So I hope everyone is still enjoying my story I know its been awhile since I last updated, but I was a little busy with school. I have to keep my grades up if I want to get into my dream college. Anyways here's the next chapter I hope you like it and please review to let me know how I'm doing. Oh almost forgot I'm going to be starting a new story soon, not sure which one just yet but keep a lookout.
Chapter 10
I thought that waking up to a fire was horrible, then I woke up to the sound of buzzing. Well more like jolted awake actually. Katniss must have made the entire nest fall on us. I caught sight of one of these insects and knew instantly that they weren't regular wasps, these were tracker jackers. One had stung me once when I was little and I could still remember what they looked like.
Cato and Clove were already nowhere to be found and Marvel was just fleeing, swatting away as many as he could as he ran. I took hold of Ripple's hand and we started to sprint to the lake. But Ripple had gotten more stings than me and she was starting to fade fast. She ended up tripping on a root and falling, unable to get up again. I ran to help her, but she shook her head.
"No, I'm not going to last, go or you'll have the same fate" she said, but I still hesitated. "GO!" she shouted.
I gave her one last look of apology and took off, but not towards the lake. I couldn't trust Cato anymore. I instead headed back to the tree where the nest had fallen, having no tracker jackers following me I was able to move freely.
When I got back to the tree I could see Katniss was still there, grabbing the bow and arrows from Glimmer's still body. I had to warn her. Cato would be back soon for revenge and she had to leave before he came.
"What are you still doing here?" I hissed at her.
I noticed she had some stings from the trackers jackers as well and they already seemed to be affecting her for she didn't move.
"Get up! Get up!" I shouted, getting her to rise. I pushed her a little and told her to run. She finally seemed to get the message and took off running.
I heard the bushes behind me rustling and I knew the hallucination must have started because it was Cinna I saw. At the same time though it wasn't him. He was all shiny and one of his eyes was shut from a nasty sting.
"You let her get away!" he roared, raising his dagger and cutting deep into my leg.
A searing pain shot through my leg as I let out a scream of agony. But it didn't stop there, Cinna pinned me down and started to choke me. My mind was racing. Why would Cinna do this to me, was he angry that I didn't kill Katniss?
Suddenly it wasn't him anymore, but Cato that was choking me. Fear suddenly fueled me with enough adrenalin to get him off of me. I fled as quickly as I could only hearing him shout, but no sounds of pursuit.
"Go ahead and run. You'll die in couple of days anyways!" Cato shouted, but I kept running.
If it had been difficult to run through the forest when I was alert, it was impossible with tracker jacker venom coursing through my body. The world seemed to be spinning around me in a whirl of color as I ran. I didn't know if it was the green liquid that seemed to be coming out of my leg or the venom. I couldn't tell up from down now, everything was just a big blur.
I ran until I crashed into something. I shook my head and gazed up at what appeared to be a dead tree. Its claw like branches started to come down on me and pick me up. Evil yellow snake-like eyes appeared on the bark and a mouth with razor sharp teeth. The mouth opened and I was thrown in, surrounded by darkness and that's the last thing I remember.