Authors note: So sorry but this chapter might be a bit short too. I've been getting heaps of school work lately and haven't been able to write much.
Chapter 9
We get to sleep really early. I think about what Cato said for most of the night. I think long and hard. He's certainly right. I know that.
After a while, I realise I shouldn't be scared. We were trained well in district two and we should trust that. I also shouldn't be scared of the dark, but I am shaking with fear at every whistle of the wind. I'm still kind of worried about everything. Glimmer taking over, the dark of the night and people wishing we were dead most. I know we'd be able to take them easily when they do come after us; I just still have that feeling. I remember once when mom and I were catching a train from one side of Two to the other. I was only ten years old. Mom was taking me to go see my uncle (her brother). I had never met him before and I was a bit anxious about lots of things; If he was nice, weather we'd get there on time, and if mom and him had recovered from that fight a few years ago. As it turned out, they hadn't, but mom wanted me to meet my cousins. Anyway, I felt so prepared to get on the train that I felt like,…like I wasn't going to get on it in time. In my mind, I had made it seem like a huge thing, and I started feeling scared and intimidated. That is the exact feeling I feel now.
All of the tributes in the arena have teamed up on us. Including the district three boy. they surround us around our fire. They all have dead eyes and come at us with their arms held out holding weapons. It's like they've risen from the dead. They all look like armed zombies. Glimmer is clinging onto a log. Cato jumps out at them with a huge sward. But they grab hold of him and pull him into the middle of the group. I scream in horror as they drag Glimmer and Marvel away too. I frantically look for an escape. Between two strange dead tributes, I see an opening. I can see my tent clearly. I close my eyes and charge through. Making it safely to the other side, I open my eyes. The dead tributes slowly start coming after me. I un zip my small tent, jump in and quickly zip up my tent. The tent starts shaking. They're trying to get me out. I start shaking with the tent. I lightly drop to the floor of the tent and my eyes shut.
I wake up. Everything seems clearer, but it's still pitch black . It was a dream.
But the tent is still shaking!
I try to stay calm. But I'm terrified! I haven't had time to think and my head is spinning. Among the chaos, I manage to grab my belt of knives and I fumble to the opening of my tent. With my tired fingers, I try to open the zipper with my fingers. I jump out of the tent with a knife in my hand and scream, "Leave us alone you dead eyed creeps!" Cato is standing next to my tent with his hands held out like he's telling someone to stop and a surprised look on his face. "Wow, I'm only trying to get you up." he says with a slight chuckle. I stay still for a while. I just woke up and it's hard to take in information. Then, understanding that he was shaking my tent to wake me up, I quickly bring my knife in and slot it back into my belt. "Sorry," I start. "I got kinda worried and kept thinking people are going to come after us." Cato stares at me for a while with a mean smirk on his face. "Why so worried?" he says. "You know the only reason anyone would want to come after us is to get us out of the way because we are the best fighters. Anyway, I bet we'll get to them before they even find us." As he walks to the fire pit we made last night. "OK!" he yells into the other tents. "Come on! We gotta get out and hunt tonight! Maybe we can catch some sleepy tributes at night." He says with a mean grin. I'm worried he's waking up all the tributes anyway because he's yelling so loud. He's confident, that's why. It still worries me. But he's right. it felt like we've been in our tents the whole night but as it turns out, we've only been asleep for a few hours! It's only about 11 o'clock. "I think that ever since we've had three hours sleep we should be hyped and ready to go!" Cato says a little bit hushed this time. "Wake up lover boy." Glimmer says as she kicks Peeta and the district three boy. "We're going hunting for you girlfriend and you're going to help us find her." She says as she tilts her head and puts on a mean tone. Cato picks up his sword and tells us to get our weapons too. I'm tired and not so sure what's going on but I do what he says. He leads us into the woods and I run up next to him yawning.
He spins around and signals to me to be quite with my steps. I nod.
Glimmer walks up to the other side of him and smiles sweetly. I can barely see her. "Who's there, I can't really see you." Cato whispers. I know he can see her perfectly. "It's Glimmer." She reaches up to his ear and whispers. "OH." Cato says. He leans over to me and whispers in my ear. "Hold my hand! Quick!" I can see what he's doing, so I grab hold of his hand. Glimmer sees. She frowns and runs her hands along Cato's arm. "Cato I'm scared." She whispers. That is the cheesiest thing I've ever heard. I'm scared of the dark too but around other people I feel fine. Cato ignores her. Under my breath, I mutter; "Sook" purposely letting her hear me. She frowns again.
I start to engage in hunting. My eyes closely scan the forest. I slip my hand out of Cato's grip. Marvel is a bit further away from the group, looking around. I'm the first the see it. A little light, a few yards away. I tap Cato and silently point to the light. Marvel and glimmer have seen it too now. Peeta is very shy to us and he's lagging at the back of the group in front of Glimmer who eventually released Cato and decided to watch Peeta which Marvel was doing previously.
Now we are only about fifty metres away from the light. Now I can clearly see a girl sitting next to a fire. We slowly creep up on her. Now we are only two metres away from her and she still hasn't seen us. She must be a very un focused girl, because Cato steps into the light. We all stand over her, until Cato stomps his feet. The girl looks up and lets out the loudest scream I've ever heard. She has no time to stand up let alone run away. This is quite funny. We have her. I let out an evil laugh. Cato nudges me and I know he wants me to do it. The knife flies through the air and she's dead in a few split seconds. I turn to Cato and grin. He holds his hand out and I slap mine against it. My first kill with people watching. I feel great! Peeta bends down. I had almost forgotten he was there! "Hey." He says. "This is Katniss's snare." We all smile. He has our attention. With that, we head off into the night. "You sure she went this way?" Cato says, threateningly. "Yeah," Peeta says. "That was her snares back there." Glimmer pulls Cato back to her. I sigh but keep walking. Cato comes up to me. "What was that about?" I ask, curiously. "Ah, we were just discussing whether we should kill him. I nod. Then I freeze. I feel strange. Like we're being watched. I look around. No one's there. I shiver and catch up with the others.
