My first crossover fanfiction! Not my first fanfiction, though. You'll probably understand the plotline even if you haven't read Matilda yet, but make sure to read the Hunger Games trilogy before reading this. Thanks, and enjoy! :) Be sure to review, I need all the feedback I can get!
Matilda Wormwood was asleep in her bed, and she felt like she was in water. Warm, but still cool, water. All of her fears had been extinguished by this perfect, imaginary water. Her criminal father had escaped to Spain with the rest of her family. That would be her mother and her brother. None of these three people, in any way, would even think of acknowledging her presence when she lived with them. She was accused of cheating, of lying, of knowing too much. They never did know that in one point in her life, she was capable of moving things with the power of her eyes. Her brain had extra capacity; she needed more challenges.
Then her teacher, Miss Honey, got her into a 5th grade class when she was only in kindergarten. She didn't have that power anymore, but it did her a lot of good when she had it. It worked for all sorts of things: keeping her family in check by use of simple, satisfying means; keeping herself entertained; and even making their snake of a former Headmistress, Mrs. Agatha Trunchbull, leave the school. This vile human was known for swinging young girls by their pigtails because, well, she wasn't fond of pigtails! Not much to go by. But she did nasty things to the poor children of their school, so nasty that the parents didn't believe their children when they complained about it. Luckily, thanks to a levitating piece of chalk and knowledge of the Trunchbull's first name, Matilda successfully scared the monster away.
Her lovely teacher, Miss Honey, was now the Headmistress of this school. All was well.
Now, Matilda had grown into a fine young lady, polite and smarter than she had ever been. In kindergarten, she had the mind of a 5th grader; now technically in 5th grade, she was capable of 10th grade work. This was the grade she was in at the moment.
She went to the high school across the street from the home she lived in with Miss Honey, who had adopted her. Some of the people in her school didn't even notice that she was 5 years younger than them, due to a well-timed, early growth spurt that made her seem like a somewhat short 10th grader. She spoke like one, too.
However, there was one thing that Matilda was unsettled by. That was the fact that ever so often, she had nightmares. Huge, beastly ones, almost as bad as the Trunchbull. This former Headmistress always appeared in these dreams. The Trunchbull nearly always caught her, and tortured and taunted her in impossible, terrible ways.
Matilda noticed that at the end of one of these dreams, she saw a woman, about 35, with long, scraggly dark hair and the palest skin she'd ever seen on a human being. This lady had wide, alert eyes that were somewhat green and somewhat blue. She was the one who stopped the Trunchbull from getting any closer to Matilda, staring right into her, boring her deep, exquisite eyes into the Trunchbull. The lady traced the Trunchbull's first name on a wall. It appeared in bright blue letters that actually sparked with electricity. In the dream, she whispered something faintly to Matilda. This was a name, an exotic but familiar name: "Wiress." She whispered her own name back.