AUTHOR'S NOTE: These first few games start off a little slow until the Capitol starts getting the hang of what they want to do, and perhaps more for the readers, it's slow until we start seeing familiar faces. In that case, I would advise those reading to watch for Chapters 9 and 13, where we will meet Mags and Woof, or perhaps who the mysterious victor of the infamous 1st Quarter Quell was. From there... familiar faces will emerge as the numbers get higher. Not to say that there won't be excitement before then. No, there should be plenty of that, and thus I'll do my best to deliver.
That said... Happy Reading!

The 6th Annual Hunger Games

The Capitol decided to try something new for the 6th Annual Hunger Games. Instead of providing any food at the cornucopia, they simply provided weapons and a few supplies. That was one of the near-constants of the Hunger Games that was not likely to change any time soon. There would always be weapons of some kind at the cornucopia, especially now that the bloodbath had become a thing. As entertaining as it might have theoretically been for the Capitol to watch a kid kill another tribute with his or her bare hands, it would get a bit boring if that was the only way kids ever died.

But instead of providing food like in normal conditions (those kids from District 11 and 12 were a wily bunch, and would most likely win), there was a bit of know-how required to stay alive this year. In this jungle environment there lived various Capitol mutts that would tear tributes apart if they were not careful, and plenty of the flora was poisonous as well.

However, it was also heavily forested, which meant that Cedar Hardin from District 7 was going to wreak havoc on the arena. During training, his partner Lisa ended up defecting over to the career pack, which otherwise just consisted of District 1 and District 2: Thus, the career pack that year were Susan and Peter from District 1, Flax from District 7, and Lucy and Aaron from District 2. They were all fairly confident that they would be the dominating force in the arena, and the five of them did end up scoring highest in training once all was said and done.

Cedar scored high, but maybe that was all show and no go, for once the games began, he beelined away from the cornucopia and into the jungle without second thought. Clearly he was the type to flee rather than fight. It did not stop the careers though, and so they went on a rampage through the arena, starting the trend of the careers not just teaming up, but of them going after the weaker tributes first before turning on themselves for last.

However, that did not go as planned. About 6 days in, they woke up to find Flax with an axe through her chest, without a sign of who had done it. Those in the Capitol knew who it was and found it intriguing that he would go for his own partner first.

Aaron, Lucy, Susan, and Peter were not deterred though. A Rather resilient pair of District 11 tributes gave them a bit of trouble, but they weren't the main concern of the careers—the real concern were the giant monsters that were unleashed and nearly killed them. Aaron suffered an injury before the mutts were stopped, and two more cannons went off that night, probably from the monsters.

However, Aaron had succumbed to his injuries by the next morning, or so the others thought. Lucy was a little more observant than that though, and realized that someone had poisoned his wounds during the night. There was that District 11 girl, that District 7 boy, or one of the kids from District 3, but that didn't seem likely. They began to whittle down the suspects, and soon linked it to Cedar. However, he was not done with the careers either. He purposely lured one of the giant dog mutts towards the career pack's camp, where it stopped following him and aimed for them. Peter and Susan didn't make it out of that mayhem alive. Meanwhile, Cedar, the opportunist that he was, used this chance to lodge an axe into the monster's neck, killing it and thus sparing Lucy for the time being. He did not think that he would be returned the favor.

It was day 9 before Lucy and Cedar met again, this time as final rivals, with all 22 of the other tributes dead. It became a battle of axes, for Lucy's weapon of choice was an axe. She was fairly certain that she could become the 2nd Lucy to win a Hunger Games (the other being District 11's Lucy Takamatzu from the 2nd Hunger Games), while Cedar was aiming to give District 7 a victor for the first time. Their axes collided, both tributes showing great strength as they not only battled each other, but also as they battled through the jungle, avoiding poisonous traps and obstacles that could cause them to lose their footing. It came down to the wire, but then Cedar suddenly threw his axe with such vicious force that Lucy actually braced herself to block—but instead of hitting her, it struck the branch above her, which in turn came and crushed her before she could react. Just as suddenly as it had happened, the games had ended. Cedar was the 1st victor from District 7, and the 6th Victor of the Hunger Games.

He lived a fairly solitary life afterwards, not exactly trusting many people given that he had turned around and backstabbed the same people that had tried to backstab him, but in his eyes, that was simply justice. "Eye for an eye" was one of Cedar's lifestyles and ways of thinking, thanks to the 'games.

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)
5HG: Jade Prima (#1, District 1)
6HG: Cedar Hardin (#1, District 7)