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The Growing Light in the Darkness	By : SWSWWAD Category: G through L > Hunger Games, The Views: 2343 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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I wake up as sun rays hit my eyes shining through the gaps between the tree leafs and branches but it isn't the sun light that wakes me, it's a bird that's decided to land on my chest. It's a small blue bird and it's currently got its beck buried in its feathers cleaning its self, it has bright black eyes that sparkles in the sun light and doesn't seem to fear me and fly off like bird normally do around me. I just stay as still as possible as I watch the bird on my chest slowly rise and full with each breath I take, I can't help but smile and force myself away from this little bird. I just lay still trying not to move, make a sound or anything else that might scare it off. It must be because of the bloodshed last night that I don't want this little guy to leave me, it must be because after that I want the peace and calm this little guy gives off to be permanent that I don't want him to fly off. This little guy makes me feel completely at peace despite being in an area and forced to fight other kids to the death, I don't want him to leave and take the peace I'm feeling with him.

"I think you've made a new friend" Katniss quietly whispers into my ear so she doesn't scare of the bird.

"Yeah" Is all I can say as my little feathered friend takes flight as a branch snaps under someone's foot. I quickly sit up and see the person responsible, I only see her for a second but she is unmistakeable. Its Rue, I'll recognise her dark skin and small young body anywhere. She ducks behind a tree as my eyes find her small sparkling ones, I tap Katniss on the shoulder and point her out. "I think we have a shadow"

She laughs at that quietly. "That's what Peeta said during training well she watched me at one of the stations"

"So what should we do because I don't think I could kill even if my life depended on it?" I tell her as I see Rue peek out from behind the tree and quickly duck back when she sees us looking at her.

"I don't think I could ever" Katniss replies looking over at Rue. "I guess it couldn’t hurt to have her join us"

"I think you should ask then as she seems to be following you" I say nudging Katniss gentle towards her. "Just be careful she could be a crazed stalker"

"I hardly think so" Katniss replies taking a few steps towards the tree Rue is hiding behind. "It's ok we won't hurt you Rue" Katniss says to her in a calm friendly voice, Rue sticks her head out from behind the tree and stares at Katniss. "We're about to eat breakfast do you want to join us?" Rue shyly nods and slowly comes out from behind the tree. "Come on we plenty of food"

"Ok" Rue says in reply walking up towards Katniss.

"All we have is crackers" I say going through the packs. "We need to find more food today because this pack will only last two maybe three days"

"We're near water so that should be a good place for snares" Katniss tells me as she and Rue joins me by the pack. "Also judging by the animal tracks we should have no problems hunting"

"I have some barriers we could eat and know where to get more of them" Rue says nervously and now I know I am the one making her nervous as she clings to Katniss's side, I don't know what I did to make her scared of me but I can't blame her, we both our meant to be killing each other after all. "They are bit too sweet but edible"

"They sound great" Katniss sweetly replies as Rue drops some barriers into her hand before giving me some. I stare at one of the barriers, it is black with red streaks and a thin stem. They don't look poisonous and I look them over like I learned in training finding nothing dangerous so I eat one, Rue was right it is too sweet but it's also a welcome break from the dry bland food we've been eating since that rabbit meat ran out. "They are good"

"You were right about them being too sweet but they are good" I tell Rue causing her lips to form a small smile. "Thank you for the barriers Rue"

"Your welcome" Rue replies before she looks up at a flying bird landing on a branch above our heads. Rue whistles a tune and the bird sings it back perfectly, it's a Mockingjay. That bird a Mockingjay, it's too high to identify it by sight but the way it repeats Rue's whistled tune proves that that bird above us is a Mockingjay. "That Mockingjay up there has been following me around since the game began"

"A Mockingjay, I used to sing to them with my father" Katniss tells us as she looks up to the branch where the Mockingjay is perched. "My father would sing and the whole world would go silent because of how beautiful his voice was" A tear rolls down her cheek as she speaks telling me that something bad has happened to father. "I used to love listening to him sing all day long and then to the Mockingjay's as they replay his song" Katniss quickly wipes away her tears with her sleeve as she continues to stare at the Mockingjay above us. "The Mockingjay's would carry his voice all over the District making everyone stop and listen, it really made everyone happy as they worked"

"I don't think I've heard them sing since I was a child" I say looking back up at the Mockingjay. "I used to sing to them when I was a kid but my mother…" I pause as the memory of my mother's actions suddenly replies in my mind. "When my mother found out she cut off their heads and fed them to me for dinner saying I shouldn't be playing around with those rats on wings"

"I can make them sing if you want" Katniss says still looking up at the Mockingjay.

"I'll like to hear that" Rue happily says.

"I would too if you are up for it" I tell her.

"I'll do it" Katniss says standing up.

Down in the valley, the valley so low

Hang your head over, hear the wind blow

Hear the wind blow, dear, hear the wind blow;

Hang your head over, hear the wind blow.

Roses love sunshine, violets love dew,

Angels in Heaven know I love you,

Know I love you, dear, know I love you,

Angels in Heaven know I love you.

If you don't love me, love whom you please,

Throw your arms 'round me, give my heart ease,

Give my heart ease, dear, give my heart ease,

Throw your arms 'round me, give my heart ease.

Build me a castle, forty feet high;

So I can see her as she rides by,

As she rides by, dear, as she rides by,

So I can see her as she rides by.

Write me a letter, 'Send it by mail,

Send it in care of Birmingham Jail,

Birmingham Jail, love, Birmingham Jail,

Send it in care of Birmingham Jail

"That was a beautiful song" Rue says as Katniss finishes. "What's it called?"

"It's called The Valley Song" Katniss tells her smiling.

"You must have your father's voice" I say still not believing how beautiful her voice just was as she sang that song. "The entire Area went silent just to hear you sing" The Mockingjay above us starts to repeat her song and soon more Mockingjay's pick up the song carrying it through the forest. "And the Mockingjay's seem to agree with me because its only good singers they would copy"

"You voice really was pretty" Rue adds making Katniss both smile and blush slightly at the same time.

"Thank…" Katniss starts to reply a branch breaking underneath someone's foot stops her and gets all our attentions. It was close and we look in the direction seeing a spear tip above the bushes getting close and three pairs of feet below the bushes. Careers, it has to be them there's no one else it can be.

"We need to move now" I whisper into Katniss's ear standing up. "Keep quiet and follow me, we are going to get out of their way, climb a tree and hide there until they pass"

"Ok" Katniss whispers back. "Take the packs I got Rue"

We quietly start to move, take both our packs and Katniss picks up Rue much to the surprise of the little girl. We move as fast as we can away from the approaching danger of the Careers hoping we can put as much distance between us as possible, that way we can climb a tree and hide in it until the pass by. But the Careers are moving fast and must be jogging, they are closing the distance on us quickly like they can smell our scent and are following it to find and kill us. I'm getting tired of this cat and mouse game we've been playing with the Career's, I'm tired of always having to run and hide from them and I hate the fact that we have no choice but to run and hide from them. They are just too powerful and alone they are deadly but in a group they are unbetterable, if it was just one of them then together Katniss and I could easily kill them but because they are always in a group we can never stand and fight them. So we move quietly out of their way but their approaching footstep and the increasing volume of their voices tell me it's not working, we need a new plan before they catch and kill us.

"Come on I heard that singing they must be close" I hear Cato tell the other two Career's as they approach. They are close and getting closer, dam it they are going to catch us. I do the only thing I can think of at this moment, I throw our packs into a bush before whispering in Katniss's ear.

"Stay Quiet until they pass" I then push her into the same bush and run away as fast as I can making sure I snap branches and rustle as many leafs as possible, it works the noise I am making works and I hear the Careers start to chase me.

"There I see Seven" I hear Clove say, I turn my head to see her, Cato and Peeta crash through the bushes, it really is a terrifying sight because I see all their deadly weapons shine in the sun light as the draw them and pursue me.

"Remember she's mine" Cato tells her as they run after me.

A shiver runs down my spine hearing him say those words. I have to keep moving and escape before they catch me, if they do catch me then I know Cato will make me suffer a slow and painful death at his hands. So I ran as hard and as fast as I can to escape them and that fate, I don't know where I am running and I don't care as long as I get away from Cato. I run and run and run until my legs burn but even then I don't stop, I jump over fallen trees, duck under loss branches and jump over small streams but no matter what is in my way I don't stop. But it's not enough as the Career's stay right on my tail and never full a step behind, I hope they stop soon because I really don't know how much further I can run from them. I just hope I can out run them and they run out of energy before I do, that's my only chance of survival that I can run longer and further than the Career's on my tail. But I don't get a chance to even try and out run them. I hear it before I see it, I turn my head towards a quiet whistle behind me and only see a blur of silver hurtling towards me. Then a burning pain in my shoulder as I'm knocked to the ground. I can't help but yell out as I land face first onto the floor getting a mouth full of dirt, I try to get up but a large heavy boot stomps down onto my back knocking the wind out of my lungs and slamming me back down onto the ground.

"I got you now Seven" Cato coldly tells me as the cold steel of his sword rests over my back, I feel the coldness of the steel run over my back as he moves the tip of the sword around as if he's trying to decide where to stab me first. "Now how do I kill you? Slowly or quickly, painless or painful or should I have some fun with you first, you're not best looking girl but you'll do"

"Before you do that Cato" Clove says stepping towards me until her feet are right in front of my face, she kneels down and pulls out the knife out of my back forcing me to bite my lips to hold in a pain filled cry. "We could use her as bait to get to fire girl"

"She must be working with her I saw them on the roof night before the game and Haymitch caught them together before that" Peeta tells them looking at me with a look of disgust in his eyes, I smirk at him knowing that he's jealous of me and Katniss working together in the Area because I'm sure he wishes to be in my place. "I'm sure if we make her scream Katniss will come running to save her"

"Good idea" Cato says pressing down harder on my back with his foot. "You get your girl and I get to have some fun with seven"

"And what do I get?" Clove asks looking at me as if I was a meal.

"Well if you can kill Three when we return, he's out lived his usefulness to us" Cato answers making Clove smile. "Just make it a good show so Seven her knows what she's in for" I gulp hearing that as both Cato and Clove laugh.

"It will be a pleasure" Clove replies wiping my blood off of her knife with the back of my shirt. "I'll have his screams filling the Arena until everyone's deaf if I have too"

"Let's get back to camp" Cato tells everyone as he stomps on my head and I black out.

Later That Night

I wake up with one hell of a head ach and I feel a massive lump on the back of my head where Cato's boot kicked me, my shoulder still stings and burns from Cloves knife but I no longer feel any blood leaving that wound. I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that the bleedings stopped because I have a feeling that slowly bleeding to death would be a far better death then whatever they have planned. I try to move but I find my wrists bound together by a thick rope so tightly that I feel my wrists blister and bleed. My ankles are in the same predicament as I look down to see them bound and bleeding, I can't see any of the Career's nearby but they must be close because I can hear them cheerfully speak and joke around. It must be night time because of how cold the air is and the darkness around me, the only light source comes from a fire which I'm guess is where the Careers are right now.

"Oh look who's awake" I hear Clove call out, I turn my head around to see her leaning against the side of the Cornucopia smiling and twirling a knife around in her hands. "Cato ready to show her my work?"

"Of course" Cato replies dragging something with him as he steps in front of me. "Take a good look because you are in for a lot worse then what we did to him" Cato drops what he was dragging in front of me and I throw up as soon as my eyes fall upon it covering my lamp with the contents of my stomach. It's the mangled body of the boy from District Three still breathing but from the look on his face every breath is agony for him. He is covered in deep cuts which have been covered up by dark red dried blood, he's eyes have been cut out, his ears cut off and all four of his limbs are twisted in awful sickening positions. "Now I'm going to put him out of his misery something that you won't have the option of"

"Like my master piece?" Clove asks as Cato draws his sword. "It took a lot of work because he wouldn't stay still but I think it turned out well" Cato's sword slices through the boys neck cutting his head clean off and covering all three of us in his warm red blood making us look like monsters from the old horror films my dad has in the basement where my mother won't find them. "I'm going to miss tinkering with it but Cato might let me help him turning you into his master piece" The Cannon booms and the boy's face appears in the sky but it booms again straight afterwards making all of us look to the sky as Peeta's face appears. "Looks like someone killed Lover Boy for us"

"Yeah but I was looking forward to making him watch as I slowly tear Fire Girl apart before killing him" Cato replies as again the cannon booms and sadly this time its Rue's face in the sky. Now I know who killed Peeta, it was Katniss, Peeta probably attacked Rue and Katniss killed him as he killed Rue. "All well at least we could still have fun with Fire Girl"
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