Hello! Welcome to my first Hunger Games fic! I'm a recent convert to the series and they are bloody incredible, but since you're reading this fic I imagine you already know that. :)
EDIT: So, this got deleted. Slightly less than convenient for me, but oh well. I will be gradually re-updating over the next few weeks, but I've lost a lot of my documents due to a dead laptop so I'm going to have to rewrite -_-
This fic is now LEGAL, because the characters have been switched with characters of mine so it complies with guidelines and is no longer a SYOT, it's a SMOT (Submit My Own Tributes :P). (You may recognise them. :D I've tried to keep them recognisable, whilst still complying with guidelines.)
This fic is a Quarter Quell, so it's obviously got a twist. I will be regularly updating, so keep an eye out for me! This fic is going to be the most original you'll have seen in a while; I have the arena and storyline meticulously planned and nothing will go as expected.
Let the Games Begin…
Prologue: Shock
The rebellion was crushed but never forgotten, nor the people lost fighting for freedom by the ones who mourn them in the dark. What few know and even less talk about is the final card Katniss Everdeen played before her death. Her last stand that would resonate in the Capitol twelve years after her execution, and could, maybe, possibly, be the spark that began the inferno again.
"As a reminder that nobody was spared during the apocalyptic war that consumed North America, 24 Capitol tributes must compete against 24 District tributes. When all of one team is killed, any remaining tributes are the victors."
President Snow stared with unmasked fury at the Fourth Quarter Quell card that he had just read. This was Katniss Everdeen's doing. He knew it. But how could he prove it? And even though he was the all-powerful president of Panem, having no Hunger Games that year could be a signal to the districts that he was loosening his grip on them.
"Let the Hunger Games begin!"
The Capitol audience looked in shock at the news, but then they cheered just as loudly as at any Hunger Games. This was going to be so exciting! Having one of their own be the victor of the Fourth Quarter Quell!
"Mr. President? Sir?"
The cheering stopped dead and was replaced by a deafening silence. Snow slowly rotated around to fix the boy speaking with an icy stare.
"What is it?" he snapped. The boy-the youngest new Gamemaker-looked petrified, but pointed to the card.
"There's a little bit at the bottom that you haven't read out."
Snow, slightly mollified, turned back to the card. The boy spoke the truth; his aging eyesight had missed the sentence scrawled at the bottom of the card. Strange, the handwriting almost looked different to the rest of the card...no, must be his imagination. Mind playing tricks on an old man.
"As a personal reminder to the current President that he cannot be sentimental if he wishes to keep control of Panem, any of his children of Hunger Games age are automatically tributes for the Capitol."
An audible gasp could be heard. It was widely known that Snow had five children. Two were in their thirties, but he had twin boys of fourteen, and a girl who was the Capitol's darling who had just had her twelfth birthday…
Snow quietly descended the steps and disappeared from sight. The crowd slowly dispersed, all muttering quietly about the shock of it all.
Only the most observant noticed the Peacekeepers taking the youngest Gamemaker, stifling his scream, and shooting a silenced bullet through his skull.
Keteri Rue Everdeen clutched the picture of her mother and father tight to her chest and wept a silent tear. They'd been killed young. Too young. That was all she knew about them, apart from some whispers at school. She knew the only thing that protected her from being killed like her mum was District 13.
But the one thing that everyone agreed on was that Keteri was going to be in the Hunger Games the minute she hit her twelfth birthday.
Today was her twelfth birthday. It was also Reaping Day. Ironic, huh? She thought so. Some people even whispered that Reaping Day had been made to be her birthday on purpose, but she knew that was rubbish. The Capitol couldn't care about her that much...
She hugged her guardian, Haymitch Abernathy, and walked out of their rickety, homely shack's door with her head held high. She knew what her mother would be saying now:
"Keteri Rue Everdeen, you were named for another brave 12-year-old girl in the Hunger Games, and for the first mockingjay that was ever discovered. Mockingjays were created despite what the Capitol wanted. So were you."
"Ketty!" She heard her two best friends, Lune and Acorn, calling her to the crowd. She ran after them, heart racing in terror for what was to come.
And may the odds be ever in your favour!
Here is the tribute list:
District One:
Khione Raider, 15
Alexander Stream, 18
District Two:
Oliver 'Lucky' Chance, 16
Harmony Chiswicke, 18
District Three:
Leilani Wire, 13
Ki Border, 13 (was my character to begin with :D)
District Four:
Bairre Literi, 16
Katrina Atoll, 14
District Five:
Acassia Nox, 15
Penn Cillian, 12
District Six:
Misty Kinnett, 16
Caden Lune, 16
District Seven:
Jedidiah Birch, 17
Jerilyn Moran, 18
District Eight:
Jai Hutch, 12
Rosalinda Fuse, 16
District Nine:
Grady Winner, 13
Cypress Wills, 12
District Ten:
Erah Letters, 18
Vendetta Alvarez, 14
District Eleven:
Lily Bell Sleet, 16
Keith Samuels, 16
District Thirteen:
Shark Thistle, 18
Terra Humi, 18
Capitol Girls:
Afrodille 'Dill' Kinnock, 14
Angelica Flight, 16
Celia Sly, 12
Charlotte Swan, 12
Emories Keylock, 17
Graffiti Ivory, 16
Ivy Celeste, 12
Lilith 'Raven' Evermore, 16
Melody Snow, 12
Sylviette Navy, 15
Terrinia Rain, 18
Valentine West, 16
Capitol Boys:
Apollo Tyne, 14
Blaze Vienna, 17
Demitri Knight, 17
Honor Gold, 16
Kit Avial, 18
Maximum 'Max' Cherry, 12
Richard Avial, 18
Seascape Kyre, 14
Tranio Filament, 17
Vigo Mirror, 16
You won't be disappointed!
Kara xxx