33rd Hunger Games

Winner: Seeder District 11

The victor of the 33rd Hunger Games was unusual in that she wasn't a ruthless killer but she wasn't someone who wasn't able to use weapons and had to resort to other tactics either. She just did what she had to do to survive, with no intention of killing anyone. In fact the only reason she won was that she didn't want to kill anyone.

To understand how the result of the 33rd Hunger Games came about, we must learn a little bit about the Gamemakers theme for this year. Last year was a good year for them as they got a gory Hunger Games with lots of fights and they'd barely had to lift a finger. But by now, the Gamemakers had noticed that the Careers weren't very consistent with winning so it was more than likely that a tribute from one of the other districts would win this year.

So with this in mind they decided to make sure that the area allowed someone who wasn't very good with weapons to win, the Gamemakers wanted to give the tributes a chance to use their brains.

You'd need to be smart if you wanted to survive this year.

Of course the tributes didn't know this and if last years Games was anything to go by, they'd need to know how to kill and how to steal. So as usual, the Careers were pretty confident and spent all their time showing off with weapons which was somewhat useful, but really they should've been picking up useful skills that they didn't know as they would definitely need them.

One tribute who did spend time at the survival stations was Seeder from District 11.

Seeder was from a very poor background of farmers and she'd known from the age of 12 that as the eldest of four, someone from her family was going to get reaped as even the youngest had to take a lot of tesserae. So Seeder wasn't very surprised when she was picked, grateful even that at least her siblings were safe for another year.

At training, Seeder was mediocre at best with the weapons but she could use them if she had to but in general, she chose to spend her days at the survival stations, learning how to tie knots and light fires. As she worked in the fields of District 11, Seeder already knew quite a few edible plants and some poisonous ones as well as knowing how to climb trees so she did have the necessary skills to survive if needed unlike a lot of other tributes.

Without even knowing it, Seeder already had a huge advantage over the other tributes but then so did the other District 11 tribute. This years arena was a landscape of fields and valleys with barely any trees but this didn't give District 11 any real advantage. What did give Seeder an advantage was the theme of this years games. The Gamemakers, wanting to give some of the other districts a chance chose to make mutts a huge part of the 33rd Hunger Games. But it wasn't until a few days into the Games that any of the action happened.

When the gong sounded, Seeder sprinted away from the Cornucopia straight away before anyone else had a chance to react and had hidden herself away in the tall grass. She intended to hide there for as long as possible as she could get her own food but had no water or weapons. After the bloodbath was over and the tributes had settled down, she would go and find a source of water then.

Meanwhile, many of the tributes had stayed at the Cornucopia to grab what they could. The boy from District 11 quickly lost the advantage the arena had given him when one of the Careers sunk a spear into his head.

The rest of the Careers spread out feeling confident: this would be an easy arena and the other tributes were easy kill. And it did seem that way to the Capitol and the other tributes but the Gamemakers knew that the excitement would arrive eventually to make sure that this Hunger Games wouldn't be the same any other.

It was a few days into the Games, when Seeder noticed anything was wrong. She had collected some water from a pond and it seemed to be a relatively clean water, despite Seeder not having any purifier. She was also able to collect her own food as she recognised a lot of plants and had even managed to catch a rabbit. So overall Seeder was doing reasonably well even without a weapon Seeder was doing reasonably well even without a weapon. But then the Gamemakers intervened.

Their plan was to send in some mutts to try and coax the weaker tributes fighting to win the Games. They never intended for the Careers to do well in the Games.

The mutts that were used were vicious but stupid and could be outsmarted if you were smart enough to escape them. Many tributes tried to hide when they saw the mutts but they just weren't quick enough.

It was a flock of birds.

When Seeder first saw the flock, they were barely a pinprick in the distance but as they flew closer and closer at a remarkable speed, the pinprick grew bigger and bigger until eventually it was a full flock of carnivorous birds. They weren't flying directly at Seeder but she couldn't take the risk of them not noticing her.

But where could she go?

There were no trees and lying on the ground in the grass, as many tributes chose to do, would not hide her well enough. Then it came to her.

She could dig a hole.

Seeder wasn't the only tribute who had thought to dig a hole but no other tribute actually did it due to the sheer speed that the birds could fly at, there'd be no time to dig a hole by hand that was big enough to hide in. But there is a certain art to digging a hole, an art that Seeder had refined through all the years she had spent in District 11 planting vegetables.

So dig a hole she did and by the time the bird mutts flew over her all they could see was a brown patch of land. Had they been flying lower they would've seen two feet poking out from under the soil but luckily for Seeder, the birds didn't spot anything. But she may not be so lucky next time so Seeder would have to practise digging holes before the birds came back.

Over the next few days , the holes seemed to work as Seeder remained unseen by the birds. Other tributes were, of course, not as lucky as they were unable to find anywhere to hide or, in the Careers case, were wrong to think they could outrun the birds or fight them off.

The Gamemakers plan at letting the tributes use their brains had paid off, even if it had killed off a few more tributes than originally planned.

For now Seeder was safe inside her hole, only coming out occasionally for food and water but the problem she now faced was that the more tributes the birds killed the more they increased in number and the lower they seemed to fly. If they got any lower, they would definitely see her as whilst her holes were improving, you could see parts of her body sometimes. But so far she had remained undetected and somehow she managed to get down to the final two without encountering any other tribute.

The other remaining tribute was the boy from District 5 so it was just how the tributes had planned it. He was using something very similar to Seeder by camouflaging himself and it worked very well as he could stay like that the entire time. On the whole, the Gamemakers were very pleased but one thing they hadn't expected was that neither of the final two had actually killed anyone yet which was extremely unusual, the closest they'd come was the boy from District 5 breaking someone's nose trying to get away from the Cornucopia. But now they'd reached a stalemate as they were on opposite sides of the arena and neither actually had a weapon. So the Gamemakers decided to speed things up a bit.

During the bird free moments of the Games, when she wasn't gathering food or water, Seeder had been putting the finishing touches to her holes and this one was by far the best one she'd made. It was covered in branches and dirt but she'd put grass back on top to make it completely undetectable.

And it was just in time as the Gamemakers had just let out two identical flocks of birds to go for each tribute. Seeder clambered into the hole and waited with bated breath as the boy from District 5 reapplied bits of his camouflage. They were both going to get found, that much was obvious. But who would die first.

The birds found Seeder first. They pecked through the cover of her hole and completely ripped it to shreds and then several descended into the holes. One took a huge bite out of her ear making her scream and another went for the throat….

They disappeared. The gong had gone off. Seeder had won.

Despite the birds finding Seeder first, those precious minutes that they wasted biting through her defences saved Seeder's life. The boy from District 5 only had leaves so didn't last nearly as long.

Seeder became the victor of the 33rd Hunger Games without actually killing anyone. Her ear was easily fixed but apart from that, it was the only real injury she took from the Games. The Gamemakers were pleased that they had brought something new to the Games but unfortunately the President wasn't, This victor hadn't been traumatised which took away the whole point of the Games so the Head Gamemaker mysteriously resigned by the 34th Hunger Games. A new Head Gamemaker meant a new approach to the Games.