Chapter 25
Shout out to Beth, Marcelgoeswild and BEastlyRomance for various reasons :D Oh and I wrote this listening to the fountain by Pendulum.
Sage had gotten lost after running from the careers, but he was thankful to survive the night. Although he did jump when the cannon went off during the day but was relived when it was reveled to be the boy from district three.
The young man had managed to find the river, he looked across to the river side and saw the spot where Bunny had been killed, and he shivered at the thought of the careers. He really didn't want to bump into them again.
He quickly glanced around once again, his eyes locked onto two tributes on the other side of the river, one large muscular woman and a smaller less tonned male. Belx from district ten and Javier from district eleven. Sage gasped when the two noticed him and started running.
Sage turned back towards the forest and ran as fast as his legs would carry him, the man kept on running until he ran into someone and dropped to the ground.
He groaned and rolled over on to his back, he twisted his head and looked at the other tribute lying down. The young man jumped to his feet and saw Vanilla from the careers.
Sage didn't have the time to react before the woman front flipped onto her feet and pulled a knife out of her back pocket. The man also pulled out a small survival knife from his pocket.
The woman held a frown across her face, but a small devilish smirk perked on her lips, she was definitely planning to kill Sage. Vanilla dived towards Sage; she did a cartwheel using one hand as she did so.
"What the" Sage quickly dived to the ground out the way of Vanilla; the woman groaned then turned and faced the boy.
Sage attempted to stab forward; she dodged it with ease before back flipping towards the male and trying to slash him but only catching his arm. The man cursed before slashing at the woman only catching her arms and a little of her torso.
"I'm not dyeing! I won't loose to some kid!" Vanilla growled and stared daggers at the boy.
"I'm not dying" Sage taunted, but then a second after he regretted taunting her.
The woman frowned, she shrieked and cart wheeled towards Sage kicking him down to the ground. The two struggled for a few minutes, Sage kicked her off and attempted to roll over but she got a handful of his shirt dragging him towards her.
The boy jumped up to his feet placed is foot on her neck, the woman began to scream and wiggle attempting to break free.
Sage grabbed the knife with both hands and glared down at her, he screamed as he slammed the knife down into her skull, the blood splat all over his body and face. Everything stood in silence for the next few seconds, but those seconds felt like years for Sage.
He suddenly jumped back into reality when the cannon boomed into his ears. Sage stood staring at the body, then glanced down at the blood smeared across his body; he then turned away and vomited before running off further into the woods.
The boy had been running for what felt like hours, until he finally spotted a brown haired woman with a single braid. "Katniss!" He yelled.
The brown haired woman turned around and her jaw slung open when she spotted Sage covered with blood running straight for her.
"Sage!" She called.
He stopped when he saw three other females standing with her, "Who are those?" He asked.
"Rue, Raichal and Keilyn" Katniss explained as she pointed to each of them. Sage's eyes locked on Keilyn and he continued unintentionally staring.
"We should find Gale and Peeta" Katniss broke Sage out of his stare.
"I saw them heading towards the river" Rue spoke.
"Alright I suppose we better start looking" Katniss sighed.
The group had begun walking, the mood was awkward and they all kept glancing at Sage's blood covered clothes making the man feel even more uncomfortable.
"Who was it?" Keilyn asked.
"Huh wha-? Oh it was Vanilla one of the careers" Sage sighed and stared at the blood while walking.
"Wasn't she the amazing gymnast?" Raichal added.
"Yeah she was pretty skilled" Sage sighed and then stared at the bloody knife.
"Well she was no match for you" Keilyn smiled at the man, a light blush spreading across her face. Sage opened his mouth but a soft hand entangled there fingers in his own, he turned his head and faced Keilyn who was now holding his hand.
The group were mindless chattering amongst each other, it almost seemed like they had forgotten they were in the arena.
That was until they heard the flow of running water meaning they were close to the river, "You better be right Rue" Katniss spoke.
"Don't worry, I definitely saw them around this area" Rue smiled.
"Watch out, I saw Belx and Javier around here" Sage backed away from the river side.
"Isn't Belx the muscular woman from district ten?" Raichal asked, Sage turned to her and nodded.
The alliance then began searching around the area trying to be as silent as possible to avoid contact with any other tributes that were left, but still no sign of Peeta and Gale.
Katniss had found a small silver ring but she didn't recognize it, she simply tucked it away in her jacket and continued the search. They all froze when familiar voices danced around there ears.
"There somewhere close!" Katniss' ears perked up and she began looking around franticly.
"There lucky it's us; if we were the careers they'd be dead!" Sage groaned.
They began walking some more until the voices gotten louder and Katniss spotted a well hidden cave; she jumped to the entrance of the cave and saw Peeta, Gale and Cato!
"What the hell is he doing here!" She frowned.
Vanilla, district five.
Oh people if your looking for another good Peeta x Gale fic go to my best friends profile or look for a story called Soulmate by XPsychoBabyDollX