The Six Saviors of Storybrooke✔️| (EDITING)

A Game of Swan

"Ladies and gentlemen, the victors of the Seventy Fourth Hunting Games, Katy Fletcher and Peter Baker ." Katy could hear the monotone voice boom all over the arena. 

Against all odds, Katy beat everybody in the Hunting Games, except Peter who she tied with. The games were the hunting event of the year. Everybody who was anybody in Panama eagerly awaited to watch 24 contestants from the Central American country to hunt anything in an extravagant televised event; from big game like bears and deer to small game like rabbits...and  even humans. If something was alive, you could kill it. Those were the rules.

Katy and Peter, the pair who had birthed a sense of distaste toward each other during training, saw a hover craft appear out of nowhere in the artificial sky of the arena. That's when the world blacked out.

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Katy was in a doze but still had a sense of reasoning. She was confused about one thing: When you won the Hunting Games you were supposed to get something in return. She imagined money or fame; something she needed but wanted it with the same degree. Need and want; Two very different things.

Her life before the games had been wretched and pitiful. Living all her childhood in the poorest region of Panama, she was thrilled when she had the opportunity to volunteer after her annoying sister, Arder, was reaped. 

Now, after all her hard work in the games, she couldn't imagine what her prize could be if it was in a dim, musty room. That was were she was when she opened her eyes.

The door in the corner opened and a man with a white suit entered the room. Katy quickly shut her eyes.

"She's still asleep," said the man. Then another voice, that of a women, spoke.

"She should be waking up soon."

Katy could hear the movement of objects around her and scribbling on paper. Then, the hairs on her neck stood up. Someone was standing right next to her. She knew this without opening her eyes. 

"How did Tris Prior do on her final examination?" said the man, his voice much louder than before. Katy knew he was the one right next to her.

"She did well but supervisors are still looking for evidence that she is Divergent."

Divergent. Katy had never heard that word before, but she had the feeling it was something dangerous by the way the man said it. More than dangerous: feared. Katy was about to open her eyes when they started talking again.

"And Thomas completed the Scorch Trials."

"They should really be proud of him. The North and South American countries are the only places left in the world that have been spared from the Flare although some town in the United States was almost infected. I forget how it's called, but I know it's Maine."

"Oh, you mean that weird little town: Storybrooke, Maine. Yeah, I heard about someone having the Flare there. The mayor of the town, Regina Mills I think is her name, visited President Nieves immediately after that incident. No word of the Flare in the U.S. was ever heard since then. I swear, I think that lady is more powerful than the president."

"Well enough chitchat. Let's get on with it."

Katy could hear the door open again. Someone different spoke with a panting voice.

"It's Cassie Sullivan. The Others evaluated her as a potential threat to their invasion and they want Panama's help in destroying her before they invade."

The voice of the first man responded in an irritated way, "We don't have time for that. We're already caught in this Hunting Game business along with the problems of the Flare. I don't even understand what we got ourselves into, but it all seems like a some sort of twisted...curse. I still do it though because... we have no choice, so I'm going back to business."