A/N: Here's part 2. This will have the tributes from 5-8, so Alicia, Sam, McKenzi, Luke, Rose, Chris, Natalie and Jake. Pew. Pew pew. I'm not crazy, my mother had me tested. Let me know if you know what that's from. If you know, you're awesome. Check out Lulubell2495's story called 'Temporary,' cuz its really good Remember to review! Don't forget to vote on the poll!
Lilywater Brooksfield POV
"My name is Alicia Schripe," the girl from District 5 says. "Let's get this over with." Why wasn't she more excited about this? I mean, this is where she gets to show us what she can do with herself. This could determine whether she lives or dies! Nevertheless, I watch intently as she walks to the edible plant station. She gets 100% on both edible and medicinal plants.
Next, the redhead goes to knife throwing. I feel myself growing excited, hoping that she is good with a weapon even if she is from an outer District. I'm not disappointed. She reaches for a knife and throws it cautiously and makes a bullseye. She repeats this process 11 more times.
"Can I have a sword trainer?" She asks. "About medium level?" A female trainer names Bolena jogs out with her sword. The two battle it out for a moment before Alicia disarms Bolena and pins her down.
I would think that after plants, knives and swords she'd be satisfied, but she moves on to archery. She grabs a sheath of a dozen arrows and shouts them rapid fire at twelve different dummies.
"I'm gonna go now," she says.
Alicia's District partner comes in shortly after Alicia leaves. He goes first to edible and medicinal plants and scores 96% on the edible plants and 88% on medicinal. He seems frustrated with his scores and gets a 100% on both when he tries again.
He moves on to logic and strategy, a station that is often overlooked by tributes. He is asked a series of questions and his answers determine whether he lives or dies. He places 9th place overall.
Finally, he goes to short swords and pummels a couple of dummies into oblivion.
"Thanks," he says
"McKenzi Phelps, District 6," the next tribute says. She starts pacing. "Now, I'm not going to give you any bullshit about how I know that I'm your next Victor, because I know I'm going to die in there. I'm from District 6. I don't have the advantage of being from a Career District and being trained my whole life for this. I'm not from 7, I can't use an axe. I'm not from 11, I have no knowledge of edible plants. I'm not strong like the tributes from 10 and I'm not as well fed as the children from 9. I'm not hard-working like the kids from 8, I'm not smart like the kids from 3 or 5, and I'm not used to starvation like those from 12. No, I'm upper-middle class from District 6. I'm a lover, not a fighter. But somehow, somehow I've managed to snag an alliance with 3 of the strongest tributes in this that aren't Careers. I'm partnered with Luke, from my District, Chris from 7 and James from 11. Why? I have a way with words. That's all I've got going for me. So if you could kindly give me a 6 or so, so that I can stay in said alliance, I'd appreciate it. Thank you for you time." With that, she exits the training center.
I look around the balcony at the other gamemakers. Should we give her the 6 that she wanted, or give her a 2 for essentially doing nothing?
"Hi, my name is Luke Franklin, and I'm here to do whatever I can to get McKenzi out alive," Luke says. Without any further words, he races to the agility course and finishes in slightly more time than Aiden did.
Then, he goes to the throwing knives and snatches up about 6. He pits them in his belt and races up the rock wall. He crouches on top of the wall and throws them at various dummies around the room. He doesn't make any bulls eyes, but every knife makes a kill shot.
Then, he makes a long cut down his arm with a knife and heals it using the medicinal plant station.
He salutes us with 2 fingers and walks out of the room, clutching his arm.
"R-Rose Klappe," the trembling 12 year old says. "7. I mean District 7." Blushing, the small blonde stumbles to the ropes course. She scurries up the ropes and to the very top in just under 3 minutes, the record being 1 minute and 45 seconds. She climbs down and races to the edible and medicinal plants and aces both test without half trying.
She moves on to shelter building and constructs a relatively complicated shelter complete with 3 walls, a floor and a ceiling. Then, she starts a fire inside the hut without burning it down.
She then moves in to snares and makes some traps of a size that could catch small animals like a rabbit or squirrel, but not another tribute.
"Thank you, Rose," I say. "You may go."
"Chris Blight!" The male from 7 yells. "District 7."
His routine starts off pretty predictable for a 17 year old volunteer from 7; he grabs an axe and decapitates some dummies. After that, he took a sword and cut all the arms off of the headless mannequins. He then took some throwing knives and chucked them into each of the dummy's hearts.
Following his death act, he goes to edible plants and aces the medium level test. He finishes his session with the ropes course, beating the record that was set 151 years ago by a young girl named Rue.
"'Sup bitches?" The next girl prompts. "I'm Natalie."
I'm extremely taken aback. This girl was 14, who did she think she was? Apparently, she thought she was Natalie.
"Instead of showing you what I can do, I'm going to show you what everyone else thinks they can do." She jogs over to the archery station, flailing her hands obnoxiously as she did so. She didn't take a bow, but just a sheath of arrows. "I'm a Katniss wannabe!" She says overly enthusiastic. She runs up to a dummy and pierces the neck with an arrow.
"That was Marvel," She says. She takes another arrow and lodges it in a different dummy's hand. "That was Cato."
She skips to tridents and does the same routine, just walking the weapon to the dummy and piercing it. Her voice goes ridiculously deep. "I'm Finnick Odair," she says. "Wanna sugar cube?" She cracks up.
"Thank you Natalie, but we've seen enough."
"Kay!"
"I don't know what my sister just did, but I apologize." That's right, the pair from 8 were siblings. What are the odds? Hint: not in their favor.
Jake goes to the spears and chucks a few aimlessly. A few of them stick, but not many. Hardly any of them were kill shots.
He decides that he's not getting anywhere with spears and goes to the survival section. He goes to weaving of all things. I'm surprised before I remember that District 8 manufactured all the textiles. He probably had a factory job. He makes himself some bowls which could probably hold some water or wild berries.
He seems a little lost before he decides to just leave.
Alicia Schripe- 9
Sam Collins- 6
McKenzi Phelps- 7
Luke Franklin- 8
Rose Klappe- 5
Chris Blight- 9
Natalie Quimby- 3
Jake Quimby- 5
Yeah, I lied. The update is today, not tomorrow.
Trivia/Opinion: What do you THINK Haymitch's training score was? I'm giving points to the most... Believable answer.