Cold.

My teeth chatter as i desperately try to retain body heat.

The fact that we have a hole in our window doesn't help. It's ironic, really. the fire that swept in to our Wonderful district 6 nearly burned our house down, but we were one of the lucky ones. Even months after that we saw people on the streets begging for a bit of food, some matches, and hopefully, a piece of wood or a jacket. They wouldn't dare hope for more.

"Moon" Perfect, I think. another errand to run. In the cold

" Wake up. We have to pick the fruit before it freezes," my brother says. What everypony else wouldn't do for more food. When my mother died from the plague, my father planted a few trees in her memory. 6 months later, we had fresh apples. Oh, how wonderful the times became. District 6 was slowly getting richer, with less starvation cases. My father started keeping journals on how to grow a little food. But a little Accident burned more than half of our fruit trees down. Now we couldn't afford to give out food to everypony, only my friends' families. Three of my friends, Blue leaf, Bright Blossom and Star Shine hunted, and they gave some meat to us. My last friend, Sun Shine, had a small cow for milk. If you compare us to the rest of the families in district 6, we were doing more than well.

" Moon, did you hear me?" I flinch at my fathers voice as I lose my train of thought."I'm going to the market"

"Yeah, bye,"I say. I didn't know what he thought he'd find, honestly. Ponies like fresh meat or clothes, not plants." Rock, when is the Hunger Games assembly?" My stomach is making somersaults.

" 2 hours. We might be able to get the rest of the squash"My Brother, cool rock, replies. Woo-Hoo. The squash. I've always hated meat, everypony in the capitol would think it's barbaric. But we have no choice. It's either eat something absolutely apalling or starve.

I see Sun Shine and Bright Blossom sneaking towards us. I inch towards the somewhat secret tunnel we made and whisper.

" What are you guys doing here!?" I scold. They go to the assembly half an hour early to avert suspicion. " Where are Blue and Star?"

"Yeah, like us throwing up all over will do us any good," Shine tells me. Our woven basket suddenly seems interesting to me. I understand why she's nervous. An awkward silence settles over the field. " Well, we came to get you". I feel like I'll throw up myself. " Anyways, the girls are already at the assembly area. They went there straight after they came from the forest."

I straighten and stretch my wings. Blue and Star are unicorns, but the rest of us are pegasi. Because of their "high stature", they get automatic access to the capitol, and they can break all laws as long as it doesn't help us. Us, I think to myself. pegasi are seen as useless birds. Weather trouble? Oh there's a spell for that! Dying? Sickness? Just use magic! It's a pyramid of advantages. Our wings don't better society, only ourselves. Why not just cut them off? They say. "W-well... should we go now," Shine says. I lose myself too easily.

"Sure," I reply. Our hooves make soft thumps as we trot to our certain death. I can't wait.

Author's Note

Considering that this is a sequel to the Hunger Games trilogy, with new characters and concepts, I think this is ok. Also, this will be the FIRST story to go into the hunger games folder on FIMfiction!