REAPED in the sixty-ninth Hunger Games at the age of thirteen, Aella Barnes knew the odds were never to be in her favour. If they were her name would never of been pulled out of that round, glass, bowl on that dull and cloudy morning.
She was doomed from the start—sheltered and innocent she sobbed for half train ride. She didn't know the first thing about keeping herself alive and in the Capitol, as cute and as innocent as she seemed, they put all their money on her being the first to die.
The entire seven days from reaping to launch day were hell. She was picked on and she was belittled and she was taken advantage of. She spent her days fumbling through her training and her nights awake trying to learn how to survive. Only two people took her seriously in those seven days and she owed her life to them all. She was alive because of them, she made it out because of them. They saw her when no one else did.
One of them, her escort, Clio Acton. She saw the raw fear clouded with determination swirling in her crystal blue gaze and she vowed she would help her when no one else would.
Aella wasn't the first to die—no, she was the first to kill. Her hands found the weapon closest to her which, conveniently enough, was a trident and she threw it through the air and watched is it impaled the boy from District Three. The nation gasped, especially when all she'd received on her individual assessment was a mere three. It was the lowest score anyone had ever gotten in the history of the Hunger Games.
Aella spent her fourteenth birthday in the arena where she proved the entire nation wrong in under thirty seconds. She fought her way through the Games day by day, proving herself to every Tribute she faced. At the age of fourteen, four years after Finnick Odair, she became the second youngest person to ever win. When she was freed from the arena and embarked on her Victory Tour she told her story to the world with Clio Acton standing by her side.
After that night she made herself a promise to take nothing from no one no matter the threat or cost—even President Snow.
The cost?
Her life as she once knew it.
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Part I Horn of Plenty — James Newton Howard | Mud stained dress — Elias Hix | We Must Be Killers — Mikky Ekko | War — Hypnotic Brass Ensemble | Atlas — Coldplay | Ocean Eyes — Billie Eilish | Me and the Devil — Soap&Skin (slowed & reverb) | Everybody Wants to Rule the World — Lorde | Soldier — Tommee Profitt & Fleurie | The Hanging Tree — Rachel Zegler
Part II Safe & Sound — Taylor Swift ft. The Civil Wars | Kingdom Come — The Civil Wars | Who's Afraid of Little Old Me — Taylor Swift | You Can't Catch me Now — Olivia Rodrigo | Which Witch — Florence and the Machine | The Hanging Tree — James Newton Howard | Breathe — Tommee Profitt & Fleurie | Hurts like Hell — Fleurie & Tommee Profitt | Daylight (Cinematic) — David Kushner | Rescue — Lauren Daigle
Part III Angel by the Wings — Sia | Hurt — 2WEI | Light Me Up — Ingrid Michaelson | Soldier, Poet, King — The Oh Hellos | Breath of Life — Florence & The Machine | Mad World — 2WEI, Tommee Profitt & Fleurie | Love and War — Fleurie | Warriors — League of Legends, 2WEI & Edda Hayes | Hearing — Sleeping at Last | Wings — Birdy | One Day — Hans Zimmer
ᴛʀɪɢɢᴇʀ ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢs - alcohol abuse - blackmailing - claustrophobia - corruption - drugs (including use of and used against will) - emotional abuse - gore - handling of weapons and firearms - kidnapping/captivity - mental illness (including depression, anxiety, anxiety attacks, panic attacks, post traumatic stress disorder) - miscarriage - murder - offensive language - physical abuse - sensory deprivation - sexual assault (mention) - torture - tyranny - violence - war
Authors Note; Hey everyone, welcome to Ethereal! I just want to start by drawing attention to the trigger warnings posted above and explain them a bit more. Obviously this is a Hunger Games fanfic so the violence, etc is expected but in this story the female MC is a survivor of S.A—this is mentioned and talked about throughout the whole book. It is not my intention to glorify any type of sexual assault.
I wanted to make this clear before the book began. If any of this is triggering for any of you I suggest either reading with caution or not reading at all. Please, please, think about yourself!
The TW list isn't there to put anyone off. It's there simply to give you an understanding of the themes/topics that will appear in this book. With that in mind Aella (the FMC) is a strong minded and strong willed character but she does have her pitfalls as we all do. Any hate comments on any of my characters will be deleted and readers blocked. It will not be tolerated here.
This books is a Finnick Odiar x FMC based on The Hunger Games series. The storylines do not belong to me. Only Aella Barnes and a few other characters are mine as are their storylines & dialogue. Please don't copy or steal my work. Please do not translate my work without my consent. Lastly this is written in the third person.
Please enjoy! I hope you love Aella and Finnick just as much as I do🫶🏼
