Training Day One:

D5 Marlhy Whisters POV:

When I woke up I was surprisingly comfortable. Not that my bed wasn't nice, but this was like floating on a cloud. I wondered if Grig had bought a new bed and hadn't told me. Then I opened my eyes. Right the Capitol. Not ten seconds later someone was knocking on my door.

"Marlhy? Marlhy wake up!" it was Lilith my mentor.

"Coming," I groaned. I walked over to the dresser and pulled out a green top and some pants. I walked out into the main room , and sat down at the table, I was the last one here.

"So" Lilith said "Uh… This is my first year mentoring, and uh- well you can call me Lilly, I hate my full name," She said with a somewhat awkward smile. "So training. Will you guys be together or separate? And Alliances?"

"Well" I started "I'd rather be trained separately, no offense, and I don't know about alliances."

"Yeah okay. Any objections?"

"No," Braedy said

"All right, uh, training should be starting soon so go on down."

We ended up in the same elevator as the tributes from Six and Eleven. None of us said anything to each other, but it wasn't too awkward.

When we reached the training arena, which was a huge circular room with a seating area about twenty feet up. There were all sorts of stations sat up. A woman named Lupa who looked oddly wolf-like explained the rules to us, then turned to leave revealing her tail. Capitol people are so weird.

I headed to the knife section, I didn't want to show everybody my skill with the bow and arrows. The Peacekeepers are a bit lenient in District Five, so I went hunting fairly regularly.

Anyways there were a couple other people at the knife station, including the girl form Six and the boy form Nine. The girl from Six was really good, hitting the target every time, the boy from Nine not so much, one of the knives almost hit his foot. I was doing alright, but in the Games… Well I hoped I could get a bow.

D2 Maxim Arol's POV:

I surveyed the competition with the rest of the Careers, noticeably absent was Fallyn the girl from District Four. Most of the tributes didn't look like much but a couple looked promising, the girl form Six, Emilia or something, was good with the knife, not that that was much, but maybe she could do more. The siblings from three looked pathetic. The boy from five was huge and his District partner looked sneaky. The girl from Seven, Holly, was the sibling of a victor, she might have some skills.

"So" Price said "I'll find Fallyn, and everybody else go and do whatever?" No one protested, and we headed off, I headed off to work with my preferred weapon knives, not throwing knives, but knives used in close combat.

D4 Price Phillip Varnes POV:

"Fallyn, I'm not sure if you noticed but the Careers met up, and you weren't there so…"
"I noticed, I'm not a career through," She said not even looking up from the knot she was tying.

"What? But you're District Four- and trained! Why?"

"I'm not now leave me alone!"

"I-" I turned around shocked. She wasn't in the Careers. The others would target her. I Couldn't watch her get hurt. If they tried to hurt her I would stop them.

D1 Jasmine Quill's POV:

I was a career. I was a career and I was hating every second of it. I swung my scythe, chopping off the arm of the dummy in front of me. I may have hated being with the careers, but I knew that it was the safest way to go. The Careers usually didn't take to kindly to you leaving their alliance. So I would stay with them until the games started, wait a few days then make off with some supplies. Defiantly the safest option.

D11 Quamish Camas' POV:

Fire. In the Games it was a good idea to know how to start a fire, they could be used for warmth, light, a way to attract the Careers to one area. I unfortunately could not seem to get so much as a puff of smoke out of the wood.

"Come on!" I near shouted in exasperation

"Having issue?" A girl said behind me

"What do you think?"

"I think you are. Buy the way I'm Acacia,"

"'K than Acacia, I'm Quamish."

"Yeah I know I remember your reapings,"

"Yeah, bloody capitol idiot,"

"Nice" Acacia said with a laugh

"Yeah. You think you could help me start this fire?"

"No. Sorry fire and I are not friends," She said showing me a burn on her forearm.

"Oh" I liked the girl ,she seemed nice, maybe I could be in an alliance with her; that I, if we both make it through the bloodbath.

D5 Marlhy Whisters POV:

It was Lunch time, and that meant that I had to do this. I took a deep breath and walked over to the careers.

"Hey," I said as confidently as I could "I noticed that you're missing that girl from District Four, Fallyn, So I thought I could take her place. I can-"

"Oh you'll find that real hard to do, seeing as I will be taking her place," Said Emilia

"What do you think that you can offer this alliance?" Said Maxim

"Well I can shoot a bow, accurately, and can fight using hand-to-hand combat, also I'm smart" Damn. Now they know what I can do.

"I can heal, and use knives, also I'm smart. And let's face it if you get injured, can you fix your selves?" A flurry of whispered discussion broke out between the careers, I only caught bits and pieces

"-think we should-"

"Only if they can get a high enough-"

"-a good idea. The Careers almost never-"

"Only if they can get a 9 or above,"

"Emilia should only have to get a six-"

"Fine." Charlie said "You two can join if you both get above a seven in training, and if you survive the bloodbath,"

"But until then, you are not Careers. Good-bye" Maxim said. Joy I was almost in the Careers.

D7 Holly Aspen's POV:

I sat on the roof of the training building, sitting on the ledge, just far enough in that the force field wouldn't activate. I sighed, thinking about what my father said about these games being rigged. Maybe it is I had two entries in the reapings and a victor for a sister. Those were some odds. I wondered what these Games would make me. I remember hearing Maple talking to my parents after she got back, she said that the Games changed you, brought out a part of you that you never knew, or wanted to know existed. And if you weren't careful made you a monster. I couldn't let that happen to me, when it came down to it, I had to figure out a way to fight and still hold on to myself. Maybe it was impossible but I had to believe that I could do it.

Training day one done. Tell me what you think please. I'm not sure if I was jumping around too much. Also are you all still reading this? I got three reviews for the last chapter. I don't review for most of the stories I read, so I get not reviewing, but I'd love some reassurance that more than three people are reading.