Black & Blue || Finnick Odair

9

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' We understand death for the first time
when he puts his hand upon one whom we love. '
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Venus let out a scream as she awoke, a cool liquid running over her skin; making her burns sting. Her eyes flew open to meet Finnick's worried ones as he cooed to her, wiping the water all over her burns to try and rid of them. She whimpered as the pain started to fade, but she continued to shake from dehydration and the amount of adrenaline running through her body. The girl reached up and placed her hand on Finnick's cheek, looking up at him with tears in her eyes.

Mags was gone. The grandmotherly figure she had was now dead, all thanks to the Hunger Games. The girl from Ten leant her head into Finnick's hand before he helped her sit up, dragging her to the edge of the pond so he could clear her face from the boules. She hissed out in pain, arching her back up as Katniss held her down; trying to get away from the thing that made her hurt.

'I'm sorry about Mags,' Katniss said softly to the pair.

'She was never going to make it,' Finnick muttered after he stopped scrubbing Venus' face.

'Stupid, fucking games,' The girl sneered before she screamed out again.

Soon, it was all over and she finally relaxed; panting lightly as she sat on the shore. She looked up to where Peeta was collecting some water for her, but as she saw a movement in front of the boy she sucked in a breath. In front of him sat a giant baboon, it's teeth were probably longer then her fingers.

'Fin-n-nick,' Venus stuttered; 'I n-need you to pass me my s-staff, right now.'

'Why?' The man asked.

'Just do it.'

Finnick looked at her odd before he followed her gaze, noticing the mutt in front of Peeta. He quickly handed her the staff, watching as she stood and held it up ready to throw it.

'Peeta, I need you to stay very still and when I tell you to duck, duck,' The brunette commanded.

'What?'

'Duck!'

Venus launched the staff into the air, it flew over Peeta's head and drove into the mutt's chest; the thing yelling out in pain before it collapsed. The girl ran forward and pulled her staff from the monkey's chest, stabbing another before she followed after Peeta and ran back to where the others stood. That was when she noticed the rest of the mutts surrounding them, the monkeys looked at their dead friend before roaring loudly; attacking them seconds later.

'Nice one, Venus,' Katniss yelled.

'Shut up, Everdeen. I saved your fiancé,' Venus yelled back as she threw a boomerang.

She watched as the boomerang sliced right through a mutts neck, before she stabbed another with her staff; catching the boomerang with her free hand as it came back covered in blood. The other three were doing everything in their power to save themselves, and their allies; shooting, cutting, stabbing the mutts. Venus let out a yell as she sliced a monkey's chest open with her boomerang before she threw it over Finnick's head, killing the mutt behind him.

Peeta yelled from beside her as a mutt jumped on him, pushing him down in the water; trying to take a bite out of him. The girl stabbed her staff into the monkey, twisting it until the mutt stopped moving; before she caught her boomerang and slashed the oncoming mutts neck. She helped Peeta up, pulling her staff out of the dead monkey and threw it at one high up in a tree as it readied itself to jump on Katniss. The mutt fell from the tree and into the scrub, out of sight; taking Venus' staff with it.