The 3's Training Day 1
Bugg Li D3F 14
Wiress and Beetee told Pascal and me to stick together if we want. I like him, he seems nice and by playing chess with him, I can tell he's smart so that'll help us in the games. We both agreed that we will ally for the rest of the training and the games which makes me feel better.
We stand around until after the instruction from the head trainer, I think, and while we stand in a double circle with the rest of the tributes I see how much of a disadvantage we are at. Some of these tributes are huge, like the careers some and also some of the outliers like the boy from 9 and the boy from 12 I think? There are small tributes here so I'm not sure what that means for us, but I try not to think about it too much to prevent myself from getting down.
After the instructions, Pascal looks at me and says, "What do you want to work on, weapons or survival stuff?".
I think while I stare at the boy from 4 and the blonde girl from 1 work on fishhooks.
"Let's do weapons first, that way we can spend the rest of today and tomorrow learning about survival stuff," I tell him as I point towards a baton on the ground.
We walk over the weapons rack and I pick up the dark baton of the ground and it is a little heavy but small in length. While I examine the Baton, Pascal looks at the knives and picks up a small dainty one and swings in the dummy. With my bad eye, I don't think I can handle a bow or spear and I probably couldn't throw knives with accuracy, so I decide to practice with the baton. I figure it's common, small, and I can use it well I hope.
While Pascal and I are practicing with the same dummy the girl from 12 wonders towards us, she smiles at us and walks by us. I start making mental notes on everyone, if we are going to stand a chance we need to get a head start, if not we don't stand a chance.
Pascal Clarence D5M 15
Bugg is just staring at the baton for a second like she is just carefully examining it until she doesn't say a word and swings it at the dummy. I use my knife on it too until I realize this isn't the weapon for me.
I spot on the rack about 5 yards away from a long piece of gold wire hanging off a large spool. It seems like it is calling my name, I put my knife down and I start walking towards the rack. I don't tell Bugg anything since she is staring at the girl from 12 who just walked past us.
As I go to walk I kick the floor and next thing I know I'm falling. I hit my knee and I sit up and take a glance around to see who saw, I know I'm clumsy, but I can't show the other tributes I'm completely incompetent. Bugg glances at me and smiles, not laughing at me but like a sympathetic half-smile at me. I exhale and stand up until I turn around and see the big dude from 1 with a spear in his hand smirking at me. I stare back stunned; did he see that? He stares me down and turns around and throws a spear 15 yards and nails a dummy so hard half the spear goes through the chest of it. He turns around and smirks again and I hurry and grab the wire and go back to Bugg.
She sees the terrified look in my eyes and asks, "what's wrong, you got your wire didn't you?"
I nod and say, "I think I just embarrassed myself in front of the toughest tribute in the games". She looks back at the boy from 1, Concord I now remember his name and gets the look on her face when she is thinking.
"It's ok if he thinks you're clumsy maybe he'll leave us alone during the games." I start to think, I either just cleared myself or just drew an easier target on my back. Either way, these games are going to be a long, stressful ideal. Ugh.
Hey y'all, I know, OOF. It's ok, I am feeling inspirational due to being on break from school! anyways here's these two from 3. I will spend the next few chapters establishing allies and loners. Anyways enjoy this random update and the next one will be out soon! Until Next Time.