Chapter 3

This night I watched Greg's games, the 236th Hunger Games.
I didn't see what I thought I'll see.
He was just 14 years old back then, he got on the arena with his brother's girlfriend. This girl decided to protect Greg all cost. In the final battle she got killed by a District 2 career, then Greg managed to kill the career by making them walk into the force field.
I wonder how Greg's brother felt. He knew that he will lose brother girlfriend or both.

...

After the breakfast, I managed to talk one on one with Daisy.
"What's up?" She asked.
"Why do you want us to have allies? You all know how it is to lose one." I asked.
Daisy smirked and put her hand on my arm.
"No one wants to die alone."
And then she walked away.

...

Daisy's answer annoyed me because it didn't tell me anything. Still, I knew that's all that I am going to get.

We then started training and we looked around the tributes.
The careers were good at every kind of fighting.
I spotted Serena and Isaac from 3 in the survival zone, they were drawing something on the sand. I walked up nearer to see what it was about. Unfortunately, I didn't understand much about it.
"What's that?" I asked.
"Plans." Serena answered.
She was 13 and Isaac was 15.
"To kill?"
"Not directly, we're planning to use the force filed in it." She replied.
"My mentor used the force filed to win, I can find out something about it and help you."
"Alright, that would be fine."

...

As promised, I asked Greg about the force filed. I also managed to get information about it from other games.
"And what did you find out?"
"The touching the force filed will lead to death but it can be broken with enough power."
"That's not a lot but I'm glad you tried." She answered.
"You can our ally."
I looked and Isaac who didn't say a word during this time.
"Oh, he is just shy. He will say something eventually or not."

...

"What weapon did you pick?" Luke asked me.
"A knife. I don't really know how to use anything." I replied.
"I picked a spear."
"And did you make any allies?"
"Daphne and Jose from 12 seem to not want to kill me. What about you?"
"Serena and Isaac from 3."
We never agreed to he allies with eachother so I don't know if I should trust Luke. He wouldn't kill me, would he?

...

The final performance was tomorrow so I decided to watch Anastasia's games.
The 219th Hunger Games were when she was 17. Her District partner tried to kill her after proposing an alliance but a girl from 4 saved her. They then became allies through most of the games. The District 4 girl soon ate poison food on accident. Anastasia then found a boy from District 4 who was really close to his District partner. Anastasia explained to him what happened and they became allies till the boy got killed by other careers.

...

The final performance made me really stressed, I didn't have much skills.
I just threw the knife at the mannequin hoping it will be enough. Soon the scores appeared.

Haven District 1 - 10 points
Gabriel District 1 - 10 points
Regina District 2 - 9 points
Wyatt District 2 - 9 points
Serena District 3 - 7 points
Isaac District 3 - 5 points
Bianca District 4 - 10 points
Sebastian District 4 - 9 points
Nadia District 6 - 6 points
Florence District 9 - 7 points
Luke District 9 - 8 points
Daphne District 12 - 9 points
Jose District 12 - 6 points

"Not bad, you two." Anastasia smiled.
"I'm so proud of you!" Mariana added.
"Thanks." I blushed.
"Get a lot of rest because tomorrow there will be the interview!" Marina told us.
"Remember to show your best side, you're going to need sponsors at the arena." Greg said.
"And listen to all tributes' interviews." Daisy added.

...

Our interview was one of the last ones. The stylist gave me a light green puffy dress.
I watched all the other interviews, not like I had any choice.

First was District 1 interviews.
"Heaven, is Gabriel your brother?"
"Half brother, actually but we did lost our half brotehr in 274th games."
"I see but those game were also won by a District 1 tribute, how do you feel about that?"
"I do think that my brother deserved this place more."
"And tell my why did you volunteered for the games?"
"To do what my brother couldn't, win.
So I was right, they are siblings.

After two, there was three.

"Serena, what are your abilities?"
"I'm smart and I can make any situation my advantage."
"That's great but you are pretty young."
"I don't think that can stop me. In fact I would like to be the youngest victor."

After sometime our turn came.

I walked on the stage and faked a smile, I remember my sister doing it.
"Hello, Florence!"
"Hello."
"Tell me, what are your abilities?"
"Back in District 9, I really liked exercising."
"Did you train for the games?"
"No. I just trained because it was fun."
"I like that. Tell me who did you lost in the games?"
"My sister in 268th games."
"Do you want to tell us about it?"
"She died in the Bloodbath, she was just 13."

After that Luke's turn came.

"Luke, I saw you were doing well with the spear."
"Thank you, my dad thought me."
"Who did you lost in the games?"
"My girlfriend."

The last one was District 12 interview.
"Daphne, we can see that you and Jose are pretty close."
"He is my best friend's brother. I want to protect him." She explained.
"That's very sweet."

...

Getting to know all of these people's stories was interesting. However, I did knew that how they act on stage is different from how they are in reality.

Tomorrow is the day.


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