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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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"Lisa" I stir and slowly open my heavy eyes, how long was I asleep? It felt like only a few minutes but it can't be, the rising sun I saw this morning before closing my eyes is no high in the shies. "We are Lisa take a look around you"

I blink several times looking over the shoulder of a strong man that makes me feel like there isn't a danger in the world, my father. All around me is beauty, flowers of all colours and kinds grow all over the ground and they smell just as good as they look, the trees surrounding us are full of life and their green leafs give us shade from the high bright sun while their birds perched on the branches sings their songs just for us. I look in every direction and smile at everything I see, I must have died and gone to heaven as anything this beautiful can't exist on earth. All around me is green life and wild animals living in harmony with each other, they pay us no notice as we stand here only giving us a quick glance before going back to what they were doing before. I see deer's grazing with their young, rabbits hopping from hole to hole, birds sitting on braches singing happily and squirrels eating nuts making me laugh at their puffy cheeks. I jump down off my father's back still giggling at the squirrel's puffy faces and imitating them by puffing out my own cheeks that makes my father laugh. It's only now that I notice it, I hear it first a sound of water crashing down onto more water. I run through the bushes and then I see it, a large waterfall filling a pond and casting a rainbow above it. I see crystal clear water only being ruined by the ripples caused by the falling water, the ground around the small pound is flat stone already dampened by water spray from the waterfall. I look back at my father who's just emerging through the bushes smiling, he smiles back as he approaches me.

"I knew you would like this place" he tells me kneeling down in front of me. "This place is a family secret so don't tell anyone" I nod showing him I understand. "Good girl, now go have some fun while I go gather some of those berries you like so much"

"Ok" I happily say looking back to the pound.

"Don't wonder off I will be back soon" My father tells me as I take my shirt off readying myself for a swim in the pound, again I nod continuing to undress. "Good have fun"

"I will" I tell him as I watch him disappear into the bushes.

I loss the last of my clothes and dump them in a messy pile on the flat smooth stone before diving in, I jump and land in the cool water and my skin feels great as it cools down from the hot sun. I swim around the lake enjoying this time of freedom no matter how short it will be, soon we will have to go back to my mother and back inside the fence. My father normally goes outside of the fence and brings home these berries that will make you weep at how good they taste but this is the first time he's taken me with him, normally he leaves me at home with my witch mother but this time I'm overwhelmed with joy at the fact that he's taken me with him. He woke me up before dawn and asked if I wanted to come, we had to leave early so we will have darkness to hide in as we cross the fence. The fence that surrounds the district is meant to be electrified and all the Peacekeepers say it is but that's a lie, it hasn't been electrified since my father was a child as all the power meant for the fences goes to feed the Capital's power needs. I'm so glad he's taken me with him as this lake is quickly becoming my most favour place in the world. I look from side to side as I watch animals walk by but I see no sign of father returning, he has been gone for some time and should be back by now. I'm starting to get worried so I get up and put my clothes on not caring that my bodies still wet and that wetness causing them to cling to my body.

I get up and walk into the bushes I saw my father walk into and it isn't long before I hear his voice. I follow his voice further into the bushes until I can hear every word he's saying, I see him soon after speaking with someone and not knowing what to do I hide somewhere I can still see and hear him. My father has his back to me but I can tell he's relaxed and seems to know who it is he is speaking to, he looks calm like he's meet him before but I haven't seen that man before in my life. Who is he? He has long black hair, grey eyes, a young handsome face, and strong arms but not as strong as fathers and he's wearing some sort of grey uniform that I have never seen before. Who is this man? What is my father doing with him? Who is he to my father? These questions fill my mind as I watch him talk with my father, they seem friendly with each other and comfortably. But who is he?

"Come on with this we should be able to hit them hard" My father says but I'm left wondering who is he going to hit, there's no one else around here for him to hit and my father's not the violent type despite winning the Hunger Games before I was born. "We should make our move now"

"No the other aren't ready" The stranger replies in a calm voice that makes me shiver, there's something in his voice that terrifies me. "We have to be patient and wait tell we are all ready, only then we will make them pay"

"Ok tell give Coin this" My father says as he hands him a small package before he turns around to leave. "See you next month" The man disappears into the trees without a word or making a sound and my father walks towards a bush where those mouth-watering berries are growing, I use this time and sneak back to the lake where I lay down to dry off in the sun. Seconds after I lay down I hear my father return, I sit up to see him standing over me with a small bag filled with those delicious berries. "Ready to go?"

"Yes" I nod smiling, I want to ask him about that man but if I do he may not take me back here, I'll keep it a secret for now until I figure out how to ask him and what to say when I do.

"It's time to wake up" My father tells me but how can I wake up, I'm awake right now and walking beside him. "Lisa wake up we have to move" My father says with urgency but it's not his voice, he says it in a voice that sounds like an angel. "Lisa come on wake up"

My eyes shoot open and I look up into the face of the angel that that voice belong to, her grey eyes look at me with worry and fear. I start sit up but before o can get half way Katniss pushes me back down laying her warm body on top of me, I go to ask her what she's doing but before I can make a sound her hands cover my mouth. That's when I hear a branch snap under the weight of someone's boot, then I hear footsteps, multiple footsteps some sounding heavy like they belong to a giant. Careers it has to be their pact close by, no one else would walk around that loudly fearing no danger will come to them despite the noise they are making as they move. They must be close by as I hear them mutter angrily to each other, they are getting closer and closer and I am glad now that Katniss did what she did because if she didn't they would be attacking us by now. I'll have to remember to thank her later if we both survive this. They are getting closer and closer until I can see their feet through though the foliage that hide us, hopefully our camouflaged campsite will hide us. We sent an hour before we settled down for the night last night making this hiding spot no its time to see if our hard work will pay off, hopefully the work we done will hide us from certain death.

"Come on Cato we should look somewhere else there's no one to kill here" I hear Clove moan as they stop less than a meter away from where Katniss and I are hiding.

"No, we will find them I know they are close by I can smell the cowards" Cato snaps back instantly shutting up his district partners moans, if only they know how right he is I gulp just at the thought that he does. "Now come on and keep moving they are around here somewhere"

"I think you're starting to loss it" Clove mutters quietly but it's loud enough for Cato to hear and he looks furious, I wouldn't want to be Clove right now. I hear a loud slapping sound and the next thing I see is Clove landing on the ground with a red hand mark clearly showing on her face, Clove looks up at Cato with an oddly calm look despite the angry giant standing over her. How can Clove be so calm right now? If I was her I would be shaking like a leaf by now and trying to back away from that monster.

"I am not losing it!" Cato yells at him with spite flying from his mouth covering Clove. "They are somewhere close by I know it!"

"Come on Cato let's move on the bitch isn't worth your time" Glimmer tells Cato in the same sexy voice she used during her interview clearly trying to seduce the giant. "Let's go find those two and then deal with her"

"Yeah Cato fighting amongst ourselves is pointless while there's so many others to find and kill" Marvel tells him as he helps clove up.

"Fine but you better watch that pretty little mouth of yours or my sword will silence it for you" Cato warns Clove before he turns around and thankfully starts to walk away from where we are Katniss and I are hiding.

I sigh as I watch them disappear and hear them walk further and further away from us, even though we can no longer hear them we still wait several minutes before we move and leave our hiding spot just to be sure that they are gone. When we do the word is so peaceful and quiet that you will never have known the act of violence that just happened here or that we are trapped in an Area being forced to fight to the death. I look around the beautiful morning forest seeing nothing but trees and blue clear skies, the Careers must still be close by but the world is so peaceful right now. I look to Katniss to see a smile on her face and also the traces of a blush that is quickly disappear, could it be? Could it be that laying on top of me made her blush? I smile at the thought that I made her blush, I have a feeling that Johanna is loving seeing us like that and would waste no time in teasing me about this if she can. On that thought I look to the sky and wonder how many other people our watching us right now or if we are being shown right now, there are other Tributes around to film but still it's best to think I'm always on camera. It's while I'm staring at the sky lost in thought that I see something white and out of place with something small hanging from it, what could that be? A fallen camera, gift from the sponsor or is it that the Gamemakers are going to use that to tell the Careers where we are. Most likely the last to but I can't think of anyone who would sponsor me, Katniss I can see getting cowards of sponsors because of her beauty but I'm not like her and won't be as lucky as she is in terms of sponsorship in a million years. The object turns into a parachute as it gets closer to us and lands without making a sound right in front of us, Katniss and I both stare at the object and then at each other as if to ask "What do you think it is?" Katniss picks up the small object which easily fits on the palm of her hand. She rolls it about in her hand before turning to me.

"Which one of us is it for?" Katniss asks still looking at the object. The object is small, covered in wrapping paper, light enough for Katniss to easily hold in her hand and gives off a sweet smell. I look it over with Katniss until till something catches my eyes, there's some sort of writing on it. Katniss notices it to and looks at it more closely. "K.E+L.L" Katniss reads aloud the writing. "I guess it's for both of us"

"Open it up then and let's see what it is" I say as the smell of sweetness becomes stronger. "Whatever it is it smell nice"

"Yeah it does" Katniss mutters in reply as carefully opens it up. Inside the package is a bar of chocolate and a small card with more writing on it. "Chocolate, thank you but we need water Haymitch" Katniss tells the chocolate as she breaks it in half. "Here's your half"

"How do you know it's from Haymitch?" I ask taking my half of the chocolate from her.

"The card" She answers handing me the card, I take the card and read it.

You two are the talk of the Capital

Keep it up Sweetheart

"Sweetheart?" I ask dropping the card.

"Haymitch's nickname for me" Katniss answers before taking a bite of her half of the chocolate, the instant she does her face lights up.

"I take it the chocolates good" I say and she happily nods before taking another bite. With her answer and reaction encouraging me I to take a bite from my half, my face must have light up too because this chocolate in the world. It tastes so god that I greedily stuff the rest of it in my mouth not getting enough of its taste, I really want more, I want all of this chocolate in the world and would happily die for another bite but sadly mines all gone and so is Katniss's half. "Well if he sends us more than you can hardly moan"

"I can when we die of dehydration" Katniss replies and the sudden realisation of how dire our situation is hits me like a ton of bricks, my lips and the back of my throat are dry and I can feel my head start to ach. If we don't find water soon we are both dead, now I agree with her and wish Haymitch would have sent us water. "We should get moving if we want to find some before nightfall"

"Right" I say as we start to gather our belongings. "We should head this way" I tell her pointing in the opposite direction to where the Careers went. "We haven't been in that part of the Area yet"

"Ok" Katniss replies as we start to walk. "We should be able to find water over there it looks like we should drop down into a valley"

We walk for over an hour before we start to come to a halt, we have been walking steadily downhill for an hour and never once have we seen another human. The forest is so quiet without a sound in to be heard as we walk stay here not making any sounds and just listening for danger, both of us have been having this feeling in our guts that something is wrong but we can't figure out what or see any sign of danger. There is nothing but trees around us, no Tributes, animals or birds flying above us, just nothing but trees. Still something doesn't feel right, something is off I just can't find what it is causing this feeling. Katniss is looking around just like me for the cause of these feelings but we can't see it, there's something out there but we can't see it, there's something dangerously close to use but we can't see it and all with have to go on is feelings not anything we can see or hear. Where is it? Where is the danger we can sense? If we could see it we could fight it but we can't, all we can do is fear it and wait. We are at the mercy of whatever this danger is, we can't do anything but wait for it to appear giving whatever is causing this gut feeling a massive advantage over us. I hate this, being powerless and at someone else's mercy. I lived in fear of my mother but staying at Johanna's house gave me and escape from that fear if only for a few night at a time before Johanna gets feed up with me but now, now here in the Area theirs is no escape from this fear growing in me at the feeling of being powerless against this danger. Branches' snap from above us causing both of us to look up and that's when we see it sitting high in the trees above us, see the cause of this fear, danger and powerless I am feeling.

High in the tree looking down at us with bright blue eyes as cold as ice and holding an axe in one hand while the other hold onto the tree. A Tribute, he has cold blue eyes like ice, short golden hair messy and covered in dirt along with the rest of him, he has pale skin and looks scared but determined. We lock eyes for only a slit second before he smiles widely and jumps down holding the axe high above his head. I only have second to react before his axe buries itself in my head, I jump to the side of the path of his axe which less than a second later slices through the air where I once stood. He swings the axe wildly across my stomach, I jump back an only barely avoid getting sliced open by his axe. I look at my shirt and it confirms how close of a call I just had, my shirt is torn across my stomach and a small red line is visible on my skin where the axe only just barely cut me. It's not bleed, just a scrat and not really a bad one. I look up at him and he looks at me with that same stare filled with fear and determination he had before he first attacked, it's clear he doesn't want to kill me but he has no choice just like I have no choice but to kill him. He looks at me as is about to strike making one fatal mistake that quickly turns the tide of this fight, he forgets that I am not alone and Katniss reminds him all too well when she tackles him to the ground. His axe fall to my feet and I quickly pick it up and turn back to Katniss who's on the ground wrestling with the boy, she's trying her best but he's too strong for her and is quickly starting to win. He quickly rolls her over and is about to punch her in the face but he again forgets that there are two of us, as he pulls his fist back ready to punch Katniss I swing my new axe down towards his skull. My axe crushes his skull with a sickly cracking sound as his skull breaks and blood, brain matter and skull fragments start to fly in through the air, my axe and hand are soon covered in his warm dark red blood and his golden hair is quickly turning the same colour red as my hands are. I pull my axe out of his head leaving a massive hole which nearly makes me puke when I look through it and see his brain or what used to be his brain, the boy falls to the ground and off of Katniss who looks at me with the hint of fear and disgust in her eyes.

"Are you ok?" I ask her as she gets up and start to look a little green in the face when she sees the dead boy's body, she nods in response still staring at the boy's body which is laying in a rapidly growing pool of his own blood. She can't seem to take her eyes away from the grisly sight and the only thing that finally makes her look away is he cannon that makes both of us jump, it should have been something we were expecting to happen but it catches both of us by surprise. I guess the bloody corpse really distracted us.

"I'm fine we should just leave here so they can collect the body" Katniss final says after she calms down, she starts to walk away before I can answer but there's something I must do before we leave. It will be stupid not to.

"Go on ahead I'll catch up with you in a minute" I tell her as I kneel down in the pool of fresh blood and begin to search the boy's body. It's worth it as I find a bottle of water three quarters of the way filled and I smile at the sight of it, not only the find but what it means, there is water nearby.

"What are you doing?" Katniss asks sounding a little bit horrified that I'm touching the bloody corpse.

"Seeing what he had on him and it was worth bloodying my knees" I reply holding up the bottle of water which makes her lips form a small smile.
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