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Small note :D : Sorry that this took a while to post… I might have gone through a BIT of writers block but thankfully… I recovered :)

I opened one of my eyes and glanced at the clock, it said 4:30 AM, which meant that I had about an hour to do whatever. I rolled over in my bed and slowly slipped out, and then I sauntered over to the dresser and pulled out a white t-shirt and some jeans. After my hair and my teeth were brushed I walked over to the door, opened it, and walked out to eat some breakfast.

"Good morning!" I heard Stella sing from the dining room.

I rubbed my eyes with the palms of my hands, "I don't know if it will be that "Good"."

Stella laughed as if I had said the funniest joke in the world, "It will be, training starts today," she smiled, "how fun!"

"That's what I want to know… how fun?"

I turned around and saw James staring at the floor, his hands were fidgeting, and he was biting his lip.

"Good morning James darling, why don't you have some breakfast – you too Dessity," Stella smiled again.

I slid into one of the chairs at the table and stared at the food, I could hear my stomach yelling at me to dig in, but before I could grab a muffin to stuff into my face I felt someone's hand on my shoulder.

I turned around and jumped back, Felicity's hair was pulled back into a tight ponytail and she had on a brown skirt and a white blouse – it was scary how neat she looked.

"Actually why don't you two come with me?" She plastered on a smile.

I slowly stood up and broke my gaze from the food, as soon as I did Felicity shoved a thick pink drink into my hand. She nodded at James, who had walked over while I had been drooling over all the food at the table.

"Here," Felicity said as she handed James a drink like mine, "Follow me."

I glanced at James as I took a small sip of the sweet drink that Felicity gave me; I noticed that he was looking at me with questioning eyes.

"What?" I asked.

James quickly smiled and shrugged, "Nothing – hey sorry about just disappearing yesterday – "

"Aren't you guys coming?" I heard Felicity ask.

I turned around and saw her staring at us impatiently, "Yes sorry," I said as I started to walk to the elevator where Felicity was standing.

As soon as the metal doors shut behind me Felicity started talking, "This morning I got a letter from President Snow that he sent out to every mentor… he says training is going to be narrowed down to a week instead of two weeks, which they were going to change it next year but…" Felicity scratched her head as she stared at the elevator doors.

"What floor?" the elevator asked.

Felicity looked around the elevator, "Oh um… first floor."

"Are we going to the training centre already?" James asked as he took a sip of his drink.

"Yes – but first we need to get you into your uh… training suits," Felicity plastered on a smile.

"We have like an hour to spare though," I said.

"We're actually running late, it's 5:36 AM right now," Felicity said as the elevator stopped and the doors opened.

"But my clock said 4:30 – "

"Never mind what your clock said, lets get you into your suits and into the training arena," Felicity said as she pushed us out of the elevator.

We walked back down the hallway that we had the day before to get "pampered" for the chariot ride, I watched as Felicity grabbed James' drink and shoved him into a room, and I stood horrified as she did the same thing to me.

"You'll find your suit in the closet," She called from the hallway, "Just slip into it and we'll be on our way."

I quickly looked around the room before I walked over to the closet; it had white shiny walls, and white leather couches, a changing room, and then the closet. I wrinkled my nose when I opened up the closet door, inside was a black suit with blue outlines, it had two slits in the back for my wings.

Oh – how nice of them to remember I thought as I walked into the dressing room.

I quickly stripped off my clothes and slipped into the stretchy body suit that surprisingly felt handmade, and within a minute I raced my way back into the hallway where Felicity and James stood.

"There you are, now, let's get to it," Felicity said.

Again we were pushed out of the hallway and into the lobby which was packed with colorful Capitol freaks of all shapes and sizes, and then through these see through French doors.

"Now in about a minute we'll come to some huge iron doors – " Felicity stopped suddenly and pointed before us, it was hard to see because the hallway was a bit dark, but I could see two big doors at the end of the hall.

I had the sudden urge to turn around and run, but before I had the chance Felicity grabbed my arm and yanked me forward to the doors. I covered my face with my hands as she pressed a button on the wall, I could hear a slight creaking sound, and then nothing.

"Welcome to the training arena," Felicity said quietly.

I slowly took my hands away from my face and gasped, in front of me was a large room with all of my fellow tributes in it – either sitting at a workshop learning about plants, or slicing off manikins heads with their swords.

"Oh my – "I said as Felicity gave me a shove forward.

"Now – "she said, "I say you hit the plant and camouflage worktables first and then pick out a weapon."

"What's with all the yanking and pushing and shoving today?" I turned towards her as I rubbed my arm.

"Just get out there," Felicity said as she pushed James forward.

I took a deep breath and turned back around, only to come face to face with piercing sapphire blue eyes.

"Hello there birdie, are you coming here to train?" The girl smiled wickedly.

I could feel James tense up next to me, "Yeah, you?"

She laughed, "Training of course," she held up a small sharp dagger that she had been holding, "I'm training to go hunting – I'm thinking about catching some birds…"

James stepped in front of me and stared into the girl's eyes, "Leave Sapphire – now."

She flashed her evil grin again, "Good to see you too James," and then she walked away.

"James – " I turned to look at him, but he was walking towards the plant table.

I shrugged and turned my attention to the weapons that were placed at the back of the room where most of the tributes were slashing around with sharp objects.

I scanned every single weapon as I slowly made my way over, they looked so dangerous up close that it was hard for me to pick one out when I got there.

"Do you know which one you're going to pick out?" I heard someone ask behind me.

I jumped and turned around, Miri was inspecting a spear that was half her size and she shook her head and set it down.

"No, I've never touched a weapon… the only thing I've touched that's sharp is probably a butter knife," I laughed nervously.

"Don't worry I can help you – now because you have… um," Miri pointed to my wings, "you're going to need something that's easy to use while you're flying."

I looked back at the weapons, and Miri continued, "How about a spear, that's what I'm going to train with, or daggers."

I glanced down the rows of weapons and something caught my eye, "What about this?"

"Oh that… that could work too," Miri nodded.

I felt a burst of energy as I walked over to the beautifully crafted weapon, the bow.

"Here are the arrows," Miri said as she handed me a quiver.

I gently wrapped my fingers around the quiver, I could feel the strong leather slid through my hand as I put the quiver over my shoulder. I smiled, for the first time I felt brave and courageous.

"How does it feel?" Miri asked.

I nodded, "It's… nice."

Miri smiled, "I used to shoot, but I like spears better."

I looked at Miri, "Why are you being so nice to me?"

She shrugged, "I need good allies."

I warm feeling burst through me, "You think I'd be a good ally?"

She nodded, "Except the fact that most of the careers want to kill you because you have wings… but yes, I do."

"Everyone wants to kill me?" I took a step back.

Miri scratched her neck, "Uh… well not all of the careers… just SOME of them…"

I swallowed my fear, "Well I don't really care, careers are just stupid show offs."

Miri smiled, "It's a good thing I'm not a career because I would have killed you just now."

I nodded, Miri laughed, "Now, how about we get over to the targets?"

I nodded again, "Ok."

Miri and I walked across the room to the targets were a few of the tributes were already throwing knifes, spears, and shooting arrows. I looked at one of the tributes, she was small, and had white blonde hair; I watched as she handled a dagger, her hands were shaking. Miri must have seen how much trouble she was having too, because she nodded to a target and pushed me towards it.

"I'll be right back, go ahead and start shooting."

I gave her a tight smile as I lifted up the bow, I had no clue how to hold it, shoot it, or reload it with an arrow. I reached down and picked up an arrow, I could feel the smoothness of it as I somehow hooked it onto the bowstring.

I think I just pull it back… I thought as I pulled back the string with two fingers.

I took a deep breath as I pulled my arm back past my right ear; I closed my eyes and let the string slip past my fingers…

THUNK!

I opened my eyes, the bow was still in front of me, and I was still holding it, but the arrow had disappeared, I caught a glimpse of it on the target that was twenty feet away from me. I lowered the bow to get a better look, I gasped, the small, delicate arrow that I had shot landed right… in the centre of the target.

I smiled, and reached back to my quiver and grabbed another arrow, before I knew it I had shot another arrow, and it landed pretty close to the centre.

"DESSITY," I heard someone yell.

I turned and looked at Miri, she was walking towards me, "Are you sure you've never handled a bow before?"

I shook my head, "Nope."

She smiled, "Keep up the good work."

I loaded another arrow into the bow and shot, my first miss; I cringed as the arrow clanked against the concrete floor. I heard the girl next to me laugh, I turned to look at her, her hair was jet black, and she had dark brown intimidating eyes. She smirked at me and shot an arrow, this girl was practically glowing with arrogance.

I sighed and set the bow down; I didn't want to be over there anymore, so I dropped the quiver and started over to the plant station. As I was walking, I walked past a boy with blonde hair who was stabbing a dummy, and I quickly moved forward. I held my breath as I got closer to the plant station, people all around me were either slicing through dummies, throwing or shooting things, or climbing tree's, and I was walking over to learn about plants.

"Is this the plant – " I heard myself stammer as I got to the station.

"Yes," a woman with brown hair that was tied back in a tight ponytail.

I smiled weakly as I grabbed a small booklet with leaves depicted on it and opened it up.

Rainforest: Plants/edible

Cloves

Allspice

Banana

Black pepper

Cocoa

Citrus

Mango

I sighed and turned to a different section.

Woods: Plants/edible

Wild onions

Pawpaw

Chicory

Hazelnuts

Cattail

Morel Mushroom

Dandelion

"Hey, Dessity!" I heard Miri call.

I set the booklet down and turned around, "What?"
Miri had a dagger in each hand and she was standing in front of a dummy, "I want to show you something, "She smiled.

In about a second Miri had spun around and sliced through the dummies middle section, and stabbed it in the heart – or where the heart would be. Miri just shrugged and walked over to me, "So, you want to try?"

"I –"

"I figured it would be more exciting then learning about plants," Miri scowled at the booklet that was on the table behind me.

"Uh, yeah, I guess."

Miri handed me the daggers, "Now, I know I didn't really show you how to use the bow – "

I stopped listening to her and glanced at my wings, and smiled, "It's ok, just – wait a second."

Miri shrugged again and nodded, "Ok…"

I spotted another dummy about fifteen feet in front of me, perfect… I thought as I took off running.

"What are you doing - ?" I heard Miri yell behind me as I unfurled my wings.

I ignored the gasps and concentrated on the dummy as I slowly rose into the air, when I got to the height that I liked I tucked my wings in and dove. I felt pure bliss as I opened my wings at the last moment so that I could grab the dummy by the shoulder, after that I sunk a blade into the heart area. I enjoyed looking at the other tributes faces as I threw the dummy back on the ground, they were so dumbfounded!
"Where did that come from?" Miri asked as I landed next to her.

"What?" I asked.

"That burst of… confidence, I mean, I barely know you and I can already tell that you're pretty timid."

I stared at her, "Well I guess that had to change sometime then, I'm dead if I stay timid."

'And you just now noticed that?" Miri said as I walked back towards the shooting range.

I smiled, I really didn't know what had come over me, but whatever it was I felt stronger, and I felt like… I would be walking away alive.

Ok… yeah that ended kind of weird-ish-ly quick but… yerp. THANK YOU FOR THE REVEIWS, and I am sooooo terribly sorry about the wait… oh and Miri – er Myri – er… Fioni Siona – James does seem kinda cocky doesn't he? :D

Well I will TRY to update soon, but for now you can read this chapter over and over again if you get bored…

OH and also, I really want to get to the action so in the next chapter I will skip to the interviews with Caesar Flickerman… (Did I spell that right?) and then a brief thing on training and blah… then… to the Games we go… :)

YOU'RES TRULY!

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