User blog:Rainbow Shifter/The Chess Games

So hello everyone these are my fifth gamesbut they are again going to be different than normal and shall be more detailed than my previous ones! I have decided to do another games and end my beloved and infamous Pain Games (I have no idea why they are infamous)!

Information
So these are The Chess Games and the arena is going to be like a huge chessboard and it will work slightly like chess but without the different types of chess pieces (all tributes will be equal but there will be two teams competing until one team is defeated). The thing is though that during the Training Sessions I shall pick a King (or Queen) for the two teams and in my writing they will decide the runnings of the battle and what the tributes should all do. So lets get this underway!

Rules

 * 1) I do not reserve unfortunatly as I cannot be bothered to chase people up to give me their tributes.
 * 2) In these games, there will be Districts but Careers do not exist. But please do not make every single tribute an 18 year old who is amazing with swords. Try making a reall weak tribute. You never know- they might win!
 * 3) Please prove you have read these by putting: "I love pink frilly things" in the middle of your tribute's backstory/personality. Anybody who does not do this shall not have that partcular tribute accepted.
 * 4) I want all tributes to have a personality and a word count of at least 300 words.
 * 5) You can only have 4 tributes each.

Tributes
There shall be 45 tributes and I will select which team the tributes shall be in and which two tributes shall be the leaders. If you desperatly want your tribute in a certain team then please tell me. PLEASE NOTE: the two teams are called Black Team and White Team. I mean no racial offense by this, I am just sticking to the original chess game rules. And I know there will be an odd number of tributes so one team will have one more tribute but I shall do this so it is not unfair.

Reapings
The Reapings will explain most of the rules and how these games shall work as I have not explained most of the things to you. So enjoy!

Iris' POV
I was smiling. Why the heck was I smiling? It was the reaping day and I was smiling like an idiot with a mental problem. But I was getting looks from other kids who had freakish patterns all ovr their body whereas I only had rainbow hair. One kid in paricular who I knew from school, Scepter Mist, raised his green eyebrow at me. I sook my head, not wanting to speak about how annoying people were being today.

We had all filed into our allocated places in front of the lavishly decortated Justice Building when the musc blared out, hurting my normal, unmodificated ears. A bored looking District 7 guy strolled out, he had obviously been selected to be The Capitol's escort for these games. "Listen up Capitol! These are the Chess Games, a sick twist on the once popular game of chess. When you have been reaped you will go to the training centre where you shall be split into two teams and in each team there will be a King or Queen selected to lead you. If the other team kills the King or Queen of your team then you have two choices: Give into death or start fighting against everyone who comes near you, in a kinda free for all."

I had my mouth wide open, desperately searching for my rainbow obsessed parents to pick me up and carry me out of here, away from my future escort with normal hair and no tattoos. But he had started, "Now we will get on with our tributes! This year The Capitol will produce two girls and one boy", a few girls screamed out at this but the District 7 man carried on, "Yes yes its all very sexist for you ladies."

I was practically shaking by the time the male escort stuck his hand into the female's reaping bowl twice. He clearly called two names, "The female tributes are Symphony Decibel and... Iris Arcus!"

My stomach flipped over and I blacked out.

Scepter's POV
I was staring at her, the girl who I had stared at all year. The perfectly normal looking girl with the hair which turned me on like a lightbulb at Christmas. It hurt to even think about Christmas for what I was about to do would mean that I'd never get to see another Christmas, never get to see the joy on my family's faces and never get to see my Capitol home ever again.

The escort stumbled over to the male reaping bowl, obviously drunk with boredom and depressed due to the sun's rays beating his face. "Gok Wan!" The man cried and a tall boy with an amazing tattooed face pranced up to the stage. I breathed in and then breathed put. This is what I was trained for. "I volunteer."

The crowd was breathless as I walked up onto stage, pushing the reaped boy back into the crowd and taking my place next to an unconcious Iris and an equally pretty girl whom I had never seen before. She gave me a wicked smile and I made a mental note not to trust her, even if we are on the same team.

Cosmos' POV
So awkward! I thought muttering an occasional 'Excuse me' as I pushed through the crowd of children and ticked off astrologists who had been disturbed from their obviously riveting research. The sun was beaming down on my head, almost illuminating my arctic blue hair which I instantly regretted having. I let a small sigh escape my lips as a group of half naked 16 year olds passed me, laughing and joking about the games. After seeing this, I instantly regretted wearing a vest top, showing off my scrawny arms and bulging eyes. I was regretting a lot of things today, the fact that I had taken seven tesserae out to feed my malnourished family was amongst these regrets.

An anthem suddenly played and I craned my neck to see the olive skinned escort moving through the crowds of kids, shooing them away with her hands like she probably would have done with the crops in District 11. Finally making her way up to the stage she turned and looked at each one of us with startling emerald eyes which were outlined even more by the sun. "You all know the rules, so I won't waste your time with them. Just try your best and maybe you will get a high position in your team and if you do then the other team will kill you first. Yay for you!" A couple of kids grumbled at this, not liking how she was acting like it was all a joke. "SO!" She suddenly cried, making me jump and knocking over the two boys next to me. "For District 0 there will be one girl and two boys so congratulations boys, two of you are going to be reaped! Now we have to do the boys first because there are two of them!"

I gazed up at the stars which shone even in the daylight. And I marvelled at how the astrologists managed to make them visible all the time. I realised I would never find out when my name was called. "Cosmos Frost and... Indigo Kannaton." M heart leapt out of my chest as I spotted my fellow male walk up to the stage via the other steps. He had sparkling amber eyes and tanned skin which matched. I stared at my feet as I trembled onto the stage. Indigo looked at me and gave a small smile. At least I thought it was a smile, it was more like a smirk.

Sylvia's POV
Winning was my only opinion. I was going to get far far away from all these freaks who waked around here looking so smart. Ever since the move nothing in my life has been the same. Nothing except my skills. A small smile broke my mask as I crooked the corners of my mouth to the sky.

"Synthesia Velonte'

I didn't move.

"Erm... Synthesia Velonte? Come up to the stage now."

Still I did not move an inch. I heard a few girls behind me whispering to each other about how cool I was. And this spread like fire, trickling out of everyone's mouths until they were all talking about it. This had the desired effect! Slowly I shuffled to the stage and skipped up them, like I was happy to be there. I was a good lier.

As I stood besides the two males, one of them, Indigo I think, winked at me and cocked his head towards the other boy. Great! So from my district I had a flirt and a scrawny boy who looks as if he couldn't survive a conversation. I was already pissed off.