I'm back with the second Chapter! I love the response I got and I'm so happy to continue it! I hope ou guys enjoy!
Glimmer POV
I was leaning against one of the various trees that were located in this arena. I let out a sigh, I was bored and Clove was taking her good ole time torturing the dead "Girl on Fire" and Cato and Marvel weren't back. I was starting to worry about Cato, I didn't think that District 11 girl could do anything that harmful to him but some other tribute may be torturing him as we speak. I was twirling the end of my fishtail braid around my fingers, worry clearly on my face. I suddenly heard a rustle not far from us, I grabbed my bow and arrow and loaded it up, ready to let the string go. Cato and Marvel came barreling through a thick bush laughing and wiping stray drops of blood from there faces. Letting out a relived sigh before walking to Cato and swinging my arms around his neck, pulling his body close to mine. He seemed shocked at first but pulled me into a tight hug, his hand going up to the crown of my head; making my face nuzzle his neck. I smiled and breathed in his amazing scent; musk, pine wood, and just a hint of mint. Suddenly 2 cannons went off, making me jump. I pulled back from Cato with a confused look on my face.
"Wait, who did you kill?" I say with a confused look on my face.
"Well we went after that District 11 girl she climbed up a tree and started hoping around, I wasn't willing to risk a knife and Marvel tried to throw his spear but she was to far up. We were about to leave but we heard the girl scream and she feel out of the tree with a knife in her stomach. Next thing we know that District 10 boy jumps down from the tree wiping blood from his face, so I threw one of my knives into his stomach. They both probably bleed out or someone came and finished them off for us." He said smiling before leaning forward to kiss me.
~G.C.C.M~
Clove's POV
I roll my eyes at Cato and Glimmer before pulling out a rag and wiping my knife off from all the blood. Sitting down at a rock I concentrate on getting all the dried blood off my favorite knife, I hear someone come up behind me. My eyes snap up, I quickly turn around and put my knife up to the neck of the mysterious person. Looking up I saw Marvel, I let out an anger sigh before ripping my knife away from his neck. I sit back down on the rock more roughly this time.
"I would have thought you would have learned not to sneak up on me, do it again and I won't hesitate to slit your throat. Got it District 1?" I say looking at him, but for the first time I look into his eyes.
They are the prettiest blue/grey/green color with gold flecks around his pitch black pupil. I look away quickly and go back to wiping my knife. I feel him lift my chin and look at him, he gives me the sexiest smile I'd seen in my life. He pulls me closer and I could feel his breath on my face, suddenly there are loud trumpets and music going off. Me and Marvel quickly pull apart and Cato pulls Glimmer closer to him. We here Seneca Cranes loud voice echo threw out the whole arena.
"I would like to congratulate the last 7 members who have made it this far. Now down to business, you all are in dire need of something. So we are hosting a feast, there will be a pack with each District number, it will be located at the Cornucopia for all who will come. Now some of you need to think wisely, some of your lives depend on what is in the packs. May the odds ever be in your favor..." Then suddenly the music and trumpets play again before it's finally back to the quiet forest.
We all look at each other, deciding what we should do in our heads. Glimmer is the first one to talk.
"None of us have any food left, and we don't know how long this can last. I remember there's still the District 3 boy and the District 11 boy but I'm missing someone?" She said confused. We all tried thinking of who had all died in the past couple weeks, days, or however long we've been in here.
I start counting off all the people we killed and who I had seen in the sky, but I came up with a blank. Who was this mysterious tribute that no one could remember? Finally I gave up, but I spoke up.
"Like Glimmer said, we're out of food and water. And since it's down to the last 7 there's an odd number. Either all of us could live or the three other tributes and only one of us. What ever is in that pack there preparing us for what ever there going to do to us next. We need to go. Anyways were all starting to get weak, from the lack of food, sleep and those Tracker Jackers stings didn't help our cause." I say in my strong, killing machine District 2 voice. I notice then all the training we had since we could walk was finally starting to really kick in.
In the end we all agreed to go to the Cornucopia, but we needed to go prepared. After we had all our weapons on us, polished and ready for battle, we started the short trek to the Battle Field.
Glimmer POV
We were finally at the clearing to the Cornucopia hidden behind the greenery of the trees. We are all waiting to see which District member is going to be brave enough to go out first. Suddenly a girl with Red hair shots out from the other side of the field and is running to the table with all the packs. I look over to Clove and you can practically see smoke coming out of her ears. She grabs her best knife and throws it at the girl. It ends up cutting off one of her two buns, which catches her off guard and makes her fall to the ground. Clove pops out from the bushes before any of us can pull her back. I can see with a knife in hand she is running full speed to the girl, finally the girls looks behind her and sees Clove she clutches the bag and hurries to get off the ground, running to the forest for protection. All of us finally leave our protection of the trees yelling for Clove to leave her, we will get her later. Clove turns her head while still running.
"Not this time, I let her get away in the Bloodbath and I'm not letting her get away from me this time." She says before running even faster, until we can't see the red haired girl or Clove. We are all hoping deep down that Clove will come out alive.
Finally we turn our attention back to the packs, and we all start running for them. Suddenly the District 3 boy comes out and tries to get his pack, but doesn't have enough time because one of my arrows is already in his head. Smiling I watch Marvel and Cato go to there bags while I stand guard next the Cornucopia. I feel someone grab me from behind and throw me against the hard, metal. They grab my throat before I can see who it is, looking up I see the District 11 boy, Thresh looking down at me with pure hatred.
"You killed her, didn't you!" He screams at me, shaking my head no I call for Cato.
"CATO! CATO!" I scream I feel him pull me by neck forward and I know he's about to slam my head into the hard metal until I die from head trauma.
Before Thresh can even slam me against the Cornucopia his body jerks forward, his grip loosens from my neck and he starts coughing up blood. He slides down to the ground. I see Cato standing not far away from where Thresh was and I notice a knife missing from his belt. Looking down at Thresh I see a knife sticking out in his back. I jump over his body and over to Cato. He picks me up and looks me over, I see his face turn an angry red when he sees the black and blue bruises on my neck from Thresh's tight grasp. We hear a bomb go off and we know Cato's dead. Now we must stick around and wait for Clove. Cato, Marvel and me sit down on the ground and open our packs. Mine and Marvels had body armor and so did Cato and Cloves. In the packs all we see are an array of knives and a few other weapons, like a razor bommarang and such. We all look at each other in confusion? Cato finally speaks up?
"Wait if the only other tribute alive is us and the red haired girl, why do we need knives?" Cato says with complete confusion
"This makes no sense, I don't even think that the red haired girl has any weapons and why do we need things like this? Couldn't we just use the bow and arrow or Marvels spear?" I say starting to panic a little.
Cato pulls me towards him.
"Don't worry, ever Hunger Games they do something like this. They're just trying to make us freak out." Cato says and Marvel nods his head and leans out to gently rub my arm. Then a bomb goes off
Suddenly Clove runs through one of the forest clearings. And I notice she is running straight to the Cornucopia, Cato, Marvel and me both stand up; both guys holding onto the bags tightly. Clove looks over at us.
"GET ON THE CORNUCOPIA NOW!" She shouts before quickly climbing up the side of the Cornucopia. All of us rush over, Cato and Marvel cup their hands and push me up to the top of the Cornucopia, they then hand me the bags. They climb up themselves just when we start to hear multiple foot steps, some running, some softer.
Clove snatches the bag from Cato's grasp and pulls out two long knives.
"They brought them all back!"She says in a hurry while throwing the bag to all the Careers to grab knives. Cato looks over at her while grabbing some knives.
"What do you mean they brought them all back?" He says worried
"I mean they brought all the dead tributes back! And they seem pissed, but I can tell they aren't the same. Their eyes are lifeless but they seem like there out for revenge, and they all have weapons. The Game Makers want us to fight them!" Suddenly all the dead tributes come out from all sides of the tree lines, my eyes go wide and I step right next to Cato. Suddenly we hear Seneca Cranes voice again.
"Since it seems like it's all the Careers are going to win, we wanted to spice it up. We want you to prove how strong and worthy you really are. All of you band together and kill all the dead Tributes again, prove that your worthy of coming from District 1 and 2; then you can go home...Tributes...Attack..." Then his voice cuts off
Suddenly all the dead tributes run faster then any of them ever could have with being mutated. Suddenly we all raise our weapons when the are only feet away from the Cornucopia. Now the finally and deadliest battle beings...
The Finale Battle will be in the next chapter. Don't worry there is still a lot more left of the story and more twist and turns then you may think...