The 50th Hunger Games, Second Quarter Quell

Chapter Eight

On the day of their last training session, Crocas and Claudia said good luck to them before they went down in the lifts. Crocas had gone over their skills and the tributes had a good idea of what to do for the Gamemakers. The training session for the morning for Haymitch and Maysilee meant going round to all the stations that they wanted to refresh. At noon, they were sent away to a room off the gymnasium and called in one by one. As each one was called up, Haymitch paid attention to the names for the first time. He wanted a distraction from his own private scoring so he made a list.

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District One: Jewel, a tall girl with platinum blonde hair.
District One: Pearl, a smaller and slim girl with strawberry blonde hair, so alike she could have been Jewel's sister.

District One: Jetson, black curly hair and very muscly.

District One: Opulence, brown hair, slim.

District Two: Cinder, dirty blonde with a permanent frown.

District Two: Steella, auburn hair in a bob.

District Two: Mason, black hair sticking up.

District Two: Rebar, blonde hair, quite tall and built.

District Three: Electra, pixie cut.

District Three: Cabelle, a girl with round owl-like glasses.

District Three: Toule, a ginger curly haired guy

District Three: Technik, a guy with stubble and who looked older than eighteen years.

District Four: River, curly-haired girl with vivid blue eyes.

District Four: Angel, brunette with black tips at her hair.

District Four: Trawl, crew cut.

District Four: Marlin, quite small and slim.

District Five: Jule, jet black hair that was always held back with pigtails

District Five: Finch, long thick brown hair.

District Five: Electro, blackish blue hair spiked.

District Five: Batte, very pale, with brown hair.

District Six: Airy, blonde hair always tied back in a ponytail.

District Six: Ferrie, quite beautiful with tightly curled brown hair

District Six: Carson, bald head, very muscly.

District Six: Steele, very muscly and tanned.

District Seven: Beam, long blonde hair

District Seven: Willow, choppy short pale brown hair.

District Seven: Jack, brown hair to his shoulders

District Seven: Ash, soft chestnut coloured hair that was tied back in a small ponytail.

District Eight: Weave, olive-skinned girl with braided black hair

District Eight: Gossamer, tanned and with dark brown hair.

District Eight: Rush, slim and also olive skinned.

District Eight: Taffe, quite built in the arms, also olive skinned.

District Nine: Cassava, really small, possibly one of the youngest.

District Nine: Millie, quite pale with black hair.

District Nine: Silus, small as well with a round face and curly blonde hair.

District Nine: Buck, spiky blonde hair.

District Ten: Cattie, straight shiny black hair.

District Ten: Rain, short blonde hair in a bob.

District Ten: Moose, quite muscly, quite tall, angry face.

District Ten: Angus, blonde hair.

District Eleven: Laurel, pale blonde hair

District Eleven: Meg, bronze-skinned girl, dark brown hair

District Eleven: Martin, bronze-skinned with black hair cut extremely short.

District Eleven: Seeder, black hair, very vivid green eyes.

Once everyone from the other districts had been called forth, the tributes from District Twelve got called forth as well. First was Poppy. Clay squeezed her hand and whispered good luck to her before she left, trembling. Next was Maysilee. She walked forwards, her hands clenched and ready for her fate. Then it was Haymitch's turn. Haymitch inhaled deeply and walked into the gymnasium. He glanced at the Gamemakers. None of them was paying attention to him anymore. They would have lost interest a long time ago, instead, they were discussing the tributes from District One and Two. Clearly, they had impressed the Gamemakers. This annoyed Haymitch but he felt his skill would not be enough to interest them. He devised a quick plan. He had ten minutes to present his skill so he quickly got to work. He arranged eight dummies, all in different positions. Some hidden behind objects with only bits showing of their bodies, some were higher up than Haymitch, some were positioned further back. When all eight were set up, Haymitch went to a table where some knives of various choice were available. He picked up a set of ten, sharp blades. He tested the weight. Reasonably light but thrown with some force and he should make a good impact.

Haymitch threw his knives. He landed exactly on the mark each time. When he was done, he glanced at the Gamemakers. A few were watching him, reasonably impressed. The majority weren't interested.

Grabbing some paint from the camouflage station, Haymitch quickly scribbled on each dummy. He then dropped the paint to the floor. It fell with a clatter and the talk of the Gamemakers stopped. They all glanced at Haymitch's handiwork. He smiled wide at them and walked out, leaving them with eight career tributes all decorated to look (somewhat) like Jewel, Pearl, Jetson, Opulence, Cinder, Steella, Mason and Rebar.