Shifting Games Novels & Stories

How high and mighty did he feel you to think I was his puppet set on stage to play with? The biggest mistake he could ever do was challenging my abilities and now that he did...no mercy. "Of course father. I understand but my last words will be this...checkmate is only a temporary setting against an intelligent player." I advised and took my leave. This was all just a game and if my pieces were already set into place, it would be a clean win. Well, with a little blood here and there. I was searching for August but stopped when I stumbled upon the two brothers in an intimidating staring battle.

The Paradigm Shifter screamed in a voice that existed outside linear time, and I felt its function pulling into my consciousness even as it fought to maintain its grip on local spacetime. This absorption was harder than the Grief Weaver. More complex. The code that defined a Paradigm Shifter was deeply woven into reality's structure, and pulling it out meant unraveling pieces of causality itself. FUNCTION paradigm_shifter_class_b EXTENDS anomaly_base { INTENT_TYPE: confusion, disorientation, loss_of_certainty REALITY_OVERRIDE: physics_negotiable, causality_flexible PURPOSE: test_player_adaptability + demonstrate_system_malleability ADMIN_LEVEL: elevated } Elevated admin level. That was new.

Sienna, present... The thing about my life is that it feels as though I have lived many. From my torturous childhood, to the death of my pack, to being left alone for years. I've seen many things someone would barely see in 3 lifetimes let alone my miserable 1. The fact I'm still here still astounds me. 24 years old and all I've known is misery, distaste and cruel people. I decided when I was able to shift that I would no longer be this awful waste of space person.

Jax laughed it off like it never really mattered that his parents didn't like me. The party was fun. Jax and I were enveloped in each others worlds as he kissed my forehead and introduced me to alphas and lunas from other packs and other dignitaries or warriors in packs from the area. All that mattered was us. It was 11:30 and I could tell Jackson was getting ready for shifting. It was something that always happened outside, under the moon, and whoever he trusted to be around him.

This time, she didn't chase after me. When I reached the corner, Isabelle sent me a message. "Mr. Rayner, tomorrow's team building activity is a mystery box game. Are you joining? I heard everyone is guaranteed to get something!" After reading the message, I suddenly smiled and replied. "Sure." The next day, during the company's team building event, I drew a small card. The words on it were not "Thanks for participating." They said, "Today's Lucky Winner." My coworkers laughed and cheered.

“I’ll shuffle them and place a card at each spot. No peeking. We all flip our cards at the same time.” “Can we trade,” Zephyra raises her hand. “Like what if I got lust? I mean, I’m not making out with her just for this stupid game.” “No trading, no takebacks,” I clarify. “You get what you get.” “And you don’t throw a fit,” Simon finishes for me in a sing-songy voice. Zephyra glares at him, her pink lips pouting as her blue eyes shoot daggers from across the table.

Not being able to argue, Daniel lowered Maddie to the floor and moved to Lewis' side, ready to defend them too. Jess crouched at her side, throwing a look towards the Alpha standing off against the two warriors. Without being in the middle of them, Maddie wondered what was to come. They wouldn’t have to hold back anymore. They could shift and bite and claw at each other until all of them were hurt or worse. Michael had already shown his proficiency for battle. It was clear he would’ve won the Alpha Games should he not have decided to attack the pack. The thought should make anger boil beneath her skin but, instead, her stomach turned. She didn’t want them to fight.

Working out six hours a day, every day, and working on an eight-hour shift every night, took it's toll on him very quickly. Ever since a colleague of his suggested enhancers to boost his energy, he was able to add more hours at the gym and more hours on his shifts, and could still hang out at bars afterward. Everyone else was using it, it was common for his line of work. They call it 'the helper', which leads to other kinds of helpers, for every different need. Even actors use them too.

I follow his gaze to see a dozen shifters from Troy’s group eyeing me up. “Is that how you want to play it.” I say smirking at him. He shrugs returning my smirk, oh your on baby. I mind link my group to come to the lake for a battle, looks like the game has changed. I compel the boar to stay by the lake while we have this battle. Troy jumps the lake to stand with his group as mine start to gather behind me. “We are changing the game, the last two standing with tags will fight for the boar and capture the flag same rules apply, no shifting, if you lose both tags take a seat by the cabin.” Troy announces and I notice Uhtred and Jax standing off to the side to judge.

But they didn’t have an audience and when the pain hit her, the brother stopped shifting to check on her. Once he stopped shifting, her pain stopped. He didn’t shift enough to cause any damage to his sister the way Dylan did with Emma. They also didn’t know that him shifting first was what was causing it, so when he made sure his sister was ok, he started his shift again. Then the pain hit her again and he stopped, then her pain stopped. After that they realized him trying to shift was causing it. The next time, she did her shift first and was able to complete it without any pain to her brother.