Shine Luxer, 17, D1F

I'm panting hard, staring down Michael, it's just me and him now, we're circling each other, me staring right into his eyes, I have my one arm and sword and he has his glaive in his hand. I went through hell to make it to this point, I refuse to let some idiot from a lower district kill me now. "I hope you're ready to join your twin Ishkavik!" I snarl, he looks fearless, he's not afraid, but it doesn't matter. He doesn't need to be afraid to die. "No, I'm not ready to die yet!" He retaliates. Oh but he doesn't need to be ready to die!

And with that I charge at him, wielding my sword that's taped to my stump, I'm at a slight disadvantage but I'm not afraid. I bring my sword down on his head and he raises his glaive and blocks it, the clang of metal fills the arena followed by the vibration ringing through my stump, he grits his teeth and kicks me in the chest, sending me stumbling back. He lets out a battle cry and swings the pole sword at me face, I move back, dodging his swing. I lunge forwards with my sword, aiming to run my sword through his stomach but he manages to quickly sidestep.

"Is that all you've got career?!" He asks me, obviously mocking me. I grit my teeth in frustration, this is so hard fighting with only half a hand, I'm not used to fighting like this but I need to try, I am worthy of victory! He runs towards me, he moves his glaive back, ready to swing it forwards. He swings it forwards and I duck, I then use my sword and stab it into his thigh and wrench it out, he screams and collapses to the floor. "You left yourself too open to fool!" I say, and with my foot I kick him full in the face, however I do not receive the crunch I am looking for.

"Time to end this." I announce and stab my sword towards his stomach...

And I miss! I actually miss! He managed to roll away so the tip of my blade only collides with the ground with a clang. Damn it!

Michael Ishkavik, 18, D6M

I'm so lucky I managed to roll away or I would have been skewered. But this fight is far from over, my thigh is bleeding like crazy and it feels heavy, it burns so much. I'm crouched on my knee, using the back of my glaive for support. She screams and charges at me. I quickly do another roll, dodging the steel of her bloodied sword. "Don't you dare run away from me Ishkavik!" She screams as I get up and try to stumble away, I'm not running away but my thigh just hurts! I'm using my glaive as support, almost like a walking stick. With my one ear I hear more rapid footsteps and see that Shine is coming in for another close encounter.

I spin around and surprise her with a quick stab towards her shoulder, and it hits, my aim is true. But it was her non-sword hand. I wrench the glaive out of her and she screams out in horrible anguish. "I'm going to tear you limb from limb!" She cries out as she now starts flailing her sword at me. Just dodge Michael, dodge and dodge. A stab to my neck, dodged. A swing to decapitate me, dodged. A swing at my stomach, blocked. This cycle repeats itself but this girl just doesn't seem to be running out of energy. And then it happens. She steps back, easing off her attack. And I do a fake stab towards her stomach, a feint. And she instinctively lowers her sword down there in order to block it. She actually fell for the bait, such a well trained career fell for my trick!

Maybe the odds are in my favour today.

And then I stab...

And my aim is true. The glaive sinks into her neck, her throat more specifically, it goes right in. And then she looks utterly and completely surprised that I managed to outsmart her like that. She's so baffled, almost as if she doesn't know what happened, I cry out and wrench the pole from her neck, the blood leaks out like a hole in a water balloon as she collapses to her knees, desperately trying to stop the flow of blood with her one good arm. She chokes and gasps, unable to even breath a cohesive sentence.

She realizes it's hopeless, and allows herself to fall face first onto the ground, a blood of blood starting to form around the corpse of Shine Luxer.

BOOM!

The canon startles me and I feel my glaive, my very guardian throughout this nightmare begins to slip from my fingers and lands on the floor with a clang. I look up to the fake ceiling and let out a scream, a scream for all the pain I went through, a scream for my deceased sister, a scream for all the dead tributes in this nightmare. I'm left standing over the bloodied corpse if a Shine Luxer and then suddenly I hear it.

"Ladies and Gentlemen. May I present the winner of the one hundred and twenty fourth Hunger Games. Michael Ishkavik of District six.

I turn. I walk, I simply walk away from the corpse. I turn my head and take a look at Cyrus's corpse, the mysterious volunteer who I knew nothing about. I turn towards Demi Lanzerr's unmoving body, the girl who didn't deserve this nightmare but still made it this far. And finally I turn towards the bloodied corpse of Shine Luxer, the career with something to prove but could never make it.

And then there's me.

The victor.

The champion.

The murderer.

I'm now the twin less twin. But I'm also the victor. I won it for you Aya. I continue walking, I don't know where I'm walking. And then suddenly I look up and I can see the sky again and then there's a hovercraft. They've come to take me home.

Suddenly I'm frozen and I feel myself being lifted.

I'm being lifted out of this nightmare.

Shine Luxer- Okay now before anyone tears me apart for not having the career win allow me to explain. Shine, although you are a career you was simply was not used to fighting with only a stump and a sword. No matter how much training you went through if you are missing an arm and tape your weapon to that stump and try to fight someone with two hands and a weapon it's going to be pretty damn hard to win. Maybe is Shine was more stable and smarter maybe but you just wasn't designed that way. So close and yet so far. R.I.P.

Congratulations to the winner Michael Ishkavik!

Death list so far

24th- Millie Sulvic: Throat slit. (Killer is Shine Luxer)

23rd- Ryan Hitch: Skull smashed and slashed by axe. (Killer is Gloss Miller)

22nd- Ben Franks: Decapitated by Alexis Cryde. (Killer is Alexis Cryde)

21st- Pandora Woolkins: Bolt deep in neck, severed arteries and veins. Blood loss. (Killer is David Fall)

20th- Joe Feltman: Left calf severed at knee by Robert Xavier. Throat slit by Mitchell John. (Killer is Mitchell John)

19th- Britan Wikiheart: Stabbed repeatedly in stomach by Percy Thames. (Killer is Percy Thames)

18th- Rockie Spolt- Stabbed in heart with Whitney Heart's sword. (Killer is Whitney Heart)

17th- Whitney Heart- Stabbed twice in stomach by Cyrus Redick. (Killer is Cyrus Redick)

16th- Thaihele Moore- Stabbed deep in neck by Ari Walter, severed arteries and veins. (Killer is Ari Walter)

15th- Robert Xavier- Bisected by Queen Spider mutt. (Killer is Queen Spider mutation)

14th- Mitchell John- Axed deep in stomach by Patricia Shaw. Sliced stomach open. (Killer is Patricia Shaw)

13th- Patricia Shaw- Face badly mutilated by Ayakon Ishkavik. (Killer is Ayakon Ishkavik)

12th- Ari Walter- Neck broken by Griffin Taylor. (Killer is Griffin Taylor)

11th- Alexis Cryde- Spear deep in stomach by Demi Lanzerr's trap. (Killer is Demi Lanzerr)

10th- Ayakon Ishkavik- Decapitated by Michael Ishkavik. (Killer is Michael Ishkavik)

9th- Griffin Taylor- Disemboweled by Gloss Miller. (Killer is Gloss Miller)

8th- Kim Shae- Tortured to death by Percy Thames. (Killer is Percy Thames)

7th- Gloss Miller- Crushed to death by falling debris. (Killer is Game makers)

6th- David Fall- Throat slit by Cyrus Redick. (Killer is Cyrus Redick)

5th- Percy Thames- Neck slashed by Cyrus Redick. Severed veins and arteries. (Killer is Cyrus Redick)

4th- Cyrus Redick- Axed in chest by Demi Lanzerr. (Killer is Demi Lanzerr)

3rd- Demi Lanzerr- Stabbed through chest by Shine Luxer. (Killer is Shine Luxer)

2nd- Shine Luxer- Stabbed in throat by Michael Ishkavik. (Killer is Michael Ishkavik)

1st- Michael Ishkavik- Alive.