The Thunder Games

The Thunder Games.
A hunger games inspired story by Fennecthesandwing21.
Prologue.
They waited in silence. Lined up on the field, the top students of the most prestigious schools in the world.
One line for each academy, each students immaculately dressed and staring straight ahead with their arms by their sides. Watching and waiting with baited breath, for the announcement to be made. 
A woman stepped forward. Her black, shiny heeled boots clicked the pavement as she strode along the stone platform, scanning the crowd before her.
With a small flourish, she lifted her hand and pointed a long, bony finger at a small, tanned girl with brown hair and freckles. The girl came forward and took a place on a smaller stone platform. 
It was repeated, over and over again, until twenty four students had been selected from the twelve lines: one boy and one girl from each school.
And like that, it was done. The leftovers were discarded, waved away like small, insignificant flies.
And the chosen students? They would become competitors. They were treated like celebrities as soon as it was over, gently shepherded to a large aircraft and settled into plush, comfortable seats with plenty of snacks and drinks, all the comfort they could need.
Those chosen ones would have the chance to become famous, to become rich and powerful. But with that chance would come danger.
Because those students, mere children but with remarkable talents, had been carefully selected for The Thunder Games.
A game in which they must fight not only for the winners place, but for survival itself.
Chapter 1.
Cass watched the clouds trickle past like leaves on the surface of a stream. The sky was light grey, blank and emotionless like normal.
She sighed and took another reluctant sip of her drink.
Nothing was normal anymore. Cass knew that better than anyone. 
She flicked the catch with her elbow and the window quietly snapped shut.
The boy next to Case looked up at her from his food, a chicken salad drowned in a pungent smelling sauce.
"You ok?" He asked, tilting his head slightly and watching her face with his light blue eyes.
Cass shrugged. She knew the boy, Arthur, well, but she didn't exactly trust him.
Perhaps the reason students competed in pairs in the Thunder Games was they could work together and trust each other, but where Cass was from, nothing like that ever worked out.
Each school in the games was well known and, apparently, excellent in every aspect. Cass knew better.
At her academy, the students were rowdy and badly behaved, never listening to what the others had to say, always thinking about themselves.
Most were smart enough, but quite a few could only be described as absolute idiots.
Arthur wasn't one of the idiots, Cass had to admit that at least. And no, he was certainly not the loudest and bulshiest.
There were far worse, yes, but after her experiences she believed it was best to be wary of them all.
Arthur sighed and leaned back in his seat, flicking his ruffled golden hair subtly over his forehead so that his eyes were hidden from Cass's gaze.
Cass reached over to the rather large tray of snacks and snatched up a handful of bubblegum, unwrapping them quickly and popping them all in her mouth at once. 
The mint flavour flowed over her tongue, reminding her of the days when she used to sneak gum into her academy locker and eat it in class with her friends.
Training had put a stop to any fun she used to have. 
Hour after hour, Day after day, training had been hard and cruel. Only a few hardy students had made it through the first week, and only the toughest of that few made it into the selection group.
That was the group that had lined up on the field alongside 11 other schools, and that was the group that Cass and Arthur had been in when the competitors were chosen.
Chosen for the Thunder Games, a hellish competition held every year where the top students from academies across the continent would compete in a battle of intelligence, strength, and survival.
The Thunder Games would be filmed and watched by everyone on the continent, including the students anxious families.
Why would they be anxious?
Because the students who didn't make it through the challenges would die.
More coming soon!
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