Let's Get This Done {ArcticWoof}

Andesite Obsidian

522 Words

Tag: thompson harvard - d2b - arc

One, two, three! Punch, punch, punch! Andy thought to himself as he delivered one punch after another forcefully into the dummy that was in front of him. He was doing quite a good job, and even had to stand the dummy back up a few times after delivering too much force with a punch or a kick. Very intently concentrating on what he was doing, he hadn't even been paying attention to what other tributes were doing in that moment. He was sure that there were others nearby, probably either watching or doing similar things themselves. He also knew that there were surely tributes practicing different skills at other stations as well.

It took quite a long time for Andy finally feel that he should take a break from his practicing. Being tired wasn't the reason he had decided to cease training, either. Instead, the blood that had begun to flow heavily from his knuckles was his indicator to stop. He walked away from the dummy that he had been practicing on and decided to observe what others were doing with their time that they were training. One tribute was over at the fire making station, trying very hard, and seemingly doing very well. He would certainly be going over there at some point to practice those skills himself. He also knew that there were some other stations he was rather determined to try, but was going to wait for a little bit before he decided to do so, due to the state of his bloody fists at this point.

When Andy finally decided that he was going to try to make conversation with someone, he saw someone that he, in all honesty, had avoided talking to. He wasn't sure why he had avoided this boy at first, either. Perhaps Andy was simply intimidated. When it came to tributes older than him, or who at least appeared to be older than him, Andy steered clear, not wanting to get on their bad side and end up making them want to kill him even more than they already may have wanted to. Knowing that if he made a strong tribute angry, he was likely to be killed by them rather quickly in the arena, he tried his best to be polite to all of the other tributes, even if he didn't want to be.

Approaching this boy, who he knew was Sol Shim from District Five, Andesite decided that he may as well try to make friends if nothing else. After all, if he was friends with someone in the arena, rather than the enemies that he feared, perhaps they'd be less inclined to kill him right away. Speaking up, Andy decided to say hello.

"Hey, what's up? I'm Andy." he said, tapping the guy on the shoulder as he approached him.

He'll probably be like all the others, asking what the heck I want...

Then another thought crossed his mind.

Wait, isn't this the guy who decided to bring a flower crown as his token? Flower boy can't be that bad.

Andy then awaited the response from who he would likely be thinking of as flower boy from now on.