Glory And Gore--Clove's Story, Hunger Games

(5) Training Scores and Bad Desicions

"Cato Cassia," Said a robot voice. We were waiting for our private sessions with the Gamemakers. He looked at me and kissed me on the cheek. I smiled at him and he went into the room. The girl from District 3 tapped me on the shoulder. "Hi, Clove. I was wondering if you want to be allies." She asked. I spun around to face the sudden disturbance. "You? Heh, not in a million years." I said and turnerd back around. I felt bad for being so mean, but she knows you would have to have trained your whole life for this to be a Career. "Please, I can hunt really well." She said. I whipped around, our noses were almost touching. "I said NO. And unless hunting really well means dying during the bloodbath, then I don't think so." I turned my body around, and then moved my head. I waited a few minutes, and then my name was called. "Clove Shear," I walked into the room and headed for the knives. I grabbed the smallest one. Some of the Gamemakers snickered, since they think it's good to have big knives. But it's not good for throwing. I spun, and hit the dummy smack in the heart. They all looked impressed. I did a few more, and they applauded. I flipped, and hit another in the heart. I went to the knot tying station and grabbed a bandana. I tied it around my eyes as a blindold, and grabbed a fistful of knives. I threw them all. One hit in the heart, the throat, the forehead, and the kidney. They clapped. I beamed.

I grabbed another knife and hurled it at the spear net. It tore and they went crashing down on another rope, cutting it. I decided it should be more entertaining. So I grabbed four knives and started juggling them. One almost hit my foot, but I moved. They cheered. I untied the blindfold and saw they all had their eyes on me: Clove Shear, the girl with the knives. I bowed and left the room. I went into the elevator and rode up to floor 2.

Everyone was eating. "Clove, what did you do for your private session?" Valentina asked.

"Eh, threw a couple knives." I lied. It wasn't completely untrue, I did throw knives.

But not a couple.

I sat down by Cecilia and grabbed some lentil soup. "I took the heads off some dummies and threw a spear." Cato bragged. I finished eating my soup, and then I went with Enobaria, Brutus, Cecilia, Valentina, and Georgia (who is Cato's stylist) to the video room where we see our training scores.

An Avox man came and turned on the projector TV. "Hello, Capitol citizens and tributes! I'm Caesar Flickerman, here to bring you the training scores." Caesar Flickerman said. "From District 1, Marvel Melisan, score of 9. From District 1, Glimmer with a score of 9. Cato Cassia, score of," Cato leaned in, "10." Caesar finished. Cato stood up and cheered.

"From District 2, Clove Shear, score of 10." Caesar said. I stood up and cheered, just like Cato had. Cecilia hugged me. The rest of the scores were lower than mine and Cato's so far, but then we reached District 12. I want to see Katniss get a two. But before that, Caesar said that Peeta got an eight. That's pretty good, for a non Career. Then he told Katniss's score. I bit my lip. Caesar was about to say something, but then did a double take.

"Katniss Everdeen, score of..."

Cato leaned forward to see it.

"Eleven," Caesar said. He said something about it being amazing. The TV faded out and we saw the graphite wall. Cato was breathing heavily, which I now knew meant he was angry he stood up and screamed. He cleared off the coffee table with his arm and stomp-ran to his bedroom. I heard him curse multiple times, both at the Hunger Games and at Katniss. Georgia walked to his room to talk some sense into him, and calm him down. But that only made him angrier. "You aren't going to throw anything, are you?" Valentina asked, her voice cracking. "Nope, not at you. But I sure as hell will throw something at Katniss in the arena. And that something? A knife."

AUTHOR'S NOTE:

I'm sorry! This is two awful chapters in a row! This is extremely short! I'm sooooooorrrrrrrrryyyyyyy!!!!!!!!