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Against the Odds

A Hunger Games FanFic

By Sophia

DISCLAIMER ~ [ALL RIGHTS OF THE HUNGER GAMES BELONG TO SHE-WHO-SHALL-NOT-BE-NAMED BUT MOST OF THE CHARACTERS AND THE PLOT BELONGS TO ME]

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW

This takes place when the 100th Hunger Games are going on, AKA, the 4th Quarter Quell

For the purpose of the story, Katniss and Peeta won the games alongside Clove and Cato but a rebellion never happened

The 3rd Quarter Quell was not the same one as the books\movies

I am not the best writer in the world, so don't expect this to be amazing

CHARACTERS

Athena Hadley

Age: 15

District: 2

Parents: Clove and Cato Hadley

Skills: Everything

Strongest Skill: Knives

Ollie Odair

Age: 15

District: 4

Parents: Finnick and Annie Odair

Skills: Spear, Knife, Climbing, Speed

Strongest Skill: Spear

Vera Mason

Age: 17

District: 7

Parents: Johanna Mason

Skills: Ax, Sickle, Spear, Sword, Knife, Poisonous Berries

Strongest Skill: Ax

Elena Mellark

Age: 16

District: 12

Parents: Katniss and Peeta Mellark

Skills: Bow and Arrow, Climbing, Strength

Strongest Skill: Bow and Arrow

Elliott Mellark

Age: 16

District: 12

Parents: Katniss and Peeta Mellark

Skills: Spear, Camouflage, Strength

Strongest Skill: Spear

Dizzy Latier

Age: 18

District: 3

Parents: Wiress and Beetee Latier (MAY 22 A/N: WTF WAS I ON..)

Skills: Smarts, Knife

Strongest Skill: Smarts

Dexter Latier

Age: 17

District: 3

Parents: Wiress and Beetee Latier

Skills: Smarts, Sword

Strongest Skill: Smarts

Crew Finnigan

Age: 15

District: 2

Parents: *unknown*

Skills: Sword, Spear

Strongest Skill: Sword

Quinn Tanner

Age: 14

District: 1

Parents: Cashmere and *unknown* Tanner

Skills: Bow and Arrow, Spear

Strength: Bow and Arrow

"It's the things we love most that destroy us."

PROLOGUE

A small black haired girl walked across the stage holding a small, gray box with gold decorations swirling around the outside. The girl, only just about to turn eight, had a smile, not a full one, but a pleasure filled one, creeping along her face. She stopped in front of a man with a puffy white beard sitting upon a velvet colored chair. The man had cold gray eyes and an unnerving smile. He had to be at the very least, 100 years old and seemed to have eternal life. He graciously took the box from the little girl's hands and whispered a thank you. She smiled and scurried off the stage. The man placed the box on the table before diving into a speech.

"Hello everyone and welcome to the reading of the fourth Quarter Quell card!" Cheers erupted from the large crowd dressed in ridiculous outfits. "As you know, every twenty five years, we insert a different adaptation into the games. For the 25th anniversary, as a reminder that they were responsible for the Hunger Games, each District had to vote on a male and a female tribute to send into the games. For the 50th anniversary, as a reminder that two rebels died for each Capitol citizen, the Districts had to send double the amount of tributes into the games. Last Quarter Quell, the 75th anniversary, as a reminder that the rebels created their own weapons designed to kill, the tributes were only able to use the things around them to kill," the man stated. The crowd murmured in remembrance at the last Quarter Quell rule change. "And now, for the reading of the 100th anniversary adaptation." 

The man snapped open the small box and rifled through the cards before finally pulling out one that read the number four on it. He grasped the edges of the milk colored card and slid the paper inside out. The man smiled as he read through the card in his head. "For the 100th anniversary, as a reminder that a lot of our celebrities were murdered in the rebellion, the tributes will be Reaped from the pool of victor descendants." The crowd gasped and went into an excited conversation, most likely about which victors had kids. The man silenced them by standing up with the now closed box and walking off the stage. While everyone in the Capitol was celebrating, the children of past victors felt their lives had just exploded.

CHAPTER ONE ~ ATHENA

I smirk at Crew's expression as he watches my knife find a perfect target in the end of his spear, splitting it into two pieces. I hold out my small hand in expectancy and he reluctantly fishes twenty dollars out of his pocket.

"I told you," I sneered. He rolls his eyes but a small smile creeps across his pale face.

"One of these days, I will beat you in a bet," he declares.

"Sure Crew. Keep dreaming." We are interrupted by Hyacinth and my mom calling us all to the middle of the training center. The small group, consisting of victor descendants, crowds around the two women. Hyacinth Summers won the 84th Hunger Games, just ten years after my parents won theirs. She had a bubbly personality and acted like a complete airhead all until that buzzer went off. Then she was a killing machine.