Chapter 34
That night, I can't get to sleep. Questions buzz around my head like bees, so in the end I slip out of my tent and sit by the fire. The flames seem to make pictures and I stare at them contently. Someone's tent unzips behind me and Juliet slides next to me.
"It's nice."
"What?" I ask, confused.
"You and Daisy. The fact that you're like sisters. She reminds me of my sister. She is probably at home, wondering how I'm doing."
"Does she know you're in the games?"
"Yeah. Max came up to our house and invited me and my brother to the games. My brother declined, but I agreed. Well, not really agreed, more jumped at the chance." She gives me a sad smile.
"Hey, why don't we see whether we can figure out your necklaces powers?"
She nods.
"Ok, maybe it could be...."
"Wind?"
"Yeah, try that. Imagine the wind blowing across the lake strongly."
She closes her eyes and not even the slightest breeze blows across the lake.
"Ok,so it's not that. How about...."
"Flying?"
"Maybe."
She closes her eyes once more but doesn't move an inch.
"Ok, so not that either, how about..."
"This is ridiculous." She cries agitated. Her necklace glows green.
"Wait, do that again."
"What, say 'this is ridiculous'?" She raises her eyebrows at me. It happens again.
I look about us and gasp. Next to the tents, where there had once been a patch of weeds, now sat a patch of flowering yellow daisy's.
"Plants. Of course. Water, fire and Earth."
"You mean I can control... Plants?"
"Yeah. It's obvious now. My necklace was blue, I control water. Tyan's is red, he controls fire and leviathan, yours is green, you control plants and healing."
"Wait, wouldn't that mean yours has to have some sort of extra power, like mine was healing?"
"I guess so. Now, try this out, if we're right, this will work. Look at..." I scan around us and spot a small sapling a little way off. "Imagine that growing. You shouldn't have to close your eyes."
She looks over at the sapling and her necklace glows. It glows slightly and starts to weave its way up, growing branches and leaves. Soon enough, it's a full grown tree.
"Now, try this. Imagine it growing apples."
"But it isn't an apple tree?"
"Just try it."
She looks back at it and soon enough, bright red apples start to spur from the branches.
"Cool!" Juliet exclaims.
In the water next to it, I grow myself a tree. Juliet laughs and we twine our branches together.
"I want to try something." She looks over to a small flower and it grows, higher and higher. It then starts twisting and making a pattern.
It stops and I look at it closely. Then I see it. The stem of the flower has twisted round multiple times as petals and the actual flower is in the centre, making a flower. A flower out of a flower.
She looks down at another and it grows and spins. She picks it and with one last flower, it connects into a chain. She turns to hand it to me, but at that moment, the wind catches it and it flys out, landing in the centre of the lake. She looks down in disappointment. Without knowing what I am doing, I take a step towards the lake. I imagine the surface growing strong and with a deep breath, I step onto it.
The adhension slides around the edges of my feet but does not break. I take another step, so both my feet are on the water. I still don't fall into the cold water. I take a few more steps, and its still stays strong.
"Oh my gosh prim." Juliet breathes behind me.
I turn to look at her. "What?"
"Prim, you're walking on water."
I look down at my feet and reality dawns on me. I was walking on water.
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Tara smiled as she looked down at prim running about on top of the water. Suddenly, the elevator behind her clunks open.
"Ah, Tara, just the woman I wanted to see." Says Max's familiar voice behind her and she turned, a fear growing inside her. Did he know her plan? But he is smiling normally, so she stifles it.
"Yes?"
"How is your assignment going? Made it yet?"
"Yes. Would you like to take a look?"
"Oh, yes please."
She turned to her screen and opened a folder. She searched through and found the right file. She opened it, and pulled it up onto the hologram. It resembled a dragon, with wings and a tail. Then it held an eagles head, and instead of a beak, was just a gaping hole, with its heavy, poisonous breath steaming in the air. It had razor sharp strong claws and in the centre of them, was a poisonous spike, that could be shot if necessary.
"She's perfect." Max laughed.
Tara beamed. Even if she didn't intend on killing the children, she did like what she had done with the creature.
"Now lets use her." He turns and starts to walk away.
"Wait, what? But the children aren't to be killed until tomorrow."
"Oh, I changed my mind. I'm not using it on the tributes anymore. I'm going to use it against the tributes."
"What do you mean?"
He turns to look at her with an evil smile.
"Twill."
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Juliet
Prim stops suddenly on the water. It was so cool. She could WALK ON WATER. Fear seemed to strike prim and she turned and swiftly ran to shore, heading towards her and Bonnie's tent.
"What's wrong?" I ask in concern. Something was clearly bugging her. Not bugging. Scaring.
She didn't answer and ran off the water and into the tent.
"Bonnie! Bonnie! Wake up!"
Bonnie stirs and frowns.
"What?" She says sleepily.
"It's twill! She's in trouble!"
She shoots straight up.
"Who's Twill?" I ask, confused by their panic.
Again they ignore me.
"How do you know?"
"I just had this... It's hard to explain. I just know she's in trouble." Panic zips through her eyes.
Just then, the Capitol anthem starts playing in the sky.
"But no one died today?" I say, confused.
Everyone sleepily comes out of the tents and we all look up at the sky. Max's face shows in the sky, him wearing a pasty smile.
"Hello tributes."
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Primrose
"I would like to introduce you to an all new friend of mine. Tara."
A woman stands next to him with brown hair and slightly yellow eyes. She looks guiltily down at us and then the screen goes back to Max.
"She invented and amazing... Creature. Would you like to meet her?"
The picture goes black for a slight second, then comes back on, looking into a completely steel room. In the centre of the room is the most hideous creature ever. It looked like a dragon, with wings and a tail. Then it had an eagles head, but instead of a beak, was just a gaping hole, with a slightly black steam substance which must be its breath, coming out of it. It had razor sharp strong claws and in the centre of them, was a sharp long spike.
"Now, lets give you an example of what she can do."
A cage starts to drop into the room, and inside it is a distressed woman, with blonde hair falling crazily around her shoulders. She bangs on the bars of the cage in fear and eyes the monster, who stands on its claws and paces the room in eager, looking up at the cage hungrily. Suddenly, as if it was too slow for the creatures liking, it reaches up with a jump, it's claws slim through the chains holding it. The cage falls down and the woman screams fill the arena and I look away. When I look back, the creature is taken back by a mysterious force as the girls body is taken from the room. She doesn't seem to have any wounds but she is completely limp. Dead. The camera flicks back to max who's smile seems wider.
"Now for her next meal."
The creature is taken from the room into a long stretch, with some straps on the opposite end. It is held back as someone is lead into the room and strapped to the wall.
Twill.
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