So the first training session! And here we see the start of some alliances and some of the tributes weapons, I will do two group training sessions. Before doing some snippits of private training sessions, just so people can see what tributes weapon choice and specialty is. Then after that comes the training scores. The interview, then the best part. THE GAMES!

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Charlize Valley Summer POV

The training room is set up into many different sections, each catering for a particular need. I familiarise myself with archery, picking up the bow and arrow, trying to get in the centre of the target each time, I do get it in the centre three out of five times, which isn't bad seeing as I haven't trained in years. I then move onto the stool that's identifying plants and berries, looking over all the information I already knew, taking in all of the things I didn't.

Then I moved onto the new things, camouflaging, was the first. Sitting there was the girl from district Seven, painting an impressive grass camouflage on her hand, occasionally putting it to the canvas which she was copying from, watching her hand practically disappear was a bit weird, to say the least. I went and sat next to her.

"Hi, I'm Charlize, that's an amazing camouflage!" I grin, picking up some paints for myself and starting to apply them onto my hand, picking the tree to copy from.

"Aw, thanks, it was quite rushed, I'm Eilonwy, pleased to meet you." She smiles and goes out to shake hands, then realises that she stuck out the hand she'd painted all over and chuckled, taking it back. "Look, you need to apply mud first, it'll make the bark stay on better!"

"Oh yeah! Thanks" I start applying the mud and see the noticeable effect. "Where did you learn all of this?"

"Well, I don't know." She says, looking down at the ground, she's hiding something, I don't blame her for it though, you can't trust anyone in these games. "Just sussed it out, I guess!"

We both laugh and carry on with our painting for a while, offering tips and compliments occasionally.

"Is this a mothers meeting or something?" A voice called.

We turned to look at the District Four boy. A career, brilliant. He sits with us, I get ready to leave when he whispers.

"Look, I don't intend on joining the careers so you don't have to run away."

Both Eilonwy and I look confused, he picks up the paint materials and joins in, putting clay over his hand.

"I don't want to join a ton of stuck up careers. I'd rather form an alliance with two people who I can tell are already trained." He smirks, looking at our open mouthed faces in amusement.

"How did you guess?" Eilonwy whispered. Oh so she's been trained, that makes more sense as to why she's so good at this!

"I do my research, I know your granddad won the games ages ago." He is clever. I give him that, he's definitely done his homework. "You," He turned to look at me. "used to live in District One, so I just assume you've had training, and, from the way you were shooting those arrows, I would assume correctly."

"Okay. Well done, you've done your research, and I haven't done mine." I grimace at him, trying to seem intimidating, but he had me all figured out, I was going to convey the fact that I was originally from District One, despite the archery show. "What was your name again?"

"Me? Travis. Trav if you really prefer." He said, he'd already done an exact replica of the canvas in front of him. He was definitely trained well.

"Well Trav why are you blackmailing us?" Eilonwy shot at him. He chuckled slightly, putting the finishing touches to the painting then getting some towels and started rubbing the masterpiece off.

"I'm not, as I said, I want a strong alliance with strong people, but I don't want it to appear to be cliché, like the careers, plus only I, I think, know about you guys." He's about to stand up when a twig drops on his head.

All three of us look instantly upwards, and about three metres off the ground, sitting in the tree that you practice climbing on, was the young street girl. She looked really guilty and Travis sighed loudly.

"Have you listened to everything? Avis?" He says and she nods, she scampers down the tree and stands next to Eilonwy, trying to stand tall, despite that she's about a foot shorter than me, the other two are taller.

"I have a… Proposal." She said, dragging out the word proposal as if she were finding it hard to pronounce. "I would like to join your alliance!"

"And the positives of that proposal are?" I say, and Travis clears his throat.

"I can see her being a good ally." He says, I look at him incredulously, she was the youngest tribute here, she looked so underfed and scrawny that she couldn't fight for her life, she'll be gone In the bloodbath.

"Avis Clayton, District Nine, she's lived on the streets since she was four, I presume you can fight with a knife?" Avis nods at this, smiling. "She'll also know a lot of stuff about living off the land, even if she lived in a street and not 'off the land' as such, it could still prove useful."

Okay, this guy was good. We all agree, and also agree to keep it quiet until the arena.

"Okay guys, this is the plan…" Travis Begins.

Crystal Pierce POV

I pick up the knives for the eighteenth time.

Aim.

Throw!

Miss.

I can hear the district two people sniggering and I turn around to see them whispering and looking at me, smirking nastily.

I turn and try again.

Hit!

Right in the centre. I'm not one to give up and I'm not going to start doing it, I go to the target and take out the knife, and the ones scattered round the floor. I had one more go, people were starting to queue up and get impatient. So for the last time I pick up the five knives and throw them, one after the other, each one lands on point. I feel so proud and look over at the careers, who look just as taken aback as I feel.

Next, onto the trap setting. I can fish, but that's as much as it gets. I'm such a promising career I admit, that was pure sarcasm, by the way. I've always been too busy to train, and I never actually wanted to, I'm probably one of the only people in the whole of district four who never did train. Well, I can catch on quick.

Erica Wein POV

I sit by the fire making section, getting used to making the fire, ways to hide the smoke and other neat tricks. I've basically spent my whole time at this section, less for making fires, more to observe people.

So far I've noticed weapons for some people, the District Two girls definitely Archery, she's seriously good at it too. Whereas Nathon from District Seven, to no surprise, is extremely good with throwing axes.

You can tell who the careers are, the District One girl seems to be hanging around with them, although she doesn't seem as if she wants to be a part of them, then both the District Two's seem to be the biggest threats for careers, they definitely know what they're doing and they are the cruellest, mocking all of the weaker tributes whenever they fail at anything. There's also the District four boy, which again is to be expected…

Of course you have the followers, the people trying to get in with the careers. Both the District Eleven and Twelve boy seem to be trying, following them around like puppy dogs, trying to show off. At one point, the arrogant District Twelve boy got into a fight with Cassius, peacekeepers pulled them apart but Cassius screamed at him, how he was going to be the first to die. The boy seemed to back off since that point, and the District Eleven seemed a bit stumped on what to do.

There are a couple of smart people, for example, the mysterious Xeno, he didn't seem to be doing anything, merely walking between stations, observing what was going on, lurking in the shadows, not showing off any of his abilities, if he has any. Then there's the District Eight boy, Seth, who is sticking to the menial things, like me, not the things he's good at, trying to build up skills, not revealing what his talent is.

I think now of Cate, I wonder what she'd be doing right now, would she even be awake? It's only 7am. I wonder if she's thinking about me. I hope she's okay.

Pryce Alexander POV

I think the main thing I'm looking for is allies. Whilst going from station to station, trying as many things as I can out, whether I've attempted them before or not, I observe the people at each station. If I were to pick allies they have to be of strong mind, and determined, as well as physically strong. I observe the obvious alliances already. Of course there's the three girls, Eilonwy, Charlize, and Avis. Then the careers. Recently I've seen Erica, Crystal and Terra chatting. Then the obvious careers.

I look at the people keeping to themselves, if I want a strong mind I don't want younger tributes, so the people left are Shannie, Crown, Thalia, Seth, Xeno, Savoy, Nathon, and some more. I can tell the people who want to keep to themselves, the young Arianna looks too quiet and shy to try and make an alliance, and Xeno hasn't said a word since he got here, he's the dark horse, no one knows what he's capable of. I saw Crystal try to talk to Shannie earlier and she told her to go away, so I'm assuming she's not open to alliances, either.

I approach Seth, who's sitting at the trap station, attempting a decent trap, for the first time anyway.

"Pryce." He says. He's been remembering tributes names too by the looks of things. I sit down next to him and attempt a trap of my own.

"Seth." I reply, and struggle with my trap, trying to tie together each piece of wood with some rope or cord or whatever I can get my hands on. "How are you feeling?"

To this he laughs quietly but bitterly. "Swell, going to battle off to my death and I'm training myself in making traps."

"I know the feeling, I was wondering, are you in an alliance?" His head snaps around and he looks me up and down.

"Nope, but, I will go in one if I so need to, I assume you're not in one either, then?"

"No, I want the stronger of people. You being one of them." I say.

"I'm up for that, but, you're not to ask me any questions on what I'm doing, and, we don't have a leader in this alliance, or whatever it is." He pulls a bit of cord and his trap comes to life, a spikey ball time thing rushing round to the front and staying where the rope was moments before.

"Impressive," I say, appreciating the work. "Well, I want say, one or two more people. You have any ideas?"

"Yeah, I do, but I don't think we should ask them just yet…"

Surin Lee POV

I walk around the stations, I'd never really used a weapon before, so I look for one that the careers aren't fighting over. I come across a weapons rack, which just has three pipes, latched to it, I pick the leftmost one and take some small darts that are in a box next to them, taking care not to prick my fingers with the points.

The instructions are next to the rack, and the station is quite out of view, I follow what they say, placing the dart in the pipe and then aiming it at the target, I blow into it with all my force and the dart goes shooting out, hitting the target infront of me with no trouble. Not bad for a first shot. Taking a look at the sign I see it says Blow Dart. I decided that this is a weapon I'll use in the games.

I turn to see the Xeno boy, watching what I was doing, just standing, leaning against the wall, watching me. I stared back and eventually turned away, loading another dart into the pipe.

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