Troubled Souls: The 97th Annual Hunger Games

by 24 with 24

CLOSED 24-24 COLLAB! The Games kept going after the rebellion failed, and each year is the battle of a lifetime for 24 new tributes. The troubled souls of the 97th Games will never be the same. The Games have become a spectacle of fighting and violence, and has lost the emotional appeal. These tributes aren't heroes... They're all troubled souls.

2. Prologue II

Again, all the information on the collab will be below this mandatory snippet of chapter.

People always assumed that she was a person who only had a mind for the violence in the Hunger Games. While that wasn't a bad thing to the people in the Capitol, the people that ate up the violence in the Games, she still resented that notion, that stereotype. She was the Head Gamemaker, but that didn't make her a one-dimensional person who thought constantly about the Games. She had a home, a family, a life, outside of the Games.

She did happen to plot out a lot of ideas for traps, mutts, and arenas in her spare time, but who was to blame her? She was sure many citizens that weren't even involved in the making of the Games fantasized about the next round of tributes, the next best death in the next Games, the grisly details of the mutts that she would bring to life. It was all over the magazines, even in the off-seasons. Don't tell her she does nothing just because of that, because that's simply not the case.

Her husband came home from work around five. They were rich enough that he didn't need a job, but she understood why he worked anyway. She went crazy during the off-seasons sometimes, which was the main reason she started to plot the next Games while her husband was at work and her children at school.

"Hi," she said, smiling and going to him. She was dreadfully bored. Her daughter was at basketball practice and her son at his gymnastics, so she had been alone since they all left in the morning to do what they did all day. She got bored of being alone, too. She was a normal person, something a lot of people didn't seem to comprehend. They saw her as larger-than-life or something, someone who choreographed their favorite spectacle of the year. It was flattering for a while in the beginning, a long time ago, but it just got boring at one point. Annoying almost.

"Hey," her husband said, his handsome smile spreading across his face. "How has your day been?"

"Oh, boring for the most part," she said, shrugging. She moved close to him and ran a hand through his messy turquoise hair. She had never much liked that color of hair on him, but he liked it, so who was she to go ruining his fun? "How was yours?"

"The same," he replied. "It was slow at work."

She nodded understandingly.

"Did you design anything today?" he asked her.

She smiled and nodded. "Come see," she said, taking his hand and leading him into her study.

I'm beginning to like this random Gamemaker I created. Oops.

All right, so, for anyone who doesn't know and didn't read the first chapter, a 24-24 collab is a story where 24 authors write about one tribute each and create a story that way. It's fun and a great way to make new friends on there, and we only have a handful of writers so far. I'd love to see some more people come join us!

To join, PM either this account, my regular account, InfiniteFinity, my mods ilovefinnick or CelticGames4, or review this story, and one of us will PM you the link to the forum!

Or you can just look up the forum if you'd rather. It's called Troubled Souls.