A/N: Hey guys I'm back :) We've got the Chariot Rides! Yay! Alright so I'm not going have a POV for every single tribute, but I will comment on all of their outfits :) Please don't forget to vote on my poll on who your favorite tribute is, it might just prolong their life in the games. Anyways here's the chapter! :D

Chapter 4

The Tribute Parade


"Losing your soul will cost you more
Than that life you're paying for
And all those friends that are just a chore
You're gonna need them more than ever before

All that glitter and all that gold
Won't buy you happy when you've been bought and sold
Riding wild horses you can't control
With all your glitter and all of your gold"

Glitter and Gold – Rebecca Ferguson


Sophia Press's POV District 4's Female Tribute

"You're finally ready! We can take you to Aloysha now!" screeches my prep team in my ear. Finally ready? Ugh, my prep team just makes me feel like I'm some ugly being. I mean seriously? Finally ready? Hopefully my stylist will be a bit nicer. She enters the room and straight away greets me.

"Hello, we don't have much time, so I'll get straight to it" she waits for me to respond but I just nod.

"Good. Now your outfit will be a bit different than the regular mermaid outfits I usually do. I'm going to try something a bit different this year and hopefully it'll work." I nod in response.

"Alright. Well, this idea isn't really new, it's been done before, but not a lot because it wasn't very popular in the past. My plan is to take the concept, and, adapt it to the audience. You'll understand what I mean in just a minute." She heads over to the door. "I'm going to go and get your outfit so please wait here."

"Ok…" I simply respond. Hmm, I wonder what it'll be, hopefully it'll work, I need the audience on my side. She said she adapted it to the audience so it should be something for the target audience. When I begin to imagine what it could possibly be, she's back.

"So the idea is to have you in a swimsuit. But, it's modified to this year's Capitol fashion." She shows me the bright bikini I'm going to wear. I'm not really sure how to feel about this. I'm kinda going to be half naked on national television.

"So this year the Capitol citizens have really been into ribbons and laces. It's been a new trend lately. So I have attatched to long blue laces with little aquamarines on the to your top, so when you're moving forward on your chariot the laces will flow backwards. Then as you can see there are two huge ribbons on the sides of the bottom part of your bikini. These have shells on them. As a final touch I'm going to put this hairband on you and also attach a lace to it. The hairband is made in a way that you'll only see the lace itself and the hairband will look invisible, so it'll look like there's a lace coming from your hair which will hopefully look quite good. I've also made your lace match the laces coming from your top. The rest is just coated with gold, bronze and deep blue paint."

Wow, what a detailed explanation. The ribbons are massive, but they will look good from a distance, which is how most of the live audience will see me. I'm not so sure about the laces though, I have no idea if the hairband trick will work.

"Thanks for the explanation, I think it'll work." I simply answer as I get into my swimsuit. I wonder what Dale's gonna wear. He's outfit will probably be matching mine, I wonder how they'll add the laces onto there.

"Oh! I almost forgot! You'll also be holding a trident, nothing special about it, just a typical trident from your District."

I'm more positive about that, it'll show my fierce side.

Evan Stein's POV District 6's Male Tribute

We're dressed as taxi drivers! Taxi Drivers! I understand that District 6 is the District in charge for transportation, but does the Capitol really perceive us as taxi drivers? Is that all we are to them? Taxi drivers? It doesn't help seeing the others' costumes. Half of the Districts are dressed in stunning costumes. The girl from 1 is dressed in a golden dress and has a fur scarf with her that she holds around her waist. The boy is dressed in a golden sparkling suit. The District 2 tributes are in simple gladiator outfits. 3 are in lab coats with big glasses. District 4 is a bit stunning. The girl is in a bikini with huge ribbons and laces attached to it, and the boy has a skintight sparkly swimsuit. He's also got a few laces attached to his costume. It's a bit disturbing for me to look at him, but my District partner certinley doesn't mind. The 5 guys have shiny suits that have moving light patterns. They're going to have sponsors rolling in, their suits are mesmerizing. Then there's us, no comment. District 7 just arrives and they're both in tree-like costumes. Not really like they're usual tree costumes, but these are more adapted to their body shape and the branches leaves form in a pattern behind them making their outfits really pleasing to look at. The rest haven't arrived yet.

There's tension in the air, you can feel it. It's the first time that we're all going to see each other, after the parade we'll get a few minutes to talk to each other maybe I can start talking to some of the other tributes, it'd be nice to have an alliance for some time. It won't be very easy, considering that I'm only 13. But maybe I can ally with some of the younger ones as well, I remember the pair from 9, they're both my age. Who knows? I might actually have a shot at an alliance.

Melissa Hemmis' POV District 2's Female Tribute

I pay attention to the other tributes and their outfits. The boy from 4 looks amazing, he'll be getting a lot of sponsors, and that's not good for me. District 8 rolls in and they both have Capitol clothes. Their costumes are clothes that you'd normally wear for the interviews. I understand the relation with the District 8 theme, but they don't usually do this in Chariot Parades for 8. The Capitol might like this a lot. District 9 are in dresses with grains glued to them, pretty unoriginal. District 10 are cowboys and 11 are farmers. The originality isn't great this year, and my statement is reinforced when 12 comes in as coalminers. Wow, how boring. Oh well, the richer Districts will get more screen time this year. Specially, 4 and 5. As for us, we'll just be average I think. Oh well, I'll make up for it during the interviews and with my training score.

Iris Perricone's POV District 10's Female Tribute

District 2's chariot leaves the stables closely following District 1's chariot. I'm not really nervous, after all it doesn't really matter too much what I do, they'll be filming the others the whole time anyway. Our costumes are boring and vague. We've been cowboys ever since I started watching the games! No wonder 10 hasn't had any victors in the last 13 years, we don't get any sponsors.

District 6 is now leaving followed by 7. I close my eyes for a second and when I open them, I see District 9's chariot leave before my eyes as the two 13-year-olds nervously wave at the public. Now our chariot is moving and I hear a few cheers, but nothing compared to when District 1, 4 and 5 came out. I do my best to smile and wave but I honestly don't care. This isn't going to determine whether I live or die, and as for sponsors, I'll hopefully win them over during the interviews.

We come to a stop. Wow, that was fast. I look over to my left and I see District 12 stopping Shortly after, President Snow's voice booms across the stadium.

"Welcome tributes, welcome to the 72nd Annual Hunger Games! We admire your courage and your sacrifice, and we wish you, Happy Hunger Games… and may the odds be ever in your favor"

I really hate this guy, with a passion. We're lead back into the stables and the crowd gives us one last cheer. I hate the Capitol audience, they're not cheering for us, but for our deaths. They can't wait to see us being ripped to shreds by one of their vicious mutations, or worse.

Once our chariot comes to a stop, I'm lead off it. We've got a few minutes to go talk to other tributes before going back to out District floors, but I'm not going to talk to people who are planning on killing me in a few days, so I just head straight for the elevator. I press the big "10" button and just before the doors are about to close, the boy from 4 jumps in.
"Sorry, I just don't like talking to others when I'm half naked" He genuinely says as her presses the button with a "4" marked on it. I don't respond.
"You're the girl with the sick sister aren't you?" he asks, how does he know?

"Yeah… how do you know?"

"Well, I'd just say that I'm observant"

"Why do you care anyway?"

"I kinda was forced into this, I don't really want to be here. I just thought that I'd like to help someone out during the games you know? I don't wanna be seen as one of those psycho killers that kill anything that moves. Since you have your sister back home and all, I thought I might help you out."

"You want to ally with me? Out of the 24 tributes, you choose the 14-year-old from 10?"

"I genuinely mean it. I'm not like them. I'm not like the other careers."

"Sure…" I say unsure of myself. I'll need more than a couple of words to trust this guy.

"Cool. Ok well see ya in training!" He says stepping out of the elevator as it comes to a stop. Oh god, what am I doing? Allying with a career, this seems fishy.

Hunter Lever's POV District 8's Male Tribute

I walk over to the careers, I should probably get to know them a bit before training. I see that the boy from 4 isn't there, it's just the tributes from 1 and 2 and the girl from 4. They all look at me as I join them. The boy from 2 looks like he's the leader, he sizes me up and looks a bit impressed.

"We were thinking about you joining us. Have you trained before?" The girl from 1 says.

"Of course, I've trained for 8 years." I say confidently. I look over at the pack and they all nod in approval.

"I'm guessing I can join?"

"Yeah, you're in." says the boy from 2.

"Good." I simply say and head off back to the elevator. I look at any other possible alliances forming, I see the girls from 5, 6 and my District partner talking. I guess that's good, if I die, I'd want my District partner to win. But I'll still kill her if it means my survival. And then there's the boys from 6 and 3 talking to the two weaklings from 9. Are the little ones seriously trying to make an alliance with each other? As if they even stand a chance. I see the pair from 11 and the pair from 12 talking, of course the poorer Districts team up with each other, idiots everywhere. I enter the elevator and press the "8" button. I'm gonna eat quickly and head to bed, I need to make sure I get rest for tomorrow, I'll be showing my skills to the careers and trying to intimidate the weaker ones.

A/N: Okay, so I'm really excited to begging training! Some alliances are being formed, but they'll develop throughout the games. I've planned out the arena already, and it's gonna be very different than the normal arenas. That's all I'm saying. I'm really excited to write the initial cornucopia scene, but that'll come with time. I just realized that I hadn't put up the ages of the tributes in the previous chapter, so that's what I'm gonna do now, cuz the ages play an important part in some of the alliances. Don't forget to vote on my poll on who your favorite tribute is. Just go on my profile and click on Vote on Poll and VOTE!

Tributes (with age):

District 1:

Claire Cludiant (17)

Keaton Gold (17)

District 2:

Melissa Hemmis (16)

Logan Voss (18)

District 3:

Ariadna Meyer (15)

Darren Hacker (13)

District 4:

Sophia Press (17)

Dale Alderman (17)

District 5:

Female: Silvia Heffernan (15)

Male: Braydon Serre (16)

District 6:

Female: Mai Kilson (16)

Male: Evan Stein (13)

District 7:

Female: Abigail Gould (16)

Male: Nathan Gould (17)

District 8:

Female: Lillian Conner (16)

Male: Hunter Lever (17)

District 9:

Female: Rylie Naples (13)

Male: Malik Stevens (13)

District 10:

Female: Iris Perricone (14)

Male: Andrew Stang (16)

District 11:

Female: Makayla Zideck (15)

Male: Tristan Ray (18)

District 12:

Female: Autumn Govern (16)

Male: Austin Pelikan (15)