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

We were back at the stadium. Three games remained and I couldn’t wait for it all to be over. I had been looking forward

to participating in the game for as long as I could remember. All the drama and the worry and everything else that kept

happening had me feel like I was done with it. I just wanted to go home, shut myself away with Finlay in his house for a week and pretend this month never happened. I couldn’t do that until we had finished the tenth game. So that was my

aim. Finlay had told the pack about the new threat and I could feel them closing rank. I should make Finlay go to the

different meetings of the packs, I had all intention of forcing him to be social when we got here, but now I hesitated. I

didn’t think I had it in me to handle him finding his mate on top of everything. Which made me a hypocrite. I sighed.

‘Hey, Red. What’s wrong?’ Finlay mindlinked.

‘Nothing, I’m just having a little issue with getting into the right headspace,’ I told him.

‘Do you need to sit this one out? It would be understandable,’ he asked.

‘No. I will be okay.’

‘When we get back home we will take a vacation,’ he said. I smiled.

‘I don’t think I want to leave the pack so soon again.’

‘We can set up in one of the caves on the pack land,’ he suggested. I laughed, making others look at me.

‘Thank you, I needed someone to pull me out of my pity party,’ I told him.

‘If any one deserves to have one of those, it’s you. Let me know if you need another laugh and I will trip Sam or

something,’ he said. Before I could respond, the speakers came to life.

“Welcome to the eight game. Today will be a test in agility.”

‘That will be it for my brother then,’ Finlay mindlinked us. We all tried our best to not laugh.

“The game is to be performed secluded. Ten identical rooms have been set up. By now you know the drill. Wait until your

pack is called. Please follow the rules given, if you break them, there will be punishments. We wish you the best of luck.”

‘Time to break out the cards again,’ Ramses said and took out the deck. We got as comfortable as we could and tried to

focus on the cards. Every now and then, Sam would make us move around.

“Blue mountain pack, you are up,” an official told us. We packed away the cards and followed him. He let us inside a

room with the instruction to stand within the marked area inside the door.

‘The last time we got that direction, I almost had my head taken off,’ Sam said and made sure we all stayed inside the

about sixteen square feet and on the other side of it, there was another door with

in front of

game. In front of you, you have an empty room. The room has lasers across it. If a laser

objective is for each member of your pack to make it across the room to

member is across, a green lamp will be lit. Once five lights have been lit, counting both

two hours to complete the game. When the two hours are up, a red light will be lit

standing in the marked area across the room. You can use anything you find in

the lasers?”

Sam said, and the rest of

an issue,” he pointed

do we make them visible?” I

glasses. Smoke or

or dust. I’m not that eager to light the room on fire to get smoke,” Sam said. We all

water?”

with it? I think that would break the

we do need to breathe,” I

is that,” Jake agreed. Ramses

fill the room. I was thinking more of a mist,” he

could work. But we don’t have enough water to create a mist,” Jake answered. Ramses pointed upwards.

There was a sprinkler system on the

do we trigger it?” Finlay asked. “We are not

don’t need to start a fire, it’s usually enough to

how do we do that

fire?” Jake hesitantly suggested.

down the council’s game

not,”

a small

go out from the sprinklers,” Jake added. I continued to

we are going to start a fire?” Finlay said with a deep sigh. There was a moment when everyone looked through their pockets and had a look around the

with.

a shortcircut that may ignite the scrap paper and we can then use

the cardboard box and some playing cards. They should create more smoke and heat than the paper. But we will still need to get it as close to the detector as possible,” Jake said. We all

can get on my shoulders,” Finlay

we are doing

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us now and continue

are,” Finlay admitted. He squatted down and I got the message and climbed onto his shoulders.

confirmed I would be able to reach the sensor. Jake started fiddling

playing cards with scrap

holding the watch close to the pile of scrap paper they had placed

the ground, they will definitely force us to merge

me. I did my best not to laugh and slapped him on the shoulder. Jake gave a cheer as he created a

catch fire. Ramses hurried to hand him the cards and Jake lit it on fire, it looked like a small torch.