Tribute: Aelita Schaeffer
District Five: Power
The 65th Hunger Games Victor
Aelita has been running all her life, running from her past, running from her bullies, running from the orphanage. The point is Aelita is really good at running.
She's also really smart but people always ignore that part. She's a halfie, her mother was a capital citizen and her father a power plant worker when they got together. It's against the rules, but then again, so was running away, which her parents were planning on doing, and building weapons which her dad was definitely doing. Still, she has bright pink capital hair even if she has no parents, and that makes it extremely obvious who she is.
So when they call up her name for the games, she doesn't bother running through she probably could, her hair is like a beacon in the night, not worth it. She goes up calmly, not crying, rummaging through a strategy in her head.
She thinks of the two previous winners, a boy who built a bomb in a matter of seconds, and the boy who went around slicing everyone in half.
Her partner Herb isn't doing to well, he's started hyperventilating and Aelita can't help but think that isn't a good luck for him.
Her mentor decides that the route they wanna take with her is innocent naive child, unaware of her parents faults and a victim of tragic circumstances. Aelita agrees in a heartbeat she mastered the innocent look a long time ago, back even when her parents were still alive.
She waves demurely, and makes sure to wear the awed-scare look on her person during the chariot ride. During interviews, she speaks softly, and stares at the floor, or at her dress, and smiles sweetly and innocently.
"Oh that pink hair is just lovely." The interviewer sighs.
"Thank you. Apparently I get it from my mother but I never knew her. I hear she was beautiful, I hope one day I can live up to her."
"Oh aren't you adorable. So I heard you got a seven on your training score. Quite interesting for a tribute from a lower district."
Aelita makes sure to force some eagerness in her voice, "That's because I can tie knots, and climb trees, and-"
The interviewer cuts her off never realizing that Aelita never did reveal how exactly she got her seven. She has pretty good aim with a peacekeeper gun, her father was often involved in some not so legal things, and it translates well to throwing knives, not amazingly obviously, or she would have a ten or so.
The arena is a jungle with mechanical towers and Aelita's mind is racing with the possibilities. She teams up with a boy from District 8 named Nicholas, and they work pretty well together, at least until Nicholas gets the stupid idea to try and kill her. Unfortunately for him, her weapon is her own creation from parts in the arena, an energy blaster.
She shoots him straight in the stomach, ignoring his screams of pain which is bound to drag people out of hiding and presses the button on her gun, lifting herself up into the air.
That's the problem with most hunger games, all of the smart tributes get killed in the bloodbath, and the arenas are never advanced enough to make anything cool.
They probably weren't expecting a smart tribute to last long in the mechanical jungle, but we'll the joke's on them. The career district had more or less killed each other off, Aelita had gone around asking innocent questions, why is district two always in charge, do you know the other careers make fun of you.
That doesn't mean the rest of the battle is any easier, at some point she ends up crashing to the ground, with stab wounds coming out of her thighs, slowly passing out from blood loss but manages one last shot at the monsters head, this creepy creature crawling along the floor, and the other tribute just happens to die before her, barely so Aelita is the victor.
Her innocent act brought in some admirers but lucky for he X.A.N.A doesn't have anything to threaten her with, her district treated her like crap, and family, what family.
She vows to get rid of him before he ever finds out that she's gained a new family for him to threaten her with. She's not going to let her new family die like her old, especially now that she's old enough to stop him.
Just like in the show Aelita is the start of it all in the battle against X.A.N.A