Hunter Skype,18, District 12 male
"Raaarggh!" I roar aloud as I stretch out my arms and look out the window to see the train is still moving, but has slowed down quite a bit. We must be close to our stop, which is great cause now I'll be one step closer to killing whatever little maggots I encounter there.
i remember boarding this train and shoving that dumb midget bitch onto the floor and she only remained there crying while I helped myself to all the food they had here. I spat on the rest of the food there and it serves her right, like how fucking dare she not tell her little boyfriend about me? You know how insulting that shit is? I make sure to leave my fucking mark wherever I go and I demand you to acknowledge that!
That little punk boyfriend of hers is probably dead now after trying to be a white knight not that it really matters to me though, there'll be plenty of more where that came from! After eating and drinking to my hearts content, I came into this room, took a dump and passed out on my bed afterwards and damn was that like the best nap I've ever had! I stretch my arms out again and jump off my bed before taking a large bite of my leftover sandwich I left on my bed before falling asleep, wonder what that cry baby is up to, probably hiding under her two mentors hoping they'll keep her safe, but if I want to get to her then you best believe I will, ain't no fucking one stopping me!
Once I finish my sandwich, I strut my way out into the front area where I assume everyone else is and what do you know! Anabeth is sitting on a sofa across from our two mentors and she seems to sense my presence immediately as she begins trembling in fear and I do a devilish grin.
"You're supposed to greet me when you see me little bitch! I'll teach you some proper manners!" I threaten the little punk and storm towards her but one of the mentors Caleb quickly blocks my path, glaring me.
"Unless you want to get the side of your head bashed in, I suggest you move out of my way." I sternly warn him but he doesn't back down, Ha look at that, someone else playing hero. I can hear Anabeth begin to hyperventilate and Dearica rushes over to her, to try and calm her down, yeah even she knows what's in store for this loser if he wants to try playing tough guy!
"You must think you're really tough right? Bullying on a 12 year old child, makes you feel empowered?" He growls at me.
"Oh if I can spend the rest of my life beating the shit out of this useless punk here then you best believe I would!" I let out a guffaw.
"Yeah? Well how about you try doing that to someone who can actually defend themselves." He fires back but I only laugh even more.
"Well saying that shows that even her own mentors has no faith in her, good to know, now I'll say it one more time, get the fuck out of my way!" I say with more irritation but he doesn't back down and I clench my fist preparing to flatten his ass, but the train comes to a complete stop afterwards. We must already be bere.
"You're just like her, exactly like her and in that case, you'll get what's coming to you." He states.
"If you're referring to who I think you are, then that's fine cause I'll be putting that little punk out of her misery before I 'get whats coming to me' now get the hell out of my face before I make you disappear." I threaten and he glares me.
"I'll tell you this only time only, you lay another finger on that girl and it's me you'll be dealing with." he 'warns' me.
"Oh yeah you little pussy? Just how much more do i have to rough this maggot up before you retaliate? She already has a fractured wrist, likely already has a concussion so yeah why don't you fucking doing something about it!" I shove him and he stumbles back into the wall as Dearica gasps and Caleb prepares to rush at me but Dearica manages to grab him in time before he gets his ass whooped.
"Stop! Stop it! If all you want to do is start trouble then you can just leave this train right now, but i won't condone for this! you threatning us, so just go!" Dearica yells and i chuckle to myself.
"You try to act tough and this wrinkly old hag manages to hold you back, you're even more of a bitch than this little bitch over here!" i tease Caleb and glare Anabeth who's sitting on the sofa trembling, crying and hyperventilating and all Caleb can do is glare me as Dearica continues restraining him.
"You're all a waste of my god damn time!" I spit in their direction before helping myself off the train only to be met by dozens if nots hundreds of flickering lights which temporarily blinds me as well as numerous cheers. I finally regain my sight where numerous pictures are still being taken and I can see the recreation center a distance away which I begin walking towards but I see a lot of other strange buildings around as well as hovering vehicles and crap and all of the people here are dressed like fucking aliens, having their hair and skin dyed all of these different colors, feels like I'm stuck in some science fiction movie.
One of the citizens gets a little too close to me taking pictures so I land a flush hook right into their jaw which sends them crumbling to the floor as numerous gasps ring out but I continue my way to this recreation center, These are just my warning shots. Maybe now they'd know to get out my way when they see me walking by!
Hayden Topper,17, District 6 male
My painting is almost finished as I'm putting the finishing touches to the house I'm painting. It's a house I always imagined me and Stephen living in together. We did discuss being roommates on several occasions so it would've been nice…
This is pretty much what I've been doing the entire time, my district partner has been in her room the entire time and I've just been out here alone really. Both of my 'mentors' are morphine addicts so they've just been holed up in their room high and I've just been on my own, trying to give myself advice, scouting out the tributes and to be honest I'm pretty terrified. Me being a volunteer alone will likely make me a target and a lot of the tributes seem pretty strong…
Some of the tributes do seem nice though and I guess it'd be nice to ally with them if I can muster up the courage to do so but they'll probably have to approach me first. After finishing up the rooftop I notice my mouth feels a little dry so I turn around to see what kind of beverages are on the table but I nearly jump out of my chair when I realize my district partner is behind me only staring at my painting like it's the most beautiful thing she's ever seen, how long was she standing here? Her eyes are very puffy so I know she's been crying but she now has a faint smile on her face as she continues looking at my painting.
"Hi…" I greet her but she only continues staring at my painting without answering. She's ignoring me? After looking at her for another moment, I turn back to the picture and begin painting a sun in the corner, I'm a little nervous knowing she's right behind me, but I'll just try to focus for now.
"You like to paint?" I awkwardly ask but I once again get no answer and I turn back around to see her still staring at my picture. This is getting a little weird now…
"Hello?" I repeat no answer again, I prepare to turn back around but she looks at me and her faint smile begins to fade a little as she starts to look nervous, am I scaring her?
"Hi…" I greet her again and she waves at me. She couldn't just say hi?
"Your name is Paisley…right?" I hesitantly ask and she shyly nods.
"Oh…well my name is Hayden." I introduce myself and a look of confusion spreads across her face, Is my name weird?
"Hayden." I repeat but she looks even more confused than last time and shakes her head as she points to her ears.
Wait she can't hear me, that's must be why she wasn't answering before when I tried greeting her, she's deaf. She can likely read lips to a certain extent but I have some experience with sign language as a few of my clients were deaf as well, my father made sure to burn some sign language into my head.
"Oh I see now, sorry about that." I sign to her and I tear out a blank page from my book and paint my name on it.
"I'm." I sign to her and point to the paper and she nods as her face is starting to light up again.
"I'm Paisley, nice to meet you." She signs to me and I hesitantly extend my hand and she seems hesitant as well but she also shakes it.
"Can I sit next to you?" She signs to me and I nod before she sits next to me and continues looking at the picture.
"The painting is really nice, I like it." She signs to me.
"Thank you, you like to paint too?" I sign to her and she nods.
"I love it, it's all I do when I'm at home." She signs, wow so we share something in common but she seems a bit down after she mentions home.
"I do the same, it's really fun." I sign back to her and smiles as she nods.
"Hey you want to paint something too?" I sign and point to a blank book on the table and she excitedly nods before practically snatching the book off the table and we share the same paint set as we quietly paint together. This is a nice way to take our mind off of the darkness, to just enjoy the calm before the storm.
After several minutes I look at her picture and she also painted a house with two young girls and a woman, I'm guessing one is her sister while the other is her mom.
"That looks really nice." I say aloud but she doesn't answer and I remember she can't hear me…
I feel the train beginning to slow down however and I quickly look up to see we're now in the capitol. That felt so quick…we're really here already? I turn around to look out the window and we very well are, even after seeing the capitol so many times on television, it still looks so surreal in person, seeing all of the odd shaped buildings, the insane amount of strange looking people filling the streets along with the dozens if not hundreds of vehicles hovering over the ground, I turn around to look back at Paisley and she's now seems very tense, I understand how nerve wrecking this must be.
I suppose this is around the time our mentors are supposed to be ready to escort us off the train into the recreation center but they must still be high…
"I'm going to check on our mentors." I sign to her and she nervously nods before I get up from the sofa and knock on both their doors.
"Hello?" call to them but get no answer and I imagine they're still sprawled across their beds so I guess we're on our own for now…
I arrive back in the front of the train where Paisley is still sitting on the sofa looking nervous, I am too honestly but I don't want to panic and freak her out even more…
"Hey Paisley, we're going to have to go out there." I sign to her.
"But where's our mentors?" she signs back.
"They won't be accompanying us." I sign to her and she looks out the window before shivering a little and looks back over at me.
"I don't want to go." She signs and holds her head down for a moment.
"I don't either, but it'll be ok. Let's just stay close together ok?" I sign to her and she hesitantly nods but still doesn't move.
I hold out my hand to her and it trembles a little as she notices it, we're both scared, terrified I'll even say but maybe it'll be a little less scary if we stay close to one another.
She pauses for a moment but takes my hand and we exit the train together where I'm immediately blinded by numerous flashes and the piercing screams and cheers literally pierces my ears as pain rings out but once I regain my vision, I see a confused looking Paisley struggling to find her way around, she can't see anything from all those cameras flashing in her eyes but I rush over to her and gently grab her wrist and she seems to know it's me as she seems to begin composing herself and we make our way to the building as I try to prepare myself for whatever they have in store for me.
Beauregard 'Beau' Faran,17, District 7 female
"Ouch you fucking bitch!" I roar in pain as a layer of hair is literally ripped off my arm. Dammit I've been in this tub getting washed and sprayed with all these fucking chemicals and now they're ripping all the hair off my body that are in visible areas like my arms and legs, and it fucking hurts like shit!
"Serves you right! You're a lady, you should be shaving your body more often!" The cleaning bitch or whatever she is proceeds to rip a layer of hair off my leg as I grit my teeth.
"Ow bitch fuck you! You think I got time to be home all day shaving? So easy for you to sit on your ass on top of a mountain of money spewing that bullshit!" I fire back at her.
"Ohh what a foul mouthed girl you are! That's not how a proper lady should act!" She frowns at me.
"How about I work my foot straight up your stinking ass hole, is that proper lady enough for you!?" I bark at her and she only gives me a shocked look.
"Oh my! Who raised you to be such a rude woman! Your parents oughta be ashamed of you!" She states but I splash some of the bathtub water in her face and she shrieks.
"H-how dare you splash this filthy water in my face! The nerve of you!" she shrieks as she begins spraying her face with clean water.
"So listen, I'm at my limits with you so how about you finish scrubbing me clean and measuring my boobs afterwards so you can fuck off!" I growl at her.
"Oh no young lady, you will apologize to me before I scrub another speck of dirt off of you, you dirty smelly outliers should be honored to have the privilege to be cleaned by us!" she crosses her arms and I splash more water in her face and jump out of the tub bare naked but I don't give a shit!
"AHHHHHH!!!" She shrieks as she starts running from me and I chase after her.
"Get- get the fuck out of here!" I shout and literally kick her on the behind which shoves her the rest of the way out of the room and I slam the door behind her, dammit was she annoying!
I wrap a towel around myself and sit across a table as I'm pretty sure someone else is going to come in at some point and take my body measurements but looking back on everything's that's happened lately, I'm just really and I mean really annoyed. My mentors are literally no help at all. One is a psychopathic murderer who just sits in his room mumbling to himself while the other is just an alcoholic who only cares about booze and my district partner who I've been ignoring since because I'm really close to flattening his little ass out if he tries hitting on me again. I swear that little punk has been at it all the way through the train rides and I tried ignoring him for a little while but I eventually just went into my room but the fucker was still outside my door trying to make advances, like god damn, the thirst is really real! I've been ignoring him since but seriously if he says one more thing to me, I will lay him out!
My thoughts are interrupted when a man with purple skin and a blonde mohawk walks in and he doesn't even look that much older than me, oh come the fuck on! They couldn't like send some old hag in here or something? I have to strip down for this loser!?
"Hello, Beauregard correct?" he looks at his clipboard for a moment before looking at me and I feel myself getting a little nervous.
"They…really couldn't send anyone else in here…like anyone else at all?" I nervously ask.
"Unfortunately no, but I promise you the process will be very quick." He assures me and I sigh aloud.
"Just get it over with, and don't stare at my boobs cause I will knock your ass silly." I threaten him but he smirks a little, he thinks this is a fucking game!?
"I'll keep that in mind, now uh…" he begins.
"Don't make this anymore awkward than it already is." I remove my towel and he proceeds to take down all of my vitals and thankfully it doesn't last very long.
"See how quick that was? Now just wait here for a moment and your stylists will be coming here to meet you." He smiles.
"Yeah, ok bye…" I dismiss him, uggh I feel so violated! I wrap this tiny ass towel around my body and take a seat as I'm ready to endure another waiting game. I managed to scout out the tributes but it was really only the careers I was actually paying attention to. Don't get me wrong, I'm not underestimating the outliers, some of them actually do seem either strong or crafty but, I just harbor so much hate for the capitol and I look at those careers who trained their whole lives to end other lives and it makes that fire burn even more! I want this capitol to feel my anger! To feel that fire and what better way to do that than bringing down their lap dogs?
I've trained all my students to harbor this fire as well, so as their 'teacher' I need to show them that I don't fuck around and that when I say I'm going to see something through, then I'm going to see it all the way through or just die trying, but either way, I'm leaving my mark. The door swings open and a pair of sisters arrive and look at me for a moment before squealing in delight, I assume these are my stylists...
"Wow look how well toned she is! Like wow she must do some serious workouts!" one of the stylists start feeling up my biceps but I smack her hand away.
"Don't you fucking touch me! Who the hell are you anyways!?" I bark at her and she squeaks before cowering in the corner of the room.
"Oooooh I'm soooo sorry! We are your stylists! My name is Storm and my sister over there is Rain!" the other stylist introduces herself o me.
"Those are some pretty weird names…" I comment.
"Hmm well your name is pretty weird too." She laughs and I glare ber. She doesn't seem to be an utter wimp like her sister Rain is who's still in the corner cowering.
"Anyways Beauregard, you are rocking the perfect body! I already know exactly what we're going to dress you up as!" Storm claps her hands and jumps up and down excitedly.
"Whatever, just hurry up and get some damn clothes for me already would you!?" I can feel my body starting to shiver from the cold, doesn't help that they got the ac in here on full blast!
"Oh right right right! Just follow us down the hall here!" Storm grabs my arm and begins leading me down the hall and I guess Rain is still shaken up cause she doesn't even follow us, sheesh I almost feel a little bad now but this better not take long!
Nyx Nyctores,17, District 1 female
"So darling; how you like your new look?" Mica puts his hands on my shoulders and slowly spins me around where I take a look at myself on the large mirror and honestly, I look amazing. My stylists decided to go with an ancient Egyptian look this year so me and Nox are dressed as pharaohs. My hair is in long braids which compliments the dark steaks on my head piece well and I'm wearing very light plated armor with a short gown underneath which shows off my muscles and curves.
"Wow you guys went all out huh, I mean my dress sense may be better but I appreciate the creativity." I marvel.
"Aww I'm glad you like this fine piece of art darling, Now sweety, Creme should be just about done with Nox right now, how about we check on him?" Mica suggests while flipping his long pink hair, and that's when I remember, we're going to be meeting the other careers soon. I watched the recaps and some tributes immediately stood out to me like the females from 7 and 11 and the makes from 10 and 12 but its my allies I was focused on mainly, I mean I'm pretty sure I can take them but I know it won't be a walk in the park and Nox…I know I cant change who he is but I just pray he doesn't treat me like I'm some defenseless child that he has to constantly babysit!
Mica leads me out the room and we walk down a long hall, turn several corners and that's when I see Nox who's dressed in a much more masculine version of my costume and our tiny stylist creme is struggling to adjust his headpiece as he towers over her.
"Here, let me do it." I offer and walk up to Nox, adjusting his head piece so it's now on evenly.
"Hello twin, you're looking like a warrior ready for battle!" Nox pats my shoulder.
"Always ready for battle big bro!" I pat his shoulder.
"Awww aren't they so adorable!?" Creme squeals in delight.
"Not sure if adorable is the word I'd use but they're stunning!" Mica cheers aloud and I honestly cringe a little.
"Ok…can you two cut it out already? Like it's becoming really awkward here." I speak up but they continue squealing in happiness and I only sigh before grabbing Nox's arm as we head towards the elevator. Our mentors were supposed to be here but they seem more interested in flirting with each other than mentoring us so they're probably holed up in a back room somewhere getting their freak on.
"So, looking forward to meeting our allies?" Nox looks over at me. There's Blyana who looks like a total arrogant bitch that needs to get put on her ass, There's Hyperion who seems very serious and quiet and we have those two from four. Caspian seems like a cool guy, someone I can probably be friends with if we weren't in the arena, But we are in the arena and if it comes to it, I'll slice his big go happy head clean off. We then have Ryena who seems to have some spunk in her as she told off that dumbass escort of hers but she's quite a bit smaller than the rest of us, she probably just started training recently or something.
"I think Blyana is going to be a bitch, but I should be able to tolerate the rest of them, what about potential allies though? Anyone caught your attention? That guy from 12-" I begin.
"No." he bluntly says and I remain quiet for a moment with a rather puzzled look on my face. What is he talking about?
"Nox, what?" I give him a confused look.
"I don't want him in our alliance, That girl, his district partner, did you see how terrified of him she was?" he looks at me and I shrug my shoulders.
"To be honest, I wasn't really paying a whole lot of attention to that." I state.
"Well you should've." He scolds me and I scoff.
"Don't lecture me Nox." I roll my eyes.
"He squeezed her hand, made her cry and that's why I'm not allowing a bully like him to join our alliance." He sternly tells me.
"That might not even be your call Nox, you might not be the leader…" I remind him.
"Then we're not joining the careers." He counters as the elevator door opens and inside are the two tributes from district 5 who are dressed as lab scientists…again? They seriously couldn't switch things up from last year!?
The boy, I think his name is Dio looks a bit shaken up at first but quickly composes himself and does a smug grin, I know he doesn't want to look like a little weakling infront of his girlfriend here.
He doesn't take his eyes off of me however and does a wink before I look away from him and look at the female, her name is Aly something but she has a different look in her eyes, something about it almost seems empty but she smiles and I only turn away from her, what an odd pair. Most outliers will be shitting their pants upon being in an elevator with us.
"The name's Dio by the way." I hear Dio behind me..
"I don't recall asking for your name." I state.
"Well I'm telling you anyways, a fine lady like yourself would do well to remember that, it's name that should stick right into you." He responds.
"Excuse me?" I face him, who the hell does he think he's talking to like that? Nox however grabs my arm.
"Let him chat, he isn't worth the energy." Nox tells me.
"Would I be the worth the energy when I'm clapping your little sis's cheeks from behind?" Dio chuckles but Nox suddenly turns around shoves him hard against the wall and the elevator literally shakes as Dio gasps and falls to his knees.
"Ah looks like I got a nerve huh?" Dio stands back up and brushes himself off.
"You talk about my sister like that again and I'll make sure you're the first to go." Nox threatens but I manage to stand in between them as Nox stops in his tracks.
"Well, looks I was worth the energy after all, and nice ass by the way Nyx." He snickers and exits the elevator as we're now outside of the stables.
"May I apologize on his behalf?" The girl speaks up, I forgot she was even here.
"Oh it's you…yeah whatever." I dismissively say.
"Cocky little prick huh, but I bet he only did all of that to feel a little better about himself." She states, well that's one way of looking at it.
"Yeah well he likely just sealed his fate so hope you aren't close with him." I warn the Aly girl and she does a pretty revolted face.
"No thanks, he's all yours. Nyx and Nox right? I'm Alyona." She introduces herself and we both awkwardly shake her hand before she leaves.
I then look at Nox who still seems pretty tense.
"Hey, big guy." I nudge his arm and he grunts.
"You need to chill out, can't be letting a little punk like him work you over like that!" I critique him.
"Sorry…I just lost my cool for a moment." He loosens up his neck.
"You sure? Cause we're not going out there until I know you're good." I tell him.
"I'm good Nyx…now let's go." He assures me and I nod as I begin walking with him out of the elevator but I suddenly start feeling dizzy, like everything Is starting to spin which I find pretty weird and try to shake it off but it starts to worsen a bit to the point where I stumble over my foot and nearly fall but manage to catch my balance.
"Nyx?" I can hear Nox faintly and I stumble again before I feel a tight grip on my arm and that's when I start returning back to my senses gradually.
"Nyx…you ok?" Nox gives me a worried look.
"Ummm, yeah…yeah...it's just these sandals…" I lie and he doesn't seem convinced but nods along anyways.
"Ok then…Let's go meet the rest of the team then." He looks ahead where I see the careers rom four approaching the two from two. What was that feeling though? It was really strange...
Here we are with part 1 of the parades. I have been extremely busy lately hence the slow updates but I'm back and here to stay. There will be a few more povs next chapter in the stables and then we'll shift back to Sapphire so she can cover the chariot rides once again! Thank you everyone for your reviews, things may slow down at times but i won't be going anywhere and I'll see you guys soon with part 2, till next time!