The 134th Hunger Games

by TheTributesWhoLived34

In these Games, a different type of arena causes annoyance and excitement throughout the tributes. Would you like this special new arena? Alliances and enemies battle throughout until one lone victor remains. Who will it be? Only time will tell. Suzanne Collins owns the Hunger Games; not me.

4. Chapter 4: Training Day One

Training Day One:

Venom Tryyne (D2 M 17)

Candy and I walk into the training room. We're nearly the last ones here, although we're still five minutes early. Finally, the last few tributes show up, and the head trainer starts talking about what to do. I don't really listen, because it seems really boring. All I catch is that we can go to whatever station we want, and there will be trainers on hand if we need to fight against someone, because fighting against other tributes is 'strictly prohibited.'

Finally, she dismisses us, and Candy and I run over to find the tributes from District One and District Four. "Alliance?" the boy from District One, Twilight I think, says.

"Sure," I say. The six of us all introduce ourselves, and then pick a place to go. We finally decide on the throwing knife station, because there are nearly always throwing knives in the Hunger Games. We all take ten throws at a target. Twilight hits the target eight times, Diamond hits it seven times, Candy hits it eight times, I hit it eight times, Fusion hits it nine times, and Lydia hits it seven times. I suppose that's pretty good for us careers.

Next, we head over to the spear throwing section. Now this is something I'm good at. Twilight hits the target eight times, Diamond hits it eight times, Candy hits it seven times, I hit it nine times, Fusion hits it nine times, and Lydia hits it six times. I'm beginning to think about getting rid of Lydia.

Next we head over to the bow and arrow shooting station. I'm not too good at this. Twilight hits the target seven times, Diamond hits it nine times, Candy hits it eight times, I hit it seven times, Fusion hits it eight times, and Lydia hits it nine times. I guess I kind of underestimated her. She's amazing with a bow and arrow. I guess she's worth keeping in the alliance.

Simone Rose (D12 F 16)

I have found one alliance so far; Catherine from District 6. Right now, we are working at the poisonous berries station. Catherine is pretty good at this station, but I still can't tell some of the berries apart. I'm glad to have her in my alliance. About an hour later, we walk away from this station, and I feel much better about my poisonous berry skills.

We head over to the knife throwing station next. Unlike the berry station, I'm In a bit better at this station than Catherine is. Even with the instructor 's help, Catherine only manages to hit the target about 20% of the time. I manage to hit the target about 60% of the time. I suppose that's pretty good for someone who's never trained for the Games.

I hope Catherine and I can find ourselves some more allies. Everyone knows that most people who won the Games had a few allies. I guess I should be happy about having one ally, because I can see some tributes walking around by themselves. I don't want a super big alliance, but about two more allies would be nice.

Gloria Zychh (D10 F 13)

Lukas and I have allies with only each other. We promised each other on the train that we would stick together and protect each other, and we don't want any other tribute ruining that. I've seen tributes on television that have tricked other tributes into believing that they were allies. Then the tribute would kill their 'allies'. I don't want that to happen to Lukas and myself.

Right now, we are at the fire-making station. We learn how to start a fire with all kinds of simple materials. It is a pretty useful station. Before we went here, we worked at the poisonous berry station. It was a pretty useful station, and now I know about forty different types if edible and inedible berries.

We finish up at this station, and then decide to go to the camouflage station. I've been excited to go to this station, because I love art, and I'm not bad at it. Within minutes, I have transformed Lukas's arm into moss. We spend the next hour or two here, and then move on to something else.

Crimson Barley (D6 M 18)

I place down the spear and walk towards the career alliance. They have to let me join. I'm just as strong as any of them, and I'm probably stronger than some of the girls. I gather up my courage, and then tap the boy from District Two on the shoulder. He seems to be the leader of the alliance. "Hey," I say. "Can I join your alliance?"

The boy from District Two looks at me with narrowed eyes. "That depends if you've got what it takes to be in it. What can you do?"

"Umm, I'm pretty accurate with a spear, and I'm not too bad at knife throwing."

"Prove it," says the boy.

We walk over to the knife throwing section, and the boy hands me ten throwing knives. I chuck all of them at the target, but only seven hit it. I'm usually better than that. "Wait, I can do better," I say. "Just let me throw some spears. We walk over to the spear throwing section, and hit the target eight out of ten times. I suppose that's pretty good. The careers get in a huddle to talk, obviously to determine if I am worthy of joining their group. Finally, they break the huddle, and the District Two boy says, "Alright, you're in, but any funny business and you're done." Hooray! Mom and Dad will be so proud.

Evanna Rae Lynn (D5 F 12)

Kaylee from District Eight has made an alliance with me. I was hoping to ally with someone older and stronger, but none of the older tributes want a "little girl" as an ally. So, Kaylee, who is thirteen, agreed to ally with me. Obviously, neither of us think we'll make it very far, but we want to spend time with a friend for the last few days of our lives. I already consider Kaylee as a friend, even though we've only known each other for a few hours.

We have been working on mostly survival skills today. We both know that we aren't strong or athletic, so we might as well not waste our time with weapons that we may not even need to use. Survival skills are used much more in the Games than fighting and weapons. Usually, tributes who have mastered survival skills make it far in the Games.

Right now, we are at the knot tying station. Many of the knots here seem to be very useful. We learn so many types of different knots, that I'm bound to forget most of them by the time the Games start. The pair of us tie knots until our hands are sore, and then wander around and look for something else to do.

Griffin Synchez (D5 M 14)

I think I'm one of the only tributes without allies. It looks like I'm one of the only smart tributes this year. Allies are bad news, because they have to break up eventually since only one tribute can win. Sometimes, when few tributes are left, allies will turn on each other; often with a knife in the heart in the middle of the night. I've seen it happen on a few occasions in the Hunger Games, and I don't want it to happen to me.

I finish up at the spear throwing station, and wipe my sweaty hands on my pants. I have been working very hard at training, because I know absolutely nothing about weapons or survival skills or anything. I have to make these two days count. I have been trying to get a blended mix of both weapons training and survival skills. The victor each year has usually mastered both of these, so I know I must do the same. I decide to go to the poisonous berry station, so I walk on over and get to work.

Nikki Lowell (D7 F 14)

I put down the rope, and massage my aching hands. I guess I've done enough knot tying for today. I've learned enough to last a lifetime. I didn't even know that I could learn so many knots in just two hours. I bid goodbye to the knot tying trainer, and then look for something else to do.

I decide that I should probably try some weapons, because I've been working on survival skills the whole time. I decide on knife throwing, because that looks like the easiest weapon, so I could learn it in a shorter amount of time. I run over to the knife throwing station, and get to work.

The trainer teaches me how to grip and throw the knife. My first few attempts are failures, but my accuracy increases as I keep throwing. After about an hour and a half, about 75% of my knives hit the target. The trainer tells me that is really good for someone who has never thrown knives in her life. I keep throwing knives until the buzzer rings, signaling that training is over for today.

Alliances so far:

Diamond/Twilight/Candy/Venom/Lydia/Fusion/Crimson

Evanna Rae/Kaylee

Catherine/Simone

Gloria/Lukas

Griffin

Nikki

Okay, that's what day one of training brought. New alliances and skills will be introduced next chapter, and after that will come private training sessions. :-)