34th Games

This year's games were well remembered for the many graphic kills that were caused by the animals.

This year's victor was Emerald Rivalta, age 18, from District 1. The arena was set in an abandoned zoo, featured repeat animal stampedes, a 24 hour blackout, and lasted for 16 days.

During the bloodbath, Emerald and the other careers slayed several tributes between them, but Emerald was the only career to grab night-vision googles which is something that she kept secret from the rest of the pack.

Over the next few days, Emerald and the other careers rested at the top of an old monkey pen, which has many bars and ropes that were attached to the ceiling, thereby giving them a decent view of the arena. They noticed that every hour, the same herd of animals would run past the building. They did not know what this group of animals would do until they saw Podge (6) try to run away from these animals, before being impaled through the back by a merciless rhinoceros.

After a few days, Emerald and the other careers started to roam the arena, shortly after the stampede had passed. After walking past the aquarium, all four careers were simultaneously shot with arrows from behind. Emerald, Amadeus and Sabina (both 2) were not hit in any vital organs and survived, but Luxor (1) was shot through the back if his neck and died within a minute. The surviving careers turned round to see that some tributes from the outlying districts had shot them from the roof of the aquarium.

Amadeus and Sabina ran into the aquarium in order to kill these outlying tributes, but these tributes had already run into the stairwell that had been used as a fire exit. Emerald blocked the exit to the outside with a plank of wood from a nearby fence, whilst Amadeus and Sabina blocked the exit back into the aquarium by jamming chairs against the fire exit.

Almost an hour later, when Emerald saw the stampede turning the corner again, she unlocked the door and jumped into the nearby river. Within seconds of hearing the ground floor door open, the outlying tributes ran through this door and straight into the stampede, which led each of them to be mercilessly trampled by the animals

With seven tributes still left by day 14, a blackout was triggered by the game-makers. Most tributes simply stayed put, in order to not unknowingly stray into the dangerous path of the stampede. However Emerald remembered that she still had her night-vision goggles and quietly put them on, whilst Amadeus and Sabina discussed what they should do. Emerald held a knife in each hand and stabbed the two of them through their brains at the same time. When she awoke the next day, it was still dark and so she continued to roam the arena and she killed Shanika (12) and Boris (5), neither of whom even sensed her coming towards them.

With three tributes left on day 16, the sun finally rose and the game-makers announced that 100 different animals had just been released from the perimeter and each of them had been directed towards the remaining tributes' trackers. Josiah (8) was pecked to death by a rowdy flamboyance of flamingos, whilst Emerald and Ruth (7) had the final fight in the cornucopia. Although Ruth managed to stab an axe through Emerald's arm, she tripped straight afterwards and dropped her axe. Emerald then stabbed her straight through the heart and won.

Upon achieving victory, Emerald became a jewelry model in The Capitol before marrying Garland Ravinstill, the son of President Ravinstill.