Katniss lets out a screech, and the other mutts start to sprint towards the Cornucopia. I can feel my heart beating into my ears as I ready an arrow and shoot it at the mutt of Sparkle. It hits her in the shoulder and her arm disappears into ash, but she keeps sprinting forward. I shoot another arrow at her and it hits her forehead. Her whole body explodes into fire and ash, and where she stood before a fire begins. The fire starts to spread on the grass.
I realize there is no way to escape this death. If we kill them, we will burn. If we do not, we will suffer worse as they destroy us.
I wonder if the single victor will even apply anymore. If the Gamemakers cannot see us anymore, they cannot stop our slaughter.
We will all die here.
I feel a burning on my ankle and look down. Liam’s mutt has wrapped his hand around my ankle and is using me to climb on the Cornucopia. I can feel the flames scorching my skin, blistering me. This is not the safe fire that Katniss had engulfed me in. This is death.
I kick Liam’s head with my other foot and he bursts into ashes, fire exploding on to the Cornucopia. I scream as it clings to my skin and clothes. Harry, Gale and Niall are fighting against the other mutts as they try to climb the Cornucopia, fire exploding on the steel surface. The whole Cornucopia is slowly heating up from the mutts touch and the fire they spread with death.
We will be cooked alive on this thing.
Katniss lets out another scream and the mutts become more aggressive.
She must be the leader.
It’s sickening to think of. The once promising future leader of the rebellion, leading a flaming army of the Capitol. But she is the leader.
She needs to be taken out.
“Harry,” I say, my voice almost a whisper. Harry kicks away a tribute and looks at me. His face is burned, but he is still as handsome as ever.
“Kate?”
“May the odds be ever in your favour,” I say, and jump off the Cornucopia and into the flames below. I hear Harry scream my name as I start to run, shooting the heads of tribute mutts as I go. I am determined. I will not die until I am there.
If I burn, she will burn with me.
