42nd Games

This year's games were unpopular amongst Capitol citizens and it is sometimes stated that there was no real victor this year.

This years victor was Jonah Fletcher, age 18, from District 4. The arena was set in a tropical island, featured feisty iguanas, a tropical hurricane, and lasted for 7 days.

Within seconds of Jonah's wife, Fresca, being reaped, Jonah volunteered himself as the male tribute for District 4. Fresca initially begged him not to volunteer and to step back, but he said that he wanted to try and get her out of the arena alive. This very dramatic reaping immediately put the pair on the radar for viewers in The Capitol.

The night before the games, Jonah told Fresca to immediately run backwards from her podium, in order to ensure that she stayed safe, whilst he would grab supplies and follow her. When the gong sounded, they kept to his plan, with Jonah managing to grab a knife and some water.

Whilst going for a second bottle of water, Jonah was almost stabbed through the back with a spear by Woolly (8), but Fresca screamed Jonah's name, which alerted him and allowed him to dodge Woolly, who was subsequently stabbed through the back by Kandy (10). After this narrow escape, Fresca ran through the undergrowth and was closely followed by Jonah.

Jonah and Fresca spent the first day travelling to the edge of the arena and as dusk approached, they arrived at a beach. They spent the evening creating a shelter, spears, and a fire, using wood from the palm trees. As they lay by the fire together, Fresca told Jonah that although she didn't want either of them to die, she was at least glad that they were spending what were likely to be their final days together. Jonah then kissed her and told her not to worry.

On the second day, Fresca was awoken by an iguana crouching by her face. She screamed and this woke up a sleeping Jonah, who killed the iguana and cooked it on the fire, thereby allowing them to eat. They went on to find a few more iguana nearby and this gave them a source of food for the next few days.

During this period, they kept watch and occasionally heard canons go off, whilst being rather 'intimate' during the night and providing the citizens of The Capitol with some rather raunchy viewing. This also made the pair rather popular among us viewers and they were gifted with an array of weapons.

On the fourth day, with ten tributes still remaining, Jonah spotted a tropical hurricane rolling into the arena towards the beach where they were resting. Not wanting to be caught in the bad weather, the pair headed inwards. As the hours went by, they carried on walking towards the cornucopia, in the hopes that they could find a decent shelter, but eventually they gave up and realized that they would have to shelter under some bushy trees.

Whilst Jonah and Fresca were sheltering and discussing where to head after the storm, they were suddenly knocked to the ground by Axel and Ember (both 7), who had heard them and had managed to jump between trees whilst the hurricane was going on, before jumping straight on top of Jonah and Fresca. Although he had been knocked over, Jonah immediately grabbed a knife from his pocket and threw it straight at Ember's head, killing her instantly. However when Jonah slipped afterwards, Axel grabbed him from behind and then held a knife to his throat, whilst Fresca watched in horror.

Axel told Fresca to give him her weapon or he would kill Jonah, who was mouthing at Fresca to run. However under the pressure of the hurricane and horror of seeing her husband being threatened with a knife, she burst into tears and this alone surprised Axel, who seemed to think that she might be joking.

Jonah seized this opportunity Whilst Axel was distracted and rammed him backwards into the tree. This made Axel drop his knife, so Jonah punched him continually in the face and then took the knife and slit Axel's throat. Fresca cried even more and apologized to Jonah for not helping, but he reassured her, even trying to joke that she had saved his life without trying.

Jonah and Fresca headed back to the beach for the next few days, and by the seventh day, there were just four tributes left. The pair rested on the beach, keeping watch and trying to hold a defensive position if they were attacked.

However one afternoon, Jonah went into the undergrowth to 'relieve' himself, but when he came back a few minutes later, he was struck dumb with terror as he saw Drusilla (2) taunting a terrified Fresca with a snarling iguana, whilst Magnus (2) interrogated her about Jonah's whereabouts, whilst holding a sword to her throat.

Jonah anxiously speculated how he could save Fresca, but when Drusilla cut her cheek with a blade, he threw a spear as hard as he could, impaling Drusilla through the back and killing her instantly. Magnus saw Jonah and slit Fresca's throat. As Jonah ran towards them, Magnus backed away whilst throwing small blades at Jonah, which only punctured Jonah's leg and shoulder. When Jonah got hold of Magnus, he pummeled his face so hard into the ground that the hovercraft had to dig into the sand to retrieve his body.

As Fresca lay dying, Jonah held onto her and only moved from her once the hovercraft had issued several warnings that he could also be killed if he didn't allow them to take her body. When Jonah still did not move, he received an electric shock from the hovercraft, which knocked him unconscious and he was also removed from the arena by the hovercraft.

After returning to District 4, Jonah developed crippling addictions to both alcohol and morphling before dying of a morphling overdose on the third anniversary of Fresca's death,

In a later interview with this year's head-gamemaker, Natalia Dovecote, she mentioned that when there were six tributes left, (comprising of three sets of tributes, from Districts 2, 4, and 10) It was debated as to whether or not they should announce to these remaining tributes that two of them could be victors, as long as they originated from the same district. It was also suggested that when these two tributes were remaining, the rule could be revoked, which could create an epic showdown involving these two final tributes fighting each other. However, after it was speculated that this plan could lead to complications within the gameplay, the plan was shelved, but unfortunately backfired against The Capitol when it was used in a much later games.