~hi guys I hope you like this chapter, and also Maryanne is not going to be in much of this first book, but she will definitely have a main part in ~ catching fire~ and that is? A secret, also REVIEW~
Survival secret: it gets worse before better-try not to worry.
~piper pov~
"Two days, I think?" hard to tell time, and tracking through the woodland forest, is one thing. Looking out for a person that wants to kill me, is something I didn't sign up for. Even though I volunteered, but I have a perfectly good reason. I don't think I had a good night sleep ever since I got here.
"And finding katniss isn't easy either" I thought, to myself.
"I know I wasn't going to find her that easily, but come on" I mentally screamed, in my head. As I walked through thickets and shrubs got under foot. Slowing me down, and my light weight backpack unsettled me, I knew I only have only a few sips of water left, and barely any food left. "Just a few nuts" I said sarcastically.
And as I thought things couldn't get worse, a fire ball raced pasted my left ear, looking back to where the fire ball came from wasn't a pretty sight. A wall of fire was, racing towards me. And human survival instinct kicked in and I ran, where to? hopefully not into unwelcome company.
Running, running, zigzagging through trees, dodging fallen branches. And trying to out run the down poor of sparks, trying not to black out from smoke inhalation.
My legs hurt, and my calf's were sore. But I didn't stop, would you stop if you knew, you would be burned into a crisp?
Suddenly it just stops, and I twist around to see no sign of the fire that tried to kill me, if I didn't have a burn mark from being caught on a burning branch. I would think I dreamed it all.
But I didn't stop and think for long, I heard hoots and shouts of victory. And I knew instantly it was the careers, looking around in desperation I found a sturdy tree, and thanks to district eleven and rue. It was an easy climb, and a great look out point. Hidden by thick leafs.
I could see, from my view point, katniss come into the small clearing. She was looking for a tree. This I knew well, she would scurry up a tree, careers would come try to climb, glimmer would try to shot at her, and miss. Then peeta would say just leave her.
"And then I would come in the next morning and save her" I thought in determination.
And that's exactly, how it played out. Night came quickly, and the careers were now sleeping.
"I should get some sleep to" I thought to myself. But how do you sleep, knowing there's four killers/ plus peeta but he's no threat waiting to kill me if they knew of my presence.
"This is going to be a lllllooooonnnggggg night" I thought with a huff, in my mind.
I got in a safe position, where I couldn't fall out and end up killing myself, or an easy picking for the careers.
Like I thought no sleep came, this left me with my thoughts. Was rue, jinx, wick, poppy and quelling, rooting for me. just waiting for me to come home. What about the other districts, did they care about me?" are they rooting for me, or do they not care, and hoping for there own. Probably.
What about thresh or vulpix, were they still together, were they worrying about me, Hoping I wasn't, the next canon or face in the sky.
"I hope I won't be either" I sighed mentally. Then I heard katniss receiving, her burn medicine.
"Man I wish I had some of that" I thought in envy, remembering my own burnt flesh making an itchy burn feeling. it was easy to ignore if I don't think much of it. I sighed once more till i found a comfortable position facing away from everyone.
Then I fell into a fitful sleep.
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Waking up to the sun/ artificial skylights, I could see I was the first one up.
"Now I just have to patient" I thought, sitting up right in the tree, just waiting for katniss to wake up.
It took time that's for sure, and then katniss woke to see morning as well, her eyes trying to focus and rubbing sleep from her eyes.
She looks, below her. Where the four killers...and peeta... are sleeping peacefully.
"Those butt heads" I thought, in irritation. Thinking there so high and mighty, thinking there invincible.
Katniss eyes avert away from them, a grim troubled look on her face.
I make a slight crunching sound, drawing her attention to me, she stares into the foliage, that surrounds my near by tree. searching for what made the sound, and finally catching my eyes.
For a while we hold each other's gaze. Then, without rustling a leaf, I point to where the tracker jackers nest which was right above her head.
Her eyes follow my pointing direction, and they go wide. "Just like the book/movie" I thought...just with me.
She looks back at me for guides, and I make a sawing motion with my hands.
She gives a nod, and then she signaled for me to get away.
I make my leave, carefully I'm not rue. I don't go to far just enough to keep watch, and not get hurt.
She shimmy up the tree; I wait patiently as she does this. Waiting in suspense, as she makes her move.
She begins to saw away at the branch that holds the nest, and I wince every time she gets stung. Knowing she gets stung three times, but to me it seems like a thousand needles went through her flesh.
With one arm she ripped out a barbed stinger out of her flesh. She then proceeded to throw the nest as fare away from her body. Down below it fell, the mayhem, that followed made me gage.
Some of them had sense to drop everything and run, there screams "to the lake, to the lake" reached my ears. Glimmer and another girl from four weren't so lucky. They received multiple stings before they're out of view. Glimmer goes completely mad, shrieking and trying to beat the wasps off with her bow, which is pointless.
She calls to the others for help but, no one returns.
The other girl from four staggers away, but I know she won't make it.
I see glimmer go down, twitching, if I had anything in my stomach, I bet I would be coming up at this point.
The wasps have gone, in pursuit of the others. Katniss makes her way down, and takes off running wobbly… I stay put knowing she would be coming back for the bow. "or should I get it for her?" I don't see her coming back, but then again it would take her five minutes. So I wait, but still no sign of her.
And I picture Cato coming back and taking it, so I take my chances and shimmy down walking cautiously, looking for danger and Cato and his other allies.
Then I see it, katniss and her confrontation with Cato and peeta, but there in the wrong places. Not even close to the bow. "This isn't like the book or the movie" I thought to myself, baffled am I changing things? I know I am, rue, the riot, now the plan of a break out.
I hide away and watch things play out, I see peetas defense for katniss, and then see her run away, without her bow?" peeta getting sliced by Catos sword, and him making his leave and Cato in pursuit.
Then everything goes quiet, I hesitantly make my way out of my hiding place. And approach glimmers fallen body.
I then look up to the sky, and spot the hovercraft. Knowing I have to work fast.
So doing as katniss did in the book, I threw myself over her body, and in my mind I keep repeating it was for katniss, it's for katniss, but it's not helping with my stomach.
With my eyes clenched, I dig under her body. I tug the silver sheath of arrows, I almost have it free once I realized it would get stuck on her shoulder, and the other careers would be coming soon.
I'm desperately tugging, and pulling, the suspense I'm probably putting the kids and my district back home, brings tears to my eyes.
Closer and closer the footsteps sound, and I'm sickened by this.
I'm able to finally get the bow, and the sheath of arrows. But my relief turns to terror, seeing clover and marvel making there way threw the brush.
"There's eleven" marvel yells. making my blood freeze in my body, making me stumble to my feet And I take off, with them in hot pursuit. Clove is throwing knife after knife at me, I'm lucky since my backpack is so big, but I couldn't rely on just running.
My eyes search franticly, left, right, up, down. If I don't find an escape soon, I'm dead.
The bow hits my thigh, the sheath of arrows clenched over my right shoulder, and I grasp them as though they were my life line.
Tears of fear fall from my eyes making it hard to see, but I don't dare stop in fear of the consequences that would surly follow.
Then a spear is thrown, pipers feet run on, the spear comes closer, but she still runs...
Closer...closer the spear came wising through the air….. It misses the target that her mid back…. but ends up going throw her hand…. Severing her left ring finger and her middle finger… she screams in pain, stumbling slightly, but must keep running seeing as she doesn't want to lose more then her fingers.
The only up side was that marvel had to stop... at the expense of losing her fingers, but she wasn't out of hot water just yet. She just had to ditch clove.
And then she saw her chance, a deep slopping hill she just hoped clove wouldn't follow.
She threw herself over the ledge, tumbling down catching on bushes, trees, and shrubs. It hurt, let me tell you. But luckily clove didn't follow. Instead a scream of rage could be heard from up above.
once she reach the bottom, she didn't have the courage nor did she want to move. she just wanted stayed in this crunched ball position and weep for her missing limbs…. But I don't.
I had to find katniss, and stop the bleeding. Taking a knife that was berried into my backpack, curtsey of clove. I cut a stripe from my jacket, and wrapped it awkwardly over and downward, and tied it off on my wrist making a sort of cast.
Looking for katniss, I have to just look for a shallow hole. "Hum.. now where should I look" I thought sarcastically, trying to distract myself from the pain. Ya right.
When I finally stumbled onto katniss, I latterly tripped over her.
She was just there pastout on the ground; I took my findings as a good sign. And pulled her towards a tree.
I find some leafs, that were like those that were in the movie. I hope they would work anyway.
And chewed them up, they had a fowl taste to them but I have much worse injuries, then a little bad taste.
Taking it out I spread It on her neck, cheek, and knee. Ya I know gross, but again no complains from me.
I don't know how much time has past, since I saved her/took care of her. But eventually she wakes up and I hide. Why? I don't know.
She looks around, and then heads off, with me following her, she travels uphill. It takes time but she finally stops, and makes a small fire. And lays a piece of wild turkey over the coals, my mouth waters just looking at it.
But I still don't present myself. I try to get a closer look, when i sifts position making a twig snap.
In one motion, she held out a knife, in defense. Then strangely she smile, having a more relaxed body, and loses her stance.
"You know, they're not the only ones who can make alliances" she says.
I peak my head around, to stare into her face. "I know" I reply.
I come out fully to stand, in front of her. She eyes me, lingering on the bow, and its arrow.
"I thought you might need these" I said, awkwardly handing them to her, and she accepts them with gratitude, lingering just to stare at my hand.
And then eyeing my face, I give her a smile and a shake of my hands telling her to take them.
She takes them, and leads me to the small fire. "So you're the one, who patched me up" she said, eyebrow rose. And I give a nod.
"That's right. You're district eleven. Agriculture" she says.
"How did you find those" she asked.
"We carry them when we work in the orchards. There a lot of nests there" I say, thinking about a time a man found one, but I was easily taken care of.
"Orchards, huh? That must be how you can fly around the trees like you got wings.
I smile at that, and give a snort. "Hardly, I was lucky I'm the worst at jumping through trees. I get made fun of by, my cousins a lot" I say to her, getting a light chuckle in return.
She then noticed the burn mark on my forearm. "I've got something for that." She says, and takes out her canister of burn medicine.
"You've got good sponsors" I said longingly.
"Have you gotten anything yet" she says. "I shake my head, not really my district isn't the riches as you know, and I don't think many capitol citations would sponsor me" I said, poking at the fire a bit.
"Don't worry" she says, putting a hand on my arm. "You'll get sponsors, you're the most amazing person I've meet" she said, with a wide smile.
"It's nice to know you want me to be allies, but I also have other allies" I said, she looks at me suspicious.
"I left them so I can take on the careers, so they can be safe, but I'm not sure how but I will" I said, to her. And her gaze turns to understanding.
"Who are you allied with" she says in curiosity.
"Vulpix and thresh" I reply. Aw, your district partner and….. She trailed off.
You might know her as fox-face" I say helpingly, and she gives a nod.
Things grow quiet. "so it's a temporary ally" I spoke up.
"It's a deal" she said, we shake hands, me using my right hand.
We start fixing our meal, and I add some of my nuts to the meal.
And when she gestures to the meat I tell her it was a groosling, in my district, and she gives a nod in comprehension.
Then the conversation stops, so we could eat. "This is the most meat I ever had in a while" tell her.
And she gives me a sad look. "take the other" she says, pushing the other leg towards me. "I couldn't" I tell her.
"Its fine I got a bow and arrows now, I could hunt more" she says, with a grin.
I awkwardly take the leg in my left hand, holding with my pointing finger and thumb. And my pinky was a little help.
The pain in my hand has lessened but it still hurt, I wonder if the star family is either crying at my looted fingers, or thankful it was just my fingers that didn't make it.
"Thank you" I told her, taking a quick bite. It was really hard to hold, and also put pressure to my sore/painful hand.
"Can I ask, what happened to your hand" she asked softly.
"When I was getting the bow, marvel and clove came back, they were chasing me. I got away but marvels spear missed and got my hand" I told her, looking at my poor hand.
"I'm sorry" she told me, but I wave her off saying it that i was just happy to be alive.
"I'd have thought, in district eleven, you'd have a bit more to eat than us. You know, since you grow the food? She asked taking in my hungry getting habits.
"Oh, no, were not allowed to eat the crops." I said dismissingly.
"They arrest you or something?" she asked.
"They whip you and make everyone else watch" I told her, quoting rue/book.
"The dimwitted mayor of ours is strict" I told her, and she gives me a scolding look.
"What? I might not make it, what do I have to fear" I tell her shrugging my shoulders, taking another quick bite of my turkey leg, and watch as her face falls in pity.
"Do you get all the coal you want" I ask her changing the subject and watching in factionation wanting to hear it from her own lips.
"No, just what we buy and whatever we track in on our boots."
"They feed us a little bit extra during harvest, so that the people can keep going longer" I said just thinking aloud.
"Don't you have school" she asked me.
"Not during harvest, everyone works then," I say.
We start sharing our supplies, sorting them; the katniss asks me a question.
"Those songs, during the interview where did you learn them?" she asks intrigued. "Oh, I just sing what I feel" I said, it wasn't a total lie; I did feel like singing that song.
"There very pretty songs" she tells me, and starts clearing up and sorting.
I then see the night glasses. "how did you get those" I asked already knowing.
"There in my pack, they've been useless so far. They don't block out the sun and make it harder to see" she says with a shrug.
"Those aren't for sun, there for darkness. When we harvest at night they give us these, so we can harvest in the trees!"
"One time this boy named martin, he tried to keep his, hid it in his pants. They killed him on the spot" I said, thinking of the event, the way rue screamed and the way the kids clung to me.
"Just for taking these" she said, holding them up.
"Yes, he wasn't no threat he was just slow is all, he just wanted to play with them" I said looking down.
"So they let you see in the dark" she said, looking over the pair. Yes" I simply said.
"Where do you sleep? She asked.
"Trees, rue wouldn't want me to sleep anywhere else" I said, with a shrug and a grin on my face, and she returned that grin.
"How many days was I asleep" she suddenly asks.
"Two, one and four girl are dead, ten left" I said, silently I hope vulpix and thresh are ok.
"What about peeta" she asked, after a moment.
"No longer with the careers, and also I think he ran away after saving you" I say, putting down the turkey leg, which was now finished.
"It was probably just an act, you know to make people to think we're in love" she said.
"Suuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeee" I said, nudging her. Which she grew huffy.
"Well it is" she said venomously.
"It may start as and act, but over time it will turn to true love" I spoke softly, to her.
"And how do you know?" katniss questioned giving a disbelieving look.
"I know these things, and I know it will happen" I say, with an air of smugness.
She just shook her head.
You know I never thought I'd be here" I said, not thinking of the games, but the whole universe swap.
"I know." she said, thinking I was referring to the games.
"Ya." I said quietly, looking at my left hand two digits less.
"Katniss I think I have that song feeling coming on" I told her, wanting to get out of this mood I'm in. and it would be a great distraction.
She gave me an amused look, and gave a small smile.
(Pipers, real voice, tomorrow will be kinder by? Off of the movie hunger games)
Black clouds are behind me
I now can see ahead
Often I wonder why I try
Hoping for an end
Sorrow weighs my shoulders down
And trouble haunts my mind
But I know the present will not last
And tomorrow will be kinder
Tomorrow will be kinder
Its true, I've seen it before
A brighter day is coming my way
Yes, tomorrow will be kinder
Today I've cried a many tear
And pain is in my heart
Around me lies a somber scene
I don't know where to start
But I feel warmth on my skin
The stars have all aligned
The wind has blown but now I know
That tomorrow will be kinder
Tomorrow will be kinder
I know I've seen it before
A brighter day is coming my way
Yes, tomorrow will be kinder
A brighter day is coming my way
Yes, tomorrow will be kinder.
I stop and stare off, not really seeing, but katniss brings me back.
"It will"she said, quietly putting a hand on my sholuder.
I gave a smile. "You know the careers have food right?, and say they didn't. say the supplies were gone. How long would they last" she said. "I mean, it's the hunger games, right?"
"But there, not hungry" I told her, liking where this was going.
"No there not. That's the problem," she says a grin on her face.
"And I think we're going to have to fix that, piper."
And we grinned at each other, sparks from the fire alimentation out faces.
~ how you like that, told you they weren't getting out unharmed~ how will this turn out book, movie or something else all together~review~