31st Games

it's rare that even the citizens of The Capitol question the fairness of putting a certain tribute into the games, but this became one of the main talking points throughout this year's games.

This year's victor was Gregor Didsbury, age 17, from District 6. The arena was set on a volcanic island, featured mindless dodos, a volcanic eruption, and lasted for 8 days.

During the training that occurred before the games, Gregor instantly befriended 12-year-old Magnetta from District 3. Both Gregor's brother and Magnetta were blind, which helped Gregor bond with her and allowed him to help her with training. Even some Capitol residents questioned the fairness of Magnetta competing, but as no girls from her district volunteered for her when she was chosen in the reaping, the issue had resolved itself.

During the bloodbath, Gregor ran straight to Magnetta and carried her out of the cornucopia on his back to the outer hills of the island. Pearl (1) was the only career to spot the pair escaping, but dismissed them as not being a threat, so she ran after Charleston (12) instead.

Once Gregor and Magnetta had reached the outer hills, they decided to set a base together. Although Gregor was at first skeptical about staying with Magnetta, she proved her worth by helping his extract water from the plants and instructing him on how to cook the dodos. In return, Gregor camouflaged the pair of them, set several spike pits and informed Magnetta of what was going on in the arena.

The pair of them laid low for the next few days and compared experiences of their home districts. Magnetta was shocked to hear from Gregor about the effects of morphling, which he explained was a common drug in his zone of District 6 and allegedly very common in the victors' village. Gregor mentioned that he would sometimes do morphling himself if there was no food left at home, which Magnetta was appalled by.

On the seventh day, the pair ran out of food after the dodos had abandoned their area. They carefully walked inwards towards the center of the arena, but as they were starting to near the volcano, they felt tremors from the ground and Magnetta alerted Gregor that it may be about to erupt. Gregor appeared tempted to leave Magnetta and run away on his own, but he grabbed her on his back again and ran away, as the volcano spewed out molten lava.

Although the pair of them just about made it to safely, the eruption killed three of the remaining seven tributes, leaving just Gregor, Magnetta, Pearl, and Bruto (2) still alive. Gregor and Magnetta fled to the outskirts of the arena, where Gregor agreed to keep watch again, however due to his intense exhaustion and Magnetta not being able to keep watch herself, they both fell asleep.

The next morning, Gregor and Magnetta were woken by Pearl and Bruto grabbing them and holding knives to their necks. Magnetta screamed for Gregor, but Pearl stabbed her through the stomach and dropped her back onto the ground. However Magnetta's scream had scared a nearby dodo, who fell out of a tree and onto Bruto's head. Gregor used the distraction to run and Bruto chased him, however Bruto ran straight over a covered spike pit, killing him instantly when he fell through.

Gregor tried to run again, but Pearl threw her knife at his back and he collapsed. As Pearl stood over him, she pushed his head into the mud and held her knife to his neck. She gave a 'victory speech'. which used to be a common tradition amongst career tributes before they were about to win. But when she was about to finally stab Gregor, her hair was suddenly yanked backwards and she yelped out in pain.

Gregor turned around to see a barely conscious Magnetta had somehow managed to get up and follow the sound of Pearl's voice. During the commotion, Gregor grabbed Pearl's knife from her and stabbed her through the heart, which killed her instantly.

Magnetta, holding to what life she had left, collapsed into Gregor's arms and through his tears, he thanked her for saving his life. As Magnetta lay dying, she made Gregor promise that he would not take any more morphling or waste his life. Gregor told her he would keep this promise and shortly afterwards, Magnetta succumbed to her wounds and died.

In the years to come, Gregor kept his promise. He set up a rehabilitation center for morphling addicts in District 6 and got married and had a daughter, naming her after his ally, Magnetta.