▌𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐋𝐎𝐆𝐔𝐄, the 69th hunger games arena

             𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐎𝐃 𝐖𝐀𝐒 caked across her face and hands, to anyone else they'd run the other direction but while in the games, everyone ran towards her in hopes of ending up victorious and getting the rights to say the won. 

Juniper Sanchez wasn't that person, she didn't like taking innocent lives but it was either her or them. She choose the latter. The sun was starting to rise around the cornucopia and Juniper stopped for a moment. 

It had been the first time in weeks she had managed to take a breather to herself, "Look, she's just standing there," Shouted a contestant from District one. The girl half of the party turned to look at where he was pointing. "Is she stupid or something?" 

Juniper clenched her jaw as she flexed her finger, it itching across an old scar on her leg. She never really liked District one or two as they always thought that the games were something to be proud of competing in, it made her sick. 

But the girl beside him, looked to be the same age as her sister Genesis. The boy that had shouted out about her arrival made a dash towards her, Juniper swung low missing his spear by an inch. 

"Son of a, he never warned us about how fast you'd be." He hissed, and Juniper rolled his eyes. She guessed the person he was talking about was District two's contestant; who died not long before this meeting. 

"Well, never believe what someone else tells you." It's the first time Juniper had talked in the whole of the games, her knees still planted firmly on the ground as he turned to look down at her. 

He missed the slight movement of metal, before it was embedded in his stomach. Juniper twisted, bringing him to his knees in front of her. "I'm sorry." She whispered as he bared his teeth in pain. 

"I'm not." He swiped his spear halfheartedly, nicking her cheek. She watched as the life drained from his eyes, before dropping his body to the ground. She closed her eyes for a moment, chanting her mantra in her head. 

It was either him or me, which would you prefer? 

"You bitch!" She heard the other contestant scream before Juniper launched her last remaining knife towards her, the metal embedding itself in between her heart cavity and her first rib; killing her instantly.

The arena fell silent as the realisation sunk in, she had won the games. She was going home. Juniper fell to the ground in a pile, how many kids had been ruthlessly taken away from the parents by the Capital only to fight to the death. 

And there was only one that walked away, alive but forever changed by the events that happened. 

"And the winner of the 69th Hunger games is Juniper Sanchez, from District five." The PA announced, but Juniper refused to listen; keeping her eyes closed as the realisation continued to sink in. 

She'd forever be changed by what she had to do to survive.