Emmett Portland,12, District 12 male
"Emmett are you sure you want to go downstairs? You don't want to rest for a little longer?" Dearcia worriedly asks me as she hands me a cup of tea as I sit up on my bed.
"Yeah I'm sure, I'll be ok, besides I already missed a day of training so I have a lot of catching up to do." I smile before taking a sip of my tea. My memory is still a little cloudy. But I remembered falling off the chariot and later waking up in the medical center the next day. I thought I may have leaned a little too far but Dearica who stayed with me in the medical center the entire time, told me it was actually Karen who pushed me out and laughed about it afterwards. She apparently hasn't come out of her room since then either.
I'm not upset with her or anything, she probably didn't mean to, or she's just very stressed out about the games and stuff. If she apologizes, I'll forgive her. I have a large bandage wrapped around my head and it still hurts a little, but I'm ready to head downstairs now.
"Ok Emmett, but if you feel dizzy or anything, just come back upstairs, now let's get some breakfast." She rubs my back.
"Sure thing!" I pipe and she helps me to my feet and escorts me to the table where Caleb is sipping from his mug of coffee. I guess Karen is still in her room, I hope she's ok…
"Hey Emmett, how you feeling?" Caleb greets me.
"Hey! I feel fine!" I assure him as Dearica helps me into a seat and I see a platter of squirrel meat with a ton of other breakfast foods here as I light up in happiness.
"Wow Squirrel meat!" I exclaim as I put a ton of it on my plate.
"Yup, had it specifically made for you, I remember you telling me on the train it's your favorite food so eat up and enjoy yourself!" Caleb pats me on the shoulder and I start stuffing my face with it and I continue eating until I'm pretty full.
"So when you go downstairs, what are some things you're interested in doing?" Dearica takes a bite of her toast.
"Well I want to learn some survival skills, maybe learn how to build a fire and some traps to catch food, oh and throwing knives too, I want to learn how to throw one!" I speak with my full mouth.
"Building a fire can keep you warm and allow you to cook food, but it can also give your position away, I do think learning how to create traps will be a good idea though, plant them across your area to not only capture food but to keep enemies at bay." She informs me.
"Yeah that's right!" I agree with her.
"What about Allies? Anyone that interests you?" Caleb asks.
"Some of the tributes do seem really nice and an ally would be nice, I guess I'll just have to see when I go downstairs." I smile as I drink my cup of juice and begin standing up as Dearica helps me.
"Ok Emmett, I'll see you later, let me know how today went!" Caleb sees me off.
"Yup of course!" I wave at him as Dearica helps me to the elevator.
"Remember if you feel lightheaded or tired, just come back upstairs ok?" Dearica reminds me.
"Yeah, but I'll be fine, I promise!" I assure her as I board the elevator and she waves me goodbye before the elevator heads down but it stops on the 7th floor before the boy who's around my height walks into the elevator, he has a pretty unfriendly look on his face but I smile at him.
"Well looks like I'm not the only one late today! Still I expected you to be dead, that was a tough fall!" He does a sinister cackle.
"Yeah it was tough, but I'm glad to still be here, I'm Emmett by the way!" I extend my hand to him.
"Acalistor, I've been looking for an ally lately and I think me and you will be great allies!" He still has a suspicious look on his face.
"Really?" I smile.
"Yeah I mean you're going to die anyways so why not become my servant and shield me from any danger during the bloodbath, help me escape the cornucopia and you can die a warrior's death, what do you say, want to be my servant?" he offers me and I only give him a hesitant look. He doesn't seem very nice and if he only wants to "ally" with me just so I can be his meat shield, then I honestly wasn't interested.
"To be honest I don't really like the idea of that…" I admit and I see anger flare up in his face.
"What do you mean? You dare reject the offer of becoming my servant? Well I guess I'll just have to beat you up in here then until you change your mind!" He shouts as he walks up to me and I back up against the wall as my eyes open wide in fear.
"No, please I don't want any trouble!" I plead but he cracks his knuckles as he let's out an evil laugh.
"Hey what's going on?" I hear a female's voice and I quickly turn around to see we're on the 2nd floor as the tall career girl enters the elevator giving Acalistor a stern look and he immediately gasps as he jumps back into the opposite corner of the elevator from me.
"Oh n-n-no, nothing at all, everything's fine I promise!" he pleads as he holds his hands up.
"Hmm I thought so!" She glares him and he starts bursting out crying. I feel so bad for him now…
"Hey, you ok?" She gives me a friendly smile.
"Yeah, just happy I can train today!" I smile at her and she gives me a friendly nod as the door opens on the training facility and Acalistor immediately runs out of the elevator still crying.
"That's good, I'm glad you're ok. I'm Victoria Aspen." She introduces herself to me.
"Emmett Portland, nice to meet you!" I smile and we both shake hands
"You said you want to train right? Where are you going first?" She asks.
"Well I wanted to check out the survival station but wow there's so many to choose from, it's pretty overwhelming." I admit.
"Yeah it is, but we can visit them each of them one by one see what we like the most." She assures me.
"Us?" I suddenly ask. She's a career, why would she want to hang out with me?
"Yeah of course, there's a lot I can learn too, so let's check out the survival station first." She smiles.
"Yeah sure thing!" I cheer aloud as we both head over there. I feel a lot safer now, at least I don't have to worry about Karen or Acalistor bothering me while I was with Victoria.
Acalistor Macalister,14, District 7 male
I wipe my eyes and sniff the running mucus back up my nose as I see that mean bully from district 2 sitting with that dumb kid with no legs at the survival station. I hate mean bullies like her! This is why I need to train with a weapon so I can kill her! Only I'm allowed to bully other people! It's not fair for other people to do it!
I look at the weapons station and I can still see the careers guarding the area. I tried to go there yesterday but that scary guy from 4 scared me away and I started crying in a corner afterwards. He's another bully that I want to kill, but first I need to find a servant! Hmmm who should I talk to. I see the girl from district 9 at the camouflage station. She's usually with her brother but he's not here, this is the perfect opportunity to make her my servant! I might even get her to kiss me, she's very cute too after all! I lick my hand before I slick my short hair back with it and confidently walk towards her.
"Hey pretty girl!" I get her attention as she's testing out the paints and she turns around as she gives me a confused look.
"Uh are you talking to me?" she questions still looking confused.
"Well obviously!? Who the hell else is over here!" I yell at her and I see her eyes flare up.
"Excuse me, I will appreciate it if you don't speak to me that way." She tries to sound calm but I can tell she's so butt hurt right now hahaha!
"How about you kiss me then!" I blurt out and she's confused again.
"Ewww what? No! Can you please leave me alone?" she speaks a little louder as her face begins turning red.
"And what if I don't? Huh you stupid little girl!? If you want me to leave you alone so bad then how about you become my servant and protect me in the arena!" I knock a small container of paint out of her hand and she gasps in shock as it spills all over the floor and I laugh manically before I feel a strong grip on my head and it turns my head forcing me to face her older brother who has an angry look on his face.
"You listen to me you dumbass little kid, I'm going to give you three seconds to scram before I stomp a mud hole in your ass, I advise you use these three seconds wisely." He warns me as his eyes are burning right into mines and my eyes widen in fear as tears begin pouring out.
"Y-yes I'll leave!" I begin sobbing as he releases his grip on my head and starts counting but I immediately run away crying, you see what I mean? I really do hate bullies! They suck! I'm going to kill him too!
After I finish crying in the corner and wiping my eyes, I look around for more girls I can make my servant. I see the little girl from 3 near the snare station reading a book with the other girl from district 10 circling the area while examining the floor, like she's trying to find something. They're both small and look stupid enough so let me make them my servants!
I pick the running mucus out my nose, wipe it off on my shirt and walk towards them.
"Hello stupid girls!" I greet the both of them but the girl from 3 continues reading her book while the girl from 10 looks away from the ground and gives me a puzzled look.
"Huh? What does stupid mean?" she tilts her head to the side and I only let out a sigh, yeah I can definitely get this stupid girl to become my servant.
"Stupid is what you are dumbass!" I bark at her but she still looks as confused as ever.
"What does that mean though? Do you like treasure?" She questions.
"You really are hopeless huh? How about you become my servant and I'll get you all the treasure you want!" I offer her and she jumps up in excitement.
"Treasure?! You'll give me treasure!?" Her eyes light up.
"Yup all you have to do is stay with me and do whatever I tell you to do idiot!" I shout.
"Yay! You can join our alliance then! Zananova we have a new ally, we have a new ally!" She continues jumping up in excitement.
The 3 girl only continues reading her book though, how disrespectful! I snatch the book out her hand and throw it on the floor and she looks up at me with a blank expression.
"Is there any particular reason why you just did that?" she emotionlessly asks. What's her deal? She doesn't seem right in the head.
"I'm now apart of your alliance! Now I expect you to show me some respect and do whatever I tell you to do!" I yell in her face.
"Do you know that bugs live in your eyelashes?" She suddenly asks.
"Bugs!? What!?" I panic as the 3 girl picks up her book and begins reading again.
"Hey new partner let's go look for treasure!" the 10 girl holds her hand out to me but I'm still panicking thinking about the bugs.
"Bugs! B-bugs are in my eyes! Bugs!" I scream aloud as I run towards the restroom to wash the bugs out of my eyes as I begin crying, that 3 girl is a bully too! I'm going to kill her later when I got bored of her being my servant!
Lykrie Ellisman,15, District 7 female
"Bugs! B-bugs are in my eyes! Bugs!" I hear Acalistor cry aloud as he dashes into the restroom and I only roll my eyes, he is such an idiot. I hear something coming towards me though and I quickly turn around and dodge a punch before tripping over my sparring partner's foot as they fall on the floor and laughs as they clap.
"Impressive! You were distracted for a moment so I was hoping to catch you off guard. You reacted well but never turn your back on your enemy, it can cost you!" my instructor brushes off their pants. This is literally the only station I've been at since yesterday.
I'm already good with an axe so don't necessarily have to train with any weapons. It looks like that'll be impossible anyways since the careers have taken over the weapons and are turning away the few tributes bold enough to walk near the stations. I decided to try out the hand to hand station, and it turns out I'm a natural at this. Not trying to sound cocky but a tougher sparring partner will be appreciated.
"I agree, thank you for the lessons, I'm going to check out the other stations." I adjust my shirt.
"As you should, feel free to return here whenever you want!" The instructor bids me farewell and I walk towards the weapons just to see how the careers are going to respond to me. It looks like Annabelle is standing guard today but she's more focused on looking at her face in her pocket mirror rather than actually looking out for anyone coming near her.
Victoria is still with Emmett at the survival station. Teddy is throwing spears at dummies, Amos is sparring with an instructor and is completing clowning him, dodging, blocking and parrying whatever the instructor throws at him. Vendetta is still smashing dummies up like she was doing yesterday and Barbel is throwing small axes at dummies with deadly accuracy hitting all of them in vital areas. Vladimir is here as well cutting up dummies with his scythe and he already seems a lot more skilled with it than he was yesterday. I already see some tendencies i can exploit though.
Teddy always twitches his eye before throwing his spear, Amos always pivots to the right after he blocks a strike, Barbel always takes a step foward or backwards before he throws his axe, Vendetta's guard lowers just before she swings and Vladimir leaves himself way too open to counters and initiative strikes. just little things to take note of.
Annabelle looks up from her mirror as she see me walking towards her and sucks her teeth before putting her mirror away.
"What do you want!" She impatiently asks
"I want to use a weapon." I calmly say.
"Are you blind or is your brain the size of a walnut? The stations are being used so come back after we leave dumbass!" She barks at me.
"You all have been here since yesterday." I explain.
"So fucking what!? Are you going to do something about it!?" she walks closer to me and I try and keep my patience but I'm finding that really difficult to do.
I eventually turn around and walk away and she laughs.
"Yeah better walk away…bitch!" she curses at me but I just ignore her and head to the survival station where I see both of the tributes from district 5. It looks like Thomas is practicing first aid as he's sorting through plants while gazing at his first aid book occasionally. Lysta is on the far side experimenting with chemicals and shouting happily whenever she creates some kind of mini explosion.
"Hi." I greet Thomas and he jumps a bit but quickly recuperates as he faces me.
"Oh hey." He waves at me.
"Lykrie Ellisman." I extend my hand to him.
"Thomas Powell, you can just call me Tom though." He nervously responds and I sit next to him and that seems to get him even more nervous.
"So what you doing?" I ask.
"Oh just practicing first aid, I'm learning little by little. Like these plants here can help close up wounds faster, while these can reduce swelling and fevers." he points at two batches of plants he got sorted out in different rows.
"I see, what about this third batch right here?" I point to the third one.
"Oh those are good for treating burns, and the fourth batch here I'm making is an antitode, it'll be able to fight off most poisons." He explains.
"Wow I'm pretty impressed, you seem to know your way with this stuff." I compliment him.
"Oh not really, I don't think I'm very good at this." He lets out a nervous laugh.
"Modest much? Anyways you want to be allies? I'm good with an axe and can hold my own in a fight. I think we'll balance each other pretty well. When it comes to fighting I'll have you covered, and you can keep me covered with your survival skills." I Inform him.
"W-well yeah when you put it like that, it does sound like a good idea. I'll teach you what I know and maybe you can help me use a weapon if those careers ever leave." He does a shy smile.
"Fine with me." I agree with him and he begins going in more depth about the plants and the proper way to use them. I think we have the potential to go far, this should be interesting to say the least.
Rylee Turbin,16, District 6 female
I finish scaling the rocky terrain and sit on top of the surface as I scout out the tributes. Not a lot of people came to this station, but this is where I usually was. I forgot just how much of a good climber I was, so it's good to just calm my nerves as I swiftly scale up this area. It looks like more alliances are forming.
Thomas and Lykrie are sitting together and looks like they're identifying plants together. Oswine and Xavarion are sitting together laughing and trying to start a fire, Acalistor is following Sariah around while Zananova sits a small distance from them reading a book. The siblings from 9 are creating a snare together and I see Calla sitting in a corner all by herself. I want to talk to her but she doesn't look like she wants to be bothered. I see Vladimir who's now apparently joined the careers and he's looking more and more dangerous with that scythe, only slicing down dummies as he has that same deranged look on his face and I envision that scythe slicing through me as my heart skips a beat. He needs to die, I have to kill him, but I need to find an ally and fast.
I continue scouting around and see Lysta sitting alone as she appears to be experimenting with chemicals. This is where she's been since yesterday and seems to be having a lot of fun, she seems nice enough too, I'll try and go talk to her. i climb down the wall and jump off when I'm near the ground, landing on my feet and make my way towards her.
The over hyper boy from eight, Percy nearly runs right into me as he dashes past me.
"Sorry, sorry so sorry about that!" he talks so fast I could hardly process what he said and just roll my eyes. I finally make it to Lysta and take a deep breath as she creates another chemical reaction and cheers aloud.
"H-hi…" I greet her.
"What do you want?" she impatiently asks as she begins mixing up more chemicals without even turning to look at me.
"Nothing…I'm sorry i-if I interrupted y-you…" I begin walking away.
"Oh wait!" Lysta calls back and I look at her.
"I didn't mean to be rude! I'm so sorry, I'm Lysta!" She greets me.
"it's ok, i-I'm Rylee, c-can I see what you're doing?" I hesitantly ask.
"Sure! Come! I want to show people this anyways!" She happily say and I sit down next to her.
She begins showing me her "collection" of bombs she created and honestly I'm pretty impressed, wow I can probably use these in the arena to kill Vladimir. He sadly mistaking if he expects me to just crumble over and let him kill me, no it won't be that easy and he'll learn that the hard way.
"Hey can you teach me how to make some of these, I can teach you how to use a knife at the weapon station after. The careers are still turning people away. I went there earlier just for Annabelle to shoo me away, but I don't care, I'll fight past them if I have to.
"You really need help with this? It's so easy though!" Lysta states. I don't think she realizes just cause something is easy for her, it won't be for everyone else.
"I-it's actually p-pretty complex…" I explain to her.
"Yeah maybe it is." She scratches her head and we only look at each other in silence for a moment as things are getting pretty awkward.
"Well yeah, of course I'll show you!" She suddenly states as I take a sigh of relief.
"I want to learn a-about the a-acid one." I point to it as her face beams with excitement.
"Yes! This one is my favorite!" She shouts before pointing at her vials.
"It's easy too! Boil these chemicals right here and mix them together and add some of this powder to it. That's more than enough to create a strong acidic effect, but you can add lemon juice to it to make it more potent. I just hope the arena has them..." She rubs her chin. I look at the names of the chemicals but I'm not even going to try and pronounce them.
I do as she say and it creates a bubbly sizzling effect.
"I-is this supposed to happen?" I nervously ask.
"Yup! The acid is more than potent enough, anything that can break on impact is a good encasing." She explains and I nod as I pour the contents into a glass encasing.
"You did it!" She cheers and I can't help but smile a little, I finally did something right for once…it feels good.
"T-thank you Lysta, like I promised, I'll teach you h-how to use a knife now!" I thank her.
"Yeah? How long will that take?" Lysta gives me a weary look.
"T-there will s-still be enough time for you to come back here." I assure her.
"Hmm ok, You want to be allies?" she suddenly asks and my eyes widen in shock for a moment. I was just figuring out a way to try and ask her, just glad she saved me a lot of the trouble.
"Y-yeah sure!" I smile at her. I have an ally now and a pretty capable one as well, I feel a million times better.
"Well let's go to the knife station then, I see a lot of careers there though…" she says with some concern.
"It'll be fine." I assure her as we begin walking over there and Annabelle is still there keeping watch as the rest of them trains.
"You're back again? Didn't I tell you to scram earlier!" Her face contorts to an angry scowl.
"i-I'm going to train now, excuse me!" I try to push past her but she shoves me back as I nearly lose my balance, she's a lot stronger than she looks.
"You got one more chance ugly bitch, get out of here or I'll embarrass you!" Annabelle threatens.
"Hey Rylee, maybe we should just come here later…" Lysta suggests but I stand my ground and give Annabelle an angry glare.
"Excuse me." I hear a male's voice behind me and I turn around to see it's Xavarion from district 3 giving Annabelle a stern look with Oswine behind him.
"Is there any particular reason why all of you are sabotaging the equipment preventing others from using it? Everyone here has just as much right to train with these weapons as you do." Xavarion states.
Annabelle only gives him a furious look though.
"Well it's occupied so go away!" She spits at him as he walks up to her and her eyes widen a little as she takes a step back. She knows that she won't be able to bully him around like she be bullying everyone else.
"Actually I thinks it time for everyone else here to get a turn." He declares but Barbel, Amos and Teddy quickly join the aid of Annabelle. Vendetta is only looking at what's going on and Vladimir doesn't even seem to care as he's still slicing up dummies. Xavarion bravely stands across from them, This guy is massive, even the careers seem a bit tense.
"There something you need?" Barbel approaches him.
"Yeah I need all of you to quit hoarding everything here like it belongs to you, everyone here has the right to use this equipment." He stands up to Barbel.
"Well big guy, as you can see we're using these weapons. Why don't you practice some survival skills, you'll likely need it." Amos smiles.
"Yeah just get out of here before you get hurt!" Teddy tries to threaten him but Xavarion only looks at him and I can see Teddy become a little nervous.
"I have other plans, and you can all try to stop me if you want, but you better be ready." Xavarion sternly tells them as they all look at him.
Barbel gives him an angry glare but remains quiet. Xavarion then turns to me and Lysta.
"If you two want to train as well then go on ahead, these careers won't be doing anything to you, not while I'm here." He states and walks past the careers as they only glare him and he grabs a morning star from the rackets, they don't even try to stop him.
"That guy is so dead…" Annabelle mumbles.
"Hmmph, I'm going to the obstacle course, if any of you want to come feel free to do so." Barbel pouts to his allies and he leaves the weapon station and walks away as Amos, and Teddy follows him along with Vendetta and only Annabelle and Vladimir remains here while Victoria is still with Emmett.
Me and Lykrie only glances at each other and I walk towards the station and grab a knife as I look at Vladimir who's on the far side of me still maliciously slicing up dummies , he doesn't even know I'm here…I just wish I can kill him right now.
Mercedes Swift,17, District 8 female
These candy bars are so good! Just so tasty! The floor of this snack bar was literally covered in wrappers and when I come home as victor, I'm going to have my daddy order a lifetime supply of them! Why? Cause I'm pretty and I deserve it! I grab another one of the candy bars and begin caressing it in my hand.
"Hey beautiful what's your name?" I stroke the candy bar as I peel the wrapper off of it.
"Oh I know I'm pretty! Oh I know I'm rich too, you don't need to tell me that twice handsome!" I stroke the candy bar again before taking a huge bite of it. I started naming all of the chocolate bars I've eaten, this one's name is Keaton, and i take another large bite of Keaton before he's in my tummy and let out a loud burp and laugh afterwards.
"So which one of you candy bars are next!?" I point to a row of them.
"Oh you said you like my hair color! Now I have to eat you…Jessie!" I name a candy bar as I quickly snatch it from the row.
"Hey! Hey! Hey! Who are you talking to? Huh? Huh? Huh?" I hear a very loud fast talking voice and I jump and shriek in fear dropping my candy bar and I give Percy a very annoyed look.
"Oh my gawd! What are you doing here! Go away!" I scream at him.
"Why were you talking to yourself though? Huh? Huh? Why? Are you going to answer me?" he starts doing jumping jacks.
"You're so annoying!" I whine before I'm about to leave the room.
"But wait Mercedes let's be allies! We should! We totally should right? Are you going to answer? Huh?" He continues doing jumping jacks.
"Noooooooo!" I whine before leaving the bar and slamming the door behind me, I hope he stays in there and suffocates or something!
I look at the weapon stations and see most of the careers are finally gone and are at the obstacle course as Barbel swiftly runs through the course like he's already done it a million times before. Now that most of the careers are gone, a lot of the regular poor tributes are now there trying to practice with a weapon. I always found a Katana so pretty! Such a fitting weapon for a rich and pretty girl like me. I happily hop over there but I wish someone can carry me there! I don't want to sweat! I manage to drag myself there and I notice the little girl from 9 is now at the obstacle course watching the careers run through it, why is she doing that? It must be so boring!
I begin walking past the pretty girl Annabelle as she's putting lipstick on her, but why? She already has a ton of it on her.
"Hi, you're really pretty!" I greet her and she looks up at me.
"I know I'm pretty, I hear it all the time, bye peasant." She dismisses me.
"I'm not a peasant though! I'm rich! My daddy owns all the textile factories!" I correct her.
"Oh does he now? Hmm interesting, what's your name?" Annabelle starts applying some blush to her cheeks.
"Mercedes Swift, the richest and prettiest girl of district 8!" I proclaim.
"Haha, yeah I believe you, no peasant is going to have that kind of name, and you look a lot more well off than these filthy maggots here!" She laughs.
"Yeah I know right? Like look how dirty they are! Like him!" I point to the boy from 5 and he only gives me an awkward look.
"Well it is nice knowing someone else here is beautiful and rich like me, see I can totally relate to you." She comments and starts putting some blush on my cheeks.
"What are you doing?" I ask.
"Just putting a little blush on your cheeks, it brings out the color of your eyes." She lightly pads some more blush on me.
"R-really aww you're so nice! We should be allies!" I request, I know she's a career but why stay with those poor people when she can be with a rich and pretty girl like me?
Annabelle laughs though, before putting her blush away
"That's pretty tempting, but I think even you know the answer I'm going to give you." She starts putting even more lipstick on her and I frown a bit.
"Awww, well ok…I'm going to practice with a katana." I hold my head down and walk away from her.
I grab a katana from the racket and wildly swing it at a dummy but the katana slips from my hand and I look around in embarrassment, but I don't think anyone saw me as they were too focused on their own training but still, I have to be pretty, rich and strong!
I pick up the katana again and swing it at the dummy but it slips out of my hand before I can even strike it. I then hear a sigh behind me and it's Annabelle again.
"You're holding it wrong." She picks up the Katana and puts it back in my hand and uses her hand to adjust it in mines.
"Always lead with your dominant foot before you strike, you're not generating any power when you keep your legs closed together." She advises me and I do as she say and lead with my dominant foot.
"Try swinging now, aim for a vital, like the neck or chest." Annabelle informs me and I aim for the neck as the head comes clean off and I cheer out.
"I did it! It did! Now I'm pretty, strong and rich!" I shout aloud.
"You still have a long way to go sweety but you learn fast." She states as she takes out some eyeshadow.
"Thank you! Thank you so much, I'm going to be strong like you!" I assure her.
"No one will be as strong as me, I'm too amazing. Keep training though and you'll come close." She tells me as she begins putting on more eyeshadow.
"I just wish we can be allies! Like come on, me and you together, two rich, pretty and strong girls. No one will be able to stop us! Reconsider please!" I beg her and she playfully rolls her eyes.
"We can't be allies kid, but tell you what, I'll make sure nothing happens to you in the bloodbath, I'll even order my allies to not even think about harming you, but you're on your own after that." She takes out a pocket mirror.
"Really? Wow that's so nice of you!" I cheer.
"Yeah,yeah. Keep training though, see you around." She waves to me as she joins the rest of her allies at the obstacle course. Just you wait Annabelle I'm going to show you just how much stronger I am than those dirty peasants you're allying with!
Victoria Aspen,18, District 2 female
"Finally!" i laugh as I finally manage to strike up a fire and Emmett turns to me as a smile spreads across his face.
"That's so cool, you got it!" he congratulates me.
I've been here with Emmett at the survival station for the entire day and he seems to have a talent for these things. He learnt all the basics, how to start a fire, building a hammock, basic first aid and building snares. My survival skills honestly suck but Emmett was nice enough to show me the ropes whenever I screwed something up.
He's such a sweet boy, I don't know why anyone would even think of harming him. I think of Karen, seeing that grin on her face as she flashed her middle finger at me before the elevator door closed. I know she's hiding now, but she won't be able to hide for much longer.
"This is all thanks to you Emmett, thank you." I thank him.
"I'm always happy to help people, it just feels great knowing I'm making a difference." He smiles.
"You're such a sweetheart Emmett." I compliment him and he smiles before the announcement rings out for lunch again. Lunch time already? Well time did fly when you were occupied.
"Lunch time yes! I'm pretty hungry." He stretches his arms.
"Yeah me too, let's go get ourselves full! I jump to my feet and help up Emmett as I hand him his crutches and we start walking towards the cafeteria. I'm still keeping an eye out for Karen, but I know it's unlikely she'll show up. I swear though, the moment I can get my hands on her…
We reach the cafeteria but I look at Emmett and he has an uncomfortable look on his face.
"Hey you ok?" I ask with concern.
"Yeah i'm, I'm just a little lightheaded…" he explains.
"Here, have a seat." I pull out a chair for him and help him sit down.
"I'll get you some lunch ok? Is there anything in particular you want?" I ask.
"Thank you Victoria, you're so nice, I'll just have some squirrel meat." He smiles a little but I can tell he's still uncomfortable.
"Ok, I'll be right back." I answer as I speed walk to the where the food is. I see Amos adding some vegetables to his plate and he notices me walking to the area.
"Well look at you, you seem to be enjoying yourself with that kid. Jumping ship already?" Amos jokes.
"Shut up, I'm going to get him out of the cornucopia, make sure he has a weapon with enough supplies and at least then he'll have a fighting chance, so don't you even think about targeting him, because I will kill you or anyone else that does." I warn him and his smile fades, he knows I'm not joking.
"Ah Victoria, who do you think you're trying to fool? You think you can kill me?" Amos laughs.
"Give me a reason to and I will." I grit my teeth.
"You can think of something as foolish as that if you want, you're getting too attached to that kid though and you know this isn't going to end well." He warns me as he bites into a carrot and looks at me for another moment as I continue glaring him and he walks away, cocky prick.
I make me a plate of salad and I go to the meat section where I find the squirrel meat Emmett asked for it. The sound of it is weird but it actually doesn't look too bad. I put a pretty hefty amount on the plate and grab two bottles of water before sitting at the table with Emmett.
"Thank you so much!" Emmett thanks me as I give him his plate and water.
"it's the least I can do, enjoy!" I give him a friendly smile and he immediately takes a forkful of his food and bites it into it.
"Wow! This is just how my dad makes it!" He happily say as he takes in another forkful.
"It does? Wow well glad you like it." I smirk and start eating some of my salad.
"What are your parents like?" Emmett suddenly asks and I think back when I was in the justice building waiting for them, only for them to never arrive.
"My parents…They're very strict, didn't even want me to be a career but me being a rebellious knuckle head, i just did things cause they wanted me to do the opposite. We clashed a lot because of that, but they're my parents and I love them." I state.
"I'm sure they love you too!" Emmett smiles at me and I look at him as I feel my eyes begin to water.
"Yeah, I believe you're right. Thank you Emmett." I wipe a tear that's beginning to fall down my eye, i just wish they would've came to see me.
"Yeah of course!" Emmett cheers me up as he takes a sip from his bottle of water.
I look at him and it feels like he's my little brother. Is this what if feels like to have a sibling?
I look over at the table where my allies are though and Amos is still looking at me as my eyes burn into his.
Amos, you're right. I am getting attached…
Calla Fable,16, District 11 female
"Calla! Calla! Help me!" my father's cries pierces through the fires that's engulfing the entire house. I'm so scared, so terrified to move.
"Calla!" my father cries once more and I look at the fear in his eyes as he's trapped under a beam and I can move again. I put my hands on the beam as they immediately begin burning. I try to ignore the pain as i try to lift up the beam but it doesn't budge and I look in my father's eyes as they're filled with hopelessness.
"Calla…go." A tear falls down his eye.
"No!" I cry as I try moving the beam once more.
"Calla! I love you and you have to live. Do this for me please…now go!" he yells as tears run down my eyes.
"I love you dad…" I cry before running out of the burning house and it begins to crumble as he takes his last breaths, screaming in agony.
Tears run down my eyes and my body shakes as I remember this crucial detail, something I've seemingly forgotten about ever since. I tried…I tried to save him.
I'm standing on the roof of this building as the night time breeze moves some of the tears from my face, and I'm a little cold but I don't care. I look at all of the lights in the distance, and look up into the sky as I see two stars close together, I want to imagine those are my parents.
"Calla…" I hear Citrus behind me and I turn around to look at him as he hesitantly walks towards me.
"Hey…you ok?" He asks as he inches closer.
"Why Citrus? Just why are you like this? Why do you care? Why can't you just leave me alone?" I shout and he only looks at me for a moment with his mouth slightly open.
"Calla…I." he begins but looks lost for words.
"Just go, just go away! Worry about yourself!" I scream at him but he slowly walks towards me.
"Calla, I care about you, no it goes beyond that…" he starts.
"I'm a murderer ok? I killed my parents! Do you still care about me now?" I scream.
"Calla, w-what are you talking about?" He has a puzzled look on his face and more tears come down my eyes as I look at the burn scars on my hands.
"You remember the House Scorcher right?" I sniff.
"Y-yeah the serial killer. I heard all about him on the news…" Citrus explains.
"My house was one of them, both of my parents died in that fire…" I begin sobbing.
"Calla you can't blame yourself for that, it's not your fault." He tries to explain.
"No it is! if I was awake even 10 minutes earlier I could've saved them, they'll still be here, but no, I'm sleeping so soundly, with not even a worry in the world! I should've seen this coming, cause happiness…it doesn't exist! Everyone that was born here, is here to suffer!" I cry.
"Calla…that's not true and you know that." Citrus hugs me but I push him away.
"My mom was already dead by the time I woke up. I was right in the middle of the fire as rubble fell and trapped me underneath it. My father managed to make it to my room and pull the rubble off of me, but he got trapped under some right after and I tried…I tried Citrus." I cry and he hugs me again as I just cry into his chest.
"I tried to save him, I-I was too weak though, I was too weak and he, he just told me to leave, to save myself." I continue crying.
"Calla there was nothing you can do and you shouldn't have to live with the weight of wondering what you could've done differently to try and prevent this. Things just happens and most of the time it's out of our hands. Your father told you to leave because he loved you and wanted you to continue living. He gave his life for you Calla and don't throw that away. Live and carry on the legacy and the memories that your parents left behind. I want you to do that Calla, cause you're precious to me, you're beautiful, a good person…and I will give my life to protect you." he states and I look up at him.
"…Then I'll win for you." I tell him and I lightly press my lips against his as we embrace each other and I close my eyes as the night wind takes us away.
Here's day 2 of training and also my longest chapter beating the last by a few hundred words haha! Anyways more alliances were formed and rivalries are starting to boil over. We're getting closer to the games and this is going to be very tough for me as I've gotten attached to all of these characters, even the very unlikable ones like Karen! Day 3 is next and I'll also include the private sessions and scores. Below will be the updated alliances, Till next time!
The Careers- Annabelle Royce, Teddy Trismegistus, Victoria Aspen, Amos Walton, Vendetta McClain, Barbel Beacher, Vladimir Licht
The Three Stooges- Zananova Pixa, Sariah Hurd, Acalistor Macalister
Unbreakable Bonds- Fall Baromet, Winter Baromet
The Total Package- Thomas Powell, Lykrie Ellisman
Addicting Chemistry- Lysta Crank, Rylee Turbin
Beauty&The Beast- Citrus Sabrilla, Calla Fable
Big bro&Lil Bro- Xavarion Odoro, Oswine Nanshope