Hi, this is an idea I just thought of, since a normal games would be a bit boring, let's have a quarter quell! based on if Katniss had died in one of those games or never volunteered and Prim wasn't picked. Basically there's no rebellion. Anyways read this prologue carefully, cos it's my less boring version of the rules :)
President Lilly Arnett
capitol
"This year is the 150th Hunger Games! The 6th Quarter Quell!" I say excitedly, announcing it to all the district people and the capitolites watching. I am excited actually, this year is going to be absolutely amazing, I can't wait!
I lift up the envelope so it can be seen by the cameras, then slowly open it up, even though I know almost the exact words it has written on the piece of paper.
I start to read out what it says: "This year the tributes will be related - each district has a brother and sister as the district partners."
I expect there is a lot of gasping, but a lot of relief from the families with only one child or not a boy and a girl. Then there is a lot of cheering from capitolites, they are very excited, I know it.
~time skip to an interview with the head gamemaker~
Amma Westmoreland
head game maker
(not in POV but to introduce her name if I write it badly and it's confusing: Yvonne Abreu, interviewer)
"Introducing our head game maker Amma Westmoreland!" shouts Yvonne, the interviewer. I pause for a moment to take a deep breath, I wish that I didn't have to appear on stage or TV for my job but oh well, then walk onto the stage and sit down next to Yvonne.
(A/N: If you must know then Amma is wearing a long strapless lilac dress with silver sequins along the neckline, and Yvonne is wearing a short strapless pink dress with a fur bodice and a diamond belt)
"For those of you who are watching the games for the first time," she smiles for the younger ones watching, it's good that she's trying to be nice at least, I decide to give a little smile now too. "I am Yvonne Abreu, and I interview people from the capitol, like Amma, and the tributes and their families" now she smiles even more.
She pauses, then turns her head towards me. Just stay calm, is what I'm thinking.
"This year's games are very different, aren't they? They are obviously both of our first quarter quells to watch and manage!" does she ever stop smiling? Still, not too bad a flaw, now, is it?
"Well, like you said, it is a quarter quell, so it is going to be very different. I'm looking forward to it." I lie on the last part. We exchange a look as if to say: I hate these games, but lets get on with it... (and explain the rules too, just wait for something important in the story too).
"Will there be volunteers? And what about the people without siblings?" Yvonne asks me.
"I'll answer the 2nd question first since it leads onto the next question. Only people with a sibling of the opposite gender who is also eligible to compete will be in the reaping, the others will be in the family areas where the parents and other people who are too young or old for the games normally stand. If someone gets reaped, then another person can volunteer. If they are a sibling of that person then the other gender tribute will be the same, if they are not, then their own family member will get reaped." neither us are smiling anymore. We are just glad we are not in these districts.
"Will there be a rule where 2 tributes can win?" she asks me, as we are all thinking about how upset these siblings will be.
"Well, as head game maker I am in charge, but it is against the general rules of the games. If president Arnett agrees to it there may be, but right now I don't know" I say, desperately wanting to put my head in my hands. How will I kill off these poor siblings? I really, well and truly, absolutely HATE my job (might ask you later in this if you want this to happen. Also that hating the job is to do with me hating having to kill characters. I get way too attached to characters in these sort of things :(. Anyway, just wait for the surprise)
"So the capitol will not be reserving spots for the tributes this year?" Yvonne asks (if you don't understand this one...)
I shake my head. "Nope. Though they really would not like any boring tributes. I think the sibling thing will most likely stop that though."
"Can you tell us who the mentors are this year?" Yvonne asks curiously, starting to smile a bit again, now the depressing question is behind us.
"Well, I don't know yet (I do) but there will be a few mentors who will be mentoring their siblings possibly, so this really will be a family matter." We laugh a bit. If only all those people out there knew just how much of a family matter it was...
"I think it's time to say goodbye now then, since we are at the end of our questions about the unique rules of these games." Yvonne states, giving a small nod to the camera crew at the back and sides of the stage and large audience.
The cameras stop rolling and I breathe a deep sigh of relief. Me and Yvonne walk off the stage together. We both take off our make up and change into normal clothes, before meeting up again.
I'm a bit late since I had a couple of phone calls from the other game makers, Terence and Antoinette. I walk into a cafe near my apartment and sit down opposite my twin sister.
"Hey Yvonne! Nice to see you out of stupid make up and dresses!" We both laugh at this. I love being able to just hang out with Yvonne. Ever since she got married and we both got big jobs in the capitol, we only ever see each other at the interview before the games. We both have our long brown pink and green hair tied up in ponytails over our right shoulders and we have no make up on except our pink and green tiger stripes across our cheeks. We are absolutely completely identical.
ok, thanks for reading that. Please send in a tribute. I hope this story is original. I haven't seen this type of quarter quell before :)
I am making a list of mentors and escorts now. Well sort of. I'm gonna put up a list of some types of characters I need. I need 3 people to be related to mentors, or somewhere about that number, basically 2-6 to make it interesting, I can help if you need some with names and characters for the mentors which are related to your characters, anyway lets just get on with this.
HAPPY HUNGER GAMES AND MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR