am·biv·a·lence
/amˈbivələns/
noun
the state of having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.
It all started with Elliot's eyes not budging from the screen that sat in her kitchen. She sat in silence, she knew he could pull...
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There were dozens quietly perched on the trees that surrounded them. As they grew closer they growled louder until all of them surrounded the small pond the tributes stand in. The cornucopia wasn't far, they all could see it through the trees.
One of the hybrid monkeys growled while Peeta was still backing up, making them all start to growl and drawl in even closer to thee tributes. But it wasn't a growl anymore it was a scream, a deep ear screeching scream, from the animal. Elliot knew the animals would not let them leave peacefully, that wasn't the gamemakers job, their jobs were to make it hard, to make the tributes fall. The group of four stood in a circle facing the animals that were slowly closing in on them. The sound grew louder as Katniss spoke. "Get to the beach." The tributes drew out their weapons.
One hybrid jumped trying to land on Katniss' back, but Peeta quickly knocked the animal down with his sword. Then all hell broke loose, Katniss was shooting her arrows, Peeta was slicing with his sword, Finnick was stabbing them with his trident, and Elliot had grabbed a small knife with her spear. Each tribute was on their own, fighting for their own lives. Elliot stabbed one of the monkeys with her spear and then quickly spun around to get one who was jumping at her back with her knife.
One animal jumped onto Katniss pushing her down into the water, while it stayed on top of her, slowly drowning the girl. Elliot saw her struggle and ran through the water to jam the spear into the monkey's back, killing the muttation. Elliot lifted the hybrid from its floating position from on top of Katniss to get her up. "Get to the beach!" Peeta was next to her slicing a hybrid dead.
The four made their way closer to the cornucopia, still killing the hybrids, until the two district twelve tributes were attacked. Katniss was knocked down and Peeta had a monkey in front of him and a tree behind him, but he was not getting out. Elliot couldn't help them since she was fighting off two animals, who were closing in on her. Elliot threw her spear at one of the monkeys and grabbed the knife to stab the other. Once. twice. Three times she stabbed the hybrid before its body went limp.
Elliot heard screaming and raced back to the group, seeing a woman laying on the ground in front of Peeta, it was the female morphling, the one who agreed to be a part of the rebellion. Elliot saw Peeta and Katniss grab the woman and drag her to the beach, while Elliot and Finnick fended the animals off so they all could make it out.
Elliot saw Finnick struggle and came to his side, "let's get to the beach." Finnick spoke quickly, while he turned around stabbing a monkey that was planning to attack Elliot's back. While Elliot was fighting a hybrid to her left she felt an excruciating pain shoot through leg. She looked down to see that a hybrid had gotten close enough to get their teeth wrapped around her ankle. Elliot's spear went straight through its head and her mouth fell agape when she felt the monkey's grip loose on her ankle and eventually fall to the group. A silent scream fell from her lips and she backed up quickly, trying to put as much weight on her left foot than her right. "Elliot, come on." Finnick rushed from just before the tree line. Elliot was close, she could make it if she was quick enough. Hastily she grabbed her knife with her left hand and she flipped her spear so that the blade was facing the sky and used it to balance herself as she ran to the beach.
