while the other clutched the spear on my left. One word was coherent enough for me to understand.

Katniss.

More and more voices hissed her name over and over again, causing enough noise for the rest of the crew to wake up. "(Y/n)?!" A panicked Newt voiced out.

"I'm here!" I said, but I could hardly hear myself over my pounding heart, the fear of what laid behind the darkness of the tunnels sent shivers down my spine.

"We've got to go, we gotta get out of here now!" Peeta exclaimed. "Mutts. They released mutts!"

Newt came up beside me and took my hand in his, interlocking our fingers. Finnick was right next to Newt, Peeta by his side. "Pollux, what's the fastest way out?"

Pollux turned towards a dark long tunnel and Gale aimed his crossbow along the path, before releasing an incendiary arrow, the flames lighting up the way, making sure it was clear. We walked for about three blocks, away from the voices before coming to an intersection. Pollux signed for us to wait as he slid himself between a three foot gap in the wall, and I sighed in relief when he came back to indicate we could move forward. Gale crawled through next as Jackson stayed at the back of the pack, keeping an eye out. I slid in after Finnick, Newt close behind me. Once all of us made our way through, Jackson lowered her guard and turned around to climb into the hole.

A loud screech was heard and that's all it took for chaos to break out. A scream involuntarily escaped my throat when I saw them. Them.

They were white, four-limbed, about the size of a full-grown human, but that's where the comparisons stopped. Naked, with long reptilian tails, arched backs, and heads that jutted forward. What made me freeze in terror were their faces. White, scaly, disgusting skin stretched across their faces, the only opening were their mouths, which was full of razor sharp teeth.

And there were dozens of them. Dozens of horrifying mutts that tore apart anything in their way. And I watched in horror as they pulled Jackson down.

Newt grabbed my elbow and yanked me back when one of the mutts shot its clawed hand through the hole, so dangerously close to ripping my face off.

Katniss shot an explosive arrow at them, giving us a moment to get ourselves together as we ran as fast as we could through the tunnels. People were shouting all around us, but I could only hear my breathing as I tried to concentrate on Newts hand on my arm to calm myself down.

Once the initial fear died down, adrenalin kicked in. I looked at Newt who slowed down every time he glanced back at Finnick and I, making sure we were keeping up. Out of the three of us, Newt was the least trained in combat but better than us in figuring out a plan rather than fighting in a situation. At that moment, we desperately needed brawn over brains. The mutts were right on our tails, which meant Newt had to only focus on running forward, while Finnick and I, along with those whoever had guns, had to take care of keeping distance between the mutts and the crew.

"Newt! Quit looking back! Just keep running, stay with Pollux, we're right behind you!" I yelled over the chaos.

"But-"

"JUST GO!"

It took every bit of willpower Newt had in himself to let go of my arm. I turned around and took in the situation behind.

Katniss was next to me, Gale, Peeta and Finnick close by. Cressida, Homes, Messalla and Castor were behind. I fired my gun at one of the mutts closing in on Cressida, but unfortunately one of the lizards got a grip onto Castors vest, pulling him down as four or five more leaped onto him and began to tear him apart. It was too late to save him. Gale pushed a wailing Pollux forward as Cressida and Homes shot down a few more mutts. Finnick and I ran behind Peeta and Katniss and I turned around every 10 seconds to gun down a few more mutts.

We came to an opening and Pollux pointed towards a ladder, indicating us to climb it. Newt was the first one to do so and he opened the overhead latch and pulled himself up.

The mutts were everywhere around us. It scratched and clawed its way through, the screeching making my head spin. I shot down as many as I could, and I knew I was soon running out of ammunition. Deciding to save some for later, I pulled out my spear and started fighting the mutts using it. Finnick was a few feet over to my right, and he swung his trident around, killing all the lizards that the weapon managed to impale. I was sure the mutts got its claws onto me and left a deep gash, but I was too busy fighting them off to notice. We pushed the mutts into the water, but the adrenalin was quickly wearing off and exhaustion began to set in.

I didn't know who managed to climb up the ladder but I could see Katniss, Peeta, Finnick and I were the only ones left. Newt was yelling our names out, desperately shouting for us to get out of there. We made a promise to him to save ourselves before we saved Katniss and Peeta. But Finnick and I didn't hesitate to begin spearing the mutts that were dominating over the star crossed lovers from district 12.

Then I saw a clearing. I pushed Peeta up the ladder and grabbed Katniss's arm, climbing the piece of metal, dragging her behind me. I pulled Katniss over the top as we panted heavily, trying to catch our breaths. But not for long.

I looked down the ladder and then I realized how Newt felt when he watched us fight. And now I could feel the terror seize my bones too as I watched Finnick throw his trident at a mutt, successfully killing it, but at the same time, leaving him defenceless.

It left him defenceless against the horrifying, lizard like mutts, that ripped apart everything in its path.

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A/n: Do tell me your thoughts :P