Onyx knelt on the floor frozen at the information that the letter in her hands contained; District Thirteen was a thing of stories that were always told in whispers around the seam and in the Hob, because of the destruction and horror that has followed since their obliteration. The District that wanted to rebel against the Capitol but instead was destoryed by bombs that they never saw coming, she looked up at Cato and the others who were stille reading the letters that had come in their own packages, probably from their own mentors.
Sitting there in the silence for a few moments, Onyx contemplated running and getting out of their way just in case they decided to attack her anyway, but her father told her to stick with them; that and her side shot pain through her every time she moved slightly so she just she sighed inwardly, if it came to her running to survive then she was dead so she would take the risk.
Cato finished reading the letter in his hands in confusion and looks down at the young girl in front of him, Brutus had told him that she was his ticket to staying alive in the rebellion that was quickly dawning on them; a rebellion they all knew was brewing. He gave a silent sigh of relief at the change of events, what he had told her when she was ready to die was true, she did interest him, she was a mystery that he could now try and solve without killing her.
He looked up at the teenagers that he had somehow made a bond with, as hard as he tried not too, and was happy that he didn't have to kill them anymore, particularly since Clove had become something similar to a sister to him in the years that he had come to know her.
"So are you going to kill me or are we going to figure out what to do with the rebellion?" Onyx asked Cato as she broke the silence, she couldn't just continue sitting there in silence with her life hanging on the line and Cato was the leader so the others would follow whatever he told them to do.
Looking down at her in disbelief at her bluntness, he rolled his eyes before looking around at his allies to see what they thought of the situation; Marvel shrugged as if uncaring but Cato could see the relief in his eyes as the grip on the spear loosened, while Clove nodded at him with a small smile at the events that had taken place, Glimmer looked rather shaken at the prospect of the rebellion coming to them but she just nodded to him as she gripped the package to her chest.
"Let's go to the Cornucopia, we'll figure out what to do from there, hopefully the others will make their way there too" Cato ordered lightly, he knew that the next few hours were going to be rocky with the other tributes but they needed to work together if there really was a chance of them all surviving.
As he moved to set out Cato let out a small hiss of pain as he realised just how much of a bad decision he made when he put too much weight on his right leg where the burn on his thing now made itself known; he clenched his jaw trying to wait out the pain before braing himself for the walk back to where they hopefully had medicine to help him.
Following Cato's example, Onyx bit her lip as she slowly tried to rise up from the floor, her skin stretching agonizingly with every movement causing small whimpers to escape with every centimetere she rose.
The ground soon disappeared from underneath her which caused a squeak to escape her lips as she found herself resting in someones arms, her injured side hit the person's chest causing her to clutch their shirt, hoping to keep her cries to herself rather than show any more weakness in front of the older tributes around her.
Looking up in cinfusion, she saw Marvel staring straight ahead as he carried her through the forest around them, his eyes flitting down to her every so often, maybe to make sure that she was still awake or alive; Glimmer picked up Marvel and Onyx's packages before she followed after them while keeping their eyes open for any threats, just because their mentors said the Games were over, didn't mean that they were safe.
"Didn't think you had a soft spot" Onyx whined lightly, she tried to make it into a tease aimed towards the old boy yo keep her mind off the pain but every movement made Onyx want to pass out to escape the burning that ran through her.
Marvel scoffed bitterly as he moved his gaze back down to the girl in his arms, he didn't know what came over him when he picked her up, but seeing her trying to stand with the pain that ran through her with every movement just made Marvel want to try and relieve it enough that she wasn't suffering with every step that she took "What do you know about me?"
"Not much" Onyx conceded quietly, she knew very little about the people around her, but what she did know were these teenagers were like Darius, they were pushed into a role that they needed to fill but didn't want to be; they wanted to be free, she could see it in their eyes.
After a few minutes of walking in silence the small group came out into the open clearning that had been soaked in blood just a few days ago, both Coral and the young boy from three were sat in the campsite with a letters in their hands as they tried to make out the truth of what was going on.
At the small rustling noise that the small group made as they left the forest, both Careers looked up in alarm before they caught sight of the rest of the group but both froze in surprise as their eyes landed in Onyx in Marvels arms.
Walking over to one of the heavier cases that they had in the campsite, Marvel gently placed Onyx down onto the floor, propping her up against the case before moving to maybe find something to help the girl out while Glimmer placed her package down beside her and left without a word.
Knowing that her father probably sent her something for the burn, she rummages through the box and grabs the only thing she didn't know about, the small pot was an unknown so she opened it carefully to reveal a beige coloured paste; blinking, she smiles lightly, she had seen this when Haymitch had burnt his hand on the train, it had healed his burn in an hour which was lucky for her.
Before placing it on her own injury, he looked over to where Cato was sitting down on a crate pressing a wet cloth onto a wound on his thigh, she had noticed the burn when he was readying himself to kill her and knew if she used the paste on him then she would be proving that she was on his side.
"Cato" She called out to him softly to try and gain his attention, not only did she gain his but she also gained the rest of the camps who eyed her carefully but wanted to watch the events unfold to see what she was going to do.
The blonde turned to her confused as she called him, he tried to hide the pain that the burn was causing him but was failing with every movement that caused his nerves to protest; the young girl motioned for him to go over to her and patted the ground to the left of her, cautiously he limped over to her and dropped onto the ground with a groan that he couldn't hold in.
Putting some of the paste onto her fingers, Onyx made a bold move and began to gently rub the paste onto his thigh, he grunted in surprise as her fingers spread the paste onto the burn of his thigh and nearly hit her hand away; he didn't expect this when she had called him over to her but after a few minutes he was shocked to feel that the burning pain had slowly began to dull down until that part of his thigh was numb
When he finally looked at her hands properly he was shocked to see the tub of healing paste in her hands, he knew what the paste was for because his parents always needed to keep a pot of it around in the house and he knew Brutus had needed it during their training time after Enobaria threw a candle at him angrily.
"Dad sent me this in the package" she told him softly as she spots the mixture of surprise and confusion on his face, she could see that the paste had began to work it's magic because he was no longer tensing up in pain with every movement.
"Why did you use it on me first?" he growled out confused as to why she used it on him when she had an injury which was much worse than his own; he pauses in his anger as he notices her flinch slightly away from him.
The others in the camp looked at the young girl shocked that she had healed the one she should have considered her enemy before healing herself, Marvel had the curious urge to pull Cato away from the girl when he got angry but then noticed that the anger his friend held dissipated almost suddenly.
She shrugged a shoulder in answer to his question as she started to carefully removed the jacket that was practiaclly melted to her side before even more gently lifting her t-shirt over her head with no qualms about her surroundings; Cato let out a quiet, surprised yelp and jumped up from the ground, turning away from her almost as soon as the fabric reached her chest.
Rolling her eyes in amusment at the actions of the older boy, she finished removing her t-shirt completely, although, while her stomach was bare she had a wrapping around her chest just like most of the other girls did; she looked up at Cato who still had his back to her, then over at the other two boys who also had their backs to her while Clove, Coral and Glimmer looked on amused.
Onyx huffed in amusement at the actions of the three of them before carefully layering the paste along her side evenly, the fast acting pain relief was bliss as the healing agent began to numb the area and work at fixing up the damage to her nerve endings.
"What is wrong with you three?" Onyx laughed lightly as a smile lit her face at the absurditiy of the three boys and their actions, she got that she was a young woman, younger than them but it wasn't like she would have stripped off without something covering her chest. "Seeing as how two, out of the three of you, are eighteen. I'd expect you've seen more than this"
"That isn't the point" Cato muttered to himself as clenched his eyes shut, Marvel hesitantly looked over to Onyx and sighed in relief as he noticed the wrapping around her chest, they all knew that some of the poorer districts weren't too bothered by modesty and assumed that Onyx may not have had a wrapping on hence why they all spun around.
Marvel shook his head at the young girl and then glared at Glimmer who was giggling behind her hand at the boys and their actions, it seemed that he already owed the young girl and this rebellion something considering they were able to get his District partner to laugh a genuine laugh. "It's all good man, she's got a wrapping on"
Opening his eyes and sending a small look of discomfort at Marvel, Cato turned to Onyx who just rose her eyebrows at the boy with a small smirk of mischief aimed at him; the blonde moved to sit back down next to her and looked around the edge of the forest for any signs of the other tributes, after ten minutes of peace he squinted out at one part of the forest.
"There's someone out on the edge" Cato informed the rest of the camp quietly as he spotted a small flash of red that ducked behind the bushes around the edge of the forest closest to the fields of long grass.
Watching the healing of her side was rather boring but Onyx had nothing else to do until she heard Cato and moved her gaze to where he was watching before she also noticed a flash of red; a red she had been familiar with from training. "It's Rissa from Five"
How she remembered everyones names, she didn't know, but Onyx knew that she was most likely the less threatening of the group so she carefully got up from the floor and slowly made her way towards the edge of the forest with her hands raised; she noticed Marvel and Clove watch her. Cloves hand slowly went to the belt around her waist but she didn't pick a knife out yet, she didn't know if they could trust the other tribute so if she made any move to hurt the younger girl then she would have a knife to the throat.
Rissa watched Onyx carefully as she got closer to her, she had watched the younger girl in training and was surprised when she had learnt that the girl was a year younger than her rather than older; she was moving her weight from one leg to another waiting for any sign of danger, she could see the girl from two going for one of her knives but she hoped that she was out of range of the knife.
"Rissa?" Onyx inquired gently, startling the other girl out of her thoughts as the red head turned her attention back to the younger girl "Listen, I'm not going to hurt you, did you get a letter from your mentor too?"
Watching Onyx, Rissa was shocked that she knew her name considering she wasn't much of a threat to her or an ally, she nodded her head once in confirmation that he had recieved a letter which caused Onyx to smile reassuringly as she stopped a few feet from the girl; she could see the girls eyes darting between her and the Careers behind her and knew that this was going to be a hard task to reassure her.
"They're not going to hurt you, our mentors told us that the rebellion is coming and that we need to ally ourselves together and run" she explained carefully, she would have had the same reservations if it wasn't the fact that they were just about to kill her when the letters came and then they let her go "will you join us and let us talk? I promise you that they won't attack"
He initial instincts were telling her to run but instead Rissa slowly stepped forward towards Onyx who smiled brightly at the older girl, holding out her hand for the young girl who hesitantly smiled back as she took the hand that was offered and allowed herself to be led to where the others stood wearily.
This was going to be a long day.