Female District 4
Ashton Thomas
Partner: alive

Play Nice

I saw the metal poker coming at me, but couldn't react fast enough. Before I knew it there was this terrible burning pain at my neck. I cried out some not very ladylike words and tried to grab the freaking poker to do god knows what to it, but the damn glass chose that second to close around me.
In my anger burst I tried to smash the glass in while growling in frustration but offcourse the glass didn't burst a crack. I could hear a buzz and felt the metal plate tremble before it carried me up. Momentarily forgetting the poker and the burn on my neck I was focusing on the task ahead of me. This was it. This was what all my training had been for, for the Hunger Games.

I knew I would only have a few seconds to orientate myself when I was up and before we were aloud to move. Most of the tributes were probably still thinking about if they should go for the cornucopia or not, but not me.
I was clearly a carreer with my buff trained body, and well fed curves. I could break any skinny poor district girl over my knee, not that anyone else, anyone less trained couldn't do that. I mean have you seen those girls on t.v.? They should get some freaking food into themselves if they want to stand any chance in the games. But what did I care? They are just small, or rather thin, obstacles between me and the real challenge, the other carreers. I mean offcourse we would first team up and work together to rid us of the other competers but at the end we would go against each other. The ones who had trained for this they're entire lives.
I slip my brown hair in a pony tail with the elastic band I always kept on my wrist and try to imagine the cornucopia with my weapon inside it. I knew I could fight with pretty much anything due to my training but I also knew I was at my deadliest with my killing weapon. The weapon that would make me unstoppable and there for I had to get it. If I had my trident I would win these games for sure. It would be as easy as breaking the neck of one of those poor district girls. So I needed to get to the cornucopia fast and shake of any attacks that may come in my way.

I felt the breeze catch my hair and the blindingly sharp light reach my eyes before the metal plate beneath me came to a abrupt stop. I squinted my eyes and held my hand up to try to block the sun. An all to familiar voice screeched threw the arena announcing the start of the hunger games. I let my eyes adjust while trying to look ahead already seeing the outlines of the cornucopia not so far ahead of me. I could see lots of green so knew we were in some kind of forest. And saw a smal lake at the edge of the clearing. We were all standing in a circle around the cornucopia that I could see clearly now. It was about half a mile away, I could get to it fast enough.
I remembered my burn then and tried to look at it but the damn thing was at a blind angle so I couldn't see it. Well if it was important some of the carreers would say something. I could here some of the others moaning in pain and concluded that they got burned as well. I briefly wondered what that was all about when the freaking blind idiot who was only two plates on the left of me was screaming out in pain and had falling on his knees. Unfortunately he had stayed on his metal plate, I would've loved to see some flesh spraying around, especially his. I tossed all these thoughts to the back of my mind focusing on my sprint to the cornucopia.

As Claudius Templesmiths voice stopped there was complete silence in the field we were all standing in, well except for freaking blind boy. I could see Thane standing some what across of me and couldn't help but smile, God that boy looked like a beast with his bronze buff body and golden short hair. I love the fact that he was buffer then me cause that was really hard to find. Most boys ran screaming when ever I tried to make a pass on them. But not Thane, he just laughed his big white smile and flexed his arm muscles for me.
The bong rang and I wasn't prepared to run. Distracted by Thane's killer muscles which I could still feel on top of me. It didn't matter much though I was a fast sprinter and probably would be one of the first at the cornucopia anyway.

I ran to the middle of the field as fast as I could but saw that the girl from district 5 would get there faster then me. It didn't matter though, she would get something and run if she liked her life enough to keep it.
As she reached the cornucopia I saw a confused look on her face as she stared at the cornucopia for a second then shook her head and ran away with a backpack and a flask. I wondered how much of a fool she was for not taking a weapon. But maybe her game plan was to survive rather then kill. I reached the cornucopia just when she left, I tried to crab her but my fingers only caught air.
I saw that Helene was nearly at me and though I knew we were both in the pack the look on her face told me she wouldn't come here in peace. So I stuck my hand in the cornucopia planning to smash any object my fingers could grab against her. It worked, I got a sleeping bag and hit her right in the side. She rolled to the ground hitting her head against the edge of the cornucopia making a noise no head should make. She laid there still probably unconscious. And I saw that Erix was not far behind me and though I knew he would be part of the carreer pack I still grabbed for something else hoping for a weapon this time. I knew that the other carreers would be pissed if I killed Erix now but couldn't help it. It just wasn't right that we were letting him and miss sponsorship into the carreer pack I mean they weren't even from the right district! Erix was annoying anyway with his quiet, sarcastic, mysterious and okay sexy (if you like the slim muscular type) ways and besides he was a sexist. Though I was bigger and buffer then him he still treated me like any other girl, like I was below him.
My hand was already moving towards him with whatever was in my hand but I only realized what it was when I pointed it at him and saw it was a cereal bar.

'What your going to kill me with a cereal bar?' He asked with a smurk on his face raising one eyebrow.

'Well she did nearly kill someone with a sleeping bag so I wouldn't put it pass her' Daemyen said with his arms crossed smiling his signature crooked smile while standing at the side line clearly holding no interest in the cornucopia and just looking how it will all play out.

Erix just smiled shrugging his shoulders while flipping his shoulder lenght blonde hair back 'Move woman' He firmly pushes me aside and in my confused state I fall over.

Confusion was taken over my irritation and anger soon though. Not even for the cerealbar thing but that he still called me woman after I said to him, quit a few times, to call me by my name.
I let out a scream and flung my whole body into him, we stumbled to the ground wrestling each other for a minute when we are both grabbed and pulled away from each other. I was still screaming when Thane held me to his body which calmed me down a bit.

'My name is Ashton!' I yell at him

'Calm down babe' Thane whispers in my ear. I shake him of and start to walk back to the cornucopia.

'Okay so since we're the only ones left and we are going to be a team why not let every one pick their own favorite weapon and arrange all the food and other stuff' Caine says while walking to the cornucopia as well.

I like Caine he's always nice and caring making calm in the chaos. Even by just looking at him you can see he's a good person. With his short gingerhair that he always combes down the side, his freckles that only seem to be by his nose and his round face that seems totally out of place in these games. I wonder how he came to be a carreer since he doesn't look the part. But if you see him handling a knife or bow and arrow or just about anything you can clearly see his skilled. Makes me wonder if he could kill someone.

Everybody slowly reaches the cornucopia even Daemyen who seemed to have no interest in it before. Caine kneels down by Helene gentle brushing her dark brown hair out of her face.
'I think she will be okay. She can probably hear us and will come by any sec. now. Why did you lash out like that Ash? We're all in the pack remeber a truce untill decided other wise' He slowly looks up at me clearly acusation in his face.

I let out a heavy sigh planning to ignore it and walk to the cornucopia but half way deciding otherwise. Feeling the need to defend my actions.
'Come on! She was clearly planning on attacking me. I had to stop her some how. Isn't my fault that she bumped her head'

'I wasn't freaking attacking you I was trying to get to the other girl. The one who got there before you'
Helene grumbles slowly getting up on her arms and shuffing Caine away. She tried to get up but stumbled a little, leaning against the cornucopia she made her way to the opening and started getting stuff out. We all went to examine the stuff she was getting out and I noticed straight away that there weren't any weapons. But it wasn't until Helene stopped getting stuff out that I realized that there were no weapons in the cornucopia. We were all queit for a few seconds when Willow, offcourse, broke the silence.

'But where are all the weapons?' She asked in her high pitched voice walking to the midlle of our unconciously made circle so she was in the center.

'Well, obviously they're not in here' Ruby says clearly annoyed.

I don't understand why she had to be a total bitch all the time. I mean okay so Willow's anoying we all find that but we're not all that obvious about it... well most of us. But she's got allot of sponsors so she may be of some use and besides best to keep as many people as close as you can, that way you don't have to look for them when your going to kill them.

'But that doesn't make any sense. Why would they give us no weapons? I mean isn't the point of the games to kill each other?... No! You don't think that they want us to do it with out bare hands do you?' Willow,again, asks in disbelieve turning to Daemyen en Erix who are just standing at the sideline looking as everyone is trying to figure this out. I don't understand why she is so infatuated with them. I mean yeah okay there hot but still their so... full of themselves.

'Well maybe that girl who got there first took them?' Thane asks already looking in the direction Siera took of in ready to run after her and strip her from everything she got away with.

'No she only got away with a backpack and a flask, I saw it myself' I say trying to figure this all out. Which is pretty hard since the freaking blind boy is now crawling over the whole field while screaming something about pain.

'Wait what's this?' Helene says while she bends over in the cornucopia making most of her upper body disappear. I can see that nearly all the guys are looking at her but well except for Caine and the blind guy. But I just sigh even if I want to give Thane a big smack which will make him think twice about checking out another girl and walk over to her trying to see whats she's looking at.

'Hmm it looks like a cake. But what are all those numbers for?' Helene says out loud as clearly everyone is curious as to what we're seeing.

'I think it's a map..-'

'-AAAAAAAH the burn! it hurts!' The blindboy rudely interupts me and though he's been screaming that the whole time it's only now that it clicks.

'We've all got numbers.' I stumble 'We've all got burned with a number' I say a bit louder now while retreating from the cornucopia so other people can have a look as Caine was trying to get passed me the whole time.

It's queit for a moment as everyone is trying to figure out what exacly is happening. First the burns, the weapons missing and now this strange map.

'There's something written above it' Caine says as he get's his head out making place for Ruby to see, who's touching the burn on her neck lightly 'It says Play nice'

'Well what does that mean? Or better yet what does it all mean' Willow says clearly not liking all this mystery.

'It seems as if the capitol has put the games up a notch' Daemyen says minging himself in the conversation for the first time. He takes a step forward cause the blind boy is slowly crawling towards him leaving a trail of snot and drewl as he whimpers and screams about how this is all so unfair and disabled people shoud be excludate from the games. I can only think about how I wish someone would shut him up and what a disgrace he is to his family.

'I think it's pretty obvious' Caine says 'We've al got a number, there numbers on the map...'

'But there 24 of us and only 12 numbers on the map so that doesn't ad up' Helene whispers to herself

'Well only one way to find out' Ruby says while looking threw a backpack and throwing some food, water and a compas in it 'I'm going to my number so I'll catch up with you guys later so I can tell you what I've discovered' She was already making her way towards the edge of the clearing when Caine suddenly went after her.

'Hey, wait up. I'll go with you. There's no need for a lady to go into these dangerous forest by herself.' He says with a smile already reaching her.

'But you guys, we're the carreerpack. We're supose to stick together! What about the alliance?' Ruby screams after them but their already gone and nobody else feels a need to stop them. They weren't that important anyway.

'So now what? We just wait?' Helene asks arranging the stuff we still got

'Actually I think their on the right track. Their just missing a piece' Daemyen says while looking to his homeboy Erix.

'Yeah Helene you said it yourself the numbers just don't add up. Cause there two people with the same number.' Erix explains pointing at Daemyens neck and then to his own. And as I looked I saw that they both had the number 11 burned into the sides of their neck and I couldn't help but think how unlucky they gotten by having a double digit number.

Erix turns around to look at Daemyen before saying 'And dude, don't cal me a piece'

'Sorry man, nothing personal' He says while smiling his crooked grin

'Okay, hate to break the bonding here but what do we do now?' Helene asks looking at the two with a raised eyebrows

'Well babe, we do what they are doing. We go to number 11 and see what's this is all about' Erix says while throwing some of th stuff into a backpack. 'Well don't just stand there. Take what you can carry and let's go. Just leave anything that's not usefull or you can't carry'

I walked to the pile where everything was and picked the last backpack filling it with more food and water purifieers. I looked at the sleepingbag but didn't want to carry anything more so left it.

We were all just leaving the clearing when Erix said to wait for Daemyen we looked around to see what was taking him so long.
He was just standing there frozen agitation lighten in every feature as his fist clenched and unclenched at his side.
The blind boy had both arms reached up to Daemyen pleading him to take him with us to not leave him alone.
When Daemyen suddenly reached out grabbed his hair and dragged him to the small lake at the side of the field.
The boy kept on screaming sorry

'You drewled on my fuckin shoe!' He shrieked and I couldn't help but stiffle a laugh
'You fucking blind moron, imbeciel, retarded...mole! You got your snot and saliva all over my brand new Fredermans!'
The blindboy just kept on screaming untill Daemyen pushed his head in the water. It seemed to take forever for the boys body to finaly stop stugling and I was about to intervere and just break his neck or something when the spasms finaly stopped and the canon fired. Daemyen let go of the boys head, simply stood up whiped his shoe on the boys sweater brushed his leather jeans of and walked over to us.

'Well that wasn't really playing nice now was it?' Erix said when Daemyen reached us.

'Never said I would' Daemyen simply replied

All I could think was that I would remember that.
I took step next to Thane and we started our trip towards whatever was at the number 11.
It was only when we had left the clearing that we felt the ground begin to tremble beneath us.

As always thank you for reading and led me know what you thought about the first chapter.
The next one is going to be written by stravvberry.
We've also put a easter egg in the games that will continue through out the story.
Let's see if you can find it ;)

xoxo Miss-Almond