The Hunger Games: Peeta's Point Of View

chapter 11 (last chapter)

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"they must have drained it last night while we where asleep." katniss says staring at the dirt as we walk. "the lake. thats where we must go." i say. "maybe the ponds have some." i doubt it but i say. "we can check." anyway.

after a few seconds she says. "your right theyre driving us to the lake. do you want to go straight away or do you want to wait." she asks. "lets go now while we have water and energy, lets et this thing over with." i say. we stan there a minute taking in our thoughts and feelings. i wrap my arms around her. "two against one, this should be a piece of cake." he hugs me back and we stand there embraced for a few moments. "the next time we eat, it will be in the capitol." she says, we begin walking. "you bet it will." i say nervously. after a while we reach the tree where katniss dropped the tracker jacker nest on us. we sit there and rest a while and i am glad when she says. "lets move on." and we start toward the lake again. after a few

more hours we reach the lake, and fill our canteens. theres no sign of Cato, just the coracopia and the black soot of katniss's blown up supplies. the soot reminds me of district twelve, my room and the bakery, and also the burnt bread i gave katniss that one rainy day.

we sit there at the lake just waiting. it begins getting dark. "we don't want to fight him in the dark." she says. "maybe thats what he's waiting for" i say. she sits there computing tht for a while, but i can tell her minds in a different place then here. a few minutes later she whistles a tune. all the birds go silent, and then begin to sing the tune back. "just like your father." i say smiling. "thats rues song, i think they recognize it." the birds are going wild with the tune now it echoes throughout the forest. but they stop and their song has turned into a shrill cry of warning. katniss are now on our feet ready for him. thats when Cato comes ripping from the forest. katniss lets her first arrow fly and it bounces off of him he keeps running. "he has some type of body armor on!" katniss yells. thats when i realize he's running from something not towards something. and thats when i see the first monster come out of the foliage chasing and biting coming straight towards me. katniss takes off running i do too but all i can think of is my leg, its holding me back, i cant run fast, I'm going to die.

they look like wolves but also are nothing like them, they are mutations, mutts for short. the capitol genetically alters animals or sometimes even people. i keep hobbling but my leg cant hold up i begin hobbling the mutts are closing in on me, katniss reaches the cornucopia and turns around. "go, katniss, go!" i yell. she begins to climb and makes it to the top. i turn around and a mutt jumps for me and its teeth miss my face by inches. i reach the cornucopia and katniss is screaming now. "climb!" i begin digging my fingers into the metal going as fast as i can. katniss shoots down a mutt behind me. i reach her feet and she helps me up onto my feet. cato is doubled over coughing up some kind of liquid he shouts weakly. "can they climb it?!" and looks at us. "what? " katniss says. "he asked if they could climb it." i answer. the mutts ensemble a position in which they are going to climb up the cornucopia. then katniss shrieks. "peeta." she grabs my arm tightly. "its her." the mutts are snarling and growling by now. "who!?" i ask. her eyes grow huge and it looks like she might pass out. "what is it katniss!" i demand. "its them all of them... rue,

foxface, all the other tributes." i look at them closely one has red hair amber eyes, foxface! suddenly i feel like I'm going to pass out. this is far more than what i expected. i have never been so terrified in my life.

before i know it the tribute mutts have gotten up on their hind legs and are pouncing on the cornucopia. one makes it and is headed right for me i start slashing my knife. its a marvel mutt i stab it in the chest it is weakened but not dead. before i know it its retaliated and taken a huge gash out of my leg. katniss is yelling "kill it peeta kill it!" i keep stabbing until it falls off the cornucopia. i turn around to join katniss we begin to make our way toward the top of the cornucopia. i feel a jerk and suddenly im far away from katniss in a headlock cato has me. i can barley breathe i keep gasping for air but with no luck. his arms are weak but still stronger than mine. i try to break free but its no use. the pain im my leg is way worse then the lack of oxygen in my lungs.