So here's the last day of training! Please leave a review, with anything you thought during this chapter. Thanks, and I hope you enjoy the chapter!
Training Pt. 3
Aston Axle, 17, D6 Male
At the beginning of this I swore I wouldn't ally with anyone. You want to know how long that lasted? About a day. Finleigh just reminded me of my brother, and I wanted to protect her too. So we were allies. And today was the third day of training. When we got there in the morning, Finleigh and I decided that she would work on any survival techniques and I would figure out how to use a bow. It wasn't going well for me, I barely could get the arrow to go far enough. I laughed and put the bow down.
I looked up to find Finleigh. I immediately spotted her because of her bright purple hair. I didn't know where she got that in District 6, but it made me smile every time I saw her. She was over at the camouflage station. The instructor was staring at her, looking completely dumbfounded. She did mention she was an artist, so I guessed she made something with the mud and other stuff over there. I thought that she would actually be a good ally because she could camouflage stuff. Maybe we would last longer than I had originally thought.
Blaze Coil, 18, D4 Male
None of the Careers would talk to me. They even replaced me with some kid from District 11. I didn't know why cause he seemed pretty helpless with everything except for his scythe. But if he got his hands on one of those in the arena, he'd be deadly. Since none of the Careers would even speak to me, I was alone now. There was no way I would ally myself with one of the losers from the poor districts. They were all making fools of themselves at the different stations. I saw one of the small ones go towards the monkey bars, so I grinned and sauntered over. He was struggling to reach the bars, and I laughed.
I pushed him out of the way, jumped up, then quickly went across the entire thing.
"Why'd you push me off?" the boy asked. "You could've just helped me, Blaze."
Wait how'd he know my name? Then it came to me. I had met him when we had just woken up in the capital. He had the same magic as me. I would use the magic all the time, but our mentors had told us the only place we could use it was in our rooms and in the arena. Everywhere else it was blocked or something.
"Because you're irrelevant," I said, not caring that I might hurt him. "There's no way you'll win the games, so me, as someone who will be winning, deserves to be in front of people like you."
He looked at me and I could see in his eyes he was hurt. I almost felt bad, but I pushed any of those feelings away. Then his eyes hardened and he got up and stalked away.
"Well that went well," I muttered.
The only station no one was at was the station with all the different plants at it. So I went over. Plants were the only thing that could kill me. I knew next to nothing about them. So I sat down at the table and actually listened to the instructor. There was a lot to learn. Inwardly, I kicked myself for showing off the first two days instead of coming over here and learning these things. But there was no time like the present to learn this, so I picked each plant up and committed them to memory the best I could. I would learn this or it would be the death of me. Literally.
Flax Burton, 18, D8 Male
I hated all these idiots of tributes. Whenever they saw me, they'd turn around and go somewhere else. I didn't know what they were doing, because it wasn't like I was going to kill them or anything. Yet. As of right now, my plan was to take as many as I could out, then kill myself. There was no point in going back to my district as a victor, only to not get any of the prizes and instead go to jail.
"Move," I snapped at a little girl, and she quickly ran away. I grinned evilly at her quickly disappearing back. She would be a fun kill. Very easy, by the looks of it. She didn't even have a hand!
I grabbed a sword, nodded at the instructor, then attacked. He parried all of my blows, then thrust his sword into my stomach. I doubled over, gasping for breath. The peacekeeper that was assigned to me smirked. This all angered me, so I picked my sword up and attacked even more ferociously. Slowly, the instructor began to slow, and I managed to smack him in the head, then his throat, and when I got close enough to him I screamed and knocked him unconscious with the butt of my sword.
When I looked up, I noticed that the entire room had gone silent. All of the tributes, including the Careers, were looking at me in horror. The Head Trainer had just walked in, and he, too, looked astonished. Then he shook his head and yelled,"Your three days of training are over. It is now time for you to show off your skills. You will have ten minutes. Please follow me."
If I did what I just did, I was sure to get a high score. This was going to be fun. I laughed maniacally and followed him. The other tributes left plenty of room between me and them. Like I said, fun.
Alliances:
The Careers: Eagle, Sadie, Ajax, Darwin, Serena, Cobalt
District 12: Liva, Ellis
The Young Ones: Briar, Raylie, Emalynn, Marvlo, Jollin
Underdogs: Falco, Shey, Barley, Stitch
Loners: Lennox, Bug, Flax, Lilac, Blaze
District 6: Aston, Finleigh
Q1: What was Flax's plan for the arena?
Q2: Why did Aston ally himself with Finleigh?
