GAME OF FIRE - TRIBUTE TRIALS (Hunger Games fanfiction)

Chapter 3 - The girl with fire (Katniss)

Katniss was finally getting to sleep when she heard the noise. She had climbed into a large tree. It was good enough shelter for the night. She didn’t need anything else.

The sound of tributes screaming and shouting came from everywhere. Katniss then smelled smoked, lots of smoke.

She looked down from the tree. There was a large fog that turned out to be smoke coming from the north. 

Katniss then spotted the career tributes. They were the ones running and screaming.

Katniss saw the seven tributes, tributes from district 1,2 and 4. But there was an odd number. She searched the group. There was one more boy.

It was Peeta Melark. The boy who claimed to be in love with Katniss, he was working with them.

“Where is she?” Glimmer asked, clueless. Clove cringed at her. Katniss knew what Clove was thinking, and they were thinking the exact same thing. Glimmer is so dumb.

“Obviously where the smoke is coming fr0m” Marvel explained to his fellow district partner.

The tributes ran off towards where the smoke was coming from. They were all laughing together. They knew they were in for a good kill.

When she was sure they were gone she got down from the tree. Her instincts told her to go see where the smoke was coming from. She knew she shouldn’t but if there was smoke, there might be food. 

She had to stay low. She tiptoed like the girl she met before. She had nicknamed her Foxface for obvious reasons. The girl had striking ginger hair and big pale amber eyes. She wasn’t very attractive but maybe that’s because she had been running in the wilderness while nearly being killed.

She saw the careers sneaking up on a girl around a large fire. The girl had given into the cold and started the fire foolishly.

Then Glimmer got hold of the girl. She screamed in the arms of the blonde. “Hello,” Glimmer said with her flirtatious voice, “Goodbye”

Glimmer was handed Cato’s machete and she plunged it in the girl’s chest. Because she put the sword at an angle it reached the girls heart.

When Glimmer removed the sword from the girl, the heart was stuck on the end of the sword. The corner of Cato’s mouth curled. He was almost smiling. 

“That’s my girl” Cato said to Glimmer. He then put his arm around Glimmer and kissed her forehead.

Then Katniss started to think. Were Cato and Glimmer in a relationship? What was going on? 

Clove looked uncomfortable walking behind the couple. Katniss was glad she did not get caught. She was hiding behind some bushes.

Katniss was about to leave but then she saw something remarkable. Foxface was leaping over to the dead body.

Foxface kneeled down next to the body. She sniffed then stuck her head down into the body. 

Her head only moved slightly. When she lifted her head, her face had big read stains. Foxface was chewing something.

Foxface reached inside the girl’s body. She picked something out of it. Katniss didn’t know what it was but she was pretty sure it was a body part.

Foxface put it inside her mouth and chewed. She didn’t squirm or anything when eating it. She looked like she was eating and ordinary meal.

Katniss was surprised. It was only the first night and Foxface was already starving. Foxface wasn’t like any of the other girls. Clove was good and healthy. Glimmer had a perfect body but was very skinny. Katniss had heard she had anorexia for a while. 

Foxface was skinny and smaller then some of the other tributes. Foxface couldn’t bare it anymore. 

Foxface was now a cannibal. Katniss had heard stories about supernatural creatures called vampires. This reminded her of that. 

But this was the real world and Foxface was sick. She was eating raw human. She couldn’t be stopped either.

Katniss had run away before Foxface found another prey. Katniss tried to find a tall tree one like the other she was sleeping in.

She tried to find a tree that she would not be visible to see in. When she had found one, the sun was starting to rise.

The cannon woke up most of the tributes left in the arena. Katniss was sure she was far away from most of them.

The girl who had just been seen being eaten, her picture was in the sky visible to everyone.

Katniss imagined her face in the sky. She tried to think of a scenario to why her face would be up there. 

She was stabbed whiled looking for food. She was beaten to death after being caught while climbing up a tree.

She couldn’t actually imagine herself being killed in the wilderness. Nature was on her side, but the Gamemakers were not.