"So far i have had six 15 year old girls as tributes. A 17 or tweleve year old boy would be a welcome change" - sincerely Lord Rax

Gaet slouched against a wall with the hunch on his back nearly jutting over his head. Over his shoulder was the 4 foot long battle axe that he was training with. "twenty seconds on the clock... and... go!" Gaet's mentor pushed a button and multiple diferent human sized dolls popped out of strange places, Some came out of floor and others through a wall. Without a second of hesitation Gaet Swiped the heads off two dolls and landed it in the chest of a third doll in one swing. "Two left" Gaet pulled out a dagger from a hidden sheath on his chest and began sprinting to a fourth target where he leaped in to the air and buried the dagger in its face. "WHERE IS THE LAST ONE!" Gaet looked franticly around untill he found it perched on top of a pole hanging from the ceiling. with only a few seconds left Gaet ripped the dagger out then flicked it into the heart of the Doll.

"good throw, now try again but use two swords instead if an axe."

"I'm tired of training, and i was aiming for the face not the heart." Gaet looked disapointed in himself even though in a real battle 5 tributes would be dead already.

"Fine, Tain, your turn." Tain was a career and every one knew it. The only thing weird about him was that he was weak, he was skinny, he was tall and lanky for his size and he looked like sweet boy. But every one was afraid of him in battle. hardly any one knew Tains eye colour because his face was covered by his long fringe of almost black, dark brown hair.

"Sweet, what am i doing?" Tain walked to the center of the arena.

"you will see." Tain waited for a few minutes when he heard the twang of bow strings. In a blur of movements Tain dodge rolled, jumped, leaned back and even did a spinning jump kick to avoid the arrows. When the arrows stopped firing Tain was surrounded by at least 30 arrows with anti matter pads on them. (anti matter pads turn any sharp force into blunt force. In other words. If one touches you, it falls to the ground and you get a very big bruise instead of a cut.) Tain picked up an arrow and threw it at the hole in the wall where the arrows came from. The arrow got stuck in the hole. "Now what do i do?" Tain wasnt tired in the least from his evasion training.

The mentor beckoned over to Gaet. "come here boy. I want you two to fight in hand to hand combat. First person to pin down the other wins."

Gaet looked outraged "You cant expect me to win can you?" The mentor chuckled and looked Gaet up and down. "It will be... educational. START!" Gaet turned to face Tain. But Tain was already behind him. "What the?" Gaet started to turn but Tain had already started his chain of karate attacks, in a few seconds. Tain was nearly standing on Gaet's neck when the mentor declared Tain the winner.

Gaet was almost 7 foot tall, as such, most people thought he had been geneticly modified to be extra tall and strong. Gaet was trained in the use of every type of weapon ever created. Gaets only weakness was the fact that he was stupid and that he sucked in hand to hand (he tried to learn hand to hand but he could never get it right) Gaet was going to volenteer but Tain beat him to it. Every career knew of what Tain was capable of so no one volenteered for the other two tributes. It was just coincidence that Gaet got picked. Normaly some one would volenteer but the sight of Tain made every one nervous.

Tain was a 6 foot tall twelve year old. He was always up beat and liked smiling. But for some reason no one liked smiling around him. Tain did 21 lessons of karate, parkour and running training per week. With his busy schedual, Tain became socialy impaired and eventualy dropped out of school to become a career. Tain was not Book smart but made up for it with extreme street smarts. Tain attended almost every physical competition and one nearly every time. Not even the strongest career could defeat him in a fight due to his speed and skill. At one point they had to send three careers at once to see if they could take him down. They failed. Tain Was an omen of fear to all who had seen him. But to those who didnt know him, he was a cute little boy with a happy face and rosy cheeks, Although most people would see through this disguise in less then a minute of talking to him.

"sorry i'm late. I had to do somthing." Shine came running through the door. "I'm here, i'm here..."

The mentor avoided looking at shine. "Its time for you to train. Center of the room. NOW!"

Shine quickly walked to the center of the arena. "Sorry, whats happening?"

"You have to train in throwing knife combat with the other two."

Tain's generic smile faultered for a second when he thought of throwing knives. Tain hated knives so much.

"go grab a sheath of anti matter knives, Last person standing wins." Shine, Tain and gaet all bowed and picked up a belt with 5 knives covered in anti matter generator on them.

shine stood with one knife in her hand and the other on the sheath.

Tain stood with his arms crossed, holding no knifes.

Gaet was holding four knives in one hand and the other knife in his other hand.

"Begin." In the blink of an eye Tain threw a knife at Shine and Gaet.

Gaet rolled out of the way and norrowly avoided the knife. Shine ducked and threw one of her own knives at tain.

Tain ran away from the knife and started running up a wall. Gaet was transfixed by the specticle and only by luck did he avoid getting hit by Shine when she threw the knife at him. Tain was holding onto the roof and was preparing to jump.

Gaet flung all four of his knifes at Tain. Tain jumped as soon as as the knives hit. three missed but one hit Tain on the shin. Tain was holding onto the chandelier with both of his hands but he was yelling in pain as he tried to pulling himself up. Gaet looked over to Shine and Shine looked back. Gaet pelted his last knife at Shine but missed by a large margin. Gaet saw across the room that a Knife was lying on the floor. Gaet began sprinting towards the knife but just before he grabbed it Shine threw a knife into his back. Gaet yelled out in pain as the dagger hit. But he didnt fall to the ground like Shine hoped. Gaet pulled of his shirt and a 5cm long bruise was located where the Knife hit.

Seconds later another Knife from Shine hit in the exact same spot. The bruise became even bigger. Gaet staggered a bit then fell down.

"Gaets out." Tain peered over the chandelier and as soon as he did he nearly got a knife to the face. Tain waited a few minutes to take his shoe off and inspect his black foot. Shine spent the time getting all the knifes back of the floor.

"Get down from there!" Shine looked angry because it was almost impossible to see Tain. Tain rolled over a bit but Shine saw the movement and pelted all but one of her Knives one by one at the gap. Tain finaly got hit in the chest and surendered.

"good work, now go patch yourself up."

Tain needed a ladder to get down.

Training continued for the rest of the day. District one had a way of removing bruises very quickly. In the actual hunger games, none of the tributes bruised, scarred or even had to pee. However, tributes would sweat alot more because of the pills they had to take before the match.

Later that day.

"How was training?" Shine's mum was cooking dinner so Shine coulden't see her.

Shine sighed and fell down onto the couch. "It was hard. I finaly got to beat Tain in somthing."

"Oh realy? Tell me about it."

"We did throwing knife training. I think Tain is only bad with ranged weapons."

Shine talked with her mum for the next few hours.

"Your right, i'm going to do that in the games."

Shine layed back and smiled. If all went as planned she would have control over the career pack.