Author note

sorry this was a short chapter you will enjoy the next one I have big plans;) happy reading!


I decide its best to hunt down the last three. Besides I can't just sit around the cornucopia all day. I am loaded with supplies and decide I can take anyone right now. Before I leave I set up three more snares and a few net traps just in case anyone tries to steal from the cornucopia. Then I start my walk. While I walk I get time to think of something else then killing for awhile. If I win will everyone back home still like me. After all I am technically a murderer. Will Peter and Crystal still hang out with me? I wonder if I will even ever get out of here and decide I have a good chance. With that in mind I keep walking until I start to sink. I look ! Quicksand isn't in deserts much I don't think! The gamemakers! They do this all the time! I struggle to get out but I only sink deeper. So this is how it's going to end! Buried in sand and dead by suffocation! It's not fair after all I've been through that I have to die now! I groan an think if my friends and family back at home watching me die. I have got to get out of here! I relax a little and start pulling I raise a little butane I keep struggling. When my back pack is above the sand I reach my hand back in it and pull out the rope with the knife to it. I throw the knife at a near by cactus and it sinks in. I then begin to pull myself I finally pulled myself out I collapsed in a heap on the sand. I had enough! I want out of here wether I die or live! Just then a girl starts running at me I true to get up but I am tired. Oh well,this Is the end I said for the third time since I have been in this areana. I roll over and wait for her to kill me. She comes up to me And says. "Roll over! And drop your weapon!" I obey. She then pulls out a rope and ties my arms behind my back. That wasn't what I was expecting. "What are you doing?" I ask in a raspy voice. She doesn't answer at first but then she says. "I am keeping you captive." I look at her confused and then ask.

"Why?" She looks at me a minute before simply saying. "Sponsors." I am confused at first, but then with a sigh I realize I am not safe. She pulls me up and takes my knife. She holds it to my throat and yells to none in particular. " give us water or he gets it!" I am freighted at first but a silver parachute falls out of the sky seconds later. She drops me and runs over to it. She then pulls out a water bottle. She sips it eagerly and then gives me a mouthful. She then ties a little rope to my tied hands and makes a makeshift leash. She holds it just in case I run and then I ask her. "Where are we going?" She looks at me and says. "Hunting." I groan I can't fight tied up and if she dies I die. We walk for what seems like ages and I am getting hungry, tired, and thirsty. "Can we stop?" I ask. She thinks for a moment and nods. I drop right were I am and she ties my rope to a near bye cactus. She then starts to get fire wood and starts building a fire. "What are you doing! Thy will see us!" I tell her. She nods and says." That's the point." I get what she is trying to do now and I figure u am going to have to get out of here soon. In fact I am going to get out tonight.

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"Do you think he will live?" I ask for about the hundredth time since Dan got captured. Peter rolls his eyes and says." we'll see!" I groan and sit up to stretch. "I hope he does. He's been our friend since as long as I can remember." Peter only nods and I can tell he is in deep thought so I decide to leave him for a little bit. I go down to mrs. Crouts house. She is more worried about Dan then I am so we get along well talking. She invites me in to watch the games with her so I go in and sit on the couch with her. She is doing some knitting and asked if I wanna help. I nod and grab some. I never was a very good knitter but I could do it. And besides It gives me something to do. I watch the boy from five one of the few survivors as he walks up to the cornucopia. He starts to slowly walk towards it when…SNAP! One of Daniels snares goes off and catches his leg. He puts a hand over his mouth to keep from screaming and grabs his ankle. He then limbs away from the cornucopia and falls down. The screen changes to the girl from eleven walking towards the end of the board. " not a good choice." says. I nod in agreement. Then a loud rattling starts and a hundred big snakes start chasing him. She runs as hard as she can some bite her heal but she manages to escape the most of them when they finally pull of she is gasping for breath and curls up into a ball on the ground and cries. I feel bad for her even though I want her to die. I hope she has a quick death. It shows Dan who is apparently asleep and that reminds me I should sleep. So I do.