I just saw Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters...

Disclaimer: Percy... he... Clarisse... Leven Rambin... Glimmer... Clarisse is better than Glimmer at weapons... her hair was brown... Luke... Kronos... my head... it's about to blow up... so different from the book...

While we walk back to camp, I can't help but think that Maddie's gone off the deep end. I mean, she called that mutt Alistair. And the look in her eyes when she was stabbing that thing is unforgettable. With only eight left, she might be going crazy because Alistair isn't her. Maybe she thought he deserved to win more than she does. "So, Maddie, did you know Alistair back home?" Anna asks timidly.

"Yeah, I was so good with knives they moved me up to the seventeen year class. Alistair was right before me in line name-wise, so we were usually put together for hand-to-hand combat and mock battles. Last July he asked me out. The best six months of my life I used to tell him. Used to. Six months later, he won the male tribute trials. A month after that, I won the female trials.

'When I was released from the mock arena, a boy from the fifteen-year old class named Gloss Martinez told me that he caught Alistair sneaking upstairs in his house with his sixteen year old sister Cashmere during the female trials. I was so angry, because it turns out that he had been cheating on me the entire time. I dumped him the next time I saw him.

"Then I started going out with Zack. During the goodbyes, Cashmere came in. I forgave her when she told me that Alistair had asked her out in June. He had two girlfriends the entire time we were going out. I guess a little love for him was still in my heart when he died. But it doesn't matter now, because he didn't take me seriously, and now he's dead. Or is he?" she asks, grinning.

I glance sideways at Anna. Yep, she's definitely crazy. "Well, let's go back to base camp. We can go rabbit hunting. Tori and I aren't bad archers, and they're a lot easier to take down prey with than knives or axes," Maddie says brightly. Since when has she called me Tori?

We finally reach camp. Oliver comes barreling towards us. "Please don't make me guard with him ever again. Please," he says, gasping for breath. I look over his shoulder. River smiles and waves good naturedly. I trudge through the humid air. Even though I'm used to humidity from back home, this air is killing me. It's like trying to breathe in water, or maybe wood smoke.

Anna crawls into the sleeping bag. "Wake me up when we go tribute hunting," she yawns. "Me too," I say, yawning. I dream that Marlin is one the beach with some girl that looks like me from behind. He's wearing a tuxedo, so he must be getting married. The girl must smile, because he smiles back and kisses her cheek.

"I love you, Azula," he says. What? When the woman turns around, I see it is Azula, except she has black hair. Usually her hair is blonde. "I love you too, Marlin," she says, smirking. Then she looks straight at me and says, "Please die, ViVi. I could have all of this and more. You wouldn't want to hold back on your little sister, would you?" She laughs evilly.

"NO! NO! MARRY ANYONE YOU WANT, BUT NOT HER! NOT HER, PLEASE! PLEASE, ANYONE BUT HER!" I scream. Someone shakes me. "Get up! Stop screaming your lungs out!" Oliver yells, kneeling beside me.

"Get away from me," I growl. He rolls his eyes, but he backs up. "What time is it?" I ask River groggily. "About nine-thirty. We're about to eat. Who's guarding tonight? I'll do it," he says. I face a dilemma. He can guard, of course.

But if I go with Maddie and Anna again, Oliver will probably try to kill River. I could go with Anna and Oliver, but then Maddie would be River, and who knows what she'll do? And I could hunt with Maddie and Oliver, but both are unpredictable, and I doubt I can fend off both of them at once. "Okay, you can guard alone. I'll take the rest hunting," I say. He punches the air with glee.

We eat berries and rabbits again. There are no faces in the sky tonight. Oliver clips the ring on the end of mace to a strap on his back. We set out. Maddie walks in front of me, because I don't trust her to walk behind me anymore. Anna walks behind me, because she's the only one in the group I can trust to watch my back. Oliver brings up the rear.

After about five hours of walking down the path with our flashlight beams (another sponsor gift that was received today, while I was sleeping) in front of us, Maddie stops abruptly and turns around. I see her grin evilly and point up ahead to a nearby tree. She turns back around and walks a little closer to the tree she pointed at. "Alistair, you silly boy, we know it's you. Stop trying to scare us, because it's not working," she says, the madness evident in the way she talks, stopping and starting again randomly. She must be really messed up. Even Annie doesn't do that, and she's certifiably insane now.

I hear Oliver snort from behind me. I push past Maddie and hold out my flashlight. And Caroline from District 3, who is hanging upside down from a snare, raises her hand to shield her eyes from the beam of my flashlight.