First Fanfiction
THE EVERDEENS, HAWTHORNES, AND MELLARKS IN THE DARK DAYS
What would happen if Peeta, Katniss, and Gale are in the Dark Days and discover District 13's biggest secret?
Chapter 1
Well, it's is kind of self-explanatory but the dark days were VERY dark! People un-discovered the sun, most people don't know that the sun has a spell: when people forget that the sun makes the world bright, the clouds cover the sun until they re-discover it. The only people left from the past had long term memory-los so they forgot that the sun brightens us! So, we all guessed that the Capitol had disguised lamps everywhere…with very high voltage, of course.
The darkness made us all wacky in the head! We all were kill crazy! Everyone constantly had guns, knives, and bullets in their pockets. We weren't cannibals but if someone was near someone else when a leaf hit them, they killed them. Once I was walking down the streets because there was a loose hamster in my house. I had no idea that the hamster was following me though! Then Pooper McMuffin (…exactly you've never heard of him) walked by when the hamster touched my foot and I stabbed him in the heart and he died! I spent five days sitting with my mom, crying. It was different than hunting and killing animals, talking about how much we hate the capitol with my best friend Gale Hawthorne. Gale and I first met when I walked through the turned off electric fence of District 12. I was walking to go hunting and I saw beautiful snares holding rabbits and wild turkeys, I walked to them and held them in my hand. Stroking them, someone walked over and reminded me that stealing is illegal; I reminded him that hunting is illegal, we told each other our names, he said Catnip instead of Katniss and the rest is history! When you kill someone it feels like part of you is killed.
As more people got killed, the district got even smaller. Someone were in danger of becoming extinct. District 12 itself almost decimated but before the peacekeepers came, Prim, Gale, my mother, and I went hunting, with the mayor's permission, of course. My mother and Prim collected herbs to make medicines and aloes for the injured and sick and Gale and I shot animals with our bows and arrows to get just enough food to survive until these hard times are over. The District usually just had just enough food for most people to survive but we had just enough for most people to die. By this time, most people tried to get through the fence to hunt but they did it at night because they weren't experienced and didn't know that it was safe at night. People tried to pick the herbs in the meadow before the fence and bring them to my mother but she rejected them because they are all poisonous.
Well, some districts turned on whole districts. This was Panem….. that means that no one would go down without a fight. District 13 was tired of being the district that was the last resort. Many districts automatically turned on 13, so, being from Panem, they turned on those districts. About 5 districts had turned on 13 when the Capitol joined them. Furious. That is what 13 was. Most people died before District 13 gave up and let everybody in the district die. But me, being Katniss Everdeen, knew something was wrong, they were turned on, they fought, they were gone. I wasn't the only one who noticed, only one of the bravest people to acknowledge it. I was in the woods with Gale when we talked about it.
"What was that about?" Gale said.
"What was what about?" I replied suspiciously.
"You know. We have the same minds. Something is wrong, or was wrong, with 13 going down so suddenly, and I think we should go there and figure it out."
My mother has treated mind-crazy people before but I've never heard anyone say something this crazy before. I thought about it for a moment then I decided it's not so crazy after all. District 13 might have something stored that is mandatory for survival that they are living on right now. So I go out on a limb.
"I agree, we should go investigate, but it'd be too dangerous if it was only the two of us. Do you know anyone that would be suitable?"
He thinks for a moment then says, "Well, that Peeta Mellark kid stares at you all the time. Maybe it's because he admires your archery skills."
He isn't wrong. Every time I turn around that wacko of Peeta is staring at me. But (not to be selfish or anything) he isn't a wacko for his possible admiration of my archery skills. With every shot I get it in the eye. Peeta's parents own a bakery, I haven't been there since my family was growing hungrier and almost dead and I was in front of it, in the rain and he threw bread at me.
"Let' go to the bakery right now." I say suddenly.
"Okay." He replies smiling, and nodding.
So we started to head toward the bakery. Gale and I were in the square of the district where the reaping takes place when the giant T.V. overhead starts booming with the anthem. Everybody looks up to see Snow's face. Everyone looks surprised, even the peacekeepers. President Snow tells us that he is keeping us in captivity from now on.
"We already are in captivity" I think.
Gale turns around to me and repeats what I was thinking, as if he was reading my mind. Snow begins again and a gigantic dome comes down around the square. I panic….. my home is not even close to the square, now I won't even be able to see Prim and my mother, let alone getting to the bakery for Peeta. Suddenly Prim and my mother come towards me as Snow explains the dome.
"What is this dome thing about?" I ask them.
Simultaneously they reply, "They saw you two hunting."
A swift movement of Gale's neck tells me that he heard the same thing as me. We stand there in shock for a few minutes. I notice that they're jaws have dropped and everybody is screaming at Gale and I. We turn around and the president is looking directly at us, no doubt about it. Gale looks at me and we have the same look in our eyes that asks, "Should we run?" I shake my head no, so does Gale. Snow proceeds. He explains that he found a bow hanging on a tree with the name Everdeen carved into it. Gale has a questioning look on his face.
He quickly booms, "Then why do you think I was hunting too?"
Snow snickers. "Don't play dumb with me. I was talking to the head peacekeeper. He had said he heard rustling in the woods. I just got a new whip. Everyone knows how much I love violence. He saw you, Hawthorne."
The word whip runs through my mind like a tiger. I see the peacekeepers coming toward Gale and I. In one hand he holds a walkie-talkie, in the other a whip.