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That night, Natsume slept in fitful bursts that did nothing to restore the young boys rest. He was scared, after that show of power from the other tributes, all of Natsume's cocky confidence evaporated from him leaving him a shaking mess under the safety of his covers. He was going to die in there. He was only 12. Squeezing his eyes shut and letting a few tears fall, Natsume stayed in bed for as long as he could, as if the douvets could shield him from reality

Sleeping in a tub was nothing new. Before, Kanata had legitimately fell asleep while floating at sea, but once his stupid childhood friend caught wind if it, a curfew had been set for him so he had taken the next best option and just slept in a tub filled with water. Waking up with the sun, Kanata stretched with a happy smile, bouncing about his room. He didn't bother changing out of his soaking wet clothes as he flounced down to the cafeteria. "Good 'morning' everyone!" He greeted at the door, inspecting the food out for display. Grabbing a bowl of rice, he generously piled slices of fish onto his meal before picking up the whole bottle of soy sauce, drowning his food in the salty brine. Happily digging into his monstrosity of a breakfast, Kanata hummed happily like there was nothing wrong in the world

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Despite not being much of a morning person, Adelaide cracked the muscles in her neck until they popped like gunfire. Sauntering through the corridors with cat-soft feet, it didn't take her long to reach the mess hall. The Valkyrie stretched, a satisfied yawn opening her maws wide to reveal unnaturally white teeth, as she came upon the vast array of foods. She settled for a healthy meal of fruits and protein; anything with high fats was likely to give her an upset stomach. She had barely enough energy to form the humanoid glamour that disguised her angelic traits; even the coffee didn't help. With one smooth flick of her knife, she sliced off a sizable chunk of her apple and crunched into it, the sweet flavor bursting over her tongue.

While she ate, she kept an eye out for the other tributes, namely any confrontations that could lead to a deeper reading of the tribute's inner lives. She already had several abilities down in her book; Shiloh, who was telekinetic, Kanata who was hydrokinetic, Natsume who was capable of frivolous sorcery, Finn who could control gas and Marshal who could control light. The silver lining was that they had not seen her ability, the ability to move at deadly speeds while fighting with enhanced senses. They did not see, and that was Adelaide's secret. Exposing your abilities all at once could become an Achilles heel, the weakness that would be immediately exploited. Exposing her angelic holy light was not even half of it. There was more to her, and she knew it'd take a while to get to know her.

Breakfast went down quicker than she expected, and she headed out quietly without a second glance. Arriving at the training area, she took in the sheer array of weapons. Each one of them, she knew how to kill with even before she knew how to walk. She knew their weaknesses and their benefits like the back of her hand. Each one gleamed with a sinful glow, their luster beckoning to the Career. Beautiful, and wicked.

Finn quietly sat by himself, he had filled his plate up with rice and eggs. He managed to slide the spoon under his mask.

Hailey walked around the dining room, looking for a seat. She had turned invisible so all that was left of her was a floating plate. She shyly walked around.

Marshal stuffed his plate high, getting all the food he could. He tried to balance it as he looked for a seat, he found an empty seat in the corner of the room. He sat down and started to stuff his face.

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Roxy and Aurora headed down to the training area, a glance around showed that they were the next to arive. Aurora put her hair up in a tight bun.

Eve finally woke up and ate light, a pice of toast and orange juice, she was too nervous to eat anything else. Eve put her hair back in a braided ponytail and headed down, she siddled up to Roxy and Aurora since they were the closest ones, and they seemed nice.

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Shiloh couldn't recall falling asleep, in fact, she didn't even know if she did fall asleep. Everytime she shuts her eyes she imagines her ultimate death, although she had the occasional moments where she envisioned her times with Milo. Which left her laying there sobbing. She quickly wets down her puffy face, and then moves towards the cafeteria, where she helps herself to some fruit and coffee. She rarely ate meat, even though oftentimes, her body desperately needed it. Farm work was hard work. She eats her small meal quickly and then heads to the training room. Adelaide, Roxy, and Aurora were already there. She shyly watches them from where she stands

Finally dragging himself out of bed, Natsume clutched the deck of tarot cards close to his chest, shuffling them absentmindedly as he walked down to the training room, completely skipping breakfast. Sitting down without care if he was blocking the way, Natsume set down his deck and calmed his mind. Breathing out, he drew the first three cards from his deck and set them before him. Reversed Strength, Upright Moon, and Upright Ace of Penticals. The reading wasn't favorable but he could make do. Humming over the reading, Natsume pushed the cards back into the deck and propped his chin up to think about his fortune

Finishing up breakfast, Kanata flounced over to the training area with a beaming smile. "Good 'morning'' again!" He greeted, smile never leaving his face. His eyes took in how dry and sterile the whole room was and pouted. Without any water, Kanata would dry up! He could already feel the painful rasp of air scratching against his throat as breathing became painful for him.

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Roxy looked back at Shiloh and waved her over, motioning to an open spot next to her and Eve.

Eve looked around at all of the equpiment, some looked deadlier then others, though she perked up at the large jungle gym set.

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Hayden entered the training room, he noticed a few people as he approached the weapon rack. He grabbed a quiver of arrows and a bow. “These should work” he said as he went into the simulation room. He had them simulate enemies approaching, his eyes dilated fully and in a few seconds he hit all the targets in the head, he even hit targets behind him. In result to him using his eyes like that, he was nearly blind, but that was only temporary. He stepped out of the simulation and used eye drops.

Marshal had entered the room and watched Hayden, ’I could do better, he thought with a grin.

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Finally looking up, Natsume was surprised to see so many people present. Clutching his deck of cards close, Natusme took one step forward before he was abruptly glomped by a blur of blue and cold, swept clean off his feet as he was lifted into a cold embrace. "Uwahhh! There's a 'tiny child' here!" A dreamy voice declared, a bright smile nearly blinding Natusme.
"H-how ruDE. Unhand me at ONCE." Natsume stammered, wriggling around which did nothing to loosen the grip around his waist. Instead, the grip only tightened and Natsume choked on air. The odd boy who had embraced him didn't seem inclined to let go of him so Natsume sighed and resigned himself to such a fate, allowing his body to drape over limply over his captors shoulder.

Having successfully kidnapped someone, Kanata happily hummed and dragged the red-head in his arms over to the weapons rack. "There we go~" he hummed, setting the child down with a pat on his dual toned hair. "Pick a 'weapon' and i will teach it to 'you'." He urged, beaming despite the hostility rolling off the child in frankly surprising ferocity. "As an 'apology' for kidnapping you." The child squawked in fury at that statement and Kanata couldn't help but laugh. Children were always so energetic.

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Shiloh moves forward to stand next to Roxy. She glances around the room as she does so. She notices spots for weapons training and sparring. That would be useless to her, she wasn't planning on fighting. She notices some survival areas, those peek her interest a bit. In her opinion, brain defeats brawn. She should be prepared to go into the worse arena possible, and then she can survive by staying hidden and outliving the others. She gets distracted by Kanata, who was carrying a boy over his shoulder. She keeps an eye on Kanata and the young boy. Her heart goes out to Natsume. He still had a full life ahead of him, he shouldn't be here. She relaxes when Kanata puts him down. She excuses herself and walks to the fire station. From her angle, she can watch the two while she works.

Derek woke up, spotting the training outfit. Picking it up, he tossed it aside, then started on his way towards the training area. He didn't need any training, he already trained enough throughout his preparations for the games. "Three years, I have enough training." He arrived, glancing around. He stepped up the a better area, observing everybody, and all their strategies. It was best to learn their talents, so that he could better defend against them.

(I'm going to post this here adn at least try to rest a bit more, I'm having a bad day.)

The training area itself was a gymnaism filled with various obstical coures and weapons. Above them were the game makers, the ones in charge of the arena once the games started. Over the next four days they would observe and make scores upon each tribute's skill level.

As soon as the last of the tributes arived a tall athletic capital woman steped forward and began to explain the training schedual. There were diffrent stations, some teached survival skills and others fighting techniques, experts were at each station per their expeteise. Engaging with other tributes for combative exercises was forbiddin, as there were assitantson hand if anyone wanted to practice with a partner. There were four compulsery exercises and the rest was individual training.

She then spoke words of warning: "In two weeks, twenty-three of you will be dead and one of you will be alive. Which one of you that survives depends on who well you pay attention over the next four days, particualrly to what I'm about to say. My advice is this, don't ignore the survival skills. Everyone wants a sword or axe, but exposre can kill just like a knife. Most of you will die from natureal causes. Ten percent from infection. Twenty percent from deyhdation." She then sent everyone on their way, the (NPC) careers went to the deadliest looking weapons and used them with ease.

Eve watched and looked around for something to do. Roxy headed over to the knot station and Aurora headed over to learn some edittable plants. Eve finally followed Shiloh over to fire station.

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Derek watched the careers for a moment longer, catching a nasty glance from one of them. He turned his back, then started walking towards a station. He didn't care to check what it was, as he didn't care what he might learn. He just wanted to busy himself. His mind stopped for a moment, a loud thunk ringing his head. Looking down, he spotted the end of a spear sticking out his stomach. He smiled beneath his mask, then closed his eyes and fell onto his knees, hearing more than one career laughing. It wouldn't have been fatal, even to a younger child, but it would have left them disabled.

Fulminare's choice of weaponry was masterfully diverse, as this had been taught to her when she was barely a toddler. She pressed her palm into the familiar heavyweight of a trident, lifting it clean off its rack to examine it. The pale silver blades gleamed almost blindingly bright as the Career looked it over. Fulmin, when holding this weapon, felt a different sort of adrenaline; not pleasure nor sadism. No, it was righteousness, a barbaric sort, as if the wicked blade knew that she was meant to spill blood. The steel was practically begging her to bring it to a more..bloody glory than what most of the other tributes might acknowledge.

The trident was not one of the more favorable weapons, in Fulminare's opinion. It stymied her usual graceful dance, instead, making it more choppy; interrupting her rhythm and her flow. Granted, a trident held a high place as a lethal weapon, both ranged and in melee. Taking the arm to a series of targets, she hurled the graceful weapon. The three prongs struck the target with a legitimate crunch that Fulminare felt in her bones, making the dummy topple over with the force

Marshal had used his time to spar with a professional, hand to hand combat. After many failures and knock downs, Marshal was able to beat the professional. Although it was only because the professional slipped up and missed a kick. Marshal sighed a breath of relief as he fell to the floor, exhausted.

Hailey gasped as she saw Derek fall to the ground. The sight of blood made her nauseous, but she ran over and kneeled down. “Derek?!” She asked while assessing his wounds. “Someone help!” She said.

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Derek opened his eyes once more as Hailey set a hand on him. He started to chuckle, then reached down and snapped off the sharp point with an unnatural ease. His smile grew ever broader as he watched eyes turn. "Hailey." He held up a hand, then other one holding the javelin's tip. "Step back, would you?" His voice was still kind, despite the fact that he'd just been impaled. He shifted his body a little, then reached behind himself, grasping the rest of the spear. He started to pull on the shaft of the broken weapon, grunting as he did so.

Roxy stopped in her tracks from her path of the fire starting and changed it to Derek as she tryied to help Hailey with him. "Stop it, you're going to kill yourself!" Roxy's voice cracked in worry.

Eve had hidden her eyes behidn her hands, not wanting to watch the horror show.

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Kanata peered over Natsume's shoulder from where he was teaching the younger child, before covering the child's eyes. "Would you like 'assistance'? I am a 'god' so I can 'help'." He suggested slowly, staunchly keeping Natusme's eyes averted from the sight even when the child complained and tried to pry Kanata's hands form his eyes. It was almost creepy how undisturbed and calm Kanata was about the whole situation, voice steady and face not showing any sort of fear or panic, only serene calm

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Derek chuckled. "You'll see. Just- hnng wait a second." The weapon fell from his back, and he slowly stood up, brushing Roxy's words off like dust. Turning around, he glanced down at his shirt, now stained red. Looking up, he saw a few shocked faces from those that had previously been laughing. "You.. You stained my suit." His eyes landed with a gleaming glare on one boy, his training suit showing off that he was from district two. Holding up the tip of the javelin, he cut away some bright red cloth, his chuckle filling the air around him. He started walking forwards, approaching the boy.

The boy from Two took a step back, then another. All eyes seemed to fall on the fight between Derek and the boy from Two.

Eve peeked between her fingers jsut a bit.

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