Dun dun dun... Finally, one day is over! Nine chapters equaled one day! Oh well, things will move at a quicker pace here now.

Chapter Ten

Well, I had to share my plans sometime. But with jabberjays fluttering around, it's not safe. I know what Maybelle said about the room being soundproof, but what if jabberjays could hear through it? It doesn't matter about being criminals anymore. Our plans matter.

So on an unspoken agreement, Maybelle builds some sort of thing to detect signs of life within two hundred meters of the Underground. Jabberjays are still birds, too, you know. Whenever one's nearby, we feed them false information.

After a few weeks, the jabberjays disappear.

Every day, we send scouts down into the tunnels, lengthening Maybelle's map of the Underground. We've found plenty of food, there. I've wondered about Peacekeepers going down the other door, but Maybelle says that she's ensured it won't happen. She's disabled the door from the mayor's computer. Now the door will never open.

Stupid, idiotic Peacekeepers. So arrogant, they do all the high-tech security when we rebels bring it around. Turn in onto them.

I share my plans. Most people think it's crazy. Some people nodd as if they understand. Amy… well, she just stares at me in shock.

Basically, once we've got the proper things - there are weapons in the Underground, too, really and Sage, Amy, Holly, and I have been teaching people how to work with knives. Pine and Mint, as it turns out, excels in hand-to-hand combat. But anyways - we will storm out and bring the Peacekeepers down. We're the largest district in Panem, and although casualties are very likely, we should be able to bust out of the fence.

Yes, I said fence.

We'll smash the control box that controls the electricity in the fence. Once we do that, Peacekeepers will be easy to take down because their favorite way of killing is smashing people into the electrified fence. Not this time. Once we take down the Peacekeepers, we steal their Map of Panem and journey to the nearest district.

Of course, the Capitol will be after us, but I doubt they can find anything. The people of District Eleven work in trees. Helicopters can't spy people hiding in trees. So we're basically covered until we find a district where they can't jump trees. But that's another matter, another complication to be solved later.

Once we've gathered all thirteen districts we come back to District Eleven, because it will be void of Peacekeepers. In the Underground again, we heal ourselves, feed ourselves, and rest until the inevitable day comes. And when it does, we charge at the Capitol with our full force.

District residents outnumber Capitol Peacekeepers fifty to one.

Should be a piece of cake.

"And how are we going to get the other district residents out?" Chime asks when I reveal my plan.

"There's always woods beyond the fence. We jump over them and attack on the Peacekeepers. Once the district residents realize what we're doing, they'll join in the fight too. Again, they'll be casualties, but we should win."

There's silence for a few minutes as the plan soaks in. "You're asking for one hell of a miracle," Amy says. Murmurs nod assent.

"That's right," I say with confidence. "We're going to work a miracle."

The jabberjays seem to have stopped coming. Once, I had said that we're going to attack the very next day. Thousands of Peacekeepers could be felt in the Underground, feet pounding. They waited all night and all day. Eight days in a row before realizing that it was a false alarm. It's happend quite a few times. But without our food to supply them, they'll starve. Thousands of Peacekeepers can't stay forever. Eventually, they just leave.

On the day before our rebellion starts, I decide to see what's going on outside. Not actually outside, but the screens. Believe it or not, there's actually technology down here.

The mayor's house has plenty of cameras, so Maybelle accesses that and I look around. To my relief, the Garden is unharmed. So is the rest of District Eleven. But what surprises me is the tiny little bird in the Garden, chirping.

"What's that?" Sage asks, coming over to me. Funny. I was just wondering the exact same thing. Certainly no bird I know of; this one is gray and small, wings fluttering above the buds of flowers. However, the other species of birds out there I can recognize...

I pull out my father's drawing of the bird. Now I recognize it. A mockingbird.

I can see it now, fluttering. Along with a jabberjay. For a moment, my mind whizzes into think mode… And I understand what's happened.

The jabberjays were abandoned after our false information, given that they're not accurate. But, they so wanted to live, they mated with female mockingbirds, creating an entirely new species.

I explain that to Sage. "What should we call it?"

He thinks for a minute. "Maybe you should pick. You're the face of rebellion, after all." He smiles at me.

I think for a long while. "Well, tomorrow's the rebellion, so better get this over with," I say finally. "We could be dead within twenty-four hours."

"So what do we call it?" Maybelle asks, not even bothered by my death comment.

I ponder about this for a few seconds. Jabberjays mated with mockingbirds, their genes creating a new species of nature, one that sings in the garden of the dead. Yet… they're a slap in the face to the Capitol, a creature never meant to exist. Mocking the Capitol at every flutter… a jaybird flying high towards freedom… I know its name immediately.

"A mockingjay," I smile.

Tomorrow, the rebellion begins.

Ze rebellion begins! Tomorrow! In real life! Hopefully...

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