Sorry I haven't updated in a while, enjoy this chapter. It's only a filler because I'm starting to get bored of writing this! I just want to get on to the games!

Nemet B

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Evelin Rain- District 1

Glow Fall wanted to kill me. That much was obvious. Strangely, though, I honestly didn't care. He could believe all he wants that he has me and the others wrapped around his fingers. He can believe it. It doesn't necessarily mean it's true.

That girl, Jayne, was Glow's right hand man. Or girl. Whatever. She seriously gave Archibald and I the creeps.

Archie and I felt kind of left out in this alliance. Glow was purposefully ignoring Archibald because he had the most determination, and the most strength. Glow didn't like competition, and I bet on my life that he is planning to kill him too.

On the final training day, I brought this up to him.

"Glow is planning to kill, me?" Archibald asked, not really believing it.

"Definately. I swear to you he is." I say with the best pursuading voice I could muster, aswell as a convincing nod.

"And he, told you this?"

"Yep. He said that he doesn't want someone as spoilt and weak around as you. He is going to make it look like an accident though." Okay, that was a teensy little lie on my part, Glow would never tell me such a thing. He hates me! I had to do it, but it was slightly fun to see him start to glare daggers at Glow. How else would I have got Archie to be on my side? To help me. Not Glow, not creepy Jayne. Me.

I also threatened him that if he didn't throw his lot with me, I would make sure Glow gave him a horrible, bloody and painful death. Another lie, I know. I could never make Glow do anything. Ever. Even if I had a sword pointed at his throat after I had cut off both his hands, I doubted he would beg for mercy or agree for me to be leader. He was annoyinly stubborn. If it ever came to that, which I will make sure it will, I won't even offer the choice for Glow to survive under my terms.

The rest of the morning, Archibald and I ditched the Careers. Not the alliance. I still needed them, but we went to our own stations before we had our private sessions with the Gamemakers. They were all in the sword fighting area and we stayed in the big weapon station, Axes, Maces and Tridents. And, together, we made a plan to get rid of creepy Jayne and Glow Fall once and for all.

I would be leader of the newly formed Careers. Archibald my right hand man, and Asa and Therron my soliders.

No way was I going to be pushed around by a measly 13 year old. Hell no. Glow has to die. So does creepy Jayne.

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Roscoe Rohan- District 8

It was basically a miracle that my district parter, Megan, wanted to be my ally. It truly was.

I was a loser. I was a loser that was going to die.

Happy thoughts, right?

I was at a station where the instuctor was teaching me how to hold a bow and arrow, when Megan came up next to me. She didn't say a word, just watched the intructor... intruct me. I hadn't really spoken to Megan, only a few polite hello's. I didn't even thank her for shutting up those people at the reaping, although I should have. I didn't particulary want to get into it, it was embarassing enough.

The trainer left me to my own devices and I shot a few arrows. They missed the targets by miles, my hands were shaking too much. I didn't want to learn how to shoot a weapon right. Someone would die then.

I mentally told myself to shut up. I had to learn. I had to.

"Here, let me show you how its done." Megan says with a wink. She grabs a bow from the shelf and walks over to me. She holds the weapon like I'm holding mine and draws an arrow, motioning for me to do the same. Once we're both in hte correct positions, she guides me through how to shoot straight.

We both release the arrows with a twang.

Megan gets a bulls eye and mine still missed the target completely, but it was definately closer. I shakily smile at Megan, who grins back.

"Thank you." I say quietly, heading to retrieve our arrows.

"No problem. Wait, is this a thank you for helping you out now, or at the reaping?" She asks in a loud voice. I wince.

"Um...both?" Megan nods and doesn't say anything else for the rest of the morning. We mostly stick together, spending as much time as we can using the weapons before we are all called for our pirvate sessions with the Gamemakers after lunch. And with an unspoken agreement, Megan and I became allies.

Now, I felt as if I had a chance.

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Derek Smoke- District 10

I wrung my hands nervously. I had no idea what I was going to do in front of the Gamemakers. Hell, I didn't even know what I was good at. The past three days, I went to every single station. Every single one. But, I still had no idea what I was best at.

I could throw knives pretty well, but most of that skill came from home. I could identify some poisonous plants, and some is a term I use very lightly. Very. I could do knot tying, but I didn't need to learn any skills for that, I could already tie my own amazing lasoos. Myabe thats what I should do, created a lassoo and pretend to strangle a dummy. I know, impressive, right?

After visiting every station, I met almost every tribute here. Most of them, I hated. Some, I couldn't stand. A small amount seemed ok. And about 3 of them, I actually liked. Most people wouldn't bother to talk to me and when they did they sounded just hateful. I didn't really care though, it gave me a reason to hate them and to kill them. It might be a weak reason to kill them, but a reason all the same.

The only people I don't particulary want to kill are Liliana Grayson, Boomer and Pippa. I will if I have to, but at the moment, I want my allies alive.

Boomer and Pippa were already allies which was good on my part, I didn't have to force anyone to like eachother. They were pretty friendly when I joined them at the knife throwing station on the first day. I showed them how good I was at it, which was passable. 2 out of the 5 knives I threw actually hit the desired target. They invited me to sit with them at lunch, so I followed them to the only only empty table left.

All Pippa ate were pudding cups so we had made a few jokes about that. That was when Liliana joined us at the table. She seemed really shy and timid and sked if she could sit down. We let her and I realised that she was really funny underneath her shyness, we just had to crack the shell.

They were all really kind and friendly, and all had good skills to supply the alliance with. Really, I couldn't have got myself some better allies. Really, I couldn't, considering the other tributes I tried to talk to.

They had all gone in for their private sessions pretty confident. Boomer was really good at throwing spears, Pippa could pass the edible plants test with flying colours and Liliana really was fast. She basically flew down the track that circled the whole room, which was about 4 miles.

My district partener, Cece gets called in. She will do fine. I watched her train with those knives and I could honestly say she was amazing. She will get a good score, I just know it. So will her ally, Anastasia or something. Well, I think they will.

All too soon, I'm called in. I gulp nervously, still having no idea what I'm supposed to do. Hopefully the sponsors will interpret my 3 to be a strategy. Hopefully.

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Oliver: Test subject 1-02

Olivia and I didn't need to train. We'd been training our whole lives.

Instead, we watched the tributes train from overhead camera's. We watched alliances form and break, we watched the little 12 year old learn to throw knives, we watched the pair from 3 learn how to throw spears.

We knew everones strengths and weaknessess. It was our job now to learn how to use it to our advantage.

We eavesdropped onto the tributes conversation and learned that Journey was planning on killing her two new allies, Kayla and Alessia once they had the supplies for her and Nate. We learned that Natalie liked the tribute form 4, Malachai and the boy from 9, Troian. We could use those feelings to turn them against her. We learned that Ria was putting on a weak act when using the weapons. We knew that everybody in the room was terrified of creepy Jayne, as they all called her. We learned that Evelin was planning on killing two alliance members after the bloodbath.

We learnt everything. We know their secrets, their plans and their goals. And we will destroy them all.

I squeeze Olivia's hand, a smile creeping onto my lips. She grinned wickedly back. This was going to be a piece of cake.

We both turn our attention onto the screen in our bedroom and watch the tributes private training sessions.

Glow was up first and what he did was no surprise imediately jumped onto the weapons, and seemed intent on destroying everything in his path with the sword he held. He had to be dismissed early so they could clear up his mess for the next tribute. Glow looked vicious and determined, but he wouldn't be too hard to take down, or better yet, get his district partner to do it and hopefully he will wipe her out in the process.

Evelin slinked into the room and eyed the gamemakers warily. She walks over to the sword fighting area and whistles for an assistant. One scurries over, a big beefy boy, and takes a battle stance, a sword in his hand. The two fight together with the blunt practice swords, but their hits are big enough to leave big bruises. Evelin seems to be winning, when all of a sudden she is off balance and clutching her left eye. She still fights though, but not as good as before. I reach over onto my bedisde table and grab her file. I flick through to find the reason she is suddenly off.

"Why didn't you tell me she gets temporarily blinded in her left eye?" I ask Olivia, not looking up from Evelin's file.

"You never asked." She says simply. I scoff, but I let it go. I watch with mild interest as she finishes off the assistant, but by that time, her private session is over.

Archibald imediately jumped onto the weapons and shows off his skills with almost all of them. I had to admit, he was quite good. I also noticed he completely avoided using the bow and arrows. That was interesting.

Creepy Jayne was up next. She casually walked to the weapons and walked around the display, as if deciding whihc one to use. Her eyes catch a whicked blade, that was curved. She lightly traced her fingers on it, drawing blood immediately. A few drops dripped onto the white floor, but she didn't seem to actually care. She just looked... relaxed. And then in one, super fast motion, she whiped around and flung the knife in the directon of a dummy across the room. The knive, which wasn't a specificatly designed spinning knife, cartwheeled through the air, and severed the dummies head. It was a feat that someone normal should be proud of, but Jayne looked the same. Relaxed but slightly bored. She did a few more deadly tricks before the gamemakers dissmissed her, muttering appreciatively.

Kal from district three sautered in. I had heard he prefered to be called Boomer, because of his experience with explosives. Shame there wasn't anything he could use in the arena. There were those mines they placed under the tributes plates that made you blow up if you stepped off early, but after a tribute re-activated them, they stopped using them. Instead, the tracker in your arm would release a fast acting, painful poison into your blood system straight away. You'd be dead in seconds. He throws a few weights to show off his muscles, punches a few things, and is dismissed.

Philipa wasn't anything special. She showed a few moves with a sword, chucked a few spears, but when she headed to the edible plants station, she literally flew through it. She got 100% and finished it in under three minuets. Even the gamemakers seemed impressed when they dismissed her.

Malachai, or Kai, came in looking confident. Classic tough Career tribute. He walks to the weapons and easily hits all the targets dead centre with all the weapons. There wasn't one he missed. Not a thing. He even flung three knives that were all in one hand, over his shoulder. They buried themselves into a dummies neck, heart and temple. And he wasn't even looking. That was skill. Olivia watches him with her eyebrows raised.

He could be a potential threat. She tells me through our link. I don't bother to reply, but she senses my agreement.

Ria headed over to the survival station first. It seemed, as she has been all week, trying to keep up her weak act. During the training days she has pretended to be hopelessly bad using all the weapons. I had to hand it to her, she was pretty convincing when she walked towards the weapons after scoring 48% on the test. The gamemakers dismissed her, obviously not liking that a tribute frim a career district was doing kind of badly. She was fantasic at knot tying. That was the only thing that seemed like she was good at.

The little twelve year old, Robert, came in, clutching his teddy bear. He looked around uncertainly, before walking over to the knife throwing station. He dropped his bear by his feet and got a good grip on the smallest knife there. He let it fly from his hand and I was shocked that the blade sliced one dummies throat and lodged itself into another dummies heart. And he still managed to look innocent, harmless and adorably cute.

The shy looking girl from five, Liliana, came into view. She spent all her time running on the track. And she really was fast. Like, really really fast. I look to Olivia with wide eyes and see her mouth open.

"Do you think she's faster than us?" I ask my twin, biting my lip worryingly.

"No, she can't be." Olivia replies, but she looks uncertain. Liliana was going to be a problem.

Asa was up next and spent all of his time with the weapons. He didn't seem to have a specific weapon, but that didn't mean he wasn't good. Which, unfortunately he wasn't. Things perked up a bit when he trew a few spears, but we saw his real talent in hand-to-hand combat when he took down the assistant in less that a minuet. Impressive.

Ariadne called for an assistant and took him down during hand-to-hand combat. She was pretty stong for a girl, but she spent most of her time beating him. She only had a couple of minuets left to rush to the edible plants station and whizz through the test. I didn't see her score because her time was up.

Kenton, the foolish tribute to ally with the baby from 5, does some sword fighting with an assistant. He was good, dodging all the swings and lunges towards him, and he knew the right moments to go into defence. He 'kills' the assistant easily, and doesn't seem to have broken a sweat at all. He goes over to where the axes and tridents lay and chucks them randomly around the room with teeth rattling strength. The gamemakers drunkenly clap as Kenton makes his way out of the room, head held high. It would have seemed great, if he didnt ruin it by tripping over a fallen dummy and face planting the floor. He blushes furiously as he scrambles to regain his footing and walks to the lift, his face beet red.

Natalie didn't seem comfotable using weapons. She could throw a trident pretty well and her axe wielding really was good, compared to other district 7 tributes. Although she was good, she looked a bit sick using them. I raise a questioning eyebrow at my sister.

"She's a vegetarian." She says simply. I nod and watch as the tribute pass the edible plants test easily, and watch as she does the extra test about health. She got the highest marks on both quizzes.

Roscoe did absolutely uselessly. He couldn't shoot an arrow at all, even though I've seen him spend all his time at that station. He tried and tried and let arrow after arrow fly, but every single one of them missed. One of them accidently hit the force field surrounding the gamemakers. It came back at him and he had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit by his own arrow. His attempt was just sad.

Megan did the edible plants test and scored 100%. She then got up and went over to the archery station and let arrow after arrow fly. They all hit the target but only a couple went into the centre circle of the board.

The boy from district 10 was up next, Nate Morgue. He shoots a few arrows, throws a few weights and does the edible plants test. That station is popular today. He did well, but not well enough to leave an impression.

Cypress came in and headed straight for the daggers. She flung them in all directions and they all hit their targets. I examined closley though, none of the hits were fatal.

Troian strolled in as if he owned the world. He grinned cockily at the gamemakers and Olivia glowered at the screen. We knew what he was doing. We knew that his whole character was an act. Really, it was quite easy to spot. Not at all difficult. He called out an assistant and started hand-to-hand combat. The guy was so scared that he would become mince meat he ran away, trying to hide from Troian. The boy laughed menacingly, and pretended to run after him. Even though the gamemakers were half drunk, they weren't impressed, watching one guy terrify another.

Alessia went straight for the knot tying station. She set down a few simple snares and used summies to sow how they worked. I kept thinking she would accidently walk into one and render herself trapped. That, ladies and gentlemen, would be very funny. Olivia giggles and I glance at her. I must of accidently sent over my thoughts. I grin at her sheepishly and focus my attention back onto the screen. She did amazingly well with all the weapons, which wasn't a surprise as she was from the hunting district. A trained killer.

Derek came in and he stood in the doorway for a while, looking around and gnawing on his lip. He only moved when the gamemakers yelled at him to hurry up. He uncertainly walked over to the knot tying station and created a respectable noose, and hung a dummy, he made a few traps and made a lassoo. He swung it and caught 5 dummies across the room in the loop. He tightened it so hard that one of them was cut in half. He seemed proud of himself and grinned like cray until he was dismissed.

Anastasia was next and I watched her walk to the bow and arrow station. She wasn't too bad. She also spent a bit of her time throwing all the knives on the shelf. Most of them hit their targets too. She was good, but not that good.

Nate Morgue. Unlucky last name. And bright red tomatoe coloured hair. He went over to the camouflage and mixed up a colour that would blend perfectly in a wheat field. It was perfect! He demonstrated how well he blended in on one of the terrain programmes that spout random facts about the area. You literally couldn't see him, he was like a chameleon. He did the stealth test and passed with flying colours. He ran out of time though, so he didn't have any time to schow off his skills using a weapon.

Kayla Gant, the district 12 female tribute came in. She showed her vast knowledge of knife throwing and using a bow and arrow. She was very, very good at using both of them. I glanced at Olivia.

She is a hunter. I send, using our communication device planted in our brains. It means that we can speak to eachother without really speaking. We can also share pictures, memories through the link.

Another trained killer. She sends back. I nod slowly.

Like us. We both send, simultaneously. I focus back on the screen and see that the tribute has moved onto the edible plants test. She scores 100% and she leaves with a respectful bow.

Jared came in an observed the whole room. He glanced at the gamemakers and seemed to decide that they were completely wasted as they sang the final verse of this random pirate song. He then caught sight of the camera we were watching through, and narrowed his eyes. I bet he could guess that we were watching. The boy went to the spear section and threw a few. You couldn't fake being that bad. He finally gave up when one nearly hit him in the foot. He sighs loudly and walks over to a piece of rope. He ties a complicated knot, and only when he is finished does he realise that he tied his hands into the rope. He spends the rest of his training time using his teeth to free his hands. This boy was no threat.

The district 13 female, Journey comes in. First, she heads over to the camouflage station. It had been completely untouched. She quickly and easily created a paint that made her skin the colour of a dark forest. She ran over to the stealth station and programmed it to dark forest. She slipped into it, and you could barely tell she was there. That really was good camouflage. She skipped past the dummies and cut their throats with some daggers she had managed to pick up. At the end of the test, it said she had passes, which is a feat not many tributes can manage. Any human tributes anyway. So that excluded Olivia and I, and all the other Test subjects that were moved to districts and disguised as regular tributes to win the games.

Therron was the last boy to show off his skills. He was part of the Career pack, so I knew that he would go over to the weapons. He did not disappoint. He throws a spear at the moving dummy, hitting dead centre of the red mark, fake blood gushing out as the dummy pretends to die like a real person. He then walks over to where the axes and hatchets are. He threw a few of the hatchets and they all hit their desired targets.

The screen faded to black. The gamemaker sessions were over.

Well that was interesting. Olivia says, stretching on her bed on the other side of the room.

Hahaha, yeah, I guess you could say that. I reply, resting my head on my pillow. Olivia shrugs.

I'm going in the shower, okay? Before we find out those losers scores.

Fine, I'm having a nap. Wake me when its on. I yawn loudly and snuggle up in the blankets. Olivia goes into the bathroom with a soft click. I drift off, one thought remaining in my head. I can't wait till we win so we can have a normal life. I'm asleep before I can even hear her reply.