THE FIFTEENTH ANNUAL HUNGER GAMES
"Flora and Fauna"


INTRODUCTION

President Lizeth Dyson spent her fourth year as president of the nation. However, someone who did not return for another year was Head Gamemaker Theresia Cloud. Theresia had been caught between home and work and her husband's enrollment in the peacekeeping force and her children's sickness that she was just too stressed to keep doing her job. As such, she resigned, and the audience gave her thunderous applause until the moment she stepped around the corner after having signed away her job. President Dyson was then tasked with the rather long and laborious process of selecting a new head gamemaker. After sifting through many thousands of auditions and spending hours of careful deliberation, Lizeth selected a fifty-two year-old man by the name of Lorenzo Chastain to take the important position. After packing his bags and moving into the gamemaker's office, he and his team of loyal appointed gamemakers met together and began sketching out his first arena. This one was very important for Lorenzo, for a Head Gamemaker's first arena was their first impression on the nation. As such, Lorenzo made absolutely certain that this was the most marvelous and spectacular arena yet.

The career alliance the year of the fifteenth Hunger Games was exceptionally strong; it consisted of eight members, the most of any games before! They were all six tributes from Districts 1, 2, and 4, as well as the District 5 girl and the District 7 girl. Each career had something to contribute to the alliance. The District 1 boy was perhaps just as skilled in weaponry and battle as he was in wilderness survival, allegedly being able to fashion a snare in less than a minute. He was also adept in identifying edible plants, while his preferred weapon was the spear. His district partner, the District 1 girl, was much more viscous than he, much preferring weapons like the sword and axe to do her killing fast and easy. District 2 produced an even more stellar showing, with each tribute scoring a ten in training and impressing the others with their impeccable skill in virtually any weapon imaginable. The boy was most skilled with the axe, while the girl much preferred blades. The District 4 girl scored the only ten outside of District 2, impressing the gamemakers with her impeccable wilderness survival skills as well as her skills with the harpoon and blowgun. The District 4 boy scored the lowest score of the alliance, with a meager eight in training. The District 5 girl, one of the two outliers welcomed into the career pack, was incredibly skilled with the sword, knife, crossbow, and axe, as well as almost every nature survival skill imaginable. Her father was a retired peacekeeper and so taught her everything he knew from his work in Panem's security force. The final member of the alliance was the District 7 girl, who almost seemed to be one with her axe, swinging and smashing it with impeccable skill and coordination. The training scores were average, as three tens, three nines, and two eights were scored. The rest of the tributes scored between seven and two in their private sessions. Here are the tributes:

District 1: Ardor Keogh, 16, (9) 11-1 and Daria Fleck, 17, (9) 10-1

District 2: Mason Coccia, 18, (10) 8-1 and Aryel Pinelis, 17, (10) 9-1

District 3: Vizio Harwell, 18, (5) 26-1 and Techa Cable, 16, (4) 36-1

District 4: Syren Pattullo, 16, (8) 12-1 and Eillen Kendrixy, 18, (10) 8-1

District 5: Niccx Mecha, 15, (3) 49-1 and Dina Wilmarth, 17, (9) 11-1

District 6: Daren Emanuel, 18, (4) 35-1 and Marisol Hyatt, 15, (2) 69-1

District 7: Bryce Ginnis, 16, (7) 19-1 and Linda Detocqieville, 18, (8) 16-1

District 8: Florian Sykes, 17, (3) 39-1 and Tecida Iansiti, 14, (3) 58-1

District 9: Garner Blanchette, 15, (2) 60-1 and Leena Coley, 16, (6) 21-1

District 10: Nichol Diamond, 18, (6) 19-1 and Minerva Santana, 17, (3) 50-1

District 11: Yon Messenger, 17, (4) 37-1 and Becki Blanton, 13, (2) 88-1

District 12: Carter Blanton, 18, (6) 22-1 and Arlyn Calkins, 16, (3) 49-1


THE GAMES

These games took place in a massive hanging garden, with ten floors that all bloomed with flowers and plants and trees blossoming with every kind of fruit one could imagine. It was as if it was a building that was only half owned by man, while the other half was owned by nature. Crystal clear lakes scattered the arena, and the cornucopia—it was on the ground level floor—was made of solid platinum and was filled with weapons and tools and food and water and medicine and rope and everything else that could mean the difference between the tribute's lives and deaths in the difficult weeks to come. Everything in the arena was stunningly beautiful. Even the rabbits that ran around the arena eating flowers were harmless and were just installed for the cute factor. The field in front of the cornucopia was very colorful to go along with the colorful theme of the arena; the backpacks were every color of the rainbow and even the weapons had rainbow-colored hilts. The arena did have a nasty side, though; at random points during the games the seemingly harmless animals that roamed the arena would turn vicious and would attempt to slaughter the tributes. The rabbits, deer, songbirds, squirrels, and even the ants could and would randomly switch between being harmless animals and being feral monsters.

The tributes squinted their eyes as they rose up into the magnificent garden arena, the blinding sunlight making it difficult for them to take in their surroundings. Every pedestal was surrounded by a cluster of flowers: zinnias, lilies, and paisleys among them. It was so beautiful that many were taking in its splendor until the very moment that the countdown reached zero. Then, they leapt off of their pedestals and raced in the direction of their choosing.

The first to reach the cornucopia was Aryel, who picked up the scimitar she had requested from the gamemakers off of one of the metal countertops inside of the cornucopia. A few seconds passed before she caught a glimpse of a boy running past her, and Aryel was on him like a hound, slicing him to ribbons with her blade.

Daren Emanuel, District 6 Male: 24th, Killed by Aryel, Bloodbath

Not far behind Aryel were all of her allies, the other members of the powerful career alliance. Once Mason reached the cornucopia he picked out a hatchet from a cluster of pink flowers and thrust it into the torso of the nearest tribute. By the time she fell to the ground with a sickening thump, she was dead.

Becki Blanton, District 11 Female: 23rd, Killed by Mason, Bloodbath

Dina, eager to prove herself to her fellow careers, closed a tight fist around a spear that lay waiting for her thirty yards from her pedestal. Dina shoved the spear into the back of the nearest girl's neck, and it scissored through her head before sticking out of her mouth, killing her almost instantly. Then, Dina pulled the bloodstained weapon out of her victim's body and wiped it off in the grass, proud after making her first kill.

Techa Cable, District 3 Female: 22nd, Killed by Dina, Bloodbath

Daria, invigorated at the myriad of opportunities to rack up kills, picked up a high-voltage electric taser that lay not far from her pedestal. She stormed over to a boy with his back turned to her, and Daria flicked the switch as she placed the taser on the back of his neck, causing the powerful electric current to course through his body. When Daria flicked the switch back off, the boy fell to the ground with a loud thump, dead.

Nichol Diamond, District 10 Male: 21st, Killed by Daria, Bloodbath

Meanwhile, Aryel had spent just shy of half a minute stalking a girl around the cornucopia and waiting for the perfect opportunity to kill her. It was too easy, and when the unsuspecting girl turned her back to her Aryel lunged forward and planted her scimitar into her back.

Leena Colley, District 9 Female: 20th, Killed by Aryel, Bloodbath

It was not long after Linda closed her anxious fingers around an axe that she went in for the kill, pouncing upon a boy about twelve yards from her. Linda pinned him to the ground and bludgeoned him in the skull with her axe, splitting his head open like a knife through butter.

Florian Sykes, District 8 Male: 19th, Killed by Linda, Bloodbath

The final kill of the bloodbath occurred when Mason hurled his axe through the air with all the strength he could muster up, sending it flipping end over end before the serrated edge buried itself in one tribute's back, sending her slumping to the ground like a stone. She died after a few seconds of twitching, and Mason retrieved his axe from the girl's corpse and wiped it off on a backpack.

Arlyn Calkins, District 12 Female: 18th, Killed by Mason, Bloodbath

Seven cannons rang through the arena, each one representing one of the tributes that lost their lives in the bloodbath. Lorenzo was quite pleased with this; it was not nearly as large as the usual thirteen or fourteen but was still a pretty good number. If anything, it would just make for an even longer and more exhilarating games…

The eight careers all settled down in the cornucopia with their sleeping bags, and with eight members it was quite a tight fit, but it did the job. They each agreed to take one hour-long shifts guarding the others and the supplies, after which time they would rouse the person whose job it was to go next. In this way, they avoided being robbed the entire night.

The outlying district tributes all took different approaches to surviving the night. One tribute hid under a layer of moss and grass. Several tributes hid inside of trees. One tribute even dug a hole in the ground and then piled the dirt back on top of him, concealing him underground for the night.

The tributes were jerked awake by the sound of a cannon around two in the morning on Day 2. One girl, unable to sleep, had been tirelessly walking around the arena when she stepped into a cluster of murderous vines set up by the gamemakers. They clutched her ankle with immense pressure, and despite her struggling she could not escape. The vines slowly consumed and subjugated her, tearing open her body and constricting her. An hour later there was no trace of her existence left.

Marisol Hyatt, District 6 Female: 17th, Constricting Vines, Day 2

Those who had managed to fall back asleep after the incident woke to the sounds of bluebirds singing their melodies through the arena. For most of the tributes, this meant another day of walking round the arena and collecting food for the day. For most of the tributes, that is. The careers got to the long and tedious job of combing through the arena for their unlucky next victims. The eight careers split up into four groups of two. The groups were as follows: Ardor and Aryel, Mason and Daria, Syren and Dina, and Eillen and Linda. They all went their separate ways.

It was six in the evening that day when the duo of Eillen and Linda were treading through a patch of tall grass and heard a rustle about twenty yards away. They assumed it was just an animal, but quietly treaded over just to make sure. What they found was a boy curled up into a ball in a ditch. Eillen and Linda both worked together to kill the boy, and in the blink of an eye Eillen's harpoon was lodged in his forehead and Linda's axe sprouted from his chest. The sound of his cannon prompted them to remove their weapons from the body and move on.

Yon Messenger, District 11 Male: 16th, Killed by Eillen and Linda, Day 2

Days 3 and 4 passed deathless, void of all conflict among the tributes. The gamemakers spiced things up a little and, realizing that the games would be over in a snap if they let the career alliance remain at such a high size, sent a group of six white-tailed bunnies after the duo of Ardor and Aryel. At first they seemed harmless. Aryel even joked about how cute they looked with their ears bent over and their pouty-looking expressions. But not for long. The rabbits lunged at the two, calling on their brethren and causing a huge swarm of mutts to latch onto the two tributes, their long fangs injecting venom into the tribute's tender flesh. They fed on the two career's corpses for a bit before they were recalled by the gamemakers and retreated back into their den, once again harmless bunnies.

Ardor Keogh, District 1 Male: 15th, Rabbit Muttations, Day 5

Aryel Pinelis, District 2 Female: 14th, Rabbit Muttations, Day 5

On Day 6, a tribute whose water supply had long run out lay under a layer of leaves on the forest floor, his body so weak from lack of water and nutrients that he could barely move. At this time, Minerva stumbled upon him. Minerva saw the helpless boy laying on the ground, hoping, ne, begging for death. Minerva pulled the knife out of her backpack that she had retrieved from the cornucopia and plunged it into the boy's heart, an act of kindness that warmed the hearts of those in the audience.

Garner Blanchette, District 9 Male: 13th, Killed by Minerva, Day 6

Day 7 came and gone without a single death, but on Day 8 the careers—they were now hunting down their kills as one full pack of six—investigated the source of a short squealing sound and found a boy sitting in the bough of a tree, with nowhere to run as the bloodthirsty allies climbed up the tree and Daria shocked him to death with her high-voltage taser.

Niccx Mecca, District 5 Male: 12th, Killed by Daria, Day 8

Days 9 thru 12 were the most boring yet in the arena. At least in the previous days without any kills there had been plenty of close calls (some outer district tribute managing to hide as the careers prowled past him without looking back) but Days 9, 10, 11, and 12 were the epitome of boring. Finally, the gamemakers decided they had had enough and so changed some of the small husky pups that roamed the arena into huge, feral wolves twice the size of people. The wolves raced across the arena and pounced upon one tribute, mauling him apart and feasting on his flesh and blood.

Carter Blanton, District 12 Male: 11th, Wolf Muttations, Day 13

Two deaths occurred on Day 14. One was from dehydration.

Minerva Santana, District 10 Female: 10th, Dehydration, Day 14

The other was made when Dina shoved her spear through one boy's body, sending it poking out of the other side of his torso.

Bryce Ginnis, District 7 Male: 9th, Killed by Dina, Day 14

That left the final eight: Daria Fleck from District 1, Mason Coccia from District 2, Vizio Harwell from District 3, Syren Pattullo and Eillen Kendrixy from District 4, Dina Wilmarth from District 5, Linda Dotecquieville from District 7, and Tecida Iansiti from District 8.

On Day 15, Tecida came up with a plan. She unzipped the backpack she had received from the cornucopia and pulled out her knife. The careers had switched back to the strategy of hunting their kills solo, and when Mason walked under the tree she was hiding in, Tecia leapt down onto the ground, surprising Mason. Tecida plunged the knife into Mason's chest, killing him when the serrated edge of the blade pierced his heart.

Mason Coccia, District 2 Male: 8th, Killed by Tecida, Day 15

However, Tecida's excitement at killing Mason was short-lived, as she died from dehydration on Day 17.

Tecida Iansiti, District 8 Female: 7th, Dehydration, Day 17

Linda woke up around two in the morning on Day 18, her fellow careers asnooze around her. She knew she was the weakest of the careers remaining. She knew she was. And, she knew that as the number of tributes dwindled down she would be the first on the chopping block as the other careers would bump her off in favor of letting only the strongest survive to the final battle. And so, she picked up her backpack with her weapons and supplies and darted away from her allies, never to return.

On Day 19, Linda hid behind a tree and waited for a tribute to wander along, whom she planned to pounce upon and kill with her axe. It didn't take long before Eillen wandered by, and when Linda leapt out of the shadows onto Eillen she was so surprised she didn't have any time to react. Linda slammed her axe down into Eillen's chest, and she didn't even need to go in for a second blow before her cannon rang through the arena.

Eillen Kendrixy, District 4 Female: 6th, Killed by Linda, Day 19

The night of Day 20, while Syren was away gathering food for the other careers, Daria and Dina, the two remaining careers, huddled together in the cornucopia and developed a plan. They would wake up at precisely three in the morning the next day, at which time they would kill Syren with whatever method was most convenient. After all, Syren had made a grand total of zero kills throughout the games thus far and really was a burden on the two girls.

When Syren arrived at the cornucopia that night, the others seemed excessively kind to him. Not taking the clue, Syren shrugged it off as caused by their gratitude for gathering food for them. All of the pieces fell into place as he fell asleep that night in a few minutes.

True to their plan, the two careers woke up at three in the morning on Day 21. Daria closed her dexterous fingers around the taser she had carried with her since Day 1, and she placed the cold metal on Syren's neck as she flicked the switch on. The current hummed through Syren's body, but just for good measure Dina speared him through the heart. They disposed of his corpse by burying it just outside of the cornucopia. Now, Daria and Dina were the only remaining careers.

Syren Pattullo, District 4 Male: 5th, Killed by Daria and Dina, Day 21

The next morning, the gamemakers all agreed that it was that time again. It was the time that came every year during the Hunger Games, without fail. It was time for the final battle.

The snakes crawled out of the ground almost as if spontaneously appearing from the Earth. They started out as harmless garder snakes that none of the tributes paid attention to. But, within thirty minutes there were about twenty of them circling each tribute. Suspecting a trick of the gamemakers, many of the tributes began packing up their supplies in case they needed to make a run for it if a greater threat arrived. The snakes coming out of the ground grew larger and larger, and within an hour there was a huge black vortex of the scaly reptiles circling each tribute. Then, some gamemaker flicked a switch and instructed the snakes to kill.

The tributes stormed across the terrain as fast as they could towards the cornucopia, where they knew they would be safe. Each tribute had a pack of at least a hundred bloodthirsty vipers hot on their tail, snapping their jaws as they raced after the panicked boys and girls, their eyes glittering with malice. Once all of the tributes had reached the top of the cornucopia, the bloody showdown that would crown their victor began. Atop the shimmering cornucopia stood the four remaining tributes. Daria and Dina stood close together, Dina wielding an axe and a spear and Daria holding a knife and club. Linda brandished her axe, and Vizio held a baton he had managed to grab before climbing on top of the cornucopia.

Almost in unison, the three remaining tributes lunged at terrified Vizio. After all, he was the outlier who had made zero kills thus far and was the easiest of kills; Dina's axe cut through his chest like a knife through butter and buried itself deep into his chest and stopping the flow of blood from his heart and killing him almost instantaneously.

Vizio Harwell, District 3 Male: 4th, Killed by Dina, Day 22

The careers had never taken kindly to being betrayed, and so Dina and Daria teamed up to slaughter the girl that had backstabbed them roughly a week prior. Dina and Daria both stalked towards Linda, and the girl backed away towards the edge of the cornucopia, the sound of snapping jaws sounding under her feet. But she was really just putting on a show. When she was standing on her tiptoes on the very edge of the cornucopia, she dove forward towards Daria, pinning her to the ground and bludgeoning her in the chest with her axe. Linda brought down her axe into Daria's chest and then ripped it out, and repeated this a good number of times before kicking the career's body off of the cornucopia, where the bloodthirsty snakes feasted on her bloody corpse.

Daria Fleck, District 1 Female: 3rd, Killed by Linda, Day 22

The final battle of the fifteenth Hunger Games was between Dina Wilmarth of District 5 and Linda Detocqieville of District 7. Both tributes held the same weapon; the axe. And such, the final battle of the games began. The two girls dove towards each other, and the bloodcurdling scream of metal against metal filled the air as the serrated edges of the tribute's axes clashed into the air. Metal scraped against metal and sparks flew, malice glittering in the eyes of the two tributes who were vying for the crown. It was almost an hour later when Dina corralled Linda into the perfect position and slammed her axe into the side of Linda's neck, decapitating her in one clean slice and sending her head tumbling to the floor. Linda's corpse flipped backwards and fell off of the cornucopia, and her cannon could barely be heard over the sound of the bloodthirsty snakes subjugating the girl's dead body.

Linda Detocqieville, District 7 Female: 2nd, Killed by Dina, Day 22

"Dina Wilmarth of District 5, you are the victor of the fifteenth annual Hunger Games!" Lorenzo announced as the trumpets played their melody in the distance, congratulating their victor.

Dina dropped her weapon and smiled proudly for the cameras, savoring her first moments as Panem's newest victor.

Dina Wilmarth, District 5 Female: Victor of the Fifteenth Hunger Games, Day 22


AFTERMATH

The nation had a mostly positive outlook towards Dina, and many would learn to love their confident and passionate newest victor. Dina had brought District 5 its second victor, adding the electricity district to the list of districts with more than one victor. Districts 6, 7, 9, 10, and 11 still lacked victors.

Her victory tour was rather average, not being shunned per se but not being celebrated either. Of course, District 7 was disgusted given how cruelly Dina had killed their Linda in the final battle, especially given the fact that they had their hopes up at earning their first victor.

She moved into the Victor's Village of District 5, the second victor to do so.

Dina would live to the age of seventy-two, drowning in the bathtub of her Victor's Village home around the time of the seventieth annual Hunger Games. In her lifetime, she would never marry. She would never reproduce or adopt either, and would live a rather quiet and reserved life to herself.


NEWS

Dina moves into the Victor's Village of District 5, the second victor to do so.

Molly Toliday, the victor of the third Hunger Games, becomes pregnant with her first son, whom she and her husband decide to name Carter Lyle.

Amelia Spangler, the victor of the fourth Hunger Games, marries her first spouse, a man named Walton Kendall. However, Amelia retains her last name and does not change it to match that of her husband.


LIST OF VICTORS

1HG: Cordin Frey (#1, District 3)
2HG: Sapphire Waber (#1, District 1)
3HG: Molly Toliday (#1, District 4)
4HG: Amelia Spangler (#1, District 2)
5HG: Misty Sablone (#1, District 12)
6HG: Olivia Seager (#2, District 2)
7HG: Flux Stafford (#2, District 3)
8HG: Brandi Coyne (#2, District 1)
9HG: Isaac Crandall (#1, District 5)
10HG: Velvet Farrow (#3, District 1)
11HG: Mags Flanagan (#2, District 4)
12HG: Slate Ogston (#3, District 2)
13HG: Woof Dozier (#1, District 8)
14HG: Blaze Skalnik (#4, District 2)
15HG: Dina Wilmarth (#2, District 5)