Katniss followed Rue's finger up above her. She spotted a shape hanging from a branch. Then she heard the humming noise.

A wasp nest.

Fear shot through Katniss. She kept still, hoping it was the ordinary kind of wasp that left you alone if you left it alone. However, because it was the Hunger Games,, it was probably muttations, possibly tracker jackers.

Tracker jackers were made in a lab during the war. They were larger than normal wasps and had a solid gold body. Their sting raised a large lump, and most people could only take a few stings. The hallucinations from the venom could drive you insane, and the wasps would track down anyone who disturbed the nest.

Katniss decided that dropping the wasp nest on the Careers was her best choice if she wanted to escape, even if it was risky. She inched up the tree with her knife and got ready to saw the branch. The anthem began to blare and Katniss began to drag the knife back and forth. She was three fourths the way through the wood when the music ended.

Katniss debated finishing sawing the branch and doing it in the morning, then decided to drop the nest in the morning. She climbed back down and was greeted by a great surprise. On her sleeping bag was a pot with a parachute. A gift from a sponsor! Katniss unscrewed the pot and sniffed it. It was some sort of medicine. She dipped her finger in the ointment, and the pain in her finger subsided.

She was delighted, and she thanked Haymitch. The small pot was priceless.

She spread the balm on her call and rubbed a thin layer on her hands. Katniss packed away the pot in her pack. Just as she was going in her sleeping bag, she heard an angry growl.

The Careers were glaring at something-or rather, some tributes. The alliance of the tributes who had all scored 1s was standing in the clearing.

"You!" snarled Cato, his eyes filled with rage. "You'll die, you'll pay for humiliating us!"

Katniss was slightly surprised. She'd seen them in the training room, and they hadn't seemed that good.

The boy (wasn't his name Percy or something?) stood up, the other two following. "You wanna fight? I bet we could beat all five of you, right now."

Clove glared. "That was just luck that you killed him," she snapped.

"Really? Was it luck that we killed your friend from District 4?" Thalia said, pausing. "So if it was luck, then you would fight us, 'cuz we might not get lucky again."

"Yeah, you scared of us?" chimed in Nico.

"I- No. Of course we'll fight you." said Glimmer.

With a faint chink noise, the alliances pulled out weapons. Katniss couldn't help but flinch, thinking of the Triple 1 tributes laying dead on the ground.

Then the fight began. Thalia began firing madly at Glimmer, who looked very surprised and slightly terrified. Each arrow would have made its mark if Glimmer didn't flee. Katniss was impressed. So the act of getting a 1 was truly an act.

Nico was fighting Clove and the boy from District 1. Surprisingly, Nico seemed to be winning. He lunged at Clove and gave her a cut on the leg, though Katniss had a feeling that if Nico had wanted to, he could have cut off Clove's leg. Clove screamed in pain, the boy from District 1 ran to her aid.

Cato was fighting tooth and nail with Percy, aided by Peeta. Percy blocked Cato's slash and locked his sword. There was a clang, and Cato was disarmed. Cato was gaping in shock. Percy bopped him on the head with the hilt of his sword and Cato was knocked out. Peeta half heartedly threw his knife at Percy, who caught it by the hilt and lobbed it back, giving it a flip so the hilt knocked Peeta out.

Just like that, the small battle was over. The remaining three Careers gaped, then turned and settled back under Katniss' tree, dragging the knocked out tributes back. Clove turned as she treated her leg and called, "We'll get you. Just wait."

Katniss woke. Alerted that the day was dawning, she applied more balm to her leg. She packed up her gear and ate some snacks. The Careers were down below, asleep. She glanced at the trees. There was no sign of Rue or the Triple 1s. She called Rue's name quietly, then pointed to the nest and made a sawing motion when Rue's head popped up.

Rue nodded and began hopping from tree to tree, judging from the rustling in the trees.

Katniss climbed to the nest and began sawing. The wasps were slowly coming out. One stung her knee, and then the branch fell.

She shoved it far away from her, where it fell to the ground. It cracked like an egg, and a swarm of angry wasps went to the air.

Two more wasps stung her, but they were the only ones who identified her. She clung to the tree while ripping out the stingers.

On the ground, it was chaos. She heard cries of, "To the lake!" and knew that they wanted to evade the insects by going in water. Glimmer and the girl from District 4 received many stings, Glimmer appearing to go mad.

Katniss climbed down the tree quickly and ran to her small pool. She didn't even want to think about Glimmer, twitching to death, fingers around the bow...

The bow was now free to be hers! She teetered back to where Glimmer was and broke her fingers to get at her bow. The arrows were under her back, and as Katniss tried to roll Glimmer over, her arm disintegrated.

Katniss closed her eyes, wondering if she was hallucinating. She managed to flip Glimmer over and yanked her arrows free. She then heard the Careers coming back, but it was too late to run. She tried to position an arrow, but she couldn't.

The first person crashed through. It was Peeta, looking shocked.

"What are you doing here?"

He started sparkling like dew, then he began prodding her. "Get up, now!"

She rose, but he still pushed her.

"Run!" he screamed. "Run!"

Katniss did as he commanded as Cato stumbled through the brush. She ran through trees that seemed to suddenly appear, tripping as the world began to bend. Trees turned to blood, and ants were crawling over here. Someone screamed a high pitched scream, and Katniss felt like it was her. she tripped into a pit filled with bubbles that hummed like wasps. She was only able to form one thought: that Peeta had just saved her life. Then she blacked out.

A/N: Well, second chapter of the day is here. It's for the second week I missed. Next chapter: Again, I'll post in one hour.

The Careers that got knocked out woke up to the attack. Please review! Please!