After day 10, nothing happened for days 11 and 12. Im starting to think that the audience is getting kind of bored, so the Gamemakers will try to push us together, maybe to the cornucopia. Nah, nevermind. That would just mean the deaths of the remaining tributes, which are the pair from 7 and the boy from 11. I don't know where they are. I hoped out of my tree and hear some commotion, and hear something in there, like a bunch of footsteps coming my way, very fast behind me. I finally get to see whats happening, and see all of the remaining tributes getting chased by goddam panthers. Theres no way I'm climbing back in my tree, since they can climb those. I start to tun too, and see the panicked faces of them. Codie has claw marks on his thigh, while the girl from 7 has a claw mark on her arm. But it doest stop them from running like hell, along with me. Everything happens so quickly. Then, the idea pops in my head, which is to trip Codie.
When I try to, he sees it and jumps over my attack, but it the boy from 7 doesn't see it, and falls as a result, and gets mowed down by those beasts. Its weird that those panthers are here, since they don't hand around swamps, I think. Anyways, it doesn't matter now, of course, when we go to the cornucopia, the place I didn't want to go to. We all jump on top of the cornucopia, while the panthers circle the place, just in case we fall off, with an occasional panther trying to jump up and snatch us, which doesn't work, until one of them manages to sweep the girl from 7 off of the platform, plunging her to her imminent death. A cannon fires. That just leaves me and Codie, in which we go to the middle of the cornucopia, so the panthers can't snatch us now. That beast hasn't come up yet.
Thats when Codie tries to push me off. I guess its for revenge when I tried to kill him, which is a fair move I guess, except I dodge it, sweeping my foot under his, causing him to trip and fall on the edge of the cornucopia, just inches away from the panthers. One jumps up and scratches the boys face with its long and pointy claws, literally ripping the kid's face off. The site is so intense that I throw up, and hear the cannon again. The panthers stop their commotion. They all run away. I begin to think that the beast is about to come, when I realize that its because I'm the only one alive. Im the victor.
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The 40th Hunger Games
ActionDuring the reaping of the 40th Games, Thorburn doesn't expect to get reaped. However, when she does, nobody volunteers for her, and she is forced to meet other tributes, train, and of course, fight to the death in the arena. Cover artist: Clove0307
