Chapter 1: Katniss's Daughter
My hands trembled as I stood on the pedestal, preparing to fight to the death for victory. "49... 48... 47..." The numbers were ticking. I got into a fighting stance so I could be prepared. I am scared. How did I get here? Well, let me explain...
Hi, my name is Lana O'Hara. I am a 12-year-old girl, and I was reaped for the 74th annual Hunger Games. I am not originally from District 12. It all started when I got separated from my family while we were on a mission to get back home. I fell through the wrong portal by accident. I was originally 23 years old but it turns out that the portal that I accidentally fell through was a time travel portal so I accidentally went back in time when I fell through.
That's how I got to District 12. That is how I am 12 years old now instead of my original age, 23. I do not know how much time has passed. Maybe a few hours or even years for all I know.
Here I am, wandering through the forest of a place I am unfamiliar with, looking for my family and figuring out how to get home. Just as I thought hope was lost I heard a familiar voice call out to me.
"Lana!"
I turned around to see my family. Oh, thank God. I thought I had lost them forever. I ran over to them, hugging them tightly.
"Are you okay?" Weiss asked me.
"I'm fine, Mother," I said.
"You had us worried there when you fell through the portal," Jaune said.
"You seem younger," Ruby said.
"I am?" I said, confused. I looked down at my body to see that I am a lot younger then I was before. I looked like I was 12 years old or something.
"You must have fallen through a time travel portal on accident," Salem said.
"Then how are you guys not younger?" I asked.
"I used my magic to take us to where you were. The tree showed us your location so we followed you there." Salem said.
"That makes sense," I said.
"Okay, now that we got here we need to figure out how to get back," Gwen said. We nodded in agreement. Now that we are together, let me introduce you to my family.
My adoptive parents are Team RWBY and Team JNPR. They adopted me when I first came to Beacon Academy. After the fall of Beacon, I married my wife, Yang. I still call Yang 'mom' because she adopted me along with team JNPR. Then I got kidnapped by Salem during a war. She forced me to marry her for revenge against Professor Ozpin because Professor Ozpin or Ozma left her. During the war, Ruby somehow got the villains to be good. They realized what they were doing was wrong so they redeemed themselves and we gave them a second chance. When they became good, Salem started treating me better. She also became overprotective of me just like Yang is. Adam and Cinder also adopted me as their daughter when they became good as well. Emerald and Mercury took me in as their niece. I have another Uncle too named Uncle Qrow. He's pretty cool and I love him. He is also Ruby and Yang's Uncle.
On the other side of my family, my biological parents are Miles and Gwen. I have a husband and a wife, Margo and Miguel. Miles and I share our husband Miguel because a long time ago he forced us to marry him to ensure that we did not prevent a canon event from happening and holding us captive. When the war ended everything was okay. Miguel realized his wrongdoings and wanted us to join his team so Miles and I decided to give him another chance. Miguel didn't hit us when the war ended and our wounds slowly started to heal. I have grandparents who are Rio and Jefferson. They are Miles' parents and I guess you can say they are my parent figures too because they became my legal guardians as well. My Uncle is Uncle Peter who was Miles' mentor. I also have a mentor, Jessica Drew. My best friends are Hobie and Pavitr. They are Miles' and Gwen's best friends as well.
For my appearance, I have long brown curly hair which is often pulled back into a ponytail. I have green eyes and a white-toned skin color. For my style of clothing, I often like to wear graphic T-shirts and leggings, sometimes skirts and tank tops. For winter it is usually turtlenecks or hoodies. I have a visible scar on my right eye and the top half of my left ear is cut off caused by Miguel back when he was abusive.
Me and my family still wandered through the meadows and forest. I gripped Yang's and Margo's hands tightly as we were walking. My mind raced with thoughts. What if we were never going to make it back home? What if we were going to be stuck here forever? My thoughts were snapped out of my mind when Miles spoke up.
"Hey, I think I see a town over there," Miles said.
"We could ask them for help. Maybe they know how to get home." Ruby said. We made our way towards the town. When we got to the town I noticed that the town was a bit depressing. It looked like a poor town with small houses. The ground was a gravel road. There were a lot of coal miners going down into the mines for work. There was a small shop in the middle of town.
"What is this place?" I wondered allowed.
"I don't know but it looks depressing," Miguel said.
"Yeah," I said.
"Come on, I think these people can help us," Jessica said, pointing to a house in the distance. We walked up to the house. Ruby knocked on the door. A woman answered the door. She seemed young with dark hair in a braid and an olive-toned skin color with grey eyes.
"Hello?" The woman said.
"Hi. My name is Ruby Rose. I am here with my family and..." Ruby stopped for a moment, not knowing how to continue.
"We were wondering if you can help?" Blake chimed in.
The woman hesitated for a moment. Then she spoke up. "Yes. Come in. It's best if we do not talk out here. It will look suspicious."
The woman let us inside her house. She invited us to sit down. The woman got us some water and then went upstairs. "Mom! We have visitors."
She came back down with two other people. I got a look at the two figures. The older woman who I assumed was the mother has blond hair, tired blue eyes, and a light toned skin. The younger girl who must be the girl's sister looked similar to her mother with darker brown hair, brown eyes, and white-toned skin color.
The older woman spoke up again, pushing the girls to the side. "How can I help you?" She asked.
"As we were saying to your daughter, ma'am we appear to be lost and in need of directions," Blake explained.
"Can you tell us where we are?" Margo asked.
After a few minutes of silence, the girl who answered the door speaks up. "My name is Katniss Everdeen. This is my mother, Clara Everdeen and my sister, Primrose Everdeen. This is District 12 of Panem. You would know if you were from Panem. You guys must be outsiders. How did you end up here?"
I blinked and tilted my head not quite understanding.
"District 12 of Panem?" Miles said.
"What the hell is that?" Miguel asked/demanded.
The girl -Katniss- gives me a weird look before glancing at her mother and Primrose. "Yeah, District 12 of Panem. Panem is this here United States of America. There was a war a long time ago and the United States broke into thirteen districts that formed Panem except District 13 was destroyed. Districts 1 through 3 are the richest with the meanest people, Districts 4-10 are pretty solid, then Districts 11 and 12 are the poorest. The only city is the Capital which is near District 1 and that's where all the snotty, mean, rich people live as well as the government. Each District has a special role but all of our hard work goes to the Capital so that is partly why this district is so poor." She pauses for a minute and I am having trouble digesting all of this information. Panem? The Capital? Districts? Oh my god, we are so far from home. How did we even get here?
"What role does this district have?" I asked.
Katniss takes a deep breath. "Well, for example, District 12 represents coal mining. District 7 represents lumber, and District 4 represents fishing, district 6 is transportation, and yeah." She says.
"Interesting..." I say slowly. I glance at my family members. "Do you mind if I speak with my family privately for a moment?"
"Go ahead," Katniss said. They nod and got up to leave the room. I glanced at my family when they left. I took a sip of my water nervously. This whole situation is making me nervous. I got startled a bit when Yang put a hand on my shoulder.
"Hey. Are you okay?" She asks me.
"Not really. This whole thing... it's a lot for me to take in." I said.
"It is for all of us. And worse, we are so far from home. We have no idea how to get back." Adam said.
"I want to get out of here as fast as possible. This place is giving me bad vibes." Miguel said. We nodded in agreement.
"Should we ask if we can stay here?" I asked.
"No. It would be rude." Rio said.
"But it might help us," Pyrrha said.
"Okay. Only if they offer us then we can stay." Rio said. I agreed with my grandma. We have been here long enough and we really need to figure out how to get home. As we continued discussing what we should do I glanced at Katniss. She kept giving me weird looks like she recognized me. My family noticed my uneasiness.
"What's the matter, honey?" Margo asked me.
"That girl, Katniss. She keeps looking at me." I said. The others turned towards Katniss's direction. Katniss quickly went upstairs.
"Maybe she has a crush on you," Pavitr said.
"What?! No! I'm already married!" I shouted. A few minutes later Katniss returned with a piece of paper in her hand. Katniss's eyes widened in shock.
"Lana... I think you're my daughter." Katniss said. My eyes widened as I nearly fainted. Miguel and Uncle Peter had to catch me before I hit the floor. My head spun with so many questions. Katniss? My mother? How is that possible?
"Are you okay, kid?" Uncle Peter asked.
"How... how are you, my mother?" I asked Katniss.
Katniss took a deep breath. "This may be hard to believe but you were only born 4 years ago," Katniss said. My eyes widened in shock. Born 4 years ago? How the hell is that even possible?
"No fucking way," Miguel said.
"It might have been that portal Lana accidentally fell through... She must have grown up here but didn't even remember what happened so the portal might have done some weird magic shit and while it took her back in time it might have broken a loophole which would have caused her to be born 4 years ago." Ruby said. That explanation did make sense. But I am still confused.
"Here is proof that I am your mother," Katniss said, handing me a piece of paper. The piece of paper was a DNA test. It showed us that our DNA matched and that I am in fact her daughter.
"Who is my father?" I asked.
"It's Peeta... Peeta Mellark." Katniss said. Katniss explained to me how she had me at a young age. She told me the story of her and Peeta meeting at a school party. They had drugs at the party so they were stupid and drank. When they were drunk they didn't know what they were doing and that's how they had me. Of course, I am an accident. I'm always an accident, aren't I?
First, my parents, Miles and Gwen did not plan on having me... Now it was Katniss and Peeta. I hated this world. I was not meant to be a part of it. Katniss noticed my discomfort.
"We do love you, Lana." She says, placing a hand on my shoulder. But this information was all too much for me. I slumped over in Yang's arms.
"Oh, Lana!" Yang said.
"I think she needs rest. This day has been hard for her." Salem said.
"Yeah. Come on, let's get you to bed." Yang said. Yang picked me up.
"We have a guest room upstairs. I can take you there." Katniss said. Yang followed Katniss, carrying me along the way. Margo and Salem followed. When they got me to the room Yang laid me down on the bed, kissing my forehead. Margo rubbed my shoulder.
"Don't worry. We will get back home soon." Margo said. I didn't respond because I was tired. Today was exhausting. The others left the room leaving me alone. Today has been full of surprises and confusion. I closed my eyes, allowing the darkness of sleep to take over me.
I hope tomorrow will be a better day...
A/N: Hi everyone, I am excited to share with you all chapter 1 of my Hunger Games fanfiction! I hope you all enjoy reading it as much as I will enjoy writing it. I can't wait to share with you guys Lana's story of her life in Panem. Another thing to note is that this story will be in three parts. The first Hunger Games movie, Catching Fire will be in this story. Mocking Jay parts one and two will be in the next part. And in the third part will be a story about the careers from the 74th Hunger Games but I won't go into too much detail as it would be spoilers... Now I have a couple of questions to ask you guys.
1) Do you guys have any ideas for Lana's interview outfit? If so, what?
2) What questions should Lana be asked during the interview?
If you could take the time to leave a review and answer these questions that would be great! Please be nice in the reviews and no harsh criticism. If the reviews are mean and the criticism is harsh I will ignore the reviews and delete them. Also, another thing to note is that I do not own any Hunger Games, Spider-Verse, or RWBY characters. The only character I own in this story is Lana.
That's all for now, see you guys in the next chapter!
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- GalaxyQueen500
