I kept walking through the woods. I had to leave the group, I couldn't continue to be the one to keep them alive and I needed sleep. I found a spot over by the first lake. The careers weren't over there and it didn't look like they had been there.
I sat my stuff down and started to go to sleep. I had been asleep for about twenty seconds when I heard another beeping noise, another sponsor gift. I looked up and saw the parachute falling down towards me. This gift was much larger than all the others I had received.
When it landed on the ground I walked over to see what it was. It was a trident and I knew without a doubt that it was mine. In all the games I have ever seen, no one got large weapons like this. How did Mags manage to get this pulled off?
One thing I realized was that if people put in all the time and effort to make sure this trident got to me, it meant I had to give the audience what they wanted. There were some vines on the tree I was sleeping against. I took my knife and started to cut down the vines. Once I had all the vines cut down I started making a net.
Once I had my net made I started searching for people. The sun was just starting to rise before I finally found someone. The District 12 girl was sitting by a tree, eating bread. I attempted to hide behind a tree, but she saw me.
"Finnick," she said, "are you trying to form an alliance?"
"No, I'm done with alliances."
"This means I have to kill you," she said as she pulled a knife out of her belt.
"I am afraid you won't be able to." I take out my trident.
As I show her my trident, she throws a knife at me. I could feel the blood starting to run down my forehead.
The girl started running towards me. Before she could throw another knife I throw my net at her. "Finnick, you better let me out of here!"
Does she really think I am going to let her out of that net? I walk over to her and I think she starts excepting her fate. I shove the trident into her stomach and the cannon fires a minute later.
I grab my trident and try and think of the tributes that were left. All the careers, Link, District 7 male, Luke, Naomi, District 7 girl, and me.
I wonder if Naomi and Luke noticed I left. They probably thought I died when the District 12 girl's cannon went off. I remember that girl threw a knife at my head. The blood was still running down my face. I opened my bag to see if I had medicine. "And there is no medicine," I say to myself.
I gather my things and head to the Cornucopia, surely the careers are there and would be so willing to give me medicine. I kneel down by the bushes and can make out two people standing by the entrance to the Cornucopia.
Both of them are girls. This must be Jade and Cynthia. Jade has a spear and Cynthia has knives and a bow and arrow. I try and think of how I am going to get to the Cornucopia to get the medicine. I know for a fact they have medicine because Jade's leg is wrapped up.
I decide that I just going to casually walk out there, what can it harm? I get out from the bushes and start to walk across the field to the Cornucopia. "Hello, ladies," I say to them smiling. Jade looks over to Cynthia and they get their weapons ready to kill me.
"Whoa, no need to kill me I just came to get medicine."
"Why would we give you medicine," Jade asks.
"Because if you don't," I say as I throw my trident into Cynthia's stomach, "you'll end up just like your friend."
Jade looks over at Cynthia just as the cannon fires. "Go ahead and try to kill me," she said, "I bet you can't."
I run over and grab my trident out of Cynthia's stomach. Jade tries throwing knives at me, but I am able to dodge them. I get up and start to run away from her, but she grabs me by the leg and tries to spear me in the stomach.
I roll away before she can stab me. She starts running towards me and I throw my trident right at her throat. "I will use the medicine wisely," I say pulling the trident out of her throat. She is going to die slowly from choking on her blood.
As I look through their bags the cannon fires. Both bags had two jars full of medicine, it looked like they had received both jars from sponsors. I grabbed the jars and put the medicine in my bag. Two out of the four careers were dead, three were alive if you counted Link as a career.
I knew Link would have a bow and arrow, that's what she would use during her training. I start heading back to forest when another cannon fires. I look up and see Link's picture in the sky. The last two careers must have wanted her out of the alliance or her arrogance got her killed.
I start walking back to the woods and I sit by the trees and apply the medicine on the spot the knife cut me. The medicine started to sting, but I knew that meant it was working. Hopefully by morning the cut would be healed.
Luke and Naomi must have realized I abandoned them, I could hear them arguing and their voices were getting closer and closer.
"Wasn't that the plan from the beginning," asks Luke.
"Yes, he has killed so many people now, shouldn't we be worried?"
I decide to seize the opportunity to kill them. "What was the plan," I ask.
"Nothing was," Naomi said.
I noticed Luke was walking into the tree line to sneak up on me. Before he could get any further I threw my trident at his head and he died instantly.
"You know I knew something was wrong when I first accepted your alliance," I say ripping the trident from Luke's head, "now I know I was right."
Naomi was starting to cry and beg for mercy, "I am sorry Finnick, I didn't want to kill you."
Does she think that this is going to work? It's the Hunger Games and she expects to live.
"Well, it's too late," I say shoving the trident into her stomach. With hesitation the cannon fires.
