Who's the victor?
I see a white light, and that's all I see. The walls are white, the room is white. Everything is white. I look at myself, in clean and fixed. I feel my face. It's nice and smooth, all of the cuts that I got from the Gams are gone. I died in the Games.
I get off the bed and I walk around the room. I can't believe that I died. I then see someone walk around. I grab a sliver pole and use it as a weapon. The person opens the door and I hold the pole in my hands.
"Oh, okay relax Ginger." My muscles relax and I put the pole down. It's Orford.
"I'm alive, I won?" I answer.
"You sure did, Ginger." says Orford.
"But how? I was hurt, badly."
"You may have gotten hurt but you lived because of the berries. The knives that you put in Mace were deadly so it made him die quicker. Also you put then right in his stomach."
"So I was stabbed in my stomach."
"That doesn't matter; it was only a little cut."
"How long was I out." I say remembering the scars that are barely on my face.
"For about two weeks, the Capitol tired the best they can to remove the scars."
"Also I just have to ask one question, why does the room look like heaven, I thought that I was dead." I say annoyed.
"You don't know the style of the Capitol?"
"Whatever what are those berries called? You know the ones that I used to put on the knives."
"They don't really have a name but if it weren't for those berries, you would have bled to death." Orford then turns on the television and then I see the moment when Mace and I started fighting. Me climbing off me tree, Mace yelling with joy that he found me and then me throwing a knife in his arm. Then a while later me refilling my bottle and Mace pushing me to the floor. Me running away and then Mace catching up and taking away all of my weapons but the two knives. Mace taking me and pushing me to the floor. Me kicking Mace in his stomach and running to the Cornucopia. Mace throwing his trident, hitting the ground and then ditching it to follow me.
Mace grabbing a curved sword and me grabbing a throwing axe and then swigging it while Mace dodges. Me running back to the throwing axe. Mace grabbing me and then pulling me to the outer wall of the Cornucopia. Mace asking me what am I going to do. Me yelling. Mace pushing me to the Cornucopia and then me falling to the floor and me grabbing my throwing knives. Me escaping and then Mace chasing and grabbing me. Me shoving my elbows into Mace's Stomach. Mace stabbing be in my stomach and then me yelling even more. Me taking both of my knives and putting them in Mace. Mace falling on the floor and then me looking down realizing that Mace hurt me. Me falling to the floor and holding my stomach then me closing my eyes. A couple of seconds later a canon rings. Then I here Claudius Templesmith saying,
"The victor of the 73rd Annual Hunger Games is Ginger Scalavic, the female tribute from District 10!"
Then I can see the reaction of the whole district and my family. The whole district was cheering and clapping. Then I see my family. When my name was said, my mother hugged my father and she was crying tears of joy. My father was looked so shocked and he just hugged my mother and he was just tapping my mother's back. Then I see Gael. He was so relieved and happy that I was alive. I may have just seen them on a screen but I was so happy. I didn't even know that cameras were put into my house, something to be careful for.
"When do I get to go back to my family?" I ask.
"After the Victor's Interview you go back to your family then you have a couple of parties then six months later you have the Victory Tour."
"That seems like a lot."
"Well it is. Oh and here is your food." Orford gives me a very small amount of food, blossom berries and a loaf of bread with a glass of water. I look at him then at the food and then at him. "You know why." I do know why, my stomach is hurt and it shrunk. The Capitol is very strict on feeding their victor food after the Games. It takes me almost an hour to eat all of the food. Back home, this would be a feast for me and I would eat it as fast as I can but here I don't. Orford then leaves the room and Maximus comes in.
"Hello my little victor." says Maximus. "Here is your dress for the Victor's Interview" he hands me a brown dress, like the color of a cattle's fur, my favorite color. It will go a little under my knees. The sleeves are see through and I am in love with it, until I see the padding. I can almost count all of my bones and they put padding inside to make me look perfect. I hate it; everything in the Capitol is fake. The clothes, the hair, the bodies, everything. I don't want to become a puppet on a stage for them.
I go into a room and change into the dress. When I come out of the changing room, the whole crew is there, Hestia, Ajax, Lilith and Justice. Hestia and Lilith did my hair, the same hair style as the interview before the Games. Ajax painted my nails brown and put the livestock symbol on one of them with a little crown on it. Lastly Justice did my makeup, which wasn't really anything, just gloss on my lips, since I am so young. I then go to the train to the Capitol. For the first time I am happy to be back in the Capitol. I wait in the same place as before, when everyone was alive. I am also happy to hear Caesar's voice.
"And the moment you've all been waiting for, the people that made her come home and Ginger Scalavic, the victor of the 73rd Annual Hunger Games!" Before I walk out, all of the people that have helped and prepared me come out. Hestia, Ajax, Lilith and Justice come out first. Caesar asks them questions about my makeup and hair and anything about beauty.
Then it is Daphne, who must be over joyed. Caesar asks her about when she first saw me and if she ever thought that I would have won. Next is Maximus. He is asked about all of my outfits that I wore and about the one that I am wearing now. Then before me, Orford. Caesar asks him how he trained me. Then my name is called. I walk on the stage and wave to the crowd that is applauding and cheering for me. Caesar has green hair and the same suit that he wears every year. "How does it feel to come back, as a victor?"
"It feels great. After all, I do miss the stunning Capitol." Only be sweet during the interview but this doesn't change anything, you're still the same Ginger. I think as I answer Caesar's question.
"Beautiful just beautiful. We all have lots of questions to ask you but first let us see the highlights of the Games!" Then the Capitol shows the best parts of the Games. In the corner of the screen, there is a little box for the reaction of the victor. I see the initial Bloodbath and all the deaths, including Paige's. Me making the trails and sneaking into the Cornucopia. Steven saving me, many times and his death. The last battle and where I almost died. "I know we should start with the Cornucopia but I have to start out with something else. I love your trail idea! Making other tributes going away from the food, brilliant! Tell us about it! Some Details!" Whatever Caesar was talking about, the camera crew would replay the moment that he was talking about.
"Well, there is only one victor and I needed to live. So after all of my allies died, I was all alone so everyone would think that I was an easy target. I proved them wrong, I made trails to lead them away from all of the food and water in the hope other tributes would meet and destroy each other."
"Brilliant! Now let's get to the Cornucopia scene. We first see you when you grab a pack and then Isaac goes on top of you, trying to kill you, what did you do to get him off?" This time the Cornucopia scenes are played in slow motion. All of Panem is seeing this; no one wants to see that again. Especially Isaac's family.
"I kicked him in the stomach to make him lose balance and then I pinned him to the floor. He then pushed me off so I just grabbed one of my throwing knives and threw it into his back."
"Impressive, next we see you in the Cornucopia. This was a very suspenseful moment, everyone was wondering what was going to happen to you. Burton was choking and banging your head on a crate, where it was seen clearly. What were you thinking at that moment?"
"To be honest, I thought I was a goner but when I found the knife, I felt so happy. That knife is what saved my life that day."
"Then we see you confronting Mace before you thankfully left the Cornucopia, what happened there?"
"Well I saw Mace before I left. He was poking the air so I just dodged out of the way, I nearly fell."
"When you were thankfully running out of the Cornucopia, we see that you took Carter's pack, I liked it really Hunger Games like."
"Thank you, well Carter stole the pack from my ally, Miller, so I stole it back."
"Then the last scene is after you got other and all of your supplies. Nolan punches you and then he then takes you stuff. What were you thinking?"
"I was going to get him back, so I did."
"The next day you went back to the Cornucopia to get stuff, what happened in there?"
"I was getting my things and then Nolan comes out of nowhere and then drags me out and tries to kill me. Then I give him a taste of his own medicine."
"Then we see you with Nolan again." He's talking about Paige's death, one of the scenes I am trying to avoid.
"I already had enough so I just killed him."
"Okay, we can't go over everything sad but what I found very impressive is that when you went back into the Cornucopia, with the Careers only a couple of feet away, and escaped with no contact with any of the Careers, how did you do it?"
"Well back at District 10, the Capitol would let the hunters hunt, since my parents owned a butchers shop, my brother and I would hunt and we had to be very quiet. That helped me a lot."
"We were all touched when Steven saved your life, do you know why he did that?"
"No I don't."
"Now it is for the last moment, when you were fighting Mace, did you realize you were the winner?"
"No once I closed my eyes, I was a goner. I thought I was killed but I was not, thankfully."
"So are we. That is all we have until next year and we can't wait to see you at your crowning, Ginger!" I then leave the stage and I go to the train station to wait for a train. When I get in the train, I am very, very happy. This is it; I'm going home, back to my family. Finally. Just a crown on my head and I see them. Then it's just the tour and a couple of parties and then I'm free. I think. Maximus comes over and he talks to me.
"You will wear the same dress for your crowning." he says.
"Okay, that sounds okay." I say while I play with my bracelet.
"Do you miss your family?"
"No, I was just in the woods for a little over than two weeks and almost died no biggie."
"Okay that was a dumb question."
"You got that right. How does it feel?"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean how does it feel not to live in fear and to have food?"
"It feels great, don't worry you'll be alright."
"I hope so."
"Here, we all made this for you in the Capitol." he says while giving me a charm bracelet. Both the bracelet and the charms are completely sliver. There are four charms, the symbol of my district and of the Capitol, a crown and a family.
"It's beautiful, I like it." Then Daphne barges in and nearly scares me off the chair.
"We're here, District 10!" says Daphne. "Wave Ginger, oh and smile!" This time my smile is real, not fake. I see all of the people clapping and cheering. I then get off of the train and walk up stage. Then President Snow is up on the stage with a golden crown in his hands. President Snow takes the crown and puts it on my head and says
"Congratulations."
"It's an honor to meet you." I say.
"Why thank you."
"You're welcome, your honor." Oh and thanks for traumatizing me and making me fight to the death. Oh also thanks for making me do what no eleven-year-old or kid should see or do. I think. I wish I could have said that to his face. He then smiles and I smile back. I wave and smile to the crowd while I am trying to find my family. They are happy that I am home but my mother looks like she was stress eating.
The Peacekeepers take me to my new house after ten minutes of smiling and waving. I wait inside the house for a couple of long minutes. Then I hear a door open and a lot of footsteps.
"Ginger?" I know that voice.
"Gael?" I get off of my seat and run to the door and I hug my whole family at once. I don't even care that my leg gives me a limp, I just want to run up to him. "I've haven't seen you guys in a while." The stopped hugging me, like they are getting ready for something.
"We have to tell you something." says Gael as I hug my mother, which feels harder than usually.
"Really?" I ask looking into my mother's eyes. I already know what she is going to tell me, I'm going to become a big sister.
"Yes." says my father. "We were going to tell you on the day of the reaping but . . . you know."
"I can't wait." I say. "Well now I have to tell you something, now that I am a victor, we can eat real food now, so do you want to eat or not?"
"I barely ate during the Games, so yes I do." says Gael. I lead them to the table where there is a meal already prepared for us. We eat and talk, no more junk, now I am eating I like a person from the Capitol. What about all the people who don't have this meal? All they have is the mushy junk that I never liked. When I was little I wanted to have a meal like this so bad but now, after all the things I have seen in person, it's not worth it.
Yes Ginger did win. I know that is doesn't follow the story line, I read the books (and they were awesome!). I was just tired of seeing the winner being older and if the hero was young, I would usually see the hero as a male. I may have only been on this Earth for 13 years but I have read a lot of books and seen a lot of movies with older heroes. My title was Little But Powerful for that specific reason. For example the word spud is the start of a plant's life cycle, when the plant is weak. My version of Spud is big, brave, strong and feared. I just wanted to show people that even though they are young, doesn't mean that they are not powerful. If you hate my story, I am sorry but this is my imagination, what can I say? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯