Hi everyone, here is the very first chapter of Unafraid! Thank you all so much for your support, it really really helped A LOT:) So yes, I shall change a few things before we begin;)
Jamie – Rue
Rapunzel – Annie
Toothless (small rare dragon)/Night Fury – Mockingjay/jabberjay (same thing why not:/)
Thanks for the better corrections and ideas:) And I am actually going to try to make the characters NOT as OOC as possible (but they'll probably be OOC). I'll try to have them fit their personalities while being rational to the situation in there own way. Yes, Elsa and Hiccup are friends since Elsa is Katniss and Hiccup is Gale:) And omg I'm totally gonna use Sam, Jazz, and (maybe) Danny! Most definitely some Harry Potter characters; Luna, Fred & George, the interesting ones;) Heck, I might even throw in some teen titans! (not go, not that it makes a difference but still...) And omg can somebody help me with my summary!? It's so pathetic:(
A/N: The "Guardians" is the "Capitol" kinda. Not to be alarmed that the Guardians are the bad guys! It's just another name! So instead of just having the individual and private test, their will be a personality test which is where they all get their power/ability! I'll throw that in and hopefully make it interesting:)
Let me tell you guys, this story will be a challenge! But hopefully very enjoyable:) So without further ado! Let us begin it all, chapter 1, of Unafraid!
From the Vow of the Guardians:
In penance for their uprising, randomly picked states will offer up a male and female between the ages 12 and 18 at a public "Reaping."
These Tributes shall be delivered to the custody of The Guardians.
They will be given a very difficult personality test and then be given a special power or ability after their critical judgment of their test.
And then transferred to a public arena where they will Fight to the Death, until a lone victor remains.
Henceforth and forever more this pageant shall be known as...
The Hunger Games
"Shh... it's okay."
Elsa shushed and cooed as she rocked her trembling little sister in her arms, trying to ease the frightened girl.
"You were just dreaming. It's okay." Elsa said softly. Combing her sister's red, braided hair with her pale, think fingers.
Her little sister, Anna, breathed heavily and buried herself into her sister's chest.
"It was me." Anna said in a shaky voice.
She had a nightmare where she was chosen at the Reaping. Chosen to enter the Hunger Games and fight to the death. She was only twelve. This was her first time having her name in the bowl. She was surely as good as dead if she got picked. It frightened her soul greatly. She wanted to forget.
"I know..." Elsa whispered. "But they're not going to pick you. It's your first time Anna, your name is only in their once. They're not gonna pick you." She said with more certainty. It was impossible, they couldn't pick Anna.
"Try to go to sleep." Elsa informed sweetly.
"I can't." Anna whimpered weakly as she clamped her eyes shut.
"Try, just try." Elsa replied soothingly.
Anna unhinged herself from her sister and slowly nodded her head. She leaned back and placed her head on the pillow and got underneath the covers. Elsa began stroking her sister's hair once more and decided to sing her a song to ease her pain and nervousness;
"Do you want to build a snowman?" Elsa began to sing in her lovely, strong and soft voice. "Come on lets go and play." Elsa cracked a smile as her sister opened her thin lips to join;
"I never see you anymore, come out the door, it's like you've gone away..." The sister's sang together as smiles appeared on their faces.
"You remember that song." Elsa said as she rose from the bed. "Now try and get some rest. I have to go." Elsa kissed her sister on the forehead and headed out of her room.
Elsa traveled down a spiral of stairs came to the large front door. She slipped on a pair of slippers, her gloves, and her rich purple cloak. She went to the side of the door and grabbed her basket which was filled with trading goods. Anna's pet, a hummingbird she named Tooth (her baby), twittered and pecked my finger with her long needled beak. Elsa really despised that thing.
Elsa stepped outside as the wind blew through her face and made her sloppy side braid flap on her shoulder. Her cloak flying out majestically behind me. Elsa began to march over the bridge from her house towards the Center Square where the "Reaping" was held. But Elsa wasn't going to the Reaping of course, she was merely going to shop and trade. It was beautiful today. A beautiful day to send children to their deaths.
Elsa couldn't help but look around. All around the world, their were rich and poor people in their houses. Elsa's family was pretty rich compared to other people in her state, but they still struggled. But almost everyone around her was poor. They wore old and tattered clothes and their houses were considerably small. But everyone respected each other. The rich and the poor were all mixed together, and no one was allowed to help each other. It was sick really.
Trading was illegal as well, but it helped everyone survive. That's why it was on the corners of Elsa's state, Norway. Hidden and safe. Elsa was going there now.
On her way there, Elsa took glimpses of the world around her. Things got from good to bad, to worse. The cobblestone and pretty environment of the richer people soon faded into the middle class and poor class. People going off to work as fishermen, wives sitting outside; their loved ones dead, everyone starving themselves. It was really sad.
Elsa pushed through and rushed towards the woods where the trading stands were. It was sunrise and she was supposed to meet her friend, Hiccup.
Elsa made it to the woods and went to the clothes booth. She sold some spare fancy buttons for some string. She was about to leave when something caught her eye; a black, shiny pin the size of her thumbprint. Elsa picked it up and examined it; it was some sort of creature with wings and a fanned tail. Some sort of mythical creature or strange hybrid from the Guardians?
"What is it?" Elsa asked the saleswoman.
"That's a Night Fury." The saleswoman said.
It was very intriguing. Suddenly, a spark of memory rushed back to Elsa from when she was little:
Night Furies were a special breed of dragon from the Guardians... sort of. A long time ago, the Guardians had created their very first dragon. Small, exceptional hearing, they could fly anywhere, and extremely intelligent. They knew what you were saying and they could "talk" right back to you, they knew how to interact. The states found out how to use these dragons and used them against the Guardians. The Guardians found out and killed off all the dragons, but they were intelligent, so some escaped. The ones that did escape made out with another species of creatures and created the "Night Fury." Night Furies were a dragon with a lot more.
Elsa's father told her this. Her father that was now dead. Her father always helped Elsa and tried to comfort her in any which way in the darkened world. Sharing some illegal information as well that Elsa found out to be thrilling. He was a kind man, hardworking, and loved by all. But one day; he went out to work as a fisherman, a raging storm caught up and the ship sank with Elsa's father (and many others) in it.
Elsa's mother (kind, sweet, loving lady) went into a state of shock. Unable to speak or even move for years. Elsa had to take charge now while trying to heal her mother and feed the family with her little sister. Elsa would scream, cry, and beg for her mother to wake up... she never would. Until many years later, she started to grow out of it. But the family was never the same and Elsa never got back her mother's relationship.
Elsa sighed and left the booth and headed deeper into the woods. She hiked and traveled until the trees became more vibrant and the sunlight poured in from above. Elsa caught site of the edge of the forest and hiked her way further.
A boy was there, waiting for her. His name was Hiccup Haddock, the III. He was a cute looking boy. A light brown mop for hair that was as light as silk. A charming smile with bright lime eyes of wonder to go with a constellation of freckles. Hiccup was a skinny and lanky boy, a mere stick of skin and bone practically. He wore a green long sleeved shirt with a fur vest. Brown slacks and brown boots. In his belt was a dagger and a medium sized sword for hunting.
Elsa didn't hunt, she was more of a gatherer and used her wits and guts. Hiccup was technical as well, but Elsa was different than him. Yet, both couldn't help but feel similar. They both took care of each other and felt comfortable working together and being with each other. There were rumors that the two had a deep affection for each other, but Elsa and Hiccup never showed it or talked about it.
"Hey, Ella." Hiccup said who was sitting in the grass, looking over the hill with his back turned to Elsa.
Elsa scoffed and sat down next to him. "It's Elsa. And hi." She said jokingly.
First time Elsa met Hiccup, she mumbled her name and Hiccup thought she had said "Ella."
There was a moment of silence.
"Is your sister excited for today?" Hiccup asked mockingly.
"She could care less." Elsa teased back. "How many times is your name in there?"
"52." Hiccup said. "You?"
"48." Elsa replied.
In a Reaping, your name (which is written on a little piece of paper, along with the rest of the state's) is picked out of a bowl. You may choose to enter your name in the bowl multiple times in exchange for more food and clothing. That's why Elsa and Hiccup were in decent condition. That's also why Anna was least likely to be picked. Her name was one in thousands. It was impossible.
There was a long silence of staring into the distance.
"You know," Hiccup finally said, breaking the silence. "What if everyone just stopped watching?"
Elsa scoffed and shook her head. That would be magnificent but it would never, ever happen. Life was how it was and it wasn't going to change. "They won't, Hiccup." She said and rolled her eyes.
Hiccup protested, "What if they did? What if we did?"
"It won't happen." Elsa growled sharply.
Hiccup gritted his teeth, his eyes becoming slits. "You root for your favorites, you cry when they get killed... it's sick!" He growled.
Elsa had enough, this talk was depressing and not getting anywhere. "Hiccup." She finally said sternly.
"No one watches... they don't have a game. It's as simple as that." Hiccup interrupted, earning a cracked smile from Elsa.
Elsa couldn't hold back a smile. Life was life, it wasn't going to change. But no matter what, having no Hunger Games sounded fantastic and very pleasant. But it just was never going to happen. Although Elsa smiled, it was a smile of disbelief.
"What?" Hiccup spat.
"Nothing!" Elsa reasoned.
Hiccup rolled his eyes and sighed. "Fine, laugh at me."
"I'm not laughing at you." Elsa retorted. This wanted to make her laugh. Hiccup could be so stubborn at times. Especially when it came to unreasonable things like the Hunger Games.
Hiccup smirked and shook his head before going deep into thought. "We could do it you know." He finally said. "Take off, live in the woods. We do it anyways..."
"They'd catch us." Elsa scoffed.
"Maybe not." Hiccup said stoically.
"Torture us with fear, never ending nightmares, feed us to the bears, trampled over alive, hang us, drown us, burn us, beat us, or worse." Elsa said blandly, listing all the awful regimens of torture the Guardians could pursue on them if they were caught. "We wouldn't make it five miles."
"I would!" Hiccup stated clearly. "And I'd head that way-" He said, pointing northeast, further into the forest.
Elsa bit her tongue, trying to not laugh of the stupidity of the conversation and Hiccup's pure stubbornness and means of travel. It was forest 360. Besides, she couldn't leave, her family. "I have Anna." She said. "And you have your family of close friends and your father to take care of."
"They can come too!" Hiccup said, getting excited and proud.
Elsa couldn't imagine her sweet and peppy sister out in the dark and mucky woods. Unimaginable. "Anna, in the woods?" Ugh.
Hiccup finally got the sense of stupidity as well and scoffed. "Maybe not." He finally said.
There was no way out. The circle of life was as it was, and more children would just go in and die. Hiccup was right, it was sick. Elsa then thought about her family and what it must be like for her mother to watch her daughter almost walk up to her death. If Elsa had a child, she wouldn't even want that option to be available to them. "I'm never having kids..." Elsa said. Who would be her husband anyways?
"I might, if I didn't live here." Hiccup said.
"But you do live here." Elsa responded dully. This sucked.
"I know, but what if I did." Hiccup replied. The boy always dreamed of being better than he was and was pretty determined to get there. Even if everyone thought it was impossible, including his family and friends, Elsa most notably.
"I almost forgot!" Hiccup piped up suddenly and reached into his sack that was strung to his belt. He pulled out a fresh loaf of bread. Fresh! A loaf of it! Bread!
Elsa's eyes widened as she snatched the bread away from Hiccup and cracked the loaf in half and sniffed it's fluffy insides to see if it was real. Elsa's family could stand to loose a few pounds but they were always hungry. "Is this real?!" Elsa squealed and received a sheepish nod from Hiccup.
"Traded it for a squirrel." He said, Elsa handed him one half.
"Happy Hunger Games." Hiccup chanted sarcastically.
"And may the odds be ever in your favor..." Elsa finished with a sarcastic Scottish accent before she chomped down on her bread half.
But the odds were never in their favor. They weren't in anybodies favor. It wasn't a favor at all. How could anybody like watching children die? If Elsa had the power, she would stop it, but she knew she never would and never will. She was just another ordinary girl, taking her measly place is this wretched world.
But there is only one person who doesn't need the odds in her favor, Anna.
There it is everyone! So how was it? Was it okay, great, or really bad? It's basically along the lines of the story but I'm gonna throw in a couple things in the Games to make the characters fit more. And can anybody help me with the summary please? Anyways, thanks for reading. I'll update soon. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE leave a review and tell me what you think, your support is most appreciated:) Thanks again! Peace!
-SkatingDJ
