Loki Braveheart (18), District 1 Male-POV

I march through the trees, trying to keep up a fast pace, but ultimately struggling. In my arms lies Savannah, her body limp and lifeless. I know she's alive, I can see her breathing, but the impact of the fall must have knocked all the remaining energy out of her, because she hasn't stirred one bit. That's mainly the reason I am struggling to move fast, trying to run while carrying a boy is incredibly difficult.

I glance down at Savannah; her long hair falls down in sun streaked waves. Right now, is the most beautiful she has looked since I have known her. So peaceful, so calm, like nothing is affecting her, like she isn't in this horrible situation. I keep moving through the woods, it's becoming dark, the artificial sun setting in the distance. I soon find myself pushing through some long green vines, which almost look like drapes. I finally get through and look around. We are in a jungle, greens and browns fill my eyes in a blur of colour. I direct my attention to the space ahead of me, and continue through until I am deep enough into the jungle that no-one would know which way to go to find me. I wouldn't even be able to find my way back, that's how much I haven't paid attention to where I've been going.

I lay Savannah down on a patch of grass and prop up her head with some leaves. I really don't want to leave her, so it's lucky I have a few supplies in my backpack which I took with me. I open it up and find one of the two bottles of water I brought with me. I pour some in my hands and splash it on her face. She moves her head a bit, groaning at the obvious shock of the water. I wait for a few seconds until I see her eyelids flutter. All of a sudden, her eyes snap open in wide circles. Before I can even reassure her that everything's alright, she screams loudly, and then kicks me square in the chest. I fall back on the floor, trying to catch my breath. She jumps forward on top of me, elbowing me in the stomach.

"What's your plan huh? You trapping me so the others can come kill me? Or are you going to do the job yourself? Because there's no other explanation for what's happened…" She stares menacingly down at me, and there's a new sort of strength I've never seen before.

I grab her by the shoulders and swing her to the side, my strength overpowering hers. I pin her down and stare directly into her eyes, she looks half scared, and half annoyed. She kicks and screams but I quick cover her mouth to quiet her.

"Sshh… do you want to be found? Do you?" she shakes her head and I slowly move my hand away. "Do you really not know why I saved you? I saved you because… because I like you okay? There… you know now…"

I move off of her, and sit a few steps away. She sits up and stares in disbelief, not knowing what to say to my recent statement obviously. I look down at the ground awkwardly, and when I look back, she's moved over towards me. She slowly moves her hand towards me and places it in mine. She shyly looks up at me and gives me a small smile.

"Thank you… for saving me… I don't know why I freaked out just then, I guess I was confused, it's not every day you find out someone who you thoughts aim was trying to kill you has actually secretly liked you…"

I look at her for a while and then finally I smile back, "Its ok… and just to let you know, I've never wanted to kill you… ever since training…"

"When I nearly drowned… I must have looked so stupid, and that's when you liked me? I never even knew… I mean I saw you looking at me a few times but I thought you wanted to kill me! God I'm really bad at this stuff…" She lets out a giggle and I join in the quiet laughing.

"Oh no… Flair… she… " she looks up at me, but I just look away.

"I'm sorry Savannah… I knew you two were friends…"

"No… it's ok… I guess I knew it was probably going to happen at one point, one of us would have to have died in the end…" I see a tear roll down her cheek and she sniffles quietly. My stomach suddenly turns, one of us would have to have died in the end, that's what she said, has she realised it's the same with us?

"What about the others… your alliance…"

"It's confusing… before, I got angry at Micah, you must have seen that… I needed to protect you, she could have killed you! After I saved you, I ran as fast as I could, Mercy and Micah just stood in shock, and by the time they came after us, we were too far ahead for them to catch up… I doubt they even know which way we went…"

"They might find us though… if they saw the direction we went in, it could be soon, very soon…"

"So what do you suggest we do?" I ask.

"Keep moving… just keep moving…"

"And you think we'll be able to out run them?"

"I think we can do a good job trying…" She releases my hand and stands up, looking around. "I think we should rest for a few hours first, do you think you could climb that tree?" She points up above us, and the safest branch looks quite high, she must be over falling to her death because any sane person would never climb another tree again. I nod in reply, and she starts to climb first and I follow on. I can see she is shaking slightly, and her breathing is heavy, I guess she is a bit nervous after all. Once we reach the branch, I get comfortable, leaning against the trunk, and she lies next to me, up against my body for warmth. I wrap my arm around her and start to close my eyes.

"Isn't it weird how things change so quickly here?" she whispers.

"Yeah, you've got that right…" I say sleepily, "So… about my… um… confession earlier… do you…"

"Do I like you back?" she says innocently. She sits up and stares into my eyes, taking my face in her hands, and leans in towards me. She softly presses her lips against mine, and after a few seconds she pulls away, "What do you think?"

She lies back down next to me and rests her head on my chest, and I let myself relax too, and we fall calmly asleep together.

"Loki wake up… something is happening wake up!" Savannah shakes me and I sit up quickly.

"What's happening are you ok?"

I look at her and she seems fine, but her eyes are ringed with dark circles and she looks panicked. I look around and realise it is morning, but there seems to be an extra glow in the sky, and it is incredibly hot. I then see the dark clouds in the sky, but it's sunny… why are there dark clouds? Wait… there smoke clouds… I look round and see the bright orange flames rising above, storming its way through the trees. I automatically grab my backpack and throw it to the floor, and swing my legs over the side of the branch.

"We need to move… now!"

I begin to climb down, and Savannah copies the action. We both make it to the floor and I grab my backpack and pull it on my back. I take Savannah tightly by the hand and pull her forward and together we both begin to run.

The fire seems to speed up, chasing us like a rabid animal. We try and stay away from it, but it's like it wants to kill us. I hear a sudden sizzle, and before I can think I push savannah to the side and I move the other way, just as a fire ball makes its way in our direction. Smoke fills the air and I start to cough, but all I care about is if Savannah was ok. She stands opposite me with just a singed jacket. She takes it off and throws it to the floor, and then I take hold of her hand again and we carry on running.

All of a sudden, we find ourselves stumbling into a large open space. There are no trees, just a plain area of grass. In the middle of the area is a pile of plants, and other objects which I can't figure out. I look around and notice that it is not just us, opposite stands Mercy and Micah, they both hold their weapons in protection, but they are worn out, panting out of breath, and you can tell they have also been chased down probably by fire, as Mercy's normally perfect hair is singed at the ends. She looks up and stares at me, and then at Savannah, and she grits her teeth, in fury.

A few metres away stands another alliance, the two from eight hold hands staring around in disbelief, and they seem to be with another couple, the boy from six and the girl from nine. The girl holds him up and you can tell he is in pain. His leg is bandaged, and if it wasn't for his leg being injured, I bet he would have been fine by himself.

Just entering now, is the girl from eleven, she looks so small, but she is unharmed. She stares in front of her, and she looks dead inside, like she has seen things the past few days that a girl of her age shouldn't. Another one who has run in is the district seven girl, Lili? Yeah I think that's her name. She stares down someone across from her, and when I look, it's the district ten male. She and the maniac must have past issues, because right now she looks like she wants to kill him, and vice versa.

And last to join us, is my old ally Aria. She looks different, still deadly, but she seems broken in a way. She looks around and catches my eye, but she quickly looks away, like she is almost ashamed of something.

So here we are, all twelve of us… but were missing someone… isn't the girl from twelve still alive? Why isn't she here?

"What's going on?" I shout so everyone can here. Everyone stops their own conversations and looks at me. To be honest, I'm surprised no-one's been killed already since we've been here, but maybe everyone is trying to figure out what's going on before any murdering happens.

And before anyone can answer me, we all hear a sharp sound in the air. Savannah spots it first, and points up above us, where a flaming arrow flies over us and lands in the pit of objects in the middle field. I begin to move backwards dragging Savannah with me, as the it explodes in fire and smoke, and the impact of the explosion forces us to the ground. A bit of metal scratches the top of my arm, and I wince at the sharp pain.

Deep in the midst of the trauma, I try to look for Savannah. I can hear shouting, different names being called, but I can't see through all the smoke. All of a sudden I see her, she looks at me with relief, and her head bleeds where she must have been hit, but other than that she looks fine. I begin to move towards her, and she starts to move towards me, but then everything falls apart. I see arms reach for her, and they drag her back into the darkness. I run towards them, but I can't see where they have gone.

I scream out, "Savannah? Answer me please!" but she doesn't. I stare round at the chaos around me, and I know I need to find her soon, before it's too late. I need to find her, whether she is with the person who took her or not.

Whoever has made this trap has caused more problems for us than anyone must have expected.

And I think in some way they knew that.

Hey there;) I am so sorry I havent updated for a few weeks, and to the person who made that rude review, I have got a life you know, and I try to post as much as possible, ok? Anyway, to my amazing readers, thank you for waiting patiently and I hope you liked this chapter. I quite enoyed writing it, and I have a feeling im going to love writing the next one cause there could be some more action, so again it could take me a bit longer, but its because I want it to be great:)

Another point I quickly want to say, is that the lovely Wisteria22 came up with a great idea, which I am definately going to use in the story. I am not going to say what is going to happen, but here is the idea. So basically, in the story, I want to add letters from the tributes families, to be sent to them. If your tribute is still in the games, and they survive the next few chapters, then it would be great if you would write a short letter from a family member to them, saying some support and advice. If you don't mind doing this for me, then please just message me saying so, and if you don't want to, then thats fine and I will sort something out, but please message me to saying that. This is literally only if your tribute survives, but just so I know if everything is going to work out, I need to know if you are willing to write (It will only be like a paragraph as the letter). Sorry if it sounds complicated, and if you need me to explain better just ask:)

So thanks for reading and reviewing, you've all been amazing:)

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