The Gluttony Games

Author’s Note: This is a parody of the story, The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and the purpose for writing is to complete one of my goals (creative piece).

“And from district twelve, Primrose Everdeen!”

Primrose started crying, because the overwhelming thought of exercise was too much for her. As soon as I saw this I jumped up from the crowd and screamed, “I volunteer to take her place for district 12!” Primrose looked at me in awe and said, “Katniss, you don’t have to do this!” but I said that I must.

The crowd gasped in astonishment as I said this because it is always the worst thing to happen in a year in Panem. What happens is two tributes are picked from each district to fight it out to the death but to ultimately find the golden donut. This trophy per say, is hidden in the arena and whoever finds it and escapes the arena alive wins the games.

This was of course a worry for me because I didn’t know how to kill or exercise or anything like that so training was going to be really tough on me.

Once all of the tributes were chosen from the sacred pizza box, we were loaded into a car and we went to a large building. There we chose our weapons of expertise, were given our rooms, and we begun our training. For my weapon, I chose the asparagus bow and arrow because I know that most of the contestants are allergic to it because it is so healthy. We got to train for a week and it was actually not as terrible as I thought it was going to be. The only bad part was when I had to go on the stationary bike for ten minutes because my legs cannot peddle that well.

My agenda during the week was as follows:
1. Wake up and eat a super healthy breakfast(which I hate)
2. Do my morning training session
3. Eat lunch and talk to Peeta(The other tribute from my district who might like me)
4. Afternoon training session
5. Dinner and talk to Peeta more
6. Go to Bed

After the long and grueling week, we were all finally transported to our individual start lines at the entrance to the arena. The crowd around us was going wild and I couldn’t even hear the thoughts inside my head. Finally, the gluttonous chancellor came to the microphone and told everyone to quiet down. She said, “Welcome everyone to the Gluttony Games!” After taking in a long breath from the energy draining shout, she continued. “You must cheer as hard as you can for your district’s tributes because the tributes district that wins gets a life supply of all of the sugary treats you can think of! And to the tributes, try as hard as you can for your district and don’t let your country down!” The chancellor pressed a button with her pudgy index finger and a countdown began. 3…..2…..1…… GO!!! The doors to the arena opened, we all ran in, and my life as I knew it, was now long gone.

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It was the worst month of my existence on this planet. It was gruesome, but my weapon was proven to the best because I won. I only had to kill one person and it breaks my heart to say the it was Peeta. It happened so quickly. He was about to kiss me when I stabbed him with his celery stick and he died instantly. I eventually found the golden donut ina tree and had no problem slowly returning to my starting spot where there was a huge celebration awaiting me. When I saw Primrose, she jumped up to me and thanked me graciously. After that, everything went back to normal life where I hunted with my best friend Gale and we lived happily ever after!