then I realize.. they are dividing us in a specific way.... in the mind of the capital, what would they do—a transparent dividend maze. I press my hands out, running a touching the translucent maze, hopefully getting some feel for the way I should be going... roughly 10 minutes pass of running and feeling the transparent walls. I turn to my right and find Fauna is confused. I yell out her name, but the capital is not that dumb to let us talk to one another. I run and make out the walls and continue to and run in the process. The cornucopia is raised almost firth teen feet of the ground. I latch-up, gripping my fingers onto the rock. Pushing my body upwards.