What if Katniss never killed Marvel? What if district 12 was never meant to have a victor?
What if the 74th Hunger Games was meant to have a victor from district 1?
Marvel was once a nameless character in the first Hunger Games Movie and Book, but h...
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"What do you think?"
I brought him back to the cornucopia to talk to Cato. I figured, that way I didn't have to kill him. And plus, Cato will trust me more if I pretend to be a blinded follower.
Cato looked suspiciously at the boy.
"Fine. We start hunting now anyways, what's your name Lover Boy?"
"Peeta."
"Ok Lover Boy. Marvel, give him your spear."
I stared at Cato, then at Peeta.
"Excuse me?"
Cato stands up and glares at me, despite him being slightly shorter, he was extremely muscular with his body being double the width of mine.
"I said, give him your spear. If you are so determined to let him live, give him a weapon to work with. Unless, your scared?"
I glared right back down at him, tossed my spear in the directing of Peeta. It clattered on the ground.
"You wish."
I spun around to grab more spears off the rack and piled them into a strap over my shoulder.
I faced the group, this is what I was working with. A group of killer, betrayers.
I pointed to the sun which was setting behind the trees, casting orange rays over the field.
"Go on Lover Boy, show us the way."
He walks by, gripping the spear with both hands as if his life depended on it. I followers right behind, Clove next to me.
Cato and Glimmer behind us, I could feel him glaring at my back as well trudged through the forest while Peeta makes his way at the front.
Soon, day turns to night. We don't know where we are, following Peeta as he chooses where we go. After hours of walking, Cato has enough.
He grabs Peeta's shoulder, forcing him to look at him.
"Well Lover Boy, you know what you are doing right?"
He shakes his head in a tentative nod.
Cato grips him harder,
"Right?"
In the distance, I heard a sound of crackling. Distancing myself away from Cato and Peeta, I look through the forest, there in the distance was a small shimmer of light.
"Hey guys?"
Cato glares at me,
"What?"
"I think we might have found someone."
Everyone except Peeta looks over to where I am pointing through the trees. They start making plans while I still watch Peeta.
Why is he doing this? Surely he doesn't think he is trying to earn our trust. No, that's not what he is doing. Then why is he here? Helping us kill his lover as well.
He looks into the forest, before looking back at us. He makes eye contact with me.
I shake my head, don't even try running now.
He looks down to the ground with a sad expression on his face. Behind me, Cato taps me on the shoulder.
"We are going to sneak up on whoever this is. We don't reckon it's the girl, surely someone who scored a 11 would make a fire on the first night."
I nod before silently walking behind him. A couple of steps in, Cato holds up his hand.
"Wait, what's that?"
He points to a nearby pond, where a stick seems to be pulled in a unnatural angle.
Clove reaches forward and sliced the stick in half.
"It was a trap, not to kill. But to hunt."
Cato nods before leading onwards towards the fire.
He was right, it wasn't Katniss. Instead it was a shivering girl rubbing her hands together next to the fire.
Someone stepped on a stick right as we stood behind her, she wipped her head around and let out a scream.
"Please! Don't kill me!"
Just as the other girl said before she died as well. No, she didn't die. I killed her.
Murdered.
Cato handed Glimmer his sword, before walking forward and snapped her neck.
Clove let's out a laugh, Glimmer joins in.
They start mocking her as we walk in a similar direction back the way we came, Peeta no longer leading. Clove was in front of me, Marina in front of her, leading.
"What did she expect? Haha!" She practically shouts while walking. I let out laugh in response while keeping up with her.
As horrible as they are, as we are... To feel invincible, to feel almost safe in a arena of killers, feels good. I am able to laugh with ease, to my slight disgust.
Glimmer falls back to where Cato was walking.
"You heard what she said, 'no! Please don't kill me!' haha"
Cato chuckles. Behind him, Peeta catches up.
"You sure she went this way Lover boy?"
"Yeah, that was her trap that you found back there."
"She better be."
Peeta leaves Glimmer to talk to Cato.
Clove, Marina and I plunge our way through the forest, eventually we found our way back to the cornucopia. Peeta, Glimmer and Cato not long behind us.
Marina and I spent the rest of the evening searching for food through the bags, eventually we found enough of have a semi decent meal. By this time, the sun was rising.
I separated myself from the rest of the group to go to sleep inside the cornucopia. Natural instinct told me to sleep behind the pile of containers, hiding me from view. Can't hurt to be safe than sorry.
In the darkness, I bring out the pink jewel that Calaudia gave me from my pocket.
I roll it around in my hand until I fall asleep under the moonlight.
