With Panem building itself back up from the ashes of a burning district, this is the first year in a decade all 12 districts will participate again. But at what cost? Unknown twists and turns unravel themselves in midair, creating a year of Hunger Games no one will ever forget. The ultimate prophecy is shown: Two lives chained together, yet only one soul can survive.

Make no mistake, Ceres Rythe did not Volunteer for the 68th annual Hunger Games out of duty to Panem or loyalty to District 4; she did it because she had no choice. Driven by her competitive nature, she is determined her action will not be in vain. Finnick/OC, mild Seneca/OC

"It is the moments in between where the heartbeat is the loudest, when crimson stains their hands as they listen to the echoes of the screams, red and raw and ghastly. It is a stasis drenched in a sanguine tide of death, when a survivor becomes a killer, emerging from a chrysalis of red silence. Can you handle the deafening quiet?" SYOT.

The shadow of a faded star gets trampled on by a man in black. He sends screams through the night but they're silenced by the lost. Hell's finally frozen over and Coriolanus Snow steps out of the dust with vengeance. The 52nd Games are hardly his priority, but perhaps they'll distract Panem from his approaching storms. It's about time the Districts served their penance...

Four are reaped and sent to an arena of twenty-four tributes to fight to the death. They are the Pariah, with a background that sparks rumors; the Fisherman, who's grown up on the ocean; the Innocent, whose reaping may not have been chance; and the Performer, who will give the Capitol their show. This is the 41st Hunger Games. Sequel to the Most Dangerous Game.

Changing dynasties and additional hardships, the Hunger Games approach ever so close, as a blooming Heir is put at the forefront. The 99th Hunger Games must be the perfect debut, and she the perfect ruler. A Closed SYOT

"What right do you have to determine what their lives are worth? What right do you have to label them, to kill them, to write them off as meaningless criminals, lost causes and basket cases? What right, Coriolanus? Tell me!" Part III of Dealing With Devils.

Panem is at war with the Hybrids, creatures created in the laboratory by the Capitol. After the war is over and a treaty is made and the nation must learn to live with the Hybrids as allies. Katniss is distrustful of the creatures that destroyed so many what happens when she encounters them. Hunger Games Canon Divergent AU

The caged bird doesn't sing: it weeps. For a gilded cage is still a cage, no matter how beautiful it is. Welcome to the 88th Hunger Games. SYOT closed, readers always welcome :)

After a horrific event, District 7 had created something deemed as 'the list'. It contained several names of children they knew would be reaped for the Games. Each year, two more names are crossed off, leaving the district more hopeless with every death. By the time the 69th Hunger Games rolls around, Halle Croft knows she is next...she's the only one left. - Eventual Finnick/OC

Katniss Everdeen thought they were just her imaginary friends. Turns out, they were very real—and dead. An Everlark take on the movie "Heart and Souls."

When the sun sets on the Town of Shade you better watch your back. 24 will go in. 23 will die. The rebellion failed. Closed AU SYOT/Collab between Nautics and Team Shadow!

"Canada will be watching live as a cast of adolescent criminals fight to avoid execution and outlast their opponents. There are no rules in their quest for survival. Justice above all." A modern-day AU (SYOC).

"But he who dares not grasp the thorn should never crave the rose." On the dawn of President Coriolanus Snow's death, the 86th Hunger Games are announced. This year's tributes will not only pay tribute to the Games, but to the King of Roses himself. (SYOT now closed)

Stop there and let me correct it, I wanna live life from a new perspective... When a virus breaks out, bringing District 2 to its knees, Panem enters an unprecedented era. District 2 hasn't managed to produce a volunteer for three years, crumbling beneath the weight of the Golden Flames. Will the titan District manage to regain their rightful throne? Or will despair prevail?

A boy dies and i forced to compete in the hunger games but he got wishes from god that will help him but is it enough to help him survive

"Into each generation a slayer is born." Haymitch mocked. "One girl in all the world. Ain't I just lucky it had to be you." / Buffy AU - no knowledge of the show necessary / Everlark / Hayffie

As the 74th Hunger Games approach, the idea of a free Panem is mere wishful thinking, but there are some who wonder how a country can recover from so many years of brutal dictatorship. Sooner than they ever dared to hope, they will turn their plans into reality and put a regime on trial, but the path to getting justice for an entire nation will be long and difficult. IPOAL prequel.

They say home is where the heart is what if your heart has been crushed to teeny tiny pieces to a point of which you don't know where home is anymore. How would you like it if you sacrificed everything for a family only for them to end up hating you, detesting you to survive? Willow is a survivor, she had to do what she did during the capitol, things she's proud and not proud of.

"Peeta and I grow back together again," but how did they get there? Not without some twists and turns. These are the gaps between the end of Mockingjay and the epilogue. Everlark. MATURE

The victors have a meet up after Katniss wins the games alone. She is cold and refuses to talk to anybody, when numerous people come up to talk to her, she simply ignores them, showing her hate for them. However, when Cato, victor of the games pushes others around, will Katniss show her true colours? What about when Haymitch passes out, or maybe when they play truth or dare?

"So much of me is made from what I learned from you - you'll be with me, like a handprint on my heart..." The Third Events have arrived, as Panem reels from a shocking development that pushed it into a new era. How will a new president manage the internal tensions of the country, and can he bring Panem out of it stronger than ever? SYOT Open.

"Those who do not learn from the past are doomed to repeat it." As Panem prepares for the death of the only president most of its citizens have ever known, both the tributes in the Games and the officials running them must take care to learn from the past - lest the same mistakes come back to haunt Panem's future. A rewrite of my first SYOT.

When his middle brother is Reaped along with the love of his life in the 74th annual Hunger Games, Peeta Mellark makes a promise. One year later he is still struggling to fulfill the last request his brother made before he was killed. It's simple really, all Peeta has to do is talk to a girl. The only problem is that girl is Katniss Everdeen, victor and cold blooded murderer.

There's always more to the game than merely playing by the rules; that's why Career districts win the Hunger Games so often. Even for them, however, nothing is ever guaranteed. [Part I of New Friends, New Enemies]