"Drew….Drew….Drew….Drew…oh my god, are you dead? Drew, wake up, Drew.. DREW!" Mika shouted at the sleeping body, almost ready to poke him with a stick when he grumbled, waving a hand back at her.

"Im okay, stop yelling."

"It's almost noon, by the looks of it. So get your ass up and lets go find my cousin," she huffed, nudging the toe of her boot into the back of his kneecap, trying to wake him.

"Injured here, please refrain from any unneeded touching, thank you very much," he said, slowly moving to sit up. His back ached and his stomach growled as he blinked his eyes open.

"Don't worry, I'll save the touching for my cousin," Mika smirked.

"Charming."

"What's the story between you two anyways?" She asked, trying to help him get back up on his feet. He swayed slightly and rubbed at his lower back, avoiding from touching his now healing wound.

"Story? Between me and Satoru?" Drew laughed weakly and shook his head. "We don't have one."

"Then why are you so interested in finding him?" Mika was glad he was, knowing that this was all going according to her and Sat's plan.

"Because I care about him, for some twisted reason," Drew huffed, "now lets go, before the cannon fires and-" Drew paued, looking at Mika with a pale face. "Did you see the anthem and the dead last night?"

Mika nodded, giving a small smile. "Both Twelve's, and a One. That's all."

A relieved sigh escaped Drew's lips. He shakily made his way to the edge of the cave that they had taken refuge in the previous night. His memory was so foggy at this point, yesterday was all just a distant blur. The sun pounded down on the ground and you could almost hear it as it sizzled against the rock ground. Drew was terrified there might be another rock fall, but he would never verbalize those fears. He knew it was a way for the Game Makers to push them all together, but gladly Drew had made it out alive. Now the major concern was food. And water.

The two slowly started into the rocky mountain area surrounding, trying their best to keep to a clear path, because climbing was something Drew did not want to do with the already searing pain coming from his back.

"What are the chances that he would go into the woods?" Drew asked, glancing at Mika.

"Little to none. He likes caves, he's a good climber, and he knows how to stay silent. So if there's water out here, or even some food, he'll be fine. "

"Have you seen any food?" Drew asked nervously.

"Yeah, actually. There are birds in the woods, squirrels, chipmunks…I saw a snake out back in no-mans-land."

"Sounds…" Drew began to say, his face a light shade of green as they slowly crept around the corner of the mountain.

"Disgusting. I know, but what other option do we have?"

Drew thought about the food on the train. The rich sounds and tender meats that he completely took for granted. He would pay anything to eat a decent meal right about now. The sky looked grey, like it was going to rain again, and Drew got slightly nervous. Any chance of food they had would go into hiding if it began to rain. And Drew needed food before he collapsed.

Not far away from them, Satoru shoved his foot into a hole on the side of the mountain, reaching up to grab on to a ledge as he heaved himself up, scaling the side of the cliff. He wanted a better view so he could find people, water, or even food—the last being his major goal. He took deep, heavy breaths, hearing the cannon fire off in the distance. Every time it did that, Satoru panicked. In his mind would flash pictures of Mika getting attacked or Drew collapsing in the heat, or even worse, either of them being stabbed the way Drew had attacked Derek.

But he pushed it from his mind, needing the rest of his strength to pull himself up onto the small ledge, looking out over a larger area of space. He tried to even out his breathing, taking a moment to breathe as he looked out around him. Satoru knew he needed glasses, but those would only be a weakness to him in the arena. His lips cracked as he moved them, desperate for water. But there was no way he was going back to the water spring he had found now.

Satoru stayed up there for about half an hour, just looking around. There were no people that he could see, and Satoru wondered when the Game Makers would decide it was time to force them all together. He was completely lost in thought when he heard a growl down below him. Confused, he looked down over the small ledge, seeing a mountain lion prowling it's way back and forth right beneath him.

"Fuck," he squeaked, pressing back up against the wall of the mountain. The sun was pounding down on him, and he had left his jacket in his cave, where the creature could easily destroy it. He wouldn't be able to get down until the mountain lion had left, and that could be hours. The sun would get to him by then. Knowing the Game Makers, this wasn't any ordinary animal. It was probably venomous or blood-thirsty or something that would bring Satoru to his doom.

"H-Hey…little….big….kitty….c-can you please…l-leave?" He crouched down, looking at the giant cat that watched him with a snarl. "D-don't eat me please…p-please go back to your kitty friends.."

Satoru Kogo did not know how to reason with mountain lions.

The cat growled up at him, scratching its claws down the rock that he had used to climb up. Satoru swallowed and sat back against the wall again, trying to figure out what he could do to make it go away before he got fried to death.

Drew heard the loud growl over Mika's blabbering, his eyebrow rising slightly. "Did you hear something?" he asked, his expression frantic. If it was people, he couldn't run away. If it was something that would attack them, he couldn't run away. But if it was food…well, his stomach gave its own growl just at the thought.

She blinked, looking around. "Hear what, Drew?" Mika let go of him, making sure he didn't fall over before she took a few steps further to glance around the corner. She squeaked silently, rushing back over to Drew and she slipped his arm back around his shoulders, pulling him away from where they were going.

"Mika? What are you doing?" Drew blinked, limping along beside her as the pain in his back increased.

"ohmygodDrew,it'samountainlion…"

Drew raised an eyebrow, trying to get her to slow down as he could feel the skin in his back beginning to tear open again. "Sorry, what?"

She mumbled the words again.

Drew raised an eyebrow and freaked out, trying to ignore the pain from his back as he walked. "MOUNTAIN WHAT-"

Satoru heard a vaguely familiar voice through his sun-induced haze. He peeked his head up, still hearing the mountain lion walking around below him as he heard the voice. He couldn't put a face to the name at that point, and he took short, labored breaths as he crawled back to the edge, looking at the cat.

"Kitty did you say something?" Satoru felt his brain practically melting away as he looked at the lion.

Mika shoved her fist into Drew's arm, glaring at him. "Shut up Mapleton or we'll both be dead thanks to you and your damn stupidity!"

Satoru heard another voice, but this time one that he knew. He looked down at the cat and tilted his head, seeing a chunk of the ledge go tumbling down to the ground below him.

"Mika kitty?"

Mika stopped mid step, letting go of Drew completely. She could hear a whisper of a voice, one that she hadn't heard in two days. Drew crumpled the second that she let go, the blood from his freshly re-opened wound staining the back of his shirt. Before he could make a noise, Mika was gone, running back towards the voice that she had heard, not caring if she would have to face a damned mountain lion to get to him.

"Satoru?" She asked, peeking her head around the edge of the mountain. The cat turned and looked at her, bearing its extremely over-sized fangs.

Satoru lied down on his stomach on the ledge, his head getting increasingly heavy from the pounding sun. He heard someone call his name and shoved his hand out over the ledge, waving it around wildly. Mika couldn't believe her sight. There was her cousin, barely ten feet above her, and she couldn't move an inch as the giant mutated mountain lion stalked towards her.