A/N Sorry for the long wait the next chapter will come faster then this one I promise.
~Igris Dragonbeam~
Clang
I swing the cleaver I asked for earlier at my sparring partner. He blocks it easily only to have me plant my foot in his stomach and slice at his neck. He falls back and I pin him on the floor easily. He taps out and I leave him where he is on the floor. Since the brawl nothing interesting has happened. I have noticed the careers have split up. Districts Zero and Four are working together while the other ten, Districts One, Two, Nine, and the Capitol, are together. It's still bad, two groups that will hunt tributes. Not good. Districts Three and Six seem pretty cozy, I saw the four of them laughing earlier today. They're working together, I can feel it.
"Igris!" I hear a girl yell. I look over to the other side of the sword session to see Lyra pointing to the girl from Two. She holds a whip in one hand and an axe in the other, I see her throw the axe at one of the four dummies lined up in front of her, it sinks into the chest as she lashes the whip that opens and barbs come out of it, it wraps around the neck of one and as she runs forward with a newly drawn knife and cuts the necks of the other two, she pulls on the whip, decapitating the doll. I make my way to Lyra who is still looking astonished by the girl.
"Lyra? Are you okay?" I ask.
"Yeah, I'm fine. It's just that girl, she destroyed those dummies like they were nothing." She says.
"But Lyra, she's a career, I bet she has been trained her whole life for this moment. Besides, odds are someone will kill her before she gets to us, or the other way around."
"Igris don't talk about us dying! We can both win remember."
"Yeah but we will need to kill, be stealthy and strong. You have to learn to be hungry and be in life or death situations everyday, You, Fel and I will be strong, but when and if the time comes and it's me you and Fel, she dies. We kill her without thinking, okay? I know she's our friend but we have to." Lyra looks horrified at me but she nods in the end. "Come on, let go run the obstacle course." I lead Lyra to the obstacle course where there's a man standing there looking genuinely happy.
"Thank god you two came here." The man says. "I haven't had anyone come to this station for two years." Lyra smiles.
"We're here now, so I guess it's your lucky day! How does this work?" Lyra asks.
"Well when you go through the course there will be things scattered around so as you run you have to leap over and duck under things, it's timed so try your hardest!" The man says enthusiastically. I step up first and await in the starting platform, the wall in front of me rises into the roof which opens a whole dense forest. I grimace as I wait, but when the buzzer sounds I run. I enter the fake forest running full speed I hurdle the first tree I see then dive under a tree that is too hard for me to jump over. I hurdle three more trees before diving under one more, I make it out of the course in a minute, thirty seven seconds.
"Lyra, you're up." I say between breaths. When I stand up Lyra is already gone in the course.
"Sir?" I say to the man.
"Yes?" He asks.
"Well I was just wondering if you know anything about the arena, but it would be illegal to tell a tribute right?"
"Haha, kid you're hilarious! Yeah I know about the arena, all us training instructors have to give advice to the gamemaker so we each get maps to the arena."
"Do you usually keep it on you? If you showed me you would help me so much in the arena."
"Kid, I'm telling you right now that you need to leave this station now. The gamemakers could hear this." Lyra runs out of the station as the man tells me this. I reach my hand out to him for a shake, and he grips it. I walk a little closer as he shakes it. Lyra looks at me and I mouth 'Make Noise'. She barely understands but makes a loud coughing noise. the man who runs the obstacle course looks over at her, leaving his back pockets open for me. I grab his wallet without him noticing, stuff it in my pocket and run to Lyra.
"Hey lets go to another station." I say and I drag her after me.
"Igris, slow down." She complains as I get ten feet in front of her. I stop to let her catch up. "Why did we have to get out of there so quick?" She asks. In answer I hold out the man's wallet.
~Lyra Mirren~
"Why the hell would you steal his wallet?" I ask Igris, I look to the fishing station where Fel is and motion for her to come over. She rushes over quickly.
"What's up guys?" She asks.
"This idiot stole a training instructor's wallet." I say as Igris picks through it. "Why are you looking through it? If someone sees you, you could get in trouble." Igris sighs and drops the wallet on the ground.
"Well I didn't even find what I was looking for." Igris says.
"What were you looking for anyways?" Fel asks him.
"I thought he might have a map of the arena but turns out I'm wrong."
"What would you do if you had the map any ways?"
"Sneak it in the arena, memorize it, I don't know" Igris says which makes Fel and I groan.
"Well nothing happened and look at the clock anyways, the first training day is over in three minutes." I say. The three of us make our way over to the elevators as the buzzer rings, signaling the end of training day one, most of the careers complain but the rest of us are happy to have it over. Igris, Fel and I get on the elevator first and we say goodbye to Fel on her floor. I can say I 'can't' wait for the next day of training.