Note: Nice Capitolites felt bad for Scorpia and her crud, and they got her father proper medicine and therapy. He learning how to handle his depression.


Cassia Rose (D7Mentor)

Ashley got so close. I knew Sparrow wouldn't make it home. He was so nice. He wanted to take care of everyone, and keep everyone safe. Ashley actually seemed interested in winning, up until it got to the point where she found an actually nice ally. I knew it was going down the drain once she started making actual friends. That pillow-fight marked the end of her, the end of another possibility for a win.


District Seven

Seven was a lot quieter without Ashley. There was nobody to keep Noli in her place, or calm Willow down when everything got overwhelming. The Cavanoughs knew they would have to learn to live without her, but they didn't know where to start. Sparrow was more of one to be forgotten, though Savannah would always miss her boyfriend, and the McKrails would wonder how they had lost their little boy.


Totsuki Sugihara (D2Mentor)

Well, dang this, dang that, and dang everyone. Two had given me their best this year. Valerie was less than perfect, I would admit. She slipped into the background, and I hardly bothered to notice her. Wolf, though, was almost everything a mentor could want. He was a leader, he was trained, and he knew what he was doing. He knew good and well that he was flippin' killing himself and wasting Two's chance at another Victory. Screw you.


District Two

Valerie was just another lost volunteer. She wasted Two's chance at Victory, and she was used as a message to all the new mentees. Her aunt and uncle hardly missed a beat over her death, but a small group of friends made it their personal mission to remember her. Wolf was used as a beacon of chance. The Academy used him to show that chance could ruin anything. The Kriegs missed their son, and they were forced to finally realize that their kid wasn't just some fighter. Two worked to help this miss the child they never knew.


Wolf Krieg - (Mahi Katao)

You were so close. We had made it so far. You should have just let me die. You actually knew exactly what to do here. You actually knew exactly what was coming. And you let it hit you to save me.


Tourmaline Addells (18) D1F

"There's a Hunter nearby, and we know the area where two cannons went off. I say we end this thing now," I said to Mahi. He seemed less than fully interested in what I was saying, but I was trying not to care. If he was distracted he would be easier to kill, which would make it easier for me to end this madness once and for all.

"Yeah, sure. We can go right ahead and do that. Do you have all your weapons and stuff?" Mahi asked, but I could tell he was hardly paying attention to me.

"Yeah, yeah, I have all our boomerangs and slingshots," I said, wondering if he would even notice that neither of us used those weapons. He nodded and followed me when I walked away. I was serious about us getting moving, even if I wasn't serious about our weapons.

There were only so many places our tributes could be. They had to be somewhere in town, but town was nowhere small. They had to be somewhere within walking distance of running distance of the President's mansion, assuming they had taken cover. With somebody like Kenzie around, dead or alive, they had definitely taken cover, which meant we could just work logically. There was a certain radius they had to be within, and we just had to search that radius.

We hit the President's mansion, and I started to spiral it, just like Careers were trained to do. We were trained to slowly cover every single inch of possible ground, and a spiral was the best way to do that. Mahi followed me around quietly, and I really started to worry about him. He was no better than a human shield, moping around the way he was.

"Mahi, you need to brighten up. This is almost done. Can you wait to mourn Wolf for like ten minutes, so we can chill each other and then be sad?" I asked him, knowing it sounded dumb. I didn't care if it sounded dumb. Mahi understood dumb.

"I think so. I know we need to focus," Mahi said, and I knew he really was thinking about his answer. It took him a while to respond, and he seemed completely focused. I figured he was just trying to recover from his crying fit.

"All right. We really got this. There's two of us and two of them. One of us is making it out of here."


Kenzie O'Donnell (14) D6F

"Frick, frick, frick, what do we do? What can we do?" I was talking as much to myself as I was talking to Rodney. Tourmaline and Mahi were walking around outside our house. While they hadn't seemed to have seen us just yet, there were bound to. They were peeking in every window. Although they were getting some pretty weird looks, and some people slammed doors in their faces, neither of them seemed interested in slowing. It was only a matter of time until they found us.

"Well, we shoot them. They can't kill us if we kill them first," Rodney said to me, trying to open a window. The Capitolite that was housing us casually got up, grabbed some earmuffs, and handed both of us a pair. Then she put some on herself and sat down across the room from us, watching us intently.

"I don't know how to shoot someone! I've been faking it the entire time. I should have shot myself by now," I said, still panicky. I didn't know how to work a gun. I knew that it killed people, and that some Hunter was using it to kill us, and that was as far as my knowledge went.

"Point the gun, pull the trigger. It's as simple as that."

"Isn't it loud? What if I miss?"

"I saw a lot of bullet wounds. That thing shoots a lot. Just press the trigger over and over again. You'll be bound to hit one of them," Rodney said, lowering his tone. I realized I was being pretty loud.

"That one's an automatic. Just hold down the trigger and it'll fire over and over again. We'll get out of the way," the Capitolite said, sipping some tea. Rodney and I stared at her in amazement, and she continued, "What? I was considering being a Hunter, and I needed to do my research. You're lucky you're so cool."

I positioned myself beside the window and waited. Rodney sat on the other side of the window from me. We sat there for long, painful minutes, waiting for everything to finally end. I stared as much at Rodney as out the window, and for good reason. He tensed and pointed out the window, and I low-crawled under the window to get a better shot. I reached up and started firing, hitting Mahi in the chest. Before I had time to adjust my shot, someone stabbed me in the neck.


Rodney Sanchez (18) D6M

Well, that answers the question of what to do about Kenzie, I thought, jumping up and closing the window. It wouldn't close all the way, but it would close far enough that Tourmaline's weapon was stuck in a window that used Capitol-strength glass. She glared at me through the glass and I shrugged, looking at both of our fallen allies. Mahi wasn't totally fallen, but he was bleeding a lot, and he wasn't even trying to get back up.

Tourmaline dropped her weapon and pulled away from the window, flipping me off. I kept my weight on the window until she started to walk to Mahi, then I lunged to where Kenzie was dying.


Tourmaline Addells (18) D1F

There's more than one way to skin a cat. Rodney had my spear stuck in a window. I might have been able to use it as a lever, forcing the window up, but Rodney had a pretty good angle on me. He could just force weight directly onto the window. Instead, I left the spear. I didn't need it, and Rodney certainly didn't. I just had to find a new angle. I went over to Mahi, jumping when his and Kenzie's cannons went off, and grabbing the sword he had taken from Wolf.

There's more than one way to get into a house. The door obviously wasn't an option. Mahi would be guarding that thing as well as he was guarding the window. It was a big house, though, and I could find a way in Rodney hadn't.


Rodney Sanchez (18) D6M

Well crud. She left. I couldn't just shoot Tourmaline if she wasn't there. She would probably be trying to find another way into the house. I knew there were more ways than I could possibly guard. Capitolites seemed to like huge windows, fancy doors, and hundreds of ways to get into a frickin' house. That just meant I had to make it pointless to get into the house. Tourmaline thought she was chasing me, but I was the one with a gun.

I hopped out the window after Tourmaline turned a corner, then started making my way toward her. I had to walk quietly, or she would ambush me. She was around the corner just as much as I was.


Tourmaline Addells (18) D1F

Do I hear footsteps? I thought I heard the window creak, and I thought I heard footsteps. I thought I heard someone trying to sneak toward me, the fabric of their shirt rubbing against the wall as they tried to approach me quietly. I thought I heard someone about to turn a corner, and I thought it was about time for these Games to end. I sat down, around the corner from Rodney, and waited for him to get into range.

As soon as I saw Rodney, I lunged for him. I stabbed him through the stomach with my sword, knowing that could be deadly, and tried to spin away from him.


Rodney Sanchez (18) D6M

I am many things, but quiet is not one of them. Tourmaline stabbed me right in the dang chest, but I shrugged it off. She tried to pull the sword out of me, but I grabbed on to it. She dodged out of the way anyways, but I shrugged again. I took my gun in the good hand, the one that wasn't clenching onto a sword, and starting firing wildly. It could only be so long before I bled out, but a bullet in the head killed you pretty quickly. A cannon that I decided was Tourmaline's went off a few seconds after I started wildly firing, and a few seconds before I had time to die.


Tied for 4th/3rd: Mahi Katao - Shot repeatedly by Kenzie

Mahi was also LCS's, also great, and also doomed from the start. I loved this guy. He was not based off of Maui, from Moana, though I often joked to LCS about it. He was just a fun (and somewhat stupid) take on a doofy Career, and I really liked him. He was just way too dumb to win, and there were other, better Victors. Thank you to LCS for Mahi, and you should probably stop making good characters for my stories.

Tied for 4th/3rd: Kenzie O'Donnell - Stabbed in neck by Tourmaline

I say tied for fourth/third because placement matters for some people, and neither of them died instantaneously. Anyways, Kenzie was totally great. She was tons of fun for me, and I loved writing her. She made many dumb anime and comic book references possible. She was popular enough to have a chance, but she had no business even making it to third. Thank you to aceswims for Kenzie, who did defeat some opponents.

2nd Place: Tourmaline Addells - Shot in head/neck/everywhere by Rodney

Tourmaline was great. She used a storyline only possible in this type of story, and it was beautiful. She was created with an arc that I could easily write, which is great, there was more to her than just an ex (although the ex was kinda major, since she wasted him), and she was a cool Career. Like Kenzie, she totally had a chance. She just wasn't my final choice. Thank you to Tracee for Tourmaline, who was totally cool. Go resubmit her, or something. Prologue: Ginger released the tape, and Vibrant's reputation was ruined. Hers was totally restored, and she'll be remembered for the hero she was.

Victor: Rodney Sanchez

What can I say? I've been planning this for a long time. Originally, he was going to win by shooting oxygen into someone. Then, he was going to win via insulin. He was my first Victor that I wanted to win from the start, and I think he was actually a good decision. Rodney has a cool personality, and he learned a lot. He learned to love, lost, and learned to handle that loss. He had a huge variety of strengths that only work in this specific Arena, so he had to have a bit of chance to win this. Thank you to 66samvr for Rodney, who is totally awesome, and congratulations on a Victor!