Chapter 14
Bale
It's only been 6 days and there are 10 tributes left already, Bale remembered most of them: Arry, Strawberry, Bale, Rimson, Irri, Voxa, Leena, one person from the capitol, Annie, and the last one he didn't quite remember. Bale ate his monkey the night he found it, he was so hungry he could barely walk. A parachute came flying down besides him with a box. 'Sponsors? Why me? I wasn't good at the training, nor at the opening show.' He thought, grabbing the box in his hands. He held it, it was heavy, he thought it was food. It was a long box, not big, just long, he wondered what's in it. He opened it and saw black cubes covering each part of it, there were 6 cubes beside each other, nothing under them, Bale wondered what they are.
Bale took one of the cubes, turned it around, and there was a timer, a stopped timer. 'A bomb!' He thought, smiling. He was very happy, now he can climb a tree, plant the bombs under him and wait it out. If somebody comes close the bomb will blow him up to pieces, and specially that he got 6 bombs, more then enough to do the job. Bale found a good tree and put one box on each side, back front and both sides. He then is left with 2 bombs, he thought he could keep them to himself on the tree.
The sun started going down when he saw Arry and Strawberry coming under the tree, they didn't see him but they didn't step on the bombs either, so Bale prepared his bombs, the 2 he had with him.
Arry
Arry was with Strawberry under the tallest tree they ever saw. They decided to set camp under it and climb it to see the arena. They made camp, it was night time, they decided to wait till it was dawn to climb the tree. They used their bags as pillows and took shifts, Arry had the first shift.
He was collecting pebbles for his sling shot when he heard a rustle in the leaves. 'Where?' Arry looked behind him, there weren't leaves there, nothing! He looked all around him but there was no way that sound would come from around him, Arry glanced at Strawberry and saw her sleeping, he wondered what the sound was, he thought he was imagining it and went back to watch.
When he went back to Strawberry to tell her to take the shift, the same rustling sound came, then something came flying from across the tree. Arry looked up and saw a black box approaching them. He shouted to Strawberry and held the box in his hands, he flipped it around to see a timer going down; 10,9,8,7. Arry knew what it was immediately, he threw it away, it exploded behind the tree, he got hit a little, but not much, it was a huge explosion, smoke everywhere, then Strawberry ran to Arry asking what is going on, on her way she stepped on a bomb and it exploded her, knocked Arry away into another mine which exploded, killing everyone there, two cannons rang across the sky, loud and clear. The birds flew away while the crows came at them.