Hey! So this will be the training assessment, I'm hungry... Anyway! So somethings go on in the District 4 room, with Aspen and Ricky, and somethings get confusing, but if you read The 68th Hunger Games- Where You Stand, it'l be easier to understand. =) Read and Review.

The Training Assessment

The week of training goes by quickly, along with training the Careers had gotten to know each other better and Quidley and Sapphire found that even though they hated each other they had something in common: an enjoyment of bullying the other non-career tributes.
Sapphire wished Achilles was into beating up on the younger tributes. She thought he was just "her type"; strong, athletic, and smart but he was always staring at his District partner which was so annoying. She decided that Andi allrod would be her kill.
Quidley would be the first tribute to show off his skills to the Gamemakers. He turned to the other Careers and asked, "I heard there's a new Head Gamemaker. What's he like?"

"She," Achilles corrected. "Her name's Mikah. I've never met her but my dad told me she was the Gamemaker."

"Well yeah but what does she want to see? Strong, rebellious, funny?"

Then they called Quidley's name and he stood up, with a grim expression.

"Good luck" she said.

His expression was like a deer caught in headlights. HE said something that kind of sounded like "You too" and disappeared through the door.

Cobalt sat at the edge of the group of tributes, not talking to anyone but staring at the ground. During the week they had gotten a couple more people in their alliance, the boy from 3, Jupiter,the boy from 10, Gil, and the girl from 12, Dina. They had been slightly scared of Andi so they hadn't asked her, and they'd been turned down by the boy from 11 and the burned boy from 12. The others they hadn't really talked to, including Lina. He still felt really awkward about that whole food thing.

The alliance was not sitting by each other because that would draw attention to the careers, which they did not want.

Lina had been trying to talk to him all week, but he had been purposefully avoiding her. He never really saw her much because during training the tributes from 1 had taken to picking on her and when he wasn't training he usually stayed in his room.

When it was his turn to get judged he hoped a lightning bolt would hit him with an amazing idea.

He wasn't that lucky.

Jack was feeling uneasy about what he was about to do. Roxanne had asked him why he was even doing it, and he had answered because it was his best bet. No matter how much he disliked the idea, it WAS pretty smart. It had been Johanna's idea, because of course there was no way he would be that smart to make a good plan.

He was called in by Mikah , and when she said You may begin he just stood there, unmoving.

"Aren't you going to you know... do something?" Mikah asked, frowning at him.

"No," he replied, hoping that the Gamemakers could not sense his fright.

Mikah looked somewhat concerned at that point. "Okay then, you can go," she said. She wanted to get that guy out of there quickly as possible.

Well, that wasn't so bad. If he got a 0 in training, though, he didn't want anyone complaining to him!

Tributes' names were called, and one by one they went into the training center, until it was down to just Chris, Cherry, Dina, and David. Dina looked extremely nervous,

Chris as usual had the appearance of a rock, Cherry looked blank, and David's scarred expression was unreadable.

Chris casually made his way to the other end of the room where Cherry was sitting.

"Do you know what you're going to do?" he whispered.

"Yes," she said. She hadn't told anyone about it, she had no allies and Chris was definitely out of the question.

"Oh...well...I was just going to say that I could give you some tips-"

"I don't want your help!" she exclaimed. She could see that now David was looking over at then with a serious and puzzled look on his burned face.

Chris then had to go and left Cherry to her thoughts. She really had no idea what Chris was up to. After the first day he had always been asking her if she needed any help, or if she wanted to be in an alliance. Hey he turned her down once, he turned her down every time in her book!

When Mikah called she strode in confidently to the center of the room and faced the Gamemakers. She was completely sure they would accept her offer. When she had

Mikah's attention she began.

"Would you be willing to do me a favor if it meant the Capitol would have a really great show later on?"

District 4 level

Ricky stared out his window , that he'd set to a fishing dock. Not because it was particularly pretty, but because it reminded him of all the long days he'd spent the day at the wharf on his father's boat, the Neptune's Trident.

One of his mentors, Aspen Jarvasan who was now about 20 years old. Aspen was still kind of mad at him for joining with the Careers, and he said, "Come on, they'll be showing the training scores any second now." He was about to leave when he saw the wharf in Ricky's window. He looked at it for a moment with an expression that looked kind of like pain.

"Why...why didn't you want me to join with the Careers?" Ricky asked hesitantly.

"Sinatalla" was his only word.

"What?" Ricky asked, sure he'd misunderstood.

"It's the reason we haven't got Avoxes here," Aspen muttered. Then Finnick stuck his head in the door. "Aspen! You came to get him five minutes ago! How long does it
take to walk down the hall?!"

"All right, come on," Aspen muttered.

In the main room Caesar Flickerman had just finished the introduction and Quidley's score was on the screen.

Quidley Barnes- 9.
Sapphire Rubyon- 10.
"Ehh average Career scores," Finnick commented.
Achilles Thornton- 10.
Andi Alrod- 2.
"Is she in your alliance Ricky?" Finnick asked.
"No," he said, surprised. She'd seemed like a pretty tough girl in training but she got a 2?
Jupiter Defcon- 7.
Mandy Guardson- 4.
Ricky Lane- 10.
Allen Thornberry- 2.

"A 10?!" Ricky exclaimed in shock. "I thought I was lame, I mean all I did was gut a dummy with a fishing knife like when I go fishing every day!"

"They probably thought that's what you'll do to the others. They like that stuff, you know." Said Finnick.

Suddenly Aspen threw the glass of water he was holding on the ground. "You're just like the rest of them aren't you?" he yelled. "All you District 4 Careers who don't know what those Games do to people! They change you! You go in and probably die, and if you're lucky to make it out alive they take away everything! Everything! The Capitol took everything I loved, my Dad, my two brothers... Sabarina..."

Ricky knew by the tone of Aspen's voice that he shouldn't ask who Sabarina was.

"No no," said Finnick. "Being a Victor is great, we get all the money we want... and UHH the food is amazing! I haven't been able to eat District 4 treats after tasting Ice Cream!"

Allen had been sitting in the edge of a couch for most of the conversation, but she could see why Aspen was saying what he did. She imagined the thought of killing someone and being haunted by the kills for the rest of her life...

"Come on dude, it wasn't all bad," said Finnick to Aspen. "You CAN'T tell me you've forgotten AAlilian and the hairy beef legs with fish guts?"

District 12 penthouse

Jason Prometheus- 8.
Roberta Tyger- 6.
Cobalt fensworth- 6.
Lina Mals- 4.
Jack Rowan- 9.
Roxanne March- 7.
Jay Alson- 8.
Ashley Alson- 9.
"Ahh we got a while to wait," said Haymitch.
Warren Leyson- 3.
Salley Lorcan- 5.
Gil Havens- 8.
Cass Wilson- 5.
Chris Nayler- 9.
Cherry Kayelle- 7.
David Sternam- 9.
Dina Fry- 5.

"Well, there you have it. That's the outcome of the Games right there for you," Haymitch said pointing at Dina. "You arent' going to live past the first day, You on the other hand-" he pointed at David. "You might last a little longer."

David stood up to go to his room. Haymitch wasn't going to help him, he'd known that since the first day.

Later, Peeta stopped by David's room.

"You're his favorite you know," Peeta said.

"Could've fooled me."

Peeta shrugged. "That's Haymitch. He always hates his favorites the most."

Well that is confusing, thought David, then he asked Peeta, "How did you do it?"

"Do what?"

"Win the Games with Haymitch as a mentor? He's the worst mentor a tribute could have,"

Peeta thought for a moment. "I didn't know it at the time, but I never would have won my Games without him. I couldn't have wished for a better mentor."