The Capitol is amazing and breathtaking. The buildings are tall and made out of the finest stone. There is no poverty, no shack outside of the city with the people living in it barely eating. I walk into the famed room known as the training room. I have no idea what to do. Mags told me to be myself. Myself does not belong here.

I wander over to the Careers, who I am expected to join. I hate all of them almost instantly. Everyone, except for the girl from District 1, is stupid and hungry for fame. I stroll over to her and sit next to her on the bench of the knot tying station.

"Hi." She smiles and brushes the hair out of her face. She drops her knot.

"I suck at this."

"No, no, you don't. Let me teach you." I help her find the ways that the rope can twist in and out. When we are done, I have a new ally. Her name is Candra. We both walk around together to every station. I don't like, like her. She is a friend and an ally. She has the strengths of my weaknesses.

When it is time to be judged and get our scores, I want to make a huge impression. Sadly, they don't have tridents so I try throwing knifes. It doesn't work to well and I get a 7.

Mags helps me decide my image for the games. I am told to be humble just like I was at home. The class clown, the one that doesn't care about anything. I can do that. When it is time to get dressed for the chariot rides, I am wearing a blue and green suit that makes me look like I have scales. The chariot ride is uneventful. I do find out that her name is Selena and that she comes from the outer part for four that mainly consist of the poor people that make nets and hooks. Mags used to live there.

Our Victor's Village has so many victors that they had to build extra houses. It has something to do with being a Career. I won't be a Career. If I win, I don't want to have the attributes of one of them. We wave to the crowds. When it is my turn to walk up to the podium to answer my questions, I make a decision that I have to be a people person.

"So, Finnick Odair, are you ready for these games?"

"Um, yeah, I guess. You never know what's coming until it gets there though."

"True, very true. Any one special back home?"

"No, not really. Many people think they are though!" I wink at the crowd and I know I have won people over.

"Good luck, Finnick." The buzzer rings and I go over at sit next to the other people. Everyone else's is boring and I don't pay attention. Candra tells me they were just scared of going after me. I try to laugh. It's harder than ever before because for all I know it could be the last funny thing I ever hear. It might be the last time I see Candra alive. I don't know because tomorrow we are going into the Games.

That night, I don't sleep and I don't try to. In the morning, I wake up and my prep team gets me ready in my outfit for this year's games. I don't ask too many questions and they don't either. I wonder how many people they have prepared for the Games but end up dying. I wouldn't be able to do that job. I head up to my plate. The last thing Mags tells me is to remember home. I promise her that it will be my last dying thought. I get up on the plate and it rises to the arena.

All I can see are 2 huge hills with a pond in the middle and the Cornucopica on an island in the middle of the pond. We are going to have to swim for supplies. That is no biggie for me. I've been swimming since I could walk. I run off my plate with confidence. I jump in the water that feels just like home. It feels like flying until I pull myself up onto land and find I am the first one here.

Some people opted out of swimming are running off toward the hills. I grab a couple of knifes, a backpack, and an extra pair of socks, and shove them into the backpack. I jump back into the water just as the battle starts breaking out. I jump back onto land and run far away until I can't hear the clash of people anymore.

When I finally get as far as I can go without cramping, I stop and try and figure out how to climb a tree. We only have palm trees in District 4. I get the hang of it and I climb to the top of the tree and look out all around the arena. The water is now stained with blood and the Careers are going through everything left of the Cornucopia.

"Hey, watcha doing up there?" I hear someone shout from beneath me. They don't want to kill me or they would've done it by know. I look down and see Candra.

"You made it!" She nods and puts her hand up to shield the light out of her eyes.

"You got a game plan?" She asks me. I seriously have no idea what to do now. I shake my head.

"You better get up here though. If someone finds you just standing there, you are dead meat." I put my hand out to her and help her up. We go through our supplies. The anthem starts and we look up to the sky. So far the boy from 1, both from 3, the girl from 5, the boy and girl from 7, the boy from 9, the boy from 10, the girl from 11, and both from 12 have died. I think about those people's families. I think about Candra losing her partner. She shrugs at me and I know not to mention it.

We break up some of the dried meat from my pack for dinner. Then we fall asleep. We wake up in the morning to a mist. I stretch my hand out from the branches of the tree. This isn't normal mist. I start gathering up everything and I wake up Candra. She sees the urgency in my eyes and she runs with me out of the mist. By the time we are out, I can barely here and I have a huge scar on my leg that stops me from running. Candra has an eye sealed shut. We are in terrible condition. Once the mist clears up, I hear three cannons in a row. Someone had come after us and they weren't as lucky as us. We keep walking slowly because of my leg. I am almost begging Mags to send us some medicine or something that could help us. We receive nothing.

We make our way to a cave by a stream. I try to pour some of the water on her eye and slowly it opens again. She lost most of her vision, though. Nothing can help my ear but I soak one of the socks in the water and place it on my leg.

"What's your token?" She asks me.

"This." I roll up my sleeve to show her the leather bracelet. She rolls up her pants leg to show me an ankle bracelet made of duct tape.

"My friends made it for me. They like the way it sparkled." We suddenly turn our heads toward a sound from the woods. Even with my damaged ear, it is loud. Suddenly, a dart flies at us and we duck out of the way. It flies into the stream and fizzes. We scramble to get out our supplies when the figure emerges out of the woods. It is the girl from 10 and the boy from 11.

She shoots her arrow and it pierces the girl it the chest. The boy gets seriously angry and as he charges us I throw my knife at him but it misses. He keeps coming with his sword and I get slashed across the arm. I make a dive for my knife and he jump on top of me. He has his sword at my throat when Candra throws a rock at his head and it hits him hard. He drops to the ground, dead. We leave the area and find a tree to stay for the night.

"Thanks." I mumble when we get up in the tree. The anthem starts and I see that both from 2, Selena, the girl from 10, and the boy from 11 have died. We didn't hear a fight so we start thinking of things that could've killed the Careers. We turn and look at each other at the same time.

"The mist." She whispers. I nod. They were coming after us. We are now the only Careers left. But I am not a Career. I watch her as she sleeps and I wonder if she is one.