Victor #8:

Name: Gerrian Tomion

Age during games: 18

District: 9

Games: 08

Death: Games 071, Dash

The five tributes killed by the eight victor all had a story to tell, now they are lost to time.

The boy from District 6 was 17 years old and already a father

"Jalopy Orrix!" the name reads through the polished District square. The boy looks around in shock, surely there's a mistake, and that some other Jalopy was called in his place. But when the peacekeepers come to grab him, he realizes that it's the end. In the goodbye room, his fiance, two years older than he is and holding his daughter, cries with him as he promises to try to make it home.

For his interview, his daughter is all he talks about. The girl, Shannon, just said her first five words, dada, mama, games, hail, and ponycherri. He gets a good amount of sponsors compared to what District 6 usually gets, and by the time he escapes the main arena into the surrounding village, he's got a weapon in hand and a kill for the count. He spots the boy from District 9 scavenging the grain in one of the gardens. The boy tries to sneak up on him, but he's too loud, and by the time the boy makes it to him, the opponent is ready. He's pushed to the ground, and looks up with pleading eyes as the rapier slashes through the throat. "At least Shannon didn't have to watch," he mourns. He's dead 3 hours, 25 minutes, and 36 seconds in the games. His daughter never gets reaped, but his brother does.

The girl from District 8 is a community home guardian

Oh yes, she wanders the streets pickpocketing the fat wallets from the owners, but it's all for her community siblings, as she calls them. She buys them pastries often, once a week, and gives them a dollar a week to save for themselves. Maxine Villanueva knows how to do it, and she becomes fast at it. By the time she's reaped at 16, she's teaching a 14 year old her ways, and she's almost as good as her. It's her speed that gets her through the bloodbath, and one of the 9 who spilled out into town. She survives the fallen tributes display, and as she sorts through the bag she collected, she notices a fire off in the distance.

Hesitantly she crept up to it, much like she did against the mayor's secretary and store managers in the capitol licensed square. It's the man from 9, so much bigger than her, but nursing a leg wound, so injured and helpless. She sorts through her pack again, and pulls out a single morning star. If she makes her mark, she can get home, if she doesn't, she's fast for a reason. Maxine fires the star against the slumped figure. It misses. The figure picks it up as she backs away. This time, it doesn't. It's six hours, 14 minutes, and 58 seconds after the 6 boy's death.

The girl from 4 was regarded as a hero

Already at 15, she's an expert lifeguard, warning the folks on the sea at first alert for any fins on the horizons or unexpected swells in the tide. Artesia Howitz has saved three drowning children with her expert application of CPR and is one of the most prominent teachers down at the youth program.

Regardless, she's reaped, and struggling to find some food in the desolate houses surrounding the town. She slams the door to one shut, big mistake. Tributes flock to the noise, accidentally causing a three person melee on the streets. She hides in one of the bigger houses, two stories tall and four rooms on each floor. She rests on the bed, daydreaming. Footsteps snap her out of it. The man from District 9 snaps her out of it by stepping in the same room as her. She grabs her only weapon, a clunky sword that somehow managed to kill the boy from 2. He parries it effortlessly with his scythe, obtained from several devoted sponsors, and swings at her stomach. Her guts fall out 38 hours, 12 minutes, and 6 seconds in the games.

The boy from 1 believes himself to be the next Leopold

He's 16, same age as Leo was when he went into the games, a year after Leo wins and he went to him asking to be trained. Troy Braxion is the best mace user of this hunger games, and used it to kill four tributes. He's about to kill a fifth, the girl from District 9, when the girl's partner, the only fucking other person in the arena at this point finds him. Braxion talks to the field hand, keeping him at bay with his maces at the girl's neck and lower back. He tells him to drop his weapons, and he does so. Brax does the same, challenging the much bigger hand in a wrestling match. He's pinned down three minutes in, and as a last resort, throws a mini mace kept behind his back at the field hand's head. It misses the initial target but hits the girl square in the stomach. She crumples like a doll, holding her stomach in agony. Her partner hears this, and he snaps Brax' neck. Brax dies 50 hours, 13 minutes, and one second into the hunger games.

The girl from District 9 is the victor's cousin

Not yet at least, but she knows it's coming. Brivette Tourmal is 15 years old, related to Gerrian Tomion by her father, who is his father's brother. "N-n-n-no," Gerrian stutters. He carries her limp frame in his hands, takes her to the only reliable source of water in the arena, the river. "Bri-Bri come on, stay alive," he hysterically says, looking in all his packs for something. Not one of the tributes he killed packed more than one bandage and more than five inches of thread. "Stupid," Gerry calls himself.

"Gerry," Bri coughs.

"Bri, save your breath, you're going to be out of here soon," he says adamantly.

"Gerry, we both know what's coming. Gerry, I can't live back home if they knew that I gave up your life for mine, a lost cause," she says with great difficulty.

"Bri, no!" he shouts.

"Gerry, please, give up. I know that you've got people at home waiting for you-"

"BUT YOU DO TOO!"

"Who? Uncle Ralph, cousin Yosephine? Dad told me to make the sacrifice for you, as something of an early present," she jokes, smiling all the way.

"Bri! Just stop, please, I'm your older cousin, I need to protect you," Gerry cries.

"Gerry, I killed a 12 year old, all four of them, and everytime I did, I just saw cousin Yosephine. Gerry, come on, let's be real," she explains.

"But-"

"Gerry, please, let me protect you this one time, cousin," Bri interrupts. "Just, lay me down on the river bed, I've always wanted to die in something so beautiful."

"B-Bri," he cries. Tears fall onto his cousin's face as he looks over her. "Bri, please. Brivette."

"Please, for me?" she asks solemnly.

Gerry breaths, looking around at the high noon sun, and carries her over. "Right here?" he asks when he stops in a spot close to the idyllic altar and well.

"Yes," she smiles. "I know you're getting tired, come on, the water just looks so cool, I think I'll go here." She smiles one last smile, and closes her eyes. Her breathing slows just as Gerry gives her a kiss on the forehead. Gerry gently dips her body in at 58 hours, 59 minutes, and 45 seconds. He becomes a victor at exactly 59 hours.

Hey guys, hopps here.
District 9 gets its first victor, and the first family is sent into the games. Just so you know, the hunger games start at exactly 9:00 in the morning, Capitol standards, and Gerry spends a little under 2 and a half days in the arena. He holds the current record, but I'll say straight up, it won't last long. And this is the second to last hunger games taking place in the same arena, my oh my how the time flies! Anyways, thoughts on Gerrian? thoughts on those he killed? Like the format? Hate my guts? leave a review and I'll try to reply
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