The Capitol Star • A Finnick Odair Story

Ten

They all stood up on the sand as they backed up.

They watched as a giant wave crushed the forest on the opposite side of them, hearing cannons boom. As the wave hit the border by the center of the platform, they felt the remnants of the wave swipe past their feet, rushing onto the sand. Then the ship, coming to pick up the dead victor.

"Someone's here." Katniss stood up after seeing a figure on the beach.

Everyone backed up onto the border of where the forest hit the sand, blending into the trees. They saw Beetee and Wiress stumble onto the beach, blood drenching their bodies, motioning for someone to come.

Johanna appeared into sight.

"Johanna?" Finnick and Aria said at the same time, running towards her, shouting her name.

"Guess we have more allies." Peeta stated as Katniss followed him and Luigi to where they reunited.

"Well, we were all the way deep into the jungle where I thought it was safe. That's when the rain started." Johanna inched towards everyone, hand gripping her slippery axe. "I thought it was rain, it turned out to be blood. Hot, thick, blood it was coming down.." she moved Wiress who seemed to be saying the tame thing over and over again.

"It was choking us. We were stumbling around choking on it blind." Johanna scoffed. "That's when Blight hit the force field." She rubbed her forehead, upset. "He wasn't much but he was from home."

"Tick tock, tick tock, tick tock." Wiress looked scared as she grabbed onto Johanna.

"What's wrong with her." Katniss looked at Beetee.

"She's in shock, dehydration isn't helping. Do you have fresh water?"

"We can get some." Katniss nodded at him.

Wiress grabbed onto Johanna harder, pushing her as Johanna shouted against her.

"Hey stop it!" Katniss marched towards them, Johanna pushing Wiress to the ground.

"Hey what are you doing?" Johanna shouted as Katniss pushed her, Johanna pushing back.

Aria and Finnick rushed over to drag Johanna off of Katniss. "I got them out. For you!" Johanna shouted at Katniss.

"It's ok, it's ok." Finnick calmed her.

"Let me go Finnick." She repeated.

"For me? What does that mean?" Katniss looked at Peeta.

"You did want them as ally's." Peeta shrugged at her.

Luigi knelt down besides Wiress, helping her up.

"Come on let's get you cleaned up." Katniss took Wiress's other arm as Luigi helped them to the water to clean her up.

"Tick tock ok." Katniss repeated after Wiress.

"Yea tick tock, your safe now." Luigi rubbed her back as Katniss washed her hair.

Aria went slowly into the water, leaning down and rinsing her hair, blood contaminating the water. She groaned as she touched the back of her head, a lump seeming to have arrived sooner than she had expected. The pain in her hand subsided and it was merely just a huge scab now. She grinned and silently cheered for herself.

"What does Beetee have there?" Katniss looked at Beetee.

"The coil?" Johanna looked up, cleaning her axe. It looked much different then Arias. Arias was more round shaped, circular and shorter. Johanna's was more long and box liked. "Some kind of wire." She rolled her eyes looking into the sky.