The Quarter Quell

The Explosion in the Arena

Posy's POV:

The trees around me start shaking like crazy, making no way for me to run off. I freeze as the tornado picks up plants and trees.

"Run. . ." I hear a voice inside my head say. "Get out of there. . . Before it's too late. . ." The voice sounds a lot like Philomena. I know she would want me to get out of here. "Run. . .!" I jump out of the rock and run as fast as I can through the field trying to find an exit but there's none. It's like the trees cover every possible exit for me not to get out. I start to panic. The wind blows through my hair and I feel it pushing me towards it. I hold on to a tree and scream for Finnick over and over again; he can't be too far away.

"FINNICK!" I scream. I fall to the ground because of the force of the wind and try to run away from the tornado. I tall figure jumps out from between two trees and runs over to me.

"COME ON, POSY WE GOT TO GET OUT OF HERE!" screams Finnick at me over the noise of the wind.

"WE CAN'T WE'RE TRAPPED!" I scream. The tornado starts making its way towards of us and we run wildly. We try to find an exit and when we do, the tornado still follows of. I start to slow down as I run out of energy but Finnick grabs my hand and we rush faster. I huge tree that was picked up by the tornado goes flying over to us. It crashes into a force field and explodes into fire; making me and Finnick scream and separate. We both run in opposite directions and I know we are completely lost. I hear him scream for me but the wind is to powerful and I can't turn back for him. I keep running not wanting to stop and my legs are burning. I need to stop for air and gain energy. The wind slowly starts to disappear and I finally drop into the ground and look up at the sky. I breathe heavily and let the pain of my legs calm down. I hear Finnick screaming for me but I don't have the energy to scream back at him. I'm glad when he finds me. Finnick has a cut all the way from his right eyebrow to his ear.

"Are you ok?" Finnick asks me. I sit back up slowly; getting my pulse back to normal.

"Yeah. What happened to you?" I ask to him worried. The wound bleeds down over his cheek.

"Nothing. Just a cut, I'll be fine." says Finnick grabbing moss and putting it on his wound.

"When will you keep yourself out of trouble?" Finnick asks me playfully.

"I don't know. I guess never." I say laughing a little. "Where do you think we are?"

"I don't know." Finnick answers. "Another section?". He helps me up and we look around. After a few minutes, we both hear a couple of branches snap and we keep our eyes alerted.

"Who's there? " Finnick asks loudly. We hear more branches snap and growls. Finnick grabs my hand and keeps me close. We both know there's something out there and we both know it's going to attack sooner or later. Maybe now.

"This is the six to seven section." says Finnick in a whisper. I remember the map that Peeta showed me before and I remember he wrote something bad in it.

"Remember Peeta's map?" I ask almost in panic as more branches snap.

"Yeah, what is it?" Finnick asks me.

"Is a beast." I say. Out of the shadows of the trees, appears a creature with glowing red eyes, large sharp fangs and seems to be about six and half feet tall. It stares at us. My heart pounds fast and I hold Finnick's hand tight. The creature lunges at us and we jump out of the way. Finnick grabs a thick branch and jumps on top of the creature and tries to strangle it. The creature is really strong and Finnick falls to the ground. The thing howls up at the sky like a werewolf.

"What are going to do?!" I ask in panic.

"We need to get out of here!" says Finnick. The creature walks to us and more of his kind joins him. Some of them are smaller or the same size as the creature. Something about these creatures reminds me of the other Victors and Targets that were alive. I see a tall one with eyes like Marco's. I remember little about him because of the memory loss. They all start attacking and me and Finnick try to avoid their fangs and attacks. Finnick manages to kill a few and I've killed none. The leader creature lies on the ground with a broken leg. When Finnick tries to kill more creatures, I come face to face with a creature that seems to be about my size and has big beautiful dark brown eyes. The creature looks at me in the eyes and I know its Philomena.