Theia Altieri 18 District 1 Female

"We will begin with this year's female tribute" The academy director announces in front of the massive crowd of trainees.

Unselling the envelope the director reads the name out loud.

"Theia Altieri please come to the front" Everybody starts cheering and whooping so much that the director will wait half an hour before she announces the male tribute.

The crowd of other students rapidly shoved me to the front of the stag overwhelmed by the joy of having a new tribute being much more pressing than any anger or frustration at not getting chosen.

"Everybody I present to you Theia Altieri!" the director roars to the crowd getting an uproar of applause.

The Academy has the rest of the day off after announcing the tributes lots of the girls stay to see the male tribute be chosen but news travels fast in a small District like 1 so it's not necessary.

I'd rather be at home and tell my family in person rather than let the grapevine do it for me.

I know how the rest of District 1 will react when they hear that an Altieri was chosen for 1's female tribute.

"That's the family that fell from grace"

"I know it's hard to top Luster but is this seriously the best they could do?"

"They seriously choose a laughing stock like the Altieri's to be the tribute how'd they even get into the academy?"

My family used to be one of the wealthiest in 1 back when the gems found in 12 were popular after the star-crossed lovers in the 74th and then their first victory in over a quarter of a century gems from 1 and 12 were extremely popular for capital jewelry.

After fluctuations in the Capital economy and the mines in 12 and 1 six years ago, we suffered a major fall from grace going from one of the wealthiest families in the district to a joke.

I want to win the games to bring back my family's reputation.

Speaking of which I'm at my house near the center of town. The door opens and my younger brother Topaz comes running out to greet me.

"Hey, Topaz! Did your sister remember to feed you?"

"Yes we had porridge" I'll have to check to make sure Isadora actually did that and Topaz didn't feed himself and is nice enough to lie on her part.

This time Isadora actually did make food for both of them another time she pulled that on me and then went out and pawned off a river stone as a ruby to some "sucker" in her words which she was very proud of.

I know Topaz is 12 now and that's the age I started looking after myself. But I've been looking after him for 6 years so he will always be my baby brother to me.

"So did you get the part?" Topaz asked.

"She's going to be killing other children dumbass this isn't the capital can try and dress it up but it's not a theater act" Isadora chimes in from the stove.

"Why do you say it like you already know that I'm the tribute"

"Well did you?"

"This time Isadora is right this time I'm going to be going into the arena"

Topaz starts cheering and jumping up and down well Isadora gives me a pat on the back.

My mother is still at work at the jewelry store but I can feel her presence watching me with the portraits of her and my father up on the wall over the dinner table.

After our family's financial and social fall from grace, my father isolated himself from everybody. He died of a heart attack when I was 12 they could never prove that the stress caused it but all of us know that going from one of the richest people outside of the capital to an example of a fall from grace was what did it.

My mother's been so busy with work that I've been the one mostly looking after my younger siblings and even if they're old enough to look after themselves the idea of them being alone seems weird to me.

At least I'll never have to worry about them going into the games.

"Altieri! Altieri! Altieri!" Vivienne comes running through my door to give me a bear hug.

Vivienne is the only person I could consider a friend. You can imagine being in the top 1 percent of the District made my family very enviable to most people so watching the Altieri's fall from grace gave them feel cathartic.

I've never been popular with the other students in the academy aside from Vivienne someone who talks too much for her own good.

I'm the only one who will put up with her long rants about trivial things it is nice to have someone to talk to about something that isn't about the games. She's known for years now she didn't have a shot at being the female tribute for 1.

"Sorry I took so long I was trying to get out of the academy but everybody lost their stuff when Ammolite and Luster came in"

"But more importantly you did it! You're gonna do so well when come on! come on! come on! Let's go try on you're reaping outfit!"

Catalina Gray 15 District 2 Female

8, 9, 10, that's den knives I've thrown straight into the dummy's chests.

District 2's victories are up in the stands Nemean and Jupiter are taking notes.

11, 12, 13, 14, 15, perfect now onto the moving dummies.

This is our final assignment for the academic year where we have 5 minutes to show are skills and 2's previous victors judge us and decide on the volunteers.

I know that at 15 it lowers my odds but it's not unheard of for someone my age to be chosen and If I can prove to them I'm as skilled as the 18-year-olds I think I've got a real shot at this.

My parents have always encouraged me to train and volunteer to bring honor to us and District 2.

As the dummies move on their stands I hit each one of them with the knife even when they slow down and speed up at random.

District 2 victories have the highest on-average kill counts in the games and I think it will help my case to show off my knife skills to Jupiter and Nemean two especially voracious victors.

Once the last knife lands in the stomach of the last dummy, I'm dismissed well they go through the rest of the 15 and 14 year olds go.

I have the of advantage of going near the start since it begins with the 14-year-olds and goes up from there.

It'll be a day until the victors come back with a result going through the kids that caught their eye and discussing which ones will be the tributes for the games.

I'm not worried that night in bed. If I make then I'll do my absolute best to win for my family and District 2. If I don't then I still have three more years to become good enough.

Per Academey tradition the male tribute is selected first.

After the hype and fanfare had died down from his selection the the director ordered everyone to quiet down.

"We will now move on to this year's female tribute"

"Would Catalina Gray please come to the stag"

Theirs a loud surge of cheers as the other students my age practically carry me to the stage and it doesn't take long for the older students to join in chanting my name as I land on the stage.

Some of the victors look at me very pleased those who put in a good word on my part.

I know some of the 18-year-old girls will be upset. To train for so long for you to be upstaged by a younger student.

They'll get over it fast though. Everyone in 2 immediately gets behind our tributes super fast. They are always treated like a warrior going into an important battle where their names will be added to a long list of great warriors that have come before them.

I feel ready to be added to that list.

Theia is 5'8 with light skin wavy blond hair and blue eyes she has an athletic/toned build

Catalina is 5'3 she has blond hair and blue eyes she has a short and strong build.

There are still plenty of spots open if you feel like sending tributes you see the general guidelines in the first chapter.

Thank you to n3b Theia Altieri and ilovefanficton1 for Catalina Gray.