47th Games

This year's victor was considered to be very deserving of his title, after surviving a record number of murder attempts whilst in the arena. (8 attempts)

This year's victor was Brutus Gunn, age 18, from District 2. The arena was set in hot springs, featured flesh-eating moles, an arena blackout, and lasted for 5 days.

Like most years, the career pack grouped together during the bloodbath and killed as many tributes as they could. Brutus, who had already been unafraid to show his strength to other tributes throughout training, killed five of the ten tributes that died within the first five minutes. Furthermore, as Brutus was stabbing Azure (8) , Azure managed to stab Brutus in the ribs with a small knife, which Brutus did not even notice had pierced his flesh until some time had passed and the remaining tributes had either died or fled from the cornucopia clearing. He casually took out the knife and added it to his collection, before sitting down for a rest.

The career pack spent the first day roaming around the arena and killing any tributes that they encountered. However whilst resting that night, Brutus was shot with an arrow in the arm by Basil (12). The other careers got their weapons ready to attack Basil, but as he fled, Brutus ran after him and easily caught up with him, before grabbing his neck and throwing him off the side of a nearby cliff. As he walked back to the careers' bade, he nonchalantly asked what food they had left.

The next day, whilst exploring one of the forests, Brutus was attacked by Calista (7) who jumped down from a tree onto his back, whilst holding one of the moles in her hand and trying to get the mole to bite Brutus's neck. However, Brutus casually reached backwards and grabbed Calista by her pony-tail, then used it to pull her to the floor. Whilst kneeing on her throat, Brutus took the mole from her hand and forced it into her mouth, before it appeared to travel down her throat. Brutus held his hand against Calista's mouth, so that she couldn't even scream. After a minute, he left her convulsing on the floor whilst she was being eaten from the inside out by the mole. This death was thought to be one of the most iconic in the history of the games and made Brutus a Capitol favorite. Just as Calista's canon sounded a few minutes later, he was awarded with some armor from sponsors.

On the third day, the careers continued to roam the arena, but only found and killed Antoinette (10). However with just eight tributes remaining by the morning of the fourth day, the light within the arena started to disappear, taking just sixty seconds to completely vanish and leave the arena in complete darkness. As soon as it was pitch-black, Brutus heard the sword of Gaia (2) swiping at the air just inches from his face, so he ducked and grabbed his spear, before jamming it through her stomach. Brutus also heard someone running straight towards him and held another spear in the path of these footsteps that he could hear. Within seconds, he heard a female scream of pain that he could tell belonged to Agate (1), before she fell to the floor. Brutus stayed as quiet as possible as he moved from his original position, hoping that Malachite (1) would not be able to locate him. However, when the light returned just five minutes later, Malachite had run away and was nowhere to be seen.

Brutus decided to head to the cornucopia clearing in order to find new targets, but as he started walking through the forest, a knife came flying straight at his heart. Although he managed to dodge the knife, it hit his shoulder, hurting him intensely and bringing him to the ground. Malachite appeared and it then became apparent that it was he who had thrown this knife. He walked over to Brutus and stepped on the knife, which caused Brutus to shout in pain. Malachite raised an axe into the air and brought it down towards Brutus's head. However, just a fraction of a second before the axe would have hit Brutus, he rolled to the side and the axe became lodged in the ground. As Malachite desperately tried to free the axe from the ground, Brutus threw the knife straight at Malachite's left eye. Once it had been hit and Malachite was screaming in pain, Brutus threw the other knife at his other eye, leaving Malachite to scream even louder, as the knifes moved around with the movements of Malachite's eyes. Brutus carefully removed the knife from his shoulder and walked back to the cornucopia whilst Malachite begged for anyone to help him.

By the next day, Brutus knew that he only had three opponents left. Whilst down by the largest spring that was next to the cornucopia clearing, he noticed that some wires had been camouflaged into the rocks. Although he was still suspicious, he carefully followed them until he felt a sharp pain run through his body and realized that he had just been electrocuted.

Unbeknownst to Brutus, Franklin and Roota (both 3) had set a trap with the wires that would electrocute anyone who stepped into a certain area, that Brutus had indeed entered. However amazingly, this electric shock did not seem to really affect Brutus, despite the fact that electric currents which were less powerful than this had severely injured and even killed tributes in past games. Franklin and Roota gasped as the failure of their plan from behind a nearby rock, which gave away their position. Within a minute, Brutus had the pair of them by the scruffs of their necks, whilst they begged for mercy. However, Brutus was not willing to show any mercy whatsoever and lowered their screaming heads into the boiling spring which killed them both within thirty seconds.

Brutus knew that Virginia (6) was his only remaining opponent, so he shouted at her to come and get him. He started circling the spring as he guessed that she had camouflaged herself within the vicinity. Once Brutus reached the other side of the spring, Virginia, who had actually been hiding in the nearby woods, jumped onto his back and started gouging his eyes. Although Virginia at first seemed to have a slight chance of victory, Brutus realized how he could kill her most easily and let himself fall backwards. As Virginia had been on Brutus's back, she was crushed once they hit the floor and this literally knocked the air out of her lungs. She tried to free herself but her efforts were in vain and her internal organs were slowly crushed to death, before her canon eventually sounded and Brutus was declared the winner.

After the games, Brutus became knows as 'Brutus the Indestructible'. He returned to District 2 and took up a position in the Training Academy, specializing in weapons combat.