The 80th Hunger Games: A Time for Revenge

The Training Center

Chapter Four:

        Parker and I arrive to the Training Center early. We're the first people there, aside from the people at the stations and the head trainer. Stingra, Hunter, Rosie, and Jack come shortly after us, followed by the rest of the tributes. We all gather around Atala, the head trainer, as she talks about training and the different stations. When she lets us go, the Careers and I find Edison and Tonya, who look frightened and start to walk away from us.

        "Hey! You two! Get over here!" I yell at them which make them and some other tributes look over, "How would you like to be part of the Career Alliance?"

        They both look stunned and confused, "Ummm... I guess so, but why us?" Tonya asks.

        Hunter answers, "Because we need you to do all of the survival stuff while we do the killing. You can still participate in the Bloodbath though."

        "Okay then..." Edison says, and they go to survival station.

        Next up is Chuck, "How would you like to be part of our alliance?" Jack asks.

        "Sorry, I'm on my own," he answers.  Fine by me.  He's still just another tribute I have to kill.

        "Let's go to the stations now," suggests Rosie.

        We separate, and I go to a place where there are weapons and dummies to attack. I grab a double-sided axe, something I've been training with for a while. I run up to a dummy and decapitate it, and then slice off each and every one of its limbs, and finally hit its stomach. The axe feels more different than what I usually train with, but I get used to it while mauling more dummies. I look around to what other tributes are doing: Hunter is spearing some dummies a few feet away from me, Stingra is doing the same thing as me only with a sword, Jack's smashing dummies with a hammer, and Rosie's at a knife throwing station.

        Then I see Prim. She's with Samantha from eight, and around Tonya and Edison, who are at the survival stations. She looks around and sees me giving her the death-stare. Her eyes widen, and she goes back to what she was doing.

        Next I see Bob from nine with the most beautiful weapon of all, the trident. When he throws it, it doesn't even go close to the dummy, stopping short in front of it. A weapon like that shouldn't be abused. I walk over to stop the nonsense, then I remember that we're not supposed to fight here, but I quickly find a way to take it without a fight.

        "That's a nice looking trident you've got there," I threateningly say to him.

               He hands it to me right away and I don't even have to say anything more. I turn the trident around in my hands to get a feel for how heavy it was, then step back a few feet, and throw. It land in the exact middle of the dummy's chest. I smirk to myself while thinking about sinking it in Prim's flesh. I take it out, step back even farther, and throw again. It was like I couldn't miss. After a few more shots, I move on to the ropes course. When the tributes in line see me coming, they step away to let me go ahead of them. What nice people, I'll have fun killing them. The person on it at the time, Karlie, falls off near the top, causing her mouth to start bleeding. I laugh. When I get on, it twists, but I stay on and climb up upside down until I get at least ten feet higher, then I get up on the very top. Instead of climbing back down, I jump down and hit the floor hard with my feet.

        "Aqua! Over here!" Rosie yells to me from the Gauntlets.

        I'd forgotten about the Gauntlets. Rosie, Hunter, Jack, and Stingra were already over there. I run over, and get in line behind Stingra. Rosie leaps on, and manages to jump around the platforms with the trainers hitting her only once. Hunter's next, and he isn't as nimble, but he gets through. Jack is a little too big to jump high enough while also being swung at by the trainers, so they hit him off. Stingra goes, and almost gets hit a few times but dodges the blows. When I get on, I notice most of the tributes watching, so I have to make a good impression. I easily jump from platform to platform, dodging every hit, and get to the end bruise-free. It was actually pretty fun. I hang around with Parker to watch Rayvenn get hit off right away. These tributes are truly pitiful.

        I hear a loud sound and see Chuck demolishing a dummy with an axe. He's my only competition, other than my alliance. I decide to try the knife throwing station next. It isn't one of my strong points, but it's worth a shot. Again, everyone moves out of my way so I can go first, so I grab the knives and get ready. When the first body-shaped board is lit up, I throw it right in the heart. I continue with this for a few minutes, sometimes trying to hit the head or neck, and I barely miss. Every time I throw the knife I hit the board at the place I was aiming for, just an inch or so off off at times.

        When I finish, I look over to the archery station to see Prim trying to shoot. She could hit the target, but she wasn't very accurate, and sometimes the arrow flew behind the board. I could see that Samantha was with her again, and she was trying to teach her how to shoot better. Samantha was a good archer, but it didn't bother me. I was better at knife throwing than she was at archery. I almost consider going over there, but I know that I'll either start a fight or try archery. Starting a fight wasn't a good idea, and I didn't want to ruin my reputation by showing everyone how awful of an archer I was, so I let it go.

        I see Edison at the slingshot station instead of survival, but I figure he should be helpful with killing as well as other things. Tonya also sees this and leaves the knot station and moves on to knives. I go back to the battle axe and trident until it's time to leave.