Loners

Training Day 2

Barbara Peren D6F 16

I see Capricorn leave before I do. I know I need to hurry to the training center, but I want to see this damn place before I go back down.

Beatrice and Markus both leave right after Capricorn does and I take this as my opportunity to do as much damage as I possibly can. These stupid games think they can kill me and I'm not going to retaliate.

Once I am in the clear I go to the living room, I see the crystal chandelier, the glass vases, the sleek table and chairs and I realize that I am going to have fun. I walk slowly towards the vase while looking around and elbow the vase off the table. I see it rush towards the ground and shatter all over the floor. I can't help but laugh and smile.

I take the other vase and throw it at the wall as hard as I can. It slams and shatters too. I know I need to stop but I can't, I grab the chair and smash it against the table, the glass table shatters and crushes under the weight of the chair. I almost stop but then I realize something, what's the worst they can do to me? Kill me? I'm already dead so I go for the main prize, the chandelier.

I grab one of the legs off the chair and chuck it at the chandelier, it does nothing, I decide to go for it. I use the couch as a launching pad and as I fly through the air I grab the chandelier, and as I expected, it gives out almost immediately.

I see the ground as I'm falling towards it until I hit the ground with a thud. A person who I think someone called them an avox comes in and looks surprised.

I smile while I'm on the floor and say, "I'm sorry, I'm ok, just blowing off steam is all." I smile and walk towards the elevator.

Ok time to get training.

Aspen Evergreen D7M 16

I don't really like the training center, but Grover got upset with me because I spent most of my time yesterday carving wood. I know they want me to diversify but I know what I'm good at and the voice knows it too. They've asked me who I am talking to and I tell them but they just kind of look at me weird, so I just brush it off. I don't care about the voice and I are getting through these games together. Sometimes it gets on my nerves, but we have a love/hate relationship.

Anyways, I decided that I'll probably just hang out near the wood again today since no-one really came near me yesterday. I go to the elevator and Wren gets on with me. She's nice and all but all she's really done is read.

The elevator goes down and we reach the bottom and she heads for training with this new book, she found, and I start heading towards the training area, but something catches my eye.

It's a slight glow that radiates from this door and I decided to go in front of the door to see if I can catch a glimpse inside. I can tell this light is making it so I can't see inside, I am thinking about going in, but the voice tells me not too. I don't want to listen but at the same time, I think it might help me somehow? Ugh. I don't know I want to look but I don't want to test my luck and the voice seems serious, not like playful but worried. I let my curiosity get the better of me and turn the knob. Of course, it's locked.

I start to walk towards the training area Ugh. Fine, no special door lets go cut some wood.

Wren Oakfield D7F 17

Aspen and I ride in the elevator together but we instantly split when we get to the main area. He splits off and goes towards a different area and I walk towards training. I walk past the boy from 6 and the girl from 12 talking to get towards the weapons. I know they are part of a trio.

I know I need to get training, so I'm forced to put my book down and decide what to do. I look around to decide my station today since I spent most of yesterday at survival stations, so I want to work with weapons, but I'm don't want to run into too many people. I decided I should go to weapons.

I glance over all the weapons and I see it and I instantly get excited. It's shining and at a perfect length and all its glory. An ax, I've been using axes since I was little, and I know instantly that this is where I shine. I try not to use them too much since I don't want to draw a target on my back by showing my skills, but I can't help myself. I spent all of yesterday being passive but now I don't hold back.

I grab the ax and swing it into the dummy next to the rack. It feels nice, and lighter than the ones at home so that should make it easier to swing. I wonder if I can throw it well still. I take it out of the dummy, I twirl it around a little in my hand and take it towards the throwing area. I stand from 15 feet out and chuck it. It's a little light and it hits the dummy in the head. I was aiming for the chest but that works too.

I smile but then I turn away and walk away quickly, show them a little they leave me alone, show them too much I'm dead.

Haylo Molto Ranons D10M 12

At the training center, I'm sorta lost. I don't have a ton of skills, so I want to go everywhere but I know I only have a certain amount of time, so I have to use my time wisely. I ultimately decide with the help of my mentors earlier that focusing on running and defending myself.

So that's the plan for today. The training center has this area with a trainer that you can run where objects pop up where you can practice running with stamina or running around things. I try stamina first when I arrive no one is there, and the trainer looks like he's about to fall asleep. I get there and I smile, he glances at me and points towards this little track which I presume he wants me to step on. I step up on top of this sleek track and the trainer presses a button to start the track.

I start to run and while I do I think about what inside the games will look like. I've avoided it for the most part so far, but I have to sooner or later. I think about what I'll do, I've avoided allies because I don't want to rely on anyone plus I doubt I'm on anyone's list. I think I'll have to run in, grab a bag of food maybe and leave right after, I don't want to run in and the escort told me that this is the way most people dies but I know I stand no chance living solely on the arena. I get nervous just thinking about it and while I'm getting nervous next thing I know I'm falling.

I scrape my knee and slide down the track while the trainer hurries up and presses the button to turn the machine off.

Great now I'm nervous and my knee's burn. I get up and I'm about to go again when the trainer tells me it's lunchtime.

Great, I might as enjoy something before my death, I owe it to myself.

Bones D10F 12

I hate this place, the guy I've been with tells me I have to do the training center to learn things to survive the games, but I don't need this place. I know how to set traps and know what to eat and what not to eat. Most of these people don't talk to me but I don't care, I just miss blood and all my other rats. I skipped the first day but these guys with guns came up today and told me I have to go; I didn't want to get into too much trouble already because I know they're already mad. I bit one of the guys who grabbed me, and he didn't seem to happy. He didn't hit me though; he knows I'm not messing around.

Anyways I wander around watching people throw things and hit things until someone announces lunch and people bring a bunch of food out.

I grab a pan of meat, which gets me some glances from this big dude. He asks me what I'm doing I just smile, grab a slice of meat and put in on his plate and walk away. I chuckle as I walk away from everybody. I sit in a corner and enjoy my meat. I'm used to killing my meat, this is so much easier. I imagine that if I win the games that we are going to play I should be able to get an unlimited amount of this stuff. I'm excited.

I finish my meat quickly and I want to go to this training area with dummy's charging you and you have to react of sorts. It seems fun and I'm always up for a challenge.

I sit and wait until this dummy slides towards me on this machine thing, I take this knife and stab it in the gut, the next one comes at a different angle and I jump on it and it starts to move with me on it. I take this knife and stab it over and over again in the face and chest and arm and I'm having a lot of fun. It finally stops when the head falls off.

I smile and turn, and I see at least 7 people watching me.

I smile and say "I was trying to make it bleed. It didn't work." People just stare and I shrug and walk away. I guess I'll try harder next time.

Amira Fieldington D11F 17

After lunch, I unknowingly join the show with the girl from 10 when she stabs this dummy repeatedly while on top of it. She's an odd one and I definitely want to keep my distance from her.

Since it's after lunch I know I only have a few more hours to train before the end of training and Seeder says the private training with the game makers happens after this session so I have to make sure I get to the places where I want to. I spent most of day one at the survival stations and throwing knives and I spent most of day two throwing knives, but I've also been up to something else.

I know I want to be stealthy in the games, but I have to go to the cornucopia to get supplies and hopefully get a kill. I hate the idea of hurting someone but if I want to get home I know I have to be remembered.

I grab out my list that I've been writing down on the sketch pad I got from my room and check over on what I have written down so far. I have allies and what I think of the characters so far, so I know who to watch out for and who doesn't seem threatening.

First, I have the careers, they all seem to stick together and can do some damage. They consist of the pairs from 1, 2, and 4.

The next allies are the pair from 3, they don't seem very threatening.

The next pair is from 5, they seem like they could be contenders, so I have to stay away from them.

The next alliance I have down is the boys from 9 and 12, they are both older so I can tell they might have targets on their backs.

There is a trio that consists of the pair from 8 and the girl from 9, they are a weird team and I don't know what to make of them.

The next trio is the boy from 6, the boy from 11, and the girl from 12. They don't seem very threating.

That leaves the girl from 6, the pair from 7, the pair from 10, and me as the solo's in the games.

While my list isn't very comprehensive I feel like it's a good start. I need to know my opponents better than they know me, if I don't, I don't stand a chance.

Hey y'all no months-long hiatus this time, OOF. I was just finishing up finals but anyways what do y'all think of these and with that training is over! The next chapter will be training sessions and scores. After that, it'll be interviews and the night before. After that, it'll be into the tubes chapter which each tribute will get a POV of the night before or into the tubes then the games! So 4 chapters to go before the games! I know it seems like a lot of POV's but I feel like other stories, you never get development from the tributes so I just want each of them to get a fair share. anyways thanks for the support and let me know what y'all think of the tributes! Until Next Time.