FIVE !
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               "RUN! RUN! THE FOG IS POISON!", Katniss voice contorted with pain, reached Kathryn's ear and pulled the woman out of her sleep.

The brunette sat up, her gaze immediately shooting over to Katniss. The dark haired woman dash quickly towards them, the fog following.

Kathryn immediately jumped onto her feet, the feeling of fear returning. 
She quickly grabbed her knifes from the ground before Finnick pulled her along with him, "Come on!"

Kathryn could see the white fog approaching, while they were running for their lives.

Peeta was at the front, followed by Katniss, both cutting the plants that hung into their way.

Kathryn glanced over her shoulder, realizing that the fog spread faster and faster. Now it was also approaching them from their right and left, trying to cut off their escape route.

The group still ran as fast as they could and at some point, Kathryn had caught up to Katniss. Now running infront of the woman from District 12.

Peeta cast a glace over his shoulder, stopped and suddenly ran past Kathryn, back into the other direction. The brunette glanced back, spotting Katniss laying on the ground.

Peeta helped her up and the two continued their way as Kathryn suddenly heard Finnick screaming. The fog reached his back, making him run faster as he screamed out in pain.

Peeta screamed as well, while carrying Katniss as far away as possible from the fog. But at some point the pain got the best of him and the young man collapsed to the ground.

Finnick had finally reached them, looking down at the two breathless tributes.

"I can't carry him", Katniss cried hysterical as she looked up at Finnick and Kathryn, pleading.

"Peeta please stand up!", she begged him as Finick and Kathryn exchanged a look. They both knew that, if their love was real and not just an act, and Peeta was to die in the arena, Katniss wouldn't have the will to stay alive either.

Finnick bend down quickly and pulled Peeta up onto his feet. He placed the man's arm around his neck and Kathryn did the same on the other side.

The four tributes made it a bit further, before the fog had reached them.

Kathryn let out a bone shattering scream as she felt the horrible pain rush through her whole body.

She let her head fall back into her neck and felt the control of her body faint. The woman couldn't hold onto Peeta anymore and let go of him.

Loosing balance she slowly fell over, rolling down the hill while the plants whipped into her face.

At some point the woman stopped. She released a shaking breath while she felt Finnick's body laying right next to her.

The brunette's body shook in pain and she gasped a few times while slowly rolling onto her back.

Looking up into the sky she could hear someone grunting. The woman didn't knew if it was Finnick or Peeta. But that seemed pretty unimportant anyway when she spotted a monkey, sitting in a tree above her.

The brunette flinched in surprise before she heard Katniss screaming from behind her, catching her attention.

Rolling back onto her stomach Kathryn saw that Katniss was laying by the water. "The water, the water helps", the woman shouted at them, her hand in the water.

Peeta and Kathryn slowly crawled towards the water, the pain still having the upper hand. Katniss slowly got into the water, followed by the other's.

A loud scream escaped Kathryn's mouth, but after, the pain was gone and she finally felt a bit relieved.

The painful blisters on her face and hands were gone, making the brunette sighed in satisfaction.

Suddenly the memories of Finnick came back and her head snapped up. She quickly jogged out of the water, towards Finnick, who still laid on the ground, unable to move by himself. 

The man looked up at her, panic in his blue eyes as a low grunt escaped his lips. "It's going to be okay", Kathryn assured him and gave the blonde a small smile. "You're going to be okay."

"Help me! Please", she then begged Peeta and Katniss, who still sat in the water. The two quickly joined her and a moment later Finnick laid in the water as well.

Kathryn held his hand and Finick started screaming, squeezing it while she washed his blisters from his body.

The man grunted through his clenched teeth and after a moment he finally released her hand, carefully sitting up by himself.

"We need our weapons", Katniss stated before she stood up, followed by Peeta to get her bow and arrows.

Kathryn hadn't put her knifes away, they were still in a her pockets as she sat besides Finnick in silence.

She didn't know what to say to him without showing him that she actually cared. And caring about someone was dangerous in the Games.

Katniss jogged back to them, her bow and arrow in her hand while Kathryn stared down at the moving water.

Suddenly Finnick whispered her name, "Kathy." The brunette looked up and saw him nodding at something behind her.

She slowly followed his gaze, her eyes widening as she saw that the monkey from earlier had brought his friends along.

"No sudden movements", she immediately whispered while slowly grabbing her long knifes. Her eyes stayed trained on the monkeys'.

"Peeta?"

"Yeah." Katniss gave him a worried glance, "Walk over here slowly."

One of the monkeys' let out a aggressive roar, making Peeta realize what was happening while he stepped back slowly.

The man made it back to the other's but just when he had reached them, a couple of other monkey's started roaring as well. Surrounding the group of four from all sides, the animals came closer and closer.

"Get to the beach", was all what Katniss said before she drew her bow and arrow, aiming at the monkeys' that came too close to them.

A couple of them roared again, making Kathryn a bit nervous as she held her knifes up, ready to throw or swing at the animals.

Suddenly one of them jumped at Katniss and Kathryn immediately spun and stabbed it into the throat, pressing it to the ground.

The brunette yanked her knife out of the fur and as she looked up at Katniss the monkeys' started attacking them.

They screamed horribly and jumped at the tributes, making them move in a circle.

Kathryn killed one after the other, her knifes bloody, adrenaline rushing through her veins.

At some point one of the Monkeys' tried to kill Katniss, pushing her underwater as he tried to bite her, but Peeta took care of that.

After they escaped the monkeys' the group quickly made their way down towards the beach.

They weren't that far away from the sand when the monkey's caught up to them once more.

One of the beasts attacked Katniss and Peeta, while Kathy and Finnick were preoccupied with two other's.

After Kathy had stabbed the monkey into it's chest she spun around, catching sighed of one of the morphlings.

The painted woman jumped out of a tree and tried to save Peeta by attacking the Monkey. But sadly the monkey got to her first.

The woman let out a bone shattering scream befor the animal bit her, sealing her fate. She inhaled deeply while laying on the ground, her eyes wide, "Who is that?"

"A morphling. Help me get her", Kathryn stated quickly before she grabbed the woman by her arm.

Katniss and Peeta helped her and then the three dragged the dying woman quickly towards the water. Finnick fought the other monkey's off, before he followed after them as fast as he could.

The group had finally reached the water and the monkeys' roared angryly while they remained by the edge of the jungle, watching the tributes hungryly.

Peeta had the morphling in his arm as she was still desperately gasping for air, "Hey, hey, hey. It's okay. Shh, shh, shh."

The woman grabbed desperately onto his shoulder. Peeta looked down at her, watching how she was floating on the surface.

A feeling of sadness overcame Kathryn while she watched the dying woman. That could've been her. The woman had just wanted to help them and now, that would be her death.

"Hey, you wanna see something? Look up. Look", Peeta stated calmly as he gazed up into the sky. The woman slowly followed his gaze, still gasping.

"Look at it. Look at that. It's incredible, isn't it? All those colors", Peeta tried to calm her down, while they watched the sunrise.

"Don't worry about anything else. I'll be right here with you. It's okay. It's okay", the blond man assured her with a small smile.

The woman gazed up into the sky and took one last heavy breath before her heart stopped beating forever.

Peeta looked at her for another moment, but then a cannon went off in the distance and he let the woman slowly slide further into the deeper water.

The monkeys' let out a last loud scream and then started to slowly disappear into the jungle.

A while later a white Capitol jet arrived and pulled the Morphlings body out of the water.

"She sacrificed herself for me and I don't even know her name", Peeta stated as he watched her lifeless body being pulled up with a net.

"You think she sacrificed herself?", Katniss questioned him confused, her brows furrowed. Peta nodded his head as he shrugged a bit unsure, "Looked like it."

Katniss shook her head to herself, "That doesn't make any sense."

The Jet took off again and later in the morning the four sat in a small circle, eating the fish Finnick had caught for them.

Peeta cracked an oyster with his knife and found a black pearl in it that he gave Katniss with a small smile. "Ah, look, for you."

Katniss smiled back at him and eyed the black pearl lovingly, "Thank you."

Kathryn watched the cute exchange between the two and smiled a bit. In her opinion the two weren't faking anything.

Suddenly a female scream made her smile disappeared from her face.

The four stood up immediately and grabbed their weapons from the ground, before they spotted movements on the other side of the arena.

The trees were moving and suddenly a large wave, like a Zunami, crashed into the water, making a cannon go off.

It then crashed into the Cornucopia and the water rushed quickly over Kathryn's feet.

"Someone's here", Katniss suddenly said from besides her as she drew her bow and arrow quickly.

Kathryn's head snapped towards the direction Katniss was looking at and quickly recognized that it was no other than Johanna.

"Johanna!", the brunette started screaming before she jogged towards the woman, followed by Finnick.

"Kathy!", the woman shouted back at her relived, while she laughed a bit.

Only now Kathryn was near enough to see that the brunette was completely covered in blood.

"Well, I got'em out. We were all the way deep into the jungle where I thought it was gonna be safe. That's when the rain started. I thought it was water. It turned out to be blood. Hot, thick blood", Johanna explained to them angryly while Wires joined them.

"Tik took", the short haired woman said over and over again. Johanna pushed her back to walk by, her rage getting the better of her. "It was choking us. We were stummbling around, gagging on it, blind. That's when Blight hit the force filed."

"Tik Took."

Johanna leaned her head back and let out a deep unnerved sighed. "He wasn't much, but he was from home."

"What's wrong with her?", Katniss questioned them curiously as she eyed Wires, who still repeated the same words over and over again.

"She's in shock", Beete answered them, still sitting in the flat water. "Dehydration isn't helping. Do you have fresh water?"

"We can get that."

Suddenly Johanna grabbed Wires by the shoulder and threw her to the ground, "Listen, stop it!"

"Hey, lay off her!", Katniss screamed immediately, pushing Johanna backwards.

The woman fought back, "Hey! What are you doing?" Finnick held Johanna back as he tried to calm her down, "I got them out for you!"

"Hey, it's okay. It's okay Johanna", Kathryn tried to assure the angered woman. Johanna shot them a dark glare, "Let me go!"

"For me, what does that mean?", Katniss questioned them irretaded, but Kathryn didn't answer her.

There was a moment of silence. "Come on let's get you cleaned up", Katniss finally said as she threw her bow into the ground and took Wires hand, leading her into the water.

Kathryn sighed deeply as she clenched her fingers around the knives that were still in her hands.

She made her way into the water with Johanna, cleaning their weapons while watching Katniss and Wires.

"What does Beetee have there?", Katniss questioned Johanna while she watched the caramel skinend man.

"The coil? It's some kind of wire", the dark skinned woman answered her, cleaning her axe uninterested.

"Did he get it from the Cronucopia?"

"Took a knife in the back to get it", Johanna stated simply and Wires suddenly shouted again. "Tik Took!"

"Okay— I can't. Just— have fun with nuts", Johanna stated unnerved as she walked away from the three.

She wasn't far away from them as suddenly a lightning hit into the same tree it always hit, making Wires look up at Katniss, "Tik Took."

Katniss looked around as she repeated the womans words slowly to herself. "It's a clock!"

"What?", Kathryn questioned her  confused as she stopped cleaning her weapons. "It's a clock!", Katniss repeated with wide eyes.

She grabbed Wires face excited, "Oh my God! It's a clock! Wires, you're a genius! You're a genius!"

"Oh my God", Kathryn whispered to herself while a smile made it's way onto her face.

                "THE ENTIRE ARENA SEEMS TO BE laid out like a clock with a new threat every hour, but they stay only within their wedge. It all starts with the lightning. Then the blood rain, fog, monkeys. That's the first four hours", Katniss listed off as they all followed her to the Cronucopia.

"At 10 that big wave hits from over there", Kathryn added as she pointed at the direction it came from earlier.

"Wires, you're a genius", Finnick repeated as he past the woman.

"Look, the tail points to 12", Peeta said as he looked into the direction of the tree. "That's when the lightning strikes, at noon and midnight."

"Strikes where?", Beetee questioned her as he approached the edge of the Cronucopia to get a better view.

"That big tree."

The man eyed it closely, "Good." Peeta drew a circle into the black sand as Wires hummed in the background to herself.

"So twelve to one lightning. Then one to two is blood. Then fog. And then monkeys", Peeta said as he looked at the other's.

"And then ten to eleven the wave", Katniss added quickly, "What about everything else? Did you guy see anything?"

"Nothing but blood", Johanna told her. "It dosen't matter. As long as we steer clear of whichever sector is active, we'll be safe", Peeta said as he straightened up, seemingly optimistic.

"Yeah. Relatively speaking", Finnick said as Wires suddenly gasped loudly.

Kathryn's head snapped towards the woman and a cannon went off. The brunette quickly reached for her knife and threw it into Gloss's chest.

The blond man fell backwards into the water, another cannon going off as suddenly his sister attacked them.

Johanna pushed Katniss out of the way and threw her axe into the woman's chest.

Her lifeless body hit the floor and suddenly Brutus, the male tribute from district two attacked them. He threw his speers at them while screaming loudly.

Finnick saw him comming and quickly swung his speer at the man, going into a one on one battle with him.

Katniss aimed at Enobaria, who joined her partner, helping him to disappear with her.

Peeta wanted to follow after them but Finnick held him back, while Katniss slipped past them, looking for the two tributes.

Suddenly the ground under their feet started moving and Kathryn realized pretty quickly that the Cronucopia started spinning.

The brunette stummbled over her feet and fell onto the hard stones. Johanna and Katniss besides her.

The three tried to grab onto the stone, but they were pretty slippery through the water that splashed up. At some point Katniss started slipping further towards the edge, grunting loudly as she tried to hold onto the stone.

Johanna quickly rammed her axe into the stone as she screamed, "Hold on!"

The two held hands and Kathryn grabbed onto Katniss as well, but after a moment she couldn't anymore, and Katniss slipped out of her grip.

The dark haired woman disappeared into the water and suddenly the Cronucopia stopped moving.

Kathryn immediately searched the surface for Katniss head and as she spotted the woman crawling up onto the stones she released a deep breath.

Peeter and Johanna quickly checked in her and after that the group took what they needed and got off of the island.

"So, besides Brutus and Enobaria, who's left?", Katniss questioned the group as she sat in the sand.

"Maybe Chaff?", Peeta said as he looked at her. "Just those three."

"They know they're outnumbered. I doubt they attack again. We're safe here on the beach", Finnick said, eyeing the other's as he leaned onto the dull end of his speer.

Johanna looked at the group questiongly, "So what do we do? We hunt'em down?"

"Katniss, help me!", a young female voice screamed out of nowhere from afar.

The expression of realisation hit Katniss face immediately as she jumped onto her feet, "Prim!"

She dashed quickly past the group, directly into the jungle. The woman continued to scream her sister name as Finnick followed after her.

The dark haired woman suddenly spotted a bird flying above her head. She quickly drew her bow and shot the bird from the sky.

Prim's voice immediately disappeared ans when the man had reached her the two looked at each other for a small moment.

The two stood in the middle of the jungle as suddenly another voice started calling out Finnick's name.

Katniss eyes widened while fear immediately took over Finnicks body.  "No, Finnick it's not her. She's down by the beach with the other's!"

"Kathy!", Finnick screamed, ignoring Katniss as he run towards the voice.

The voice screamed out in horror and Finnick got more and more scarred, while his screams got more desperately, "Kathy! Kathy!"

"It's not her!", Katniss shouted at him as she pulled him backwards. "It's just a Jabberjay. It's not her."

"Well how do you think they got that sound! Jabberjays' copy", Finnick told her and suddenly another voice started screaming Katniss voice.

"Gale."

Meanwhile Kathryn and the other's made their way through the jungle as fast as they could. But the group had to stop because there was a barrier that wouldn't let them through.

The brunette stood there, waiting before she suddenly spotted Finnick and Katniss. They were running towards them, hundert of birds flying over their heads.

Finnick looked at Kathy in panick, his eyes darting hectically over the tributes but always ending up by her.

He had placed his hands over his ears and fell onto his knees as he now stared at her.

Kathryn pressed her hand onto the barrier, "Finnick! Everything is alright! Everything will be fine!"

She couldn't hear the birds and she assumed that Finnick and Katniss couldn't hear them, but she gave it a try anyway.

Her hand was pressed against the barrier while she got onto her knees besides Finnick.

After what felt forever, the hour was up and the barrier disappeared, letting Kathy finally through.

The brunette crouched down besides Finnick, "Are you okay?" The man stared onto the ground. He seemed pretty exhausted, "Yah, I'm fine. I'm fine."

"Nobody will touch prim!", Peeta assured Katniss and Johanna nodded.

The woman walked up and down in front of them, "You're fiance is right. The whole county loves your sister. If they tortured her or did anything to her, forget the districts, they're would be riots in the damn Capitol."

The woman gazed up into the sky, "Hey, how does that sound, Snow? What if we set your backyard on fire? You know you can't put everyone in here!"

They all watched her silently and the woman shrugged while she looked at them, "What? They can't hurt me. There's no one left that I love."

She sighed deeply before she walked away, "I'll get you some water."