So and now the fourth chapter: the first day of training. Hope you´ll enjoy it.

HungerGamesOwl

Training

The next morning I awake by the Bitch- her name is Tara I have learned- who shouts at me to get up quickly. I groan quietly but for sake she hasn´t heard it. Slowly I get up and pull over a green t-shirt and some short brown trousers and look in the mirror. I look too good although I haven´t brushed my hair since the Reaping and have cried all the time. So I tousle my hair and sprinkle my eyes with water. They are very red and swollen by now.

I´m heading to the dining room and eat just a little bit because yesterday an avox has brought me very much food to my room and now I´m full. Blight tells us that the training begins today and we should visit the survival stations first and then try to learn how to throw knifes or spears. In general we should try to learn how to use weapons. Yes sure, I think. That´s the opposite of my plan but maybe I can show the other tributes how pathetic I am at this.

Pira takes us to the elevator, then we go to the training center where the other tributes are standing. Atlanta begins to tell us not to fight with other tributes, use the survival stations, bla bla bla...

I don´t listen to her. Then we can go and I head to the plant station. I´m very good at this because in district 7 I was practically living in the forest but I don´t show it and always take the poisonous plants and berries. It´s very funny to see the trainer getting more and more pissed of me. He seems very lucky when I leave the station after a while and go to the knot station. There I learn some new traps although I know the most of them already. The girl of 10 is also there and we make small talk.

"Is the life in district 7 nice?" she asks.

"Yes. I love the beautiful trees" I answer girlish. Oh, how I hate it.

"Sounds good. In district 10 there are cows anywhere. It´s annoying"

I don´t know what to say so I practice knotting and of course I make an mistake and begin to cry.

"I am bad at anything" I whimper "I´m going to die in the bloodbath."

"Oh, I don´t think that´s right" she says with pity in her voice. Oh yes, she has fallen for my act.

"Come on, I could teach you how to throw knifes" she offers.

"Thank you. You´re so nice" I smile. She´s really silly but I´m grateful for the offer so I can show all tributes how pathetic I am.

She holds a knife and shows me the aim Like I don´t know how to throw knifes. Then she throws it and it lands 1 meter near the target. Lame.

Now I take a knife and throw it so it lands 2 meters away from me. The other tributes laugh and I burst into tears and fall on my knees burying my face in my hands. They are all so silly.

After that the girl of 10 avoids me and I´m grateful. I go to the axe station where I aim 4 meters in front of me and I score perfectly. The others think I´m just bad at everything because the real target is 10 meters away. I stay a while at the station and aim at many different aims wide away of the real target. Always I score perfectly. Then I go to the spear station. I want to grab a spear but the boy of 2 takes it first and hustles me so I fall on the ground. All of the carreers laugh at me. Oh I will have so fun to kill them.

My face is read of anger but for luck they think I´m just embarrassed. "7 you´re so pathetic, really" the girl of 1 says. She looks like a sex bomb. Probably she is one. Blond hair and everywhere Make-Up. I decide she´ll be the first to kill. "Yes you´re right Chrystall" her district partner agrees. I sob. They laugh again and go away. I watch them. Chrystall isn´t very strong and very bad at the sword station. The only thing she´s good at is throwing a spear but she´s not very good at it. I´ll kill her easily. The boy of her district also isn´t that problem but the both of 2 are. She scores everything with a bow and he is very strong and good with a sword but I´ll beat them, I know it.

At the end of the day I think I have done ok. I have learned some fighting tricks, can use a sword very well, throw knifes, can make traps easily and know which berries and plants are poisonous and which aren´t and also there´s no problem with axes. I mean I score everything. I have thrown them since I was 8 years old. Of course I haven´t shown any of the other tributes how good I am. They all think I´m just a pathetic weakling.

Benjamin and I go back to the elevator and our mentors wait for us in the dining room.

"How was training?"

"Good" replies the kid "I was very well at throwing knifes and climbing"

Blight smiles "That´s fantastic. I´m sure you have a chance of winning" I don´t think so. I´ll have to kill him first but I say nothing.

"And you?" asks Blight politely.

"Not so good" I answer quietly and stare at my shoes.

"She´ll die in the bloodbath" says Tara "Let´s concentrate on Benjamin" Now I´m sure as hell I am going to kill her when I have won the Games.

"But you can´t..." begins Benjamin but I stop him. "It´s ok. One of us has two win" Too bad he doesn´t know that I mean me and not him. "I want that one of us survive"

Then I act as if I have to blink tears away and go to my room. I miss the dinner but I wouldn´t have eaten something anyway. So I tell the avox to bring me food and he does. In my room I train my muscles. After all I can´t win without real training. Around 10 o´clock pm I´m finished and go to bed.

Thanks for reading. Please review. HungerGamesOwl