Chapter 10

Everybody ran for the middle, trying to reach the weapon of their choice. I saw District 12's boy run straight for the woods, coward. I had gotten to the Cornucopia right at the perfect time. I saw District 4 reaching down for something and tackled him to the ground, punching him over and over in the face. His nose broken and blood smearing my knuckles. I smiled and looked down at it, seeing an odd shadow I casted? No. I quickly rolled off him as a spear plunged into the boy. I got off my back and jumped on the surprise attacker who tried to kill me, his district partner. Poor thing, this was his cousin.

I struggled for a while and soon got her in a choke hold. I looked over to see Clove digging through some bags. "Clove!" I shouted for her and she looked up instantly. "Want to finish her off?" I offered. She smiled evilly and whipped out two knifes. She turned to her side and threw the knives like a baseball pitcher would to a baseball. Swiftly, the knives flew at the victim, one piercing her heart while the other right between the eyes. I dropped the body to the ground to see Will at the edge of the forest, staring at me with a bit a shock, disgust. He collected himself before running out of sight. "What I tell you?" I heard Cato's voice behind me, seeing him holding a girl by her pony tail. "I even tried to save him," I say looking away from him ashamed. "Honorable." He admits. "But Snow can forget that deal. I just want you me and clove now." He smirked "It can be just you and me," I raised my eyebrows "I'll think about it. So what are you going to do with the girl?" I ask him and he swiftly bends her back over his knee. "Thought you'd want to hear the crack. I know that's your favorite sound." I looked at him softly. "You remembered?" I laughed and watched as he cracked the girls back over his knee, then dropping her to the ground, her voice shattered as she cried. I bent down to her and stroked her face, "shsh, it's okay." I said in a hushed voice, lowering my hand to her neck. I brought my other hand to her neck as well and planted a kiss on her forehead before twisting her neck completely off. I looked up at Cato to see him smirking with satisfaction. "We are defiantly from District 2," I joked before getting up to look around at the dead bodies. 10 kills. I smiled "Awesome job careers," Clove got up from the bag she was searching through "But you were distracted. Your holding back," I looked down. "I think I'm good now," "Better be," Marvel said cleaning his spear, joking with me. "Oh shut up," I laugh back. "Let's set up camp and sort through what we got," Cato demands and walks over to the stuff, kicking a little boy out of his way. I sit down somewhere else and start sorting through weapons, Clove plops down beside me. "What the hell is going through your mind," She teased. I looked at her "His sister." "Simply, kill her brother. He's nothing, he used you. The district did." "What if his sister had nothing to do with the plan?" "Then you try even harder to get out of here. But right now you show them who they were messing with. By killing everybody!" She shoved me playfully. "Oh you wanna play?" I say tackling her to the ground, rolling around until I am on top of her, pinning her arms down with my knees. "You forgot one thing," She said. I just looked at her confused. "I have a district partner," At that moment I felt someone yank me off her and throw me over their shoulder. "No put me down!" I laughed. Cato lightly threw me over and Marvel caught me, wrapping his arms around me. "I hate you," I joked pretending to push him away. He slipped a spear behind my back, "Watch what you say," He smirked. "Aw how cute is this?" Glimmer mocked us. Marvel quickly threw the spear at her but she ducked just in time. "enough playing let's go searching. Game makers made this year's arena smaller." Cato informed, starting to head towards the forest. "I wish you would have hit her," I whispered to Marvel and he began laughing. I broke out of his grasp and screamed after Cato. "we'll take shifts, I'll go at night. I think it's a better time anyways," He nods, briefly rolling his eyes. I smile before sitting back down and separating the stuff.

It took around 20 minutes to separate everything. It would have taken less time if Marvel and I would have stopped playing around. But when things were separated I had come up with a plan. And now we waited hidden around our stuff in the tree's, waiting to see if anybody would come after our stuff. I was right. A girl with red hair came running into the field. Right when she was about to reach our stuff, Marvel and I ran after her, both tackling her to the ground. He had run right into my side and I couldn't help but laugh as I put my forearm to the red haired girls neck. "God Marvel, looked like you tried to kill me," I joked. He smiled as he pulled out a knife. "Not yet. But first what to do with her?" Then the idea hit me. "Let's play darts."

We tied her to a tree and walked about 15 feet away, a variety of knives at our feet. I bent down and grabbed a short knife, sliding my fingers over the cold tip. I brought the knife to my side and with a swift flick threw it. It zoomed through the air and went through her hand. I smiled. "Beat that," I challenged. Marvel picked up a bigger knife with a dull blade, I scoffed. He just smiled and threw it at the girl. I watched it pierce through her knee cap. My eye brows raised in amazement. Her screams were muffled but it still made me smile even larger. I turned to him, his smile grew bigger. "How bought this, I know you and Cato got something going on. If I can hit that same spot twice, then Glimmer get's to kiss Cato." I looked at him and laughed, it was impossible. "Sure." Instead of standing in the same spot he moved to the far right, almost at an angle and threw it. It pierced through her knee cap and shoved the other knife over. Fury built up inside me, oh hell no she wasn't kissing Cato!

We continued this game, piercing her everywhere until the sun had gone down and they heard the others shoving through the trees. "Playing darts?" Cato asked staring at us. Me and Marvel laughed. "She's barely alive. I saved her for Clove." I said moving aside to see Clove running towards us happily. "Alright!" She came to an abrupt stop and threw a hidden knife, soon hearing a huge liquidy sound as we watched the knife go through her chest into her heart and pin her to the tree.

We left the body there, as a warning for the others. They were around here, I could feel it. We now sat around a camp fire, eating some kind of boar meat with salt and fresh weeds and turnips. I looked up at the others. "So how many you kill today?" clove responded. "2. She twisted her ankle running earlier. Heard her crying in the woods and when we came after her she couldn't run. The other, tried throwing rocks at us when we killed her. He was stupid because there was no way for him to go and it was a short tree. Climbed up half way to tease him and then began throwing knives. He fell and bam, blood everywhere," She elaborated with her hands, her eyes growing big with murder and excitement. "Lucky you. All we did was play darts." I laughed. Marvel looked up quickly "Which reminds me, you lost our bet. Glimmer you get to kiss Cato." He said happily. "What bet?" Cato asked angrily. "Just get it over with," I say looking away. "oh no no, you watch," Marvel said getting up and forcing me to look, grabbing my jaw which force that hurt. I tried shutting my eyes but couldn't. I saw Glimmer flip her hair and lean into Cato, giving him a long kiss that looked like they both enjoyed it. He looked at me and laughed, then laying Glimmer on the ground and began kissing back. I shoved Marvel and grabbed a bunch of knives before running into the woods. "I'm going to search for tributes to kill!" I heard laughter from the camp and ran even faster into the woods. I ran about 100 yards from the camp and soon came down to a walk, a little exhausted. I saw a camp fire in the far distant and snuck up behind the girl who was warming up by the fire. I put my arm around her neck and told her not to worry, scream or run. She listened. I plopped down beside her and sighed. "They kicked me out the careers." Her eyes widened. "I-I'm sorry…" She didn't know exactly what to say. "They tried to kill me so I ran away. Allies?" I offered and she nodded, handing me a piece of bread. I smiled and started up a conversation. She told me about her few weapons and about how she has a couple allies somewhere else. They were sleeping though somewhere high in trees. There food and weapons were here though in a tree trunk, she told me where it was. She said the other two would wake up in the morning, one would watch guard, she would sleep, and the other would hunt for food. Then during the night before it was her turn to watch they would move deeper into the woods. Smart.

I stayed up with her till the morning, telling her about how confused I was not about Will anymore about Cato and how I wanted us to live. She said she felt bad for me, that we were doomed, cute but doomed. I sighed and leaned against a tree. She pated my knee and told me about her life back in District 7. I started to like her by the beginning of the morning. And wanted her to live instead of Cato. I wasn't mad at him, I was just. It was to get sponsors I guess. I just hated that angle, the love in the arena. I played helpless girl who just wanted to save her friends. But love, sick. Especially Glimmer. She disgusts me.

That morning I told her goodnight and helped her climb a tree a few yards away while I introduced myself to the other two. When I saw them I thought okay they seem nice but I got a better look. One of them was Will. We sat around the low burning fire in silence, cooking a skinny squirrel. It was awkward; I could see Will glancing at me in disgust as I devoured the squirrel. He must have thought of me as a beast. A monster.

Cato was right, Will hated the real me. It wasn't long after that thought when I made my move. I kicked the fire into Wills face while throwing a knife into the others heart. I sliced both their necks for good measure, ending their pain fast and then run to the tree the girl was, trying to ignore the canons. I climbed up the tree swiftly and without looking at her, pushed her out the high tree. Her body smacked the floor with a hard thump. I climbed back down to her side and stabbed her through the chest multiply times. I then walked over to the tree where there hidden supplies were and grabbed them, heading back to my camp where the careers where. Before I could take another step a parachute fell to my feet. I picked it up and opened the container, seeing a small note. "They love you! You're a favorite!" I smiled at the note and pulled out a picture of Rye. I collapsed to the ground and smiled at her, she was so fragile. I missed her so much! On the back was some fancy handwriting. "Best year yet. But only 1 will win." Signed Snow. I smiled but yet I felt bad. I wanted to be the only victor but Clove, Cato. they were still my friends, my family. Everything we did we played the crowd. I took a deep breath and tucked the picture in my pocket before heading back to the camp. Soon as I got there Glimmer was sitting there polishing her nails with a whole manicure set her sponsors sent her. "That's what they sent you?" I growled. She looked up and smiled. "Yeah isn't it amazing!" "That's all they send?" "Just to make me look beautiful unlike some people."She looked me up and down and at that moment I lost it. I threw myself at her, shoving her face into the ground. Pounding at her skull with my fist until it started bleeding. I turned her over and broke her arm, twisted her ankle. It was too late when the rest of the came for me. I bit off her fingers and finally crushed her windpipe.

I looked up at the others as the gong went off. It was just Cato and Clove. "We really didn't need her," I said apologetically and they busted out laughing. "Remind me to never get you jealous." Cato said helping me up, whipping the blood off my lips. "Whatever I had a great night sleeping by myself," I teased before giving Clove a hug. I don't know why but I was sad I had to kill her. I know I have to. I didn't want to and in my mind was formulating how I could turn Cato and Clove against each other so I wouldn't have to kill them myself.

"Where's Marvel?" I asked as we sat around the lake, washing the blood off our faces. "He went looking for others," Cato responded. At that moment we heard a gong. Somehow I felt it was him. "Well now he won't be mad at me killing Glimmer." We all laughed and then heard another gong. "Damn everybody is dying before we can kill them!" I said leaning back on the grass, letting the sun hit my skin. "Let's take a break and see who died, collect our strength for tomorrow when we go after who's left. They agreed and laid down next to me.

"You know she tried to get all three of us to live," Cato told Clove. She wasn't shocked. "This is a hard year. Best three in District 2. Made for one hell of a show." She said. "We could kill each other and win, feel the victory. But I would miss you both." I say softly. "It's all about pride," Cato mocked, I laughed because that's true.

We laid out under the stars to watch the dead tributes, Rue and Marvel. Now it's only us three, thresh, Katniss and Peeta. Yeah I know their names, I like to get personal with people before I kill them. After the dead tributes where showed an announcement was made, there will be a feast tomorrow with someone we all need. "This should be fun." I saw before drifting off into a comfortable sleep.