Battle of Fate 91

Amie and I spent an hour walking around. Just like the other day, it was a lot of fun. The best part was meeting all the
people we had talked to before and seeing their reaction to our mating. Not many looked surprised. We got a lot of
congratulations and I would see envy in the eyes of some of the men. After a while, we looped back and found the others
setting up for the picnic lunch. All the packs sat on blankets or on the grass and ate while waiting for the big score board
to reveal the scores, and more importantly, the ranks for this year. We helped spread blankets on the ground and unpack
all the food. I sat down and pulled Amie with me. I made sure she could lean back on me as everyone made sure she had
plenty to eat. Sam sat down on the other side of her. She looked at him, he smiled at her.
“Why are you sitting there?” she asked him.
“Why wouldn’t I?” he asked.
“Let me rephrase. Why are you sitting so close to me that you are almost in my lap?” Amie asked.
“Well, as your bodyguard, it seemed like a good idea to keep close to you,” he told her, still smiling.
“My what?”
“Your bodyguard. You are the Luna. As Gamma, it is one of my most sacred duties to protect you.” Amie looked at me
with horror.
“It’s the way it is,” I said. I liked Amie safe, and having Sam close by her would keep her safe.
“But it’s only while we are here. Right? I mean when we are on our pack land there is no need for a bodyguard. Right?”
she asked us.
“I don’t know, Luna. It can be dangerous back at home as well,” Sam said. I was almost positive he was just pulling her
leg.
‘I don’t know about this Luna business, Finn. Maybe I can keep being Beta and Jake can be Luna. He would probably
benefit more from Sam’s protection anyway,’ Amie mindlinked me. I laughed so hard I had tears in my eyes.
‘No, my little mate. You are the only one I will ever call my Luna,’ I told her and kissed her.
“Fine, fine,” she grumbled. “But if you take this too far, Sam, I will be talking to Medow.” It seemed to sober Sam up, and
he moved an inch or two away. The mood was high in our pack as we ate. The closer we got to one o’clock, the more
nervous the mood became. Not just in our pack, but in all packs. This was the time when the next ten years would be
decided.
“It’s going up!” someone shouted, and we all looked at the scoreboard. It had started to rapidly fill with lines. Everyone
stood up and watched. It was going from the lowest rank and up. Line by line it added the results. There were cries of
sorrow and hopelessness from other packs as they saw their name. I had my arms around Amie, keeping her close to me
as I watched each line, feeling relieved each time it wasn’t our pack’s name. Amie had her arms on top of mine. I could
feel she was just as focused as I was. When Blue shadow pack was written on row forty two, she drew in a sharp breath,
but then relaxed. She yelped at row number thirty-one. Ocean shore pack. My brother’s pack had sunk so low they were
now a mid-tier pack at best. When the row number was twenty, the fast pace stopped. Apparently, they were now going
to drag it out.
“We can do it, we can do it,” Sam muttered to himself. Five rows stood between us and avoiding reunification with my
brother’s pack.
‘I love you, no matter what happens,’ Amie mindlinked me.
‘I love you, too. Nothing will change it,’ I linked back. Row nineteen, not our pack. I sighed. Eighteen, not our pack. Amies
hands tightened on my arms. Seventeen, not our pack.
“Almost there,” Ramses mumbled. Sixteen, not our pack. There was a moment of disbelief and then the pack howled as
one. We had done it. We were in the top fifteen packs and therefore we would continue to be a pack. I turned Amie
around and kissed her. I got lost in our kiss until Sam cleared his throat next to us.
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“We haven’t actually found out what rank we have,” he pointed out.
“Right,” I said and focused back on the scoreboard. I quickly looked it over and could see we weren’t mentioned
anywhere between fifteen and eight, either.
“Have they forgotten us?” Jake asked.
“Of course not,” Amie reassured him. But when number five was Amies old pack and we still hadn’t shown up. I started
to think Jake had the right idea. Had we been disqualified? They needed to tell us if they had, right? Number four wasn’t
us either. Amie looked up at me. I shrugged. I looked at the board again. Number three: Blue Mountain pack. Score 89, I
read. Again, we howled. Top three! We had done the unthinkable and were now ranked third pack in the world. I didn’t
even care who took first and second rank. I kissed Amie until we both ran out of air.
“We are going to have so much to do!” she told me. “Every pack will want an alliance with us. The negotiations alone will
take forever.” I laughed, it was just like her to start planning the next step.
“Just enjoy the moment, Red. We will plan the rest later.” She had the biggest grin on her face and nodded. She threw
herself at me and kissed me. Packs started coming by to congratulate us and several hinted at wanting to talk about
forming alliances. We thanked them but said we were in no place to think about it at the moment. They were welcome to
contact us after the Game.
“Congratulations, little sister,” Amie’s brother called out. We both turned around to see him walking up to us with Becky. His eyes darted to both our mate marks. “Luna,” he said and bowed.
“Honestly, Elder. Since when do we use titles in the family? Get your head screwed on right,” Amie told him. Elder looked
at me, as if I would go crazy if he didn’t address his sister as Luna.
“I love when people call her Luna as it means they recognise our bond, but she is right. There should be no titles within a
family,” I said and kissed her temple.
“Congratulations! We are so happy for the both of you,” Becky said and hugged Amie.
“Thank you. At least I got the second mating right, no rejection this time,” Amie joked and it sent a pang to my heart just
thinking of the possibility. She must have felt it too as she turned to me and gave me a quick kiss.
“You are second chance mates? Oh boy, mom will have a picnic with this. Have you told her?” Elder asked.
“No. I sent both her and dad a message telling them I had important news and I would call after we were given our
rank.”
“I’m guessing we can expect a call then,” Becky told her mate. We stood around talking for a while. Their pack had also
done well. To rank top five was no easy feat. They should have been just as thrilled as our pack was, but there was a
notable damper to their excitement. I had a good idea as to why. Amie and I hadn’t talked about what had happened
during the rejection. We had other things on our minds yesterday. My guess was that their Alpha hadn’t taken it well. I
couldn’t really blame him. Just the thought of being rejected by Amie had both me and my wolf in a panic. If the Alpha
was depressed or anxious, the whole pack felt the effect. “I really am very happy for the both of you. You belong
together,” Becky told us before they left. We stayed around for a while longer. Our phones both pinged at the same time.
It was a message to report to the council first thing tomorrow morning before the closing ceremony.
‘It has to be about the unification of the packs, right?’ Amie mindlinked me. I could feel her worry through the mate
bond. I usually had an easy time reading her, but the free flow of emotions between us made it even easier.
‘Yes, they probably just want to make sure we are all aware of what will happen next,’ I reassured her. ‘How about we
head back and call your parents?’ She smiled and kissed me.
“Are you feeling brave enough?”
“Yes,” I lied. She giggled and kissed me again. We told everyone they were free to do what they wanted as long as they were ready for the closing ceremony the next day.