The 75th Hunger Games

11

-katniss-
the careers all took off after me. they were all fast.
"you must be getting tired, doing all this running." gloss said.
"nope!" i replied.
"hey!" johanna jumped out from the trees, swinging her axe at me. i ducked.
"so, you wanna live, huh? for what? your wimp sister?" she asked.
everyone laughed.
"who do you think you are? you try being in her position, at 13 years old." i said.
"take her guys!" johanna yelled.
brutus and enobaria grabbed my hands and pulled me back to their camp. cashmere started a fire.
"now, you are gonna team with us, or else you and your friends will be dead by 10am." gloss said.
"okay, okay." i replied.
they all smiled.
"you're gonna help us all get out of here." brutus told me.
"how? only one district can win." i smiled.
"we will figure that out. let's just go back to bed." cashmere said.
we all got into a sleeping bag. i pretended to be asleep while the careers talked.
"she's so stupid." enobaria said.
i looked up at the sky. it should be about 7am, so i haven't seen anyone for 4 to 5 hours.
i pretended to wake up.
"i'm gonna go get some meat." i said.
"okay, be back soon." the boy from one replied.
i nodded and walked away from the camp, when they were all out of sight, i started to run. i was hungry and thirsty. all i had was my bow and arrows, but i needed to find the others.
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i ran around the whole arena at least once. it was about 10.
i heard a loud noise and i saw a wave come up from out of nowhere in front of me.
i screamed and started to run. the wave caught up quickly and washed me away. i couldn't breathe for a few seconds, until i hit the cornucopia, falling on the ground.
i coughed and rolled over.
i looked in the water and my bow and arrows were sinking.
i ran into the water and grabbed them. i went back to the cornucopia and leaned against it. i counted ten arrows. i put them on my back and took my bow. the girl and boy from seven came running towards me. i picked up the girl and threw her into the water. this scared the boy and he ran.
the girl came back up, coughing.
"i'm sorry." i said.
she nodded. "you could have just killed me."
"just because this is my second time in the games does not mean i like killing people. i had no choice to come here. i'm the only living female victor from my district."
"so?"
"so. i think snow wants us victors dead. because we sometimes do some wrong things in the arena."
"but why would he want you dead?"
i shrugged. "i don't know. but he didn't tell us we were going to be reaped that day. we just attended, and were reaped. we never got to say goodbye."
a cannon went off. we both jumped.
i heard laughs from a distance.
"oh no." i whispered.
"what?" the girl asked.
"i found the careers at their camp. they told me if i didn't team up with them, they would kill me and my friends."
"good luck." she said and ran.