Hi again! I will start off with training days so you can get to know the characters, their skills, and alliances! Then the deadly games will begin! In the comments, tell me who your favorite character is! Please welcome this years tributes:

District 1:

Gentry Holton(17)

Shannon Sayer(17)

District 2:

Ashlar Granite(18)

Lola Berks(16)

District 3:

Mick Jayerson(14)

Maxine Dodger(15)

District 4:

Nate Kertan(13)

Alexa Fallon(12)

District 5:

Damon Hai(17)

Tristan Zagler(15)

District 6:

Ford Elliot(16)

Claudia Elbort(13)

District 7:

Andrew Wood(16)

Ariana Decker(15)

District 8:

Karson Wool(15)

Natasha Fielder(18)

District 9:

Kolt Night(18)

Lauren Kinep(13)

District 10:

Leighton North(14)

Peyton Kosh(15)

District 11:

Colbi Green(17)

Chamomile Green(12)

District 12:

Neal Lodes(16)

Poema Jaio(14)

ALEXA DISTRICT 4

Why? That's all I was asking myself as I was climbing the rock wall alongside my district partner, Nate, who I usually call Neptune. We used to be friends back in four, tying ropes together, and now an alliance in the Hunger Games. We also want to ask Karson from 8 to join us in the games. He seems trustworthy and nice enough. I look behind me to see Karson trying to shoot a bow at the other side of the big training room in the Capital. Neptune is small, but fast and limber. He is getting ahead of me on the rock wall.

"This is only training, Neptune. Not even personal evaluations."

"I know, I just want to get stronger and faster for the games," he replies.

"Ugh! Well I'm getting down from here. This is too high for me. I'll go talk to Karson."

"I'll come too. I want to start training with the trident," he says as he looks down to me with his freckled face.

I jump down from where I am and land on two feet below me. I take a good look around at my fellow tributes. My hearts starts beating faster as I see careers hitting the target with different weapons(some I have never seen before) every single time. I don't think I'm any match for them. I can use an axe, but who's to say that there will be an axe in the Cornucopia. I'm going to die.

GENTRY DISTRICT 1

I want the Game Makers to take a good look at me! I take every spear I can find and throw it at the longest target in the training center. It hits bulls eye every time. I want talk around the Capital about Gentry Holton, and get myself a lot of sponsors. I'm a career, so I've been training all my life! I probably won't even need any sponsors! I look around and see the one from 4 looking my way. I glare back at her intimidatingly and she looks down. I look over at Shannon, Ashlar, and Lola and see they are having lunch break. I wipe sweat from my forehead, put my fingers through my long dirty blond hair, and then start to approach them.

"Hey! It's not even 3:00 yet. Anyway, we are not supposed to be eating too much before the games. We have to get used to the feel of starving."

"First off, I don't want to starve to death before even entering the arena. Second, we won't even be starving. We are careers, and we never go a day in there with no food," Ash says as he gets up.

"Sorry man, I'm just saying. So girls, what have you been doing?"

Shannon starts, "I threw some knives and then went to beat my time on the obstacle course."

Lola chips in and says, "I fought with some trainers and practiced my hand-in-hand combat. Then I went to watch other tributes to see if any one of them could help us in the games."

Ash says, "Well, did you find any?"

"Um, only one looked worth our time..."

"Who?" Ash is now yelling.

"Woah, Ashlar. Calm down. Neal Lodes, District 12."

NEAL DISTRICT 12

I ask one of the trainers if I can have a new shirt because the one I'm wearing now is messed up. The 12 on the front is covered with dirt from the plant identifying station, where I met Lauren from District 9 earlier in the day, and it is all sweaty from waving around a sword for an hour, hitting rubber dummies. I think I impressed Lola from 2 because she looked my way a lot during the day. Maybe, just maybe I can be a career. That has been my life dream. That's why when Lauren tried to make small talk, I said goodbye fast so I wouldn't lose my chance of being a career if they thought I was making an alliance with somebody else. She was kind though and small and innocent too. I would have liked to get to know her more. She was just telling me how she missed her District 9 home. I'm 17 and I still get emotional when I think about 12 with all of my 3 brothers and 2 sisters. I don't want them to have to see me die but I think that's what is going to happen. 24 go in and only 1 comes out, and it is a very slim chance that that person will be me. I receive my new District 12 training shirt and resume to my trainer who I like a lot. He is teaching me how to make a fire with only leaves and sticks.

PEYTON DISTRICT 10

I don't know what I'm doing here. I'm not a killer. I look around me seeing people fighting with weapons and I just don't want to think of myself as a cold-blooded murderer when my parents and friends are watching me live. Instead, I decide to go with the element of stealth and go to the camouflage section of the training center. There are 3 tributes here including me and they all seem to be occupied with their own thing. I stand there and look around. In the games, I don't want to be alone but I'm not that good at making friends. I have two choices here. Natasha from 8 or Andrew from 7. I go with Natasha because she looks older and responsible and warmhearted with her rosy cheeks and blond braids.

"Hello."

"Hi."

"Um, what are you up to?"

"Just making myself look like a tree. Do you want to see?"

"Sure."

She puts her right arm up to a fake tree in the training center and I couldn't even notice the paint. It looks like her arm was just eaten up by the tree. She smiles and I smile back.

"That's amazing. How did you do that?"

"Here. I'll make you look like a rock and then we can go to the rock wall and see the comparison. Ok?"

"Yeah. I was thinking..."

"In the games, you want an alliance with me?"

"Maybe..."

"Well, I was going to ask you too and I was thinking we can be friends."

I blush and reply, "Yes, I would love that."

We shake hands and then Natasha starts to mix paint and apply it to my arm.

NATE DISTRICT 4

I jump down from the rock wall right after Alexa and I follow her to where Karson is at. When we see what he is doing, he is shooting a bow. He doesn't make the bulls eye, but very close to it.

"Nice shot, Karson."

He immediately turns his head and says, "Thanks."

"Are you thinking of having any alliances in the games?" I decide to go straight forward and ask. Alexa looks at me with the "Why did you do that face?" but I just ignored it and looked away.

"Uh, ya. I want someone to have my back and someone to talk to and become close with."

"Well, if you want, you can come with me to the trident section and we can discuss it while throwing tridents at targets."

"I would enjoy that."

He puts down the bow and smiles at me. I smile back an hope we can become allies and maybe even friends. I give Alexa a face that says, "And that's how you make an ally." She playfully punches me in the arm and goes to practice with the axes. Karson turns to me and says, "Then maybe we can go tie some knots. You can get to know me ad my knot skills." A spark just went through my body when he said that. At home, I used to tie knots all the time. I made nets and sold them to the fishers who didn't use tridents like me. I look at him and say, "Of course, that's one of my many hobbies too." Maybe we do have a shot at being good friends.

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