Disclaimer: I do not own the Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins does. Though I would have liked to write it xD
Author's notes: So, this is the prologue. I don't really know what to say except that I appreciate you coming to read my Fanfiction. Now this may be allot to ask, but if you could review on this and give me some Constructive Crit if possible, then awesome! Now sit back, relax, and enjoy!
President Alkin. The successor of President Wodyen whose predecessor was President Snow. After Snow had died from illness Wodyen took over and followed in Snow's footsteps; after Wodyen died of old age finally President Alkin stepped in.
Now President Alkin is different from his predecessors, he has changed the districts.
Instead of starving District 12 to death all the time, Alkin has started giving them a few capitol rations as well as to the other Districts that do not win the Hunger Games much. Most people in the Capitol tried to revolt and had openly protested the use of their precious food given to a starving District, but Alkin had calmed them down using reason and persuasion along with a guarantee that District 12 and the other Districts would put up more of a fight in the Hunger Games if they didn't starve.
That was years ago.
Alkin had only been President for fifteen years, his first Quarter Quell came five years into his rule, and now that Quarter Quell is known famously for it's District 12 win. The people have gotten a bit bored of the Hunger Games now; people talking about how weirdly boring they've gotten since the Quarter Quell that Alkin had supposedly made up himself.
He needed something new.
This year was the 160th Hunger Games, and the people expected a show.
"God damn it!" Alkin shouted in his lone office, talking to himself.
"I need something, anything to make the Games better. The people might start coming after me again if I don't! Ugh!" he angrily spoke while clenching his fists. He paced around the room, it was dark outside; he kept muttering to himself. He was about to leave it for the day but a Peacekeeper barged into his room in full armour.
"President Alkin! President Alkin!"
"What is it Solider? I'm thinking in here!" President Alkin replied sternly, annoyed that the peacekeeper would disturb him so late.
"Sorry to disturb you sir, but we have found something…unusual." The Peacekeeper finished.
"Well what is it? I don't have all day Solider."
"I can't really explain it President Alkin; I think it would be better for you to just see for yourself." the Peacekeeper said, putting his head down.
"Well go on then Solider, I can't stand around all day. Let's go see this unusual thing you speak of." the Peacekeeper nodded, and lifted his head up slightly then strode down through multiple hallways and corridors with President Alkin following close behind.
The Peacekeeper came to a stop at the cells, or more commonly known as the Dungeons that had survived its test of time. The President's house had been built over the ruins of an old castle that had crumbled thousands of thousands of years ago. Though they came in handy, they were hardly used.
"Here we are sir, they have…contained the thing in here." the Peacekeeper finally broke the silence. President Alkin raised his eyebrows sceptical yet curious but then he went ahead of the Peacekeeper opening the new door into the old dungeon. Descending the now old and cracked stone stairs in the old dusty, wet, and dark dungeon President Alkin kept one hand on the wall to help prevent himself from accidentally tripping on the stone staircase in the dark.
I hate these stairs, Alkin thought to himself, no light at all, I swear I walked into the wall on my first time. At least they put some lights down in the main room, no wonder barely anyone comes down here anymore. he continued thinking to himself.
Finally after many close calls for tripping, the Peacekeeper and President Alkin came into the main part of the dungeon that had a square main room which a hallway type room connected to that had all the normal cells; the main room had a special cell that was made out of reinforced iron mixed with steel, and a special substance that no one to this day could determine what it was.
The room was illuminated by torches, to give it a medieval feel to it. Most people didn't come down here anyways so why use perfectly good lights? Although the dungeons did get cleaned once a month to avoid dust, fungi, and other things from coming up into the main house.
Alkin looked at the special cell. A child or what looked like to be a child was in the cell gripping the bars of the door extremely hard. The thing that seemed to look like a child snarled and growled revealing its sharp pointed canine teeth; its skin was pale and the eyes were blue; along with that it had brown hair and was wearing battered clothes that were ripped and shredded in please.
President Alkin stepped closer to have a better look; with its long hair and body it looked to be a girl, but now he could see dried blooded on its face and body. When the girl-looking thing snarled once again whilst shaking the cell door Alkin could see that there was also dried blood on its teeth as well. Surprised at what he was seeing he stepped back staring at the creature.
"What is it?" he whispered to no one in particular. There were two other people in the room who had brought it in.
"We don't know sir, I've asked one of the scientists to meet us down here shortly; he should be able to explain what it is." one replied.
"Is it dangerous?" President Alkin asked the obvious question.
"Yes, we had two other people on the craft we were patrolling on; we found it just outside of the city prowling around in the dark. We went in to capture it but the thing is fast and had broken the other two's necks by the time we could do anything; it ran into the darkness and so we turned on some UV lights and found it." the other one replied this time.
"Does it have any weakness?"
"Well, when I shined the UV light on it…it seemed to smoke." the same one replied.
"Smoke?"
"Yeah, like the whole area where I shined the light on it was smoking; like it was on fire."
"….Really? Interesting….." Just then a yell of "OUCH!" was heard from the stairs, soon then came into view the scientist that one of the two other Peacekeepers asked to come and have a look at the thing.
"No light, how do they expect people to….Oh! President Alkin! Pleasure to meet you." the scientist exclaimed while staggering toward President Alkin putting out his hand for a handshake.
"Pleasure to meet you as well…"
"Calith Greene."
"Pleasure to meet you Calith Greene."
"Oh no, the pleasure is all mine. So where is the thing I was asked to examine?"
"Right in that cell Calith, I'm sure you could offer some explanation on what it is."
"Well yes, I'll rack my head for anything and everything to help identify what it is."
"Good, now I'll be standing right here Calith. The Peacekeepers will jump in if anything happened while you are observing it." Calith nodded and silently walked closer to the cell holding the creature was in. It snarled as he observed and bared its teeth at him. For several minutes Calith examined and thought. Eventually he came to the only possible conclusion.
"My god…I don't believe it. President Alkin I know what this…thing…is."
"You do? Why that's wonderful Calith! Now, what exactly is it?"
"It's a Vampire."
A few seconds of silence before President Alkin broke it.
"A Vampire? What ever is that?" he asked.
"Well President Alkin, a vampire is a mythical creature from thousands of years ago that drank the blood of Humans and had supernatural powers like turning into other creatures and hypnosis. They burn in the sunlight and usually don't age at all. They turn other people into vampires by bite. Allot of books were written on vampires, mostly fiction; and the most famous of all vampires is Count Dracula. We know this because some books were recovered from old ruins; some preserved enough to read."
"Drink human blood…that explains why there is blood all over it and the speed, and strength. We could possibly use it's blood for experimenting…"
The scientist Calith moved forward one step and looked President Alkin straight in the eye. "President Alkin, I recommend that you destroy this creature at once, it is too dangerous to even think of studying on."
President Alkin thought about it for a moment, then he smiled and turned towards the creature that was now identified as a vampire. It seemed to radiate emotions, and the emotion that it was feeling now was fear as President Alkin walked towards it with an evil smirk on his face. "On the contrary Calith, I have something special planned for this little creature."
A/N: Yeaaah, so just to tell you now; dialog is NOT my specialty, so if you could give me some pointers on it; or even just tell me if you feel its rushed in some places then that would really help. Thanks again for reading, and I shall try to have the next chapter up in a few days if not tomorrow ^^
~Kingdomalith