Chapter 9. Johanna has made an ally. What will happen to her and the girl of 10? Read and find out! Hope you´ll enjoy it.

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I don´t know why but I sleep the full 4 hours without awaking although there have been two deaths, which I knew by 10. So when it´s time for my watch she wakes me up and goes to sleep. Now that I´m awake I pass the time by thinking about my family.

I can´t remember much of my dad. I was 4 when Snow killed him. He died in an "accident": they found him in the woods. A tree has fallen onto him. When I was little I believed it was an accident but now I know he has spoken bad about the Capitol, the Games and Snow.

That is probably the reason why first my brother and now me were reaped. Eric. I really loved him. He was a really great brother and has done more for me than my mother. He was 5 years older than me and I admired him. He was pretty good in making things with wood. When I was 6 he built me a little chair which was fantastic.

But you know his life didn´t last a long time. When he was 16 - like me now – he was reaped for the 63th annual Hungergames. He was good at making chairs of wood and things like that but he wasn´t a cruel person. He couldn´t kill anyone. Besides he thought it would be better if some other kid won. He runs straight into the bloodbath and a carreer of 1 killed him. It was very horrible to watch. I have the picture of his dead body ever in my mind and can´t get rid of it, just like the face of the district 5 boy.

The sun is rising and I go to wake up 10. She gets up and we talk a little bit.

"11 death, 13 alive" I state dryly.

"Really fast going, isn´t it?" she asks.

"Nah, I think it´s kind of normal" I reply.

"What do you miss most?" she looks at me, her eyes are boring into mine.

"The forest. I miss the smell of the air in it and how it feels to climb on our trees"

"But here are also trees" she looks a bit confused.

"There are many differences. The trees in here aren´t the same as home and the air doesn´t smell right. You can´t copy the nature that easily"

She nods and then there´s silence between us. I stand up and look after my traps. In one there isn´t anything and I let it where it is but in the other there´s a rabbit. I take my knife and separate the meat and the other things like the fur.

I go back to 10. She isn´t there anymore and I´m wondering why. Her knife is laying on the ground. I walk around very quietly and look to every hiding I know but I can´t find her. I frown. All of the supplies are still in the hole. If she had left me, she wouldn´t have gone without taking my food and weapons away.

Maybe she is collecting berries but I think she would have told me if she was going to do it. Worrying about her doesn´t make sense, Johanna. It is right, I can´t do anything. I sigh, shrug my shoulders and I am about climbing up the tree when I hear her scream. I stop my movement and run to her at once. I see how the boy of 12 is fighting with her. He has an axe in his hand but it doesn´t seem like he can handle it very good.

Wait, an axe! I have to get it. He raises it over his head and stabs at into 10, the cannon bumps. I´m a little time shocked but then I run to him and throw the axe some feet away. He looks surprised at me and I use this time to stab my knife into his stomach. He gasps but still doesn´t give up. He throws me on the ground and takes the knife out. He throws it but I duck quickly.

"Haven´t thought you even could held a knife" he says

"Afraid?" I ask.

"No. I will kill you although you aren´t such a weakling as I thought"

He fights with me and I´m laying on the ground with him above me. His knees are on my chest. Breathing is hard. The dammit axe just lays 5 inches away. I collect all my power and get out of his grip. Than all goes very quickly:

He is going to get me when I take the axe and shove it into his head. His eyes go wide, then he falls onto the ground and one minute later I hear the cannon. "That was for my ally" is all I say. The only good thing is that there are 2 more dead, means not so many opponents. Ugh, that sounds very cruel.

Wait! An axe. I have an axe! Now the games will be easy. Before the Hovercraft comes I take his big in which are 2 more axes, 3 knifes, 5 fishes and dry apples. I look at his dead body and feel weird. I have killed him without thinking about his family or friends. And 10! I´m so sorry for her, I -No time to show feelings, Johanna.

I turn around and get back to my accommodation but as I arrive there, I´m not alone. 3 hungry lions are waiting for me but there aren´t normal: her teeth are twice as big and her claws are sharper. Within a second I run for my life but the lions are much faster than me. Fuck, one has caught my arm with his claw. Now there gapes a big wound. What can I do? Probably I am going to die..

Stop thinking this! The river! I run straight into it and begin to swim. At the middle I look behind me and see that the lions stand there but don´t make a move into the water. 2 of them go away but the last stays.

I swim in his direction. I can feel the ground under my feet. So I take my axe, aim at the lion and score perfectly between his eyes. He´s dead within seconds. I take a ling breath and go to it, take my axe and the body of the lion. There´s also a good thing about it:

now I have enough meat for the whole Hungergames, I can use the fur as a blanket and the teeth and claws are really sharp. I can take them as a weapon.

At my accommodation I grill the rabbit. I don´t care the carreers could see the smoke. When they want to come I have no problem with that. I eat the rabbit with the crackers of 5. It´s very good. I have pretty many supplies but I sorrow about my wound. I look at it. It´s pretty deep. I go to collect some herbage to take away the pain but I don´t know which I can use. I give up and head back.

When I arrive I see a parachute flying to me. First I´m a bit irritated. Why the hell would someone sponsor me? But then I remember I have killed 2 tributes and have survived an attack of 3 lions. One of it I have killed. Sounds pretty good, doesn´t it?

I open the parachute. In there there is medicine- a salve. I cream it onto the wound then I take the lion fur and climb up the tree. The hymne is playing and the faces appear: the girl of 8 – probably killed by the carreers in the night- , the girl of 10, the girl of 12 and the boy of 12.

15 death, 9 alive. A pity all of the carreers live.

With that thought I fall asleep and dream of the dead bodies of 10 and 12 and big lions which hunt me and my family.

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