Chapter 7

"Peeta wake up," I heard Cato say as he shook my arm. I groaned wanting to sleep more.

"Come on, time to eat and then hunt for tributes," he said as I cracked my eyes open.

He was sitting beside me with a smile on his face. I smiled and crawled out of the sleeping bag. Cato came over and kissed me. He was on watch last night, so I guess he missed me. We pulled apart and exited the tent.

"Someone's finally up," Marvel laughed sharpening his spear.

I sat on a cooler that was sitting around. These coolers we found stores blood for the vampires. There are about 4 coolers total, but when they haven't killed any tributes the blood doesn't last long. Like last night Cato and I were the only ones to find a tribute, so the others were very hungry. Cato sat on the ground beside me handing me a bag of fruit. I pulled out a green apple and started eating it.

"So what kind of supplies do we have, since you guys finally finished?" Cato asked.

"Same old stuff we had, but there was a bag of paints, I don't know why," Marvel said not looking away from the spear.

"The paints are Peeta's, where are they?" Cato asked.

"Ask Clove."

Cato got up from beside me and went in search of Clove.

"Where would the dog be hiding Peeta?" Marvel asked.

"I would say up a tree, but there aren't any," I replied.

"Here Peeta, if you're finished then we're heading out," Cato said handing me a backpack.

I nodded taking it from him. It only took a second to round everyone up. Cato started leading everyone; I was in the middle between Clove and Marvel. They are the only people that Cato trusts here besides me. We spent the whole day looking for tributes, but for some reason you can't see any on flat ground. Marvel, Cato and I were around the fire the others went to bed. I had my head in Cato's lap. His hands were running through my hair slowly lulling me to sleep.

"Any one at home for you Marvel?" Cato asked.

"My mom and mate," he said as a soft smile crossed his face.

I felt Cato's hand stop, probably thinking of life without me. I sat up at that point, since I felt Cato was uncomfortable.

"What's your mate like?" I asked.

"He's actually a lot like you, looks wise. His name's Angel, he has short blonde hair and bright green eyes. He looks like his name; he works in his parent's jewelry shop. He does most of the sales and polishes the gems. During the reaping his name was drawn, I had to volunteer for him. He's not a killer like I am, he's an angel," Marvel said I could tell Angel was all he was thinking about.

During Marvel's description Cato instinctively wrapped his arm around me. I laid my head on his shoulder.

"Go get some sleep Peeta, I'll see you in the morning," Cato said.

"Both of you go, you had watch last night," Clove said appearing out of nowhere.

"Fine," Cato sighed pulling me up with him.

We went in one of the tents. I climbed into a sleeping bag and Cato got in one beside of me. He pulled me to his side and I smiled. He leaned down kissing me slowly; I kissed him back, before he pulled away. He laid down pulling me to his chest.

"Sleep Peeta," he said and I could feel my eyelids getting heavy.

"GUYS GET UP!" I heard Marvel yell.

Cato slid out from under me and yelled at me to stay, before he ran out. I climbed out of the sleeping bag and looked out of the tent. I saw smoke rising in the distant. I walked out, since I saw we weren't in danger.

"What are we going to do?" Marvel asked.

"Well we're going after whoever it is. Clove I want you to stay here with Peeta and watch camp," Cato said.

"No fair, I want to kill someone," Clove hissed.

"I'll stay, she can go," Marvel said.

"Alright let's go," Cato said grabbing his sword as they all ran towards the smoke.

"Who would be that stupid to start a fire?" I asked going over to the supplies.

"Or who do they want us to kill?" Marvel said getting into one of the coolers of blood.

"Good point."

**Cato's POV**

"Cato, why is there this much smoke on flat ground?" Glimmer asked.

"It's dry grass it catches quicker duh," Clove said making me chuckle. There's a reason this girl's my best friend.

We were getting closer to the smoke, but I couldn't see how far it went. Then I saw her, the werewolf. I smirked and took off running to get her.

"We capture her and take her back, she's Peeta's kill," I yelled hearing them agree.

The werewolf looked at us and cut a rope. I heard whatever it was catch the guy from four. We kept going none of us cared about him. The werewolf took off running away. She must have healed already from the fire. She stopped and I kicked it up a notch, I was going to get her. She struck a match and dropped it and took off running again. I looked down and stopped, a tracker jacker nest underground. Clove stopped, but Glimmer kept running after her. The tracker jackers rose from the nest and Glimmer stopped. I started running away, Clove right beside of me. I could hear Glimmers screams and two cannons sounded. So Glimmer and Gill were dead.

"Let's go back Cato; we lost her it's not worth it. She obviously knows this area," Clove said as I nodded.

We started walking back to camp. I was disappointed in myself for not getting my mates kill. I wanted to make him happy and that's the only kill he wanted. I sighed as Clove put her hand on my shoulder.

"It'll be ok, as long as you're ok Peeta will be happy," she said smiling at me.

We passed a hovercraft lifting Gill on to it. We lowered our heads walking by in respect. We may not have liked him, but he was part of the team for a little bit. There was a cannon that sounded making my eyes widen, it couldn't be Peeta. I took off running to the Cornucopia. It took about ten minutes until we were back at camp and I saw Marvel and Peeta sitting in the Cornucopia talking.

"Peeta you're ok," I said running to him.

"Yeah I'm fine, the guy from 10 got hungry and came here looking for food, when he saw you guys leave. Marvel killed him so everything's fine," he said smiling up at me.

"Where's Glimmer and Gill?" Marvel asked.

**Peeta's POV**

Cato and Clove sat with us and explained everything to us. I nodded understanding, he was upset because he didn't get Katniss for me, but I'm glad he's alive. I started counting everyone still left in my head. There's the four of us, Katniss, the two from 11 and the girl from 5. Eight of us and this is all over.

After they came and got the guy from 10's body we went over to our main camp. We were sitting around the fire when the anthem played and showed everyone's faces. Then trumpets started playing, which confused us all by looking at each other.

"There has been a change to the rules. There can be any number of victors if they are all of the same species. That is all and may the odds be ever in your favor," Seneca Crane said.

I was thinking it through so that would mean the shape shifters could win or all of the vampires could. I sighed and looked at Cato. His eyes were pitch black looking at me. His fangs slowly elongated over his bottom lips.

"Uhh Cato," I said scooting closer to Marvel.

"CATO NO!" Clove yelled as Cato lunged for me.