Showdown
BU-BUMP! BU-BUMP! BU-BUMP!
I started breathing heavily as my heart threatened to escaped my chest with all the excitement. I knew in my heart that Katniss would be ok. She would save Peeta, in turn, Peeta would save her. The star crossed lovers would make it further in the games.
The other Gamemakers were equally enthralled in the excitement.
Walking into the Calamity room, I layed my hand on a blue analyzer and wiggled my fingers fast. A hard, perpetual rain poured onto the arena.
Walking back out, I decided to watch the unpredictable variables. Thresh and Cato.
On the Career's screen, Cato was entering a knew world. As he entered it, he stopped. I smiled. He had just realize the Golden Wheat was more than just a field of wheat, it was a maze! And inside some of the wheat were Beatians, deadly bugs, and other controllable mutts like the Bearbore. Thats the price you pay for all you can eat wheat.
Cato grimaced. Thresh knew his way through the maze. I turned to watch him.
Thresh bounced pass areas of wheat he knew were filled with dangers and crossed over inside a small hut fashioned of wheat near the lake that he had built earlier, after the Bearbore attack. There he stayed, watching his Feast prize, a heat detection pad to see his predators.
That night, I watched as Cato slept on the field, in the hard rain, not willing to risk the Wheat maze. I fell asleep in my hard chair.
The next day, I watched mystified as Cato did something strange. All day, Cato would go into the woods and collect long branches, laying them connected in piles into the wheat. He also had to rocks that he was practicing banging together. All in the downpour that soaked him to the night, I fell asleep early.
The next day, I was bored of Cato, and so I turned back to Thresh. He was sneaking through the maze until he reached a dead end. Then, to my surprise, he jumped into the wheat, stabbed a Beattion and ran back to his hut. He raised the dead bug high above his head and squeazed the green juice into his mouth , gulping greedily. Sustained, he took a nap. Suddenly, his heat detector screamed. He looked at it puzzled, it appeared as if Cato was everywhere. Thats when the he stepped out of the dripping hut and into a world of flames.
Ahhh...So Cato had been doing that. Building a stick pile leading through the maze. Igniting one sick would slowly ignite the rest, until the whole maze was on fire, even in the hard rain.
Throwing the heat detector to the ground, Thresh ran. He jumped safely into the woods, any fire slowly dying out, but completely burning out the dangers. Soaked, later on, Thresh walked out. The maze was gone, all the wheat now a pile of ash, scorched earth. He could see all the way up through the Cornucopia and yelled. Through the rain, he saw Cato bounding towards him, his sword slicing lethally through the air.
Thresh ran back to the dark remains of his hut and picked up his scorched black axe. Turning, he ran right at Cato.
CULAANG!
Sparks sprang through the rain as axe and sword collide. They fought diligently until Cato rammed the hilt of his sword into Thresh's gut. Grunting, Thresh crashed into the scorched ground, his axe flying into a pile of ash. Thresh was able to turn over just as a wailing Cato drove his sword into the ground Thresh had just occupied.
Springing to his feet, Cato stabbed out, his sword driving into Threshs thick calve. Shrieking, Thresh swung a fist right into Cato's face. Cato flew off his feet, slamming down to the ground. Running over, Thresh grabbed his axe and raised it high over Cato.
Whoosh! The dart came out of nowhere.
Tip purple with poison, it drove into Thresh's neck. Instantly his eyes rolled back into his head and he collapsed. I slammed down on the Cannon.
BOOM!
Smiling, I remembered the small device with the food in District 5's bag. It was poison darts and a spitter.
Cato used his chance to run over to his Pack in Thresh's burnt hut and put on the Armour just as another dart slew down. It bounced off the Armour. To more bounced off as well.
I turned to District 5's screen. Out of ammo, Mindy Crawford was now running away from the scene.
Smiling, Cato walked off, impenetrable, into the rain.
I walked in to the Calamity Room and flipped a switch by the blue analyzer. The rain immediately stopped.
We had arrived at the Final 4.