After I tell Jason the plan we immedently get to work collecting everything needed. Two strong long sticks to jump over the moat with, as much flammable stuff as possible, and plenty of food. But no decoy.
"How are we going to distract the careers." I say aloud. Damn it!
"I dunno. Maybe do this at night and light a camp fire as far as possible away from the careers camp?" He says
"Yes. Simple but effective. Come on lets go." I say heading back to base. Once we arrive out side our base we hear scraping of a knife against rock. I put my finger to my lips and head in. It's the girl I stole the map off from scraping the it off the wall. And failing. Ha! I raise my bow to shoot.
"Hi Sky. Nice set up you have here. But I want my map back. Do you know how long it took me?" She says. How does she know my name- Oh yeah. From the note I left.
"Well nice to meet you, but I gave you a spill in return. Any way you can't get it off it's glued on with sap. So right now I'm going to have to kill you because you are the one that sits back in training and figures it out. You'll poison us or something- You all ready have haven't you. This is my first kill. I let a engaged pair go and they died from careers but you're too smart for that to happen. So what's your game?" I say circling her with my bow loaded and ready to fire. She's too clever to be left alone.
"If you want I'll tell you. I don't care if I die or not. I'm gonna be killed my some drunk guy in my district anyway. Thats what happend to two of them. Go ahead. Any way I go I'll probably die anyway." She says. I'm so confused right now.
"I'm not going to kill you. I refuse to. Actually I'm going to promise Panem I won't. Right now we're getting ready to rob the careers of their good stuff and set the rest on fire. Wanna help?" I reply with a grin and lowering my bow.
"My pleasure." She says with a half smile.
"We better get some rest but I'll show you what we need to do to get ready for it all." I say. I show her what we need to do and eventually go to sleep. Well me and Jason take turns on night watch just in case.
I wake up all tangled in my sleeping bag. I guess I'm not an easy sleeper. Jason's asleep on the floor leaning against the wall. He's supposed to be on night duty but failed. I see my new ally I don't even know her name and yet we're hiding out together.
"Wake up what ever your name is." I say shaking her awake.
"My name's Vibia from district eight." She says slowly rising. "Isn't he suppose to be on night watch?"
"Yeah. He fell asleep. I can't really blame him since he's been hauling the most stuff around." I say getting up and going to go and get some food.
"He's really cute, no wonder your allies with him." She says suddenly with a smile.
"Hey! I didn't become allies with him because of his looks. But he is quite cute." I say smiling back and going over to the fire to get something to eat for all of us. We're really well set up here actually...
"Wha-" Jason says waking up. "What are you two talking about that makes you so happy?" He says completly oblivious about what we were talking about. Me and Vibia can't help giggling a little. "What did you two say about me." Now we're trying really hard not to laugh. "Tell me." He says trying to force down a smile and failing. A grin spreads across his face and he laughs a little. I go get some deer meat to share between us and listen in to the conversation Jason and Vibia are having that I probably shouldn't be listening to judging by their hushed voices. I can still hear them because of my exelent hearing I've develpoed over yeas of hunting.
"Look we can't stay here. Not with her around." Vibia whispers
"She's my parnter. I can't leave her." He whispers back.
"If that rule is revoked like in the 74th games then what?" She asks her voice still quite
"Then we see who gets killed by mutts first." He says in a whisper. "I'm not leaving her. We may aswell both win. I think you should leave. Or maybe we'll kill you because you are really to sly and clever to be left alone." He continues, then getting up and walking over to me. I'm sitting on the floor eating already and he's acting like nothing's wrong.
"I heard everything by the way." I say clearly. Vibia's face goes pale. "But seeing as I promised the capitol I wouldn't kill any tributes its up to Jason." I continue. "Jason?" She says feebly. Playing weak for people to over look her. Its a good tactic but it won't work. Not on me anyway.
"Well. Maybe we can use her as a distraction instead if a small fire the distence..." He says looking at me uncernanly.
"Perfect. If she lives, she lives. If she dies, she dies. She might need a bit of persuding to do it." I say misciviously. She deserves it. How dare she? Well she's learnt something. Don't mess with me. I empty two back packs, mine and Vibia's, and fill them with the flammable stuff and I hand one to Jason and I put my one on. I grab both of our long staff like sticks. We don't talk. Jason keeps his spear aimed at Vibia and we head off. Its dusk once we arrive. Close enough. Me and Jason hide in the floage and we leave Vibia where the careers can't see herquite yet. We can still kill Vibia if she runs and we have a back up. She takes a deep breath and heads out in plain sight of the careers. She acts all suprised and runs back. And sure enough they run after her leaving a gaurd behind. We move around the back of the cornicopia, still in the folage and I signal to Jason to wait. I run up with my staff and at the last second I shove the end in the ground, I let go and I'm propelled through the air and land safely on the other side. I wave Jason over and he does the same, but lands more roughly. I think guard heard us. Damn. I climb up to the top of the cornicopia and Jason follows. I don't hear a cannon so I guess Vibia's still running. I wait untill the guard is directly infront of us and I jump off and land behind him. He turns around and I punch him in the face and he raises a steel whip. I grab it and wrap it around my arm and I quicklypull it back disarming him. I throw it in the the death water and I guess in didn't do it quick enough because he's ontop of me. He's pinned me down but we can't do anything. Usally I would throw him off of me but he's too heavy. Jason. Jason help here. Just as I think that Jason's behind him and elbws him the back off the head knocking him out. We immedently start to raid the place. Shving weponds and food into back packs. There's some pop up tents aswell that we nab. We get everything of use and no more. Then we start to tip out are bags and we run. I wrap a dry peice of cloth around one of my arrows and set it alight. Three, two, one fire! I let the arrow loose and its a perfect target. It all goes up in flames and we bolt. I see Vibia hiding in a tree with the careers surrunding. I feel a bit bad for setting her up but she kinda dersevers it. I grab a rock and hid in a bush grabbing Jason and pulling him down with me. I quickly shoot up, throw the rock and dive down again. Immedently the careers turn their heads and see all the smoke rising from the area of the cornicopia. There's five careers and they leave two behind to sort out Vibia. I've done what I can so I grab Jason and run. I look behind me to see two careers on the floor, knocked out with a stone beside each of them and Vibia climbing down and running. Aren't I helpful. We take a break, we're panting like crazy. Once we get our breath back we carry on. No idea where I'm going, since Jason's leading the way.
"Jason, where are we going?" I ask.
"We're going to some of the bases on the map." He says still running. We have plenty of stuff. Why do we need to steal other peoples stuff. I see a couple of snares and with game in them so I nab that on the way. We reach a river and Jason looks confused.
"Its suppose to be right here..." He says confused.
"Maybe it is." I reply pointing to a badly hidden cave. We head inside. No one's inside. We start digging around. Does no one have anything of use? I dig around in a back pack and find a little tub and gel. I look at the note.
Apply well and wait for 4 hours.
-O
Well its mine now. I look at the lable which reads Burn/Cut Cream. Well this will be handy. I hear footsteps out side and immedently shove the cream into my bag and raise my bow. Its her. Its Vibia.
"Seriously?!" I say.
"You didn't realise those bases on the map where mine?" She says
"I do now. Now we'll just be leaving." I say startng to walk out.
"What did you take?" She says
"Nothing. There isnt anything worth taking." I reply leaving and Jason close behind. We bolt off, heading to her next base. We do a quick round of her bases nabbing her stuff. She knows we would and hasn't bothered. Well thats ok with me. We eventually go our base to see her in it collecting everything we had. She drops it and walks out. She knows we won't kill her. We get set up again. I'm thinking about setting a human trap outside... So me and Jason can avoid it but others don't realise and get caught. I tell Jason and we get started. I find two fold out shovels so we dig a good size pit with the edges leaning in so its unclimbable. I look around in some of our bags and find a mesh sheet so Jason helps me cover the pit and pin it down slightly so if lets say a rabbit goes on it it wont fall but a human or deer would. We cover it in dirt and pine needles so it blends in with the forest floor and then I put a couple of stones around the edge, so we know where the edge is so we don't accidently fall in, but it'll be unnoticed by other tributes. It'll do for now. I might make it a bit more advanced but right now it's good. Its getting dark so we head back in. Day 6 of the games. Ten tributes- Wait. Six careers, me and Jason plus Vibia. Thats nine. Who's the tenth? I can't sleep. I take first night watch and Jason nods off. I go over to the map and look at the tribute section. I cross off the engaged pair that got killed by careers. I'm feaking out on who's alive then I hear a cannon. Who is it? Jason wakes up with a start.
"Jason go back to sleep. It was just a cannon. I'll tell you who it is." He nods and falls asleep again. Wow he's tired. He's out like a light. I put out the fire and leave a torch beside Jason. I look out to see Vibia's face in the sky. Then I hear careers. They have torches. I try and move the rock but they see me. I'm dead. I pull the rock over just in time as a spear hits it. I move it the rock back again.
"Well? Aren't you going to come over here? May aswell end it seeing as I would never win anyway." I say.
"Can I kill her? Please Jackie?" Angelica chimes.
"Yeah. But lets all do it or something. Angelica can kill her and the rest of us can I dunno chop off bits of her and watch her scream?" Jack says.
"Yes. Thats perfect for that little b****." Angelica says.
"Your gonna have to catch me first." I say while moving the rock infront and prayingto dear god the trap works.
"AHHHH" I hear them shout. Vibia would be proud.
"Matial get us out!" One of them shouts. I move away the rock and shake Jason awake. We start laughing at them for being caught in such a simple trap.
"Hell no. I never wanted to be a career. I regret having to kill those other tributes. Lets just wait for the mutts to get you." He says walking off. "Oh and Sky. You need to tell me how the hell you got over security." He says smiling.
"Another place, another time. How about tommorow afternoon?" I ask jokingly.
"Sounds good." He says with a laugh and he heads off. The careers have stopped shouting for help because they know none will come. I head off to sleep and hope the careers dont have enough sence to dig out.
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