Chapter 7
The two tributes had made a plan that should devastate the career tributes time in the games. He had never thought that the girl from district twelve would be so cunning and strategic. They all thought that the lower districts would not last past the cornucopia, but here she was making every impression that shown her to be in the running for a victor.
They had decided to do a split screen. One half of the screens showing Katniss, hiding on the outskirts and the other the little girl from district eleven lighting the fires that they had planned. He laughed at the thought of that plan. She had a thing for fire and everyone just loved that, even President Snow did not hate it.
Katniss was just about to fire her arrow when the district five girl had ran across the field. Katniss stopped in an instant to watch the ever so cunning girl pick up a bunch of apples. A great tactic suited to her fast speed, if only she had stood out instead of standing at the side lines. She was no girl of fire, but Vela was a girl to watch but never the less she was not the girl that had caught his eye.
She ran away as Katniss aimed at a bunch of apples but missed the first time.
"Show only the district twelve girl," he ordered as he intently watched the games.
The screen that Katniss was one quickly took over the entire screens as she took another shot at the apples. She had aimed correctly and as the apples hit the ground, the explosion soon followed. The district six boy who was on guard panicked. Katniss sulked back into the bushes and watched three of the careers return. The district two boy came storming over and shouting at the small district six boy. A cannon fired as the district six boy had his next snapped by the brutal and bloody Cato.
Katniss ran back into the forest looking for the little girl Rue.
"Show the split screens again," he ordered again
The screens had shown that the little girl had been caught in a trap and Katniss was nowhere near her, but the district one boy was getting closer to her.
"Get a cannon ready," he said leaning forward on his chair, "
Katniss had whistled her four note harmony that signalled she was safe and was waiting for the returning one from Rue. Panic sunk in her face when there was nothing coming back to her. The tracker systems showed that she wasn't far from Rue, and neither was the district one boy.
"Katniss!" The little girl screamed and even a few game makers held their breaths.
Katniss ran into the direction of Rue's screams and when she had found her, so did the district one boy. He raised his spear and hurled it into Rue's abdomen. Katniss screamed and shot her arrow through the district one boy's neck. His cannon fired as Katniss ran to Rue.
Rue begged her to stay and sing to her as her final moments dawned upon her. Katniss sang and to him, it felt like the whole of Panem went quite. Rue's tracker had indicated that her heart rate had dropped right down to nothing, she was officially dead.
"Shoot her cannon," he said numbly.
As the cannon fired, Katniss screamed even more. She was crying, no one in the games had cried like this before, not for a tribute that was outside their own district.
Katniss had thrown the district one boy's spear and had gone to collect wild flowers. He had ordered them to keep the screens on her.
She lay the flowers on the dead tributes body and gave her a three fingered solute.
He had never seen such valour from a tribute like this before, and he loved every bit of what she was showing, he just wouldn't admit it.