Chapter 334 - 334. Rings

Asher had not realized the memories of playing with his sister at arcades and going to beaches had replaced the poor ones. He had still never been to an amusement park but this. This was different. Arcades were everywhere and were a staple place for kids to go and waste their allowance. 

"Oh, you bet!" The challenge from Cara to show off his skills was not taken lightly. Asher pushed a token in to the game and eight balls rolled in to place for him to roll and attempt to get points with. 

"Lowest scorer buys next game?" Cara set the challenge and it was easily accepted. This may not have been a game that would win a ton of tickets but it was a game they could have fun with and try to beat the other in. 

"You two don't know what you are getting in to. I have mastered the fifty point spot." Jane effortlessly rolled a ball and it perfectly fell in to the fifty point spot off the ramp. It was easily the most picture perfect roll the two siblings had ever seen..

"That's beginner stuff." Cara and Asher gave each other devilish looks and threw their first balls in unison. The rolling started on one side and crossed over just in time to hit the ramp and perfectly sink in to the hundred point slots. 

"Like Cara said. Beginner stuff." Asher and Cara both picked up two balls. One in each hand. 

"You really still have it?" Cara looked at Asher with a little doubt. 

"If you miss you give me all your tickets. If I miss you get all my tickets from the round. If we tie, then Jane gets both our tickets." Jane felt like she was getting something for nothing but did not argue. It was a fine deal by her since she was being upstaged so much. 

The pair rilled both balls at the same time and both crossed barely missing each other and hitting the ramp. The two had both of their balls land in the hundred point slots and caused the machines to ring to sound their shots. They silently handed over their tickets to Jane as they glared trying to psych the other out before rapidly throwing the rest of the balls trying to beat the others. 

Unluckily for Cara, one of hers missed and fell to the single point slot. Asher had this happen too but his luck kicked in and the ball bounced out and in to the ten point slot. Jane on the other hand was not as good and consistently hit her fifty points. She still hit the last place out if the three but by no means did they leave with a low amount of tickets. 

"So, not that you two have shown off, what are we playing?" Jane knew they were not done. They barely had a hundred tickets each and that was nowhere near what they needed for the mystery box prize. 

"I wouldn't mind doing the ring toss. It's been a while and we can bet tokens if we will get on the bottle. Or we can choose the prizes that the bottle marks." Asher was looking straight at the game and remembered that it was a fun game for everyone to play. It was very rare for someone to win since the ring would bounce around a lot before settling and usually would just end up on the floor. But that was where Asher's luck might kick in. 

"I can get with that. I haven't played that in a while. I'm surprised an amusement park arcade has one." Cara ran ahead and asked for three bins of ten rings. This would be their gambles for prizes. 

"Think you can share some luck with me?" Jane was trying to act a little more innocent and flashed a bright smile so that she could somehow draw more luck. 

"You know that I can't control it like that but...we can lucky fist bump and hope." Asher shrugged and held out his fist. 

"Hey love bords, hurry up before I win all the tickets from the game." Cara's shout sped them up and they both shot small glares at her. 

"Don't give me those looks. I was the one who got the first round. And you two were having a gross gooey moment." Cara knew they weren't but it was part of her job as the older sister to tease Asher whenever she could. If she didn't she would not be living up to her job. 

"Fine, then watch me win with Ashers' luck." Jane threw three rings in quick succession and watched as they bounced off the glass bottles like crazy. The dull thud as they hit the matted floor was disheartening but Cara followed Janes' action. The two were in furious competition trying to be the first to get a prize. 

"Last one aaaaannnndddddd...nothing!" Cara was defeated but when she looked at Janes' final bouncing ring she saw it slowly land over the neck of a bottle. 

"Congratulations little lady. That is two thousand tickets. Not a bad prize." The staff member handed over the voucher for the two thousand tickets. 

"What if I just throw the whole ten at once and just see how it goes?" Asher wasn't really in the mood to just lean forward and hope for one to hit. This was mostly because of the suspense that came with it. Instead, he held the bucket with all of them and smiles at the girls' confused faces before he chucked the rings out of the bucket all at once. 

The symphony of tinking glasses was much more dramatic than before since Asher had sent all the rings flying at once. It took a solid minute for the sounds to end and everyone to just stand in awe. "How!?" The staff member was completely beside himself. He had never seen something like this before and was stunned. He had worked for the park for seven years on various arcade games and even the Ferris wheel once upon a time. But this year he was on ring toss and could not make heads or tails of the site before him. 

"Of course you randomly throw all ten and land all ten on bottles. Of course…" Cara was holding her head in her hands because she really didn't know what else to say. It was too much and Asher had already shocked the staff member. 

"That's the highest prize anyone had ever gotten on the ring toss. You hit both the challenge bottles, two of the high bottles, and three mystery prizes that are random tickets. The rest were low ticket amounts. You just won two hundred and three thousand tickets! I need to take your picture if you want for the board. Is it alright?" The staff member pointed to the top prize board and showed the row of steadily increasing prize amounts next to winners' pictures. 

"He will do it!" Cara and Jane pushed him in to position and watched as Asher just smiled like a fool. They had not given him a choice and he was not planning to say no anyways. It was a fun little record to brag about if he ever came back again. 

The staff member handed over the voucher for the tickets and Asjer sent a group message to everyone. They were all going to meet at the prize counter to check and see if they were at the winning prize amounts. 

After about ten minutes the rest of them came up and the group took over the ticket counting machines. The vouchers and the tickets added up way more than they thought. "How did you get all that from dancing?" Asher had not expected Louis to rake in the most tickets. 

"Did you not notice that the game gives the winner of dance offs the tickets of both players? I also had a win streak multiplier. I received eight times my tickets when I cashed out." Louis was not at all shy now that he saw how well he had done. It was overall too much. 

"What do we want to do with the extra seventeen thousand tickets? Anyone want snacks?" Laura was the only one focused on food which was pretty normal for her. 

"Sure, You can choose. Just no hot candy." Jackson supported it without a glance he had become a little distracted after fighting zombies for the last hour and a half. 

"Psst, did you beat halfway?" Asher wanted to see if Jackson was so distracted because he had been trying to figure out how to beat the game. It was clear that he had stayed at it for a while. 

"Hmm? Oh yeah, but the final boss is the mid way boss but with triple the health and the ability to summon more enemies. It was insane and after I beat it there was a hidden level that made me turn in to a zombie and try to battle the game back until I became the boss. Now that, was impossible." Asher was just as stunned hearing all of this. Jackson had pulled off a major arcade game feat.