User blog:ArleneLove'sTHG/Return: 6th book of The Hunger Games

Chapter 1: Part 1
"So now what?" Aubry winces as one of the careers, I forgot her name, bandages up her leg. Balthar paces the bare spot of forest that they are in.

The area looks quite odd. On one side, there is a lush, green forest, while on the other side, there is a bare desert with nothing but tumble weeds and cacti. Chase and his allies moved to the desert to explore, since it looked like there was a lake on the farther side of it. The forest, where most of the others scattered--the careers included--looks quite menacing. All around them, they hear these movements, sometimes loud and most of the time, quiet. The careers only have two on guard since they lost two when the mutations came out.

As everyone left, the camera stayed to film their death. It only took me a while to figure out that they looked like the Lionyx that I was trapped with when I was captured by the Capitol during my rebellion when the Capitol tried to come back in order.

I remember all of it clearly. How Gale laughed at the awful irony of the nickname he gave me, Catnip. He left me on a platform with Lionyx's waiting below to rip me. I remember him laughing and my family watching me as I cried and screamed.

I look behind me at Rory who has, no doubt, been staring at me the whole time with a question on his face. I grip Peeta's hand tighter and look back at the screen as the Lionyx's tear the two tributes to shreds, like how they were supposed to do to me until I escaped. These Lionyx's had longer hair, making them look sort of like wolves, but they were all, without a doubt, Lionyx.

"We should go after that group that went over there." Someone says. I can't see because the cameras are zoomed out.

"No. We should explore this half first. Then attack them!" Another career says.

"That is if they are still over there." Balthar says.

"Of course they would still be there. It's open enough for them to see anyone around them and there was obviously a water supply." Aubry says. Balthar looks over at her and smiles, causing a giant pink flush over Aubry's cheeks and nose. The girl bandaging Aubry's leg looks at her in disgust and pulls hard on the knot she made.

Aubry lets out a small yelp and hold her leg.

"Oops." The career girl says sarcastically.

"It looks like it's getting dark. We should camp here tonight. It seems pretty okay." Balthar says as he catches the bag someone tosses at him and he empties its contents along with the other bags they have.

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