The 80th Hunger Games: A Time for Revenge

Prim's Day Two

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Chapter Sixteen:

        “Well Prim, I never thought I’d have the chance to do this.”

        Aqua stands over me, knife in hand.  She’s come to kill me.  She’s come to get her revenge.  She plunges the knife through the air, down to where I lay…

        BANG!

        “Prim!  Prim, wake up!”

        Sam is talking into my ear, not Aqua, thankfully.  I wake up in a cold sweat and see her frightened face.

        “You were saying something in your sleep.  I figured you were having a bad dream,” she says.

        “Thanks for waking me,” I reply.  “I dreamt that Aqua was about to kill me.  And did a cannon actually just go off, or was that part of my dream?”

        “It was real.”

         I’ve been having dreams like that since I first found out that Aqua sincerely hated me.  That’s always how they end; I never die, yet something tells me that I don’t live either.  I bet that if I ever do meet Aqua in the Games, about that same thing will happen.  Minus the living part.

        “We should go looking for more water later today.  And also make a complete camp,” she explains.

        She’s right.  We are already running out of water, and our camp consists of really nothing, we just have the backpack and supplies lying around on the forest floor.

        “Maybe we should go back to the Cornucopia to see what stuff was left behind,” I suggest.

        “Okay.”

        We each take a small sip of water in case there isn’t a source close by, as well as a bit off of the loaf of bread.  After that, we take a walk to the east to where Sam told me was a meadow to find water.  We take all of our supplies in case someone would rob us or if we would run into another tribute.  We find the edge of the forest and see the trees start to thin out.  On the other side is a grassy meadow with pink and purple wildflowers.  Off in the distance we can see something that the sun is reflecting off of.  Probably a body of water.  Sam exchanges a glance with me, signaling that she saw it too.

        We creep off to the light, which we now see is in fact a body of water, a spring.  Thankfully, nobody is in the meadow or by the spring, so Sam and I can get the water and get back to the forest.  Once up close, we can see that the spring is extremely deep, so we can’t see what is at the bottom.  I’m a bit worried about this, as there is probably some sort of muttation lurking down there.

        Sam makes the first move, and plunges the water bottle into the spring.  I cringe, waiting for something to come and bite her hand off, but nothing comes.  I give a quiet sigh of relief.  Suddenly, we hear a faint sound coming from the direction of the Cornucopia.  I panic, and try to find somewhere to hide.  Beside the spring is a tree covered in green leaves and low branches.  I motion for Sam to follow me as I climb up into the shelter of the leaves.  We easily maneuver ourselves up the tree, and out of sight from the coming tributes.

        We finally see them: it’s two Careers, Stingra from One, and Tonya from Three.  I guess Tonya was a Career; she went into the Bloodbath, and she’s with another Career right now.  They too have water bottles to fill, only they have about eight or nine of them; enough to hydrate each member of their alliance.  Stingra stands behind Tonya as she fills the bottles.  Tonya is filling the last one, when a dark shape appears in the spring.  Her eyes go wide, and the creature comes out of the water.  It seems to be something like a squid, only monstrous and much more terrifying.  Stingra abandons Tonya and runs away with the filled bottles, but Tonya isn’t so lucky.  The squid grabs her with a slimy tentacle and swallows her whole.  BANG!  It spits her lifeless body out. 

        Sam looks horrified, and I know I am.  This is the first time of the Games I’ve ever seen anyone actually die, even though this is the twelfth death.  I was right about there being a mutt though.  And I’m sure glad it didn’t come out when Sam and I were at the water.

        “We should probably go now,” she finally says, her voice shaking.  I completely agree with her.

        We cross the meadow to the Cornucopia, but we then hear another tribute.  Now we have absolutely nowhere to hide, how wonderful.  It’s the unstable girl from Six, Maya.  She has a bludgeon, and she's running towards us with it.  I have no weapon, but Sam has her bow.  She quickly places an arrow in it, and aims it at Maya, who seems to have no fear.  Sam releases the arrow, but Maya is very quick, and she dodges it and continues to sprint closer and closer to us. 

        Before Sam can shoot again, she gets to us.  She laughs evilly and swings her bludgeon at Sam, and it hits her shoulder.  Sam stifles a wail, and lets go of her bow’s string, which was holding another arrow.  It flies at Maya, and hits her hard, as she was directly in front of Sam.  It lodges itself in Maya’s arm, she screams and rips it out of her flesh, and runs off.  My heart is beating very fast, and Sam is shaking again.

        “I… I couldn’t kill her,” she stutters, “I don’t think I could kill anyone.  Even if they were about to kill me.”

        “It’s okay.  At least she probably won’t mess with us again,” I reply.  “Do you still want to go to the Cornucopia, or should we treat the wound first?”

        “I’ll just wash it out with the spring water, so we can go there now.”  She pours the water on her wound, and we’re off.

        We soon reach the hill where the pedestals were placed.  Climbing up to the top, I can see the metal horn, and some figures surrounding it.  I signal to Sam to stay out of sight of the figures, and I carefully lift my head over the hill so I can barely see what is there.  The figures are definitely tributes, and, looking closer, I can see who they are, which happens to be the entire Career alliance, excluding of course the deceased Hunter and Tonya.  I wait for them to leave, but they just stand there.  All of the supplies are in piles in front of the Cornucopia.  I guess we've found the Careers’ camp.

        In the grass, I see Aqua.  She’s sitting there with an axe to her left and a trident to her right, looking surprisingly peaceful.  Another of the Careers sits next to her, her District partner, Parker.  They look bored.  I really don’t understand how you can possibly be bored while you’re fighting for your life. I know I’m constantly alert and waiting for someone to come and kill me; but she’s just sitting around waiting for someone to come to her so she can kill them.  It sickens me.

        I finally stop spying on them and turn to Sam.  “The Careers are using the Cornucopia as their camp.  There’s no chance of going in and getting alive.”

        “Then I guess we should go back to the forest.”

        We walk back, keeping an eye on the surroundings to see any hiding tributes. We get back to the same place we had our camp in before.  I can tell that it’s the one because of the open space we were sleeping in.  The arena starts to get dark soon after we arrive.  The days seem to be much faster than normal, but I guess the Gamemakers can alter the brightness of the arena to give the effect that it’s night.  We take a sip of water a bit of bread for dinner, and the Capitol’s anthem starts to play.

        Displayed in the sky is first Tonya from Three, as expected, and Sophia from eleven.  I feel sorry for her; she should never have been in the arena.  That makes twelve dead and twelve alive.  I still can’t believe Cyrus lasted this long, he should’ve run into the Careers at some point, or at least some other tribute. 

        I take first watch while Sam sleeps.  After my watch is finished, I drift off to sleep.

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