I curse, and slash the blade across the District 12 girl's throat. No time to savor it. As I stand, a cannon fires. The fire has gone out, and I smile. The District 11 boy pauses for a moment, and looks at the girl I just killed. I take the opportunity to throw the curved bloody knife at him. He smashes it into the ground with a rock.
The large boy continues at me, and swings the stone down at my head. I side step out of the way. The stone leaves a dent in the ground where it struck. He swings the stone horizontally at me, and I jump back, pulling a long knife from my jacket. "Clove? CLOVE!" Cato has seen me fighting with District 11.
"You killed her just like you killed that little girl?" District 11 demands. He comes at me again with the rock, and I step out of the way once again.
"Yes, I killed them both. Rue screamed a lot more, though." I lie with a smile. Marvel had killed Rue, but I always enjoy taunting my opponents.
"I'll kill you! I'll kill you!" screams District 11. I throw my head back and laugh. Cato is close now, sword in hand. District 11 sees him, and turns around, heading for his wheat field. First one, then a second of my knives, sink into his back, but he keeps running.
"Cato, lets leave him for now. I need to tend to my wound, and he isn't going to get far with those knives in his back." I say. I look down at my left arm. Yes, there is a lot of blood, and the wound went all the way through my arm. Cato agrees, and goes to our large first aid kit. It is one of the things that have survived the explosion, because District 3 had had it with him.
Cato pulls out some medicated cream, two gauze pads, and one long roll of sterile, white bandage. While he works on my arm, I look at District 12's body. "Should we take that bow and the arrows?" I ask.
"Yeah, we can check her for supplies in a few. And get all the backpacks." After a few minutes Cato is done, and we head over to District 12. I pull the small orange bag off of her arm. It contains a syringe of medicine, like I had expected. I put it into the first aid kit. Cato takes the bow and pulled the quiver of arrows off of her back, and places both on a small pile of extra weapons. Next, I pull a long serrated knife from her belt.
I realize this knife was the same one I had thrown at her on the first day. I chuckle a little, and slide the knife into my jacket. Cato takes her water skin and a bit of food. "Come on; let's let the hovercraft take her away before she starts stinking." I say. We take all of our water skins, and go to fill them up at the lake.
The hovercraft appears, and she is gone. Next we go to the table. "What happened to 5?" asks Cato.
"She was hiding in the Cornucopia, and when the table came out she dashed out quickly and grabbed hers." I say. Our backpack contains body armor for Cato, and nothing for me. District 11 holds a thermal sleeping bag, which will be Cato's since I already have one. Cato strips down and puts on the body armor.
Just then, the cannon fires.