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Jo heard something behind her and was suddenly alarmed, "Who's there? I will find out one way or another!" She held her spear in front of her, the direction of where the person is. He comes out of hiding and Jo immediately gasps, it's Gabe. She throws her spear to the side and goes to hug him, a huge smile on her face. She almost reaches him and he vanishes before she gets there. Tears of frustration well up in her eyes and she screams. A mutt comes up from the ground and jumps on her…
Jo wakes up, sweat running down her forehead and a spear in her hand. She looks around to see Ray and Fletcher sleeping while Cece is on watch. "It's okay Cece, I can take it from here." Cece turns her head and narrows her eyes at the little girl, "No, I've got it. If the All-Stars come along then I want to be the one to kill Chyna." Jo shook her head; Cece was full on getting revenge from the little girl. "Well, I can't sleep and you need sleep so I thought we could swap." Cece pats the spot next to her, motioning Jo to sit next to her. When she does, Cece starts talking, "What's the deal with this Gabe guy? Is he like your boyfriend?" She says with a smirk. Jo rolls her eyes and replies, "No, actually we had a really complicated relationship. He knew me better than any person in the world but you threw us in the same room for 30 seconds and there would be a fight. He was really sweet and caring, you know he had a two year old sister at home, yet he was a trouble maker." She chuckled before whispering softly, "I'll miss him." Cece smiled and Jo asked her about her district partner. "Me and Gunther have a relationship like yours, complicated. He can be so annoying yet so sweet, just like his sister, and he always joked about me liking him and I'd of course deny it. But now that I look back, maybe I did, or do, like him." Jo nodded in agreement. The rest of the night they sat in silence, wondering about their complicated relationships. Secrets, one thing every show has.
Luke looked up at the sky, wondering about his family. How was Zuri doing? Did she have nightmares about losing him like she did her older sister, or was she doing alright and looking to Ravi for comfort? He looked over at Olivia and Gunther, his alliance. He thought he was lucky to have such people in his alliance, Olivia was really nice and listened to him when he ranted about the District 2 tribute while Gunther was the one to talk to about his family since he was in an alike situation. Gunther stirred and woke up; his shoulder wound was a lot better than the previous day. Luke smiled, "Morning Sleeping Beauty. Did you dream about your prince?" he said with a smirk. "Oh, are you talking about your dreams because I'm sorry, you're too young for me." Gunther replied with the same smirk that was wiped off Luke's face. Olivia then woke up and looked at the two boys, "Alright, what did Gunther do?" he showed a fake hurt look, "Why do you assume it was me? I'm not the trouble maker! It's not like I went like this," he threw a small rock in Luke's direction that hit him on the chest, "or this," he walked over and picked up a protesting Luke, "and most certainly not this." He threw Luke over his shoulder and flipped him upside down. By this time everyone was in a fit of unheard laughter, enjoying the moment where they could be real kids and not worry about being murdered. This is why Luke liked his alliance, they made every moment count. Comedy, that's a key component in a good show.
Miley looked over at the Careers, who were enjoying a full meal. She narrowed her eyes at the district 1 tributes, wondering how to kill them. Miley thought of a system, start with the first district and go all the way up to 13. She smirked as the two tributes walked off to get something, this is the time, she thought. She started crawling over to where they were, she knew it wouldn't be easy taking on two Careers but she thought it was worth a shot. She threw a rock getting their attention, "did you hear that?" the male asks, the girl looks at him like he's nuts. Miley threw the spear and it lands in the males back, making for two screams and a canon going off. The girl runs away from him with tears in her eyes but Miley was smarter, blocking her path. The girl pleads for her not to kill her, that she'll die later in the Games anyway and that she's unarmed. "Bye bye Glamour Girl." Two canons go off as Kim Crawford and Miley Stewart fall to the ground, Kim with a spear in her stomach and Miley with an arrow in her back. Violence keeps the audience entertained, right?
Chad was outraged that Kim and Milton were so stupid to go unarmed into other territory, but he didn't show it. Kim was supposed to be the smart one and here he saw her pleading the girl from 10 for life. Luckily Maya shot her with her bow before she got away, that would've made Chad madder. Sharpay just thought to herself, Geez Chad, go sit on your quiet rock for a little while. She rolled her eyes and suggested he calmed down while Maya and she went tribute hunting and he agreed. Once they got away from camp, Sharpay asked about Zack. Maya shrugged, "Well, he's my boyfriend and the worst trouble maker in District 4, ask the mayor and he'll say he's the worst trouble maker in all of Panem." "So, you volunteered to save your boyfriend?" "Yeah, but really I wanted to save his brother too. I mean, Cody is so nice and smart, he didn't need to come." "Oh." Sharpay ends the conversation right there and they see Cece's alliance. Sharpay aims two knives, at the 12 year olds and Maya aims her bow at the older male. They shoot and hear three canons go off as they run off so Cece doesn't see them. They stopped at a nearby rock, tears falling down their faces. They didn't need to die. No one did, but you need drama in a good show.
After watching the sky, Cody turns back to his alliance. "That's six people dead today, eleven dead in total." He says. Mason shuts his eyes and leans against the cave wall, "You know that they're going to release some kind of thing on us to draw us closer right? We're the only alliance with no one dead yet, they're going to see this as a threat." Ethan nodded, "Mason's right. We can't expect to hide in here with eight people alive and well, it's not fair." Troy shakes his head, "What else are we going to do? Go out there with two fourteen year olds and a twelve going 'Hey, here's some flesh, Take it!'" the girls were asleep; they usually take the night watch. "Hey, we may be 14 but that doesn't mean we can't fight!" Ferb speaks up; no one really knew he was paying attention. "You're right, I'm sorry. But still we agreed if only one person can come out it should be Chyna, she's the youngest left in the Games now. If we go out into the open, she could be a goner before we blink." Everyone thought for a moment while Cody snaps his fingers, "I got it! How about this," The men get to work devising a plan for whatever is coming next and by midnight, a plan was set to give the audience what they wanted. After all, it is for the show right?
Cece wept as she moved from her former campsite. Her whole alliance was dead, she was running out of food, and her leg was wounded. She heard something and being as paranoid as the Games have made her, she reached for her sword. "Cece, relax it's just me. I know about your alliance and I wanted you to join ours." She looked around and sure enough he was behind her, Gunther Hessenheffer. He held his hands up in surrender and looked at her; she dropped her weapon and ran to hug him. Her tears came back as he softly stroked her hair, telling her it would be alright. She looked into his eyes; they were blue and inviting, something she hadn't noticed about him before. He bent down, all her senses screaming He's going to kiss you! When suddenly he stopped and she heard Luke screaming, "Come on G! We let you get the girl so now we need to leave!" He smiles at her and gets her sword. She walks with him and tries to hide her disappointment; I guess they need some romance in this show.
*Sob* I really didn't want this many people to die in this chapter! I wanted only like one or two but not six! Anyway, thanks for reading! Do you think we could get up to 25 reviews next chapter? Pretty please? And if you have any suggestions for the story cover for this story please leave it in a review or PM me, thanks and have a good week!
