The Capitol
In the middle of the night three adults and just over a dozen toddlers walk the alleyways. In secret they cross the street and walk through a field, one of the very few left here. Once they get to their point, a river with fast flowing currents and tall grass, they divide into three groups, one adult and four toddlers in each, with an extra in one, and travel a bit further down the bank.
"Hush," the man says after one woman steps on a stick. She nods. But then, suddenly, there are the sounds of many footsteps. "Peacekeepers. Move!" The man tells the others. "Keep your positions."
"Yes, Lethan," the women reply. They keep walking, but on the other side of the river, the footsteps become louder, louder. . . . Until they burst into the clearing and spot them. All of them. When they come into view the toddlers whimper, some cry, others too shocked to make a move.
Run!" Darionna, one of the women, yells. "Into the river, put the children into the river!"
That's when the shooting starts. The firing scares the toddlers and sends them into a set of screaming. Xara, the second woman, pulls her set of children along trying to get them in the rushing waters to get them out of the Capitol and to have a chance at real life, not just a fake, made-up, fantasy life here. But just as Xara and Darionna, who are newly found twins, hear Lethan's scream. They look over just as he falls to the ground – dead. The two rush to gather the last five toddlers and get them in the water. But as they are trying to get the last child in the water, a Peacekeeper shoots and catches him right in the heart. Both women cry out just as his lifeless body hits the water, around him the water is stained a dark crimson.
But as they hear another gunshot, they scramble to their feet, run to the bushes, and get away, just as the last child is gone from sight. Now it is up to the twelve remaining toddlers to reunite twelve years from now, in the same place they escaped from just tonight. They must team up in a battle to the death, take down the Capitol, and finish what started before the Games themselves were ever thought of. They must complete what Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark fought and died trying to gain. They must gain freedom and equality for the districts and destroy the Capitol forever.