Lyla Alby's POV-D6
I awoke in Gossan's comforting grip, I opened my eyes and the light blinded me. "Ghaw." I said covering my face. Gossan opened his eyes and tightened his grip on me. "Who was supposed to be keeping watch again?" He just shrugged and got up from the small cove we had drifted off in.
"So, are we going to find us some lizards?" he asked me. I knew it was the best way to win but I just couldn't find justice in it.
"Um, do you really think its ok to kill like that?" I felt my voice crack on the word 'kill'.
"Smartest; that's for sure. Besides, that dude from 12 died yesterday around midday. We don't have much time before the audience gets bored." I had thought about that, but I was hoping something else would happen before that.
"Well, I was thinking something else might happen soon." He raised his eyebrows. "Like a death or a plan."
"A plan, right, and who do you think has one of those?" He hugged me and I smiled at him.
"We do." I knew he could help me, and would if I asked. "Let's head to the desert.
Blaise Calder's POV-D10
My knee had been ok, but with a twinge of pain, although it was starting to flare up again. Hush convinced me to walk through the night. "Hush could we please rest now?" I guess she heard the pain in my voice because she turned with concern on her face. She pointed to my knee and I nodded. There wasn't any water around this time, Hush looked around unsure of what I needed. "It's ok. I think I just need to rest." We stopped under a large tree and I sat down.
She knelt behind me and fumbled with the latch on my pack. She pulled out a sheet of plastic and broke some branches off the tree. I extended my leg with a grimace and she pulled off my boot and rolled up my pants. She went quickly to work on fashioning an expert splint.
When she was done, we had been sitting for almost 20minutes and I deemed my knee usable. I stood to find the strength of her splint was extraordinary. My mouth popped open and I looked to her. She smiled and I was a little confused by the lack of a giggle; until I realized she couldn't giggle.
I instantly felt horrible for thinking about her in a disabled way. "I'm sorry Hush." I said out loud forgetting she hadn't heard the thought. She raised an eyebrow, then pressed a finger to my lips and waved me forward.
Cin Reese's POV-D5
I had walked all of the day before and most of today. I stopped and decided to make lunch. I made it into a slender tree and retrieved some moss from the trunk. I nibbled on it for a while and finally broke open my banana. I ate it and found my throat burning. My next goal would be to find water.
I got back to the ground and decided to keep moving in the same direction. I jogged for around an hour before following a slope in hopes of water. After several minutes, the ground flattened out, and I was a little disappointed. I jogged a little more and ran almost straight into the little girl from 3.
Crystal Coriander's POV-D2
"Toss me an apple, Mica." I said in general. I heard something fly by my left ear and jerked my hand up to catch my cherry red apple. We came back to camp for lunch, well we weren't planning on it, but Silver was complaining so we decided to come drop her off. If she kept that wining up; the pack would be losing a member. I felt a wicked smile creep onto my lips, but it was wiped away when Cameron entered my mind.
The thought, the pain was so sudden and immediate I choked on some apple. I spit it out and threw the rest into the woods. He was just some silly boy from 12. Victors don't morn the dead. I had to replay that in my head repeatedly while everyone else exchanged harmless chatter.
Eventually I calmed down and grabbed both my spears and some jerky for my pack. I threw one into a near-by tree. I retrieved it and joined the conversation.
"So, who's staying behind?" Caden asked.
"Silver!" Perry and Mica chorused. Mica started laughing and Perry gave him a look.
"Why me?" She shrieked.
"Oh yeah little miss 'my back is killing me!' I don't think so." I joined in friendlily.
"But, I, ugh!" She screamed at us, and went to sit in a tree she had come to favor.
"I'll stay to protect you, Silver." Caden called after her.
"We should get moving. My spears are getting twitchy!" I yelled because Cameron was starting to seep back into my thoughts, and I wanted to get moving. Everyone started packing up so I through my pack on and started towards the woods. I knew Silver followed first, closely followed by the others.
Kiera Matriss' POV-D8
Flora shoved me forward again as we walked along a stream in the woods. I kept tripping on rocks, and my stomach was knotted with hunger. Flora always made me stay up, and she took most of the food and water.
"Flora, I'm hungry…" I began.
"Interesting, I'm not, hurry up." She shoved me again and I fell into the stream. I can tell be the thud that echoes through my head, I've broken a few ribs. I climb to my feet with tears in my eyes. "You ok?" I shake my head and she disappears into the brush for a few minutes before handing me some yellowish leaves and a handful of berries.
"Are these safe?" I manage to choke out, gripping my middle. She looks at me with a surprised expression.
"You think I would poison you, my little ally?" She says drawing very close to my face.
"Um, n-n-no, cause we're allies."
"That's right. Now eat, it will help." I popped a berry in my mouth. It tasted sweet, and similar to a dish I had in the capitol. "Eat the herbs." I put some leaves in my mouth and quickly chased them with berries because they tasted like blood.
No sooner had I swallowed the leaves, the pain in my ribs diminished to an ache. "That's lovely!" I exclaimed. Flora gave me a look questioning why I was surprised. "Sorry." She shrugged and I got up to follow her as she walked through the trees.
We continued forward for awhile, then we stopped and Flora gave me a few swallows of water. I put the bottle back in the pack just as Flora was scrambling up a tree, and hissing for me to follow. I did my best but I couldn't manage. The lowest branch on this tree was about 5ft. up; I ended up falling resulting in the pain returning to my ribs.
"Just pass up the pack!" She hissed at me. I pulled it from my back and tossed it into the tree. She must've caught it because it disappeared.
"Flora, what's wrong? Can I have more of those herbs?" I never found out if she ever planned on answering or if she was just cut off by the brutish boy from district 2 breaking through the trees. His eyes locked with mine, he smiled, and I heard someone screaming. It took me a good couple minutes to realize it was me.
"Oh look what I found. It's little district 8. Your partners out of it already. Guess your district won't have a victor this year." His smile grew and the rest of the careers appeared.
"Flora! Flora! Help me!" I screamed looking to the tree; her brown eyes are all I see of her before she melts into the trees. "Nooo!" I screamed as I felt them descend on me. The district 2 boy quickly jammed his sword into my chest. He withdrew his weapon and left in a chatter with the careers.
I could feel the life flowing out of me in the form of blood. I traced the wound with my hands. "I'm sorry." I cried out feebly. My vision was getting all blurry, "I'm sorry I failed you district 8!" I screamed and laid my head on the ground. I closed my eyes and fell into a deep slumber.
Fredalina Hefley's POV- D9
I jerked my head to the side as I hear the cannon. I crept back to the trunk of my tree. I pulled off more bark and used my teeth to get some of the softer inside out. I chewed on it and spit it out. I refused to put bark down my throat. I slithered down the trunk to the ground; I gulped water from the stream. I found some roots and swallowed some of them.
When I heard her coming I slid back into my tree and rested into a crook of branches. The girl from district 12 walked into view. I knew what she was doing; she was there to meet that career boy. This lake had been mine since day 1. She climbs another tree and I melt into the branches. I noticed she had a black device; a weapon. A weapon I wanted.
He comes into view and she's down from her tree to greet him. He spins her around and they play in the water for a while. He handed her an apple, then gave her a kiss on the cheek, then disappeared into the woods.
An idea blooms in my head, and I follow him through the trees. I crawl from tree to tree where the branches touch. When the trees start to thin out I know we are nearing the camp. I was forced to stop, because I knew I'd fall if I tried to jump.
The genius I followed here jogs into the field, reporting he couldn't find any. At least now, I know where I need to stay if I'm too control Perry.
Gossan Kissite's POV-D11
"Lyla? Are you sure you don't want to be carried?" I turn to her again; she is breathing pretty heavy, and has stripped down to her undershirt.
"No. No, I'm fine. This is good; the lizards like heat." We were entering the desert zone, and we didn't have any water left. I walk behind her and lift her up. "No, I can walk really." She was asleep in seconds. I kept walking, and daydreamed about Lyla.
I was lost in thought, when I was suddenly knee deep in warm mud. The result was Lyla and I tumbling to the ground. She screamed and went rolling across the sand. She rolled and was tugging on my arm before I could ask if she was alright.
"It's ok, it's just aaarghgh!" A deep stabbing in my ankle, I felt cool, fire flood my leg, and the word venom came to mind.
"Nooo! It's the lizards! Are you alright?" I honestly don't know where I got the strength to wretch my leg from that hole, but as soon as I did, I collapsed.
My vision faded out around her face, she was yelling something and crying, but all I saw were her beautiful dark sea green eyes. She looked electrifying; I blew her a kiss before my world swirled into red and black.
Boom!
I'm honestly sad Gossan died, I was hoping he would make it to the final 8. Well that's the hunger games. Sorry this took forever. I've actually had almost all of it done for a while, I guess I was stalling writing Gossan's death. Sorry again!
Points- if I messed them up I'm really sorry but I lost my record.
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