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I stumble backwards. Cato is clearly fighting to kill. I block his sword, try to retaliate with a strike but instead, am forced to block again as Cato quickly follows through with another strike. I attempt the disarming maneuver on Cato, I think its working until I realize that Cato wants it to work. His sword goes flying along with mine. Somehow, before Cato can attack I knock him to the ground. He's pinned, but not for long. I can't kill Cato so I rear back, and punch him in the face knocking him unconscious. I stay there for a second, not believing I won again. Once surprised me, but twice? Maybe I'm stronger then I though.
I start to get up but then feel a slashing pain in my arm. There's a long knife cut running deep across my right arm. My blood is now soaking the ground. I turn around to see Clove, she's shaky, but she'll still be able to kill me. She's fifty yards away and she's armed with five knives. I can't win this battle, but I have to try. That's when I get an idea. I retrieve the knife and rush Clove, zigzagging. I'm fast, but Clove knives are faster. She throws her first one, if I was another half centimeter to the right, or she wasn't shaky from some kind of poison, I'd be dead. I actually feel the breeze. I'm thirty yards away when she fires two knives rapid fire. I dodge the first one, but the second one can't miss. I feel time slow, the knife hurling at me. I can't move out of the way, somehow though, I thank my sword fighting training, I block the knife with my knife. I'm now twenty yards away; she's got two more knives. She fires one and I hurl myself to the ground, out of the way, however, my breath is knocked out of me when I hit the ground. Clove can't miss, I'm ten yards away and barely moving. Clove fires, at me and I see the knife hurtling at me, I can't get out of the way in time. I brace for impact… and feel a searing pain in my leg. I'm hurt, but alive. She wasn't aiming to kill me. I briefly wonder why she didn't kill me. Then, I look up. Cato is above me. He smiles, "This is the same thing as the cornucopia, only this time you'll die." He's right; my right arm is now losing feeling because of the cut, and I can't even move my leg. However, I won't let him have the satisfaction of seeing me this badly hurt. I need to at least take out either Cato or Clove. I've got some skill in throwing knives, not like Clove, but I can hit my mark most of the time. I throw the knife at Cato, he easily dodges it, but I wasn't aiming for him. With a scream Clove falls to the ground, the knife lodged in her knife in her left arm.
Then I turn to Cato, "You'll die Cato, you can kill me, but you'll still die." Cato loses it. With a scream he hauls me to my feet, and then hits me in the gut, once, twice, three times. Next, he hits me in the face hard enough to make me send me back four feet. My vision goes fuzzy, by the time Cato hit me in the chest, I'm unconscious. However, I quickly wake up. Everything hurts. I see Cato above me and see that he has gathered his sword. He reaches up for the killing blow, and then stops and falls. A look of profound shock on his face. The boy with the crippled foot, my ally, is holding a knife.
"By the way, I'm Caon." I see Cato starting to get up. "We better go; he won't be down for long. I only slashed him across the back."
"Thank you Caon." I say
Then, we limp back to the cave. We reach the cave near nightfall. I need medicine for my arm. I speak loudly and clearly, "I need medicine for my arm and leg, without It I'll die."In a few minutes, a silver parachute comes down. I open it and am overjoyed to see medicine a needle for a shot. I inject the needle into my arm and leg and go to sleep. My dreams are disturbed, I see Rue pleading for help as Cato gets ready to kill her. However, the harder I run, the farther from Rue I become. Then, the ground opens up, and I can't move. I see Clove taking practice with her knives and Cato instructing her. She aims and fires and I watch as the knife hits me with a suck thud.
I wake up in a cold sweat to Caon shaking me. "The anthem's about to finish, and the faces are almost ready to appear." I realize that the medicine worked. Then, I look up and see a face in the sky. It's Glimmer's face. As wrong as it feels, I think that Glimmer deserved to die. I go to sleep, wondering how Glimmer died.
I get a rude awakening when I wake to find Caon and I surrounded by Cato and Clove. I jump up and quickly grab my sword. Caon already has his knife. Cato and Clove clearly have a plan. Clove quickly backs up while Cato charges us. I parry Cato's first strike and see Caon battling Clove. This is bad; Caon can't defeat Clove one on one. However, Cato's too good to easily beat. I drop back, and find what I'm looking for, three knives from Caon's collection. I throw the first knife at Cato, then quickly fire the second knife at Clove. Both are direct hits, they get up knowing they're in trouble. I wasn't aiming for them, Clove only brought two knives, I knock the first knife out of her hand with my throw. The other shot was at Cato's hand, forcing him to drop his sword. Immediately after Cato's sword falls, I charge him. However, he grabs my arm, and quickly knocks my sword out of my hand. It's another no weapon fight. I kick him in the stomach, and he quickly retaliates with a punch to the gut, however I block the blow. My next blow is nasty; I punch Cato in the face. Cato turns to me and says, "This round is a draw. Next time won't be so friendly." He runs out. I think for a second, friendly?
Then I remember Caon. I charge Clove and hear Clove, "I wouldn't do that if I were you." She's got Caon on the ground with a knife to his throat. I can tell right away what she plans to do. She'll kill Caon anyway, then throw the knife at me and kill both of us. She's very smart.
I slowly reach down, pretending to kneel down, I've got one shot at this, "Clove, if you kill Caon, I'll kill you." She smiles and says she liked to see me try. I pick up the knife and throw it at Clove. However, she's faster than I thought; she blocks the knife and stabs Caon in the stomach. I drop to the floor, feeling as if she had stabbed me instead. She throws her knife at me, but I dodge it. I'm blocking the exit to the cave now. She can't get out without fighting her way, weaponless, through me. She rushes me and I push her face… and hit air. She ducked the blow. Then, before I can react, she kicks me between the legs. I double over, gasping for air and she runs out. I don't get up. I'm fine after a few seconds, but Caon is dead. It is a physical pain; it feels like I've got a giant bruise where my heart should be.
I walk over to Caon and sob. That's when I hear Caon, "Thresh, don't let the Capitol get away with this." Then he dies. I haven't ever cried that I can remember. For some reason though, this boy I barely knew death made me cry. I cry for a long time, weeping because that boy had family waiting for him, weeping because of his foot he never stood a chance, but mostly weeping because although he's gone outside of me, he still lives inside me. Then, I hear a giant boom; one of the mines must have gone off. I try to stay alert, but the numbing sadness makes it very hard. I stay awake just long enough to see the faces appear in the sky. I am overcome with another wave of sadness when I see Caon's face in the sky. There's also the boy who rewired the mines. Cato must have killed him after the mines exploded. I had decided that the mines blew up the career's supplies. Right after that, I hear one cannon shot, then another one right afterwards. I eventually cry myself to sleep. I dream of Caon the entire night, I keep seeing him saying, his last line, "Thresh, don't let the Capitol get away with this." Was he asking me to revolt against the Capitol? Or to simply speak out against them quietly if I win? I decide he wants me to revolt against the Capitol if I win.
I wake up and realize there's only six people left. There's me and five others. I try to think who the other five are. Chances are Peeta is one of the two cannons that went off right after the anthem. So with that makes Peeta dead. Also, there's a very high chance Cato and Clove are still alive as I saw them right after Caon's death. That's three, I'm pretty sure Rue is still alive which makes four. Katniss is probably still alive after scoring an eleven. That makes five. The last person is then either a career or Foxface. I find myself hoping that it's Foxface.
The day passes very quickly; I'm surprised by how quick these Hunger Games have passed by. I know I'm lucky to have found a sword and a field with plenty of grain in it to eat. I nap for a while; at least I have some peace today for the first time throughout the Hunger Games. I wake up at sundown. Then, the anthem plays. I look up in the sky and see the two faces. One is the male career from district one. The other is Rue.
Okay, so what did you think? When I get five reviews I will update my next chapter. Thanks for reading and hopefully reviewing. Oh, also, I'm thinking of doing a fanfic from Cato's POV, what do you guys think? Finally, MOST IMPORTANTLY, what did you guys think of Caon's death? Did I write it well? I was thinking of having him killed from the mines during a scouting mission from Thresh, but decided against it. And before I go, there will probably be three or four more chapters.
