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Chapter 9: From a Fairy Tale
I walked slowly into prep room four and glanced around, looking for the tiny figure of Raven.
"Raven?" Maya called out, "Raven, are you in here?"
"Yeah!" came a curt reply, "Just a minute!"
Maya nodded and pointed at me, "The both of us kind of decided to make the both of you into…. Fairy tale like characters. You are the 'Good Witch', I suppose… and Raven… well… I guess that she would represent the 'Evil Queen'."
I looked confused and tilted my head a little bit to the left and raised one of my eyebrows, almost like a dog. I was just about to say something when I heard the door open and saw Raven stepped out. Let me tell you, reader. Maya was totally right when she used "Evil Queen" as an example. This chick looked downright evil…
Raven's hair was let loose and it reached halfway down her back. Her face was set with heavy makeup and dark, thick eyeliner. Her green eyes seemed like they were glowing, and her lips were tinted with dark red lipstick. Her dress was the darkest shade of black imaginable and it clung to her skin, shaping curves that I didn't know that she even had. It covered her knees, but just barely. It didn't matter much, because she wore black thigh high boots. Her nails were black with bright green flames and each of them rested on her hips. "So, does it look good?" Raven asked, pursing her lips.
Maya clapped, a look of complete awe glazing over her features, "This is amazing! Georgetta, Loretta, did you two girls do this?"
I heard giggling from behind two doors as the twins burst out, now in blue and gold dresses, "Yup!" They squealed together, "Do you like it Maya?"
Maya nodded and hugged the both of them, "You guys are amazing! Really!"
The three of them started to talk about different types of skin toner and how they thought they would look on the both of us, and I ended up blocking them up and walking over to Raven. "I like your outfit. It kinda suits you!"
Raven laughed and nodded in approval, "I like yours, too. It's really…. Innocent looking. I look like I'm going to pull out a wand and kill someone with it. I feel like the Evil Witch in 'Sleeping Beauty'."
"Sleeping Beauty?" I asked.
Raven looked at me, appalled. "You don't know what Sleeping Beauty is? Did you even have a childhood?"
I looked annoyed and crossed my arms, "Ha ha, very funny."
Raven sighed, and pushed the bangs out of her face. "Sleeping Beauty is about this girl who was cursed by a witch that she would die by pricking her finger on a spinning wheel when she was 16—"
I scoffed, "That sounds kinda stupid."
She glared at me and continued, "But these really nice three witches changed it to where she would only fall asleep for a long time—"
"Wait," I cut her off again, "Why didn't they just lift the spell from her? There's three of them and only one of the evil witch…."
Raven laughed, "Nikki! This is a children's story! Cut it some slack."
"Alright, fine." I shut my mouth and looked at her, expecting her to finish the story. Raven stayed quiet. "Aren't you going to finish the story?"
Raven shook her head, "You're obviously not interested. It's not that big of a deal anyways, I'll finish it at a different time. Just keep the suspense going, right?" Laughing, she turned her head to her stylist who was calling her name. She looked about 40 or so, kind of old, and looked as if she was trying to look young. It was obvious that she had had lots of plastic surgery to bring back wrinkles because her face was stretched. I suppressed a smirk and suddenly felt a tug on my arm. I whirled around and looked Maya, who smiled.
"Alright, sweetie. It's time for the both of you to get in your carriage-a-ma-bobber and ride out with the other teams."
I gulped as Raven and her stylist came over. Not soon after they appeared next to us, so did Fran and Chester, who was (as usual) playing with matches. Fran squealed and started to shower us in compliments, while Chester glanced up, nodded at us, and then went back to staring at the flames. Raven was blushing and so was I, I guess it was natural. I wasn't used to wearing things like this and I don't think that Raven was either. All the same, we looked dang good.
Maya finally got Fran calmed down and pulled the both of us behind her kinda like ducklings. We walked a while, going in room after room. Eventually, we met up with everyone in a huge stadium-looking-thing. When I say huge, I mean freaking HUGE. This thing was ginormous!
I saw Ali and Bella, along with their partners. Bella was dressed in a pink frilly dress, and Ali was dressed… well…. Like a stripper. It was clear that some of the stylists weren't very experienced, and just tried to make do with what they could. Ali's arms were crossed over hers stomach, trying to show was much stomach as she would usually. Neither of them saw me, and I didn't try to get their attention. I was going to look around for a while and see what my other friends were wearing when a loud noise came from the speakers all around us.
"Hello! Hello and welcome to the 1st ever Capital Hunger Games!" The announcer had a very deep voice that shook the carriages in front of us. "Each of your carriages has a number on it! IF you can remember your number for your members, go to each one with the numbers! Off we go. Good luck and may the odds…. Be ever in your favor!" The ending was sneered and we heard a loud POP, which said that they had disconnected.
I turned to Raven, "Do you remember our number?"
She nodded and held up four fingers, "We're four. The only carriage that looks like it came out of Cinderella—" She glanced at me and saw a confused expression on my face then face palmed, "forget it..."
I tossed my hands up in the air and shook my head. The only fairy tale story I have ever heard is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs… don't blame me for my lack of knowledge on the subject.
Our carriage was shaped like half of a pumpkin, and the both of us climbed in. Fran walked up and gave us some pointers, like how to wave and stuff like that. We nodded and took every word to heart, neither of us wanting to do something wrong. Fran smiled and held our hands, "You girls are going to do amazing, I know it."
Raven gave a half smile, "Thanks, Fran."
Fran walked away and out of sight as I heard the sound of feet trotting. My heart started to race and my palms were sweating like crazy. I look at Raven who looked as calm as a cucumber. Her face was void of all expression, and I took a deep breath.
Our two white stallions trotted up to the massive doorway as I heard the announcer from before boom over the speakers, "And now presenting, Team four!"
I unclenched my hands from fists and wiped them on the skirt of my dress. I closed my eyes and tried to slow my heart rate. That's when it hit me.
Even though we weren't on the arena, and no one had died yet….
The Hunger Games – MY Hunger Games – had begun.
Okay, How'd ya like it? I am so so so so so so sorry that I haven't updated in over 3 months! I just... I don't know what happened. I guess I kinda forgot about this story. But, thats not happening anymore. I'm really exited to finally be getting into the actual arena part... heehee. Remember the begining of this story? Yup. Epicness. We have maybe... 4 more chapters before the actual games. I have to put in training and all... *sigh* still, YAY!
Alright. Update on my life: I just tried out for drama. I've become obssed about the healthynesss of my hair. (IT SMELLES REALLY GOOD AND IS REALLY SOFT RIGHT NOWWWWW...) and... yeah. That's all your gunna know. ;)
I'm sorry these are always so long. I just love talking about myself. *flips hair*
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~Ruby-san