Today was an announcement, if she would be reaped or not in the hunger games. She walked forward dressed in a black and white ombre vest shirt, dark grey pants, black lace up boots and her hair was in a ponytail. She walked up to Alister and hugged him tightly and he hugged her back looking down at her and brushing some stray hair out of her face.
"May the odds be ever in our favour Alister" She told him with a sad look in her eyes. Alister smiled and kissed her forehead.
"The odds are never in our favour." He whispered in her ear before walking off to the line he was supposed to be in. Clovia turned around and looked at him shocked at his words. What had they become? Losing hope at such a young age. She knew they would become even more hopeless if they entered the games. Clovia looked to where her parents were. Their eyes were cold. It whispered to keep everything a secret. They were cold and hateful. Then Clovia made up her mind. Even if she wasn't chosen for the reaping she would volunteer. She then got entered again and walked away to where the crowd it. She waited for the longest time looking over to Alister. Her friend then walked up to her. Gia.
"I am so nervous." Gia stated bopping up and down looking around. Gia was about 13 and Clovia's best friend. Clovia patted her back and smiled gently. Gia looked at her face closely. "Did you get into a fight again?" Gia asked oblivious. Clovia let a strained smile brace her face.
"Yes I just can't keep my temper down." Clovia stated numbly.
"Weird you never seem anything but chilled out." Gia stated shrugging it off. A lady Clovia recognised her as Elektra. She tapped the microphone.
"Welcome, welcome now the time has come to select a brave, young and special man and woman for the special honour of representing district 5 in the 70st annual hunger games. We will mix it up make it a bit more exciting men you will be first." She said with a bright smile though you could see the hesitance in her actions. She walked over to the bowl and moved the papers around and then picked one at the bottom of the bowl she then walked over to the microphone. She opened it and smiled. "Alister Alic" Her voice boomed across the crowd and Alister looked over at her with shock and pain on his face. Clovia nodded and he walked up to the stage. "Now for the women," She said smiling and walked over to the bowl and her hand moved to the edge of the bowl on the top and picked it up moved back to the microphone and opened it. "Clovia Maverick." She yelled proudly and Clovia walked up there calmly and stood next to Alister and he looked at her with pity. Clovia closed her eyes a moment to get rid of the pity. "Any volunteer as tribute?" She asked shocked and no one moved. No one, not the siblings of Alister who just came of age, not the friends of theirs who claimed to love them. Or more like the friends that claimed to love Alister. No one. "Happy hunger games and may the odds be ever in your favour." She told them before they were moved away back into rooms and waited for someone to say goodbye. No one came in to say goodbye to her. She didn't expect anyone to anyway. No one loved her. Well her friends might have but when push came to shove they wouldn't chose Clovia. Alister was the closest she ever got to someone loving her.
They were then taken to the tribute train and they sat in a really nice looking part waiting for their Mentor. Clovia looked to Alister who was shifting nervously and she smiled at him. Soon enough their mentor walked through the doors. Veil Kane. Man he was a hunky piece of eye candy Clovia thought to herself laughing lightly. He had thick dark brown hair which was messy and unstyled and he had puppy dog brown eyes, his face had light freckles, olive skin he was in his early twenties it seemed and he had a lean muscular build. Very attractive. Clovia noticed he also had a rather large leather wrist band. He wore a frown and sat down on a chair looking between them. He sighed deeply and then looked between Alister and Clovia.
"What are your names? I didn't watch the reaping thing." He told them in a gruff slightly husky voice. Clovia smirked at him and Veil seemed to noticed and looked at her confused.
"Clovia Maverick." She told him simply and he looked at her shocked for a second but covered it up quickly.
"Alister Alic" Alister said breaking the silence. Veil nodded and then poured himself a cup of whiskey.
"Whiskey is a friend of mine." He joked taking a long swig and then pouring himself a cup again. Clovia sighed deeply. Should have guessed he was a drunk.
"Got any tips for us? Like maybe how to win?" Alister asked him and Clovia looked to Veil who sighed deeply.
"You should tell us I mean it isn't nice sending us there to die without any information. You are our mentor." Clovia agreed with Alister. Veil then took the whole bottle and started drinking from it and laughed.
"This time of year is the only time I drink." He stated in an airy voice as if they didn't say anything. He then looked to Clovia. Their eyes met. Brown on blue. Then he turned his head away from her. "I won by setting up traps and bombs all over the arena and basically blowing up all of the arena apart from the Cornucopia where I was. Then anyone who was left I left to the MUTTS which were on the prowl." Veil explained to them and both the tributes looked at him shocked. "It was time consuming. I wouldn't recommend you doing it." He explained to them. "Tall guy you should probably just kill people you wouldn't have to be sneaky you are big and probably very easily good at a fight. Maverick you should be sneaky and clever about it. Get friends in high places; get people in the game to care about you because as it turns out people are more likely to protect you if you put out." Veil explained to them and Clovia glared at him.
"Are you basically telling me to whore myself out to survive?" Clovia asked with a hurt expression on her face.
"We all do what we have to so that we can survive." Veil spat coldly and Clovia glared at him. She then stormed out of the room and Veil sighed deeply as he watched her go. Alister knew better than to go after her. She would beat the shit out of him if he went after her. Seems like Veil was less smart than him. "I should probably apologise." Veil stated getting up and following her. He then found her sitting in her bedroom at the end of the train with a window watching the train tracks. Veil then sat next to her.
"Piss off Veil I don't want your pathetic apologies." She spat at him with a glared crossing her eyes. Veil then looked at her with pity.
"Look I have about a million things to apologise for with you. I left you with your parents when you were younger, when I came back I didn't take you in and save you from your parents, I left you and now I am suggesting you sleep with people to survive in the games. Look I could list so much more but I'd just waste your time. We do what we have to, to survive because that is what it is to be human. We fight and we kill but it doesn't matter what guilt we feel it is always better than the alternative of dying. I did love you Clovia. You were like my little sister." Veil told her placing his hand on the back of her head and pulling her close to him and kissing her forehead before he walked off and out of the room. Clovia cradled her legs close to her chest and soon Alister walked into the room.
"It will be okay Clovia I promise." Alister told her rubbing her back. Clovia sighed deeply.
"That isn't it. Death and insanity it the only thing that will come out of this. Promise me one thing?" She asked him softly with kindness in her eyes.
"What?" He asked her confused.
"We survive together." She told him holding out her hand. He laughed and held it.
"We survive together and if we must we die together." Alister agreed and she laughed with him. They then spent the rest of the next day they were reading through the list of ways to survive and discussing it with Veil who was giving them a harsh pep talk. They then sat by the window and watched as the city in view. Then they were waving at the bright array of people both of them had winning grins place on their faces. They then were brought to the remake centre where they were cleaned and stripped of all body hair. They had their hair done. Clovia was given bangs on her hair other than that nothing else. She was lying on a cold metal bed and someone walked in. She turned and saw a dark skinned guy with an afro and a giant grin. She smiled at him.
"Hi I am Muir and I will be in charge of how you look and what you wear. I've been and talked to Alister and he isn't particularly picky as long as he doesn't have to dye his hair. I assume you feel the same?" He asked her and she nodded looking at him with guarded eyes. "You are pretty you know that? And Alister is really handsome I hope to show people that as well as matching your dark and enticing thing you both got going on. I'm going to make you two very impressive looking. Like intimidating but approachable" He told her and then later on she was dressed in a silver gold and black patterned dress which was very tight and slightly short, she was placed in silver sparkly gladiator stiletto heels which wrapped up until just above her knees, she had light grey made up around her cheeks and dark grey around her eyes and a silver chunky necklace, her hair was done in a messy bun with a very silver tiara and her lips with done a dark red. Then Alister dressed in a silver and gold tight muscle tank top showing off his arm muscles, he wore black tight pants and gladiator sandals and his hair was messed up. "Now as you are going down you two touch each other's bracelets and then your dressed will emit this electrical power which will be a silver okay? Go also smile." He told them and they both walked onto the Chariot and smiled. They were then getting pulled forward and Clovia smiled and held onto Alister's wrist and they both pressed each other's wrists as they were being shown and it started to emit electrical sparks. They then held each other's hands and held all their hands up and laughed looking around as they caught so many people's attention. Their chariots then slowed down and came to a stop.
"Welcome, welcome tributes we welcome you. We salute your courage and your sacrifice, and we wish you happy hunger game and may the odds be ever in your favour" President Snow told all of them. They then went off to meet up with their escort Elektra and their mentor Veil. They walked up to her and she smirked.
"Nice entrance, very fitting. And hey short stack you clean up good." Veil said with a playful grin and Clovia gave him a nasty tilt of the head and a smirk before rolling her eyes. Then suddenly someone caught her eyes. It was a man. He was extremely handsome; he was tall, very muscular and chiselled with tanned skin and bronze hair and sea green eyes. His eyes met hers and he smiled to her and she smiled back before turning to her mentor. "Be careful of him, he'll ruin you and your reputation. I will show you to your apartment. Level 5." Veil explained with slight jealousy in his voice and they walked into the elevator and went into the apartment. Clovia looked around her giant bedroom and smiled as she washed herself and then slept the night away. The next day she was taken down with Alister to the training room.
"Remember we have to hold back first," he told her and she laughed and shook her head.
"Make allies." She told him and he laughed. A trainer then walked out in front of them. Clovia looked around the room. She knew in hand to hand combat would be a strength for her. She was fast and strong having spent most of her life teaching herself gymnastics, she knew bombs as she worked in a nuclear plant and sometimes the electricity plant.
"In two weeks 23 of you will be dead. One of you will be alive who it is depends on how well you pay attention over the next four days. Especially to what I am yet to say. Don't fight with the tributes you'll be doing that anyway when the games begin. There are four compulsorily exercises the rest will be individual training. Don't ignore the survival skills everyone wants to grab a sword but most of you will die from natural causes. Exposure can kill as easily as a knife." The lady told them and Clovia walked off and she then began the training she started with making fire. A girl then walked up to her and knelt down next to her.
"Hi I'm Annie" She informed Clovia smirked looking up at her with hooded eyes and Annie shifted uncomfortably. She then laughed shaking her head and then starting the fire and blowing on it lightly making it grow bigger.
"Clovia" She introduced herself.
"You remind me of my friend Finnick both of you act really similar." Annie said to her with a girlish giggle. Clovia nodded before putting out the fire and walking off with Annie following her. "Are you nervous?" Annie asked jittery.
"I'm not if I live or if I die it doesn't matter. I've never had much of a good life anyway. Do you want to form an alliance?" Clovia asked her and Annie grinned with a light in her eyes.
"Oh my god yes I would love to." Annie yelled hugging Clovia tightly before running off. Clovia rolled her eyes and walked to where she could practice setting up traps. A district 1 asshole walked up to her.
"Hi girly can't do anything physical?" He asked her and she glared up at him and then continued with her trap set up.
"I am sorry but I don't like to get involved with assholes. But since you are cute I might be able to make an acceptation." She told him teasingly standing up and moving closer to him and he smirked looking down at her. He let his hand run outlining the side of her jaw tilting it up and he leaned in not kissing her but still very close.
"I think I like you. I am Macron consider me a friend." He introduced himself holding out his hand for a handshake and she laughed and shook his hand and he grinned down at her.
"Clovia now if you don't mind I am going to try and teach myself how to set up a trap. Could be useful." She told him with a playful smile and kissed his cheek before kneeling down and setting it up. Alister was watching her from a distance with a smirk on his lips. She was very clever. Clovia she would win, he knew she could. She was smart and cunning and clever. She would outlast him and he knew it. Well he hoped he was right about it. After she spent her time with the smaller tasks no one else bothered with. On the second day she spent her time practicing climbing and how to camouflage herself. On the third day she went and focused on her strength trying to get stronger in case someone bigger than her was trying to take advantage of her. Then the next she went and focused on her aim. It was god awful. But after a few private training sessions with Veil he had taught her through trial and error how to throw knife properly. She was already very good with a sword. It was then time to showcase her skills. She then walked into the room.
"Clovia Maverick district 5" She told them and they all looked at her and it was mostly judgmental. The sponsors and gamemakers had probably seen this thousands of times. They weren't impressed. She was a thin girl, nothing special, to the eyes of a stranger only the strong could win in the games. The small and weak and lower districts were nothing. Clovia then walked over and got the knives and walked in front of the targets. She sighed nervously. Veil's words echoed in her head. Fast, strong and be sure of yourself. If you don't think you can do is chances are you can't. But if you train well enough you can't do everything but you can survive. She threw them all at the blink of an eye within 9 seconds 10 of the knives were thrown to the targets and hit them perfectly bullseye. She smirked to herself glad she was good with knives. She used to play with them all the time when she was back home in her district. Then nodded her head to them and walked out of the room with a playful smirk on her lips. She knew she was nothing special to them. Some looked more impressed than others. She could already tell from the fond glint in the gamemakers eye that she had made an impression on him.
