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Prologue.

Peeta Pov

We keep running. Annie, Gale and I. I don't know how long we can run from the Queen's men but after a night such as this, I don't think she'll like it that we know her little secret. And I am pretty sure that she'll want us dead.

"How fast can you make a portal?" Gale pants as he asks Annie.

Annie large eyes widens, as she exclaims. "Are you bloody insane, only an experienced water mage can make those, I'm still just a beginner and I just began getting used my powers after four and a half years of cradling myself in a ball at the corner of my house after I found out what I could do." She yells at Gale.

The forest just seems to go on and on, I don't think Annie or Gale noticed but I have, that's the same tree we passed. We're going in a loop. A never ending one.

"Hey guys, stop." I say as I stand my ground.

Gale looks at me with pure fury; he grips onto his handcrafted bow and arrow shaft. "Do you want to die, we have to keep going!" He manages to stop in his tracks a few meters away from me. "Don't forget whose idea it was to go ask the Queen about the next Hunger Games, huh? It was you." He walks up to me as Gale towers me with his tall height.

He was older, by two years. It's not that we don't like each other, it's just that we have our differences but Gale was a good ally to have in the Hunger Games. And he was planning to volunteer, after all. Sector twelve was the most normal Sector out of the twelve in Cyprus.

In this world, when a child shows signs of a gift, they are categorized into the Sector that gift was originally from not matter which Sector their birth parents belong to. So in reality, everyone grows up not knowing who their parents are. That is except for the Capitalist, the residents of Capitol. The people who work under the Queen that is the most normal person in the universe, oddly enough.

The laws are, the more normal you are, the better.

But after last night, we all know that the Queen's story is entirely false. She isn't even close to being a Normie (A normal person).

"Come on, please don't fight. I don't like it when my big brothers fight." Annie says as she steps in between us. Gale is hesitant to move back but he eventually does.

Annie is the only one that can pretty much stop me and Gale from killing each other, but that's because she's a water witch. She belongs to Sector four, the home of all water related gifts. Annie only discovered that she was a water witch four and a half years ago when she suddenly began control all sorts of liquids, she had a slight mental breakdown but she's back now.

Meeting Annie in the Capitol last year when I won the seventy forth Hunger Games in Sector four was something I would never forget since we were two of the youngest out of the pool of victors. Gale met her when we were headed to the Capitol after we heard about the Quarter Quell where a victor and an extra tribute would be allowed back into the games this year since it was a special occasion.

The Hunger Games is a tournament where a tribute from each Sector must compete in twelve different courses, each relating vaguely to each different Sector. Annie barely made it out alive when she had to endure Sector two's cage of fire. Coming from the water Sector nearly caused her to dehydrate slowly almost resulting her to die from lack of water. But she wasn't the only one; other tributes found that course to be the hardest. If the tribute from Sector two was still alive up to the final four, he would have won.

In each course of the tournament, a tribute is always eliminated by death. Many Normies, like me and Gale, prepare for the games, but the tournament is never the same. We're the Career Sector and we have the largest pools of victors throughout history.

The only times we don't win is when some sort of disaster happens, one of the cases was that when the fire cage began burning hotter, it accidentally cause the metal to melt allowing the dam to flood the place. Annie was the best swimmer and managed to live through the strong current tides.

Annie stares at me with those sea green eyes of hers as she asks. "What's wrong, Peeta? Why did you tell us to stop?"

I take a deep breath before telling them about how we have to be in a curse, the Queen must have placed it on us so that we're trapped here in this never ending loop. When I finally finish, Gale looks at me with a shocked face.

"How did you figure that out?" He asks.

I shrug. "The Hunger Games make you more sharp of your surroundings, I guess, it's always either, you deceive or be deceived, Gale. That's how the game works." I tell him, Annie nods in agreement.

"I guess I have no choice then, I have to make a portal." Annie sighs. She holds her hands out as it glows a faint colour of blue, when she places her palms on the ground, the water from the grass below her palms slowly swirls around her arm. They begin to form some sort of mark as they begin glowing brightly. Annie opens her mouth as she chants a spell.

Gale leans over to me and whispers. "I thought she said she was still a beginner." I shrug. There are tons of things about Annie that nobody can really figure out, but I learnt it's better to keep it that way.

One moment we're on in a dark forest, the next we're on a stage. It resembles the Capitol's interview stage, I hear a pool of gasps from behind me, I slowly turn around to face an audience.

"We're not in Cyprus, anymore. And that's for sure, Peeta." I hear Annie say from beside me.

We just stand there as the people around us just stare.

"This is getting awkward." Gale huffs as he re grips his arrow shaft. "Let's just get out of here." He says.

I don't know why but I have a feeling that this is all too familiar. "I agree with Gale, let's get out of here. Peeta," I turn to face Annie. "Do you want to go or not?" She says loud and clear.

"Um, sure, let's go." I say as we run towards the door, what looks like a door at least.

A group of soldier like people come charging with guns, haven't seen those in a long time.

Gale takes out one arrow and shoots at them, he keeps pulling out more and more arrows hitting them accurately. Annie's hands glow as she forms two swords out of air turned into water, she begins slashing at them. But it's not fatal like Gale's. I bring out my hand full of knifes and begin shooting them in their legs.

I'm not going to kill them, just bring them down so that we can escape.

"Stop," A stern voice says. The guards stop fighting us as they stand still; we're still heading for the door. "Please, we don't want to hurt you." The voice says again.

Gale snorts as he retorts. "Yeah right, then why did you just send tons of guards to kill us?" He questions as we face a man, he has large swollen lips. I can feel Annie tense up beside me by the sight of him.

The man introduces himself as President Snow.

Snow laughs a bit before replying. "Would you attack us if three people suddenly appear on your national television's stage?" He's good.

Gales scowls. "Why won't you just let us leave?" Gale cautiously asks. By one glance you can already tell that he's not a person to be underestimated, he's sly, cunning and deceives many people. He's a dangerous man in this dimension, but he's the authority.

He's a person to avoid at all cost.

"I want to know where you came from."

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