The 100th Annual Hunger Games

Chapter 20

"How?" Pearl whispered as she, Athena, Wesley, Sixster, and Benjamin bunched together. "Our suits are dark!"

 "My guess would be our footprints." Benjamin replied in a hushed tone. "And they could only do that if they had a flashlight, which I assume would come from the cornucopia." He looked for such a tool when they were up there during the bloodbath, but had no luck in the short time they had been conscious.

 "But how did they track us through the river?" Wesley asked, making a good point. 

 "It doesn't matter, right now we need to come up with a plan to trap them, I assume they don't know exactly how close we are to them because our suits don't show us, which we could use to our advantage." Athena interrupted quietly. "I say we split up, use this spot as a sort of center, and each climb a tree in a different direction to surround them."

 "We don't know how many there are." Benjamin countered, "and we only have the spear," Which he held up to prove his point. "Unless you've got some sort of secret weapons up your sleeves."

 "You're the one who said we were being followed." Athena retorted. "How do you know for sure? Did you actually see other tributes?"

 "Yes, and they were wearing yellow .  . ." Ben stopped for a minute thinking through which districts had which colors. "That means they're from three or . . " A flash of a memory went by.
  He was on his podium talking to Killian, describing the arena to him. He had been wearing a yellow suit too.
 "Wait, it could be our other allies, I remember the tributes from ten wearing yellow as well."

 "So it could be anyone." Wesley sighed, "We should still be prepared, and I liked Athena's plan, if they loose track of us, they won't be able to see us in the trees with our suits off."

 Benjamin wanted to say 'unless they shine a flashlight on our face' but he refrained, and turned on his heel away to climb the tree closest to the direction their opponents would be coming from. 

 Athena climbed into one on the opposite side of which they would be coming from, so they would have to cross between the two of them before reaching where their group had split up.

 "I sure hope you know what you're doing." Athena whispered just loud enough for Ben to hear. 

 "I sure hope you don't jump into a fight without weapons, no matter how I'm doing." He muttered, hoping she didn't hear.

 "Please," she scoffed quietly and a rustle came from her tree as she shifted positions. "You won't be able to take care of more than two people with that shoulder, even if you're from one." 

 Then a flicker of light through the tree's limbs showed that they would have company.

 Two yellow suits and two green suits walked past, underneath their trees.

 One of the yellow suits was in the lead, and it stopped right where they had paused to talk.
 "They were here for a while, but now their scents split into two different directions. And they aren't alone."

 Benjamin slipped down the trunk of his tree quietly, and a soft thud told him Athena did the same.

 The boy in the yellow suit suddenly pointed directly at Ben, turning around, "There." He said.

 Suddenly, two yellow strings became visible from where Athena stood. 

 Ben could barely make her figure out in the darkness as she whipped out the yellow lasso-like weapons at the group of four.

 "Wait!!" Ben found himself shouting over the yell that erupted from Pearl, Sixster, and Wesley as they began to charge in.

 Everyone froze in place, in the couple seconds that had passed, Athena had her lassos around a familiar cursing female.