Sorry this has taken me so long, I sort of have writers block.
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Finnick Odair
Seeing Annie and Maxem faces lit up made me grin. They immediately removed their backpacks and went bolting towards the lake. The others just stared at it with their mouths open in awe.
Annie was the first to get there and she dove in perfectly. The water looked freezing, but she didn't seem to care. Maxem jumped in shortly after they waded into the water to see how deep it got. They laughed and they seemed to be having the time of their lives.
The other Careers all sat down and took a break in the shade, they seemed… relaxed.
Mags gasped besides me and she tapped me on the shoulder and pointed towards the screen "Finnick look!"
I peered over Mags shoulder and stared at the computer screen, a hefty bear sat on the rocks near the place where Annie and Maxem were swimming. It was bigger than most bears, it was obviously a mutt, with enormous teeth,
The bear had a large fish in his mouth, but I don't think he was hunger for fish anymore; he wanted human flesh.
It growled and the bear's beady black eyes followed Annie and Maxem. Max slowly turned and saw the brown bear a few feet away. He swore loudly and hauled Annie up from under the water.
"Come on! We need to get out of here now!"
Him and Annie couldn't get out fast enough, they heaved there bags and ran over to the others.
"Come on! Come one! There's a mutt! Hurry up!" Annie shrieked and pulled as many people up from their peaceful positions.
The bear started to creep closer towards them. The determination in its eyes told me at least one of the tributes from the pack would be dying. The Gamemakers made it so the Games would become interesting. It was almost like a warning 'you go off and murder other tributes or we will murder you' my heart raced. Please don't let it be my tributes.
"Wait!" Lilac stopped "Isn't it when there is a bear you're supposed to stay still and it won't hurt you? Sort of like bumblebees?"
They all stood uncomfortably still, but the bear kept coming, this time more powerful and deadly.
They all took off sprinting, and the bear chased after them. Luckily Annie was one of the people in the front, her feet barely seemed to touch the ground. Maxem was the third person.
The unlucky person was Garran, he was a fast runner but he was the last person up, and the bear was even faster.
I looked away when the bear caught up to him. But I could hear his painful cries.
Annie immediately stopped "We need to go back and help him!"
She started racing back towards his shouts, but Maxem grabbed her by the shoulder "N-no Annie, I'm sorry, I want to go out and save him too, but we'd be killed." He said softly.
The shrieks continued, and Annie covered her ears. Maxem hugged her, I felt a pang of jealously. He rubbed her back "I'm sorry Annie."
Maxem led the others as swiftly and quietly as he could, "Climb!" He barked.
"Can't bears climb trees?" Lilac said a little too loudly.
"I don't know! Shut up! I guess we will figure it out soon."
He hoisted Annie up and helped boost all the other members up, Annie would grab their arms or hands and pulled them up. It took a dangerously long time, but they bear didn't come.
Finally Garran's cannon boomed.
Annie covered her face.
They stayed up there for a long time and Lilac said "Someone should go see if the beast is still down there."
Nobody spoke, they all seemed pretty shaken up about what happened to Garran. The others seemed to all realized how dangerous the Games actually were. Even the stronger people died. Even survival of the fittest didn't work in the Games sometimes, occasionally it took luck.
"I will." Annie mumbled and started to climb down like she was almost in a trance. What the hell was she doing? Did she want to get killed?
"Annie what the hell are you doing? I'll go down inst-,"
"Shh!" hushed Lilac, "You can be the big hero if the bear comes back."
No Annie! Don't do it! Why wasn't Maxem going down to help her? Damn it Annie, damn her and her stubbornness.
Her feet lightly touched the ground and she scanned the area. She waited there for a lengthy about of time, maybe ten, fifteen minutes. Thankfully the beast didn't come charging out and killing her just like it did with Garran. Annie seemed to be a lucky girl.
Mags decided to kick me out of the chair and I went over to grab some coffee, Johanna was there looking very pale and her hand shook as she poured the coffee into a black coffee cup.
"You okay Jo?" I asked.
She nodded a little too fast "Yep I'm fine. My boy tribute just died. He's the one I actually thought who had a chance, and my girl tribute is dying of starvation and I can't send her any damn food!"
"Why can't you? I thought you got sponsors."
"They were mostly for Garran and now he's dead. The money for Alanna will quickly go if I keep sending her food."
"Have you sent her food so far?"
"Once or twice, she had to resort into stealing from the Careers, but now she's too frightened to go back."
I hadn't paying much attention to the other tributes at all, it was all Annie and Maxem. I refused to believe that one of them wouldn't make it home. One of them had to make it home right?