I am going to die. I accepted the eventuality that soon, very soon, no matter no hard I tried, I would die. I rose up in my plate, completely ignoring my stylist. She would just end up holding me back.

   I gasp at the arena and then calm down. In and out. In and out Hydra. You can do this. I look over at Giovanni and we both point over to the forest. Maybe, just maybe, I could win these things with Giovanni. Maybe I could leave my dad. But I had to win first.

    This lit a fire inside of me and when the gong sounded, I jumped off my plate. I make it to a bow with a quiver of arrows and strap it around my back. I look at all the blood and almost puke. But this is the Hunger Games. I draw my bow and shoot the girl from 2 through her precious eye. I think she is dead and I turn to be face to face with the boy from 2. Out of instinct, I take the arrow that I was planning on shooting and send it through his neck. He makes horrible gurgling sounds and then goes limp. Kill one more person. I tell myself. I HAVE to make it through.

   I get an insane idea and sneak up on the boy from 4. He is busy killing the other boy from my district, not Giovanni. I put the bow around his neck and tighten the string. He grabs his neck frightfully and then he turns blue. He falls to the ground and goes limp. I know he is dead and with that I run off. I grab a backpack along the way and meet up with Giovanni.

   "Hey Hydra. Did you get any supplies?" he asks.

   "Yes. I got a bow and a quiver of arrows, and a backpack which has..." I open the backpack "a packet of throwing knives, a pair of night vision goggles with another pair of lenses, maybe sunglasses, a sleeping bag, a big, airtight, packet of dried meat, and a bottle of water. Plus, I killed both from 2, the boy from 4 and I saw the boy from our district die. What about you?" I ask him.

   "I only killed the girl from 11 and I saw her kill the boy from 12. I got a sword, a mace, a water bottle, some iodine, a sleeping bag and these rolls of bread." He has about 10 rolls. It should be enough to last each of us around 5 days but we still need to find some water. As soon as we make it into the forest, cannons start to fire. Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom, Boom. Six dead. Oddly, all of them are either our kills or people we saw die. The Career pack must not be doing well this year.

    We keep walking for about a mile, the trees getting bigger and closer together. We find a small pond. It is clean and full of freshwater so this is perfect. Luckily, there is a hollow tree nearby that is big enough to fit Giovanni, all of our supplies and I with some room to spare.

   For once in my life, I actually feel... happy. I just have to hope that it won't be taken from me anytime soon.