Both Eden and Winter look at each other looking for a place to start. Eden decides to walk over to the blade station. He finds the careers exiting the station, and the boy from District 9 again. Eden goes over and asks him his name. "Miles. Just call me miles, and go away," said the boy. Eden backs away from the rudeness from Miles he had no idea from what. Eden begins to wonder if he done anything bad, but is broken off the thought when the person running the station calls his name. Eden is suggested to use a special wrist weapon called a crossblade. Basically a crossblade is like mounted on your wrist but it retracts in about out of your wrist depending if you make a fist. These kinds of weapons are good for quick kills, and close combat.
For Winter she is suggested to have little mini throwing axes. They are small enough to be hidden within your hand, but big enough to break through someone's skin and even bone if you learn how to throw them. Both of them spend about two hours at each station, moving from blades, to herbs and types of fruits, then to edible animals, next was stealth and survival. After this everyone seems to be getting tired, and head over for lunch. Everyone seems to be sitting together by district as usual, except the careers. Everyone is silent, and doesn't dare to attempt talking, except the careers who are purposely loud. Winter spends another few hours learning effective ways to use axes with a girl from District 9. Eden goes off and works on his strength by himself, with weights for the rest of the day. They spend more and more days together just learning the ways of survival, trying to get prepared for whatever is to come.
As days goes by the date for the games draws closer. Summer learned ways to advance camouflage techniques, and learned to be good using a knife. Darkhan had spent most of his time learning to use spears, arrows, and axes. Winter had learned to use all types of axes, and Eden was able to not only gain weight, but lift a lot more then when he started, he also was able to really good at the crossblade, just like one of the careers. All of them seem to have been given better odds against the careers, who spent most of the time working on not but what they were already good at. It's the day before they show the gamemakers their skills to score them. Each player will get to be one on one with their mentor. Picna decides that he will train us individually, spending the first half of the day with Winter, and the other Eden. No one complains, as they both see it very fair to each other. Considering that they'll be killing themselves in less than a week. So Eden decides to go back to bed, as Winter follows Picna to their special training level of the elevator. After several minutes of the elevator moving, Picna and Winter walk out into a pitch black room.
"Your train will consist of two choices. Either pitch black deathmatch with me, or I get you dodging all projectile weapons, which is it?" ask Picna. After several minutes, Picna realizes Winter won't speak aloud, and turns on the lights. The room is reall just a gigantic empty room, walls painted white, and nothing but the elevator for decoration. He finds her putting her hand up with the number two. He Picna smiles, and yells "Desert, Arctic, and Woodland!" Within an instant the room is transformed into thirds, each being the terrain Picna had called out. "Throwing Knives." Next a box of throwing knives arises from the floor and Pinca sets them up with one knife in his right hand, and four knives in his left. Yell gives the ok, letting Winter know to start, and throws one right past her head, hitting a rock right behind her. Winter falls back, startled by this surprise beginning. Without blinking Picna throws another one, only this time, he doesn't plan on missing. Winter jumps on top of the rock to dodge, and flips backwards from the next knife thrown. She hides behind the rock for a second to take cover from the fan of knives flying at her. All fives knives were thrown, and Winter knows Picna has to reload, she scurries to the trees, when she sees a knife come at her directly ahead. She ducks and finds Picna already waiting with the box in one hand.
Picna is giving a maniacal smile towards her, as his eyes seem to grow with excitement and look even reptile. He whips three knives at Winter, and she rolls left to avoid them. She does a serpentine running pattern, and Picna laughs as if he has gone crazy, with each knife getting close and closer to her, as if he is missing on purpose. This isn't the Picna Winter know, this was the PIcna that one the games. She dives into a snow pile to catch her breath. "Water, grassy field, Iceberg!" yells Picna. Suddenly the ground underneath Winter has a giant iceberg pop out from under her, and she slides down it. Having knives missing her by millimeters, as snow is being slammed in Winter's face. She rolls into water, just barely missing where her old leg wound used to be. She holds her breathe and swims towards an underground cavern is, in the direction of the iceberg. Submerging in a caved in area, safe from Picna's wrath for now, she makes a sigh of relief for a second, and lies down for a brief second. Only to be disturbed by Picna's knifes furiously slicing away at the thick ice that is the iceberg. She crawls closer to the water, getting ready to jump in at anytime. Suddenly it stops, and she sees him disappear. She takes a second to think where he had gone, when suddenly Picna jumps from the water, and throws a knife at Witners head.
She ducks then rolles back into the water, swimming for dear life. She submerges to Picna having his head risen above his head, and ready to go for the kill. He then smiles, puts the knife in the box, and puts out a hand to help Winter up. She frowns at her poor performance, which causes Picna to laugh. She looks over to the iceberg to see a hole, where Picna slashed away earlier to be now open. "This is just unfair," she thinks to herself. "Well you lasted about five minutes," says Picna. They then spend half of their times left going over when it is time to strike, run, and good ways to hide without letting people know. Winter seems to already know this, and shows how annoyed she is by Picna, shown by her expressions. They then spend the other half of their time having Picna try to kill her again. Once this ends, Winter is exhausted, and both head to the elevator. "Neutral," says Picna as they walk into the elevator. The room turns back into a white room, and the elevator doors close. "Now listen Winter, I want you to show the gamemakers what your made of. Use everything your good at, and do really let your teeth out with this." Picna then puts his hand out, as if expecting a high five. Winter just glares at Picna's hand and does a slight nod. Once they get to their own floor, Winter stomps to her room, and slams to door behind her.
Eden walks out sleepily and says, "What's happening?" Picna shrugs, and give Eden the sign to go get ready. Within five minutes Eden comes out wearing sweatpants, and an undershirt. Both seem to be racing each other to the elevator, and seems excited to go downstairs. Once they reach the training floor, the lights have been turned off again, and Picna repeats the options. Eden decides to choose a pitch black deathmatch, if only unarmed. Picna agrees, and seems to be happy by this choice.
You find Miles throwing knives from trees at Ginger while both are deep in a woodland terrain. Miles is jumping from tree to tree being as silent as possible, throwing knives, and leading Ginger to his trap. When he finds a branch cut underneath his feet from a small hatchet. He catches a branch mid-fall and lands on the ground. A throwing axe is deflects by his stiletto and he flings a needle at Gingers neck. Ginger uses her two huge one handed axes to defend, by sticking them into the ground, and takes a second to catch her breath. She jumps out to throw three hand axes, and charges in with a two handed axe. Miles Screams in rage as he also charges in, ready to overpower her attack
Summer is swinging from tree to tree and skipping from branch to branch, as Darkhan wears weights, and is fighting his mentor. Both slowly getting more and more interested in the fight Darkhan started, as time more time passes without either of the two landing any hits. Summer skips from tree to tree until she finds herself twenty feet away from the fight. She then whispers the word "Knights Sword," and a giant four foot sword rises from the ground slowly. Summer takes the blacde and begins to cut furiously into trees, knocking one into the next. She charges from the wall, in order to make an escape, finding every single hit landing on the wall, results in the blade bouncing back. She gets even more angry by this, and cuts a tree down, going in the direction of Darkhan.
Its twelve at night, when Eden and Picna limb back to the elevator. Both calling it a draw, and if they were to continue Eden might've outlasted Picna, but if there were weapons it would be a different story. Eden is full of scratches, and his joints have been picked, poked, and twisted all day. Picna is full of bruises from all the punches Eden took hours to land. Both make a do their best to limp to their rooms, and pass out into a deep sleep. For today is down, and tomorrow is presentation day for the gamemakers!
