Chapter 8
"You had better be glad I need you more than them or you'd be dead right now," Cato said glaring at Marvel for the 5th time today, I sat back smirking.
My brother came to wake us up and found us the way we fell asleep last night. My brother is very protective of me when it comes to other guys. Marvel should be extremely happy that he's still alive right now.
The rest of the day was extremely boring. We didn't find any tributes and I had to walk extremely far to not find any tributes. Cato had told Marvel and Finny to keep watch. I sighed happily; I could sleep with my brother tonight. When we crawled in the tent I grabbed my sleeping bag and moved it next to my brothers. He chuckled as we climbed into our sleeping bags. I laid my head on Cato's chest feeling safe. Before I had another thought I was asleep.
===2
"Guys get up, there's a lot of smoke," Marvel yelled making both of us jump.
We scrambled around getting our weapons. I grabbed my sword and slung it on my back. I ran out to the others with my brother on my heels. I picked up a spear as we all ran to the smoke. It was a lot of smoke, so the Gamemakers were trying to lead us to someone.
"Look, there's fire girl," Marvel shouted pointing at a pond.
Sure enough there she was. She looked up at us and her eyes grew in fear. I smirked and started after her. Everybody was following me as we chased her to a tree. We all got to the tree and I could see that she was really high up. Glimmer pulled out an arrow and shot it into the tree.
"You suck so fucking bad," I said shaking my head.
"You think you can do better," she said pushing the bow into my hands.
I knew I could do better; I took an arrow out and aimed up into the tree. I had a perfect shot of her and let go of the arrow. The arrow hit her calf as she let out a scream of pain. I smirked handing the bow back to Glimmer, she looked pissed.
"Nice shot sis, come on climb up and finish her off," Cato said.
"You're crazy, there's no way that tree is going to hold me," I said.
"Come on, we'll catch you if you fall," Marvel said as I sighed and nodded.
I started climbing the tree. Katniss had already pulled the arrow out of her leg and started climbing higher to get away from me. I was almost there, so I pulled my sword from its sheath. That's when I felt the branch snap and I started falling. Peeta caught me thankfully and my sword hit the ground.
"Thanks Peeta, the next one to suggest I climb a tree is going to get punched in the face," I growled making the others cringe.
Peeta sat me on the ground. I looked up at the tree she was looking back at me. She knew I was the one she had to watch. I smirked up at her she was going to be my kill. She glared before turning her attention to her injured leg.
"Let's let her stay up there, she's going to have to come down sooner or later," I said turning back to the others. "She has a burn from the fire and from where I hit her with the arrow.
"Ok let's set up camp. Glimmer, Finny go find fire wood," Cato ordered, they both huffed before going.
I sat down and waited for them to get back. My brother sat next to me with my sword in his hands. He was looking it over for any chips. He found a rock and started sharpening the edges.
"Nothing big only a few chips probably from when you fell and it hit the ground," Cato told me I nodded.
I laid my head on his shoulder and watched. Peeta brought some wood over. It's funny, he wasn't even on firewood duty and he still had some faster than the other two. Marvel started the fire as we all sat around it. My brother handed me my sword back, so I put it back in its sheath. I smiled and kissed his cheek, before leaning on his shoulder again.
"Hey what's this?" Glimmer asked as she and Finny got back arms full of wood.
"Its fire, you know keeps you warm, cooks food. I sometimes question your intelligence," I said, before cracking up laughing my brother, Peeta and Marvel laughed too.
She was mad I knew it; she dropped the firewood and sat down. We all stayed up and talked for a little longer. My brother put Glimmer and Finny on watch. I laid down beside my brother. He pulled me to his side and let me sleep on his arm.
===2
"CAT GET UP!" I heard my brother shouting as he pulled me up.
I don't know what's happening, until I felt a prick in my neck making me scream out in pain. I looked and saw Peeta and Marvel running, so I followed them. I felt 3 more pricks on my body before jumping into the pond. I was dizzy and tired. Marvel and Peeta helped me. I looked around, before everything went black.
**Marvel's POV**
"Is she ok?" Peeta asked me as he carried Cata.
I was trying to support her brother. The Valentine twins were hard to take down. Cata has four tracker jackers stings, while Cato has 3. Luckily Peeta and I got away in time. Glimmer and Finny were stung to death, at least it wasn't Cata. Fire girl got away before we could catch her, but I could tell that Cata wanted to kill her. We made it back to the Cornucopia and saw bomb boy still wiring the bombs. Peeta and I put Cata and Cato in there sleeping bags. Cata was shaking and had broken out into a sweat. She had a fever. I looked at Cato he had the same symptoms, but not to the same degree. Peeta walked out of the tent to do I have no idea. I sat down and looked at Cata. I was scared for her; I didn't want anything like this to happen. Peeta came in and put a wet cloth on both of their heads.
"Do you think since they can feel the others pain that they feel the effects of every sting on both of them?" Peeta asked.
"I don't know, but I really hope not," I said looking at Cata.