Not Just Another District 7 Tribute

The Training

Sorry about the wait for this chapter I had a bit of a mind block but after reading some other fantastic fanfics I was back on track. This chapter is a bit longer than the others but I hope you still enjoy it! 

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Chapter 8 - The Training

I wake up out if my restless sleep to Minerva knocking on the door. 'Time to get up,' she screams 'training starts in two hours and we need to get food into you'. I tell her ill come so I get out of bed and grab some slippers and a dressing gown not even bothering with my hair. 

When I walk out of the room Minerva gasps, obviously she's never seen someone straight after they get out of bed. She hurries me to the dining room where I see that everyone is already dressed except my family. I sit down and the avoxes bring in our food.  

A blonde girl puts a bowl of some sort of brown fondue just in front of me and I wonder why would people have this for breakfast? After all the plates and bowls are served we dig right in. 

I ask the girl what it is and she doesn't reply. 'Rude' I think but Amber tells me that they are avoxes and that they had there tongues pulled out and then I totally understand. 

Minerva is the one to tell that this strange brown liquid is chocolate and she is completely mind boggled at why I didn't know what it is. 

I grab a spoonful of some of the fruit salad and drizzle some of the melted chocolate over it. Ive never tasted chocolate before so this will be interesting. Tomorrow ill go for something healthier probably, I think to myself.  

I see that everyone is trying something different. I dig in and taste the chocolate with a strawberry. Egh this is disgusting. It's like I'm tasting dog poop, egh who would ever want to eat this stuff.  

I don't even have another bite because its just to disgusting for me so I push my bowl to the side and fill another with fruit. I dig into the fruit, again, and listen in to the conversation at the table.  

'Today will be your first training session, your uniforms will be on your beds after we finish breakfast and we head down there at 10.30' Minerva said. 'Is there going to be a strategy?' Barker asks, 'yes what we want all of you to do,' Gertrude said while gesturing to everyone including the two Diffle sisters as well 'is to you guys to spread out and make friends but hold back on your strengths because that might help during the game. Have a try at stuff that wasn't available in district 7'.  

I wondered why she was saying this to all of us not just my family but the but then I thought Gertrude and Eliza probably thought of the same thing so they share it with the both of us.  

Once we all finish eating and talking I head back to my room to get changed I see that Minerva was right in saying that our clothes would be on our beds. I spread them out and look at them closely. They are black but down the sides on both shoulders is a purple stripe with a 7 in the middle. I look at the pants and they seem to be just normal black pants.  

After checking out the gear I go and have a shower. Instead of lilies today I think I might even try and dye my hair. I press the violet hair dye button and a bottle pops out of the wall. I wash it into my hair and once I'm done I hop out of the shower and put a towel around myself.  

I look into the mirror and see myself but I don't recognise myself at first because of the colour of my hair. It is a deep purple that makes my skin even paler. I immediately regret my decision so I hop back into the shower and hope I can wash it out. 

After doing the best i could by repeatedly scrubbing my hair with different smelling oils and shampoo I hop back out and look and myself in the mirror again. I look way better and maybe even better than before I put the dye in.