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The Growing Light in the Darkness	By : SWSWWAD Category: G through L > Hunger Games, The Views: 2343 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I don't own the hunger games books, movies or it's characters; this is a work of fiction for entertainment purposes. I earn no proceeds from it's production or distribution.

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I wake up in a soft bed wearing a silk nightgown, the room I was given for the games is a large spacious room filled with everything I would ever need. A large wardrobe with more cloths then I can count, an on suite bathroom with a shower and bath just for me and a comfy bed for me to sleep on. The beds not as comfy as the one I have back home but it still makes me feel like I'm lying on top of a soft fluffy cloud. I wake up not because I want to but because I hear Johanna's angry voice demanding I come out or she'll kick the door down alongside her bang fists. I've known Johanna long enough that I know she's more than capable of kicking down that door and that that she would do it if she had to get me out of the room.

"All right I'm coming!" I shout at her as I reluctantly get out of bed but my shout doesn't stop hear banging so I shout even louder, so loud in fact that I wouldn't be surprised if the whole of Panem heard me "I'm coming!"

"Get a move on!" Johanna shouts in a voice filled with anger as she gives the wooden door on final loud punch. "You are going to be late! Get dressed and meet me by the elevator!"

"Fine!" I shout back and I hear Johanna's feet stomp down the hall.

At the foot of my bed I quickly find a set of black trousers, socks, trainers and a black long sleeved t-shirt. I quickly slid my nightgown off and get dressed finding that the cloths fit perfectly but may be a bit tight for my liking. I walk out of my room without checking myself in the mirror and run straight towards the elevator not wanting to feel Johanna's wrath. By the time I arrive everyone is already waiting for me, Johanna looks pissed, Blight is looking annoyed, my father smiles at me but one quick death glare from Johanna wipes that smile from his face and Karl is looking bored as he stares at one of the many pictures on our floor. All of them turn to face me when they hear my running feet approach and everyone but Blight and Johanna seem happy to see me, those two don't hide the annoyance and anger in their stares.

"About time you joined us" Johanna tells me with anger still present in her voice. "Get in the elevator and learn something from training today"

"Here take this" My dad says as he passes me a slice of toast as Johanna shoves me into the elevator.

"Remember you two don't show everyone what you are good at" Blight tells us as he pushes Karl into the elevator. "Learn how to survive we already know both of you can use and throw and axe"

As soon as the last word leaves his mouth the elevator doors close mercifully shielding me from Johanna's terrifying angry stares. Karl and I remain silent as the elevator descends not wanting to talk or get to know each other so it will be easy to kill each other, while that's why I don't talk anyway. When the elevator doors reopen we are in the basement where our training will take place, we are amongst the first to arrive with the only other people here being the Career Tributes who watch us entre sizing us up. Not long after we arrive another elevator arrives letting out the District Eleven Tributes, the giant exits first with the little twelve year old following nervously behind. The Careers instantly start to giggle and taut the little kid and that really rubs me the wrong way.

"Leave her alone!" I shout at the Careers getting all of them to stop in an instant apart from a large blond haired, blue eyed boy from District Two who walks over to me still laughing.

"Give me one reason why I should Seven" He taunt as he towers over me giving me an evil stare in a perfetic attempt to intimidate me. "I'll be more than happy to stop if you have one"

"Because picking on someone who can't fight back is cowardly" I tell him not backing down no matter how scared he makes me feel, in reality I'm shitting myself and I'm surprised my body isn't shaking in fear and my voice is steady. "Is that what you are Two, a cow…?"

I don't get to finish as a fist strikes my jaw knocking me to the ground, when I regain my senses the first thing that I feel is a painful throbbing in my jaw and the taste of blood in my mouth. I look up to see Cato looking down on me furiously as two Peacekeepers restrain him and take him away. A third bends down next to me handing me an ice bag which when I press to my jaw I feel slowly start to numb the throbbing pain. I get back to my feet wanting to walk away and joint Karl but as I do the Peacekeeper grabs my arm and gives me one hell of a stern look. I get that twisted feeling in my gut I always get when I know I'm in a lot of trouble.

"Fighting with other Tributes is strictly forbidden" He warns me in a cold voice that send a chill down my spine. "Don't let it happen again or you'll rerate it"

As soon as he lets go of my arm I go and join the rest of the Tributes who have gathered around the Head Trainer, while all the normal Tributes do but the Careers stand of to one side already eyeing up the weapons trying to find the most deadly one. They don't pay attention to a word the Head Trainer says as she tells us about each training station and gives out statics about how likely we will die and what from, all they seem focused on are the weapons and I bet you they are picturing each one of those deadly pieces of metal taking someone's life in their heads. The Head Trainer finishes her speech and releases us to train as we please, the Careers go straight to the biggest most deadly looking weapons and start to swing them with ease in an attempt to intimidate us. But it doesn't work on me, a few Tributes look scared but not me.

I look around the room and quickly realise I'm the only one still stood still, everyone else is ever at a station or walking towards one. The Careers are at the weapons station, Karl is at the hand to hand combat station and I spot Katniss with Peeta at the knot tying station. They seem too close and just watching the way Peeta is staring at her and helping her tie a simple knot is enough to make me angry, all I want to do right now is to run over there right now a punch his pretty little face off. I can't though as I've already got a warning from the Peacekeepers today. I just need to stop looking and my anger will die down, I look around to find something to distract myself with and find it in the axe wilding station. I know my Mentors told me to learn something new but right now I need to let out my anger in some way other then ruining Peeta's face.

I walk up to the station and quickly pick up a pair of axes and nearly as soon as I do I see that the girl from District Two is watching me, a few more sets of eyes join her in watching me and when I see Katniss watching with them out of the corner of my eye I decide to begin. I look down making sure my ice bag hasn't dropped to the floor and landed somewhere in the way before I begin. I start by swing the axes hacking of both arms of a training dummy before I swiftly behead it, I then turn round to cut open the stomach of another one before I behead it too and I end the demonstration by throw both axes at the same time at a pair of targets down range. The axe from my right hand gets a bull's eye and the one from my left hand hits the target just to the right of the bull's eye, not bad throwing in my opinion. I look back at my audience to see Cato looking annoyed but the rest of the Careers looking impressed, Karl and the rest of the Tributes looking surprised at what I can do and Katniss looking at me with a mixture of fear and amazement, she tries to hide her fear but I can see it clearly in her eyes.

Great I scared her off… Wait why do I care? I was just doing this to blow of some steam before I do something to Twelve Boy that I regret. I wasn't doing that little show for her, I'm not some little kid who will do anything to get attention. I quickly look down and walk away straight to the hand to hand combat station, I need to blow more steam off now thanks to Katniss. God what is with that girl? Just seeing her with Peeta and even scaring her makes me feel terrible. I don't know how she can do this to me and why it bothers me so much but it does and I need to get away from her. I still feel eyes watching me as I begin to learn about hand to hand combat, I do my best to ignore them but just knowing one of those eyes could belong to Katniss is keeping me distracted, I don't know why but I don't want to look weak in front of her. Why do I care what she thinks of me?

Lunch was served several hours later and I sat in silence with Karl eating my lunch and looking at every Tribute, I look to see how strong they are, how scared they look and which one of them are going to be a threat. As I around the room I see that only the Careers are a threat to my life, the District 5 Tribute looks like she would be hard to catch and the District 12 Tributes look stronger than they normally do. The boy Peeta looks strong and powerful and Katniss looks just as strong and judging from the way she looks around the room she got a good set of eyes as she instantly identifies threats just as I do, both of them look well fed is well something just as unusual from District 12. I would look at them more to size up their threat level if it wasn't for the sicking feeling I get watching Peeta talk to Katniss and making her laugh. I should be the one to… The one to what? Make her laugh? Make her happy? Why would I want to do that when I'm going to possibly have to kill in a few days? At least with this feeling I can easy kill Peeta, yes killing Peeta sounds like something I can do that way I'll have… I won't even allow myself to finish that thought, Katniss is my enemy.

Lunch is nothing more than bread from every District and meat to make sandwiches, water and other juices to drink with pieces of chocolate. I eat my fill as I watch Katniss and Peeta talk, at one point Peeta looks up at me then quickly turns to face Katniss, he says something that makes her laugh and when he looks back up at me crushing a piece of bread in my hand is the only thing I can do to prevent myself from killing that bastard right here and now. He's enjoying knowing he's got Katniss by his side and seems very keen to show it, making her laugh and her telling him stuff that makes him laugh getting everyone in the room’s attention and every time he laughs he looks at me. He looks to me as if to say "She's mine not yours" which I don't really give a crap about, he can have Katniss all to himself and die alongside her in the area for all I care.

"Everything alright?" Karl asks me as he sits down beside me with a plate full of chocolate.

"I'm fine" I tell him brushing off the crumbs of the bread I crushed in my hand and eyeing his plate full of chocolate.

"Do you want one?" He asks moving the plate closer to me.

"Thanks" I reply taking a piece of caramel chocolate, caramel has always been my favourite.

"So something interesting about the District 12 Tributes?" He now asks before popping a piece of chocolate into his mouth.

"No I'm just getting annoyed by their constant laughter and that Peeta for causing most of it" I tell him as another wave of laughter leaves the couple. "It's starting to give me a headache"

"Yeah someone really needs to shut those two up" Karl agrees looking over to them.

"So got much training done?" I ask him hopping to change the subject before I start to talk about Katniss, if I talk about her then I will most likely say something I'll regret.

"Hand to hand, knife fighting, knife throwing and knot tying" He answers before stuffing a handful of chocolate into his mouth. "You?"

"Axe fighting, archery, tracking and edible plants" I answer leaning back in my seat. "I think I'll try the knot tying station after lunch"

Training flies by now and turns into a blur in my memory and before I know it is the last day of training and I'm stood in front of the Gamemakers about to perform for them like some trained monkey. I hold an axe in each hand and stare up to the balcony where the Gamemakers are sat watching, they are watching but most of them are so drunk that I don't think they would remember a thing I'm about to do. I start of by spinning and feeling the axes to get used to them, once I'm used to how they feel I begin my demonstration for the Gamemakers. I raise my axes and look for a target, I have only a rough idea of what I'm going to do but I don't know how to start it off but once I see the life like manikins that changes.

There's a pair of man sized strong looking manikins close to me only about two maybe three meters away. I waste no time and throw the axe in my left hand into the skull of the left manikin hitting it just above its right eye, I then charge the other manikin with the axe in my right hand and when I reach the manikin I tackle it to the ground and quickly slam my remaining axe into its chest. If it was a human and not a manikin then my quickness there would have given them very little time to react. I retrieve my axe from the first manikins head and turn to face the Gamemakers, they aren't even looking at me instead they are drinking and singing a song. I can't believe it. How dare they ignore me? I tighten my grip on both axes before throwing the in the direction of the Gamemakers. I don't hit any of them but my axes smash a light above their heads sending a rain of glass to fall on top of them scaring every single one of them to death.

"Miss Littleton what is the meaning of this?" One of them shouts as they recover from their shock.

"Getting your attention" I reply with a smirk. "But since you're too drunk I don't see the point"

I being to leave but the same person shouts out. "Where do you think you're going we haven't dismissed you?"

"I dismissed myself!" I yell back walking straight to the elevator not even bothering to look back. I head straight to my room and fall onto my bed smiling. "I'm not your trained monkey" I whisper to myself as I lay still feeling proud of myself.
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