Stream in the Mind

## Book Details

Author: Bumble

Date started: June 12th, 2022

Date ended: June 12th, 2022

Spinoff: Stream in the Mind: Emma (viridian)

It is time. Every year, we must kill as many people as possible. Every year it changes or does not change. Sometimes if you kill the most people, you get sent off into a battle of doom, sometimes if you kill the least. This year everyone was required to have 1,000 bullets supplied by the capital. We would be provided a gun. I, Willow, got a Rifle-214536 H.M. I was not the best at aiming but I was best at hiding.

Most people made alliances. Mine was Lucas and Emma. We hid in Lucas’s house, in his room with a balcony and steel walls and bullet-proof curtains. We were certain we would not be killed and we're certain we would not be sent out.

We would take turns. Two people sleep while one person fires. I was up first. In 20 minutes, I killed 34 people. *Nice, if we are doing who kills the least.* I knew. No, we all knew we had a 50/50 chance of being right. Whether to kill or not. It is a matter of luck.

If you survive the chase, then you don’t get chased and you get to live in a harm-free room for the day of the attack. 100 cities do this. All of which one person is chosen to fight to the death in an arena and only one may survive.

       The day is over. In total, I killed 1,324 people. The announcements went off.

*“WILLOW CORRINS, IS THE WINNER. THIS YEAR’S CONTEST WAS FOR WHO COULD KILL THE MOST. SHE GOT 1,324 KILLS SECOND WAS LUCAS THE EMMA. THEY GOT CLOSE WITH 1,289 AND 1,178. NO ONE ELSE GOT REMOTELY CLOSE. WILLOW, PLEASE GET ESCORTED TO THE GOVERNMENT HOME. IN A WEEK THE CHASE SHALL BEGIN.”*

I sat there in shock. No. Maybe there was another Willow Corrins in this city. My friends tried to tell me, “Don’t go. Let’s run away. They won’t be able to find us.” Although we knew that was not true. We attempted it.

 The next day we planned to steal all the food in the house and hide on a mountain. Knowing no one not even the guards would check there.

       It was cold. Very cold. We had no vehicle and no shelter to keep us warm.

“Lucas,” I wheezed, “Emma.”

“Yeah?” They said in unison.

“Thank you so much for this and for helping me.”

“You are welcome. And remember we got second and third so if you were not to be found, we would have to go.”

I nodded and pointed ahead.

              We finally got there. At the top of the mountain. I would be safe. I smiled widely at the twinkling stars. I went to bed.

              The next day I woke up startled by the sound of a gunshot close by, I glanced over at Lucas and then at Emma. She was still asleep. We tried to wake her but the lay there still. We took her sleeping bag off and we saw a sight I would *never* forget.

              Emma was not asleep she had a pool of blood surrounding her on the used to be pure white snow. I looked around. I spotted a man in all white and called out.

“YOU BASTARD! Come out now!”

He walked out slowly and pointed a Rifle 76253 L.M. at Lucas and another exact prototype at me. We bolted with no food and water. We slid down a slope to living. A heard gunfire in the distance and small grey flecks speeding towards us.

I thought it was just some rocks ready to form an avalanche. No. The small grey flecks were not rocks. They were people. He had called backup.

We hid in a hideout we had made on the way just in case this very thing happened. We almost got crushed because there were people above us not knowing we were there. Twice.

               Lucas went put to see if the coast was clear. It was not. He got killed within a second. My friends have been killed. The people who killed Lucas found me too and they started attacking me and I got caught.

The next moment before I realized it, I was in a dungeon with 99 more people around me. I had a photographic memory of realizing that I was in a dungeon where I would have to be soon shipped into a dungeon again and fight to the death. Make alliances I thought. I know I thought that, but I couldn't make any more alliances because of what happened. Both my alliances died, and I know in the end if we all survive, we're going to have to fight to death together we're going to have to fight each other. I knew I was dead.