Hey guys,

This is chapter 4, so enjoy!

Sorry for not posting in a while been on a holiday.

Also please excuse spelling mistakes!

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They go south because it's the way they know the Careers aren't heading but Lana did say she say people there, So they have to be careful. Rowan and Barker walk until they hear a cannon maybe half an hour later, the careers found someone, 10 left on the 4th day. These games are going slow, the game makers would usually do something to that by now. Out of nowhere a squirrel ran down the tree and stopped basically in front of them staring around. Slowly she takes a small knife from the pouch hanging from her belt and throws it hitting the squirrel hitting it in the eye, like she does every time. She has perfected that.

"Nice." He says.

"I got our food a lot back home." She explains, picking up the now dead squirrel, she uses Barkers big knife to skin the squirrel and as the sun sets they quickly cook it before moving on and finding a tree, Watching the person the Careers killed. The girl from 12.

They wake before dawn again, on the 5th day, and continue traveling south. They have been trekking for about 2 hours when they hear a stick break behind them. A girl stands there looking terrified holding up a small knife. She look about 14. Rowan holds her tomahawk higher as Barker holds his knife. She is pale and crying. She sits on the ground.

"Please, kill me, please. I came here because I don't want the careers to kill me, I want a less gruesome death. Please kill me." The girl sobs, Looking to the ground. Rowan looks to barker. He looks unsure.

"What's your name." Rowan asks her. She looks up at them.

"Dina. District 5." She says. (A/N I pictured her to look like Ciara Bravo)

"You should stand up." Rowan tells her. She does.

"I'm not gonna kill you." Rowan says. They begin to walk away.

"Please, let me come with you." She blurts out, They turn around.

"I don't eat much, I could carry you bags for you or keep guard. I am also quite fast, and quiet. And Smart." Dina says. Rowan and Barker exchange a look.

"Fine." Barker says.

"For now you can tag along, but when we go our separate ways, you do too. Got it." He says. She nods. And they all walk together. She has a small backpack.

"What do you have in your backpack." Rowan ask.

"Rope, water, berries and edible plants I found, along with 3 rabbit I killed yesterday. They are cooked, Oh and a first aid kit." The girl says.

"Ok how did u kill the rabbit." Rowan asks. Dina holds up her small knife. They are smaller than the ones Rowans has so she hands her three throwing knives.

"Thank you." Dina says. Rowan nods. Barker and Rowan get to know Dina, she has 2 younger sisters. And they learn more about District 5.

They walk for a couple of hours more when they hear shouting.

"Someones coming." Dina says.

"Can you climb trees." Rowan asks her. Dina nods. They climb up a high tree that should hide them well and the Careers run straight past them.

"I swear I saw someone." The one with the voice Rowan recognises as Paris says. This time she can see them she has platinum blonde hair that is pulled into a messy braid and blue eyes, and round face, she is pretty. She has a bow and arrow over her shoulder. (A/N Pictured her as Aspyn Ovard the youtuber)

"I saw them too, there were three." The girl called Lana says. She is a bit shorter than Paris and is quite tan with brown eyes and hair. She had a big axe. (A/N Pictured as Bethany Mota, another youtuber)

"Well, we need to find them then." Ashlar says. He is the tallest and muscliest out off them. He had blonde hair and blue eyes and looked vicious. He was holding a sword. (A/N Pictured as Lucas Till)

"Nemo?" Price said. He was a bit shorter than Ashlar and more lean but still strong, he had light brown hair. (A/N Pictured as Josh Hutcherson aka Bae)

"Yes?" The guy I assume is Nemo says. He is much shorter and no where near as muscular. He looks tan and a lot like the average District 4 boy. (A/N Pictured as Billy Unger)

"Stay here and stay guard." He nods and sits on a log in front of them, his back to their tree. Rowan could easily throw her axe into his back the same way his district partner died.

They all split up trying to search out the area, Rowan looks to Barker and Dina. They both look scared. The Careers have all split up and are quite far from the boy from 4, but the cannon would surely get their attention. Rowan ponders the consequences, If they don't kill him the careers will look up and see them straight away. If they kill the district 4 boy, it's another person who haunts them in their sleep, plus the cannon would attract the careers back. None of the careers went west. They could kill him and dash off that way unnoticed. But it was risky. Mind set she turned to the other two who were thinking the same thing. She held her tomahawk and threw in towards the boy hitting in the back. He fell forward without a sound as they climbed now the cannon sounded. She retrieved her tomahawk as they heard shouting of the careers. They sprinted off west. They heard footsteps behind them and a scream. She looked over her shoulder and saw Dina fall to the ground arrow in her back. They ran faster until they heard nothing behind them. Barker fell to the ground. She saw he had a small knife in the back of his shoulder. He groaned in pain, No one was following them now. But they lost Dina.

"Is it bad." He says.

"You have a knife in your shoulder, but we can treat it, we have a first aid kit." She said. He nodded. They walked a little further until they found a shallow cave by the mountain. She opened the first aid kit.

"I have to take the knife out." She tells him. He nods. She pulls it out and he groans in pain again. She helps him take off his jumper, and his shirt so she can get a better look at it. When they had to wash in the river was the first time she saw him without a shirt on, but she tried not to look at him. She saw him constantly looking at her. But in his mind she looked so perfect he couldn't help himself. But since then was the first time she actually got to observe his back muscles because he was faced away from her. His wound was deep and bleeding, oozing with pus a lot different from her cut on her leg, this one was deep and definitely went in muscle. She started by washing her hand with some water and used antiseptic wipes and cleaned it as much as she could. The pus had stopped but it was still quite heavily bleeding. She used a bandage around his shoulder. She knew it would get infected, in the games if you get a wound like that you will die from infection everyone does.

"We lost Dina." He says. She nodded even though it wasn't a question.

"I didn't see it happen but I heard her scream." He says.

"Arrow in the back." She tells him. He nods. She sits down next to him her head on his good shoulder.

"She wouldn't want us to dwell over her passing. Let's eat." He expresses. She nods. They eat some of Dina's rabbit that she gave them as they look up at the sky when the names appear. The boy from district 4 (Nemo) and Dina appear. Just hours ago Dina and Rowan were walking together and making jokes, but now she is dead. Now there is only 8.