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

was to assume our task was

like our ‘will be useful someday’ kitchen drawer has become a room,’

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

subjects, toys, wood planks, a ladder, paper,

and piles.

up. I’m

the speaker came

game, your objective is to create a Rube Goldberg machine. It needs

the red bell in the right corner of the

your machine

to give up,

to build a

A Rube Goldberg machine,’ Jake said, and

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had no idea what it was we

and they fall down and end

spend hours building them at home. I tried to get Cade to join us, but he

thing just to destroy it.” Amie

videos of those online sometimes. There are a lot of things falling over and in the end it butters your toast

something,’ Ramses said.

make them

needed five stages, so five different things to fall

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

our lead from you,’ I said. I was happy

direction and that would be

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

each other, debating colour choices. We started having fun. When we ended up using the only ladder as a

so we could build up to reach the bell in the

back from our build, it looked impressive. I walked up and knocked

door.

speaker said. I nodded at Jake, who walked up and blew on a paper.

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

round and round a couple of times,

and tipped it over. The plate pulled a string which dislodged a wedge

the floor, it hit a wooden spoon. The spoon flipped a switch, turning on a heating gun.

Then the toy plane hit the

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 like part of the Games,

we got to the viewing room with