“3...2...1… Action!”

    “Hello everyone and welcome to the top ten update of the 76th annual and final, Hunger Games!” A young rugged man announces looking into the camera in front of him, the digital wall behind him shining brilliant reds, whites, and black. He looked to directly to his left where a shorter blonde woman also stared into the camera, with large grey eyes. “I’m Roman Karikah,” he continues.

“And I’m Justice Rivers.” the woman interrupts with a cheeky smile. Both of them are dressed in traditional capital attire. Roman, in a metallic juniper green suit and gold tie, with flecks of gold in his dark brown hair to match. Justice wears a sheer blue-gray dress with ruffled sleeves that matches the color of her eyes. Wrapped around her neck is a delicate white lace choker. She smiles into the camera with flushed cheeks as her co-host continued. These two had been the commentators of the games, coming on once a night to give an overview of the day. Even now, the games were glorified through entertainment.

“It has been an extremely exciting hunger game this year!” Roman exclaims, his voice dripping with synthetic excitement. “There has been lots of fighting, starving, romance and death; and we're here to cover it all in preparation of the final stages of the games!” he continues, the dullness in his dark eyes betraying the supposed vigor in his voice.

“First let’s begin with our top ten; the tributes who have made it this far into the games.” she Justice begins before pausing, the wall behind her shining a bright blue color before splitting into two separate screens. On the left side is an image of Ark Lade, pre-games, with his flawless chestnut skin and cold grey eyes. On the other side, there was another image of the boy; this time with oily hair, dried blood caked onto different parts of his face, and an extremely bloody piece of fabric wrapped around his head- covering his now empty eye socket. Both images seem to breathe and twitch as if they were alive.

“Ark Lade- this years master killer,” Roman announces with a smile. “Ark, leading with three kills; Marissa Smith, West Coast, and Rebekah Lockwood; continues to be a fan favorite-” he continues as the screen behind him shifts to a montage of the deaths of the mentioned tributes. “Despite the loss of his left eye due to top-contender ,Kota Jackson, several days ago he continues to act as one of the most promising potential victors.

The screen then shifts to the past and present versions of a dull-skinned boy with dark brown curls and small green eyes- Hugh Wellben. “Hugh has had a relatively lax time in the games thus far” Stated Justice with a smile as the screen shows a video clip of Hugh and another younger tribute huddled together on the large metal shelves of a warehouse. “We continue to root on the budding romance of him and fellow tribute Finnian Calibur. How cute” she smirks as the screen shifts to a girl with deep brown skin, beautiful brown eyes, and thin dark brows.

“Merla Nik had rough beginnings with nearly being beaten to death by tribute Bettina Clark, and then strangling her with bare hands…” the screen cuts to choppy footage of Merla on top of Bettina, her face bloodied and swollen similar to her current state, “Merla is having a much easier time right now, currently camping out in one of the bank vaults near the center of the arena,” Justice continues, not saying much about the young woman.

Kota Jacksons images fill up the screen, a girl with a pale slender face, straight brunette hair that goes past her shoulders, and once sculpted thick brows. Her current vision is essentially the same but with heavy purple bags under her eyes, chapped lips and specks of blood splattered on her face.

“Kota Jackson, one of the fan favorites in the capital ever since her fight with Ark Lade, has had her fair share of issues ever since arriving in the games. Between her near lost fight with Ark, almost starving to death until a sponsor saved her, and her close encounter with hypothermia during last night's blizzard.” Justice drones.

As the image fades away Roman begins speaking again. “Finnian Calibur, the second youngest contestant still alive at age 14, fifteen within two days time, is a close romantic alliance with fellow tribute Hugh Wellbeing.  The two have hidden for most of the games, with not much action to suit.” The findings image is on the screen now. He somehow looks much older now, despite it only being about two weeks since the reaping. His green eyes seem darker, his cheeks no longer flushed and the twinkle in his eyes gone. “He has been ranked least likely to survive the games by you viewers at home in this morning's poll, but I suppose we shall see” Roman announces as the screen shifts to an even younger boy, Park Crawley.

The redheaded twelve-year-old looks near the same, round face, pale skin, and the same serious somewhat dead eyes. Justice blanks a few times looking down at her lap before looking back at the camera to speak. “Park Crawley has also had a very easy time thus far in the games. The youngest of all the tributes, Park has evaded several confrontations with the others whilst staying near the center of the arena. He is currently with a trapping box, and due to footage of him seemingly surveying the park next to the cornucopia, it seems as if he might use it soon” Justice says, her voice more intense than previous. Most people couldn’t know or remember she was Park’s mentor before the games.

Justice continues, the heaviness somewhat lifting from her voice. The screen shifts to a young man with light almond skin with bright brown eyes and heavy brows, Patricia Kooti. He looks horrible now, the color drained from his bruised face, his black hair a mess, his eyes heavy with large bags under them.  “Patricia Kooti, the usually good-humored member of the most interesting alliance we saw these games. Being aligned with Shea Prescott, Colin Cini and Zella Holland, Patricia has seen a lot. The last bit of action we saw from him was when he almost killed and was almost killed himself by fellow alliance member Colin Cini, who injured severely with several stab wounds to the intestines.” Justice pauses. “It’s debated if he can survive or if these wounds will kill him before the end to the games” A live clip of Shea tending to Pat’s wounds is shown before the imaging shifts to Shea herself- with frizzy brown hair, large vibrant blue eyes, freckle covered cheeks, and small pursed lips.

This time Roman starts. “Shea Prescott voted the favorite female tribute in these games by the public! Shea has shown promise as an intelligent, kind and feisty tribute. Her greatest accomplishment being the saving of her ally Patricia Kooti, by helping send Colin Cini out the window of the Katniss Evergreen statue and to his death.” Roman pauses as a clip of Shea kicking the glass window and Colin falling out of it as it breaks. “She has moved with her ally into a neighboring statue of Peeta Mellark to take shelter from the cold”

This time the image changes to a boy around fourteen or fifteen years old, with light brown curls, honey-colored skin, small features, and dark brown eyes accompanied by thick brows. “Pluto Ryder, a lesser known tribute this games, with very little action to date. Armed with a one-handed spiked club he received from a sponsor, after the drug Galve Oceanworths body from the fountain he died in earlier in the games, before arranging him in a more proper manner,” an image is shown of Galve’s body in front of the fountain, his pale lifeless hands clasped together as if in prayer. “Since then very little has been seen of the boy,”  Roman finishes before the final tribute goes and appears on the screen.

“Armie Stranger, a slightly surprising tribute this year,” Justice smiles as she speaks.” At first, her ally with Ruby Terrace was seen as not so uncommon friendship between a younger and older girl. However, Armie’s strange behavior towards her ally was solidified as that of contempt last night when she abandoned Ruby to die due to an unknown infection last night, despite knowing a sponsor gift had just been dropped off near them. She also killed Hunter Gallowind early in the games when he attempted to kill her and Ruby” She says as a two videos play of the young woman with bouncing tight black curls, darker skin, and fierce eyes. The first video shows Armie promenading out the doors of the Cathedral as her ally dies, and the other the scuffle with Hunter as he bit into her leg- shortly before receiving a knife to the head.

Justice and Roman smile into the camera as the background fades to ten consecutive images of the tributes in their current state- beaten, bloodied, tired, dirty and with the pain of death in their eyes.

“That’s a wrap, the ten lasting tributes.”

“Welcome to the final stages of the final Hunger games everybody,”

Well hello everyone, just wanted to give y'all a more fun update that helped possibly refresh your memory on all of our tributes as we dive into the latter part of the story! No idea if you noticed, bit I wrote this in the present tense,something I don't usually do.

I really hope y'all enjoyed this and please remember to vote and comment!!! It always means the world to me!