74th Hunger Games

The **74th Hunger Games** were the first Hunger Games where two victors (Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark) were permitted to win.

## Before the Games

Katniss was the second volunteer from District 12, and Peeta was reaped naturally.

The tributes from Twelve made a dramatic impression at the Tribute Parade by wearing black costumes that were ignited by synthetic fire. Katniss received a score of 11, the first time a tribute from the three outlying districts got a score that high. Peeta revealed he'd always had a crush on Katniss during his interview with Caesar, sparking sympathy within the Capitol.

## Arena wear

The arena wear was brand new, and the outfits were the same for every tribute (except for the label on the side with the number of the tribute's district). Tokens were worn with them as long as they couldn't give an advantage to a tribute. The arena wear was:

* A pair of simple fitted tawny trousers with many pockets.
* A light green shirt.
* A sturdy brown belt with a large buckle.
* A thin, hooded black jacket that falls down to the thighs and zips up the front.
* Leather boots with narrow, grippy soles.
* Skin-tight socks.

## The Games

### Day One

The tributes were lifted into the arena. The arena included forests, a lake, a marsh, caves, and fields. Katniss wanted to run for the bow and arrows despite her mentor Haymitch's orders to run for the forest. She managed to get a backpack, but she grabbed it at the same time as Demetrius. She fought with him over the backpack until he was killed by Clove with a throwing knife. Clove then threw one of her knives at Katniss, but it hit the backpack instead, and Katniss ran for the forest, not stopping until it gets dark. Eleven tributes died in the Cornucopia Bloodbath.

Katniss then strapped herself to a tree to stay the night. The 1-2-4 Pack started hunting tributes, now allied with Peeta. They discovered Tessa with a lit fire, so Cato went to kill her. They didn't hear a cannon, so Peeta went back to finish her off. Katniss felt deeply betrayed when she discovered that Peeta had allied with the Careers.

The eleven tributes who died in the Bloodbath were Demetrius, Brife, Jenny, Nobella, Ari, Sawyer, Brian, Ashley, Jason, Bravura, and Rylie. Tessa died during the night.

### Day Two

This was the second day that Katniss went without water.

### Day Three

Katniss, very weak and dehydrated, wondered why her sponsors didn't send sent any water. She realized that this was Haymitch's way of trying to tell her that water was nearby. By the afternoon, she collapsed in mud, alerting her to the pond of water beside her. She purified the water, drank, ate, and later rested.

### Day Four

Katniss was awakened by a wall of fire created by the Gamemakers. As she ran, she got hit by a fireball on her calf, but managed to reach another pond by sunrise, which eased her burns. While resting and recovering, Katniss heard the Careers coming towards her. They spotted her and chased her into the forest. Katniss quickly hid in a tree where they couldn't catch her. Glimmer tried shooting her with a bow and arrow from the Cornucopia, but her aim was horrible. Because they couldn't reach Katniss, they made camp under the tree to wait for her to come down at some point. Katniss also got her first sponsor gift: burn medicine for her leg and welted hands. When night fell, Rue Brownlow appeared in the tree next to her and pointed out the tracker jacker nest above Katniss' head. While the anthem played, Katniss began sawing at the branch that the nest hung from.

### Day Five

At dawn, the tracker jacker nest finally fell on the ground and began to attack the Careers and Peeta. Glimmer and Marina died from the stings. Rue escaped, but all the others, including Katniss, got stung. Katniss snatched the bow and arrows from Glimmer's corpse shortly before the hovercraft took her corpse away. She saw Peeta, but he sent her away instead of killing her just before Cato appears. Katniss was not able to tell if this really happened or not, because she was hallucinating from the tracker jacker venom. She finally lost consciousness right before Cato sliced Peeta's leg.

The two deaths on the fifth day (Glimmer and Marina) were the first since the first night.

### Day Six

Katniss slept through the whole day. Her sleep was punctuated by several terrifying nightmares.

### Day Seven

Katniss finally awoke from her fevery dreams and resumed hunting and seeking water. Rue, who was following her, appeared and allied with Katniss. As she and Rue began to fall asleep, Katniss started formulating a plan.

### Day Eight

Rue and Katniss awoke to the sound of the cannon shot for Terry from District 10. Katniss and Rue made plans for destroying the Careers' stock of food and supplies. While Rue started three fires in the woods which lured the Careers away from the Cornucopia, Katniss made it to the camp and discovered that the supplies were piled away from the camp and guarded by Sophocles from District 3. She observed Foxface carefully approach the pyramid of supplies to steal food and discovered by her movement that the Careers buried the mines from the starting platforms around the stock. Katniss blew the whole stock up by shooting an arrow through a net of apples, which fell and triggered the mines. The explosion blew her off her feet, causing her to go deaf in her left ear, but she managed to crawl under a bush just as the Careers arrived. Cato was so furious that he killed Sophocles by breaking his neck. Katniss spent the night under a bush.

The deaths for day 8: Terry, Sophocles

### Day Nine

When she woke up, Katniss was still deaf in her left ear, but the right one could hear Foxface laughing at the Careers' loss. She returned to the rendezvous spot, but since Rue hadn't returned yet, she spent the afternoon in a tree to wait, but later decided to search for her. At first finding no sign of Rue, she eventually heard Rue's four note tune coming from the mockingjays, then her scream. When Katniss found her, Rue was captured in a net by Marvel, the boy from District 1, who killed her by tossing a spear through her abdomen before Katniss could free her. Katniss immediately killed him by shooting an arrow in his neck, then freed Rue from the net but couldn't help her except for holding her and singing to her until she died. She arranged wildflowers around the body as one last act of their alliance and defiance to the Capitol, for making them pawns in their twisted game. She walked away without really knowing where to go or what to do when a parachute arrived with a loaf of bread from District 11.

The deaths for day 8: Marvel, Rue Brownlow

### Day Ten

Feeling lost, Katniss forced herself to sort her supplies and hunt. She thought about revenge on the Careers for Rue's death. In the evening, Claudius Templesmith announced a change to the rules of the game: there could be two victors if they came from the same district. Suddenly, Katniss yelled Peeta's name and started looking for him.

### Day Eleven

Katniss followed the stream, hoping to find Peeta. She found him buried and covered in his self-made camouflage at a riverbank. He was so weak and badly injured that he couldn't get out of there alone anymore, so Katniss pulled him out, washed him, and tended to his stings, burns, fever, and the cut on his leg. They both seeked shelter in a cave, but Peeta's fever didn't go away. To keep him from speaking pessimistically, Katniss kissed him, which also kept up the appearance of being "madly in love." Promptly, a parachute arrived containing food, which Peeta needed.

### Day Twelve

Peeta's fever broke, but Katniss was exhausted and Peeta made her sleep the rest of the morning. By afternoon, Peeta's leg has got worse: he had blood poisoning. Katniss spent the day hunting and cooking while Peeta laid in the cave. In the evening, the Gamemakers announced that there would be a feast at the Cornucopia the next morning, where every tribute would find what they most desperately needed. Immediately, Peeta made Katniss promise not to go because it was too dangerous. Later on, a parachute arrived from Haymitch containing sleep syrup, with which Katniss was able to knock out Peeta for the whole time she needed to get to the Cornucopia and get the medicine. She left before dawn.

### Day Thirteen

Katniss reached the Cornucopia and found Foxface running out of the Cornucopia to grab her backpack immediately after it's placed. Katniss made a run for it, but was attacked by Clove. Katniss shot an arrow at her, but misses. Clove knocked Katniss down and held her to the ground with a knife at her face, mocking Katniss about being in love with Peeta and how Katniss couldn't save Rue. Just as Clove began to carve Katniss' face, Thresh arrived and killed Clove by smashing her skull with a stone. He then let Katniss get her bag and run, because he felt like he owes her for honouring Rue. Katniss was able to get back to the cave and inject Peeta with the medicine before she lost consciousness.

Although most feasts had at least two casualties, Clove was the only death this day.

### Day Fourteen

When Katniss awoke having bled a lot overnight, she found Peeta feeling much better than before. He had bandaged her forehead and continued to care for her. A storm raged outside, so they stayed inside and tried to recover the whole day. They kissed romantically for the first time.

### Day Fifteen

The storm continued preventing any hunting or gathering. Katniss and Peeta both felt much better and finally got closer to each other. They kissed again, and immediately Haymitch sent them a huge feast. Overnight, the rain stopped suddenly.

At night, they discovered from The Fallen broadcast that Thresh was killed during the day.

### Day Sixteen

Katniss and Peeta went out to hunt and collect berries and roots. Peeta unwittingly collected poisonous nightlock berries. When Katniss found him collecting them, a cannon fired. Only a few meters away, Foxface's body was lifted into a hovercraft. She stole the berries from Peeta and died. Katniss took the berries and planned to use them later to trick Cato (Maybe Cato likes berries!). They returned to the cave.

The only death on day sixteen was Foxface.

### Day Seventeen

Since Cato was the only remaining tribute excluding Katniss and Peeta, they went to find him on the last full day. They found him running right into them, but he was also sprinting away from something far more dangerous: a pack of wolf muttations. All three ran to the Cornucopia, where they tried to rescue themselves by climbing it. In that process, Peeta was bitten by one of the mutts and lost a lot of blood. Weakened like this, Cato could reach him and strangle him, standing near the edge on the top of the Cornucopia. Katniss realized that she couldn't kill Cato without having Peeta pulled down too, so Peeta drew an X on Cato's hand in blood. Katniss shot an arrow in Cato's hand, and this made him loosen his grip. He tripped and fell off the Cornucopia. Katniss and Peeta watched him fight the mutts for about an hour, then he collapsed, but they were unable to kill him, due to his body armour. He stayed alive for hours.

### Day Eighteen

At dawn, Katniss finally shot Cato with her last arrow as an act of mercy. The mutts disappeared. The two tributes from Twelve climbed down the Cornucopia. This was when a voice announced that the previously made change of rules was withdrawn and that there could only be one victor. Neither of them wanted to kill the other, as they were halfway dead anyways. Then, Katniss remembered the berries. Only a glimpse before they both could commit suicide by poisoning themselves, they were announced as the victors of the 74th Hunger Games.

## Placement

### Kill Count

* Cato: **5**
* Katniss: **4**
* Marvel: **3**
* Thresh: **2**
* Clove: **2**
* Glimmer: **2**
* Peeta: Either **1** or **2** (disputed)
* Foxface: **1**
* Marina: **1**