Let's recap, shall we?

This chapter was supposed to be after chapter 27, "Next Stop: The Capitol". But, I screwed up the order of the chapters, so we went a bit out of order. I will just remind you the important thing of what happened. Violet Emerald has made friends with Holly Brown, a tribute from D8. This makes Lavender, her big sister, really scared. This chapter will pick up right where that one left off.

Now, for the sponsor point answers.

1. D1 is white, 8 is purple, and 11 is dark brown.

2. Any 4 countries would be acceptable.

5. At the time, Skylar Laine, Hollie Cavanagh, Jessica Sanchez, Phillip Phillips, and Joshua Ledet were still "alive" on American Idol, and Jermaine Paul, Erin Willett, Jamar Rodgers, Lindsay Pavao, Katrina Parker, Juliet Simms, Chris Mann, and Tony Lucca were left on The Voice.

I can't wait for you guys to read this chapter. I personally adore it! Here goes nothing.

Ruby took a deep breath. "Lavender, where is Violet now?"

"I sent her home to play with Cerise."

"OK. Thanks, sweetie. You can go back home now."

Lavender eases her way out the door and closes it behind her. As soon as the door shuts, Ruby explodes.

"I TOLD you that we shouldn't have let Violet help Lav out. But, NO. You HAD to let her do it."

"We promised her, and I didn't want to let her know. How was I supposed to know she would make friends with one of the tributes?" Amethyst responds.

"Number 1, Violet is the friendliest person in Panem. Number 2, there are 5- and 6-year-olds in the Games. And number 3, you have a brain."

"Well, OK, I guess I did miss something. But, while you were ranting, I came up with a plan. Look. Remember this arena we started to build before we heard about the Quell?"

"Yeah. So?"

"Well, what if..."

Amethyst then proceeds to draw out exactly how her and her sister would avoid problems. Ruby seemed to understand pretty well.

"Wow, that looks great, Amethyst!"

"That's why I'm the older one."

"Now, let's look at teams. How are you doing on that?"

"Pretty well. I have half of them done."

"Done done?"

"Yup."

Ruby is impressed. "Great job, sis! Let's take a look."

Amethyst takes out a folder. This folder has a packet with the history and personality of each tribute, their family and friends, their appearances, everything. some were as thick as six pages. Some only had one.

"Well, first of all," she says, "I wanted to tell you that I killed the idea of having no two tributes from the same district on the same team because it was getting too tough. I felt like personalities were more important. KK?"

Ruby nods.

"OK, so first, let's go over the red team. I put Greick Sheedor and Isaiah Barnabas from 1, Crash and Smash Hatch from 2, Sira Kawerky from 3, Syeira Laviah from 5, and Danica Redmond and Eagle Sterling from 7 on red."

"Why? Those are 8 clashing personalities!"

"The Capitol loves a good comedy," Lavender explains.

Ruby nods. "Next?"

"Yellow. I put Candella Anders from 3, Marynna Breck from 4, Lucy and Astrid Evans and Len Supin from 5, Jamie Wretherly from 8, Quiinn Jones from 11, and Neil Xaroff from 12 on that team." Amethyst explains.

"Well..." Ruby says thoughtfully, "Why did you put Len and Marynna on that team?"

"I thought it would be fun. Plus, there are a bunch of people who could calm them down. Quiinn, Astrid..."

"OK. That could work. Next..."

"Green," Amethyst finishes Ruby's sentence. "On green I put Fallen and Leia Dean from 6, Tinny Mince from 7, Viktor and Rowena Wayland from 10, and Robin and Song Pine and Brandi Hahn from 12."

"Why? This is an odd team. I don't get it."

"I just thought it would be interesting."

"OK. Next?"

"Purple. Tyranny Bomber from 1, Barlen Wickeher from 2, Arabella Rae from 3, Shirly Tranner from 6, Oakline Sint from 7, Farley Pastle from 10, Jaren Combler from 11, and Bolden Tain from 12. I wanted to challenge Tyranny, because she can't turn down a challenge!"

"Challenge is right. This will be tough, but I think she can handle it."

"Brown. I put Alex, Lisa, Kendyll, and Holly Brown from 8, Conall from 9, Alain from 10, Aileen from 11, and Maosn from 12 on that team."

"Oh, I see what you did there. Did you do that every time?"

"If I could, I played with the colors. Anyway, what do you think?"

"Looks good. Mason and Holly will be cute."

"Exactly. One more full team, right?" Ruby asks.

"Right. On gold I put Goldstar MacQueen from 1, Thad Wellington from 2, Bellona and Acestes Adrina from 4, Cain Mohen from 5, Riely Tour from 6, Colin Villanueva from 7, and Gretchen Winchester from 8."

"What about Donnie MacDardo from 8 or Whisper Willow from 2? Why didn't you put them on this team?"

"They're on orange with Wreck Swider from 3 and Alava Devlin from 12. I was going with a broken lovers kind of thing."

"OK, so that's all the full teams. Did you place anyone else?"

"Oh, yeah. Obviously, I told you orange, but there's something interesting there."

"What?"

"Whisper and Wreck each had brothers in the 96th hunger Games. Whisper's brother killed Wreck's brother."

"That will be interesting."

"Yup. Next, I put Haemon from 5 on black."

"I get that. Any teammates yet?"

"Oh, cool!"

"Next, Lila Flemings and Xander Briant from 7 are with Moss and Toby Darya from 4, Micajah Newton from 6, and Lambell Rose from 10 on pink."

"That could be cute, too!"

"Yup."

"I already told you about orange... silver. Sparkle DeFontaine from 1 and Shine Scott from 7."

"This one I get. Shine is from 1 originally so you wanted to put her with someone else from her district."

"Exactly! Other than that, I have Cyei All, Danny Robin, and Fae Springer on white team."

"Why?"

"I just thought it would work OK."

"Nine, ten, eleven. What's the twelfth color?"

"Blue. But I haven't placed anyone there yet."

"OK. Great work, sis!"

"Thanks."

Ruby turns to leave.

"Wait!" Amethyst yells. "One more thing."

"What?" Ruby asks.

"Arena outfit."

"Right. There has to be something that will identify the team."

"I was thinking a jacket and a T-shirt. The jacket will be the color of the district and the shirt will be the color of the team. You see, people can take off a jacket, but not a shirt, and the shirt is the important part here."

Ruby nods. "Is that all?"

"Yup. I think so."

"Try to get the teams finished soon," Ruby instructs.

"All right. Bye."

"Bye."

Ruby leaves. Amethyst is then able to breath easy, but she still has a lot of work to do.

So, there you are. I have made a lot of progress so far. I hope you understand my reasoning in this.

Now, if your tribute isn't in here yet, don't panic. I'm working on it.

I'm leaving the bloodbath contest open until the next chapter, during which I'll reveal the bloodbaths. Got it? Good.

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I think that's all for now. I'll see you again soon! Next up is chariot ride prep, if not the chariot rides themselves.

-goldie031