The previous night had been restless. Nightmares upon nightmares had plagued my sleep. The main theme of them? Strangling Adrien to death with a rope I'd lassoed around his neck.

"I told you my Auntie was right," he said in his last breathes as his fully green eyes pierced into mine, "congratulations, M'lady."

The vision of his eyes would not leave my mind. As he walked in and sat at the breakfast table all I could do was stare. His eyes were nothing like those in my dream, I just couldn't place it, it felt so real. He must have felt me staring and looked up straight into my baby blues.

"Good morning Mari," he said smirking, knowing he'd caught me.

"S-S-Sorry. I was in a world of my own. Good morning Adrien," Fu stumbled in and grabbed the coffee pot, bring with him to the breakfast table. He didn't look great, and for a moment I thought he was going to drink the coffee straight out of the jar.

"You two, remember what I said. Do not ... at any point ... show your strength. Also, don't show your weaknesses either. Just blend into the background and stay away from the careers."

"So basically, don't be too good but don't be too crap?" I announce. Adrien covered his mouth but I could see his shoulders shaking in laughter. I was about to explain I wasn't joking but someone started scalding me.

"Marinette! That's no sort of language for ladies to be using!" Nadja had entered the room.

"Sorry Nadja."

"Your training clothes have just been sent up by Audrey. Please go and get changed then I'll escort you down to the training area."

Myself and Adrien stood up and were handed a pile of clothes and a pair of boots from our room staff. We separated as we made our way to our own wings in the penthouse.

I set the pile down on the bed and began to strip off. My outfit was a short sleeved polo shirt and cotton leggings. The polo shirt was mainly black with gold side panels that had a hint of glitter in it. I pull on my black boots and walk to my mirror. I look at my hair and put it into two ponytails before heading out into the lounge area. Adrien and Nadja are already there, Adrien wearing the same outfit as me.

We walk over to the elevator. Fu is waiting in front of the doors.

"Remember what I said." His eyes were directed straight at me. I nod following Nadja and Adrien into the elevator and we make our way down to the training centre.

The doors open to a full metal room. It is equipped with climbing ropes, a woodland area, assault courses, archery stations, camouflage stations and many more weapon centred training courses. I look around at all the different equipment we will be using during training, it's overwhelming. I've been out hunting almost half my life, yet here I feel out my depth.

The other tributes stand around our lead trainer and I can see a lot of people eyeing each other up. I am the shortest one here by at least half a foot, with Adrien being one of the tallest.

"You will be training here for the next eight days with rankings taking place at sunset of the 8th day. I suggest you all train to impress."

Our trainer led us over to the centre of the training room where we could see little animals floating above our heads.

"These are the Miraculous kwami's. They will be watching to choose their wearer. These are who you need to impressing. However, not all of you will be receiving one of these. Some of you will be Akumatised, those will be the tributes who are not selected by a Kwami. Do you all understand?"

A collection of yes' sounded around the room and we were directed to use the different equipment.

I wander around not knowing what to do first. I head over to the assault course and run through it at a medium pace, it was pretty easy compared to running through the deserted woods outside of District 12.

I decide to go and have a look round to see how Adrien's getting on when I hear a loud bang. I turn around to see he's fell from one of the climbing walls. The careers from District 1, 2 and 4 are staring over like they're going to eat him alive. I walk over to Adrien and crouch low.

"See those weights over there," he nods at me. I lean closer and whisper in his ear "go throw one."

"But Fu said ... "

"I don't care what Fu said! They're looking at you like you're an easy prey."

Adrien nods at me before heading over to the weight station. I can see the careers still staring at him, nudging each other and laughing at him. He lifts up the medium weight and hurls it towards the training dummies taking the head clean off one. I smirk and look back at the careers. They nod their head impressed by what they just saw. I know Adrien can lift heavier than that though, hopefully he'll present that at the rankings. As much as we're against each other I don't want him to be seen as an easy target.

Adrien comes over to me and grabs my hand.

"You helped me. Now let me help you."

He leads me to the camouflage station and shows me how to create camouflage on my body. He slowly and carefully begins to make a bark effect on his arm, guiding me as I mirror his actions. After 10 minutes it's complete and we hold our arms against the tree. I let out a little giggle and thank Adrien for his help. 

"Years of decorating cakes," he beams at me.

I look over where the kwami's are to see if any are looking our way. The skills Adrien just displayed deserves at least some sort of recognition. As I look up I see a little red and a little black Kwami huddled together staring back at the two of us. I nudge Adrien to point it out and we both give them a smile before separating and continuing our training.