The Eleventh Annual Hunger Games
Introduction
President Guyardo Flastura was stripped of his title after it was found that he had been taking millions from the government budgets, primarily ones supporting worker welfare in the District factories, for his personal spending needs. The late President Narciso Sombray's brother, Arturo Sombray, became President and replaced Hanson Greer with Former First Lady and Past Head Gamemaker Lima Xabie, his sister in law. They planned to make this Games less bloody, in retaliation to the Brutalian party. There would be fewer bloody deaths, and they planned to make many of the deaths natural or mutt caused and sort of boring, in a sense. Boliviana Rare returned as the host, happy to see Lima back in the position of Head Gamemaker. A new thing was added to the Games; sponsor gifts. Capitolites and even large groups of District civilians could pool together money to send supplies into the Games to tributes for varying costs. Sponsorship was a hit in the Capitol, and finding sponsors became the number one priority Victors/Mentors had in the coming years, all the way until present day. That year, none of the tributes scored higher than an 8. There was a single volunteer; the boy from 9, who volunteered for his older, disabled brother. Some Districts made adjustments; Districts 1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 instructed their tributes to head to the bloodbath. Districts 3 and 5 usually were instructed to leave the melee, although many chose to head in on their own, and District 11 also took the chance, realizing that their tributes had the best wilderness survival skills from working in the conditions they did. This, in turn, would lead to District 11 tributes lasting longer. Here are the tributes:
District 1: Carisa Rault, 14 (6) 17-1 and King Shaven, 15 (6) 16-1
District 2: Agnie Hubarra, 16 (7) 9-1 and Rocco Sermata, 18 (8) 5-1
District 3: Renee Caber, 17 (4) 36-1 and Cordon Flaker, 15 (5) 25-1
District 4: Mags Flanagan, 17 (6) 17-1 and Sail Easton, 18 (8) 5-1
District 5: Electra Shash, 16 (5) 23-1 and Dacuri Kyown, 13 (6) 18-1
District 6: Raila Drumm, 15 (5) 24-1 and Jome Ploff, 14 (3) 45-1
District 7: Birch Cones, 16 (6) 17-1 and Dan Coury, 15 (6) 18-1
District 8: Threada Clownes, 18 (7) 8-1 and Seam Lewid, 13 (4) 34-1
District 9: Kaylee Binn, 12 (4) 38-1 and Samuel Potrensic, 16 (5) 22-1
District 10: Darlene Arbrush, 13 (4) 35-1 and Cattle Ostrinn, 15 (6) 18-1
District 11: Rosa Vallburgh, 16 (6) 16-1 and October Lesk, 18 (7) 7-1
District 12: Kendall Rash, 13 (3) 44-1 and Eduardo Diaz, 15 (4) 33-1
HGBA Odds: 20% on Rocco, 18% on Sail, 10% October, Agnie, and Threada, 5% on Carisa, Mags, and Rosa, 2% on King, 1% or less on Renee, Cordon, Electra, Dacuri, Raila, Jome, Dan, Seam, Kaylee, Samuel, Darlene, Cattle, Kendall, and Eduardo.
The Games
The tributes arose in a seemingly plain and simple arena; a large, deciduous forest blanketed most of the arena, with a small mountain range to the north, a few small ponds to the south, and just forest to the west and east. The Cornucopia sat on an elevated clearing, the ground swooping steeply until forests quickly claimed all of the land. The tributes weren't sure if they should head to the Cornucopia or not, not noticing the one key feature that was missing from the Cornucopia, something utterly vital.
Food.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1. The tributes burst forward. Tributes started ripping open crates, finding numerous weapons and supplies, but no food, not even a crumb of bread. Most tributes at this point only headed to the Cornucopia for food and water and maybe a weapon, not to kill. Several tributes stood there, glaring at the sky, knowing that this wicked twist would wreck havoc in the Games. One tribute took advantage of several of the tribute's shock and stillness, smashing his mace into a strong girl's head, sparking the 7 kill bloodbath.
Carisa Rault, District 1 Female; 24th, Killed by Rocco, Bloodbath
Carisa's three allies; Kendall, Birch, and Eduardo; each grabbed a machete from a rack inside the Cornucopia and charged Rocco. Rocco cut one of them down, bludgeoning her head in, while the other two stabbed and slashed at his legs.
Birch Cones, District 7 Female; 23rd, Killed by Rocco, Bloodbath
Kendall landed a lucky blow, and sliced into Rocco's knee. He screamed, falling to the ground, and both Kendall and Eduardo stabbed him a dozen times with their blades until he fell still, a pulpy, bloody mess.
Rocco Sermata, District 2 Male; 22nd, Killed by Kendall and Eduardo, Bloodbath
The other tributes, seeing that Kendall and Eduardo had killed Rocco, let them run away without fighting them. Meanwhile, a 4-way brawl over the only coveted bow and arrows in the arena broke out. Darlene, Agnie, Dacuri, and King all wanted the weapon. They fought each other, hand to hand, until Darlene scooped up a dagger, stabbing Dacuri to death.
Dacuri Kyown, District 5 Male; 21st, Killed by Darlene, Bloodbath
Shocked by her kill, Darlene fainted, falling onto the sword of Agnie.
Darlene Arbrush, District 10 Female; 20th, Killed by Agnie, Bloodbath
Agnie let King take the bow, starting to jog away with her blood stained sword and a pack.
King aimed with his new weapon at the District 4 pair, allies, who were slinking away from the Cornucopia. The boy, Sail, had a sword, and the girl, Mags, had a spear. He shot an arrow at them, and it missed. They got away.
King quickly made an alliance with Agnie, October, and Threada, the other stronger contenders, and the vowed to take down the District 4 pair together, since the two were a threat. Then the four pounced on a pair of tributes scrabbling over a tent, killing them quickly. Then the bloodbath was over.
Jome Ploff, District 6 Male; 19th, Killed by King, Bloodbath
Renee Caber, District 3 Female; 18th, Killed by October, Bloodbath
Day 2, no kills were made. Day 3, tensions rose in the thrown together alliance of Threada, Agnie, King, and October, and Threada put her sword through October after her ridiculed her and her home District, 8.
October Lesk, District 11 Male; 17th, Killed by Threada, Day 3
Agnie quickly beheaded Threada after that, not wanting a dangerous threat like her who would randomly kill her allies in the alliance.
Threada Clownes, District 8 Female; 16th, Killed by Agnie, Day 3
After that, Agnie and King set out, looking for Sail and Mags.
Days 4 and 5 passed, deathless. The majority of the tributes began to feel the pangs of hunger, but no one was picked off of starvation (yet). Mags was able to scrounge up some nuts and berries for herself and her ally, which she knew to be safe from the edible plants station. She also could make fishhooks, and she caught several fish from the lake she and Sail were camped out by. Rosa from 11 knew food finding skills from home, and Kendall, Eduardo, Cordon, Seam, and Electra all knew edible plants from training. Day 6, a girl stumbled into the path of deer-dog mutts and was torn apart brutally.
Kaylee Binn, District 9 Female; 15th, Killed by deer-dog mutts, Day 6
Day 7, Mags, Sail, Agnie, and King had their long awaited showdown after tremors in the earth drove them together (Capitol audiences were dying for a good, proper fight).
Sail jumped forward, his blade singing through the air, as he pounced on his target. The coveted bow fell from the other's boys soon bloody hands as Sail quickly and messily dispatched of his, slicing the boy into several pieces.
King Shaven, District 1 Male; 14th, Killed by Sail, Day 7
As Sail turned, Agnie slashed her sword halfway through his left leg. He screamed in pain, watching as the blood pumped out, onto the dry, crackling layer of leaves on the forest floor below him. Agnie lifted her sword to doll out the final, killing blow, but then she felt pain in her back, and she limply turned her head to see Mags' spear sticking through her back, and then out of her stomach. She quickly fell still.
Agnie Hubarra, District 2 Female; 13th, Killed by Mags, Day 7
Mags quickly knelt down next to Sail, who was swiftly bleeding out. She started to cry, trying to stop the blood flow from his massacred leg. She wrapped an extra shirt around it, but the white shirt quickly became red, and the shirt would only lengthen Sail's pain and distress. Mags, weeping, shoved her spear into Sail's chest, ending his delirious suffering.
Sail Easton, District 4 Male; 12th, Killed by Agnie and Mags, Day 7
After Sail's death, the Capitol betters and Panem as a whole went crazy. The only 2 of the 11 left who had more than 1% of the bets were Mags and Rosa, who both had 5%. Mags would not leave the side of her dead ally, and Rosa had sustained an infection to a wound caused by deer-dog mutts. No matter how the Games played out, the betters would be making big bucks.
Day 8, and the first death by starvation occurred, happening in the early hours of the morning.
Samuel Protrensic, District 9 Male; 11th, Starvation, Day 8
Day 9 was deathless. Day 10 had two deaths by starvation, both happening within minutes of one another, around noon.
Raila Drumm, District 6 Female; 10th, Starvation, Day 10
Dan Coury, District 7 Male; 9th, Starvation, Day 10
That left the Top 8: Cordon Flaker from District 3, Mags Flanagan from District 4, Electra Shash from District 5, Seam Lewid from District 8, Cattle Ostrinn from District 10, Rosa Vallburgh from District 11, Kendall Rash from District 12, and Eduardo Diaz from District 12.
Day 11, the very first sponsor gift ever to be sent in the Games arrived, in the western part of the arena, where Rosa Vallburgh, her leg heavily infected, waited. She could barely walk, not to mention outrun or fight other tributes or mutts. She applied the medicine which arrived that day to the wound, and it was healed within hours. Day 11, a death occurred when a boy ate a poison berry among the handful of safe berries he had.
Seam Lewid, District 8 Male; 8th, Killed by poison berry, Day 11
Day 12, another tribute, the only one who had not gone to edible plants or had experience with finding food in the wild, perished from starvation.
Cattle Ostrinn, District 10 Male; 7th, Starvation, Day 12
Days 13, 14, and 15 were all deathless. Day 16, Rosa Vallburgh of District 11, fully healed and ready to end the Games, stumbled upon the camp of the 12's; Kendall and Eduardo. Kendall and Eduardo swept up their machetes, but not in time, as Rosa brought her pitchfork down, stabbing Eduardo in the back thrice until he died. She pushed his corpse aside with the bloody prongs of her weapon. It was the first tribute caused death since Day 7.
Eduardo Diaz, District 12 Male; 6th, Killed by Rosa, Day 16
Kendall quickly retaliated, slashing at Rosa's ankles. The girl fell, her weapon falling from her hands. Kendall jumped onto Rosa, growling, a handful of nightlock berries in hand. She shoved the berries, squirting their venomous juices, into Rosa's mouth. The girl from 11 died in seconds.
Rosa Vallburgh, District 11 Female; 5th, Killed by Kendall, Day 16
Day 17 was deathless. Day 18, a girl was mauled by deer-dog mutts, her body torn apart and scattered among several hundred yards.
Electra Shash, District 5 Female; 4th, Killed by deer-dogs, Day 18
All this time, Mags had teamed up with Cordon from 3 on Day 11, and they had been devising a trap at the Cornucopia. Cordon was good with mechanics and snares, but his machine was not coming together. Mags, infuriated, after watching him for 7 days, trying to puzzle together a smart device, punched him. Just then, Electra was killed by the mutts, and Kendall was pushed to the center by more deer-dogs mutts. Kendall made it, but her leg was slashed by the creature's claws, and she ran into the Cornucopia, not looking forward. She ran into the spiderweb of sticky ropes that had been meant to choke a tribute. Kendall was fittingly trapped, and 4 deer-dogs rushed into the clearing. Mags hauled herself onto the Cornucopia, just as the 4 deer-dogs that had been chasing Kendall leaped onto unconscious Cordon, ripping him apart.
Cordon Flaker, District 3 Male; 3rd, Killed by deer-dogs, Day 18
The mutts backed off, forcing Mags to make the final kill. She swung down from the Cornucopia's top, and walked over to Kendall, who was weeping and squirming, just getting herself further entangled.
"I'm sorry," Mags murmured, smiling, almost mother like. She soothed Kendall, and then plucked a nightlock berry from her pack.
"An easy, swift end, Kendall. I'm so sorry," she said before propping open Kendall's jaw. Kendall tried to avoid it, but it was no use. The berry was tipped into her mouth, and her jaw crushed it just enough for the juice to pour down her throat. She went slack in seconds, and Mags sadly cut her limp body from the spiderweb of sticky ropes.
"Mags Flanagan of District 4, you are the Victor of the 11th Hunger Games!" Boliviana Rare shouted across the arena. Mags just tried to smile, melancholy consuming her every feature, as the hovercraft descended to retrieve her.
Aftermath
Mags became one of the most memorable and most coveted Victors of all time. The way she kindly ended young Kendall's life would be remembered by generations, as everyone in Panem has seen her Games at least once. They weren't a particularly interesting Games, and Mags wasn't a particularly gruesome or cunning Victor. But she was caring, kind, loving. She became Panem's mother, then Panem's grandmother, and then even Panem's great grandmother as the turn of the Hunger Games' century arrived. No one could deny her beauty, splendor, or novelty. She was, almost unanimously, one of, if not the most favorite Victor of the first century of the Games. She would mentor dozens upon dozens of tributes, and she would bring home quite a few Victors. She did this by opening her own little Academy of sorts, where she trained anywhere from 4 to 50 children at a time for the Games. Districts 8, 10, and 12 still lacked Victors.
Mags would live the longest recorded life of a Victor yet; she would live to the miraculous age of 119, sustained by advanced Capitol treatments that kept her alive until a month after the 113th Hunger Games. The Capitol was willing to spare anything for its most beloved Victor. She would not marry, but adopt dozens of children. At age 10, she would give them the choice of training to become a Career or to head off, with expenses fully paid, to a school in the Capitol, where they would learn the trade of their choice. Not surprisingly, most chose to stay with their beloved Mags and train.
The payouts were good for her Victory, as 5% bet on her.
Her Victory Tour was splendid; everyone loved the beautiful, kind, and sort of elusive Mags. She was introverted and stayed mostly holed up in her District until she was in her 30s. After that, she started venturing to the other Districts, making appearances and giving speeches. She spearheaded the movement to place Academies in every District, and she saw her efforts rewarded when, about 10 years before her death, Academies would be built in Districts 5, 7, and 8.
Victor's News
Mags moves into the Victor's Village of District 4, into the house to the left of Kelan's.
Dillon has his third child, Xavier, with his wife.
Ishania has her first of two children, Mitra, with Harris.
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)
8th: Irmentrude Marley, District 5 (2, 2 Female)
9th: Vissarion Chamantel, District 11 (1, 1 Male)
10th: Greason Trails, District 6 (1, 1 Male)
11th: Mags Flanagan, District 4 (2, 1 Female)
A/N: Hi there, faithful readers! Here's our first canon Victor, wonderful Mags. Please tell me how I'm doing! Expect more chapters soon!
Until next time,
Tracee
