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"This is a letter, my word

Is the beretta, the sound

Of my vendetta

Against the ones who planned it."

- Gerard Way, 2010.


The 61st Annual Hunger Games

Cecelia Wright (15), District 8 Female

My Chemical Romance - Planetary (GO!) (2010)


I hate it in here.

Ever since my name was called out at the reaping, I expected the worst. After the failures of last year, I knew that the Gamemakers would show no mercy this year.

I'm not surprised to know that my hunch was correct.

Three days in, and nineteen tributes are dead. The arena, a mass of boulders and small, fruitless bushes, yields nothing to help a tribute survive. The cornucopia was harsh, too, as although I gained some supplies, they barely lasted a day. I know it was going to be bad from that moment onwards - the Careers never had enough supplies, and they split on the second day. Now none of them are alive.

The Gamemakers have tried everything else in their power to kill everyone else off, too. The weather has been a major factor for me, and has left me on the edge. Searing to way over fifty degrees celsius during the day, and plummeting way below zero at night. Either way, the sky is cloudless, and I haven't seen so much as a drop of water in three days. There wasn't even any water in the supplies at the cornucopia. A person can only last three days without water. Somehow I get the feeling that in the next twenty-four hours, the Games will be over.

Literally everything has been pitted against us, even the clothes that we wear. Denim trousers and a long-sleeved t-shirt. It's far too much to wear in the day, but offers us next to no protection against the cold.

Then there are the mutts. I wouldn't be certain that they were mutts unless I'd witnessed their actions first-hand. Hundreds of small black snakes slither through the scrub all around us constantly. I see one every five minutes or so. On the first day, when my district partner Harris was still with me, a snake suddenly darted out of the bushes at him. He was dead in twenty seconds.

There is no way of escaping from the Gamemakers. They choose who to strike out at next, and there is nothing you can do to stop them. There were no weapons at the cornucopia, so you have no defence against whatever the Capitol chooses to throw at us next.

The sun slips below the horizon, signalling the end of the third day as a cannon fires. I watch the death recap; there were five faces in the sky today, and four of us remain alive in the arena.

I curl up in a ball on the cold ground, desperate to try and save as much body heat as possible. Something tells me that I won't see another dawn in this arena. The Games will end tonight.

I'm almost certain that the Gamemakers have already chosen their victor, and that the other three of us will die off in the coming hours. This isn't the Hunger Games; this is a glorified execution. Revenge for the tributes of last year's Games who refused to fight when they had no reason to. They could survive without resorting to violence, so they did. This year, as punishment, they have made it so that none of us can survive.

I have no choice but to huddle up on the ground and wait patiently while the ice seeps into the very core of my body, listening in hope of the cannons that will signal the end.


Twenty-two of the twenty-three tributes to die in the arena were killed by the Gamemakers. The only other tribute to die, the boy from District 11, was the only death of the bloodbath, as the boy from District 2 killed him with his bare hands at the cornucopia.

Cecelia became a victor by default; she didn't have to kill anyone to win the 61st Annual Hunger Games, she was merely the last tribute standing.


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