(AN im changing the story a bit)
As soon as i reach the top of my tube, i immedately see the sun glint off of my knives. I look around, and see cato five tributes to my left, and fire girl two to my right. "Ladies and gentelmen, let the 74th hunger games begin. may the odds be ever in your favor." The announcer says. 10....9.....8.....7......6.......5......4.......3......2 some idiot steps off to my right, making fire girl closer to me. The gong rings, and i sprint to my knives. I throw a small one to the nearest person- the boy from 7- then hit the boy from five, the girl from 7, then i see the boy from 8 about to kill fire girl, i throw it so hard, i almost dont see it in his back. He falls down, and i throw one at fire girl, she tries do dodge it, but it lodges it in her in her lower calf. It slows her down a bit, but she still reaches the forest before i do. I walk back to the cornucopia, to see that glimmer is struggling to get her foot out of a backpack. We all collect the supplies, and stack them up. I grab a different jacket, because this one has knife pockets on the inside. I carefully place each one in its own slot, glimmer collects water from the lake, while cato hunts for food, and marvel makes a fire. We have plenty of food, but all of us but glimmer prefers dried meat over fresh meat.
"How many did you kill?" Marvel asks me. "Four. I also injured miss everdeen." I say in a mocking voice. "I killed 2." He says. "I killed 1, with a dagger." Glimmer says. Thats pathetic. I killed more than the two of them combined. "What about you cato?" Glimmer giggles. "4." He says flatly. "Im going to look for berries." I say. I walk fast, but silent, catching a glimpse of rue here and there. No dobt the cameras will either be on miss everdeen, or us careers, most likely not me, since im 'looking for berries' when im actually checking on rue. She leaps from tree to tree, and when i know im far away from where i entered, i make a noise, "hey!" The jumping stops. "Please dont hurt me!" She cries. "Your too young. You remind me of my boyfriend's sister." I say. She comes out of her tree carefully. "Your not gonna hurt me?" She says questioningly. I shake my head, and pull out a smaller pack i managed to quickly stuff in my bigger one. I pull it out, and make sure it has the waterskin, extra socks, food, water, a slingshot, and matches. I hand it to her, "for me?" She asks, and i nod. "It will last you a couple of days." I say. She hugs me. "Thank you." I look at her questioningly. "You trust me?" I ask, and she nods. My face loosens, and i crack a slight smile. "Good luck." I say. She waves, and my eyes water. "Be careful!" I shout, and i hear a small "i will!" I find a big blackberry bush, and fill my pack with it. I head by the river, and i pick some blueberries that i found. I walk back up, shuffling my feet, and hear a rustle in the bush. Instinctively, i throw a knife in there, and loverboy comes out. I smirk. "Ill have a fifth kill today." I say smirking. "I can lead you to katniss!!!" He cries. I yank my knife out of his arm, and tie a rope around him. "Youll be following me." I say. Its a long hike back to camp, because were at the edge of the arena, and peeta breaks the silence about a 1/4 mile away. "I know what you did for rue." He says, and i freeze. I turn around, and put a knife up to his neck. "Tell a soul, and your dead." I say. He nods, and his ghostly pale skin illuminates him in the dark. The anthem begins, and it starts with the girl from 3, both from 4, the boy from 5, both from 7, both from 8, both from 9, and the girl from 10. When we reach the camp, cato is pacing back and fourth, the others sleeping. And he rubs his hands through his hair. Loverboy steps on a twig, and cato's head darts over. "Where were you?!?" He shouts. "Getting berries, cant eat only meat, well get too bulky and weak." I reply. "Whos that?" He asks drawing out his sword. "Loverboy, hes gonna lead us to fire girl." Cato smirks, "miss everdeen, eh?" He asks. He points the sword at his throat, and smirks deviously, "step out of line, its your life." He nods. "Clove help-" i know what he was going to say. I put my curviest, sharpest knife on his neck, "painful death?" I ask, cutting his face a bit. He shakes his head, and i bring him into the cornucopia. I tie him aginst some empty boxes that used to be where my knives, catos swords, and marvels spears were held.
I sit next to cato, wondering how he was holding up while i was gone. "Get some rest." I hear cato say. I shake my head. "We need to talk." He lays back aginst the cornucopias metal roof, "ok, talk." He orders. "Your still protecting me." I say. He chuckles, "well... Yeah, i lo-" the sound of glimmers curtling scream makes me jolt up. "Its thresh!" Marvel yells. He tries to help glimmer, but the cannon sounds. I stay on the roof, while cato goes down. I hear another cannon, but i dont see cato. "CATO!!" I yell. I hear a third cannon, and the violence stops. "Cato?" He comes out of the cornucopia, covered in blood. "What happened?" I ask. "He got loverboy and glimmer, no one else though." I nod, and grab glimmers body, and drag it away from us. Cato drags thresh's and marvel gets loverboy. We head back, and i clean up cato, and marvel stares blankly, refusing help. I had to patch cato up a lot. There were slashes all over his chest, arms, and face. "The only competition left if fire girl." Cato says. "Shes not competition. Before he died, loverboy said, 'get the bow!' And glimmer had it in her hand when they lifted her out of the arena." Marvel says. "Shes pretty good at knives." Cato says, "i saw her in training." I saw her in training. Creepy, in a way. "Theres no way shes getting these babies." I say pointing to my carefully arranged knives. "Shes got that one that you lodged into her." Marvel says. "But thats it." I say, "she cant do anything with one, she always missed the first knife she threw, worst she could actually do is hit you with the handle." I say, and we laugh. I hear an explosion, and am thrown aback, when i see the girl from five fell in our traps. A cannon sounds, and that makes 15 dead. Some of the food got destroyed, but we dont care, we have a lot of extra. I put all the good stuff in the cornucopia, so all thats left out is useless stuff, like trash, empty crates, empty boxes, wrong sized clothing. There are larger crates that we all decide to open whenever we get farther into the games, because its only day one. By dawn, were all packed, and we set out for teibutes. We find one girl, who decided that making an early morning bonfire, and sing around twigs, and then we chase fire girl, up a tree. Cato catches a branch, but snaps it. "What do we do?" I ask. "Clove, you go." Marvel says. "Push her down, your the lightest." I see fear flicker in her eyes, and i taunt her. "The bow was taken out of the arena." I say. She wipes that smug smile off her face, snd i smirk, im in her head. I start to climb up the tree, but there isnt many braches that i could climb up, because cato cracked most of them. "Climbing has never been your best skill, cato." I say. "Yours either." He says, and i shake my head, "thats fishing." He rolls his eyes, and i continue climbing. I make it ten feet below her, and she starts to climb again. She reaches the top of the tree, and i think shes gonna go down. She starts to slide, and she loses her grip on the trunk, but her pants catch her on a branch. I hear a cannon, and look down. Katniss sheds a tear, and i notice the small backpack i gave Rue on her back. I push her pants off the branch, and she flails her arms, trying to find something to grab ahold of. She falls, and i hear a snap! I look down, and the calf i hit splits into two. She grabs her knife, and throws it at marvel hitting his stomach, and i hear two cannons.
We decide to go back to the cornucopia, and we see both tributes from 6, and the boy from 3 raiding our supply, i throw my knives at the two from 6, and cato snaps district 3's neck. "All thats left is me, you, and the crippled boy from 10." I say. We head out to find him, and we see him laying down. "Say bye." I say. He pulls out a berry from his pocket, eats it, and dies in seconds. I hug cato, and the anthem shows real fast. Glimmer, marvel, district 3 boy, foxface, both from 6, the boy from ten, rue, thresh, fire girl, loverboy. "Ladies and gentelmen, may i present the victors of the 74th hunger games. From district 2 Clove Kentwell, and Cato Dawn." Theres confetti and balloons, and i kiss cato. Two days in the arena doesnt do much, but two days without kissing cato is too much.
