325th Hunger Games

The 325th Hunger Games and 13th Quarter Quell took place in a spider infested forest and was won by District 9's Amey Masa.

The Reaping
The twist in this year's Quarter Quell decreed that every tribute for this years games must volunteer. However, if no volunteers appeared in the first half hour of the Reaping, a random person would be picked and executed. This process would repeat every half an hour until someone volunteered.

Amaranth "Amey" Masa volunteered for the games following the execution of a 15 year old girl. She didn't have very much connection to anyone in her district and as a thresher, she was skilled with a blade and was strong for her age. After switching to the boys, Bran Baler volunteers almost right away.

When saying her goodbyes, her brother, who has grown distant after their parent's death reveals that Amey will soon become an aunt, giving her more reason to win the games.

Around Panem, 24 tributes volunteer for the games, with various motives, all revealed during their interviews before the games.

On the train to the Capitol, Amey meets her mentor, Quin O victor of the 301st Hunger Games and Bran meets his mentor, Maizer Straw victor of the 292nd Hunger Games. They also travel with the oldest living victor, Ri Pain victor of the 244th Hunger Games.

Opening Ceremonies
Upon arriving in the Capitol, Amey is introduced to her Prep Team; siblings, Rose, Azure, and Flavio, each with a extremely vibrant skin tone (red, blue, and yellow respectively). She then meets her stylist, Leto, who preps her for the parade.

Amey wears a woven grain dress, and Bran wears a matching tunic. After the parade they are taken to the Plaza of the Districts, where they will stay until the Hunger Games begin.

Training
Amey and Bran are advised to work on survival techniques during their first day and observe the competition. This year they realize they are effectively facing 22 other career tributes.

While working on fire starting, Amey and Bran meet the District 8 tributes, Spoola and Ross. They reveal they joined the games after an explosion in a factor leveled a couple city blocks and killed both of their families. Winning the games would bring some relief to the struggling District 8. That night they request Spoola and Ross as allies for the games.

The next day they do weapons training, and they are all skilled in various weapons due to their district professions. While in training they observe Clementine, the District 11 female, wield a knife extremely well. Spoola has readily accepted the alliance, but Ross remains weary of any alliance during the Games.

On the final day of training, Amey, Bran, Spoola, and Ross practice climbing, fire starting, and knife skills. During her private session, Amey demonstrates her skill with a sickle, decapitating several mannequins. She scores an 8. The lowest score this year was awarded to the District 12 tributes, but was still an impressive 7. The top score was a 10 and was awarded to Clementine, Adore and Hero from District 1, and Jib from District 4.

Sponsor Banquet
The next day during the sponsor banquet, Leto puts Amey in a grain patterned sun dress. During the banquet they meet Ceres Pers, the top sponsor of District 9 tributes. She is the owner of several mills and a brewery in District 9 and always supports the tributes, despite their less than optimal performance in the games.

Interviews
The night of the interview, the Capitol finally gets to learn why each tribute has decided to enter this years Hunger Games. Leto puts Amey in an elegant yellow-green dress.

District 1 Female - Adore - Adore was a traditional career tribute, and was known as the most beautiful female in this years games.

District 1 Male - Hero - Hero was a traditional career tribute.

District 2 Female - Beatrix "Bea" - Bea was determined to bring honor back to District 2 (after their disgrace in the 320th Hunger Games)

District 2 Male - Orion - Orion was also determined to bring honor back to District 2, and was much more vocal about it than Bea.

District 3 Female - Pix - Pix is one of the top students in her class, and she thinks she can out smart the others.

District 3 Male - Sprocket - Sprocket is agile and smart, and he thinks that his speed and smarts will help him win.

District 4 Female - Reeler - Reeler is a traditional volunteer from District 4.

District 4 Male - Jib - Jib is a traditional volunteer from District 4.

District 5 Female - Mola - Mola worked in a genetics lab in District 5, and thinks that she knows the upcoming arena will be full of mutant giraffes.

District 5 Male - Gamma - Gamma volunteers because he is homeless and doesn't want anyone "meaningful" in his district to die.

District 6 Female - Lex - Lex is a skilled painter and wants to prove camouflage is the most effective Hunger Games strategy.

District 6 Male - Aaron - Aaron is extremely strong and worked as a metal cutter back in District 6.

District 7 Female - Phlo - Phlo is a traditional volunteer from District 7.

District 7 Male - Heath - Heath is a traditional volunteer from District 7.

District 8 Female - Spoola - Spoola volunteered after a factory explosion killed her family and crippled District 8.

District 8 Male - Ross - Ross volunteered after a factory explosion killed his family and crippled District 8.

District 10 Female - Pastor - Pastor worked as a butcher in District 10 and is extremely talented with a knife.

District 10 Male - Austin - Austin worked on an alligator farm in District 10, and spent his youth wrestling the animals.

District 11 Female - Clementine - Clementine has always wanted a chance to be in the games, and this was a perfect opportunity.

District 11 Male - Till - Till volunteered after his cousin won the previous games in order to keep prosperity in District 11.

District 12 Female - Lily - Lily is quick, and she knows no one would really care if she died.

District 12 Male - Thomas - Thomas was a miner and strong.

Day 1 and Bloodbath
After entering the arena, it is revealed these games will take place in a forest covered in thick spiderwebs. Before each pedestal is a single machete stuck in the ground. Besides these 24 blades, there are no other weapons in the arena. As the gong sounds, Amey gets a backpack and regroups with Bran, Spoola, and Ross at the edge of the battle field. As they enter the woods, they are pursued by Orion, and a chase ensures.

They manage to lose Orion, and the group moves as far away from the cornucopia as possible. Cannons indicate that 7 tributes died in the bloodbath.

The psychological effects of the woods are not lost on the ground, and they struggle to maintain composure as spider the size of dinner plates stare down at them from their webs. That night they find a cave to camp out in and they set up a camp. During the tribute to the fallen and anthem, it is revealed that Thomas, Till, Pastor, Aaron, Mola, Gamma, and Orion have all died.

Latter on in the night, there is a cannon. It is later revealed that this was Lily, who died after being bitten by several spiders after accidentally stepping on a pregnant spider.

Day 2
After eating a small breakfast and collecting some water, Amey, Bran, Ross, and Spoola set out and explore the arena. While exploring they encounter a spider about the size of a dog, and it chases the group through a portion of the woods until Spoola managed to kill it shortly after being tackled by it.

In the chaos they were driven closer to the career pack who consists of the tributes from District 1, 4, 7 and Clementine from 11 (though at the time they don't see her and wonder if she broke off their alliance). Suddenly, the group is attacked from behind, and are ambushed by Clementine who stabs Bran, killing him. The other careers pursue the surviving members of the group to a cliff, and they jump down into the pool below.

The careers hurl large rocks and even spiders over the edge of the cliff, they manage to escape the bombardment, and regroup. Amey is surprised by how upset she is with Bran's death, but manages to calm down enough to find a camp for the night. That night, Spoola and Ross take turns guard and let Amey rest after the loss of her district partner.

Day 3
Amey, Spoola, and Ross spend most of the day exploring the arena, trying to put more distance between themselves and the cornucopia, the most probable base of the careers.

That night, Amey guards for most of the night. She watches as several spiders wander the ground and trap a rat in a web.

Day 4
During the morning, the group decides that they should take their chances and try to steal from the cornucopia, but they must be extremely careful to not get ambushed like they were on the second day of the games. They traverse the arena, back to the cliff where they jumped off, and climb up. They make it to the cornucopia and observe the clearing is void of tributes including the careers.

Amey and Spoola go to the cornucopia and Ross stays in the woods as a lookout. While Amey is packing a backpack, somewhere else in the arena a fight breaks out between Austin from District 10 and the Career Pack. During the battle, Heath from 7 is killed, and Austin dies shortly after. Spoola and Amey think Ross has been attacked and they grab as much as they can before fleeing the cornucopia. Ross, thinking that Amey and Spoola were killed hides in a tree behind a thick spiderweb. The three regroup and carry their supplies away from the cornucopia.

They find a cave a few miles from the cornucopia, and Amey uses a torch to burn away they spiderwebs, which appear to be surprisingly flammable. They organize their new supplies and while she is going to bed, Amey comes up with an idea.

Day 5
Amey shares her idea with Ross and Spoola to ignite the spiderwebs around the woods in the cornucopia clearing as a way to trap the Career Pack and possibly take some of them out or suffocate them with the smoke from the fire. They begin to explore the area surrounding the cornucopia, and assess the vitality of their plan.

While they are exploring a trap is triggered, thousands of miniature spiders come crawling out of knots in the trees and completely eats a piece of food dropped by Ross. They flee the trap, knowing they will either be eaten alive by the tiny spiders or encounter another tribute, likely the careers. While they run, they catch sight of the District 3 tributes, Sprocket and Pix running.

They also see ahead of them the career tributes running, Spoola pulls Amey and Ross into the crook of a tree, and they climb as the spiders attempt to climb up the trunk. They watch as Sprocket is caught by the tiny spiders and his leg is quickly devoured. He collapses to the ground, but the spiders seem to leave him alone. He yells for Pix to keep running and she flees.

Just as the spiders get to the top part of the tree, they all seemingly die on command, littering the ground in thousands and thousands of tiny dead spiders. The careers quickly kill Sprocket, and leave the area to track down Pix. They didn't notice Amey, Ross, or Spoola in the tree. Once they are sure the coast is clear, they leave their perch in the tree and find a place to camp for the night.

Day 6
In the morning Amey, Spoola, and Ross return to the site where they planned the fire, they agree on three places to ignite the fire and they begin collecting sticks and tinder for the flames. At one point, Ross sees the careers have left their camp and they decide to journey into the cornucopia to look for more supplies to aid them in their trap. They collect a crate of cooking oil, which will add more fuel to the fire as well as a few small explosive devices, most likely meant for trap making in the arena.

They collect the supplies and cover their tracks. They plan to strike the next morning, hopefully while the careers are asleep. There were no deaths during the day, but the group hopes the suspense of the incoming trap will hold the Capitol crowds over. That night, they receive a large sponsored dinner.

Day 7
Early in the morning, Spoola wakes Amey and Ross to enact their plan. They bring their newly stolen supplies back to the cornucopia and rig it all to explode and ignite when they light their tinder piles. Just as the sun breaks the horizon, the three trigger their fires. Nearly instantly the cornucopia clearing is surrounded by massive flames and several explosives are launched into the cornucopia clearing, detonating and throwing debris at the resting careers.

Reeler's clothes are lit on fire, but the careers are so caught up in the explosions and fires they have no time to help him and his cannon fires shortly later. The Gamemakers appear to help out Amey, Spoola, and Ross by triggering another series of explosions on Ross's side of the clearing, which cause the careers even more chaos. The cornucopia, which was ignited and is now spewing flames, explodes as another set of explosives or oil go off.

Seeing her time to strike, Amey runs into the clearing, and Spoola taking her cue joins her. Spoola swings for Clementine, but she misses and is swiftly cut down. Spoola's cannon fires and Amey begins to retreat. Hero catches Amey and they wrestle for a few moments, but Amey swings her machete into Hero's neck killing him. She steals his machete and runs into the flaming forest, as the careers attempt to chase her. The smoke from the fire aids her, and she quickly looses the careers in the maze of smoking and flaming webs.

She attempts to search for Ross, but he is nowhere to be found and Amey thinks it is possible he may have died and his cannon covered by an explosion. However, that night it is confirmed that Ross is still alive in the arena.

Day 8 and Day 9
The next two days are uneventful. Amey spends most of her time searching for Ross, but he doesn't make an appearance. Elsewhere in the arena, the career pack hunts for other tributes, mainly Amey as she has proven their largest adversary.

Day 10
On the morning of Day 10, Amey receives a sponsored breakfast. She prepares her items in the morning for a trap that she expects to come in the next day due to lack of excitement in the last two. Around midday, stringy webs begin firing from unknown launchers in the trees. The force is so powerful, one web severs the branch from the tree.

Amey reaches a clearing, just in time to witness Bea cutting Adore's leg. Adore retaliates by stabbing Bea through the heart, killing her. The remaining careers, Adore, Jib, Phlo, and Clementine notice Amey at the edge of the clearing and chase her. Amey runs back into the woods, but has enough time to scale a tree. The three careers split up to look for her. Adore, who is tending to her leg injury, comes up on Amey's tree.

Adore, not wanting to give someone else the kill, doesn't alert the rest of the career pack. After a short taunting match between the two, Adore attempts to climb the tree but her injured leg prevents her from doing it well. Amey in the moment lets go of the tree, falling from the tree. She uses Adore to break her fall, and quickly stabs her with her machetes. There is a cannon as Amey runs off into the woods. Moments later, Jib, Phlo, and Clementine find Adore's body but Amey is long gone into the woods...

Day 11
Amey spends most of the day putting as much distance between her and the cornucopia as possible, although she suspects the Gamemakers of redirecting her with strategically placed spider mutts and impenetrable webs. The careers also hunt down Amey and the other surviving tributes, but they also do not come across anyone.

Day 12
While Amey rests at a small pond, she hears someone approaching. Quickly, she scales a tree and prepares herself for an attack by the careers. However, Ross appears below her instead. She quietly climbs down the tree and greets him. They reconnect, and Ross explains that the explosions during the fire trap damaged his hearing in his right ear and burned his arm pretty bad. He didn't know what to do so he ran away as fast as he could. The two decide to resume their alliance, and they discuss the danger of the careers.

Day 13
While exploring the arena, Amey and Ross get a few sponsor gifts, including burn cream for Ross. While they eat the food also provided by the sponsor, they suddenly become aware of someone near them. Suddenly, they spring into action, and nearly kill Pix before she cries out to stop. They sit down and talk to each other, and they decide the three of them are better together given how dangerous the careers are. Amey isn't positive about her decision, but she admits it is better to be in a group. They spend the rest of the day preparing a shelter for the night.

Day 14
Early in the morning, the careers come across Amey, Ross, and Pix's camp. Ross, who was on guard at the time manages to wake Amey and Pix with his shouting to give them enough time to flee. Jib and Ross come to blows, and in a fateful swing of their machetes, they both land critical blows in each other's necks, killing them both instantly. Phlo and Clementine pursue Amey and Pix, but by the time they get through the campsite, several large spiders block the path between the careers and Amey and Pix.

The rest of the day, Amey and Pix decide it is time to become the hunters, a strategy that was dangerous but resulted in the death of two careers in the beginning of the games. They spend the day counting the remaining tributes, there are 5 left; Amey, Pix, Lex, Phlo, and Clementine. Amey spends time wondering if she will have to kill Pix and somewhat regrets not doing it when she first encountered her.

Day 15
The next day, Amey and Pix explore the arena, thinking of ways to trap the careers and possibly take them out. While exploring, they suddenly stumble on a strange patch of spiderwebs. They slow down, and realize that it is Lex who has camouflaged herself. Amey nudges her with the tip of her machete, which send Lex running. In her panic, Lex runs inches away from Pix who cuts her across the chest. Lex dies moments later. While looking at her body, they notice she doesn't have a machete and wonder if she left it behind at the cornucopia.

The spend the rest of the day preparing for the upcoming finale, which should occur in the next day or two. The repack their backpacks, keeping the most useful items and the three machetes between them.

Day 16
Amey and Pix set out on this day thinking it will be the finale, they are about to part ways when the several geysers erupt around the arena, sending muttation black widow spiders into the air. They run away from the attack, but several spiders land on Pix, who was closer to the explosion. The spiders bite her, but don't seem to have an immediate effect. Once they are a safe distance away, the effects of the venom sets in. Pix collapses to the ground, her poison critical, but it doesn't seem to kill her. Pix tells Amey to kill her, and she does so promising to win the games.

Across the arena, a similar situation occurs, however Clementine shoves Phlo into the geyser and flees into water drowning any spiders on her before they can bite.

Many hours later, Phlo dies in the woods, finally succumbing to the poison.

Day 17 and Finale
During the early morning of the finale begins. Every spider in the arena is drawn to Amey and Clementine, the remaining two tributes. The spiders chase them back to the cornucopia. When they arrive at the cornucopia, they begin the final showdown. Clementine gets a good blow into Amey's arm, but she pushes her back over a crate that causes her to lose her balance. Clementine rebounds, stabbing Amey in the stomach. Amey, knowing she only has a few minutes left before she goes unconscious, swings wildly at Clementine. Clementine at first dodges the blows, but when she goes in again for the kill short, Amey's blade finds its mark. There is a shower of blood as Amey's machete lands in the side of Clementines head. Clementine's blade falls short cutting Amey's knee. A moment later, Clementine's cannon sounds and Amey is announced victor of the 325th Hunger Games. A second later, Amey passes out from the blood loss...

Post-Games
After the games conclusion, Amey is taken back to the Capitol and her abdominal injuries are healed. After recovering from the arena, she is reunited with her team including Quin, Leto, Rose, Azure, and Flavio. It is then that she is informed that Ri Pain Victor of the 244th Hunger Games died while she was in the arena.

That night she is dressed in a sleek black dress with white skirt that is reminiscent of a spider web. During the interview she is noted as the first female volunteer victor of District 9. She is also asked to comment on her many allies, Bran, Spoola, Ross, and Pix. After the interview she is taken to the President's Manor for the Sponsor Banquet. There she is reunited with Ceres, who congratulates her for the victory.

The next day, instead of the second interview that typically takes place after the games, there is a funeral service for Ri Pain. There is a celebration of her life watching reruns of her games, and her reactions during different pivotal Hunger Games moments. During the funeral, the three living victors of District 9 are asked to speak, despite Amey never really knowing her.

The next day they hold the typical victory interview in the parlor of the District 9 Tower of the Plaza of Districts. After the interview Amey returns home with Maizer and Quin.

Two years later, after the explosive ending of the 327th Hunger Games, Amey is among the victors who aid in the rescuing of the surviving tributes. During the Final Rebellion, she is also an integral player, helping in the destruction of the Cloud Aero-fortress as well as the Invasion of the Capitol.