Disclaimer: The Hunger Games Trilogy is property of Suzanne Collins. Buffy: The Vampire Slayer is property of Mutant Enemy. This is a parody fanwork by fans for fans. No money was made off of the creation of this fanwork.
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Katniss: The Vampire Slayer
Episode One: Welcome to the Hellmouth
by FanficAllergy & RoseFyre
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Part One - Welcome to Panem
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Panem, California was a little sleepy little town about two hours north of Los Angeles. It had the requisite Starbucks on every corner, a boutique bakery that was the envy of thirteen counties, a small branch of the University of California, the state champion high school archery team, and an oddly disproportionate number of cemeteries, mostly filled with the unfortunate victims of barbecue fork accidents and gangs on PCP.
It was the kind of town where a couple would feel safe settling down, away from the hustle and bustle of the big city, to raise a family. The schools were good. The police more concerned about donuts than drugs. And the children were above average.
Nothing ever happened in Panem. The mayor, Alma Coin, worked very hard to keep it that way.
So it was with some trepidation that two teens tiptoed toward the darkened high school.
"Are you sure it'll be alright?" a small fashionably dressed dark-haired girl of maybe seventeen asked her companion. She had a smattering of freckles across the bridge of her nose and her dark hair was styled in a high ponytail which cascaded over her left shoulder.
The boy, a pale teen with dark curly brown hair and an unfashionable yellow windbreaker, whispered back, "Trust me, it'll be awesome." He looked out of place standing next to the girl and he kept glancing over his shoulder as if to make sure that she hadn't run away.
She raised one immaculately tweezed eyebrow. "You think breaking into the high school's awesome?"
"Have you seen Coach Abernathy's office? Rumor has it the guy's got a liquor stash that puts the Arena to shame!"
"That's not hard. Caesar only stocks fruity and brightly colored stuff and most of his customers are under the age of twenty one, so it's not like there's a lot of drinking going on anyway."
"Right! Which means, if we get in, we can steal Haymitch's stash." He smiled at her shyly, shifting from foot to foot. "We could have our own party."
"That sounds like fun." She placed the tip of her index finger in her mouth and sucked on it slightly. "But aren't you worried about booby traps or being caught on camera?"
He snorted. "I disabled them already. It's not like the technology's very good."
She smiled a bit predatorily. "Oh good. But how will we get in?"
"Miss Trinket always leaves one of her windows open at night. She says it stops the computers from overheating. It's got a lock on it to keep it from opening all the way, but I can get around that. You'll see!" He said it with pride, eyeing the pretty girl shyly, clearly hoping for her approval.
"You're so smart!"
He beamed at her. "Come on." Jimmying the window of one of the classrooms open, the boy wriggled in before helping his date break into the school.
"So where to now?"
Looking around quickly, the boy pointed at one of the doors. "That way. If we go down that hall, we'll end up at the gymnasium."
"And if we go that way?" she pointed in the other direction.
"That leads to the library."
"Hmm. Well, lead the way."
He held out his hand to her. She grasped it quickly, causing him to gasp, "Ooh, you're cold!"
Squeezing his hand reassuringly, she said, "That's 'cause you make me so nervous."
The boy shuffled his feet. "I do?"
"Yeah," she smiled up at him coyly. "I've never had a guy like you."
"Really? You're so… so…"
Tilting her head to one side, she purred, "So what?"
He blushed, glancing down at his feet. "I don't know. Special."
"You don't know how right you are," she replied, her voice slightly distorted.
When the boy looked back up at his date, his eyes widened. The girl's beautiful face had vanished under heavily ridged, almost demonic features and her dark, almost chocolate eyes, were now replaced with bright yellow slits.
"Is there something wrong?" she asked.
"Your face!" he gasped. "What happened to your face, Clove?"
She smiled, a smile made all the more horrible by her sharp pointed teeth. "It's not my face you need to be worrying about." With a quick jerk, she pulled him to her, sinking those awful fangs into the side of his neck. He tried to scream, but it was too late.
Miss Trinket found him in the morning, another victim of the gangs on PCP.
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AN:
Written: 5/29/15
Revised: 6/2/15
Rose and I have been talking about this story for a while. Since December. But when the everlarkianarchives tumblr started hosting their Movies in the Month of May we dusted off our old idea and started fleshing it out. This is going to be a true fusion of Hunger Games into the BuffyVerse (including both the movie and TV series) with the HG characters taking on the roles of the Buffy ones. We will not be just rehashing BTVS but there will be some similarities and some differences.
Up Next: Part Two - Meet the Slayer. What's a Slayer?
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Thanks for reading!