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In order to flee before the Capitol send anymore Peacekeepers, we all group back together and rush back across the field. Once we enter the deep forest, I scan the area in case of any Peacekeepers. The place seems clear for the most part, but I keep feeling like there's someone behind us. Every time I turn around, the presence vanishes. Must be an animal or something...
Sprinting across the final field, Finnick speaks into his watch to open the door on the side of the mountain, and it suddenly swings open. We climb up the slope a couple of meters and we fall into the heated room in a pant. "I'll take them cameras. Thank you very much," says Finnick swiping the cameras out of Hirk, Keeka and Boniqua's hands the second they fall through the doorway. He ditches us all and vanishes out the door at the end of the expansive hall. Taking our time and exploring the room, we take a look at the shelves of bombs and rockets. Over in the top right corner is where they contain the hovercrafts. Not a second goes by in here that no one's not in a rush to do something. People bash into us and rudely say "Watch where you're looking!". We eventually leave and I split up with everyone to go back to my room and get changed into my regular uniform. I decide to pass on another training session, so when I go to the canteen for breakfast, I find that it's shut. A woman passing by tells me that it'll be back open at seven for dinner. I go back to my room to take a nap considering I'm exhausted, and when I wake up and look at the clock, it's eleven. I leave and knock on Eden's door and she lets me in.
"Well, how are you doing after that?", she asks. "I'm very tired," I say. "If you're tired after that, what are you going to be like in a fully fleshed war?", she replies. I shrug. "I guess we should go to Finnick to see if there's any updates," she whispers. We leave her bedroom and when we arrive at the meeting room, Finnick lets us both in. "So what's happening?", I ask. "So, I sent the footage to the U-District 3 commanders, and they told us that the Capitol's television system is poor," he explains. "And that means?", I say. "That means that all they have to do is edit the footage and get rid of all the boring bits. Displaying it on television for all of Panem to see is surprisingly going to be the easy bit," he answers.
I eventually feel prepared enough for some more action, so I beg Eden to come to training with me. When we arrive, Kit spots us and lets us skip the queue to the top. Armed with guns again, we're lined up at the starting line, but he quickly comes over to us. "For you two," he says, handing me a spear and a quiver full of arrows to Eden. "Finnick ordered me to give you these. Apparently you used them this morning," he continues and then scurries into the waiting room. "My bow!", exclaims Eden. She pulls the little box out from a pocket on the side of the quiver and swings it around her back. She unfolds it and it locks in place; a perfect bow. "Three, two, one."
This time, there's not much of a catch to the game. Usually there's around six Peacekeepers, but now there's around twenty five. This should be easy, and a good way to practice with my spear. I raise the metal rod and we both sprint towards the crowd, but it's too late for them to shoot. I let my spear fly from my hands and I watch as bullets shoot out from little holes along it, killing around seven Peacekeepers. The tip of the spear lodges into one last enemy and the bullets stop. Looks like that's eight now. The bodies explode and the remaining Peacekeepers are covered in blood, my spear dropping to the ground when the body it's in explodes. Eden raises her bow and shoots an arrow. It pierces straight through the soft fabric on the Peacekeeper's hand and sticks out on the other side a slight bit. Scrambling on the floor, I decide to get him out of the torture and I shoot bullets at him. Now there's only sixteen. An easy way to take them out would be with my spear, but that's in a pool of blood in the middle of them. I've got to go in.
I wave my hand at Eden to make her follow me, and we go in blazing our guns. She tosses her bow on the ground so she can get an easy grip on the gun and she takes down a couple of enemies. I dive into the crowd and they aim their guns at me. Shielding will be useless and begging for mercy would be useless, considering they're only robots. I quickly swipe my gun and toss my spear, watching as the bullets take them all down. I sprint back towards Eden to retrieve it, only to find that there's four left. "One," I say aloud, and then I toss my spear and watch as the bullets kill one and the spear impales the other. "Two," Eden says. Then she picks up her bow from the ground and takes an arrow out of her quiver. The Peacekeepers try to aim at her, but the blood covered over the facial parts of their helmets isn't helping them at all. Her arrow lands directly in a Peacekeeper's heart and it explodes. "Three," we both say in union. She must know what I want to do. We both raise our guns and fire rapidly at the one last enemy. Once the motionless body blasts open, Kit tells us through the speakers to come back to the start, even though it's only a couple of meters away.
"Excellent job!", he exclaims. "You're definitely ones to watch!". Eden and I both leave and head back to our rooms, only to be called up to the meeting room over the intercom by Finnick. Alongside Keeka, Fry and all the others, Finnick tells us something very interesting. "After the footage airs on television tonight, I'd like for you all to head to the District 4 train station." Everyone asks him why, and he says because "We need to see the effect our videos have". Everyone, including me, agrees immediately and he says to come back here at nine thirty. That's just after dinner ends. Perfect. Eden and I go back to our rooms and chat for a while, really just letting the hours waste away. When it comes to dinner, we sprint out towards the cafeteria and we're one of the first ones to arrive. Spaghetti covered in a meaty, tomato sauce seems to be the main meal with a glass of water which counts for "our sides". Seems a bit unfair. We sit down and savage through our meal, dirtying the table with the sauce. Then I suddenly hear static which pierces everyone's ears. The whole canteen squeals from the sound, but it suddenly goes away. Within a moment, the huge screens propped up on the walls come to life with an image of me.
I tell the camera how we're going to District 4, to show how we're still alive. Walking through the forest, across the field and then over the fence, everything is being shown but some parts are slightly shortened. Everyone in the canteen falls completely silent, some even dropping their trays in shock. Sure, I guess they didn't know we were going to be doing this. Then it comes to the Justice Building. Eden and I give our speech which attracts everyone to come outside. Listening to it back, or just seeing it back, makes it feel so much more powerful. There's no way this can't inspire everyone. The Peacekeepers arrive, and the part where I was being strangled seems to be cut. In fact, this entire section is shortened, but it still shows the Peacekeepers being defeated. The screen turns black and everyone in the canteen shares a moment of silence. Just like in the footage, everyone places three fingers on their lips and then raise their hands up into the air, saluting. Then just like in the footage once again, they all start chanting: "Down with Fraux!". I can barely hear Finnick's voice over the intercom telling us to come to the meeting room after we get changed into our soldier outfits.
Eden and I sprint back to our rooms and step out with our guns armed, her also with her bow and I with my spear. Luckily everyone's in the canteen, that way there's nobody to be frightened desperately when they walk by us. Finnick lets us into the room and we seem to be last. "Is everybody ready?", he asks. "Yes, President Odair," everyone shouts, but I giggle at it. I find it more funny then serious. Finnick leads us back to the expansive hall where we were this morning and out towards the door. "Just like earlier, if there's any problems, you come back here. The Capitol know about us now so anything could happen," he cautiously says. We all nod and he pushes open the doorway. I can tell how truly frightened he is when he has his gun aimed to fire already, even though there's no one outside. He hops out the door and I can hear him bang against the ground with a thud. We wait for him to say "Safe," but we don't hear it. "Finnick?", Loffia calls out, peeking outside, but she suddenly gasps. "What's wrong?!", I scream, pushing my way up the front. When I look outside, I barely catch a glimpse of his horrified face being pulled away by two armed men towards a hovercraft. The engine of the hovercraft revs up so I order everyone outside. I sprint towards the men and I shoot my gun, but the bullets only make a slight dent in their armor. They force Finnick's gun out of his hand and he screams for help, but I know it's too late. Up the ramp and into the darkness, the hovercraft shoots off into the sky and I watch a couple of meters away from where it used to be. "What happened? Where's Finnick?", are only little of the questions that they all press on me, but I only say one thing: "I told you all to come out! Now he's gone because I didn't have any help!". There's no point in arguing with them anymore. We have to face the consequences; Finnick's gone, and the only place he could be taken to is the Capitol. I knew that there was something behind me when we were walking back. They must have followed us. This is no time to start crying, we must carry on, get to the Capitol, kill Fraux and free Finnick. If Fraux thought that this would make us call mercy, he's completely wrong. This is only going to make us more determined, and then when we get to him, he'll be the one calling mercy.
Understand why this section is called "PART II, The Abduction"?
Anyways, I need to tell you all that whenever this chapter is posted (I haven't decided yet), you won't be getting another til Sunday. I'm very sorry, but as I said, I'm going on vacation, and by the time I post this chapter, I'll already be in Spain. And no, I'm not bringing my laptop because there's no space and there's a risk of losing it. And no, I can't write the next chapter on my iPhone considering I won't have word documents. :(
If you liked this chapter, please leave a review! It was a short and less detailed one, I know, but I was in a rush to write this considering I'm leaving soon.
Stay tuned for the next chapter on Sunday! Thank you so much for reading, byeeeee :)
UPDATE: It's officially day two of Spain! I wrote the above before I left home on Tuesday. Get ready for another chapter on Sunday! Byeeee :)