sorry there's onlyy one swear word in this, haha but I put a little * just incase, okay now read on! then review, hehe ;)
"OPEN THE F*CKING DOOR!" booming from outside I jump and immediately pull the bow lodged under my bed, Peeta sits up with a jolt too and grabs the knife he hides secretly in the draws. You can't be too careful with victors. He looks at me and I nod, we creep down stairs and the banging continues. Peeta heads out the back door and I cover him bow raised. We each head around the side of the house before a massive screech and thud, I drop my bow, I can't hear! This is all too familiar, I run to were Peeta is but we have the same thought in mind and meet each other half way, the banging is still going and there is another loud screech it pierces my ears and Peeta drops to the ground, I can't stand it any longer and I drop down with him. He finally pulls himself up, clutches the knife and half sprints round the house I'm glad they could preserve and fix his leg, the metal one was no use in these types of situations. Then I smelt it, blood and roses. This can't be he's dead. He's gone. But the mutt isn't. It stands before me half president… ex-president snow and half dog. It stands on its hind legs, and the top half is snow. He stinks and laughs as the blue blood pours from his mouth, I bend down and reach for my bow, I pull it to the ready and send an arrow flying, and I can't believe this! It misses inches from its skull. But I'm fast I immediately re-position myself and pull out another arrow and send it flying this one attaches itself to the mutt's leg and he howls in pain. This gives me just enough time to send another through its head and he collapses. I pull the small knife out of my pocket and lodge it into where I think its heart could be just to make sure. The body stops twitching and now lays there lifeless.
"Peeta?" I yell and race to the front just to catch a second mutt just like the first leap at him and I send an arrow through its heart. What is happening? Then Haymitch steps out as if to answer my question but before he begins to talk a third mutt shows up and bites his ear clean off. He doubles over in pain and screams, the mutt screeches ad I block my ears. I glance at Peeta doing the same thing but he doesn't notice me. He throws his own knife and by chance it hits the creature right between the eyes and it collapses to the ground. Peeta picks up haymitch's ear and we get him to the doctor just a block away. He doesn't cry but he is writhing with pain. Maybe they had venom in them? The doctor starts straight away and Peeta and I head back to the house, he found his knife but there was a fire going and the mutts were piled on top of one another and a small, skinny, tan figure stood over them.
"Johanna!" I was shocked by my own enthusiasm as I ran and nearly tackled her. I hugged her I can't believe she's here! she looked just as shocked as I am, I've never been an overly emotional person till the quarter quell but I didn't notice how much I missed her till now, she let out a faint smile then her face went hard again. Her and Peeta exchanged hugs and for a moment it was awkward. We were all glad and her appearance was unexpected. Still no time for soppy hello's. And what are thes- then she cut into my thoughts.
"Want to know what these are?" she raised a thin eyebrow.
"You read my mind" Peeta says flatly staring at the horrifying mutts burning. They had a foul stench.
"During the quarter quell" she explains slowly still staring at the beasts. We nod, to edge her on. "The capitol made these too well… kill us. But because we had the head game maker on our side he never used them. And they disappeared everybody just assumed they had been taken care of, but snow somehow knew we had Plutarch so he let them go, knowing they would find us. And they would attempt to kill us, but yes they failed." She said harshly trying not to make eye contact. But when she did it really emphasised the concept.
"Is there anymore?" Peeta said practically reading my mind.
"Not too sure to be honest, we'll keep a look out." Johanna replied.
"Uh, this might sound stupid but when it tore of haymitch's ear he was in agony. Do they have… venom?" I asked embarrassed but curious.
"No, just very blunt teeth causing writhing pain when anything has been severed. It would have been more slowly and ripped then a clean cut. I don't blame him it really woulda hurt." She said kicking the few sticks that had escaped back into the fire. Her hair had grown back and was shoulder length, and she wore boots. She was very brave and I envied her of that. I would break when I was faced with problems but she would conquer them without any help. And I always needed Peeta.