1*** Backstory ***
The world had been overrun with zombies for hundreds of years. Small societies formed out of the chaos all over the world. They would survive for a while, underestimating their safety, before being wiped out by zombies or other desperate groups. But one society in North America survived. Over years of guaranteed safety, the society began to grow through successive generations. Eventually, the 12 districts of Panem were formed, ruled by the Capitol.
The whole human race had been infected with a virus that would bring their dead bodies back to a zombie state. A simple scratch or bite from a zombie would cause a deadly fever. They would be dead within a day. The Capitol eventually developed a cure, but it was not made available to everyone. Citizens of the Capitol were cured of the horrible disease and only the richest in the districts could afford such benefits. As a reminder of the Dark Days where people lived in fear, being attacked by zombies and murdered by fellow desperate humans until the Capitol saved them all, the annual Hunger Games were established – So named after the zombies eating the participants.
Each year, two tributes from the twelve districts are conscripted into fighting to the death in an arena. The feed is transmitted live across the whole of Panem. It is a sick form of entertainment for the Capitol, which doubles as a terror tactic, reinforcing the Capitols control over the districts.
When the tributes die in the arena, they reanimate into the walking dead, starving for fresh meat. The zombies are an added threat which provides further entertainment for the Capitolites. Wounding the brain of a zombie kills them indefinitely. However those tributes who are more confident in their abilities try not to kill their opposition with head wounds, hoping that the zombies will kill the weaker tributes for them.
The winner of the games gets a lifetime supply of riches, and five coupons to redeem for the cure. Which means that they can only choose five family members or friends, including themselves, to be rid of the terrible disease. Those given the cure don't reanimate after death. They are also immune to the infection that causes a deadly fever if they are scratched by a zombie.
The Capitol has the ability to wipe out the zombies, but they choose not to. They surround the walls or fence of each district and are a deadly threat to escapees. That is what keeps the citizens of Panem locked in under the control of the Capitol. The bodies of people who die in the districts are placed outside the perimeter, where they reanimate and wander around, searching for fresh meat. This, however, doesn't deter Katniss Everdeen and her hunting buddy, Gale. To provide for their families they sneak out through a hole in the fence of District 12, and enter the woods. There they hunt and gather food to trade and eat. They are both very skilled at zombie killing, from years of practice.
It is in these woods with her best friend, that Katniss Everdeen can be herself. It is here where Katniss Everdeen decided that she was going to volunteer for the 74th Hunger Games, knowing that she could win and earn enough money to buy the cure for her family. She is determined to not let them suffer the same fate as her father. Out in the woods he was scratched by a zombie. He spent the rest of the day in bed with a high fever, where his wife nursed him and tried to keep his temperature down. Sadly, he passed away in the middle of the night. It was within ten minutes that he reanimated. The girls had thought that they had more time. It was Katniss who stabbed him in the head, before he almost killed Prim. Since then she has never been the same.
It just so happened that on reaping day, Prim's name was pulled out of the glass bowl. Volunteering, Katniss looked like she was sacrificing herself to save the life of her little sister. And with that, gained sympathy and potential sponsors.
This is sort of crossed with the Walking Dead. But since there is no crossover characters, and I only used the zombies from the show, I listed this as a regular fic.
It's light-hearted story, not to be taken seriously. It won't follow the first books storyline, and your favourite characters might die off pretty quickly (some may return as flesh eating monsters). And it probably won't develop into an Everlark story... you'll see why in the next chapter. I've already skipped to the Games.
Anyway, I'd like to hear which characters you want to see as walkers - but the character/s who die from head wounds in the next chapter can't reanimate. So from there I'm happy to carry out any requests. Thanks for reading :)