Raiden Seran

Age 25

District 4 Mentor

"MOOOMMM! GAMMA IS STEALING MY TOYS!"

"No I'm not! YOU'RE THE ONE STEALING MINE, TORA!" I press my hands harder around my ears, attempting to block out the sounds of the never-ending argument from my two siblings, the barking of Simba, the sounds of a blender in the kitchen, and Rena crying in her crib.

"Noise, noise noise, every day of the year…" I groan, pushing my food away. I'm sitting in my room, eating on my lunch. I sigh softly and stand up. I can't stand the stifling atmosphere around here…

I grab my swimsuit from the closet, write a note to my mother, and open the window opening to the backyard and climb out. The roof is a little slick from the rain, but I slide down easily and land neatly on our garden porch. I then open the side gate and leave my house in Victor's Village.

When the noise of my home here gets to be too loud, I always go take a swim in the nearby lake. Swimming was a big reason that I won my Games, after all. I walk down the road, not really paying attention to anything.

"RAIDEEEENNNN!" Oh dear god. I see an annoying girl running towards me, waving her arms, and completely oblivious to all the attention she's drawing to herself. I want to just run, but instead I slow down and let her catch up to me.

"Yani, what are you doing?" I sigh. Yani bounces up and down excitedly.

"Don't tell me you're going swimming without your childhood best buddy!" Yani cries. It's true. Yani and I have known each other since kindergarten. And she was super good at swimming. In fact, she was the best in our entire district.

I could still remember the times when she would yell instructions at me while I struggled through the waves. I probably would have died by drowning, or the Games, had it not been for her.

"Okay, fine, you can come if you want, but I don't think you have a swimsuit." I sigh. Yani stops in an instant as she realizes her mistake.

"MEET YOU BY THE LAKESIDE THEN!" she cries, speeding away at the speed of sound. I sigh. If Yani got Reaped this year, she'd stand a good chance of winning. She's surprisingly tough, the proof being that she beat up a group of guys who were being mean to her by herself.

"Good luck to you this year, I'll send a silent prayer…" I mutter under my breath.

Lilly Yannah

Age 27

District 11 Mentor

"Lil' Yan! You okay?" I blink in the sunlight shining down onto my face. My boyfriend, Garrett's, face stares down at me worriedly. I sit up slowly, disorientated.

"Wha…? Now what in the gosh darn happen'd 'ere?" I groan. Garrett places his hand on my forehead.

"No fever. You just passed out in the middle of the field." he explains. I rub my temple in confusion.

"Was it another hallucination?" Garrett asks. I shudder. Ever since I had won my Hunger Games, I'd been having terrifying hallucinations of both my near death experiences.

One of them was of the District one career boy who tried to ambush me while I was sleeping. I had slashed his throat when he climbed up to my tree.

Once, when I was having that hallucination, Garrett had grabbed me by my shoulders, and I ended up punching him in the face.

The second was when the District Seven boy and I had a standoff. I managed to kill him and escaped with a scarred face.

I truly hated the Games; I hated the injustice that they were. I always had to listen to the horrified cries of the families whose children got Reaped, the responsibility of mentoring, and everything in between.

I never got used to the dying cries of the poor District 11 children that I took under my wing. I always made it a point to visit the families of the Tributes every year and give them my sincerest apologies.

I stand up shakily and dust off my clothes.

"A'm alrigh', sugah. Jus' need ah drink of water... " I sigh. Garrett places a hand over my shoulders gently, guiding me.

"I'm sure your hallucinations will go away eventually. Nothin' some R and R can't fix, righ'?" Garrett laughs. I shake my head. Sometimes I think that they'll haunt me forever.

I tried my best! I really hope that this prologue was up to standard. For the record, I want to make my SYOT on the funnier side, which is why there are so many references XD!

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