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Katniss gives a description of the monsters that are chasing the remaining tributes. They have the bodies of wolves, but they use their hind legs almost like arms. They even wave to their pack with their front legs. They are mutations created by the Capitol.
Katniss makes her way up the cornucopia. Cato is headed there and she knows that it might be a safe place to head towards. She turns back as she gets near the cornucopia to eye Peeta struggling to dash towards the cornucopia too. His bad leg makes it hard for him to dash quickly. Katniss sends an arrow to take down one of the mutts, and Peeta tells her to push forward into the cornucopia.
Just as Katniss makes it up the cornucopia, she spots Cato at the top. He’s out of breath and she’s about to shoot an arrow at him when Peeta makes it to the cornucopia too. Katniss helps Peeta up.
The mutts are almost human-like and they gather together to yap at each other as they try to figure out how to get to the tributes on the cornucopia. Suddenly, Katniss realizes that one of the mutts resembles Glimmer. She then connects the dots and realizes that all of the mutts are muttations that look like the deceased tributes. Katniss points this out to Peeta. Peeta wonders if they used the deceased tributes’ actual body parts to make the mutations, while Katniss wonders if the Capitol used their actual brains. She thinks that perhaps the brains of the deceased were resuscitated within these beasts and now they’re out for revenge.
As Katniss and Peeta try to keep the mutts away, Cato regains his breath and he comes after Peeta. He puts Peeta in a headlock and Katniss is left without knowing whether she should shoot him or not. If she were to shoot him, he would fall to the ground with Peeta in his arms, forcing them both down towards the angry mutts. Peeta then uses his own blood to scrape an “x” on Cato’s hand and Katniss is quick to shoot there. Cato lets go of Peeta, Peeta pushes Cato down and off the Cornucopia, and Katniss catches Peeta as he nearly falls himself.
Cato fights off the mutts for some time before they are triumphant. He is dragged near the cornucopia to die a slow, painful death.
As Katniss and Peeta listen to Cato slowly die, Katniss makes a bandage from her shirt to tie a wound that Peeta acquired on his leg during the altercation with the mutts. She forces him to stay awake. They continue listening to the sounds of Cato enduring the pain the mutts are bringing down upon him as he dies. Eventually, Katniss uses her last arrow to put Cato out of his misery. With his death, the mutts disappear beneath the arena, but the Game continues pushing on.
Suddenly, Claudius Templesmith announces that the Gamemakers are changing the rule that allowed two tributes from the same district to win if they both survived. Now, only one tribute can remain standing.
Peeta takes his knife into his hand as Katniss prepares an arrow to shoot at him. Peeta throws his knife in the lake and insists that Katniss shoots him. She, of course, cannot shoot him and he removes the bandage on his leg to let his blood flow out.
Peeta points out that somebody has to win the Games and it should be Katniss. Katniss knows that the Capitol needs somebody to win, so she’s up for trying something out: they will eat the poison berries that she hung onto and they will both attempt suicide. The Capitol, which needs somebody to win the Games, might intervene. Sure enough, just as the two have berries in their mouths and are about to both swallow, the announcer reveals that they both have won the Hunger Games.
THE HUNGER GAMES -- CHAPTER 25
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