Hi! I'm really tired as I write this so I apologise is stuff seems... off.
Zedphire Tomliss's POV
I rub my temples and pick up a notepad. Private gamemaker sessions. I get to see their strengths and weaknesses. I'm looking forward to the careers, they always bring some good talents. Since this is my first year I'm very eager.
'Pellope, bring in,' I pause to look at the tribute list, 'Sakura Dragomir, please.'
Pellope walks out and brings in a tall girl with long black hair with red highlights. She has plenty of scars across her body. Definitely a career.
Pellope stands at the side of the room and Sakura stands in the middle of the room. 'I need a trainer to show you what I can do,' Sakura tells me with a straight face.
I nod and Pellope quickly runs out of the room, a few minutes later she brings in the head trainer.
'Sakura needs you to show me her skills,' I tell the confused trainer. She nods and walks over to Sakura. A few seconds later Sakura and the trainer were in a martial arts battle. Kicking and punching, lunging and dodging. I clap my hands with glee and the other gamemakers are amused as well.
'Okay, that's enough!' I yell and they both stop.
'You can leave now.'
Pellope opens the door and they both leave, she stands beside the door waiting for me to tell her to bring in the next tribute.
'Dimitri Stark, Pellope.'
Pellope brings in a well built career, with long brown hair with blue highlights. His eyes look like they could shoot daggers.
Pellope stands beside the door and Dimitri, like Sakura, stands in the middle of the room. 'I need a few trainers,' he tells me as he grabs two swords from a stand.
I nod at Pellope and she leaves to grab two trainers. She brings in a man and a woman. They're each holding two swords. Like Sakura, I blink and a sword fight's already started.
Oh, how I love district one! Unfortunately, I can't have a tribute killing the trainers so I tell them to stop. Dimitri bows and puts the swords back into the stand. Him and the trainers are escorted out by Pellope.
'Please bring in,' I pause and glance at the list, 'Karter Chey.'
Pellope leaves and brings back in a girl with bouncy light brown hair and pale skin. She smirks and immediately pads over to the knives. She grabs, what, seven or eight knives? She holds them between her fingers and gets into a running pose. She smiles and begins dashing around the room. Every four steps she launches a knife at the target and gets a bullseye almost every time.
'That was wonderful, thank you Karter you can leave now.'
Karter grins and leaves the room. Pellope quickly plucks the knives from the targets and puts them back into the knife case.
'Bring in Harvie Osborn, please,' I'm not really looking forward to this. Based on what I observed at the reapings and on the train he's not a very good career.
Harvie walks in, he looks nervous. Nervous? Oh god...
He quickly walks to the plants table and arranges them into groups. Poisonous, edible, and not real. He knows his plants. He probably won't last long.
I sigh and shoo him out. Pellope grabs his arm and pulls him from the room. That was... bad. I already know what score he'll be getting.
'Pellope, Gizmo Martinez please.' Pellope nods and brings back a girl with dark brown that falls down her back. But what really pops are her eyes, they're a cold blue on dark skin. Interesting.
She ponders what to do for a few seconds and taps her fingers on the jeans of her training outfit. After she mad up her mind, she walked to the small wire station.
I smirk, district three. I wonder how much she knows?
After fiddling with the wires (Red, blue, and green, respectively) she managed to create a replica of a knife, that was about her height. Sparks flew and you could hear a sizzling sound. If only you could actually stab someone with it...
I wave my hand and mumble 'You're done, dismissed.'
Gizmo bows and is escorted out by Pellope and when the avox returns I tell her the name of the next tribute.
'Immogen Jones, the blind girl.' Pellope nods and leaves and promptly returns with Immogen, who was holding her cane.
The gamemakers are beginning to lose interest, they're talking about... President Snow gossip. Childish.
Pellope stands at the side of the room as Immogen slowly finds her way to the knives. She grabs quite a few and puts them in her belt. After this, she walks to the bows and arrows. She swings them over her back and grabs some rope that's beside the station.
What is this blind girl doing?
She walks over to a thirty feet climbing wall and quickly crawls up.
The other gamekeepers have begun to pay attention by now.
Once she reaches the top she throws down the knives so that they spell "am not".
Am not?
She pulls the bow and arrows in front of her and shoots them down beside the knives and it spells "blind"
Am not blind?
She attaches the rope to her waist and ties it to the top of the wall, and jumped down facing where the others and I are seated. She's standing where "I" would usually be.
She smirks and unties the rope from her waist and, with that, she leaves. Leaving the gamemakers and I in shock.
I am not blind...
I quickly write down her score, and motion to the door. Pellope walks to the door and waits.
'Jayson Knot, please.'
Immogen's session will surely keep me awake.
Jayson walks in with Pellope and immediately walks towards the axes. He swings it and sends it flying into a tree.
Interesting.
After this he shows me what he can do with a bow and arrow, knives, swords, and, of course, wiring.
'You're dismissed.'
Pellope opens the door for him and he leaves without a words.
'Fidjit Denn,' I tell Pellope, not looking up from the sheet.
A short, gangly boy with rectangular glasses walks into the room. Looking nervous and fidgety. I'm not looking forwards to this.
He looks around and pushes up his glasses before walking to the wires. He makes them spark and even starts a small fire, not too big that it lasted long though.
'Dismissed!'
After he leaves I write down his score. Low score...
'Annika Layer, please.'
Pellope brings in a medium height girl with light brown hair and deep blue eyes. She doesn't even think before she walks to the spears.
I love spears, the ways you can kill people with them...
She swings it behind her and brings it back, sending it flying through the "heart" of a dummy.
I've seen enough, this was brilliant!
'You're dismissed!'
Annika curtsies before leaving, not bothering to even look at Pellope. Good score for a career!
'Tyrik Ness.'
This boy has interesting hair, as that's the first thing I notice. It's short, dark brown with one black streak down the side and it's messy, very, very messy.
Maybe he'll show skill with spears?
No. Instead he walks to the swords. He walks up to a dummy and begins slicing it into small pieces. A trainer, who was invited in by Pellope, sneaks up behind him with a sword and is about to attack. Tyrik quickly deflects this and sends the trainers sword flying, he pushes him to the ground and holds the sword up to his neck.
'Okay, this is good!' I announce, that was wonderful!
Tyrik leaves and leaves the door open. Pellope is about to leave to grab the next tribute.
'Mari Taskle.'
A short girl, twelve years old, walks in. She has shoulder length black hair and amber eyes. Based on her appearance she wouldn't hurt a fly!
Which she doesn't. She's terrible! Terrible at everything! The only one with a small amount of improvement are the bow and arrows. She shoots them five times and gets a bulls eye on her final try. She looks happy about this.
I sigh and shoo her away. Bad, low score! Pellope grabs her arms and walks her out of the room, bringing back in Mason Stronghold.
Mysterious. That's the right word for this boy. Brown hair that almost completely covers his blue eyes, he looks fit but not career fit, he doesn't speak and his face holds no emotion. Mysterious...
Spears. This boy shows me exactly what he can do with spears. He throws a spear straight through the head of a dummy that goes straight through and out the back. He then grabs two knives and quickly throws them each at a dummy on either side of the "dead" one.
'Dismissed!'
I liked that, not a career but still talented.
After Pellope walks back in I glance at the tribute sheet 'Dani Argota!'
Pellope quickly exits the room and brings back in the volunteer from district six. She has very silky looking brown hair that falls to her waist and big blue eyes.
Ugh. She looks too innocent!
She slowly walks to the bow and arrows and picks up a set. She shoots them at the targets and hits in the six-ten range.
Well... maybe not too innocent.
'You can go now!'
'Heh, that's my daughter. She just got her first wig, it's bright blue with electrical wires that flash different colours!'
'Aw~ how old is she?'
'She just turned three months.'
'Mine's already one! She only just got her first wig...'
They're definitely not paying attention now.
'Six Dressiden!' they named him after their district...
Six has very mucky blond hair, at first glance you would think that he tried dying it a lot. He has light blue eyes and really pale freckles.
He looks excited, he licks his lips before going to the swords. once he grabs one he begins slashing a dummy to threads, his eyes show that he's thinking of killing someone as he does this. His (and my) favourite part was cutting of the dummy's head.
He looks proud, very proud of himself. He drops the sword at his feet and runs off to the spears. After this he runs to bows and arrows. After this it's knives. Then plants, then he climbs, then runs.
Then he picks up an axe. He's holds it and ponders what to do. I've seen enough though.
'You can stop now,' I tell him and begin writing down a few notes.
'OW!'
I look up from my notes and see that he's dropped the axe on his foot. He's managed ot cut off a piece of his little toe.
He begins to curse, and scream, and yell terrible things pointed at me.
'This is all your fault! You idiot! I hate you! I hate the Capitol!' I take a deep breath and straighten my back, I don't like him at all, 'I hate the games, oh, especially the games!'
A peacekeeper begins pulling on his arms and Pellope cowers in a corner, afraid that he might hit her.
'I want a rebellion! In fact, I'm planning one!' these are the last words he screamed before being pushed into the hall.
I run a hand through my hair and look at my fellow gamemakers. They are definitely paying attention now, and they do not look pleased.
'We need to do something about that kid...' Porlew, one of the many male gamemakers, mumbles. I nod, before looking at Pellope and saying,
'Laura Rayson.'
Pellope shivers as she walks to the door and opens it, she grabs the arm of a girl with blue, no dark black hair.
Knives. Knives... typical. She throws them at the target and gets a bulls eye only 60 percent of the time, okay I guess.
After, she shows me that she knows the names of many plants and can climb trees.
'You're dismissed,' I tell her and hold up my hand, pointing to the door. Boring~!
'I want a unicorn for my birthday...'
Once again, they are not paying attention.
'Naomi Chang!'
Pellope brings in a girl with short brown hair, that spikes out at the top. She's walking like a boy might. A tom boy, I think.
She walks to the knives and throws them at a dummy, they all hit the centre of the dummy. She walked up close to the dummy and slashed it five times with a spare knife.
Dust. The dummy's dust! I want to squeal with glee!
'You're dismissed!' Naomi shrugs and walks out, hands in her pockets.
She's not very polite though. Pellope is standing beside the door, waiting for the name.
'Ray Smy-'
I don't even get to finish, Ray's already walked in. At least he's smart, I guess. Pellope looks a bit shocked but doesn't do anything. She just closes the door behind him.
Ray picks up an axe and chucks it at a tree, where it lodges deeply and chips off pieces of bark.
I like it.
Next he grabs a sword and slices a dummy in half.
I really like it, he cut the dummy from the middle of his head down.
'You're dismissed,' I say, a bit too happily. Pellope holds the door open for him and he walks out after smiling at her.
Well, he acknowledged her at least.
'Roris O'clare, please.' Pellope curtsies before pulling in a tall boy with red hair and green eyes.
He does something similar to what Ray did. But he actually sends the tree tumbling to the ground.
'Dismissed!'
I know he can kill...
Roris leaves and I tell Pellope to bring in Otes Remore. Fly boy.
Otes hadn't even set foot in the room, instead he flew to the ceiling and swooped down to the ground to grab an axe. He flew back up to the ceiling and quickly dropped it onto the head of a dummy.
'Dismissed!' I like him, he flies. But I think he's a bloodbath.
'Bailey Tallingston, Pellope.' Pellope nods and opens the door, I see her tap the girl on the shoulder and pull her in.
She has dirty blond hair and deep brown eyes, she looks nervous but has a confident air around her.
She walks to the daggers and throws them at a target board. She hits the bulls eye or deadly close to it each time.
'Dismissed!'
She could very well be in the career pack, with aim like that...
'Olivia Danra.'
Pellope brings in a short and skinny girl with short blond hair and blue eyes. If I remember correctly, her father's the mayor.
Olivia looks around nervously, she tries knives. Fails, none of them even hit the target. She tries bows and arrows. Fails, she almost shot Pellope. She tries axes-
'Dismissed! God, you're terrible!' Olivia looks shocked that I would say this, why?
Olivia storms out and slams the door behind her, making all the other gamemakers jump.
'Harry Hills!'
Ah, yes. Older brother of the deceased Geegee Hills. I smirk, this should be interesting.
~Twenty seconds later~
'Dismissed! Terrible!' Harry walks out slowly, almost running into the wall. He failed miserably! He tried throwing a spear but it hit te wall!
'Pellope, bring in Kari Vaupen, please!' I put an emphasis on please. Kari's a district ten career, I need to see real talent.
She has long black hair that passes her knees and hazel eyes. I could just be seeing things, but her left leg is slightly lopsided.
Kari has a huge smirk on her face as she grabs a scythe from a rack. I love scythes!
She walked to a dummy and shredded it to pieces with the scythe. She dropped the scythe and ran to the bows and arrows and shot an arrow straight through the centre of a dummy. She grabs and axe then walks over to a moving dummy and sets the speed to "fast" it swerves across the room, being followed closely behind by Kari. She chucks her axe through its waist and sends the top half flying.
'You're dismissed!'
Definitely going to last long.
Kari leaves with a smile and pushes in her district partner, Marco Thosand, before I can even speak.
Marco has curly brown hair and green eyes. He could be handsome if he wanted.
He picks up a pitchfork and throws it at a target. It hits 6. Eh, okay I guess.
'Dismissed,' I drawl. I'm getting bored, but I'm definitely paying more attention than the others.
'Fig Cress,' I announce. Pellope nods and pulls in one of the younger tributes.
Fig looks like a typical district eleven girl. She has dark skin and short curly brown hair with big dark brown eyes. She's short and skinny.
Fig also has a good memory. She's memorised the names of all the plants on the table except two (she got them mixed up, as they look similar.) She's also good with knives, as she hit the 6-10 range every time.
'Dismissed!' Pellope grabs Fig's arm and pulls her out. I don't have to call the next name, Lewis Thublin walks in with a bored expression and goes straight to the daggers.
He "kills" quite a few training dummies until I finally dismiss him.
I have two more tributes to watch.
'Hey~ Zeddy! Did you know that a fad that's spreading is having bright pink wigs and pink makeup all over yo'-hiccup- body?'
I don't answer.
'Melissa Hawthorne!'
A petite girl with soft grey eyes and light brown hair held in a pony tail is pulled into the room. She twiddles her thumbs before she begins running around the room quickly.
Okay, she's fast.
She begins to pants when she finishes, but hobbles over to the plants table. She's like Fig, she knows her plants.
'Dismissed! Pellope, bring in Kell Cartwright,' Pellope nods and exchanges Melissa for Kell.
Kell looks like he growled at Melissa as she exited the room and he entered. Unfitting due to his expression, wide eyes and te upper right corner of his lip is bent so he looks like he's smiling.
He grabs an axe and begins to chop apart dummies, his yellowish coloured hair flying in front of his eyes.
'Dismissed!' Kell puts the axe back where he grabbed it from and opens the door, not waiting for Pellope.
Now, I just need to go over their scores.
Done! I was supposed to have this up yesterday but a few tributes didn't give me answers for their scores, so I couldn't write...
I'll be writing a "reaction to their scores" chapter ^-^