The Seventh Annual Hunger Games


Introduction

First Lady Lima Sombray returned from maternity leave and returned to her post as the Head Gamemaker. President Narciso remained in his position, and so did Boliviana Rare, the host. It seemed like it was going to be another, not super exciting year like the past two years. So the three sat down and thought up a new addition to the Games; you were allowed to volunteer. You could only volunteer if you were ages 12-18, and for someone of the same gender, but you would enter the Games instead of them. They had a feeling no one would volunteer, and they were right, but this new possibility spiced up future Games and gave the Capitols something to anticipate as the Games approached. also, this year, a pre-trained tribute, who'd been practicing with axes for most of her life in case she was ever Reaped, was Reapd. Here are the tributes:

District 1: Moira Rayvn, 16 (8) 14-1 and Tom Beret, 13 (2) 71-1

District 2: Bianca Jair, 15 (3) 65-1 and Franklin Edgewer, 16 (4) 53-1

District 3: Yuliya Quett, 17 (7) 19-1 and Chaplin Nastaro, 15 (8) 25-1

District 4: Villa Grey, 15 (6) 23-1 and Zeen Aisle, 16 (3) 62-1

District 5: Nadiya Asterlind, 15 (7) 20-1 and Kingston Reilly, 17 (5) 43-1

District 6: Karen Norvic, 14 (2) 69-1 and Christos Timmond, 16 (5) 42-1

District 7: Viveca Crane, 16 (10) 6-1 and Lee Oswern, 15 (7) 16-1

District 8: Ludmila Poetrie, 15 (4) 51-1 and Korris Lestricson, 17 (5) 41-1

District 9: Rylee Tullman, 13 (6) 24-1 and Vito Garbachelli, 15 (7) 19-1

District 10: Bernadette Pronged, 18 (8) 13-1 and Dirion Sochille, 15 (5) 44-1

District 11: Tarabel Elistro, 15 (8) 16-1 and Edy Arsen, 14 (5) 40-1

District 12: Bluebell Trase, 14 (7) 20-1 and Coalman Veritt, 18 (6) 25-1

HGBA Bets: 34% on Viveca, 13% Bernadette, 11% on Tarabel, 10% on Chaplin, 5% on Moira, Vito, and Yuliya, 2% on Lee, Nadiya, and Bluebell, 1% or less on Tom, Bianca, Franklin, Villa, Zeen, Kingston, Karen, Christos, Ludmila, Korris, Rylee, Dirion, Edy, and Coalman.


The Games

The arena was half evergreen forest, half rolling hills. The entire arena was blanketed in four inches of pure white snow. Deer, squirrels, turkey, wolves, and songbirds lived in the forest, while caribou, arctic foxes, snow owls, and lemmings populated the hilly, tundra-like area. Icicles hung from the branches of the evergreen trees, and the rivers that cut through the hills were frozen fully. It was nearly whimsical; there wasn't a single footprint in the soft, snowy fluff, not a blemish.

Soon, the blood of the 8 bloodbath kills would paint the icy, white snow in warm, dripping red.

5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The Cornucopia sat on top of a squat hill, the tributes circled around its base. Two thirds of the tributes charged up the hill, while the other third scattered. One of the first to reach the top of the hill, Tarabel, swept up a sickle and attacked a boy picking through a crate full of jugs of water.

Zeen Aisle, District 4 Male; 24th, Killed by Tarabel, Bloodbath

Meanwhile, Viveca claimed two hand axes and attacked an alliance of three. One girl, Ludmila, made it away, sprinting down the hill with a pack, but her fellow allies were cut down by Viveca.

Karen Norvic, District 6 Female; 23rd, Killed by Viveca, Bloodbath

Tom Beret, District 1 Male; 22nd, Killed by Viveca, Bloodbath

Meanwhile, Coalman from 12 swept up a pick axe, his favorite weapon, and slammed it into a nearby boy, killing him instantly.

Korris Lestricson, District 8 Male; 21st, Killed by Coalman, Bloodbath

Two smaller girls grappled with each other, one holding an awl, the other a dagger. The one with the dagger triumphed, shoving it into the other girl's forehead.

Rylee Tullman, District 9 Female; 20th, Killed by Bluebell, Bloodbath

Viveca claimed another victim, slamming her axe into his chest.

Franklin Edgewer, District 2 Male; 19th, Killed by Viveca, Bloodbath

Chaplin, holding a flail, found Franklin's District partner struggling to choose between two packs near the outside of the Cornucopia. He smashed his weapon across her smaller frame, killing her.

Bianca Jair, District 2 Female; 18th, Killed by Chaplin, Bloodbath

The final kill was made by Bernadette. Wielding two butcher's knives, she cut into a short boy, killing him.

Edy Arsen, District 11 Male; 17th, Killed by Bernadette, Bloodbath

Day 2, Chaplin found a tired boy sleeping on top of a hill, a horribly put together tent around him, right in the open. He was delirious from blood loss (Viveca had cleaved him in the leg with an axe) and had barely managed to pull the tent into a somewhat structure-like formation. Chaplin killed him with his flail.

Christos Timmond, District 6 Male; 16th, Killed by Chaplin, Day 2

Days 3 and 4 were deathless. Day 5, someone was killed by the wolf mutts in the woods. She slipped as she ran on a frozen river, hidden under the snow, and they bit her, tearing her apart.

Villa Grey, District 4 Female; 15th, Killed by wolf mutts, Day 5

Day 6 had two deaths. Around noon, a girl was discovered and killed by her District partner, who put his pick axe through her stomach.

Bluebell Trase, District 12 Female; 14th, Killed by Coalman, Day 6

As the sun set, temperatures dropped swiftly, and a boy, who'd lost his parka in a fight with a wolf mutt, froze to death.

Dirion Sochille, District 10 Male; 13th, Hypothermia, Day 6

Day 7 had a single death. The wolf mutts found another victim and chased him to the edge of the forest. Bleeding, screaming, and wounded, Viveca discovered the girl and cleaved off her head with her axe.

Moira Rayvn, District 1 Female; 12th, Killed by wolf mutts and Viveca, Day 7

Days 8 and 9 were deathless. Day 10, a single tribute was killed when they fell through the ice of a frozen river and drowned.

Nadiya Asterlind, District 5 Female; 11th, Drowned, Day 10

Days 11, 12, and 13 had no deaths, so Day 14, the Gamemakers released vicious yeti mutts, sent out to kill two tributes and narrow it down to the Final 8. The yetis made their kills within an hour.

Kingston Reilly, District 5 Male; 10th, Killed by yeti mutts, Day 14

Yuliya Quett, District 3 Female; 9th, Killed by yeti mutts, Day 14

The Final 8 were finalized; Chaplin Nastaro, District 3, Viveca Crane, District 7, Lee Oswern, District 7, Ludmila Poetrie, District 8, Vito Garbachelli, District 9, Bernadette Pronged, District 10, Tarabel Elistro, District 11, and Coalman Veritt, District 12.

Day 15, Vito tracked down a smaller girl and put his sword through her head.

Ludmila Poetrie, District 8 Female; 8th, Killed by Vito, Day 15

Day 16 was deathless. Day 17 had two deaths.

The first was caused by the wolf mutts, who tore a tired tribute to bits after he wandered into their sector of the forest.

Lee Oswern, District 7 Male; 7th, Killed by wolf mutts, Day 17

The second kill was made by Tarabel, with her trusty sickle. She found a strong female tribute, sleeping up in a snow dusted tree, and she stealthily climbed up and stuck her sickle into the girl's chest.

Bernadette Pronged, District 10 Female; 6th, Killed by Tarabel, Day 17

Day 18 had a single kill. Vito found a boy who seemed to be the underdog at that point, and he shoved his sword into the boy's chest.

Coalman Veritt, District 12 Male; 5th, Killed by Vito, Day 18

Day 19, the final four were pushed to the center of the frozen arena by flooding; a fierce sun beat down on the arena, and all the water washed to the middle of the arena, herding the final 4 to the hill with the Cornucopia on the top.

All 4 climbed towards the summit of the hill. The second to reach the top was cut down by the one that had reached it first. The boy cried as a sickle cut across his chest and he fell down the hill, bleeding out quickly.

Vito Garbachelli, District 9 Male; 4th, Killed by Tarabel, Day 19

Chaplin and Viveca climbed onto the top of the hill, and a 3-way finale burst to life. Flail met axe met sickle. Quickly, two weapons teamed up on the other, and the strongest girl in the competition fell to two hungry competitors.

Viveca Crane, District 7 Female; 3rd, Killed by Tarabel and Chaplin, Day 19

Chaplin and Tarabel faced off, the true finale just beginning. The terrain shifted as the hill melted like snow under a beat sun. Both tributes barely managed to keep from falling and killing themselves.

Once the hill had settled, the first to stand quickly triumphed over the other, shoving his flail across his opponent's exposed neck.

Tarabel Elistro, District 11 Female; 2nd, Killed by Chaplin, Day 19

"Chaplin Nastaro of District 3, you are the Victor of the 7th Hunger Games!"

Chaplin just threw his golden flail to the ground and squeezed his eyes shut as the hovercraft descended to whisk him away.


Afterward

Chaplin, unlike most tributes out of District 3, won out of brute strength and prowess with weapons. His parents were Peacekeepers, so that was how he learned his skills and was able to hold a heavy weapon like a flail. He would not be a very helpful Mentor to the dozens of weaker District 3 tributes who would have to fight and win through means of trickery and intellect. Sure, Chaplin was smart, but the only way he knew how to navigate the Games was by brute force. Because of this, many of his tributes died in the bloodbath because he instructed them to head there, even though they should head away from it.

Chaplin would marry a girl from back home in District 3, and they would have 6 children. He would also help sponsor orphanages in his District, and he would champion for an Academy in his District, though it wouldn't come until long after his death, being built around the 130th Hunger Games. Chaplin would live to the prime age of 91, and he would die 3 months before the 80th Hunger Games.

The payouts were decent from his victory, as 10% bet on him.

His Victory Tour went decently. He was cold and hard to the crowds, but he was able to refrain from crying, and he could publicly speak well.


Victor's News

Chaplin moves into the Victor's Village of District 3.

Ishania marries her fiance, Harris Willerd.

Guild becomes engaged to a rich Capitol socialite named Timmia Jetsin.

Kelan's second daughter, Leah, is born.

Noor adopts her one and only child, Carsen.


List of Victors

1st: Kelan Thather, District 4 (1, 1 Male)

2nd: Dillon Tripp, District 9 (1, 1 Male)

3rd: Tugra Ertra, District 5 (1, 1 Female)

4th: Noor Tuskararus, District 2 (1, 1 Female)

5th: Ishania Patel, District 7 (1, 1 Female)

6th: Guild Tonneroy, District 1 (1, 1 Male)

7th: Chaplin Nastaro, District 3 (1, 1 Male)