Prologue: How to Smother Fire
By Cato's standards, she wasn't exactly what he would call pretty, like those bimbos he could easily sling back to his apartment back at District 2 with just a flick of a finger. But with the intensifying rivalry going on amongst the tributes, starting from the emotional appeals on the reaping and the costume show at the presentation, he had set his eyes on stepping on this 'Girl on Fire'. As if the bitch's score of eleven wasn't enough to combust his hatred for her, her mad archery skills had been boiling his blood.
Girl on fire, girl on fire. How do I kill your fire, mused Cato furiously as he watched her shoot another dummy at bull's eye.
"Everyone knows that nothing is at seems when it comes to the show of the Hunger Games," said Enobaria as she munches on the piece of rare meat. Fillet mignon, cooked extra rare. Cooked just exactly to her liking. "The Hunger Games is nothing but dirty politics. It doesn't matter what you've achieved on your own. If the gamemaker has decided on a compelling narrative to his viewers, then you're shit."
Clove rolls her eyes at her. "It's too early in the morning for your senseless ramblings."
Enobaria flares at her comment and bangs the table. "Which means to say, you little bitch, that you two already lost on the get-go. The gamemaker already chose his playthings. The star-crossed lovers of District 12. He'll do anything to keep those two alive so as to raise the ratings. Anything, perhaps to the point of eliminating all the tributes who would gun for them."
Clove glares at her but stays silent. She has a point, after all. From now on, there's no more spontaneous outrage. Just pure, strategic maneuvering.
Cato speaks up for the first time. "So that means, we need to take them down before the games begin."
Enobaria arches her brow at him. "Elaborate."
Cato coughs. "Scare them. Damage them. Traumatize them in such a way that they wouldn't be able to act accordingly to the gamemaker's liking."
Clove and Enobaria both smirk at him. "Now someone's thinking," Enobaria snickers.
A/N:
Second story in ! Though I haven't completely plotted out this story yet, I've got interesting twists already in my mind. Let me know what you think! Review, review, review! xoxo, anj.
