Hey! Well, here's chapter 3. Surprisingly, I already have quite a few followers and reviewers and stuff. So, I was bored and started working on this. Kind of short, but next chapter will be longer, hopefully. Thanks! Enjoy!

That morning we woke and the first thing out of my mouth is, "Let's go find Avielle."

Aspen nodded. "Good plan. Let's go."

Carefully, following the compass, we walked across the trees. I smiled slightly when a bird called out and Aspen twittered back sweetly.

"Mockingjays," she told me when I looked at her questioningly. "They're real cool back home. See?"

Gently, she rolled up her sleeve and revealed a golden bird charm on her bracelet.

I nodded, not feeling like talking.

After a little, the compass swivled backward. "She's somewhere around here," I muttered as I circled around. "Above or below."

I looked down and saw nothing but leaves. I knelt, holding on to the tree, and went I looked past the leaves, I saw nothing but ground.

And the Careers.

I snapped up, hitting my head on a branch, and held in the gasp of pain. Aspen looked at me in alarm, and I put a finger to my mouth and gestured for her to stand back.

I peeked down carefully. They were quietly but impatiently waiting at the base of the tree.

"Tigerlily, we've been waiting here for, like, an hour," Sparkle complained. "We should give up on her."

"Oh, shut up," Tigerlily, that same fierce red-head I feared so much, growled. "She'll be down soon enough and then we'll-"

"Shut up and look!" Tahoe broke in, looking up at me. I instictively drew back, and only heard what they had to say instead of seeing. "Something moved. There's shuffling."

"Yeah," Rogue's voice said, nasally and prideful.

I looked at Aspen, who's eyes were wide, and smiled reassuringly. "It's okay," I mouthed.

She nodded, but I felt the dread coming off her in waves.

Fear was natrual. I felt it, too; more than I was letting on.

Then a small pair of hands caught my attention as they reached down. My neck snapped up to look.

Avielle! I smiled and she returned the grin. I took her hand and she boosted me up to the next branch. Then I reached down to grab Aspen.

Her eyes were wide with fear as I hefted her up.

"There's a bunch of people up there!" Rain's voice announced.

"No duh, sherlock," Rogue hissed, and Sparkle, who seemed to be Rain's best friend, must have smacked him because he said, "Ow!" and she responded with, "You deserved it."

Aspen giggled slightly, and then put a hand over her mouth. Too late.

"Girl," Tigerlily growled. "Young. Small. Weak." I could almost see her grinning savagely. "Simple."

"Who can climb?" asked Tahoe, all bussiness, as always, so like his partner. "I can't; I'm to big. Orb obviously can't.."

"I can't," Rogue reported.

"Ew, gross," Sparkle groaned, and I could almost imagine her thinking, I might mess up my hair!

Rain must of shook her head because Tahoe said, "Tigerlily?"

"I can." Tigerlily said in her quiet and rough voice. "Easily."

Aspen and Avielle's eyes widened. My eyes flashed from them to a nearby tree and then another and another.

They got the point. Silently, we all leapt from one tree to the next until we were far away.

I heard Tigerlily scream in frustration a bit later. "They aren't there!"

I grinned, despite myself. "We outsmarted the smarts."

"No, not technically," Avielle, who I decided to call Avi for short, responded, focusing on placing her feet.

"Why not?" asked Aspen.

"I would consider Fallon the brains of these Games."

"Yeah," I agreed. "But Tigerlily is probably most likely to win."

"Yeah."

I took out my compass. Avi raised an eyebrow at me, and Aspen leaned over and explained it to her.

Destiny and Arietta. I said aloud, "Anyone see Destiny and Arietta during the Bloodbath?"

"Ari ran off with a big pack. I didn't see where, but I think towards the forest," Aspen said, pulling a piece of beef jerky from her pack and chewing it.

"Destiny got cut," Avi reported quietly, staring at the ground. "On her leg. Not deep, but long. She limped off to the forest, too, but I bet she found a cave and collapsed there."

"Destiny," we all instantly agreed. So we followed the compass and soon found her.

Well, somewhat. We stepped on her, kind of.