Make Me a Match: The 125th Hunger Games Chapter 26: Private Sessions, a hunger games fanfic

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Please see the Author's Note at the end of the District Five Reaping for more information about the check-in.

I'm also missing a bunch of second check-ins, but it hasn't been that long since I posted, so don't worry about that too much :).

Nyx Mynier, 16, District Twelve (Backup Tribute)

Nyx was not thrilled that she was in the first training group. It wasn't that she was upset about having to show her skills; that, she was excited for. The problem was having to wake up significantly earlier than the rest of her district. The person in the closest group to hers was Brooklyn, and she was in the sixth group, which wasn't going until the afternoon!

"You ready to go, Nyx?" asked Ellessa. "You need to be down at 9 AM sharp!"

"Almost," Nyx replied. She put on the mandated black tunic, along with black leggings and a pair of combat boots, and headed out into the common area of the floor to eat a quick breakfast. She had a biscuit and some eggs, and then made her way down to the training floor. When she got down, she saw four other girls already in the waiting area; two wearing forest green, one in red, and one in purple. Two Sevens, an Eight, and a Six, she thought, before taking the last seat on the bench.

At 8:55 exactly, Portia came out into the waiting area. "I'm going to start with a quick check-in. Tistera? Nyx?" Nyx raised her hand. "Elizah? Ferrari? Nadina? Excellent. A few instructions before you go in. Because we're not going in order, the Gamemakers will need to know your name and district, so please state that when you walk in. The Gamemakers will tell you when you may begin. Each of you has up to ten minutes where you can do whatever you would like in there; if you would like to leave early, please inform the Gamemakers, and they will dismiss you.

"After the first person in this group goes in, please watch that screen for your name, so you know when it's your turn. Also, if any of you have any unusual requests for your private sessions, please let me know now, so that if there are any potential issues, I can fix them before you come in. This does not include needing a trainer; those will be readily available."

Nyx raised her hand. "I would like to show my prowess with explosives, but it would be bad for me to blow up the training center."

"Hmm," Portia replied. "Let me think about that. I'll ask the Gamemakers before you go in." The clock struck nine. "Tistera, you're up!"

The girl in the purple shirt stood in front of the large double doors; as soon as they opened, she walked in, and they closed behind her. After about six minutes, Nyx saw her name flash on the screen. She got up and stood in front of the double doors, and entered as they opened.

"Nyx Heyton, District Twelve," she announced, as she stood in the middle of the room. She watched as the Gamemakers flipped through their papers.

"Are you a backup tribute?" Amethyst asked.

"Yes," Nyx replied.

"And we heard that you would like to work with explosives?" Nyx nodded. A few more moments passed. "OK. When you would like to work with those, you may construct a fake bomb, and then enter the simulator to your left to demonstrate how you would utilize the explosives to take down a building. You may begin."

Nyx decided to leave the explosives for later, so she started by going to the pickaxes. She took one in her hand, and motioned for a trainer. Nyx set herself up in a battle stance, and used the pickaxe to defeat the trainer quickly. Then, she spent a quick minute demonstrating her prowess with a rapier, handling it similarly to the pickaxe.

Finally, it was time for her to show off her skills with explosives from working in the mines. Nyx knew that it wouldn't take her too long to prepare a bomb; using dynamite and other explosive powders, she knew exactly the combination of sticks and wires to create something deadly. Then, she entered into the simulator and scoped out the building she found. She identified seven "pressure points," and placed bombs there, knowing that when she detonated them, the bombs would bring the building down. Once Nyx was satisfied with her work, she pressed the green button; the computer bombs went off, and the building came down perfectly.

Nyx stepped out of the simulator. She saw the Gamemakers nodding their heads in approval. "Perfect timing, Nyx," remarked Amethyst. "That is exactly ten minutes. You may go." Another set of doors opened, and Nyx walked out, going immediately to the elevators and taking it up to the top floor. When she got there, she found that Ellessa was waiting for her.

"How did it go?" Ellessa asked.

"Pretty good," Nyx replied. "Now what do I do for the rest of the day?

Eloise LaBelle, 16, District Ten

Eloise woke up at 9 AM, because an automated voice blared through the raining center, saying, "The Private Sessions are now beginning." She groaned, but figured that it was a sign that it was time to wake up.

Eloise got out of bed and put on another training uniform; she was admittedly getting quite bored of wearing pink every day. She quickly pulled her hair up in a ponytail before brushing her teeth. Then she came out into the common area to have breakfast. Back home in District Ten, she enjoyed a pretty hearty breakfast, and so went for the same thing: three flapjacks, four strips of bacon, scrambled eggs, and some potatoes. At 9:35, the automated voice blared again: "Will the second group please make their way to the training floor." Eloise had the last bite of pancake and then went to the elevators, pressing the button that took her right down to the bottom floor.

When she got there, she noticed that there was only one other girl in the waiting area, wearing a green shirt. As she waited, four other girls joined her, two in white, one in blue, and one in beige. The screen in the room suddenly displayed the words Nadina Spencer, and the girl in the green shirt got up and entered the training room. After another few minutes of waiting, the head trainer came out to greet the next group of girls. "I'm going to start with a quick check-in," she began. "Eloise?" Eloise raised her hand. "Incredible? Lavender? Kylis? Nanami? Excellent. A few instructions before you go in. Because we're not going in order, the Gamemakers will need to know your name and district, so please state that when you walk in. The Gamemakers will tell you when you may begin. Each of you has up to ten minutes where you can do whatever you would like in there; if you would like to leave early, please inform the Gamemakers, and they will dismiss you.

"The Gamemakers are currently on a break; please watch the screen for your name so that you know when to go in to the training room. Also, if any of you have any unusual requests for your private sessions, please let me know now, so that if there are any potential issues, I can fix them before you come in. This does not include needing a trainer; those will be readily available." Nobody answered. "All right, ladies. Good luck!" Portia went through the doors back into the training room, leaving the girls alone to wait.

Eloise waited impatiently until she saw a name flash onto the screen; she was delighted to see that it was her name! She got up and entered the room.

"Eloise LaBelle, District Ten," she announced. She watched as the Gamemakers flipped through large stacks of papers. After a moment, when the flipping had stopped, she received approval to begin.

Eloise had one particular strength when it came to weapons, and that was a lasso. Though she'd tried in training to master other things, she'd failed completely, and so she knew that it was her best shot at getting a good score. First, she went to a weaving station, and wove her own rope out of hemp. Then, she carefully tied a knot in the rope, forming a loop that could widen and shrink as she chose.

Finally, it was time to get roping! Eloise went to a station with a large array of dummies that could pop up and down automatically, as well as move side-to-side. She skillfully controlled the rope in her hand, moving it forward and back to perfectly rope every dummy; in Eloise's mind, it was just like lassoing the cows that her family worked with in Ten. When she got the lasso around the neck of the last dummy, she pulled the rope tightly enough to take off its head.

Hmm. What else can I do? she thought. Eloise figured that the best thing to do would be to show off some survival skills – after all, if she had the time, she thought it would be good to use it. She focused on knots, because she was used to working with it from making lassos, until the Gamemakers told her that her time was up.

Khara Imperium, 15, District Five

Khara had spent the morning not doing much; she had heard the calls for the second, third, and fourth group as she read a book she had found on the floor. Finally, at 12:40, she heard the call for the fifth group. As she pressed the elevator button, the doors opened, and she found Pandora standing in it. "Good luck," Pandora said, as the girls switched places and Khara headed down to the waiting area. When she arrived, she sat on the bench, only thinking about her plan for the private session. Instinctively, she bit her nails out of nerves.

"I'm going to start with a quick check-in." The voice of the head trainer jerked Khara out of her daydream. "Carissa? Pix? Amaryllis? Khara? Weave? Great! A few instructions before you go in. Because we're not going in order, the Gamemakers will need to know your name and district, so please state that when you walk in. The Gamemakers will tell you when you may begin. Each of you has up to ten minutes where you can do whatever you would like in there; if you would like to leave early, please inform the Gamemakers, and they will dismiss you.

"Is there any station I can do for pattern recognition?"

"Yeah, that would be an offshoot of edible plants," Portia instructed. "All right, good luck girl!"

Khara gathered from the order that Portia said the names of the tributes that she would be going forth, so she knew she was in for a long wait. She kept thinking about the things she was planning to do, making sure that she didn't forget anything.

After about half an hour, it was just her and Weave in the waiting room. She finally saw her name flash onto the screen, so she got up and went into the training room.

"Khara Imperium, District Five," she announced. After a second, she received a thumbs up, indicating that it was time to go.

She had decided to start with some pretty simple survival skills, specifically fire-building and trap-making. Then, she moved on to the edible plants station, and showed that, despite her being from Five, she knew every single plant. Afterwards, she found a pattern recognition station; groups of letters, numbers, and colors appeared on a screen, and she managed to identify the pattern for 95 groups of letters and numbers in under a minute and a half.

Finally, it was time to show the thing she'd intentionally saved for last, because it was definitely the strongest thing she had. She went over to the throwing knives station, and centered herself across from a row of targets. Khara took a bit more time on the first throw, because she wanted to make sure to get it right; once she got into the flow of things, she was able to nail the bulls-eye for six of her ten shots.

Suddenly, she heard the Head Gamemaker say, "You're dismissed. Thank you, Khara."

Khara took the elevator up to the top floor. "Perfect timing," said Elias. "It's time for lunch!"

Bonnie Clearwater, 17, District Four

Bonnie had noticed that there was a long break between the calls for the fifth and sixth groups. She figured that the Gamemakers were eating lunch, because they'd also eaten lunch on their floor at the same time. Now, more than an hour after lunch, she finally heard the call for her group, the seventh group, to come down.

When she reached the bottom floor, noticing that the doors had just closed, she was happy to find that Bellona was also in her group. The two made small talk until Portia came out. "I'm going to start with a quick check-in," she said wearily; clearly, she'd said the shame shpiel multiple times before that day. "Bonnie? Bellona? Melvina? Phoebe? Millicent?" A small cough indicated that the littlest of the group was indeed there. "Great! A few instructions before you go in. Because we're not going in order, the Gamemakers will need to know your name and district, so please state that when you walk in. The Gamemakers will tell you when you may begin. Each of you has up to ten minutes where you can do whatever you would like in there; if you would like to leave early, please inform the Gamemakers, and they will dismiss you.

"If you have any question, let me know and good luck."

Not three minutes after Portia left, the screen flashed Bonnie's name. She had a plan for what to do; immediately after the Gamemakers gave her the green light to go.

First, Bonnie wanted to show what she could do, so she did some trick shots with a crossbow and some running around the track. Then, it was time for her secret weapon. "Is there an inexperienced trainer that I can work with?" asked Bonnie. After a moment, an Avox came out to join her. "Excellent. Do you have any weapon you'd like to learn about?" The Avox pointed to the blowdarts. "How about swords," suggested Bonnie casually. The Avox shrugged. "Great!"

Bonnie then spent some time carefully teaching the Avox how to swordfight. After fighting with the Avox herself, she requested that the actual trainer come out to spar with the Avox. To her delight, she found that the Avox was able to hold his own with the trainer; though the trainer won, Bonnie was satisfied with what she'd been able to demonstrate.

"You are dismissed," said Amethyst when her ten minutes were up. Bonnie went back up to the fourth floor.

"Are you done?" asked Pacifica.

"Yep. Not too long until you go, now."

Elysia Hall, 15, District Six

"Group Eight, please report to the training floor," announced the automated voice.

"Huh?" questioned Elysia.

"It's your turn," prodded Danira.

"When are you gonna go?" Elysia asked, as Danira helped her to the elevator.

"In the last group, somewhere around 6:15."

"Have fun!" waved Elysia, as she descended to the training floor. When she got there, she wandered over to a bench. Then she fell asleep, and only woke up when she felt someone nudge her, saying, "Elysia, it's your turn!"

Elysia wandered into the training room. Without consideration for anything else, she made a beeline to the station she'd most enjoyed working with for the previous two days: the camouflage station. She was enthralled by the colors, and painted them on her skin in patterns that she wasn't quite sure what they were. She kept going until one of the people looking at her from above her said, "That's all the time you have. What's your name?"

"Elysia. Bye!"

She went back into the elevator, and someone helped her get up to the floor. When she came out of the elevator, Danira said, "You look so colorful, Elysia."

"Thank you!"

Ravi Waterford, 18, District One

Ravi was so done with waiting.

It figured that she, of all people, would be the last person to go for her private session. She was a generally patient person, too. But there was something about waking up at 9 AM for something that would be happening at 7 PM that made her feel more impatient than normal.

Finally, though, the screen flashed her name, and she went in to the training room.

"Ravi Waterford, District One," she announced. "But," she smiled, "I bet you figured that out."

"You may begin," Amethyst immediately replied.

First, Ravi decided to show her abilities with the Diamond Finger technique, possibly the most impressive thing she could do. She set up a row of progressively thicker wooden boards, then cut through them progressively faster, not messing up on a single one. After a few more endurance tricks, she finished with her favorite, the one where she balanced on two fingers, which she did until she was dismissed by the Gamemakers.

Ravi exited the room and made her way up to the top floor, where she was greeted by the rest of her district. "When does the broadcast come on?" she asked.

"About half an hour," replied Glaucus.

"We don't know how they did the scoring so fast, added Delilah, "but I'm excited to see what happens! Have some dinner for now, though."

Ravi quickly ate a piece of chicken, some French fries, and some snap peas. Then, everyone on the floor took a seat on the couch, and waited for the familiar faces of Harli Saleman and Dorian Muir to come on screen.

"Attention, tributes," announced an automated voice. "Tonight, on the broadcast, the scores of Lavender Aroma and Nyx Mynier will not be announced. We will give them to you now. Lavender has scored an eight, and Nyx has also scored an eight. Now, please turn your attention to the televisions for the announcement of the scores."

Impressive score for a little girl, thought Nyx. I'll have to keep an eye out for her.

"Good evening, Panem!" announced Dorian, his elaborately made-up face suddenly popping onto the screen. "Tonight, we will find out the training scores of our 48 lovely District tributes!"

"That's right, Dorian," added Harli. "For the audience to know, the scores will be announced by District, and then alphabetically by last name. Let's get into it!"

Dorian began to read. "For District One. Delilah Ainsley has scored an…" he squinted as he looked at the paper. "Is that an 8.5?"

"I guess that the Gamemakers couldn't make up their minds, and with such a time crunch and so many scores to give out, they had to go with the middle ground," Harli explained. "That's certainly a first."

Dorian continued, "Incredible Grant has scored a 5.

"Arieyn Occisor has scored a 9.

"And Ravi Waterford has scored a 9."

"For District Two," Harli said. "Vixyn Kearne has scored a 10.

"Carissa Lovarre has scored an 8.

"Janari Lovarre has scored a 5.

"And Bellona Terminus has scored a 10."

Dorian took the next district. "For District Three. Pix Drexel has scored a 7.

"Muire Spencer has scored a 4.

"Drew Voltas has scored a 7.

"And Honey Voltas has scored a 3."

Harli picked up where Dorian left off. "For District Four. Nanami Cascade has scored a 7."

"Bonnie Clearwater has scored an 8."

"Pacifica Corwin has scored a 9."

"And Thyra Sereno has scored a 10."

All eyes on the floor in One turned to Arieyn, completely ignoring the rest of the Outer District training scores. Delilah said what they were all thinking: "So what does this mean for the Pack breakdown?"

Ravi watched intently as Arieyn looked at some notes she'd taken in her notebook. "So," Arieyn said carefully, "I think the pack will break down like this: the Upper Pack will be Delilah, me, Ravi, Pacifica, Thyra, Vixyn, and Bellona, and the Lower Pack will be Bonnie, Nanami, Lavender, Janari, Carissa, and Creddi. Now, that doesn't mean we'll break up immediately, and obviously, this will change once we see what the Selection situation is. But yeah. That's where it stands.

The Remaining Training Scores:

Khara Imperium: 6

Erin Mochurn-Fuego: 2

Phoebe Nightingale: 3

Pandora Eurydice Zachery: 6

Ferrari Benz: 6

Drenaline Fisher: 4

Elysia Hall: 2

Danira Muntaner: 6

Euodia Grove: 7

Elizah Klepper: 6

Freida Muller: 7

Nadina Spencer: 5

Singer Brocade: 5

Weave Flasherett: 5

Silver Flower: 5

Tistera Leone: 7

Melvina Crusoe: 4

Kylis Divola: 6

Dania Kesten: 5

Cayman Rye: 6

Cheyenne Davanzo: 6

Eloise LaBelle: 5

Lennox Silverson-Smith: 7

Peach Unk: 5

Maddison Harper: 4

Amaryllis Horne: 7

Rain Peterson: 5

Narcissa Wilder: 4

Brooklyn Cherry: 1

Douria Hovello: 4

Millicent Jones: 3

Brietta Westwood: 6

So, there you go! I will be adding these training scores to the info about each tribute that you can find on my profile. I think I did these tributes justice. Let me know if you guys have any questions about the scores, but I think they're pretty good!

My update speed is about to shoot up, because I finished high school! However, as you might have read from the summary of the story, we still have another five chapters until the Selection reveal. So if you're behind, which a lot of you are, don't freak out too much! And props if you're keeping up; I know my writing speed is super fast, and I have no update schedule, but you guys are phenomenal, and I'm so glad I have you!

What do you think of the pack breakdown? Do you think these training scores make sense? Which ones are a bit high? Which ones are a bit low? Do you think they will impact Garnet's decisions at all?

Next chapter, we'll see something that I know most SYOTs don't do, and that's interview prep. It will probably be a bit short, but I think it'll give some good insight into something that we don't see too often. Also, this is partly because I need it as a lead-in for the following chapter, which is the interviews with Garnet.

Thanks again for all of your support!

-goldie031