I really appreciate this. I really love that you guys still read it. My laptop is broken so that's why I can't update daily and that's why I haven't updated in about 4 days. I just want to say that I'm thankful for everyone who reads this story. REALLY, I LOVE YOU. LOL, anyways, this is really amazing and I plan on making one more chapter in the games. These will be the most exciting chapters. After that, I don't know if I'm going to write a sequel to this one. Maybe I will. I already have an idea for a sequel. I'm making it about their lives as Victors and how the Capitol keeps demanding things from them. It's all about making hard choices just to please the Capitol. Is that a good idea? Tell me because it really sounds good to me.
The Last Battle: Part One
Katniss' POV:
I wake up to the sound of ice cracking. Peeta is next to me, and he's already awake, looking around. Gale and Prim are nowhere to be found. Right when I realize this, I jolt up and stand up with Peeta right behind me. I look up to his face and he has that horrible look on his face. I don't like seeing him like this. His face looks grim and angry. He turns to look back out. We don't yell, we just look around frantically. This is the parts of the games that I hate the most. They leave you with that scared and worried feeling. Even worst, they leave you with apprehension. I despise it, and it just makes me feel empty and doubtful. At this point, I doubt anything will really surprise me. I just want to get out of here. Cannons shoot and I realize how fast the games have been going. This doesn't seem very good.
I hear ice cracking from behind me to reveal a Prim covered in blood. She's running and the Careers from District 2 are behind her. Gale runs after her, and suddenly, a knife impacts his skull. It slices though his head and comes out the other way. My eyes widen as he falls to the floor. I scream and find myself wondering what I could have done to stop that. But that is quickly pushed aside by another body on the floor. This one makes me cry hard and scream. Prim's body lies on the floor and it makes me want to kill the Careers with my own hands. Then I see another body on the floor. Peeta's body is on the floor, bleeding to death. I scream and I hear the Careers laughing.
I wake up screaming my head off and sweating. I feel Peeta's arms wrap around me protectively as he whisper comforting things in my ear. I look around, breathing heavily. I see Prim's eyes on me, with that concerned look in them. Gale looks at me worried and startled. He was probably sleeping. My breathing slows down and I burry my face into Peeta's chest. Right now, I want to leave this place. I'm already having nightmares, and it doesn't make anything better. The warmth Peeta's gives me doesn't even help. And if that doesn't help, I don't know what.
In the arena, it must be morning. The gray sky is replaced by a warm sun and that beautiful blue that happens every spring in District 12. I remembered that the heat from the flames that almost burned us to death melted the ice that I fell through. Maybe the Gamemakers are trying to speed up the games. They want it to end. This does in fact surprise me. The games are moving quickly, and this doesn't sound that bad. But we thought they'd want us to get killed less often so this "show" lasts longer. I guess the Capitol wants their Victor already.
We decide to get up. I fill water bottles up with Prim. She seems very quiet and it makes my stomach churn. I hate seeing Prim like this, and it's the only time she's been so quiet, ever since the Reaping. After the Reaping, she'd try to act happy but we know she feels bad for the kids who were Reaped. I try to calm myself down when I hear a scream and three cannons go off. Who were those cannons? I don't have time to think about it because I hear something else that brings my ears to life. I quickly turn my head to find Career stabbing Gale repeatedly as Peeta's being stabbed silently too. I pick up my bow rapidly, trying to keep the tears and the screams from escaping my mouth. I hide behind one of the boulders on the beach and I shoot the Careers right on the head. My heart beat speeds up as I run to them with Prim's silent screaming behind me.
Pain settles in my chest because seeing their bodies on the ground makes tears run down my cheeks. I reach Peeta who is holding the place where he got stabbed and coughing up blood from his mouth. Prim goes to Gale and she examines him rapidly. She looks up at me and says, "Katniss, look in the bags for the wrapping bands that Peeta and Gale wrapped around me last time."
I nod and quickly ruffle through the bags. I find it and hand it to Prim. She rips a piece off her shirt and wets it with some of the water we filled the waters with. She cleans Gale's injury with it as I hold Peeta, trying to stop the tears flowing out of my eyes because I need to be strong. For him. When Prim finishes with Gale, she moves to Peeta quickly, doing the same for Peeta. I walk over to Gale and he's stopped bleeding, but he looks very pale. I try to make sure he doesn't go unconscious because that would be too close to stay unconscious for ever. I kneel next to him and his eyes flutter open. "Katniss," he croaks.
"I'm here Gale," I say to him, comforting. I grab his hand.
He turns his head and looks at Peeta, "Is Peeta okay?"
"I don't know, but he is going to be okay, Prim is taking care of him," I say. Gale has always worried about us, and he'd worry about us before himself. I hear Peeta moan in pain and I let go of Gale's hand. Prim is still looking at Peeta, putting a cloth over his head, and then she does the same to Gale. I lay next to Peeta, I grab his hand, and stroke his blond hair. He slightly smiles and I kiss his forehead. He pouts playfully and I roll my eyes and this actually makes me smile, never minding the fact that we are in an arena and that Gale and him have been stabbed. I kiss his lips softly, and I stay like that until I decide it's time for us to eat. Prim and I feed Gale and Peeta squirrel and we eat ourselves. We here a few cannons throughout the day. I try to calm down and I count two cannons from the Careers I killed, the other three we heard when we were filling the water bottles. And then now, I heard four. That means six tributes left including us. And that means there are only two tributes left for us to fight.
I start to fall asleep after the anthem plays. But the terrible scream I hear makes me wake up with a start. I look around in the darkness in frantic. I can see because it's still not completely dark. The last thing I see is two feet being pulled inside the woods.
Prim's feet.
Hope you guys liked! Really tired and I'm just crazy with this stuff. I know that some parts of the games are being left out …sorry about that.
