District Nine and three quarters

Mocking Jay

I brought my hand up to knock on the front door of Arnold's small cottage, the door swung open just before my fist hit it.

"Inside," Arnold barked. I followed Arnold through the hall and to the cupboard under the stairs.

"Why are we going in here?" I asked,

"Just go down the stairs!" I poked my head around the door and saw a staircase leading down. I followed the staircase down until I reach a door, I turned my head to see Arnold, he nodded his head to say to go through the door. I opened it. On the other side sitting around a table was Riza, the bakers son Comley Jensen, the butchers delivery boy Gregory Spencer, Ernie's second in command Louien Clarson and the secretary from the district building (now being used as the justice building) who's name I didn't know. Arnold sat down at the top of the table and I took a seat next to Riza and Louien.

"I have summoned you all here to talk about the our problem," Arnold began "the capitol."

"Yes," Comley said, "We need the capitol out and Ernie back in!"

"Well that's not going to happen," Louien said, "We have spies in the capitol and from their information it sounds like Ernie has been turned into an anox however I agree that we needed the capitol out and someone else in."

"I don't know who we should get in though." Riza said.

"We'll deal with that when we come to it, right now our priority is to get the capitol out," The secretary said.

"Yes, Amirita's right," Arnold said,

"How about having a kind of mascot?" Louien asked,

"Yes, a mocking jay!" Amirita cried. Everyone gave Amirita a weird looked. "What?" she asked "We need the qualities of a mocking jay, the mocking bird half is lovely and symbolic then the jabberjay half, powerful and slightly scary. I don't know who though..."

"I do," Louien said. Everyone turned to face her, "That boy from this morning, Rio I think his name was." Amirita, Gregory and Comley looked at each other and nodded.

"Yeah," they said. Riza and Arnold didn't say anything, they just looked at me.

"No." I said "Never gonna happen."

"Why not?"

"Several reasons, a) I wouldn't allow it, Rio is not getting hurt for us. b) Mum wouldn't allow it, Dad's gone, Rio's not going too. c) Rio's grounded-"

"Really?!?" Arnold said, "I thought your mum had forgiven him?"

"NO! Mum just didn't throckle him in public, and anyway, did you really think Mum would take lightly to Rio loosing her husband for her, no. He's grounded for six months, no pudding for a month, no treats for four months, all the washing up for a year, all the weeding for a year, all the watering the garden for a year, all the ironing for a year, no pocket money for six months and no Hogwarts for a year."

"No Hogwarts?" Riza cried,

"No, anyway I don't know how any of us are planning to get there with the capitol here."

"So no Rio then?" Comley said, "Well who do we use?"

"Maybe we don't need to use anyone, maybe we should stick as a group." Arnold said. "The reaping for the hunger games is in one week, can you get us all the old peace force uniforms Amirita?"

"Yeah but why, it's peace keepers now, the peace force is over?"

"It's not going to be the peace force uniforms anymore, it's going to be the district nine and three quarters uniform."