A/N: I am OBSESSED with Jem from the Infernal Devices and Finnick from the Hunger Games (they are my two favourite fictional characters of ALL TIME) so I decided to write a fanfic about them. I ship Odesta and Jessa, but this is just for fun. This is just the prologue and is very short I know, but I also have the first chapter that I have already written so I will post that shortly - after a bit of editing.
AU: Set in Panem before the second rebellion, but the shadow world exists there. Also Annie and Tessa don't exist.
Disclaimer: I do not own Hunger Games or Infernal Devices (obviously) :P
Prologue
12-year-old Finnick Odair walked along the abandoned path humming. He often came out here on Sundays; he liked to get away from all the commotion of district 4. The girls in his class were starting to hit puberty and he was getting a lot of unwanted attention. Finnick shuddered at the thought of having to go on a date with Raven Goldberg. No, he was much safer out here, in the woods, with god knows what type of capitol mutt lurking in the treetops. Not many people could get past the peacekeepers into the restricted areas but Finnick had always been blessed with an easy charm, not to mention his extraordinary beauty.
Finnick's thoughts were interrupted but the sound of a crying child. He followed the sound to find a young boy, perhaps 5, with brown hair and green eyes sobbing. Finnick walked straight up to the boy to ask him what was wrong. As the boy looked up his green eyes turned red. The boy began to transform. He, or it, was a ten-foot tall black monster with a snake like face, a long tail it didn't seem to know what to do with and, most disturbingly, human eyes. Finnick froze in terror – this was the weirdest capitol creation he'd ever seen. Relax, he told himself. Slowly backing away from the mutt, he looked around for any thick twig or branch, something he could use as a weapon. With no luck he looked back at the monster only to discover he had been backed up against a tree. The monster had encircled him with its tail – there was no escape. Death in Panem was by no means a foreign concept, but this certainly was a strange way to go. Finnick grinned – he was probably the first and only person to be killed by a giant-snake-faced-long-tailed-human-eyed-thing in the history of Panem – not that anyone would ever know.
As Finnick accepted his fate a second boy ran up behind the creature and slashed at it's back with a blade, distracting it for long enough that it lost its grip on Finnick. The being turned to face its new opponent, the boy expertly dodged and ducked all the monster's attempted attacks, getting in a few stabs and slashes here and there. Eventually the boy managed to thump the monster's head with the hilt of his blade, knocking it unconscious. He turned to Finnick.
'Run', he instructed. 'He won't be out for long.'
'I'm Finnick,' Finnick replied, realising how stupid it sounded as soon as the words came out his mouth. Still might as well see it through to the end now. 'Finnick Odair.'
After much consideration the other boy replied. 'James Carstairs.'
A/N: Thank you for reading this (as I assume you did). I have quite a good idea of how the plot is going to pan out up to a certain point, but after that I get writer's block :D Please R&R :P