Let the games begine! Finally... I changed things up for this chapter. Half way through I changed to Clove and ended it on her pov. So, next chapter will be Glimmer. I wanted to show the bloodbath from Clove's pov, but if I stopped the chapter it would have been really short. I'm sorry for any spelling or grammer erros, I try! PLEASE review! Now, chapter 15

Chapter 15

Glimmer

"Glimmer, get up," someone called to me. I slowly open my eyes and see Cashmere standing over me. I looked over to the window, it was still dark. I wondered why she was waking me up this early, then I remembered. It was the day of the games.

"I'm coming," I replied groggily. I got up and she handed me a skin tight shirt and sweat pants. The shirt had the number one on it. This was my outfit for the games.

I changed into it after she had left and headed into the dinning room. Marvel was already there, eating. They had waffles, pancakes, and French toast as options. I grabbed a few pancakes, but could only eat one. I was way too nervous about what would happen in the next 12 hours; it would mean the difference between life and death.

When we were done eating, we were shown onto a hovercraft that was waiting for us outside. Cashmere came up to me to give me a few last words of advice.

"Go for the bow. Hang with Cato, Clove, and Marvel. If it comes down to you four, get to high ground. The three of them have to be in close range to kill, you can be far away. Good luck Glimmer, and may the odds be ever in your favor."

I hugged her and headed to the hovercraft. I got on and saw that all the other tributes were on the same hovercraft. I took a seat next to Marvel. A capital lady came around and put something in our arm. I would have asked what it was, but that would have sounded stupid.

I watched Clove glaring at the girl from 12. She was still mad at her and making it quit obvious. When the capital lady got to the girl from 12, she asked her what the thing in her arm was for was for.

"It's your tracker," she told her. That made sense, wouldn't want to lose a tribute.

We flew to the arena in silence. Even Cato and Clove couldn't come up with any intimidating or smart Alec comments.

They let us off into some type of loading dock. Peacekeepers lead me down a hall and into a room where Diangelo was waiting for me. He pulled something out of his pocket and I gasped, he had my locket.

"How did you get that?" I asked.

"When you took it off for the parade, I had to show it to the gamemakers to have them approve of it to be your token," he explained.

"Thank you," I told him. He hugged me and handed me a jacket.

"Thirty seconds," a female voice said over the loudspeaker. My heart was pounding out of my chest, it was time.

I told Diangelo one last goodbye before stepping into the clear tube that would take me into the arena. I stepped into it and it closed. The tube started to move upward and I waved one last time to Diangelo.

When the tube reached the top I was momentarily blinded by the light. When my eyes adjusted I looked around the arena. It was a forest. A lovely lush green forest. At least I wouldn't be freezing or burning to death.

I looked at the cornucopia and saw what I needed, the bow. I looked around the circle of tributes and saw all my allies looking ready to go for their weapons. Clove had an evil grin on her face; this was the moment she'd been waiting for.

I saw the countdown in the sky. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5.

It was almost time for the 74th annual Hunger Games to begin.

Clove

5, 4, 3, 2. This. Is. It.

1. I bounded off the platform and sprinted for the knives, my knives. I grabbed the first one I could get my hands on and threw it at the nearest person, the boy from 7. I grabbed all the knives and stuffed them into the pockets that Octavia put in my jacket. I turned to look for someone else to kill, preferably Fire Girl.

I saw the boy from 9 running for a bright orange backpack. I threw my knife at his back and hit my mark. The boy fell and I saw who was right in front of him, Fire Girl.

I let out a manacle laugh and threw my knife right at her heart. She used the backpack to deflect it and ran into the forest. More rage started burning inside me, how had she escaped? I couldn't think about that yet, I had more killing to do.

I turned back to the battle and chucked my knife at the first person I saw, not caring if it was a friend or foe. I watched as the girl from 7 fell from my knife. I looked around for someone else to kill, but didn't see anyone. I headed into the mouth of the cornucopia to see if there was anything in there that I could use. I found a sharpener that I could use for my knives and Cato could use for his sword.

"Clove!" someone called to me. I turned to see Glimmer being tackled by the girl from 9. I rolled my eyes and threw my knife at the boy. He fell over and Glimmer jumped up.

"Thanks," she said to me. I nodded and walked around to inspect the damage. We had killed the girl from 3, the boy from 5, both from 6, 7, 8, and 9. Cato appeared next to me.

"Who did you get?" he asked.

"Both from 7 and both from 9," I told him.

"Girl from 6, the boy from 5 and the girl from 3. How did you get more than me?"

"I had to help Glimmer."

He rolled his eyes and we started to gather up all the supplies. We had tons of food, clothes, medicine, and weapons. We put them all in the mouth of the cornucopia. I pulled one of the backpacks for myself and stuffed it with extra food, water, medicine, clothes, and the sharpener I had found. I needed to be prepared if for some reason we couldn't make it back to the cornucopia.

I heard a rustling from the trees and turned around. I saw the boy from 3 coming out of the forest, right toward us.

I laughed and ran at him, but Cato pushed me back. "He's mine," he hissed to me. I nodded and stepped back to let him through.

He ran over to the boy, sword in hand, and knocked him over. The boy pleaded with him about something. Cato motioned for me to come over and join him. I pulled one of my knives out and ran over to join the party.

"This boy says he can help us protect our supplies by reburying all the mines," Cato explained to me.

I stooped over him, "How?" I asked, my question directed at the boy.

"It's not that hard really, I just have to dig them up and rewire them. It's not hard for me; I've been doing this kind of stuff all my life," he told me.

I stood up and looked to Cato. "What do you think?" I whispered.

"I think we should let him. Then we can all go looking for other tributes and have him guard."

I nodded, "Sounds like a plan to me."

"You're in. You'll find a shovel in the cornucopia; take it and nothing else, yet. Dig up all the mines and rewire them, then burry them around the supplies. We're going out looking for tributes, so stay guard."

"Let him take a spear too," I muttered to Cato.

"You can have a spear too, now get to it."

The boy jumped up and ran over to our supplies. I saw him pull out a shovel and spear. I waved at Glimmer, Marvel, Odyssey, and Reese to join us.

"What was that about?" Odyssey asked.

"He's bobby trapping our supplies," I told them.

"While he's dong that, we can go tribute hunting, let's go," Cato commanded. He headed toward the tress and we followed him.

"Where exactly are we going?" I asked after about half an hour.

"How about there?" Marvel threw in, pointing to a rising column of smoke. I snorted and headed in the direction of the stupid tribute that lit the fire.

I heard a thud behind me and turned to see someone on the ground under Odyssey's trident.

"What do you want Lover Boy?" she spat at the person, Lover Boy most likely.

"I thought I was part of this alliance," he said through gritted teeth.

"Odyssey, back off. He had a point," I told her. When she didn't move, I walked over and threw her off of him. I offered him a hand and he took it. I pulled him up and he looked at me, amazed. I smirked, turned and headed toward the fire.

By the time we go there, night had fallen. I saw the girl from 10 warming herself by the fire. I went to confront her, but Cato pushed me back. I knew he wanted to kill her, I'd gotten more kills in the bloodbath so he wanted to equal me.

He pushed through the trees toward the girl. I followed close behind. When she saw us standing there, all holding our weapons, she went out a blood curling scream.

Cato smiled and stabbed her in the heart. The cannon went off and we laughed. I turned to Lover Boy. "Got any idea where Fire Girl is?"

"She came this way," he told us.

"Are you sure?"

"Positive."

He headed in the way he had been pointing. Glimmer stopped and turned to us. "Why can't we just kill him now?"

"He's the only way to fine Fire Girl, and who's we?" I asked.

"Uh, isn't that obvious?"

"No. Cato gets to kill him, and that's final. Did you even kill anyone at the bloodbath?"

She twiddled her thumbs and looked nervous. I was annoyed at her all over again. The only reason she was still alive was because I didn't let the girl from 9 get her. Maybe I should have left her to die.

I followed Lover Boy through the forest for about an hour. I stopped and turned to Cato. "I think we should head back to the cornucopia, it's getting late."

"Are you tired or something? Is the mighty Clove tired?" he teased.

I rolled my eyes and punched him playfully. "I'm not tired, but Glimmer might be."

We turned to look at her and saw her lagging behind us. She was slowing down by the second. Even Lover Boy wasn't tired yet. Just then the anthem of Panem sounded. We looked to the sky to see who had died. Boy from 3, boy from 5, both from 6, 7, 8, 9, and the girl from 10. I smiled at Cato, it had been a very productive day.

"Let's go back to the cornucopia, we won't find any thing else tonight," Cato commanded them after the last tribute was shown. Everyone nodded and we headed back the way we had come.

When we got back to the cornucopia, we found that the boy from 3 had set up four tents. One was bigger than the others.

"Why are there only four?" Glimmer asked.

"Because there were only four," the boy explained.

"Then who's going to sleep where?" Marvel asked Cato.

"District by district. Three and Lover boy can have one as well. Clove and I get the bigger one."

The others groaned, but headed into their respective tents. I pulled open the flap on ours and went in. it was a simple, tan tent. Nothing special other than two sleeping bags in it.

"Are there any cameras in here?" I whispered to Cato.

"I don't think so. It's not like they could come into the arena and install cameras."

I nodded and fell into one of the sleeping bags, I wasn't physically tired, but I could do with some sleep. Cato moved the other sleeping bag next to mine. He laid down and wrapped his arm around my waist. I leaned onto his chest and fell into a deep dreamless sleep.

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KATE