The 40th Games were won by the 18 year old Thorburn Chlodowech. These Games were pretty popular, as the arena would make history as the scariest in the The Hunger Games history so far.
Pre Games[]
This year, she was reaped, and nobody volunteered for her. The escort is Adiar Caesar. This greatly upset his little brother, who almost got killed by a Peacekeeper for being so loud. When the district 5 male is reaped (Jack) they both go into the justice building, home of Mayor Smith. Wesley is so sad that he was to go outside with his mother, which Thorburn and her dad try to talk. During this year, she is mentored by Venture Allardyce and Gliese Dugald. Both give very nice advice to her. She tries not to talk to her district partner since if she makes a relationship with him, it would slow her down if he died. After talking to them, she watches Laurel Flamsteed's Games
During the parade, she sees on how many of the other tributes are in ugly costumes. However, she actually likes hers, which is a black suit, with a lightning bolt in the shape of a, "V" in the middle of her chest. She also meets her stylists here. There is Alexis, a woman about in her 20's with pink curly hair and golden eyelashes. Then, there's' Brady, a man with spiky indigo blue hair and a neon green suit. Lastly, there's' Adeline, a woman with golden long hair with a silver dress. They all look very weird to Thorburn. When they stop at the balcony at Corlana Snow's building, she welcomes them, and wishes them a happy Hunger Games, telling them, "May the odds be ever in your favour!"
Moments after the parade, she, unfortunately, forgets her rule and makes friends with two other tributes, one being the District 12 male, and the district 3 female. However, she sees this year's careers who are jerks, as usual, poking fun of other tributes. They're described as huge, being at around 7'0 tall. She tries to avoid them by using an elevator to go up to the balcony. However, the careers spot her at the last second and join her. They bother her to the point where she pushes one of them. When this happens, they chase her, but she manages to escape in time, at the point where Venture scolds them away from her. This is the time Venture and Thorburn become friends.
After this, they talk to each other, and Venture talks about how her careers where all jerks, "Yeah I know, the careers are usually hardheads. It's okay, don't let them hurt you. You're better than them. I remember the careers in my Games, especially the tributes from 1. They were very cocky, athletic, and self-centred. However, they died on day 10. Not bad, but I always kept my distance from them." She says"
During training, she hangs around her two friends. She's not so good at the survival stations, unlike her allies. She also hangs around the fighting stations too. She goes at the gauntlet. The careers go through it easily. However, Thorburn trips and busts her lip open. The careers are trying their absolute best to hold in their laughs, just to annoy her. Once the timer tings, the tributes are forced in a room and get called for their private sessions. Thorburn gets to use her spear throwing skills. She also sees that the Head Gamemaker this year is still Romulous Jackson. She later receives an 8, a pretty high score. Her odds of winning were 9-1.
After the stylists are done making her outfit, she goes and watches some Games. One of these is Terra Kinnimonth's. Her Games are described in great detail, "This leaves me alone, but that's okay, as I always wasn't a talker. I take this opportunity to go and watch some more Games, specifically Terra Kinnimonth's a girl from District 1, who won the 22nd Hunger Games, close to a generation ago. I see that the arena is a forest with trees that have pink leaves somehow. Terra killed 4 tributes in the bloodbath with a sword, but her district partner was killed by the boy from 10 when he was killed by the girl from 12. On day two, Terra speared the girl's heart from 3 when Terra and her alliance ran into her. On day 7, with 8 tributes left, the girl from 2 killed her district partner in his sleep. This awoke Terra and the rest. Terra killed the girl herself out of rage. The pair from 4 were sabotaged by the pair from 6 and 8. This attack killed the boy from 4, but Terra and the girl would kill the other tributes attacking them. This means that there is only 1 other tribute in the arena in the forest that hasn't been killed, and its the girl from 11, and she's very muscular. When the remaining careers attack her on day 10, the girl from 11 snaps the District 4 female's neck easily, which Terra throws a spear at her neck, killing her. This made her the victor, and I also see her interview. She's interviewed by Gaius Flickerman, the first Master of Ceremonies. She's a pretty courageous woman, while also being pretty funny, as she appeals to the crowd."
After the Games she watched, she takes a nap, so when she wakes up, she's ready to go get interviewed. When she sees the careers get interviewed, she notices that the boy from 4's mother was a previous victor, which was Muscida Selkirk, winner of the 31st Games.
During her interview, she gets interviewed by Julius Flickerman. They have a somewhat good conversation with each other. She sees that the boy from 12 is pretty funny. In fact, he's so funny that Julius can't even say goodbye when the timer rings.
40th Games[]
Before she's sent into the glass tube, she is escorted by Venture, obviously meaning that her district partner was escorted by Gliese. She tries desperately to give her some last minute life saving advice. When she gets brought up to the arena, she's surprised that it's a graveyard. When the gong sounds, she frantically runs to the cornucopia.
The bloodbath is described with detail, "The gong rings. Chaos ensues. It happened so fast like it was just a blur. I rush through the thick swamp water, with the careers already killing people. I counted 2 bodies being slaughtered before I was at the cornucopia. I grab a spear and a knife, which I stuff down my pocket. I try to sneak in another knife just in case, when a body hits, sending me flying on the ground. The body is so mutilated that I can only tell that its a girl, I take a closer look at it for a split second that I realize that its Jessica's. (girl from 3) I see the career who did it, which was the boy from 4, Brook. I'm so mad that I throw my spear at his chest, hitting him in the abdomen. My throw was so hard that my arm begins to hurt, which is not the right time for my arm to start aching.
I hear careers voices calling my name, with them yelling, "KILL HER!!!", though I can't place who said it, as they're all talking at the same time, with them energized on adrenaline. The boy Jackson comes to me in the swamp but is dragged in by something in the water, something I can't place. I don't dare to see what happens to him, while the careers try to help him, but that only attracts more of those monsters. They're definitely mutts. The careers fight them off, while I run away. I still hear fighting in the distance around the cornucopia, signaling that the bloodbath hasn't ended yet. Not surprised, as it's only been like 3 mins. However, I saw 2 careers die at that time, along with poor Jessica, and maybe like 6 others, meaning there's 11 dead if I counted right. I see some tributes running in the distance, with supplies, and that's when it hits me. I didn't get a bag."
After the bloodbath, she tries to rest for the night, but see's the careers murdering a girl no so far away from her. It was the girl from 10, a tribute she didn't really know herself. She also sees the death portraits in the sky, "I see the pair from 3, Brook, the District 12 female, Jackson, the pair from 6, the District 8 boy, the District 9 Boy, the District 11 female and the District 10 boy. I also see the girl from 10 is there, meaning that the girl I just saw die was the female form 10."
This means that the District 12 Male is still out there surviving. During day two, she is chased by the remaining careers; all of the career girls, and the boy from 1. However, when they were inside a mansion, the person inside one of the portraits escaped it, chasing the careers and violently tearing down all the female careers' skin, muscles and organs, leaving the boy from 1 to escape. Thorburn hides in the cornucopia the hole time. Later, the runs into the boy from 12. They see that there are a handful of horses near them. To be safe, the boy touches one of the horses with his bag, but it sticks on the horse. When the District 1 Male runs into them, Thorburn and her friends realize what they must do. They're able to beat him up until he's unconscious, put him in an empty coffin and bury him alive. This eventually kills the only remaining career, since no one rescued him from his coffin. The two eventually make a small alliance. They look in the sky and see the career's faces up there, eliminating all of the biggest threats in the arena.
3 days later, Thorburn and the boy (later found out to be called Beckham) are very starving, since their supplies turned out to be mere hallucinations. They don't want to go to the cornucopia, since they know that hallucinations are likely to happen after a while. After scavenging for real supplies, they run into the girl from 8, another tribute Thorburn doesn't know. However, Beckham does know her, so if they were to kill her, that wouldn't make him too happy. However, a group of snapping turtles comes by. They spit a red substance at her, causing her to collapse into a seizure, killing her swiftly. They later return to the sight they saw her die, and her body is picked up by a hovercraft. However, the two take her supplies, which consists of food. While trying to find other tributes, they feel like they're getting followed.
This is also described, "We both try to find the others for what seemed like an eternity, but theres no sign of luck, even though I hear sounds in the swamp behind us all of the time, making me feel like theres another undiscovered mutt, or someone trying to taunt us."
However, they still manage to get some rest.
On day 8, things get very weird. She tries finding people only to realize that Beckham has gone missing. She's beginning to think that the other tributes are planning an attack on her. A cannon fires and she starts to panic. After that another fires. She also hears those sounds behind her again at this time. She later finds out that one of the tributes that died during that time was the girl from District 9. She also see's that the other tribute dead was Beckham. This upsets her so much that she goes back to her place and cries for a very long time. After that, she eventually cries herself to sleep, ending fay 8.
On day 9, she notices that she hasn't eaten since day 7. She also realizes that his district partner that has found her is about to fight her. However, when he's about 3 feet away, the thing that was stalking her emerges, "I don't run into anyone, but I hear those damn noises behind me. I try to look for it, but theres nothing I can see. They're probably auditory hallucinations. I even double check, but theres nothing I could find. I see something in the distance that looks like a spec but its getting bigger. I think its running at me. That's when I recognize that its Jack. He doesn't look like he wants to make friends with me, so I prepare for the fight. Right when he's about 3 feet from me, I hear something behind him emerge from the floor of the swamp. Its the thing that kept stalking me. It has moss and soil all over it, and I don't know who it is, but its not human. Theres just something about its pale face that didn't look quite right."
Shortly after, her district partner shows blatant signs of mental insanity, like delirium, psychosis or suicidal thoughts, and ends up taking his own life with a knife hours later. His body then starts decomposing, and in a matter of 7 minutes it already shows an uncanny, skeletal appearance. Shortly after, his spirit, showing again a more uncanny and degraded version of himself, starts chasing Thorburn with the knife he used to commit suicide, screaming death threats and nonsense gibberish to her until he mysteriously vanishes after a few minutes. She tries to go to sleep after that, but she can't, so she stays up for day 10 as well. However, nothing happened that day. For the next two days, she suffers multiple hallucinations and ends up in a state of psychosis; however, unlike her district mate, she quickly recovers.
On day 13, the last day of the Games, Thorburn hears some commotion behind her. She realizes that the remaining tributes except for her are running from all the spirits of the deceased tributes. When she runs with them, she tries to trip the district 11 male, but he jumps over it, hitting the leg of the boy from 7, tripping him, getting him stabbed to death by the tribute ghosts. The remaining tributes are forced to go the cornucopia, so they have to go on top of it. However, the soul of the District 4 male jumps up high enough to sweep the girl from 7's legs off of the cornucopia, making her fall down into the pit of mutts. For revenge, the boy from 11 tries to push Thorburn off, except that she dodges it, and sweeps his leg so that he trips and falls off the platform, resulting in his death, which was exactly the same as that of 7's male. This crowned Thorburn the victor.
Finale Placing:
| Tribute | Placing | District | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thorburn | 1st | 5 | for tripping the last tributes off of the cornucopia, sending him to his death |
| District 11 Male | 2d | 11 | for being tripped by Thorburn off of the cornucopia to get eaten by Panthers |
| District 7 Female | 3d | 7 | killed by the spirit of the District 12 emale |
| District 7 Male | 4th | 7 | For being tripped by Thorburn by accident, getting him eaten by the Panthers |
| District 5 Male | 5th | 5 | killed himself after going insane |
Placing from 13th to 6th
| Placing | Tribute | Cause | District |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6th | District 12 Male | bitten by a zombie mutt, becoming one with them | 12 |
| 7th | District 9 Female | bitten by a zombie mutt, becoming one with them | 9 |
| 8th | District 8 Male | killed himself after being driven insane | 8 |
| 9th | District 1 Male | buried alive | 1 |
| 10th | District 4 Female | killed by the person that escaped the portrait | 4 |
| 11th | District 2 Female | killed by the person that escaped the portrait | 2 |
| 12th | District 1 Female | killed by the person that escaped the portrait | 1 |
Cornucopia Bloodbath ranking, including a death after the bloodbath:
| 13th | District 10 Female | hunted down and killed by careers | 10 |
| 14th | District 10 Male | killed by the District 1 Female | 10 |
| 15th | District 11 Female | killed by the District 9 Female | 11 |
| 16th | District 9 Male | killed by the District 7 Male | 9 |
| 17th | District 8 Male | killed by the District 2 Male | 8 |
| 18th | District 6 Female | killed by the District 2 Female | 6 |
| 19th | District 6 Male | killed by the District 8 Male | 6 |
| 20th | District 2 Male | choked to death by a completely invisible ghost | 2 |
| 21st | District 12 Female | killed by the District 4 Female | 12 |
| 22d | District 4 Male | speared in the chest by Thorburn | 4 |
| 23d | District 3 Female | killed by the District 4 Male | 3 |
| 24th | District 3 Male | slaughtered by the careers | 3 |