I could really use some reviews! I want to know who you think should become the love interest for Dante! Please people? =) ok heres chapter 4, and again I dont own the hunger games. enjoy!
I walk through the mansion in silence, listening for any signs of life. As I make my way to the room where I know my target is in, I get this tingle at the back of my skull. Quickly, I kick open the door and fire three rounds, one into the target, and two into his body guards. My ears ring from the sounds of gunshots, and the screams.
"Daddy!" a little girl, not quite six yet, screams. She runs over to her father, who is bleeding profusely from the gunshot wound in his chest, and starts crying. "Why did you shoot him? Why did you kill my daddy?" She wails, looking at me. I drop my gun in horror and back out of the room.
I wake from the dream with a start, my body covered in cold sweat. My muscles feel as if they're on fire, burning right off my body.
"No, not now!" I tell myself, stumbling out of my bed and down to the main rooms of our quarters. I start destroying the kitchen space, looking for the one thing that can stop the burning, stop the pain.
"Dante, what are you doing?" Liz asks as she walks in, still half asleep. She sees the look in my eyes and she knows. "Ken!" she yells, as our Mentor rushes into the room.
"He needs caffeine! NOW!" Liz screams, as I crash to the ground, writhing in agony as I burn alive. After what feels like an eternity, someone is forcing pills into my mouth. I wait, still as can be, while the pain slowly leaves my body. After the alterations were made to us, we found we would randomly enter stages of incapacitating pain, where our bodies would feel as if we were being burned alive. Almost a dozen of our group died before we found the cure. Caffeine. The pain will randomly start up, and slowly get worse until we get some of the substance into our system. It can get so bad that we become completely paralyzed by the pain. I really hope it doesn't start up during the Games. That would be a death sentence.
A few hours later, we were all assembled at the breakfast table, Liz and I eating as Ken and the escort lady, Dubelia, explained what would take place during the next two weeks before the games. "You'll be given the first four mornings to train in the training room with the others. The afternoons will be considered free time, for you to explore the building and socialize with the other tributes. On the fifth day you'll all have your individual training sessions, and that night you will all receive your scores. On day six we will train for interviews. Day seven the morning will be spent prepping for interviews, and the night you will all have your interviews with Caesar Flickerman. The second week will be dedicated to socializing with the other tributes, touring the city, and going to a few parties. And during that week you may or may not get pulled aside by different crews to interview you, so the viewers can get to know tributes and their districts." Dubelia said excitedly.
"Great, lets become friends with one another so in two weeks it'll be harder to kill one another. I have a feeling that was designed for better entertainment values." I mumble as I nudge my food around on my plate. My muscles are still sore from the episode a few hours ago. Ken and Dubelia shoot me looks telling me to shut up, but Liz just laughs.
At ten, Liz and I head down to the training room, dressed in black and red rash guard type shirts and track pants. I've always hated track pants, the way they swish when you move drives me insane. We arrive at the training room and find everyone already there. The girl from district one, Glimmer if I recall right, is checking me out and biting her lip, whereas Marvel is glaring at me. "Looks like you've got an admirer." Liz whispers in my ear, raising Goosebumps on my arms. My ears are really sensitive. The head trainer explains the rules, how we can't hurt one another in a lasting fashion but otherwise enjoy training and try to master as many skills as possible. The careers all rush for the weapons, and everyone else seems to scatter. There seem to be two groups, the careers, and the district twelve tributes. Everyone else has gone off on their own. "Do we stick together or split up?" I ask Liz, who I see is already gone joining in with the careers. I pick random stations and join in, making all of the trainers happy by actually listening to them and showing an interest in their stations. I even managed to teach the net making trainer a new knot that uses less rope, allowing for a bigger net. She was overjoyed at the new system.
Finally we are all dismissed into the cafeteria for lunch, and Liz skips up to me happily. "Enjoy making friends." I comment snidely. She giggles and nods. "Glimmer and Clove think you're really hot and want you to join the careers. Marvel said he'd work with you when pigs fly, and I haven't quite figured out about Cato. He looks at you a lot, can't tell if he's checking you out or deciding when to kill you." I scowl and blush, causing her to laugh even more. She goes off and sits with the careers, which I subtly watch and see she's right. They do look at me quite a lot. I sit down by myself and start eating my meal, actually enjoying it. The people of the capitol know how to cook, which is really nice. A good change from the researchers in Zero. We were lucky if someone looked up from their work long enough to think about food. Everyone always ended up fending for themselves, and I'll be the first to admit that I am a lousy cook. About halfway through my meal I hear the whiz of something flying through the air and immediately ducked. Just in time too, if I hadn't a metal spoon would've hit me square in the forehead. I look up to see all the careers laughing and Clove smile and blow me a kiss. I pretended to grab it from the air and slapped it against my ass, which made her glare at me and sent the rest of the careers into hysterical bouts of laughter. I turn in the empty tray and walk out the door, but not before turning around and blowing a kiss at the careers table, and sending them a cocky smile with a wink. At least it looked like I was going to have fun these next two weeks.
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