The 55th Annual Hunger Games

by Liee Gou

This Games focuses on a boy named Lane Hale. From birth the boy has lived in the Victors Village. His mom never liked him much but now that he is going into the games and she is mentoring his district partner how will he deal with his childhood bully and his hateful mother or the Games them selves.

4. Training Day 1: Training with a New Ally

The next morning I'm awoken earlier than normal and go to breakfast to talk about training strategy with our mentors, my Mother, and a man named Blight, "Ok so first off, Lane, I see you already have a plan so dont focus on meeting people, try for weapons and anything you might need, finding water is always good, anyway, focus on not meeting on people." I nod my head at Blight, we're alone, mom must be teaching Heather in their room. I look at the time and see that its time to get ready.

I go to my room and get dressed, a simple t-shirt and a red pair of shorts have been laid out for me. I get dressed quickly and walk to the elevator and let it fall. I walk into the room and realise I'm the first one here even though we have 10 minutes. After a minute or two more people show up until everyone is standing in the center of the room. The training manager, Atala, lists off a list of stations and were released to train freely. I immediately head to the back of the gym and scan my eyes over the plants station and begin separating edible plants from the poisonous ones very easily. The trainer sees my ease at the station and gives me a mix of very similar berries and again, I separate them with ease.

As I leave I realise I shouldn't be showing my skills as much so I avoid axes which I know I can use and go to the swords and try to pick up the biggest one I find and purposely drop is walk away to the knife throwing station and try one and I find myself feeling very relaxed and throw it pretty well for my first throw and watch it stick into the dummies stomach and I walk away, knowing I shouldn't be anywhere where I'm good. I walk around and try different survival skills as I already know what my weapon of choice will be and learn different skills from knots to fire or even just stamina training.

After a few hours of different stations were summoned to lunch and I start a little show of panic, convincing the others of my fear. I gather a rather hearty plate and sit alone in the back, away from the others. After a while I notice the girl from 5 walking to my table and I ball up a bit and she speaks, "Uh, hi there, I was wondering if I could sit here with you and talk?" I timidly nod my head and say, "Uh, yeah, sure." "So, I saw you at the plants station, you're really good. So I was thinking what if we te-" But I wouldn't let her finish her sentence, "You don't want me, I'm weak and probably going to die." "Hmm well if you make it out of the Blood Bath why don't you find me and we can team up? I mean I can fight pretty well, I'm decent with a bow I guess." I sigh and hold out my hand timidly, "A-allies?" She smiles and takes my hand and says, "I'm Crista, and you're Lane, good with plants and knife throwing." My eyes widen and say, "Wait, have you been watching me?" "It's kinda first instinct to protect you, I'm 18 so I figure I should protect you." She pulls the red hair out of her eyes and says, "Plus I really like your hair." I blush and burry my head again, "Th-thank you." But what she doesn't know is that I dont need protection.

Hey guys, so our little fighter has an ally, so what do you think, should he have a team or just her? Do you think he would double cross her or actually stay true to his alliance? Anyway please review and I'll see you guys later. Bye!