Training Day Two:
Charisma Dayton (D9 F 17)
I awake to an Avox tapping me on the shoulder. "Thanks," I say. I had tried to set an alarm on the alarm clock, but all the buttons were confusing me. So, I asked my mentor if she could have an Avox wake me up for training. I get dressed, eat breakfast, and then go down to training by myself.
On the long elevator ride, all I can wonder about is my younger sister, Chandra. I volunteered for her, because I knew I had a much better chance than winning the Games than I do. She means more to our family than I do, so I guess it's better that this is my fate and not hers. She still has many more years with my family in our house, where I would probably be moving out in a year or two because of my age.
I step into the training room and look around. About half of the tributes are here. Once the other half have arrived, the head trainer gives us the same talk as yesterday, and then sends us on our way. I scan the room for my allies; Ashleigh and Devon from District Three, and Alec from District Twelve. We meet up, and decide to work on weapon training today since we did survival skills the whole time yesterday.
Lucy Evans (D11 F 14)
I concentrate as hard as I can, trying to remember the trainer's lecture about edible and inedible plants. I need to remember this. I don't plan on grabbing anything at the bloodbath, so I need to learn what plants I can eat. This station determines my life or my death.
The trainer finishes up her lecture. There are three other tributes who have been listening as well; my district partner, the girl from District Five, and the girl from District Eight. However, I will never ally with any of them, or any tribute at all. I don't want any allies; just me, myself, and I.
The trainer now gives us all a little test, to see if we've been paying attention. She hands us each ten berries, and tells us to sort them into two columns; edible and inedible. I am the first to finish, so the trainer walks over to me to check my work. She tells me I have aced it. It looks like most of the other tributes did pretty well also, getting two wrong at the most.
I decide to go look for another station to try. I have hit almost all the survival skills station. I find a small survival skills station that I haven't tried out yet. It's a very small station, and there's no trainer supervising it. It looks to be just a survival skills test on a computer. I press a button, and begin the test.
The test takes about thirty minutes to complete. I find all sorts of questions on it; anything from camouflage to poisonous plants. I finish the test and see my score, a 94%. It looks like I missed points on snares. I decide to go back to the knot tying station and learn more snares.
Isaac Lysander (D9 M 18)
I have found myself two allies; Dimitri from Seven and Ryder from Eight. They are two pretty good allies. They're both older, strong, and kind of smart. They're better than most allies, but not as good as I hoped my allies would be. I wanted to ally with the careers. I went up to them yesterday afternoon and asked them, but they rejected me. They said that I wasn't strong enough and that they already had too big of an alliance. So, I found Dimitri and Ryder after that, and we became good allies.
Right now, the three of us are throwing around spears. I turn out to be pretty good at spears, and I shoot about 70%. Well, I'm a little bit better than Dimitri and Ryder. Dimitri shoots about 60% percent, and Ryder shoots about 65%. However, the pair of them know a bit more about survival skills than I do.
We finish up throwing spears, and Dimitri suggests that we work on some knot tying. I'm not too good at this, and Ryder doesn't seem to be either. Dimitri, though, turns out to be great at knot tying. I'm glad to have him in the alliance. We spend a bunch of time at this station, and I do learn a bunch of knots. Though, I'm not too good at them, so Dimitri's a good asset to the alliance.
Lydia Alcove (D4 F 16)
I don't really like any of my allies, but I guess I have to deal with them. The careers are definitely stronger than all of the other tributes, so I think it would be best if I stayed with them. The only tribute I kind of like is Diamond, because she isn't completely as ruthless as the other careers. She's still a tiny bit ruthless, but not quite as much as the rest of them.
I wish the careers would go to survival skills stations, but all they want to do is weapon training. I know if I suggest survival skills I might be kicked out, so I'll just keep my mouth closed. Besides, the Gamemakers give greater scores to tributes with weapon skills, so I can get a better training score from all of this weapon training.
Right now we're at the spear throwing station for like the fourth time. The guys are having a spear throwing contest. Candy, Diamond, and I all know that we're not good with spears, so we sat this one out. Candy and Diamond are participating by cheering on their district partner, but I'm kind of just watching and hoping training ends soon.
Juno Young (D11 M 15)
I set down the spear, and wipe the sweat off of my brow. Spear throwing is definitely not for me. I bid goodbye to the trainer, and walk away to find a different station. I decide on the knife throwing station, because knives aren't that strong, and they look like they could be thrown easily.
I walk over to the station, and the trainer teaches me how to grip the knife and throw it at the target. He demonstrates with five knives, and all five hit the target. I don't think I could so that. My first ten throws miss completely, but my accuracy begins to increase, and I begin hitting the target about 50%of of the time.
I guess knife throwing is what I'll have to do to impress the trainers tomorrow. The only other thing I was good at was berry identification, but the only thing that excites the Gamemakers is weapon skills. The buzzer rings, signaling the end of training, so I put the knives down as we are herded back to our rooms.
Alliances:
Diamond/Twilight/Candy/Venom/Lydia/Fusion/Crimson
Ashleigh/Devon/Charisma/Alec
Dimitri/Ryder/Isaac
Evanna Rae/Kaylee
Catherine/Simone
Gloria/Lukas
Griffin
Nikki
Lucy
Juno
Okay, training is over! The private sessions come next. I might have to split them up into two parts if they're too long. :-)