User:TheMysteriousGeek/Sandbox

Thresh (POV Tornie Competition)
Cannot stand the reapings. Can't stand watching children climbing on the stage, being paraded like models, just so that they can die in the arena, for the entertainment of the capitol.

This is my penultimate reapings, my second to last chance to be a tribute.

"Thresh, the reapings!" My older sister, Rose, yells from outside of our little shack. Rose is 19, and has long brown hair and golden brown eyes. She is as tall as me and is muscular. She is smiling, maybe her little brother might escape being reaped for another year.........

I grab my boxers and put them on, then I walk with my grandmother and Rose to the reapings.

Then I am penned in the 17 year old section and our mayor, one of the strictist in Panem, talks about the Games and the History of Panem, then reads out the list of victors. We have only had 3 victors, which is more then District 12.

Only 2 are still alive, because the third mentor, a man named Barley, died one year ago, of a heart attack.

Then Our escort, Octavius Trinket, comes out.

"Hello Everyone, and may the odds be ever in your favor!" He yells, and I groan. I have heard that phrase for 7 years now.

And then he calls the girl's name

"Rue DeSonne."

Rue comes out, and she reminds me of a bird. Behind her, her family weep. I feel for them at once. There is about 5 children and a mum and dad. If only my mum and dad were still alive..........

My dad died when I was 8, when he fell out of a tree, and my mum comitted suicide afterwards.

I had one other sibling, but he died in the 70th Hunger Games, the one that a girl from 4 won.

After that, I was not concentrating when I did not hear the boy's name

"Thresh Green."

My sister gasped, and I knew at once that I had been reaped.

<p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; ">I got up, and walked onto the stage and I waved for the cameras, then I examined Rue.

<p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; ">Rue had my coloured skin, but the resembelence stopped there. She was incredibly small and light. She had dark brown, thick hair and brown eyes. At once I could only think of a bird, the way that she stood.

<p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; ">Then I vowed to myself.

<p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; ">If anyone looked after her when she died, and I was still alive, I would spare them.

<p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; ">Then I was bundled into the rooms in the Justice building and I was given advice by Chaff.

<p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; ">"Hide yourself in one area and never leave it."

<p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; ">At once I thought of my brother, Hiding in the meadow, when the dam broke and the arena flooded. Since then I had taught myself to swim.

<p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; ">After saying goodbye to my family, maybe for the last time, I got on the train with Rue and watched the reapings.

<p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; ">The boy from 2 was a ruthless killing machine who volenteered. The girl from 5 was mysterious. The Girl from 12 who volenteered to save her sister. At once the sister reminded me of Rue.

<p style="border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-top: 1em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(213, 212, 212); font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 23px; ">Then we went through a tunnel and arrived at the Capitol. Our last stop before death.