Hello and welcome to the revised version of Metamorphosis: The Fourth Quarter Quell! The first version was sadly deleted by Fanfiction, probably because it broke the Terms of Service and asked for tributes. So, here is the non-breaking of rules version of Metamorphosis. It'll have the same tributes that it was supposed to have before, but things will be a little different.

I didn't save the chapters before, so the first four chapters will probably be much different than how it was before. I'm very sorry for this, and I hope that you like this version more than the previous.

So, here we go, starting with the revised (and longer, I believe) prologue.

Metamorphosis - The Fourth Quarter Quell

Degree Holland; 20 years old; District 12

I question myself everyday and wonder why exactly we put up with this, why wasn't there another rebellion that didn't fail, why that so-called Mockingjay, Katniss Everdeen, didn't do more to get us out of this. Despite the fact that she basically led the second rebellion after the third Quarter Quell, it still wasn't enough to save everyone. She's still alive, but she moves in a way that resembles a ghost. There is another President, one that is ruthless like Snow, but in a more reserved, dignified way.

People gather in the streets of District 12 to view the announcement of the Quell and hope that this year it won't be their kid, that it'll be the kid standing next to them instead. That it won't be them themselves to be picked. I can see the fear in their eyes and I wish that I could do something, but it's not like I'd have any influence over it.

I wasn't a victor, and I certainly am not able to be a tribute considering my age. The last victors that District 12 had were Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. After that, every District 12 tribute was either a bloodbath or died somewhere in the middle. No one after them even got close to winning anymore, everyone here had lost hope after they seen that the second rebellion couldn't be accomplished. After Snow died, things had died down a little and the Games were postponed while they elected in a new President, but once she was revealed, everyone knew that she would be just as bad as Snow was, maybe even worse.

On the screen they set up in the district center, title credits begin to roll, describing the Hunger Games and the rules that you needed to know to play the game, the most important one of all being to stay alive. The words, 'The Hunger Games' flash across the screen with a celebratory music reel and then fade to black as parts of previous Quells and especially important Games pass by.

The first Quell is shown. The one where the districts were forced to vote in their own tributes. It flashes by quickly and is the bloodiest so far that has been shown. I watch with a grimace as child after child falls down to the their demise, blood spilling out of various wounds and the life being sucked right out of their eyes.

After the first Quell, the second Quell passes by. The screen shows a good bit of Maysilee Donner, but an even greater portion of Haymitch Abernathy. Almost their whole alliance is shown throughout the flashback. And then, Maysilee's death is shown, pecked to death by large, pink birds. Haymitch holds her hand as she dies, and I can see the despair in his eyes. The Games flashes faster and then abruptly stops at the last moment. Haymitch slashes the District 1 girl's eye, and it falls out of it's socket, her screams echoing in the arena. Haymitch's force field trick is what eventually kills her, crowning him the winner and the first District 12 victor in a while.

There is a long showing of the Seventy-fourth Games and the Third Quarter Quell. The Seventy-fourth Games shows mostly Katniss Everdeen but a great deal of Peeta Mellark as well. There are certain parts of the Games that are skipped over: Katniss placing the District 11 girl, Rue in a bed of flowers and singing to her until she dies, the District 11 boy, Thresh, sparing Katniss for doing this for Rue, and of course, the part when Katniss and Peeta attempt a double suicide, but eventually both are crowned the victors.

The Third Quarter Quell is also aimed basically at Katniss. They show a great deal of Katniss and one of her allies, Finnick Odair of District 4, running around in search of their loved ones, who they heard the screams of in the arena. It flashes by quickly, and no more important scenes are shown, probably because the last scene, the one where Beetee of District 3 sets up a way to blow up the forcefield and Katniss eventually destroys it, is anti-Capitol.

And then, finally, the words 'The Fourth Quarter Quell' rolls across the screen and I let out a breath I didn't even know I was holding. The words fade to darkness and the president's face fills the screen. There is a child next to her, holding a small box filled with yellow cards, the cards for the Quarter Quell. She reaches inside and pulls the appropriate card out.

"And now, I'll read the wonderful Quell for this year," she says and the child backs away with the box.

She slowly begins to take the card out of the envelope to read the condition, and a small smile adorns her lips. She looks menacing, as she did when she used to be called Commander Paylor when she was in District 8. Despite the fact that she's now the president of Panem, she'll never lose that sinister aura that she always had about her.

Her smile grows wider as she reads the condition of this year's Quell, "In honor of the 100th Hunger Games, the Fourth Quarter Quell, to remind the districts how change was used against them, the tributes will be surgically altered by the Capitol prior to the start of the Games,"

The people around me gasp and look at each other in shock, while I just frown in Paylor's direction. She's smiling that fake little smile again, and I have a distinct urge to wish someone would slap it off her face, but I know there's nothing I can do. As the Capitol says, I have no significance as just a mere citizen in District 12.

"Thank you," Paylor says and then places the card down.

Then, she turns directly towards the cameras, the one that is aimed to broadcast live to District 12, and speaks clearly, that smile off her face and looking exactly how she had when she was still a commander in 8,

"And may the odds be ever in your favor,"

note

And there's the prologue. Much different from the original one, and I've done away with the first idea I had for the Quell. If I ever make another Quell fanfiction, that'll probably be the idea for it. Chapter One will probably not be uploaded for a while due to the fact that not only do I have write everything over, but I'm working with different causes towards getting interactive fanfiction legalized on the site. I also have to get my will to write back. After Metamorphosis was deleted, I seriously thought about just giving up altogether, but then I figured that the deletion of these stories will never stop if we don't persevere and work through it together.

But, I hope you enjoyed this prologue and thank you for reading! :)

Next chapter introduces District 1 of course, and I'll still be starting with the male tributes instead of the female. Chapters will also probably be longer and much different than they were before. I'll definitely make sure to back everything up this time.

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If you remember how many sponsor points you had from the previous Metamorphosis, you may of course, keep those. But, I'm not able to know who reviewed when now since everything's gone, so hopefully, you all kept up with that. Otherwise, I'll just give everyone an extra four points to the points I have in my records.