Luke Smith Adventures

Chapter Thirty Seven: What is the Hunger games?

Luke's POV

The sound of dripping water is what woke me. I slowly let my eyes adjust to the huge amounts of light shinning on me until I manage to make out my surroundings.

I am in what seems to be a forest of some kind. The sun is shinning brightly above cutting through the tree's with ease reaching me quite easily. Its hot. I try move but I feel a sharp pain escalating from my side. I move ever so slightly to find the rough rocky path I am currently on partly covered in a layer of fresh blood. My blood.

I move to a sitting position to find the cause of the blood. A deep cut into my right side caused by a sharp piece of metal that is still embedded into my skin.

How did I get here? When I had blacked out I had been in that old abandoned shopping centre in the middle of goodness knows where but this doesn't seem or feel right at all.

"Sanjay!" I shout in hope where ever I have ended up he be here with me but I waited for a reply that deep within I knew would never come.

I look around seeing nothing but trees around me. Where am I? What is going on?

"Lenny," I say quickly in my head. No response. "Lenny are you there!" I shout in my head in hope he just didn't hear me.

Nothing...

I look to my finger to find it bare the ring gone. I check my pockets. No phone, no wallet, no keys, no sonic pen. All gone. Someone has taken everything from me but why? Who would do this?

Suddenly I hear a crunch from behind me. I look around towards the noise twisting in the wrong way wincing at the pain caused from my wound which I would be lying to say its just a scratch.

I try get to my feet knowing I could be in danger and finally with the help of the nearest tree I managed to get to my feet. Suddenly something shot by me hitting the tree trunk, an arrow. I whip my head towards where it came from judging the angle who ever it may be is directly to the left by another tree. I see as the second arrow comes flying towards me aimed at probably my head. I move swiftly ignoring the pain hiding behind the tree.

What ever is going on here...someone is trying to kill me! I head to the next tree diving behind it avoiding another arrow. This isn't good. How long can I go doing this? I'm wounded and weaponless and this person or whoever it maybe is persistent.

Something grabs hold of my arm. I move backwards out the grip in panic. "Its okey Luke," a familiar voice says as I turn to look to him.

"Sanjay," I whisper relieved to see him as he pulls me into a tight embrace but I wince which he notices straight away.

"Your hurt," he says stepping back taking a better look at the extent of my injury. "Oh that can get infected if we don't get that sorted. What is going on? I mean someone is shooting arrows at you," he says confused as we make sure we are both behind the tree to avoid any on coming arrows.

"I don't know. I woke up with out any of the stuff I had on me and Lenny is gone. Someone took the ring and then out of nowhere I got someone firing arrows at me and I woke up hurt," I say to him.

He looks at me pushing my hair out my eyes, "Its always you Luke," he smiles as he kisses me on the forehead before we kiss each other on the lips.

"Its not like I ask for this," I say to him.

"I know but now we are stuck in this situation we best solve it oh and we have to find Jay. No doubt he is in trouble too. I mean we were all caught in that explosion for some reason," he says to me.

I nod to agree with him, "First we have to lose who ever is firing arrows at us," I tell him. "Are you hurt at all?"

"Me no of course not Luke. I mean a bit bruised and all my stuff in my pockets is gone too."