Disclaimer: I do not own the Hunger Games, this is just a depiction from a different prospective.
My eyes flutter open from the sound of an ax coming in contact with something. I automatically stand up, lift my sickle, and dart around like a crazy person. Turns out Erebus is just throwing his ax at some tree for practice. Olivia used some wire and lays it out on the tree trunk, then morphs it. It ends up being a circle and pins it to the tree, Erebus nods his head and throws an ax right in the middle of the circle.
"Look who woke up." Erebus teases.
"Hey, if I can sleep in a time like this I should get an award." I reply back jokingly.
"Award for what? Hibernation?" Olivia and Erebus break out laughing and I just roll my eyes at that joke.
"Do you think we should be going by now? 13 tributes left in the Games one is bound to be walking up to this tree sooner or later." I ask.
We then all pack up our stuff and take out our weapons. Olivia has a small knife I gave her but she isn't the best at combat, mainly just survival techniques and technical stuff. We all admire the landscape as we walk through the forest. The pine trees blind out much of the sunlight that is accessible in this arena. As we continue our trek through the forest we hear water flow. I start dashing towards the sound and Erebus and Olivia get caught off guard then quickly follow me. They aren't to close to me but close enough to find out where I am going.
A large waterfall, maybe 50 feet from the ground, is made up of several rocks, and a large stream of water breaks through the rocks at every chance. The water shines from the sun's rays, which we can see now since the pines aren't around the waterfall much. When the water isn't suspended in the air it is on a stone floor that creates a stream. A smile creeps up on my face and I look around for a way to the top of the waterfall. Since it is on higher ground the waterfall starts on a hill that I climb up. I stab my sickle deep into the hill so I don't lose my balance and fall with my bad grip.
The top of the hill presents me with a tribute drinking from the stream which turns into a waterfall. I duck down and only show my eyes to watch the tribute. I remember him from the Training Center, the boy tribute from 6 who yelled furiously at the boy from 11. From the anthem yesterday it appeared that the females from 6 and 11 died so the boy from 6 and the boy from 11 are on their own. He plunges his head into the water and starts gulping down water, then he quickly brings his head back up and wipes his mouth.
"Robin wh-" I quickly turn around and raise my pointer finger to my lips and mouth 'shh'
The boy from 6 then darts nervously around and stands up. He has a spear in his hand and looks around for whoever made that sound, which was stupid Erebus. He is about to give up his search when he notices my eyes peeking from the hill. With a sinister grin on his face he launches the spear at my head. I can vividly remember his training score, I think it was a 9, so his aiming must be pretty darn accurate. He launches it so fast I don't have the option to even move that quickly to evade its pierce into my face. But then Erebus pulls my leg down, hard, and brings me down the hill.
"What is happening?" He quietly questions, his voice is very stern.
"Because of your stupid question earlier, I almost just got a spear in the face. He is going to be here battling us in a second so get ready." He looks puzzled then I dart back around and look up at the hill.
The tribute from 6 appears at the top of the hill then lunches towards me. His body takes up the sun which is high up in the sky when he is fall towards me, hands in a manner that he is ready to choke me to death. I fall down on my back quickly and it sends a painful message throughout my spine. He starts choking me for a second then pulls something out from his back. He reveals a sharp, shiny, silver meat cleaver, along with the meat cleaver he shows an evil smile on his face.
Erebus dashes towards him and is about to push him off me when the tribute from 6 swipes the cleaver towards him, scaring him off more than defending himself from him. He then picks up a rock and launches it towards Erebus's head. It bashes against his head and he falls down into the stream, drifting off. The tribute then forgets about Erebus and looks at me, cleaver in hand. The odd thing about this tribute is how many weapons he was able to have, and the skill with them. It must have been a miracle for him to be able to get a spear, cleaver, and pack at the Cornucopia.
"Where were we?" He asks in a sinister voice, when a thought pops up into my head.
"You killed the tribute from 1 didn't you? If you didn't then there is no way you could have scored those weapons." I spit out.
He just smiles "Look who has a brain, I wonder if it functions during death." A mental patient laugh then erupts from him and I start to think he must have gotten mad.
"I don't know, maybe you should find out." I shout angrily at him, tossing my head around quickly looking around for Erebus to help.
He doesn't respond, instead he just raises the cleaver up in the sky, covering the sky in my point of view then bringing it down. I close my eyes to not witness him kill me, I just want to be with my thoughts when I die. But for some odd reason, the pain of a cleaver being struck into my head doesn't come. I open my right eye slowly and see the tribute from 6 fall. I shove him off of me and see a spear laudged into his heart. My mouth drops as I see his body on the forest floor, crimson staining the grass.
Boom!
I quickly look around and see Olivia, meat cleaver in her hand and the other one empty. She must have launched the spear into him heart, saving my life. I am speechless but am able to smile at her, and she then smiles back and starts down the stream. My brain is then flushed with memories and suddenly I am on my feet and running towards Erebus, who is almost at the end of the stream. The stream has blood swirling around in it from Erebus's head injury and I lift his head up. The rock didn't kill him, just clearly knocked him out cold. I examine his head more and find his head is bleeding from the rock, he won't die if I get something to take care of it.
"Olivia do you have anything in your big brain that knows about medicine?" I ask hopeful of an answer.
"I studied last summer immensely about medicine. And earlier this year about the human body structure and it's functions. If I combine my knowledge of those I can very well help him." She replies, then digs through her pack for the medicine supplies.
She finds a first-aid kit and some bandages that can help Erebus. Olivia pops open the first-aid kit and retrieves the weird spray thingy and another capitol tool. She then pushes me to get out of the way, which I don't get mad at since she is in her zone. Olivia sprays the spray on him for a few seconds then switches over to this other tool I don't know the name of. It looks almost like a flashlight, smaller though, and when she clicks it a beam of a purple light shines on his injury. After she is done with that she applies an ointment from the first-aid kit onto the bandages then places it on his injury.
"That should help him, we should also go find some concealment, right here isn't the best place to be. We can be spotted easily." I nod but before we go I take the spear before the hovercraft takes the tribute from 6 away, and I also climb up the hill and steal him pack.
When I return to Erebus Olivia commands me to pick up him upper half of the body while she gets the lower half. When in dire situations I think Olivia becomes a doctor, always telling me how to help and do something. It is amazing really, I wonder if she wants to be a doctor if she wins. And her odds right about now are getting higher and higher the more she progresses into the Games. She actually might be something of a competition for me. But I push that from my mind and pick up Erebus's upper half. Olivia instructs we go into the forest since it is getting dark, nursing Erebus to health isn't fast.
We head into the forest and find a nice place to make camp, behind a nice pinewood tree with many bushes to hide us and Erebus. Olivia and I set Erebus down slowly and let him rest while we settle in. A cold breeze pierces my skin and I snuggle into a warm sleeping bag. I am about to go to sleep when I remember Erebus needs some warmth, so I slowly place him into a sleeping bag and then drift off to sleep. But then the anthem plays so I look up into the sky to see the deaths today. It was just the boy from District 6, Olivia's first kill of the Games. Since she killed him and saved Erebus I know I owe her something, she did so much for one day. All Erebus and I did was almost die, and she helped us both times.
That is a debt I will never be able to repay, but I just close my eyes and go to sleep. This night Olivia doesn't cry about Watt, she is silent. Olivia is already asleep so I just grin and drift off to sleep, peace and quiet at last for me.
Hope you guys like that new chapter of Powerless, sorry I didn't update in a while I was busy with stuff. Including getting punched by a pinata at my my dad's friend's daughter's birthday party. CURSE YOU NUMBER 5! Ironically this story is about District 5 so I can't escape the 5 ;-; . Also I hope you guys enjoyed the part about the boy from 6. District 6 is my favorite District so I wanted to add it into this chapter. If you liked this Chapter review on the story and maybe include your favorite District and why. You know the drill... CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM IS ALWAYS HELPFUL!
May the odds be ever in your favor! :3
