7th Hunger Games
Winner: Castor District 2
As last year had been a failure for the Gamemakers due to lack of fighting, they had to make the 7th Hunger Games particularly violent to satisfy the Capitol's need for blood and gore. Luckily for them this year's victor, Castor – the boy from District 2, was extremely violent and didn't seem to be particularly upset about being picked in the reaping. The other tributes were very intimidated by him including the girl from District 2 who had been hoping to become his ally like the tributes from District 1 did almost every year. Castor was definitely the one to beat.
During the 3 days of training, Castor intimidated everyone and seemed to have a natural talent for killing people violently, proving to be exceptional at using any weapon he was given. The Gamemakers needed blood and gore and Castor seemed to be the one that was going to provide it – as long as he didn't die in the bloodbath. But he was so strong there was very little chance of that happening so the Gamemakers weren't worried. But they should've been.
The arena that year was quite plain and rocky terrain, and a huge mountain was in the middle next to the Cornucopia. As the Gamemakers had assumed, Castor led the bloodbath killing 8 tributes before the rest ran away, knowing they wouldn't have a chance. Armed with weapons, Castor set off to track them all down and had killed another 3 before nightfall. The Capitol were loving it; each death they had seen so far had been bloody and gory, nothing like last year. This games was going to be a success for the Gamemakers definitely. Until the head Gamemaker Augustus Snow made a huge mistake that jeopardised the success of the 7th Hunger Games. What did he do that was so bad?
He turned the mountain into a volcano.
It was the 5th night and Castor had killed almost half of the tributes by himself without receiving any injury whatsoever. He had returned to the Cornucopia, knowing that the other tributes would probably return for supplies at some point, when the volcano erupted. Lava spewed everywhere and several cannons were heard instantly. Castor ran for his life and only just managed to get away but he had sustained some life-threatening burns. The Capitol was in uproar. Castor couldn't die, his killings were too entertaining. The Gamemakers were in deep trouble if Castor died and Augustus Snow would probably lose his job…or worse. Castor needed medicine but the Gamemakers couldn't give it him or place it in the Cornucopia as it would be favouritism, which would probably start a rebellion in the districts. There was no way for the Gamemakers to give Castor the medicine. He would die a prolonged and painful death. Or he would have if it hadn't been for the Capitol.
The Capitol knew the Gamemakers couldn't save their beloved Castor as it would show favouritism, but the audience were allowed favourites and surely they should be allowed to help their favourites win. After many protests and arguments between the Gamemakers and the people of the Capitol, Castor became the first tribute to get a sponsor and receive a gift. The medicine healed his burns, giving him enough strength to continue his search for the remaining tributes.
The tributes were now to just 4 as the lava from the volcano had wiped out many of the tributes. All of the remaining four had received some sort of injury and only Castor had medicine which the other tributes found out about as the rule about sponsors had been announced. They also knew that Castor would've probably returned to the Cornucopia after the eruption and all three of them knew that if they wanted to win, Castor would have to go. So each of them separately made there way down to the Cornucopia in the hope of killing Castor.
The first to arrive was the boy from District 5, who decided to sneak up at night and kill Castor in his sleep. Unfortunately he woke Castor on his arrival and was instantly killed. Hearing the cannon go off, the other two guessed that the boy from District 5 had attempted to kill Castor and had failed. But maybe Castor was injured from the fight. Now was the best time to go and kill him before he recovered. Both tributes set off at the same time and arrived at the Cornucopia at about the same time. They were right Castor had taken a few cuts and scratches but nothing too serious. One of the tributes, the boy from District 10, saw his chance and went for it running into the open to try and catch Castor off guard. A few seconds later he had an arrow through his throat; Castor had been prepared. The last remaining tribute was the girl from District 4, Pearl, and on seeing this she knew she didn't really have a chance. But Castor would just hunt her down and her supplies were running down. She needed to act now. Armed with only a sword, Pearl ran up behind him and tried to hit Castor in the back but she missed and only grazed his shoulder. Castor whipped round armed with a bow and arrow and Pearl tried to dodge the attack of oncoming arrows but she was too slow and he was very accurate and after about 30 seconds she died from an arrow to the stomach.
Castor had won but he would've died if it hadn't been for the sponsors. He was extremely grateful to the Capitol and suggested that they keep the idea and have sponsors every year for any tribute that the Capitol liked. The Capitol loved this idea and many of the districts also agreed as they could maybe send their tributes something small to help. The Gamemakers had no choice but to agree if they wanted to keep their jobs. This games had almost been another disaster and Augustus Snow, for one, valued his life above anything and was willing to do whatever it took to keep it and his job. So sponsors became a huge part of the Hunger Games and eventually once all the tributes had a mentor, the sponsors were persuaded into helping instead of it being completely voluntary. The sponsors would go on to save many tributes lives.