Day 6 of the Hunger Games
I woke up to a light rain I untied myself from a tree and climbed down. I pulled some bread and meat out and ate the rest of it. I tried not to think about yesterday, but it always came back to me. I managed to keep my breakfast down. I walked aimlessly not knowing where to go. I felt like somebody was following me I stopped walking and turned around and saw no one. I picked up my pace and the trees were beginning to thin out. Just as I reached the edge of a cliff, I heard leaves crunch under footsteps that weren't my own.
I was being followed.
"Who's there?" I called out, sounding a lot braver than I felt.
"Only me," a dangerously familiar voice called from behind a tree.
He stepped out. It was Cavail.
"Hello Cavail," I said defiantly, while sticking my chin out.
"I hope you weren't avoiding me Dyne," Cavail stated mockingly.
My stomach began to churn from the predatory look in his eyes. Cavail held his axe tighter and swung it towards me. I screamed and Cavail swung the axe over my head. I rolled out of the way in time and down the mountain. Cavail and I are rolling around on the ground, both fighting for the top position. He dropped his axe a little while back. Now I'm just fighting to get on top so I can run away.
Cavail got on top of me and threw a punch. I threw Cavail off of me and he rolled off to the side a little bit. He landed by his axe and ripped it out of the ground. I grabbed a knife out of my vest, and stood up and ready myself in a fighting position. Cavail charged at me so quickly that if I blinked I would have died. I ducked and stabbed him in the leg. He stumbled back a bit, but charged forward again. He swung and his axe grazed my arm. I could feel the blade cut open my skin.
I stumbled back and Cavail charged at me again and swung and cut my leg badly. The blade grazed my pant leg, ripping the pants and a large area of flesh on my leg . My mind was flooded with the overwhelming pain radiating from my left leg. I let out a scream of agony. Through the soul-crushing pain, I managed to take off in the other direction of the woods. I looked back to see Cavail pulled a knife out of his belt and threw it at me. The blade sunk into my shoulder. I screamed again and fell. Cavail ran to me, ready to deliver my death. I laid on the ground, my hand slowly pulling the knife out of my shoulder.
"Nighty nighty Paige," Cavail taunted, as he raised his axe, ready to kill me.
I sat up and slashed him across the gut. Cavail screamed and fell to the ground. I got up and hobbled away. I ran to a tree and hid in the hole in it. Cavail ran past the tree not even noticing me. I counted to sixty before climbing out my hiding spot.
I saw a figure run past me. The figure looked so familiar.
"Wait!" I called out. The figure stopped and I ran up to him and it was Micah. I hugged him immediately. "How did you get here? Where's Aidan and Indira?" I asked.
"I don't know how I got here and I don't know where Indira and Aidan are," Micah said confused.
I looked at Micah closely his eyes were different. Instead being chocolate brown it was blue. Now I was getting the feeling something was not right here.
"Micah can you go get me some water from the river? We're running low," I said handing him an extra canteen.
"Okay," Micah replied.
This was a test. Micah walked away to river strangely going the right away. I heard a beeping noise and looked up to see a large sponsor gift. I opened it and it was a sword and a note attached to it.
"It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it,"
My suspicions were confirmed this isn't Micah. I looked up and Micah was standing over me.
"What do we have here? A sword?" Micah asked.
Micah blinked and his eyes were red. He blinked again and they're back to blue again. The wrong color. I took the sword and sliced "Micah's" head. His head fell off his body and instead blood going everywhere all I saw was disconnected wires. He was a robot made to kill me. I looked up at the sky feeling rebellious. I said the word before anyone can stop me or switch the cameras off me.
"Rebellion!" I screamed.
I know immediately that I'll get punished for that. Now, beyond a shadow of a doubt the cameras are off me. But I kept talking.
"Do you see what they do? They flaunt death like it's some kind parade! They don't respect you and they don't care about your loved ones! What if you were in here, being forced to fight to your death, and they made you kill your loved ones? Do you know how that feels? I'll tell you how it feels! It feels horrible and I'm sure you can imagine why! You wanna know what I think? Down with the Capitol! I want to live to see it burn-"
I can't finish my sentence because all of sudden I'm tackled to the ground.
"Paige, shut up!"
That was the last thing I heard before blacking out.