Chameleon (Kenya Wright) by Kenya Wright

Author:Kenya Wright
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Fantasy, Young Adult
ISBN: 1493774093
Publisher: Vamptasy Publishing
Published: 2013-10-24T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

“Go! Go! Go! Go!” Everyone chanted around me.

Exhilaration surged through my veins. I pressed the game’s buttons with skill and precision. The old machines were always the best to play. The new video games I had to slide my hands across a screen or move it near the program’s laser rays to activate the game and control character’s movements. Those games sucked. I spent more time, focusing on my hand being in the right place verses enjoying the opportunity to beat someone’s behind.

“Go Cameo!” a girl I knew from Haven cheered. “Go Cameo!

“Come on!” My opponent kicked the video game machine. His mohawk wavered with the spoiled brat movement. He had rings pierced all over the right side of his face. A crescent moon brand sat in the middle of his forehead, signaling to me that he was a shapeshifter. He’d told me he was a were-wolf earlier, probably to scare me. “This stupid game is cheating!”

“The game is not cheating. You just suck.” Usually I tried to be a good sport when I played, especially when I gamed against a shapeshifter that could change into an animal and rip me a part with his claws. But tonight I didn’t care. After leaving Wiz on the roof, I’d ran into the arcade due to the storm, copped two beers from some old, wrinkled earth witch that was hanging around and begging me to walk near the alley with him. I took the beers, left him, and told the manager Susie about the weirdo. Susie was a vampire with one of the top cartels. All she did was signal her guards to take care of the old guy.

“This is were-bull crap!” The were-wolf punched the screen. Luckily it didn’t break. People clapped and cheered like I’d won the lottery.

“Maybe Four Elements just isn’t your game.” I took a swig of my beer as the last round loaded.

Me and the idiot had been playing Four Elements for the past hour. No matter what sorcerer he used to fight my wind wielder, they all died one by one—suffocation from a tornado my wind wielder captured them in or sometimes I used a breeze as a lasso, caught the enemy sorcerer with it, and squeezed his insides until they spilled out of the poor loser’s mouth and sprayed the screen. He wouldn’t accept defeat. Plus, I was in a bad mood tonight. As far as I was concerned all electronic enemy characters would pay for Wiz’s cheating. . .well he didn’t cheat. He was never mine, but it felt that way.

Music beeped on. Green grass exploded in the middle of the screen. Water sprayed the grass and then drowned it. Rocks battered down and upset the water. Wind blew everything off the screen. The words Four Elements appeared and glowed in white against a black background.

“Sorcerers, Ready?” The machine sounded.

My wind wielder materialized on the screen in a blur of motion, spinning around and around like a tornado and then finally stopping to stand on the right side.

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