A/N: Hey guys I'm back! This is probably the most exciting chapter for me to write in the ENTIRE story. I've been looking forward to writing this for like months! It's not even funny how much I've tried to rush the story so I could get to write this. Ahhh but finally… I'm going to have soo much fun writing! Well, by the time you're reading this it will already be written, but oh well. Enjoy!

Chapter 9

Let the Games Begin: The Bloodbath

"And in a burst of light that blinded every angel
As if the sky had blown the heavens into stars
You felt the gravity of tempered grace
Falling into empty space
No one there to catch you in their arms

Do you feel cold and lost in desperation?
You build up hope, but failure's all you've known
Remember all the sadness and frustration
And let it go. Let it go"

Iridescent – Linkin Park


Day 1

Makayla Zideck's POV District 11's Female Tribute

Our mentors escort us towards the hovercraft. We'll be riding the hovercraft over to the arena. There'll be no windows except for the pilot's cabin. That's because the arena but me kept a secret. We will then be sent underground to our launch rooms where we will meet our stylists. They will then give us our clothes for the arena and send us into our glass tubes, which will then rise up into the arena. This is what our mentors have explained to us. As I say goodbye to my mentor and head off towards the hovercraft, I wonder if the careers feel as nervous as I do right now. I know they've trained, but surely they must feel somewhat scared right? They might've trained, but they have to take into account that there are 6 other careers that have trained as much if not more. Do they really think that they can beat each other? I honestly have no idea.

When I enter the hovercraft I see that about half of the tributes have arrived. I thought there would be an arranged sitting plan where you'd sit next to your District partner, but clearly not. All the tributes are sitting in random places, mostly with their allies. I try to find Tristan but I think he's still talking with his mentor. Austin and Autumn haven't arrived yet, so I just sit next to the District 3 girl, which is sitting alone. I can see her legs slightly shaking. She's really nervous, and she isn't hiding it. The pair from 4 enter and sit next to each other opposite from me and the 3 girl. Tristan finally walks in right behind the boy from 9. He sits down next to me and the boy from 9 finds a space next to the boy from 3, one of his allies I think. Nobody dares to speak, not even the careers. I guess they are nervous after all. Soon enough, the remaining tributes enter. The last tribute is the girl from 10, which has only one seat left. She has to sit in between two huge intimidating careers. The boy from 2, and the boy from 4. The boy from 4 looks at her in a different manner than the rest of the careers, as if he knew her. He must just be polite or something.

I feel the hovercraft rising and a group of medics enter. They're all wearing white coats and they all have some sort of needle in their arms. They head over to the first tribute on the end of the line. The medic inserts some sort of tracker, she then moves on to the next tribute. A different medic injects trackers to the tributes sitting on the row in opposite from us. I hear the girl from District 3 flinch as the tracker enters her arm. As I hold my arm out, I feel a stabbing pain, and then a tiny metal ball enter through a whole in my skin. A light flashes from under my skin, which really freaks me out. I dismiss it from my mind and focus on the games that will be starting soon. My best strategy for the Cornucopia is to get something from the outskirts of it quickly and find Tristan, Austin or Autumn as fast as possible. The games start at 8:30am. It's currently 7:58am. In an hour, I could be dead, these could literally be the last minutes of my life. Right here on some hovercraft in the middle of nowhere. And it really sucks that I've been living the last few days of my life with so much stress. I haven't been able to relax or have a good time. I've just been stressed and nervous about everything going on, not even enjoying what are possibly the last few days of my life. A part of me can't even believe that my current situation is so bad. I've always been so afraid of the games, and now that they're actually happening I just don't feel like they're real. Like it's all too bad to actually be happening. But this is real, and I will die in the next few weeks. It's almost inevitable.

The hovercraft lands smoothly and we're not allowed to go outside so we have to exit the hovercraft through and elevator which sends us directly underground. Once we're there, two Peacekeepers escort each tribute to their launch rooms. Every launch room has a name on it, like D3M, which I'm guessing, stands for District 3 Male. We pass a few rooms that say, D4F, D8F and D5M. They're in complete random order. Once we reach the room that says D11F, the door automatically opens and I enter. I find my stylist standing there, expecting me to come in. When I do, she gives me a caring smile as she heads over to where the arena wear has been laid out. All she gives me are hiking boots, a jacket and some quick dry pants.

"You should be expecting average temperature, nothing too warm or too cold. The arena might be a bit mountainous, or you might have to walk for long distances, or climb up things. There might be rain, or a lake, but the arena shouldn't be anything like a desert or a snowy mountain." I'm relieved when she says this because I come from District 11, the agricultural District, so we're definitely not used to weather extremes, it does sometimes get very hot though. This also gives me a hope that there's going to be some sort of vegetation in the arena which could be my prime source of food since I know all about plants coming from 11. As I tie my hiking boots, my mentor wishes me luck. Just then, a voice orders me to enter the glass tube, which is located to my left. I enter; I see the glass door close right in front of me. My mentor gives me a confident nod and my tube shoots up, headed off into the unknown, I prepare myself. The arena could still be anything imaginable, despite the fact that we've been given regular arena wear, the Gamemakers can still put anything in there, even if it goes against all laws of nature.

Light engulfs me as I rise above ground. When I regain my vision, I see a grass plain extended before my eyes, and the Cornucopia reflecting the sun's light, which shines into my eyes. Weapons are spilling from every corner of the Cornucopia. I look around me; I see a few trees but not many. The trees aren't forest trees, and their fairly spread out, they're not close to each other, just close enough to give a person walking through them some shade. As I flicker my eyes around, a flash of bright red catches my eye. I squint as the object comes into vision. Swings. As in, swings that you swing in when you were a little kid at the school playground. Then I see a slide next to the swings and a path extending in between both of them. I then see a bench, on the other side. The arena is a park? I look in the distance now, to see if the arena is simply just a park that goes on forever. I'm shocked by what I see. In the distance, I can see skyscrapers and buildings of all sorts. As the buildings come more into focus, I see that the windows are shattered and vines are growing in from every corner. Some buildings don't look stable at all, as if they were on the verge of collapsing. One skyscraper, far off in the distance, has fallen to the side and crashed into another skyscraper. Vines hang down from it, almost touching the ground. The arena is an abandoned city.


Rylie Naples' POV District 9's Female Tribute

We have one minute to stand on our pedal stones and observe everything. A minute that rushed by, when I checked the clock in front of the cornucopia, it indicated that there were 40 more seconds until the games began. I had spent 20 seconds admiring the arena, which to be honest, was amazing. Probably one of the most incredible arenas I've ever seen. An abandoned city was probably the most creative arena in the history of the games. Of course you can't really judge creativity, but it definitely is a surprise.

I look around for my allies. I'm probably on the worst pedal stone that I could've possibly been on. I'm in between the pair from District 2. The girl is to my left, and the boy is to my right. That's not all, but three tributes to my left is the girl from 4. It's like I'm surrounded by careers. My closest ally is Darren, which is located four tributes to my right. He's in between the boy from 10, and the girl from 8. I look around for the rest of my allies. Malik is very far off, I'm guessing 8 or 9 tributes to my left. He's in between the girl from 6 and the boy from 11. I then look for Evan; I find him standing next to the boy from 5 and the girl from 12. It does seem quite random, but it's a bit odd that I've been put in between two careers. Are they just trying to get rid of me since I got the lowest training score? I find myself shaking at the thought.

25 seconds until the games begin. The seconds count down incredibly fast, I take out my token to calm myself down a little because if I continue to shake like I'm shaking right now, I might as well fall of the pedal stone and blow up. 15 seconds. I hold my token, a small wooden ball given to me by my grandma, tightly around my palm.

10…

9…

8…

7…

6….

I can't do this, I can't. I begin to shake again, almost violently. I get a glimpse of the clock, four seconds. I try to regain composure, but something slips out of my hand. When I look down at what is falling, I see the small wooden ball touching the ground next to the pedal stone. The ground beneath me explodes. I see a quick flash of red and white, and then nothing.


Logan Voss' POV District 2's Male Tribute

The force of the blast almost throws me off my pedal stone, but I manage to keep myself on it. The ground has erupted. Pieces of land have flown in all directions. What even happened? I think the District 9 girl was standing on that pedal stone. Did she commit suicide? Whoever that was is dead. I look around and see everyone has already left their pedal stones and is running around the cornucopia. What?! I jump off my pedal stone.

"Logan! Melissa!" a voice calls out. I look over to Melissa, which name's also been called out. She must've gotten distracted by the explosion too. Sophia was the one that was calling us.

"C'mon! Get over here the tributes are already fleeing the cornucopia!" How did everyone already get to the Cornucopia? Last time I looked at the Cornucopia's clock, there were 4 seconds on it. The girl must've blown up soon before the start of the games. I guess only the tributes that were close to the girl were distracted by it, many tributes are already fleeing the Cornucopia with backpacks and weapons. I sprint over to the center of the Cornucopia; no cannons have gone off, indicating that there haven't been any deaths yet, apart from the stupid girl that set her landmine off. I see a fight brake out from the corner of my eye. The boy from 5 tackled the boy from 6 to the ground. I reach the Cornucopia a bit after Melissa does. She quickly grabs an axe and lunges herself at a boy that I can't recognize. I hear a cannon go off quickly followed by another one. Melissa stands over the boy she previously launched herself at. I enter the Cornucopia frantically looking for a sword. Hunter joins me, also looking for a sword. I grab one off the wall of the Cornucopia, it isn't as long as I'd like it to be, but it should do for now. I look around to see if I can find any other tributes that haven't fled the Cornucopia yet. There aren't many. I see the tributes from 11 and 12 quickly running away, they're much too far for me to reach them. I look over to my left and I see Keaton beating the boy from 5 to death with a mace. I think that was the boy I saw get into a fight earlier. I look over to where I saw him fight, and find a lifeless body lying there. I guess he beat his opponent and came here to look for another fight, but found the wrong opponent. I continue to look around and find a boy grabbing a spear from the ground, he looks around to make sure if anyone is trying to attack him. I begin to charge towards him, but much before I reach him, a knife comes whizzing past me and into the boy's chest. He falls to the ground and a cannon shot soon follows. I look back to see who just stole my kill. Sophia. I would shout at her but I can't be bothered, I need to find more tributes. I see the boy from 10 lurking behind the Cornucopia. He's mine. He sees me coming for him, he turns around and crashes into Claire. They both get into a fight. I'm not going to try and help Claire, I want to kill someone by myself not with the help of another tribute. I'd much rather have no kills than have people help me get a lot of them. I turn around and continue searching for any tributes that still haven't fled the Cornucopia.


Mai Kilson's POV District 6's Female Tribute

I almost mistook the explosion for the gong, but when the actual gong went off three seconds afterwards, it made me realize that I was very close to blowing up to bits. It did take me a bit by surprise so I look around to see if anyone's got a head start on me, but by the looks of it no one really does. The mysterious explosion has also distracted everyone else, some tributes are still on their pedal stones, and unaware the gong has already gone off. My eyes lock on a backpack about 20 meters from where I am standing. I sprint towards it, but a figure soon takes it way before I could even get there. I recognize the girl as she sprints off, it was the girl from 10. I look around frantically for another backpack and find one a bit closer to the Cornucopia. I sprint towards it and manage to grab it this time, a pair of hands reaches down to snatch it away from me, expecting to get thrown to the ground, I grip the backpack strongly, and instead, the other tribute tumbles to the ground as he tries to snatch the backpack off my grip. I realize that it was the boy from 3. I kick him in the face so he'll let go of my backpack, and he does. I sprint off to Ariadna, which is standing around the outskirts of the Cornucopia. I see Silvia join her first. It looks like Silvia also managed to grab a backpack. I soon realize that neither Silvia nor I have weapons. We need a weapon. I throw my backpack at Silvia and tell her that I'll be right back; my eyes find a dagger that lies on top of one of the black boxes. I look around before heading towards it; it's mayhem out here, complete chaos. Everyone is running around frantically grabbing as many supplies as possible. I see a pair of tributes fight, and the careers begin to scatter across the Cornucopia looking for more tributes. I need to get out of here. I grab the dagger and leave, running back to the group of girls. I see Lillian arrive with two simple knives in her hands. I don't hesitate to grab my backpack and we all quickly flee the area and leave the horrors of the Cornucopia behind.


Claire Cludiant's POV District 1's Female Tribute

What a joke of a bloodbath! Honestly, all because of the stupid girl that blew up, the other tributes managed to get away. As I exit the Cornucopia, I run around the Cornucopia and almost immediately, I crash into a boy, he tries to get away but I charge towards him and tackle him to the ground. I pin him down and I'm about to stab him, but he throws me off him and tackles me back to the ground. This time, he's pinned me down. I let out a cackle as he tries to stab me, but I take his knife and cut his hand. I throw him onto the wall of the Cornucopia and put my arm over his neck to make sure he doesn't escape. I realize who the boy is and begin my taunt. I smile at the thought of getting to kill him, the boy from 10.

"Where are your friends now? Oh wait that's right, you don't have any. So much for not trusting others huh? Oh and what was that you said about me during your interview? That I'm a brainless career? That I just look for fame?" He spits on me before I can finish. I let out another loud cackle and shoot a menacing glare at him. In an act of rage, I slit his throat. Blood spills everywhere and I see the boy's body fall to the ground as he desperately tries to breathe but ends up choking on his own blood. I wanted to make it a little more interesting, but oh well doesn't matter. I head back to the Cornucopia and a cannon shot is heard, confirming my kill. An immediate grin plasters my face as the cannon sound fades in the distance.

"You go the District 10 boy?" asks Hunter anxiously, I smirk and reply.

"Yeah I did" and it actually felt good killing that annoying brat.

"Dammit I wanted him!"

"Have you even gotten a kill?" I begin to taunt. He shoots me a menacing glare.

"Logan and Hunter, well I guess you two need to get yourselves some kills soon" I say.

"Yeah, we've all gotten kills" Agrees Melissa. I smile at her as I go over everyone who's had a kill. I realize something, but Keaton mentions it before.

"Guys where's Dale?" He asks bluntly. Everyone seems to realize that the boy is nowhere to be found.

"I saw him earlier, just before I killed the District 3 boy. He had a spear in his hand." Remarks Sophia.

"Maybe he went off to hunt down some tribute." Suggests Logan.

"Yeah but wouldn't the tribute be dead by now? Or he would've at least given up? He'd surely be back by now if that was the case." I say.

"Good point, well we'll just have to do without him, I guess we should assume that he betrayed us and if we ever find him again, then we kill him." This comes from Hunter.

"Sure, it's not like we needed him anyway." Says Melissa dismissingly.

"Alright well we better hunt down some tributes while they're still close to the area, Sophia and Mel, you two stay here and guard the Cornucopia." Says Logan as he directs us towards the gates of the park. 6 deaths, this pretty much was a failed bloodbath.


Ariadna Meyer's POV District 3's Female Tribute

I don't dare to grab anything from the center or the outskirts of the Cornucopia, it's too risky. I just grab the supplies that were close to my pedal stone. I saw Silvia and Mai grab backpacks, and Lillian grabbed two knives. Mai throws her backpack over to Silvia, Mai runs back to the chaos of the Cornucopia. Is she trying to get herself killed? She grabs a long dagger, which lays on one of the black crates, she quickly sprints back to us and we quickly exit the area. All I found close to my pedal stone were two loaves of bread and a slingshot. I guess it serves as some sort of weapon. It won't be able to kill anyone with it, but it can buy me some time during a fight. Once we're almost out of the park, I take one last look back, some trees cover my sight, but I can make out what's happening. I see Darren, my District partner, grab a spear; I hope he'll be okay. I see a few lifeless bodies lying on the ground around. I've heard 3 cannons so far, without including the girl that blew up.

"Ariadna! What are you doing?! Lets go!" screams Mai. I do as she says and follow them out of the park. I hear another cannon as we go through the gate of the park. The gates of the park have vines wrapped around them and look like they'd brake down any minute. As walk on what looks like one of the city's main street, I take some time to observe the buildings. It looks like regular office buildings, which have been abandoned for years. Another cannon is heard and this makes up pick up the pace a little. The arena seems huge, there are so many places to hide, if the careers want to hunt us down, they'd have to look in every floor of every building. To my left, is a residential area, it's a basic neighborhood, except it looks like it's been attacked by zombies or something. There are holes on the roof and trees growing inside the houses. We figured that most tributes would probably go to the residential area since it's closer to a source of water, which is the river the passes right behind the residential area. Also it will probably take a long time for someone to walk down all the floors of a building just to get to the street. So I guess most tributes are going to want to camp out near the residential area, instead, we decide to go to one of the buildings on the outskirts of the arena.


Abigail Gould's POV District 7's Female Tribute

The last rays of sun leave the arena, and we're left with the moonlight that shines on us almost like a spotlight. The anthem will play soon and we'll find out who's been brutally murdered. How exciting. We're camping out in an apartment of a huge apartment complex. There are no beds, but there's some furniture, which is relatively comfortable. The apartment is broken down; there are holes in the walls and a huge hole in the ceiling, which allows us to see the apartment above us. All the windows have been shattered and a nice breeze blows into the room every once in a while. There was broken glass all over the floor, but we threw it all out to make sure we wouldn't hurt ourselves. During the bloodbath, we were able to grab quite a few supplies. I grabbed a very well equipped backpack, and so did Nathan. Nathan also found an axe. We were also sponsored with a small saw, which Nathan gave to me so I could have a weapon.

The anthem begins to play and Nathan calls me over to see the dead faces illuminate the sky. The first tribute is the boy from 3, indicating that all tributes from Districts 1-2 are alive, which was expected since they are careers after all. The next face to illuminate the sky is the boy from 5, also indicating that the careers from District 4 are alive. The District 6 boy's face also lights up the sky. I think his name was Evan. I'm not sure why I know that. The girl from District 9 is illuminated into the night sky, I think she was the one that got blown up by the landmine. Her District partner's face is also up there. What a bad year for District 9, but then again, you couldn't expect two thirteen year olds to do much. The arrogant boy from District 10 comes up. Oh well, I can't say I feel bad the boy had it coming. What was he thinking when he insulted everyone during his interview? It was a stupid, and an arrogant thing to do. No wonder he died, he pretty much made enemies with every tribute. The boy's face is engulfed by the night sky and the anthem ends. A whole alliance and two other tributes without alliances have already died on the first day. That makes a total of 6 deaths and 18 living tributes.

"I'll take first watch." Says Nathan quietly. I quickly head over to the couch and lie down, my mind almost automatically wonders about the dead tributes. Even though I didn't know any of them personally, there was a pang of guilt inside me for each face that lit up the sky tonight, not so much for the boy from 10, but he still had a life back at home. Those tributes had families, friends, dreams, hopes, and everything was taken away from them just like that. I feel like I've been so naïve about the Hunger Games in the past. You never really know the true horror of the games until you actually participate in them. It scares me that I'm probably going to face the same fate as those who died tonight. I entered the games quite confident, a few hours in the games has definitely changed that. It takes a long time for sleep to arrive, but once it does, I don't reject it.


Memory Clark's POV District 5 Female Mentor

Not many mentors are still in the control room. Most of them have either gone out celebrating, or in the District 9 Mentors' case, they're not coming back to the control room, as both of their tributes are dead. It hurts when your tribute dies, but I don't think I've ever mentored tributes that both died on the first day. After all I've only been a mentor for 9 years but I've been told that it has happened in the past for District 5. I am District 5's latest victor, and it's probably going to stay like that for one more year. Not that I don't have hope in Silvia, but she's got no sponsors, and the odds aren't in her favor either. She's a smart girl, I know she can make it far in these games, but winning doesn't seem too realistic. I actually thought Braydon had a better chance of winning than her, but he died during the bloodbath, and I can't say it wasn't his fault. I stroll around the control room where only a few mentors remain. The only mentors that remain in the control room either have one tribute in the games, or simply have tributes from poor Districts like 11 and 12. I look back over at my control screen, the screen marked under "D5M" remains black, and the other screen marked under "D5F" shows an image of Silvia lying down on a mattress that she recently found in the apartment that her alliance is staying in. I walk over to the District 6 Female mentor, and last year's victor, Elle. We get along quite well.

"I didn't think mentoring would be this stressing." She says to me tiredly. I watch her screen, we can see Mai sitting down on a couch, she's on night watch.

"Well, it's always hard the first year, but you'll get used to it." I say to her as the District 7 mentors walk in. The control screens are organized by District numbers. The room is circular, and therefore the control stations go around in a circle, there is a gap in between District 1, the first control station, and District 12, the last control station, which is where the entrance to the room is. Since female tribute screens are placed first, I sit in between the District 4 Male Mentor, Finnick, and Blaise, the District 5 Male Mentor. Elle, sits in between Blaise, and the new mentor Heleus. This year there are two new District 6 mentors. Well, Heleus isn't new, he used to mentor, but he eventually got replaced by a new victor, but the victor who replaced him got addicted to morphing and he started becoming slightly weird. They have to have sane mentors and therefore Heleus replaced him. This isn't the first time something like this happened, there was an insane girl from District 4 which won the 70th Hunger Games, she wasn't allowed to mentor because of her insanity, she wasn't really insane, but somewhat traumatized from her games. I think her name was Annie or something. Finnick keeps on talking about her to the District 4 Female Mentor.

I keep strolling around the control room looking at the other tribute's screens. There isn't anything interesting going on most tributes are resting. The pair from 7 are resting in some apartment complex in the center of the city. The girl from 8 is with Silvia's alliance, and the boy is with the careers at the Cornucopia. I skip District 9, and directly look at the District 10 girl's screen. She's with the career from 4 in some sort of office. The boy is taking night watch. The District 11 and 12 screens show the tributes sleeping in some house in the residential area, the District 12 boy is taking night watch. I don't bother going to the career control stations. I should take a break because I'm really tired and I'm beginning to doze off. I take one last look at the Death List; the list documents all the dead tributes and some statistics. It is updated every time a tribute dies. It gives you statistics like the Time in the Games, which is how long the tribute has lived for since the start of the games. Of course today was the first day and all the deaths are bloodbath deaths, which means that all the times documented don't go any higher than three minutes because that's how long the bloodbath lasted, three minutes and five seconds to be exact. I walk back over to my control station, and take one last look at Silvia sleeping. The first day of the games always sucks.


A/N: Okay! So that was the longest chapter I've written so far. And that's including all the other stories I've written :P I think that during the games the chapters are going to average out to have 2500-3500 words. Things will get more descriptive and I'll add much more detail to the chapters. Hope you liked this one, don't forget to vote on my poll I need more votes, REVIEW please review I want to hear what you guys have to say. I've made lists of the dead and living tributes. For the dead tributes, I have this thing that says "Time in the Games" which I've already explained but I'll do it again anyways. It means it's telling you how long this tribute has lasted in the games, as the name clearly indicates. So it's basically like a huge digital clock, or like a huge "date" if you like. It marks days, hours, minutes, and seconds like so: (days/hours/minutes/seconds) so if a tribute has lived for 3 days, 17 hours, 33 minutes, and 28 seconds, it would look like this: 03:17:33:28 aaand yeah :) Once again please review and vote on my poll! :)

Dead Tributes:

24th Place: Rylie Naples (District 9 Female)
Killed by: Landmine
Place: Pedal stone
Time in the Games (days/hours/minutes/seconds): 00:00:00:00

23rd Place: Malik Stevens (District 9 Male)
Killed by: Melissa Hemmis (District 2 Female)
Place: Cornucopia Bloodbath
Time in the Games (days/hours/minutes/seconds): 00:00:00:56

22nd Place: Evan Stein (District 6 Male)
Place: Cornucopia Bloodbath
Killed by: Braydon Serre (District 5 Male)
Time in the Games (days/hours/minutes/seconds): 00:00:01:03

21st Place: Braydon Serre (District 5 Male)
Place: Cornucopia Bloodbath
Killed by: Keaton Lentz (District 1 Male)
Time in the Games (days/hours/minutes/seconds): 00:00:01:43

20th Place: Darren Hacker (District 3 Male)
Place: Cornucopia Bloodbath
Killed by: Sophia Press (District 4 Female)
Time in the Games (days/hours/minutes/seconds): 00:00:02:01

19th Place: Andrew Stang (District 10 Male)
Place: Cornucopia Bloodbath
Killed by: Claire Cludiant (District 1 Female)
Time in the Games (days/hours/minutes/seconds): 00:00:03:05

Living Tributes:

District 1:

Female: Claire Cludiant (17)
Training Score: 10
Odds of winning: 5-1

Male: Keaton Gold (17)
Training Score: 10
Odds of winning: 5-1

District 2:

Female: Melissa Hemmis (16)
Training Score: 9
Odds of winning: 6-1

Male: Logan Voss (18)
Training Score: 10
Odds of winning: 4-1

District 3:

Female: Ariadna Meyer (15)
Training Score: 6
Odds of winning: 29-1

District 4:

Female: Sophia Press (17)
Training Score: 9
Odds of winning: 7-1

Male: Dale Alderman (17)
Training Score: 9
Odds of winning: 6-1

District 5:

Female: Silvia Heffernan (15)
Training Score: 7
Odds of winning: 27-1

District 6:

Female: Mai Kilson (16)
Training Score: 8
Odds of winning: 20-1

District 7:

Female: Abigail Gould (16)
Training Score: 8
Odds of winning: 22-1

Male: Nathan Gould (17)
Training Score: 9
Odds of winning: 15-1

District 8:

Female: Lillian Conner (16)
Training Score: 7
Odds of winning: 27-1

Male: Hunter Lever (17)
Training Score: 9
Odds of winning: 8-1

District 9:

District 10:

Female: Iris Perricone (14)
Training Score: 8
Odds of winning: 15-1

District 11:

Female: Makayla Zideck (15)
Training Score: 6
Odds of winning: 35-1

Male: Tristan Ray (18)
Training Score: 8
Odds of winning: 14-1

District 12:

Female: Autumn Govern (16)
Training Score: 7
Odds of winning: 27-1

Male: Austin Pelikan (15)
Training Score: 7
Odds of winning: 25-1