The Hunger Games: My Story

Chapter Eleven

How could we not notice how quiet it was? I think. Amethyst is running. She got a head start, she saw the fire first. She sees a lake by the Cornucopia. "Guys to the lake!" I quickly pick up Rose and run. My bag is full of useless things so I drop it. Blair is like a ninja as she avoids all the fireballs. "Should we keep Cassandra's little friend?" she asks. "My name is Rose!" Rose says. Augustus is screaming as a fireball hits his leg. We're coughing continuously. We soon get to the Cornucopia. All of our supplies are there. We're all covered in soot and blood, especially Augustus. I sit on the grass, soaked. "That was a close one," says Flint.
Just then, a parachute falls from the sky, and into my hands. "Guys, look! A parachute!," I shout. Augustus is moaning, and he stops. Blair glares at me and exclaims,"Well, open it!" I unscrew the lid. I find herbal medicine that was brewed up by that Capitol. I don't know who's sponsors gave this medicine, but it made Augustus sigh in relief. We all got some burns, but Augustus got the worst of us all. We all put on the medicine. It's like heaven. We have so much relief that we sit for awhile. Suddenly the ground shakes. The mines. Someone set them off. I know how to set them up again, so I did. I see a girl scrambling across the field. It's Alice. She has a few apples and some bread. "She's mine!" Blair shouts. She runs across the field and throws a knife at Alice. Alice panics. It hits her in the forehead. Blair then jumps on top of Alice, and pins her down with her arms and legs. We can hear her taunting Alice, and Alice squealing. She stabs Alice for the final time, and she's dead. Blair comes back with a huge grin on her face. "13 down, 11 to go!" We decide to celebrate by having a feast. But we have to go into the woods to find more tributes over night. Rose however, has disappeared completely. I wonder where she went. We decide to sleep under a tree after finding the district 10 boy. While we're supposed sleeping, I get up and explore. Then I see it. It's Melody. She's the District 3 girl. And then I notice the tracker jacker nest above us. They really want us to die, right?, I think. Melody sees me. She frantically climbs over to the nest and takes out a knife. Yes, it's confirmed. She's pulling a Katniss on us. "Guys wake up! Guys! Guys! Guys!" I scream. Rose is is coming out of the bushes. "Where were you-" "GO!" I scream at her. She nods and runs as fast as she can. Then the nest comes crashing down.
It's mayhem. Augustus has the brains to run to the lake, same with Flint and Blair. I don't know what to do. It feels like a thousand needles are pinching my flesh. I am frantically scrambling to get up and away from the tracker jackers. Amethyst is screaming over and over. I grab her hand and I run with her. I run as fast as I can. By the time we get to the water, Amethyst passes out. "Amethyst!" I yell. "Guys, pull the stingers out of her! Quick!" But they all begin to pass out. Blair first, then Flint. Augustus is pulling the stingers out of Amethyst, but he's fading away fast. So am I. Right as I fall asleep, I hear a cannon. It must be Amethyst's. The last thing I see is a monarch butterfly on a flower.
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I wake up with a scream. I have had horrible nightmares for the last I don't know, day? Maybe even two. Or three. But I don't see Amethyst anywhere. I think that was her cannon. My skin has huge hideous bumps from the wasps. I turn to see a fire, and I see Rose by it with her hands over it. "Hi," she says. "Hello," I respond. "Did you get attacked by the tracker jackers?" I ask. She shakes her head. "Where are the others?" I ask. "Oh, they're down by a river they found. And Amethyst died," she says. Okay. I saw Amethyst's death coming. I feel a little bit bad for her. But again, one step closer to home. I get my pack together when I see something. A pig of some sort. But it looks like a human. "Rose, don't move. Freeze." I slowly pick up Amethyst's bow that has 5 arrows in it's quiver. I shoot the pig. It squeals in pain and falls to the ground."Run, Rose, run!" She scrambles to her feet and runs as fast as she can. Suddenly, a dozen of those pigs appear. I run to the trees. "Augustus! Blair! Flint!" I yell. Augustus and Blair come crashing through the trees. "What's the m-" Once they see the pigs, they look a bit excited. "Blair, you ready?" asks Augustus. "I was born ready." Blair says as she throws a knife and it enters a pig's heart. Augustus stabs a pig with his sword in the stomach. They continue to fight like this for a good 20 minutes. The pigs are all dead. Yippee. I, however, am very sleepy. My minds still a bit foggy from the venom of the tracker jackers. So I climb back into my sleeping bag, and fall asleep again.
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My eyes flutter open. The sun is going down, and Augustus has a fire going. Flint is sharpening his spear over the fire, and Blair is playing with her knifes. "Hey Cass," says Flint. He got stung a few times on the face, and he has a sting on his ear. He has a look of sadness on his face. "My sister died while you were asleep. I mean, not just now but when you woke up before." I nod. "I know," I say. "Rose told me. She was the only one who didn't get stung. Speaking of which, where is Rose?" Blair points to the lake, not even looking up. "She's fishing," she says. "She also showed us where to find edible berries and plants. She's good at that." I nod again. "I know."
I see Rose running towards us. "Rose!" I say. "How are you?" She's panting. "Guys run! It's some sort of mutt over there! And there's a tribute running away from it too!" I hug Rose. "It's okay, Blair and Augustus will take care of it." Flint snorts. "Oh and also Flint," I add. We can see the mutt and tribute coming into range. I take Amethyst's bow and shoot a arrow. It hits a tree. Blair smirks. "Nice shooting, ace," she says as a knife pierces the mutt's chest. "Guys," Augustus says as he's struggling to take down the tribute. "Get along!" Blair and I exchange a look. "Fine!" I say as I kick the tribute. A cannon goes off. He's dead. We're all panting, and we need water. So we go to the lake and drink for a bit. It's refreshing. Flint looks up at the sky. "Guys it's the anthem." Faces appear. First the District 10 boy, Alice, then the District 9 boy. He's the one we just killed. So the audience is thirsty for more deaths. Lovely. We head back to base camp, and go to bed. Flint is going to stay on watch the whole night. He's going to be really tired tomorrow. So there's not to many tributes left. Flint, Blair, Andrew, Augustus, Melody, me, the girl from 9, and Rose. 8 tributes left. One victor. I want to live. I have to.