The 11th Hunger Games:


INTRODUCTION

The first Hunger Games decade had come and gone. Many district citizens hoped that it would be the end and that the games were just a bad dream. But, they all knew deep down that the Capitol was not that forgiving for the district citizen's crimes. It was declared that the Hunger Games would continue. Following this announcement was the shocking impeachment of President Syrio Chandler, who had been proven to have bought votes during the election and to have stolen millions from Capitol citizens for his own personal spending needs. He was tried for treason and found guilty, sentenced to ten years in jail and stripped of his title as president of Panem. His successor was a rather tall and confident man named Grazyna Koehler, who was just as cruel and unforgiving as him. President Koehler's first act as President was to make the Hunger Games a mandatory viewing, of which failing to watch on television would be punishable by death. The district citizens didn't even try to rebel; they saw how their attempted rebellion was brutally crushed three years prior and knew that history would repeat itself if they tried again. The Capitol had them right where they wanted them: weak, powerless, and knowing that the Capitol could brutally crush them in three seconds if they tried. Grazyna fired Head Gamemaker Rhea Szasz and appointed his friend Sigden Roman to take the position, ignoring the thousands of auditions and abusing his power. The arena that Sigden designed for the eleventh Hunger Games was sweet and simple; it was an ocean dotted with islands everywhere. The islands were rather sandy, with flowers covering them and shady trees enveloping their shores in darkness. Each island had a stop for boats that the tributes could climb into and paddle off to whichever other island they wanted to. The largest island was in the very center of the arena, and it housed the cornucopia. It was about half of a square mile in size, and was simply a plain of luscious green grass. However, the cornucopia lacked something. It lacked something utterly vital. There was no food at all in the cornucopia. Not a single crumb of bread. Sigden believed that the games would be more interesting when the tributes would have to be creative in order to find food. He also liked a few long and painful deaths thrown into the mix just to remind the district citizens of just how powerless they really were. The District 1 tributes were typical careers; strong, confident, and certain of themselves. The male scored a ten and was immensely proud of it, whilst the female scored a nine and was proud of herself nevertheless. The District 2 male scored an eight. His training score, low odds of winning, and general weakness made the careers hesitant to accept him into their alliance, but they let him a slot anyways just to make their pack look bigger. They let the District 2 female in in a heartbeat, since she scored a ten in training and received the highest odds of winning. However, it didn't even count. The girl had used her sexy attitude and looks to seduce the gamemakers into giving her a ten instead of a nine. The District 3 tributes were actually fairly average; rather medium stature with the reddish-brown hair that was running rampant in the technology district at the time. The boy scored a four, while the girl scored a five. They were both allegedly happy with their scores. The two District 4 tributes were arguably the weakest of the career tributes; the boy received a nine and was only seventeen years old. The girl scored the pathetic score of six and wasn't very notable at all. In fact, she was rather forgettable. But, the others accepted them into their alliance for the same reason as the boy from 'two: just to make their alliance look bigger, which in turn would make it look stronger. Both the boy and girl from District 5 attracted the audience's attention with their witty nature and sense of humor as well as their improvisation skills. A Capitol newscaster reporting for the games even joked that they could be delivering the news that the world was about to end and they would somehow find a way to make it the funniest thing on Earth. The District 6 tributes were brushed off for the most part, both receiving twos as their training scores. They both were muscular from working manufacturing cars and so they were most skilled with the 'brute force' weapons like batons and crowbars. The District 7 tributes were, as usual, most skilled with the axe and hatchet because of all the experience they'd had with them from their lives in the lumber district. As for the District 8 tributes, it was later revealed that the reaping was rigged against them since they were the children of prominent rebels from the rebellion eleven years prior. Why the Capitol only bothered to do this for District 8, we may never know. Nothing much was notable about the tributes from districts nine thru twelve, and the Capitol mostly shrugged them off and assumed they had no chance of being the sole survivor. As for the training scores, there was a moderate amount of variation among them. Two tens, two nines, one eight, four sixes, six fives, two fours, three threes, three twos, and one one were scored. Here are the tributes:

District 1: Clio Racugno, 17, (10) 8-1 and Roxie Stancil, 17, (9) 9-1

District 2: Venice Linder, 16, (8) 13-1 and Xenia Cone, 18, (10) 6-1

District 3: Lumen Kiselev, 17, (4) 35-1 and Vizio Montoya, 18, (5) 33-1

District 4: Shayne Dorman, 17, (9) 9-1 and Mags Flanagan, 16, (6) 17-1

District 5: Mecha Sibonga, 15, (3) 32-1 and Nicola Harmel, 18, (5) 24-1

District 6: Werner Gallagher, 16, (2) 39-1 and Chara Westmoreland, 13, (2) 70-1

District 7: Caspum Withers, 17, (6) 16-1 and Alcove Zinberg, 17, (4) 31-1

District 8: Lucio Molina, 18, (3) 37-1 and Kelsi Guest, 12, (1) 124-1

District 9: Adell Staufer, 18, (5) 34-1 and Sybil Scarborough, 18, (6) 32-1

District 10: Suk Chisolm, 14, (3) 77-1 and Rufina Centeno, 16, (6) 25-1

District 11: Robbie Stamper, 18, (5) 33-1 and Izola Bustamante, 15, (2) 70-1

District 12: Waltraud Neely, 16, (5) 28-1 and Shantell Sumner, 16, (5) 28-1


THE GAMES

The tributes inhaled deeply through their noses to take in the fresh sea air, soothed by the sound of gentle waves lapping against the shore of the peaceful island on which the magnificent silver cornucopia sat. The cries of seagulls filled the air. The tributes were shaken back into reality when the countdown began, flashing numbers counting down. They dared not step off of their pedestals before the countdown reached zero, less their face be the first in the sky that night.

The gong played its familiar note in the distance, and the tributes were off, barreling over the grassy landscape towards the shimmering cornucopia. The first to reach the cornucopia and grab a weapon was Xenia. Picking up a pair of twin curved swords off of the ground, she slashed open the chest of a boy who was running in her direction, his organs exposed and tumbling out of his body as he fell to the ground in death.

Mecha Sibonga, District 5 Male: 24th, Killed by Xenia, Bloodbath

By this point, Xenia had been joined by her allies, who all had their own weapons and were prepared to get their hands dirty. The next kill occurred when Clio's knife entered the back of a helpless girl who was zigzagging to avoid attacks as she stormed towards the mouth of the horn. Her death was quick after the blade pierced her heart.

Kelsi Guest, District 8 Female: 23rd, Killed by Clio, Bloodbath

It took some tributes longer than others to realize that the cornucopia had no food of any kind. In vain, they tore open backpacks and threw open crates and scrambled through the endless bounty of supplies. They did not find even a single crumb. Most of the tributes usually went to the cornucopia for food, water, and other necessities, not weapons. So, many of them were in trouble as they had no idea what to do. The careers took advantage of this moment of confusion and panic by going in for as many kills as possible. The arrow from Shayne's harpoon sent a girl to the ground with a thump when it entered her spine.

Izola Bustamante, District 11 Female: 22nd, Killed by Shayne, Bloodbath

Less than three seconds after Izola's death, Roxie's throwing knives entered the chest of a panicked and confused boy and killed him almost instantly.

Suk Chisolm, District 10 Male: 21st, Killed by Roxie, Bloodbath

Xenia, the tribute with the highest odds of winning, went in for her second kill by slashing one of her swords into the tender flesh in the side of a tribute's hip. It took a few more blows to actually kill the girl, but it was easy enough for her.

Vizio Montoya, District 3 Female: 20th, Killed by Xenia, Bloodbath

Venice picked up a bow and arrow off of the ground, and the string made a shallow sound as he pulled it back and closed one eye. He released the arrow, and it sank into the back of a boy who everyone knew wouldn't survive for very long anyways.

Lucio Molina, District 8 Male: 19th, Killed by Venice, Bloodbath

The force of Shayne's harpoon killed two more tributes. The first occurred when the tip of the projectile entered a tribute's hip, sending blood exploding from the wound as she fell to the ground with a thump. The second kill happened when the projectile entered a girl's neck, causing blood to pool up in her lungs and killing her from asphyxia.

Chara Westmoreland, District 6 Female: 18th, Killed by Shayne, Bloodbath

Shantell Sumner, District 12 Female: 17th, Killed by Shayne, Bloodbath

Meanwhile, Roxie had made one more kill with her throwing knives, the tip of one sinking into the back of a boy's neck causing the blood flow to his brain to cease.

Caspum Withers, District 7 Male: 16th, Killed by Roxie, Bloodbath

Rufina, the District 10 girl who nobody expected to make any kills at all, picked up a blowgun from the cornucopia and crouched down behind a crate, planning to sneak out and ambush any weary tribute that entered. She only made one kill in this fashion. A girl wandered into the cornucopia that she hit in the back of the head with the projectile of her blowgun, sending her unconscious. She never woke up because of the dent in her skull and brain.

Sybil Scarborough, District 9 Female: 15th, Killed by Rufina, Bloodbath

However, clever Clio spotted Rufina in the cornucopia, in a position where she would have nowhere to run if the entrance to the cornucopia was blocked. Clio pounced upon Rufina, stabbing her through the eye with his knife and killing her.

Rufina Centeno, District 10 Female: 14th, Killed by Clio, Bloodbath

At this, the cornucopia was almost completely empty. In fact, only the group of six careers remained around the cornucopia. They then went through their routine check of the cornucopia for any tributes hiding somewhere. Rather surprisingly, when Xenia threw open a crate she found a helpless boy shivering inside. His screams were cut short when Xenia's sword sliced his torso open and he bled to death.

Waltraud Neely, District 12 Male: 13th, Killed by Xenia, Bloodbath

The bloodbath was officially over, and twelve cannons rang through the arena equating to the ten lives that were claimed in the bloodbath.

The sun set on Day 1. The six careers had set up a cozy little camp inside of the cornucopia to sleep in. The other tributes had taken many different approaches to staying hidden during the night. The District 5 female, District 6 male, and District 11 male, for example, all went off in boats and slept out in the open sea where no tribute could easily get to them. A number of other tributes hung out in trees for the night. One rather unintelligent boy dug himself a little hole in the sand of the beach that he crawled into. He then buried himself with sand, concealing himself from the outside world. He formed an air space around his mouth with his hands so that he wouldn't choke on the sand. However, around two in the morning on Day 2, he moved his hands away from his mouth in his sleep and sand flooded in. He instantly woke up, but the lack of oxygen to his brain made him confused as to what was going on. He suffocated on the sand five minutes later, and his cannon startled the other tributes awake.

Lumen Kisalev, District 3 Male: 12th, Suffocation, Day 2

The evening of Day 2, the gamemakers sent a pack of poisonous viper snakes chasing after a tribute. He barreled across the arena away from them for hours, and eventually tried to climb a tree to escape them. However, the snakes climbed up after him and then there was nowhere for him to run. He closed his eyes as the snakes consumed him, biting into his limbs and they sucked him down to the ground.

Werner Gallagher, District 6 Male: 11th, Venomous Viper Muttations, Day 2

Day 3 passed, deathless. Day 4 saw two dehydration deaths.

Robbie Stamper, District 11 Male: 10th, Dehydration, Day 4

Alcove Zinberg, District 11 Female: 9th, Dehydration, Day 4

It was the night of Day 5 when a certain Mags Flanagan woke up in the middle of the night, the other careers asnooze around her. You see, Mags realized that she was the weakest of the careers. In turn, she realized that as the number of remaining tributes dwindled, the others would eliminate her in order to make the games more interesting and to get to the real fun. So, in a wise choice that really was best for her survival, she scampered away from the cornucopia, abandoning her allies and sailing away towards a distant island. There she relied on her resourcefulness. She lived off of nuts from the trees and fishing from the ocean. The other careers assumed she was dead when they woke up the next morning and found her missing.

The night of Day 6, the careers prowled through the arena and hunted down a boy who was hiding behind a wall of rocks in an island towards the edge of the arena. He died soon after Roxie's throwing knives entered his neck.

Adell Staufer, District 9 Male: 8th, Killed by Roxie, Day 6

Little did the careers know that Nicola, the clever District 5 girl, had fashioned herself a bow and arrow from some animal guts and wood from one of the trees on the island she was on. She hid in a tree and watched as the careers sailed by in a boat. Nicola nocked an arrow in her bow and released it. It landed in the side of Venice's neck, killing him after a spray of blood exploded from the site of the impact. Then, before the others could find her location, Nicola nocked a second arrow in her bow and released it. This one missed completely and landed in the ocean with a splash.

Venice Linder, District 2 Male: 7th, Killed by Nicola, Day 7

The instant that Roxie spotted Nicola's location, crouched in a tree, she chucked one of her throwing knives in the air. Despite Nicola's split-second attempt to dodge the blade, it landed in her face as the fell from the tree onto the sand below, bleeding to death about an hour later.

Nicola Harmel, District 5 Female: 6th, Killed by Roxie, Day 7

The gamemakers knew that it was time to drive the final tributes inward for the finale. And so the tsunami began. It started as a slight wave far beyond the outermost islands, and then grew in size into a full blown tsunami, hundreds of yards tall as it barreled through the arena, toppling trees like dominoes and submerging the arena. The sea had also drained completely, meaning that the tributes were forced to run across the now exposed sea floor towards the cornucopia. Of the five remaining tributes, only four made it safely to the top of the horn of plenty, the icy vortex of water crashing in beneath them.

Shayne Dorman, District 4 Male: 5th, The Tsunami, Day 8

Atop the creaking cornucopia stood the four remaining tributes, the four lucky ones who had survived long enough into the games to take part in the final battle that would determine the victor. Clio, Roxie, Xenia, and Mags all stood atop the cornucopia. Clio held his knife. Roxie brandished her set of throwing knives. Xenia held her set of twin curved blades. Mags held a blowgun she had hurriedly retrieved the cornucopia before climbing on top of it.

And so the final battle of the eleventh Hunger Games began. First, Clio lunged at Roxie, knocking her backwards into the swirling vortex below. Why Clio's first choice for a kill was his very own district partner is still a mystery to this day, but the most common theory is that he believed Roxie's weapons were the weakest or that she was the least skilled.

Roxie Stancil, District 1 Female: 4th, Killed by Clio, Day 8

In a move that surprised and shocked Mags, Xenia ripped the blowgun out of Mags' hands and stole it, aiming it towards Clio's head. She released the trigger. However, Xenia did not know how to properly use a blowgun and so the force of the ejection threw her body weight backwards into the vortex of freezing water below, taking the blowgun with her. The projectile lodged itself into Clio's head, but did not kill him immediately.

Xenia Cone, District 2 Female: 3rd, Accidental Suicide, Day 8

The final battle of the eleventh Hunger Games was between Clio Racugno of District 1 and Mags Flanagan of District 4. Mags was completely void of injury, while Clio lay on the floor, thrashing in pain as the force of the blowgun projectile in his skull was slowly killing him. Mags could see that Clio was in extreme pain.

In a surprising move that would be remembered for generations to come, Mags ripped out a loose board from the roof of the cornucopia, walking over to an agonized Clio who was in more pain than Mags could imagine. Both Clio and the audience all around the country had figured out what was going to happen next.

Mags had to put Clio out of his suffering. She knew she did. She lifted the board high above her head as Clio let out a muffled, but certain, 'please'.

"I'm so sorry, Clio," Mags said.

She brought down the board with all of the strength she could muster up.

Mags did not see the actual moment of the killing. She was too horrified to watch and had closed her eyes.

Clio Racugno, District 1 Male: 2nd, Killed by Mags, Day 8

"Mags Flanagan of District 4, you are the victor of the eleventh annual Hunger Games!" Sigden roared into the arena as the trumpets played their familiar melody in the distance.

Mags just smiled a bittersweet smile, throwing the board that had ended Clio's life into the freezing vortex and climbing into the hovercraft that would carry her to the fame that would soon envelop her life.


AFTERMATH

The Capitol adored Mags, and her move of kindly and swiftly ending her opponent's life in the finale would not be forgotten for generations to come. The Capitol, and indeed, the whole nation, couldn't help but love Mags' kind and gentle personality.

Mags' victory tour went extremely well, and even District 1 couldn't get mad, given how kindly she had ended their beloved Clio's life.

Mags moved into the Victor's Village of District 4, in the house right next to Molly's.

Mags would live to the utterly miraculous age of one-hundred and twenty two, preserved by advanced Capitol medication that would keep her alive until the time of the one-hundred and seventeenth annual Hunger Games. Just before her death, she held the record for the eighth oldest person in Panem. At age seventy-three she would suffer a stroke that would render her completely mute, and she would start to show symptoms of epilepsy at age ninety. She would even be clinically dead from a seizure for two minutes at age one-hundred and eighteen, but would be jumpstarted by advanced Capitol machines that kept her alive for four years after that. In her lifetime, she would never marry and never reproduce but would adopt twelve children, each of which she would nurture into healthy, gracious and faithful adults.


NEWS

Mags moves into the Victor's Village of District 4, the second victor to do so.

Molly Toliday, the victor of the third Hunger Games, engages her boyfriend Tom. They will get married two years later.


LIST OF VICTORS

1HG: Cordin Frey (#1, District 3)
2HG: Sapphire Waber (#1, District 1)
3HG: Molly Toliday (#1, District 4)
4HG: Amelia Spangler (#1, District 2)
5HG: Misty Sablone (#1, District 12)
6HG: Olivia Seager (#2, District 2)
7HG: Flux Stafford (#2, District 3)
8HG: Brandi Coyne (#2, District 1)
9HG: Isaac Crandall (#1, District 5)
10HG: Velvet Farrow (#3, District 1)
11HG: Mags Flanagan (#2, District 4)


A/N: Here is wonderful Mags, quite possibly my favorite victor of all. She's just so sweet and kind that I had to give her a happy ending in this story. Anyways, I hope I was able to do her justice. How do you think I did on this chapter? If you would like to, please review this chapter. What are your thoughts on Mags, and of how I portrayed her? I would love to hear them! Stay tuned for more updates. Only two more chapters until we see our next canon victor, Woof!