1st Hunger Games

Winner: Ichor District 2

After the Uprising, the Capitol wanted revenge for the Districts rebelling so a rash decision was made by the hot headed President to make the districts turn against each other by making their children kill each other. A few Gamemakers were quickly appointed without really being told what to do and a plan for the reaping was quickly scraped together and the idea was announced to the districts. At first the districts laughed it off saying they would never turn against each other but then the Gamemakers brought in the rule of tesserae to make the districts take it seriously. Starving families gladly signed their children of 12-18 up, grateful for the extra food; so the Hunger Games were born. But they still didn't think too much of children fighting to the death- the Capitol was obviously just trying to scare them.

When the reaping came, the districts began to realise that their children would be taken away from them and many refused to go on up once their names were called, clinging to their parents. From then on the children were separated from the adults as to avoid this hesitance of going onto the platform. Meanwhile, the Capitol watched all this with glee, anxious for revenge.

When the tributes arrived in the Capitol they had the Opening Ceremony with only one stylist team for each district. After that they had 3 days to train but it was all kept entirely secret – there were no training scores or interviews at first (see 8th and 11th Games). So after 3 days, the tributes went straight to the arena without the Capitol knowing anything about them; not that the Capitols cared- they just wanted revenge meaning there were no sponsers until the 7th Games.

The arena was a plain meadow with only weapons in the Cornucopia. The tributes had been warned about the landmines so when the gong went off, no one actually moved for fear of being blown up. After a few minutes, a brave girl from district 6 gingerly took a step and realising it was safe, called out to everyone that it was alright; none of the districts had truly understood that the tributes would actually kill each other. When the tributes got to the Cornucopia, they all picked out a weapon of their choice and then all stood around awkwardly. No one knew what to do.

"Well what do we do now?" the girl from district 12 said, addressing all 24 tributes.

"I think we might just have to fight and get it all over with" said the big burly boy from District 1. At the cries of outrage and protest, he just shrugged and said

"Let's face it; we all know we've got to fight but no one wants to be the one to start it."

As the tributes argued, the girl from District 1 silently drew up a bow and targeted Ichor- the boy from District 2. However he spotted it out of the corner of his eye, just managed to get out the way, so instead the boy from District 8, Micah, was hit. The watching districts watched in horror, someone had actually died. Micah was the first casualty of the Games.

The tributes gathered around him but it was obvious he had died instantly. A cannon then went off followed by an announcement saying that a cannon would signify a death. Everyone had forgotten the girl from District 1 until another arrow came whizzing past and hit the girl from District 10. Once again a cannon went off and the other tributes crowded round the girl shouting insults at her.

She shrugged and said

"Someone had to do it and I don't know about the rest of you but I want to go home". The boy from District 10 let out a cry of rage and answered this by sending an axe into the smirking girl's head. A cannon went off instantly. This escalated into a full on battle until four more were dead and it would've gone on until everyone died unless the girl from District 7 hadn't come up with the idea to run away and hide. This was an excellent idea and all the tributes did this until they realised about 5 hours later that there wasn't really anyone to hide, they had no food and the Games would never end like this. Ichor had realised this very early on and had returned to the Cornucopia to see if anyone would come back and slowly over the next few hours they did and he picked them off one by one with his spears until nearly everyone was dead. The remaining tributes had heard the cannons but had no idea who had died until a screen came up in the evening showing headshots of the dead. As night drew in there were 3 tributes left but they were freezing and in the end the other two crawled back to the Cornucopia leaving Ichor to easily defeat them as he had a little shelter from the Cornuncopia.

Ichor became the first victor and demanded a better house and more money resulting in a Victors Village being built in each district. He also requested to help the future tributes from District 2 (at first he actually offered to help all the tributes but the Capitol wouldn't let him). There was a week of mourning in the districts but over the years they quickly learned to just get on with things and try to forget which was difficult as the victor had to go on the Victory Tour halfway between each Hunger Games.

The Capitol had also learned a lot from the Games. They wanted them to be more gruesome and to last longer so for that reason more supplies were added to the Cornucopia next time and more shelter was also given.