First of all, I just want to thank everyone for listing me as your favorite author and listing this story as your favorite story!
Also, I just want to clarify that Cato and Clove's camp is not at the Cornucopia. Their camp is deep in the woods because they think that it'd be better if they stayed near a water source.
So it's finally here, the feast scene! Enjoy (:
I wake up with a smirk on my face. Today's the day of the feast,so Cato and I should eat and drink a lot to restore some energy. I think we should just get some practice in with our weapons and some sparring.
I get up out of my sleeping bag and make my way out of the tent to go and heat up what we have left of the fried, crispy chicken from yesterday. I was in the middle of heating up our food when Cato comes out of the tent, and he too looks excited and determined.
"You ready for today?" He asks locking his gaze with me. "Ofcourse, ready as I'll ever be" I say not breaking the eye contact.
"So what's the plan?" Cato asks
"Let's just stick the one we had before we came into the arena" I say
"Which is what again?"
"You stay back and look for any hiding tributes. So you're job is to basically scout for tributes an my job is to get the bag pack" I say
"Got it. Hey do you think we're going to run into the redhead from five?" Cato asks curiously.
I shrug giving my full attention the bird on the pan now because I don't want it to burn.
"So if you run into Firegirl, promise me something" Cato says determined
"What?" I asks surprisingly because I remember at the training center in the Capitol Cato, Marvel, Glimmer, and I were fighting on who gets to kill Firegirl, but now that it's just me and Cato, he thinks it'd be better if I killed her.
"If I let you have her, you give the audience a good show" he says
I smirk at this because I know exactly what it means. I'm going to torture her and give her a slow, painful death.
"I promise," I say sincerely.
The fried bird is hot and still pretty crispy, so I tell Cato to eat and drink as much as he can so we'd have plenty of energy for the feast, because who knows what the Gamemakers are going to do.
I remember one year, I think the year Enobaria won the games, the Gamemakers created these freaky looking raccoons the size of an alligator that ate humans. They made the cannibal raccoons hide out near the Cornucopia where the feast was being held.
This made it harder for the tributes to run in and grab some food because whenever a tribute would run near the Cornucopia; the cannibal raccoons would chase them and attck. I remember when the boy from district 6 tried to fight them off with his little knife, the mutts bit off his fingers.
I think Enobaria managed to get something because a sponsor had sent her a 5 foot spear that made it easy to kill the mutts in the distance. She even had a whip, so she got most of the food at the feast.
When I finished eating, I take a knife out two by two from my belt, and throw them at the same tree I practice on when it was my turn to take watch the other night. As always, it sticks onto the center of the bark along with the other knives.
I smirk as I remember throwing a knife at a lizard that was on the ground the night we camped out under Firegirl's tree. Glimmer screamed so loud, not because of me killing the lizard, but the fact that there's a dead lizard next to her bag pack.
I turn to see Cato practicing with his sword, swinging and stabbing the air with the sharps tip of his weapon.
I jog over to him. "Let's practice some sparring" I say
He laughs at me.
I smack him in the arm "What you scared I'm going to beat you?" I say with a cocky tone
He knits his eyebrows at me. "You, beat me?" He asks challenging me. "Yes Cato, now stop talking and start practicing"
"Fine," he says and takes the position that the trainers back in 2 taught us how to do in hand to hand combat. We walk in a circle not breaking the intense eye contact.
He lunges at me but I move to the left and kick the back of his legs. He falls and I jump on his back, I'm about to dig my nails into his nape, when he throws me off.
I land on my back. He gets on top of me "Surrender?" he asked.
"Never" I say smirking.
"You made a bad decision" he says as if trying to make sound like a threat
"And why is that?" I say
"Because I'm going to do this!" and with that he tickles my sides and I can't help but burst into a fit of laughter. He knows I'm super ticklish and he knows where my tickle spot is.
"Stop… tickling…me!" I say in between laughs.
"Surrender yet?" he asks again.
I don't surrender, but instead give him a kiss full of passion. He stops tickling me and holds my waist. Perfect, this is what I was planning. I see my chance as I pull him down closer to me and flip him, so now I'm on top of him. I pull back from the kiss.
"Smart girl" Cato says with a sexy smirk
I get up and put my boot on his chest adding a little pressure so he doesn't do anything. "Do you surrender?" I ask him
He nods. I extend my hand and he takes it, I pull back helping him get up. "Drink a lot of water, because I want to head out soon" he says walking over to his flask that he put on the ground.
"Okay" I say drinking from my own flask.
We head into the direction of the Cornucopia excited than ever. Cato looks at me and asks "Remember the plan?" he asks. I nod my head. "Get the bag and if I run into Firegirl, give the audience a good show" I say as I'm a child reciting something for her teacher.
"Do you remember what to do?" I ask him.
"Ofcourse," He says seriously.
"Well, I'll see you later with the armor" I say smirking
As I'm about to jog into the field of the Cornucopia, Cato pulls my arm gently and before I could say something he plants a passionate kiss on my lips. Our lips linger as I tug onto his blonde hair. We pull back to catch a breath.
"You're going to make me waste my energy" I say teasing him
He laughs "See you later"
I nod and wave before I run off, but a moving figure catches my eye. The girl from five. She was hiding in the Cornucopia the whole time! Why didn't Cato and I think of that! I don't bother to see what Cato's reaction to this because I run off to the table where our bag pack is.
I run up from the right side of the huge silver horn when a tribute runs in my direction. Firegirl. I smirk seeing her run with a small orange pack on her wrist. I throw the first knife, but she deflects it with her bow. Then I throw the second knife and it hits her right above the eyebrow, I smirk at the sight of the blood running down her face. She falls back and lands hard on the ground, when she gets up, she kneels and quickly loads her bow. She shoots it at me, I turn sideways to prevent the arrow from hitting my chest and it doesn't. It hits my left arm, good thing I don't throw with my left.
Furious, I yank the arrow out and throw it to the side. She sees what I've done and shoots a second arrow which misses me. Before she has time to pull out a third arrow, I knock into her, tackling her to the ground.
We roll over multiple times, until we finally stop with me on top. She may be taller than me, but I'm stronger and well-trained. I pin her down with my knees and use my left leg to hold her left hand down. I pull out a knife with a medium-sized, slightly curved blade. I plan on making a cut on her windpipe, and start on my torture session.
However, Firegirl's being a bit difficult. She's using all the little strength she has with her right hand to keep the blade from penetrating her skin.
When the blade is barely an inch near her neck she pushes my face back. I growl angrily, I want to stab her ear but when I bring the knife down; she moves her head, with the blade missing her ear by a centimeter.
Finally, I control her by pressing the blade to her throat (I didn't stab her though)
"Where's loverboy? Oh I see, you were gonna help him right?" I say taunting her.
"Well, that's sweet, you know it's too bad you couldn't help your little friend. That little girl, what was her name again? Rue? Yeah, well we killed her and now, we're going to kill you" She gets angry when I mention her ally's name.
I take a small knife out from my belt, which has a pointy tip. I glide it across her cheek teasing her. "Now, where to start?" I say as I use my jacket to wipe the blood off her face. I tilt her face from side to side deciding where to cut first.
"I think…" I say drifting off as I focus on her stupid features.
"I think we'll start with your mouth" I say
"Yes, I don't think you'll have much use for your lips anymore. Want to blow Loverboy one last kiss?" I say tormenting her.
She spits in my face! Stupid bitch, but I cool down remembering that I'm the one who's going to torture her. As I'm about to cut her lips something yanks me off my prey.
It can't be Cato because the strength that is being used to pull me off Firegirl is harsh. As I'm lifted off the ground I see Thresh's angry face. "Did you kill her?" He yells.
"What? No I-" My words stumble because Thresh's angry voice is loud.
"I heard you! You said her name. You kill her?" At first, I don't know who he's talking about, then a name pops into my head. Rue. Does he really care about her? I mean she was his district partner, and she was only twelve years old but they didn't look as if they close like how Cato and I are.
Here I am, being held against the wall of the Cornucopia, trying to deny to the accusation of me killing the girl from district 11. But her district partner believes I'm bluffing and his main goal right now is to spill my blood.
"No! I swear. I-" I never got to finish my sentence as he slams me into the wall of the Cornucopia. I lose it and yell "Cato! Cato!"
"Clove!" I hear Cato's voice in the distance and know immediately that he won't arrive on time to help me, or better yet save me.
"Your district partner can't help you now little girl" Thresh says evilly. He thinks he can taunt me the way I taunted Katniss, but he's wrong. I won't let his words get to my head which feels pretty dizzy now.
My head is spinning in circles and I can't keep up with what Thresh is saying.
"You think you're a small, tough girl huh?" he says smiling. I growl at him and this widens his smile. "Go ahead and kill me" I say as if what I said isn't a big deal.
"Oh I will, I think I'll do it the career way" he says. I know what he's trying to tell me. He's saying that he's going to torture me like how all careers are taught to do. He wants to avenge Rue even though I'm not the one who killed her.
I decide that if I'm going to die from the hands of a boy from an outlying district, might as well have a little fun before I go. "Don't you ever think that you may be the reason that little Rue died?" I say
"Shut up" he snaps
"You're bigger than Cato, you have what it takes to survive in this arena just like the careers. If you didn't want to join our alliance, why didn't you make one with Rue? I mean, you could've protected her. If she was with you, she would've never died, but because you decided to be selfish and go all on your own, Rue is dead" I say smirking at him.
As I'm waiting for Thresh's reaction, I see something from the corner of my eye. Firegirl trying to crawl away quietly. What the hell! I don't want her to watch me die. Why isn't she running back to Peeta?
"Don't say that! She didn't die because of me!" Thresh screams louder than ever. I grin, this is what I wanted.
"Yes she did, idiot. If you had made her your ally, you could've watched over her. Your foolishness and greed led Rue to her death" I say
His next reaction was something I didn't expect. He slams me into the wall of the Cornucopia again and throws me on the ground. I didn't even recover from the first time he slammed me into the wall, and I think I won't recover easily from the second one. When Thresh threw me on the ground I had a hard landing even though the ground was covered with grass.
I see him walk over to something and pick it up. Maybe he thinks if he leaves me here I'm going to die. I'm proven wrong, very wrong in fact because he walks back over to me with a rock the size of a loaf of bread. I am not going to die by the hands of the district 11 boy, and by a rock! "Please, don't!" I beg
"Too late for that little, career girl" he says
He drops the rock.
But I roll over to the right and the rock lands on the spot that I was just laying on a minute ago. I grin at the sight of Thresh's confused face. "I'm not going down without a fight. Or better yet, I'm not going down at all" I say with a confident tone. My smirk widens at the sight of Firegirl with her mouth open staring at me in awe. She scrambles on all fours, I'm not going to kill her just not yet because Thresh is my main target.
"Bring it on" Thresh says recovering from that fact that he didn't kill me. I pull out a knife and walk to left. Thresh walks to the right and we stare at each other while walking in a circular motion waiting for the first move. Ofcourse Thresh lunges at me, but I move to the side quickly. He takes his deadly looking sickle sword that I forgot he had the whole time out from its sheath. He swings at me but I duck. He tries to stab me in the stomach but I jump back a good 3 feet. I run over to where my knife that I was about to use to torture Firegirl was at because it's the longest knife I had.
Thresh chases me, but I outrun him and pick up the knife. "Now we're even" I say
My little knife and his huge sword clash together, and I use this moment to kick him in the stomach. He lets out a groan and hold onto his abdomen. I get behind him and stab him in the back. He didn't die because I stabbed him in the spot that caused paralysis so he won't move.
"So you think you're a big, strong boy huh?" I ask.
He tries to say something, but I don't really understand. I use my knife to carve "District 11" on his big arms. I then carved "WEAK" deep on his forehead, but no deep enough to penetrate the brain. I cut up his lips and laugh as I lean back and see that it looks like a stripe pattern.
Thresh lets a growl. I laugh at him "I know you enjoy this, but I'm not done yet" I carve more things on his face until there's no more space left. I make a cut right above his eyelids and blood spills out. You can't even recognize Thresh and that's what I was planning on. Thresh the whole time who has been groaning, is now quiet. "Just remember, you're the reason why Rue died" I whisper in his ear and before he could growl at me, I stab him in the neck.
I get up from Thresh's body when I see someone running. Firegirl. Dammit! I forgot all about her and now she's getting away.
"I'm going to kill you when I see you Firegirl!" I yell my loudest and with that she disappears into the forest.
Pretty long huh? I hope you liked it! Please review and tell me what you think. (: It would mean a lot to me.