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

The fifth game day had arrived and I felt more anxious than I had done on the fourth. I was determined to make sure

Amie, and my other pack members were kept safe. I made sure to stay close to Amie as we entered the stadium and

waited for our instructions.

‘Is it just me or are we getting more attention than usual?’ Sam asked after a while. I noticed the same and nodded.

‘I think it’s due to a certain red wolf,’ Ramses told us with a grin. We all looked at Amie.

‘Me?’ she asked.

‘What do you know?’ I asked.

‘I was at one of the social gatherings yesterday,’ Ramses began. We all nodded. It was natural for an unmated wolf to make sure they met as many new wolves as possible when given the chance. ‘I heard a lot of talk about our Beta. They were talking about how irritating she had been, and both her red fur and her agility and speed impressed them all. I would say you have got a lot of new admierers,’ he told Amie. Great, as if one lovesick Alpha wasn’t enough competition.

Now I needed to compete with half of the males around me.

‘It will pass. Someone else will do something and their attention will be on them,” Amie said. I should have known it wouldn’t go to her head. There was some static from the speakers and all of our attention was diverted to the incoming

message.

“Welcome to the fifth game. After today we have reached the halfway point of the games and you should have got used

to things. This game will be performed by every pack separately. We have set up ten identical rooms. Please wait for an

official to call you for your turn. We wish you all luck.” We looked at each other and I relaxed. No one would get hurt. If

they did, it would be because we messed up, and I knew we were better than that.

‘What do you think we will have to do?’ Jake asked.

‘Wrestle crocodiles?’ Sam suggested.

‘No,’ Jake said, then laughed nervously. ‘They wouldn’t do that. Right?’

‘Probably not,’ Ramses agreed.

‘Oh, stop it. No, they won’t make us wrestle wild animals,’ Amie told them.

‘I wouldn’t put it past them,’ I jokingly said. We had barely got comfortable when an official walked up to us. We had

never been called this early before. I didn’t know if it was a bad or a good sign, or just a coincidence. We were led to a

door and told to go inside. The room inside was a sixteen by sixteen feet room. There were things everywhere and my

assume our task was to clean

someday’ kitchen drawer has become a room,’

the room didn’t have a theme or any logic to why they all

subjects, toys, wood planks, a ladder, paper, bowls, kitchen utensils, tables,

and piles.

I’m fine with taking a penalty point

when the speaker came

to create a Rube Goldberg machine. It needs to have

and the last one will make the red bell in the right corner of the ceiling ring.

machine fails to ring the

give up, knock on

a machine?

Goldberg machine,’ Jake said, and he sounded like Christmas

only place to read the complete version of

us now and continue your

asked. I had no idea

and end up tripping a

spend hours building them at home. I tried to

building a thing just to destroy it.” Amie

videos of those online sometimes. There are a lot of things falling over

something,’ Ramses said.

them super complicated, or really

to fall over, or

points for creativity, so let’s add a couple of more stages,’ Amie suggested.

expert, so we will take our lead from you,’ I said. I was happy to turn the leadership over to him

spend some time following Jake’s direction and that

the first stages, we all got into it. We started looking around, finding new things to

When we

shoulders so we could

and took a step back from our build, it looked impressive. I walked up and knocked on

door.

Jake, who walked up and blew on

which made a pendulum swing back. The pendulum pushed a toy car down a ramp. The toy car

round and round a couple of times, the marble

string which dislodged a wedge from below

the next cook book and so it continued until the last one. As the last cook book fell on the floor, it hit a wooden spoon. The spoon flipped a switch, turning on

swing forward. Then the toy plane hit the bell

succeeded with the game. Your time was one hour and thirty-seven minutes. You may join the rest of your pack.” We all smiled at each other. This hadn’t felt

fun and relaxing. As we got to the viewing room with the