Chapter 1- Intro

President Brazen

It was only my 5 year as President as President Snow had died at the ripe age of 110. If not for the miracle of advanced medicine he would have been dead years earlier. It was his time as he was old and his influence was waning at an exponential rate. I was personally surprised that he had died of natural causes. It was amusing that a man that had kept the districts in fear for nearly 80 years had been taken out by something as simple as a heart attack. It was fitting I thought because he had kept the hearts of the districts in fear and agony for so many years. If he had lasted a few more years I would have offed him myself.

As it was only my fifth year fear was not instilled as it had been once. I plan to change that with the upcoming 99th hunger games. I had personally watched the execution of the previous gamemakers and had instilled a hand-picked group of scientists, genetic engineers and political figures to help make these games one that would satisfy the Capital's lust for blood and send the filthy districts back to the pits they were trying to crawl out of.

A buzzer rang and a sweet feminine voice called out, "Mr. President, Head Gamemaker Troy is ready to see you now."

"Send him in," I called out as I sat in my seat of the finest wood District 7 had to offer.

A mid-sized stocky man walked into my office and sat down. He had a long purple beard and colored beads filling out his head. What a ridiculous look I thought, but personally as long as he did his job nothing would happen. He clumsily sat down and knocked down a glass of red wine to the white carpet.

"I…I…I'm s…s…s…sorry Mr. President Sir," Troy stuttered as he wiped it up with his silk shirt.

"Why would you need to apologize Mr. Troy, I'm sure you don't mind paying for it," I purred as I called for another glass of wine from an Avox.

Troy's face flared for a second until he looked me into the eyes and said, "Of course Mr. President. It won't be a problem at all. N…N…Now what did you w…w…want to see me about?"

I very much enjoyed his fear. I suppose a few years under my hand will straighten him out. "Why yes Mr. Troy, why did I call you here? Oh yes! I remember. If I am correct the 99th games are approaching and because you are the head gamemaker you might have something to do with it. Am I right?"

He looked at me, once again flustered and said as he dropped his papers all over the red-stained floor; which I might admit was growing on me as it reminded me of blood, "Yes, Yes the Games, the Games. You wanted to see my arena." He showed his papers practically in my face and I examined them.

"No, no, no," I clucked. "This won't do at all. Are trying to amuse me because this is not funny. I am going to assume that you have decided to prank me and have another wonderful arena behind your back. Just to save the time I would like you to take a look at my arena idea." I handed him a much more sophisticated holo-pad for him to examine.

The Head Gamemaker took a long look at the screen and a grin broke out from ear to ear. "Oh yes, this will do nicely." He looks back up and the glint in his eye reminds me of why I hired him. "This will do just fine."

Hi this is AaronIris34 here with my first ever fanfic. This is a SYOT and I will also include a sponsor system which I will explain in a moment. As all of you on fanfiction know, everyone on this site enjoys writing or reading in some fashion and I am here to improve my own writing as well as to aspire others. I want to be critiqued as well as praised and I want to improve as a writer. I can't do this without your help so I help you all will become involved in my story just as much as me.

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