Glimmer: A Hunger Games Fanfic

Chapter 18

Glimmer: A Hunger Games Fanfic

Chapter 18

After two hours of the sunrise, everyone decided to get up. They rubbed their eyes and stretched after Cato kicked their foot awake. Cato was the first one to wake up and cursed when he saw how much the sun had risen in the east. He picked up himself from the ground fast then looked over to  see me sitting crosslegged on the boulder.

"When did you get up?" he hissed.

"A little before the sun rose," I lie, shrugging as I twirled the tip of an arrow on my index finger, the metal digging in painfully. Strangely though it kept me from falling apart.

"Why didn't you wake us up?"  Cato asked cracking his neck.

"I didn't know if you were morning people." I lied once more. I just wanted to be alone for awhile. "Didnt want to get killed before all the fun started."

Cato just sneered at me. "Well we now lost more time tracking down that fire bitch. Thanks a lot."

I stayed quiet, watching my blood form into a tiny bubble on my finger as Cato started waking everyone.

"I've noticed you are missing an arrow, Glimmer," Marvel said to me when he was more awake.

"Sharp eyes you have there, Smarties," I say with no humor in my voice, "We had a wanderer at sunrise."

Everyone looked at me but I paid attention to braiding my hair instead of looking at them.

"Wanderer. As in one person?" Clove asked.

I nodded. "Yeah. A girl who looked like she was forteen. She stood ten feet away from here." I pointed to the spot in the tiny clearing area. "No biggie."

Everyone looked at me with strange eyes except for Lover Boy who look at me with disgust and discomfort.

"Anyway," Marvel begins," We need to get going if we want to find that fire chick." We all nodded our heads except for Peeta.

"Where you think she went Lover Boy?" Clove asked Peeta. He pointed to the east and said that was the direction he saw her go at the Cornucopia.

So we packed our gear and started to hunt.

"Glimmer," Marvel began talking when we got deeper into the woods," is it true that you have a ton of prewar music?"

"Where you hear that?" I asked, keeping an eye out on any thing that would have mention anyone was there.

"I overheard your friend, Aquamarine, talking about it to Bronze Luxerous."

At the mention of Aqua's name, I instantly ached to see her again. She always knew what to say to get me feel better and helped me clear my mind from troublemsome thoughts.

"Yeah, I listened to that kind of music. Why you ask?"

"I was just curious."

We didnt speak to each other again.

As we trudged along through the forrest, a huge roar of trees falling and fire crackling sounded to the right of us. Looking up at the sky, I saw black smoke rising to the sky.

"Hey, look over there," Clove said noticing it as well. "I think we were given a sign." All of us smiled. The Gamemaker must of wanted us to kill that district twelve girl as well.

A taste of ecstasy rushed through my viens and I couldn't control the smirk on my face. I was finally be able to kill that worthless girl and I'll be one step to go home with honor.

I pushed off the ground running. As I sprinted towards the fire a new thought popped in my brain. Why do you want to kill her so bad?  She was a threat I had to eliminate. She was an obstacle that kept me from winning glory. She also have a sister at home waiting for her. So? Why is her sister more important than mine? I have two sisters waiting for me. My district is more important than her's anyway.

I dont know why those thoughts bothered me but it did.

I heard my allies fall behind me. Their fast footsteps crunching the sticks beneath our feet. As we got closer to the fire, we whooped, slowed down our pace close to a skip, looked all over the place and started to raise our confidence by making horrid jokes.

"Well arent we fabulous killers," Marvel laughs.

"The best of course!" Clove puts in.

"Guess what Im going to do when I get my hands on that fire chick," Cato pipes up. We all say what obnoxiously. "I'm going to tie her to some kind of stake and burn her alive. She will then be Girl on Fire!"

We all join in on a thunderous laugh.

A few minutes ago, we were all quiet. Didn't care what we had to say to each other. Then all of the sudden with a prospect of knowing we were about to kill someone we all hated, we laughed and made jokes. Knowing we were about to kill Katniss brought ultimate joy to everyone. It was like a drug addict who was having urges and finally getting their drug to make them feel better. Katniss was our drug. She was our ecstasy to our excitement. And we wanted her blood. We wanted to see it drop off from our blades in quick droplets and make a pile by our feet. We didnt know why we wanted that. It was probably because she beat us in our scores and we couldnt have some nobody from a nobody district come in and take that away from us.

Then I saw her.

Katniss was in the crook with pain etched on her dirty face and my already bubbling excitement, exploded.

"There she is!" I yelled and grabbed an arrow from my quiver.

Katniss opened her eyes quickly and started to get out of the water fast. We all started after her. Once her foot hit land, she was off. We picked up our pace and started taunting her. We called her names and rold her that she was weak.  After awhile, she started to climb a tree. When we got to the tree, she was already a good distance up.

Cato started to climb after her and we yelled encouragements at him. After a few feet up, Cato started to loose his grip and almost fell to the ground. But he still stayed on and climb after her. After a few more feet up, he lost his grip all together and fell to the ground. Cato started cussing a storm.

I placed an arrow on the bow and pulled the string behind my ear.

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Hi! So finally here is an update. Sorry about not uploading it fast enough. I was hoping to get better on that:)

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