24th Hunger Games

Winner: Silena District 2

The 24th Hunger Games was significant as it saw the goriest and biggest bloodbath in the Hunger Games so far. The Gamemakers weren't sure whether to consider it a success or a failure as there wasn't much they could do to make the Games more interesting, considering that half the tributes had died on the first day. The Gamemakers couldn't afford to have a huge killing spree so instead they brought something different in. The 24th Hunger Games hosted the first feast for the tributes.

After the tragic Career alliance last year, the tributes from Districts 2 and 4 weren't willing to make an alliance and decided they would go off by themselves. The tributes from District 4 decided they would stay together but the tributes from District 2 chose to be completely alone and not have anything to do with each other. It was the girl, Silena, that decided this; she had watched the 23rd Hunger Games and had decided that if she ever went into the arena, she wouldn't trust anyone, not even the other tribute from her district.

The arena this year was reasonably simple after the Gamemakers exerted themselves last year. It was a valley with the Cornucopia situated on a large hill. There were plenty of animals to eat and plenty of water. All the tributes could see that no one was going to die due to the arena so they were going to need weapons to defend themselves. So when the gong sounded, nearly every tribute raced towards the Cornucopia to grab weapons, which were all deep inside the Cornucopia, there weren't any lying about on the outskirts. Within a minute of the Games starting, a full battle had begun and there would be many casualties. Despite not being in an alliance, the Career tributes dominated the arena with their swords and spears. They cut down anyone that was trying to get away by throwing knives and shooting arrows in every direction. After all the other tributes had died or fled, there was a moment when the Careers seemed to stop – it wasn't too late to make an alliance. Silena broke the silence by running off down the hill, which encouraged the other Careers to head off by themselves as well. The bloodbath was over and thirteen tributes were already dead and from the eleven that remained, five were Career tributes (the girl from District 4 had died in the bloodbath).

Without the threat of a Career alliance, the other tributes seemed to be doing quite well now they knew that they weren't going to be hunted down. Some of them actually got quite daring and tried to take on the lone Career tributes and this had varying levels of success. The boy from District 6 successfully brought down the boy from District 1 with a well placed arrow but the girl from District 8 failed to sneak up on the girl from District 1 and received and sword wound in the stomach. Silena was attacked as well, by the boy from District 10 who came at her with a spear but Silena dodged and slit his throat with her sword. As a result of this, when it got down to the final eight tributes, three of them were still Career tributes.

As the Gamemakers didn't want to use the arena to cause any more deaths, they needed to find another way to get the tributes fighting. It had been three days since the last tribute had died and the remaining Career tributes didn't look like they were going to do anything special anytime soon. So the Gamemakers came up with the idea of a feast. Every tribute in the arena needed something, whether it was some more food or water or some matches for a fire. All the tributes had had sufficient supplies, but it was nearing the end of the Games and those supplies were running out. District 2 and District 6 still had both their tributes alive so the Gamemakers decided that they would only have one bag per district in order to guarantee at least two fights if all four tributes showed up. The bags were labelled 1, 2,5,6,9 and 11 each containing some essential supplies. A feast was announced and then the Gamemakers sat back and watched.

Silena was running out of water. She was miles away from the river and she didn't want to go there anyway as she couldn't defend herself whilst collecting water. This feast was the perfect opportunity for her and she had been trained to fight so she knew that she stood a good chance against the boy from District 2. And if she was lucky, the boy from District 2 wouldn't turn up. She was wrong.

The Gamemakers had already lost the chance for one fight as the girl from District 6 hadn't turned up so the boy from District 6 had the bag all to himself. There had been a moment where the tributes from Districts 9 and 5 had almost fought as they ran out to get their bags at the same time. They looked at each other and the girl from District 5 looked as if she was about to leave before the boy from District 9 shot an arrow at her. It was a death but it hadn't really been much of a fight or a struggle. All hopes were now riding on both the District 2 tributes turning up.

Silena got to the Cornucopia but chose to hide until she was sure everyone else had been. The bags from 6 and 9 were gone and the bag from 5 was on the floor but there were still three other tributes that could potentially kill Silena. Darkness fell and Silena was getting weaker. She needed water, she'd just have to try and grab the bag. Quietly she crept out from behind a bush and then sprinted over towards the bags. No sooner had she laid hands on the bag from District 2, did the boy from District 2 come thundering towards her, closely followed by the boy from District 11 who was aiming a spear right at the boy from District 2's back! The boy from District 2 was also in dire need of water but had been scared to go to the feast as someone could easily overpower him whilst he was in this weak state. The boy from District 11 had spotted him hiding behind a bush and had tried to sneak up on him but the boy from District 2 had sprinted off to the feast when he saw Silena emerge.

Now the three tributes were battling it out, Silena with a sword and the two boys with spears. But the boy from District 2 was much weaker than Silena and she easily overpowered him and sent him sprawling on the ground with a sword wound to the shoulder before the boy from District 11 finished him off. Then the remaining two tributes turned on each other. The boy from District 11 was strong but Silena was quicker and she kept dodging until he began to tire, then she sent her sword into his side before grabbing all the remaining bags and running off.

It turned out that the District 11 bag and the District 5 bag both contained food and matches whilst the District 1 bag contained medicine to heal an infection from a knife wound. The girl from District 1 had taken a knife wound when she was attacked by the girl from District 8 a few days ago but it had got worse. Without this vital medicine, the wound got worse and she died the following morning. Silena was the only Career tribute left. The Gamemakers expected her to go off and hunt the other tributes down but she was comfortable where she was and decided she'd done enough fighting and would let the other tributes come to her if they wanted to. They didn't. Her reputation as a Career tribute scared off the remaining three tributes who didn't come looking for her. Perhaps the boy from District 6 would've come to face her as he was very good with a bow and arrow but the girl from District 6 and the boy from District 9 managed to kill him with six different sword wounds before turning on each other. The boy from District 9 slit the girls throat but by this time, he had a severe wound to the head and was in no fit state to look for Silena.

That night, when Silena realised there was only two of them left, she decided to go and end it, seeing as the boy from District 9 must be weaker than her after fighting two tributes in one day. By the time she got there he could barely move and all it took was a knife in the heart. Silena had won the 24th Hunger Games.

This was good news for District 2 as next year the tributes would need all the help they could get. Next year was the first Quarter Quell and every district either dreamed of winning it or was dreading what was to come.