Surviving The Games

Chapter Seven- Friends and Enemies

  I ran away and had found a cave. I fell asleep and in my dreams heard the anthem playing like a distant train horn. I wake up to the cracking of a twig, but realize it is just Noah. he looks scared, but he has a sword. "Noah, where'd you get that?" I asked him. "I got it from a dieing career." he answered. 'Boom' A cannon sounded, marking the death of another tribute. "How many is that?" I ask him. "That's about ten, I believe." he answered. That means only five died during the bloodbath, which was unusually low.

   We hear some talking in the distance, growing louder. It sounds like a group, probably the careers. Noah grabs a knife and tosses me one. He creeps to the edge of the cave. The girl passes by, and Noah jumps her. 'Boom' She falls to the ground, dead. 'Boom' Noah falls to the ground, dead. I grab the bag and run out of the cave. "Runner!" one of them yells. I just keep running, trying to distance my self from them.

  I see a nice tall tree ahead, and hear their voices, coming closer and closer. "Ryan, where are you?" one of them yells. I clime the tree and wait for them to pass. They all see the tree and see how tall it is and look up at it. They see me. Crescent starts climbing for me, but I'm so high already that she wouldn't be able to reach me if she still had a bow. She stops climbing and starts going back down, saying, "Ryan, you'll have to come down sometime, and we'll be waiting."

  She really isn't all that smart, because I could leap from this branch to the one on the next tree while they sleep, climb down and kill them, because they cant see me when it's so dark out. And when the sun sets, the gamemakers decide to make it a moonless night. I leap to the next tree, and decide it would be safe to leap another tree. I do so and start climbing down it. When I get down I see them sitting there, looking up at the tree. 'Boom' Another tribute died. That puts us at eleven. I see that they are all getting tired, so I wait around. They all finally fall asleep, so I creep in and steal Aspen's weapons, the Zulu Throwing Knives. I run away, not wanting to waste time on killing one of them.

  Aspen screams. She must be awake. 'Boom' I hear the cannon. That means twelve are dead. I see smoke in the distance, so I steer clear of that. I hear the careers coming, so I hide in some brush. They pass by me and are heading towards the smoke. I go the exact opposite way, except I know I am being followed because I can hear footsteps.