Alyona Smirnov,18, District 5 female

I hug the walls outside as the night takes over the sky with a chilling breeze as i keep myself aware of my surroundings. It's late and there doesn't seem to be many people out but still, I can't let my guard down. One little slip up, just one and it's over. Once I reach the corner of the street I'm walking down, I slowly peer my head to see if anyone is there and I see no one so I take a look behind me and there's no one there as well so that's my queue to press forward.

I'm in some baggy black jeans and a hoody so I doubt I'd stand out very much but still, I need to be careful.

I see a shadow move from the corner of my eyes and see a hooded figure approaching me.

"Excuse me…I'm looking for directions if you can help me out?" the hooded figure asks.

"You're asking the wrong person, I can literally get lost on a straight path." I state before walking off but I turn back around several moment's later and the person is gone, where did they go that quickly?

I pick up my speed slightly as I continue walking through the darkness and although I don't see anyone around me, I can just sense some kind of ominous presence, like there's someone following me…

I cut through a small alley that leads to a small convenience store and I walk inside of it trying to blend in.

The clerk is around my age and greets me with a welcoming smile but I don't acknowledge her and just walk to the back where the drinks and snacks are. I hear the door open again though and the clerk greets whomever it is as my eyes are scanning across the drinks and I prepare to open the fridge to pick one out but a reflection of a shadowy figure appears behind me on the glass fridge panel and I quickly spin around to see this figure about to stab me but I quickly grab their wrist and twist it, while also disarming them and plunge the knife into their throat.

They immediately fall to the floor gurgling blood and that's when I start heading out as quickly as I can, they found me.

"W-what is that noise!?" I hear the clerk in a panic as she walks to the back and see the hooded figure laying in a puddle of their blood and she gives me a horrified look before screaming but I use the same blood soaked knife and throw it into the skull of the clerk as she crumbles to the floor dead and I dash out of the store, she should've just stayed behind the damn counter!

"It's her the traitor! Kill her!" I hear voices behind me and see more hooded figures pouncing on me but i begin running and cut through an alley hoping I'll lose them but I know they're going to find me, they're the ones who taught me everything I knew after all.

"Cut her off from both sides! She's not escaping!" I hear one of them but it's dead silence afterwards as I take out a pocket knife and flick the blade open being aware of the area around me. This alley is a narrow walkway so they're either going to appear behind me, in front of me or both, none the less I continue walking through the alleyway keeping my blade close to me, I know what they're planning. They're going to try and ambush me but I have a plan for that.

I scan the area around me more and see a pipe leading up to the rooftop and I begin scaling it.

As I'm doing that though a knife zips past my face and cuts my cheek but I grit my teeth and continue scaling the pipe as another knife bounces off the brick wall near my face.

"I'll handle her, you guys stay on the ground." I hear a more deeper and serious tone than the others and I recognize the voice immediately, dammit this is going to make things more complicated.

I finally make it up the pipe and make a run for it but I can already feel another presence behind me.

"Give it up Alyona, face me!" I hear that same deep voice and stop in my tracks as I sigh and turn around to face him.

"Scar…" I mumble and he only cracks his neck as he walks towards me.

"He raised you like one of his own, you were practically his daughter, he gave you the life that someone couldn't even imagine and yet you just go and kill him, why Aloyna? Why would you kill him and brand yourself a traitor?" Scar questions but I only give a stern look as I grip my knife tightly.

"I have my reasons…" is all I respond with and that seems to anger him.

"Don't even have enough integrity to give a damn reason!?" He lashes at me but I stand my ground as I remember sitting on a floor covered in blood, my own blood…

"That's all you need to know, now if you want to try anything, go on ahead but if not, then I'll take my leave." I state and he pulls out a blade.

"What you think I'm just going to let you walk away after what you've done? You got nowhere to go! Even if you do somehow get past me, the rest of us will hunt you down to the end of earth if we have to!" He threatens and lunges at me but i dodge his attack and try slashing him but he grabs my wrist and I try punching him with my other fist but he ducks under it and yanks my arm driving me to the floor. I try kicking him but he grabs my foot and I quickly twist my body before kicking him in the face with my other foot and flip back up to my feet as some blood comes down his nose.

He lunges at me again and tries to slice me but I block his attack with my knife and he elbows me on the side of my head as I grunt and stumble back but I duck under another his swipe and stab him in the body with my knife and he grunts in pain before we begin cautiously circling each other.

"Nice one, I see why Tilo considered you the best out of us, still though that won't be happening again!" He grits his teeth.

"You can walk away from this scar, you don't have to die here but I will kill you if you persist and you know that." I warn him.

"You delusional little bitch! You think you can take me out!?" He charges at me and I spin out of the way of his slash and strike his face with my knife but he grunts in pain and tries smacking me across the face but I grab his wrist and twist it but he sweeps my leg with his foot and I fall to the floor again. I quickly spin myself across the floor and try tripping him but he jumps over it and tries plunging me in the neck with his knife but I roll out of the way and successfully trip his foot bringing him down to the floor with me and I quickly scramble onto his back locking him in a rear naked choke.

He punches me on the side of my head several times and then grabs the knife on the floor next to him.

I keep one hand around his neck and extend my other hand over to his but he manages to slash a cut across my hand as blood begins pouring out of it and I grit my teeth as he begins overpowering me but I squeeze his neck harder and he uses the knife to try and stab me in the neck but move my head out of the way and smack the knife out of his hand before slamming his face on the canvas stunning him for a moment and I use this opportunity to grab his knife and plunge it into his neck and I hear him let out a pained grunt as blood begins spurting from his neck, some of it getting on my face.

"You could've walked away from this!" I remind him but it's too late, he'll suffer a stroke from lack of blood supply to his brain and he'll be dead within minutes.

He's already beginning to lose consciousness but he manages to say some incoherent words before he strokes out and I make it back to my feet and jump across to the next roof before climbing down until I'm back on the ground level. I examine my surroundings again and make sure I'm concealed and look at the large gash in my hand as blood is still seeping from it. I cut off a piece of my hoody though and wrap it around my hand. That'll at least stop me from leaking blood which they can use to track me down.

The earliest I remember of my life is being an orphan and being sent to an orphanage. I remember becoming very attached to one of the workers there, but there was a boy my age there who was just always in her arms, it made me pretty jealous so I began studying about the human anatomy and castrated him soon after just to get him out of the picture.

After being rejected by numerous families because of my reckless nature, I was adopted by a man named Tilo. I wondered what he saw in me, I was nothing but a wild and dangerous kid, always bumping heads with everyone there or just trying to justify my actions on the unruly pain I inflicted on everyone there but I learned that was the entire reason why he wanted me. He only wanted to use me as a weapon, to become his killing machine…

Tilo was apparently a part of a rebellious political group called "Noir". Their main goal was to take control of panem as a whole by eliminating powerful figures spread across the nation but them being from district 5 and all I guess the best way to start all of this was to take over the district first so that's what I was used for.

When Tilo found a powerful and often corrupt person that needed to be dealt with, I made them disappear. There were other "assassins" in this group such as Scar who was regarded as the second best, but Tilo considered me the best.

I'm able to take on many different disguises, a trait Noir is known for in general, you never know when we'll strike. I successfully completed all of his tasks he gave me and in return, I was able to live a comfortable life of riches even if it was soaked in blood.

Tilo's blood is now on my hands though, why? That's not really important right now but like I told Scar, I have my reasons. I continue slipping through the darkness hoping not to get seen, I'm only risking myself being out here right now cause I just wanted to see Paula one last time but I need to be careful, I won't survive a fight against a group of them especially not in the condition I'm in right now.

Once I'm near her "house" I emerge from the darkness and knock on her door looking around to see if anyone is around, but I don't see anyone and the door swings open where I see Paula who only has a shocked look on her face.

"Alonya, what the hell? You're covered in blood and dirt? I haven't seen you in ages, I thought you…" she starts but I walk my way into her house and close the door before anyone sees me. I met Paula two years ago when we nearly bumped heads in the grocery store and we were both really awkward about it but we began to converse and we eventually hit it off. We did get intimate with each other on multiple occasions but there's a really big hurdle preventing us from taking that next step. You see Paula operates in our rival group called "Blanc". They're essentially the same as Noir, making powerful figures disappear and are also gunning for control of the district but while I'm a contract killer, she's a spy who's role is to uncover information and pass it down to the rest of her group . Noir nor Blanc were aware of our relationship because we both would've been dead long ago but she has come up as a target for me to kill on numerous occasions, but I can never bring myself to do so, so i was able to slyly convince Tilo to select a different target instead.

After killing Tilo, both me and Paula has been on the run. She didn't have to but out of loyalty she stood by me. We had to relocate to several abandoned properties already but we recently had to part ways. She tried to protect me for as long as she could but if Blanc found out she was helping me, they'd kill her on the spot and I obviously didn't want that, so i parted ways with her. I did try to visit her whenever I could though but that'll be ending soon.

"Paula…I can't do this anymore." I begin.

"Aloyna…" Paula responds.

"Look at this, me being hunted down like some rabid animal, Every single second I'm here is putting me and you at risk so I need to make this quick. Paula, I'm volunteering for the hunger games tomorrow." I tell her and her eyes widen.

"No Alonya, we can hide, we can run!" She tries to convince me but I'm not having it.

"No Paula, I'm tired of running, I'm tired of hiding. It's only a matter of time before they catch up to me. I can't fend them off for much longer and we both know that. If I'm gone, you won't be in any danger so that's why I need to do this." I state and she hugs me tightly beginning to cry.

"I have to go Paula…I love you." I kiss her for a brief moment and I wish it can last longer but I have to go now.

"I understand…I love you too Alonya." She sniffs and I nod before leaving her house. I'm sorry Paula but I didn't have any other choice…

Dio Hughes,15, District 5 male

I continue doing some crunches on my room floor while I have some of my favorite work out music playing. I can feel my body begin working up a sweat as I sing along the lyrics and me sweating and getting my heart rate going just makes me want to work even harder. This well toned and refined body of mines, I have to stay sharp. Girls look at this body and see treasure and they treat it as such too. Women though, so gullable and so easy to just wrap my finger around and use them to my will. It's just how the world works though, well all use and take advantage of someone.

I continue doing more crunches and I hear a pebble hit my window which gets my attention and I sigh out loud before turning down my music and walk over to my window shirtless to see one of the many girls in this district I mess with, well used to mess with. She doesn't seem to get the hint after I haven't spoken to her in days so I guess I need to be more clear now.

I make myself out the window and I'm able to jump the rest of the way to the ground level where this girl only marvels my body for a moment before looking back up at me. This girl's name is Tori. Her father owns a CD shop and I figure that if I screw his daughter then I'll be able to get discounts to buy the records I was interested in. My hypothesis proved correct so I continued screwing Tori but after I bought practically every record from her dad's shop, I no longer had any use for her so she's honestly useless to me now.

"Hey Dio…wow you look amazing…" she marvels my body again.

"Well I hear that all too often, I'm in the middle of something so say what you have to say so I can get going." I tell her with a hint of impatience.

'Well uhh ok, it's been a few days since we last…you know. I kinda miss you, being able to talk to you, hang out with you and other stuff." She admits.

"Hmm well I'll be completely honest with you, I'm really not interested in you anymore." I bluntly tell her and her eyes widen in shock for a moment.

"What? Dio what do you mean?" she asks and I can already hear the pain in her voice..

"What I mean is that we can't see each other anymore." I state.

"But…what? Dio you told me you never met a girl like me before! That I was special!" Her voice cracks.

"Well that's what I tell all of them, now goodbye." I nonchalantly say but she suddenly slaps me across my face and I clutch my face in surprise as I can feel a slight sting.

"You piece of shit! You used me! Used me like a puppet! I hope you die!" she cries and runs off, well atleast she can fuck off now, besides I have a new squeeze so I don't want to be seen with other females.

I stand outside for a few minutes and rest against my house as the sunlight basks over my well toned body and several females pass by all marveling my body, they must be off to the square though, guess they want to get there a little early.

"Hey Dio!" one of the females waves to me and I give them a wink which makes their heart melt. I've been with plenty of girls in this district, I honestly lost count but it wouldn't surprise me if I already had some of this entire group of ladies that just passed me.

After standing out a little longer so more females can take a good look at this amazing body, I walk back inside my house. My girlfriend should be over in a bit, I did tell her to come by in the morning.

"Ewww put a shirt on you!" my youngest sister Priya gags at me as she's sitting across the sofa already dressed flipping through a book while my parents are still in the kitchen cooking breakfast. I come from a very wealthy family, looking back at my life there's been nothing but happiness, me getting whatever I wanted from my parents, them spoiling me to my hearts content and not having to struggle a day in my life. I mean yeah it sucks that everyone else in this district is poor and dying of starvation but that's not really my problem. My family got their shit together and now we can live comfortably.

"Ah shut up." I playfully dismiss her. Priya is 12 and the nerd of the family, we joke around with each other occasionally but it's me and my other sister Ariel that's a lot closer.

"Oh I forgot to tell you but one of your girlfriends came by last night, she baked you some macadamia cookies so I put them in the kitchen." She informs me. Oh that must've been Tess, Tess works at a bakery and I met her a few weeks ago when I stopped by to get some sweets. I bought some macadamia cookies and fell inlove with them so I figured if I screwed her a few times, she'll give me some baked delights for free. This ofcourse proved to be true cause look at her bringing me sweets nearly everyday, I think I've had enough of her goods though so I'm ready to throw her to the curb.

"Oh her again, I'm getting tired of her stuff, you can have it." I tell her.

"No, she made it for you, you jerk." She scolds me.

"Well I don't want it." I shrug my shoulders and head upstairs before jumping in the shower for a moment just to wash this sweat off of me. You see now? I'm a puppet master and all the girls here are my puppets. I use them to get what I want and once I do, I throw them into the trash.

Once I'm out of the shower and dry myself off, I look at this face that was blessed by a god. I have a mop of wavy ginger hair with pale skin, green eyes and high cheek bones with a prominent jaw line.

I stand at 6'1 and have a slender and well toned body that all the ladies swoon over. I dress in my outfit for the day which is a pale yellow sweatshirt with black jeans.

I hear knocking on my door afterwards and that's when my other sister Ariel enters eating a macadamia cookie.

"What's up big brother." She takes another bite of the cookie.

"Well atleast those aren't going to a waste." I state as I slip on one of my shoes.

"Hmm you should stay with that girl though, there's not a lot of girls here who know how to bake like she does" she tries to convince me and I snicker for a moment.

"Well I'm sure that'll benefit you if i do stay with her huh?" I smirk. Ariel is one of the most popular girls in this district and she just always finds some way to squirm her way into every bit of drama that unfolds in this district even if she wasn't intially apart of it. We both use each other honestly but we're close and it'll likely stay that way.

"Well it'll benefit you for sure, you need a keeper. Even you must get tired of going through girl after girl." She crosses her arms.

"That's not a bad idea honestly, it's something I'll consider, eventually." I respond.

"Yeah, it's ok to take some of my advice every once in a while. You might be better looking but I'm certainly a lot more smarter." She smiles.

"Yeah sure." I sarcastically say and she playfully punches me on the arm before leaving.

I look out my window afterwards and that's when I see my girlfriend Maeve walking towards my home. I will prefer my parents don't see her as they just saw me with a different girl recently, I don't want her finding out just yet that I'm just using her like I use everyone else.

I hop out my window and land on my feet which startles her a little but she quickly recollects herself.

"Hey babe, you looking mighty tasty right now." I grab her by her waist and give her a long kiss. I then smack her behind causing her to laugh aloud. Maeve is my latest girlfriend, we've only been together for about two weeks but she works at a smoothie shop and those smoothies are really good for my workout regime. Money is never an issue on my part but why pay for something when you can get it for free?

I played my cards right like I always do, just saying some sweet words, making them feel like they actually mean something to me and now we're dating. In return she makes me a free smoothie whenever I want, the shop is technically closed today but I sprinkled in some of my nice words and now we're heading over there right now so she can make me one before we head to the square.

"Hey handsome, you smell good, you looking and smelling tasty yourself!" She tells me before kissing me again. Once we're done with our little make out session though, we hold hands and head over to the square.

We pass by a convenience store and it's roped off with a bunch of peacekeepers surrounding it, wonder what happened there?

"Oh yeah you heard about what happened last night right?" Maeve asks.

"Not a clue babe, wanna fill me in?" I casually ask.

"Yeah so uh Alice was murdered last night, they're still trying to find the killer though, they also found another body there too. Wonder what happened…" She infroms me.

"Alice?" I ask. I used Alice for a little while. She gave me discounts and free stuff all the time but I ofcourse threw her to the curb once I had no more use for her. Still, it sucks she had to die.

"Yeah, it's pretty crazy…" she mumbles but I've had enough of this gloomy chit chat and smack her behind again causing her to jump up and giggle.

"Well guess I'll just have to cheer you up then." I wrap my arm around her waist.

"Yeah I know just what you can do too, my parents aren't home tonight so, wanna come over?" She winks at me.

"I always wondered what flavor you were, looks like I'll be knowing soon." I seductively tell her.

"You'll be knowing much more than that when I'm done with you." She whispers in my ear and I grin, Yeah this girl is gonna make me lose it.

We reach the smoothie shop and she uses the key to open the locked door.

"I'll be right back ok?" she asks and I nod before we kiss each other again and she goes inside to start prepping my smoothie like the good girl she is.

I rest myself against the shop and that's when I see a nice thick woman coming my way, she looks a few years my senior but it's nothing I'm unfamiliar with.

"Good morning." I greet her.

"Heeey!" she greets me back.

"Where's a fine woman like you headed off to? I thought the square was the opposite way." I ccontinue.

"Oh I just left something at home, heading over there real quick." She tells me.

"Need some company over there?" I offer and she laughs.

"Wow straight to the point huh? How old are you cutie? you look a little young." she asks.

"After I'm done handling your sweet ass you won't be saying that." I remark.

"Oooooh is that a challenge?" She inches her way closer to me.

"The only challenge would be you trying not to finish before I'm done with you." I calmly state and her eyes light up.

"We got to put that to test then shall we? Want to come over right now? We still got a little time." She offers. Shit if only Maeve weren't here…

"How about you leave me your number, I'm sure we can work something out a little later." I run my hand across her waist.

"Yeah I'm sure we can." And she gives me her number afterwards.

"Now why you don't you get walking so I can see what goodies you got behind there." I tell her.

"You'll be seeing much more later, call me soon." And she pecks me on the cheek before walking off, see how easy that was?

Maeve comes out almost right after with two smoothies and she hands me the green machine one that I love to use for my workouts.

"Here you go my charming prince, sorry if I took a little long, that stupid machine needs to be replaced." She apologizes.

"No need to apologize babe, it just gave me more time to figure out what I'm doing to you tonight." I seductively say.

"Ohhh I should've taken even longer then!" She grabs my hand and we sip our smoothies as we head to the square.

We pass by quite a few females that I've previously been with but they know not to create a ruckus when I'm with my "girlfriend" so we only acknowledge each other with a faint nod or wink.

We then sit in the park for a few minutes cause there's still a little bit of time left before reapings start.

"So Dio, how far do you think we'll go?" She looks over at me as we sit on the bench finishing our drinks.

"What do you mean?" I ask already knowing the answer.

"Like how long do you think we'll be together? I know it's only been two weeks but there's already so many things I want to do with you, for us to experience together. I just want us to you know….last." she admits.

Hmm another girl I got completely wrapped around my finger, still though. I am pretty fond of her. She's not like a lot of the other girls I've been with.

"Well there's no way for me to answer that right now, but let's just focus on the present, have fun and see where we go from there." I put my arm around her shoulder.

"Yeah…you're right Dio…" she lays her head against my shoulder for a bit and we relax until it's time for us to head out to the square.

It doesn't take us long to reach the square afterwards and I give Maeve another kiss before we register and go our separate ways for now.

I'm pretty popular among the guys too, some even try to flirt with me occasionally but I only engage in some friendly chat with them until the reaping intros begin and we're shown the same boring ass video every year. I kind of doze off through the whole thing but our escort Dwight who literally resembles an Elf clears his throat.

"Now Without further ado! We'll begin with our male tribute!" Dwight hops off his high stool and walks over to the male's reaping bowl before hopping on the stool there and pulling out a name.

"Dio Hughes!" He announces and I'm rather shocked and confused to hear this. Some gasps follow along as well. I'm…reaped, but how? My family is wealthy. We never took out tesserae a day in our lives.

I try and compose myself as best as I can and I start walking towards the stage trying to seem as confident as possible. Once I reach the stage, I do a confident smile. It helps when I imagine that I've been called on in class rather than called on to my death…

"Are there any volunteers?" Dwight asks and the only response is some sobbing in the crowd, I can definitely hear Maeve along with some others.

"Well without further ado, we'll proceed with our females!" He hops off the male's stool and onto the female's stool before pulling out a name.

"Priya Hughes!" he announces and I can't even act cool anymore, I gasp out loud and I can now hear my parents shrieking. Me and my sister got reaped? She literally just entered the reapings this year! What the hell gives!?

"I volunteer!" I hear a female's voice, a volunteer? We never get volunteers in this district, my sister is safe though so that's good.

The volunteer seems to be in pretty bad shape though. She has tan skin with a thin face, brown hair that comes down to her shoulders with a thin face. She's about 5'7 in height but her face along with her clothes which consist of black jeans and a brown t shirt appears to be pretty dirty. She also has some bruises on her and a bandage wrapped around her hand and some on her cheek. Hope she doesn't smell as bad as she looks.

"A volunteer! Magnificent! What is your name Ma'am?" Dwight has to tippy toe to put the mic next to her.

"Alonya Smirnov…" she states, This girl I don't know how to put it but I can't get a read on her, still though she saved my sister's life so I at least owe her a thanks.

"Fabulous! Please welcome our two tributes representing district 5 this year, shake hands you two!" Dwight happily announces and she gives me a rather friendly smile and extends her dirty hand and I'm a bit hesitant but I just shake her hand, remembering to sterilize it later and we're escorted towards the justice building.

She's walking slightly ahead of me but I figure I should try and get her attention.

"Hey!" I say way louder than intended but she only turns around and still has a friendly smile on her face, she seems pretty innocent, why the hell would she volunteer anyways?

"Your name's Alonya right?" I ask and she nods.

"Yes, and you're Dio right?" she calmly asks.

"Correct, look you just saved my sister's life and I fucking owe you so thanks a lot." I thank her.

"I'm glad your sister is fine, but I didn't volunteer to save her so no you don't owe me." She corrects me.

"Yeah but still…I don't know what I would've done if she was going into the arena with me." I admit.

"You would've protected her right? Tried to keep her safe?" She questions.

"Well yeah…I would've. Me and her aren't like all that close but she's still my sister you know?" I ask.

"I'm not sure, for a long time I thought I knew what it meant to have family, but it was just all an illusion apparently." She states and I'm pretty confused by this.

"What? What do you mean?" I ask but we reach our justice rooms and she smiles again.

"As harsh as this may be, this might very well be your last time seeing your family and loved ones. Hug them, hold them and tell them how much they mean to you. If something does happen to you, they'll always be able to find some peace knowing those were the last words you said to them." She informs me before going into her justice room and I only gawk at her room in silence but a peacekeeper nudges me to my room and I suck my teeth before going inside. This girl though, I know I just met her but something about her seems just so comforting and welcoming, like I can tell her anything…

Here is our two tributes from district 5! I know 2020 has been a horrible year for alot of us, i can personally say it was for me. Still though everyone, i just hope this year will be a much better year for all of us! A much slower update than usual but with holidays, new years and all that stuff along with this site acting really weird, it was pretty tough to find time to write but here i am and i won't be going anywhere! i read each review thoroughly and i always try and better myself from the feedback i recieve and as always i want to thank all of you who take your time to read and review! I'll see you guys soon, till next time!