You probably think I'm a bitch for starting a new story when I got like 4 other stories to finish. ;p Well ideas are not meant to be locked inside, so yeah, I got an idea! ;D I'll still be updating the others too so don't worry! ^^
Another Kato Fic!
Summary- Katniss and her family's peaceful life gets interrupted by war. War with a country that is still alive and kept a secret by the government. Her father gets captured by the enemy. It is now her job and six other people to save them. They are the Star Squad. Katniss, Cato, Clove, Foxface, Marvel, Peeta and Glimmer. Being stuck in a cell with Cato is no always good.
Discovered Lies
Katniss once lived a privileged and peaceful life in the country of Panem. She had lived in the Capitol, the centre of the country with both her parents and dear thirteen year old sister Primrose because her mother's father, her grandfather, is the president of Panem. The great President Snow who offered the entire country a peaceful life without any woes and poverty.
Everyone was told that they were the one and only country in the entire world. That it was just them surrounded by big bodies of water. They said the countries perished thousands of years ago, caused by a giant asteroid. There were only a few survivors living in the ruins of North America, so they united and built up a place we call Panem today. That's what they told us.
But they lied.
They lied again. There were other countries throughout the world. Countries that spoke different languages and had unique cultures. Strong and independent countries just like Panem-and one of them were prepared to attack too.
Britalia they called the country. Britalia was a country that lived in the ruins of once the United Kingdom three thousand years ago. The people there were called the Brits. It seems that six thousand years ago, England, a country in the United Kingdom had full control of North America, a place where Panem stands today but lost the land to the Americans. It was named the Dark Days in the books because of all the brutality and darkness that surrounded them during battle and all the lives that had been lost.
Days became months and months became years and people were dying of hypothermia and shot wounds. It was when England surrendered, that the thirteen colonies were born by our great leaders but we just call them the districts now. And now they have come to reclaim their land back. But of course President Snow will not go down that easy because he never goes down without a fight.
Katniss's father was the strongest soldier out there in the army. He was the strongest both mentally in the mind and physically in the body.
After refusing to hand back their land, King Cowl, King of Britalia, declared war and her father was the first to demand to be sent into the battlefields. After objections and arguments from Snow, he went anyways.
The next day, he was captured along with many others. Held prisoner and hostage in the core of Britalia. But lucky for them King Cowl does not know of her father and Snow's relationship, only that he is Snow's best.
It seemed it was just yesterday when her father was sparring with her while telling ridiculous jokes to distract her.
It seemed it was just yesterday when her father was singing to her while she was in a corner, shaking with fear and wracking with sobs.
Because it was just yesterday.
Wizzings of helicopters and hovercraft flew in the air above their heads. As she looked up, her eyes start to water but she remains stoic and turns her gaze back to him.
"I demand to go." she declared with dead seriousness in her voice but Snow already knew she wasn't joking. She wants to save her father.
President Snow sadly shakes his head. "No Katniss. You are my granddaughter, you stay here where it's safe. I already sent out my best and strongest soldiers to go-" he started calmly but was interrupted by her shriek.
"I want to go! I will not just stand her being a coward while my father gets tortured in a foreign country that no one knew about until now!" Her temper was running real low, almost close to exploding.
"Katniss. You don't know how dangerous the enemy is." he states and she lets out a long annoyed breath while tugging hard at her dark locks in frustration.
"Oh I do know. Our ancestors have defeated them once and we'll do it again. I don't care if I put my life on the line, we'll all be dead if they win so what's there to lose." she laughs heartlessly and glares at the ground. "Please." she adds under her breath.
Snow sighs and runs a hand through his white as snow hair. "I don't know Katniss."
"I have to save them. You have to let me go. Please!" she even dropped to the floor and begged with tears streaming down her face.
Snow grabbed her chin with a frown. "Fine. I will let you go. I'll put you in a group tomorrow since you're already prefectly trained like your father."
Katniss jumped up with joy and embraced her grandfather. "Thank you." she murmured.
Snow pulled away so he can look at her face and eyes. "But you have to promise me something."
"Yes, anything."
"Promise me you'll come back alive. You'll come back to your whole family with your father. For Prim. For your mother. For me." He looked deep into her eyes with his green ones.
Katniss pulled him in for a hug again. "I promise." she sobbed.
When they pulled away, Snow pulled out a walkie talkie from his suit pocket and spoke sternly into it. "Commander Darius, I have a new recruit for you and you better take care of this one."
After zipping up her high tech black uniform suit, she threw her camouflaged back pack over her left shoulder. She sighed as she looked at herself in the mirror. She looked desperate, but determined and ready to fight anything thrown her way.
The door bursted open and her sister and mother scurried into the room. Her sister threw her thin arms around her sister's form and shook with sobs.
"Katniss! Promise me you'll come back. Promise! Promise that at least one of you will come back." she cried, soaking her sister's new uniform.
Katniss stroked her sister's blond hair. "I promise." she whispers softly. Katniss switched her gaze to her mom, who is close to falling into a depression. "Mom." she acknowledged.
"Katniss." she said, a tear slipping down her rosy cheek.
Katniss pulled out of her sister's grasp to hug her mother. "I love you mom, I'll come back with him. I know I will. Please don't fall into a depression. Snow will take care of you." she murmured into her mother's hair.
Her mother pulled away and nodded knowingly. Katniss gave her mother and sister both a final kiss on the forehead.
"Katniss. Take this. For luck." Prim squeaked as she placed a mockingjay pin into her sister's hand.
Katniss nodded her head saying thanks. "I better go. I might be late. I love you all." she mumbled. They smiled painfully and Katniss left without a second glance. She kept in all the tears so her squad members won't think of her as weak and unabled.
She stayed strong.
She was met with Snow standing in front of the hovercraft when she walked outside. Katniss ran towards him and gave him one last hug. This might be the last time she sees him. After saying their goodbyes, she walked towards the hovercraft while keeping her eyes on the metallic ground.
Inside, her other squad members were already there. They were sitting straight and quietly in their seat. There was only one seat left and it was next to a girl with fox-like features. She walked quickly towards it and plopped down, ignoring the glances thrown her way.
"Hey." Foxface said.
Katniss turned her head to look at her. She seemed friendly, with her genuine smile and bright green eyes.
"Hi." she replied with a small smile of her own.
"My name's Narcissi. I'm apart of this team. You must be the new recruit."
"Yup. I'm Katniss."
"Well hello Katniss. Would you like me to explain who everyone is in here?"
Katniss nods.
"That short girl over there with brown hair like you is Clove. She was put into this team by her accuracy with knives. She's nice once you get to know her. That blond girl next to her, the one that looks like an airhead right now is Glimmer. She was put into this team by her-um by her-Okay I don't know how she got in."
"Probably a sacrifice." Katniss jokes and she snickers.
"Sitting in front of the girls is Peeta. The stocky short one with blond hair. His specialty is weights and machete." Peeta looks like a nice guy. One you wouldn't imagine going into battle.
"Then there's Marvel. The tall lanky boy with brown hair. He's a wiz with spears. The big blond boy next to him is Cato. Bloody, brutal Cato they call him. He has major excellence in swords, spears and knives." She takes a glance at Cato and sees him glare at the wall in front of him. It's so intimidating that the wall might break. He catches her staring and his eyes narrow. Katniss breaks eye contact and asks Narcissi how she got in.
"My superior knowledge of edible plants and cleverness. I'm like the one that makes the plans here. So what made them put you in this group today?" Her eyes flash with curiousity.
"My skills with axes, swords, bows, spears, knives and I know how to heal." Her eyes widen with shock.
"Wow where did you learn all that?"
Keep in the tears, keep in the tears.
"My father taught me." she says with a sudden squeaky voice.
"Where did your father learn that from?"
She's rather not tell, but Narcissi kept urging her to answer.
"My father's a soldier okay?" she accidentally screamed causing the entire hovercraft to turn to look at her. She purses her lips together and tries to suck it up.
"Is -Is he in battle?"
"Captured by the enemy." she whispers and a rebellious tear streaks down her face. She wipes it away furiously.
"Oh I'm so sorry. It's okay to cry. It's okay. We were sent to rescue them and now we'll try our best. You should sleep because it's a long way there."
A long way there, towards my death and who knows what, she thought.
Cato will be introduced in the next chapter!
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