The 100th Annual Hunger Games Quarter Quell: District Revenge

Avalon Harvison ~ Pin Acknowledgement

"And there you have it, from the Treaty of the Treason, in penance of our uprising, the Thirty-six wonderful Capitol Tributes between the ages of twelve and eighteen shall be delivered to the custody of the Districts and transferred to a public arena where they will Fight to the Death until a lone Victor remains. Henceforth and forevermore, this pageant shall be known as The Hunger Games!" Divine says proudly to the whole country of Panem.

The crowd goes wild, and when I mean the crowd, I'm referring to the rowdy District Officials crammed together in their little VIP section. They clap, cheer, and hoot at us. Like we're some type of celebrity or movie star. Well technically we are. I'm not surprised how Dazzle and Magenta are pretty comfortable being in the spotlight, considering the fact that they have to demolish over each other to get the camera's attention. Ellaydra is picking at her nails, and I'm rocking back and forth.

"We will now continue with the pin acknowledgement!" She cheers.The pin acknowledgements, is the one thing the Tributes look forward to. Because we are not aloud to bring an artifact or token from the capitol into the arena, free pins are given to us with our Tribute ID information on them.

"I will call you to receive your pin, please walk forward towards me when your name is called. Unfortunately, do to the short amount of time, this year you will be required to secure the pin on by yourself instead of me doing it for you."

All of the Tributes, including me, stood up from the velevet chairs, awaiting their names to be called.

"Jesslyn Bens!" Divine yells. A short silent clip is displayed on the jumbo screen. The National Anthem for Panem loudly plays in synch with the movie. I can see Divine clunking her hand into the bowl, pulling out the first slip of paper for the Reapings this year, and calling Jesslyn's name. It shows Jesslyn walking to the stage and answering Divine's questions.

The short chubby girl next to me stands up and waddles over to Divine.

"The thirteen Districts will like to thank you for your sacrifice by honoring you with this symbolic gold pin, Jesslyn Bens you are, T one." T-1 is equivalent to Tribute one. The golden pin is in the shape of a circle and inside the circle is the burning Capitol symbol with T-1 engraved on the bottom.

Jesslyn fastens the pin to her blouse and stands next to me.

"Avalon Harvison!"

I quickly walk to Divine, taking a sneak peak at the screen to my left. Divine pulling out my name, Ellaydra courageously volunteering, me answering the questions.

"The thirteen Districts will like to thank you for your sacrifice by honoring you with this symbolic gold pin, Avalon Harvison, you are T two." I accept the pin, clip it to my dress, and stand infront of my chair.

The Tribute numbers are stated by the order of being reaped. Because I was the second name selected, I am Tribute 2 (T-2). That is how we will be classified for now on. It's easier to distinguish the girls from boys this way. Because this is a Quell, the Districts thought it would be more entertaining to add 12 more Tributes. I don't find it quite amusing. Quell or no Quell. I'd still would've been picked for the Games as appose to the last 6 girls. But Anyways, for this Hunger Games, any Tribute with a number past 18 is considered a boy. 18 and above are girls. During the Games, we normally wouldn't describe the Tribute by their appearance if we weren't sure of their name, it's much easier to say their T number.

"Ellaydra Kings!"

Ellaydra stomps her feet over to Divine. The video shows images of her inspirational speech for keeping me alive. You can't hear it though, all you can see are her lips moving and the ear screeching Anthem that plays from above. Ellaydra's rebellious half white, half black hairstyle blew in the wind as she spoke.

"The thirteen Districts will like to thank you for your sacrifice by honoring-" Divine starts to say but is abruptly cut off.

"Yeah I know," Ellaydra says snatching the pin out of Divine's hand. "I'm T-3, spare the monologue for another Tribute, another day." She doesn't add anything else and walks back to her seat.

"Help me with my pin Avalon," She asks because of her freakishly long cat nails. I puncture the pin in her chic short pencil dress.

"Thank you," she whispers. I've never seen Ellaydra so serious about something. She never looked back at me nor gave Divine her undivided attention. Ellaydra refuses to engage in the Games by simply not paying attention or indulging into the traditions and procedures. She is as dead as a spear to the heart can get.

When Orchid was called to get her pin, she clips it to her belly. I guess it's joke because she's pregnant. After Paxton and the Yule sister's were called, Tributes 8, 9, and 10, were girls I haven't even noticed before.

Tribute 8 is Sapphire Blue, she's eighteen I believe. I'm pretty sure she likes the color blue because of her long blue hair, blue skin complexion, and engraved sapphires on her cheeks where her dimples would be. She accepts the pin very politely and sits down next to Ivory Yule. Tribute 9 is Katalia Star, she's thirteen, and Tribute 10 is Nakiya East who is seventeen and has as much perseverance as Dazzle in winning the games.

I feel as though the Tributes this year are worth rooting for. Last year there were absolutely no skill in the arena and everyone had three days to master the art of Panem's most dangerous weapons. The Victor, Lia Lovely, who won last year's games sits in the middle of the District Officials. She wooed the crowd by her all red appearance and little red heart tattoos that cover her body. Lia had no skill and received a score of 4, for the Training Center results. She simply won by jumping from different alliances, switching sides every time her group decreases, and tricking her final opponent into thinking she was weak by begging for a quick kill to end it all. But little did the boy know, Lia had a few tricks up her sleeve. She ducked the close blow to the head from her opponents sword, and because of his strong force he was swinging at, he back fired and slashed himself in the stomach. Stupid move. Lia who is now ninteen, she's leaning on her hand against the arm of the chair, yawining of boredom.

"Valeria Valentine!"