A/N: This is the next morning after the last chapter…

Jasmine's POV

I was getting ready to go hunting in the morning when I heard someone knocking urgently at the door. Grabbing a muffin that my dad made, I ran to the door and opened it.

"Jas," Finnick breathed. He looked out of breath and I thought he might've ran here.

"Yeah? I thought we were supposed to meet in the woods," I said.

He ignored me and started to speak, "Every time in the morning before I go out for hunting, I check on Rose while she's sleeping. So, I didn't see her in bed today, so I woke my dad. We looked around the house, but she wasn't anywhere. My dad told me to check here, while he checks somewhere else..."

"Okay... So I'll check if she's here, though I highly doubt it," I said.

I left him at the door to check the rest of the house. I checked the other rooms before I went for the bedrooms. I don't know why but I checked my parent's bedroom. They were both asleep, Lila in the middle of both of them. I smiled, happy to see Lila back and safe, and quickly went to look in my brother's bedroom. I kicked his door open.

"Ethan?" I called out. I frowned; He wasn't in the room. I checked the whole house, so that meant he wasn't at home at all. He usually wasn't awake this early in the morning. I ran back to the front door. "She's not here. Ethan's not here either." He gave me a puzzled look. " I have no idea where they are."

"Do you think they're together?" he asked, knitting his eyebrows together.

I shrugged. He grabbed my wrist and dragged me out the door, "Come on, let's look for them."

"Hunting?"

"We'll have to put that off," he said, making his pace faster.

We looked for them for a long time. Eventually it was time for school, so mom and dad said they'll continue to look for them, while we go to school.

So we left to school.

\Ethan and Rose both weren't at school and as the day dragged on, I became more and more worried.

As the school day went on, I slowly found out that Ivy was absent. Something that never happened before.

Something was wrong. Terribly wrong. I spent the rest of the day trying to put it together. And at the end of the day, a few minutes before the bell rang signaling the end of the school day, I found out.

I was in history class, a class that I actually enjoyed, learning about our people's history. All of the school televisions had turned on. Actually, all of the televisions in the entire district turned on. I could tell because I could hear music outside of the classroom, and outside the school. It was the music that signaled an important announcement.

"Hello, Panem!" a voice exclaimed. Everyone in the classroom stared, surprised at the screen. They recognized the voice. It was Ivy.

"Welcome to the re-continued Hunger Games! The 76th Hunger Games. This one's very special... we have important from each of the districts."

"We... never had a reaping," I heard someone say.

The bell rang, but no one moved. We stared fixedly at the screen. The screen showed pictures of the tributes of each district. They were already in the arena . The cameras closed in on each of their faces, each of them terrified.

They said the names. Only some stood out. Cassy from District 1. Racquel from District 2. Asuna and Matheus from District 5. Little Sydney from District 11... And Ethan and Primrose from District 12.

I couldn't breathe. I felt sick. How could they...?

Ivy continued to speak and it took every ounce of my willpower to listen to what she was saying. "Each of you will be fighting to survive. If one is standing after all the others die, you will be able to come out of the arena. If you refuse to fight and have one victor, then all who's left will be bombed. You have three weeks deadline for one victor. If there's no by then, then bombed you will be. Happy 76th Hunger Games... and may the odds be ever in your favor!"

The TV zoomed out and showed the location they were stuck at. It was a cluster of different main islands surrounded by some smaller ones surrounded by an ocean of water.

I knew that place! I saw a similar picture in an old textbook they found from before the rise of Panem. I just couldn't put my finger on the place.

All of the televisions shut off, the blackness back upon the screen. I was surprisingly the first one up and standing and out of the classroom, even out of the school.

I ran, though I wasn't sure where I was running to. I reached the square and saw my parents. Mom was frozen to the spot, Gale and dad trying to comfort her, but I knew no words were getting to her.

I was just about to run to her, when someone grabbed my arm. I turned around. "Eddie," I hissed. "Let go of me!"

"I don't think that's a good idea," he warned, glancing behind me at my parents.

"Edd-," I started.

"Jas," Finnick called breathlessly.

My head turned towards him. His hands were at his knees and he was hunched over, breathing hard.

He looked up, his grey eyes wild. "We have to save them."

I stared at him, dumbfounded, unsure of what to do.

\I didn't know that Katniss, Peeta, and Gale were running towards us.

"Why..." Eddie trailed off. And then I noticed the sky. There were planes overhead.

"Obliterate district 12," a female robotic voice instructed. "The Mellark and Hawthorne family must not survive."

Katniss grabbed my hand, Peeta grabbed Eddie's, and Gale, Finnick's.

"Peeta and Eddie go to the schools and get as many people as you can and head to the woods," my mom screamed as she ran, with me trailing behind, towards the woods, Gale and Finnick following along.

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