I wake up in the morning exusted. Urgh. My face is sore from smiling from last night. I sit up and see my clothes laid out for me on the bottom of my bed. I reluctantly get up and get changed into some black trousers with a matching top along with a jacket with the number 12 sewn on the back. I tie back my hair into a practical braid. Then I see some brown leathery boots that I tie on firmly. I go to the bathroom and splash my face with water then dry it off. For the first time I go and eat with the others. I find out that was a bad idea. I'm late but they seem happy enough that I bothered showing up. Usually I have room service. I eat with the rest of them than Harrison starts flirting. Urgh.
"You looked amazing last night. I wish that kiss could have lasted longer." Harrison says sweetly.
"Well you're a demon sent from hell. Did you know that? Well you do now. So I'm leaving and hopefully I get to 'Accidently' Punch you in the face at training." I say clearly while walking off. Three. Two. One...
"Well thanks alot Harrison. First time she sees her mentors she gets driven off by you. Sky! Come back. Would it help if you could punch him in the face?" Some woman says. I silently turn around and walk back. Luckily for Harrison I'm not in the mood for punching him in the face. I return and carry on eating.
"Hi, I'm Arianna. Your mentor. Everyone else has been chosen." She says nicely
"I was hoping that I'd have you. I perfer your style." I say
"Well I'm Ty. And hi." Says a man
"I'm Roesann and this is Nicko." Says a girl and Nicko just waves and carries on eating.
"Well. Nice to meet you. So when's training? And I don't like plans by the way. I hate rules and I dislike plans. Unless its a life or death. Or killing matter." I say
"So that really narrows down your options and there's a clock there." Says Harrison. Idiot.
"A, I didnt ask where the clock was and B, Shut the hell up. No one likes you or ever will. Looks are not everything. Skills are. Its good to have both but no one gives a damn about you. So go cry in a corner you idiot. " I've just down a perfect summary of him. Harrison stays silent.
"You're just jesous 'cos I'm better looking than you and I'll get more sponsers." Ha, he is such a wimp.
"Me? Jesous of you? Bless your delusional heart." I say smugly. "Anyway. You're probably be making out with a girl. Then she's smart enough to stab you in the stomach with a knife." I say finishing my breakfast. "So what time is training?" I ask again.
"In about 5 minutes. We better leave now." Roesann says while getting up. Everyone else gets up and heads to the elevator. Apart from me and Whats-Her-Name. I still don't care about her name. They split into two different elevators and the doors close and they don't realise that I'm not in them I take the next elevator. It was a bit too cramped in there for me. I go down and follow the little formation to the training center. I go in and see all the other tributes there. I see the boy from one staring at me and talking to his disterict partner. I didn't see a recapping of the reapings so I don't know them what so ever. I smile at him. He is confused and I muffle a laugh and he just glares at me and I mouth an apoligy. I really don't want to get on the bad side of the careers. The training teacher shoots me a look. Oh yeah... The 'pre training' me and Jason did. Once she's finished reciting the rules she lets us go and I emidently go for the hand to hand combat. Nailed it every time. I don't do anything I'm really good at weapon wise. Of corse I still do parkour. You can't stop practising or else you kind of lose that skill you build up. One of the male careers was doing some knife practise and he only had three knives. So I nicked them. The look on his face! He didn't know it was me but I returned them. Soon enough. It was about two minutes of ranting about knives. He still didn't know it was me. I want to raid them during the games. My best skill I guess is knives, Sling shots and arrows. Well anything launchable. My best is arrows but a spear, knives or even a sling shot would do. I do a little bit of arrow shotting but I do it badly on purpose. I want to look a little talentless. Easy target. If I get them to lose their wepond they would be dead in seconds. I'm good at talking. I might be able to sweet talk them into letting me go. Only in really bad times though. I mean like tied up hand and foot to the to a post with no way out. That bad. But I'm smart enough to avoid that. I hope. I do some reserch on everyone. I make a mental list of ones to look out for.
Boy from one A: Deadly with sword. Terrible with arrows. Okay with spear. Strong. Might beat me at hand to hand combat if lucky. (I'd play dirty, so its unlikely.) Not tried plants. If food is gone. Dead quite soon. He might hunt animals but unlikely. Not good at parkour. (Too heavy)
Boy from one B: Deadly with spear. Terrible with arrows. Fine with sword. Strong. Might beat me at hand to hand combat if lucky. Not tried plants. If food is gone. Dead quite soon aswell. Not good at parkour. (Too bulky)
Girl from one A: medioaker at most things. Very good knife thrower. New skill. I'd kill her at hand to hand combat. She is quick and quite strong. Prettier than me. More sponsers. Might last a off sponsers if food's gone. Otherwise dead in days. Not good at parkour. She has a twin sister. (Unlucky.)
Girl from one B: medioaker at most things. Okay knife thrower. No real skill I can tell so far. I'd kill her at hand to hand combat. She is a little slower but strong.(Ish) Prettier than me. More sponsers aswell. Might last a off sponsers if food's gone. Otherwise dead in days. Not good at parkour. (The twin sister of the other girl from one.)
Boy from two A: Deadly with spear. Bulky but not good at hand to hand combat. Same as boy from one in most ways.
Boy from two B: Deadly with Knives. Sneaky. But also same as boy from one in most ways.
I find that most people are quite alike. I assume they all went to the same training school.
Girl from two A: Weak but clever. Suprisingly good with a bow. Good at the stragey of hand to hand combat. She would be able to suvive without sponsers or cornicopia food. Quick. Not good at parkour. (Too weak) She might be killed in blood bath but unlikey because of her new boyfriend. Is sort of a career. Quite pretty. (Explains the boy friend.)
Girl from two B: Has no wepon skills apart from a sling shot. Amazing at traps. Very good at camoflage. She not a career. Great with plants. Fast. Good at climbing trees. Sly. Might use posion?
Boy from four A: Same as boy from one but can fish for food and might be able to live off a couple of plants along with fishing. Can swim.
Boy from four B: He is weak. He has a broken leg. He would proboly die in blood bath. No real skill shown (yet.)
Girl from four A: Same as girl from one but can fish and swim
Girl from four B: Is small. She is quick. Not a career. She is a tweleve year old but smart. She can fish and is good with plants. Very good with sling shot. Is incredible at pakour .(As good as me. Which kinda says something.) Not a threat but still watch out just in case. But I think she's safe.
Boy from 9: Amazing with spear. Very strong. Good with plants. Good animal hunter. Would be bad at parkour (Too heavy). But can climb trees.
Boys & Girl A from 7: Amazing with axes. Good at plants. Can climb trees but can jump to different trees. Fifty, Fifty chance of beating me at hand to hand combat.
Thats about it. There are some others that I might look out for but I don't have many threats. I master most stations but I still avoid the careers. Until one comes up to me. Crap. Did he know that I nicked his knives?
"Hey, do you want to join us at the knife throwing section?" He asks. I think he's been watching me. I might be a threat or an ally.
"Umm... Sure." I say insontly. I walk over with him to the knife throwing section. He helps me throw knives. I pretend to get better and he says I'm a quick learner.
"So I see you're quite good at hand to hand combat." He says
"If you're going to add me to your career group based on that I think you should reconsider." I say
"Good point but if you're that quick at learning how to throw knives with practise on other ones you could be leathal." He says
"Ok... But I doubt it." I say, damn...
"Cut the lies Sky. We all know your deadly. Now your either with us or not. Choose." career girl A says. She has an iron grip on my shoulders and I'm quite startled. But I know that she doesn't know that for sure. I can see it in her eyes. Her face. It's a tactic of corse.
"I don't know what you're talking about... Can you let go before I get hand prints on my arms?" I play inosent and make a little joke.
"Well I know you're not lying. Its a little test. It works on everyone!" She says smiling. Yep everyone! Apart from me. "You better get practicing! Oh and just to be sure. Are you joining us?" She says. Crap!
"Well I would like to but..." I trail off. Well I faked it really.
"But what?" Boy B from one says.
"No offence but, my district hates the careers. 12 always get killed by you guys all the time. Which I think it's skill but I'd be shunned by my district if I get out alive. I really don't want to let them down so I'm stuck. The other mentors would ingore me and I don't want to be like one the old mentors. He commited suicide and some people where glad. I don't want to be like that." Wow what a sob story Sky. That might get them off your back for a while.
"Well... We'll ask you tommorow. Let you sleep on it." she says. Ok... I'll have to talk to my mentor on this one.
"Yeah but we need an answer. We can't have any skivers." The other boy from one says. Yeah. But what about your girlfriend. I think to myself.
"Sorry, but I don't know your names. Do you mind telling me?" I ask.
"Well I'm Amber Edenthaw, I'm from One." she says while holding out her hand. I shake it.
"I'm Chattlota Twitter from one and these two are Martial Hayes." She says gestuing to the boy from four "And Theta GoldenWood. Both from four." She says gestuing to the girl from four. " They are mutes. Theta was born mute and Martial... Its a long story..." Amber says.
"Anyway, I'm Titus Lockheart from One." He says while putting out his hand. He takes it then kisses it. Urgh. I smile and laugh a little anyway though. I want to look quite inosent but useful in some ways.
"I'm Septimus Whytt. From one." He says holding out his hand and I take it and shake it. They don't know I already know their numbers or give a damn about their names. I just wanted to change the subject.
"I'm. None of your bussiness. I don't like you or trust you." The boy from two says.
"Well, ok then. Sooner or later I'll thrash you at hand to hand." I say nicely this makes him laugh just a little.
"Do you want to try?" He says.
"Yes." I say. I get a worried look from Amber. He's heavy but I'm clever. We walk over to the station. What do you know? I beat him in a matter of seconds. He says to do it out of three. I win the second match. He's a bit annoyed, but impressed. I'm heavier than I look only by a bit. but it can win a match against him yet still making me fly up trees. I see Jason looking disaprovingly at me.
"So whats your name?" I ask him.
"Cordo Stone from two." He says. He's boy two B.
"I'm Osto Greenlaw from two." Boy two A says. "And this is my girlfriend. Silver Emrich. She's from my district." He says while kissing her on the top of her head. She giggles.
"Well since you've all introduced yourselves. I feel a bit left out so I'm Sky OverSea. from 12." I say. Cordo laughs. "Hey, I didn't choose my last name. I love my first name, So thats not changing." After that statment I practice badly on perpose and get a little worse. But they don't notice. They're chatting to much. I realise I missed lunch but I keep going anyway.
"Ok! Time for quits tributes! Back to your floors." The teacher says after a while. We all walk off then I float away from the careers and towards Jason.
"You did realise that I wouldn't join them." I say to Jason
"You looked like you did." Jason replies blankly
"I looked like it so they wouldn't aim at me. They invited me over. I couldn't say no or else I'm a target." I explain. He doesn't belive me but he doesn't aruge either. We get in the evevator and shoot up to our floor. I get changed and head to dinner. I wear just about what I wore to the chariot ride beforethe costumes. Black trousers. Blue top. Silver head band belt and my badge.
"Ok I have a life o death matter on my hands. I need a bit of advise." I say to Arianna once I arrive. "THe careers want me to join them but I haven'tjoined them yet. I did a sob story and I didn't show skill. To much." I say
"Well... Don't join them. Its better not to. Its proboly a set up so keep away from them. Say that you'll be shunned by the whole of your district and you don't want to be like that guy... Say its not about the careers its about pride to the district. Even if I die then at least I won't have a heavy heart. Or some sob story like that. I'm not one for sob stories but look sad when you say it and don't talk to them again." She says. Thats actually really good advice... I nod and we talk tactics. Not plans. Once I've finished I head to my room and get changed once again into some pyjamas. I fall asleep as soon as my head hits the pillow. Sweet dreams Sky. I think to myself as sleep pulls me under. Sweet dreams.