~Hunger Games~

Chapter 14

Katniss Pov


Today is the day. The games are today.
I'm so excited!! NOT.

This is going to be the worst thing ever! It's hard to think that, I might actually lose my life. Who will protect Prim and Mother? Well I guess Gale could win for me and take care of them. I know he would.

I hadn't realized I had been sitting there for over an hour. What time was it? 7:30?? I was supposed to be up and ready at 7:00!! Effie is going to kill me!

*knock knock knock*


Well just in time.

"Katniss!! We are behind schedule! You are going to be late! And if you are, they will shoot you and I dead! Hurry up!" Yells Effie.

"I'm coming! I slept in! Sorry!" I yell back.

I get up have a quick 5 minute shower, got out and got dressed, brushed my teeth, and last but not least, did the same old braid in my hair to add some of my style.

I walk out of my room and Effie, Haymitch and Gale are waiting for me at the door. My mother and Prim say their goodbyes. They wish us luck and of course, we cried together while we could.

We leave the suite around 9:00 so we can get there for 9:45 and get ready for the "death game" as I would call it.

By the time we arrive we are one of the last to get there. People are already waiting to be raised up into the arena.

I get into the cement room where Cinna is waiting for me.

"Hello Katniss." He says.

"Hello." I say back with a stern voice.

"Are you ready?" He asks.

"As ready as I'll ever be."

The big clock on the wall starts counting down from 30.

"Cinna! I'm scared!" I say

"Shhhh," he says, "I'm not aloud to bet, but if I could, I'd bet on you." He pins a little mocking jay pin on my jacket.

I nod because I can't say anything without crying. I chomp down a little harder on the inside of my cheeks so I won't cry.

The clock is at 20 seconds. A big voice says "Please enter your elevator."

That's my cue to step into the elevator.

I walk into it and turn towards Cinna. He waves goodbye. I wave back without a smile.

I look up and all I see is a bright light. Then I'm there. I'm right there standing in the middle of it. The cornucopia is right in the middle and shining in the sunlight I see the Bow. My Bow. I turn and look at Gale next to me. He shakes his head no as in not to go for the bow. I ignore him and then I catch Cato's eyes on me. He shakes his head no as well. This time I listen as if they are right.

The clock is counting down from 10...9...8...7...6...5...4...3...2...1 and then GO!!

I run into the trees behind me and Gale follows close behind me. I turn to see Cato slashing at people's faces and killing off tributes one by one. I'm glad he isn't against me.

Finally I stop running. Gale does too.

He starts rummaging through the backpack he grabbed from the cornucopia.

"How in the world did you get that from that blood bath so fast?" I ask him.

He laughs.

"Okay, I hate to admit it but Cato isn't a bad guy. We teamed up you know?"

"You and Cato teamed up?" I ask surprised.

"You guys talking about me? I knew you loved me Gale but really? You're becoming a bit stalker ish!" Cato says as he sneaks up on us.

"No," gale replies, "I was just explaining to Katnip how rude you are." He explains to Cato.

"That's a lie!!" I say laughing.

"Well what did he say?" Cato asked.

"He really said that you aren't a bad guy!" Gale covered my mouth with his hand before I could continue.

Cato laughed and shrugged, "yeah I know! I'm awesome!"

Gale rolled his eyes.

*snap*

"Did you here that?" I ask

"Yeah." Gale said

Cato pulled me behind him, "stay back!" He said

"I can take care of myself you know? Right?" I say.

I'm looking around while Gale and Cato move slowly towards the movement in the trees.

I can see Cato catches a foot of someone hiding behind the tree and I see a little girl running.

Cato is hot on her tail and was about to kill her.

"CATO! STOP!" I scream.

He stops in the moment.
I start running, I knock the long sword out I his hands and run after the girl. She has to be Prims age. I couldn't let Cato kill her.

I catch hold of her backpack and we both fall back onto the ground.

She quickly gets up and is ready to run again.

"Wait!!" I say

She stops and turns around to look at me.

"I won't hurt you, I promise." I say.

She looks at me and steps forward.

"What is your name?" I ask

"Rue," she says quietly. She reminds me of prim it the complete opposite. She has brown frizzy hair, dark skin, and actually has a chance to survive here. She scored a 7 in overall training.

"I'm-" she cuts me off

"Katniss," she says, "I know who you are. Girl on fire."

"Can I just-"

"No!" I interrupt Cato. He rolls his eyes and walks away while lowering his sword.

"She's one of us now!" I say with a delighted voice.

I turn and start walking back to camp and on the corner of my eye I see her tiptoeing behind me. I grin. I think she saw me.

"Who's this?" Gale asks.

"Oh, this is Rue! The new member of our group!" I explain

"I see." He replies

Rue sits down on a log facing the opposite direction of us.

It's getting dark and I don't feel safe on the ground. I decide to make camp in the trees that surrounds our site.


Once I'm finished making all of our beds I call Cato and Gale up. They climb up the tree and I see Rue sitting alone.

"You too Rue!" I yell down.

She looks up and finally decides to get up and come to bed.

As I'm watching her climb up I see this big animal type thing running straight for Rue. She isn't even close to high enough to get away from the pig/dog looking animal.

"RUE!!" I scream.

She turns and it was to late. The animal had gotten hold of her leg and was dragging her down the trunk of the tree.

"CATO! GALE!!" I scream.

I start climbing down to help Rue.

I jump to the ground and shoot the animal with an arrow. It whimpers. but It won't be easy to take it down. I jump in front of Rue to protect her as if she was my sister.

I look into the animals icy blue eyes. They looked familiar. The animal growls then puts one step forward.

He goes to launch at me but Cato jumps down from the tree and landed right in front of me. He slashes the animal with his sword. Deep enough to make run off and leave us alone for a while.

It's not possible. Those icy blue eyes. The way the looked so familiar. Could it be? Could it really be him inside of the monstrous body of the beast as big as a Lion. Even bigger.

Could it really be the boy who baked bread. The boy who committed suicide.

Peeta.