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The Fight

When I open my eyes James is sitting there packed and ready, "Morning, how are you feeling?"

"Better, Heaps better" I answer truthfully

"Think you could climb a tree?" he asks

"Umm yeah why?"

"There's packs up that tree" he says pointing to the highest tree.

"Oh, Right" I yell as I'm running to the tree, I jump while still running and grab a branch with two hands. I swing for a minute from the force of me running and I climb up the branch. Once I'm safely on that branch I grab another branch above my head and I step on a branch on my right. I jump up onto the large branch I was holding from there there's lots of different branches I can hold onto as I scale the tree. When I put the packs up the tree I put them very high up. Once I'm high enough to get the packs I look around, I can see almost everything. I look over at the cornucopia and see there's still some crates over there and there's no-one over there. I decide that's where to go. I continue looking around until I see the twins, I am just about to shout to them but I remember we just broke the alliance, therefore contact would be crawling back seeming weak. Even though I didn't shout out they still see me and start running towards us weapons raised. I descend down the tree as fast as I can but when I meant to jump down I fell and hurt my ankle, "James! There coming!" I screech

"Damn it! Where are they?" we are quiet and we can hear the foot treads, "Amanda, do we run?"

"NO!" I say sounding suicidal, "We run like hell" and so we do run like hell and when I climb a tree to look for them, they are on out tails as I wasn't very high I climbed down to the lowest branch quickly, "James, I say we fight its our only choice!" James gets his weapons out and as if on cue everyone charges through the trees. I shoot Zak through the calf disabling him and James stabs Jak and he dies the death I'm wishing for, short and the least amount of pain possible, I hear his cannon stating there's no saving him. I can hear Zak crying over his brother, slowly dyeing of blood-loss, not doing anything about it. I go to shoot Columbae who is standing in front of her baby, protecting it. Columbae gets shoot in the stomach and I hear her say the name, "Daniel!" James runs over too her and gives her the baby who's I suppose his name is Daniel. I hear her cannon go off. "what do we do with the baby?" I ask not expecting an answer.

"Leave it" James says and I gasp leave a helpless baby in the woods, "Hopefully the hovercraft will take it and the baby will go to his father." I knew James wasn't heartless I hear a cannon go off and I look over at Zak who died next to his brother. I feel heartless, I just killed the people who saved my life I start to cry. I look up an James and see his arm is cut I take off my pack and get out the bandages and a water bottle, I clean the wound and wrap it up. I take everyone packs and weapons and walk towards the cornucopia. Its getting dark and I want to get there before nightfall, I look behind me and see James following I pass him the weapons and I carry the packs. We reach the cornucopia just at nightfall. I open the create and its empty. there is three crates. I put all our equipment in one except my bow and arrows, James' knifes, two sleeping bags and a pack. I put James' stuff on top of a create, James' looking at me like I'm crazy which, I might as well be. I get into my sleeping bag and get into a create I grab my bow and arrows and the pack and put them in next to me, its a large create so there is plenty of room I close the creates lid until on the roof there is only a crack and I yell to James, "You do it too, its pretty comfortable and safe too" I can hear James opening the creates lid and he stops when he hears the anthem once its over I ask, " Who's gone?"

"Columbae, Jak and Zak...."

"And..... I say, knowing he's not telling me something

"Daniel." The baby is dead. I start crying.

I didn't know the districts could be so MEAN! The capitol took away their children to be killed so the districts did the same. It's fair! But a baby that didn't participate in the reaping, a baby who's mother died, a baby who's mother I killed. It's unfair. So now there will be 24 dead children instead of 23.

I HATE THE DISTRICTS! no. I HATE THE HUNGER GAMES!