Disclaimer: I do not own The Hunger Games. They belong to Suzanne Collins.
Note: Ah, Wiress, such an interesting character. What drove her mad? Was she quite so mad all the time before the quell as she was when she died during it? I find her to be somebody with plenty of potential and ways to be interpreted. As it stands, I feel she also is a fine victor for me to add in a new alternate format I've been wanting to use for a while now. Read on and hopefully enjoy the tale of the Nuts to Beetee's Volts!
"I just think, sometimes… if I'd paid more attention then maybe she could have been saved too," Katniss said, a hand over her face. "Just… if I heard the careers closing it then Gloss would've had no chance to…"
"I know," Peeta gently squeezed Katniss' hand. "I know. I feel like that sometimes. I mean, remember Lacey? The girl who lit the fire at night in our first Games? Sometimes I wonder if there was some way I could have warned her of the careers before it was too late. …I try not to dwell, it drives me mad."
"I think we're all a bit mad on the inside," Katniss said, wistful. "Wiress was too by that logic. But you know what else she was on the inside?"
"A genius?" Peeta guessed.
"Exactly," Katniss nodded. "A genius."
A sudden gust of wind blew a slightly crumpled page of a magazine towards the pair. Both Katniss and Peeta eyed the front cover of an old issue of Games Galore with disdain.
"Certainly smarter than whoever wrote for that rubbish magazine," Katniss muttered, rolling her eyes.
"Yeah, I... can't argue that," Peeta conceded.
47th Annual Hunger Games
Name: Wiress Plummer
Gender: Female
District: 3
Age: 16
Kills: 6
GAMES GALORE, ISSUE 559 (47TH HUNGER GAMES SPECIAL!)
TOP 10 MOMENTS OF THE 47TH HUNGER GAMES!
By Flavio Heartson
Robotic transformers in disguise. An out of control lightning storm. An arena wide shortage of hot cocoa? It was war! The Forty Seventh Hunger Games will go down for decades, maybe centuries, as one of the most exciting Games we've ever had. Even when hundreds more Games have been and gone, who could ever forget such a grand spectacle as this? Not this reporter!
The Games lasted a total of fifteen days and so much happened within that time. So much indeed that it's hard to pick out a definitive top ten. Nonetheless, after much painstaking and pleasurable re-watching of the action I, Flavio Heartson, have come up with a list that I believe few would argue is the absolute correct choice and order of the ten best moments.
Of course, it'd be remiss to not take a moment to bring up the honourable mention. Who could forget the scandal of the boys from Seven and Nine being caught in bed with each other in the training centre? Not I and certainly not those who knew them back in their homes! What a way to remember them both, am I right?
#10: The Atomic Flush
Who could have a mentor popular enough for them to send them a hand grenade? The boy from Two certainly did! Ever since the let down of the Thirty Fourth Hunger Games it's been something of a rule to avoid having explosives in the arena, but it seemed that just one grenade was allowable. It turned out to be all the boy from Two needed to 'flush' the girl from Twelve from her hiding place.
Out came the pin. Up went the grenade through the open window above the stall's door. Down it went into the toilet behind the girl from Twelve. BOOM! The grenade exploded, the cannon fired and we all had a good laugh with the boy from Two! Too bad District Twelve didn't see the funny side!
#9: Lighting strikes twice
Most experts would agree that lightning doesn't tend to hit the same place twice, but the Gamemakers play by their own special rules. The Career pack seemed to a little too comfy for their liking, having kept hold of a lot more supplies than they would normally be able to retain. One lightning strike scattered a few crates and destroyed minor scraps, enough so for the boy from One to call it 'no big deal'.
Big mistake!
A second strike came down, as if to firmly scold him for what he said, and blew up the rest of the supplies after that. Whoa! While the careers recovered enough to keep themselves going without a huge amount of problems, they sure didn't let the boy from One forget his mistake! That's one throat slitting to remember!
#8: The Cornucopia Bloodbath
Always a moment for any Hunger Games fan to enjoy, or perhaps a massive series of moments? Either way, this year's bloodbath was one of the best we've had in recent years. I mean, let me count the ways!
The pair from Five trying to get the jump on the girl from One who was launched between them, only to have their eyes torn out. They sure didn't 'see' that one coming did they?
The little girl from Ten trying to copy what the boy from Four of last year's Games did and hide within the cornucopia to wait out the fighting and grab what she could when nobody remained. Little did the foolish girl know that this year's boy from Four had a keen nose for sniffing out things that shouldn't be there and found her in short order. Her family must feel pretty embarrassed that she got found after only a minute of hiding!
There was plenty of hack and slash fun going on all around the clearing within the massive dam, but the part most people remember is when the boy from One tried to prevent Wiress making off with a large duffel bag of goodies. He had his spear ready, but he himself was not ready for Wiress to slide right between his legs and run off behind him… after, of course, punching him right in the crotch. Ouch!
Readers, I can't wait for how next year's bloodbath will try and top this one!
#7: The Feast
Held in the darkest basement of the dam, it was lights out for the living and the dead tributes alike! Those with night vision goggles had the upper hand while those without were either in trouble or too cowardly too show up. That's not what we like seeing in a tribute!
It ended up only being a small feast, with just the pair from Eight and the girl from One showing up in time to battle for the soup on offer. The girl from Eight lost her head (literally!) and the boy from Eight ran off with wounded pride, and a wounded arm for good measure, while the girl from One enjoyed soup that was simply to die for.
Those tricky gamemakers, offering up a poisoned soup! You just can't assume anything in the Hunger Games, not even that a feast will contain helpful items!
#6: Beaver Mutts
It wouldn't be a dam without beavers and, lucky for us, the gamemakers thought ahead and created a surplus of them to keep the tributes on their toes… unless the beavers bit them off first! They sure did that to the boy from Four! Not enough to kill him, only make running a challenge.
Sometimes a mutt just needs to give our tributes a good scare, not cause any fatalities. I for one hope to see more of these beavers in future Games. I think we can rest assured that we certainly will!
#5: Two is company, and perhaps a crowd?
Face it, we all loved seeing the pair from Two battle side by side through the dangerous dam. When their allies from One bit the big one and the boy from Four was left abandoned at the far side of the arena it was just them against the world. The bond they shared was true and pure, certainly a far cry from Mercy and the boy from Two last year!
The pair had a series of moments together, but we can all agree the moment they shared a kiss had us all on the edge of our seats and looking on it wonder.
Of course, what Wiress did to them had us so much more impressed!
#4: The Electric Puzzle
A locked door. Ten rows of tiles to the deactivation switch. One way across. Twenty thousand volts for a wrong move.
No problem for Wiress! She overcame the gamemaker's favourite trap of the year and made it look so easy! Apparently the head gamemaker was a teensy bit sulky that the trap he expected to score at least two kills ended up being outwitted by the girl we once assumed was slow in the mind.
He assures he has something better in mind next year, so keep an eye out folks!
#3: The fire
Comedy value can really hit home with the audience and statistics say it certainly made all of you lovely people laugh into your popcorn. I can't judge, I'm no different! The boy from Three was doing so well to evade the flames that the gamemakers had triggered after his three days of not doing particularly much.
Then he grabbed the oxygen canister and gas mask.
Maybe it was just nerves clouding his judgement or, more likely if you ask me, the boy was particularly dumb to begin with… but what sensible person uses an oxygen canister when fire is all over the place? A dumb one. And, what happened to the canister and its user? Say it with me now! KABOOM!
#2: The Storm Peaks
Lightning and rain everywhere. Parts of the dam being flooded or destroyed outright. Tributes running bravely with determination and screams of amazement of what the benevolent Capitol can do. Frankly I'd want you committed somewhere if you didn't find the whole event on day twelve to be the stuff of legends!
#1: Wiress takes over the dam
While technically the Games are only truly won when the final cannon booms and the trumpets ring out, many agree that the Games were won at the final six this year. Between the burly pair from Two, the shrewd girl from Three, the boy from Four who had quickly adapted to toeless walking and the darkhorse boy from Eight… who would have ever expected that slow speaking, distant Wiress would be the one to take home the victor's crown?
Who, indeed, foresaw her finding the main control room and fiddling around with the wires within. I cannot claim to understand any of it, but Wiress obviously knew what she was doing there. One flicker of inspiration in those somewhat vacant eyes of hers was all it took for her to get started and soon gain full control of everything in the dam. The traps, the mechanisms, the doors, everything!
Wiress claimed she had no idea what she was doing, she just wanted to 'see what the buttons did', but we all know this is one cutthroat killer!
Will next year's victor be any better than Wiress? Impossible to say right now, but we can all agree this year gave us a fantastic Hunger Games!
INTERVIEW WITH DAME OF THE DAM!
By Silky Romandrii
When it comes to District Three, it seems that all of their victors are smart. Or perhaps 'bonkers' would be the word for it? They sure have brainpower, but they no doubt have some occasionally goofy ways of showing it off, and their latest victor is no exception whatsoever to this trend.
We all know Honorius, the ever witty victor of the Fifth Hunger Games, has a bit of a history of making cheeky banter. Imagine if a normal district citizen made a cheeky remark about the Head of Citizen Welfare's mother! They'd be in a sticky situation for sure! Honorius makes no apologies and, in his own words, claims to tell no lies.
Beetee is a genius, one of the smartest men we've ever gotten the pleasure to meet. Who can forgot all his technological advancements he's created for the Capitol and all the unsolvable questions he keeps answering month after month? But smart as he is, even he is known for inventing some rather strange things and making kooky suggestions. A toaster that butters its own bread so we don't have to? Laying out a welfare plan for the 'poor' within the districts? How very silly!
Even Pi, the cry baby we lost after the shame of failing to bring home any victors in her time as a mentor became too much for her, was a bit of a crazy sort as well. Just how many times did she get arrested for public meltdowns, again? Too many to keep track of if you ask me!
As for Wiress, she was a bit loopy from the moment she arrived in our grand city. Staring vacantly, not always talking even when spoken to, a slow sort of speech pattern… something was up, but we never thought it would be the early signs of a victor in the making! Expert doctors only took half a minute to conclude she simply has high-level autism, a case that doesn't remotely hinder her brilliant they say, but if you ask me I think it's just the madness a victor from Three is seemingly required to have!
I was lucky enough to be in attendance of the after-party of this year's Games within our beloved President's mansion. The food was grand, the music was divine and the wine was easily accessible (wink, wink!). Whispers abounded of a few Capitol children mysterious going missing over the past two years (page 40) but the only whispers that interested me that night were those of Wiress noting that the chocolate was a little sweet for her tastes. I narrowed the gap right away, ready to ask her some burning questions!
Silky Romandrii: Let's start with the important stuff. Congratulations on your victory Wiress!
Wiress Plummer: Oh, um… thanks… it was, um, really crazy…
SR: You or the Games? Just kidding! Anyway, how are you feeling? Fifteen days in the arena, seven days spent recovering and now you're here in this grand party. What's that like?
WP: I'm not… sure. Fast, loud… lots of noise… quite a lot of worries… feeling sick… um…
SR: Well speaking of feeling sick, apparently a relative of a tribute from the Eleventh Games was in the arena and she was sick when he died. Apparently you got along with the Girl from Five in training; what was it like seeing her being eliminated?
WP: She died alone… in so much pain… I, um, cried for her… it was cruel and-.
SR: Oh you Threes, always saying such silly things. So, now that you've won the Games what comes next for you when you're back home?
WP: I thought we were, um… talking about Arendellian II…
SR: What happens when you get home? Work with me here Wiress!
WP: …I'll read a book about, um… engineering? Electronics? Maybe drink, um… uh… some tea? Lavender tea… maybe?
SR: Lovely, lovely. But speaking of electronics, that dam you were in! Whoa! The other five didn't stand a chance with you at the control panel; what was it like 'playing God' in that arena?
WP: I just wanted to… to… um… to know what… the buttons did…
SR: Ok, but between us you just wanted to fry them with electricity, bring the transformer to live to tear them apart with and send the boy from Eight into the turbine, right?
WP: No! No, never! I never… I'm not… evil!
SR: But you are very popular. That finale is easily one of the best of all Forty Seven finished Hunger Games, and even before you unleashed hell on the other tributes you sure showed the boy from Ten who was boss! That tribute stood no chance against you; you really bled him dry!
WP: It was dark, so… dark… got scared, thought he… um… was a mutt… reacted…
SR: Don't worry Wiress, the Capitol loves vicious tributes. You'll fit right in with Olga, Bronze, Dragon and Tabbock.
WP: No! No! Beetee, help! Need… help… can't think…!
That was all the time I had before Beetee arrived to take Wiress away, claiming that some fans of hers were wanting autographs. I, of course, tried to follow them like how a mutt follows an outlier around, but it seemed Beetee had called in a favour from Dragon. I couldn't get passed that delicious hunk of a man. Not to worry though, he was game for an interview of his own and you'll be seeing the results of it in the next issue!
ARENA TOURS AVAILABLE! VISIT THE MUST SEE SIGHTS!
By Hajax Marble
Can't wait for next year's Hunger Games? Craving something to quench your thirst for more Hunger Games mania? Questioning your reason to live without any tribute on tribute combat being broadcast live? The lack of any stabbing poisoning your life? Well not to worry, Capitol Vacations has got you covered!
Got a few thousand Caps laying around? Got nothing to do for a month? Then why not book an ever so grand and luxurious tour to the arena of the Forty Seventh Hunger Games that you'll never forget? Witness all the memorable sights of the battles, gaze in awe at the dried blood in the spots tributes were eliminated, take part in some re-enactments of the best parts of the Games and do it all while living like kings!
With the weather now set to a much more hospitable endless summer you'll find yourself with no shortage of what to do. At the grand rocky banks over by the sides of the dam now sits the finest resort money could pay for the construction of! Casinos, arcades, eight star restaurants, magnificent pools and a trio of cinemas make it somewhere anybody on Panem would want to be. Will you be among those who get to experience the high life within? We hope to see you there so you can tell us yourself that you're somebody who said yes!
Play hover ball around the shimmering silver cornucopia with a once per month guest appearance by legendary hover ball pro Teff Withers of the 28th Hunger Games! Recordings of all the best moments will be playing on loop and everybody is more than welcome to try their hand with the weapons (rubber only, safety first!) and re-enact the bloodbath. Ever wanted to be the girl from One as she broke the arms and legs of the girl from Six before sinking a dagger into her chest? It's our pride and joy to be able to say 'wish granted'!
If that's too tame for you then why not head to the east of the dam where the robot transformers were in disguise… before they came to life, that is! Think you can do a better job of dodging their gunfire than the boy from Eleven did? You probably can, but feel free to prove it against the nerf darts the transformers have been equipped with.
The main event of the tour will surely be getting the chance to be the Dame of the Dam in your own special way! Man the controls, activate the traps and unleash chaos to your heart's content! The most lifelike of dummies (and a few Avoxes) have been readied for you to test out the traps on, whether it's electric generators, turbines, floors collapsing or much more besides! Don't just explore the dam, control the dam! Just try not to slip over, sometimes a puddle might drip down from above; all part of the experience being authentic!
Such an amazing vacation could easily be in your grasp. The odds of having a wonderful time you'll fondly remember for the rest of your life are ever in your favour! All it'll cost is ten thousand caps a person.
A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A GAMEMAKER: ASSISTANT GAMEMAKER DOMITIA TELLS ALL!
By Xanther L'Pronx
It's not easy working as part of the team behind a Hunger Games! The dream job of many requires intense creativity, strong self-discipline, a great attention span and the ability to work as part of a team towards near impossible deadlines. But for Domita Empire it's all just part of the job she loves doing. But what goes into being a Gamemaker? Lucky for us Domita was willing to show me around the control room of the Forty Seventh Hunger Games and answer that exact question.
She first took me towards her assigned seat in the control room, calling her right to sit there as the absolute honour. Second, perhaps, to being a tribute that is! From her control panel Domita has access to all kinds of the latest touchscreen holo tech Caps can buy. At the command of our newest Head Gamemaker, the ever handsome Jasprous Bellona, Domita can perform one of several functions: adjust the time of day or night in the arena, call in all sorts of weather effects from gusts of wind to lightning bolts, strengthen the flow of water below the damn and even spawn the odd beaver mutt or fifty! Don't all of those touchscreen buttons sound tempting? I know they sure do! Remember the lightning sent at the career pack's supply pile? That was the work of Domitia!
It's not all about sitting down and pressing touchscreen controls however! Far from it! Sometimes the job takes a keen amount of observation and working out what the most effective action to take at any given moment is. I was led over towards the hologram map of the arena, the very thing that keep a constant track of all twenty four tributes at any given moment thanks to their trackers and confirms their exact moment of death right down to the nanosecond. Whoa! Such a map takes a lot of power to keep activated and Domitia is one of several who ensure all the power required is constantly being pumped into the main reactor of the control room. It's a true team effort!
But all the arena functions and the hologram map would be nothing without the crown jewel of the control room. The mutt launcher. All it takes is loading in one mutation brewed up by the Capitol labs and then hitting the button. Whoosh! Off it goes to the arena and to join in the fun the tributes are having! Domitia gets the luxury of being able to slam that red launch button at least three times a day in the latter half of any good Hunger Games.
Alas, I had to leave soon after that. I was only allocated a thirty minute visit and there were secret plans being drawn up for next year's Games. I heard the word fire, I can assure it, so expect something hot and flammable next time dear readers!
VICTOR NEWS: WHAT ARE THEY UP TO?
By Kantropis Jump
It's been another month of life going by since our last issue and we've all made new memories and tried new things in that time. Or done more of the same, that's fine as well. Naturally, saying 'we've all done stuff' means everybody, and our beloved victors fall under everybody. I've been keeping my eyes peeled, my binoculars at the ready and my camera ready to go at any given moment in my search for the most interesting victor news. This month I've got ten brand new victor stories ready to go; you simply won't believe what you're reading!
To start with we have a victor whose life is in a whirlwind of events! Our most unlikely of victors, Snag Nakamura (34th Games), married his sweetheart Paisley Wendell just shy of half a year ago and already it seems the lovely couple are expecting their first offspring. It's unknown yet if it's a boy or girl or if it's one baby or several, but it's certain that Snag and his wife are both overjoyed at this turn of events! Could one of those future kids be a victor one day? It all comes down to chance at a reaping, but let's file it under P for Possible.
It's not just weddings and families going on, but break-ups as well! Bronze Marley (19th Games), forever the kind to love 'em and leave 'em, just broke up with his twentieth lover of the year. He cited 'things just happen'. She accused him of rape. Bronze, for his part, was ever so offended and claimed he was all about fun and games, nothing more. Looks like another citizen within One filling up the jails for backtalk against our favourite cheeky victor! Bronze bounced back fast, already seen at a fancy night club with another girl. Her name isn't known yet, but details will surely become apparent soon!
That's not all the romantic talk going on in this issue, far from it dear readers! Thanks to some eagle eyed viewers taking photos at just the right moment we caught Tag Nylon (42nd Games) and Lammy Phyronix (40th Games) leaving a photo booth at Snow Land Amusement Park – around day ten of the Games – with their faces red and their clothes just a little bit ruffled. It seems, readers of mine, that inter-district romance is in the air! Both neglected to comment when flocked by our top reporter, save for Lammy squealing and hiding her face and Tag telling us to buzz off. Rest assured readers, we shan't buzz off quite so easily!
It's not just love this issue folks, but plenty of hatred as well! Hardly two days ago during a routine visit to the Capitol we saw Rook Valiant (17th Games) trying to get a can of beer from one of our finest vending machines to enjoy on the lovely summer afternoon. The thing is, whoever stocked the vending machine did a fairly shoddy job of it; the beer can became trapped! Rook declared his hatred for the vending machine, following with numerous punches and kicks. He's not lost his touch with age folks! If not for some local citizens flocking over Rook would've been crushed by the falling vending machine; phew, what a close call! Rook claimed he hated having a crowd all around him for all of two hours, but we know how he really feels!
A new duo are hitting the streets of the Capitol! Crown Martins (24th Games) and Harp Victory (lover of tragically deceased Crystal, 14th Games) have expanded from the already popular branch of family run candy stores the former inherited and have opened their own night club within the Capitol. Candy, soup, steak, particularly funky drinks… if you want it the stuff is probably there! Ever since Crystal's passing the pair have been sticking together like glue, Harp leaving Crystal's empty home and moving across the street with the motormouth of One. Crown claims he'd been wanting to expand the reach of his business for a while now and never really had the means for it until Harp pooled her own fortune with his. When addressing rumours of the pair having a secret bond of their own, Crown assured us that 'I get the appeal of women about as much as Harp gets the appeal of men. We have other interests; we're just besties'. Whether this is true remains to be seen!
Crimson Flanders (29th Games) was caught in quite the compromising position in a bakery she's been known to frequent. Can you say 'foursome interrupted'? Crimson would have if her mouth was empty! She fled the area and neglected to comment on the backroom action. Porter Tripp (38th Games) signed us a statement, claiming 'Crimson's business is her own. Piss off, please and thank you'. Oh Crimson, the nymphomaniac of the Capitol, what would we do without you being such a delightful presence within our grand city?
Chassis Macalister (31st Games) may have failed to break the ongoing losing streak of District Six, but he and his team of demolition derby drivers (The Hooligans) broke the record for most opposing cars taken out in a single derby (twenty one!) and broke several of their bones at the same time. Chassis was not phased by any of his injuries, merely claiming 'when you're a Hooligan it's all part of the job. Breaking stuff is basically what all of us, from myself to Captain Abe, do for a living. You did see me break the arena that one time right'? Indeed we did Chassis, indeed we did.
If you want a bigger losing streak than District Six then look no further than District Twelve! One victor to their name and it happened so very long ago, so long in fact a few readers don't even remember it. A shame because the Games won by Duke Saint Rose (6th Games) were easily a top five in the first decade of our grand tradition in my humble opinion. Duke, as he often does, said it's only a matter of time before a tribute from Twelve makes it home. He's vowed to save 'at least one innocent human being even if it kills him'. The odds of this vow coming true? Experts at the betting office claim 5000-1! Duke neglected to comment after this, focusing moreso on sewing up a fine mauve shirt.
There's always a troublemaker in our great country and Jack Tylos (21st Games) is often the troublemaker of the hour. He was, yet again, arrested for trying to steal a six pack of beer from one of the finest mega malls within the Capitol. Jack claimed 'I've just gotta steal. Me living without stealing is like a fish not swimming. It's just not right'. While the self-appointed 'master thief' was being arrested ten crates of beer were stolen from the back room without any trace of who pilfered them. Was there a connection? Was Jack just a distraction? Did he allow himself to be caught? Alas, the world may never know!
Even the original victor of our growing line-up, Mizar Aldjoy (1st Games) has been getting in on the action, kind of sort of. It's never a rare sight for him to get an incoming phone call and duck away into some empty closet to talk about… something. But what? What?! Sponsors making a pledge for the next Games? A family emergency? A secret lover despite his vow to remain single? Who could be on the other side of the first victor's phone? Tell us Mizar!
That's all we have for this issue, but buy the next issue and you'll be treated to more tales of the victors and what these celebrities of our nation our up to. As a teaser, it seems like our latest victor has already gotten herself into a spot of bother with Peacekeepers! Apparently she made something that can cook bread for the district citizens out of a mere four pieces of grain. Amazing! Of course, the Capitol will provide all that the districts need and thus our dear president had it taken into his control for the foreseeable future. Oh Wiress, you cheeky girl!
PUNS WITH FIR BUZZ (HOLD YOUR GROANS)!
By Dominix Minter & Fir Buzz
It's that time of the month again! Give it up for the princess of puns, the duchess of dim, the liaison of laughter… Fir Buzz! This week's topic… bears!
Bear with me! I'll think of some puns soon!
Like my house? I built it with my bear hands!
Sometimes life is tough. We've just gotta grin and bear it!
Ever been bitten by a mean ol' mutt? The pain is unbearable!
What do you call a bear without any teeth? A gummy bear!
Why was Piglet looking in the toilet? He was searching for Pooh!
What would bears be without Bees? Ears of course!
How can a bear catch fish without using a pole? Easy, they use their bear hands!
Why do pandas love watching really old movies? Because they're in black and white!
What do you call a bear that's been in the rain too long? A drizzly bear!
[After Issue #559 of Games Galore Flavio Heartson was fired for neglecting to give the fallen tributes any actual names, thus triggering their lingering fanbases. He was soon rehired for catching a candid snapshot of Peridot on a date with a long time clerk of her favourite comicbook store in District One. Meanwhile Xanther L'Pronx was given a whole year in prison for breaking the taboo of revealing arena spoilers before a Hunger Games begins. The once fiery arena had to be massively terraformed to maintain the illusion of surprise, the mere mention of the fire within taking away basically all of the awe and cheers the arena was supposed to get from the Capitolites. The scandal ended up unintentionally saving the life of the next victor.]
Katniss and Peeta held their respectful silence for Wiress over the next minute or so. With heavy hearts and a lump in their throats they continued on their way down the street without saying another word. It hurt too much.
They soon came to the forty eighth face on the ever long street. A young man with a rather lecherous smirk looked back up at her, a short beard adoring his shin and short curly hair adoring his face. Even in his imprinted face his eyebrows were notably puffy.
"Neon Erg," Peeta read, frowning. "First to die in the final Hunger Games. Apparently something of a womaniser in his youth… before he became terrified of all women."
Katniss found it hard to say anything at all for a few moments.
"He tried to kill me," Katniss muttered. "At the start of the quell's bloodbath, I mean. Plenty of others tried to… what made him go for me? Did I… do something?"
"I'm… not entirely sure," Peeta admitted. "Lucky for us both that Finnick was there."
Wiress' chapter has easily got one of my favourite formats thus far. A great way to tell the story a whole new way, build the world, catch up on past victors and give us a brand new way of getting to know the latest victor in the long list of Hunger Games survivors. So, what do you all think of Wiress? I feel like her being able to take over a massive electric dam… it just suits her, you know? She may be quirky, but she's one hell of a genius. Or perhaps the victor gossip of past champions was more your style? Either way, hope you liked it. Next up, the District Five Male from Catching Fire, a chapter sure to be both ridiculously lulzy and maybe a bit of a tearjerker as well? Stay tuned to find out more!
Stats
District 1: Peridot Gaudy (8th Games), Crystal McCree (14th Games), Bronze Marley (19th Games), Crown Martins (24th Games), Dollar Dettwieller (32nd Games), Mascara Court (41st Games), Platinum Twist (44th Games)
District 2: Baron Overwhill (4th Games), Runa Peace (7th Games), Olga Machete (10th Games), Rook Valiant (17th Games), Boulder Atherston (20th Games), Vercingetorix Carnby (25th Games), Dragon Batofel (27th Games), Rhyder Overwhill (39th Games), Mercy Gregor (46th Games)
District 3: Honorius Perthshire (5th Games), Pi Orbit (22nd Games), Beetee Latier (37th Games), Wiress Plummer (47th Games)
District 4: Museida Selkirk (3rd Games), Mags Flanagan (11th Games), Tide Luther (23rd Games), Librae Ogilvy (35th Games)
District 5: Shunt Gaspar (12th Games), Isobel Sparks (18th Games), Crimson Flanders (29th Games), Porter Tripp (38th Games)
District 6: Chassis Macalister (31st Games)
District 7: Pliny Aransio (2nd Games), Fir Buzz (9th Games), Jack Tylos (21st Games), Snag Nakamura (34th Games)
District 8: Woof Casino (16th Games), Paige Murphy (30th Games), Spool Nylon (42nd Games)
District 9: Mizar Aldjoy (1st Games), Gwenith Rosebud (13th Games), Teff Withers (28th Games), Laurel Flamsteel (36th Games), Tabbock Summers (43rd Games)
District 10: Stallion March (26th Games), Lammy Phyronix (40th Games)
District 11: Bear Redfoot (15th Games), Seeder Howell (33rd Games), Chaff Mitchell (45th Games)
District 12: Duke Saint-Rose (6th Games)