My eyes slowly opened when the sound of footsteps began to bounce around my head. I picked my head up and I looked around at the rest of the group. Still sound asleep. I turned my head where the noise was coming from and it seemed to be coming from the Passageways.

I slowly stood up, careful to not make any noise that would wake any of my allies up. Each step feels like a stomp that could wake anyone at any minute. I glance up at the sky and I see the small glint of orange rising from the sky. Morning is coming. My feet finally stop and I peer into each passageway. Once I reach the third one, I notice someone standing in the opening. I jumped quickly and pulled out my spear as fast as I could. But I immediately put it away when I see Paige standing there with a frightened look on her face.

She quickly shakes her head and she waves her hand towards her, signaling for me to go with her, and escape my allies.

I look back at the sleeping Tributes and then back at Paige. I slowly shake my head and I trudge off. Not looking back at Paige.

RUMBLE RUMBLE RUMBLE

The ground beneath us was shaking. My allies immediately wake up and they find themselves on their feet. The ground tossed, and turned and vibrating beneath our feet.

"Earthquake!" Alexis shouted. No one had to tell us twice. We were all aware of what was happening. The water surrounding the Cornucopia was making huge waves that could swallow us into the water. I lost my balance and I then fell onto my knees. I closed my eyes and I wished for the earthquake to stop. I looked at Gracie, she was not too far from me. But, she was crawling towards me with an outstretched hand, screaming my name.

I planted my two hands onto the rock below us, and I moved one knee at a time then moving each hand forward. I looked up I was only about five yards away from Gracie. Panic was settled onto her face. Her screams were silenced when her body was pulled into the waves.

The reality crushed me like a bug. I couldn't jump in there without killing myself and potentially ending Gracie's life. But the familiar sentence screamed at me. The sound of Serena's voice filled me.

"Fight for what you love."

I couldn't control myself anymore before I knew it, I was in the water, searching for Gracie. I surfaced but I was immediately dragged back down. Water was surging around me, and I realized that I made a horrible decision. Attempting to find Gracie was basically a suicide mission.

The water stopped moving, and I resurfaced. I gasped and air flowed into my lungs. While letting out a cough and a sigh at the same time. I looked at my allies on the rock but I didn't find Gracie with them. I submerged underwater again, in search of Gracie. The salt water burned my eyes while I drastically looking for a body. That's when I found it. A body sunken at the bottom of the water. I kicked towards the body and I quickly grabbed the arm and I kicked towards the surface. Carrying a body to the surface was a lot harder than someone would expect it to be.

I resurfaced again, but instead, of a gasp, I let out a cry of help. Titus looked my way and ran towards me. I looked at the body and I was horrified seeing Gracie drenched with seawater and not breathing.

"She needs CPR!" I yelled.

"Give her to me, I know how to do CPR," Titus quickly said under his breath. I handed Gracie up onto the rock, Titus pushed down on her chest, and then he touched his lips to her's. I had to admit I was a little jealous, and a little offended that he quickly offered to give CPR to Gracie. Titus pushed on her chest again, and then breathed another breath of air into her. He repeated this two times until Gracie quickly sat up and began coughing and puking up water at the same time.

I quickly sat next to her and I put an arm around her and I kept whispering words of comfort into her ear.

"A tsunami is heading our way, I hope you know that. Right? After earthquakes," Titus was cut off.

"Stop the cuddling and start marching to higher ground, you both make me sick," Alexis said coldly. I helped Gracie stand on her own two feet and we began walking to the Passageways.

"Wait!" I shouted, "remember that each passageway has a booby trap?"

"Oh yeah, Titus why don't you check out each one," Alexis commanded.

Titus gave Alexis a pleading look but Alexis gave Titus a cold look that would freeze up any ounce of joy in just a second. Titus knew that it was pointless to fight Alexi when her soul is so cold.

Titus chose the first passageway. He looked around as to examine if any booby traps would go off. He picked up a nearby rock and threw it in the passageway. Immediately, a "ssssss" sound escaped the passageway, while sounding like millions of snake escaping from a tiny cage. But instead, green smoke filled the passageway and slowly started to light its way out of the passageway. Titus shook his head and chose the third passageway. He picked up another rock and threw it into the passageway. We all listened intently and nothing comes to our ears. I listened harder but nothing came to my mind.

"Hurry up there Titus! The waves are coming pretty soon," Shouted Alexis.

Titus took one foot into the passageway and still nothing.

He took the courage to walk into the passageway.

It seemed that the universe was watching and the world suddenly slowed down. What seemed like seconds seemed like hours. My heart started to race and my ears listening intently waiting for the blast of the cannon signaling the death of Titus.

But none of that happened, Titus walked back out without any blood glued onto his face or a broken bone, or burnt skin. My breath that I've been holding lets loose and my lungs began breathing like normal again.

"Come one you slugs stop celebrating about Titus surviving, I would rather have him die. One less tribute to worry about," Alexis said coldly.

Gracie and I didn't dare to say a word. Invisible glue kept our mouths sealed shut shielding us from the wrath of Alexis's ax.

"All right what do we do now?" Gracie asked.

"Why to head up up anything up a hill or something," responded Alexis.

"Alright then let's go."

We headed up the nearest incline and it was a pretty small hill. We looked around but we didn't find anything much bigger than a hill.

"This is pointless, we need to move away from the beach just going up may help us but I mean, look around there ain't much to incline here," I said

"I agree with Zale, we should move away from the beach just keep on the lookout for other Tributes," Titus agreed.

We moved away from the beach in silence. The bushes looked unnatural and some trees fell over revealing the roots of them. But in general, the whole Arena looked shaken up. Nothing looked the same anymore.

BOOM

I jumped up in fear and then immediately pulling out my spear. Aiming for whatever may threat our lives. My eyes looked around wildly searching for the nearest thing but nothing came into sight. We all put down in weapons and returned to retreating from the ocean waves.

"Must've been a weakling hiding from all of us, it seems the waves got em," Alexis blurted.

"Or they couldn't have been fast enough," I added.

This encouraged us to move a bit faster for the fear of waves sweeping us up whole and ending our lives.

The clouds started building up on one another. Like animals digging at one another trying to get the fresh meat at the center. The rumble of the thunder made everything shake. And then the rain came pouring down.

Each drop made each facial pore flood with water and then flooding down our faces and drench our uniforms.

And then the sudden memory of my muddy kiss with Gracie. The familiar feeling rushing through my body and my heart flooding with joy and love and never wanting to let go of Gracie. Especially not in the Hunger Games.

"I wonder how much farther we have until we reach the forcefield," wondered Titus. I was actually thankful for the conversation starting after at least thirty minutes of silence.

"Probably a little while away," replied Gracie.

"Well, we should start being on the lookout we don't want to end up like flawless Paris," added Alexis with a little snort at the end.

"Or maybe we should stop moving and check around for any food or water nearby," Gracie wondered.

"Oh don't worry Gracie we have a huge water supply coming right for us we'll be lasting a while. No, we're not stopping that tsunami will be coming for us," Alexis answered.

"I feel trapped," replied Gracie.

No one said anything to help comfort Gracie because to be honest, we all felt trapped. Well, maybe except Alexis.

We continued to walk away from the beach, but we stopped after the sun went down to tune out for the night. It was also Titus's idea to rest because we were probably far enough away for the night.

"Zale, go take the first-night watch, I'll be taking your spot after a while," Alexis commanded. I rolled my eyes but I knew there would be no point in protesting.

The Anthem played showing that the District 3 boy seemed to not have outrun the tsunami. But none of the others have been swallowed by the tsunami yet.

The night rolled by silently. Alexis's terms of "a while" seemed to be more than a while. My senses weren't the best because of fatigue and I was sleepy. Which is why I didn't notice the familiar black hair blowing behind the familiar girl's body.

I quickly stood up and I began to walk towards Paige. I knew her hair from anywhere and I can tell it's her. I just knew it.

Once Paige saw me she gave a quick squeal of fright and then a calm look spread across her face.

"Zale, I have something important to tell you," Paige squealed.

"What, what's wrong? Is everything okay?"

"It's him, he knows Koring is dead, he knows,"

"Who?

"Barker."