The Tournament

Prologue

Prologue

What if? What if this had never happened? What if I hadn't gone for a walk that day? What if I had paid more attention to what was going on? What if I had my phone with me? What if I had gone to the movies with Lucy instead of a walk? What if?

I ask myself these questions every night, as I lay here in...well I guess its a bed. I know that my life will most likely end in three days. I have three days to live, just three days. I wish I had a phone, or something so I could call Lucy. Tell her I'm not dead, tell her I didn't run away, tell her I'm about to die and that she was the best friend I ever had.

What if I live? Another what if question, what if I survive the horrors that will happen in three days, what if I do survive? What will happen then? Will I go back to my old life? Will everything return to normal? No. After what has happened to me I don't think my life will ever be the same...if I even have a life. What if...

I hear a sound outside my door, its probably a guard, making sure I don't escape. What if I can make it past the guards? What if I can make it out of this palace? I would probably be caught, and killed. But what if I'm not? Then I would be killed in the arena.

Death. That seems the only way I'm getting out of here. Weather its my death or everyone else's I really don't know, but it will probably be my death. Death. I wish I would just die in my sleep, then I wouldn't have to go through the tortures awaiting me in three days. Death. I don't care how, I just want to die before three days time. Death. Its the only option, and I'll take it. Death.