20th Hunger Games
Winner: Aqua District 4
Ever since the Training Schools were opened in District 1, 2 and 4, District 4 would've liked to consider themselves as one of the strongest districts in the Hunger Games but unfortunately they weren't as good as District 1 and 2…until now.
Unlike District 1 and 2, District 4 hadn't sent out its strongest tributes as soon as the Training School opened. Instead it bided its time and waited a few years until they were confident that the tributes that were sent out would win. By the 20th Hunger Games they had waited long enough so they sent out two 18 year olds who had been training for the past four years. They were called Aqua and Zale.
The Capitol took real notice of the pair from District 4 as it was well known that they were the main competition this year. Further still, the other tributes had noticed their potential rivals as well and some of the stronger tributes wanted an alliance. These stronger tributes, as always, were the tributes from District 1 and 2. As District 4 were so keen to be considered by the Capitol as one of the strongest tributes, they encouraged their own tributes to make alliances with District 1 and 2 so Aqua and Zale happily accepted the alliance.
During the training, Aqua and Zale proved to be good with all the weapons as they had already been trained for the past four years. However, like the tributes from District 1 and 2, they ignored the survival stations which they would later come to regret. But for now they were doing well and they got excellent training scores which interested the Capitol and made sure that District 4 was a strong favourite to win.
The arena this year was a boggy marshland but the water only came up to the tributes knees so it wasn't necessary for the tributes to be able to swim. However the bog water wasn't fresh so tributes would have to take any water they could get from the Cornucopia.
When the gong went off the bloodbath commenced with the tributes from District 4 leading the way. Their training proved to give them a huge advantage and they were relentless with their weapons, Aqua with a sword and shield and Zale with a bow and arrow. They were doing a good job of proving that District 4 was just as good as District 1 and 2. As the bloodbath ended, the alliance joined together and started to make a plan over how the six of them were going to try and win. They decided that they would make camp around the Cornucopia and wait for the other tributes to come to them. This worked for a few days and it meant that alliance didn't have to waste any energy, occasionally taking it in turns to go out and kill some unsuspecting tribute dying of thirst.
After a few days the other tributes became wiser and didn't just wander out into open air by the Cornucopia anymore. Instead they came in the dead of night or sneaked round and some even relied on sponsors. As a result, the alliance had no choice but to go and hunt for the remaining tributes. Aqua and Zale had been told not to leave the alliance as they could both take any of tributes from District 1 or 2. But soon they would have no choice but to leave.
The Capitol was getting bored. The Games were getting predictable ever since District 1 and 2 started making alliances. These Games were no different and the Capitol didn't want to have to watch the alliance hunt down the other tributes and then kill each other. So to make things more interesting the Gamemakers decided to take advantage of the amount of water in the arena and create a flood.
It was the middle of the night when the water suddenly started to climb rapidly. As the alliance had been hunting tributes all day, they weren't that near the Cornucopia which hadn't been covered by water yet, so they had to try and swim there as fast as they could. This was alright for Aqua and Zale as they were from District 4 but the tributes from District 1 couldn't swim at all and the tributes from District 2 couldn't swim quickly enough. They were washed away by the current and Aqua and Zale did nothing about it. They managed to climb the Cornucopia before the water got too high to swim and listened to the seemingly endless cannon booms as all the other tributes were wiped out. One half-drowned tribute did try to reach the Cornucopia but Aqua killed her before she had started to climb. By the time the water went down, there were only four tributes left; the girl from District 6, the boy from District 11, Aqua and Zale. This was a disaster for the Gamemakers as they hadn't meant to kill so many tributes as the Games had only been going for a week.
Aqua and Zale were by far the best tributes out of the four that were left so they felt that they should hunt the other two down. The problem was that the tributes from District 6 and 10 decided to hide from them, knowing that they wouldn't stand a chance in a fight. So Aqua and Zale had to take all their supplies from the Cornucopia to go and hunt them down. But as the days went by, the food supply started to dwindle and soon Aqua and Zale had to try and get food from their surroundings. Unfortunately, neither of them had bothered learning survival skills so they couldn't hunt and, more importantly, they couldn't tell the difference between plants they could eat and plants they couldn't. So it was only a matter of time before one of them ate something they shouldn't and two days into their search it was Zale. Out of desperation for food, he'd taken a risk and eaten a mushroom that turned out to be poisonous. He died within minutes which left Aqua on her own to hunt down the other two tributes.
With Zale gone, Aqua found that she covered ground more easily as she didn't dare rest when there was no one to guard her. It was only day after Zale had been poisoned when Aqua found the other two tributes. They had both joined together in the hope that if Aqua did find them, between the two of them, they could overpower her. They underestimated the training that Aqua had been given. With her sword and shield, she could easily kill two inexperienced tributes with spears. She slit the girl from District 6's throat and the boy from District 11 received a sword in the stomach. Aqua was the victor of the 20th Hunger Games and District 4 could finally take their place alongside District 1 and 2 as they had proved that their training worked.
It was the District 3 mentor that came up with the term 'Career tributes' and the other districts took to using it as well to describe the tributes who had training. District 1 and 2 finally acknowledged that District 4 took the Hunger Games just as seriously as they did and from now on District 4 was welcome to join the alliance between District 1 and 2.