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We were sitting by the stream when it happened. I had my hands cupped up and I was getting some water when I heard a hissing. I narrowed my eyes and turned around to see Finnick looking alert. I give him a questioning look and he looked behind him.
They looked like reptiles… but they looked about the size of me or Finnick. They were human… but they were lizards. They were white, crawling on all fours with webbed feet and a long and scaled tail. A mutation. I've heard about them before. A weapon the Capitol used in the dark days to kill the rebel attackers. Just another way to show the districts that they're the ones in charge.
"IN THE WATER!" Finnick yells, his eyes wide as he runs into the stream, diving where it got deeper and wider. I dropped my ax and followed him. It would only make me swim slower. I definitely was not of good as a swimmer as he was. I knew that lizards could swim, or whatever those mutts were. Why would the gamemakers have them chase us if we were by the water and we could swim and they couldn't?
I took deep breaths each time I emerged for air. Those mutts were fast… even in the water. Finnick was way ahead of me and he stopped and grabbed my arm and started pulling at me so I'd go faster. I was panting, from both the extreme swimming and the pressure of the moment. In a way, this was worse than the careers' fight.
When the mutts were a reasonable distance away, my ally let go of me and I began swimming on my own again. I tried to keep up my speed, by something got twisted around my ankle and was starting to pull me under.
I was gasping for breath until I had to tilt my head when it was the only thing left above the water so I could still breathe. "Finnick!" I yelled as loud as I could, but it was muffled by the water in my mouth. Still, he heard me and turned around. His eyes widened as he quickly made his way back over to me. I had to take a deep breath right before I went under. Finnick joined me. I looked down to find that the rope like thing that had entangled around my ankle was seaweed. Seaweed doesn't naturally do that… Finnick was right there below me too, trying to cut it. But his trident was not meant to saw. Fortunately, the seaweed was not laced around his ankle.
"Go!" I tried to say, but nothing is heard underwater. Too soon, the human-lizard mutts would be here. "GO!" I tried to yell urgently again. He kept trying to get me out. If it was possible to cry underwater, I was doing it.
Suddenly, my fingers found their way to the back of my neck. I was in desperate need for oxygen. But the gamemakers wouldn't allow that to happen. I unclasped my necklace and handed it to Finnick before pointing away from the mutts, meaning for him to get away from them. Finnick had to get away from the seaweed that could grab his ankles or the mutts that would rip him like a piece of paper. The Capitol wanted me dead. Only me. They wanted to keep Finnick alive. I, on the other hand, was a goner. What an unfortunate death I was bound to have…
Finnick's POV
I hated the thought of leaving Bambi behind, but I had to leave. I had to get away before the mutts caught up with us. The seaweed seemed to have been made of titanium. I knew I'd regret leaving her, but I had a new motivation. I had to get the Bambi's locket back to her sister. Johanna. The only way to get it to her was at the victory tour. Why was I not dead? Why was it Bambi? Maybe it was too early to ask that question, though. The mutts were still after me. Until they got to Bambi, that is. It seemed that they found a feast, as if Bambi drowning wasn't enough to kill her.
I scowled. I couldn't keep swimming. I had to watch. I had to watch them rip her flesh apart. Not because I wanted to, because I had to. Honor. Respect. Two things she deserved but never got. Such a brave soul suffering such a tragic death. I looked up at the sky.
"Are you happy?" I screamed, a slight croak laced in my voice. I swam to shore as I heard Bambi's cannon. The albino lizard mutts evaporated into thin air. I guess I wasn't a target. I needed to punch something. A tribute in the distance.
No, that was not the way it should go. The gamemakers killed Bambi. I refused to play their game.
But I had to. If I wanted to give that locket to Johanna, I had to play along. The way out is to go through. I had to give them a good show.
I sat down, weaving my fingers around ropes, another gift from sponsors. The tribute had made camp where I saw him earlier. I finished the rope and jogged quietly over to the tribute. I threw the net at him, soon after approaching him with my trident. He whimpered. I cared, but I dared not showed it.
I didn't even wince when his scream was probably heard throughout the entire arena. I simply took his backpack, shoved my rope in it and grabbed some trail mix from the backpack to munch on.
His cannon sure sounded a lot like Bambi's. Two very different incidents with the same outcome.
Yes, I'm very sorry (not (meh, maybe a little))… But I had to. We both knew from the beginning that it was Finnick who got out of that arena. And yes, the mutts chasing them were indeed the ones that killed Finnick in Mockingjay (Sorry for the reminder that he's dead XD).
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