Name: Polly Andrews
District: Three
Age: 18
Arena: Colosseum
Kills: 5
Weapon: Knife
Duration: 1 HR 13 Mins
I took the first house in district three's Victors Village. My parents were Capitol rebels, and were arrested and shot for their crimes against Panem. So it was just me and my older sister Florence who took up residence.
I am glad that I could give the luxury my sister deserved. But I knew deep down that I did horrible things to be here today. The tournament is a strange process. I was handcuffed and treated like a criminal for something I didn't do. Thrown into a Roman style battle arena and ordered to fight for my life. I did. My sister deserved this house. I did not.
I sat down on the sofa having just finished tidying up after making breakfast to find that a re-run of my games was playing on the tv.
I sighed heavily. But I couldn't bring myself to turn it over.
I watched in Horror as Horror as I saw the District 5 Male charge at me, but tripped in time to land straight onto the end of my blade, straight through his heart.
Then moments after I pulled it out, and charged at the District 7 female to slit her throat with one clean swipe.
Tears poured down my face as I watched the the District 2 female fighting with he District 11 boy, taking him out. And then didn't have enough time to react before I brought my blade down in the back of her skull.
I had seen this before of course. At the post interview with Puis. But I don't think I really took it in, still shellshocked from the at the win.
I watched as the District 1 female, attacked me. Rolling around in the sand, I grabbed a handful and flicked it into her eyes. Blinded she screamed and tried to remove the sand, but it wasn't enough time before my knife found her heart and dug down inside her. Killing her practically instantly.
And finally it was the final 2. Myself and District 12 female. I watched as we battled for roughly 6 minutes. We both dug our knifes into each other and I watched as we both fell to the ground. This re-run was clearly edited, as we were both on the floor bleeding out for a good 20 minutes, but this was made into only 3 minutes. But I beat her by a heartbeat, and I watched as my unconscious but not dead self was lifted up onto a stretcher and taken by the Capitol as my trumpets played.
I noticed before but there was a rouse of boo's coming from the audience watching the show. Admittedly I never noticed at the interview. Maybe they didn't show it as it didn't glorify my Victory, which was the whole point of the post games interview. It seemed that they all wanted the District 12 girl to win. Admittedly, she had more kills than I did. And she was stunningly beautiful unlike myself, with my lanky Acne ridden self. But beauty doesn't make you a winner. It did not save her. Somehow I wished that she had lasted longer than me, and none of this was happening right now. Maybe she would have liked this life much more than me. But I knew that my actions had gave a much better healthier life for my sister, and that cannot be the worst thing.
I heard the commentator say that her name was Prayer, and I suddenly felt sick. One thing I happy about with this whole experience was that I did not know any of their names.
My Sister entered the room, her eyes flicked from the Tv to me, my eyes stained by my tears.
"Why on earth would you watch this for", she gushed turning off the tv.
"I - couldn't stop myself", I blustered.
"This is a games-free home. At least until the mandatory viewing starts for the next one. Besides have you seen this?", she threw down a newspaper.
Being a victor had it's perks. For one thing, we get a daily capitol newspaper sent out to us. Granted we get it later in the day, but special delivery means it arrived promptly.
THE DAILY CAP NEWS
GET YOUR BETS IN
It was announced last night by the Head Game-maker that for the next Hunger Games, which can be viewed live on channel National Panem 1 or, if your willing to pay the 1000 Caps live in person from the viewing balconies, you can now get your bets in.
But the Head Game-maker knows that audiences aren't really going to know who could be a potential winner and whom would be the best tribute to place their bets, which is why starting next year, 2 days will be allocated for training in a new special gym, which has been built by the Game-makers. This will allow tributes to get some training done and then the game-makers can release a score between 1 (being the poorest) and 12 (being the highest). A fun gesture being that there is twelve districts competing. The higher the score the more likely the tribute has of doing well in the games.
Naturally nothing is set in stone and none of us really know what a tribute can or may do in the arena at the time….. But that's the fun of the gamble by all means.
There was concerns over the safety of the tributes, but we have been informed that peacekeepers will be on site, this if for the safety of the tributes, so they don't harm each other before the games, but also of the safety of the capital public.
I threw the newspaper down. For the safety of the public. What a load of old rubbish. Scared a tribute might harm a member of the capitol, but after I have killed 5 people, I am allowed to walk around the Capitol at my leisure anytime I like. Utter Madness.