46th Games

This year's victor might have used a slightly controversial way to win the games, however due to an injury she sustained in the games that affected her for years to come, The Capitol took no further action against her.

This year's victor was Wiress Plummer, age 16, from District 3. The arena was set in a mushroom forest, featured malicious goats, an earthquake, and lasted for 9 days.

When the gong went off, Wiress deliberately waited on her podium, which left many viewers extremely confused. She later revealed that she wanted to see what other tributes would do first, before deciding whether she should attempt to grab something from the cornucopia. Although there were plenty of killings simultaneously occurring in front of her, Wiress spied a loaf of bread and a water bottle that had not yet been approached and were not within the current eyesight of any armed tribute. She rushed for this bread and water and grabbed them, before fleeing in the opposite direction from the fleeing tributes.

After spending most of the first day gaining distance from the career pack, Wiress was exhausted and spent that night sleeping up a tree that was close to the arena's perimeter. The next day, she carefully explored some of the surrounding area and in the light of day, she noticed that there were mushrooms covering the ground within twenty meters of the perimeter. Despite being tempted to eat something apart from bread, Wiress had never encountered these mushrooms before and therefore did not trust eating them, fearing that they could be poisonous.

As the first few days went by, Wiress continued travelling adjacently to the perimeter, in order to be as far away from the potential action as possible. However on the fourth day, whilst she was taking a nap in a tree, she was awoken by screaming that was moving closer and closer. Wiress looked around to see Dason and Bella (both 5) running from what appeared to be a very perturbed goat. However to Wiress's surprise, the goat stopped just before the ground where the mushrooms started to grow. Dason and Bella collapsed in exhaustion and relief before noticing these mushrooms.

Dason asked Bella if they had any food left, but when she replied that they did not, he took a mushroom and ate it whole. Bella, who seemed a bit skeptical, lost all suspicion she had when Dason told her how nice the mushroom tasted, before he plucked another from the ground. Little did the pair know that Wiress was carefully observing them, whilst Bella nibbled her first mushroom and Dason wolfed down his third. They carried on eating them and commented on how tasty they were. At this point, Wiress guessed that the mushrooms were in fact safe to eat and even considered asking for an alliance with Dason and Bella.

However just as Wiress was about to let her presence be known, Dason started giggling, at first quietly, but then very quickly cackling so loudly that Bella tried to silence him. However as Bella walked towards Dason, she started walking at a strange angle and within a matter of seconds, she was also laughing uncontrollably, but unlike Dason, she had collapsed onto the ground. Dason grinned inanely then walked in a euphoric trance, straight past Bella and past Wiress's tree. He put his hands out as he approached the perimeter and calmly repeated the word 'shimmer' as he neared the perimeter. Wiress cringed because she knew what was about to happen and the second Dason put his hands against the perimeter, he was flung backwards, with his head cracking against a tree. Even the sound made Wiress wince and within seconds, his canon had sounded.

Bella, who had still been cackling in a heap on the floor, gradually slowed her laughter and then inquisitively called for Dason, apparently not realizing that he had just died. As she got up, she noticed Dason's inanimate body and let out a shrill scream at the sight of his mangled skull, whilst a hovercraft appeared in the sky in order to take the corpse. Bella started clawing at the sky, in a futile effort to the hovercraft. Wiress considered rushing to Dason's body before the hovercraft took it, in order to see if he had anything useful on him, but with the hovercraft above them, she realized that other tributes might soon arrive in order to fight whoever caused this death. Wiress, who had now hardly any water in her possession, saw that Bella still had a water bottle in her pocket and realized that she needed to get this bottle before the other tributes, who were probably rushing to their destination at that moment, would arrive.

Without wasting a moment, Wiress climbed down the tree and approached Bella, who was now screaming at the goat and shouting at it to stop flying. Wiress quickly tackled Bella to the ground and grabbed her water bottle. Although Bella was now shrieking and twisting, Wiress noticed some copper wire sticking out of one of her pockets as well and so she grabbed it and ran as quickly as she could. Within seconds of Wiress escaping, the career pack arrived and witnessed Bella now scratching her own face and shouting at something in her head to 'get out'. Vulcan (2) put Bella out of her misery and stabbed her through the head, killing her instantly.

After disposing of Bella, the careers killed the nearby goat before cutting open its flesh and then cooking it on a makeshift fire. As they are, Wiress took a few of the poisonous mushrooms and carefully listened to their conversation, learning that they knew that these mushrooms were deadly. As the pack headed back to the cornucopia, whilst killing any goats in their way, Wiress very carefully followed them, being careful not to make any noise, that could alert them to her presence.

As Wiress followed them over the next few days, she learned more about the group's dynamics and realized that they were a lot less united than past careers packs, often moaning about the lack of bottled water and blaming each other when they couldn't find things. On the sixth night, whilst Palisander and Ebony (both 1) were canoodling behind a nearby tree and Vulcan and Florentina (both 2) were distracted by what they thought were approaching goats, Wiress grabbed the remaining water bottles, that had been dumped a few meters away from their base. When Palisander and Ebony returned and the former asked for some water, an argument broke out when they all realized that there was none left, which ultimately resulted in Vulcan stabbing Palisander and Florentina snapping Ebony's neck.

Wiress spent that night sleeping in a well-covered tree nearby and when Florentina and Vulcan started travelling the next day, she stealthily followed them. She kept her distance whilst they were cooking soup to eat for an afternoon meal, whilst Florentina was chopping up some of the goat meat, Ebenezer (9) accidentally stumbled into the clearing where they were resting, which led to Vulcan and Florentina chasing him and killing him. However whilst Ebenezer was being chased and the soup was left unattended, Wiress seized her opportunity and put the majority of the poisonous mushroom pieces into the cooking pot, then ran back out of the clearing with just seconds to spare before Florentina and Vulcan returned.

Neither Vulcan nor Florentina tasted anything suspicious as they ate the soup and within approximately ten minutes of them starting to eat, Vulcan was looking at the sky in amazement, whilst Florentina was staring in a confused manner at the ground and claiming that she had three hands. Wiress then revealed herself and grabbed Florentina's axe, however by the time she had picked it up and was about to stab Florentina, Vulcan had just about managed to get his arrows ready to shoot Wiress. As he shot her in the back, she yelped out in pain and ran away with the axe, then just as she was deserting the clearing, Vulcan giggled and shot another arrow through Florentina's eye, killing her almost instantly. It was only later when he had returned to normal after waking up that he realized what had happened.

Once the next morning dawned, there were just four tributes left, so Wiress decided to head back to the perimeter, in order to be away from the remaining competition. Whilst she was there, she speculated about how she could potentially use the force-field in the perimeter to her advantage.

Later in the day after a goat skewered Dandeelyon (11) with its horns and there were now just three tributes remaining, a continuous earthquake rippled out from the cornucopia, sending Vulcan and Minniesota (6) running to the perimeter, where the ground was a lot more stable. Although Minniesota was crushed to death by a falling tree, Vulcan made it to the perimeter and started circulating, looking for Wiress. As she heard him approaching, she realized that there was no way that she would win a fight against him, even though he had arrows and she had an axe. She panicked, however as his taunting got closer, she formulated a plan to kill him.

Wiress wedged some of the coil between a stick and the perimeter, so that it would still touch the perimeter. She then led the coil towards the axe and wrapped the coil around the axe's handle. She also covered the trail from the perimeter to the axe in the leaves, so that it looked like she had just been knocked unconscious after running into the forcefield. As Vulcan approached her and laughed, Wiress kept her eyes closed, silently wishing that he would try to kill her by using the axe instead of the arrows.

A few tense moments went by before Vulcan grabbed the axe, which as Wiress had planned, gave him a deep electric shock through the current from the force-field and made him roar in pain as he collapsed to the ground. However as Vulcan fell he dropped the shaft of the axe onto Wiress's head, which gave her an equally painful electric shock, but although Wiress was knocked unconscious for real this time, Vulcan's shock had been stronger and he died just seconds later.

the game-makers rushed to retrieve Wiress, who was now lying unconscious right next to the force-field and holding on to life. This became the only year in which the hovercraft crew had to leave the craft and enter the arena, in order to retrieve the victor, seeing as they didn't want to accidentally swing her unconscious body into the perimeter., which would be highly likely to kill her. They managed to get her back to the craft and after several tense hours, Wiress was resuscitated, although it soon became clear that she had undergone a certain degree of brain damage from the electric shock that she had received in the arena.

The victor's interview was a disaster, with Festus Creed trying to ask Wiress questions about her time in the arena, before it soon became clear that she was mentally unstable, whilst she quietly sang a song about an egg named Humpty Dumpty and lightly giggled whenever Festus mentioned the force-field. Wiress went on to live a relatively peaceful life in District 3, before dying in the 75th Hunger Games.