Im sooooooooooooooooooooooooo sorry for the wait! my computer caught a virus and crashed and wouldnt reboot and blarg! Finally got it fixed and everything. Heres chapter 11, more on the way! Please review!
Cato and I are awoken to a large group of angry prep people. "You had us worried sick" "thought you had disappeared!" and several other remarks as they drag us away from one another. I spend the morning going through rigorous preparation to make me look attractive. "OW!" I howl as the last of my leg hair is ripped off. I can't stop thinking that their wax would make an effective torture form as they leave me to dress myself in the tuxedo they want me to wear. It's pretty simple. The material is black as night, and soft like silk. The tie is the same blue from my tattoo that now streaks my hair as well. The shirt is a simple plain white. The amazing part of the outfit doesn't reveal itself until I walk into the main room where Tralina is waiting. The tux starts to sparkle with twinkling lights, stars in the night sky of the material. Liz walks out dressed in stilettos and a similar skimpy dress. "Wow." I gasp, and she blushes. "Let's get going, there's supposed to be a huge announcement before the interviews." Ken says, dragging us to a large room off stage of where the interviews will take place. There's a large screen on one side of the room, and all the other Tributes are assembled across from that. Cato walks right up to me, smirk on his face, before he grabs me and plants a wet kiss. "Was that necessary?" I ask, blushing. "Yup." He chuckles with a wink. Clove shushes us as the screen lights up and Caesar Flickerman appears, talking to the head Gamemaker. "So, everyone is DIEING to find out what this big surprise is you have for the games. First a new district, and yet there's more? We ALL want to know what it is!" Flickerman says excitedly, to cheers of the crowds. "Well, President Snow decided that as a celebration event for the introduction of a new district to the Games, we would have a special system this time around. This year, instead of all of the tributes launching into the arena from below ground, to go and try to kill one another for victory, They will skydive into the arena, where this year the tributes will work TOGETHER to eliminate a group of two hundred engineered tribute warriors appearing as your favorite tributes from the old games! Whoever is left after the two hundred all are dead, or the last of our tributes standing, are the victors!" The head gamemaker said excitedly. "Wait? You brought back the dead favorites to fight again?" Caesar said excitedly. "Sadly no, the engineered tributes are simple primal creatures. They're lab created, just made to look like our favorite tributes from old games. They can't talk, or participate in higher functions, but they do love to bite and scratch, and have been taught how to use the weapons in the arena." The gamemaker said sadly. I look around, and see the shock on everyone's faces. We wouldn't have to kill one another after all! Just kill a few engineered animals that looked like people. That'd be a lot easier, plus we would be working together! I could get out of here with everyone else. There would be no killing Cato or Liz, no begging for mercy from other tributes. Cato looked terrified though. "What's wrong?" I whisper, as Caesar finishes his conversation with the Gamemaker. "Skydiving. I c-can't do it. I'm afraid of heights." He whispered. "I've done it before, it isn't as bad as you'd think. I'll make sure you get out of it." I whisper, kissing him before leading the way onto stage for the interviews. Liz was first, and she breezed through, appearing as an amazing and intelligent amazon queen. Then it's my turn.
"So, Dante. How are you enjoying the capitol?" Caesar asks. "It's nice here. I'm digging some of the hair fashions. Though my legs aren't big fans of waxing." I say with a chuckle. The audience laughs and Caesar continues. "So, what do you think of the announcement that you will be sky diving into the arena?" Caesar asks. "No biggie. I've used parachutes before. We used them to jump off the skyscrapers in Zero. We were "testing" their safety." I say, air quoting with my hands the word testing. "And I bet you're real excited about the announcement that the tributes will be working together instead of against one another this year." He asked, a knowing gleam in his eyes. "Yeah, I wasn't looking forward to having to kill Liz. She's one of my best friends from back home." I say, looking to my left at her. "I don't think she was the only one you weren't looking forward to killing." Caesar said with a chuckle, and a large screen behind us flickered on, showing Cato and I's first kiss, and every kiss after that. I look over at Cato, and see he's blushing just as much as I think I am at the moment. The buzzer goes off, saving me from any more questions (To boos from the audience) but Caesar was all happy enough to send Cato through all the questions about our newly started relationship. I didn't think he would be able to get that red, but he did.
After all the interviews were done I met up with Cato in the elevator. "I can't believe they had it all on video." I say, mortified, as he puts an arm around me. "I know! Talk about invasion of privacy. At least they didn't show the scenes of you naked." Cato remarked. "Oh god! You don't think they'll have caught that? Or show it?" I ask. "Who knows? We'll have to get out to find out." He said with a smirk. "Just be glad they didn't catch what I WANTED to do on video." He whispered, winking and licking his lips. I shivered, which caused him to laugh, "Well, looks like we have one more week till we are in the arena." Cato says, before kissing me goodnight and walking off to his room. "One week, but now I don't have to kill real people." I whisper, heading off to bed myself.
