I am so sorry for the extremely long delay. This semester definitely took the best of me. But I am going to do try and doing this Chapter from Cato's, Katniss', and Gale's POV. Sorry that it took a bit for me to get this up. Please review! I love reading them
Chapter 9
Katniss' POV
I am saying my goodbyes to Cinna in this small room about to get into the tube.
"Remember Katniss, find water, get out of the bloodbath okay?" Cinna said to me
I just nod. I am scared, I don't know what to expect.
"Thank you Cinna" I say
"We aren't allowed to do this, but I'm betting on you, Girl on Fire" he says
"Thank you" I reply
I walk into the glass tube and suddenly it is closed around me. Good thing that I am not claustrophobic or else there might be a problem. I look at Cinna and he just nods.
I feel myself rising and suddenly knew this was it… the games are about to begin.
I enter the arena and see green. It was beautiful, I see the forest and then I see the cornucopia where all the weapons and food is at. Then I see it, my bow. It was the only one that I can see and it was meant for me. Do I make a run for it or do I listen to Haymitch and go find water and leave the blood bath. Do I stay with the careers? Or do I go be with Gale? I hear the countdown and we now have 30 seconds until the gong sounds. I see Gale, he is looking at me.
I see him mouth 'I love you' to me. I say it back.
I need him to know that whatever happens that I do in fact love him and that what I am about to do is for him.
I keep looking at him then I say 'I'm sorry'.
A look of confusion sweeps across his face.
It is almost time to start running…
5…
4…
I take my stance.
3…
2…
1…
And I take off, I run straight towards the orange pack when suddenly someone runs straight into me.
I fight the tribute for the pack and suddenly there is blood on my face. I see that he took a knife to the back.
Then I look over and I see Cato there, he was the one that threw the knife. Maybe he was serious about us teaming up. I give him a small nod and he goes back towards the Cornucopia to grab more weapons.
I get up and start running fast; I have the orange pack and also a knife that the tribute dropped. I have no sense of where I am going but I head towards the woods and don't look back. I have no idea where Gale is and I don't know where Cato is.
As soon as I think that I've been running for a good half an hour, I decided to slow down to a brisk walk. I need to find water, that is the first thing that Haymitch told me to do, but the only water that I saw was near the cornucopia and there is no way I am going to be going back there. It's roughly noon by how the sun is positioned, so I decided to rest so that I can assess my pack.
As I empty the contents, I see some dried fruit and some jerky and a full pack of saltines. There is a small flask that I can store some water in, rope, and that is it. Luckily, I was able to grab that knife before I took off running so that I am able to hunt a little bit and try and find some food. I am going to need to get a little farther into the forest so that I can get as much distance from the other tributes that I can and then need to find a place I can rest for the night. I see a nice tree that I decided to climb and sleep for the night.
Cato's POV
It's absolutely crazy at the core of the cornucopia, I see Katniss take off and grab a pack when there is another male tribute who looks like he is about to kill her. I can't let that happen, I told her that I would take care of her and that I will so I pick up a knife and throw it at him and he falls to the ground. Katniss looks stunned that I would try and help her, but for some reason, I want to be with her, I want to help her out and make sure that she is going to be safe. I see her get up and run into the woods and follow her just to make sure that she is going to be okay but I know that she will be fine. She is Katniss after all. I am fighting off many of the weaker tributes because once we got the Cornucopia settled down we can form teams and start taking the other tributes down.
Everyone seems to be looking at me for the next move. I decide I need to play the part, make everyone believe that they will die a horrible death by me.
"Okay you guys, set up camp, now" I shout at the other Careers.
I watch then set up camp and decide that we are going to need to eliminate others. I need to make sure the others are convinced that the one person I want to kill is Katniss since she scored the highest for the gamemakers and everyone else is threatened by her.
How do I make sure she stays safe?
"Alright everyone, let's have someone stay behind and let's go find some of the weaker tributes" I say
We split up and start to search for others. Marvel, Glimmer, and Clove all come with me.
Gale's POV
I see Katniss fall to the ground, but I couldn't get to her as I see someone about to throw a knife at her, then the unthinkable happens, Cato saves her. I always knew he had a thing for her, but as long as she is going to stay safe I don't care who is going to help her out, but I will make sure that she does come home. Prim needs her. I start to run towards her but I don't think she sees me because she takes off into the forest.
I need to find her, I need to help her, and so I see a pack and grab it and then take off in a different direction into the woods as well. I want to avoid the blood bath that is going to be going down in the cornucopia. The only way I can save Katniss is to get away from the main action and go looking for her.
If I know Katniss, she is going to head to high land. I have been running for about 15 minutes so I decide to slow down and see what is in my pack. I pour out the contents and discover a small water bottle, rope, sleeping bag, and a small bag of crackers, jerky, and nuts. Luckily I have a knife that was thrown in my general direction so I am able to hunt with it. I need find material to make myself a bow and arrow. Too bad I wasn't able to get the one that was at the cornucopia.
That is when I hear that Cannons…
12 cannons have gone off. Half the tributes have died, more than any other year. Now, we wait until sunset to see who are gone. I just hope that Katniss isn't one of those tributes.