Chapter 9
Last Time:
"Hey guys." Alex greets dropping out of the tree with James and Katniss next to her.
"What's he doing here?" Haymitch asks narrowing his eyes at James.
"Lethal Spy is going to be our guard." Alex gives Haymitch a 'you-better-not-argue-with-me' look.
"Ok." Haymitch nods and they all sit around a small fire, which is not noticeable.
Now:
It is Alex's morning to go hunting for breakfast. When Alex awoke she didn't seen Johanna sleeping. Alex jumping out of her tree silently and lands in the one in front of her.
Alex hears an ear piercing scream and quickly jumps to the next tree, in the direction of the scream.
"NO ENOBARIA! PLEASE NO!" Alex hears Johanna's screaming voice. Alex jumps out of her tree, landing in the clearing.
To Alex's shock, Enobaria's sword cuts Johanna's head off as Alex's fired arrow hits Enobaria's shoulder. Alex fires another one and it hits her in the leg. Enobaria turns to Alex and begins to run at her. The cannon goes off and Johanna's picture comes up.
Enobaria swings her sword at Alex, cutting her leg. Alex falls onto her back holding her leg that is gushing blood.
"KATNISS!" Alex screams at the top of her voice as she grabs her third final arrow. Alex fires it at Enobaria before grabbing her last two. One arrow hits Enobaria's right shoulder as the other two hits her right leg and left arm. Enobaria pulls them out and looks at herself to see very little blood coming out of her wounds, because she is wearing chains like the Knights of the Round Table did.
Enobaria smirks at Alex and begins to advance on her as Alex shakily gets to her feet. Alex limps back as she hears running feet.
"KATNISS!" Alex screams again. Alex trips over a log and a net falls on her, trapping her to the ground.
Alex begins to panic as Enobaria walks over to her slowly.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" Alex looks to see Finnick and Mags. Finnick has his trident pointed at Enobaria's throat as Mags runs over to Alex with a knife in hand. Alex whimpers as tears fall from her brown eyes terrified.
Just as Alex is about to scream, Mags covers her mouth. Mags feels Alex shake against her hand and signal for her to be quiet. Alex hears running feet and sees Enobaria glare at Finnick before fleeing into the woods.
"ALEX!" Alex's eyes snaps to the path to see Katniss pointing her bow at Mags.
"Relax Everdeen. Mags is just cutting her out of the net." Finnick reassures Katniss. Haymitch greets Finnick like an old friend as Rue, Katniss and James walks over to Alex and Mags. Mags uncovers Alex's mouth and cut her out of the net.
Once out of the net, Alex dives into Katniss' arms sobbing.
Just then there is a chime...
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Finally everything goes silent. Everyone looks at each other confused.
"Well that's a twist." Haymitch comments, "They are finally changing the arena to something no one knows and it hasn't been done before."
Just that second a strike of lightning hits the ground right where Alex was. The ground catches on fire before quickly spreading. Everyone begins to run out of the clearing with the fire following them. Alex runs with a limp holding Katniss' hand tightly. Katniss runs up a hill with Alex following.
The two girls' hands slip from each other as Alex's foot slips and the flames swallows Alex's injured leg. Alex lets out an ear piercing scream as Finnick runs over and lifts Alex into his arms.
"THE LAKE!" Finnick shouts to the group as he runs full speed to the lake, which is not too far away. Alex's pant leg has melted to her skin and is putting her through a lot of pain.
At the lake everyone jumps in and swims under the water to the beach they started at.
At the beach, Finnick sets Alex on the rock that is off to the side. He pulls out a container and his water bottle, filled with fresh water. He pours some on the cut from the sword and some on the burn.
Finnick puts the bottle away before putting medication on both. Alex lets out a breath feeling the pain decreasing rapidly.
"Feel better?" Finnick asks Alex gently. Alex looks up at him with a small smile.
"Yes. Thank you."
"You're welcome Russo." Finnick strokes Alex's wet hair gently before kissing her cheek and telling Katniss the directions for the medication. Katniss puts it in her bag nodding.
As the two talks, Rue walks over to Alex putting her hair behind her ears.
"Are you ok?" Rue asks.
"Ya." Alex smiles at Rue, "How many left?"
"You, me, Katniss, Haymitch, Mags, Lethal Spy, Finnick, Morphling and Enobaria." Rue answers.
"Nine."
"Yup. 17 dead, 9 left."
"And there's 5 days left."
"Today's April 16th. There's 14 days of the games."
"We started on April 7th."
"And finish on the 21st."
Alex bites her lip knowing the Gamemakers are up to something.
~K&A~
The next day Alex notices that Finnick is missing. Alex remembers the night before that Finnick said he will go hunt Enobaria to kill her.
Suddenly a cannon goes off and Finnick's picture comes up. Alex's mouth drops open as she sees a purple fog surround them.
The fog advances on them. Alex freezes with her eyes growing wide. Haymitch picks Alex up and throws her over the fog and into the water. He goes the same with Katniss, Rue and Mags. Haymitch climbs onto a rock and jumps into the water. He swims over, everyone forgetting their bags. Their bags get swallowed by the fog, melting them.
"Let's go." Haymitch makes Rue get on his back before they start swimming to the pile of bags.
They each grab a bag as Alex digs in the sand to end up pulling out a bag of spears. Alex puts the bag on her back and sees the group staring at her.
"What?" Alex asks clearly out of her shocked state, "Its how you get your weapons. I highly doubt there are more unless no one figured out their trick."
Mags leads the group to the swamp and Alex climbs into the tree with Rue. The two of them jumps from tree to tree following their alliance.
Everyone freezes hearing a scream following the sound of monkeys.
Enobaria's picture pops up as the sound goes silent. The sky turns black, like night time.
Alex and Rue looks into the trees a few feet away to see yellow eyes staring at them. They see white teeth appear before something leaping at them. Rue and Alex jumps out of the tree before Mags, Haymitch, Lethal Spy, Katniss, Rue and Alex runs full speed out of the forest and into the swamp before splitting up into two groups. Mags, Haymitch and Rue runs to the rocks as Lethal Spy, Katniss and Alex run to the forcefield. Every monkey that followed them ends up crashing into the forcefield making them get electrocuted and turn into a pile of ash.
Alex pants resting her hands on her knees.
~A&K~
The three of them make a campsite and Katniss and Lethal Spy falls asleep. Alex lies in her sleeping bag looking up at the sky.
Alex begins to whisper a song that fits her emotions. When I Look To The Sky by Train.
When it rains it pours and opens doors And in the midst of sailing ships And as I float along this ocean
That flood the floors we thought would always
Keep us safe and dry
We sink our lips into the ones we love
That have to say goodbye
I can feel you like a notion
That won't seem to let me go
Tears fill her eyes thinking of her family as her arms are folding behind her head. 'Cause when I look to the sky And when I feel like I'm lost
Something tells me you're here with me
And you make everything alright
Something tells me you're here with me
And I can always find my way when you are here
Katniss listens to Alex sing quietly to herself. And every word I didn't say And every sunset that we'll miss And while I float upon this ocean 'Cause when I look to the sky
Caught up in some busy day
And every dance on the kitchen floor, we didn't have before
I'll wrap them all up in a kiss
And pick you up in all of this when I sail away
I can feel you like a notion
That I hope will never leave
Something tells me you're here with me
And you make everything alright
Katniss looks over at Alex to see her staring up at the stars. And when I feel like I'm lost Whether I'm up or down or in or out But with you I can spread my wings And when I feel like there is no one
Something tells me you're here with me
And I can always find my way
Or just plain overhead
Instead it just feels like it is impossible to fly
To see me over everything
That life may send me when I am hoping it won't pass me by
That will ever know me
There you are to show me
Alex blinks back the tears, feeling Katniss stroke her hair comforting. When I look to the sky And when I feel like I'm lost When I look to the sky
Something tells me you're here with me
And you make everything alright
Something tells me you're here with me
And I can always find my way when you are here
Something tells me you're here with me
And I can always find my way when you are here
Alex looks at Katniss and rests her head on her right shoulder. And when I feel like I'm lost
Something tells me you're here with me
And I can always find my way when you are here
Alex whispers the last verse before falling asleep in Katniss' protective hold.
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