Fank you.
Aya Ki
District 10
I flip my knife into my hands and point it at the boy from 2. He smirks, and I jab the knife a bit forward in the air, almost touching his forehead. He goes cross-eyed, looking at the blade, and chuckles. "You're going to kill me? Me?" I look at him. "Well, I'm mighty considering it, considering your attitude." He chuckles.
"And lose the info you need?" His smirk widens, making him even more infuriating. Reyna steps forward several paces. "So you know who killed the Careers?" He closes his eyes in an extremely infuriating manner, that ridiculous smirk still plastered all over his face. "Yeah. And, as you can tell, there is a reason I was the one to survive."
Great. Now he's bragging. I'm about to slap him in the face, but Reyna beats me to it, slapping him across the skull, leaving a red welt. "OW!" The boy from two rubs his cheek. "That hurt...." Reyna looks at him with distaste. "It was supposed to," she says with a hint of satisfaction. "You Careers aren't as invincible as you would want us to believe. Which is why someone smart finally came along. I'd like to cheer for the person who killed you all, but I know he'll be just as dangerous to us."
The boy's infuriating smirk comes back. "So you can't kill me. 'Cause I doubt there's another person in these Games who knows....." I whack him on the head with the flat of my blade. This must be really amusing for the Capitol audience. I smile at him. "Which is why you're going to tell us, right?"
He grumbles. "Fine. Then will you let me go?" Reyna raises her eyebrow. "I'm tempted to kill you after we get the information, but, of course, then you just wouldn't give us the information. Might was well. I'll let you go then, after you tell us." He smiles. "Well then. I'll tell you. The two who did it were the shadow and the bomb."
"What?" He moves faster than I could have thought possible, and punches me in the face. I double back, and Reyna unsheathes her knife and charges at him. He flips his own dagger into his hands, and blocks her attack, and spins the blade around, showing off. I pull out a second dagger, and hurdle myself at him. Despite his overconfidence, he's skilled.
I stab, and he blocks with the flat of his blade, and backsteps to avoid a slash from Reyna. She stumbles, and he kicks her to the ground. Then, probably as payback, he stamps his boot in her face. A wave of fury sweeps over me, and I attack him with both knives. He blocks, and jabs at me, which I barely manage to dodge.
He brings his knife down toward me. Both my knives move up to block it. With our blades lock, I kick him in the chest, sending him spinning to the ground. His knife clatters out of his hands. The knife seems rather popular this year, I think. I hold my dagger to his chest.
"What do you mean by the shadow and the bomb?" I ask, keeping the blade at his chest. He chuckles, which is almost as infuriating as his smile. "And why in the world do you think I would tell you?" He uppercuts me, sending me flying back.
He picks up his knife and looks at me. "I kept my end of the bargain. You should keep yours. What filthy hypocrites, calling us liars and deceivers! Like you're any better." I snarl at him. "You're being a bit of a hypocrite yourself." He looks at me. "It doesn't matter. Take care of your friend."
He turns around and runs away through the piney woods. I turn to look at Reyna. "You all right?" I ask. She moans, and gets up. She has a black eye from the payback kick, and looks rather beat up. "Nothing I can really do," I say, "nothing too serious, just some scrapes and bruises. It would have been worse if he'd used his knife."
She nods. "I think....I think I should rest now." I nod. I set her up against a tree, and she dozes off. I sigh, and set myself back against a different tree. Then something catches my eye. A human-shaped shadow on the ground. And it's not mine or Reyna's.
I turn around to see a figure in the trees that I can't make out in the sun. A rather slim figure, with two swords in its hands. I stumble back a few paces. Then the figure nods, turns away, and jumps away through the trees.