Chapter 14
Peeta followed Gale over to the archery range, he watched as the man's muscular arms pull back the string, the man let go of the arrow. The arrow slammed directly into the heart of the target.
"Wow amazing shot" Peeta complimented.
"Thanks" Gale grinned with pride.
"Nice one er' mate" A Strange accent spoke from behind Peeta.
The two men turned behind, a tall muscular man with long shoulder length brown hair stood with his arms crossed. His shirt was labeled with the number three.
"Thanks" Gale awkwardly spoke.
"Sorry bout sneakin up on ya' ma name's Garland" The man held out his hand.
"Nice to meet you" Peeta smiled as he shook Garlands hand, Gale did the same.
"You look like the kinda guy that the careers would ask" Gale pointed out.
The man shrugged, "Already' asked me, wasn't interested in joinin' a bunch of no good backstabbers"
"So what did you do back in your district?" Peeta questioned.
"I was never good with all that computer' stuff, you see er' I'm better at fightin' all the guys used to go fer' me, but I'd just punch there lights out" The man smiled and chuckled.
"Sounds useful in the arena" Gale nodded and smiled.
"Dam right' I'd rather help out a coupla' nice fella's than some careers" Garland's thick accent seemed to really kick in.
"One question, how old are you Garland?" Peeta cocked his head.
"I be seventeen' since the day of the reaping" Garland sighed and his eyes dropped to the floor.
"Your birthday was on the day of the reaping?" Gale gasped, the man nodded in reply.
Meanwhile Garland decided to show the two men how strong he really was, he took them over to the weights. The man picked up the two heaviest weights, one in each hand.
Garland took careful aim at the target across the other room with the one in his right hand, he took a few steps back before jumping forward and throwing the one in his right hand then followed by the one in the left shortly after.
All of the tributes turned and glanced at the man; both of the weights hit the target directly in the head and chest. Peeta and Gale clapped and cheered for the man while the rest of the tributes stared at him amazed.
"So what about the other's from your district?" Peeta asked.
"They call me stupid, cause I ain't very smart ya see' they say brawns get's ya' no where and brains is the way t' go" Garland sighed and his tone dropped.
"Don't listen to them, we could really use a guy like you on our team" Gale placed a hand on the man's shoulder and smiled.
"Thank you" The man smiled.
Peeta spun around when he heard footsteps behind him, it was Katniss standing with a man who had short black hair and pale skin, his outfit was labeled with the number seven.
"This is Sage" Katniss introduced.
"And this is Garland" Peeta pulled the man forward.
"Yeah I saw you, you're pretty strong" Katniss complimented.
"Thank you" Garland smiled and nodded.
"Sage here has smarts and knows how to survive in any situation" Katniss pushed Sage forward who attempted to hide his face.
"Hello I'm Garland" He held out his hand to Sage, the pale man slowly shook his hand and smiled.
Sage spotted a girl, she held long brown hair, soft brown eyes and was average height, and her outfit was labeled with the number four. As she was walking across the training room Sage's eyes followed her with great focus.
"What you looking at?" Katniss asked causing the man to jump out of his skin.
"Oh erm nothing!" He stammered. Sage knew who she was; she was Keilyn from district four. She used to live in his district when she was child and then her family smuggled her out to live with another family in a better place.
"I'm going to try and light a fire" Gale walked off and dragged Peeta along with him.
"I'll go try out some of those weapons" Sage walked off towards the rack of weapons.
"I'll join you!" Garland followed the pale skinned man.
"Hey don't leave me!" Katniss yelled as she followed the two men.