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The elevator doors open, Shine jumps at us,
"Well? Who got in?"
"Calm down." Gloss says entering the room with Cashmere.
We walk to the Dining quarters and sit t the table.
"Me and Glimmer, Cato and Clove, Maria from Four and Eva from Seven." Marvel says proudly.
"Interesting..." Gloss trails off into thought.
"Aw, did the District Four boy try to get in?" Cashmere says.
"Yeah' it was quite funny watching him try and whip the dummy," I snigger.
"He was only twelve." She mumbles.
"Caesar Flickerman's interviewing Seneca Crane tonight, would you two like to watch?" Shine hastily changes the subject.
"Sure, I want to see this year's Head Game maker; maybe his personality will reflect his Games, giving us a heads up." I say.
"That's a good idea, Glimmer." Marvel seems impressed.
I serve myself to some chicken breast covered in gravy. I almost finish in ten minutes. It's quite amusing seeing Shines disgusted expressions about my poor eating manners, she'd often drop comments like,
"Food tastes much better when you eat slowly," and, "Don't you just hate it when people grunt while eating?"
I stand from the table and head for the T.V shortly followed by the others, when we're all seated I flick through the, hundreds, of channels until I find the live Interview, it's just about to start.
"Let's welcome to the stage, Seneca Crane!" Shouts Caesar.
Seneca slowly walks onto the stage waving and smiling. They shake hands and sit down,
"Welcome!"
He smiles.
"So, is this your third year as Head Gamemaker?"
"Yes, it is."
"Ah, so do you put your personal stamp on the games?"
"Well, I'm a adventurous, exciting, creative person, so I like to make my games like me, you never know what's coming, do you agree folks?" The crowd roars like crazy.
"I guess so." I mutter.
"So, The Hunger Games it's self?"
"Well, at first it was a punishment for all the Districts for trying to rebel, but I think it's grown from that, I think The Hunger Games brings us together, and together we are Panem!" He punches the air and rises to his feet. The crowd bursts into a cacophony of cheering, clapping and wailing.
"That's all we have time for, good luck with the games, everybody, Seneca Crane Head Game maker!"
"Well, I think we're going to have a lot of mutts in the games."I say.
"I thought that too." Marvel says. I look at the clock, 9:24pm.
"Well, I'm going to bed." I stand and head for the door and Marvel follows. When I'm in my bed room I change into some purple pyjamas and go straight to sleep.
I get up early today, take a shower pressing random buttons,brush my teeth and change, when I'm all ready I look at the clock, 7:54am.
I eat breakfast and then watch some T.V, previous Hunger Games. That brings me to 9:45.
I start to head out when Gloss clambers in.
"You've had quite a lot of alcohol lately." I raise an eyebrow, he winks,
"Aren't you waiting for Marvel?" Even from a metre away I can smell his sour breath.
"No, I want to get there early." I walk to the elevator, just before the door closes I hear him say,
"You can do this."
The door seals shut.
Down.
When I reach The Training Floor I see that I'm the first apart from Eva, at the axe station.
I walk over,
"Good morning."
She spins round rapidly.
"You gotta' stop doing that, one of these days I'll die of a heart attack!" She chuckles,
"You excited for the Training Scores?"
"That's tonight?!" I screech.
"Yeah'! Did you forget?"
"Uh huh." I mumble.
"What are you going to do?"
"Throw some Axes, erm, destroy some dummies with a Axe in each hand and some survival skills, you?"
"Bow and arrow, karate, climbing, running, maybe if I have time swimming."
"God! That's a lot!"
"I want to get a good score you see, so can you teach me a little about throwing?"
"Sure!"
We throw Axes until everybody's here, 10:07am. I get two a little off the head, one slices of its hand, and my first few anywhere and everywhere. I teach her a bit on the bow and arrow, she shoots straight but never gets bulls' eye, close enough though.
I learn some knots, swim, set some snares and before I know it, it's time to go back to living quarters change into the uniform and head for the Training/ Waiting room, I'm first because the girl tribute goes first and it goes from One to Twelve.
The elevator doors open and Gloss and Cashmere are standing at the foot of the doors.
"We don't have much time, I was having a hangover earlier and Cash isn't a morning person."
"The fights I and Shine would have about me getting up when I was a tribute." Cashmere smiles.
"Yes!" Shine thrills as she comes in.
"Anyway, show your skills, show your strength not your weakness, and show no fear but confidence and don't take forever on one thing, prove your point then move on." Gloss says firmly.
"Oh no!" I think, "I've got loads of talents! I'm pretty good at everything!"
I get changed quickly and rush down to the Scoring Chambers and wait.
"Glimmer Belcourt." A robotic voice chants.
As I walk into the chambers I see Clove smirking, she won't be smirking when I get higher than her.
"Glimmer Belcourt, District One."
"Welcome Glimmer, you will be scored on a scale of One to Twelve, begin."
I grab a metal bow and a quiver of arrows and load, aim, fire!
Whoosh!
Through the head.
I fire a few more arrows, all landing in the kill areas, and when I run out of arrows I place the bow and quiver down. I head for the Axe station and throw five Axes, all pretty decent hits.
Then I set some snares make a fire, just as I'm about to head to the Hand to hand combat Seneca says,
"Thank you." Meaning get the hell outta' here we've got Twenty-three more kids to come.
I storm out grunting and glaring at him, who does he think he is, I say when I'm done. Not anybody else. Me.
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