By the time of the fourth annual Hunger Games, the entertainment factor of the competition had been fully developed. After seeing the different ways the Capitolites reacted to the three very diverse victors so far, the Gamemakers decided to make the Hunger Games less of a fight to the death and more of a reality television show. Even better, they decided to make it interactive by allowing Capitol citizens to submit legal bets on who they believed would win. Capitol citizens who wished to bet would receive a form in the mail on which they would guess who they thought the final eight would be and who would win. This momentous Hunger Games needed a momentous arena, and such the president called up 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐳 and requested that he design and build the arena. After several weeks of planning and working out the kinks of things, construction on the arena began.
The arena was, in a sense, a model of the four seasons. The north half of the arena was an icily cold and barren landscape churning with bitingly frigid wind. The south portion of the arena was a swelteringly hot desert riddled with snakes and scorpions. To the west was a lovely fall forest, with gold and orange leaves fluttering from the trees and joining their brethren on the ground. To the east was a rolling green field, bursting with flowers that were every color of the rainbow. Sheep roamed the area. The Gamemakers did not provide the tributes with a great water source, believing that the games would be more interesting when the tributes were forced to find creative methods of obtaining it.
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The array of tributes was much like last year; the six careers from 1, 2, and 4 were all trained prematurely and therefore earned the highest scores. The Capitol was also intrigued by the single volunteer; the boy from District 8 who sacrificed himself for a boy one year older than him who was allegedly his best friend since childhood. The six careers, inspired by the way the careers allied the year before in the middle of the games, shook hands as allies before the games even began. They made a deal to slaughter as many tributes as possible during the bloodbath and then meet up in the mouth of the shimmering horn of plenty once the feast of death was over. The Capitol was also intrigued by the District 7 girl, who received the highest training score and the highest odds. She had lots of experience with using an axe and a knife from working in the lumber industry for most of her life, and so was expected to make a handsome number of kills in the arena.
The instant the gong rang, the exhilarated careers scissored forward and began scooping up their favorite weapons. The first to reach the mouth of the horn was 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧. 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 leaned over and picked up a spectacular curved sickle that glistened in the light of the sun overhead and brandished it in his left hand.
Not far behind 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 was 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚. 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚 slung an orange backpack over her back and then picked up a bow and arrow that lay on an ornate glass table concealed in the darkness of the cornucopia. Nocking an arrow in her bow and closing one eye, she aimed her arrow at 𝐑𝐞𝐝's back. 𝐑𝐞𝐝 was an easy target as he was running in a straight line away from the bloodbath into the fall sector of the arena. 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚 released her arrow, and the projectile sank into 𝐑𝐞𝐝's back as the bloodbath began in earnest.
At this point, the duo of 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 and 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚 was joined by 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫, 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞, and 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐨, who all sported their own menacing weapons and were prepared to do their part in landing the career alliance as many kills as possible. They all spread out and created as much space as possible, each one patrolling a different section of the clearing around the cornucopia. The next kill was carried out by 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐨. 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐨 spotted a panicked 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 storming away from the bloodbath. 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐨 darted up behind 𝐁𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐲 and stabbed her square in the stomach with his machete. Repulsed by the sticky spray of blood squirting out of the girl's mouth, 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐨 removed the blade from her corpse and began searching for his next kill.
Only a few tributes remained at the cornucopia, and, after realizing that their current strategy wasn't working, the careers all called each other over to the mouth of the cornucopia. They used their bodies to form a barrier at the mouth of the horn, trapping two tributes inside. The two trapped tributes knew that their lives would be over very soon. The first unlucky duo to be killed was 𝐉𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞, who was killed by 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 when he was shot in the neck with an arrow.
An eerie silence now hung in the air as the careers searched around the cornucopia for any final tributes to round up. There were none. Confused as to why the bloodbath cannons had not fired yet, the careers began throwing aside crates and the like in the cornucopia in an attempt to find the tribute they knew was hiding somewhere. They found it twelve minutes later; 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚 threw open a crate to find a completely helpless 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠 quivering in terror inside of it. When 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠 caught sight of the girl looming over him, he screamed in terror and attempted to escape, but it was no use. 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚 shot 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠 in the neck with her bow. 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐠 clutched at his neck as scarlet liquid spilled from the wound onto the ground. He collapsed, dead, a few minutes later.
Five kills had been made in the bloodbath, a number that the career alliance was very proud of. They set up a camp inside of the horn that they would return to each night after their daily killing spree.
The tributes watched gravely as the faces of the five tributes that had died the first day were projected into the sky on the night of Day 1. It was not until around noon on Day 2 that the next kill was made. You see, the morning of Day 2 each career took a backpack filled by commodities for the day and went out into the arena to search for their unlucky next kill. 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐨 found 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 lying in a ditch in the spring sector of the arena, covered with a bed of leaves and sticks to conceal her body. 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐨 snuck up behind 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 and leaned over her. She was too stunned to scream before 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐨 stabbed her in the heart with his machete.
The evening of Day 2, 𝐇𝐞𝐞𝐇𝐚𝐚𝐒𝐡𝐚 was walking along in the spring section when she stepped over a ditch covered with a layer of leaves and fell in. It was a trap set by the Gamemakers. 𝐇𝐞𝐞𝐇𝐚𝐚𝐒𝐡𝐚 tried every strategy she could think of, to no use. She was trapped in the hole. A few hours later, 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 noticed the pit with the girl trapped inside. It was the easiest kill he made so far. 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 shot 𝐇𝐞𝐞𝐇𝐚𝐚𝐒𝐡𝐚 in the shoulder with an arrow from his bow, killing her.
On Day 3, 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫 took the risk of attempting to kill 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲. 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲 had hoarded the audience's attention after receiving both the highest training score and the highest odds, and so 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫, in an attempt to eliminate the biggest threat to his survival, snuck up behind 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲 and attempted to stab her in the back, believing that she was weaponless. However, 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲 turned sharply on her heel and revealed that she was holding an axe. The girl rammed the weapon into 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫's chest, effectively killing the career.
On Day 5, a second attempt to kill 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲 was made. 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞, brandishing her curved sickle, snuck up behind 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲. What happened next was very similar to what happened with 𝐑𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫, but this time 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 escaped unscathed. Day 5 was deathless.
On Day 6, two more dehydration deaths occurred. The Gamemakers realized that they made a bad decision assuming that the tributes could get their water through other means than directly from a water source. They resolved to always include large bodies of water in future arenas.
The morning of Day 8, 𝐃𝐨𝐧 was exhausted from dehydration. He knew that the only way he could be snatched from the claws of death would be by a sponsor. He believed that making a kill would be a good way to up his chances of getting sponsored. So, just after noon, 𝐃𝐨𝐧 mashed up a handful of poisonous berries and mixed them into 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝's food while he was away. 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐝 died after eating the poisonous substance.
At the conclusion of 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧's kill, the final six had been determined. Once again, 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐳 continued his tradition of coming up with a method to force the tributes inward to the cornucopia. So, he unleashed a poisonous fog on the outskirts of the arena. Any tribute trapped in the fog would be killed almost immediately as the poison caused their body to shut down completely. The fog crept up on 𝐍𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐤𝐨, but she was not at all alarmed because she believed that it was just standard morning fog. She was killed by the poison.
The five remaining tributes were now barreling through the forest towards the cornucopia, where they knew it would be safe because of the high ground. All five made it, and they had no choice but to climb on top of the silver horn and begin the bloody showdown.
The first kill of the finale was made by 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚, who unsheathed a knife from her pocket and snuck up behind 𝐍𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐭𝐨, stabbing him in the back and killing him.
At this, all of the remaining tributes produced their signature weapons. 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚 took out her knife and bow. 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 produced his machete. 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 pulled out her knife. 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲 wielded her axe. And so the final battle of the fourth Hunger Games began.
First, 𝐕𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐢𝐧 lunged at 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲 and attempted to stab her in the hip with his machete. But he failed, and 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲 retaliated by smashing him in the head with her axe. He slumped to the ground and heaved in pain before slipping off of the cornucopia and dying very soon.
After delivering the final blow, 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲 was now in a prone position and needed a few second to get situated before she could do anything more. The two others took advantage of this time when she was weak and defenseless. 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 pounced over to where 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲 stood and stabbed her in the back with her knife. She howled in pain before falling backwards off of the horn, dead.
The final battle of the fourth Hunger Games was between 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐳 of District 1 and 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐭 of District 2. First, 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚 lunged at 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞. But, agile 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 crouched down and dodged the attack. She retaliated by standing back up and attempting to stab 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚 in the throat, merely striking the flesh and not actually impaling it.
𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚, brandishing her machete, crept up upon 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 in an attempt to corner her and force her off of the horn onto the ground where she would die in the fog that swirled around the horn. However, 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 lifted her bow and nocked an arrow in less than a fifth of a second, so quickly that 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚 had no time to react. The arrow landed in her chest, and she collapsed to the ground, her wound spouting blood. Just for good measure, 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 jumped up and down on top of 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚, causing her to cough up blood. She choked on her own blood two minutes later.
"𝑹𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝑽𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒕 𝟐, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔!", 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐳 exclaimed into the arena. 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 just dropped the weapons she was holding and smiled for the audience whose attention she knew was all focused on her.
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The nation had mixed feelings about 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞. She had not done anything spectacular in the arena like 𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥 or 𝐒𝐲𝐥𝐚𝐬 had, so she wasn't extremely exciting or notable. Much of the audience wanted 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚 or 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐬𝐲 to win and they were disappointed in 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞's victory. However, most everyone eventually accepted the fact that 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐭 was their fourth victor.
𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 moved into the Victor's Village of District 2. In her lifetime, she would see the Victor's Village in the district of masonry extended to include two dozen houses as more and more tributes followed in her footsteps and returned home victorious.
Her victory tour went fairly well, although District 1 was a bit cold at her for killing their beloved 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐚.
𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 would marry twice in her lifetime, once at age thirty-one and once at age forty. She would have only one child; she would become pregnant at age thirty-two and bear one daughter.
𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 would live to the age of seventy-five, dying from a seizure around the time of the sixty-first annual Hunger Games.
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▪ 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 moves in the Victor's Village of District 2, the first of many victors from the district of masonry to do so.
▪ 𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐫, the victor of the second annual Hunger Games, breaks up with her first boyfriend, 𝐂𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐱. She would never marry or have any more significant relationships from then on.
▪ 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐳, the beloved Head Gamemaker, is forced to retire after contracting throat cancer.
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𝐇𝐆𝟏: 𝐒𝐲𝐥𝐚𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐧 (#1 of District 3)
𝐇𝐆𝟐: 𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐫 (#1 of District 1)
𝐇𝐆𝟑: 𝐒𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐚 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 (#1 of District 4)
𝐇𝐆𝟒: 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐕𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐭 (#1 of District 2)
