45th Games

This year's games saw some of the slowest and most painful deaths in the entire history of the games.

This year's victor was Chaff Mitchel, age 17, from District 11. The arena was set in a swampy lagoon, featured clingy frogs, tracker detonations, and lasted for 10 days.

When the games began, Chaff grabbed a spear and a sleeping bad from the cornucopia, running away as quickly as he could, using the paths that led out of the cornucopia clearing and through the lagoon.

Whilst fleeing, Chaff saw Grace (10) trying to help Hallie (12) out of a nearby swamp. Hallie was panicking and screaming as her leg was stuck, whilst Grace seemed to be trying to calm her down so that they were not heard or seen by other tributes. Although Chaff's instinct told him to keep running and leave the girls to it, his conscience would not let him and he ran towards them in order to help them.

After a few minutes of intense pulling, Chaff and Grace managed to free Hallie's leg and the three formed an unspoken alliance with each other and ran away further from the cornucopia together.

As the sun set, the three of them eventually found some sturdy ground and decided to rest and set a base for the night. Over the next few days, the trio made a surprisingly successful team and they agreed to keep a look out for each other so that they could take turns sleeping. In the meantime, the three of them created traps around their base, in case they were attacked.

Many tributes died over the first few days from falling into the lagoon and not being able to get out, which ended with them sinking to death and in face made it rather difficult for the hovercraft to retrieve their bodies. Gretchen (5) even stabbed herself in the neck once she realized that she could not escape. This therefore led there to only be ten tributes remaining by day five and in turn, considerably raised the victory odds of Chaff, Grace, and Hallie, which prompted sponsors to send them food as well.

On the sixth night, the career pack tried to attack the group. however they were well prepared for this attack, with Amethyst (1) and Domino (2) walking straight into the traps and being left dangling in the air by their feet, whilst Chaff held down Valentina (2) and Hallie stabbed her. Grace killed Amethyst and Domino whilst they were unable to move in the traps and only Topaz (1) escaped alive from this fight.

After surviving this attack, the three of them relaxed and had some rather interesting conversations about life in the outlying districts. Chaff rather openly admitted to Hallie that he had always had a thing for the girls from District 12, from when he had seen them in the reaping. He even tried to kiss her before she playfully shoved him off, which amused both Grace and The Capitol.

However the next morning whilst Hallie was keeping watch, she realized that this was her chance to eliminate the people who were her friends, but also her competition. She stabbed a sleeping Grace in the neck and was about to stab Chaff as well, but he woke up from the commotion and narrowly avoided being stabbed by Hallie. He got up and dodged her next attack, before impaling her with his spear. Hallie even apologized as she remained impaled on the spear, whilst Chaff nodded sympathetically.

Chaff was upset at losing his two new friends, especially in such violent circumstances. He wandered aimlessly around the arena for the next week, whilst trying to avoid Topaz, who he suspected was searching for him.

On the tenth day, there were just three tributes left and it was announced that tributes had five minutes to return to the cornucopia, or the trackers in their arms would explode. Chaff ran as quickly as he could but slipped and fell, dropping his spear and backpack onto the bank and struggling to free his legs from the swamp. Meanwhile, he was aware that the time was continuing to count down.

Just before the five minutes expired and Chaff realized that his tracker would detonate, he forced his arm into the mud, hoping that this would make the explosion hurt less. After a few seconds, his tracker detonated, blowing off his left fore-arm and causing him to scream out in pain. Meanwhile, topaz had just killed Esster (8) and then heard Chaff's horrific scream.

Whilst Chaff was somehow holding on to consciousness with his legs sinking further into the mid, Topaz approached him, singing an eerie song about death. As he got closer, he taunted Chaff about Grace and Hallie, however he failed to notice that some frogs were hopping around right by Chaff's remaining hand that lay on the bank of the swamp.

As Chaff was starting to sink further and Topaz was considering out loud whether he should kill Chaff himself or let the swamp do it, a frog jumped onto Chaff's hand. He immediately threw the frog at Topaz's face and it clinged on his nose. Topaz screamed out in disgust, but tripped and fell head first into the swamp. Whilst his head was submerged and sinking further into the swamp, he waved his arms and legs around, whilst Chaff also sank further. After a minute, Topaz's limbs stopped moving and the cannon sounded. Chaff was then lifted to safety by the hovercraft and declared to be the victor.

Chaff experienced intense survivor's guilt and infamously refused a prosthetic arm from The Capitol, stating that if Grace and Hallie were not allowed to live, then why should he be able to have his arm back? He went on to become an alcoholic and morphling addict before dying in the 75th Hunger Games.