Chapter 20. *sobs* Four more chapters, and then we're done. D: Then I get to move on to other spontanious writing ideas I've came up with.

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Elise

I scramble up the tree as fast as I can without even thinking. Luckily, our supplies Crystal and I have brought are still up there, but our weapons are at the bottom. I look down and I see Pierce looking up at us, glaring with eyes that want to kill. He is holding a large array of weapons and is probably going to come up and kill us any moment now. I take this time to climb higher in the tree, so I am now 20 feet up in the air.

Sadie and Crystal are a couple of branches down from where I am. Then it hits me: Where is Elijah? I wonder. "Sadie!" I yell to her. I climb down to where she is laying on a tree, gulping water down, panting, and sweating like a maniac. That doesn't matter now.

"Sadie!" I yell to her again, but I guess that she's so tired from being chased by Pierce that she leans over the side of the tree and pukes. She washes out her mouth with water but then pukes again.

After gulping another half a bottle, she looks over at me and says, "What?"

"Where is Elijah!" I yell.

"He-He-" she starts, but is cut off by the sound of the Capitol's anthem being played. I look around and I realize that the moon is out and the sun has set.

After the anthem has played, I see Elijah's face in the sky, and then I see Keaton, from District 9, in the sky.

Sadie acts as if nothing happened and the anthem didn't play and she says, "He died. Got a knife in the back from Pierce, and then I killed Keaton and Pierce has been chasing me for about five hours now." She then starts hyperventilating and I think that she goes unconscious.

I almost fall out of the tree. My mind starts spinning as my worst fear is confirmed. I don't know what happens, but after a lot of screaming, punching, crying, shrieking, and wailing, I find myself at the topmost branch of the tree Sadie, Crystal and I are in, strapped in so I won't fall out.

Now it is my turn to start hyperventilating. There are no tears in my face because I've already cried them all out in the first few minutes of this realization. I can't speak either. I am in too much shock that my dream is accurate, and I've already screamed myself hoarse.

I take a deep swallow. Elijah is dead.

Now look what you've done. You let Sadie run off with him and she gets him killed. What kind of a sister are you? I keep beating myself up emotionally. It's all I can do not to go down to where Pierce is sitting, ready for us to die of starvation or face him, and rip his face off and kill him myself, but I have just enough sense left in my feeble body not to. He has all kinds of weapons to kill me, and I almost want to him to kill me because now I have nothing left.

The night is sleepless for me. I stare up at the stars and the moon trying to convince myself that he's still alive somewhere despite the fact that his face was up in the sky tonight, he's not here right now, and Sadie was a witness to his murder.

Exactly. Murder. I didn't really hate the Capitol until they introduced the Hunger Games because they didn't treat District 2 like crap because we're their lapdogs.

Now, I hate them just as much as I could ever hate anything. They took my brother and made a complete stranger kill him just so the stranger could stay alive. I can't compute it and I try not to the whole night.

Elise. Now you have a chance of winning! My father has visited my head often now that I'm in real need of advice, and already know that it is him.

I don't care about winning now. I could just fall out of this tree right now and have Pierce kill me. Right now. I reply.

And shame the name of Ares? he asks.

I guess not. I think. Ares leaves me alone after this to mourn.

The night goes by surprisingly fast. Maybe it's just that I fall asleep for a few hours, or maybe it's something else. I'm not really sure at the moment, but the moment the sun starts rising, I unstrap myself and I go down to our pack with our stuff that we had the sense to stick in the tree beforehand. After rummaging through the food we have, my hand feels a sting on it. I take my hand out of the pack and see blood. There must be a knife in here! I think to myself. Excited and frantic, I dig my hand back into the pack to dig for the knife again.

"What. . . what are you doing, digging around in there?" Crystal asks. Apparently the noise of me digging around has woken up Sadie and Crystal.

"There's a . . knife in here!" I say, as I grasp the handle with my hand and yank it up out of the pack.

I see a knife. A metal, shining knife that is perfectly sharp and ready to kill, "Let me kill him. He murdered Elijah," I say. Sadie and Crystal smile a sly smile, and we creep down the tree to where Pierce is. He has his hands full with weapons, ready to attack us at any moment, but none of the weapons he has will come in handy because he doesn't even have time to wake up when I thrust the knife down in the direction of his chest as hard as I can, and a cannon shoots.

I jump down the tree to the ground and I stand up. He's gone now. I think. Sadie and Crystal slowly climb down the rest of the tree.

We all look at each other for a few moments until we realize we're the last three ones alive.

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