3rd Hunger Games
Winner: Crystal District 1
This year the districts were much accepting when the Hunger Games came round again. The Capitol wasn't going to change their minds now- they enjoyed it too much. Districts 1 and 2 were becoming favourites of the Capitol as they had both won and were now being lavished in gifts for it. This is how the betting business started in the Hunger Games as the Capitol was positive the winner this year would be from Districts 1 or 2. The tributes that were reaped from District 1 and 2 knew this and became confident and arrogant. They had mentors to help them and were the only two districts to have won before. When they took their places at the reaping they were cheered and clapped and all four of them were determined to win. The girl from District 1, Crystal, was particularly eager to win as she knew she would go down in history as the first girl to win the Hunger Games.
The tributes went to the 3 days of training as usual but the District 1 tributes did something that never been done before, they worked together and acted like…friends. This was a huge shock to the other tributes. Why would you become friends with someone you were going to kill? Well that's what Crystal and Platinum (the boy from District 1) thought but their mentor from last year Topaz told them that they'd appreciate an ally in the arena because he had to do the whole thing alone and he'd hated it. So Crystal and Platinum became the first tributes to have an ally.
The arena this year was a corn field that stretched for miles and miles. The Cornucopia was again stacked with weapons and food but this year there were lots of reapers as well, a tool used to cut corn that could be a deadly weapon. Lots of the tributes didn't recognise them but the tributes from District 9 did and when the gong went, they rushed straight to the Cornucopia to grab several. Both District 9 tributes could use two at once and had killed several tributes before they'd left their podiums. The girl from District 9 aimed another one at Crystal who was grabbing knives from the Cornucopia and she would've almost certainly died if Platinum hadn't blocked it with his sword. Platinum had just saved Crystal's life and any doubts either of them had had about staying allies in the arena were gone.
After the bloodbath was over both Crystal and Platinum were alive but only one of the District 9 tributes were remaining: Mazie, the girl. For days Crystal and Platinum hunted her down, killing anyone they came across. However the corn was extremely long and easy to hide in and they couldn't find her so had to head back to the Cornucopia to stock up on food.
As they headed back it was growing dark and Crystal lost sight of Platinum. Suddenly a piercing scream cut through the darkness – it sounded like Platinum. By the time Crystal found him, it was too late to save him – he had lost too much blood from a huge gash in his chest. Crystal could see the life leaving his eyes but he managed to utter one word…
"Mazie"
Then a cannon went off.
Crystal headed back to the Cornucopia alone, determined to hunt down Mazie and avenge her friend. It took her another 2 days before the two met and by then they were the only tributes left. In a way, Crystal was pleased that a girl was going to win the Hunger Games, as long as it was her.
Crystal had her knives, Mazie had her reapers. The two were evenly matched and were both experienced killers. Mazie started it by throwing one of her reapers. Crystal dodged and threw a knife but Mazie dodged that. Neither of them would allow the other to come close enough to inflict damage without throwing their weapon. Crystal was beginning to run out of knives so when she dodged the next attack for Mazie she threw all her remaining knives at Mazie, praying one would hit her. They all missed but one that hit Mazie in the heart, killing her instantly. Crystal was the winner of the 3rd Hunger Games but she would've died in the bloodbath if Platinum hadn't saved her. The future tributes saw this and the idea of allies became quite popular in the future.