Chapter fifteen peoples! YEAHYA!

Disclaimer: DOES IT SOUND LIKE I OWN THG OR MR? hehe ^_^

Oh and FYI im going to call the string on her bow a cord from now on… hehe.

I could see the Cornucopia, it's surface was reflecting the sun, which almost blinded me as I raced to grab an orange bag, and a bow with a quiver. I had the bow in my hands and was running for the orange bag when I heard a scream about ten feet away from me, I watched in horror as Sapphire Raremity stabbed the girl from three in the heart, and a cannon exploded somewhere in the distance. Sapphire turned, smiled at me, and held up the dagger, "You're next!" She screamed and ran towards me. I ran as fast as I could, I ran into the woods, with Sapphire right behind me. The only thing I could think about was… finding Miri and Dawn, I had to find them.

For a second I thought about my wings, but that thought was quickly forgotten because something stupid inside of me made me stop and turn around with my bow loaded.

"Stop," I yelled at Sapphire as she kidded on the dirt to stop.

"Sapphire I just want to talk," I said.

"Of course," She put her dagger away.

"Why do you want to kill me so badly?" I asked.

"Oh Dessity… I don't want to kill you anymore… at least not right now," Dessity smiled.

"W – what?" I asked.

She turned around, "I've changed my mind – I want to safe the best kill for last… until then Dessity."

I stood their stunned, a career – Sapphire, had just walked away and let me live, when only a few minutes before she had wanted me dead. I gave a sigh of relief.

"Now, I have to find Miri…" I said as I slowly opened my wings and started to flap.

Once I was over the treetops I looked over at the cornucopia, I could just make out Sapphire's form as she killed the boy from four with another Career, they high fived each other when the cannon went off.

I shivered and flew over the trees in search of Miri or Dawn, I was getting dark really fast, and I had no choice but to hunker down on a tree branch for the night. The day had gone by really fast, it had only felt like twenty minutes, but who knows what the game makers have in mind. I sighed and picked up the orange bag and started to look through it, there was a dagger, a water bottle, a sleeping bag all rolled up, and a packet of beef jerky.

"Yum…" I groaned as I stuffed the beef jerky back into the bag.

I started to close my eyes when the anthem started to play, I looked up, I could see the pictures of the kids that were killed, the boy from four, and the girl from three, the boy from eleven and the guy from nine, four kids. Dead.

I gave a shaky breath and closed my eyes again, I knew even before I slipped into a restless sleep that that would not be an easy night.

(Later)

A cannon shot off and I jumped awake – another dead. I looked around, it still looked kind of dark, but I decided to go ahead and keep looking for Miri and Dawn. I gathered up my belongings and jumped down from the tree, I would be searching on foot. I heard a bird squawk somewhere in the distance as I started walking, I didn't know where I was going, but I was going.

I had been walking for some time when I heard screaming just in front of me, I quickly flew into a tree. In front of me stood the girl from eight and the boy from two, the girl was standing over the motionless body of the boy from eight, she looked so pale and afraid. The boy from two had a long dagger in his hand and he was pointing it at the girl.

"Please!" the girl cried.

The boy smiled, "Don't try the magic word, it doesn't work."

She cried, "Please – I – I –"

The boy lunged at her, and just as he was about to cut her throat I yelled, "Don't!"

He turned around, "Ah… bird girl."

I got my bow ready, "Walk away Two, just walk away."

He laughed, "My name is Janan, and I won't be walking away until you both are dead."

He turned around, grabbed the girl and brought his hand back, getting ready to stab her, "Don't!" I screamed, "I'll shoot!"

"Why do you care?" He yelled, "It will just make the game easier for the both of us!"

I pulled back the cord on my bow, "Back. Off."

He scowled, "No," he slashed his dagger at the girl's arm, making a large gash, she screamed and fell to her knees.

I let the cord slip past my fingers, it shot like a rocket and implanted itself in Janan's chest, he let out a cry a pain and fell down motionless. A cannon went off, I had killed someone.

"Some career you are…" I said shakily under my breath as I lowered my bow.

"Help…" the girl whimpered.

I turned towards her and jumped down from the tree, "Are you ok?" I asked looking at her arm.

The girl looked up at me with tears in her eyes, "I'm going to die!"

I put my arm around her and helped her up, "No… no, you'll be fine, don't worry, we'll find help, what's your name?"

"I – I'm Twilight, I'm f- fifteen."

I looked at her arm again, it was covered in blood, "Let's get that cleaned up first," I said.

She nodded, "T – there's a s – stream over there," She pointed left.

I nodded and we started to hobble over there.

At the stream I grabbed some moss, dunked it into the water, and started to clean the wound, after I was done I ran back to Janan's dead body, ripped off a section of fabric from his shirt, put the moss onto the wound and tied the fabric around her arm so that it would stay.

"Let's get going," I said to Twilight.

(Later)

"Dessity… I don't think I – I can go any longer…" Twilight whispered.

It was night again and the temperature was dropping, Twilight was shivering and turning pasty white, and we hadn't seen Miri anywhere.

I looked at Twilight, she looked exhausted, "Ok."

Twilight collapsed on the ground, I sighed and helped her stand up again, "We sleep in trees, it's safer."

Twilight moaned, "Don't worry, "I groaned, "I'll carry you up there."

Twilight nodded, I stretched out my wings and picked her up, she weighed like sixty pounds, I took a shaky breath and started flapping. Once I got up to a big branch a set twilight down on it, then I took out the sleeping bag and covered her up with it, "Sweet dreams, " I joked.

She laughed softly, "Y – you too."

I settle down onto the branch that was over Twilight, I looked up at the sky, five seconds later the anthem started to play and it showed the pictures of the people who had died that day. Janan Cors from Two, whom I had killed, and the kid from eight whose name was Maren Leigh, I heard Twilight sniffle under me. I tried not to cry either, my stomach was twisted in a knot ever since my arrow hit Janan in the back, I felt like I could have a mental breakdown, but I held it together.

I closed my eyes and prayed that I wouldn't have nightmares about Janan, I shivered, I had really killed someone. I knew that I would always remember the second day of the Huger Games, because that was the day that I became a murderer.

CRACK!

I heard Twilight gasp, "Dessity w – what – "

I bolted upright and loaded my bow, "Who's there?" I called.

"Dessity – is that you?" I heard a familiar voice.

"Miri?" I cried.

I heard a laugh, "Yeah, it's Miri."

I opened my wings and glided down from the tree, I could see Miri along with a few other tributes, and they looked cold and tired. I ran and hugged her, I have to say, if you could have a best friend in the Hunger Games, she had to be my best friend.

"I'm so happy that you're alive!" I gave a sigh of relief.

She laughed again, "A cannon would have gone off and my face would have been portrayed in the sky for the whole arena to see if I were dead," she set down her backpack.

I turned and looked at all of the other tributes, "Who do you have with you?" I asked.

"Diana Jane from Five, Dawn, Aden Hills from Twelve, and… um…" Miri looked down as she pointed to another figure.

"Hello Dessity," James said quietly.

I glared at Miri and then looked up at Twilight, "Anyway… this is Twilight from Eight, Janan Cors from Nine killed the boy from Eight, and Janan was about to kill Twilight, but I got him with one of my arrows – "

"You killed someone?" Dawn gasped.

I looked down and nodded, "Yes… but let me get to the point, Twilight is wounded, Janan gave her a nice long gash in the arm."

"Do you want to set camp up here?" James asked.

Miri ignored him, "Get her down here, I want to see that wound."

I nodded and flew up to where Twilight was, "I'm going to move you."

"I can't – I – I –" Twilight whimpered.

I gently picked her up, she moaned and grabbed her wounded arm, and I flew back down to the ground and set her on a bed of leaves. Miri quickly got to work, she undid the little moss bandage I had made and inspected the wound, she was still bleeding a little bit, but not as much as she was when the wound was fresh.

"She's losing a lot of blood, which is really bad because she doesn't have enough blood to start off with…" Miri said as she scraped some moss off of a log and pressed it down on the wound.

Twilight wailed… and then there was silence, "What did you do?" I demanded.

"I don't know – I tried to stop the blood flow – "A cannon fired.

I covered my face with my hands, "I didn't want her to die… she was so helpless," it felt weird to call her helpless due to the fact that Twilight had been a year older than me, but she was sickly

James reached out to me and I started to push him away, but then the words whispered in my head star crossed lovers… I stiffly accepted his comfort. James wrapped his arms around me and kissed the top of my head, I could feel myself softening up, so I pulled away, "Let's set up camp."

"We can't…" Miri said softly.

"Why not?" I asked.

"Because the hovercraft will come soon and pick up Twilight's body," Miri replied.

I nodded, "Fine."

"Want to do the honors of leading us, Dessity?" Miri joked.

I shook my head, "I think I'll be following behind, I'm a bit tired."

Miri nodded, "I'm sorry about Twilight – "

"It's fine, I didn't even know her, I just thought I would be nice and try to help her live because she was so sick."

"You're a good person Dess," James took my hand.

I rolled my eyes and slowly pulled my hand away, but the weird is… somewhere deep down inside me wanted to hold his hand again.

"Let's get a move on… uh… team," Miri put a thumbs up.

Diana Jane laughed and Aden flashed a smiled my way, James grabbed my arm, "Why don't we linger in the back, I want to talk to you."

I thought I heard a DUN DUN DUUUNNNNN somewhere… or maybe that was just me, but I nodded, James walked alongside me.

"First things first Dess, why don't you… why don't you love me anymore?" His voice broke.

I broke, "James I can't, I'll soften up and if I do – I can't die – I promised Rosie and my mom and –"

"So you do love me?"

I choked back tears and stood up straight, "James… I can't afford to think like that, I'll get myself killed," and then I walked away.

As I walked further ahead I felt tears rolling down my cheeks, that was the hardest thing to do, James was everything to me, my best friend, and I pushed him away. I had to, or I would die.

"We'll camp here tonight," Miri said.

I nodded and got my sleeping bag out, I crawled inside with my bow still in my hands, before I went to sleep I looked over at James, who was staring expressionless into the sky. What was I going to do?

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