:D Have the song from the Hunger Games Trailer playing on repeat. TOTALLY PUMPED! LET'S DO THIS! (Search up The Hunger Games Deep Shadows on youtube, click the first link. It's amazing.)

Disclaimer: *sarcasm* Oh, yes. I totally own the rights to PJO and THG. Yup. That's me! :D

"Alliance?" Crystal yells back. The girl hiding behind the tree walks closer to us, and I recognize her as being the female tribute from District 8. She runs closer. Crystal arms her bow and arrow again.

"Yes. I say that you make an alliance with me. I'll guard your camp when you're away, in exchange for food," she says.

"How do we know we can trust you?" I ask.

"Because you guys have weapons that can kill someone in an instant. I have a blowdart gun and a knife," she says.

She walks even closer to us.

"Aren't you already in an alliance?" Elijah asks. I jump. He just popped out of nowhere behind us.

"I was," she continues. She steps even closer to us. "With Districts 6, 7, and Nevan, who you just killed. I know where their base is. They kicked Nevan and I out to go find out where you guys are, but we decided to break off from them. We knew we would eventually get a knife in the back." And you're not going to get a knife in the back with us? I wonder.

"We could do with getting rid of some of the other tributes," says Fish. He sighs.

"What the hey. We could kill her in an instant if she does anything. I vote yes," Sadie says.

Crystal, Fish, and Elijah agrees, so obviously, I have to agree as well. We let her come to our camp. We give her a water bottle and a couple slices of bread.

"I'm Yael," she says.

"How the heck do you spell that?" Elijah asks. "Y-I-E-L? That's how it sounds."

"No, Y-A-E-L. We all have interesting names in District 8. Nevan, Yael. You know, the works."

"So where is base for Districts 6 and 7?" I ask her. We're still finishing up lunch.

"The snowy hills," she replies.

"So, I'm guessing that you've noticed that the landscape changes every mile or so?" I ask.

She starts explaining everything. "Yes. Since we only had a few stuff, we fled the Cornucopia-"

"I call it the bloodbath!" Elijah butts in. I glare at him. He shuts up.

"The bloodbath, then. So we ran a mile, hit the woods, ran another mile, and hit the desert. It was torture, but we knew that most people wouldn't have wanted to cross it, so we made it across and pitched camp right on the border of the snowy hills and the desert, so the temperature isn't that bad, but everyone's crazy with shock." she explains.

"That's not a real good idea," says Fish.

"The ladies from 6 and 7 are kind of thick headed," she says.

"They were basically the boss of the alliance. They had more weapons than Yael and I, so we couldn't do anything," She explains.

"Well, we now have to feed six. We're eventually going to run out of food. I say that we go gather edible plants," I say. I don't really care if anyone comes along, I just want some time to myself.

"You can go if you want to," Sadie says.

"Fine," I say. "I'll be back in a while. I might take some time."

"Guys, how 'bout we go hunting?" Fish asks. Sounds of agreement ring through the group, and they get ready to go off.

"Yael. You watch our camp. Anything happens, well, don't let anything happen," Crystal says. It's actually kind of funny, watching a thirteen year old boss around an eighteen year old. I silently snicker to myself.

"I don't know about you guys, but I don't feel like going through the desert. We can get those girls from 6 and 7 later," Sadie says as they start off.

I then go in the opposite direction. Luckily, I was one of the few who went to the edible plants and berries station in training, but that didn't matter. I brought a water bottle and went straight towards the desert. You're really in for it now, I think. I then start running into the hot desert, trying to pace myself as much as I can.

I know perfectly well that you can't find berries in the desert. I just wanted to check out the other alliance's base. Maybe see what their weaknesses might be. Spy on them. It was probably a stupid idea, but my logic was that it would keep the audience entertained for maybe a while. Maybe then the Game Makers won't have to play around making something entertaining.

The desert is dry, blazing hot, and never ending. At least I have a water bottle, but taking small sips doesn't really help.

I know that children of Ares aren't the acting type, but when I see snowy hills in the distance, I try to think how I can make this interesting for the audience. As I approach the border, I try to make myself not seen, but black pants with lots of pockets, a black t-shirt, and knee-high black boots aren't the best for sneaking around in broad daylight.

First of all, the ladies from District 6 and 7 aren't the sharpest knives in the drawer, as Yael recently said. They built a fire. A fire. Knowing full well that my career buddies could be hunting them any minute, but I know they went off through the woods. From what I could see, they had a bright orange backpack and two hunting knives. They probably had more weapons than that from what Yael said, but that doesn't matter right now.

I head straight to my left and try and cross the border without them seeing me. I go into shock at how cold it is, and my body isn't liking the temperature change, but I try and creep closer to them, with the hills hiding me. It's freezing cold and I really wish I had brought one of our jackets, but I suck it up, grit my teeth, and creep closer, shivering.

"That girl from District 2, don't you hate her?" says one of them. They are 15 feet away from me, and I am concealed behind a hill full of snow.

They hate me?

"She was the one who killed Austin. Totally," says the other one, whom I'm guessing is the District 7 girl.

"I wonder where the Career camp is, Alana," says District 6, which means District 7 is Alana.

"They're probably somewhere near the border of the woods and desert. With all that stuff, they're probably not going to want to lug it across the desert just to find out what's here."

"Well, what about the meadow?"

"That's a vulnerable spot. They're smarter than that."

"I vote when Yael and Nevan come back, we go find out where the Career Pack's camp is. We should attack them early tomorrow, when they're most vulnerable."

"Yes. We should get ready to leave when Yael and Nevan come back."

"Wait a minute, where would they be in the woods?"

"A mile away! They're following us because they want to kill us! We're going to get to them first!"

Maybe it was a good idea to go spy on their camp, but I was still frozen to the bone. Anyway, I went back about another fifty yards away from them, still keeping an eye on the border. When I felt as if I was far away enough from them, I bolted to the border, my body feeling like a frozen popsicle.

It was really creative of the game makers, putting the snowy hills right next to the desert. I come to the border, and I know that I'll go into shock again for the second time in twenty minutes. I step across the border, and I start to feel dizzy it's so hot. I take a couple sips of water and buck up, and start running away from the snowy hills as fast as I can.

I go into a subconscious state of continuous running. I sip some water as I go, but I don't stop until I see a line of green in the distance. By now I've slowed down a lot, and the run towards the border is treacherous. It seems to never get closer, but then suddenly I find myself back into the woods.

It takes all of my will not to plop down and chug all the water I can, but I keep going, as dizzy as ever, and I mill around until I stumble into camp.

"Ugahhh!" I say.

"What happened, Elise?" asks Elijah. I plop down next to him, who is sitting next to a fire.

"Nothing," I say again. My dizziness is slowing down a bit, but not that much. "I'll . . . Tell you guys. . . . Later. Just, please. Let me rest!" I say.

"Yes, Elise, we had so much fun hunting. We didn't find anyone, but we did a general comb of the woods!" Sadie exclaims sarcastically.

"Yeah . . ." I say. "Great that you guys had fun."

Everyone leaves me alone to rest, and I stumble in to the tent and crash and fall asleep for about two hours. My body definitely didn't like running 2+ miles and going through drastic temperature changes.

It seems only seconds later when I wake up to Elijah yelling at me, "It's dinner time! Get over here!" My body jolts, and I groan. I go out from the tent, to see a plate of grilled cheese, slices of green and red peppers, and a glass of water.

I chug the water down, and then before I forget, I blurt out, "District 6 and 7 girls."

"What?" asks Sadie.

"They're going to be looking for Yael and Nevan. They aren't back, and Yael's been here for about five hours. They could be searching for us."

"Maybe," says Crystal.

"Yeah, and I'm thinking they're going to find us soon."

I volunteer to take the first shift since I've been sleeping for the past two hours. The sun just went down, and suddenly, I see a face in the sky. "Look up!" I yell.

Right there, is Diamond' face. On the sky. Clear so everyone can see. Then, it quickly changes to the District 3 girl, and then the District 3 boy.

"I think they're showing the deaths," says Fish.

(Death recap here. I'm keeping track, for all who are wondering :D)

It then goes to the boys from Districts 6, 7, and 8. We see both Tributes from Districts 10 and 11, and lastly it shows the District 12 female. After this, it fades to the seal of the Capitol and plays the Anthem.

"Fun," says Elijah, breaking the awkward silence. I burst out laughing, because I haven't had many laughs in the past week, and everyone is so tense that they join in.

I take watch.

I'm so glad that I actually took watch because without me, we would've all been killed.

And I guarantee that the ladies from 6 and 7 had nothing to do with it.

CLIFFIE :D

I should get back to homework.

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