Alpha games

From the beginning I would like to say that I might have typos, grammer mistakes etc. due to my belonging to Poland, but I will try to make the least of them. Enjoy :) (If you wish you may join the games :D just type in comments its look/name/and how it acts. If not ignore this sentence :3)

Chapter 1

The alpha games are somewhat a competition for the best jammers. The winners are picked to be the future alphas, but there is a big minus of the games. The loosers (who took part in the competition but didn't take a place from 1-3) would have their gems and so on token away. Due to me and my sisters being poor, because of our father who died in the games, we had to live on the street. Time to time some jammer would give us something or bread, once there was this wolf who didn't belong to the members of jamaa, so he traded for our hand made necklace. This year, I and my sisters decided to take place in the Alpha games. This was the only thing that could let us back to our old life, as normal jammers- but if we would get the 1st place we would be the highest rank, an alpha. This competition takes place every 10 years, due to the alphas not accepting new group-members. This time.... We'll win.

"Trust me sisters, we don't have what to loose, litteraly. So we can only earn. Let's do this" I said to my sisters, Duchess, and Mythical. I don't know why I said that, I knew they where fast asleep. I jumped outside, because I couldn't fall sleep. After a while of climbing up the highest point in Jamaa, I started at the village as the sunset lighted up the eadges of Jamaa. I siged and closed my eyes. I have a lot to think about if I am to win the competition. And I am sure I will.

Chapter 2

I woke up and yawned. I could thought about turning on the heater- dran it was cold. I looked around and noticed I wasn't even in my house, but on the sky watching rock. I probably fell asleep up here thinking about the competition. I wonder who else will be there? Watching a little butterfly fly down to the bottom of the hill I jumped down the steps. My hooves where soar after the night and my head hurt, mainly because of the cold weather.

As I stepped into the house I heard Mythical. "Your here! We thought someone hurt you or killed you! You gave me nightmares! Just when I woke up I started looking for you everywhere!" she screamed. "Yes, like last time you looked for Duchess in the fridge, and the next morning we had nothing for lunch?" I asked as I checked if everything in my room was on it's place. "Nuh, I told you, it was my pet cat" she said from the living room. "The one that ran away 2 months ago?" My sister really needs to think before she says something. Her fox tail swayed in the door, and in the next second she was running to her room. "Sis, did you see my notebook?- asked Duchess walking into my room. "You guys will kill me someday. Last time I think I have seen in on the table. Come on guys, we have to go sign up for the alpha games- I said. As before I mentioned, we are homeless. And yes, I am saying this is a home, but it's more of a sewed together big cloth just hung on the branches of a nearby forest. The beds where a bunch of leaves and the fridge was a pit in the ground, where our "food" kept cool. "Well then lets go!" shouted Duchess, but pulling the "door" made of a curtain, which ripped of. I rolled my eyes. Not the first time this happened, but yet it's still quiet annoying. "Opps... sorry... I promiss I'll fix it.." she said looking at the cloth her claws caught. "No it's fine, let's just sign up before we wreak this place even more... Mythical, get over here" I called without m sister answering. "I'll have to pull you out of there" I said trotting over to the foxes room. "Oh come on I didn't brush my fur yet!" she said as I pushed the "door" aside. "We can't brush our fur we don't have what to brush it with. Come on now!" I shouted seeing her half asleep on the bed. She's no use... I thought. I caught her tail and pulled her outside, and then Duchess started pushing her all the way to the sign-up gate. "Well guys here we are I guess" I said and got in line. I noticed another horse a few animals in front of me. She was yellow-orangish. She looked like a tough competition...

After a while we got to the main desk. "Hello, I and my two sisters would like to sign up for the Alpha Games. The names are Snowflake, Mythical and Duchess" I said, but wasn't really sure if this was a good idea. "Snowflake, Mythical and Duchess.... Got that. Please enter the tent to the right, we will start eliminations in a second" she answered pushed us aside. "Now? We are starting NOW?" I asked her, staring at the paper that we just signed ourselves up on. "Yes. you should know that. Now please continue on" the bird behind the desk said. "But that's impossible!" screamed Duchess, but before we knew it we where pushed into the tent.

 Chapter 3

I awoke to the sound of some kind of drums. My eyelids still refusing to open, and legs tired after some sort of "nock out". When I finally opened my eyes ands yawned, I looked around. This did not look like a tent at all. All around me where other animals, sleeping. Duchess and Mythical layed to my left side, and I think this is some sort of forest. There where trees as high as the sky-watching stone, which was somewhat a long way up. The drums where starting to get louder, and in between the trees I saw a few wolfs heading this way. They didn't look like clan or pack wolfs, but normal messenger ones. I stood up and stared at them as they got closer. Now I noticed this was something like a clearing, and I think it was about to get dark. The sky was a kind of green-pink color, never seen anything like this before.

"Good morning Snowflake. That is your name, or did I get the papers mixed up?" asked one of the wolfs. "Yes... What papers?" I asked puzzled. "For the Alpha Games. You and... these two others called Mythical and Duchess have entered it. I wanted to come and tell everyone what's going on and when the competitions are to begin" she said as the other wolf banged his drums, with a proud grin on his face. "Could you stop that Jinngle? Even a heard of crying tigers wouldn't wake these people up!" she shouted to her four legged friend. "To be honest, I have very good hearing..." said a voice from behind. The horse, the one I saw a while before I was pushed into the tent was standing a mile away. "The names Ramasi. So when do we start?" she asked scanning the area. "After we wake everyone up... That sleep powder you put in the tent was to strong Alena..." said the wolfs that was stilling hitting the drum.

"Well ya who cares.." she responded. I was so puzzled, then the wolf hit the ground with a stumstik, which amazingly woke everyone. As puzzled as I was, my two sisters got up. "So, my dear friends. We will tell you the rules of our games here, and how this will all work. No turning back now. Your already signed up, and if you would read the rules, you would know no turning back. And also because we can't erase pen. But let's continue- she said jumping on a high rock, where the jammers could see her. She sat down and scanned the area. "So. There are 6 parts of our competition. In each part five people fall out, loosing whatever they own. The first part will be quiet hard, which will be, getting out of this forest. At first it might seam so easy, hu? But these are the Alpha Games. Expect only highest and most hardest competitions. The second one will be explained when you pass this quest. When finally out of the forest, a few of our guards will be waiting. Just report to them, tell them your name, and you'll be able to show you to your resting areas. We wait until 28 jammers get out, and the rest will be in the "failed" section. Untill the Alpha Games don't fully finish, they will help watch. If they come t use, maybe we'll let them keep a few items. And the first competition starts... NOW!" she said, jumping of the rock, and disappearing. The drummer wolf was also nowhere to be seen. What have we gotten into?

'''Chapter 4 ''' Before I could even bink everyone run different ways until they where out of sight. "Come on before we fail this" said Duchess running left. "Hey wait! They said it's quiet dangerous...." a few feet away from me stood a small bunny trembling bunny. "Why did you sign up?" I asked looking at he weak bunny. When I said that her eyes flashed white and faded back to her original blue eyes. "Do you suggest I am weak?" she asked staring at me. This time she didn't look a bit scared. " No, just asking why a bunny without any defence would sign up..." I think he took that very close the moment I said it... "I do have how to pretect myself. I was just to warn you that I am attending this the second time. Ran of with all I had last time before they took it. Now back here, and gonna tell you it isn't as easy as it looks. I know this path, and will cross it. Good luck" she said as she hopped into the woods. How could a bunny like that be so calm, and nothing to defend itself? "Wait! Can we come with you?" shouted my sister, but the bunny was far away. I looked around, only trees and trees... "Hey Snowflake I have an idea! I'll climb that tree!" shouted Mythical jumping up a tree. "Just don't kill yourself..." answered Duchess looking around. I watched Myth jump up, then randomly, without slipping, but as if hitting something, when there was nothing to hit. "Sis are you okay?" I shouted running over to her. She looked like she just ate a bunch of rotten salmon or banged her head.... "I hit my head on something! There's something invisible covering this whole place!" she said rubbing her head. I siged in disbelief. I myself tried to climb up, and yet she was right, something invisible yet really hard was covering the whole woods.I jumped down and saw the same bunny a few feet away from me. "What are you doing here?" I asked her. Or was it male? I had no idea. It was just a white bunny. "Here? I'm not here. Not even CLOSE to you. And why didn't you guys even start? Standing in one space! Eh, bigger chances for me!" now I was confused. What did the creature mean? I tried to walk up to it, but was blocked by another invisible wall, or whatever it was. "What is going on? Ugh!" shouted Duchess, who ran into the wall I just tried to pass, without any luck. "Fools, this is crystal clear maze, a maze that doesn't seam to have any walls, but does. I'll be friendly and tell you a bit. You don't look like hard to beat, anyways. So, most of these animals where able to gather information about these areas before they started out- to bad you guys didn't. Well, I'll tell you that the entrance right infornt of Mythical is the right path. When you get to the lemon tree turn right, then from there take a walk to where I am, might take a while though. Next, you see the cherry tree right there?" the bunny asked pointing it's ear towards the tree a few steps away from it. "Yes" I said nodding. I didn't even know why we entered in this thing... "So. When you turn here, you'll see a road of cherries that will lead you out. By luck with my help you might turn up right after me. Good luck!" it said, ran over to the cherries, picked up a paw-full of then and ran leaving one ever few steps. In a few seconds we couldn't see the creature.

-when they FINALLY got to the spot the bunny was-

"Finally... theres one cherry! Come on guys!" shouted Myth, wishing to get out of this useless maze. I'd cut of my hands and take out my eyes faster then deal this... wait no first I would have to take my eyes out, then cut my hands of, but another person would have to help with the last hand... okay we just got to of the trail. I scanned the area looking for a sign of the bunny, hopping it would wait for us, but not a single living thing was here, well, only me and my sisters where. Weird, because almost all the time there where birds chirping or for example a bug flying around. This seamed to make me nervous... I didn't like this place and would like to get out of here as fast as possible. "Here! More cherries! They seam to lead right! Come on we have to get out!" she shouted as we followed. The cherries seamed to get lost in the colors of the fall leaves, swirling from place to place. I knew this was going to be a while before we get out...

-about an hour later...(no we didn't get out yet. Sadly.) -

"Darn, where did the trail go?" mumbled Myth, as I and Duchess followed her, not knowing what to do. "Ugh, that hurt!" shouted my fox-sister, as she hit another invisible wall. "Get up we have t get outa here-" I said an paused. I think I saw the outside of this forest! "There! Look! Finally-" I galloped, just to hit the wall a few feet from the outside. "Sis you missed, the exit is here!" shouted Duchess laughing, as she passed me and through the opening in the invisible wall. "Oh so now your a bat, and can detect where the invisible walls are? And so on?" I asked. Yes I just made me look wrong, but I felt better then ever to be outside the maze... "Nope. I noticed the branches where not leaning on the walls in one place, so it must have been the exit" she answered taking my question normaly. "So you made it. Lucky you... I guess. Only two more spots for two more winners of this and we're set of to the next round..." said a voice. I turned around to see the white bunny, yet again it's eyes took a red-greenish color.

"How long HAVE we been in there? How long do you think this will take?" asked Duchess, as the wind blew her fur into her face. "You? You have been sitting in there 5 hours... Who knows how much longer it will take for the other slow pokes. Anyways where are you from? I'm not much sure that your from Jamaa... " said the bunny, washing its ears, then looking at us. "We are from Jamaa, just... just... you know, poor. Our father started in this and failed while our mother died because of a sickness... And you? Wher are you from?" Myth sat down and layed her head on her paws, while Duchess made herself happy with a rock to sit in.

"I... Err... Am from... I have no idea. My mother gave me away as an attraction. "Return of the phantoms", that's what the lame game idea was. The "adventure's" never got old. But, the people who played in them did. Un-luckily, I was one of those people who never got old though. The four bunnies at the end? Ya hi, "Oliver" is right here... Glasses, told me to wear GLASSES. The most disgusting glasses! Who cares about glsses? Like I am only wearing them to make others laugh that such a noob got suck in the cage... Phantoms? Way to dangerous, so just a bunch of mechanical monsters.. Imagine a jammer s scared of something that releases sleeping gass? Well, ya, I got used to it so don't fall asleep but... Well...I left that life and never going back. I'm going to win this and get to change something! I will make this place at least a bit guilty for what they have done for the homeless and the ones who had to work in those... "Adventure" games" the bunny looked infront of himself as if he saw something wonderful in the medows surrounding us now. I couldn't belief it- that famous company and so heartless? They made the "Adventures", like "phantom portal", "search for Greely", (Apparently the Greely was a bot, because the real one was way to busy to sit around in two adventures all day. From what the bunny said, I don't think anyone would want to work there. Or get any job for the "adventure" company. Heartless! I thought a while, and my eyes disagreed to work. I fell asleep by the time I noticed I was so tired that I laye down on a patch of grass...

Chapter 5

I woke up to see dust all around me. I was still in the same spot, my sisters next to me, the bunny who was talking to Myth freezed. A big bang probably woke me. When the dust settled, I took a look around, not beliefing what I saw. The forest once there, was now or invisible, or the earth swallowed it. In the middle of the stop where the invisible maze along with it's forest was, stood five jammers, scared to death. On the outline of the forest where gaurds and other animals that took part in this. A eagle, so big and wonderful, that it could hide the sun in it's wings flew from behind a mountain, before not able to be seen by any of us. "Do you see the lines the forbidden maze left?" hr voice echoed across the clearing, and she pointed to the lines that once showed where the "forbidden maze's" outside wall stood. "Well then, everyone INSIDE this circle is OUT of the games" she said, now aiming her long feathered wing at the rhino, elephant, two bunnies and arctic wolf who seconds ago where still long lost in the maze. "Congratulations to all who passed, may the alphas be with you, and may Zios protect you. On the other hand, guards go take the ones who lost back to Jamaa" and with that she sprung into the air, and flew as far as eye could see. It was pretty obvies that the eagle, was Valentina, who was the bald eagle alpha. Still not knowing what to do, everyone who entered this here competition stared into the sky, where minutes ago the alpha was soaring.

-after the ones who lost were taken away...- "Well, hello there!" shouted a voice behind me. "Good to see someone like you is againced us! Maybe it won't go that easy! Well, we did en up last, so this isn't starting out good. But don't ya guys worry, we won't hurt ya! Anyhow totaloo! We gotta see who else passed and check out what kinda jokes we can do in the meantime! Bai see ya people later! " said a black wolf, with a red for next to her. The dog had pair of loop-earings, a blood-red flower, blue locket that shinned in the moonlight (did I mention it was night? Eh...) and a bunch of swirls in her fur. The fox on the other hand was red, with black socks and snout. She was wearing a blue and red top hat, a glove that seamed to be the "spirit glove" (I read books about the old times of Jamaa, the item there was said to be somewhat worth a lot.) and he had the same locket, only that it was green. Her tail was decorated by a pink tail warmer, also used as armor due to it's strength. "Err okay?" I answered, not knowing what to say. "We have such interesting "friends"..." added Duchess looking at the two who laughed every step they where walking away.

-an hour later (beginning of next contest) I looked around to see all the other animals grouped in a room we where told to come into. A purple wolf was at this stage, that was only about two meters wide and long. It was like a small square attached to the wall... "QUIET!" I screamed, somehow so loud, that everyone turned silent. It scanned the room, then said;" Now, Amelia, you may enter. The croud has been quiet" she said turning back, and opening a door I somehow missed next to the stage. My eye sight has been going bad lately.. From behind another door on the other side of the stage, came out a young fox. It was probably the fox alpha, I could tell from the earing (earings where very rare between normal Jammers) and because she has a braclet made of her spirit rock, at least I think that's what it is. "Hello my dear Jammers. I am happy you could make it here. As you know, the maze was somewhat hard to pass. Many of you have helped each other-" her gaze went to a femail brown cheetah and then moved onto the white bunny we met before. I gulped as her eyes met mine. They weren't cold or scary, just... Weird. When she finally started to speak again, I looked behind me to see if I didn't loose Myth or Duchess.

"As you know, 5 jammers fall out of the games every day. And because we have the rights to start at midnight or later, we will start in 15 minutes, which midnight is in 10. Now, quick rules: You may not kill anyone/anything inside the room you will be sent. Secondly, you may not try to hold on to any blue plant. Seams easy, but your probably wondering whats the point of this game. It is to get to the other side of the room. Easy? You might need to think again. The room has plants with an affection called "blue roots" which might take you out for half on hour or more. The top was 16 hours but.... but was only once... Well there will also be phantoms inside, and two of my dear trained owls, with the masking power, four dogs with the ability to track down and six cats able to put you down. Ready? Oh and one more thing-you all will be divided into groups of 5 people. Start! " she shouted, as the ground shook and I fell down some kind of pipe. Woah, alphas even made all this? When did they have the time? "Ahh!" I heared the others in the pips shout. When I saw a small light in the pipe, I thought I was saved. My thinking is kinda of topic, because a room full of phantoms and plants with the "blue root" thing that isn't safe... I fell and automaticly stood up. I pulled my sword out and looked around. Bad idea. Im not to kill anyone/anything in here... Why does she make such rules?

I looked at the blue plants, which seamed to watch me, although they had no eyes... My mind started going wild, and I heared a sound from a nearby bush. I froze, and something jumped on me. "ARGH GET OF" I screamed trying to make my hooves push it of, but that's kind of impossible, because of my legs... The animal finally got of my back, and then looked at me. Now, I could clearly see that it was a medium sized lynx with a helmet and a pair of leg armor. On her back hang a bow and arrow which seamed to be carved out of some pretty strong tree. "Eh... sorry... the names Khaleesi, but don't think about talking right now, I saw a phantom a few feet from here" the lynx said. Say nothing? A few feet? I'm gonna die. That's when I remembered:" Phantoms? Way to dangerous, so just a bunch of mechanical monsters.. Imagine a jammer is scared of something that releases sleeping gass? Well, ya, I got used to it so don't fall asleep but... Well...I left that life and never going back." of course, Oliver mentioned the phantoms being bots. But these are the alpha games... They might as well be real... but who cares. I peaked from behind a bush and Khaleesi jumped up beside me. "So how are we gonna get to the other side?" she asked, when a gigantic black shadow rised infront of us. A phantom with one eye just jumped out the bush infront of us. This room wasn't like a room. It was like a second jungle... That I'm guessing had no wifi so we couldn't call for help... So what to do when a phantom is standing right infront of you!?

You jump on It and try to kill it even if that was forbidden. Khaleesi jumped on it and not knowing, a disk slipped out from under the phantom, as it tipped over with a bang. The lynx grabbed it and told me to follow it, because we had to find the others in the room. With each step the blue plants seamed to darken their color, as if a wind blew smoke onto their leaves. "Do you know who else is in here?" I asked after some time. Before answering the lynx looked around and checked if nothing was following us and said; "Well I think a cheetah with the name Ayah, which tried last year. Possibly a small white bunny and-" she paused to smell the air before she continued "and a black wolf. But it doesn't seam that it's one of the jammers who took part in the competition... It smells of the underworld" she said. I widened my eyes. And all that information from the air? I was wondering a bit to much about that, because I tripped over a black-web-like thing. I'm not even sure it was a thing... "Quiet! Listen..." said he lynx, putting her paw over my mouth. She pulled me into a bush and now I could see what we where hiding from. It was a black wolf. Not any black wolf, the one also knowen as the "lost jammer". "Do. Not. Move." she wispeared, not taking her eyes of the wolf made of black-spodge like skin. We could hear it breathing, although it was quite a bit away from us. Still standing frozen, I whispered; "Is... is that the lost Jammer?" I asked the lynx. Then I regreted I said that, because, to be honest, I was talking to nobody. The lynx was crawling through the tall grass that grew somewhat a few meters away. I was confused, how did any plant grow out of the floor? But I on the other hand forgot to think about what was a few feet away from me, and unluckily it heard my whisper.

It's head slowly looked my way, then opened it's mouth and made a wide smile. I felt like I couldn't move, like my own fright was trapping me. It's smile was impossibly big, and it's eyes where plain white. It's body looked... looked like it was about to fall apart. It put it's two paws infront of it, and attacked me. I saw a black blur, then a brown blur, and... a owl? I got up, as the black creature tried to escape a white owl, and two brown kittens. That's what Amelia must have been talking about! What a pitty they attacked the wrong person. I stood there a few seconds, then I had a amazing idea. I thought I should run. My hoves where pounding againced the floor so hard, I bet I would have woken all of Jamaa up. And maybe Femaa to... (Femaa is another land, similer to Jamaa) That's when something hopped infront of me. I came to a halt, screaming. Then I noticed- it was the bunny. "STOP SCREAMING, OH ZIOS" it said covering it's log ears. "S-s-sorry..." I said. I was so frightened. What was the point to attending this useless contest!? That's when from behind the bush jumped out a brown cheetah. She had a brown shell on a string around her neck, a brown skirt made of many layers (comes in handy when the enemy has sharp claws or swords) and a butterfly following her. "Are you okay Oliver?" she asked in a calm voice. "Yes..." he responded, rubbing his ears. "Th-th-there was a w-w-wolf..." I stammered, as the cheetah picked up the bunny and put it on a rock. A second later we all heard a high pitched wolf call. "The lost jammer..." said Oliver, standing up and listening to the call. "Now, run run run!" I heard a voice next to me. The lynx jumped out of a bush and ran. I galloped after it, and saw a brown blob flash by me. It must have been the cheetah from before- holding the bunny. The howl started to echo through the room, making it hard to detect what ay it came from. It felt like the howls came from each side of the room now- not only that, but because of them my ears where about to blow. Running for my life I fell into a wall. My legs hurt and I think I broke my hoove, but I was to scared to ceck and let my foot rest. Confused because of the howls coming from each side of the room, I ran forward.

To my suprize, I came to a halt and looked deeper into the "woods". There I saw... something like a horse.

Scared, I backed up and ran, just to see the figure a few meters infront of me. Trying to find a way to escape the creature I ran. With my eyes closed I wasn't able to see it, so I wasn't able to be afraid of it either. I bumped into a tree, when recovered I turned around. And again the horse. It's eyes- no, it didn't have eyes. It was somehow looking at me. Just standing there... Standing... And I fainted. (kinda typical in this kind of situation...)

After I awoke, I noticed the cheetah sitting next to me. "Your awake! that's great!" she said and smiled. "Pfft, If you would have seen yourself running like crazy into the walls and a tree. Pretty good show you put on here!" said Oliver. Confused,I got up and looked down at my hooves. One of them was chipped- probably when I hit the wall that sudden pain led to this. I took a deep breath and leaned on the tree. "You okay? That looked painful. What where you running away from?" asked the lynx. "I... I don't know... some horse..." I said then closed my eyes. When I opened them once again, I saw the horse, only behind the three animals. "Ahhh! It's there!" I shouted and turned around, just to hit my head on another tree. "Hey calm down! What's where?!" asked the bunny looking behind itself. "It's right there! How can you not see it!?" I said staring at the horse. It slowly walked towards us and faded away. Scared I sat there, waiting for something to happen. Something that doesn't have anything to do with a horse. "Hey! There's the other half of the room! Right here!" shouted the lynx.I forgot about what the heck we where to do in here. get to the other half of the room. As the lynx put it's paw on the wall, we heard a sound of something falling apart. Happy to know we'll be out of here, we turned around to see where the wall was falling apart.

Sadly, all we saw was the lost jammer, and next to it layed three trees. How could we have mistaken trees as a wall!? "You... you took me as some animal... of course, just if a black wolf gives you a smile you must run, musn't you?" It said, taking a deep breath every few words. Sacred to death we all slowly moved back. "You are willing to escape... ey?" It said then coughing. "Then go... But know... this isn't the wall you are willing to reach... Run... I won't hurt you, I don't want to be token... as a monster" he said, breathing heavily every few words. It turned back and wondered away into the forest. "...that... way scary..." I said, still staring at where it once stood. "More then scary" said Oliver, petrified. "I guess... We should go find the other wall.." said the cheetah after we where able to speak while not being scared to death. We all followed her looking out for other animals Amelia told us about.