I hope you enjoy Chapter 5 of Finnick's Hunger Games! This chapter will be training scores the games are coming so stay tuned for more! I will try to update at a regular pace because I know all my followers want more! Please review and favorite it lets me know that you like what I am doing with the story and it means so much. Thank you for reading!

The alarm goes off in my room, loud and continuous. But that didn't matter to me, today is the day Iget to show the game makers and the rest of the world that the Capitol can't control me. I hope Aqua feels the same way.

I try to get Aquamarine's sweet smile and big blue eyes out of my head but I can't, even though I know only one of us can win.

Shaking my head, I pull back the covers on my comfy bed in the heart-warming room I had all to myself. Man I really did miss my old home in District 4, when nothing else mattered but my family's safety.

Those days are gone. I just start to wake up when I see my training outfit laid out on the dresser at the foot of my bed.

Grabbing the two-piece red and black matching shirt and trousers I hurry to the bathroom, locking the door behind me. In the mirror I see my reflection, a conflicted, love struck, teenage boy stuck in the worst nightmare you could think of. Great. Just great.

I pull on my training outfit and flash one of my winning smiles at the glass. It might be the last time I ever see myself with a genuine smile again. My smile fades almost instantly, that is until I think of Aquamarine again.

My stylists left a small mirror on my drawer with a note that read, "Good luck with training, oh and make sure you smile at the camera!

The Capitol sure is weird aren't they? Well, I'll show them that I'm not here to play games. I won't be controlled by President Snow or his stupid followers.

They murdered innocent people in the war, they tore apart families, and most importantly they remind us every year that we lost that way by sending children into a horrible fight for survival where only one wins.

Rage builds inside my mind until I start to see red. I hurl the mirror at the wall and the glass breaks into small pieces. A fragment of what was once whole.

I guess we're alike in that way; broken with no repair.

Aqua runs into my room screaming and asks, "What are you doing Finnick? Are you ok?"

Then she sees the broken mirror and I instantly regret breaking it when her eyes fill themselves with horror. "Did… did you break that Finnick? What's wrong with you?"

"Aqua, I'm sorry I was just thinking about the Capitol and…" I say in an attempt to comfort her. I step closer to her and she backs away.

"The Capitol is our enemy sure, but you act like you want to kill them… killing isn't going to fix things, Finnick. Now I'm going to training, not because I want to, but to show the Capitol up like I'm sure you want to do too."

I stare at her with a loss of words, she's already in her uniform and a strand of her long blonde hair is braided down the side. For a moment she stares back, then she turns on her heels and jogs out of the room, seeming to have calmed down somewhat.

I rush after her, but Anelise stops me and says cheerfully, "Ready for training? I know you'll do just great! Now follow me we have to go right away…"

We walk to the elevator and ride to the training room. As soon as we step off, Aqua and I are ushered to a waiting room in the back of the main gym.

Anelise waves and cheers wildly, making us seem like the most popular people in the world, and I guess we kinda were.

When we walk into the small waiting room, Flare pops up and pulls me into a hug, "Hey man, lookin' good!"

Smiling I say, "Thanks, you don't look too shabby yourself!"

Maple ran to Aqua and pulled her into a tight embrace saying, "Hey sister, I missed you! We're going to rock this crowd til' they can't take it anymore!"

Aqua hugged her back and said, "We'll knock their socks off for sure."

Iris and Drew greeted us warmly and we sat in our designated seats, waiting for the testing to start, and passing the time by chatting with the tributes from the other districts.

About ten minutes later, the last tributes arrive, District 12, and the door closes behind them.

A voice calls, "Drew Cavanaugh please report for testing." Drew stands and waves to his companions saying, "See you later, do your best."

I nod in respect and wave back. Maple says, "You know it Drew, go get em'!"

Drew's turn ends, but he is taken to the back exit so he can't tell us what to look for in the room. Maple goes, then Flare, Iris, and the District 3 tributes.

My heart races when the voice calls my name. It's my time to shine.

I quickly hug Aquamarine before heading into testing then the doors close behind me. I'm all alone with the game makers now.

"My name is Finnick Odair, District 4 Male, pleased to have you." I say with a big grin.

They seem to like that, but then go back to eating and talking amongst themselves. I'll change that real quickly.

My mentor's advice resonates in my head, "Make an impression."

Then I know what I'm going to do.

The testing room has a rack of clothes for District 8, since their strength is in textiles but I don't know what they would do with it. I grab a pure white suit and wig.

I pull out a dummy and dress it in the costume then paint Snow's face onto it. Lastly I grab blood red berries and smash them all over my creation.

I grab a length of rope and a white sign, using the berries I hang the message over the dummy's neck reading, President Snow, murderer of our children for sixty years, ruining lives is his pleasure.

The game maker's eyes widen in shock and a little fear, but I'm not done yet.

I violently position the dummy on the wall and grab three tridents.

"The first is for the war, long, bloody, and worthless." I yell, throwing the trident into the dummy's neck.

"The second is for the Hunger Games, the families that lose such precious things just for the show, the sacrifices, the killing." I raise my voice more and more. The trident lodges itself into the dummy's head.

"The last is for the lives you've ruined and now I'm going to destroy yours and make you wish you hadn't messed with Finnick Odair!" I shout at the top of my lungs. I aim the last trident carefully, then hurl it with all my strength into the dummy's heart.

Upon impact, the mannequin's head flew off and rolled towards the game makers, it's empty eyes staring up at them. Some screamed and some gasped, but all were utterly amazed.

For you Mags, I made an impression all right, I thought. I clutched my trident necklace tightly in her memory.

I didn't even say goodbye, I simply smiled and left.

Flare, Drew, Maple, and Iris had waited for me, and when I told them what I did they stared at me in complete surprise. By the time they'd finished asking questions, Aqua came into the room.

She hugged me and said, "Finnick I think I did really good, I made an impression at least."

"Same here," I replied and recounted my story to her. She was clearly flabbergasted but I could tell by the look in her eyes she had done something similar.

"What is it?" I asked. Aqua smirked and said, "Oh nothing much, I just threw knives and that was it…"

"That's not what happened is it?" I asked smiling playfully. She punched my arm lightly and said, "No, of course not, I got all the throwing knives I could and dipped them in night lock berry juice then threw them to spell out, "You're next Snow." It was so funny, some of the game makers fainted!" Aquamarine stated happily.

We high-fived each other and I knew I'd picked the right friend.

She knew who the real enemy was and so did I.

Snow if it's the last thing I do, I will find you and I will ruin you.