Shouts awaken me from my light sleep. Slow, I sit up to see what is going on and see Blaze and Vikus fighting over what seems like a long knife. "Give me the knife Blaze. You probably won't even be able to use it." Vikus says viciously. I roll my eyes and stand up. "You are so easily provoked Vikus." I say, grabbing his shoulder wound and pressing my hand into it hard. He yells out in pain and releases his grip on the knife and Blaze goes to pick it up. "You're not very strong are you Vikus. I mean who cries out like that?" I taunt as he growls at me. "I do believe you cried out like that when I killed your precious little Rye." Vikus hisses at me. Rage builds up inside of me and I launch myself at him, pinning him to the ground. "Don't you dare speak about Rye. You have no right." I growl, holding my sword to his throat as he struggles. He ignores me and tries to release himself from my grip but I just tighten it. He stops struggling and smirks at me. "I say what I like, when I like." He says. I feel like screaming at him but instead I raise my sword but just as I am about to bring it down onto his throat, two pairs of strong arms yank me off him. I slap the hands away and spin around to look at Lucias and Blaze. "Why didn't you let me kill him?" I say, almost shouting. "It's too early to break the alliance." Lucias says calmly. I glare at him and turn back to look at Vikus who is being helped up by Azalea. "Looks like Vikus has got a little friend. Isn't that cute." I say sarcastically, earning myself glares off both Vikus and Azalea.


"We should go searching for other tributes, the sooner their dead the better." Marina says, breaking the silence that we had been sat in for a while. Lucias jumps up enthusiastically and Blaze follows him up a couple of seconds later. Eventually I get up too, picking my sword up. "We will stay here." Says Azalea who is tending to Vikus's wound. I nod suspiciously and turn my gaze away from them and back to Marina, Lucias and Blaze who have already began walking. Vikus and Azalea are getting unusually close and it's not right. I shake my head and follow the others around the back of the cornucopia and towards where we are going to hunt. As I walk, I can hear Azalea whisper something to Vikus. Blaze has stopped to wait for me but I nod for him to carry and he nods in response and catches back up with Lucias and Marina. I carefully crouch behind the cornucopia so I can hear what Azalea is saying to Vikus. "We should leave the alliance now. She could have killed you earlier." I hear her say. She is obviously talking about me. There is silence for a while and then I hear Vikus's voice. "But isn't it a bit early? It's the second day." he asks. "Well I don't think so, we don't need them." Azalea replies. I bite my lip attempt not laugh at what she just said as there is no way she would be able to survive without the decent source of food and water that the cornucopia supplies.

After that I never hear a response from Vikus but instead there is shuffling of feet. I think for a second before getting up and striding into their view. They both turn to look at me and I see the shock on Azalea's face as I send my sword flying towards her. She attempts to jump out the way but it pierces her chest and she screams out in pain. "I hate traitors." I spit and walk over to her, yanking the sword out of her chest, making her wound bleed even more. "And to think I felt sympathy for you." I hiss at her and then turn to face Vikus who has his sword in a defensive guard. I hear Azalea's cannon fire "Looks like I just killed you're little girlfriend." I smirk. He snarls at me and lowers his sword. "I'm not going to fight you, Vilani." He says, slowing bending down to pick up a backpack and a knife. "Why? You're not scared of little me are you?" I laugh loudly and he glares at me. "No, I just don't think it's fair to kill you right now. You should at least have some chance of winning these games even though you're not going to. I will be killing you soon though." He retorts. "No, you're just scared. Just run off and cry about your precious little Azalea but next time I come across you, you're dead." I roll my eyes and turn away, watching as he runs off in the opposite direction to the careers.

The hovercraft comes down and takes away Azalea's limp body. I almost laugh at the fact that she was so naïve. Did she really think she would be able to survive without the supplies of the cornucopia? And even she did, which would have been very unlikely, Vikus would have killed her without a second thought when the time came to it.


The loud voices of Blaze, Marina and Lucias take me out of my daydream about what life will be like after I win these games. "Where is Vikus and Azalea?" Marina asks almost instantly, in her usual observant manner. "Azalea's dead and Vikus has run off." I shrug and look at each of their facial expressions. Lucias and Marina both seem pretty shocked whereas Blaze seems like he expected it. "What happened?" Asks Marina sounding almost panicked. "They were planning to leave so I killed the girl and let Vikus go." I say, shrugging again. "But why did you let him go? I thought you hated him" Marina continues. "You ask a lot of questions District four." I say before continuing. "I didn't think it was the right time to kill him. I thought I would give him a bit more of a chance." Marina says nothing more a takes a step back, looking at me warily. A slight smirk appears on my face and I sit back down, sharping my knife on another knife that once belonged to Azalea.


We sit around a fire, cooking a rabbit and a squirrel that Blaze and Lucias had caught when they went hunting for other tributes. Although I was a bit annoyed they didn't kill any other tributes, I told myself it didn't really matter because the tribute was already quite low. Thirteen tributes already dead.

I shiver and pull my jacket tighter around me as the wind begins to pick up, making my hair flap all over the place. I can only expect this to be a creation by the Gamemakers because the speeds of the winds increase further. The wind extinguishes the fire, sending small burning embers flying around us. We run to the safety of the Cornucopia mouth just as some of our loose items get propelled into the air by the ever growing wind. A log that we once sat on gets slammed into the side of the Cornucopia making Marina jump and scream loudly. "Oh shut up, it didn't hit you, did it?" I say, rolling my eyes.

About an hour later, the wind died down and we were able to return to where we once sat. I pick up all the weapons that had been thrown around and place them back in the Cornucopia safely, before returning to Blaze and my other allies, who have already set up another place for us to sit.

"I wonder what other types of weather the Gamemakers will set out for us." Lucias says, through mouthfuls of an apple he found in one of the backpacks. "Oh, anything that will make it remotely hard for us." I say bluntly, shrugging my shoulders at the same time. He just nods in response and continues eating his apple in the most noisily way possible that makes me nearly knock it out his hand.


Blaze and I take first watch, letting Marina and Lucias sleep first. We huddle together in effort to keep the coldness away from us. He wraps his strong arms around me and I lean back into him, feeling extremely awkward but I tell myself that anything to keep me warm will do. We sit in silence, looking around at our surroundings. Our view of the arena is fairly good considering the Cornucopia is situated at the top of the small mountain. As I sit in Blaze's arms I feel relaxed, even though I tell myself I shouldn't. Getting close to Blaze will only make it harder for me to kill him if it ever comes down to us. I shudder at the thought of killing Blaze as I consider him as a friend even though the word 'friend' isn't really a word when you're fighting to the death in the arena.