A Collection of my Writer's Games Entries

When in Rome: Task 4 (Tyber Mitango) D1

We all lay on the ground, exhausted from last night’s event. Adam was gone but that was no big loss. He was getting on my nerves anyways. What scared me was that I could still here my sister’s voice screaming for my name – calling for help. I shivered slightly at the thought. The Capitol would pay. The sun was well above the Colosseum, but we were too tired to hunt. I guess I should round them up and make them work – I’d rather have tired allies, that way they would be easier to get rid of. I took a drink and snacked on some unknown food – that tasted terrible – and stood up. Smoke.

“Does anyone smell smoke?” Ula asked, some people muttered agreements. I huge gust of wind blew and that was all we could smell.

The smoke filled the air. I walked around the Cornucopia and found a huge fire raging towards us. It couldn’t be natural – the Gamemakers wanted us to go somewhere. It was coming from the West side of the arena and coming up the North and South sounds. That only meant one thing: it was herding us to the East, where the Colosseum was. In the time it took me to think up of this, the fire was less than 100 meters from us. I jogged around the Cornucopia to find everyone getting their weapons,

“Tyber!” Phae cried, she had some weird claw gloves on, “I thought you died,”

You wish! I so badly wanted to hit her. If I was dead she would be jumping up and down with joy, same for me if she died – she was definitely the threat in this.

“We’re heading to the Colosseum!” I shouted, the fire was loud and crackling. I grabbed my sword, bag and spear and started running. It was hard running when you were already half asleep but I could feel the adrenaline running through my body. I glanced behind my shoulder to see the fire we slowly gaining on us. The Colosseum shouldn’t be a long run, but it would still be tiring. Thankfully Career training has made me fit. I pushed my legs harder and ran faster. But I still had one thing on my mind: Why do they want us all at the Colosseum? It was a place where people fought, I wondered what they had in mind.

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We were underneath the battle grounds. I could hear people cheering but ignored them the best I could. Under the Colosseum, they have secret compartments where they used to put the lions and battlers for the fights – that was where we were. All the tributes had come – and me, being the male from District 1 meant I had to fight first. The put me in a costume that was chainmail armor but no helmet, I still looked like a total idiot. At least I had a sword.

“Ladies and gentlemen!” Ruby’s high-pitched voice echoed under the battle stage. The cheering now stopped. I was guessing people from the Capitol were here to watch. “Please welcome our first round fighters: Tyberius Mitango and Jonah Ryelin!” the cheering started again and I felt like I was coming up into the Hunger Games all over again. I was pushed up and I quickly took in the view. Capitol people lined the balconies and in the center of one end – directly in front of me – sat the President and Antonio Silver himself. The almighty Gamemaker! Almighty Gamemaker my ass, that sounds better. And next to Antonio sat his two daughters: Juliette and Faye. Apparently he was in a little trouble with his position – Juliette was in the running. I smirked at the thought of his beheading. Good riddance! I directed my gaze to scrawny kid in front of me. He seemed calm and collected but I could take care of him, he looked about 16 but had no muscle compared to me. He had armor like mine on and a similar sword.

“Let the first Gladiator fight begin!” Ruby shouted and hit the gong next to her.

I decided to let Jonah attack first. We circled each other slowly. He didn’t look like he was going to attack. I sighed. Who cares? I lunged forward aiming for his legs – that weren’t protected well – but he flicked my sword away with ease. I was surprised by the strength. Suddenly pillars rose up from the ground and obstacles began flying around the place. So this is the twist, I knew this was too easy. I ducked as a mace swept over my head and took cover behind a pillar. Flames whooshed from tiny holes in the pillars. I took a breathe and ran. I jumped over the first flame and slid under the second before stopping behind a pillar. I was two away from Jonah now. A knife whizzed by – just in front of my face and I ducked for the next one. I rolled out and dodge flying knives and axes before I flung my sword at Jonah. I snatched an axe from mid-air – momentarily spraining my wrist from the force – and swung at him wildly.