Author's Note: Here's the next chapter

Capitol, Interview

Lucy waited nervously for her turn with the interviewer. Tonight would be her last night in the Capitol. Tomorrow she would be entering the arena. She wondered what it would look like. For her sake she hoped it would be a forest, or a jungle with plenty of food. Right before they had taken their places on the stage Levy had quietly told her to find Wendy and Natsu as soon as the game started. Apparently Levy thought that their group would be an obvious threat if they all ran away from the cornucopia together.

Lucy wanted to know why they just didn't try to take the cornucopia. Their team had the most tributes, and besides the occasional tribute, the highest scores. Lucy watched as her guild mates made up stories about their life in the districts. There wasn't much else they could say. It wasn't like they could say "Hey we're from a different world" Or something like that.

Soon her turn came up. Lucy stood up shakily, luckily her dress helped disguise it. The blue dress flowed around her as she made her way to the chair and took a seat. The interviewer smiled at her and she couldn't help but stare at his fake white teeth. She knew she had stared a little too long when the interviewer made a hand motion to get her attention.

She quickly looked away and sat up straighter in the chair, just like Celeste had told her to. All of her friends had done this, so could she.

"Now Lucy, I've heard that almost all the tributes in the arena are at least in teams of two. Is that right?" The man asked. She nodded and tried to play her part. "Yes, that's true." She answered

"Really, and only after one day of training. I must say, you tributes are a friendly bunch aren't you?" She nodded not really sure what to say.

"Do you think you have a chance of winning?" He asked trying to get her to talk.

"I think I might have a chance, but if I don't I'm sure one of my friends will." She said. The man looked at her strangely and she realized she had slipped. How could her and the rest of her guild mates be friends if they'd only just met?

"They're your friends?" He asked, with a confused expression on his face. She knew that she would have to stick with it now she'd said it.

"Yes, if I can't win. I at least want one of them to win." As soon as she had said it there was a loud "aww" from the crowd. The man chuckled and said. "Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, but we only have a couple of minutes. So before we end, what has been you're favorite part of the capitol." Before he had finished asking the question she knew what she was going to say.

"The books." She said without hesitation.

"We do have quite a lot of books here." He said with a smile. Taking her hand he stood up, and lifted it into the air. "From District 8, we have Lucy Heartfilia." He said then let her go.

Lucy quickly hurried over back to her chair. Her friends smiled at her as she passed. She would do her best to make one of them win.

Capitol, Entrance to Arena

Lucy looked down at her outfit. It consisted of a pair of comfortable pants, and a short sleeved shirt. Covering it was dark blue jacket. This was it, in a couple of minutes she would go up the tube to enter the arena. She touched the part of her wrist where the tracker had been injected. Several of the other tributes had been confused by it so she was sure that this was something only the tributes and game makers knew about.

Fantine was there waiting with her. She assumed that Curtis had gone with Otonashi. Fantine gave her a sad smile and said "Remember to look for the people in your alliance. If you can't find them either try to find Otonashi or get as far away from the cornucopia as you can." Lucy nodded. "Also, try and grab a backpack, especially if it looks like it might be a desert or a snowy place." Fantine reminded her.

Lucy listened closely to Fantine's last minute instructions until it was time for her to enter the tube. Lucy took her place in the tube and looked up. Strangely enough there was no light at the top. The tube closed around her and Fantine waved once more and mouthed "Win." Lucy nodded and then the tube shot upwards.

Author's Note: Let the Hunger Games begin