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It's not march I know. I've been home from school for the past 2 days. Thursday was a public holiday and Friday (today) you don't have to go to school, it's practically flooded but not closed. So i got so much homework for 3 days of school and I finally finished it and got to write. I've already got the idea for the next chapter! So I started that a little after finishing this chapter yesterday, and my friend wanted this up, so here it is. It's really long too. I was going to put next chapters' ideas in here but it would just be way too long.
I will now quote my cousin on what she said when I asked her favourite tribute excluding Katniss and Peeta. (she was up to the part where Katniss blew up the careers' supplies)(its exactly copy and pasted from what she wrote on facebook to me)
'My favourite is rue but cato is a good charicter i read a few more pages just then and i love how he just skits out'
Now you can read whatever I end up writing! (reviewers will be at bottom note)
Kpov
Later that day Glimmer, Marvel, Cato and Clove head out hunting while Prim, Rory, gale and i stay at camp. Gale and I are going a few meters away from camp. Just to find some berries and nuts. We took our bows with us just in case we see a squirrel or something. Prim and Rory have a knife back at camp. Its fine since neither gale nor I are going far. Only a few meters. Really.
Cpov
We 4 careers in the group are going hunting. I hope to find bell and Cody but i doubt we will find them.
After a while of looking we find a tribute. One of the district 3 boys. District 3 has a weird bunch.
*flashback*
District 3 reaping
"And now for the girl tribute" said the district 3 escort Anthea.
She walks to the reaping ball and pulls out a slip of paper.
Anthea has orange hair with purple tips. It's a wig. I can tell since it's not completely straight. She is in a short purple dress. The dress has orange flowers near the top. The bottom is in plaits. The straps have little orange flowers on them. Her shoes are zebra striped but instead of being black and white, they are orange and purple.
She then walks back to the microphone and calls out.
"Ellie" a girl about 15 comes up onto the stage. She has short brown hair and green eyes. A boy follows her. He looks like her. He has brown hair and green eyes also.
"What's your name?" Anthea asks
"Danny" he replies
Anthea goes over to a boys reaping bowl and draws out a name.
"Jay" she says.
A boy who looks the exact same as Danny comes up followed by a girl with blue eyes and black hair.
"What's your name" Anthea asks
"Diana" this girl is also 15.
Danny is 17 and jay is 16. The boys could be twins.
District 3 Interviews
Ellie
How do u feel about the quell twist?
Well it's a um good twist.
How do you feel about your fellow district companions?
Danny is my brother, jay is my cousin and Diana is my best friend
Danny
How do u feel about the quell twist?
It's creative with the numbers
How do you feel about your fellow district companions?
Ellie, she's my sister, Jay, he my cousin, and Diana is like another little sister, in a way.
Diana
How do u feel about the quell twist?
Whoever made it was smart
How do you feel about your fellow district companions?
Ellie is my best friend and jay is my boyfriend. And Danny is like an older brother
Jay
How do u feel about the quell twist?
It's clever. 75, 3 and 8. Love
How do you feel about your fellow district companions?
Ellie and Danny are my cousins and Diana is my girlfriend.
*end flashback*
I have no idea which one he is. They are so alike.
He bends down to pick something up and that's when a spear goes threw his back and a canon firing.
I glance around and see marvel smirking. Show off. I roll my eyes. We walk a little more until we find the 2 district 3 girls. Diana and Ellie. They are just talking. Glimmer shoots an arrow at Ellie and i throw a knife at Diana. 2 canons go off. We are out in the open where the girls' bodies are lying on the ground. That's when the remaining district 3 boy runs through the bushes calling out names
"Ellie, Danny, Diana."
It's Jay. So marvel killed Danny.
Jay stops in his tracks seeing us. Cato goes forward and stabs him with his sword. Jay the whole time was frozen with fear. Another canon sounds. Along with another canon. 5 canons? Wonder who died.
Gpov
5 canons have sounded. I think everybody is thinking the same thing because everybody seems to be just standing there in their thoughts
"Whose canon was that" says a voice
Marvel.
"Who knows" says Cato
"We'll find out tonight" I say
"We'll let go again" says Clove
Ppov
Katniss and gale have left to look for food when i hear noise coming from the bush
"Rory what's that noise?" I ask
"I don't know." he replies.
He grabs the knife we have. The only weapon that we can pick up that we have.
That's when a boy comes through the bushes. A district 4 boy, Dylan.
See comes over to me with a grin on his face and a knife in hand. Rory jumps in front of me with the knife in his hand. Dylan has the knife ready to slit Rory's throat. Rory has dropped his knife. Dylan drops the knife in his hand as two arrows pierce him. One just aboth the temple and another, a little to the side of the heart. A canon fires. Followed by another. 5 canons have fired. One of them must have been Dylan's. Katniss and gale emerge from the woods. They shot the arrows.
Kpov
I'd seen what was happening. One of those district 4 guys was about to slit Rory's throat. That couldn't happen. So i did what i did. I shot at him. It hit him just aboth the temple. Another arrow pierces him just to the side of the heart. I look up and see gale coming out of the woods, as do i. 2 canons fire. 5 have fired today.
Coral's pov (this is another oc)
They killed Dylan. I need revenge. Dylan is- was my boyfriend. I loved him so much. Now, he's gone. Just gone. All because of district 12. I need to kill somebody. I hear a rustling in a nearby bush. As I turn around I'm sure I spot some fiery red hair. More noise. I turn again and see it again. Then I see a girl. Not just any girl. No. This girl is Fay. One of the district 5 girls. The only living one. You may be wondering, what's so special about her, well she's Lily's sister. Lily is the victor of the 74th hunger games, last year's games. She outsmarted the rest by hiding.
Fay's pov
A girl has seen me. She's out to get me. Forcing me and my brother to go into these games. It's probably cause of my sister. They probably rigged it. Just to eliminate the tributes loved ones, sincerely. If I'm going to die, I'm taking her down with me. There is one weapon I have, nightlock.
I stop dead in my tracks. She runs right into me. Knocking me down with her. I dropped the berries on the ground in the fall. I reach out for them but coral she's what I'm doing and gets them before me.
"aww, did you want these berries" she teases whiles sitting on me. As I try to reach for them again she pulls them from my reach, which isn't far considering she's on top of me and I can hardly move. She lifts them to her mouth, my eyes brighten and I stay still, she doesn't know what they are and she's going to eat them.
Coral's pov
She wants these berries. I have no idea what for. I'm going to eat them. She cant get them then. I ready my knife in one hand and the berries in the other
"Say goodbye" and I stab her. The canon doesn't go off yet. I then swallow the berries. I have one last glance at the berries that are still in my hand and my eyes widen. There nightlock. Nightlock, my last thought.
Fay's pov
She readies her knife in one hand and the berries in the other.
"Say goodbye." I silently say goodbye to my family, my mother, my father, my sister and my brother. She stabs me. I'm not dead yet. She then eats the berries. She glances once more at me then the berries and her eyes widen as she realises the just ate her death. Her canon fires and I close my eyes, letting death take me.
Kpov
A canon fires. Followed by another. Another 2 tributes dead. I'll have to wait till tonight to see whose left.
Cpov
As we are running back to camp another 2 canons fire. More dead.
We arrive back at the camp- having killed 1 tribute each- happy, in a way only a career is. Prim and Rory are sitting on the ground, shaking? Prim is shaking. Katniss and gale are doing something, skinning some rabbits. They keep looking back at prim and Rory. Glimmer is running over to prim. They have become friends over the few days we've been trapped here. I catch Katniss's eye and give her a look saying 'what happened'. Yes I'm being friendly with district 12. Who would have thought? Me, the great career, liking district 12, of all the districts, 12. But really, people just think I'm a heartless, inhumane person. I'm not. I do care for people.
Gpov
When I see prim shaking, I immediately move over to her to try and comfort her.
"what happened?" I question
"d-d-district 4... b-boy...r-rory...de-dead" is all she says before she breaks down in tears. I feel somebody come sit down next to me. Rory looks to see who it is and as do I. momentarily I tear my gaze from Prim to see Marvel.
"There was a guy from district 4, he was about to kill prim and i when Katniss and gale came back from hunting and shot him. We were so close to death, that's why she's crying." Says Rory.
I look around to see what everybody is doing. Katniss has traded places with Cato and now Cato and gale are working on the rabbits, and probably explaining what happened. Katniss and clove are setting up a fire and explaining what happened also. Not like we need to worry about a fire, where careers. And there aren't many tributes left. I just wonder who is left.
I help prim up and walk her over to Katniss and clove. Marvel and Rory follow me. Cato and gale are on their way over with 2 rabbits, a squirrel and a wild turkey. I sit prim down and go over to our supplies. I grab some strawberries and some bananas. I go back over to everybody else.
"Are these poisonous?" I joke holding up the strawberries. Remembering the incident this morning. Then plop one in my mouth. Everybody is laughing. Lightening up the mood. I put the strawberries and bananas on the ground and sit.
"I'll cook" Katniss says
"Catnip you can't cook" says Gale
"Who can cook?" asks Clove
"Me" I say. I learnt to cook when I was young. My mother can't cook so me and my little sister, flick learnt. It's actually fun.
"I'll help." prim says, cheerfully?
Katniss grabs the wild turkey and gale looks at her puzzled.
"I'm determined to cook this. No matter what any of you say," it looks like Prim is about to object when Katniss continues, "not even for you Prim."
Katniss starts to attach a stick to it and puts it into the fire. 5 minutes later it comes out black. How did she burn it so fast?
"Ugh, stupid fire" says Katniss
"Catnip it's not the fire, u just can't cook" says Gale
"How do u burn something so fast" asks Cato
"It's not possible to burn something so fast" says Clove
"Katniss your cursed" says Rory
"I'm not eating that, Glimmer cook something" says Marvel
"Sorry Katniss but that really isn't edible, I'm going to cook something" I say.
"Katniss remember when I said to leave the cooking to me and mother, I'm going to help Glimmer." says Prim .
She gets up and we set go work. I go over to our supplies and find a pot called a camp oven.* Its a heavy iron pot that was used when camping before the uprising. I try lifting it, without success. Why is this thing so heavy? Marvel must have seen me struggling and comes over to help me. Katniss has gotten some herbs and vegetables. Some oregano and parsley. Along with some spring onions or shallots if u want to call them that, carrots and tomatoes (even though it's also a fruit).
I see prim coming back over to me with some flour, salt, milk powder, sugar and butter. Where did we even get these things from?
I cut up the vegetables (and fruit), then put them in the camp oven. Then i cut up the rabbit and plop it in.
"Can somebody get some water?" I ask
I look up to see what everybody was doing. Or is. Cato and Clove are talking and kissing. Katniss and gale are talking. Katniss keeps looking at Prim and I think Gale is trying to reassure her. Or something. Marvel and Rory seem to be talking about something. The bananas and strawberries are all gone. At my voice Rory and Marvel stop talking and look up. Marvel simply nods and gets up. Rory gets up also to help marvel. They get two bottles of the water that was purifying. I go to your supplies and look for something to flavour it. I find some beef and chicken stock cubes. The stuff the capitol has. We have theses at home in district 1. There just little powdered stock. It's cool how they do it. I add the water to the stew so it covers the ingredients. I then add the chicken stock cube ** by crumbling it and sprinkling it around the stew. I then mix it and put the lid on top. I push it till it's almost at the fire. Then I get this thing with a long handle and hook on the end. Marvel knows what I'm trying to do and comes over and takes the stick thing. He hooks the hook to the handle on the camp oven and lifts it into the fire.
I go and see what Prim's doing. She's put the milk powder in a water bottle with some of the water we had and shaking it to mix it. All the other ingredients where in a bowl. She then pores the now milk into the bowl and starts mixing it with her hands to form a dough.
"What are you making?" I ask curiously.
"Damper." *** She replies.
There is just a silence for a moment. Prim goes back to her work.
"Need any help?" I ask, needing something to do.
"Yeah I need some sticks." She says.
"Sticks it is!" I say.
I go and find some sticks.
By the time I'm done I have enough sticks. (8)
I bring them over to prim and she starts putting damper dough on them. I start helping her.
"Marvel, Rory, come help us." I call.
They come over and we hand them 2 of the sticks with damper on them each. Prim and i also have 2 sticks with damper on them. We go over to the fire and prim instructs us to put them over the fire so they can cook. After about 10 minutes she says they should be ready and we take them out. Prim starts walking to Katniss and gale and motions for Rory to follow. She then gives Katniss one and Rory gives gale one. I walk over to clove and Cato with Marvel following me and give Clove one with Marvel giving one to Cato.
"mmm prim you made damper" says Katniss as she inhales the scent of the bread.
"Yep." replies Prim.
We all start eating the damper.
Prim has some flour on her hands and she shakes it off and it goes all on Rory. Rory looks at her and gets some flour from the bag and sprinkles it on Prim then they get more and throw it at Katniss and Gale. Who then throw flour at Cato and Clove. I'm watching this unfold, laughing until flour is throw into my face. I look to beside me and see marvel coated in flour with more ready. I get some flour too and start throwing it at everybody. You may think flour isn't dangerous, but it's flammable. **** Luckily by time everybody has settled down from the flour fight it hasn't combusted.
After we have eaten the damper and all laughing, I feel like I've forgotten something.
What is it... what is it... what i- the stew!
I jump up and run to get the stew. Everybody is looking at me curiously. Them marvel realises what's got me so worked up. He gets up to and grabs the stick thing and gets the camp oven from the fire. It's too hot to touch. He uses the stick thing to take off the lid. It smells wonderful and it's perfectly cooked.
"Um how do we eat it?" Asks marvel
"Oh I never thought of that" I say
"We can put it in leaves" pipes up prim. She's a genius.
I look around for some leaves.
Found some! I see some really big leaves on a tree.***** I can just reach them. These are huge. I get 4 of them. Bringing them back I grab a real big spoon and start putting the stew on the leaves. I then grab one and go sit next to marvel with to spoons. Everybody seems to jump out of their trance and go get some food. The first person to is Prim. She grabs a leaf and 2 spoons also. Then before Katniss or Clove can move Gale and Cato get up and grab the 2 remaining leaves and some spoons. Then sit back down. Everybody eats the stew I made.
Eventually its time for bed. Prim and I volunteer for first shift. Everybody was arguing that we need rest but I come up with the perfect persuasion. We will get more rest if we aren't interrupted in the middle of the night and eventually everybody agrees.
The anthem blasts from hidden speakers and the sky lights up.
The pictures of the district 3 tributes, a boy and a girl from district 4 and a girl from district 5.
When the sky goes dark again everybody goes to sleep. Leaving only prim and I awake.
That leaves 16 tributes. All of us, the district 5 boys, the other people from 1 and 2 and a girl and boy from 4. The games are coming to a close.
Prim and I talked for as while but eventually got tired and went to wake up Katniss and clove.
Cpov
I have to find out how to make damper. It's delicious! When I get out of this arena, when and not if. I'm going to make damper. Or at least get somebody to make it for me.
I'm almost out of this arena. Although I'm not going until i kill Bell.
Kpov
16 tributes. That's all that's left. We're so close! Prim and Rory have to at least get out of this alive.
I can't believe prim made damper! We rarely get it. Only on good hunting days when we have enough money to buy the ingredients.
Eventually Clove and I go wake up Gale and Cato.
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*otherwise known as a Dutch oven. that's something used in Australia when camping. I think there is another name for it but cant remember. I don't know if its in other countries.
** chicken and rabbit. Weird combination i know.
***damper~ a traditional (I think) Australian bread baked over a campfire on a stick.
**** flour is flammable. Google it. My dad works with making stuff that gets packaged and put on supermarket shelves. My mum and i only just found that out. It can combust if its everywhere. That's why its packed tightly. So it cant combust.
***** imagine banana tree leaves but on a smaller tree that glimmer can reach.
The stew thats being made i just came up with so don't try it at home! I have never and don't plan on having rabbit. Ill stick to beef, pork, lamb and chicken. But i dought u can get that in the arena. And sugar.
Ive probably accidentally used text language in here like writing u instead of you. Im to lazy to fix that up. I just do it a lot so it kinda sets in.
Anyway im gonna put the reviewers her: thanks to-
Elleschi-Deity of WrittenWords (u had to go change your name to something long and complicated didn't u? She also has another new story for anybody who has read PJO. Its called 'a daughter of the sun')
gimmygummybears (she has no stories cause i made her get fanfiction. I will get her to write something. Eventually)
HungerGamesForevuh (go read her/his stories. 'away from home' i really creative! And they deserve reviews!)