Chapter 11: The hunter becomes the hunted. Hope you enjoy this. Please review. POV Jane It is almost dawn when it is my shift. I sit thinking about how things are going in the other arenas. Who is alive and who is dead? Leaves begin to rustle in a bush close to our camp. Drawing my axe and nudging Ian to get up. "What do you want?" He asked. "Someone is coming!" I say sharply say back. He jumps to his feet grabbing his sword. He wakes up Amber, Candy, Ash, and Jarred. The bush begin to move again. A small grey bunny jumps from the bushes. "Come on Jane!" They whine. A panther with piercing green eyes leaps out from a tree and lands ready to strike. We all jump back at the surprise of his arrival. He again pounces toward us. Ian swipes at him as he dodges the attack. The panther growls with pain. It sprints toward us. I quickly react sending two knives into its body. Still alive I take my third knife and ends its misery. Since we are all up we decide to head out early looking for tributes to pick off. Jarred leads the way slicing through thick leaves and under brush of the jungle. We see a cave up ahead a decide to check it out. I noticed a lot of bones near the entrance and a small stream running next to it. "I don't think is such a good idea." I tell them. "Yea, I'm no feeling this place either." Amber says. We heard some voices and some running. So we dove into some bushes. It was District 11. They stopped by the stream to refill their canteens. A medium sized cat walks out from the cave growling. It is spotted, it has a sleek body and long tail. They dropped their bottles and started running. The girl climbed a tree but was caught by something. We heard her scream. The boy tried climbing a tree but the cat caught him and dragged him back to the cave. You heard the screams for miles. We didn't hear his cannon until we were long gone. "We better start killing before nature gets them all first." Ash said angrily. "I wanna see what got that girl." Candy said. "Okay, it's your cannon." We all said back to her. She wises up and comes with us. Although it is hard to see the sky. We see smoke which mean a fire that someone lit. We all race to get there. The District 10 boy is there. He is shocked by us and quickly grabs his things. Amber and I both throw our knives. Hitting the trees behind him. He sprints away and we follow. It is easy to get lost going through the jungle. Bam! I feel a sharp pain in the back of my head. I see the District 10 boy run away just before I black out. When I woke up I had no idea what was going on. "Mom!". I yelled. "Where am I?". I wondered. I hear a cannon go off. That brings me back to my senses I am in the Hunger Games. Why didn't he kill me I think to myself. I have no idea where I'm going. I can't find anyone. As I walk I feel a shock in my body as I hit the ground. So this must be the force field. I see a grassland just beyond it. I turn around to only find that I'm surrounded by District 10 boy and the District 9 girl. "We have your cornered. What are you gonna do now little career. " He says. "Why didn't you kill me earlier? You had me knocked out." I asked him. "She was in danger. I had to warn her about the careers."He said back with a smile on his face. After saying this they slowly approach me. I pull out my two axes and begin to dodge their attacks. The boy swings for head. I duck and slice his leg. The girl has two knives. She attacks by rapidly swinging her knives in the direction I move. Seeing an opportunity I kicked one knife from her hand. With another weapon I can grab I throw my knife at the guy getting him in the chest. She goes for a kick but I block her kick by kicking her leg before she can move it. She again swipes at me and I grab her arm twist and elbow her arm. She drops the knife. *Boom*. That must have the 10 boy's cannon. She tackles me and I dropped my axe. She begins to constrict my airways and I grab her face scratching away. I thought it was all over because the life was slipping away. I manage to punch her and she releases. I gasp for air as I roll over putting me on top. I began to punch and punch and punch. She has a bloody nose and lip. I make sure she is incapacitated before I retrieve my axe. I end her life quickly. I collect my stuff and sort through their stuff. In the lime green backpack has a map. I can finally get out of here. It gets dark so I climb to a small branch. The Capitol seal comes on but I can't see because of all the thick canopy. So I try to sleep. POV Ethan
While on watch I saw many dangerous animals. Snakes and roaming predators.
I snuck out to talk to Jenna.
"Should I kill them now?" I asked her.
"No, wait until your alone." she said back.
"If you can kill the guard at the cornucopia go for it." I say quietly.
"Find District 7 and 12, if you need help." I tell her.
I hurry back just in time for Chloe to get up. She takes over my watch and I catch some sleep.
I fall fast asleep. I dreamt about being home. That someone else got reaped.
It is about dawn when I wake up. Carter is now on watch when I awake. We decided to wake the others and go hunting for tributes.
We decided to head into the tall grasses. Carter took point slicing and dicing through the tall think grass. We came across a small camp. We gather the supplies and waited for them to come back.
It was an ambush. The boy from 6 and 10 come charging at us. A makeshift arrow flies towards us. They aren't a very good shot because three arrows splash around us. We get ready to fight them off but we are out numbered and we begin to run back to our base.
Arrow fly by us as we get chase through the high grass. Of course my plan backfired because we see Jenna and Districts 7 and 12 taking our stuff. It is a three way battle between us.
An axe flies at Jake dodging it barely. I back off to join my real allies as they scream "Traitor!" I shrug it off because I don't care.
Carter is so pissed and calls me out. We square off. He is so predictable and just uses brute strength. Knocking me back against the cornucopia I dodge his final attack and cut his stomach. I continue my attack. I stab him in the chest and he dropped to his knees. He makes an a last attempt to attack me and drives his dagger into my leg. I scream in pain. The girl from 7 sends an axe into his head and rushes to my aid. Jenna is hit by two arrows and goes down. The boy from 10 charges her but is killed by Chloe as she goes to kill Jenna. A small boy from 11 charges her with sickle slashing the air as she dodges the attacks. She sends her knife into his skulls and continues to Jenna.
*Boom*,*Boom*,*Boom* goes the cannons.
"Noooo!" I cry and she repeatedly stabs Jenna in the stomach.
*Boom* Her cannon is off. Enraged I practically heal from my wound grabbing an axe sending it her way. It misses. Dragging my sword along with me.
A raise my sword as she throws a knife my way. The 12 boy jumps in front of my and takes the knife for me. I swing my sword and she rolls and sweeps my legs. This brings pain to my leg injury
*Boom* That must have been the district 12 boy's cannon.
She gets on top of me and raises her knife. I grab her hand and tried to keep her from stabbing me. But thankfully an axe ends up in her side. *Boom*
*Ding* Congratulations Arena 2. You have been the first to reach 8. You have received a ticket out of the games until the others finish. Please wait to be picked up.
We all are frozen and pulled into the hovercraft.
POV Christina
I wake up as the sun is just coming up.
"How come you didn't wake me up for my shift?" I asked Eric.
"You looked like you needed sleep." He said back.
"So what is District 7 like?" I grill him.
"In one word trees." He chuckles. "Not much else." He goes on.
"What is District 3 like?" He returns.
"Well, it has a lot of factories. We sometimes get to keep our products so its nice to have some of the technology. It pretty dull." I tell him.
"We better wake the others." He declares.
We wake the others and by this time it is 7:00 am.
We decide to see what we got and open our backpacks. In my backpack I had three bottles of water, some crackers and a knife. Jimmy's had an empty bottle, a pair of night vision glasses and a map.
This map shows a circle. The arenas are marked as Arena 1, 2, and 3. Each showed sources of water. Important places in the arenas. We move out to find that oasis. Our main source of water was poisoned.
We trek over mountains of sand. Walking past cacti and tumble weeds.
"Are we there yet?" Keny whines.
"We get there when we get there!" I yell.
"Fine." He sighs.
"We should take a break. It is a 110 degrees." Coral cries.
"Okay but where, there is no shade." I said back.
We trudged around in the sand while the blazing sun glared down on us. We sipped our water bottle at every step we took. Trying to keep hydrated.
Soon we found ourselves out of water. Funny looking birds circle us. We barely make it over a hill when just over it was the oasis.
"There it is!" I shout.
We do somewhat of a sprint towards it. I dropped my bags when I got their and jumped in the water. I hit the sand and realized nothing was there. Was I imagining it. I swore it was there.
Have I gone crazy I thought to my self. Keny and Eric passed out. I quickly fell to the ground after them and slowly began to black out.
I woke up in a daze. These funny looking birds were circling around us as everyone else was passed out. I slowly nudge Keny awake.
"What happened?" I wondered as I realize I'm drenched in sweat.
"We passed out from lack of water or the heat." He said very softly.
We woke up the rest of gang and just sat down.
"The sun is going down. How long were we out?" Coral said.
"Probably a few hours." Eric said.
"What are we gonna do. We have no water and we are out in the middle of now where." Keny cried.
*Boom*
We are all startles and jump to our feet canvassing the sand mounds around us waiting for something to come at us.
"We might as well stay here" Eric suggests.
We don't contest his idea and we just plop right back down.
Little words are exchanged before the Capitol seal and anthem blares on.
In the sky is the boy from 11.
"It was a slow day. The game makers might try something soon if nothing happens." I told them being worried myself as to what they would throw into the games.
"We didn't make much progress today." Coral said. "All we did was almost die and walk a few miles." She continued. "At least we are alive. Be happy about that." Eric sneers.
A/N: Sorry this took a bit I was really busy. I am going to be starting a new FanFiction. It will be a SYOT. If things work out I should be ending this story just as I get enough tributes for that depending on how fast I get tributes. If you would like to Submit one go to my page and find the SYOT. Use the form I give you and pm it to me. Thank you. Review.