The next day, I awoke to the sound of a cannon. Half of us are dead, now. I eat two apple slices, and drink some water. I slide down from my tree, careful to look around before I leave. I need more water. I trek up the mountain, almost to the top. I start to feel dizzy, like i spun around to fast. I sit down, but I'm still moving. That's when I realize. The ground is moving. It's moving in waves, like a lake during a storm. Boulders, ferns, and grass whoosed pass my head. I dig my sword into the ground, and hold on. The ground starts to vibrate, slowly at first, but then stronger, and stronger. A large, wide crack tears the ground like a piece of paper, just ten feet from my head. Across the crack, the Careers bound past it, dangerously close to the edge. Their clothes are all torn, they are bloodied, and the girl fro One is limping slowly. I also don't see the boy from Two.
"Guys! Wait up," the blonde haired, green eyed girl from One screamed. "Porcelain! STOP!" the ground tore away from under her feet. All of three of them hit the ground hard, and a spear fell into to chasm below. The ground below me, threw me into the air, and I hit the ground hard, I had the wind knocked out of me. It stopped for a second. We all stood up, and stared each other down. No way was I going to make it out of this fight. Porcelain leaped over the edge, clearing it with at least a foot to spare. She pulled a long machete from the sheath at her back.
"Ready to die? Tree girl?" she smiled at me with horryfying grimace. She moved forward, then hit the ground almost as hard as she did the first time. The girl from One lept the chasm, and landed, a few feet from me, knives in hand.
"Go, Porcelain, I got her." She gazed at me, lowering her long, thin knife towards me. I tightened my grip on my sword, and prepared to fight. She jumped at me, and in the split second she was off the ground, it started rolling, again. This time, towards the crack. She came down hard on my left arm, while I stabbed my sword back into the earth. She slashed my forearm with the knife. I couldn't tell though, if she was trying to kill me, or get a grip in the ground. The waving ground pushed her farther, farther, farther towards the edge. She let go of her knife, letting fall off, and chisled her way into the ground with her fingers. A cannon sounded. I guess it startled her, because her gripped loosened, and she fell into the crack below. As soon as the cannon sounded, the ground stopped rolling, and the crack sealed up. Ten of us left. when night fell, I assesed my wound, but it wasn't to deep, so I tied some moss around it with a vine. The anthem sounded, and the girl from One's face popped up, along with the boy from Eight, who I guess was the first cannon.
The next two days, I wandered around the arena, not seeing anyone. I heard a loud roar the second day, after the earthquake, and three screams, but no cannons. The next day, I woke up to the sound of breaking branches, and laughter. Then they saw me. The three tributes walking towards me, the two from Six, and girl from Nine.
"Vespa, check it out! The little one from Seven," said the boy from Six, directed at the girl from Six.
P.S. Sorry it took me so long to upload this chapter. Don't forget to favorite, and review! -Sigma B.