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.

claws, which means changing would be fairly useless. But for me it

useful,’ I told them.

try,’ Sam decided. Everyone but

risks?’ he asked me in a private

‘Promise,’ I told him.

told all of us. When we arrived in the area, once again marked

We had a deep blue flag with a silhouette of a mountain in white printed on it. I stripped

shifted through the game, I didn’t need to worry about the rope fitting my human shape as well. We made sure

to us. My

work,’ Jake

your teammates and go for the easy targets

to a more defensive

and I

the direction and my human part grinned. There was

it,’ I

to the patch of trees over there,’ Ramses said,

for the five men standing

close to them, circling around them and

of them

is the only place to read the complete

us now and

I happily ran off. They weren’t fast or agile. Their

their reach. Not too fast so they would lose interest. I

had already snatched

gone when I stopped running. Ramses cleared his throat

showed them the

you do that?”

move quietly,” Ramses said with a grin. “Thank you for the flags.

together.

while I scouted our next

picks and could hand over several flags to Finlay

the easy picks had been picked off and things got harder. The participants who were left weren’t as easy to get to chase me. But I could be annoying when I wanted and

towards them, I ran past my brother in his

second and then he

won’t fool me, little sister,” he shouted after me. My human part grinned.

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

my wolf run past them. Wolfless and weak

my target.

Finlay, Sam and Jake had done a good job at being the defensive unit. They had

they had guarded the flags Ramses and I had

last target and then we meet up with the others and hold our stance for the rest of the time,’ I told Ramses.

the group of three who stood together,

They annoyingly stood steadfast. I started doing small

anything but to make them annoyed and unsure. It took me

the others to lunge at me. I let him almost grab my flag before I ran away. I could hear

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

agility to weave around obstacles. I was almost at the spot where I knew Ramses was

my hip, but missed. I would have

right and felt a sharp pain in my hip

moment after, everything happened at once.

hand. Ramses materialised between us as I spun around. Somewhere on

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