Elton Cradus, District 9: Winner of the 1st Hunger Games
When he was 14, the Dark Days began. He wasn't old enough to fight, but his parents were. They both fought to stop the Capital from controlling the districts any longer. Elton was proud at first for what the two of them were doing. But after two years, Elton doubted if this war would ever end. Then he got the news that his parents were dead. Elton was absolutely devastated, and Elton would have been orphaned if not for his aunt. He was distant from his aunt, as he was still mourning the loss of his parents. Trish, his niece, was able to get him to open up more, and Elton cared for Trish a lot, treating her as the younger sister that he never had.
The war ended when Elton was 17, with the Capital coming out victorious…but with a lot of collateral damage. Then the First Games were announced, and Elton was reaped alongside Trish. Elton did his best to try and protect Trist, but he and the tributes were treated like garbage by the Capital. The peacekeepers were much more brutal back then, and they essentially abused the tributes while locked up, punching and kicking them while they were down, and even some peacekeepers used them as toilets. Elton was haunted by the screams of the other tributes, but none more so than Trish. He didn't want to know what was happening to her.
Elton and Trish entered the arena followed very closely by Peacekeepers, which wasn't even an arena to begin with. It was just a plain field with a small number of weapons, with no food in sight. Elton had seen that only 6 tributes had shown up…meaning the rest objectively didn't want to participate and died in captivity. When the countdown ended, Elton, Trish, the girl from 2 and the boy from 5 ran towards the center. The 2 from 6 both died by the Peacekeepers, making Elton jump for a second.
He grabbed the spear near the center of the field, and he killed the boy from 5 who had tried to ambush him with a small knife. But then he saw Trish get killed by the girl from 2 with a sword. Elton was stunned, not moving a muscle at first, having just watched his niece die. But he was able to react in time by using his right arm to block. He then used the spear to stab the girl from 2 in the heart. She immediately died from her wounds. Elton had his right arm amputated due to his injury, and he was traumatized beyond belief after what he just went through. The games had only lasted for 4 minutes.
After the games, he was constantly out of place with everyone, and he couldn't go back to what he usually did because he was an amputee, and his District didn't think he could work in the reconstruction process. So, he instead turned to drugs, especially a new drug named Morphling. Which was a new drug that was created after the war. He is now a 27-year-old homeless man without a job, who lives in the streets trying to survive.
Ellody Wilson, District 6: Winner of the 2nd Hunger Games
Ellody was a problem child from the very beginning. But the first time her family noticed was when she was 4. Her mother had seen a bird fly into the one window they had, and she and Ellody looked to see. But she was surprised when Ellody stepped on the bird multiple times, laughing as she did so. Ellody saw things different. She liked to mess with animals on occasion. She had a favorite moment when she was strangling a squirl that she had caught, and slowly watched it die…just for her own amusement. She also really liked to mess with others by using various tools to hurt others that didn't agree with her.
Ellody didn't remember the Dark Days, since her parents didn't want anything to do with the war, but she really enjoyed examining and touching the various dead bodies that she saw around District 6. She was eventually reaped for the games, and instead of feeling scared about her death, she gleamed in excitement…because she could kill people without any consequences. The Peacekeepers this time around didn't abuse the tributes…but they kept the tributes on the train. Ellody was annoyed by the boy from her own district, since he was crying constantly…so to stop the noise, she slammed his head against the side of the wooden compartment until he stopped moving.
This time, Ellody was a little confused as to why the tributes were put in different locations, especially considering they were mostly just in a somewhat desert landscape. The Peacekeeper didn't respond to her, so she just ignored them and continued onward. She got lucky as she was given a pack at the start of the games with about two bottles of water…so she used the backpack to knock out the Peacekeeper and slice open their neck with the knife that they had provided.
She eventually found the boy from 10, who was about a year younger than herself. Instead of just killing him, she knocked him out, and then used the knife provided to cut open small cuts across his body. She then put some feces across those cuts, as she watched the young boy slowly die to the infection from the cuts. Eventually, a few days later, she killed the boy since she got bored of him.
It eventually got down to her and the Girl from 3. She didn't really have any problems ending the girl from 3's life, as she slit her throat open, and watched her slowly bleed out from blood loss. She hadn't sustained any long-term injuries and had only been in the games for about 4 days, but she was never going to live the same way again, since her entire district realized what she truly was…so she didn't try to hide herself. She liked putting the fear of God onto others. Now, she was 25-year-old women, who likes when people are suffering, and she knows what she is.
Quintin Trius, District 11: Winner of the 3rd Hunger Games
Quintin didn't remember what happened during the Dark Days, since he basically blocked those memories out of his mind…it was too painful to remember. He grew up with his mother, and he had three younger siblings, one brother and two sisters. He especially had to take care of the middle child, Trinity, who was sick throughout most of her life. He did his best to care for his siblings, since his parents were too busy working in the fields to care for his family, since the capital was working the district heavily.
Because Quintin was too young, he wasn't able to help his sister Trinity recover from her illness, and it didn't help that he and his family couldn't afford treatment for her. She died when Quintin was 16, and it affected him deeply. For the next two years, he did his best to keep his family safe…being overprotective for his remaining brother and sister. That was, until he was reaped for the games. Being 18 and one of the bigger tributes, he was an early favorite to win the games. What he didn't appreciate was the little kids that was here, where they could die.
This time around, they were given 3 days with their District inside of the train. Quintin met the younger tribute of Cece. Quintin didn't know if he was cut out for this, and didn't eat for the first day. Cece was the one to convince him to keep going…since she and Quintin had someone they needed to go back to. Quintin was eventually convinced to keep on going…but realized that some kids every year hadn't participated and were killed by the Peacekeepers in the past. He couldn't let that happen this year.
These games took place in an area with tons of ruble around and abandoned building, which was most likely a stronghold of the rebellion before it was destroyed. They were each placed in a surrounding area, with at least 30 peacekeepers with their guns pulled on the tributes…they would open fire on them if they attacked them, or didn't participate. Quintin immediately ran for the sword in the center of a large pile of rubble and quickly killed the boy from 4 who had tried to kill him. Then, he turned his attention to the other non-participating tributes. 4 of them had tried to attack the Peacekeepers and were gunned down…8 more didn't want to participate.
Quintin decided to end their suffering now and killed the 8 tributes instead of the peacekeepers. Then, with no one else around the rubble, he took a bag of supplies, hearing at least 18 cannons go off…meaning only six tributes remain…and Cece wasn't one of them, having died in the back-and-forth bloodbath.
For the remainer of the games, Quintin did his best to hunt down the remaining tributes…although the Capital didn't do a good enough job to contain the tributes, as three of them initially escaped the arena…before two of them were hunted down and killed. The other escaped into the unknown. Quintin and the other two tributes then were caught in an ambush, with wolflike creatures chasing them back to the middle. There, a battle ensued, with Quintin killing both of them in cold blood…making Quintin the winner. He had killed 11 tributes, a record which hasn't been broken.
Quintin was treated with minor injuries to his face and chest area. He went home to his family, and continue to care for his siblings after the games were over. He never really got over the deaths of all he had killed, and he hoped that all of them had gone to heaven afterwards.
Wesley Smith, District 3: Winner of the 4th Hunger Games
Wesley grew up during the epicenter of the war. He was 10 when he experienced a bombing of his district, taking the life of his mother. That left his father to fight off the Peacekeepers and was captured. His father eventually returned to the district, but as a Capital sympathizer. Wesley was an only child, so he was on his own as his father wasn't there to support him. He took turned his focus on his studies and did extremely well in his class.
It didn't help as he was picked as one of the tributes for the Hunger Games, and his district mate was one of his classmates named Rena. They were put on in the same compartment together, but Wesley knew about the trains previously. So, he had stolen some items from his classrooms. The Peacekeepers didn't think a paper clip could be used as a weapon, so they let him pass through with it. Instead, Wesley used the paper clip to pick the lock that was on the train, and Wesley and Rena tried to help free the rest of the tributes to escape.
Halfway through, one of the Peacekeepers caught them in the act, and began to shoot down the tributes. Wesley, realizing he couldn't run, gave himself up, while 6 of the tributes died and 3 escaped, including Rena. The only other tributes to give themselves up were himself, the girl from 5 and the boy from 7. Instead of having the tributes be in separate compartments, the Peacekeepers rounded up the rest of the tributes and put them inside of a run-down zoo. Wesley's arms were tied, so he couldn't pull any more tricks. Eventually, he and the remaining 15 tributes get placed inside of an abandoned warehouse. Wesley was stunned when she saw a dead Rena being hung by a rope, along with the two other tributes who he thought had escaped.
Wesley was then let go from his restraints, and the Peacekeepers left outside of the giant warehouse for the competition to begin. Wesley didn't run to the center, instead looking around the warehouse to gage what could keep him alive. He realized that the warehouse contained a lot more tools and supplies than what the center had. So, Wesley began setting various traps around the Warehouse. Then he was an onlooker as the various other tributes killed one another or fell into his traps. He was especially numb when he caught the little girl from 12, who had a hook kill her through †he throat. Wesley couldn't sleep that night after what he just witnessed. Wesley was the final tribute left standing after the girl from 10 died from his trap, with the games lasting for two days.
After the games, Wesley tried to go back to what he was doing…but he was still haunted by the young girl from 12, and the deaths of the rest of the tributes.
Thanks for reading the first part of this. Right now, I still need about 12 more submissions for this SYOT. I'm extending the deadline to the 21st of February in hopes of getting some more tributes. You can submit up to 3 tributes. Make sure to send the tributes through PM. You can find the form on my profile. If you don't read profiles, here's the form provided:
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