I awaken to the sight of strangers with strange make up and clothings standing over me. I scream out and they laugh at the sight of me being startled. I fall out of my bed and they all grab my hooves to help me up. I shake myself off and walk to the bathroom.

"Hi there, dear!" one of the ponies say. These ponies actually have their cutie marks stamped on them. The three ponies' cutie marks are the average style dresser cutie marks.

"Who are you people?" I ask.

"We're your styliests, dearie!" one replies. The three begin to name them off. Cutie, Octaqueen, and Prettisity. The three rush me into my bathroom and begin to pretty me up. They brush my mane, apply make-up on me, and fix up my eyelashes. Once they finish, they leave the room and come back with a different pony.

This pony seemed different. His body was brown with a green mane. His wings are folded back and looks simple. Not to much Stable, and not to little Stable. He looks like a perfect pegasus.

He begins to walk around me examing my body and features. He stops and takes a breath.

"My name is Silver," he begins. I nod. "Now," he goes on, "get dressed, I think that your companions need you." I nod and leave, astounded by the way he is. He seems so nice. So simple. I like him.

I exit my room and head down the hallway to the dining hall. The three usual people that are there are, well, there.

"How did you sleep?" Eata asks me.

"Good," I tell him, "good..." He smiles and begins to clomp down on his food. I sit down and do the same.

"Here's the game plan everypony," Elkie begins, "Poniss, you will be working with me for three hours." She looks towards Eata and continues, "Eata, you will work with Haymich for the next three hours." We all nod as she smiles and checks an item off of her list.

After breakfast, we all head off to our "classes". Elkie guides me into my room and makes me put on a simple yellow dress and tall high heels. The heels feel very strange on my hooves as I strut around. I almost trip multiple times as I trot on. Elkie laughs and makes me sit down. "Now dear, we need to girlie you up some!" she laughs. We begin her lesson to walk in these things and act like a proper girl.

Over the next three hours, Elkie becomes impatient. I have shown her nothing. I still walk like a disaster and smile with a seductive feeling. She sighs and sends me off to Haymich.

At Haymich's station, he teaches me how to talk during my interview with Cashmere Sparkleton. He teaches me how to speak like a woman.

Like the same way that happened with Elkie, I learn nothing. My social skills don't improve and he becomes disappointed.

"You need to act innocent!" he yells at me. I flinch as he raises his hooves in frustration. He puts them back down and I sigh in relief. "Okay,' He says, "we need a new gameplan."

Once I finish his session, the other four ponies guide me to my room and dress me in some black body suit. They call themselves my "prep team". My prep team puts a cape around me and they send me off to the elevator.

Eata is waiting for me there with his prep team. We head down and arrive outside where a big black long car awaits us. We all climb into it and we a driven to some stadium. We enter is and are brought to carts where pegasi are in the front guiding them. We stay docked inside of the area where you step onto stage.

I catch a glimpse of all of the other tributes. They all laugh and talk and then we are called to our carts. I begin to have stage fright when Eata stands right beside me. The music begins to play and the carts are lead off. Our is in the very back. Silver waves at me and Eata and runs to us before our carts depart.

Silver is holding a torch of fire. That's when I begin to freak out.

He places the flame onto our suits and they begin to burst into flames. The only thing I feel now is a strange tingling sensation all over my body. Silver smiles at us and makes some motion where the puts her hooves together. Eata spots this and grabs my right hoof with his left.