Chapter 27! We're so close to the end I can taste it! But then again...it's a bitter sweet taste...So, I'm wondering, do ya'll think I should do another story? I'm toying with the idea...but i'm not quite sold yet. Anyway, let me know your thoughts! Please enjoy! DISCLAIMER: I Do Not Own The Hunger Games.
We had already planned to sleep in for a few extra hours to gain some additional energy. We both know that we're going to need it when the final fight happens.
In the late morning, I'm startled by the sound of a cannon going off. "Who do you suppose that was?" I ask a still sleeping Cato.
"Hmm…I don't know…but I'm sure we'll find out soon enough." He says and rolls back over to sleep some more. Something feels off to me, so I just lie alert with my hand wrapped around the handle of my knife.
After a few hours, it begins to storm heavily around us. The tent begins to leak, and I'm about to wake Cato up when I hear the sound of animals very nearby.
"Cato! We have to move now!" I shake him and he hears the animals for himself. "Mutts…" he mutters underneath his breath.
"Let's go. We have to reach the top of the cornucopia." He says as he grabs our weapons and then my hand and start to pull me out of the tent. Just as we step out, we hear the faint dinging of an incoming parachute.
I look up and see a fairly large bag floating down upon us. I grab it, open up the bag, and pull out two tan suits of what appears to be body armor.
"Perfect! So, this is what Brutus and Enorbia have been saving up for!" Cato exclaims excitedly as he hurries and strip down to nothing, much to my surprise, and pulls the suit over his body. He then, dresses back into his cargo pants, t-shirt, jacket, and pulls his boots back on.
"Your turn." He says as he hands me the smaller suit. "Not with you watching." I say as I step back into the tent and repeat the process Cato just preformed. I step out a few moments later feeling much for confident about this whole matter.
But just as I feel good, a mutt busts through the trees and shatters my spirits. I launch quickly into action and send three knives flying into its throat, eye, and chest. It falls to the ground with a large thump, and it's then that I notice it's collar.
"Oh my gosh!" I exclaim as I jump backwards, away from the dead mutt. "What is it?" Cato asks as he looks at it. "The collar, it has a 1…and the fur…and the eyes…they're Marvel's." I say almost in shock.
Even the Capitol can't be that sick. What kind of person recreates the eyes and likeness of someone who died, just to haunt others?
"It's not really him…" Cato tells me and pulls me away from it. We jog to the cornucopia and reach the base just as a whole pack of mutts come charging at us.
"Hurry, Clove! Hop up!" Cato demands as he uses his hands as a step for me and launches me up onto the shining metal surface. I reach my hand down to pull him up just as the smallest of the mutts, Rue, grabs onto his left arm.
He lets out a loud yell as the sharp teeth grasp onto his arm, not piercing into him though due to the armor. However, despite the pain it causes him, he shakes the animal off and kicks it to the ground.
I haul him up the rest of the way and we sit up in safety watching as the beasts claw and jump at the slick surface.
"You know, whoever's left probably thought the same way we did, and are most likely headed this way now." I tell a still seething Cato.
"Yeah, we should try to get out of the major viewpoint and be ready to ambush whoever's left." He says through gritted teeth.
I walk up to the very top of the cornucopia, to a small loop where the horn begins to form, and crouch down and wait.
Cato finds a larger indent to lie down in to conceal his large form. We lie in wait, patiently, like a spider waits on her web for an insect to fly into her trap.
I look over at Cato and see him put a finger over his lips as he grabs his sword. I wrap my fingers around the cold steel of my knives and listen intently for the voices of our final kills.
As soon as I hear the star crossed lovers climb up, I can't help the wicked grin the spreads across my face. "Finally…" I whisper to myself and wait for Cato's signal to pounce.
Ok, so it was a short chapter...*boo* and it had kinda a cliffhanger...*boo* but i gives me room to write one final chapter! Or maybe 2...;) But anyway, here's the reviews!
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Ok, there's the reviews! Now, It was brought to my attention that I was kind leaving you guys guessing about whether or not there would be another chapter. I'm so sorry about that. But, know this. I won't leave ya'll! I love, love, love writing this for you all, and the story won't be complete until I say it is! So, even if I haven't updated in forever...just know, I'm still here! I will tell ya'll when it's done! Anyway, This week is gonna be hectic for me, I have friends coming home after 2 years over seas, lots of assignments due in school, and I have a 5K on Saturday. So, I may not get to update until late next week. Anyway, I hope ya'll enjoyed it! And please, let me know your thoughts! :)