The Hunger Games: Adulation

RECAP IN CATO'S POV

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"Cato! Oh my god! I've been so worried about you! I thought you were--" she started, but before she could finish her sentence, I had already stood up and pressed my lips against hers. I could feel her tense at the touch of each others mouths, before loosening up and pressing hers into mine. Our kiss lasted a long time but it felt like only seconds, before Marvel fake coughed to signal for us to get a room. When I pulled away, I noticed Katniss bite her lip a little bit. That made me smile as I turned around toward Marvel.

"Sorry man, but some of us aren't forever alone!" I told him, shrugging. We all sat down and he glared at me. After that everyone trailed off into pointless conversation.

Shortly afterward Clove appeared out of nowhere. 

"Hey Clove" Katniss said.

"Hey, I got the food " She replied quickly, sitting down next to Katniss and swinging a dead deer over to the middle of our circle.

"When did you two get so cozy?" I teased.

"Shut up Cato, it turns out that Katniss is actually kind of cool." She yelled. I made a face at her and she made one back. The sky slowly went black and the Panem anthem played over the arena. In sync we all looked upward. The female tribute from three had died the boy from four was gone along with Rosemary, both tributes from five and six were gone the girl from seven the boy from eight and no one from nine or ten remained and that was it. Which left us eleven to kill. When the Panem seal exited the sky everything went black, and I felt something on my shoulder that made me flinch.

"Sorry," whispered Katniss. I laughed a little bit and wrapped my arm around her.

We fell asleep like that, and I never wanted the feeling of her being right there, to leave.

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END OF RECAP

KATNISS' POV!!!

I woke up to the sound of a scream followed by a cannon. The scream didn't bother me, I'd gotten used to the sound of screams during my time in the Capitol. Cato's right arm was draped around my shoulder so I couldn't get up without waking him. Instead I sat there gazing up at the sky. Based on the position of the sun I'd say it was about ten o' clock. I must have drifted asleep again, because I found myself snap back to life to the sound of rustling in the bushes around us. I quickly sat up and shook Cato.

"Cato, wake up!" I whispered.

"Hmm? What?" He mumbled. I searched our camp site to see if anyone was missing. No one was.

"Some one is coming," I told him. As soon as the words had left my mouth he sat up.

"Okay, you wake up Clove and Glimmer, I'll wake up Peeta and Marvel!" he whispered, and I nodded.

I quickly stood up and walked over to Clove, I told her what was going on and moved on to Glimmer. When they were both awake, we spit up and went searching. 

Foot over foot, I walked in the direction of the sounds I had heard earlier. About ten minutes of walking and all I'd seen was a bright cotton candy pink bird. I gave it a strange look and raised my knocked bow at it. It squawked at me and ran quickly to my left, so I lowered my bow. Seconds later, I heard the same squawk followed by another and another. I quickly turned around and something that looked like around fifty of the same birds were directly behind me.

Mutts.

Without thinking, I picked my bow back up and re-knocked it. I rapidly, pulled back my elbow and released the arrow. It hit one of the birds square in the chest.

"CATO!" I screamed, "PEETA, CLOVE, MARVEL, GLIMMER!" 

The bird I hit fell over on it's side, and for a second everything was perfectly quiet. I took a deep breath and released it a little bit too loudly. Squawk after squawk rang through out the forest, and stung my eardrums. On instinct I turned around and sprinted in the other direction away from camp. 

"CATOOOOO!" I tried again.

"Oh who am I kidding, no one can hear me now, I'm too far away from camp!" I thought.

A piercing feeling sawed through my leg (slowly) and I screamed. It had to have been another tribute, but who? Another burst of awful pain waved through my ankle, making me fall. 

"PEETA, ANYONE?" I yelled.

I turned on my back as fast as I could, to reveal only bright pink birds. I screamed again to attract attention from anyone near by. Suddenly, I started to hear footsteps (real ones) running through the woods and approaching quickly. About half of the birds that were surrounding me left to find the noise while, the others stayed near by. 

"Okay. So there are birds and no other tributes near -- other that the ones coming through the woods toward us right now -- But what hurt my leg? Something had to have hit it!" I thought to myself. My eyes quickly darted down toward my leg, and I noticed where the two needle-like objects had been. There were to thin marks that looked like I had gotten a knife and cut myself, only instead of it being on my wrist like I'd seen others do, it was on my leg. I slowly looked back up at the birds. They were now completely surrounding me. This was the first real look I got of them. 

Of course they were cotton candy pink on the front of their body's. On their backs there were layers of feathers that were different shades of pink. They had legs like a flamingos. I've never actually seen a flamingo, but my father -- before he died -- used to read me stories when I was six or seven about animals that had gone extinct back seventy four years ago, before the up-rising. Their beaks were long and sharp..

"Of course! They're using their beaks as weapons!" I whispered.

Boom. Went a cannon, followed by another scream and then another boom.

That set the birds off on a rampage. They took turns scratching, biting, poking, and digging at my arms and legs. I must have been loosing blood because my vision started going blurry. 

Boom.

A/N

Okay guys! I wanted to make up for not publishing in a long time, so here is my apology! Hmmm... Now that I think about it this chapter probably just made you guys hate me more... Oops, oh well! Anyway, I completely LOVED writing this chapter! It was so amazing and fun to write! I don't think I have writers block on this story anymore because I finished this chapter soo quickly! (annnndddd I already know whats happening in the next chapter!) Unfortunately after Saturday (So basically starting on Sunday) I won't be able to post for TWO WEEKS because I am going to camp and I can not have electronics there!  ☹☹☹I soo wish that I could though! I'm going to try to have a new chapter up tomorrow and Friday to make up for the two weeks! But afterward school starts!  ☹ course I'll still right but it will definitely be less frequent! ☹