I slipped into my mint green dress, today would be the day that the tributes for the Hunger Games would be reaped. This year the capitol tried something different. They put all the districts names into a bowl and picked one district out. District 3. That was the one that they pulled out. My district, the one that would reap the first tributes. At first when I saw that my district would get reaped first I almost fainted. But now I think it’s better to get it over with all ready. I stepped out of my house and onto the brick road. I saw many other people walking to the reaping. As soon as I got there they pricked my finger, scanned my blood, then let me go. It was in a big crowd of children. All of them looked very nervous, they were probably praying that their name wouldn’t be pulled. If they were picked it was it was almost certain that they would be dead within a week. Pixie, the one that would be reaping the tributes, stepped on stage dressed in pink and magenta, with long flowing pastel pink hair.

“Welcome, To the 99th annual Hunger Games”! “ Shouted Pixie into the microphone.

“Now, I’m pretty sure you all know how the games work, so let’s get straight to picking the names!”

Pixie took a name out of the girls bowl and stepped back in front of the microphone.

“Terra Lockhorn”

What? How? Out of thousands of names they picked mine?!

Before I could even think straight two peacekeepers escorted me onto stage

“Now let’s give a hand for Terra Lockhorn!”

Nobody clapped except Pixie.

“Now time for the boys,”

“Harl Wildsky.”

I looked down into the crowd searching the boy desperately.

I immediately knew who it was because I could see the terror in his eyes. Two peacekeepers took him up to the stage.

“Now, both of you shake hands.”

I shook his hand, they were icey cold, we both just looked at each other for a second, we both had that look in are eyes, a look in our eyes that…we both knew we were going to die.

Before I knew it I was back at home watching the TV to see what other districts would be reaped. I guess it’s best to know my enemies. District 7, that would be the next district to be reaped. A girl named Kelly Cii and a boy named Flax Overwillow were Districts 7 Tributes. I watched through Districts 4 reaping, a girl named Clocky Hawkberry and a boy named Royal were the ones picked. I decided I couldn’t sit through all the other districts, it was making me sick.

The next week flashed by and I was already on the train going to the capitol. I heard the rumbling of the engine and we were off to the capitol. The train was filled with many different cars, a food car, a bar car, etc. I decided to head to the food car where all of the other tributes were. I sat down at another table with the boy tribute from district 9. Almost immediately after I sat down I was served a plate of food. Cheese, Stew, Bread lots of mouth watering food was on my plate. I started to eat my food until I noticed Kelly the girl from district 7 looking at me. As soon as i looked up at her she looked away. Hmm weird, was she plotting to kill me or something? No, the odds were someone else would kill me or i would die or natural causes. I just noticed something, I was accepting my own death when i said that someone else would probably kill me. But it’s true, there’s a very low change that I would win these games. After I finished my food i just stared at it wondering what I would do when the games started. “You accepting your death too”?

When Flint from district 9 started talking to me it startled me.

“Uh yeah..I guess”.

“Hey so when the game starts let’s say we team up”. Said Flint

“Huh? You think I’m just gonna trust you”?!

“No, but you know you’ll never truly be able to trust anyone in the Hunger Games”

“Have to keep in mind that everybody there is probably trying to kill you”

Before he could say anything else somebody said “We’re at the Capitol!”

Everybody rushed to the window. There was crowds and crowds of people waving at us. I waved back and the crowd started screaming. As I was waving I felt somebody pull me by my arm away from the window.

It was Pixie.

“Now darling it’s time to meet your trainor with Harl.”

“Now come on sweetheart”

Again I was pulled away by Pixie.

Pixie dragged me over to Harl while she also snatched him by the arm and took us away to other car.

“Introducing Briar Brightstorm!” Pixie said.

Briar looked up she was still stuffing food in her in her mouth. As soon as she saw us she scraped the food out of her mouth.

“Now you guys have fun now”

Briar walked up hands in her pockets.

“Uh so how’d you win your games?”

Briar looked up.

“I hid”

“Excuse me what?” Said Harl.

“I said I hid do you want the details?”

“Uh yes I do actually” Harl got close into Briars face.

“Look you’re gonna die anyway why do you want to know?”

Harl stepped back in shock.

I squeezed his arm and said “Its fine shes a trainor shes gonna act like this weather you like it or not.

Briar started talking again.

“Now you should be lucky you have me I did some observing of the other tributes.”

“Mariss Green, District 1, not a threat”

“But, lots of alleys”

“Well who are who alleys then?”

“Ugh where do I start, like half the tributes are in their alliance”

“I said who are in there alliance.”

“Alright but prepare yourself for a long list then”

I nodded.

“Pona, Grace, Alyssa, Wofi, Amy, Yasma and probably JB and Kip but i’m not sure.

“Jesus thats a lot”

“Yes but the thing is none of them are well at fighting, what I’ve seen most of them are good survivors not fighters.”

I looked over at the group of tributes.

“Wait, what district is Wofi.”

Briar looked over.

“District 16”

According to what i’ve seen only the people from district 1 or the capitol has dyed hair, but really most of the dyed hair and crazy outfits come from the capitol so it even is a little rare to see a person with dyed hair in district 1.

“I thought only people from-”

“Yeah I already know what you’re gonna say, to be honest I think it’s weird too especially for a girl from District 16”

“But apparently Wofi and Royal don’t care what district they’re are in to have dyed hair.”

I looked over at Royal, he had bright orange hair.

“Hmm, tell me about him”

While all the other tributes were either eating food or talking Royal was playing with his knife, he seemed to be practicing stabbing or something because he kept stabbing the same piece of food over and over.

Briar gave me a concerned look and said.

“We haven’t even started training and he’s already practicing.”

“Look he’s looking at you.”

Royal was staring across the room and giving me a kind of creepy smile.

“Looks like you might already have a alley” Said Harl

“Sure, anybody that gives me that creepy smile definitely wants to kill me, not help me”

Briar shoved me over.

“Look are we gonna talk about Royal or tell you guys about the other tributes?”

I sighed

“Just make it quick i don’t know if we can make it through them all it time”

Briar shifted around in her seat trying to get comfortable.

“Okay so, Kip Konipi District 12, She’s uhh little..let’s just say weird, Okay no she’s completely insane.”

Kip, across the room had a mask over her mouth and was trying to touch something in front of her that wasn’t there.

“So you know Pona from earlier?” “Well she’s Kips friend, but im not sure if Kip is actually teaming with her, she’s seems very fond of JB and they’ve already agreed to be teammates.”

“Why would she not team with her own friend?”

“I don’t know like i said earlier she a little crazy in the head”

“And who’s JB?”

“Another tribute, not a threat, nothing really else you need to know about him, now let’s move on to the next tribute.”

“Amy Luv District 19 and Yasma Incicle District 20”

“Amy looks weak but she’s pretty clever”

“Yasma a good survivor like the others nothing much more”

“Grace Wal District 10”

“Pona Fern District 13”

“Alyssa Nonfi District 14”

“And that’s all from that alliance”

“Now you guys better get some sleep, you’ll be meeting your stylists tomorrow.”

I wake up my hands hanging off of my bed, and my sheets crumbled into a ball at the end of my bed. I roll out of bed my feet touching the soft carpet below me.

I make my way to the bar car and notice Briar has beat me to the food already filling up her plate with the breakfast food arranged neatly on the buffet.

“Ah, there you are don’t think we were done observing the other tributes yesterday, i still have a lot more a information on the tributes for you and Harl.”

I sighed. The information about the other tributes seemed to take up half of yesterday.

I looked down at the buffet of breakfast food. Different types of sausage, bacon, eggs,and pancakes were arranged onto the large plates. I took one of the smaller plates and scraped some sausage and eggs onto my plate. As I was turning away from the buffet i bumped into Kip and a few pieces of eggs slide off of her plate.

“Hey!” Said Kip.

“Oh I’m sorry”.

“What did you say”?

“I said im s-”

“Did you hear that Pona she just insulted me, do something!” Pona walked up behind her and took her by the shoulders and mouthed the words “Sorry” to me, and then guided Kip back to their table. Briar approached me and whispered in my ear. “See crazy”

“Now sit down and eat while I tell you about the other tributes, I’ll go get Harl”