Chapter 8

Unfortunately I don't get a good night sleep. Those insects keep waking me up. Each time I hear them louder and louder. At one point I give up and eat one of my cookies. The sun is starting to go up. The trees are as tall as ever. Birds stopped singing because of the insects.

My chest is still hurting. My shirt is red. I think it might be a good idea to go to the Cornucopia cautiously and see what's happening. I put my backpack on. Strap my spear at the back of it and hold my sword.

Immediately as I start walking I notice the sound of the insects closing in. Then I see them. The size of a shoe, ant feet's that are all tangled up, eyes like tentacles, there back is a brown shell and they have hair coming out under their shell. They are mutations of The Capitol. Made by the Gamemakers for the Arenas. Each Games have a different kind of mutation. This year's are those things, which I will call Creepers.

The Creepers eyes are running towards me. Knocking of each other. There's around fifteen of them but I know there will be more. Some are jumping from tree to tree with there tentacle eyes and there ant feet's. I immediately run off to the direction of where I last separated from my group. Not again I think to myself. I sprint dodging incoming trees, bushes and rocks. They're to fast though. One catches my leg and with his tentacle eyes and feet he unleashes a violet spray and I feel my skin starting to itch. I slash at him and violate liquid touches my hand, which also starts itching. I cant attack the Creepers on close range because then I'll start itching. I take my spear and stab row upon row of Creepers and when I'm exhausted they still come more and more. From fifteen to fifty I think. I turn my back and keep running towards where I separated from my group while I keep hearing the chainsaw noise from the Creepers on my back.

Then I hear the sound of running water at my right. I rush towards it finding a river and I jump deep down the water. When I get up I look at my back and find the Creepers running at the side of the water. Yes! Immediately after my time of triumph I notice my skin itching. I scratch my skin and apparently I can't stop. It becomes automatic that I scratch my skin.

I submerge on the water and when I come back to grab some oxygen I notice the Creepers are gone. I look all around me for fifteen minutes and decide to get off of the water. When I do I sit down on a rock to drink some water. Then I collect more water from the river and as I put my bottle at the river I see my bare skin full of blood. Then I feel it burning. This is what the Creepers do to me. They put that black spray on your skin, then you immediate scratch it and at the end it will burn like hell.

My skin is burning so much I had to hold bite my shirt to stop my screaming. Then I remember my medicine and I rapidly pick up my backpack and take it out. Then I open the top and put my hands in the slimy substance. I rub it in my hand and feet and immediately I feel relief. My medicine is empty and I know that it won't take long until I'm starting to burn again and have to scratch my arm off.

I take off my shirt and place it on my bad foot. Then I take my sleeping bag, cut a part of it and tie it in my hand. As I'm preparing to leave I hear the sound of a cannon. Please don't be Laurel or Raff.

Five left.