Chapter 6
The Beginning
After I eat an apple I go into the training room again. I' the first back and everyone else looks like they'll be a while so I throw some knives. The targets are too easy to hit so I walk to the other side of the room and throw my knives. I still never miss. Before anyone comes in I quickly run across the room and pull the knives out of the training dummies. I put them back on their stand.
I dash over to the climing bars that are supposed to resemble trees. I position my hands and feet to start climbing.
"I saw your knife throwing. Your alright,"a voice comes from the shadows in the corner.
I get startled by them and climb the tree in a few seconds. I'm 30 feet in the air and the person comes out of the shadows. It's the boy from 2. He's a Career.
"Thanks. That means alot coming from you," I spit at him sarcastically.
"If we were in the arena you'd be so dead."
"Yeah right I doubt you could even get me all the way up here," I declare.
By this time he's at the foot of the tree replacement. He starts climbing slowly. I scramble all the way up to the ceiling. I look down and see that he's fallen on his ass.
"You all right down there," I shout down to him.
"Just fine," he answers sarcastically.
I scramble back down.
"No seriously. Where does it hurt?" I instantly become the healer inside.
"I hurt my tail bone," he murmurs still hostile.
I dash over to the healing plants and grab various plants. I mash them together with a little water in a bowl. I run back over to him and ask him to pull the top half of his jumpsuit off. He dose so with much grumbling and wincing. I see the small of his back has been badly bruised. I smear the purple paste on the bruise and tell him to sit still.
"It should be fine in a few minutes just sit still."
"Thanks. Do you even remember my name?" he asks clearly thankful.
I try to name the face. The blonde ruffled hair. The bright blue eyes that would melt my heart if I didn't know just moments ago that he would of tried to hurt me. He is taller than Cody. He looks at me like Cody only different. He looks more natural.
"I can honestly tell you that I don't remember any tributes name except Cody."
"Seriously. Why?" he asks clearly curious.
"I don't want to know the name of the person who kills me while my whole family watches. Taken from them the same as my sister."
"Publicly you mean. How did your sister die?"he sees he has hit a nerve but stands by his question.
"Well first you should know she was my identical twin. We shared everything. We even shared a mind. One day she was hunting with Nachum ,my brother, and was walking back to the house." I swallow. Tears are starting to slide down my face."A Peacekeeper saw her with her game and brought her to the Head Peacekeeper. He found her guilty of illegal pouching and sentenced her to 50 lashes. She was too young to withstand that many. She passed out after 10 and died after 30. The whip took the skin off her back and went all the way down to bone." I was crying profusely now. "She was only eight. It was her death that started the war. After that I was always alone. Never again will I hear her chiming laugh, see her bright face. Never again will I be happy." I realize he's still listening to me.
"That explains why you look so deppressed. By the way my name is Amitai
The other Career tributes come in but don't notice us.
"Please don't tell them about the knives," I whisper in his ear quickly before climbing up to the ceiling again.
When I look back the Career tributes are surrounding Amitai. His bruise has healed and he has put his jumpsuit on properly again. Before they see me I hang from the bars over the ceiling and jump from one bar to the next. I loved doing this in the forest. It made me feel free. It made my sorrow melt away for a few minutes. When I realize everyone is in the training room again I look for Cody. He's beside the archery. I swing over to the part of the roof above him and fall down beside him.
He almost jumped out of his skin. He looks at me in surprise.
"What? Did you not know I could fly?" I say sarcastically.
He grimaces, turns and picks up the bow. I go back over to the climbing station and climb back up to the roof. I sit there for the rest of training observing the other tribites strengths. Mostly I compared Cody and Amitai. They are not alike in one single aspect. Cody's aim is appauling with his fist, a kinfe and a sword. While Amitia's aim is better it's nowhere near as good as mine. No-one's is.
When training is over I swing over to above the lift and jump down in front of everyone. Their all so surprised they just stare at me until the doors close and I hit the number 12 button. The lift shoots straight up. Mercy is waiting for us at the top.
"What happened? Wheres Cody?"
"Probably still surprised by my exit."
"What exit?" Mercy asks suspiciously.
"I was on the ceiling and dropped down in front of them. I'm guessing a Peacekeeper is having to scrape their jaws off the floor down there," I reply non-chalently.
Then Cody arrives in the lift.
"What do yo think you where playing at leaping around on the ceiling. Dropping down in front of everybody?" he screams at me.
I just lean against the wall.
"Well."
"Cheer up. I want to live while while I'm you know still alive."
I walk back to my room and lock the door. Someone knocks the door.
"Who is it?" I call.
No-one answers so I asume it's an Avox. I open the door to see who it is. It's Nachum. I'm happy for a second and then I remember where I am. In the Capitol and my brother isn't just an Avox. He's my Avox.
Ooooo. Which boy will she choose?