"Let The 75th Hunger Games begin!" Says Claudius Templesmith, and I position myself to run. Something cool runs over toes. I slam back against the cylinder and my eyes dart down.

Water. WATER? My gaze slowly goes up and surrounding the Cornucopia is saltwater. I'm still wondering if there's any dangers in it when the gong rings. Katniss Everdeen dives in immediatly followed by Finnick, of course.

He looks up at me as he's swimming towards the Cornucopia, confused. He knows I can swim, and I know I can, too. But obviously Katniss didn't think about whether or not there were threats in the water. I look down and bite my lip.

I'm not scared, but I still stand there for a few minutes and look around the waters. I can't seem to see anything under them, which isn't something I enjoy.

Then I dive in headfirst and spin around underwater. I force my eyes open and they sting, but I look around and there seems to be nothing that would possibly eat me alive, so I push myself back up to the surface and swim all the way to the Cornucopia.

When I get to the Cornucopia, I swing my head from side to side rapidly, looking for Beetee. And Wiress, because Beetee won't leave Wiress. And Blight, because I can't leave him. As his district partner, it's my duty to protect him.

I rummage through the supplies. Suddenly I hear something coming whizzing at me, and I immediatly slam into the ground in an attempt to save my life. I lie on my back and watch the knife go slicing through the air above my head.

The attempted murder was performed by Enobaria, that freak with the fangs from District Two. Of course she hates me, I broke her fellow mentor and buddy's nose. Brutus.

I manage to grab a backpack before I notice Beetee, struggling to stay afloat using his belt. What could it be? Some kind of floating device. I jump in and grab his hand in mine, dragging him to the Cornucopia.

He looks slightly confused. "We're allies, okay?" I say.

He doesn't say anything, so I continue. "If you say we're not, I can kill you right now. And I promise I will. Just one less competitor." I shrug, and pick up the wire he was supposed to get. "So, are we allies?"

Beetee, of course, twitches. Oh, Nuts. Who I nicknamed 4 years ago. I turn around, looking for Wiress and Blight, and right when I think I see them, I hear the sound of an impact. Beetee just got knifed in the back. It's not fatal.

"Oh, great." I walk over and pull it out, which causes him to wince and cough up a bit of blood.

Blight runs up, followed by Wiress.

"You can swim?" I ask.

"No," Blight breathes. "Wiress and Beetee both found out these belts can be used to stay afloat. Wiress showed me how."

"Okay, fine. Now let's get the hell out of here!" I say, and sling my backpack over my shoulder. Wiress isn't fast, so I grab her hand and lead her on, heading in a random direction.

"Could you update us?" Blight asks.

"Enobaria hasn't given up on her life. This one-" I point to Beetee with my head "-let himself get knifed in the back." I let the annoyance in my voice show.

"He let himself?" Wiress asks.

"No, I did not, Johanna. I couldn't hear it coming towards me. By the time I did, it was much to close and was going at such a high speed, I couldn't manage to swerve out of the way."

"Fine," I say, as he sort of has a point.

As we're running farther from the Cornucopia, I'm moving everybody along when suddenly I hear Beetee scream, "Stop!"

We all turn. "What?" I ask.

"It's a force field..."Says Wiress.

"It's probably pretty powerful," Beetee continues his explanation. "I can see it because right there you see a ripple in it. If you run into it, it is very likely to cause severe injury or death."

"Okay, good to know. Thanks Beetee," I say with a bit of sarcasm.

We run along deeper into the rain forest. "Wiress, Beetee, can you climb trees?" I ask, as if everyone should be able to.

"No," They say at the same time. I put my hand on my hip and roll my eyes.

"Okay, then I'll climb it and you can follow me."

"How?" They ask, again in unison.

"How can you not? It isn't hard!"

They both manage to do it, and we lay there through the night. We're all very thirsty, and after watching the deaths of those I know, I'm not in any mood to be messed with by the others. And they know that fully well, so they went right to sleep. Or at least pretended to.

A flash of lightning makes my eyes fly open. I moan and flip over, throat feeling as if its on fire with thirst.

Rain begins to fall. Great, I think. Just what I need!

Suddenly I jump up, and yes! Rain is falling! "Wiress! Beetee! Blight! Wake up! There's rain! Rain!"

They're all up immediatly. We open our mouths and let the rain flow into it. I'm about to swallow it when suddenly I have the same reaction as those around me. I look at them and we exchange a glance with eyes wide open.

This is no rain. I spew it out. "Blood!" I cry. "Let's get out of here!" All four of us start smashing through branches randomly, tripping on creepers that crawl up our mind is still on that thick, hot blood, wondering where it came from.

It's so dark. "Wiress?" I call.

"Here!" She squeeks.

"Beetee?"

"Yes," He chokes out.

"Blight?"

No answer.

"Blight?" I suddenly stop and spin around, only to notice him running wildly towards the force field.

"Oh my god!" I tear through the forest at full speed. "Blight!" I screech, even though I doubt he'll hear me through the blood thats flowing down on my skin. "Stop! Blight! Stop!" Branches slice open cuts all up my arms and logs threaten to re-sprain my ankle, but I hurl over all of them managably.

He's so, so close to the force field. My arms are flying around insanly at my speed. "BLIGHT, STOP!" I scream at the top of my lungs.

I'm just crashing through the clearing when he stumbles forward, hits the force field full-force and bounces back, covered all over in blood. I don't know if it's from the rain or the force field, but it looks like its from the force field. I push my bloody hair out of my face and pounce towards him.

"Blight, come on! Don't go!" I fumble around to pull up his sleeve and press my fingers against his wrist, ready to repeat what happened to my family. "Blight, your not dead yet!" I cry. I can barely hear a pulse, and instead of acting in a humane manner, I shake him widly, hoping he'll just wake up.

His cannon fires.

My breathes are short, I'm scarred right now. But I don't dare cry. That's not really what I do.

One more. One more person I let die. I'll add that to my list of dozens and dozens of people, starting in the arena, then my family, and the people around town who commit suicide. Amarack was a really popular person.

I lay in a bloody mess for a couple seconds before hearing some high-pitched call from a bird, a mockingjay, and knowing the hovercraft must be coming.

"Goodbye," I whisper, and run off to find Wiress and Beetee again, not daring to even look back.