Author's note: YAY FOUR REVIEWS! Well, that just made my day right there. Hi Rosycat! XD

Normally I only respond to the latest reviews, but I'm going to make an exception because I want to respond to all of them. So here we go!

#1: Yeah, they are different. Lani's quiet, and then turns sassy, Jay is happy and cheerful all the time (except when he isn't. XD) And yeah... but... on the other hand, you could kind of understand where she's coming from.

#2: Glad you liked it! It's okay that your reviews aren't as long... I just get going.

#3: Yep. I did. XD It's such a 'Hiro' thing.
The Arena is kind of one of my best pieces of work. I hope to be able to play around with all the sections- it's so cool!
Oh yeah, Jay... Wow, this is like a back and forth thing, isn't it? I don't want you to kill Lani. You don't want me to kill Jay. That's the thing. I love Jay. I love him so so much. But you never know. I guess it all depends, doesn't it? ;)

#4: I'm glad you like it. And yeah, she kind of is.

NOW ON TO THE ACTUAL STORY!

Gogo's POV

The forest was unnaturally quiet. Except for the sound of insects, and my own footfalls, nothing else stirred. I didn't like that. It was like the forest was one giant bomb waiting to explode. Dangerous.

But that's why I'd gone this way. Not many people would be stupid enough to follow me. Especially not Hiro.

Hiro… I sighed. At least he was alive. At least he was alright-

Suddenly, as if reacting to my thoughts, a cannon went off. My eyes instantly snapped to the sky, though I wouldn't know who it was until tonight. My pulse raced for a moment, and I forced myself to calm down. Hiro was fine. He had to be fine. Besides, if he'd been attacked and… killed, there would have been two cannons. Not just one. I would know if he was dead.

Still, hearing the cannon rattled me. It reminded me where I was. It reminded me how dangerous it was.

I wasn't exactly sure where I was going. I'd lost my bearings last night in the dark. I eventually started walking back the way I'd come, hoping to find the cliff that I'd jumped off of yesterday. I thought back to Tadashi, and what he'd say if he'd seen that. He was probably angry that I'd left Hiro. Well there was nothing I could do about that, was there?

Still… I had promised Tadashi that I would protect him. And so far, I was failing at that.

"I'm sorry Tadashi," I whispered. "But I had to draw the fire away from him. If the careers are focused on me, they'll leave him alone." I knew a camera would catch those words, and hopefully Tadashi would hear them.

After another hour of silent walking, I began to realize that something was wrong. First off, I hadn't reached the wall yet, and I'm pretty sure I didn't go that far last night. Second, the clicking had gone silent.

From all the years that I'd been forced to watch the Hunger Games, I knew this wasn't a good sign. Silence never is.

I looked around, searching for the threat, my hand already going to one of my knives. The forest around me was strangely empty. And above me there was the sun. The sun?

I looked around again, to find that I was in a clearing. Of course. Something was about to happen. This was set up for the cameras.

I gritted my teeth, looking up at the sky. "What do you want?!" I snarled. "Just looking for more ways to entertain yourself?! Setting me up to die in front of a camera?"

There was no answer- but they heard me. I knew it. They could make my life hell for it if they wanted to, but I didn't care. I'd take what they threw at me.

Click. Click. Click. CLICKCLICKCLICKCLICKCLICK…

My eyes shot up to the trees around me. I caught my breath, eyes widening.

I'm not scared of much, but this was pushing it. In the trees around me were thousands of spiders. Each one was at least the size of my hand, with long hairy black legs, and large nasty-looking mandibles, which made the clicking sound. They coated the tree trunks, millions of little red eyes blinking. Waiting.

I caught my breath, my grip tightening on the knife. There was no way I could find this many things. Of all the ways to die… I lifted the knife defensively.

There was a collective hiss, and a tremor ran through the watching spiders.

"Don't come any closer," I muttered. I knew it was pointless, but I didn't care. "First one to came within two feet gets squished."

I glanced down, in time to see one of them inching towards me, fangs out, reaching for my ankle. Without a second's consideration, I stepped on it. It made an ugly crunch as I crushed it.

There was a furious storm of clicks from all around me, and the spiders charged in an ugly black tide.