Chapter 25
Pages 331-345
“One.” Maybe I’m wrong. “Two.” Maybe they don’t care if we both die. “Three!” It’s too late to change my mind.
Summary:
Some kind of crazy wolf muttations have been unleashed by the Gamemakers and are hunting down the final three. This just seems silly, what if they kill all three of them? How anti-climactic. But maybe they’re trained to maim and not kill. Katniss, Peeta, and Cato all race for the Cornucopia and climb up on top, and hopefully out of reach. Katniss, even in the midst of all this, is still in game mode (I told you, robot) and is thinking of finishing Cato off at this point. I say go for it girl.
She doesn’t though and now everyone is on the tippy top of the Cornucopia. These mutts are apparently cheerleaders or circus clowns or something because they begin to form a mutt pyramid to reach the top. Then just like Jenna Marshall from Pretty Little Liars, we learn that these wolves have had eyeball transplants. Each wolf has the eyes and features of past tributes, just to really f*** with Katniss. Because you know Cato and Peeta aren’t gonna notice that s***.
Katniss tells the others but before anyone can care they start getting bombarded with wolf rockets from both sides. Cato’s sick of playing nice and puts Peeta in a headlock. Peeta’s also got a super sweet calf wound from one of the mutts so he gets two things to worry about. Kat’s got an arrow trained on Cato but she’s not sure she wants to risk her bag of rocks going over the edge if he falls. But Peeta actually makes himself useful for once and after a little kerfuffle Cato falls off the Cornucopia and into the waiting jaws of the mutt-wolf-tribute-Jennas.
“Hooray! It’s over!” you might be thinking. “Our heroes from District 12 have won!” And to you I say no. No it’s not over. Because Cato’s not dead. There’s some fighting and some snarling and some dragging along the ground and some tourniqueting of Peeta’s leg and some sad sad Katniss and then finally Kat’s like “F*** it,” and shoots Cato in the head. They move so the body can be collected, and now you might say “Crimson, surely this is cause for celebration! Our heroes have won the Hunger Games! They can go home!” And to you I say, no. Are you stupid? Of course they can’t go home yet.
An announcement comes saying the previous rule of both tributes from a single district being able to win has been rescinded, so go ahead and kill each other now. Kat’s like “Welp. Double suicide?” And Peeta thinks that’s a great idea. But before they can go through with it there is another hasty announcement declaring both of them indeed the winners.
Shady dealings.
Thoughts:
I won’t lie, I’m not a fan of those wolf mutt things. They seemed really random to me. I mean, I know the Capitol has a history with genetic mutation, but it was actually kinda believable with small stuff like the mockingjays and tracker jackers. These just seemed like a weird, unnecessary addition. I would have rather seen an epic final showdown between Katniss and Cato to be quite honest. Peeta could have still gotten injured and everything, so nothing had to change there.
And I had a feeling something fishy was going on with that rule change. Maybe they weren’t expecting both Peeta and Katniss to make it to the final two, and when they didn’t they were like s*** what now. I don’t know. I mean, Peeta was basically on death’s door, it’s a miracle he survived. It’s a miracle Katniss made it out of the feast alive. Things aliened just right for them to get there. So I don’t know if I agree with Katniss that this outcome was designed by the Gamemakers. Actually I think maybe this is the worst possible outcome for them, since I don’t think anyone in the Capitol wants to see one of the lovers kill each other. I dunno, just my take.
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