Chapter 24

Katniss

I'm huddled down beside Cato's corpse. I could use him as a shield to protect me. But I would never do that. I can't do that. Tears just continues to flow down my eyes and I'm starting to regret that I came with. Peeta tried to tell me to stay in the castle, but I gave him a look that shut him up. And I do want to help, but seeing my friends die, is not fun.

I think of how angry Prim was when we told her not to come with us here. What if she had come with us? All her innocence would be gone and she would not be the same happy girl. War changes people. These hours has changed me more then my whole life locked up in a castle. I try to stop the tears, but I just can't. I burry my face into Cato's lifeless arm, not wanting to see all the people dying.

"Princess Katniss! What are you doing?" I hear a girl shout, and right after, someone takes a hold of my arm pulls me up. I look at the girl, she looks like she's my age. She has black short hair, and a bloody axe in her hand. It's dripping blood from it. She pulls me with her and runs behind a house. "What were you thinking? Lying in the middle of the battlefield like that, not even trying to defend yourself. Do you want to get killed? What future does the village have if you die?!" The girl asks furiously.

"I'm sorry, I got shocked after seeming my friends getting killed", I say.

The girl throws her axe onto a guy who was pointing a spear towards us. "People die in wars!" She says running up to get her axe. I follow her.

"What's your name?" I ask.

"Johanna", she says. "Mason, my father was your fathers personal guard, the queen killed him after your father died".

Oh no. "I'm so sorry", I say. She shrugs. I see a man on his way to drill someone with a spear. I recognize that someone immediatly. "NO!" I yell as I run as fast as I can and shoot the man straight into his heart.

"Thanks Katniss", Gale says.

"You have to be prepared!" I yell. "You can't just die on me! Cato, Marvel and Blight already got killed in front of me!"

"What?!" Gale shouts in a shaky voice. "They're dead?"

"Yeah", I say.

"Look out!" Johanna yells and Gale and I both shoot the two men pointing at us.

"Have you found Madge?" Gale asks.

"Not yet, but I'm looking", I say.

"I'll go with you, it's in my blood to protect you!" Johanna says.

"Huh?" Gale asks confused.

"Her father was my fathers personal guard", I tell him.

"Oh", he says.

"Come on, we can't just stand here, are you brainless or something?" She asks as she starts nudging my arm.

She's starting to remind me of Howard. Brainless? I mean come on! I want to find two people. Madge and Peeta. I don't want them to die, Madge is my friend, and I'm going to marry Peeta. But where the are they? Johanna and I run and search everywhere, killing numbers of knights, I can't even count on my hands. But we can't find them.

"What does she look like?" Johanna asks.

"She's blonde", I say.

"Yeah and that helps me a lot", Johanna says sarcastically.

I sigh. How should I describe her? But then I don't have to, because I see her. "Madge!" I yell and runs up to her, she has just killed a guy.

"Katniss!" She runs up to me and hugs me. "I've been looking for you!"

"I've been looking for you", I say.

"Okay okay hurry up!" Johanna says impatiently. "We can't just stand here!"

"Oh and Gale says hi", I say as we run.

"What?" She asks.

"Yeah Gale, you know your boyfriend my cousin, he's here", I say.

"How? And yeah now I see the resemblance", Madge says.

"You can talk later!" Johanna says and stops, making us look at her. "I don't want to die because of you, and that is what's going to happen if you can't concentrate, so please focus!"

Johanna is right. We're in the middle of a war. And if me make a single mistake, we'll die.

"Duck!" Madge shouts and the three of us throws our bodies onto the ground and crawl forward.

Johanna sands up slowly with her axe ready to stab someone.

"Come on", she says and we stand up.

I shoot a guy that was head towards us. I start to call after Peeta. Every second I get more and more nervous. Is he dead? Am I not going to get married? Where is he? "Peeta?" I shout. "Peeta?!" Everywhere we run, people drop dead from both sides. Both good and bad. I don't like it. Its lives gone. Families shattered. But after the war life will be good for my people again. I hope. If we don't win, it's hard. But we are going win, the numbers on the evil side are getting reduced. "Madge watch out!" I shout as I drill an arrow through a guy with a spear.

"Thanks!" She says as she stabs another one with a knife.

We're a good team.

After I don't know how long time, the wicked queens knights starts retreating. They know they're loosing. I find my horse. I sit up onto it and raise my bow over my head. "THEY ARE RETREATING! WE'VE WON!" I roar and everyone starts shouting and cheering.

I see Peeta come running towards me. He's bleeding from his lip, eyebrow and arm. But even though he's hurt, he has the biggest smile on his face. When he's beside my horse he hold out his arms. I slide down from my horse and into Peeta's welcoming arms. He hugs me tight. "I thought you were dead, I couldn't find you", I say as I hug him tight back.

"Oh I can't miss our wedding now can I?" Peeta chuckles.

"I guess not", I laugh.

"LONG LIVE PRINCESS KATNISS!" People all around us starts shouting. "LONG LIVE PRINCE PEETA!"