Cato's POV
I awaken to a growling noise. I look up and see a wolf staring at me; it has brown eyes and red hair. (A/N supposed to be the girl from 9 ok?) I'm not sure why, but it looks familiar, I jump from the sleeping bag, and cut off the wolf's head. Looking at the time I see it is about noon. I am about to pack up my bag when I hear a crashing noise, looking up, I see that there is a whole pack of wolf-mutts crashing towards me. I drop the bag and run, all I have left with me is my sword, and I sheath that then sprint away.
I run for a long time, if a wolf gets too close for comfort I'll draw my sword and cut its head off. So this is how they are drawing us together, by getting chased by dog-wolf-mutts. Finally I get an idea, the Cornucopia; if I can reach there without getting torn apart I can climb to the top of it. I sprint as fast as I can towards the Cornucopia. When I get to the area where it is, I see that 12 is already there. When Katniss sees me, she shoots a bow at me, surprisingly it just bounces off me, guess the armor works.
"He's got some kind of body armor!" I hear Katniss shout to Peeta.
I shoot between the two, shoving them a side and run towards the Cornucopia. I've been running for hours and I'm panting hard, there's sweat pouring off me, dripping into my eyes and mouth.
I jump up and land on the lowest part of the Cornucopia. I sit down after climbing to the very top, the highest part, as far as I can get away from the mutts. I watch as Katniss sprints towards the Cornucopia, completely leaving Peeta in the dust, that proves her amount of love for him. Peeta is hobbling about 15 feet behind her, and the mutts are closing in on Peeta, fast. Katniss draws her silver bow and sends an arrow into the pack of mutts, killing one, one out of many.
Peeta waves frantically at Katniss, "Go, Katniss! Go!" That's real love, willing to sacrifice yourself for those who you love, not run away and leave them to handle certain death by themselves. To my surprise she listens to him and continues to climb the Cornucopia. If it were Clove on the ground there I'd be guarding her back and killing every single one of those damn mutts for trying to kill her.
At the top of the Cornucopia she is holding her hands, as if burnt, that's when I realize how hot the golden metal is, right now I'm lying on my side, gasping, and gagging over the edge. If Clove was here she'd be helping me out now, but she's not and she will never be here again. I hear a noise and see Katniss pointing an arrow at me. Go ahead, I think kill me; send me to be with Clove, the girl I love.
But then Peeta cries out in pain, and she turns to run and help him. He's at the tail end of the Cornucopia, just starting to climb. I don't see how they can't just jump, but then, they are from 12. "CLIMB!" Katniss yells to Peeta. No duh. She shoots an arrow and I hear one mutt die. Peeta has reached Katniss's feet and she is now pulling him up. Apparently she just remembers me because Katniss's head whips around and stares at me; I'm clutching my side (horrible cramp) and staring down at the mutts. "Can they climb it?" I ask it comes out along with coughs.
"What?!" Katniss shouts at me.
"He said, 'Can they climb it?'" thank you non-deaf one.
The mutts are putting their snouts on the horn and sniffing it, tasting the metal, and tasting the metal. They scrape their paws over the surface and then yip at each other like they have been doing for hours, some kind of communication.
One of them with blonde fur runs and leaps onto the horn. This mutt's back legs are powerful, since it lands just 10 feet below us. Something bothers me about this mutt, it looks…. Familiar. The mutt's pink lips are pulled back into a snarl, green eyes staring at the 3 of us. The mutt wears a collar like a creepy rabid dog; it is inlaid with jewels and has the number 1 on it.
Katniss lets out a shriek; she shakily places an arrow in her bow and aims it at the mutt. The mutt is already sliding backwards, off the side of the Cornucopia. The sound of its claws scraping against the gold is like nails scarping against a blackboard, Katniss fires an arrow down the mutt's throat, its body twitches then it flops to the ground.
"Katniss?" Peeta grips her arm. Ha, if Katniss had a nick name it would sound the same as the one Clove gave me, Cat, Kat. Clove, I'll be home soon.
"It's her!" Katniss shrieks.
"Who?"
Katniss's head whips side to side as she observes the mutt pack, I look down at them, something does seem disturbingly familiar about them, especially a small one with glossy dark brown fur and green eyes, who is looking at me with its teeth bared in hatred.
"What is it, Katniss?" Peeta asks again.
"It's them." I hear her choke out. "It's all of them. The others. Rue and Foxface and... All the other tributes."
Ah, so that's why the blonde one looked so familiar and gave me a weird feeling, that is how I imagine all my ex's (there are a lot) when they try to get back together with me. But the one with brown hair… Clove…. How did I not see this before?
I hear Peeta gasp. "What did they do to them? You don't think… those could be their real eyes?"
I don't know why Peeta is worrying about eyes, but I imagine Clove's dead body lying on a table while people in white scoop out her eyes. It's so disturbing to think about that I stop, though if that is what happened I will find whoever was involved and cut off all of their heads.
The mutts attack the Cornucopia again; they are separated into 2 groups on each side of the horn, left and right. They keep jumping up, trying to get on. I hear Peeta let out a cry of pain, and see him yanked over the side of the Cornucopia. The only thing keeping Peeta up off the ground is Katniss's arm, but Katniss is struggling. I could easily push them both off and win, but that wouldn't be fair… would it?
"KILL IT, PEETA! KILL IT!" Katniss shouts, Peeta obeys and stabs the mutt in the snout, causing it to let go. Katniss hauls Peeta back up on top of the Cornucopia. I am still not on my feet yet, though I have managed to slow my breathing.
Katniss shoots the Thresh-mutt, he's gigantic.
As Katniss turns to face Peeta I grab him and get him in a headlock. I'm cutting off Peeta's air. There is only a small bit of sanity left in me, enough to realize that I've lost almost all of my sanity. Peeta is weakly clawing at my arm; it does nothing to loosen my grip. Katniss has 2 arrows left; she aims one at my head.
I laugh, "Shoot me and he goes down with me." I sound like a mad man, I am a mad man.
The mutts go silent, as if watching to see what will happen. I'm laughing, laughing while I strangle a boy. Insane, that's where I have gotten since Clove's death. Once Peeta's dead I can use his body against Katniss. This is what Clove wanted for me, to win and get home, right? Once I'm done laughing I give Katniss a triumphant smile, I've won.
Peeta is tickling my hand, I see he's drawn something in blood it's an X… It takes me exactly 1.5 second to realize what it means. I immediately drop my insane smile. Katniss's arrow hits my hand, though it is covered with the armor, I still reflexively let go of Peeta, who slams back against me and I lose my footing then fall about 30 feet off the Cornucopia.
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I've been working on Nothing all day…. It's going to be a long, long, long story, this story took me a month to write, so IDK when I'm going to finish Nothing, but I really hope that I can post the first chapter by the time that I'm done posting this story.
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