The Capitol was in a state of shock and disappointment when their beloved Head Gamemaker, 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐨 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐭𝐳, was forced to resign from his job after contracting throat cancer. 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐂𝐨𝐫𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐮𝐬 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞 promised to hire a new Gamemaker who would be just as exhilarating and suspenseful as 𝐋𝐞𝐭𝐨. After interviewing almost two-thousand people, 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐖𝐚𝐲𝐧𝐞 selected a thirty-eight year old woman named 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 to take over the position. 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 appointed a team of twenty Gamemakers, whom all worked together to plan out and build a spectacular new arena they promised would be just as grand as those before.
The huge jungle arena had trees taller than skyscrapers that blocked out the sun and made it almost pitch black except in the occasional clearings. 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 made absolutely certain to include a myriad of water sources for the tributes; for instance, a rushing river coiled around and around through the arena, being readily available to any tribute no matter where they were. An extremely fast and roaring river encircled the circular arena. It would serve as not only a practically infinite water source for the twenty-four tributes, but also as a barrier to prevent all contact with the force field. The sky was stunningly beautiful; spotless white clouds dotted an azure blue sky. The cornucopia was in a rather large clearing in the middle of the arena, on top of a hill as it always was. Made of brilliant sapphire sparkling in the sun, it was stunningly beautiful. The mouth, which spilled over with medicine and food and water and everything else that would bring the tributes life in the arena, was illuminated by a spectacular diamond chandelier masquerading from the ceiling.
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As for the tributes, there was a ton of speculation in the Capitol pertaining who would win because the array of tributes was so diverse. The obvious choice was the District 1 male, who was tough and intimidating to all of the others. But, there was also the pair from District 3 who were so stealthy that they could run straight behind you in the middle of the woods that you wouldn't notice them at all. The District 9 female was extremely talented, being able to weave baskets so tight that even water couldn't seep through and being able to identify if a plant or animal was poisonous in seconds. The brother and sister pair from District 12 allied before the games even began, quite unrealistically vowing that they would be the final two. There was, of course, the typical array of tough careers just like the few years before. Just like last year, there was only one volunteer. It was the boy from District 3 who had volunteered to help his family out of the severe economic crisis they were facing at the time.
The games began with what was arguably the most thrilling bloodbath so far at the time; a huge thirteen tributes would die in the first ten minutes. In an interview after the games, 𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐫, the victor of the second Hunger Games, coined the phrase "bloodbath" to describe the huge scramble at the beginning of the games.
When the gong sounded signaling the start of the fifth Hunger Games, the vast majority of the tributes stormed through the field towards the sparkling cornucopia, knowing that their chances of victory would improve greatly if the retrieved supplies at the very beginning. A number of tributes were able to successfully retrieve supplies and run away from the bloodbath alive. A vast number were not so lucky.
The careers all called each other over and had a small gathering at the mouth of the horn, assigning weapons to each of them and setting out tasks for themselves. The first death occurred when 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐚, a girl with great skill in using a knife, ran up behind a distracted 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚 and shoved her to the ground. 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚 thrashed desperately and screamed until her voice went hoarse, but it was no use. 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐚 produced her knife and stabbed the girl in the shoulder not ten seconds before her eyes glazed back into her head.
Less than two seconds after 𝐀𝐜𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚's death, the boy from District 2 named 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 hastily grabbed a bow and nocked an arrow, aiming it at 𝐄𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧's back as he darted away from the horn into the comforting darkness of the jungle. The arrow missed, flying a few feet too far to the right. Cursing under his breath, 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 nocked a second arrow. This time, his aim was perfect. 𝐄𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧 slumped to the ground as the arrow sank into the back of his neck.
Darting over to 𝐄𝐥𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐧's corpse, 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 dumped out the contents of his bag and purged it of a magazine of throwing knives and a packet of dried pineapple as well as a canteen of water. Ripping three knives out of the magazine, he chucked them through the air in rapid succession. One knife missed and left the target unscathed. One knife nicked the shoulder of a girl who was rifling through a crate in the mouth of the cornucopia. The third and final throwing knife lodged itself between the shoulder blades of 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫 as she keened in pain, turning around to take inventory of the terrible injury. While she was distracted, 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 threw a fourth throwing knife, this one landed squarely in the back of 𝐏𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫's neck. 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 grinned in triumph as the girl fell forward lifelessly.
Meanwhile, back in the heart of the sapphire horn, 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚 sat crouched behind a brown crate, wielding a machete and planning to ambush any weary tributes that came along. Her first victim wandered into the horn, completely unaware that 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚 was hiding less than five yards from her. 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚 quietly left her hiding place and plunged the blade into the victim's back, killing him instantly.
As this was happening, a duel occurred about twenty yards from the horn between 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐲 and 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚. Both held swords and both were fighting for their lives, blocking each other's blows with a seemingly infinite series of deafening clangs. At long, long last, 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 dropped dead when 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐲 slashed her in the hip.
In the next two minutes, 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚 made two more ambush kills in the cornucopia. It was too easy. All she had to do was wait until a weak tribute wandered inside, and then she would emerge from her hiding place and stab them in the back with her machete.
𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐞, the short and petite District 5 girl, retrieved a bow and arrow from the horn of plenty and climbed up on top of the cornucopia. She nocked an arrow and aimed the weapon at 𝐘𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐤𝐞, the tough and intimidating boy who she wanted to kill in order to eliminate the biggest threat to her survival. Even though 𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐞's experience in using a bow and arrow was almost non-existent, the arrow miraculously sank into the back of 𝐘𝐮𝐬𝐮𝐤𝐞's head.
Little did 𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐞 know, however, that standing right behind her was 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭. 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭 set an arrow in her bow and aimed it at 𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐞's back. 𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐞 whipped her head around at the sound of 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭 drawing the bowstring, and screamed in terror as she lunged at the career and knocked her backwards off of the horn. Standing right at the base of where 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭 fell was 𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐚. 𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐚, knowing that 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭 was a large threat and that it would be best for her to eliminate 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭, hastily grabbed a brick from the ground and smashed it on 𝐕𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐭's head, knocking her unconscious and causing blood to leak from her head. She would not die for several hours, though, long after the bloodbath had ended.
𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐲, the District 4 boy who was thirsty to prove himself since he had not made any kills yet, wielded a sword and attempted to sneak up upon and kill 𝐌𝐫. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲. However, less than twenty yards away was 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲, 𝐌𝐫. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲's sister. In a panicked attempt to save her brother's life, 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 picked up a brick that lay on a glass table in the horn and snuck up behind 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐥𝐞𝐲, smashing him in the back of the head and repeatedly denting his skull until he died. 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 had saved her brother's life, something that warmed the hearts of the Capitol audience.
𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚, who was still going through with her plan of ambushing tributes in the cornucopia, made one last kill in the same exact manner before leaving her hiding space to pick off the last few tributes remaining around the horn.
𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐚, ho had intrigued the audience after making the first kill, made her second kill when she chucked a throwing knife she retrieved from the cornucopia at the back of a boy who was in the process of slinging an orange backpack over his shoulder.
The eleven remaining tributes who had survived the bloodbath spread out and carried out very different plans of action. As was custom, the three remaining careers (𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐚, 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲, and 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚) set up a camp in the cornucopia that they would return to each night. 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐞 and 𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐞 both decide to hide, 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐞 camping out in a tree for the night and 𝐄𝐥𝐥𝐞 creating a sort of den in a ditch between two piles of rocks. 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐲, 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐬, and 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚 all slept on the jungle floor; they were easily hidden under the layer of leaves and vines on the floor of the tropical forest. 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 and 𝐌𝐫. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲, the two siblings from District 12, found a dugout cave area in the side of a hill that they went inside and slept on the cold hard ground for the night.
On the night of Day 1, there was a single death. 𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐚, who had retrieved nothing from the horn, thought she was stealthy enough to sneak into the cornucopia in the dead of night and retrieve much-needed supplies. The sound of 𝐄𝐜𝐡𝐚 rummaging through the supplies instantly woke the careers, who ran over to her location and cornered her in. 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 pulled out his machete from his pocket and stalked towards the girl, amputating her left leg and causing her to bleed out. The other tributes were startled awake by the sound of her cannon.
Day 2, 3, 4, and 5 all passed deathless. Perhaps it was just inevitable that kills would be rare since the bloodbath claimed the lives of so many of them. However, on the evening of Day 6, 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐲 and 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐬 crossed paths whilst walking through the arena. 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐬 mistakenly believed that 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐲 was a career, and so pulled out his bow - he was skilled with a bow from training - and shot the boy in the heart. After walking over to 𝐊𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐝𝐲's corpse, he realized he had mistaken the boy for a career and felt very bad about killing the innocent tribute.
On Day 8, the Gamemakers set the perimeter of the arena on fire, thus forcing the tributes inward as they ran away from the inferno. However, the fire stopped after about ten minutes. The Gamemakers had, in a way, shrunk the arena! The area that the fire had burned was too hot to go near, and so the tributes were more likely to encounter each other.
Encounter each other they did, and on Day 9 three tributes died. The first death occurred when the bloodthirsty career pack hunted down and killed 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐬. 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚 shot 𝐀𝐫𝐞𝐬 on the throat with her bow.
The second death of the day occurred less than an hour after the first. The careers stumbled upon 𝐇𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐚, who was sleeping in a ditch. She died instantly when 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 stabbed her in the stomach and she barely felt any pain at all.
The third and final death of the day was a dehydration death. Around noon, the Gamemakers caused the temperature of the arena to skyrocket to 103 degrees Fahrenheit, causing 𝐌𝐢𝐤𝐞 to die of dehydration.
Only five tributes remained: the three careers (𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚, 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲, and 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐚) and the two siblings from District 12. The careers had literally no clue as to the whereabouts of the siblings. In fact, the two had actually used an existing cave to create themselves a little home in the ground, covering the top with a layer of leaves to conceal the entrance. They had managed to stay out of sight of the careers for nine days, but the time for stealth was over. It was time for the final battle.
In order to alert the final five of the threat coming their way, the Gamemakers sounded a siren through the arena as the inferno started again, forcing the tributes inward as they barreled through the arena as fast as the could. 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 decided to follow in her predecessor's footsteps and force all of the tributes on top of the cornucopia by lighting the tall grass around the horn on fire. Before climbing the horn of plenty, 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 and 𝐌𝐫. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 grabbed a few weapons from its mouth to use.
With all five tributes on top of the horn, the final battle began. If any one of the tributes were cornered here, the fire swirling around the sparkling horn would be the only thing to show them kinder than a knife or bow. First, 𝐌𝐫. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 lunged at 𝐖𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲, knocking him backwards. He thrashed around desperately as he waved his hands around his body, but he fell backwards off of the horn into the churning ember below.
Enraged at how 𝐌𝐫. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 had killed her ally, 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚 lunged at 𝐌𝐫. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 holding her blade and being ready to plunge it into his heart. However, 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 turned sharply on her heel and bludgeoned 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐡𝐚 in the back of the head with a long and rusty metal bar she was carrying. She was temporarily blinded from the blow and fell off of the horn.
There were only three tributes left. 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐚 𝐒𝐚𝐥𝐭 of District 1, 𝐌𝐫. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 of District 12, and 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 of District 12 all wielded their weapons, ready to win. The three tributes stood agonizingly still in a triangle shape for almost two minutes, each one deciding if they should be the one to make the first move. However, 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐚's plan was to wait for a long time and then lunge at one of the siblings when they were so stunned they were frozen in place. After three long minutes, 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐚 threw herself towards 𝐌𝐫. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 and plunged her machete into the boy's chest, killing him almost instantly.
At the brutal murder of her brother, a look of such horror and rage crossed 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲's face.
"Oh, you evil, treacherous little bitch!", 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 screamed at the top of her lungs. 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 seethed with fury as she raised her rusty metal bar into the air and smashed it into the side of 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐚's head and dented her skull, killing her instantly. 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 screamed as loud as she could for as long as she could before kicking 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐮𝐜𝐚's bloody corpse off of the horn and sending it descending into the ember below.
"𝑴𝒔. 𝑱𝒖𝒊𝒄𝒚 𝑩𝒂𝒃𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒓𝒊𝒄𝒕 𝟏𝟐, 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒇𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒖𝒂𝒍 𝑯𝒖𝒏𝒈𝒆𝒓 𝑮𝒂𝒎𝒆𝒔!", 𝐌𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞 𝐋𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 boomed into the arena as a chorus of trumpets sounded in the distance.
𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 just broke into a deep sob, holding onto her brother's body and stroking his bloody face.
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District 12 accepted its first ever victor with open arms. The Capitol was deeply sympathetic about the loss of 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲's brother, and she stole the hearts of many people in the audience. It was an extremely rare spectacle for a District 12 tribute to win.
𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 kept alive a streak of female victors. The victors of the second, third, fourth, and now fifth Hunger Games were all female.
𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 moved into the Victor's Village of District 12, the first ever to do so.
Her victory tour went extremely well as people mourned for the girl's loss. However, District 1 was enraged at 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 stealing their second victor.
𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 was so traumatized from her Hunger Games that she would become a complete and utter social hermit, never leaving her house on her own accord and fearing everybody that tried to talk or reason with her. She would never marry nor have kids.
𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 would live to the age of fifty-one, dying from a heart attack around the time of the fortieth annual Hunger Games.
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▪ 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 moves into the Victor's Village of District 12, the first from the mining district to do so.
▪ 𝐒𝐲𝐥𝐚𝐬 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐧, the victor of the first annual Hunger Games, engages a woman named 𝐉𝐞𝐬𝐲𝐤𝐚 whom he will marry one year later.
▪ 𝐂𝐫𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐚𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐫, the victor of the second annual Hunger Games, coins the term "bloodbath" in an interview.
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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)
𝐇𝐆𝟓: 𝐌𝐬. 𝐉𝐮𝐢𝐜𝐲 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐲 (#1 of District 12)
LaCroix this is why I put in place a rule for my hunger games series stating the tributes couldn’t be based on already existing characters... along with making real sounding names
