28th Hunger Games

Arena: Bushy forest

Notable animals: Deadly wild boars

Main event: Roaming wildfire

Length: 11 days

Victor: Cobalt Townsend (age 18): District 1

In a reversal of tradition, this year's strongest alliance was not that of the career districts, but instead belonged to the outlying districts. It is often though that one of this outlying group could have won, if they were not in such a difficult arena.

Preceded by: 27th Hunger Games

Followed by: 29th Hunger Games

The Games
Day 1

During the bloodbath, the only careers to make it out alive were Cobalt and Lucifer (2), after Garnet (1) and Cassia (2) were beaten senseless by the very muscular Wisterion (11). Lucifer managed to shoot some of the outlying packs with arrows, but only Angélica was killed by him here, whilst Cobalt grabbed some bread and water before the pair escaped.

Day 2-10

Cobalt and Lucifer hid within the outskirts of the arena and killed wild boars for food. After several says, they skirted the perimeter and eventually found the outlying pack, who they decided to hide near. Inspired by the start of the previous year's games, they cut themselves and made a trail of their own blood which led to the outlying pack.

This plan succeeded in attracting wild boars, who savaged the outlying pack that night. The ongoing chaos also triggered an argument amongst this group, who turned on each other and left only Wisterion and Honeysuckle (both 11) to be alive.

Day 11

The next morning, a fire roamed through the arena, obliterating anything in its way. Cobalt and Lucifer hid and witnessed tributes running from the fire. Therefore they started trapping tributes between themselves and the fire, which allowed them to kill more and more of the surviving tributes. After killing Sparx (3), and thereby getting the number of tributes down to four, Lucifer tackled Cobalt to the ground, but Cobalt eventually got the upper hand and stabbed Lucifer through the brain with his arrow.

When there were just three tributes left, the fire intensified and spread from the outskirts of the arena, making Cobalt, Honeysuckle and Lumbra (7) sprint to the Cornucopia for safety. Once they made it back, both Honeysuckle and Lumbra attacked Cobalt, but he successfully fought them off by using his arrow to stab them, and he emerged victorious.

After the Games
Upon returning to District 1, Cobalt became an arena designer at the District 1 Training Academy. He became notorious among potential tributes for including extremely harsh conditions in these arenas, but he always justified this by claiming that if they were reaped and lived to tell the tale, then they would thank him for this, a claim that was later proven to be correct.