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There is no way this can happen.

I'm Joe Gatto, Impractical Joker. I am a victor of the forty-ninth annual Hunger Games. And may the odds be ever in your favor! God that bugs the living crap out of me. I registered as thirteen because I wanted to know what was like to be a teenager again. Oh boy that was a mistake.

The female tribute that died here in District 4, her name is Contessa Fraller, died a very horrible, and completely nasty death. It was the three of us, me, Contessa, and the boy from District 9, Damon. Damon found Contessa and I, and Damon shot an arrow through her chest, and slit her throat. Contessa was also brutally raped. My god that kid was a maniac. Thank god after I came back and he was still doing crazy things to that dead body, I threw the knife and it went through his head. That's when the Gamemakers crowned me victor.

This is the second annual Quarter Quell. This time, President Snow decided to have twice as many tributes to the Games. Not to mention including victors like me. I have to go back into the arena after all of the smack I went through? I'm the only boy victor in District 4, and there are five women who won the Hunger Games. The first woman who won , Darious Brewer, won the first Quarter Quell, and who also won the fifteenth annual Hunger Games.

The last woman who won, Jamie Fawndeshal, won just three years ago. There is a huge age difference between me and fourteen years of age. In real, I'm thirty seven. Now I have to face the Quarter Quell.

I'm not even gonna dare tell the story of how I won the forty ninth Hunger Games. It's so brutal, everyone actually wanted to die. Everyone absolutely hated training, and the whole shebang was completely difficult.

Now, there are twenty-five celebrity tributes in the Quarter Quell. I'm one of them. Oh well then. CELEBRITY tributes. I wonder who.

It all started at the reaping. The ladies were first. The peacekeepers picked none other than Natasha from Season 4 of MasterChef. She was the second victor in District 4. Natasha looked at me, a very stinky look, in fact, stinky enough to make me nervous. I know that I have survived last year in the Games, but her look was very intimidating, and I think she's upset, or mad.

We shook hands and we boarded the train. We saw Darious. She won the first Quarter Quell and became our mentor, even though shes like, supposed to be a year older than me...or looks like it. She won the Quarter Quell when she was sixteen. And now, I believe shes in her forties. She was my mentor last year. I saw my stylist on the train too. I remember him giving me a theme for our chariot last year.

I was the boy in snow.

Contessa was a girl on ice.

This year, Natasha and I are going for a different look. Santiago, Sal's main enemy sort of, my stylist, is deciding a surprise.

Anyway, before I got on the train, someone threw a pin at me and it stuck to my shirt. I had Natasha take it off because I couldn't reach it and we looked at it. It was a pin of a robin. It was the exact same pin I used during the Games last year. I would like to wear it again.

When we made it to the Capitol, we got off the train and we had to go through what I had to go through last year, except I get to keep my semi-beard.

I have two words to say. Poor Natasha. She has to go through a lot.  After her ordeal, we went to Santiago. We were dressed and out onto the chariots. District 4. 4. I see all of the celebrities that are victors and participating in the Quarter Quell.

District 1: The Season 4 of MasterChef winner Luca, and Angelina Jolie.

District 2: Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore.

District 3: Jared Leto and Hayley Williams from Paramore.

Now wait a minute. Jared Leto, I knew for years and years and I didn't know he was a victor in District 3. Turns out Natasha knew everything about the tributes. Jared was a victor in the Games two years ago. The year before I won. You're probably asking why I know someone from District 3 while I'm in 4. I got two words for you, pen pals.

District 4: Me, Joe Gatto, and Natasha whats-her-name.

District 5: John Cooper from a band called Skillet and Melissa Rodriguez.

District 6: Sal Vulcano and Danica Patrick, race car driver.

Sal?! Sal?! Sal?! Sal?! You have got to be kidding me! SAL?! I have no memory in him winning the Games. Now I have to go against him?! No! I refuse to kill my buddy. I absolutely REFUSE to. I don't care if its a punishment! I don't care if I have to die! I'M NOT GOING TO KILL ANY ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS!

District 7: James Murray and Dita Von Teese.

Oh my god if I can face plant into the chariot and break my nose, I would. Why Murray? Why? Just why? If I find one more joker in the freaking games, I'm out.

District 8: Brian Quinn and Rachel McAdams.

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O.O!!!!!!! Now I know that the Impractical Jokers is history. I'm...I'm...shell-shocked. Anyway, I better calm down and move on because I'm gonna explode in a second.

District 9: Chris Hemsworth and Chloë Grace Moretz.

District 10: Michael Fassbender, who I believe is the oldest victor out of all of us, and Natalie Portman.

District 11: Adam Richman from Man V. Food, and Emma Roberts.

District 12: Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson. Celebrities from the Hunger Games MOVIE. So I'm kind of scared of who seems to be 'Katniss.' Not 'Peeta'.

The two districts I'm scared of is 1 and 12. The three I'm scared FOR is Districts 6, 7, and 8. Why? Oh I'll give you a reason why. Three reasons why.

Brian, James, and Sal. Or should I say, Q, Murr, and Sal.



Natasha saw the shocked look on my face and asks if I was okay. I shook my head, roughly. She pats my shoulder and said, "Why are you like this?" "Don't you see why? Q, Murr, and Sal. They're here and I have to kill them..." I say, with my voice hoarse because of me screaming when the three jokers came out.

President Snow opened the games for us and said, "May the odds be ever in your favor." When we got back, it's time for the training center.

By the time it was time to go, I had completely forgot about Sal, Q, and Murr, which is something I shouldn't do. Too much is going on now. The Games are about to start. I made no friends besides the jokers and District 3 and 10. Murr had completely forgot about Q, which is a completely bad sign. But the rest didn't forget about me, nor I forget about them.

I get to my tube and say goodbye to my stylist. I rise up to the arena. This was no place to be for the boy in snow. It was a forest though. The wilderness. I could climb up the trees and be safe from danger. The other twenty four tributes, besides the celebrities, all stand there, intimidated. Natasha stands three circles away from me to my right.

17...16...15...14...

I tell her to run because its gonna be a bloodbath and I don't want her to get killed in the Cornucopia.

3...2...1...0

I start sprinting to the back to the Cornucopia, where the good weapons are. At least half of the non-celebrity tributes were running towards me. I grabbed a huge box and a backpack and started running. One of the non-celebrity tributes threw a knife towards my head, but I dodged. After I turn around, the non-celebrity tribute tried to knock me down and stab me, but before she tried to do that, an arrow went through her head. That arrow was shot by the celebrity man from District 1, Luca. He smiles at me and points to the forest where I'm headed. I nod and sprint with my stuff and get as far as I can where no one can find me.

I rest on a piece of wood, where the bloodbath was over. Then the cannons happened. 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24.
Half of the tributes are dead. I just wanna know who. It's already night time. I climb my stuff and I get into the tree. I strap myself in with the rope in my backpack and I watch who got killed in the bloodbath.

District 1: a boy named Daumon, Angelina Jolie, and a girl named Georgina.

District 2: a boy named Fran, weird name for a boy, and a girl named Harty.

District 3: Hayley Williams, and a boy named Randy.

District 4: nobody.

District 5: John Cooper, Melissa Rodriguez, a boy named Ronald, and a girl named Icona.

District 6: Sal Vulcano and Danica Patrick.

No. I can't believe it. Sal has been killed in the bloodbath. I...I...I never had a chance to say goodbye. I just stated at his picture until it was all gone. I silently whispered, "I'm gonna miss you buddy," and watched the rest.

District 7: Dita Von Teese and a girl named Miley.

Thank God Murr is not dead.

District 8: Rachel McAdams, and a boy named Dawin.

District 9: a boy named Martin, and a girl named Ashley.

District 10: nobody.

District 11: Adam Richman, Emma Roberts, a boy named Wilfred, and a girl named Elfie.

District 12: A girl named Marie.

Only twenty four more to go. I can't believe Murr and Q are still alive. But I mostly can't believe that Sal is dead. I tried not to cry, I managed to hold it in. I don't know what to do. Kill myself so I can join Sal? If I do die, I want Murr or Q to win. And if all four of us die, we can do the Impractical Jokers in heaven. Or hell. I don't know. Some people can be assholes.

I fall asleep in that tree, and I wake up to the sound of snoring. I darted my head around to see who it was. I look down and it was Q, sleeping like a bug in a rug. I hear rustling and Q wakes up. Guess who pounces out. James.

Also known as Murr.

He jumps out at Q with his huge knife and was about to stab Q, but Q stated, "MURR! It's me! Brian!!"

Murr has been brainwashed by this whole Hunger Games crap.

But not for long.

I took out my bow and arrow and I shot an arrow next to Murr, where he was sitting. He looks up and recognized me. "Joe?! Kill this tribute from district 8!" Murr screamed. "That's Brian you little bastard!" I screamed back. Murr suddenly realized that who he's trying to murder is his own best friend, Brian Quinn.

"I'm. So. Sorry." Murr said. "Jeez Murr, you could've been more violent!" Q angered, he slaps Murr across the face. They both push each other around like bullies. "You guys are being girls!" I scream from the tree. I climb down with my stuff and I say, "You guys need to stop fighting. This is serious. If I die in the Games, I want one of you to win. Got it?" Murr understood by nodding his head. Q didn't quite get it. "Wha..?"

Murr explained to Q what I meant. Q finally got it and said, "If I die, I want you to win, Joe." "Same here." Murr replied.

We heard a scream from a woman, who appears to have a strong voice, I could tell. Then the cannon fired. Two. Three. Four.... Okay. Murr continued, "Anyway, Sal could be anywhere! We need to look..." I grabbed his shoulder, tight. "You guys didn't pay attention to who died last night?" I asked. "No. Why?" Murr asks. We all freeze in silence, mostly because we heard somebody. Then it took a minute for Murr to realize that Sal is dead. "Sal...is dead?" Murr asks, shockingly. Q nodded his head. He actually payed attention to the anthem too.

Murr sits on the ground. "You can let go of my shoulder now." I let go of Murr's shoulder. "Oh my god. Why?" He whispered to himself. We hear rustling. We all of a sudden see a celebrity tribute that could really be a help to us, Jared. He armed himself with a bow and arrow aims straight for Murr's head. I block him saying, "Jared! It's my friends! The Impractical Jokers! Don't shoot!"

Jared put his bow down and says, "Joe, what are you doing with the other tributes? They are our enemy!" "They're my friends! I known Murr and Q since high school! I'm going to find the person who killed Sal and make that person die a very gruesome death! I swear it!" I reply, and I do swear it. I do swear to murder anybody who murdered my best friends, and I have swore that ever since high school. Now, I'm putting that true. Someone murdered Sal, now I'm gonna murder her, or him.

Jared asks, "Let me guess...Sal." "How did you know?" I asked. "I saw the celebrity tribute from District 1, I think his name is Lucia or something, pin Sal to the ground and behead him with his knife." Jared answered. No, just no. Stabbing is one thing. But beheading</i></u>  ??!!

Luca is so going to get it.

But I found out he's not going to get it, after he ran to us. I shot my arrow and it hit his shoulder. He screams. "DID YOU KILL SAL?!" He answered where I couldn't understand him. "ANSWER ME YOU SON OF A BITCH!!" I scream in his ear. He screamed, "NO! It was NATASHA!" I took a step back. Murr ripped the arrow out of his shoulder and Q bandaged him.

After a while, Jared put together a fire and I questioned Luca. I asked him, "Now, let me ask you again. Who killed Sal, and how?" He answered calmly in his Italian accent, "It was Natasha. Your District 4 celebrity tribute. She killed him because she didn't want him to get what she wanted, which was the tiniest little backpack you would ever see. I don't know why. And Sal knocked a tribute from District 8 down and after Sal killed her, Natasha got to him and chopped his head off by her knife."

"See I got beheaded right!" Jared butted in. "She probably didn't know that Sal was your best friend. Otherwise, she wouldn't have killed him." Q said. "Brian's right. What should we do Joe?" Murr asks. "Remember back in Junior year, I swore to all three of you that if you get killed, I kill?" I ask. Murr and Q nod their heads. "Well, I'm sorry I have to say this but...Natasha killed Sal, now I'm killing Natasha." I state.

"But she is from your district! How are you going to kill her?!" Jared asks. "The same way she killed Sal." I state. Luca is shocked, "Beheading?" "I guess so. But I don't have any weapons to behead somebody." I say. "Here. Use this." Luca gives me his distorted butcher knife. "I better go, before Natasha sees me talking to you." Luca says as he runs off.

Jared looks at me. "Where are we gonna find Natasha?" "I'll figure something out." We hear rustling again. "Hide. I know who this is." Murr, Q, and Jared climb up into the tree. I arm myself with the weird butcher knife and Adam Sandler comes out, with his bow and arrow. I fling my knife and it hits his chest. He dies on the spot. Cannon fires.

I take my knife out of his chest an the anthem started playing.

District 1: nobody

District 2: Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. That was probably the girl that was screaming. So no more District 2.

District 3: a girl named Travi.

District 4: a boy named Quag, and a girl named Quen. Obviously twins.

District 6: a boy named Murray, thank god it's not Murr, and a girl named Valarie.

District 7: a boy named Hus.

District 8: a girl named Darious.

Wait, what? A girl with my mentors name died? When Jared got a better look, he asked, "Thats your mentor Joe?" Surprisingly, it was. How is she from district 8? How did she become a tribute for District 8? This is so confusing, it's not funny.

District 9: nobody

District 10: a boy named Marty. A girl named Darious.

Okay. Now this is getting ridiculous. There are two named Darious now. This is really stupid. Can we quit it?

District 12: Josh Hutcherson and a boy named Glucerna. Isn't that a name for the diet milkshake?

I fell asleep before I wanted to go up into the tree. I wake up with three tributes in front of me, dead. It's not Murr, Q, Natasha, or Jared. It's the rest of District 10, and Luca.

Luca? How did he get killed? Wait a minute. He's beheaded. Must be one of Natasha's works. I just realized, now there's eleven of us left. Murr asked, "Well, we better get moving. How are we gonna find Natasha?" "Easy." I tell him and Q a plan that would probably kill her, and one of us. "No. I'm not risking getting killed," Murr said. Q agrees.

"How about you Jared?" Jared actually agrees with me! That we should do the plan. No, I'm not telling what the plan is. Jared gets his knife, and positions himself to kill me, by locking his hand around my throat. I scream, "Natasha!!!! NATASHA!!! HELP!!!" She comes right away, with her huge, and I mean HUGE, knife and starts sprinting for Jared. I shoot my arrow at Natasha and hits her shoulder.

Jared falls and knocks over Murr. I get my distorted butcher knife and I scream at Natasha, "You killed Sal?! Did you?!" Natasha screamed, "No!!! Who said that?!" "LUCA!" I scream in her face. "HE'S LYING!!! IT WAS..." It seemed like she was telling the truth. She was telling the truth.

"...JAMES MURRAY!!!"

Murr was shocked. "I WOULD NEVER KILL SAL!!!" "WELL YOU DID YOU CRAZY LITTLE BASTARD!!" It seems like Natasha and Murr are having a scream off and Murr is winning. I know Natasha is lying, because Murr made a solemn swear that he would never kill any one of us. So Natasha is the one who killed Sal.

I get my butcher knife and I chop her head off, just like the way she did to Sal. Oooooh if I deal with another one of this killing I'm gonna...

"Joe...?" Brian calls.

"What?" I ask.

It took me a minute to find out what's going on. I turn around to find Murr, with blood spurting out of his stomach, looks like a major artery. I was surprised. Q was about to cry. Murr fell to the ground. I saw what was sticking out of his stomach. A spear. Looks like one of 'Katniss's' work. Should I say Jennifer or should I say Katniss? I try to get Murr to stay alive.

His last words to me were, "Joe, try...to win...for the Impractical Jokers......for Sal." He had died off. Q started crying, because now we know that we are the last two jokers in the second Quarter Quell. There are nine of us left. Me, Q, Katniss, Jared, all of the tributes from District 9, and, were missing one.

Boom.

Make that eight. That anthem played. The one missing I believe was from District 4. They showed Natasha's picture. Then Murr's. You know, I think I'm gonna miss the Impractical Jokers. The Tenderloins. Murray Protocol, the guitarist and bassist left. Mostly the Impractical Jokers. We were on a roll with that show. First Sal, then Murr, who's next? Q? Me, Joe Gatto? Who????

We hear rustling. I know where it is, so I shoot an arrow at that area. We heard a girl screaming. Two cannons fire. There we two other people shown at the sky. Chloë and Katniss. Which one did we kill?

We walk to where I shot at and guess who we kill? K. A. T. N. I. S. S. Or Jennifer. Someone must have killed Chloë, probably Chris turned on her, or that's where Jared went. Jared sprints back and whispers, "Dude! I just killed the celeb tribute from Nine. The non-celeb guy is after me." I arm my arrow and the guy from 9, the non-celebrity tribute, comes with his arrow ready. I shoot and he dies on the spot. Picture of him in the sky.

It has been a long day, so Q and I go to sleep in the tree.

There is the celeb tribute boy and the non-celeb tribute girl, me, Jared, and Q left. Jared is just killing people left and right. I think he killed somebody in the bloodbath. When we wake up in the morning, I see the two from District 9 watching us. Q is about to climb down, unable to see down. "BRIAN QUINN THERE ARE DISTRICT 9 DOWN THERE!" I scream to Q. He climbs back up to my branch. I ask, "Where's Jared?" Q shakes his head, indicating that he doesn't know.

We see Jared, sneaking up to Chris. He stabs Chris' head and that's what woke up the girl. She shot a bow at Jared's shoulder and falls, the girl dead. That's because I didn't know Q snuck into my backpack and shot an arrow at the girls head.

I keep thinking that Katniss put a decoy looking like herself to fool the Gamemakers. She just fooled us.

Q and I climb down and I tell Jared and Q, "Dude, Katniss just fooled us." "Who's Katniss?" Jared asks. "Jennifer. The girl from Twelve. She might have out a decoy of herself and put it there to trick us." "Okay. We should look for her." Jared agrees. "Wait a minute, that we killed was the actual Katniss. You guys are crazy." Q nullified. "Let's look at the body more." "Too late, the hovercraft got the body. Or maybe the puppet." Jared said.

Q thinks we're crazy. He knows that shes dead. So we walk to the mountains and rest in a part of the trees. I sleep and I wake up in the middle of the day. I climb down and I say to Q and Jared, "I'm going to go hunt for food. You two behave."

I managed to get a rabbit, a bird, and a small doe. I carry it all and as soon as I get back to our 'base', I see Jared trying to kill Q. "BRIAN!!" Q is trying to speak, "J...o...e...kill him..." I shoot my arrow at Jared and it hits his chest. He dies.

Q is trying to breathe. Q screams, "DUDE! WE ARE THE FINAL TWO!" "No we're not. We still have to find Katniss." Q slaps me. "KATNISS IS DEAD! IT'S JUST YOU AND ME." Q screams. I still believe that Katniss is still alive, but I just nod. "Let's get the hell out of here." Q said.

We are walking towards the end of the arena when something bad happened. Lets just say, I didn't know there was a force-field at the end of the arena. Q was in the lead and he hits the force field, hard. He falls to the ground and I try to revive him. His heart stopped. I try my hardest to revive him, and he never came back. Sadly, he dies.

I started to cry, since I'm the only joker left and I have to go against Katniss, but I hear something that confuses me a little too much.

"Attention Attention! We have a winner of the second annual Quarter Quell! Mr. Joseph Gatto!" What? I don't get it. "What do you mean I'm victor?! WHAT DO YOU MEAN?!?!?!?!" I scream out into the arena. I start crying again. The hovercraft lifts over me. I wanted to scream that I wanted to stay with Q, but I guess I had no choice, but to leave my best buddy for good. I whispered, "Goodbye, Impractical Jokers."

Later on, I walk into my Victors Village home and sit down. It's now the fifty-first Hunger Games. I watch the reaping in District 4, the girl being Hailey Sandoval, and the boy being Mac Dandove. I stay there through the entire Hunger Games. The winner was the girl from District 6, who appeared to be Sal's sister. I called her after, saying, "Congratulations. Your brother would've been proud of you."

"Thank you. Did you kill Sal?" She asks. "No. I would never do that. He's my best friend and I would never do anything to hurt him." I answer.
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Author's Note:

Sal being dead, I had a dream about. Joe being the winner of Hunger Games, dreamt about. Murr and Q being helpful to Joe, dreamt about. Every single detail I dreamt about, except the end.

There will be a category for each joker in the fan-fictions. This is number 2.

Brian Quinn: the parent.
Joe Gatto: the victor.
James Murray: the love bird.
Sal Vulcano: the singer.

The first one, Brian, the parent, is in Junior Creation, which you might've read the first eleven chapters.
The second one, Joe, is in this story.
The third one, James, is in Yours to Hold, which is coming up after Junior Creation.
The last one, Sal, is in Broken, which will be after Yours to Hold.

I also have other stories too. I have Love Notes, which is me and a kid I like. Random Romances, which is completely different scenes of the Jokers in romance. And Music, Murray, and Monday about a band the Jokers start because of me.

So update for ya.

Hope you enjoyed the story!
The Joe Gatto Hunger Games story. YAY! ITS FINALLY PUBLISHED!!!!!

There is a new category that I'm creating for these Jokers now.

1. Brian Quinn: The Parent (Junior Creation)
2. Joe Gatto: The Victor (Growing Up)
3. James Murray: The Lover (Yours to Hold) Upcoming Story
4. Sal Vulcano: The Rock Star (Broken) Upcoming Story </u></i>

So yeah! Lovely Jokers on a Thursday night! CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEW EPISODE!!!
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Haha, Thursday nights are the highlight of my week. XD

Despite how I KNEW that this wasn't going to be a happy story, near the beginning when Joe was thinking "I don't care if it's a punishment!"...yeah. That earned a chuckle from me. Another quote that I enjoyed more than I should have from later on: "BRIAN QUINN. THERE ARE DISTRICT 9 DOWN THERE."
SAL~! T_T I knew it was going to happen, but when I read "Sal Vulcano" under who died in the bloodbath, I paused as it was soaking in. Also. Joe. It's okay to cry over a friend of 24 year's death.
Impractical Jokers in heaven! :dummy: Das a good idea, so long as there's a way to send the new episodes down here. :XD:
Oh, geez, Murr... It's okay how he acted when he first saw Q, though (horrid as that sounds). The Games can mess people up. T_T
Wow, that was confusing--the whole, "NO. I DIDN'T KILL SAL. HE/SHE DID!" And then Murr... Ohmygosh, I think what got me most in that part was Q saying Joe's name. It's like, "TENTATIVE. SOMETHING IS SO UP." But it was pretty bad when Joe decided in that moment that he was going to miss Impractical Jokers. T_T I want to give some hugs right now..
Saddest line had to be "Goodbye, Impractical Jokers." Or maybe when Joe was talking to Sal's sister in the end... Both were pretty depressing.

Dreams can be the start of a great story (like this one was, despite the sadness of it all)~! :dummy:
Maybe I'll come up with something in a dream. :XD: For some reason, the guys have been in each of my dreams (EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT.) for over a week. The dreams are either based around them, or they just make an appearance... But they're always there. Dunno if that means anything. xD