AN:This is my new drabble series! Hope you enjoy.

I. Crown

He knows it's over the second he hears the cannon fire and sees the pink birds leave her body. He is going to win.

It isn't hard, really, to lure the last career to the edge of the arena. He knows that she thirsts for his blood, that she isn't going to stop until one of them are dead. So, he meets her on his playing field. He knows that she isn't really his last obstacle. That has already been torn down. So, they meet on the edge of the arena, and his mind works overtime until it happens. He sees the flash of gold and hits the ground. No, she wasn't his last obstacle. That was another girl, the gold to this one's silver.

Then, the inevitable streak of silver cuts through the air an another final cannon fires. He thinks he hears music, but really, his mind is already somewhere else, somewhere darker than the music, the lights, the laughter. His mind is with her.

The ceremonies and practices are all a blur, but the moment he steps on the stage and sees the crown he is about to be presented, everything grinds to a halt. Not because he won. No, definitely not that. For a moment he thinks of gold, and her, and what could have been and is almost happy. Almost.

But then the crowd starts cheering and he feels lower than he ever thought possible. For a second he hates every last one of them, but plasters a snarky, indifferent look on his face because he knows that she is gone and he is not, and he cannot change that, no matter how much he may want to. (And oh, how he wants to). Then the crown is placed on his head, and he sees gold again, gold everywhere.

It is in that moment that he realizes that he can keep her alive. No, not only her, but all of them. They will live on in him, and he will fight for them.

So, he straightens up. Even smiles a bit. If there was one thing he learned in the arena, it was that they love a show, no matter what it costs.

And if it's a show they want?

Then he'll be sure to give them one.

And here is the first chapter! For anyone reading my other HG story, Ocean Eyes, the muse has kind of departed on that. I will finish it eventually though. ANYWAY, review and tell me what other prompts you would like to see in this drabble series! (The more prompts submitted, the quicker an idea will hit and the quicker I can write a new chapter). Hope you liked it!