Sorry for the many misspellings at the last chapter, I was really rushing it since I haven't got much time.

Also, some characters will not show up this chapter and will show up in the next. And anyway, I have 3 romantic attached couples, and you will have to figure that out…….

Characters with parts in this chapter:

Andri

Carter

Yahur

Hannah

Parvati

Jarryd

Sisu

Agava

Jessamine

Calypso

Redd

Kroy

Aieen

Oh, and bring out your HRC (How to Remember Characters) cheat sheet!

The tributes gather around the training room where stations and deadly weapons are at display. The blinding ceiling lights flickers open and several men enter the room. "We are your training teachers." A man in uniformed black says with a voice quite raspy and serious despite the warm smiles of the men beside him. "We will guide you in the stations you choose. You are free to use any weapon if it is not used for an intention of bodily harm," he says straightly.

The teachers move away from the tributes and to their corresponding stations as the tributes scatter around the area, some pondering which would they first learn and others, already following their strategy plan. But everyone is not yet complete as District 9 is still nowhere to be found in the area.

Finally, the metal doors of the elevator opens to reveal the District 9 competitors, Andri and Carter moves out of the automatic doors and steps into the cold cemented floors of the training room. Everybody looks up as both of them totters out of the elevator and they gasp in shock. They grasp the sight of the insightful Carter as him and his partner pass through them. Some careers giggle with brusque words escaping from their lips, some in pitied glances, and others burst out in frivolous, cold laughter.

"Disgusting," Terk spits out, his eyes in condescension. Carter looks down to his feet as Andri pats his back to comfort him. But a fellow tribute approaches them and stares at him with a smile across his lavish lips. "Look Hannah! We have a skeleton friend! oooh, Skeleton friend?" Yahur says in unreasonable excitement, jumping up and down like a little child, looking at the diminished, skeletal form of the boy.

"No, Yahur, that's enough." Hannah grabs the arm of the boy and nods to Carter, "sorry." Then they disappear to a station quite far away and leaving the other tributes in wild laughter.

"Don't mind them, they are all barbarous juveniles," Andri says which she follows with unintelligent curses. "We'll see who will be laughing once they're bodies will fester in their own blood in the arena." She spits out as they try to move to a far away station, ignoring the crude crowd.

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"That was quite rude of you." Hannah's hands draws to her hips as she scold the 14 year old, mentally-deranged boy. He sits on his knees as he eats random berries from the basket. "Wait, you're not listening! Why are you------wait, those are poisonous!" She shoves the berries off his slimy mouth and grabs the basket off his hands. "Spit it out! Spit! Spit!"

"Don't worry, those aren't poisonous," the teacher says, slightly giggling by the scene. "Smart girl, that boy won't last in the games if he keeps eating random poisonous berries."

Hannah sighs. Perhaps she can't really abandon him, now that he isn't in his right mind. It would be inhumane just to leave him, so she became all decisive lately, asking herself if she will take care of the boy in the mean time until someone else slits his throat in the games. "Well……This burden is my responsibility now," she says to him in a heavy sigh.

"I want blue berries now," the boy beside her says.

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"Awww…." Parvati clasps her hands together and tilt her head sideways, "that poor boy, aww…... isn't in his right mind. Pitiful, really." She turns to the boy before her who is staring, almost confusingly. "You pity a boy who you are going to have to stab at the back anyways?" Jarryd throws a spear to a tattered dummy and lands on its head. He smiles playfully.

"Whatever you say," Parvati sighs and throws another spear, swiftly. She stops and stares at Jarryd who is concentrating at his target quite intensely. She'll have him under her spell quite easily in no time, by then he would do anything to protect her and when it comes to the final four, she would just slit his throat while he is in deep slumber. "Ouch, cramps! Jarryd, be a sweet and carry me to the table?"

He nods and walks forward to her. Parvati skims her hand to his shoulder as he carries her up to his arms. She pretends to fall down again and once he catches her, both of their faces are inches apart. She giggles as she sticks her tongue out to his lips and withdraws it to a seductive smile. In shock, he blushes as he turns away and lifts her to the table. "Sorry to make you fall," he breathes heavily as he grins to her.

"Hmmm…..charming," she ignores him as he sits up beside her. He turns to the station, "that Mariette and Kroy stole our places in the station. I am going to have to claim it back." His voice, almost raging by the two tributes throwing spears simultaneously starts to rise.

"You do that."

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At the knot-tying station, the silent, mute Sisu focuses intensely by a stack of ropes, letting her hands, swiftly knot them together in a matter of seconds. She grins with her success and lifts the net over her, in triumph. "I give up! I give up!" the teacher says, collapsing into the cement in the niggling feeling of failure. Sisu bares her flashy, white teeth to the man and shows him her implicitly, hand executed net she finished over by a minute.

"You think you're better than me!" He points to her, his anger raging by his veins. "Girl! Why don't you talk? You think talking to me is a waste of time?" He raises his voices as Sisu shakes her head. She doesn't understand why the teacher misunderstood her. She simply cannot talk! Why could he not understand?

Sisu ignores him and draws her hands to an armful of vines, knotting them to each other repetitively. "You want another contest, huh?" He sits down to the cement and grabs the same armful of vines as her and begins to tie them together. After a minute passes, Sisu stands up and lifts a snare to the air as the man beside her is still struggling in making it. She giggles playfully as the jealous man stands up to her. His eyes are twitching in rage.

"You know what? If you're so good, then get out of my station!" He pushes her away, forcibly. "I am kicking you out, yes. Haha. I am kicking you filthy girl out."

The girl moves away. A grin still spread across her thin lips.

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"Oooh…so small," Jessamine whispers to herself softly while curiously following a District 12 boy, Agava around the room in boredom. Agava launches an arrow to the dummy's head and misses. Jessamine giggles in return and the boy erupts in rage. "Please, go away," he says straightly with a permanent scowl from his face.

"Okay," Jessamine flashes a smile and he ignores her. He moves away from the bow and arrow station and to the knot-tying station. "So grumpy," she says to herself and skips to the path where Agava just passed through. In boredom, she follows him again and picks up an armful of knots and sits beside him. He looks at her, scowling, his eyebrows arching downwards in anger. "You seem to be following me?" He clutches a pack of knots in annoyance.

"Yes! Is that okay?" she tries to tie a few vines but seem to be doing badly. "No! Go away," he stands up and moves away from the confused girl who is sitting on her knees and finding a way through a stack of vines.

"That is an absolute grumpy fellow that does not need a friend." Redd Leerman says, his hand out to reach for her. She smiles as he reveals a divinely beautiful girl at his back with long flowing raven hair, "What is the use of friends if this is Hunger Games? They might as well stab you at the back," Calypso says, smiling to both of them.

"Aye, a true friend does not stab you at the back." He ponders for a while then turns to both girls. "They stab you at the front." Both Calypso and Jessamine giggle, it is a fact that Redd Leerman can make anyone laugh. He shakes the hand of Jessamine, "I am Redd and she is Calypso."

She shakes back, "well, it's nice to have a friend."

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Kroy moves away from the spear station from the annoyance of Jarryd, driving them away. He settles with a bow and arrow as a dummy appears a few yards away for him to shoot. He grins wickedly and shoots the arrow that land on its head. He shoots another one, in the same place as where his first arrow landed. The teacher shoots a few artificial birds up in the air and Kroy works to shoot each one, almost like lightning. "Is that all?"

The tributes start to stop what they are doing and stare as he shoots a couple more arrows to the air. They all turn petrified, even a few careers feels a tinge of fear and to some, envy. They watch incredulously as the boy intimidates them with his skill, all of them frozen. "Do me a favor and give me something that isn't quite easy," he says, patronizing the watchful crowd.

"There isn't anything easy anymore. You destroyed all my dummies!" the teacher complains, his voice high by the arrogant boy. Kroy walks away from the station, glaring at the crowd and finally laughing to himself, "You pathetic tributes will be easy to kill."

Finally, a girl steps in and blocks his way, her arms crossed and her eyebrows arched. "Intimidation is a worthless strategy. You'd never know if one of us pathetic tributes would have the advantage in shoving bamboo sticks to your throat. We'd feast over your pathetic blood." Aieen walks away, not bothering to look back at the raging boy.

"Oh, I'm not worried. We'll see who will shove bamboo sticks first."

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Ok so the training may last 2 or 3 chapters long, so no need to worry about never going to finish. I will finish.

So some of you (not all!) may be wondering on what Redd said, "True friends does not stab at the back, they stab at the front." If you don't get it, It somehow is related to backstabbing. Like I wouldn't backstab a real friend, I'd tell her what's wrong with her at her face. no matter how rude and hurtful it is. But on what Redd said, he meant violence and really stabbing.

P.S. the Redd quote isn't mine, I saw it in the internet.

Which part do you like? I like the Parvati and Jarryd part and the Kroy part.