Hecate strolled down the main street of her district with Helix and Ven beside her. (Hecate's district had won the hunger games for the third time in a row this year. Helix won when he was 14 and Ven won when he was 15.) Right now, Hecate was 15, Helix was 15 and Ven was 16.
Helix was attractive with high cheek bones and a strong jaw, but looked amazingly artificial due to his deep blue contact lenses and dyed blond, long, slightly spiky hair. Helix was also insanely tall, almost 6 and half feet tall, without shoes
Ven was quite different to Helix, he was 5 foot 5 with nothing special about him physically, brown hair, brown eyes and average length hair. Never the less, there was something about him that brought out the best in people. Ven had a voice that gave people a warm and fuzzy feeling inside and an air of confidence surrounded him where ever he went.
(Ven won the hunger games through the first democracy ever established in the game. His game was both the shortest and most boring hunger games to date. lasting only 2 hours, Ven only killed one person.)
(Helix killed the entire career pack on his own during his game through guerrilla warfare. Ending the game with a total of 13 kills, also a new record)
It was one week since the games had ended and the three victors had all become very close in that short time.
"Every one is staring." Hecate whispered to Ven and Helix.
"You'll get use to it." Ven said as he waved to a group of girls, the girls all waved back.
"Thing is, any one you talk to will be in, like, awe of you or something." Helix made a clicking noise and snapped/pointed at a passing brunet girl. The girl blushed and giggled.
"Hey, you." Hecate said to the girl.
The girl seemed surprised and looked at Hecate. "Yes?" She asked innocently.
"What's your name?" Hecate asked, trying to see how a random civilian would act around her.
"Faith." The girl replied, clearly the girl was far more focused on Helix then Hecate.
"Alright." Hecate kept on walking and talking to Ven and Helix but a few minutes later, the same girl walked past again in the same direction as the before.
Hecate was about to speak to the girl again but stopped dead when she saw on the other side of the road was the same girl.
Something was definitely wrong here, and she had to find out what.
Meanwhile
Different districts treat victors different, some make them go to school, others make it optional
Caitlyn let the tears flow openly, earlier today it was her best friends funeral, now it was her sisters funeral.
"Next to speak about Daniel will be Faith." The man speaking leaned over to Faith and whispered. "Do you have a last name?"
"Does it matter?" Faith stood up and approached the podium, I would like to say a few words, but before i begin, could i please invite Caitlyn up here.
I'll do more on Caitlyn and the less talked about tributes next chapter
Meanwhile
Croy flicked his hood on, he was dressed totaly in black from head to toe. It was 12 in the night and over the last week, Croy had gone from anti social to criminal, at first he was putting graffiti on walls and buildings, Now, he was vigilante.
As Croy walked down the cobbled road of the town, he listened closely for the sound of other people.
"It's been a long time Croy." the voice he knew only to well came from behind him.
"I swear you have a death wish" Croy said as he turned to Face Faith.
"We have orders to kill the surviving tributes and blame it on the cult."
Deep down Croy some how knew that this wasn't the Faith he had known.
"If you come with me, I can hide you from the capital, they want you dead, they know that you know about the ultimate hunger games."
"And if I don't come with you?" Croy said as he crossed his arms, rebellion shining in his eyes."
"I was hoping you would say that." Faith snapped her fingers and two Faith clones walked out, holding up an unconscious Teak.
The leading Faith walked up to Teak and put her hand around Teak's neck.
"Don't!" Croy yelled, but it was to late, Faith made a jerking motion with her hand and Teak's neck snapped.
Croy was began crying when suddenly Teak's body began fading away into mist.
"That wasn't the real Teak?" Croy whimpered.
"No, but it easily could be, so will you come?"
"Death first." Croy turned on his heel and began sprinting away from the three Faiths, he had to warn Teak. Even when sprinting for his life, he couldn't help but think of what Teaks face would be like when several clones of the person she killed come knocking on her door.
Meanwhile
Annubis staggered back, a red mark already forming on his face. It was 8 in the afternoon, it was raining and had just gotten dark.
"Your not a hero here." The three bullies began to surround Anubis.
"Leave me alone!" Annubis begged as tears began to form in his eyes, as the three boys got closer, Annubis stepped back only to find a wall behind him. It was odd, these bullies seemed to be around 19-20 not the normal 18 year olds that hated him
Anubis was one of the most attractive people in his district, unfortunately, he had a less then normal personality, he was proper and almost posh despite being in the lower class of his district, he also had a thing about not showing his face much, always wearing a hood, bandana or some other face concealing device. (This was neither religious or cultural, he just always had it on) Finally, Annubis enjoyed his alone time, it was only during the hunger games did he finally become interested in dating.
Annubis also had the nasty habit of making enemies with bad people and hurting those he loved, either by accident or his enemies/ peers would turn them against him. His father was dead and he was an only child, parental support was hard to come by.
Most people saw Anubis as an underdog hero now, but the dozens of people who hated him before the games only hated him more now.
"Whats the matter? hoping for a silver parachute?" One of the bullies taunted as he punched Annubis in the stomach.
Finally, Anubis reached breaking point.
In a swift motion Annubis stepped forward and made the most scary sounding hiss/ scream he could.
The bullies confident faces faltered but quickly renewed themselves.
"What was th..." One of the bullies started to say just as Anubis smashed him squarely across the jaw with his fist.
"I will kill you!" Annubis screeched out as he grabbed the throat of the head bully.
the third bully instinctively pushed Annubis away, breaking Annubis's grip on the bullies throat.
"Your so dead." The head bully hissed.
And just like that, Annubis ran. As he sprinted he could see the figure of a person in the distance. As he got closer he could make out that it was a girl.
The girl beckoned him to stop and handed Annubis a cell phone. "It looks like you need it."
Annubis grabbed the phone without a second thought. "Who are you?" He panted, the bullies were about 100 meters behind behind.
"Faith." The girl said as she turned to face the bullies.
Annubis quickly called for the police and turned to face the bullies.
Before the boys could say anything, Faith ran forward open palm striked the nose of one of the bullies.
The boy fell back as an erruption of blood covered him and Faith.
one boy grabbed Faith and the other went to attack Annubis.
Thoughts of how he would take out the bully began rushing into his mind. The bully was just about to attack when suddenly Faith grabbed his head from behind and made a swift twisting motion, snapping his neck.
In horror, Annubis saw what had happened, Faith had killed all three bullies. one had his nose marrow pushed into his brain, the one in front of him had a broken neck and the last one had his jugular bitten out and jaw broken.
"WHATS WRONG WITH YOU!" Annubis screamed.
"The police will be here in minutes, come with me." Faith said, wiping blood off her mouth.
"No, I'll never go with you." Annubis turned and began to walk away.
"You think they were just normal bullies?"
"What else would they be." Annubis said with a shaky voice.
"No one would attack a victor, it would be all over the news, they were going to kill you."
Annubis didn't know what to say, so he didn't say anything, he just fell to his knees and cried, his tears indistinguishable from the falling rain.
The sound of police/ peace keepers sirens got louder and louder.
Faith put her hand out and Annubis took it. "Where are we going?" He asked as they ran
"We're going to catch a train."
An emergency broadcast to all districts.
A cult intent on forming a rebellion has been confirmed to be operating in each district, the capital has announced that it will personally eliminate this threat and punish each district in a way it sees fit to ensure no discourage further rebellion. The punishment will be announced sometime between now and the next two weeks.
