CH: 3 The Trip To The Capital
I sit in silence as the train begins to move. Then in bursts Shane, two people I recognize as are mentors, Haradale and Braten, and Raina right behind them.
"You must be Amber" says Haradale. "I am" I say, "Well I am your mentor and Shane, Braten will be yours". Shane nods and follows Braten into another compartment. "So how old are you" she asks. "15!" Raina Shouts. "Thank you Raina maybe you should go make sure we are on schedule" she says bitterly.
I'm really starting to like Haradale, she doesn't like Raina any more than I do, but then again nobody likes Raina in District 5. "As I was saying, you look like you're very capable, tall, fast you should have good odds of winning" Haradale continues. "But I don't even know how to use a weapon" I reply, " My dear girl, nobody in District 5 can use a weapon before the games", "Then how did you win?" I ask.
She sighs," In a way I hope you won't win by". "Why what did you do?" I ask. "It's better to show you"
She walks out of the room and I follow, we end up in a big room with sofas and a giant TV. Haradale walks up to the TV and puts in a tap labeled 13 and puts it in the TV.
"This is the year I won the games" Haradale says as the reaping of that year begins. I see each child stand up on stage, it's a little disturbing knowing they all die and Haradale wins. They only show Haradale in the interviews, she went for shy and elusive.
"So Haradale, How does it feel here in the Capitol!" screams Augie Cene the host of the hunger games. "Well Augie, I would say the food, I mean there's all kinds of soups, steaks, chickens, pastas and desserts which I don't have back in District 5.
After the Interviews they jump straight into the games. The Arena is a big dry plain with yellow grass and desert on one side and mountains on the other. They mainly focus on Haradale but they tend to go to the District 4 male who was the last tribute to die. The gong rings and all the tributes run towards the middle about 10 died in the Cornucopia Bloodbath. After a few days only two died so the Game makers blew up the mountain killing 5 in the explosion and 2 in the rock slide. Now only 5 remain Haradale, the District 4 Male, The District 10 Female, The district 9 Male, and Haradale's district partner, Scott. After a few days The District 9 Male and District 10 female fought each other and both ended up dying. The next day Scott breaks the alliance with Haradale and goes off into the desert. Then it happens, a male's shriek, Haradale drops everything in her cave grabs her knife and runs.
When she arrives Scott is bleeding out, he was stabbed right through his stomach. Haradale stays with him until he dies. Then she runs off determined to kill the male tribute that murdered Scott. She finds him, he throws a spear she tries to dodge but it hits her elbow, she spins and chucks a knife in his direction and it lodges into his forehead.
She turns it off. We sit in silence for a while then she says "My advice is to not fall in love in the games, I fell in love with Scott and I still have Horrid Nightmares about him". I nod It's now late afternoon and Haradale says we will be pulling into the Capital Station in the Morning.
I wish Haradale goodnight and go back to my room to try and get some sleep. My efforts for sleep failed so instead I get up and walk out to the back cart, which is pretty much outside.
I'm looking into the forests of Panem when a male voice speaks to me. "Isn't it a bit late to be out here?" Shane asks. I laugh "Couldn't sleep either?" "Not a wink" "Well it's almost 1 am so I think I'll head back to my room for the night" I walk back to my room jump into the bed and somehow, manage to fall asleep.
I wake up to Raina knocking on my door rather loudly yelling something about us arriving in the capital in 30 minutes.
"What!" I yell through the door as I jump up and practically sprint into the high tech capital shower. After I get out I change into a simple green tank top and jeans and let my hair run down my back. When I get to the dinning cart everyone's almost done with breakfast.
"Morning sunshine, want some Hot Chocolate?" Shane asks in a humorous voice. "What's Hot Chocolate" I ask. "It's creamy, sweet, hot liquid, try some." He replies. I sit down and I fill my plate with bacon, eggs, sausage, pancakes layering it all in syrup. I grab a mug of Hot Chocolate and chug the stuff down after eating my last bite.
Just as we finish the Capital Attendant says we are arriving. Shane and I run to the window to see the most spectacular city either of us will ever see in our life time.
As we pull into the station I see the most bizarre looking people. They all are unnatural colors like yellow or green, or even red. They are cheering as we arrive, this disgusts me. They cheer because they can't wait to see us slaughter other children for their entertainment. We walk to the door and Shane says one last thing before walking out the door. "Hey Amber, Do you see them out there, they are cheering for us!" Don't get to excited Shane" I reply. "They are cheering because they can't wait to watch you die"