The Forty First Annual Hunger Games
Introduction
The Hunger Games had become more than a mere punishment of the Districts. While mild betting and speculation had always been part of the gig in the Capitol, these days almost everyone was sick with Games fever, while in the past only a select group of Capitolites, called "Gamies", were afflicted with this Games fever. Zion Alvarra was in high demand, and his jubilant personality often was pockmarked by the harsh side effects of his Games and prostitution, angry lashing outs that many a doctor prescribed to be bipolar disorder. Betting was at an all time high from last year, as was the consumption of the Capitol in the matter of lavish goods like jewelry and sugary confections. This meant increased workloads even in Districts 1 and 2 to produce the hefty amount of items the Capitol was raving about. Strange fashion trends began to appear in the Capitol. While most Capitolites used to dress moderately enough, these days new trends were bringing in expansive amounts of unusual clothing. This year the hottest trends were neon colors and body glitter. At the Tribute Parade, the tributes were no longer the most avant garde beings on the promenade, not by a long shot. The parade's most extravagant guest, voted so by the Capitol public, was the notorious Madame Lucya Notaire, who dressed in a sparkly neon yellow dress with bright orange sparkly angel wings and a flashing blue hologram crown. Ilius Turum was also caught up in this fad, and he thought that the tributes would appreciate their training uniforms to be florescent colors and that Avoxes would apply body glitter to their bodies. The only tribute that remotely liked these strange training garments was little 12 year old Kinna Balty of District 12, who loved glitter and sparkles and her hot pink uniform. Her counterpart, massive Damon Clawse, did not appreciate the hot pink t-shirt and undies and full body glitter makeover he was given. President Coriolanus Snow was one of the only Capitolites not to get caught up in fashion and excess, eating normal meals and dressing in modest suits and slacks. While Games mania tainted him like he tainted the food of enemies with poison, he focused himself on disciplining the Districts. Every single District had shown some semblance of rebellion after the heavier workloads were enforced and after Kihgi Agora stretched her banner across the roof of the marble palace the year prior. While rebellion in 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 had been moderate, rebellion in Districts 6, 7 and 8 had been harsh, and there were full scale uprisings in Districts 9-12. Coriolanus Snow instituted a new competition to punish the Districts for their rebellion halfway between the 40th and 41st, but this competition will be detailed in the bonus chapters of this compendium. Ilius Turum, Head Gamemaker for a third year in a row, showed no signs of slowing down as he presented a third arena that would be enthralling and intriguing. Caesar Flickerman returned as the host of the Games, and was finding himself rather lonely on the stage and in the commentator's recording studio. Next year, he would recruit a good friend to be his co-host, but for this year Caesar stayed solo. This would be the last Games to have a single commentator/host. In terms of tributes, the batch was pretty average, but there were some tributes that the Gamemakers could work with. The Careers out of 1 and 2 were standard fare; the ones from 1 were pretty and average in skills, while the duo from 2 were larger, stronger, and made up for their lesser looks in the form of better skills with weaponry and strategy. The pair from 4 was pretty weak this year, although the boy was very attractive and would garner many sponsors based purely on his looks. Some notables from the outer Districts were Iuna Clott of District 3 and Damon Clawse of District 12. Iuna scored a 9 from her immense skills with mechanics and electronics, and Damon also scored a 9 for his prodigious strength and his natural ability with a machete. Both of these tributes would be formidable, and possibly District 12 could bring home its 2nd Victor and catch up to Districts 6, 8, 9, and 10 in terms of Victors? The other tributes scored between 7 and 2. There were no volunteers besides the Careers. Here are the tributes:
District 1: Khlassa Domentry, 18 (9) 8-1 and Goldton Tispin, 18 (9) 8-1
District 2: Lorna Dadino, 17 (9) 7-1 and Feodore Cincuentan, 18 (11) 3-1
District 3: Iuna Clott, 18 (9) 8-1 and Router Tutoy, 16 (5) 33-1
District 4: Wava Darris, 18 (8) 13-1 and Thomas Edgregy, 18 (8) 12-1
District 5: Sarah Cannist, 16 (3) 52-1 and Spark Dudley, 15 (5) 32-1
District 6: Indigo Arnett, 16 (5) 34-1 and Hans Ristian, 14 (3) 53-1
District 7: Alisha Burnt, 16 (5) 33-1 and Ric Tammand, 18 (6) 23-1
District 8: Siora Lesters, 17 (4) 42-1 and Jove Kirkland, 18 (7) 18-1
District 9: Yina Klarent, 14 (3) 54-1 and Konner Sykes, 15 (4) 42-1
District 10: Harrietta Oswald, 17 (6) 22-1 and Mathio Bruntley, 15 (3) 52-1
District 11: Jane Ood, 15 (4) 43-1 and Markie Lenner, 13 (2) 63-1
District 12: Kinna Balty, 12 (3) 55-1 and Damon Clawse, 18 (9) 8-1
HGBA Odds: 23% on Feodore, 16% on Lorna, 13% on Khlassa and Damon, 10% on Goldton and Iuna, 6% on Thomas, 5% on Wava, 1% or less on Router, Sarah, Spark, Indigo, Hans, Alisha, Ric, Siora, Jove, Yina, Konner, Harrietta, Mathio, Jane, Markie, and Kinna
The Games
The 24 tributes entered a stunning, colorful, humid paradise. The Cornucopia sat in the center, brazenly shining in its golden glory in the middle of a field full of exotic flowers. The Cornucopia is full with a variety of supplies. The four conventional weapons included in the Horn were throwing knives, bows, spears, and machetes, along with a single trident. There was a lot of wiring and metal along with lots of rope, tents, and other survival supplies like matches and iodine. However, there was little food or water inside the Cornucopia. The small Cornucopia meadow soon quickly became dense, wild jungle. The trees were close together, and it was hard to move through the tightly packed rainforest in most places, providing plenty of good hiding spots for smaller, slimmer tributes. Many of the rainforest trees bear deliciously sweet, edible fruits in a plethora of colors and shapes. Seven different rivers, two to the north, three to the east, one to the south, and one to the west, wound through the jungle, and multiple small pools and waterfalls could easily be found within the rainforest. A wide variety of creatures roamed the rainforest, including tapir, jaguar, parrots, monkeys, and poison dart frogs. The air was thick with a thin mist produced by the hot temperatures and extreme humidity. Seeing the bountiful arena around them, four tributes would run from the Bloodbath, and only 7 tributes would perish, the lowest Bloodbath casualty count in years. This lowered Bloodbath count was due to the fact that the Careers weren't extremely strong this year, and also to the fact that many tributes realized the lack of food and water mid-run in and turned tail, fleeing. The tributes who would venture away from the Cornucopia were Spark from 5, Yina from 9, Harrietta from 10, and Jane from 11.
5, 4, 3, 2, 1.
Iuna was the fastest tribute in the arena, although Thomas was also a quick sprinter. She stumbled into the Cornucopia, heaved a pack bursting with wires over her back and turned tail, fleeing, as Thomas picked up the only trident in the Cornucopia. As the other Careers, Damon, and the boy from 10, Mathio, pushed their way into the Horn to search for the best supplies, Thomas heaved his trident into a squealing girl who was trying to backpedal away from him.
Kinna Balty, District 12 Female; 24th, Killed by Thomas, Bloodbath
Damon, holding a glittering machete, roared with anger at seeing his little District partner slaughtered. He jumped towards Thomas, and they engaged in a fight. Meanwhile, Lorna and Feodore picked up machetes and swept forward in chase of a pair of allied tributes, Sarah from 5 and Alisha from 7. Lorna sped up and managed to slice into the back of Sarah, severing her spinal cord and killing her.
Sarah Cannist, District 5 Female; 23rd, Killed by Lorna, Bloodbath
Feodore picked up Alisha as she screamed and threw her to the ground. Her leg snapped beneath her sickeningly, and she pleaded, whimpering and blubbering, tears streaming down her cheeks, and Feodore buried his machete deep in her neck.
Alisha Burnt, District 7 Female; 22nd, Killed by Feodore, Bloodbath
Wava from 4 had taken a bow and began firing arrows at fleeing tributes, missing her first few arrows. Khlassa and Goldton behind her chose throwing knives and a spear respectively and began to hunt down other tributes. One of Wava's arrows hit home, digging into the chest of the boy from 6 and putting him out of commission indefinitely as he fell, dead, to the ground.
Hans Ristian, District 6 Male; 21st, Killed by Wava, Bloodbath
All of the tributes were making speedy escapes. Young Mathio, weak and naive, had snatched up a machete and boldly took on Goldton from 1. Goldton wasn't the most exemplary fighter, but he easily disarmed the 15 year old in five seconds and then buried his spear in the boy's forehead.
Mathio Bruntley, District 10 Male; 20th, Killed by Goldton, Bloodbath
Damon and Thomas had been sparring for a long period of time, since Kinna had fallen in a spray of blood. Damon was stronger than Thomas physically, and while Damon had scored better in training, Thomas was trained by weapons trainers. He knew complex maneuvers and strategies that the simple boy from 12 could never even fathom at his best. Thomas enacted an easy move that disoriented Damon, and he dug his sword into the massive boy's chest, surprising the nation by ending 12's best chance at Victory in ages.
Damon Clawse, District 12 Male; 19th, Killed by Thomas, Bloodbath
Most of the other tributes had quickly scattered, and Wava tried to pick them off with her bow and arrows. While she failed to land an arrow on the girl from 8 and hit the shoulder of the boy from 3, she managed to land an arrow deep in the base of the boy from 7's neck. Ric Tammand fell face first into the mud, dead almost immediately, his death marking the end of the small Bloodbath.
Ric Tammand, District 7 Male; 18th, Killed by Wava, Bloodbath
17 tributes were left, a thing that hadn't happened in decades. The Capitol was excited, watching with fervor and excitement as the Career alliance of 6 began hunting almost immediately for tributes in the rainforest as dusk arrived. They did not find anyone that night, but they would soon. The 6 Careers, after hunting a little past midnight, returned to the Cornucopia, where they'd left Khlassa guard. They ordered some supplies and then talked strategy about hunting and resource distribution. Iuna of 3 had her prodigious amount of wires, batteries, and scraps of metal within her pack. Using a few tools sponsored to her by eager Capitolites who wanted to see the now strongest Outlier left win, Iuna began to fiddle with her supplies and create an electrical trap akin to Beetee's from the 33rd. Her District partner, Router, was injured, an arrow stuck deep in his shoulder. All he has for supplies are an extra t-shirt and an empty water bottle. He decides to pull the arrow from his shoulder as night falls, and screams and tries to stop the blood flow with his shirt. His wound is in danger of becoming infected. Spark from 5 had run with nothing, and he quickly finds a little cavern underneath a waterfall where he hunkers down to rest and collect himself for the night. Indigo from 6 left the Cornucopia field with a box full of vials and needles as well as a full water bottle. While Indigo was not a Morphling addict like many of her predecessors, her supplies seemed eerily like those used by an addict from 6. Indigo climbed up into a rather tall tree and settled out of sight in the canopy. Siora from 8 was stumbling around cluelessly, worried and out of her mind, her nerves making her constantly shake and cry. She was an emotional wreck, similar to Kirsten Motorson of the previous year. Her partner, stronger Jove, collected himself. He'd gotten a machete and some jerky from the Cornucopia, and he found some water by nightfall. He rested up and prepared for a harrowing next couple of weeks, planning out his route to Victory aloud as he set up his camp by one of the eastern rivers. Yina from 9 was allied with the girl from 11, Jane. Both of them were weaker and frail, and had both skipped the Bloodbath entirely. They sped off together into the jungle, settling by a northern river, where they drank ravenously and then ate some edible roots that Jane recognized from home in 11. The two were doing well enough, but had no weapons and were living off of the unpredictable arena alone. Yina's District partner, Konner, had grabbed two throwing knives and a pack holding iodine, a tarp, a pair of nightvision goggles, and two empty water bottles. He held a knife in one hand and his pack in the other. He did not find water by the day's close, but he was nearing the southern river. Harrietta from 10 had grabbed twelve throwing knives from the Bloodbath. They were her specialty weapon, and she had a natural gift with them, although not enough of a gift to give her a superiorly impressive score. Harrietta roosted in a mango tree for the night, feasting on mangoes, which quenched both her thirst and hunger. Markie found a nice little hole in a tree to huddle in. Most of the tributes had found shelter, food, and water in the colorful, rich rainforest, but blood would soon paint the rainforest leaves red as the Games continued.
With the morning arriving, no strange phenomenon happened like the sandstorms from the previous year. The Careers cleaned their weapons, ate breakfast, and set off into the jungle to start hunting, leaving Thomas guard. Around noon, screams attracted them to a small brook, the offshoot of one of the eastern rivers. The boy from 3, Router, was spasming on the ground, his wound swollen and puffy, yellow in color and liquidy. Indigo from 6 had quickly put her needles to use. She'd found and trapped a couple of yellow poison dart frogs and had painstakingly extracted the poison from them while hidden in her tree. Then she'd treated the poison with a chemical in her little set that made it even more lethal. The Careers watched with horror as the boy started frothing yellow spit at the mouth and began dry heaving. In moments he was dead, and his cannon shattered the sudden silence.
Router Tutoy, District 3 Male; 17th, Killed by Indigo, Day 2
The Careers quickly vacated the area, assuming whatever had poisoned Router was nearby and might afflict them with the same symptoms if they stayed around his corpse too long. They sped off back in the direction of the Cornucopia. Midway through their journey back to the Cornucopia, they spotted Siora flitting through the gaps between the trees on the horizon, tired and disoriented. The Careers crept after her, and Feodore lead them. He decided to take the kill, waving the others back. He added drama, stalking her for well over an hour as Khlassa, Goldton, and Wava searched another area of the forest. Lorna tagged along behind Feodore about two hundred feet just in case he needed back up. Feodore began snapping twigs, scaring the girl and hiding when she would look his way. Eventually, as night began to fall, Siora stopped at a tree and sat in the roots, preparing to sleep. The other Careers, including Lorna, had long returned to the Cornucopia, deciding to let Feodore have his strange fun and instead sort through the rest of their supplies. As Siora gathered some leaves around her for comfort, Feodore lurched off of the branch ten feet above her head. He landed on top of her with a roar, and she screamed so loud that birds in a mile's radius took flight, moving southward. Feodore lifted his machete-wielding arm and buried the weapon in the frightened girl's chest, cackling as her terrified, bony face slowly slackened to an emotionless blur as her cannon boomed through the air, disturbing the tranquility of the wee hours of Day 3.
Siora Lesters, District 8 Female; 16th, Killed by Feodore, Day 3
The Careers scoured the rainforest for tributes the rest of Day 3, ravenous to thin the still thick Outlier herds roaming the arena. Konner had a close run in with the Careers, but managed to climb up a tree and hide there, and they moved on after trying to get him down for an entire hour. Iuna's electrical trap was half finished, and she was working tirelessly on it and receiving missing, needed pieces and parts sporadically from sponsors. Spark decided to stay in his little waterfall cave. Indigo defined more poison dart frog toxins and made little wooden darts that she dipped in them. Jove tramped around the arena, leaving an easy to follow trail in the mud and leaves of the forest floor that Lorna would pick up that night as they returned to the camp. Yina and Jane started to become paranoid that the other was trying to kill them in their sleep. Harrietta practiced her throwing skills all through the day, hitting a tree over and over until a clear, sugary sap poured forth from the wounded tree. Harrietta licked it up gleefully.
On Day 4, the Careers, minus Goldton, who was guarding the Cornucopia, followed the path left by Jove that Lorna had uncovered the day prior. They did not find Jove, who had long moved far away from this trail and was treading more carefully. But they did find Yina and Jane picking around his old campsite, eating jerky crumbs that he didn't eat. Quickly, Khlassa threw a knife into Jane's head as Yina screamed and tried to run away.
Jane Ood, District 11 Female; 15th, Killed by Khlassa, Day 4
Lorna made the move, quickly leaping forward and using her machete to behead Yina with two uneven chops of her blade.
Yina Klarent, District 9 Female; 14th, Killed by Lorna, Day 4
The next day, tragedy befell Konner. Iuna had happened to finish her electrical trap, and she also spotted him gathering edible roots in a nearby clearing. She snuck around, and found his simple campsite, a worn in indent in the forest floor, with leaves and half eaten roots scattered around. She strung her trap around the the campsite and quickly camouflaged it with mud before scampering off. Soon enough, Konner stumbles into the clearing, walking towards his campsite, fists full of whitish and purplish edible roots. The moment he collides with the trap, Iuna flips a switch, and he twitches and falls to the ground. No cannon fires. It's not strong enough to kill, just to stun. She quickly finished the job, using a sharpened length of wire to saw open his throat. The sound of his cannon is satisfying to Iuna.
Konner Sykes, District 9 Male; 13th, Killed by Iuna, Day 5
The next day, all of the tributes were settled, and no action stirred up. Day 7 arrived, and the Gamemakers sent dark brown monkey mutts at the tributes, two each. A swarm of twelve monkeys harassed the Careers, who managed to dispatch of them all with minimum injury. Spark drowned both of his in his waterfall but ended up losing three fingers on his left hand and getting numerous gashes along his arms and chest. Indigo easily threw two poisoned darts at hers, subduing them in moments. Jove used his machete to behead both of his monkeys, gaining few injuries. Harrietta's throwing knife skills were put on display as the knives cleaved open the skulls of her monkeys. No deaths had occurred, but the pot had been stirred.
Day 8 arrived, and with it came a death. Feodore and Lorna went out hunting together, and they quickly jogged into the rainforest. They followed one of the eastern rivers along the left bank, and spotted Indigo kneeling by the river, drinking slowly. They quickly attacked her, but the girl hopped to her feet and surged through the river before sprinting away. Feodore again chose to take this hunt solo, and Lorna returned to the Cornucopia while Feodore tracked the wily District 6 girl. He intimidated and frightened her. Indigo knew he was tailing her, and kept a level head. She had found some bamboo deep in the rainforest, and had fashioned a bamboo pipe to fire her darts through. She discreetly picked it up from her campsite and slid a dart into the pipe before jogging back to the river and kneeling down again. She drank slowly again, waiting for Feodore to emerge.
The boy from 2 leaped out of the shadows a minute later, roaring, his machete flying towards her skull. Prepared, Indigo rolled out of the way and lifted the pipe to her lips and blew as hard as she could. The wooden dart, its tip bright, sunny yellow, hurtled towards Feodore and smacked into his left bicep. The boy scoffed; it wasn't even his sword arm. As he prepared to end Indigo, he started twitching. He fell to the ground, and Indigo cleaned her hands on her pants as the boy from 2 died at her feet. She picked up her pipe once the cannon fired and headed back to her campsite to craft more poisoned darts. She'd just eliminated the strongest tribute in the Games, and had earned herself many a sponsor.
Feodore Cincuentan, District 2 Male; 12th, Killed by Indigo, Day 8
The Careers were startled when they saw Feodore's face in the sky. They concluded that only Iuna or Jove could have taken the strong Career boy down, and they split in two groups to go hunt those two down. Khlassa and Thomas went after Jove, while Goldton, Lorna, and Wava searched relentlessly in the rainforest for Iuna. The first search party was successful in their mission at around four in the afternoon, when they found Jove squatting by a pond, lapping water from his hands. Thomas burst forward and buried his trident in the boy's back, ending him quickly.
Jove Kirkland, District 8 Male; 11th, Killed by Thomas, Day 9
On Day 10, a forest fire sprung up, courtesy of Spark leaving his fire burning all night. It was also provoked a bit by the Gamemakers, who wanted to spice things up. Spark was trapped in his little cave, but the waterfall kept the flames at bay. Indigo, Iuna, and Harrietta all avoided the flames for as long as they could, and succeeded. Wava had gone hunting solo that morning, and became trapped under a burning log after it fell on her while she was running from the flames. She was cooked alive, and her cannon burst through the crackling flames of the fire.
Wava Darris, District 4 Female; 10th, Killed by burning log, Day 10
Fierce thunderstorms swept in a couple of hours past noon, quickly drenching the tributes and the fire-ravaged rainforest. Much of the northern stretches of the arena were burned and ashen, most of the trees burnt to the ground or still smoldering, half alive. The underbrush had been cleared, the waterways clogged with ash, and dozens of frightened rainforest creatures like tapir and sloth trapped and cooked alive quite like Wava Darris. The Careers traversed into the northern area of the forest, wandering through the decimated forest there, searching for survivors of the forest fire and to look for Wava, who was possibly, in their minds, trapped somewhere. As the Careers fanned out, searching under smoldering logs and piles of ash, Iuna appeared in the Cornucopia field. She sprinted to the Cornucopia, dragging her metal electrical spider web across the field in a hurry. She quickly affixed it across the mouth of the Cornucopia, and flipped on the switch. She'd strengthened it so it would not only stun a person but also kill them. She knew the Careers would return around midnight from their hunt, so she sat in wait at the edge of the eastern jungle, another sponsor gift, night vision goggles, strapped tight to her face. As the sun set, the Careers tromped out of the jungle, skin covered in smears of ash and mud. Khlassa started coughing; she'd breathed in some loose ash. She jogged back to the Horn first to fetch some water, and she reached the mouth of the Horn before the others even left the rainforest. She collided with the electrified metal net moments later.
The wires glowed bright neon yellow as Khlassa spasmed across their complex, electrified web. Thomas, the second one out of the jungle, started yelling as Khlassa's inhuman screeches echoed through the arena. Her body bent at unnatural angles as she tried to fight her way out of the trap. Khlassa was strong, but not strong enough, and in moments the electrified net got the best of her and killed her.
Khlassa Domentry, District 1 Female; 9th, Killed by Iuna, Day 10
The Top 8 had been determined: Goldton Tispin from District 1, Lorna Dadino from District 2, Iuna Clott from District 3, Thomas Edgregy from District 4, Spark Dudley from District 5, Indigo Arnett from District 6, Harrietta Oswald from District 10, and Markie Lenner from District 11.
Iuna rocketed forward across the field, snatching up her trap. She had not shut it off, however. Iuna spasmed but managed to pull her finger away. She deactivated the trap as Thomas hurtled towards her, trident raised in throwing position. Thomas threw, and the trident sliced open Iuna's left calf as she gathered the powerless metal net in her arms. She shrieked and lumbered off as fast as she could, hobbling off into the jungle gloom before Thomas could retrieve his trident and the other Careers arrived. 8 tributes were left, and the Careers had been halved over the course of 3 days by some sneaky Outliers and a natural arena accident.
The Capitol was watching every tribute rabidly except for little Markie Lenner. He'd been totally forgotten by even most of the Gamemakers and by Caesar. But when he crossed paths with Harrietta, the girl from 10, at noon the following day, they all remembered the diminutive little 13 year old who'd scored a meager 2 in training. He didn't have any special skills, he'd just been able to avoid contact with the other tributes. Harrietta's honed throwing knife skills and instincts quickly had her hurling a knife into the boy's chest. He gurgled and blood dripped down his chin as he fell to the ground, dead.
Markie Lenner, District 11 Male; 8th, Killed by Harrietta, Day 11
Harrietta started screaming, shocked by the fact that she had just murdered a poor, defenseless, emaciated 13 year old from a downtrodden place from 11 with no reason except furthering herself in the Games. Her screams quickly attracted the hunting Careers as well as Indigo from 6, who had been searching for another kill all throughout the past couple of days so she would receive more sponsor gifts. Indigo discovered the distraught girl first, and she scaled a nearby tree and settled in the upper branches, readying her poison darts and her bamboo pipe. Halfway through her preparation, the Careers arrived. Or, really, Goldton arrived. Lorna was back at the Cornucopia, and Thomas was lagging behind. Goldton lifted his spear and threw as the girl from 10 scrambled to her feet and attempted to make a get away. The spear sliced into her back, and the tip poked out from between her ribs. Blood gushed forth from her abdomen and mouth, and she fell dead as Goldton pulled the spear from her slim body with a wet, sloppy sound.
Harrietta Oswald, District 10 Female; 7th, Killed by Goldton, Day 11
A third cannon sounded as Indigo quickly finished preparing her pipe. She set it level on a nearby branch and pointed the end at Goldton Tispin, who was standing over the slain corpse of Harrietta, marveling at his bloody kill. She lifted her lips to the pipe and blew hard. The dart spiraled out of the pipe and collided with Goldton's left shoulder. He turned sharply after feeling the pinprick of pain, and spotted Indigo's bamboo pipe quivering in the air, poking from a nearby tree's branches. Goldton swept up his spear and jogged to the base of the tree, but as he heaved back his arm to throw his spear up towards the place Indigo was hidden, the poison set in. His left arm was his throwing arm, and the poison made him drop the weapon as his arm's muscles gave it. It quickly spread through his veins, and within a minute Goldton Tispin was a twitching mess on the forest floor. Once his cannon sounded, Indigo scrambled down the tree trunk and evacuated the premises, where the cooling bodies of the female from 10 and the males from 1 and 11 laid, bloodied and disfigured.
Goldton Tispin, District 1 Male; 6th, Killed by Indigo, Day 11
Thomas arrived and found the three dead tributes, and then returned to the Cornucopia. He and Lorna split the supplies at the Cornucopia, shook hands, wished each other the best of luck, and then walked off in opposite directions. With only 5 tributes left, it was time to part and hunt down the crafty girl from 3, the hidden boy from 5, and the wily girl from 6. Lorna headed north, Thomas south. Indigo was currently wandering through the east, searching for the others. Iuna was healing, her calf wound bandaged, in the west. And Spark Dudley was stumbling through the ashes of the north, looking desperately for water. He hadn't drank in two days, since about five hours before the fire on Day 10.
Days 11 and 12 passed with Lorna barely missing an encounter with Spark thrice. Indigo built a vast array of poison darts and made her blowpipe more efficient. Iuna fiddled with her net, taking it apart and instead using the supplies to make it into a strong Taser-like weapon. She was most done with the weapon on Day 13. Thomas took a break from hunting on Days 11 and 12 to swim in the southern river and enjoy the bounty of the vastly unexplored southern stretches of the rainforest arena. These two days held peace, but that peace would not last.
A cannon shattered the morning tranquility on Day 13. Spark Dudley had perished from dehydration, unable to find any consumable water in the ash-clogged rivers and ponds of the northern area of the arena. He had become disoriented and started walking in circles, so he couldn't move to another area of the arena and find water there. Lorna found his body just as the hovercraft was arriving to retrieve his corpse.
Spark Dudley, District 5 Male; 5th, Killed by dehydration, Day 13
Day 14 would bring the close of these Games. Iuna's Taser was finished, Indigo had restocked and revamped her poison dart collection, Thomas was refreshed from his relaxation days, and Lorna was full of nerves and excitement, ready to end these Games. With four vivacious, dangerous, and well liked tributes ready to battle it out to their last breaths, this exciting Games would surely come to a climatic and appeasing end.
Day 14 began with numerous trees falling. There was a tribute in every cardinal direction of the arena, so the entire forest seemed to be falling as tree after tree after tree plummeted, pushing the tributes together. One tree fell too close to Lorna, and landed on her right foot. She cursed as her ankle rolled, and she limped quickly forward. Soon enough, Indigo sped out of the eastern stretches of the arena, blowpipe and darts in hand. She hid in the shadowy depths of the Cornucopia as Lorna and Thomas ran out of the jungle at the same time. They rushed at each other, Lorna bearing a machete, Thomas his trident. Their metallic weapons met, and Lorna staggered a minute into the fight after putting too much weight on her wounded ankle. Thomas knocked her to the ground as Iuna slunk out of the rainforest. Lorna tried to fight him off from her position on the ground, but soon enough Thomas managed to shove his trident through the abdomen of the girl from 2.
Lorna Dadino, District 2 Female; 4th, Killed by Thomas, Day 14
As Thomas turned, he felt an electric jolt and a sharp prick on his left knee. Indigo had shot a dart at his leg, and Iuna had released a bolt of electricity from her Taser onto his back. Thomas spasmed, and died from the poison before the electricity could fully fry his brain.
Thomas Edgregy, District 4 Male; 3rd, Killed by Indigo and Iuna, Day 14
Iuna had not seen the little dart protruding from Thomas's knee, so she searched the clearing for Indigo. Meanwhile, Indigo prepped her final dart, a very lethal one. Iuna spotted some movement within the Cornucopia and realized that Indigo was hiding inside. She aimed her Taser not at the blurry shape of Indigo, but at the Horn itself, intending to fry the girl from 6 to death. But as Iuna's thumb descended towards the button that would fire the electric pulse to kill Indigo, Indigo blew with all of her might. The dart, a little sharpened fragment of wood really, settled itself between Iuna's eyes. She screamed as the poison quickly flooded to her brain, inhibiting her motion and perception. The Taser fell from her hands as she died within ten seconds of the dart hitting her forehead.
Iuna Clott, District 3 Female; 2nd, Killed by Indigo, Day 14
"Indigo Arnett of District 6, you are the Victor of the 41st Hunger Games!" Caesar purred loudly into the arena. Indigo stepped out of the Horn, quivering a bit, ready to be taken home and away from the poisonous horrors of her humid jungle arena.
Aftermath
District 6 was immensely pleased to have their third Victor in Indigo, and the Capitol loved her for her craftiness and ingenuity. Despite that, however, they did not prostitute her, as she was not a pretty girl by any means, and no one in the Capitol found her attractive enough to pay the Victor's cost that Snow imposed. Indigo had been strong in the arena, and the Districts respected her for that. Indigo was in a fragile state after her Games, however, and the doctors put her on Morphling to calm her down. Indigo soon became addicted to the drug, although she was always given light doses by her dealers and physicians so she would not overdose. Indigo soon became a muddled mess of a Victor, and while she had her strong points, she was often in a drug induced daze. She was a lacking Mentor, and would rather spend her time painting her swirly murals than helping bring back tributes from the arena. She was one of the first Victors to have a hard time with substance abuse, and she would not be the last by any stretch of the imagination.
Indigo would live to age 52, dying from a possibly intentional overdose after the Bloodbath of the 76th Hunger Games. She was forced to Mentor because Mercedes was out sick, and she was refused Morphling. Indigo was very clear headed and liked herself without Morphling, but when her little 13 year old tribute who'd she'd come to adore died in the opening minutes, Indigo fled the Control Center and was found several hours later dead from an overdose in her apartment. She would not marry and would have no kids.
The payouts on her Victor were incredible, as only about .23% bet on her.
Her Victory Tour was nothing of note, and was rather average.
Fun Fact: Indigo was the first Victor to use a blowpipe and poison darts to win their Games.
Victor's News
Indigo moves into the Victor's Village of District 6, in the house next door to Mercedes.
Organza marries her boyfriend of two years, Jean Thorpe.
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)
26th: Calculata Fenceley, District 3 (2, 1 Female)
27th: Florianna Urnston, District 2 (4, 2 Female)
28th: Mercedes Benson, District 6 (2, 1 Female)
29th: Fox Rennolls, District 5 (3, 1 Male)
30th: Tarquinius Isselhardt, District 2 (5, 3 Male)
31st: Ivelisse Horner, District 1 (5, 3 Female)
32nd: Pomona McCrea, District 7 (3, 2 Female)
33rd: Beetee Latier, District 3 (3, 2 Male)
34th: Flotsam Bresten, District 4 (5, 3 Male)
35th: Organza White, District 8 (2, 1 Female)
36th: Januaria Shale, District 2 (6, 3 Female)
37th: Gnaeus Deccum, District 2 (7, 4 Male)
38th: Porter Tripp, District 5 (4, 3 Female)
39th: Seeder Howell, District 11 (3, 2 Female)
40th: Zion Alvarra, District 1 (6, 3 Male)
41st: Indigo Arnett, District 6 (3, 2 Female)
A/N: Sorry that this is a couple of days late, I've been very, very busy. Cross country has officially ended, so I'll have a little bit more time to write now. I hope you liked this action-packed Games as much as I did. Indigo is the Female Morphling from the books, and she is one of my favorite Victors to date. I may do a full length fiction about her Games and life, as she would surely be an interesting narrator.
Thanks for reading! This chapter is also incredibly long, about 6,700 words long! Please review if you can, it truly does help motivate me to get chapters out quicker. Thanks again for all of your support. :)
Until Next Time,
Tracee
