With the parade being complete, the tributes have entered training! Training will last three days. Here's day 1 of training!

Salem Winters, District 11 Female

"This stupid bow and arrow!" I groaned as I fired the arrow through one of the doors in the training center.

I slammed the bow and arrow bag back down on the table and sighed. How was I supposed to prepare for the games if I can't even use a single weapon? I guess I could use a knife, but a knife won't be enough to win the whole game, but it's better than nothing.

I pulled out my knife and began slicing at a foam dummy.

"Hey, you sure are good." I hear a voice behind me.

"What? Oh…thanks." I respond to the voice. I turned around to see the girl from ten, Bo.

"Oh hi…Bo correct?' I asked the girl who held a dagger in her hands.

"Yes, that's correct. You must be Salem I assume." Bo responded as she began twirling the dagger in her hands.

"Yes you are correct." I respond to her staring down at my knife.

"I was wondering if you'd like to train with me and Otis? Us little kids need to stick together, right?" Bo grinned and pointed over at Otis who"s attempting to use an axe on a plastic dummy.

"I guess." I raised my hands in the air as I gathered my belongings and moved towards the duo.

"Hi I'm Otis!" Otis smiled at me as he missed his target. "Shit! Sorry. I'm not the best with weapons." Otid sighed.

"Hi I'm Salem; Don't worry I'm not the best either." I chuckled softly.

"We should stick together. You know, people think we are too small and weak to win the Hunger Games, but I say yes we fucking can. Are you with me?" Bo says with a grin on her face.

A second of heaitiation looms over me, but I knew without an alliance I'll wouldn't last long within that reason.

"Absolutely!" Otis cheers.

"What the heck I'm in!" I say with a big smiile on my face.

'Perfect! Let's get to training!" Bo claps as she turns around handing us each a dagger.

Malinata 'Mal' Minthe, District 2 Female

The anxiety within has almost reached it's limit, causing me to feel overwhelmed. Kratos is one…what do you call? Basic career who puts himself before anyone else. I tried to ask if we could train together, but of course he cut me off before I could finish asking my question. He tells me he's not interested in training with me; that he wants to train alone.

I mean I had no problem with that, but hey we are district partners we need to work together. Oh well, it's his choice.

"Mal you ok?" I hear Marilla's voice.

"Oh- umm yeah I'm good." I nod. I must have zoned out for a bit.

"You sure? You were zoned out for about a minute." Marilla sighs.

"Yeah I'm fine." I responded immediately.

"I- alright. Let's continue training." Marilla sighs and decides to persue.

"Alright. What do you want to start with?" I ask.

"We already practiced with weaponry, what about our survival skills? Like improve or skills at starting fires, learning our plants, climbing, you get what I'm saying." Marilla looked at me as she threw a knife at a target.

"Sounds good to me. What about you Mathias and Kiera?" I look over at the two who were dueling with their swords.

"Of course." Both of them say as they stopped fighting and came over to us.

We all walked over to the climbing station as we typed in our names and placed the starting timer at 30 seconds. We all got in our starting position and was ready to run and began to climb.

"Let's begin shall we?" Marilla grinned as the timer struck five seconds.

"Yes." I commented as the timer hit zero and I began climbing.

Fabio Daveen, District 7 Male

I threw my face towards the target, but missed inches away of course. I was too stressed out with this whole….experience.

I do feel bad for not talking to Lilith as much as I should be, but don't blame me? I can't handle this at all.

Across from me was Lilith, practicing with her axes on her own with Maylis. I knew this was probably my pnly chance I'll have to apologize, so I placed my axe down on the weaponry table and wallked over there.

"Hey Maylis? Can I talk to Lilith in private please?" I squeak out.

"Sure Fabio, Lilith we can continue later. I'm going to go take my lunch break." Maylis smiled as she left. It was surprising she was even mentoring this year, espically since she's pregnant, nonetheless she is a strong woman.

"What do you want Fabio?" Lilith says with a glare.

"I just want to apologize for ignoring you most of the time. I'm not really use to situations like this." I say as I look down at my feet.

"I accept your apology. I understand that, but I do want to let you know it made me feel huet that you didn't talk to me. I hope maybe we can change that." She smiled slightly.

"Of course." I respond with smiled as I hug her.

"Would you like to train together now? You kinda have to after that apology." Lilith giggles.

"Oh, of course. Let's begin training." I chuckle as I hold up my axe.

Thank you everyone for reading the new chapter! Next chapter will continue pff on day 2 and check up with Corduroy, Marilla, Otis, and Kiera!

REVIEW QUESTIONS:

What are your thoughts on the younger tributes forming an alliance?

What is your thoughts about Kratos and wanting to train alone?

Do you think Fabio will he his promise by communicating with Lilith?

CURRENT ALLIANCES:

Careers: Marilla (leader), Mathias, Kiera, Mal

Small Beans: Bo, Otis, Salem

District Seven: Lilith, Fabio

District Eight: Corduroy, Charlotte

Alone...For Now: Kratos, Jupiter, Lavinia, Danielle, Logan

Until next time!

Gomex