41st Games

This year saw the first murder to occur between tributes before the games had even begun.

This years victor was Flavia Nixon, age 15, from District 2. The arena was set in an arid forest, featured boisterous badgers, tornados, and lasted for 10 days.

During the week before the interviews, Astrid (1) secretly poisoned her district partner, Rox, using some cyanide that her brother has given to her before leaving District 1. Astrid has fallen out with Rox after she overheard him saying she looked like an anorexic flamingo during the tribute parade and so she such it into his food when they were eating dinner one night. She initially believed that she had gotten away with this murder, however it was unknown to tributes and indeed most Capitol citizens that secret cameras had always been placed in the tributes' apartments and so the game-makers knew that she was responsible.

However in order to avoid more unneeded drama, the game-makers did not punish Astrid until the countdown before the games began. When there were just ten seconds left and most tributes were scanning the cornucopia for useful items, the countdown stopped, and a voice announced "The Capitol sees everything" in an ominous tone. Whilst most tributes were initially confused, the live camera feed switched to show Astrid, who looked alarmed. At that moment, the floor of her podium exploded, and her body was broken into various directions, showing most tributes in her blood. The countdown then continued as if nothing has happened.

As the gong went off, most tributes were still either shocked or confused. Whilst Darius (2) ran to grab a sword, he was knocked out and stabbed with an axe by Sunny (7), leaving Flavia as the only career tribute remaining. She grabbed some throwing knives and whilst running out of the clearing, stabbed Meggiebyte (3) in the side of her head, so that she could take her backpack.

After laying low on the first night, Flavia spent the next two days travelling around the arena, whilst searching for water and other tributes. Due to the sparse landscape, Flavia was able to find tributes relatively easily. Many tributes also tripped on the rocky terrain as they fled from her, which made the easier to catch.

By day five, there were still twelve tributes left, who were widely spread out through the arena. Therefore the game-makers triggered tornados from the perimeter of the arena that were designed to spread inwards. Flavia has been roaming the perimeter when a tornado formed just a small distance up a hill from where she stood. She ran down the hill, but the tornado was gaining on her fast and led to several trees breaking up in the intense winds. Whilst she was still running and looking for shelter, a branch from a nearby tree came off and smacked her in the side of the head, knocking her unconscious.

Aneeta (12) was sheltering in a very nearby cave and had just seen Flavia being knocked to the ground. Therefore the game-makers moved the tornado away from the two girls, in order to allow the pair to potentially interact. It was thought by many that Aneeta would kill Flavia during this period of vulnerability, but shockingly, she actually helped Flavia to her feet and took both her and her sword back to the cave where she had sheltered.

When Flavia awoke, Aneeta explained to her what had happened whilst she had been unconscious and that the pair should work together. During Flavia's post-game interviews, she admitted that whilst Aneeta was telling her this, everything she had been taught was telling her to stab Aneeta through the head with the sword, but she couldn't bring herself to do this. The pair carried on working together for the next two days and Aneeta was also proficient with skinning and cooking the badgers, which allowed the pair of them food and extra warmth, from the badgers' fur.

They also had several conversations that interested both The Capitol and the various districts, regarding the differences between the districts, with Flavia being surprised about Aneeta's family only being able to have supper once a week, whilst Aneeta was shocked that Flavia and many of her friends in District 2 has started training for these games once they started school. Various conversations had to be edited upon transmission, so that district viewers would not learn too much about the quality of life in other districts, which could potentially cause disorder in the outlying districts, however these conversations were still fascinating for many Capitol citizens.

On the morning of the tenth day, Aneeta and Flavia woke to hear a tornado neat their cave. As they looked out from the cave, they saw the sheer size of it coming towards them and realized that they wouldn't survive if they stayed in the cave and Flavia guessed that with five tributes remaining, it was probably time for the showdown. The pair sprinted as quickly as they could back to the cornucopia, whilst various trees and rocks that had orbited the tornado fell onto the ground near them, the tornado closed in behind them

When they had almost made it back to the cornucopia, Aneeta was hit in the back of the head by a wayward rock and cried out in pain as she hit the rocky ground. At this point, remembering that only one tribute could win, Flavia beheaded Aneeta with her sword and then she carried on running, whilst Aneeta's body and head were sucked up into the tornado.

As Flavia re-entered the cornucopia clearing, she realized that the tornado had jutted off into another direction, probably in order to displace another tribute. Just as she sheltered by a tree on the outskirts of the clearing, a machete hit her in the arm. Flavia yelped out in pain and removed it then looked over to see Helga (5) had thrown it from a nearby tree where she was hiding. Helga was now unarmed, but Flavia did not want to rick climbing the tree, especially with the tornado roaming nearby. Therefore she threw her sword and hit Helga straight in the head, killing her and sending her body falling out of the tree and to the ground.

However during this commotion, Flavia hardly even noticed that the tornado had come back towards them and so she ran back out into the cornucopia clearing and saw Othello (11) running in her direction. Although he had also become unarmed, he was physically much bigger than Flavia and knocked her to the ground with ease. He strangled her as she desperately tried to push him off, but to no avail. However as Flavia was starting to lose consciousness, blood splattered onto her face and she noticed that the grip around her neck was weakening.

As Flavia opened her eyes and looked up, the tornado was rapidly slowing and the blue skies re-emerged from the clouds. It was not for a few seconds that she realized that a branch was sticking out of the front of Othello's face and had slammed through the back of his skull. Unlike Flavia, the viewers had seen the branch fly off from the tornado into the direction of the fighting duo, before piercing the back of Othello's head, which left Flavia victorious.

After returning to District 2, Flavia finished her other studies, before taking up a teaching post at the Training Academy, specializing in game-maker manipulation. She also worked with Cobalt Townsend from District 1 and created an arena practice program, which further cemented the relationship between these districts.