Arctic: The 334th Annual Hunger Games SYOT

by GaelicPassion

After 334 years of the Hunger Games, this year certainly is going to be a special one. The torturous arena will be set in the depths of Antarctica, where the tributes will have to battle conditions more than bitter, facing temperatures up to -40 Degrees Celsius. only one tribute can come out alive. Will it be yours? SYOT open!

3. Prologue III

Parker Knowles, 21

District thirteen citizen and rebel.

How, might you ask, am I still here? How did the Capitol fail to destroy District thirteen fail to destroy District thirteen completely for the second time, all those years ago? That's a perfectly valid question. After Katniss, Peeta, and the rest of squad 451 were torn apart by those hideous green mutts, the rebels knew that they had lost most hope. More peacekeepers joined the Capitol's vast armies, as they were told that the more people they had on their side, the easier it would be to sieze power again. The Capitol forces took over their city, discovered all the rebels that were based there, and executed them. President Coin and Paylor were both killed. The uprisings and death in the districts grew worse. Finally, the Capitol's nuclear weapons were powerful enough to be sent to district thirteen in attempt to obliterate us. By then, district thirteen had pretty much lost all hope of winning the rebellion, they just hoped that the Capitol might leave them be. But, the Capitol couldn't be so merciful, could they? But about twenty of the district thirteen inhabitants, including Plutarch Heavensbee, realised that the Capitol would attack sooner or later, so tried to get people out of their underground homes, and far away, to a safe place. But nobody wanted to leave. After spending years living underground, they were so used to it. And they thought they had enough defences to keep them safe, but they didn't. Out of 14,000 people, Plutarch and his people managed to get ten people to safety. The Capitol thought the bombs had killed everybody, and so did the districts. Two days after the bombs, the thirty survivors came back to the ruins, and nearly everything was destroyed. Or so I was told in my history lessons. It took about 200 years for District thirteen to fully get back on it's feet. Even now, we only have a population of about 800 people. We would have no chance in a war against the Capitol at the moment, and we probably wouldn't anytime soon. We're barely even getting enough to eat every day.

Here, everybody has to provide a helping hand. My job is harvesting, one of the most dull jobs around. We have to walk round all the district, in search of edible plants, and sometimes have to kill to animals to provide meat. We never have any interesting meals here, though. But right now I'm in a meeting room, accompanied by some of the district's senior officials, who are. analysing everything that's going on in Panem. I'm only invited because they discovered I have a healthy hand with technology and computers, which is true. They are dreadfully limited round here, but I've always found them fascinating. We've only had technology here for about thirty years.

"Parker, come here." Says our 'President', President Sharp. "I think we've found something interesting."

Hi again! I know that was short, and probably pointless, but I wanted to get across how the Districts lost the rebellion, and how district thirteen are still going, no matter how slowly. Good luck on submitting, and I would be really grateful if you could get back to me about a cover image!

Gaelic ;)