The Twenty Fifth Annual Hunger Games, the First Quarter Quell


Introduction

President Curvanith declared a mandatory viewing four months before the 25th Annual Hunger Games' Reapings were set to begin. He relayed to Panem that the original creators of the Games (the Sombray's and Curvanith's among them), had set out twists for every multiple of 25 Games. From now on, a new, special, and exciting twist in the Games would occur every quarter century and would continue onward until the Hunger Games would end (not that anyone had any thoughts about ending the Games in the Capitol.) He revealed that the Districts would have to vote in a male and female tribute into the Games. Many Districts were shocked, but they did not rebel. They had become accustomed to this new Brutalian regime, and they now knew that rebelling only lead to a Peacekeeper bullet in your head or so many lashes that you couldn't work for weeks. Most realized that at this point in time rebellion was worthless. This exciting Hunger Games would either help stomp out the cooling coals of rebellion, or give it a little bit more fuel. That will be decided below. President Curvanith remained President. Nadoia Brutt was usurped from her position as Head Gamemaker by a jealous and social climbing woman named Nathanaea Argylos. Caius Flickerman remained the host of the Hunger Games. The only Careers this year were from District 1. Districts 2 and 4 sent in criminals and wrongdoers, while District 1 just voted in 2 chosen students from their Academy. Scores were varied, ranging from 11 to 4. Next to each tribute, in italics, is the reason they were voted in. I have broken up the tributes for this chapter so it is easier to read the reasons why they were chosen. Here are the tributes:

District 1 Female: Sephora Gray, 17 (11) 3-1. Chosen Because She Was A Career.

District 1 Male: Richer Fantabulo, 17 (10) 5-1. Chosen Because She Was A Career.

District 2 Female: Esperanza Collidigo, 14 (5) 30-1. Chosen Because Her Father Botched Sixteen Different Surgeries As A Surgeon.

District 2 Male: Conner Rockless, 18 (8) 11-1. Chosen Because He Sexually Assaulted Several Girls.

District 3 Female: Microaea Fitch, 16 (6) 22-1. Chosen Because She Is A Pyromaniac.

District 3 Male: Kordson Galilee, 17 (6) 22-1. Chosen Because His Parents Were Still Rebellious (Rigged by Capitol).

District 4 Female: Alice Garbin, 17 (9) 7-1. Chosen Because She Is A Psychotic Murderer Who Killed Ten People, Seven Of Which Were Children.

District 4 Male: Missouri Londor, 18 (8) 12-1. Chosen Because He Sunk An Entire Fleet Of Fishing Ships, Destroying Dozens Of Jobs And Causing Over A Dozen To Starve To Death.

District 5 Female: Stacey Calicuts, 16 (7) 15-1. Chosen Because She Blew Up A Power Grid For Fun, Killing Three Workers.

District 5 Male: Cedric Lasteen, 17 (6) 21-1. Chosen Because He Is A Kleptomaniac And Has Stolen Items From More Than Half Of 5's Residents.

District 6 Female: Mayosa Spangled, 18 (7) 14-1. Chosen Because She Killed Her Fellow Competitors In A Beauty Pageant.

District 6 Male: Benz Carridio, 13 (4) 45-1. Chosen Because His Father Is A Major Drug Dealer, Primarily To Teens And Young Adults.

District 7 Female: Sequoianna Neyardik, 18 (7) 15-1. Chosen Because Her Name Was Picked From The Ball (District 7 Did Their Own "Reaping", As They Did Not Want To Be The Ones To Condemn Their Own Children).

District 7 Male: Timothy Trunks, 13 (5) 33-1. Chosen Because His Name Was Picked From The Ball

District 8 Female: Cardella Banxz, 17 (6) 23-1. Chosen Because Her Parents Were Still Rebellious (Rigged by Capitol).

District 8 Male: Randolf Seamers, 15 (6) 24-1 Chosen Because He Was A Pickpocket.

District 9 Female: Lulu Redbelted, 12 (5) 35-1. Chosen Because Her Name Was Picked From The Ball (District 9 Did Their Own "Reaping" like District 7, As They Did Not Want To Be The Ones To Condemn Their Own Children, And They Liked District 7's Idea).

District 9 Male: Makar Roundsha, 12 (5) 34-1. Chosen Because His Name Was Picked From The Ball.

District 10 Female: Lizbeth Sanchez, 16 (7) 14-1. Chosen Because She Defaced Public Property With Rebellious Words/Phrases And Broke And Stole Many Objects

District 10 Male: Luther Catan-Vise, 18 (8) 13-1. Chosen Because He Liked To Shoot And Kill Livestock For Fun.

District 11 Female: Ursula Pidgeon, 12 (5) 33-1. Chosen Because She Was An Orphan And Would Not Be Missed.

District 11 Male: Rhubarb Clang, 15 (6) 23-1. Chosen Because He Was An Orphan And Would Not Be Missed.

District 12 Female: Venice Grammar, 16 (6) 22-1. Chosen Because Her Father Was A Dangerous Serial Killer Who Murdered Three Dozen People The Year Prior.

District 12 Male: Brenton Grammar, 13 (4) 43-1. Chosen Because His Father Was A Dangerous Serial Killer Who Murdered Three Dozen People The Year Prior.

HGBA Odds: 30% on Sephora, 26% on Richer, 15% on Alice, 10% on Conner, 6% on Missouri, 4% on Luther, 2% on Lizbeth and Mayosa, 1% or less on Esperanza, Microaea, Kordson, Stacey, Cedric, Benz, Sequoianna, Timothy, Cardella, Randolf, Lul, Makar, Ursula, Rhubarb, Venice, and Brenton.


The Games

The tributes arose in a startlingly familiar arena. It was a replication of the place they'd left only hours before. The Capitol lay around them in all of its glory, grandeur, and splendor, the multicolored buildings, sleek and metallic and lit up by hidden lights, psychedelic seeming. There wasn't really anything to say about what was in the north, south, east, or west. It was just the orderly, grid-like streets of the Capitol, bizarre and wonderful. They could see other people moving around in the buildings, walking in and out. Avoxes. The city seemed hard and concrete, but soon it would change and morph and distort the tribute's senses of reality.

As the countdown ensued, insane Alice from 4 sat down on her platform and pulled off her boots. She just seemed to be taking off her shoes, until she raised them and threw them at random at nearby tributes.

Two tributes were blasted to pieces before the Gamemakers could stop it making the first two kills out of ten. Before they could blow Alice up, the Games officially began.

BOOM! BOOM! 5, 4, 3, 2, 1.

Randolf Seamers, District 8 Male; 24th, Killed by Alice, Bloodbath

Sequioanna Neyardik, District 7 Female; 23rd, Killed by Alice, Bloodbath

Alice rushed into the madness along with most of the tributes. The pair from 1, Sephora and Richer, had assembled a motley group of Careers; themselves from 1, Connor from 2, Missouri from 4, and Luther from 10. Sephora lead the charge, throwing a javelin into the nearest tribute.

Makar Roundsha, District 9 Male; 22nd, Killed by Sephora, Bloodbath

Richer lopped off the head of the frightened boy from 3 with a machete, silencing his screams quickly.

Kordson Galilee, District 3 Male; 21st, Killed by Richer, Bloodbath

Suddenly the ground began to distort, gaining a rainbow-ey sheen. The ground seemed like bubbling, iridescent oil underneath their feet. Luther and Missouri, both wielding broadswords, fell onto each other. Luther managed to dodge Missouri's blade, but Luther's blade went right through Missouri's chest. As Missouri died, Luther ran, afraid his shaky alliance would abandon and butcher him if they found out he'd killed Missouri.

Missouri Londor, District 4 Male; 20th, Killed by Luther, Bloodbath

The ground had tossed Conner on top of a Mayosa. He tried to kiss her and do things to her, but Mayosa's ally, Microaea, managed to spear Conner and kill him. The only thing was that the spear went through Conner and into Mayosa, killing the both of them.

Conner Rockless, District 2 Male; 19th, Killed by Microaea, Bloodbath

Mayosa Spangled, District 6 Female; 18th, Killed by Microaea, Bloodbath

Meanwhile, a savage Lizbeth attacked the cunning brother-sister pair from 12. Lizbeth managed to snap the boy's neck before her own neck was filled with two of Venice's shurikens, or ninja stars. Then the girl dashed off into the nearest building as her little brother and Lizbeth both swiftly died.

Brenton Grammar, District 12 Male; 17th, Killed by Lizbeth, Bloodbath

Lizbeth Sanchez, District 10 Female; 16th, Killed by Venice, Bloodbath

Sephora made the final kill, tackling the clutzy boy from 7 and spearing him in the chest. Their haphazard "Career" alliance had been diminished down to two, with Conner and Missouri dead and Luther deserted.

Timothy Trunks, District 7 Male; 15th, Killed Sephora, Bloodbath

As the Bloodbath settled and finished without any further deaths, Sephora and Richer began to sort through the supplies they'd claimed from the Cornucopia. There was abundant food, water, and weaponry. They wanted tributes to die at other tributes' hands, not from natural causes.

They discovered the little boy from 6 hiding behind a pile of supplies, and he wet himself when they pulled him from his hiding spot. Instead of killing him, however, they recruited the weakling boy to stand guard over the supplies. They told him that he would just have to blow a whistle to tell them someone was attacking, and they'd come quick. A whistle promptly fell from the sky via silvery parachute, and they handed it over to him. They also said if he tried to desert that they would make his death slow and painful. Frightened Benz promised to keep guard well.

Sephora and Richer headed off into the night, searching for tributes. They didn't find anyone, although they did have a run in with some Avoxes. They were calm and didn't even respond, not even when Richer punched one so hard that it's jaw broke. It just keep moving on, not attacking. Sephora threw a knife into another, but it just simply fell to the ground and died. No cannon went off. Peculiar mutts.

Day 2 was deathless. Late on Day 3, a cannon went off for the girl from 12. They could not find her body, but they declared her dead anyway. Little did they know that Venice Grammar had gouged out her tracker and smashed it to pieces, and had disguised herself as an Avox. That night, Venice's face filled the sky while she patrolled one of the buildings, pretending to be a mindless Avox.

Venice Grammar, District 12 Female; 14th, Unknown, Day 3 (Not Really Dead)

Day 4, as Sephora and Richer searched through a small, iridescent park for tributes, they heard incessant whistle blows. They quickly made their way back to the Cornucopia, but not before a cannon had fired. Esperanza, the girl from 2, had managed to stab Benz to death.

Benz Carridio, District 6 Male; 14th, Killed by Esperanza, Day 4

The pair from 1 bowled into the Cornucopia's clearing. Sephora threw her javelin, and it went in Esperanza's chest and came out of her back.

Esperanza Collidigo, District 2 Female; 13th, Killed by Sephora, Day 4

Day 5 was deathless, though Venice had a close scrape with death as Richer began punching Avoxes as he and Sephora searched her building. She managed not to react when he slapped her so hard that one of her teeth fell out. Her lifelong fatherly abuse was sadly the reason she didn't die that day.

Day 6 was a different matter from Day 5. There were two deaths that day. The first occurred when a tribute decided to drink out of one of the fountains in one of the parks. The girl from 5, Stacey, had used liquefied nightlock poison she'd received as a sponsor gift to taint the water. The little girl died in moments.

Lulu Redbelted, District 9 Female; 12th, Killed by Stacey, Day 6

Meanwhile, Cedric, Stacey's District partner, had a run in with the orphan District 11 pair of Rhubarb and Ursula. Cedric managed to kill little Ursula while Rhubarb escaped. District 5 had purged the 12 year olds from the Games on the same day.

Ursula Pidgeon, District 11 Female; 11th, Killed by Cedric, Day 6

Day 7, Sephora and Richer found Cedric, nursing a knife wound inflicted by Rhubarb. Richer beheaded him, and what everyone thought at the time was the Top 8 was formed.

Cedric Lasteen, District 5 Male; 10th, Killed by Richer, Day 7

The "Top 8" were Sephora Gray from District 1, Richer Fantabulo from District 1, Microaea Fitch from District 3, Alice Garbin from District 4, Stacey Calicuts from District 5, Cardella Banxz from District 8, Luther Catan-Vise from District 10, and Rhubarb Clang from District 11. Really, it was the Top 9, but they didn't know that.

Day 8 was deathless. Day 9, Alice found Cardella from 8 and tortured her and then even began to nibble at her cold, dead body.

Cardella Banxz, District 8 Female; 9th, Killed by Alice, Day 9

The Real Top 8 was formed: Sephora Gray from District 1, Richer Fantabulo from District 1, Microaea Fitch from District 3, Alice Garbin from District 4, Stacey Calicuts from District 5, Luther Catan-Vise from District 10, Rhubarb Clang from District 11, and Venice Grammar from District 12.

Minutes after Cardella died, and Alice began nibbling at her, the Gamemakers collapsed a building on top of Alice. They didn't want to chance what had happened in the 23rd Games, with Cattail, so they "accidentally" killed her, collapsing a few other buildings to make it seem random.

Alice Garbin, District 4 Female; 8th, Killed by Collapsing Building, Day 9

Days 10 and 11 were deathless. Day 12, Luther had gotten bored and was playing with the Avoxes, killing some. One of them was Venice. She broke her cool when he slowly dragged him dagger across her cheek. She leaped to life and threw the shurikens into his chest, killing him. Not many people recognized the Avox, and the Gamemakers said it was a glitch. They were suspicious, though, but let it pass. Just a glitch in the mutts. Just a glitch.

Luther Catan-Vise, District 10 Male; 7th, Killed by Venice, or Avox Mutt, Day 12

Days 13, 14, and 15 were deathless. Not wanting their precious Quell to have a lackluster ending, they whipped up a final twist on Day 16 that would lead to the end of the Games. All of the Avoxes turned into raging, fiery beasts, and they poured out of the buildings by the hundreds, bearing yellowing fangs and leaping onto slow tributes. They tore apart unlucky Stacey from 5 and Rhubarb from 11 as they tried to run.

Stacey Calicuts, District 5 Female; 6th, Killed by Avox Mutts, Day 16

Rhubarb Clang, District 11 Male; 5th, Killed by Avox Mutts, Day 16

Sephora, Richer, and Microaea arrived at the Cornucopia, Microaea surprised everyone and was the first to attack, sending one of her two spears through Richer's chest, killing him.

Richer Fantabulo, District 1 Male; 4th, Killed by Microaea, Day 16

Sephora made quick work of Microaea, killing her in minutes. As Microaea's cannons sounded, Sephora was declared Victor.

Microaea Fitch, District 3 Female; 3rd, Killed by Sephora, Day 16

As the hovercraft descended to pick up their Victor, Venice crept out of the shadows, chuckling. Sephora saw her just as the shurikens entered her chest, and she fell, dead, the nation appalled, suddenly realizing who the glitchy Avox was as Venice stripped off her Avox uniform.

Sephora Gray, District 1 Female; 2nd, Killed by Venice, Day 16

"V...Venice Gra...Grammar of Dis..District 12, you are the Victor of the 25th Hunger Games, the first Quarter Quell!" Caius shouted, stuttering and shocked.

Venice just grinned slyly. She'd beaten the system. For her, there would be hell to pay.


Aftermath

District 12 welcomed its first Victor hesitantly, sort of happy to end its Victor drought. Now every District had a Victor. But the nation was in total shock. This was the first time that a tribute had broken the Games' system. It would later happen with Haymitch Abernathy of the 50th and almost with Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark from the 74th. District 12 was the sneaky District, and it seemed they could only win by breaking the rules, which pissed off most of the Victors. Because of this, they were usually unpopular, though Haymitch was a hit with most of the alcoholic Victors. Venice remained relatively clean drug wise, although she sometimes struggled with alcohol. She was a quiet and reclusive Victor, and she would Mentor for years upon years and she would only get one Victor, Haymitch Abernathy of the 50th.

Venice would live to age 44, dying soon after the 53rd Games, assassinated by a rogue Capitol, who was later executed. He killed Venice and another Victor, along with several Capitol citizens, on his shooting spree. She would not marry and would have no kids, and her entire family was killed because of her trickery in her Games.

The payouts on her Victory were great, as only about .42% bet on her.

Her Victory Tour was a disaster. District 1 literally showered her in hate, throwing rotten food at her for stealing their 5th Victor. Most of the other Districts were disgusted by her tactics and hated her. And her home District liked finally having a Victor, but they had voted her in. Many still harbored hate for her, and there were several attempted assassinations during her Victory Tour.

Fun Fact: After the 25th Hunger Games, every District had a Victor.


Victor's News

Venice moves into the Victor's Village of District 12.

Tugra Ertra, Victor of the 3rd Hunger Games, passes away.


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)

12th: Salandra Valour, District 1 (2, 1 Female)

13th: Barcelona Sepias, District 10 (1, 1 Female)

14th: Freeha Indepp, District 11 (2, 1 Female)

15th: Clermont Lackrey, District 1 (3, 2 Male)

16th: Bex Martin, District 4 (3, 2 Female)

17th: Jaguar Crusoe, District 10 (2, 1 Male)

18th: Deana Mitchellson, District 9 (2, 1 Female)

19th: Romulus Armidale, District 2 (2, 1 Male)

20th: Grover Elms, District 7 (2, 1 Male)

21st: Fitore Renoro, District 2 (3, 2 Male)

22nd: Mascara Curler, District 1 (4, 2 Female)

23rd: Woof Parsons, District 8 (1, 1 Male)

24th: Dorsal Rance, District 4 (4, 2 Male)

25th: Venice Grammar, District 12 (1, 1 Female)


A/N: And here's the first Quarter Quell! I hope you enjoyed it, I really liked this chapter. Now every District has a Victor. Please review!

Until Next Time,

Tracee