A/N: I'm here once again with a new chapter. Training Day 1 :) Ok so the tributes begin to show their skills now! And yeaaah :D So I'm not really sure how the whole stay at the Capitol works but I think that the first two days are just basic training and then you've got the Gamemaker sessions on day 3 and the interviews on day 4. Anyways I hope you enjoy the chapter :)

Chapter 5

Training Day 1

"You could go the distance
You could run the mile
You could walk straight through hell with a smile

You could be the hero
You could get the gold
Breaking all the records that thought never could be broke

Do it for your people
Do it for your pride
Never gonna know if you never even try

Do it for your country
Do it for you name
Cause there's gonna be a day

When your, standing in the hall of fame
And the world's gonna know your name
Cause you burn with the brightest flame
And the world's gonna know your name
And you'll be on the walls of the hall of fame"

Hall of Fame – The Script

Ariadna Meyer's POV District 3's Female Tribute

Training. I need to make sure to learn the survival skills. I'm pretty sure I'm going to be useless with any kind of weapon, so I should focus on what I actually have a shot at.

The elevator arrives to our floor and the doors slowly open. Darren and I enter and join the pair from 11, which are also in the elevator. Seeing the huge 18-year-old boy freaks me out. I'm going to be up against him! I never realized how big he was until now, and he's not even a career. We arrive to the underground floor and the doors open. I see all the careers and the pairs from 5 and 8 here. I thought we'd be the last ones. The elevator shoots back up once the doors close behind us. I feel so weak in front of the massive careers. I look over at Darren and he's slightly shaking. Standing here is so nerve racking, especially when there's 6 tributes planning your death. The pair from 7 arrive, which are followed by the pair from 10 and 12. I awkwardly attempt to try to talk to the girl from 10, but her answers are short and she doesn't look interested in me. I give up talking to people and just stand next to Darren as the pairs from 6 and 9 finally arrive. Darren walks over to the boy from 6 and starts talking to him. Darren's already got an ally? Wow, I'm impressed. Fine then, I got to find myself an ally before the end of training, that's my goal.

We're lead into the Training Center and the lead trainer begins to speak.

"Welcome tributes. As you can see, there's a wide range of different stations available to you. Each of them teaches a different skill that can be very useful in the arena. I recommend attending as many stations as possible; after all, these next few training days are crucial, if you want to survive the next two weeks. Oh, and a word to the wise, don't all rush to the deadliest weapons, the survival skills are just as important."

Alright, well I've already decided to focus on survival, and that's what I'm going to do. So when we're dismissed, I head over to the edible plants station and take the test before even looking at the plants booklet. I score 22%, clearly not good enough. I probably should've read the booklet first. After reading the whole thing twice, I score 66.5%. That's an improvement. I still need to score above 85% though. Time flies. Before I know it, we're being called for lunch. We started training at 10, and it's 1 now. Did I seriously spend 3 hours at the edible plants station? I didn't even notice that the girl from 6 had joined me. I probably should talk to her.

"Hey" I say as we take our lunch trays

"Hey"

"So you're giving edible plants a shot too?"

"Yeah, but it's not working out, my best is 54%."

"I could help you if you want" I suggest as I sit down at a table.

"That'd be nice, how about you join us? We don't really have anyone that's good with plants."

"I'd love to, who else is in it? The girls from 5 and 8."

Yay, I made myself an alliance, that's awesome! The two girls head over to our table and sit next to us.

"Hey guys, we've got a new ally! So what's your name?"

"Ariadna, District 3" I nervously say.

"That's cool, I'm Silvia, District 5" says the girl with black hair.

"And I'm Lillian, District 8" adds the tall brunette.

"Oh, yeah I forgot, I never told you my name, I'm Mai, 6." I smile and take a bite at my food. Well this is going good!

Abigail Gould's POV District 7's Female Tribute

Nathan and I basically stick together for the whole time, we went to the traps station and learned basic traps and snares. We then went to the camouflage station and we were both pretty bad at it so we soon gave up and went over to the fire station. Nathan excelled and I didn't do se well. We sit in front of each other during lunch and no one sits next to us. I wonder if Nathan would allow an ally, since he volunteered to protect me, would he trust another tribute? I ask him this.

"Maybe we should try to ally with someone" I suggest

"Why? How do you know we can trust other tributes?

"Well it would be easier to protect each other that way."

"I'm responsible for you Abi, I volunteered to protect you, I can't risk anyone backstabbing you. Plus, there can only be one victor, alliances are useless" His last comment saddens me a little. It reminds me that even if one of us makes it out of the arena, the other will die. So even if I somehow win, I will have lost my brother. And same thing for him, but he isn't planning on winning the games.

I look around to see who the other tributes are sitting with. The careers include 7 tributes, both from 1, 2 and 4 and the boy from 8. That's a big bunch. I look behind me and see the girl from 3, with the girls from 5, 6 and 8. I'm surprised at the fact that I can't remember any of their names. I try to think of any tributes I know the name of apart from Nathan. Well, there's Andrew and Iris from 10. I don't know why I remember them. There's Rylie from 9 and Makayla from 11. That's about it. I look to the table in front and see Rylie with her District partner talking to the boys from 3 and 6. To my left is Iris sitting alone, but she's looking at the boy from 4 in the career table. He looks back at her giving her a nod. Interesting, I'll keep an eye out for those two. I hear the lunch bell go off and I see the careers quickly getting into groups of two and heading to the weapon stations, the boy from 4 heads to Iris to talk to her. Nathan and I leave for the axe station. Coming from 7, we're both quite decent with an axe, so we'll give it a shot. I see the girls from 1 and 4 looking at us. Nathan decapitates a dummy and slices another one in the chest. I cut a dummy's arm and slice it in the abdomen, I look back at the career girls and they look mildly impressed but not stunned. I see the girl from 4 heading to the knife throwing station. I stop and watch her for a while, to see what I'm up against. Bull's-eye, not one miss. Impressive, but then again, she is a trained killer, I wouldn't expect any least.

"We should leave weaponry for the last day, lets focus on survival for now" whispers Nathan in my ear. I nod and we head over to the edible plants station.

Autumn Govern's POV District 12's Female Tribute

I see the boy from 8 and the boy from 1 glance over at us as Austin climbs up the rock-climbing wall. The boy from 1 starts climbing with us. He quickly passes me, and Austin. Soon enough, he's reached the end and he's climbing back down. The boy from 8 laughs at us. Ugh. I hate these guys, I start climbing down and I motion for Austin to climb down as well. Maybe it's better if we move on to another station. We head over to the edible plants station. We look over the booklet and try to memorize as many plants as possible. Austin gets bored and takes the test before finishing the booklet, he scores 39%. I finish the booklet and take the test, I score 66%. Not very good, but good enough. I'll come back here tomorrow. We move on to the fire station were we find the pair from 11 successfully making a fire. We join them.

After about 30 minutes of awkward silence and failing to make a fire, I turn over to the 11's.

"Hey, how did… you do that?"

"Oh, hey" says the girl slightly surprised.

"Well, it took us a while, but there's no real trick to it, you just have to not give up. We've been here for over an hour…" she responds.

"Oh wow, have you tried any other stations?"

"Yeah we've been to the edible plants station, we were pretty good at that since we're from 11. We tried the camouflage station, it also went quite well, but that's about it. We'll try weapons tomorrow."

"That's cool. Well, would you like to be allies?" I ask awkwardly.

"With us? Yeah that'd be great, I'll go tell Tristan." I smile and walk over to Austin to tell him the news.

"I've almost got it" he says

"Don't bother, we've got allies that can take care of that."

"What?"

"You heard me, I allied with the 11's."

"Okay well, do we even know their names?"

"Uhhh, no…"

"Yeah, you should probably get to know someone better before allying with them in a fight to the death."

"Okay! Well we can find out what they're like tomorrow during lunch, we should probably continue our training."

"Fine, then we should sort out who's gonna train what, we don't wanna end up all learning the same skills right? We want to all have a variety of skills."

"Right, so common lets go talk to them."

Andrew Stang's POV District 10's Male Tribute

I see the pair from 11 talking with the pair from 12. Everyone's making alliances. Is everyone really that stupid? There can only be one victor. Alliances will only last temporarily. Soon enough, people will start turning on each other. Plus, how can you know that your allies are not8 just trying to kill you somehow. Oh well, it's their problem not mine, I'll be just fine. Ha! I wonder how the career alliance break up will be like. They're all just idiots.

I finish the trap I was making and test it. Works perfectly. Great. It's probably time I move on. I go to the close combat station and watch the boy from 4 fighting a trainer. Another trainer comes to me and attends me. He teaches me a few techniques and I then fight him. It doesn't go as well as expected, but the next time I try, I manage to land a few blows on him. I see the boy from 4 leave, and Iris joins us. She's pretty good for her size, she's quick and agile and dodges very well. I probably could beat her though, if it comes down to it, I'm not sure if I would actually kill my District partner. I mean, if I die I'd want her to win. But if we encounter each other, I wonder if we'd fight or not. I guess I would. It would improve my odds of coming back. Oh well, it doesn't really matter, she'll probably die early. In the bloodbath or something. I focus back on the training session and dismiss her from my mind.

The bell goes off indicating the end of training. Wow, I spent the rest of the afternoon at the combat station. I go back to the elevator with Iris. We arrive to our District floor and exit the elevator. Before even getting to my room, Felix comes to talk to me.

"So how was training?"

"It went well, I learned a lot, but I'm not planning on making alliances, I think it's better not to trust anyone."

"Hmm, well are you sure you don't want to ally with Iris?"

"No, I'd rather not have allies."

"Sure, I guess that'd be fine. Just don't fool around in training, focus, this is the time where you need to learn as much as possible, it might determine whether or not you might survive the next few days."

"I know, I know" I say heading off to my room.

"Shower up before dinner!" he reminds me. Wow, what a day. I'm glad it's almost over. At the same time, I'm sad for every second that passes. I'm one second closer to the arena, and to all the horrors that await me.

A/N: Okay! So that's a wrap :) I hope you enjoyed my chapter! PLEASE go vote on my poll on who your favorite tribute is :) You can vote for up to 3 tributes! :D Okay so here's the list of tributes :)

Tributes:

District 1:

Female: Claire Cludiant (17)

Male: Keaton Gold (17)

District 2:

Female: Melissa Hemmis (16)

Male: Logan Voss (18)

District 3:

Female: Ariadna Meyer (15)

Male: Darren Hacker (13)

District 4:

Female: Sophia Press (17)

Male: 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)