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It was morning already? I got up and stretched out my arms and got up to sit in the lounge car. It took the train four hours to get to the Capitol. Ryker, Finnick, Philiet, and I were led off the train to reveal lots of colorful Capitol people cheering and chanting our district number. Finnick told us to smile and wave, So I did what I was told. We got escorted into a building and Ryker and I got separated. Then, Two peacekeepers took me to a door labeled 'female tributes', when I got in another pair of peacekeepers took me to a metal table with certains separating the small space from other spaces.
Three colorful people came into the area and dismissed the peacekeepers.
"Oh my god! We got a beautiful one this time!" Shouted a blue haired woman.
"I know! We usually get the ugly ones." Said the man with a very girly voice.
"Shush you guys! It's time to get to work!" The woman with green hair came up to me, She was apparently the 'mature one', she told me to strip. but I was very unsure if I should but I remembered what Finnick said. "Listen to your stylist and prep team." His voice rang in my head.
I obeyed them and stripped down. They told me to lay down on the metal table so I did. It was very cold and gave me goosebumps.
They plucked, scrubbed, and cleaned me over 3 times. My skin is actually a little sore. The blue hair woman handed me a white robe and ushered me into a room. The room was empty except for a couch and a coffee table. I waited for at least 3 minutes until a man about my height walked in. He had a black suit on with his blonde hair slicked back.
"Hello my name is Xander and I'm your stylist. I'm guessing you're Leona?" He shook my hand.
I just nodded.
" may you please take off your robe for a second?" He asked.
I was skeptical at first but decided to obey. He looked at me for about 5 seconds or so when he motioned for me to put my robe back on.
"I have to make your costume now." With that peacekeepers took me to my curtained room to gather my clothes and put them back on. They then took me to the elevator and pressed the number 4. When I got out I saw a big living area with a fish tank attached to the wall, I'm guessing because if district 4. Philiet and Finnick are eating in the dining area.
"Ah Leo! Come eat!" Finnick has to stop calling me that.
I walked over to the table and served my self from the various food items on the table. I was almost done by the time Ryker had finally arrived. He also sat down and began to Serve himself and eat. I got up and started to walk to the room that had a large 'L' on it. I'm guessing for Leona.
I walked in and saw that my room was much bigger than my room on the train. I sat down on the bed and grabbed a weird arched controller from the night stand next to the bed. I pressed a button and the wall across from me had turned into a Capitol street. I pressed it again and it became a forest. I kept pressing it until it turned into the ocean. I could hear the waves clashing with the water bellow. I laid down and I swore for a second that I could actually smell the salty water and feel small drops of water on my face and arms. My eyes shut and I feel myself home again. In district 4, laying on the beach.
I open my eyes to loud banging on the door
"You and Ryker have to go get ready for the opening ceremony!" i hear Philiet yelling from the other side of the door. I get up to open the door and I'm quickly tugged out of my room.
She led Ryker and I to the elevator and we went down to the same area I was in earlier. I got led into the female tribute section and got led into the room with Xander in it. There was an outfit on a manikin that had a metallic blue halter bikini top with small chains Along the midsection and a skirt made out of a net that reached the floor with silky metallic blue tight shorts under it. Xander ordered me to put it on and i did. My abdomen was completely exposed but it looked amazing. Xander then brought in the same three people from before and told them to do my hair, nails, and makeup. When I was all done Xander ushered me over to a full length mirror.
I don't like to brag but I looked simply astonishing. My thick long brown hair was teased and messy at the top but the bottom was styled into a fishtail braid and placed over my left shoulder. My make up was simple and my nails were an ocean blue. We got led out to an area with 12 chariots with horses attached to them. Finnick and Philiet Along with Ryker where already there standing to a chariot which was most likely ours.
"Ahh! You look amazing!" Squealed Philiet.
I looked over at Ryker who was wearing a golden crown and had on metallic blue swimming trunks on with a netted cape. I kind of laughed a little.
"Really diggin the cape Ryker." I teased.
"Oh shut up." He shot back.
"Okay that's enough kids. In about a minute you guys will go out there and you have to look simply amazing! Don't forget to wave and make an impression." He motioned for Ryker and I to get onto our chariot so we did.
"There is a secret in the costumes dear." Xander winked at me. They left and the chariot began to move. I heard screaming and chanting as we got closer to the exit. There was thousands of colorful Capitol people screaming and chanting their favorite district. I smiled and waved to the rather large crowd of people. Once we our chariot was exposed, water crowns formed on our heads and they crystalized. Then water started to spiral down my waist. They screamed and shouted and just went crazy over our now crystallized crowns and the water spiraling down my body. We waved and smiled as big as we could. People loved us. Once we where almost to the front, everybody in the crowd went wild again! i looked back to see that katniss and peeta were on fire! It was amazing! The chariots stopped when they reached the front of a big building. President snow gave a speech and the chariots started to move again. We got to the inside of a building where Finnick, Xander, Philiet and a woman I'm guessing is Rykers stylist.
"You guys were great!" Xander broke the silence. Finnick was next to speak
"I have to agree! That will defiantly get you sponsors."
I looked around the area I was in and saw that Cato was staring and smirking at me. I saw that his costume resembled a gladiator, It was all gold and he looked amazing. Like a greek god... I realized I had been gawking at him for a bit to long and quickly looked away while blushing. Great, now he thinks I was checking him out. But you were checking him out. Damn it! I'm here to win! I glanced over one more time and he was still looking at me. I felt Ryker nudge me.
"Fancy a certain district 2?" He teased.
"Of course not!" I snapped at him.
"Don't worry, your secrets safe with me." He just winked and looked away. I don't know what possessed me to look over again but when I did Cato was glaring at Ryker. What is going on? Finnick took us back into our apartment area and I went into my room to take of the exposing outfit. I looked through the drawers and found a silky white top with matching pajama bottoms. I laid down on my bed and started at the wall that was now a moving video of the ocean. Again the sounds of home drifted me to sleep, but it didn't last long because I woke up three hours later. Ugh! I hate this. Why can't I stay asleep? I tipped toed to the elevator and pressed the bottom labeled 'Roof' when I got out I felt the slightly cold breeze. I walked over to the edge of the building and leaned on the railing. The Capitol looked amazing. Lots of lights and unfamiliar sounds coming from the streets below.
I felt somebody put there hands on my eyes.
"Guess who?"
"Why is it that when ever I want to be alone in the middle of the night I always end up with you?" I knew exactly who it was. Cato. He just laughed a bit and took his hands of my eyes.
"You're just lucky I guess." He's really self centered isn't he?
"More like unlucky." I retorted.
"Come on I saw you checking me out. Don't deny it." His famous smirk on his face again.
"I was doing no such thing!" I can tell I was blushing.
"Well I was." He leaned against the railing.
"Was what?" I was a bit confused.
"Checking you out." I looked up at him and he was grinning. Why is he saying these things?! Does he like me?! NO! He doesn't! He's saying these things to mess with me!
"That explains why you were staring at me." I breathed out.
"Why were you staring at me then?"
"Because..." I needed to get out of here.
"Oh darn would you look at the time! I'm getting tired." I fake yawned and stretched my hands over my head.
"We'll ill be going now" I turned my back and started walking to the elevator.
"So soon?" I heard him say.
I turned around.
"Well we have training tomorrow so I should get some sleep."
"Yeah, I guess you're right. Well see ya tomorrow then." He said.
I just smiled and turned back towards the elevator.
I woke up in my room with Philiet banging on the door.
"Get up!" She scratched at the door.
"Okay I'm up!" I called back hoping that she would stop. I got up and went outside and sat at the table and began to eat breakfast.
"Okay, so today you will begin training. Show off what you can do. Make sure the careers see you and if you can train with the careers." Finnick began to explain while I ate.
"This is very important." Philiet added.
"Your training uniforms will be in your rooms. After you are done eating, please go change."
Ryker and I just nodded implying that we understand. We finished eating and headed to our rooms to change. I put on the training uniform and it was black with red and grey stripes on the shoulders with a 4 on it. The pants were also black with red and grey stripes running down the side. The shoes were like black combat boots.
I walked outside to see that Ryker was in the same uniform and was already to go.
"Okay guys see you after." Ryker and I were led by peacekeepers to the training room. It was huge! So many weapons it was like I was a little girl in candy land!
I walked over to the tributes listening to a woman about not ignoring the survival stations. I agreed. I looked around to see that Cato and the rest of the careers were bored out of their minds, they probably just want to get to the weapons like me.
The lady finally dismissed us. I walked over to the knife throwing station. My best weapons are knife throwing and archery. I picked up several knifes and told one of the training people that I was ready. Targets in the shape of people started popping up. I threw the knifes perfectly either making them hit the head or the heart. I told the trainer to speed it up which it did but I still got all the targets. Man was this fun! I looked over to see that the careers had been looking at me the whole time. Cato smirking and the girl known as glimmer glaring. Cato started walking towards me and the rest of the careers following him. Guessing he's the leader.
"Damn Leona. That was really good." He started.
"Please, that's just one thing I do really well." I started walking over to the archery station and grabbed a bow and arrow. I drew the arrow back and was ready to shoot. I motioned to the trainer to start and targets starting to pop up again. Once I shot the first arrow I quickly grabbed another one and shot it. I shot 5 arrows and saw that they all hit in the head or heart. I put the bow down and walked back over to the careers that were still watching me.
"You have to teach me how to shoot." Cato spoke.
"Cato? I can teach you. I'm way better than her." Glimmer tried to grab Catos arm but he just pulled away.
"Welcome to the careers. So where's your district partner." Cato looked around.
"Is he any good?" Asked clove.
"I honestly don't know. Oh he's over there." I pointed to the spear station. From the looks of it he was really good.
"Looks like we have two new members." The other boy who's name was marvel spoke up.
They each disbanded to go to their stations Glimmer to archery. Marvel to spearing, Clove to knife throwing, and Cato to swords. I went over to spearing with marvel.
I wasn't very good with spears. I picked one up and lifted it over my head to try and throw it. It hit the dummy in the leg.
I groaned and picked up another spear.
I felt somebody's chest against my back and their hand on my hand that was holding the spear.
"You're holding it wrong." The voice came from marvel. I was now a deep shade of crimson. He showed me how to hold it.
"Now take a deep breath..." I did as told. "And throw." I threw it and the spear landed right in the dummy's throat. A big smiles was now plastered on my face.
"Thank you so much marvel!" I hugged him tightly.
"Anything for a pretty girl like you." I let him go and noticed someone glaring our way. It was Cato, but once he noticed me looking he quickly started to slash the heads of dummy's. I looked away and grabbed another spear I threw it and it landed in the dummy's heart.
"See your getting the hang of it!" Marvel spoke again.
"Yeah thanks again." He smiled and he began throwing spears. I walked over to the survival stations. I first went to the fire starting. It was a piece of cake. I then went to the how to locate water and found it to be challenging. A large bell went off and I remembered the lady from before saying something about lunch. I walked over to a table that Ryker was sitting at.
"So how'd it go?" He said while serving himself food.
"Great! We got into the careers." i began to Serve myself as well.
"But I didn't even talk to them."
"They saw you throwing spears."
"How's it going?" I heard a familiar voice say.
It was Cato and the careers sitting with us.
"Great." Spoke Ryker.
"What's your name?" Marvel asked.
"Ryker." Ryker didnt seem to keen on talking a lot.
"Nice name. So did Leona tell you about being a career yet?" Clove spoke.
"Yeah, she just told me." We all began to eat when we finished another loud bell went off.
"Oh, looks like it's time for the necessary training." Cato and the rest of us got up and headed back into the training area. There was many obstacle courses. We lined up to climb a very large and high net. It was marvel first and he seed to pass it rather quickly, Glimmer did as well, Clove just stumbled once but got it too, Cato passed as well. It was my turn. I grabbed a hold of the large net and began to climb it. When I was half way to the top it flipped over and I almost fell. I heard snickering from glimmer. I can't fall, not while everybody's watching. I continued to climb the net as it was flipped over, and when I reached the top I jumped off to the ground and landed on a mat. I got up and completed the other courses. By the time we were done I was sweating and panting. We were dismissed and I headed up to district 4s apartment.
I quickly headed for the shower. It felt nice having the warm water relax my tense muscles. I looked to my left and saw that there was buttons on the wall. Curiosity taking over me as I pressed on of the buttons. Mechanic hands popped out of the wall and began to message shampoo into my hair. Cool. I pressed another and two other mechanic hands began to rub soap on me. I let this cool contraption clean me and when I was done I headed to my room to change. I wore a blue shirt with white tight leggings with lace up combat boots. I let my brown curly hair lose and watched some television. I was called to dinner and went to go eat.
"So how did it go?" Finnick was the one to break the silence.
"Great. We are now careers." Ryker spoke before I could.
"Aha! I knew you could do it!" Philiet cheered. Tomorrow you guys have training again and the next day you will be evaluated. They will evaluate you separately and be sure to make them remember you." He finished speaking to us and we were dismissed. I went straight to bed, I was really tired. It didn't take long for sleep to come over me.
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