37th Games

This year's games featured the youngest ever career victor.

This year's victor was Flash Malone, age 15, from District 1. The arena was set in an open woodland, featured poisonous hedgehogs, a toxic air release, and lasted for 12 days.

Flash had previously decided 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 them immediately ran away from the cornucopia. During the confusion and no defense, Romulus was stabbed in the back by Cricket (6) and this immediately made Flash a target of Antonia (2).

Flash carried 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. For the next few days, they carried on travelling together and taking turns sleeping.

With twelve tributes still left on the eighth 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, the tracker in their arm would be detonated. As they ran towards the cornucopia clearing, Ariana pointed out that they could place some of the poison onto the 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 six of the masks and Antonia, Chopper and Spruce were each just seconds away from the platform, Flash grabbed her 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 remaining tributes were either killed by Chopper or they chose poisoned masks. By the next morning, only Flash, Ariana, Antonia, Blox (5) and Zipp (8) were sill alive.

Over the next few days, Blox died of thirst and Zipp was killed by Antonia. With just three 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 instantly killed her, before he carried on running back to the cornucopia. Once he got there, he had the final showdown with Antonia. Despite losing two fingers, Flash managed to stab his spear through her eye and won.

Upon returning to District 1, Flash took up a teaching position at the Training Academy, specializing in phycological espionage.