37th Hunger Games

The 37th Annual Hunger Games was a tournament that took place in open woodlands in the year 37 ATT (After Treaty of Treason). The winner was 15 year old Flash Malone from District 1.

## Victor

The 37th Hunger Games was won by 15 year old Flash Malone from District 1. Flash is the youngest ever career victor. Flash won the games by abandoning the careers then stabbing Cricket (6) through the head who was torturing Arianna (10), agreeing to an alliance with her till he stabbed her in the head and stabbing Antonia (2) through her eye. He used a spear as his weapon and killed 3 tributes. Upon returning to District 1, Flash took up a teaching position at the Training Academy, specializing in psychological espionage.

## The Games

The 37th Hunger Games lasted for 12 days. Below is a summary of each day.

### Day 1 (Bloodbath)

Flash had previously decided that to abandon the careers, as he worried that they would easily kill him if given the opportunity, due to his younger age. Despite agreeing to cover Romulus (2) during the bloodbath, Flash grabbed a backpack and then immediately ran away from the cornucopia. During the confusion and with no defense, Romulus was stabbed in the bag by Cricket (6) and this immediately made him a target of Antonia (2).

Flash carried on walking on walking through the arena and sharpened a tree branch into a make-shift spear. As the evening approached, Flash walked up behind Cricket, who was standing over Ariana (10) and torturing her for information. Flash threw the spear through Cricket’s head, thereby saving Ariana.

They then agreed to an alliance and Ariana showed Flash a small vial of poison that she had managed to extract from the hedgehogs’ spikes after her district partner, Vicente, had been pricked by one and died shortly afterwards.

### Days 2-7

For the next few days they carried on traveling together and taking turns sleeping.

### Day 8 (Toxic air release)

With 12 tributes still left on the 8th day, the game-makers announced that toxic air would shortly be released from the cornucopia and that masks would now be dispensed from the platform within the cornucopia. It was also mentioned that if a tribute took more than one mask, their tracker in their arm would be detonated. As they ran towards the cornucopia, Ariana pointed out that they could place some of the poison onto other masks, which could weaken and possibly kill other tributes, without breaking the rules.

As the pair had been close to the cornucopia, they were the first to arrive at the mask platform. Whilst Ariana was emptying poison into the masks, Flash kept watch. However when she was halfway through poisoning the masks, Flash warned her that he could see Antonia, Chopper (7) and Spruce (11) running towards them, all of whom were strong competitors. By the time Ariana had put poison into 6 of the masks and Antonia, Chopper and Spruce were each just seconds away from the platform, Flash grabbed her arm and they sprinted out of the Cornucopia clearing.

Once Flash and Ariana had made it out of the clearing, they saw Spruce being stabbed by Chopper, whilst Antonia managed to get a mask and she ran away as well. Many remaking tributes were either killed by Chopper or they chose poisoned masks.

### Day 9

By the next morning, only Flash, Ariana, Blox (5) and Zipp (8) were still alive.

### Day 10 and 11

Over the next few days. Blox died of thirst and Zipp was killed by Antonia.

### Day 12 (Final showdown)

With just 3 tributes remaining, Ariana and Flash agreed to stick together in order to face Antonia. A fire started in the forest behind them and it was obvious that game-makers were trying to push them all back together. However as Flash and Ariana were running, Flash stabbed Ariana in the side of the head, which immediately killed her, before he carried on running back to the cornucopia. Once her got there, he had the final showdown with Antonia. Despite losing 2 fingers, Flash managed to stab his spear through her eye and won.

## Aftermath

Upon returning to District 1, Flash took up a teaching position at the Training Academy, specializing in psychological espionage. He mentored the male District 1 tributes till one of his mentees, Gloss Ritschlund (winner of the 63rd Hunger Games), won. Initially Flash’s name was called in the 75th Hunger Games. However Gloss quickly stated he would volunteer for this role, just as Flash was about to step forward. Chiffon Malone became 2nd in the 80th Hunger Games and Quartz Malone 4th in 95th Hunger Games.