District nine's Talliana Messine's POV

"I feel horrible." I complained as I fell on a soft leather couch. My body was feeling horrible. I held my head with one hand while holding my stomach in the other. My head was pounding, the inside of my stomach felt like it was on fire, my eyes felt heavy and watery, it wasn't a good feeling to have. And I felt tired, even though the sun told me that it was probably early afternoon.

"It couldn't possibly have anything to do with stuffing yourself full of food and consuming bottles of spirits last night would it?" My escort said sarcastically. Oh yeah, now I remember, last night I ate and drank like no tomorrow. But it was all right there, how could I not resist the temptations in my face?

"It was so totally worth it though." I told her remembering the wonderfully flavored food that was being served to us and the bottle of alcohol to go along with it. The fun me and my tribute partner had at the table, it was like a miniature party. But it was still better then any party I had before. There was enough food for us to fill ourselves and have left overs. It was a kind of party that my friends and I could never have afforded back in district nine. "What do we have for today?" I asked wondering what kind of food and drinks we'd be getting today.

"Well I know what your not getting," I voice called out. Without even looking, I knew that it was my district partner Arrowe. "Anything with alcohol."

"I'll just stick with water for now," I told him not really up for alcohol anyway "or juice, juice might be nice. Just, nothing with alcohol for now."

"I'll order something up," our escort told us getting off her chair "what would you guys like?" What would I like? I don't know, there were so many things to choose from. There was food that I could only dream about eating in the district, and things that I had never even seen or heard of before.

"Good food." I simply told her. She'd get something good I bet.

"Something different." Arrowe told her. Taking a seat beside me.

"Alright then." She said before walking over to a speaker thing and said her order. I wondered how they could get their food so fast. It only took just over a minute for a huge pallet of food to appear in front of her. As she turned towards us, I saw a bowl of steaming hot soup, a bottle of liquid, a plate of vegetable like rolls, and a second bottle of liquid.

"What do you think those are?" Arrowe asked me pointing to the food. I shrugged my shoulders and said

"Your guess is as good as mine." Because the truth was, I didn't even know what any of those were. Not that I cared, this was capital food, and whatever it was, it was going to be good. Our escort placed the food tray in front of us and handed the first liquid bottle to me before setting the soup in front of me. She then handed the plate of rolls to Arrowe before she herself took the second liquid bottle. I saw Arrowe immediately grab a roll and take a bite out of it. I opened my bottle of liquid before hearing Arrowe screaming out. Not in pain, but something closer to uncomfortable. I looked towards him and saw him huffing in air like his life depended on it.

"What is this!?" He shouted in both confusion and pain while pointing to the roll he had bitten into.

"Spicy spring rolls." Our escort answered before drinking out of her bottle. I then saw Arrowe hold out his left hand towards me.

"That bottle of whatever, can I have some?" He asked desperately. I was about to give it to him when our escort said

"I wouldn't drink anything if I were you, if you drink something Arrowe, it will only get spicier." I quickly took back the bottle before Arrowe could grab it.

"Well how to I get rid of this pain then?" Arrowe asked desperate for an answer.

"You don't." Our escort answered with a laugh.

"Wow," Our male mentor spoke up while laughing a bit as well "That's some touch luck son." I couldn't help but laugh a bit as well. These were interesting people.

"Oh ha ha." Arrowe laughed sarcastically before grabbing a glass of water in front of him and drank deeply. When he was done, he let out a satisfying exhale of air. For a moment there, he looked fine, but then he started to inhale air deeply again. The pain was back.

"I told you." Our escort said looking displeased. Well, she was telling the truth, and I thought it was just to make Arrowe suffer.

"Just wait for a bit," our female mentor told him taking one of his spicy spring roll things and taking a bite out of it "it will go away eventually."

"Nah," Arrowe said smiling "I can take it." And with that, he seemed to calm down. Well, that was interesting.

"Oh hay, look at that, we're almost to the capital." Our male escort announced.

"What?" I asked "How can you tell?" I then saw him lift a finger up and point to somewhere behind me. I turned around and saw through the window, a beautiful city beyond anything I'd ever imagined before. Everything was so shiny, clean, and wonderful. I was truly amazed by the capital. I looked though the city looking at their shops and the people and their bizarre fashion. I was no really excited to go and see what else the capital had to offer. It was just, amazing.

"Pshhhh! Nice place." Arrowe said with some hostility in his voice. I looked at him like he was crazy. How could he say that? This was the best thing I'd seen in my life.

"How could you say that?" I asked him. Arrowe then nudged his head towards the city.

"Look at the colours and look at the people," he told me "then you might see why."

District six's Ricky Coler's POV

Wow. Amazing. Those was the only words I could think of the top of my head. So this is what the capital looked like, it was even better seeing it in person then it was on T.V. Seeing was believing. You go through a dark tunnel, then the first thing you see when you emerge from it is this. Like going to another world.

"Those people look ridiculous with those stupid fashion trends." My district partner Rayne announced, even though our blue skinned escort Sky was right behind us. I turned my head towards Sky and saw the hurt and angry expression on her face. It would have been funny if I didn't see the big fork she was holding in her right hand like a dagger. Even worse, she was pointing it right at us. I just smiled at her before turning back to the capital audience. Better not provoke Sky anymore then we needed to. They were all staring at us, the new tributes for the games. They acted as if we were celebrities, they were staring, cheering, clapping, and even waving at us. But dispute all the attention they were giving us, I had to agree with Rayne about the capital fashion, at least some of it. Some if it wasn't bad, like simple dyed hair like saw on some of the young capital kids. Or the earrings and simple claws on some of the older kids. But I didn't like the dyed skinned, animal eared, unnatural colour eyed stuff along with stuff that I couldn't even say. And that was the majority of what they were. Even so, I couldn't help but give little waves to them and smile at them.

"Why are you waving to them." Rayne said in a kind of demanding voice. I turned to her while still smiling and gave her a shrug. "It's not like any of them are going to protect you in the arena." She told me. Why? Because your going to make sure you kill me? I wouldn't be too sure about that. I wasn't going to die from you, you could try though. And wither the capital likes me enough to give me sponsors or not isn't up to you. But I was going to return home with, or without the capital's help.

A/N: Well, train rides are done, onto chariot.

Now, in terms of sponsoring, the winner is...no sponsoring. If you go to my profile and look, it will show that no sponsoring had twice as many votes as the other ones. Points and such got no votes so, I took it away.

Well, hope you guys liked this chapter. How'd I do?

Oh yes, would you guys like me to collect pictures on what your tributes look like then post them on my profile for you and all to see?

To: Max Albina: Yeah, but they don't know that.

To: MyDarkTribute: He could be a problem, he might not.