FOXFACE POV
I close my eyes tight as my stylist ,Venlo, pulls my hair tightly before putting something that resembles a satellite dish on my head. She then puts me next to Heller, my district partner, he scares me. When he was reaped he smiled and then just casually walked to the stage like it meant nothing. He's lived in the orphanage since a young age so maybe that could mean something. A lot of the orphanage kids are messed up in district 5.
Me and Heller , both equally covered in sparkles, ride down the road on the chariots. The look of these people is breathtaking. Upon seeing them I find it hard to remove my eyes from their looks. I wave nervously at them and flash a small smile every now and again to the audience. Once my chariot stops I look at the other tributes behind me. The girl from 8 is sneezing her way through the parade suggesting she is easily vulnerable to the cold especially considering the night is breezy but warm. The boys from 11 and 12 are particularly muscular, perhaps they work in a place where they require a lot of muscle, this should give them an advantage.
The next day at training I decide it's best to examine my fellow tributes more. The girl from 8 stays towards the fire making station further providing evidence to my statement that she's vulnerable to the cold. As usual the careers are strong but show evidence in arrogance proven every time they make a small mistake and lose control over their minds, especially the district 1 female. By the time the private sessions have come around I have an evaluation on all the tributes…but unfortunately not much training.
"From District 5. Heller Atom" Caesar announces "A score of 7"
Heller grows lowly "If her score is better than mine I swear to god"
"Finch Perkins" I can feel the anticipation build as my name is said "A score of 5"
I nod my head respectfully as if Caesar was in the room whilst Heller laughed "A SCORE OF 5, HOW PATHETIC"
My stylist takes my hand and leads me out of the room saying "I should probably show you your dress" but I know she only took me out to save me from more embarrassment, still she shows me the dress which I admit is beautiful. It's a blue dress with frills and on my feet I have high heels with blue flowers on it and the centre of each flower is shining silver.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you our very own red haired mutt of grace" Caesar smiles whilst I wait backstage "FINCH PERKINS!"
The crowd goes wild as I walk on stage in my gorgeous outfit. Caesar takes my hand and kisses it gently before sitting me down.
"Now Finch" Caesar asks "Do you think you have a chance at winning"
What a first question to ask "I think I have a pretty good chance at it, yes"
"Why is that?"
"Well, I can apply myself to any given situation and find a quick and easy solution to surviving it. I'm good at evaluating the context as well so I'm not exactly a run when the crowd runs ask questions later kind of girl. If there's a way of me winning then I will find it quickly" I answer smiling
"So you like to ask questions" Caesar says
"I like to find conclusions" I correct
"Interesting, and you think that could take you a long way"
"I think it could take me all the way" I smile
"Thank you Finch" Caesar smiles as both me and him stands up and he kisses my hand again "Thank you so much, delighted to talk to you. Ladies and gentlemen, FINCH PERKINS!"
And with that I leave the stage smiling and go straight to my bedroom. What will my family be thinking now, will they be watching? These are the questions I wondered whilst my tube rise into the arena. I look to my left and see the girl 12, I believe she is named Katniss, and to my right the male from 7. I breathe in and look at the arena. Ok so it's a forest. There's wood for fire, presumably a lake for water and trees to camouflage in. There's a water canteen not too far away from me. I'd only have to run about 3 steps to get it.
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I jump off my pedestal and grab the water canteen before deciding to head to the north of the arena avoiding the cornucopia. As I run into the forests I bump into someone, I look up to see the girl from 12 the one who I was standing next to just moments ago. She has an orange backpack and blood on her face suggesting she killed someone but the fact that she seems just as startled as me suggests otherwise. I look at her for one more second considering an alliance before deciding against it and running away. She's more skilled then me, perhaps not more intelligent but I don't know her enough to trust her.
I sit by a cave I found as the night falls and watch the tributes who died portraits flash in the sky. Heller didn't seemed to have survived the bloodbath, to say I felt sad would be a lie but to say I didn't care would also be a lie. After all he was the last piece of home I had.
The days pass with me doing relatively little; I come across the careers once but hid under the lake using sea weed to cover the top parts on me.
I soon discover a wheat and corn field in the arena and decide it'd be best to collect some corn for food from there. I try to pull out the wheat but realise it's impossible with anything to cut it with. That's when I hear the cannon signalling another death. The district 11 males head pops out of the corn field and I crouch down so he does not see me. I can't see whether he has a weapon or not but either way I consider him a threat so I silently leave the field.
In the next few days I discover the careers pile of food and supplies. It's almost too tempting to just go in and snag it all away but I have to be clever. Taking too much would be obvious. Also, the careers just seem to be lying there not even bothering to protect their treasure. I mean I know the careers are arrogant but they're not that stupid. Wait a second, where's the tributes pedestals we were required to stand on….oh they're clever, but not clever enough.
The careers notice smoke emerging from a forest and the boy from 1 and both from 2 leave to discover what it is leaving the male from 3 to guard the pile. Once they are gone I carefully sneak up to the large pile and hop my way across the traps before grabbing a bag of apples and a loaf of bread before running off.
I run through the forest and then a large boom rings around the arena. I cover my ears as I know it's not the boom off a cannon but an explosion. I run back to the camp hiding by bushes just in time to see the rubble of the careers supplies and the boy from 2 snapping the neck of the male from 3 whose body is soon collected. The careers deem the remains of the once large pile worthless however I know better and wait for them to leave. Once they do this I run towards the cornucopia and look at what's left. I pick up the blade of a knife which will be good to use to cut the corn and a pot lid, if I ever need to bring things to the boil I guess this'll do. I giggle slightly before laughing some more. With the careers supplies gone I actually have a chance now.
However the corn doesn't last long as I soon realise taking too much will arouse suspicion among the male from 11 who won't budge from his hideout. By the time I hear about the feast I have lost half of my weight. Dear please god let the feast bag contain food. I hide inside the mouth of the cornucopia the night before the feast and once I hear the hovercraft landing delivering the table with the bags on it I waste no time in running straight towards it. I grab my bag and run off back into the forests not wanting to see the confrontation that I later find out ended with the District 2 girls' death.
I rip open my feast bag expecting to find a piece of bread but to my horror all I see is a pair of gloves and a sleeping bag. Sure the nights are getting colder and I have been sneezing and coughing a lot lately with a runny nose but I would be able to get by without this. That was my last chance at getting any food. I wonder around the arena looking for food for what feels like days. I bite into what I believe is meat only to realise its tree bark. Am I going insane? There's only four of us left now, me, the boy from 2 and both from 12. I am about to give in and just collapse to the floor to wait for death and that's when I see it. The boy from 12 collecting berries, the smell is just drawing me in and I run to him as silent as possible and take a few. Once he's gone I pop them in my mouth almost desperate and enjoy the fruit burst in my mouth…..and then my throat closes. My eyes bulge open as I grip onto my throat and make an attempt to breathe, I try coughing but all that comes out is a quiet desperate groan begging for one breath, the lack of oxygen going into my brain soon makes me collapse. I lie on the floor, helpless, with no one with me, no one to peacefully rock me to an eternal slumber and soon…..I can feel nothing.
OK SO FOXFACE IS ONE OF MY FAVOURITE HUNGER GAMES CHARACTERS SO I HOPE YOU LIKED HER. WHICH TRIBUTE WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE NEXT?
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