AUTHOR'S NOTES: And now District 1 joins '2 as one of the "career districts". Fun fact: This was the first year where these two districts did not even have a reaping, and thus had the Hunger Games culture engrained itself in Panem.
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The 4th Annual Hunger Games

By the time the 4th Annual Hunger Games had rolled around, Districts 1 and 2 had become solid in their trend as "career districts", and so this year, the Capitol officials took their chances and did not even host the lottery in either of these districts. This seemed to have been an effective decision, for there were handfuls of kids in both districts that wanted to volunteer. To prevent some of the mayhem that had happened last year, they still organized the kids by gender, and then, starting with the ladies, they made it a race to the stage. The winner would get to serve as their districts tribute representative in the Hunger Games that year.

The boy that year from District 2 was an upright young man who had been working to become a Peacekeeper, and if he had not succeeded in making it to the stage, he would have been ready to take the 20-year commitment that the task required. However, this Tom Sebastian fellow did manage to make it to the stage that year, serving as District 2's male tribute for the 4th Annual Hunger Games.

His partner was already waiting for him at the stage, since the female tribute was still chosen first. This Naisha Szasz was from one of the more "exotic" families of District 2, but that didn't make her any less of a threat. In fact, she and Tom managed to start coordinating together early, and as soon as they got to the training center, they teamed up with District 1 to start planning further tactics. Their District Pride was further motivating them to make sure that they didn't keep getting beaten out by Districts like 5, 11, or 3 anymore. This year, there would almost certainly be a "career victory", and a lot of bets were made on one or both of the tributes from District 2.

On the other hand, these claims didn't really faze Districts 5 or 11 too much, and so the career pack made their first enemies that day. District 3 was also out doing their own thing, and they were easily overlooked as they worked quietly in the trap station.

Also of particular note that year was an 18-year-old District 9 boy who was already an alcoholic. It made sense in theory, since grain could be used and processed into beer, but he was also an aggressive sunuvagun that the others painted a target on right away. When the training scores were received, he actually managed to score as high as the careers, making Naisha a little green with envy. They had trained for these games (which was technically illegal, but District 1 and District 2's loyalty to the Capitol and their contribution to making the Hunger Games stay interesting had most officials turn a blind eye), and didn't want their pride injured by some drunkard boy who hadn't formally trained in his life.

When the games actually began though, he proved that despite going through some crazy withdrawals and possibly even a hangover from the night before, this Benny McLeon managed to not just survive the bloodbath, but off a couple of tributes in the process with a gigantic club he had found. This was totally his kind of arena though, as it was a large field of wheat and grass—almost as if they had quartered off a sector of District 9 to create this arena.

Either way, the remaining tributes decided that this guy was too much of a menace to be allowed to live, and so for a moment, a Hunger Games rarity occurred. Districts 5 and 11 came forward and approached Districts 1 and 2, offering a temporary truce until Benny was eliminated. Naisha and the others agreed to this, and so they went on a hunt for this rogue tribute.

A fight commenced, where Benny managed to take out the girl from District 1 and the boy from District 5, before he was finally offed by Naisha from District 2. There was a brief celebration, before the remaining kids from '5 and '11 turned on the career pack, killing Tom in the process. Angered, and not willing to let the cheap shot go unpunished, Naisha and the boy from District 1 gave chase, where the latter offed one of the kids (the boy) from '11, and Naisha offed his partner and the girl from '5. However, moments after their victory, that District 1 boy walked right into a trap that had been rigged up by District 3, killing him immediately. When they sprung out, however, Naisha managed to do them in fairly quickly, leaving only a few tributes alive.

This whole series of events was later called "the 6th Day Massacre", given that it had happened on day 6 of the games. 9 tributes had died in the opening bloodbath, and another 10 had died during that massacre. Two other tributes had died between these two bloodbaths, and so there were now only three tributes remaining: Naisha, a boy from District 8 who had hidden the entire time, and a girl from District 4. Perhaps luckily for Naisha, that boy and that girl found each other first, and the girl's face appeared in the sky. Naisha stumbled across him later that same evening, and finished him off, becoming the 1st victor from District 2, and the 4th Victor of the games overall.

She paid her price just like all the rest did though. She wasn't able to eat bread or grain for a long time, and even seeing wheat stalks made her uncomfortable. The traps from the mischievous District 3 pair had taken their toll on her, and the swift betrayal from districts 11 and 5 had kept her on edge with trusting people. Either way, she had fulfilled her promise—she had given Panem its first "Career victor".

VICTORS BY YEAR:
1HG: Fukaya Kerezaki (#1, District 5)
2HG: Lucy Takamatzu (#1, District 11)
3HG: Naseru Litzak (#1, District 3)
4HG: Naisha Szasz (#1, District 2)