Fanfiction of Hunger Games; I don't own anything except a few characters, most go to the writer.
Summary: What happens after the districts get there along with a few interesting things.
Personal Log: Shay
Entry #: 1
Date: 06.14.2405
"Shay, where are we?" Penelope yelled at me. I don't know why she has to yell, we are just on our way to District 2 to drop off what we have recovered from the ruins.
"We should be near District 2 in about an hour. So don't yell, it's not like this is our first time to go there," I said before she took the holo disk. If she wasn't angry before then this must be a demon. But she looked nice in the same old lab coat that everyone wears in the ruins.
She then stormed off after saying, "I don't want to know time, but location. You know that if we don't get this stuff to the Capitol we're done for."
Well it could be worse, I thought to myself. The Capitol gives us freedom in the ruins as long as we get them technology. That doesn't mean we keep some of it to ourselves, but as long as we don't have to deal with the Capitol and their games I am happy.
"Have you been checking for Reapers?" she yelled from the back of our little ship.
"It is day time, they won't come out. Plus we are far enough away not to worry about them," I said, hoping that will keep her quiet so I can watch the land. Sure, the land is very dry, but the nice big open sky makes up for all of it. I am not that used to the outdoors with me living in the ruins.
"You have not been checking! You know the Reapers can easily kill us!" she yelled again.
She is right about that, with them killing us with their long claws and giant sharp teeth. "Okay I will look for them!" I finally yelled back at her.
Then after about two hours we are at the train station in District 2. It would be faster to go to District 10 or for the Capitol to come to us, but we are a threat to them. So they make us go to the head of their military in District 2.
"I hate this place," Penelope said with disgust. "Why can't we go to District 3? They're the head of technology."
This place always seems like a place of death and war, but today it is different. Nobody seems as depressed and there are no Peacekeepers. Most of all. nobody had come to lead us to the Nut. "Penelope you have the holo, so are we in the District?" I said.
Then she looked at me and said, "I don't make mistakes, so go ask that guy over there. I will be back at the ship making sure nobody steals anything."
As I went to go walk up to the guy I noticed he looked different than the people here in 2 with his olive green skin and gray eyes. "Um hello, my name is Shay and I am from the ruins. When are the Peacekeepers coming to take me and my friend up to the Nut?" I knew something was wrong when he laughed in my face. He must be around 25 and his body was in good shape. "Why are you laughing? We have stuff to go to the Nut," I said defensively, almost yelling it at him.
"You're joking right?" he said to me with a smile on his face.
"No!" I yelled at him. "All I want to do is give this stuff to the Capitol and leave. I don't like the Districts or the Capitol so can you go get someone?" After I finished yelling I looked at him and saw that the mountain had changed.
"Well then leave! The Capitol is gone!" he yelled as tears rolled down his eyes. I didn't know what he meant, but then he explained that the Capitol fell after they lost the districts and the rebels won. He then later explained that he lost a lot of people he cared for and the person he loved.
"I am sorry you lost them, but can you please go talk to someone so I know what to do?" I said in a sad voice and I gave him a candy that I found in the ruins. He smiled and said thank you and went to go get someone.
He returned about an hour later with a mad look on his face and I could hear him cursing under his breath. I also was not in a good mood after Penelope called me to yell again.
"Well you are free to leave and you can get what you need to take back with you. Also I want to know if you can carry one more person on your ship," he said still mad. I wonder if it has to do with the extra person.
"We can hold up to 5 people and only three are on right now," I said. "By the way what is your name?" I asked, thinking it was rude I didn't ask earlier.
"My name is Gale Hawthorne and I have been told to go back with you all." He said it so emotionally. So this is why he was mad, but in the ruins life is a lot easier.
"Nice to meet you and hope you will learn how to be nicer to people," I said as I took his arm and started to run back to the ship. On the way there I saw that no one was out anymore, but so what? I am so happy - finally, someone new.
"Oh my, that is what we are traveling in?" he asked looking at it.
"Yes, why is it not good enough?" I asked with a hint of sarcasm.
"Well for one thing it is a boat and I don't see any water," he said, kicking the ground.
"Oh I forgot that ya'll have never seen anything like this. The boat runs on wind power, but a very advanced type and it glides on the land and water," I said knowing he probably doesn't care or know what I am talking about.
"Who is that out there? I have a gun!" Penelope yelled out of the cabin. She then came out with a water gun that she has probably filled with some chemical she came up with. "Shay get your ass up here and fill me in on what we are doing," she yelled again. But once she saw Gale next me she said in a sweet voice, "Oh who is your new friend? and my name is Penelope. . ."
"Penelope this is Gale and he is coming with us to go back to the ruins," I said before Gale could speak. Penelope was about to talk, but then Michael ran out of one of the hatches on the ship and ran straight into Penelope. They both fell out of the boat to the ground which was only a few feet down, onto a foam mattress that must have fell out. Penelope got up first then picked Michael up by the shirt and pushed him against the bottom of the ship. She started yelling at him, but she stopped when Gale started to laugh at them or possibly he was laughing at how I tripped on a rock to go help them.
After about an hour everything was packed to go and we started back on our way back to the ruins with our new friend Gale.