Game of Destiny – A Thrilling Tale of Power, Love & Fate

It was time for the fourth game and we all gathered at the stadium, I got a feeling of familiarity. We had done this before,

and we had done well. We sat in our usual seats and waited for the clock to turn nine. On the dot, the speaker switched

on.

“Welcome to the fourth game. Today’s game will be played by all the packs at the same time. It will focus on strength,

agility and tactical planning. Everyone will have a flag tied to your waist with a symbol for your pack on it. Your objective

is to keep your own flags and steal as many from the other packs as possible. Once you lose your flag, you can no longer

participate and have to join the onlookers. All the flags you have gathered will be given over if your flag is lost. Using

teeth or claws is forbidden. It is allowed to shift, but if you lose your flag while doing so, you will be out. The game will be

ongoing for two hours. We will now take you to the area in which it will take place. If you stray outside the designated

area, you will be disqualified. You have the time while we transport you to work out your tactics and ten minutes when

you get there to secure the flags. When the ten minutes are up, the game will begin.” We looked at each other.

‘This will be chaos,’ Sam mind linked us as we made our way to the waiting bus.

‘Any idea on how we will handle it?’ Finlay asked.

‘We can go on the offensive and try to catch a lot of flags, or we can go defensive and make sure no one gets ours,’ Jake

said.

‘I don’t think we can stay defensive, we won’t collect too many flags that way,’ I mused. ‘Ramses and I are quick and

stealthy. What if the three of you find a good place to stay defensive, keep an eye out for easy targets and make sure we

at least have your flags. Ramses and I will go on the defensive and collect flags. We can then pass them on to you so we

don’t risk losing them,’ I suggested.

‘I don’t know,’ Finlay linked.

‘It’s a brilliant plan,’ Jake said, oblivious to why Finlay was hesitant.

‘I agree with Jake,’ Sam said with a grin.

‘If we do, you can’t shift with the colour of your wolf,’ Ramses said.

‘That’s a good idea!’ I told him.

‘I know, red stands out like a sore thumb. They will spot you straight away,’ he agreed.

‘And that is what we want,’ I told him.

‘What?’ all the others linked as one.

‘I will shift and use my colour to put the focus on me. Ramses will sneak up and get their flags. Easy-peasy,’ I explained.

‘It sounds too easy,’ Ramses said.

‘Agreed,’ Finlay said.

which means changing would be fairly useless. But for me

useful,’ I told them.

worth a try,’

asked me in

‘Promise,’ I told him.

like we have a plan,’ he told all of us. When we arrived

silhouette of a mountain in white printed on it.

by my side and tied the flag around my waist. As I was planning to stay shifted through the game, I didn’t need to worry about the rope fitting my human shape as

to us. My unusual fur drew

will work,’ Jake told us with

and go for the easy targets first. Once

will adapt to a more defensive play,’ Sam mindlinked us

The signal sounded and Ramses and I took off in one direction, the others

left,’ Ramses said. I looked in the direction and my human part grinned. There was a pack of huge wolves, looking smug in their

do it,’ I

trees over there,’ Ramses said, looking

I told him. We split and I headed for the five men standing in a tight clump.

close to them, circling around them and then giving

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They all set off for me. I happily ran off. They weren’t

a speed that just kept me out of their reach. Not too fast so they would lose interest. I ran in between the trees. There was a soft thump. I would have missed it if

and saw Ramses. He had already snatched two flags

five men hadn’t even realised their flags were gone when I stopped running. Ramses cleared his throat

them the

you do that?”

excellent distraction, and I move quietly,” Ramses said with

I joined him and we ran away together. He made a detour to hand the flags over

while I scouted our

together. We started with easy picks and could hand over several flags to Finlay

who were left weren’t as easy to get to chase me. But I could be annoying when I wanted and as we progressed I increased my efforts.

I headed towards them, I ran past my brother in

second and then

after me. My human part grinned. I

my target. Elder must have mindlinked the rest of his pack. James swirled around and

jaw drop as he saw my wolf run past them. Wolfless and weak my ass, I thought as

my target.

Jake had done a

more importantly, they had guarded

meet up with the others and hold our stance for the rest

selected a mark. I set off towards the group of three who

They annoyingly stood steadfast. I started doing small attacks,

took me a while before I got the result I wanted. One

let him almost grab my flag before I ran away. I could hear him

I had most problems keeping at a distance. My wolf enjoyed the

I was almost at the spot where I knew Ramses was hidden when I felt

He tried grabbing my hip, but missed.

in my hip as his claws

his claws shred through my skin. The moment after,

between us as I spun around. Somewhere on the

roared. The speaker announced a disqualification due to use of claws. The offender had to