The 80th Hunger Games: A Time for Revenge

Prim's Day Three

Chapter Seventeen:

I'm on watch in the morning while the sun is coming up. Before I can wake up Sam, a cannon goes off. BANG! She awakes suddenly, frightfully looking around. She sees me, and calms down. She still is breathing pretty heavily though.

"Wow, I was really worried it was you or someone nearby," she says, "I wonder who it was though."

I think about it. "Well, the tributes left are Stingra from One, Aqua and Parker from Two, Edison from Three, Rosie and Jack from Four, Maya from Six, Chuck from Seven, Constance from Ten, Cyrus from Twelve, and us. Between them, I'd say it was probably
Cyrus."

"Probably. But how do you keep track of everyone, I can barely remember anyone's name, I surely can't list everyone that's alive!" she exclaims.

"I don't know. I guess I just committed them to memory so I could remember who I have a chance of running into. When my sister, Katniss, was in the Games, she only knew the names of about five or six of them."

"The only people I can remember other than us are my District partner, Maya, and some of the Careers. The rest are just blurs."

"So what should we do today?" I ask.

"I don't know. All we can hope for is stuff from sponsors."

Right after she says it, I look up to the sky to see a parachute floating down. When is descends to where I can reach it, I open it up to see the contents. It has another bottle, filled to the brim with fresh water, four strips of jerky, and a small knife. I show it to Sam.

"You should keep the knife," she tells me, "and the water bottle, I'll keep the other one. We can each take two slivers of the jerky."

"Okay," I agree.

"I think we'll be getting a lot more of this. You are probably the most well-liked person in the Games."

I smile, I know she's right. We can keep ourselves hydrated and full from the water and food we get from the sponsors. And if either of us gets hurt or sick, we will be provided with medicine. We'll be ready when the Careers come. Except of course, we won't be able to fight. Sam has her bow, but that can only be used well for long-distance targets. I have my knife, but it will be nothing compared to Aqua's axe or trident. And I don't think either of us would be good at hand-to-hand combat.

About a half hour later, another cannon sounds. BANG! Soon after that there's yet another one. BANG!

"I guess the Careers are on the prowl," I remark.

"We have to stay out of sight if they come," Sam adds, "I bet we could climb that tree." She point in front of us to a tree with low branches, one that can be easily climbed.

"Yeah, probably."

We sit around for a while, but the Careers don't come, thankfully. There are only nine of us left. Half of them are probably the Careers, depending on who had recently died. When I had seen that there were eight of them, I thought that it would be impossible for anyone else to win. I guess I was right.

"Do you want to explore more of the arena?" Sam asks.

"Sure," I reply, "we have to be very quiet though. We can't risk an attack."

"Okay."

I have no interest in looking around. All I need to know is where I can hide in case of an attack, and where our camp is. Nowhere else matters to me. But I'll go anyways.

We decide to venture farther south of the arena. When we walk down to that section, it seems at first that the forest goes on forever. Finally, we find the edge. When the trees stop popping up, we find a huge lake. On the other side of it are more trees, but not enough for it to be considered a forest. The lake is so peaceful and calming, but unnerving at the same time. It feels that at any moment, someone, or something, will jump out and kill me.

Sam seems a bit nervous too. "I think we should go back now, I like the looks of this place way too much."

"Same."

We don't run into anything on the way back. Things have been too peaceful in the Games, or at least to me they are. I'm sure others would disagree. Finally, we hear a rustling noise. We're alarmed, and we scatter.
Sam ascents up a nearby tree, silently calling for me to follow. I do, and the source of the noise doesn't appear to see us. It's Chuck. We're done for if he finds us, as he's carrying a huge axe.
Sam accidently leans against a leaf, and
it crunches under her weight. Chuck hears it, but looks to the tree next to us, and runs off in that direction. I'm quite relieved.

Once Chuck is out of eyeshot, we climb back down. Our camp wasn't in the direction he was headed in, so we don't have to worry about him again. We somehow find our way back to the camp again, and it seems to be getting dark.

We sit around for a while, and then the anthem starts playing. The faces in the sky are Jack from Four's, Constance from Ten's, and, Cyrus', my District partner. I'm surprised about Jack, but there are still five Careers left.
Constance wasn't much of an astonishment, but only because of her lack of an alliance. Cyrus seems obvious, I really don't see how he had even gotten this far.

Sam tells me that she's taking first watch, so I go to sleep on the forest floor.

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