Chapter 21

Shout out to Marcelgoeswild for making me jump up and down like a girl at how happy I was at the PM :D

The next day, Gale was the first to awake.

He still had his arms wrapped around Peeta, it was strange, and he was supposed to have been woken to go on watch hours ago. The hunter slowly removed himself from around Peeta trying not to wake him, Gale slowly pulled away but a sleeping Peeta shuffled across and snuggled into the man. Gale groaned before quickly scurrying out of the sleeping bag and tent before the baker had a chance to wake up.

The hunter noticed Garland sitting on a log and looking over the river, the man was holding a long iron blade, like the one's seen at the cornucopia.

"Garland?" Gale called.

The large man spun around with a shocked expression, his eyes were bloodshot from lack of sleep. "Why didn't you sleep?" Gale immediately asked.

"What yer' doin' up?" Garland frowned.

"Because I woke up?" Gale shrugged.

"Ok then" Garland sighed and turned back around to face the river.

"Why didn't you sleep" Gale approached the man.

"Yer' know just in case" Garland didn't even face the hunter; he decided to take a seat next to Garland.

"Go catch some sleep, I'll sit here" Gale shoved the large man, who was returned with a frown; Gale simply shot a sorry look before Garland got the hint.

Garland crawled off the rock, walked closer to the water and leaned against a tree; he was out like a light. Gale reached for his water bottle and took a quick drink and sighed. Garland had left the sword lying on the floor, the hunter decided to pick it up and practice a few swings.

Gale was left on his own for a few hours before everyone else woke up, Peeta emerged from the tent rubbing his eyes and yawning, Katniss sluggishly dragged herself out and Sage crawled out using most of his energy.

They each had an apple and packed there stuff before heading off somewhere else into the forest.

Katniss was lagging only slightly behind the group, she wasn't in much danger. But she heard a twig snap, she turned around and looked back at the lake, she saw a group of tributes, one of them was Foxface so it was obviously Foxface's alliance.

They were far behind so Katniss decided not to mention anything, but then she gasped when the careers emerged from the trees and began fighting with Foxface's group.

"Look!" She pointed.

The two groups were lashing at each other violently, there seemed to be a new recruit to the Careers, the boy from district three Yoin. After a few minutes of fighting one of Foxface's allies seemed to district the careers and lead them away towards the lake, the rest of the group ran away with tears filling there eyes.

The woman who had now been cornered at the lake was Bunny; she had bleach blonde hair and dark blue eyes. The tall and skinny career named Marvel grabbed Bunny with one hand.

The other careers but Cato began taunting her, the woman began to shriek and wiggle to try and escape his grip, her right hand was trailing for the knife in her left pocket.

Marvel then threw her down into the river, pounced on top of her and held her head under the water. The blonde was thrashing around and screaming but her screams grew faint and the bubbles and the thrashing finally stopped. The cannon finally sounded causing every tribute to jump out of there skin. Katniss and the group then decided to run away before the careers noticed them around.

Katniss was still at the back of the group, she could see mockingjay's flying around the trees, and her mind was sending her paranoid, at every sound she thought it was Foxface and her allies sneaking up on them since they couldn't be far off by now.

The woman spotted someone running through the forest beside them, but the person hadn't noticed them, it was a short woman with short brown hair and hazel eyes, Poroi from district nine.

The small girl looked lost, she was previously with Foxface but seemed to be separated and terrified, she than ran off further into the forest and vanished out of sight.

"Katniss how yer' holdin' up!" Garland called.

"Just fine!" The woman replied smiling.

The group continued for what felt like hours through the forest, they couldn't hear anyone around so decided to set camp. It was lucky too because the sun was setting.

They had all relaxed until a distant scream caused them to jump. The cannon then echoed through the arena. After the tents were all set up the sky was dark and vision was thin.

Then they began honoring the two tributes that had died that die.

Bunny, District eight.

Poroi, District nine.

Katniss gasped when she saw Poroi, so she was right, they were being followed and the careers hunted the young girl down.

This time it was Sage's turn to take watch and then Peeta. After some food they were about to climb into there tents when the faint ding of the parachute got louder. It landed in the centre of there camp, it was labeled "Katniss"

She opened the parachute and found a note, "You're doing well so far, keep it up –H" Katniss smiled and checked the contents of the parachute; it was a small amount of food and a small knife.

The group then vanished into there tents and left Sage to keep watch for a few hours. He sighed, picked up a stick and began drawing pictures in the mud, Garland had also allowed him to use the sword but Sage kept it lying beside him.

One person was running through his mind, Keilyn. He hadn't known her very long but he wanted to meet her again and get to know her outside of the games, meet her and persuade her to join the alliance so they can all live. But of course she was no where to be seen and she wasn't with any of the alliances.