Chapter 1:
The Announcement
Disclaimer: I don't own both The Hunger Games and the logo (which I'm using it for the cover image of this story :P), it's copyrighted by Suzanne Collins :D
Clove's POV
I wake up and find myself lying on the floor, next to a tree, and inside a sleeping bag. I stand up and begin to search for my knife, which I believe is somewhere around the tree.
After spending the last 15 minutes searching for my knife, I begin to freak out, realizing that it has gone missing. The sun is setting down and you never knew what to expect in the Games, especially when you left alone, unguarded, and exposed to the wilderness.
Without wasting more time, I pack the sleeping bag into my backpack and start to wandering around the tree. Cato left me to hunt for food, since we lost our food stock in a fire set by someone a few days ago. I must admit that I am a little bit scared without a knife. Throwing knives has always been my one and only protection, it makes me feel secure, makes me feel satisfied, and somehow, relieved. Furthermore, knives never had disappointed me in terms of killing. Slaughtering tributes and seeing blood flows from them just make satisfied. I know, after all I am sadistic.
As the moon rises to the sky, I just hope that this night will be another peacefully boring night. The last thing I don't want to happen is being found and killed by the girl from District 12, without any resistance, while looking so pity because of the fact that I lost my knife in the woods. I know I could do better than that, even if I have to get killed by her, I want to give everyone a good show.
Suddenly, I see smoke in the air, meaning someone's making a camp fire. But who will be dumb enough to set a fire at night? Knowing that the Careers will find and kill you straight away? Unless, if the one who set the fire is no other than the Careers themselves, which only means… Cato! I run towards the camp fire and my suspicion is right. It's Cato, armed with my knife and his spear.
"Why did you steal my knife?" He turns his head towards me and throws the knife back to me. "Your knife is for hunting animals; my spear is for killing someone."
I catch the knife and tightly holding it.
"So, what did you get?" I ask impatiently. Things between me and Cato are getting awkward since Glimmer and Marvel died. It seems that we're trying to keep a distant from each other possibly for a reason. A reason that makes us look weak. A reason that we, future-victors, don't deserve.
"A squirrel, a rabbit, and an animal which I never knew before." He says while pointing to a pile of meat.
"Mutation." I say while looking at the meat. "It must have been one of Capitol's mutations"
"Well, it seems that we don't have any choice besides eating it, don't we?"
"Guess you're right." I pause for a minute and resume my words, this time, sarcastically. " What choice do we have?"
While waiting for our food to be cooked, we choose to remain silent while doing our personal stuffs. In my case, I choose to sharpen my knife. The result is pretty much of what I had in mind, so I'm quite satisfied with my work.
I almost fall asleep when suddenly Claudius makes an announcement. It's about a stupid feast that's going to be held in the Cornucopia. Although the idea of the feast is kind of lame, his words are a little bit convincing. I'm sure each of you desperately needs something.
I'm about to continue my sleep when a thought runs through my mind. Lover Boy! That's it! He's badly injured and now Fire Girl must take care of the wound will not heal enough just by treated it carefully, he needs medicine, he desperately needs a medicine.
I turn my head towards Cato. " Cato, we need to go to the feast!"
A/N: Yay! My first HG fanfic! :DDD I've always wanted to write a fanfic but I never knew who or what to write, but now that I know, I'm gonna write for more! :D
Sorry there's not much of a romance going on, maybe I'll make it up to you guys in the next chapter.
Well, see you in the next chapter~