Hi! I'm really sorry about not updating, school is starting and it will be hard to update, but I'll do my best! I feel like the story has been slowing down a little bit so this will speed up the chapter, I promise! And I feel soooooo bad for not updating!
GALE'S POV
Alina jumped on. I jumped off. Elpie never jumped on. I shook my head of the memory, trying to forget it. Now Elpie and I are on a bus to the Capitol, and we have another couple of hours before we get there. The bus is gross, smells like crap and sounds like it will fall apart at any moment.
The driver tells us that we have about four hours left, and everyone lets out a loud groan. I get out of my seat, to go to the bathroom in the back of the bus. As I begin to shut the door when I get to the bathroom, the bus comes to an abrupt hault. I heard people slam against the seat on front of them, and the murmurs all over the bus. I didn't get out quite yet, I didn't know what was going on. I heard the bus driver tell everyone to calm, down, he was going to go see what happened. I opened the door a crack, watching the bus driver exit the bus. As soon as he opened the door, BANG! A gun fire goes off, sending the bus driver flying. The accident made everyone panicky. All of the passengers were screaming and talking. I shut the door, but pressed my ear against it to hear what was going on. The, everything went silent. I heard an intimidating voice of a man say,
"Its our bus now. We are taking you to the Capitol, as prisoners." My stomach District Gang is taking us. Most of the people on this bus are from the Capitol. I heard the door of the bus close. I heard the intruders talking as they removed the bus driver's dead body, and shoved it off to the side of the road. I need to figure this out. What can I do? There must be at least three members of the District Gang on the bus. I peeked out the door. There was one behind the wheel, and at the door, and one right next to the bathroom door. Should I exit the bathroom? Just get away at the Capitol? I would be getting to the Capitol after all, but the hard part was getting away from these guys. I decided to nonchalantly leave the bathroom. As I opened the door, the entire bus turned at me. Get your head on straight Gale. You survived the Rebellion, you can easily take out a couple of thugs.
The guard by the door looked at me suspiciously, but I pretended not to notice. When I slid into my seat, Elpie muttered under her breathe because she didn't want to be heard the bus was so silent, "How the hell are we going to get out if this?" She sounded completely worried.I squeezed her hand, reassuringly. Telling her I had a plan, even though I still had to think of one.
About four hours later, I saw the big buildings, colorful streets, and everything else the Capitol had to offer. It brought back awful memories. The Capitol seemed so much duller now. Because it had lost its power. It is certainly not as powerful as it used to be. The streets are fading, the building are becoming run down. I didn't even notice, but the bus pulled into a side street, without any people around.
"Alright! All three of us have guns so don't do anything you'll regret." The driver yelled at us. Everyone immediately stood up, ready to leave the bus. Two of the men went outside the bus, while the other stayed on to watch us. Elpie looked at me, terrified. I nodded at her, telling her we would be okay. By the time everyone got off the bus, they corralled us all in a circle.
"This is how it works- we get rid of the men first, randomly chosen... so lets see who will be first today..." The man circled us, making every man paranoid. "How about you?" The man was directly behind me, but he was talking to someone else. "You are first mister, come along with me." a little girl began screaming and crying, that man must be her dad. Two of the gang men took him around the corner, the other stayed watch on us. I whispered to Elpie,
"We are leaving here, like now." With that she had no time to argue. I grabbed her by the wrist, and slowly shuffled through the crowd. By the time we were at the edge of the circle, it was just a matter of time before I knew exactly when to-
"Now!" Elpie hissed, and we dashed down the street. Not caught. We took a break, but the two men that went to get rid of that man were coming back, and saw us. They broke out into a sprint, and so did we. We ran all the way through the Capitol, chasing us everywhere. Finally we turned a corner, and we lost them. Elpie and I were pressed up against a wall, breathing heavily.
"To hell with them." Said Elpie in between breaths, smiling. I held her hand.
"Now, where are we?" Thank God she knows the Capitol well, or I don't know what would've happened. Just looking around at the candy colored buildings, brought back memories from the Rebellion. Just thinking about my younger self, when Katniss was my friend brought tears to my eyes. Elpie said,
"Well, if I remember correctly, this street should bring us to the security check-in of the president's mansion," She was making hand gestures, motioning towards different streets, "We want to avoid that. My suggestion, we go through the back of the building-"
"Or," I interrupted, "We take it underground." I pulled out the map of the underneath of the Capitol. "We used this during the Rebellion." She looked at the piece of paper, and nodded her head.
"Before we do that, we should probably find Alina first." I thought about that, how hard this will be. The entire Capitol, and we have to find a girl all on her own.
