Chapter 10
I woke up and looked around. I was surprised I was even alive. I guess I thought the 3 girl would just kill Cascade and I then…well…yeah.
First I noticed I was tied to a log. I pulled my head up and saw that Cascade was tied next to me. I poked her with a free finger. "Cascade! CASCADE!"
She opened her eyes blearily. "FOR THE WIN!" she yelled, then noticing she wasn't killing tributes anymore, she looked at me. Hatred filled her eyes. "The hell you want, kid?" She went to kill me then realized she was strapped down.
"SHH!" I whispered, before she started yelling. "The 3 girl got us. We gotta work as a team to get outta this mess," I looked into her eyes. Pleadingly. "Alright," she grumbled. "But only temporarily. As soon as 3's dead, you will be too." I didn't take this as a compliment but I didn't take it badly, either.
I felt around for something sharp…No. I saw our weapons. They were strapped to a tree on the other side of the river that we were next to. Hmm. Then I realized I hadn't gotten any sponsors yet. This was my chance.
My strategy was be crazy. Check. Necessary weapons hadn't come yet. Here goes nothing.
"YO SPONSORS!" I screamed. "GIMME THE FREAKING ROCKET LAUNCHER!"
I could feel the prices launching up, up, up as I said that. Well, Ebony deserved it. Pay, you little bastard.
In about a half hour a kitchen knife came down and landed close to my neck. Die? I wondered. No! Teeth! I grabbed the thing with my mouth and cut at my arm. A few minutes later I was cutting my feet apart.
I looked at Cascade. "Promise?" I asked. She nodded and I cut her loose. Even shorter time then it had taken to cut myself free, she was up. "How long were we out?" she asked. I knew a little about electricity. "Well, seeing that we were shocked at a pretty high voltage, I'm guessing about 4 days." Cascade grabbed her weapons. I followed.
She didn't kill me. She only tried finding evidence of the whereabouts of the 3 girl. There were some burn marks from a fire near our weapons and a bag of food where we were tied. "She was here recently," I said. "Maybe she's close."
We started walking through the forest. Cascade started whistling and I noticed footmarks in the damp mud.
"Look!" I exclaimed. "Good environment for stalking."
We followed the tracks until we came upon some more wire- it was a trap, just in case someone came to her camp, I guess. Then Cascade screamed, "DIE!" She tackled something in a bush.
Boom. A cannon went off. There were too many trees for me to see the face, but Cascade came up holding the body like a rabbit as a prize- she had gotten Dominica, now she was coming for me.