48th Games

Although this year's games were criticized for having an overly large arena, which caused a lack of action between tributes, they were still praised for the overall design of the arena, which led to many memorable moments throughout the games.

This year's victor was Blight Jordan, age 18, from District 7. The arena was set in mining caves, featured blood-sucking bats, a tsunami, and lasted for 12 days.

During the countdown, Blight looked around the central cave and realized that this year, the only weapons were small mining chisels. He scanned the rest of the supplies and also noticed that there were small parchments of paper with quills attached to them. Blight had watched enough games in the past to know that if there was something unusual in the cornucopia, it was probably worth taking.

So when the gong sounded, Blight strategically ran past the attacking career tributes and grabbed a chisel. He then turned back and grabbed a parchment and quill, before fleeing through the nearest tunnel. However as he ran through the tunnel, he saw June (12) not far ahead of him. Being gifted with an axe, he was quickly able to adjust to using a chisel and threw it into the back of June's head, immediately killing her.

Blight saw that she had managed to grab a backpack, so he took it and made his way through the complicated labyrinth of mazes until he reached the perimeter, before setting a base there. However, just as Blight was about to fall asleep that night, he looked up at the cave wall to his left and saw, to his surprise and horror, a pair of eyes on the wall looking straight back at him.

As Blight jumped up from his blanket, Nancy (6) emerged from the wall, covered in rocky powder that she had used to camouflage herself. She held her hands to show that she had no weapons on her and begged Blight not to kill her. Blight considered her offer for a while and seeing as she could not have been much older than twelve and seemed harmless, he accepted her request. The pair took turns keeping watch and sleeping, rising early the next morning to explore the rest of the arena, whilst taking turns with who would first go around each corner.

The pair made a decent alliance and looked out for each other, although they failed to encounter any other tributes. However late on the third day, Nancy tripped and cut her arm on a rock, which caused her to bleed slightly. Blight turned a corner and was met by a vicious colony of bats flying towards them. The pair ran for their lives in the direction that they had just come, but the bats only seemed to be interested in Nancy, who was subsequently bitten by the bats. As Blight ran, he looked back and could not see Nancy through the bats that were now covering her entire body. Once he had managed to run out of harm's way, he stopped and realized that he had no longer had his backpack or any other supplies, except for the quill and parchment that he had kept in his pocket.

Once Blight finally came to a stop and collapsed in a wave of exhaustion, he realized to his horror, that he had no recollection of the tunnel that he was in and he was subsequently overrun with a wave of disorientation, confusion and panic; a felling that was often experienced by a variety of tributes throughout this year's games. He panicked for several minutes, until he noticed that something was very quickly sliding towards him across the wires on the side of the tunnel. He got up and started to run, until he noticed that this object was slowing down as it neared him.

Once it caught up to Blight, it came to a standstill and he realized that it was a sponsor gift. As he had started to feel dehydrated, he hoped this would be water, but when he opened it, he was most annoyed to find that it was a dark liquid, which seemed very unsuitable for drinking. Although he thought that this was an annoying joke and he proceeded to vent his anger onto the nearest rock, he soon realized that it was in fact ink for the quill that he could use on the parchment. However this also made him wonder what the other tributes were using instead of ink.

Despite still being annoyed at not receiving water, Blight spent the next few days making a map of the surrounding tunnels, whilst desperately hoping to find a tunnel that would lead him to a source of water. When he awoke the next morning, he felt dizzy and dazed with extreme thirst, however he could hear the ghastly screeches of the bats nearby. He gave them a few minutes in order to finish off whoever their victim was, but once he heard that they had died down, he followed the tunnel from where he had heard them and saw the pale white body of Proxy (3) which had been sucked dry of all its blood.

As Blight saw the 'body claw' slide down the wires of the cave towards Proxy's body, he staggered as quickly as he could towards the body, in order to see if there was anything useful in Proxy's pockets. He reached Proxy very shortly before the body claw and was somewhat pleased to find some bread in Proxy's pocket. He also searched for water, but just as the light on the body claw turned red, he noticed that there was also some parchment, which he grabbed, before fleeing from the death claw, whilst it took Proxy's body away and whizzed away down the tunnel to the nearest hole in the cave's ceiling.

Once Blight had eaten some of the bread, he checked the parchment and was horrified to see that although Proxy had made a very detailed map, it was written in a red liquid, which Blight identified as blood. He also seemed to still be filling it in right up to his death. However there was also a route that lead to what appeared to be a lake. Without hesitating, Blight followed the tunnels on the map and indeed came across the lake, from which he drank for a long enough time to rehydrate himself. Whilst he was resting, he realized that the bats must have killed Proxy because they could smell his blood on the paper when he was near enough to them and this also made sense with how they had attacked Nancy when she was bleeding.

By the tenth day, there were still eight tributes left, after five more had died of dehydration and the bats. At this point, the tributes were all very far apart and so the game-makers announced that a wave of water would be released from the perimeter within five minutes, which prompted most tributes to run as quickly as they could towards the cornucopia.

Blight considered running back to the cornucopia, but also realized that there would most likely be another bloodbath. As calmly as he could, he considered how he could avoid going to the cornucopia without drowning and with a minute to spare before the wave was due to leave the perimeter, he realized that he might stand a chance if he could attach himself onto the roof of the cave.

Luckily for Blight, he was from District 7, where residents learned from a young age how to climb and hold onto trees by using their legs. Just as he heard the wave starting to travel through the tunnel,

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