OK I am a little mad at you guys. No one has voted on the poll yet and if you don't I'll probably just kill off everyone and have Cherry win HOW WOULD YOU LIKE THAT! I'll give you guys one last chance though, you have 3 days from the time I post this chapter to vote. Even one vote will decide it so don't think it won't count or anything. Also I'm SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO OOOOOOOOOOOOO sorry that I haven't updated its just I was at my grandmas and then I was school shopping and then school started and I have about 70 megatons of work and I was trying to watch all nine seasons of scrubs on netflix. I'm so sorry but please don't give up on me and thank you to all who kept reviewing and asking for updates because that really motivated me to do this chapter.

So yeah...on with the show!

Finn Torris District 3

It's hard to stalk somebody when leaves crunch under every step you take. I guess it's not really my steps that are making all the noise, Darryl is the one that's creeping along the ground, although my position doesn't exactly make it easy to hide either. The trees around me have lost every single one of their leaves, which are now beneath Darryl's feet.

In the first arena it was easy to follow Nicole. It turns out she was only about a mile away from the point I met Darryl and I almost ran right into her. Literally, she was bent over her backpack looking for something and I almost walked right into her. The only reason I didn't was that Darryl yanked me back by grabbing the neck of my shirt. We hid in the trees until she walked out of ear shot and then I told Darryl about her and our night together. After I had finished talking he stood up and said "Dude! We have to follow her!" I was confused, I thought he would want to go straight to the exit point so he could go home, "What if something happens to her? She could get hurt and then her loved ones would be stuck out here all alone." Before I could answer he had already taken off in the direction we saw her leave.

I had to sprint to catch up with him and by the time I did I was out of breath and had to lean against a tree. He was stopped for some reason but he heard me breathing and turned around to look at me. Before I could say anything he put a finger to his lips and pointed to a small clearing about 5 feet in front of us. Nicole was sitting on a rock in a small patch of sunlight, her black hair cascaded down her shoulders and her electric blue eyes shone brightly even from so far away. She looked so beautiful I almost walked over to her but Darryl grabbed my shoulder and dragged me away.

In the moment that I saw her I knew what I had to do, and I knew that Darryl would help me no matter what, "We have to protect her." I said before he could even open his mouth, "She has two little brothers that need to get out of here and we need to make sure that happens." Without hesitation Darryl agreed and from then on we had been following Nicole and making sure nothing came near her.

My dad had told me a little bit about the traps he made and, to the game makers disappointment, I was able to find and deactivate almost everyone that Nicole came near. I also discovered that I was small enough to follow her from the trees by jumping from branch to branch. Darryl on the other had was much bigger and had to walk on the ground as quietly as he could, on the upside he was big enough to kill almost every mutt that came near Nicole. Once in the second arena a flock of big black birds flew right into my face which caused me to make a lot of noise in my tree Nicole heard and started walking towards us but Darryl and I had already taken off I knocked all the snow off the trees I was jumping on to cover our tracks.

Now we are trying to follow her as quietly as possible but Darryl sounds like a screw driver going through a pencil sharpener when he walks. I try to ignore it and imagine that its not that bad but it's no use. Leaves crunch like potato chips every time he takes a step and I'm sure it can be heard at least 50 feet away. I don't know how Nicole hasn't noticed it yet but I can't take it so I jump down from my low branch and call him over. I'm about to tell him how loud he is but before I can he says, "I know I'm way to loud but what can I do?"

"I don't know? Try not stepping on the leaves," but even as I say this I realize how stupid it sounds. Leaves literally cover every inch of the ground we walk on. "What if you tried to climb the trees with me? The branches are thicker than the past arenas they might support you."

Darryl opens his mouth to respond but before he can say a word we hear a beep beep in Nicole's direction. Darryl sighs we know the sound. Several times while we have been following her she has taken something out of her backpack and sat down for 2 or 3 hours while she fiddles with it. Neither of us has been able to get close enough to get a glimpse of it but its the first time I've heard of electronics being in the arena.

Usually the beeping means we have to sit around for a few hours and wait for her to start walking again, but this time I think it might be an advantage. I look at my watch and realize its only a 3 hours before the arena changes again. I turn to Darryl and say, "Lets use this time to do a sweep for traps and mutts in a circle around her and by the time we are done the arena will probably have changed again and you can walk without sounding like a car compacter." He frowns at my joke but agrees with the plan. We head in opposite directions looking for traps and mutts that might hurt Nicole. Darryl goes in a wider circle than I do because he'll be walking and making more noise. I climb a tree and start to jump from branch to branch taking time to survey the area with every jump. In no time at all I have circled half way around Nicole. I reach the point where Darryl and I were supposed to meet and start to hack at a tree while I wait. The air in this arena is brisk and every second I spend in it I seem to get a little colder. I think of the pictures I've seen of district 7 during the fall and imagine this must be exactly what it looks like. The sword is so sharp that it is slicing through the trees like butter and barley making a sound, so it's easy to hear something snap and then a sound like someone is raking leaves. The sound paralyzes me at first but then I realize it could be a mutt or another tribute so I turn to re-climb the tree but before I can even find a hand hold I hear the unmistakable cry of a young boy.

Nicole Black District 5

Running towards loud noises may not be the smartest thing to do in the hunger games. It's to late to turn back now though. I'm already sprinting full force towards the huge crash I heard. I could turn around but I'm making such a racket by running on these leaves that I would be heard by anything with ears. Besides this might be my only chance to catch whoever or whatever has been following me.

My train of thought disappears and is replaced by pure adrenaline when I see what made the large crash. I throw my self to the ground and attempt to grasp at something to stop my momentum before I slide right into the huge pit. The leaves offer no traction whatsoever and I just continue to slide with my hands groping around for something to latch onto. My feet are inches from the hole and everything leaves my head except instinct. I grab my knife from my pocket and jam it into the earth. It stops me so quickly that it almost rips my arm out of its socket but I am able to deflect some of the force onto my bicep.

I rip the knife out of the ground and push myself up. The sprint was exhausting but adrenaline is still pulsing through me so I am not yet winded. Without hesitation I peer over the hole and to my surprise see a scared kid. He's probably 15 or 16 and big. Despite his size he has a terrified look on his face and then I hear a light clinking, like chains bumping against each other. I know why this kid is scared, he is in a common game maker trap, the clinking means a door is being raised that will unleash a terrible creature that has only one desire, to kill him.

I know from past hunger games that the door takes at least 20 seconds to open to build suspense for the audience. The kid is pressed against the side of the hole and hasn't even noticed me. I don't understand why he is scared theses traps are dangerous but not deadly as long as you have a weapon. Then I see a black sword on the ground a few feet from the hole and realize he doesn't have one.

Without hesitation I toss my knife into the hole, his hand snaps out and grabs it before it hits the ground. He looks up and says, "Darryl."

I glance at the door and see its 3 quarters of the way open, "Hi, I'm-"

"Nicole, yeah I know all about you." he says and winks. The scared boy is gone, now that he is armed Darryl has become a confident man and to my surprise a wide grin spreads across his face as the door opens entirely and a purplish blur leaps out at him. He side steps easily and stabs before he has even stopped moving. The creature is now pinned to the other side of the cave and we can see its 4-inch claws. I recognize it as a scratcher, my mom invented them, they give you minor cuts on major arteries all over your bodies until you bleed out.

Darryl watches with the same wild grin as the scratcher turns to dust and falls to the ground. He looks up at me as he wipes the knife on his shirt and says, "So Nicole how about a little help getting out of this hole?" I'm frozen by the display of speed and agility I just saw, not to mention the fact that this guy knows my name, "I'm here with Finn," he says which explains how he knows my name. I reach into my pack and grab some rope. I loop it around a tree and throw it into the hole. A minute later Darryl is standing in front of me dusting himself off and re-shouldering his sword as he says, "Alright now that you found me lets go find Finn so we don't have to keep stalking you."

Sorry that it ended so abruptly but the thing is that this chapter would have been super long and I really had to update other wise I would have started to lose readers. So go vote on who you want to die or I'll just kill whoever I want to.