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I'm back from France and it's the easter holidays, so I'm aiming for a chapter a day for the next week and a half :)

This victor appeared briefly in the early chapters of my story 'Mentor', I hope you enjoy her Games :)


"I am the game, you don't wanna play me

I am control, no way you can shake me

I am heavy debts, no way you can pay me

I am the pain, and I know you can't take me."

- Ian Fraser Kilmister, 2002.


The 23rd Annual Hunger Games

Danielle Morgan (17), District 4 Female

Motorhead - The Game (2002)


Almost as soon as I entered the arena, I understood what the Hunger Games are all about.

Power.

Without power, I would just be one of twenty-four tributes attempting to survive all that the Gamemakers throw at us. But my display at the cornucopia bloodbath and my training score of ten ensured that I was respected by the other six members of the Career Alliance. Now that I have control over my allies, I can use this power to my advantage.

I was especially pleased when the girls from Districts 2 and 8 (who were allied to me at the time) quite literally walked into a Gamemaker trap on my orders. I had already spotted the trap, which was a thirty-foot drop blocked from sight by a crude covering of foliage (thinking about it, the trap was far too crude for the Gamemakers; it was probably another tribute), and the girls were the only two of my allies who were gullible enough to carry on walking when I told them to. Both of them died upon impact.

Once I had taken control of the other Careers, it was easy enough to get them to do my bidding. Take power, and you are half way to winning.

I know that my three remaining allies (both from District 1 and the girl from Two) are all caught in my web of mind games. I have made sure that all of my allies feel in debt to me. At the bloodbath, I saved the tributes of District 1 (who were unarmed at the time) from the high-scoring boy from District 11, earning their trust and respect along the way. And the boy from Two owes me after I saved from almost certain death in a physical dispute with my district partner. Despite any regrets I had about killing my district partner at the time, I now know that it was worth it. I've gotten one over the boy from District 2. He's in debt to me, just like the rest of his allies. All of them will think twice before trying to kill me.

And if they do try, they know that there will only ever be one outcome. I'm sure that my brutal murder of the boy from Twelve using only a sleeping bag, a fork and a matchstick was enough to convince my allies that the only consequence of an attack on me will be their own slow, painful death.

There's no way out for my fellow Careers. They either try to escape and face my wrath as I hunt them down, or they stay in the Career Alliance until I decide that it is their turn to die.

The Careers are subject to a new rulebook; my rulebook.

I am the game; there's no way they can defeat me.

I have control; control that the others can't escape.

They have their debts; debts that the Careers will never be able to pay back.

And all they will recieve from me is pain; more pain they can possibly hope to withstand.

As for the Gamemakers, well, the 23rd Annual Hunger Games are no longer under their control. I make the rules now. They will just have to become a part of the audience, along with the rest of the Capitol.

I hope that the Gamemakers will enjoy watching the other tributes die as much as I will.


The 23rd Games were unique because the Career Alliance was brought down from the inside without the others really realising that Danielle of District 4 had them caught up in her plans. To the audience and the Gamemakers it was painfully obvious that Danielle had complete control, but the other Careers kept following her orders, bringing the field down to size on her command.

When the field was down to five, the Gamemakers attempted anything and everything to stop Danielle - she was becoming too powerful - but when they flooded two thirds of the arena Danielle survived at her allies' expense, leaving just two weak tributes from Districts 9 and 11 separating Danielle from victory. In the end, it was a mere formality as Danielle wrapped up proceedings in a matter of hours after the flood, making her the victor of the 23rd Annual Hunger Games.


A/N: Only one more chapter until the First Quarter Quell! :D

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