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The figure kept advancing, sharp blade glinting in the moonlight. I knew that this would be the end. I only hoped Helena was nowhere near here. I squeezed my eyes shut for a second, then opened them to see the person step across a beam of moonlight shining into the forest. This sinister look in her eyes made the face completely unrecognizable from the person I had seen outside the arena.

"Helena?" I whispered, and the figure stopped her advance.

"Maysilee?"

I stood up and cautiously stepped toward her so the moonlight shone on my face as well. Helena's face relaxed, and the hand which held the knife dropped to her side.

"I had no idea who you were!" I whispered. "I thought I was dead for sure!"

She smiled a little. "I'm glad it was you too. I have no idea how to use this knife!"

"So," I asked, "did you get anything at the Cornucopia?"

She shook her head. "No. I think someone dropped this knife heading into the forest. I was kind of surprised to find it."

"I'm so glad we found each other." I sighed in relief and wrapped my arms around her for a moment. Suddenly I stiffened. Almost silent footsteps could be heard, rustling the tree branches. I pulled away from a confused Helena, grabbed her arm and motioned for her to be quiet and listen. Almost immediately after she did her eyes widened and she started looking around frantically. I grabbed for her wrist and started pulling her quietly into the trees. We crept steadily further into the forest until we lost the footsteps behind us.

Extremely tired now, we collapsed at the base of a tree for a moment. Half asleep, I looked around the familiar clearing. "Hey, Hel, this is the clearing I was hiding in earlier." I turned to see her reaching to grab a handful of berries to eat. Alarmed, I reached out and smacked her arm, causing her to drop the berries.

"What the hell Maysilee!" She glared at me. "I'm hungry."

"Well eat something else. They're poisonous." I pointed at the berries.

"Oh."

I shrugged my bag off of my shoulder, then reached inside it to grab a piece of bread. "Eat this instead." I handed it to her.

As Helena started to eat the bread, I looked around the clearing, searching in the low light for the tree I had been hiding in earlier. The darkness of the forest made it hard to distinguish one tree from another, but eventually I managed to locate what I thought was the tree I had spent most of the day hiding in. I climbed up into the tree, followed quickly by Helena. We settled into the tree, then checked through the supplies. I found everything I had hidden in the backpacks, but when I looked up, Helena was frantically searching around.

"Helena?" I asked quietly.

"Ilosttheknife." She muttered.

"What?"

"I lost the knife."

My stomach clenched. So much for having an actual weapon. We were back once again to the darts hidden deep in my bag.

"I must have dropped it while we were running." She looked disgusted with herself.

"It's ok. We didn't really need it, and we didn't know how to use it either. So it doesn't really matter." I shrugged.

Her shoulders drooped.

"I'm serious, Helena. We don't need it."

She gave me a weird look.

"Really."

"Alright, May." She sighed. "I still feel bad though."

"We still have a weapon." I pulled the darts out of my bag. "I'm not 100% sure how useful it's going to be, but it's still a weapon."

She reached out and too them from me, rolling them over in her hands, a curious expression on her face.

"I think I saw one of these in the Seam before. I don't really know." She looked thoughtful. "I know that the gun is called a blowgun, and you use it like this." She put the gun up to her mouth, with the darts facing towards an unseen enemy, and blew. "It can be useful for killing animals, but I don't know how you'd kill a human with it."

"Neither do I." I sighed, then yawned.

"You must be tired." Helena whispered. "I slept a bit earlier, so you sleep first, and I'll guard."

I was tired, so I quickly agreed to Helena's plan and nestled down in the tree.

"I'll wake you in a bit." Helena nudged me.

"Okay." I murmured, already falling into a deep, dreamless sleep.

When Helena jolted me awake, I was so surprised that I sat straight up, causing my legs to jerk. The connected with something solid, which gave way, thudding on the ground a moment later.

"Shit." I looked around frantically. "What was that?"

Helena looks just as confused as I am. "I have no idea."

I peered through the trees, and, to my surprise, saw my backpack on the ground.

Helena looked down too. "Crap. I just took the weapon out of the food bag and put them into a different bag." She pulled the other bag from it's perch and looked inside it.

As Helena shifted through the contents of the remining bag, I tried to decide what was worse: losing out meager food supply, or losing our small stash of weapons.

"Food." Helena whispered.

"What?"

"This is our food bag. Those," She gestured to the bag on the ground, "are our weapons."

"I knocked them over. I'll get them." I volunteered.

No sooner had I stepped onto the next branch thean Helena tensed.

"There's someone coming."

"Jesus." I tried to scramble back into the tree, but just as I got a good grip, the branch I was standing on snapped, tumbling to the forest floor.

"Maysilee!" Helena grabbed my arm and started to pull. I pushed as hard as I could but still we weren't getting anywhere.

Far below us, another tribute walked into the clearing. They stopped and started to look around.

"Hide, Helena. There's no sense in both of us dying." Reluctantly, she disappeared back into the tree.

The stranger had caught sight of my bag and was now looking through it. As they searched I used my foot to feel around for another branch.

CRACK. The stranger's head flew up, and I could tell that they had seen me dangling from the branches. I closed my eyes and braced myself for my inevitable death. Seconds passed. They slowly turned into minutes, and still I hung from that branch, tired and sore, but alive.

I started as an arm grabbed me around the waist. Knowing it was the stranger from below I started to thrash about, hoping I could shake them off.

"Hold still." A familiar voice hissed up. My eyes flew open in shock and I looked down. Sure enough, Haymitch was standing below me.

"Helena." I whispered. "C'mere."

Her face appeared through the branches. "Help me up."

Slowly, I was pushed and pulled up into the tree. A shocked Helena pulled me into a hug, which was only broken by a thump as something was hurled into the tree.

Helena grabbed it an studied it for a moment. "Our weapons."

Once again I peered through the leaves, but already Haymitch had disappeared, leaving us alone in the arena once again.

Helena shook me out of my thoughts. "Who was it May?"

I shook my head. "I don't know. I really don't."

We lapsed into silence, broken only by a trickle of rain falling outside.

"I going to go to sleep now." Helena yawned.

"Go ahead, sorry." I smiled a bit. "I'll watch everything."

As she was slowly lulled to sleep, I stared at the trees. Suddenly I sat up and grabbed the weapons bag. I pushed through it, looking for anything that hadn't been there before. On the up side, everything was still there. On the down side? There was nothing new.

With a sigh I hung the weapons bag on a branch. Leaving Helena I climbed a bit higher to the top of the tree and pushed the branches aside. All around me the arena sprawled, it's breathtaking beauty hiding it's sinister purpose.

Far away, the mountain rose out of the meadow, it's shadows concealing tributes hiding within. Already, nineteen were dead, but there were still twenty-nine alive. It was a big arena, with huge secrets, ones I could only dream of, and as for me? I had no one to count on but myself.

The Hunger Games had begun.

Whooo! Almost done! (Not actually). So, have you read Mockingjay yet? Tell me what you thought! Also, there's a poll on my profile that is going to let you decide how Helena dies! I thought I knew how she was going to die, but a review gave me another good idea. I won't tell you what won, or when she's going to die, but you'll get to help decide! As always, R&R, and I will talk to you with the next update!