Thethys Kaipo, 14, District 4

Seven months before the reapings:

The Uguagu is the rarest fish that can be found in Four. It is said to be more beautiful than the Ongoro Fanata and even more dangerous than the Great White. With a length of 67.8 feet, it overtakes the Whale Shark as the biggest shark in Panem. It lures its prey with its two green glowing antennas that protrude out of its head. To catch the Uguagu is every fisherman's dream. It is also Thethys Kaipo's dream.

"Do you think we'll ever catch it, Dad?" Thethys looks at his father with hope. They've been at sea for about five hours now, since 5 am, to catch today's fish. It was always best to get up as early as possible before all of the other fishermen made their way to the ocean. Things can get quite competitive, especially on weekends when the market is usually packed. The ocean was like a battleground for the fishermen and however caught the most valuable fish or in general the largest amount fish would have the most success at selling their bounty. However, it wasn't only a competition. Since there are always so many people out at sea, it was a great opportunity to get to know new people. It's also how Thethys got to meet Jax, one of his best friends.

"It might not be today and it might not be the day after or the one after that but one day we will, I promise you that, Thethys. Now, however, we need to be focusing on something else." Khari ruffles his son's hair.

"You're right, dad. It's just that… I don't know… imagine we actually do catch it? How cool would that be?!" Thethys shouts, a little bit too loudly perhaps since the other fishermen turn their heads towards the Kaipo's boat.

Kahri raises his hand and signals to the other fishermen that everything is fine and with that, they all go back to doing their own business.

"Thethys, what did we say about raising your voice out at sea?"

"It scares away the fish… sorry," Thethys says, looking down at his feet.

"All good, son." His father offers him a smile. "Another… hm, maybe 10 kilograms of fish and we should be good for today. I'm going to try and throw the net in from a different angle, maybe we'll have more luck then." Khari makes his way to the other side of the boar, leaving Thethys to do some calm fishing on his own.

Thethys attaches a bobber to the fishing line in order to keep it afloat, he then proceeds to grab a worm from the tin and pierces it with the hook. "Sorry little guy."

He pulls the rod back and thrusts it forward quickly. It could take quite a while for him to actually catch something so he sits down and waits.

He looks back at his father. One day he'll be just like him: strong, courageous, wise and generally awesome. It's no secret that Thethys admires his father beyond belief. Growing up, he's always had a close bond to him. He taught him how to fish and how to provide if something might ever happen to him. Khari, however, didn't only teach his son how to angle. He also taught him respect and kindness.

Every day, after having caught enough fish, the two of them leave the boat at the harbor and head down to Coral Avenue. There they would feed the poor and supply them with enough food. It was a tradition. Thethys wasn't supposed to pity the homeless but have respect and know that their life is much harder, that is what his father always told him and so he did. The Kaipo's were famous around Coral Avenue. They were the ones who always brought the food, they weren't like all the rest. They didn't just turn their heads and pretend not to notice, in order to feel better about themselves. They weren't selfish.

Thethys looks at the shores ahead. He can spot a few trainees doing their morning exercises and if he's right, one of them is Andromeda, his other best friend. She's from a wealthier family in Four and her parents are extremely competitive and want her to volunteer for the Games.

Sometimes Thethys wishes he could be like them. He's always wanted to train like all the others, to hold a blade in his hands but his parents wouldn't allow it. They don't like the Games and they never will. They forbade Thethys from participating in the HGEP ( Hunger Games Educational Program ). Tributes from Four tend to be generally strange. Some would call them the neutral careers. Some years there would be fierce volunteers and some years there wouldn't be a single volunteer so the kids had to be reaped. Tributes from Four weren't like the ones from One and Two. There were some years where they would be accepted into the career pack and other years where they weren't allowed to join, those years usually being the ones where there weren't any volunteers. This is why children in Four were allowed to go in one of two ways. They could do to HGEP and be trained for the Games or they could do the normal educational program, which restricted them from ever volunteering. Thethys' parents didn't allow him to participate in the Games and he fully understands why. Although Thethys would never hurt anyone, he does sometimes wish that he could be like all the others.

Suddenly, the bobber disappeared under the water and Thethys feels a nudge at the line and after that a pull. Thethys face beams with excitement. He wasn't going to call his dad for help. He wanted to show him that he could do it by himself. Thethys pulls the rod back with a lot of force but the fish isn't showing any signs of weakness. Thethys can feel the rod slipping away from his hands due to the sweat but he wasn't going to let it happen. This is his chance to prove himself. It's the perfect test. As soon as he feels the slightest bit of improvement, the fishing rod drops from his hands and is pulled towards the ocean. Rapidly, Thethys sprints and tries to grab the rod before it disappears into the water and he does so successfully. The only problem: half his body weight is outside of the boat. Before he can pull himself back on board, he plunges into the deep blue.

"Thethys?!"

He can hear his father shouting his name as he resurfaces, sprinkling out water from his mouth.

"I'm-," he coughs. "I lost the road," he says, shaking his head to the right to try and get the water out of it.

Thethys expected his father to fume with anger but was pleasantly surprised when he started to laugh out loud.

"W-what… What were you do-doing w-," almost unable to catch his breath, Kahri tries to form words but fails miserably, falling to the ground.

"It's not funny… I wanted you to be proud."

Kahri reaches for his son's hand to help aboard. "Son, no matter how often you mess up, I'll always be proud of you." He gives Thethys a big pat on the back.

"Ouch."

"Man up."

"Sorry."

"I'm joking."

I'll be honest here.." their mentor, Norval, starts. "The two of you don't really stand a chance at joining the career pack."

Norval, Thethys and his district partner, Vale, had just finished watching the reaping recap and are now sitting together with the television switched off.

"I was hoping that perhaps because of this year's twist the competition might be less hard and thus giving you a chance at entering the pack, but after watching this, I know that they won't allow for it to happen. There are plenty of other options to choose from and two fourteen-year-olds won't make the cut."

Thethys stares at his mentor with big eyes and nods affirmatively. Vale, however, doesn't seem to be pleased by what he's saying. She doesn't say anything but its obvious since she rolls her eyes and sighs with boredom at a consistent basis.

"I know it sounds harsh but it's the truth and it's better for the two of you to know now than later on and be unprepared and disappointed. This is a weird twist and the career pack is also going to be quite strange but we have to be prepared. Don't worry, I'm not counting the two of you out. With a little bit of work, I'll turn you into strong competitors and you can take the competition by storm. Try and get to know each other, try and find other allies and no matter how the other careers treat you, don't let it get to you. Don't let it mess up your own Game." He leans in closer and raises a finger. "One of you will make it back home alive and bring glory to your district, I'll make sure of that."

All of a sudden the girl, who's been displeased quietly gets up and crosses her arms. "No, no, no. I will come home victorious. Not him. Me." And with that she leaves the room, grabbing a sandwich and a yogurt on her way out.

Norval puts a hand on Thethys shoulder. "Girls, am I right?"

"Uh, y-yes sir," he chuckles, cringing internally at Norval's attempt to relate. "I'll go and check up on her."

"Dinner at Eight. See ya."

"Understood."

Vale Neptunia, 14, District 4

POV Trigger Warning: Gore

Two months before the reapings:

Replay.

Replay.

Again.

One more time.

Vale looks at her laptop screen with big and focused eyes, one of which has turned red from hours and hours of being exposed to the computer screen. Her room is completely dark with bags of chips lying around everywhere. She hasn't been outside in two days. She's too focused on analyzing, analyzing her aunt's Games.

Morgana is one of the more popular victors from Four and also Vale's aunt. Before her Games, she was still emotional. Emotional like an actual human being. But the Games changed her. The Games change everyone.

Vale has watched her Games 99 times and today would be the 100th. After the interviews and the reveal of the scores, the Games begin.

The Bloodbath.

Vale watches as Morgana springs to the cornucopia. Being the first one to arrive, she grabs a spear and throws a backpack around her shoulder. She watches the other tributes carefully and keeps an eye on everyone. Her fellow careers have finally also made it to the middle. Now, all that's left to do is gather as many things as possible and get a few kills under her belt. Morgana shoves the back of the spear into the boy from Ten's face, making him fall to the ground and bleed from his nose. Before he is able to recover, she ends his life with a quick pierce in the stomach. Together, the careers kill six tributes in the bloodbath.

Now is the phase of the Games that vale hates. The waiting phase.

Vale skips ahead since she's seen this boring interlude plenty of times already. She wants to get to the interesting part. The part where her aunt finally loses it.

There it is. The confrontation.

So far, everything has been going great for the careers. They killed a bunch of people, they have plenty of supplies and they have a good camping spot on top of a hill from which they can see everything. The only problem is doubt. There's a lot of doubt. It seems like that year's Games had a lot of careers who were eager to make big moves, each looking for a reason to break free from the pack and make the first move. That is why when a sword goes missing, accusations start to fly around and everyone blames everyone for anything until the boy from One stabs the Girl from Two and all hell breaks loose. Since 50 years, the careers have never betrayed each other this early on in the Games but it seems like it's time for a new record to be broken. After the girl from Two bleeds out, the boy from Two, Cesar, slits the boy from One's throat. The girl from One, Silver, cries out and runs to Morgana. The two of them have been particularly close since the beginning. The Cesar is fuming with anger because of the loss of his partner and is about to avenge her by killing Silver as well. Morgana's district partner, however, tries to calm everyone down and stands between him and the two girls. That… wasn't a good idea. Cesar takes out his sword and embeds it in Four's chest, causing blood to spew everywhere. Vale can hear her aunt, covered in her partner's blood and holding Silver in her arms scream and cry over her partner's death. It wasn't over. It was too late to be over now. Cesar raises his sword and is about to bring it down on the two girls but Silver pushes Morgana away, taking the hit alone. The sword cracks her skull open and she falls to the floor but before Cesar can focus his attention at Morgana, he finds a blade stuck in his chest. Silver must have managed to stab him before he could get her first. He takes the dagger out but is too weak to stand up straight and collapses next to Silver.

Quietly Morgana wales next to the pile of corpses with Silver still in her arms. A few minutes ago, they were all a happy family and now everyone's dead except for her. She should have been dead too but Silver saved her. She shouldn't have, she didn't have to. But she did it anyway.

After that massacre, Morgana's mentality changed completely. It was like a hidden switch was turned on inside of her, unleashing a cold-blooded killer with no empathy whatsoever. Everyone thought that the career stood no chance anymore but they didn't expect the girl from Four to end up killing half of the competition. Soon after the slaughter feast, Morgana found the young boy from Eight and strangle him in his sleep. After that, she found the girl from Ten. She had killed her partner in the blood bath. She was especially angry and dashed at Morgana but with a quick knife throw to the face, the girl was living no more. Next up she found the girl from Eleven, pleading for her life. Did Morgana show mercy? No. At the feast, Morgana killed the boy from Three and the boy from Nine in a bloody battle where she was strongly injured. Thankfully she found some bandages at that feast. In the final two, it was her and the girl from Six. Six was quite a tough cookie but not tough enough because when she sprinted at Morgana, she…

"Vale, come down right now! I'm not asking again!" her mother shouts. With a big sigh, vale closes her laptop, turns on the lights and joins her mother at the dinner table.

The only sound being produced comes from the kitchen utensils. An awkward silence fills the room but Vale's used to it.

"Did you train hard at school?"

"Yes, mom… obviously."

"What did the trainers say?"

"I dunno, they're happy, I guess." Vale pokes the meat on her plate.

"Eat the greens, honey. What do you mean you guess? Can you still improve? Are there still people better than you? Actually, have you reached the top ten of the academy yet?"

"I'm full." Vale gets up from the table and turns away.

"Get back here right NOW!" her mother yells at her.

Vale stops, her back still turned to her mother. She's thinking about shouting back. She's thinking about telling her mother, what a horrible person she is. How she only cares about their status. How she's never asked about her own daughter's feelings. But Vale has had that conversation a bunch of times already so there was no point in repeating it now. Instead, she continues walking.

Her mother, however, won't give in that easily. She never does. Quickly she follows her daughter upstairs but before she can enter her room, Vale locks the door. Her mother knocks gently at first. "Vale, honey, could you please open?" Vale knows the gist. She's not falling for her mother's soft tone. "I said… could you please open the goddamn door?!" her mother shouts, now pounding at the door." Vale puts her hands around her ears and closes her eyes. "Fine, don't open. But when you're hungry, I'll be waiting and when you do come downstairs, you'll have to tell me about your ranking… after that, I'll decide how much free time you'll get from then on."

Vale sobs. She hates everyone. She hates them all. She hates the pretty little faces of the trainees at the academy. How they're all so perfect, how everything they do seems so effortless. How they get perfect grades and walk around the academy with their disgusting smirks like they own the place. She hates them all. She'd kill them if she could. She really would.

Vale has been studying and studying, watching past Games and training in her free time and yet these bastards still manage to score higher than her in the rankings. Top ten? Pff. Vale isn't even in the top 20 and if her mother finds out, she'll take away her laptop and rob her of all free time and make a diet plan for her that's even worse than the one she already has right now and it's all because of kids like Andromeda, Coral, Marina and the rest of these fucking idiots.

She's sure that they don't even work at home. She's sure that they just wake up in the morning with their hair perfect and their breath smelling like perfume from One. She's sure…

As much as she hates them all, she wants to be like them. No. She needs to be like them. This is why she studies the Games and why she relentlessly works on her weapon skills. She wants to achieve their greatness but she can't. They're all like Angels to her. They're all looking down at Vale with their elegant demeanor and their big angelical wings, smirking and laughing.

It is also why when she got her hands on one of them, Coral to be specific, she shattered her arm and broke her nose. The training staff had to separate them but it was already too late. Vale lost the function of her left eye. Ever since she's alienated herself, even more, form the others. They all look at her like some freak.

Vale holds her knees close to her chest. "I just want to be like them…" she whispers.

Vale has had enough of the bullshit that their mentor has been feeding her. She doesn't care what he tells her, she will join the pack and there's nothing he can do about it. Does he really expect her to ally with that weakling over there?

"Uh, hey there. I haven't properly introduced myself. I'm Thethys." he extends his right hand but Vale gestures for him to put it back.

"Yeah, I know." she raises her eyebrows, expecting him to get to the point.

"So our mentor said we need to get to know each other so we can work better together. What do you-"

"Yeah, let me stop you right there," she interrupts. "This isn't happening. I'm joining the careers."

"I don't understand. Our mentor said that we have no chance of joining them."

"You have no chance at joining them. What's your ranking anyway? Haven't seen you in the academy."

"I… I'm not doing the HGEP," he says, scratching his head with a hint of embarrassment.

Hm. So maybe there is someone Vale is better than after all and the best part is, he's competing against her. She knows she's better than him and she will use every chance she gets to show that to him.

"Wait, you mean you're doing the normal program in Four?!" she shouts with a big smile.

"Yeah…" Thethys mumbles.

Vale laughs outrageously with a little snort here and there. "Ah, now that just made my day," she says with a content smile. Oh, and good luck with the Games. There's no chance in hell that you're getting into an alliance." she opens a magazine on her bedside table and starts to page through it. "What are you still doing here? Get out."

Politely Thethys leaves the room, his eyes wet and his lips quivering.

Hello, people! I hope you guys liked District Four. I think both of them are really interesting and I have a lot planned for them ( I know I say that every time but it's true xD ). I actually wanted this chapter to be short but… here we are. My goal is to get this story done before summer break ends because after that I'm going to go through a tough phase in school. So if that means, making the introduction chapters a little shorter from now on in order to get through it, I'll have to do it and I hope you guys don't mind :)

I'm not sure what district to do next… it might be Five or perhaps Eight. ACTUALLY, I'll let you guys decide in the reviews what district gets written next. Majority vote wins. If it's a tie, I'll pick from the options. I'll have to see. Sorry if Morgana's story was a little gory btw but I just realized how much fun I'm going to have writing the BLOODBATH ( God, I love that word ).

Anyway, please please please review, I appreciate it tremendously! What do you think of Thethys? Does he stand a chance? What do you think of Vale? Will she make it into the career pack? Who do you like more? What district do you want to see next?

Thank you for the support so far, I really want to complete this story and I already have some arcs planned for a few tributes… and some deaths. Mwahahaha!