Clove's POV
I awake to the sound of a crash, but it sounds more like wood splintering. Almost immediately I hear a loud buzzing sound and then piercing stings start sticking into my body.
I am immediately awake. The pain shoots all over my body. I look around frantically. Glimmer is getting up suddenly from slouching against the tree. That bitch! She must have had the last shift! Thousands of giant bugs are swarming around.
"Run!" I yell. "To the lake! To the lake!"
Cato is pulling me up by my arm and dragging me away, and I can already see Peeta and Marvel high tailing it out of there. A.J. and Glimmer look as if they are trying to gather the supplies first, but I disappear through the brush before I can see if they have gotten anything. Frantically I try to pull out the stingers wherever I can reach. Most of them are on my back.
"Come on, run!" Cato yells, thrusting me in front of him. The swarm of what must be tracker jackers is still around us. I swat away one from my face, but not before it stings me on the forehead. There is still debris from the forest fire, making our escape even harder. I can only hear Cato's heavy footsteps behind me, and Peeta is far behind Marvel. Being the tallest, Marvel can leap over the fallen trees with one huge stride.
"Come on, Cato!" I yell back, offering my hand. He is too busy swatting away the tracker jackers to take my offer.
"Just run," he shouts. Suddenly I hear a canon. Someone is dead. It's most likely Katniss, since she was up the tree… Katniss! That bitch! She dropped that nest on us! Well hopefully that was her.
The lake opens up in front of us. Marvel dives right under, followed by Peeta. I don't dive, because that is a stupid decision, but I jump under as fast as I can. The stings on my skin burn in the water, but that probably means something good is happening. I hear another splash and look around to see Cato plunging into the water, his cheeks puffed out, and full of breath. I try to look above the surface to see if the tracker jackers are still above us, but it appears they have left. For some reason, Peeta has leapt out of the water before anyone else.
I burst through the surface, gulping a huge breath, followed by Cato and Marvel. Immediately another canon fires. I crawl out of the lake, the venom starting to work its poison on me. The trees are turning purple and starting to ripple, but I get to my feet, trying to catch up with Peeta, but I fall to my knees again. Cato gets out and kneels next to me.
"Get Lover Boy!" I hiss, falling on my side. "He's probably going to Katniss!"
From what I can see from his face, he looks suddenly furious. He takes a knife from my belt and clasps it in my already weak fingers.
"Stay awake," he says, but his voice is warped. I nod and push what I think is his chest, and tell him to move. Cato is starting to sprout fur now. The venom is starting to take me over. I'm going to die now. The last thing I see before I fall into the horrifying nightmares is a sandy colored wolf dashing through the purple trees and brush.
Cato's POV
I limp through the woods, most of the stings on my right leg and up my back, probably because I managed to get a bag to shield my left side, but my neck and ear is also stung. I'm starting to see weird things through my good eye since the sting below my right eye has swollen it shut. The grass is completely gone, melted into lava. I'm walking across lava. My feet are even starting to burn, but I have to keep going. I bite my tongue to keep me from going under and I burst through the brush. At first I just see Glimmer's swollen body, covered in yellow puss and rotting swiftly. But then my attention is brought back by a desperate cry.
"Run," cries Peeta, shoving Katniss along. "Run!"
Katniss has already seen me and, clenching Glimmer's bow and arrows, sprints off. Although my senses are starting to go numb, I draw my sword and charge at Peeta.
"You traitor!" I yell, stabbing at him. He dodges at the last moment and draws his knife out. It's all I can do not to laugh.
"You're dead, Lover boy," I sneer. I try not to look hurt, though everything is numb except for the stings which are excruciating. I wince for a moment, but straighten the arm holding the sword and slash at him. Although he has a stocky build, Peeta can avoid being hit very well, but it's only when the venom starts to kick in with him that he starts to stumble and then falls, twisting forward onto his stomach.
"Oof!" he cries. I am about to bring my sword down when he rolls around and slashes at my calf, barely grazing the skin, but it still hurts on top of the stings. Suddenly, Peeta is starting to look green, and the stings on his body are starting to ooze green slime.
So are mine.
This has to be an illusion, but damn it I can't tell. He tries to stand up, but I swing my sword around and catch him in the leg, all the way down his left thigh, and a bit past his knee. He cries out and I kick him in what I think is his chest. Blood is spurting from his leg, but it's black. My brain feels as if it is about to burst my skull and splatter everywhere and if I'm feeling this bad…
"Clove," I whisper in a raspy voice, at least I think it's my voice. I could finish Peeta off right now though, but I've cut him to where he can bleed out.
Slowly.
I take one look at Peeta, writhing on the ground, clutching his leg; I kick him in the ribs hard.
"Bye, asshole," I mutter, then run in the straightest line I can manage when the ground beneath me is literally rippling as if someone threw a large rock into it like water. I slash my way aimlessly through the white trees which star to transform into red sand, pouring down on me and until I reach the lake again.
There is Clove, twitching uncontrollably in a fetal position. She's screaming at something, clawing at her arms. I stumble to her side and grab her wrists and tell her to calm down as calmly as I can, which is getting hard because she is starting to decompose in front of me. Her hair is falling out and her violet eyes are rolling back into their sockets. Just like Glimmer.
"No, no, no! Don't die, don't die!" I rasp. Just then I can see thousands of snakes slithering their way towards me. I try to slash at them, but the only things that come out are dirt and grass. They slither on top of me and encircle me their death grip. I can't breathe. I try to hold on to Clove, encircling her flailing, rotting body in my arms as one snake rolls around my eyes, blocking what vision I had. A horrid stench of burning flesh stings my nostrils and I am trying to scream to myself to stay awake, don't fall under.
Don't die!
It's only when I one of the larger snakes slithers up my already constricted torso and neck and slithers into my mouth, scratching my tongue and the insides of my cheeks with its scales, and then bites me right at the back of my mouth when I pass out from the pain.
A/N: Ok , for some reason the chapter I'm replacing this one with didn't have the devides in POV's, so sorry if that confused a few people. I corrected it and hope this doesn't make your brains explode from, "Wait, its his Pov now?"