Peaceful Forever [Book 3]

-Finnick's POV-

Twelve gongs ring off in the middle of the night, followed by lightning a few miles away. I decide I trust Katniss enough to sleep so I doze off.
I bold up suddenly as I hear a cannon go off. Was that Amily? Is she dead? What if something happened to her.

"It's not her," sighs Katniss, noticing my panicked state. "She's with a group of people. There would be multiple cannons if they got into a fight."

Her words relax me a little but I'm still on edge. What if she died to the arena?

I fall back asleep but am woken up by a scream from Katniss.

"The fog," she moans in pain. "It's poison."
I quickly grab my trident and yank Peeta to his feet before sprinting away from the fog. Katniss is keeping up but she's clearly in pain. Her hand is now covered in blisters from where she touched the fog.

Peeta is not doing well. His prosthetic leg keeps catching on the jungle floor and his back is already covered in blisters. He collapses and I have to carry him for awhile before we all fall down the hill and I plunge into darkness.

I wake up in pain as Katniss tries to shush my screams. She and Peeta have me in some water and they said it helps get the blisters off. I didn't even realize how much the fog had gotten to me.

After a super painful soak, we get up and look around. We're still in the jungle but I can see a faint sliver of beach ahead of us.

Katniss hands the spile to Peeta and he goes to tap a tree. Thank god she remembered to grab that thing.

Peeta is getting water when Katniss and I realize that we're in a bit of a situation...

We are surrounded by evil looking monkeys on all sides. Katniss attempts to get Peeta to quietly walk towards us but the boy can't be quiet if his life depended on it (which it does).

The monkeys begin their attack and the three of us do our best to fight them off. We need to get to the beach but the monkeys aren't slowing down. I must have killed dozens at this point.

Peeta is nearly killed but the female morphling jumps out from a tree and sacrifices herself. We grab her body and make our final dash to the beach. One of the mutts slashed my face but it's not too bad. It just makes me look ugly.

Peeta and Katniss sit with the dying woman in the water while I watch from the beach. The sunrise is beautiful and I can't help but really miss Amily. Is she ok? Where is she? Has she eaten? Does she have water?

I spend the rest of the morning killing fish with my trident for us to eat. Katniss and Peeta are thankful and we sit in the sand discussing home, only pausing when a massive wave interrupts our picnic. A hovercraft picks up a body from the path of the wave but it looks like a blonde woman. Probably not Amily.

-Johanna's POV-

*boom*

Shit. I'm running through the jungle to get away from this fucking blood rain and Blight just ran into the force field while carrying Amily. He's unfortunately dead (fuck you Snow, he was a cool dude) and now I'm left to take care of the three most insane people in this arena.

I try my best to keep us all moving but Amily seems shaken up by the blast. Luckily for her, Blight took the brunt of it but her hair is standing straight up and her breath is ragged. I gather the trio and push us downhill, hoping the rain will stop soon.

After a fucking eternity, the rain stops. I don't have time to be sad about Blight. I'll deal with that later. Our group continues moving in search of water but by this point I'm dragging 3 people. Amily is on my back and I'm supporting Nuts and Volts on either arm. I really should have worked out more.

Finally, we reach the beach. It's not the best spot as it's super exposed, but it's out of the scary jungle and we can wash the blood off in the lake.

"Johanna!" I hear someone yell and my head instantly snaps to my left. Relieved, I see Finnick running towards me, with Peeta and Katpiss trailing behind. I collapse onto the sand out of exhaustion from literally carrying this alliance on my back.

Finnick gets to us and is immediately alarmed at our state. I explain to him the blood rain and how Blight hit the force field. He seems sad but is more stressed about Amily, who is at least breathing a little better now.

Wiress won't stop fucking saying "tick tock" and hovering near me so I shove her away. Clearly she doesn't understand personal space.

"Hey!" Katpiss yells and suddenly she's in my face.

"I got them out for you!" I yell, before Finnick scoops me up and dunks me in the water. She's the one who wanted them in this alliance.
When he's finally done waterboarding me, I return to the beach and sit down, exhausted from being an amazing ally who only managed to get one person killed thus far.

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AN: We love Jo carrying the team :)