The Capitol crowned a queen. They forgot she bites.
Chapter 1: Drowning in Glitter
It only took six weeks of Capitol interviews, three seafood-scented perfume ads, and one very unfortunate crab-shaped hat before I realized:
I survived the Games just to be slowly drowned in glitter.
Everywhere I went, people screamed my name like I was a rock star. They threw roses. They threw actual fish once. (District 4 pride, I guess.)
I smiled. I waved. I signed autographs with a trident-shaped pen.
Inside, I was slowly screaming.
Chapter 2: Mentor Mayhem
Mentoring the next batch of tributes sounded honorable. Noble. Heroic.
It was actually a nightmare.
District 4 sent me two tributes:
A girl who tried to flirt with every Career.
A boy who thought he could tame arena monsters with interpretive dance.
I loved them both. Fiercely.
I tried to teach them everything: survival skills, trap setting, how not to die of sheer dumb luck.
Finnick (yes, THE Finnick Odair) tried to help too. Mostly by making sarcastic comments and teaching me how to fake a Capitol accent.
Spoiler: I was awful at it.
Chapter 3: Quarter Quell Bombshell
Then President Snow dropped the bomb:
All living Victors. Reaped. For a new Hunger Games.
"Congratulations," Finnick said. "You survived the Games. Time for Round Two."
I stared at him. "I'm going to set the Capitol on fire."
"Good. But maybe start with subtle sabotage first?"
"Fine. But if I die, I'm haunting Snow personally."
"Get in line."
Chapter 4: Team Petty
We formed an alliance faster than you could say "Capitol circus":
Me, the chaos gremlin from District 4.
Finnick, the sarcastic heartthrob.
Poppy, a lumberjack girl from District 7 who could split a tree with one swing.
Jax, a nerdy District 3 tribute who could hack literally anything, including the arena drones.
Our plan?
Cause so much petty chaos that the Capitol wouldn't know what hit them.
Operation Codename:Team Petty.
Chapter 5: Arena, Again
This time, the arena was asunken palace—half ruins, half ocean.
Flooded ballrooms. Shattered statues. Giant mutant seahorses.
Basically, my dream vacation if I wasn't actively being hunted.
First hour:
Poppy punched a tribute in the face with a driftwood bat.
I stole three tridents from the Cornucopia by pretending to fall and "accidentally" knocking Careers into each other.
Finnick found a secret underwater tunnel system.
Jax hacked a tracker and turned it into a music player.
We vibed.
For like... two days.
Chapter 6: Traitors and Tridents
Glossia's little brother,Lucian, led the Careers.
He was prettier, meaner, and somehow evenmoredramatic than his sister.
"I will avenge Glossia!" he shrieked at me across a lagoon.
I waved. "Good luck! She hated you, by the way!"
He screamed. It was awesome.
Meanwhile, Finnick's Capitol stylist (Satinia) tried to betray us by planting a bomb disguised as a pearl necklace.
Poppy threw it into a shark's mouth.
The shark exploded.
We didn't talk about it.
Chapter 7: Bread Revolution
District 11's Milo—yes, the "Bread Warrior" himself—showed up mid-Games.
He was older, missing a kidney, and twice as chaotic.
He joined Team Petty without hesitation.
His battle cry?
"FOR CARBS AND CHAOS!"
He launched stale bread rolls at Capitol cameras, jammed arena controls with baguettes, and staged a mini-rebellion in the underwater food stations.
A true icon.
Chapter 8: Bubble Trouble
The Gamemakers sent in "mutant air bubbles"—they trapped tributes in pockets of air and floated them helplessly toward death traps.
Guess who figured out how to ride one like a jellyfish cowboy?
This girl.
I floated past Lucian at one point, saluting lazily as he got yeeted into a whirlpool.
Best. Moment. Ever.
Chapter 9: Breaking the Surface
Jax found the control hub buried under the sunken palace.
While Poppy and Finnick fought off Careers, Milo and I broke in and unleashed chaos:
Released mutant octopuses into the Capitol food storage.
Turned the tribute tracker into a karaoke machine.
Triggered every arena trap at once.
Cuearena collapse.
CueCapitol panic.
Cueus, clinging to driftwood, laughing hysterically as the arena literally fell apart.
Chapter 10: Riptide Rising
When the hovercraft came, President Snow didn't look victorious.
He looked furious.
We didn't crown one Victor.
We crownedall of us.
The rebellion had already started—little ripples everywhere.
And now?
The tide was rising.
And we were the storm.
Final Line:
"They tried to drown us.
They forgot—we know how to swim."
THE END
