Hunger games. Clove's POV.

Chapter 20 - Fire

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Peeta lead us through the forest and we walked for at least half an hour. Peeta walked first then me, then Marvel and last Cato and Glimmer.

Marvel and I was joking around about how the girls face had looked like when Glimmer stabbed her. After a laugh attack I accidently overheard Cato and Glimmer talk about if they shoulnd't just kill Peeta now and I really hoped they didn't. He is our best chance at finding her.

I gritted my teeth at the thought of Katniss and was just about to hurry up next to Peeta to ask questions about her when Cato's voice stopped us all.

"Oy, loverboy! Are you sure she went this way?" He seemed irritated and I couldn't blame him, we had been walking for a pretty long time now.

"Yeah, that was her snare we found back there." Peeta shrugged. So that was hers? Well, she maybe knows how to survive after all.

Cato grunted in answer and we kept walking until Glimmer finally had enough and we headed back to camp. When we got back, Kevin's mine plan was finished and we all fell asleep.

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When we woke up we all took off into the woods again, except Kevin who aparently wasn't quite finished with his master plan. As the day went we only found one tribute who Cato slashed with his sword in a fraction of  a second.

As night came we decided to camp in the forest instead of heading back to camp. And unfortunately, I got the first watch. 

As I sat there, waiting for someone to wake up to switch with me, my mind wandered back to Clary and what she was doing right now. Was she worried? Was mom and dad proud of me? Did she watch me right now?

As I thought to myself, Peeta woke up and took the rest of the watch.

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I woke up to someone shaking me violently. I slowly opened my eyes to see a blonde boy hovered over me, shaking my shoulder with extreme force. He was also screaming something that i didn't hear.

I quickly pushed him away and pulled out two knives.

"Woah, hold on Clove. It's me. But we really got to go!" Cato held his arms ups over his head and then pointed behind me. I turned around quickly and my eyes widened in both fear and surprise.

Behind us, maybe 150 meters away, was a huge wall of fire, getting closer every second.

"Where are the others?" I nearly screamed to Cato to make myself heard over the sparking fire.

"They have already gone. Since no one could wake you I stayed to make sure you weren't killed." Cato explained as we started gathering our stuffs quickly. Wow, that was unexpected.

"We'll talk later, but right now, we really just got to run." Cato said as I tucked in the last knife in my belt.

Together we took off, running through the forest, not caring who saw us. After a while we catched up with the others who had stopped by a stream to drink. They were all panting heavily. 

I looked behind me and saw that the fire was gone. I groaned and fell down on my knees and started drinking greedily.

Once we all were ready to continue we walked out from the forest and out on some cliffs. We were all talking and laughing about how the weak tributes probably hadn't even made it from the fire when Marvel suddenly shouted something and pointed to a little stream some meters away from us.

"There she is! There she is!" he seemed extremely exicted and almost started jumping up and down and when I looked the direction he was pointing I almost scream of happiness myself.

There, taking a peaceful bath in the stream was, no one less than Katniss her self. We all started screaming and laughing and began running against her. She noticed us and quickly climbed out from the stream and ran inside the forest on the other side. We laughed at how foolish she was for thinking she could get away from us and started chaising her.

We ran and it seemed like she was limping on her right leg so we quickly catched up with her. When she was about 10 meters away from us, she stopped and looked up at ther trees surronding her. She apparently found what she was looking for because she started climbing a big tree to our left. We got to the tree when  she was 20 meters in the air.

"That's not going to help you up there!" I screamed at her and we all laughed.

Cato dropped his sword and grapped a low hanging branch and started pulling himself up. We all cheered at him as he climbed closer to Katniss - who only climbed higher until I was sure the branches would break. Unfortunately, they didn't.

When Cato reached a branch pretty high up, the branch snapped and he fell to the ground, hard. Glimmer was immediately there to help him up but he just shoved her helping hand away.

Glimmer raised to her feet and pulled out an arrow and put it on the bow. 

Yeah, like she's gonna hit. Pfft, no way, Glimme might be good, but not that good.

Surprisingly, the arrow flew pretty close to Katniss, still not close enough to harm her. 

Glimmer shot another arrow, which missed too, and then Cato got so frustrated that he grabbed Glimmer's bow and an arrow to try himself. I almost laughed outloud, remembering our little competition before the reaping. He would never hit.

As I expected, he missed. With a small curse he gave Glimmer back her bow.

"Maybe you should throw your swords!" I heard Katniss's voice from up the tree. We all looked up at her, confused. I started pulling out my longest knife but Cato stopped me. I frowned at him with my hand still on my knife.

"Why don't we you wait her out?" I heard Peeta's voice behind me. All of our heads snapped in his direction. "She's gotta come down sometime, that or starve to death. We'll just kill her then." 

Lucky for you that it's a pretty good idea, mr Loverboy, or else you would be dead quicker than you can blink, I thought to myself as I glared at him, almost regretting my decision on wanting him as a allie.

"Fine." Cato snapped. "Somebody make a fire." 

They all went in different directions but I stayed next to the tree for another second to watch Katniss as she pulled up her right leg with a grimace. Good, she was hurt. 

As night fell, we all decided that it was time for Glimmer to take the watch and she whined before sitting against the three Katniss was up in to take the watch.

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