District 14

Hello, this is my first Hunger Games fanfiction, I'm trying my hardest to make it the best it can be. If you notice some grammatical errors, please tell me, I'll fix them. The first chapter is mostly about explaining district 14 and how it works, so it will be very boring.

Welcome to district 14, the forgotten district. We are separated into different sub districts. The first sub district is known to be the vile of them all; they are loathsome because they are mostly peacekeepers. Then, the second one, people say they are the clones of the first, except for the fact that they worship the Capitol. The third is way better then the other two, but poor, they have outstanding wisdom, and great leadership qualities. Then, there was us, the poor ones, that barely survived, the ones that were to be ignored at all costs. Us.

I'm X, or Sage, I have brown hair and green eyes. I'm small, and thin, unlike Y and V, my best friends. Y is insightful and fun, he's tall, has a darker skin tone, and brown eyes. V on the other hand, is fun and active, with pale white skin, white hair, and blue eyes. We have been best friends, since….. Forever, I can't remember a time where we haven't been best friends. They consider me their leader, but I feel like a bystander, trying not to die.

I consider V the leader, not only does he know a lot, but he knows a lot about a lot of stuff. He knows how to talk to people, I'm so anti-social, and I just stop talking to them. Y is more of the person who stands there, and analyzes the data, before stopping the people. Of course I have some other friends, like C, S and B, but I don't know them like I know Y and V. Admittedly, C is one of my best friends, and she really gets me, but I don't see her as much as V and Y. Vs' real name is Jason, but we hate it when we use our real names, Ys' is Alec. We are not related, but our families died. Well, I have one sister, but we never talk. So, we all just branched together. We live in a small hut, dirt floor, straw ceiling and floors, no door. Good thing it rarely gets cold, but it does, and when it does, it gets so cold, that everything is just white; we can't even see the ground.

The first district inside of district 14 has perfect houses, mansions, to be exact, number two, slightly smaller houses than the first district. Third, better than ours, but not by much, then ours, at the bottom of ever food chain, there is a weak link, and that is us. We, at the bottom hunt for ourselves, mostly V, Y, and I, we hunt for everybody, we also split our rations with everyone. They get twice as much as us, but we don't mind. Okay, maybe Y does care, but he's going to have to suck it up if he's going to live here. Today, is a day like any other, hunting, cooking, repairing; are schedule goes on, until midday, when Y walks into the hunt, carrying S.

"What happened?" I ask, looking over my friend, with a desperate, pleading look.

"Peacekeepers," Y responds, wiping away some blood from his mouth.

"Again, she has to be more careful," I say, gently putting her unconscious self on the ground.

"What are you going to put on her wounds?" Y asks, in a quiet voice, indicating that it was more his fault than Ss'.

"Moss, and marigold," I sigh, I'm the only healer in the fourth district of the 14 district.

"I'll get them," Y replies, heading out the door.

"Okay," I say, looking over S, as she opens her eyes.

"What happened?" S asks, groggily. "Why does my arm hurt?"

"You idiot," I say, playfully. "You got yourself shot by some Peacekeepers."

"That was Ys' fault!" S protests, wincing as she tried to move her arm, "Dang this arm," she mumbles.

"Well, if you'd hold still, I'd be able to fix it," I sigh, S was hard to cooperate with, unless you had a stun gun. M walks in, holding a bird. M is a tall, thin, girl, with red/brown hair, and stone brown eyes, while S is a female with long blond hair, and green eyes. C has dirty blond hair, with glowing forest green eyes, and yes, she is a female also. "What do you need, M?" I ask.

"Did you hear that J might go into the third sub class?" M asks, eagerly.

"No, how did he get promoted?" I prompted, working on Ss' arm.

"He just used his charm, maybe if it worked for him, it'll work for us," M suggests.

"It'll work for you, but I have as much charm as a leech," I grumble, trying to think of away to get into the third sub class.

"It might work for V," M says, causing me to send a death glare at her. V was my friend, and I would never want him to leave, he's like my older brother.

"V is not going anywhere," I say, as calmly as possible, but then images of V leaving enter my mind. "He won't, will he?"

"No, probably not," M replies, cheerfully.

"Probably? Probably? What if he does?" I panic, gripping the dirt, as if to hold onto my sanity.

"He will never leave you," M promises.

"I only want him here, because he can hunt!" I protest, knowing deep within me, that what I told her wasn't true.

"Sure, whatever you say," M says, eyes glistening with amusement.

"So, what's the real reason you're here?" I ask, changing the subject, M was an expert on romances, but I don't want to be anything, but friends with V.

"I'm here to drop off this bird, V caught it, I'm just here to bring it back," M says, trying to sound causal.

"Finally, he caught something," I joke, V was one of the best hunters I know.

"Yeah, he only caught a doe earlier," M laughs, we liked to pretend that V was a horrible hunter, it makes us laugh.

"What are you guys laughing about?" V asks, coming inside the hut, causing us to laugh harder. "Seriously though, what's so funny?"

"Nothing V, nothing," I say, trying not to laugh.

"Back with the moss and marigold," Y says, squeezing into the hut.

"Finally, it's been ages since you came back," S replies, with an eye roll.

"You're awake!" Y cries, jubilantly.

"Yeah, no thanks to you," S says tartly, but there was a faint glimmer of amusement in her gaze.

"Yeah, I know, I know," Y grumbles, I sense a faint trance of happiness in his tone.

"It's too crowed in here," I say, shoving Y and V out the door.

"Okay, S I'll get you patched up, and then you can leave," I say, crushing the marigold down.

"Yay! I mean, it's not bad here or anything, it's just, I want to get back to my own hut," S explains, as I put the marigold on her wounds, causing it to sting. "OW! Are you trying to kill me?" S screams, as I roll my eyes, she goes a little over-board with the whole 'life and death' thing.

"I wish-I mean, no, it'll keep it from getting infected," I say, jokingly.

"Ha ha ha, very funny," S says sarcastically, but her eyes are light with amusement. I put the moss on Ss' wounds, held the moss on with vine, and secured it in its place.

"You're done," I finish, getting up.

"Finally!" S says, exasperated. "It took you long enough!" I rolled my eyes at this remark, S was very impatient.

"I'm going to find some food," I sigh, walking out of the hut.

"I'm coming too. Maybe J will be there!" M squeaks, in delight, but I just roll my eyes.

"We aren't allowed to talk to level threes, remember?" I say, obviously annoyed, instantly regretting my tone, as M looks sad.

"Oh, yeah…" M trails off.

"Maybe we can talk to him in secret." I suggest, trying to act hopeful.

"Yeah, then we could fall in love, he'd want to visit me every night, but the capitol will keep us apart," M swoons, as I tune her out, she's all about romance, not about hunting. I walk through the forest, alone. M left just minutes before, to find J, of course. I hear a slight ruffle of leaves, and I threw my knife in that direction, just missing V.

"Nice shot," V compliments, looking at the knife.

"It's going a bit more to the left than I want, though," I admit wistfully, walking over to V.

"It would've killed a buck," V points out, plainly.

"But a human could've dodged it," I argue, we tend to do this a lot; it's just how we work.

"A regular human couldn't have, you, and I could've," V says, ending the argument there. We slip silently through the forest, looking over our surroundings, until we reach the First class of district 14. I peer through a bush, we aren't allowed in the first class, if we get caught, we get beaten. I saw C, flattening herself under a fence to escape some Peacekeepers, but only to be grabbed by the foot, and to be pulled back to where she started. The Peacekeepers started to surround her, blocking all of he exits. I stare wide eyed, as they start to beat her.

"X, come on, we have to help her!" V hissed, climbing a tree, I snapped out of my daze and followed him. "Do you have it?"

"Yes," I say, taking out some small darts, that contained toxins, not strong enough to kill, but enough to stun.

"Good," V says, as I shoot the first Peacekeeper, causing him to fall to the ground. I kept shooting until all Peacekeepers lay, slain, on the ground. I climbed the tree, and helped C up, as V assisted me. "Get her to the forest," he ordered, quietly, holding his bow tightly. I nod, and guide C to the forest. C fell into unconsciousness.

"Great," I mutter, angry, "Just great."

"You can do it X, just hurry," V reassures me, looking around. I start wrapping Cs wounds in moss, and putting marigold on her wounds.

"That's all I can do," I sigh, as C opens her eyes, groggily. "Peacekeepers," I explain, as she nods in remembrance.

"It was Ys' fault!" C protests, rubbing her eyes, still tired.

"Shut up!" V snaps, seeing Peacekeepers. "Get C away from here, I'll hold them off!"

"But-!" I try to protest, in horror.

"Just go!" V commands, shoving me off. I start guiding C away from the Peacekeepers, and back to the fourth class. There, I see Peacekeepers already there.

This is why I'm worthless, I can't save them, they will die, I think, sadly, looking at B, S, Y, J, M, and C, as I see E, the head Peacekeeper.

"J, J, J," E says, shaking her head. "Ah, now we have X and C, almost every letter of the alphabet."

"Leave us alone, E," M snarls, standing a good few feet away from her. Suddenly, E pulls out a gun, and pointed it at M, and shoots. Before I could do anything, J leaps in front of M, blocking her from the bullet. I shrieked in horror, as blood started to gush from Js' stomach, he fell down, dying. I stare at J, he was still alive, barely, but I stare at his face. I used to like J, but that was before M pronounced that she liked him. He has scruffy dirty blond hair, and blue eyes that could pierce into your very soul. He was tall, thin, always lively, and fun.

"Well, don't just stand there!" C snaps, picking up J, as E left. I just stand there, frozen in time, just staring at him, doing nothing else. "X! X!" C called. I shook my head and helped her carry J.

"J…." M cried, horrified to see her crush lying on the ground, dying.

"M, come on, we need help to help him, he might live," I say, trying to comfort my friend. M nods, wiping away her tears, she helped us carry him. I thought of J dying, the thought horrified me, but not as much as the next one; this happened every day here, it would be no different if J died.

End of chapter one! Hope you enjoyed! First, I would like to thank my Co authors; Frostfur72, Wildstorm of WhisperingClan, Cricky and Morgy 11 and 22. They all helped me right this and I have to thank them. If you found something you don't like, review and tell me about it, it will be changed. Next, order of business (if anybody is reading this.) what couple do you want to see more of? Should I start using full names to make it less confusing? Disclaimer; I own nothing!

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