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The Hunger Games: Rise of the Phoenix

Prologue - The Sweat Sound of Freedom

A/n:

Sorry that this is short, but I hope you all enjoy!

Key:

B/n - brother's names

H/c - hair color

E/c - eye color

Y/n - your name

L/n - last name

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There was not much to see in district 12.

District 12 is the main industry for coal mining, so it wasn't much of a sight to see.

It’s divided into two sections, the Seam and the Merchant section, the Seam is where my family lives along with the Everdeen’s a couple of doors down. 

It’s also where most of the people with miners in the family live, due to not making enough money to sustain themselves to live in the Merchant section. The Merchant section is basically where the wealthier people live and have their small business. 

I have two older twin brothers, B/n and B/n, they weren’t that bad of siblings, and they were the ones that usually helped out my parents by helping out in the mines and stealing some food and necessities here and there. 

During my younger years (around 5 or so), I was left with the Everdeen’s family to be looked after, and during those times I spent most of my time with Katniss. She was the eldest daughter in their family, Prim being younger than both of us, but she wasn't born into this world yet. 

We spent a lot of time together and over time, people just started calling us sisters. 

I mean, they weren’t wrong, we did always spend time with each other, so it made sense. 

While hanging out with each other, she would usually take me out on walks around the district, mostly going near the fence to get away from all the guards that seemed to always be scattered around the place.

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One day, we went on a walk just like any other day, but today was off.

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I was dropped off at their house as usually as my parents went off to work and my brothers to school. Soon after they left, Katniss opened the door and smiled.

“Hey N/n! How’s it been?”

“Good! And you?”

“I’ve been good as well, come in for a second, we’ll be out in a minute, just need to grab a few things.”

Upon entering her home, she closed the door behind her and walked to her room for a few minutes and came right back. In her hands was a homemade bag that she had made once, she put it on the small table near the fireplace and opened it up.

Curious, Y/n moved closer to the older girl to peek over her shoulder to see what she had in the bag, but before she could see what was there, Katniss closed the bag and plunged it onto her back, looking down at the h/c girl.

“Nope! You don’t get to look N/n, it’s a surprise! Now, want to go on a walk?”

Nodding, you follow her out of the house and begin to walk down the streets of District 12 side by side. 

After a few minutes of walking, you begin to notice that you both have been walking further and further away from the houses and such, when you see the fence and begin to tug on Katniss’s shirt.

“Hey Katniss, why are we going near the fence?”

Katniss glanced down at the younger girl and looked back up, not saying a word and just grabbing a hold of her hand instead and walked faster towards the fence. 

They finally make it to the fence and Katniss pulls Y/n to kneel onto the ground beside her.

She looks at the e/c girl with a serious expression, using her actual name to get her attention so that she knows this is serious. 

“Y/n, I need you to look out for anyone who is coming near us, it doesn't matter how far away they are from us, but you need to tell me if you see someone, okay?”

“Yea okay Katniss, I can do that.”

With those words, Katniss takes off her bag and opens it to reveal a sort of hunter’s knife, a small bow with arrows, and a few smaller knives. She takes the hunter’s knife and starts to cut through the wires of the fence while beads of sweat rolled down her forehead.

On the other hand, you were looking around to look for anyone who would come into your line of sight.

A few minutes have passed until you saw the fence begin to move, and so you look around and gasp slightly to see that Katniss was now on the other side of the fence. Holding open the fence, Katniss motions Y/n to cross over.

“N/n, come on!”

Hesitating, you look at her and back to District 12, a nervous expression on your face.

“W-Wait, are we leaving? What if we get caught? What if a guard sees us? What if-”

“Y/n! We aren’t going to leave, we're just going to hunt for some food for our family, now come on before someone actually sees us!”

Sighing, you cross through the fence and onto the other side with Katniss and as you finally crossed over, Katniss grabbed her bag and slipped it back on and let go of the fence. 

She made it look as if no one had ever been there. 

Katniss then picked you up from the ground and started to run away.

You two were running away into the forest, away from District 12. 

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You both were now deep into the forest now, the trees shielding the two of you.

Katniss finally put you back down onto the ground as she then sat down on a nearby rock, catching her breath while you sat next to her on the ground. 

After a few minutes had passed, Katniss got up and looked around until something shiny caught her eye, she walked towards it and you filled right behind her until you both stared with shock from what was in front of you.

In front of the two girls was a stream.

A stream with fresh water.

The two girls looked at each other and smiled while they both rushed towards the water, not caring that their clothing got wet, they entered the stream.

In District 12, the water that they were provided with was often dirty and mucky from the water that they showed into the water that they drank. It wasn't clean, but now that they saw how clean and fresh the stream looked, they couldn’t help themselves from shouting with glee and jumping right into the water. 

They giggled as they began to splash each other with the water, smiles so bright that it could rival the sun. 

After a few minutes of playing around in the stream, Katniss decided that it was best if they both washed up with actual clean water, so they took their clothes off and hung them on a nearby branch as they both began to clean themselves with a rag that Katniss had in her bag.

After washing themselves, they put back on their now dry clothes and began to walk deeper into the forest. 

It was a quiet walk until the youngest decided to break the silence. 

“Hey, Katniss?”

“Yea N/n?”

“Is this what being free feels like?”

After a few seconds of silence, Katniss looks over at the younger girl. 

“I guess so, why?”

“....I like the way it feels, being free, I mean.”

“I like the feeling too.”

The two girls walked for another good hour. Once the sun had begun to set, they headed back to where they’ve entered through the fence, made their way back to District 12, and pretended like nothing had ever happened, only keeping this to themselves.

As you laid down on your bed, you thought to yourself, there was a feeling that you felt (and still feel) that you really liked when you were on the other side of the fence.

What was the sense of feeling and sound that Y/n had and wants to forever have?

Well, that was the sweet sound of freedom.

| | | | | A/n:

I hope you guys enjoyed the Prologue! Again, sorry that it's short. Btw, Katniss has and will have platonic relationship with Y/n. But there will be some romantic ones here and there, but that's for later in the story. 

Have a good rest of your day!