Don't Count me out
Chapter 9
Day two of the hunger games for us was typical for the careers, everyone was awake at dawn and Cato said that it was time to go hunt down some tributes. I grabbed my knifes not really sure if I would need them or not, Cato gave Peeta a small sword just so that he could defend himself and off we went, leaving the district 3 boy behind to continue with his work. We were walking in the woods when Cato saw some smoke, we quickly headed in that direction and we found the district 8 female, she had started a fire. When she saw us she immediately started to beg and plea about keeping her alive, Cato got sick of it and stabbed her and we walked away. We weren't very far and we still didn't hear the cannon, everyone started to argue about whether or not she was dead so Peeta said that he would go and finish the job. The minute he left Glimmer and Marvel pestered Cato on why we let him join. Cato looked at me and he said
"He'll lead us to the girl on fire hopefully."
They were all skeptical but before they could say anything else we heard the cannon and we heard Peeta coming back, he wasn't very silent in the woods so anyone could have picked him off right there. When he returned, we continued to hunt for tributes; by the time nightfall came around we hadn't found anyone. We returned back to camp lit a fire, listened to the anthem and watched as the district 8 female appeared on the screen and then disappeared forever.
Day three was a pretty boring day; we couldn't find any tributes which resulted in no deaths today. Peeta turned out to be a good addition to the team, but he was kind of silent and didn't really talk much. I did learn about his family back home and I told him about mine. He seemed kind of shocked that the peacekeepers would kill a mother for trying to bring the child to the father where the child would be better off. I knew that the gamemakers would block out all of our conversations since they normally don't want us to know about the other districts. We listened to the anthem, ate some food and went to bed. Not really exciting, maybe tomorrow would be better.
Day four we smelt smoke, and sure enough there was a wall of fire that the gamemakers created; we were hunting for tributes early in the morning when it happened too. We freaked and ran back to the lake since we know that some tributes must be stupid enough to come running here. We had to wait for a couple of hours before it died down, then we headed back out to find tributes. We were making quite a noise but I suppose it made sense, if we made noise then the tributes would run and we would see them. Sure enough the plan worked, we were walking and we saw Katniss start running so we chased her. We chased her all the way up a tree, Cato tried to climb it but he fell on his butt and Katniss moved higher up the tree, Glimmer was going to try next but the branches would break under her weight too. Since no one could get up there she fired an arrow at her which she clearly didn't know how to work a bow and arrow and missed. Katniss ended up getting the arrow and taunting glimmer with the fact that she had it. We decided to camp out there since Cato knew that she had to come down eventually. We decided on taking turns to watch and so we all went to sleep. Cato and I were the last two awake and he kissed my forehead and whispered to me. He said "We will win." I smiled and we went to sleep.