"So, Set, why do you want to change into this school?" The Vice-principle asked, as she looked down at a piece of paper that was attached to a clipboard
Set looked thoughtful for awhile and quite innocently said, "The people there were not my type."
The vice-principle looked down at her sheet. "Is that so... Well... it says here you were never enrolled in any school at all in this district. What school did you say you went too before?"
Set felt a jet of cold fear run up his back. "I was home-schooled... But my parents died... And my house burned down... Dead people aren't my type." Set had to stop himself from looking overly panicked.
"I'm sorry to hear it, you can start school on Monday once you've gotten a legal guardian to sign this form... If you like, you can trial the school today. Also, do you have a place to stay tonight?"
Set smiled in relief, he had already filled out the application to join the school that morning. It was at that point which he decided to not use his real name, Annubis.
"I'm all good for a place to stay, and I think I might go take a look around the school now, if you don't mind."
The Vice-principle sent out a note to get a volunteer student from the top class to escort Set around the school.
A few minutes latter, Riki knocked on the door and walked into the room.
"It's your lucky day Set, you get to meet a Victor of the hunger games." Riki stuck out his hand and Set shook it.
smiling, Set looked Riki in the eye "It's an honor to meet you." Set couldn't help but feel that this was a bit coincidental having Riki as the first person he met at this school, but that didn't matter, sooner or later, he knew that Riki would lead him too Gloria.
"Don't think of me as famous, I get enough of that already, treat me like any one else." Riki was more tanned than he was in the games, but he was still paler than average for his district, his long black hair was beginning to show dark brown roots and he had a red stripe in his hair where it covered his left eye. Oddly, Riki's hair didn't look greasy at all. Annubis was at least 5cm taller then Riki.
The two boys walked out of the office and looked around, the hallways had only a few stragglers left in them.
Set felt a bit naked without a bandanna on his face or around his neck, but he knew wearing it would make him to recognizable as the guy from the games.
"First up... Is..." Riki pulled out a timetable and took a deep breath for emphasis as he held the sheet away from his face. "English. Well, that's dull."
As the two walked to English, Set and Riki talked, but the whole time, Set was subtly shifting the conversation so he could ask about Gloria.
"So, got a girlfriend?" Set Finally managed to ask.
"It's kind of complicated, we got into a fight because she cheated on me in the games, but it'll blow over soon enough."
"With that Annubis guy?" Set asked, knowing fully well that he was Annubis and the cheater.
"Yeah... Any way, here's the English classroom." The two boys walked into the room and sat down in the back of the class room. Set could see Gloria at the front of the classroom and had the urge to just run up and tell her about everything.
"We have a new student it seems..." The teacher said. "Would you like to come up and tell us about yourself."
Set stood up slowly and walked to the front of the class, avoiding Gloria's gaze.
"My name is Set." Annubis looked down at his feet and didn't say anything.
"That's great, mind telling us about yourself?"
"Well...I'm 15, I like chocolate, yellow things weird me out, black is my favorite color, I'm a Scorpio, I don't drink coffee cos it makes me hyper, Aegis is my favorite word and I dislike ants but love caterpillars." Set went through this list at a ridiculously fast pace and kept going on about himself for a minute and a half.
"...11 is my favorite prime number and 42 is my favorite all time number, I want a pet Llama, I would name him Steve and I would hug him every day..."
"OK, THAT'S ENOUGH!" The teacher finally yelled.
Annubis sat back in his seat and waited.
I'll talk to her at lunch
Meanwhile...
Thalia was in the middle of an intense stair off with the other Faith clone that was starring back at her from the other side of the walk way. Suddenly the most unexpected thing happened.
"Faith! You're alive." An adult ran up and hugged Faith and began to cry. "You've been gone for so long, where did you go, what happened, I missed you so much!"
Faith clearly didn't know how to react. "Who are you?" The Cyborg finally managed to say after a solid minute of hugging and crying.
The woman let go of Faith and looked at her strangely and laughed happily. "It's me, mum, come on, I don't look that much different with short hair do I?."
The cyborg that was impersonating Faith clearly did not expect to run into the real Faith's mother.
Thalia waved sarcastically at the clone and smiled, the clone death stared back.
I need a gun... Thalia thought to herself as she left the happy mother and daughter behind.
Meanwhile
Croy and Teak didn't know what was going to happen, but one thing was for certain. It involved the train tracks (everything involving Faith involved trains), so that's where they were going
"So, what do you think the Faith's are even doing?" Teak asked casually.
"I think they are killing or capturing tributes, but I don't get it, if they were plotting an ultimate hunger games, why don't they just do it already?"
"Because your still in the games." A voice said from behind them.
Croy and Teak both spun around quickly, gun pointed and sword drawn.
A faith clone smiled politely and began to step forward, but it stopped mid-step when it saw that Croy's finger was about to tighten on the trigger.
"Explain." Croy said darkly, his gun aimed at her heart.
"The hunger games never ended, you're still being followed by cameras and things are still trying to kill you. Namely, me. Think about it, why let all those tributes live, they decided that they would make the districts the real arena for this game, then they would move all the tributes to the capital."
"Why are you telling us this? And what happens when we get to the capital" Teak scowled.
"I don't need to tell you why you should go, because you're going to go to the capital of your own free will by the end of the week." Faith smiled politely and took a step forward.
Croy pulled the trigger and the faith clone fell backwards, a smile still on her face as she hit the floor.
"Lets go." Croy tugged Teak's shirt and the two of them left, not even moving the body.
No more than 10 minutes later, Teak and Croy were walking past a TV shop when all of the TV's suddenly turned on and began speaking extremely loud.
BREAKING STORY, CROY RAMIREZ AND TEAK SHAW CAUGHT MURDERING AN INNOCENT TEEN.
The TV then showed Croy shooting Faith.
In horror, Croy and Teak looked around, it then became apparent that every TV in the district that was plugged in had turned on. every TV was also somehow set to full volume and the news was on every channel.
Croy could hear the news coming out of civilians homes.
The two Victors looked at each other worriedly and pulled on their hoods.
A 100000$ BOUNTY HAS BEEN ASSIGNED TO ANY ONE WHO CAN BRING THE RENEGADE VICTORS TO THE PEACE KEEPERS, DEAD OR ALIVE.
"We need to get out of here." Croy whispered, a few civilians had come out of their homes, a few brandishing bats, knives or other objects that could be used to knock out/ kill a criminal.
"They are all heading to our houses!" Teak put her head down and kept on walking.
"Hey, you!" A civilian yelled at Teak from across the street. "Let me see that sword..."
Teak realized too late that she was still holding her black scale sword.
Croy turned to look at the civilian and noted that he was 20 years old or so, it was almost painfully obvious that this man was a drug addict.
"I knew it." The civilian said as he got closer.
Teak screamed and ran/slashed at the mans face, killing or knocking him out instantly.
seconds later, the tv's all turned on again, showing the same story but with the kill that happened only seconds ago.
a few more seconds later, even more civilians stepped outside. It was clear that some of them recognized the drug addict that Teak had just killed.
"You killed him!" an angry 50 year old man started to yell in a blind fury. "YOU KILLED MY SON! I'LL KILL YOU!"
The man rushed forward and Teak readied her blade and Croy pointed his gun.
"Just walk away sir." Croy said calmly, even though his hand was shaking baddly.
The man stopped running and stepped back.
"Lets go Teak..."
The two criminals began to run, today was Saturday, tomorrow would be Sunday. If they caught the train today, they could be in the capital by the end of the week.
AN: I'll tell the story of each tributes death/ journey to the Capital, don't expect it to only focus on a few, every tribute will be explained.