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7:45 pm, Friday night football game
It was 45 minutes from call time and the band was waiting in the stands for the football team to do something interesting so they could play pep songs. It was only a matter of time before it was time to perform a measly half of their show during the halftime show. Maybe that’s why it was called the halftime show, not because it’s halfway through the football game, but because it’s too short for the marching band to perform their whole show, so they only perform half.
Jenna was almost falling asleep, thinking and wondering about what they could do to pass the time. Then she had a stroke of genius! Hunger games simulator! It was a tradition to do the hunger games simulator, typically during basketball games but everybody was so bored out of their minds that she figured it would be the perfect time for it.
“Who wants to play the hunger games simulator?” Jenna yells. Everyone in the band cheers! Jenna is a genius… a stroke of genius!
She pulls out her phone and types in “brantsteele hunger games simulator” into Google. She clicks on the first link and inputs everybody’s names. Obviously Mr. Pratt in district one. She decided to leave the rest of his family out since the last couple of times she was the one who ended up killing them. She put Beyoncé and Margot into districts two and three respectively. Logan claimed district four and Lin claimed district five. Ice wanted to be in it but didn’t care what district, so she got put in district six. Jenna put herself in district twelve since she’s the main character just like Katniss. Shailene and Leonardo wanted to be in district twelve but settled for district ten and eleven.
Jenna didn’t know who to include for the final districts. This roundit would be one person per district, including district thirteen, so she still had four more people. She threw in Ashley, Taylor, Lauren, and Francis. She pressed save and pressed proceed at the bottom.
Everyone found themselves in front of the cornucopia. Everyone was on their podiums and the horn sounded.
Taylor immediately ran for the cornucopia and grabbed a bow and some arrows. She looked around for anyone she could shoot, most people had run away. Ice, Lauren, and Margot had all ran towards the cornucopia. Margot tried to grab anything she could get her hands on, so Taylor shoots an arrow at her, but she dodges and it hits poor Francis instead who had no idea what was going on.
Ice and Lauren were both fighting over a basket of bread. They both shout incoherently and Ice lets go of the basket and Lauren falls backwards. Ice punched Lauren right in the nose and broke it, causing Ice to take the basket right out of her hands and run.
Everyone else was afraid and ran away from the cornucopia right into the woods.
A few hours later, everyone was starting to get settled in. Lin was picking berries and got pricked by the thorns. He had no idea if the berries were even safe to eat but he knew that he would die anyway so he was willing to take his chances.
Ashley knew she wasn’t clever enough to survive this on her own. She spots Shailene and decides to stalk her and see if she could steal any supplies. Shailene hadn’t done much so far, she had been looking for a good place to set up her base, like in Minecraft.
Ice travels to high ground, which probably isn’t the best idea because she’s a ginger and she’s going to be easily spotted in a forest, but I’ll let her cook, idk. Taylor has the same idea and climbs up to higher ground, but neither end up spotting each other for the time being.
Leonardo is actually smart and finds a water source as soon as possible. Now she can drink fresh water and eat the fish. Logan finds Leonardo and they team up.
Lauren found an apple tree and collected some apples as a food source.
Margot and Beyoncé get in a fight with each other. They use tree branches like cologuard poles and fight because Beyoncé wants to team up but Margot doesn’t. Margot defeats her but spares her life and they both go their separate ways.
Finally, Mr. Pratt hunts down Jenna. He wants to get revenge for all the last times they were in the hunger games and Jenna killed him, his wife, and his two children. He spots her and sets her on fire and kills her.
The sun falls and the projections of the fallen tributes rise. Francis and Jenna have both died. They’re been returned to the conscious world. Jenna notices that there’s still 10 minutes left in the second quarter, which is 20 minutes football time.
That night, Lauren stays up all night thinking about Jenna. It’s so sad what happened. She feels bad for locking her in a practice room during the fight and thinks that maybe she shouldn’t have participated in the ambush of the band room the other day. Well, she’s in a better place now (the conscious world).
Beyoncé finds Lin and fights him to steal his berries. Beyoncé is so hungry and assumes that Lin won’t give her any, so she defeats him and steals his food, leaving very little for himself. Good thing Lin still remembers where the berry bushes are and left a lot of berries left. Hopefully nobody else found them yet.
Logan abandons Leonardo for the career group that has formed among the strongest tributes: Margot, Ashley, Shailene, and Logan all teamed up. They all took turns sleeping in shifts to make sure nobody would come to kill or steal. Nobody wanted to mess with them anyways. Leonardo traveled up the river and found Taylor. They both decided to spare each other and slept near each other.
Mr. Pratt was on a killing rampage at this point and found Ice sleeping in a poorly-made tent of leaves and killed her in her sleep, ate all of her food that she had found and ran away looking for more tributes to kill. I think he doesn’t realize that this is a collective hallucination, not his own hallucination.
The next day is pretty uneventful. Margot practices archery, Mr. Pratt receives medical supplies from an unknown sponsor which is ironic because he’s been killing everyone he sees, Beyoncé receives fresh food from an unknown sponsor. Logan and Leonardo meet back up again because Logan was attacked by the other career tributes, so Leonardo tends to his wounds, even though she predicted this.
Taylor later sees Lin and scares him away by growling and barking.
Ashley ends up stepping on a landmine and dies.
Shailene and Lauren make a truce, despite having fought each other the other day in the orchestra ambush. They decide to hunt for other tributes together, but little did they know the other was plotting to kill them eventually.
That night two cannon shots sounded for Ice and Ashley who had died that day.
Once again, Leonardo and Logan split up and Leonardo teamed up with Lin instead that night. Logan teams up with Lauren after her failed attempt to kill Shailene earlier that day. Shailene screams for help because she is wounded, but nobody hears her. Taylor and Margot team up and Beyoncé and Mr. Pratt team up. Mr. Pratt finally stops his killing rampage.
The next morning was the feast. Everyone decides to attend except Lauren.
Shailene steps on a landmine and Margot sets off an explosive which kills a whopping four people. Beyoncé, Logan, Mr. Pratt, and Lin were all killed. Leonardo and Taylor all witness these deaths after teaming up to get as much supplies as possible together. They immediately leave out of fear of Margot. Later that afternoon, Margot chases Leonardo down and Leonardo sprains her ankle but barely manages to get away. Taylor fishes and Lauren makes a slingshot.
That night, five cannon shots are heard in the distance. One for Shailene, one for Beyoncé, one for Logan, one for Mr. Pratt, and one for Lin.
On the third night, Margot questions her sanity, Leonardo starts a fire, Taylor sings to herself, and Lauren can’t start a fire and sleeps in the cold.
On the fourth day, Taylor and Lauren both practice archery and Margot finally hunts down Leonardo and kills her.
That night, one cannon shot is heard for Leonardo :(
Margot stays awake all night because she is probably going insane or she is looking for the other tributes to kill.
Lauren tricks Taylor into making an alliance with her (this has been a common theme with Lauren) and makes drinks for both of them. She poisons Taylor’s drink but accidentally mixes them up and drinks it herself and dies.
That morning, Taylor realizes that she is the final tribute and decides to hunt down Margot. She knows that Margot is bloodthirsty and will probably kill her since she has already killed five people but she knows it’s only a matter of time before one of them dies. She quickly finds Margot, who wasn’t far away from her camp. Taylor takes this chance and kills Margot in her sleep.
The winner is Taylor from district 8!
Everyone regains consciousness and is kinda mad that Taylor, who wasn’t even a band kid, won but it was still a fun way to pass the time. It was now time for the band to perform at halftime. It’s gonna be epic, a real stroke of genius!