p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongDisclaimer: I do not own the Hunger Games, this is just a depiction from a different prospective./strong/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"My family comes flooding into the room, dashing towards me with guilt and sorrow. My mom's face is wet, he must have been crying when my name was called. While my dad, who is usually as tough as bedrock, tries to cover his tears. Jamie looks at me, wiping her eyes with her hands and trying to stay strong for me./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Guys, I am going to be fine." That is a lie, when they leave I am going to cry my eyes out./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""We know you will be, just come back to us, please." My mom chokes out/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I might never come back, there are 24 people in that arena, only 1 comes out." I blurt, I seriously need to control my feelings./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""That is going to be you honey, just remember us and Cody." Cody was my mom's brother, he won the Hunger Games 13 years ago, when I was only 2./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Cody is different than I am, he is strong. For god's sake he won by strangling the remaining tributes to death." My mom then looks down at the floor, remembering his games./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""But we all know that you can, you're the smartest girl we know. Many tributes can be killers, but not many smart. That is what lets the dominant tributes lose." My dad says, looking at me with his stone gray eyes./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I am just about to procrastinate when a Peacekeeper barges through the door, taking my family. I choke out an "I love you" before the doors close on us. I sink down in my chair and start to cry. My dad has a point but, the smart tributes die from the killer tributes. Only few have made it back alive and smart. I can only remember a few like a girl from 3, Wiress I believe, a guy from 8 that I forgot his name, and a girl from 6. Those tributes won with their wits and intelligence, something I supposedly have./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"A Peacekeeper barges through the door and escorts me out of the room. I walk the halls with him behind me, and I look around for Erebus. When we turn the corner I see him and he is also being escorted to the car. We then huddle into the car, it looks like it is from the 1940's. I sit down next to him and we both watch as a Peacekeeper drives us to the train. Lilith sits in the front seat, doing her makeup to look pretty for the cameras./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Where is this car going?" Erebus asks/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""The Train." Lilith, the Peacekeeper, and I all say that in unison./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""How far away is the Capitol?" Erebus asks, again/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Not very far, but still far. We are necessarily close to the Capitol. While the outline Districts are more farther away and will take them longer." Lilith says, still applying her makeup./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"We drive for what I think is 20 minutes until the car comes to a stop, and we arrive at the train. The train is mostly a shiny red, and where it isn't red it is a cool silver. We all step out of the car and go into the train. I notice the District 5 Seal on the train when I get in proximity of it. When I step into the train, my mouth almost drops. Tables of food are everywhere, luxuries, silk couches, velvet carpets, and even a T.V. to watch re-runs and District reaping re-caps./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""This is where you guys will be staying for a day or so. Bring it all in children, this is the good life." Lilith then takes a seat on a couch and continues talking. "Even though you are here, and it i just for a little while. You get to experience all of this."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Erebus and I then take a seat on the soft couches and watch the re-caps of the Reaping in other Districts. I don't exactly think to much of the tributes, but only a few catch my eye that I wonder about. The male tribute from 1, fierce since him and another boy both volunteered and he had to shove the other guy away to get to be their male tribute. The female tribute from 3, when her name is called she walks up and identifies everything around her as if she wants to know how everything is going to work. Then there is the female tribute from 10, muscular and so much intensity in her that she volunteered for a girl she didn't know. The male from 1 is Diesel, female from 3 is Mauve, and the hulk from 10 is Zara./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Okay, Robin and Erebus, your mentors is in the bar car, I will come fetch him and you will chat about the Games." Lilith then gets up to retrieve them./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Do you know who one of them could be?" Erebus asks, man this guy asks a ton of questions./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I have a hunch one could be Cody, the most recent victor from 5 that is a guy. The other one must be the latest female." I answer./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""How do they help us? We both know about the Games. Training is almost everything, and sponsors are key." I start to wonder the same thing when he says that./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Lilith then comes into the room with our mentors, one is Cody the other is a girl I don't know. She has brown hair, blue eyes, and peach skin. While Cody has red hair, green eyes, and kind of pale and kinda of peach skin. They both sit down across from Erebus and I. None of them seem drunk, that's a plus since District 12 have Haymitch Abernathy who is reported a drunk./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You guys will have your own mentor for the entire time you are in the Capitol. Since there are 2 of you we have 2 mentors to choose from. This is Cody Stride, he won the 44th Hunger Games, and this is Teena Sae who won the 51st Hunger Games. You guys may choose your mentor." Lilith says to us./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I choose Cody, he is my uncle after all." I say in a cold tone./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Well, I will go with Teena, Hi I am Erebus." Teena then shakes Erebus's hand./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Settled! Now Erebus and Robin you guys can talk about your alliance, if you have one." Lilith then goes to her room since she doesn't need to talk about the Games like we do./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Lilith has a point, we need to settle this. Are we in an alliance, or not?" Now it is my turn to ask the question to Erebus./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Yes, District Partners need to stick together until the end. If not till the end then not at all." I just hope that I can be with him until the end, if it is me or him dying./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I am going to talk with Erebus about some strategies, and Robin is Cody wants to talk to you about some stuff you can do so. Erebus lets talk in your room." Teena says as Erebus follows her to his room./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Anything I need to know?" I ask/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Not really, you just need to focus on the survival and physical techniques in the Training Center. With that being said, what is your weapon of choice?" He answers my question with another question/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Well, watching the Games previously. I saw some weapons at the Cornucopia that are usually there." I answer./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""So I am going to have a sickle as my weapon of choice." I say after I thought about it./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Good, well I am going to tell you more tomorrow, we both need rest." We then both get up and walk to our rooms./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"My room is next to Erebus's in front of Cody's and at a slanted angle for Teena's. I open the door, plop down in the bed, and shut my eyes. After a while of waiting for sleep, I just turn the T.V. on and watch some re-runs of the previous Games. I watch Teena's and I am shocked at her Victory. Her arena was an island and the middle of it was a dense rain forest while the outline is a beach. She killed 7 tributes with throwing knives, she killed the entire Career pack on day 4 and the final tribute from District 12 by throwing a knife at him and he fell into the water and drowned./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I watch until it gets darker outside, and I even had enough time to watch Cody's Games again. He had no weapons for the entire Games, he strangled a number of tributes then dunked them into water. His arena was a suburban neighborhood, he drowned the tributes in the pools. He never stayed in one place the entire Games. He killed 6 tributes including 2 Careers, his District Partner, both from 7, and the sole remaining tribute from District 3. I was shocked that he killed his District Partner, but I watched as after he did it he went insane and on a killing spree. He kept yelling that he was sorry and though she was the girl tribute from 7, who he later did kill./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Those Games will probably haunt my nightmares, but I know that if I win that my story will be like theirs. I lay down in the bed and rest my head on my pillow. I turn the lights off and start to sleep. When my eyes close I can only dream about my Games, and how I am going to die. My hypothetical deaths appear to be bloodless, all from natural causes. I take that as a sign to learn survival skills in the Training Center, but right now all I need to do it sleep./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"And I do./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongHope you guys like the Chapter today, I am trying to update everyday for this Story, and if you like this story don't forget to review. Constructive Criticism is always helpful! You guys can check out my other stories on my profile, 1 is finished other is halfway, don't forget to review on those ones as well. Love you all and bye!/strong/p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"My family comes flooding into the room, dashing towards me with guilt and sorrow. My mom's face is wet, he must have been crying when my name was called. While my dad, who is usually as tough as bedrock, tries to cover his tears. Jamie looks at me, wiping her eyes with her hands and trying to stay strong for me./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Guys, I am going to be fine." That is a lie, when they leave I am going to cry my eyes out./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""We know you will be, just come back to us, please." My mom chokes out/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I might never come back, there are 24 people in that arena, only 1 comes out." I blurt, I seriously need to control my feelings./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""That is going to be you honey, just remember us and Cody." Cody was my mom's brother, he won the Hunger Games 13 years ago, when I was only 2./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Cody is different than I am, he is strong. For god's sake he won by strangling the remaining tributes to death." My mom then looks down at the floor, remembering his games./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""But we all know that you can, you're the smartest girl we know. Many tributes can be killers, but not many smart. That is what lets the dominant tributes lose." My dad says, looking at me with his stone gray eyes./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I am just about to procrastinate when a Peacekeeper barges through the door, taking my family. I choke out an "I love you" before the doors close on us. I sink down in my chair and start to cry. My dad has a point but, the smart tributes die from the killer tributes. Only few have made it back alive and smart. I can only remember a few like a girl from 3, Wiress I believe, a guy from 8 that I forgot his name, and a girl from 6. Those tributes won with their wits and intelligence, something I supposedly have./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"A Peacekeeper barges through the door and escorts me out of the room. I walk the halls with him behind me, and I look around for Erebus. When we turn the corner I see him and he is also being escorted to the car. We then huddle into the car, it looks like it is from the 1940's. I sit down next to him and we both watch as a Peacekeeper drives us to the train. Lilith sits in the front seat, doing her makeup to look pretty for the cameras./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Where is this car going?" Erebus asks/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""The Train." Lilith, the Peacekeeper, and I all say that in unison./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""How far away is the Capitol?" Erebus asks, again/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Not very far, but still far. We are necessarily close to the Capitol. While the outline Districts are more farther away and will take them longer." Lilith says, still applying her makeup./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"We drive for what I think is 20 minutes until the car comes to a stop, and we arrive at the train. The train is mostly a shiny red, and where it isn't red it is a cool silver. We all step out of the car and go into the train. I notice the District 5 Seal on the train when I get in proximity of it. When I step into the train, my mouth almost drops. Tables of food are everywhere, luxuries, silk couches, velvet carpets, and even a T.V. to watch re-runs and District reaping re-caps./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""This is where you guys will be staying for a day or so. Bring it all in children, this is the good life." Lilith then takes a seat on a couch and continues talking. "Even though you are here, and it i just for a little while. You get to experience all of this."/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Erebus and I then take a seat on the soft couches and watch the re-caps of the Reaping in other Districts. I don't exactly think to much of the tributes, but only a few catch my eye that I wonder about. The male tribute from 1, fierce since him and another boy both volunteered and he had to shove the other guy away to get to be their male tribute. The female tribute from 3, when her name is called she walks up and identifies everything around her as if she wants to know how everything is going to work. Then there is the female tribute from 10, muscular and so much intensity in her that she volunteered for a girl she didn't know. The male from 1 is Diesel, female from 3 is Mauve, and the hulk from 10 is Zara./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Okay, Robin and Erebus, your mentors is in the bar car, I will come fetch him and you will chat about the Games." Lilith then gets up to retrieve them./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Do you know who one of them could be?" Erebus asks, man this guy asks a ton of questions./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I have a hunch one could be Cody, the most recent victor from 5 that is a guy. The other one must be the latest female." I answer./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""How do they help us? We both know about the Games. Training is almost everything, and sponsors are key." I start to wonder the same thing when he says that./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Lilith then comes into the room with our mentors, one is Cody the other is a girl I don't know. She has brown hair, blue eyes, and peach skin. While Cody has red hair, green eyes, and kind of pale and kinda of peach skin. They both sit down across from Erebus and I. None of them seem drunk, that's a plus since District 12 have Haymitch Abernathy who is reported a drunk./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""You guys will have your own mentor for the entire time you are in the Capitol. Since there are 2 of you we have 2 mentors to choose from. This is Cody Stride, he won the 44th Hunger Games, and this is Teena Sae who won the 51st Hunger Games. You guys may choose your mentor." Lilith says to us./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I choose Cody, he is my uncle after all." I say in a cold tone./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Well, I will go with Teena, Hi I am Erebus." Teena then shakes Erebus's hand./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Settled! Now Erebus and Robin you guys can talk about your alliance, if you have one." Lilith then goes to her room since she doesn't need to talk about the Games like we do./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Lilith has a point, we need to settle this. Are we in an alliance, or not?" Now it is my turn to ask the question to Erebus./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Yes, District Partners need to stick together until the end. If not till the end then not at all." I just hope that I can be with him until the end, if it is me or him dying./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""I am going to talk with Erebus about some strategies, and Robin is Cody wants to talk to you about some stuff you can do so. Erebus lets talk in your room." Teena says as Erebus follows her to his room./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Anything I need to know?" I ask/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Not really, you just need to focus on the survival and physical techniques in the Training Center. With that being said, what is your weapon of choice?" He answers my question with another question/p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Well, watching the Games previously. I saw some weapons at the Cornucopia that are usually there." I answer./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""So I am going to have a sickle as my weapon of choice." I say after I thought about it./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;""Good, well I am going to tell you more tomorrow, we both need rest." We then both get up and walk to our rooms./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"My room is next to Erebus's in front of Cody's and at a slanted angle for Teena's. I open the door, plop down in the bed, and shut my eyes. After a while of waiting for sleep, I just turn the T.V. on and watch some re-runs of the previous Games. I watch Teena's and I am shocked at her Victory. Her arena was an island and the middle of it was a dense rain forest while the outline is a beach. She killed 7 tributes with throwing knives, she killed the entire Career pack on day 4 and the final tribute from District 12 by throwing a knife at him and he fell into the water and drowned./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"I watch until it gets darker outside, and I even had enough time to watch Cody's Games again. He had no weapons for the entire Games, he strangled a number of tributes then dunked them into water. His arena was a suburban neighborhood, he drowned the tributes in the pools. He never stayed in one place the entire Games. He killed 6 tributes including 2 Careers, his District Partner, both from 7, and the sole remaining tribute from District 3. I was shocked that he killed his District Partner, but I watched as after he did it he went insane and on a killing spree. He kept yelling that he was sorry and though she was the girl tribute from 7, who he later did kill./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"Those Games will probably haunt my nightmares, but I know that if I win that my story will be like theirs. I lay down in the bed and rest my head on my pillow. I turn the lights off and start to sleep. When my eyes close I can only dream about my Games, and how I am going to die. My hypothetical deaths appear to be bloodless, all from natural causes. I take that as a sign to learn survival skills in the Training Center, but right now all I need to do it sleep./p
p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"And I do./p
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p style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium;"strongHope you guys like the Chapter today, I am trying to update everyday for this Story, and if you like this story don't forget to review. Constructive Criticism is always helpful! You guys can check out my other stories on my profile, 1 is finished other is halfway, don't forget to review on those ones as well. Love you all and bye!/strong/p
