"And welcome, everyone, to the 2nd season of Total Drama Island! In our last show, we pit 22 teens against each other for the promise of a wimpy cash prize and cheap tabloid stardom, and this time, we're doing it all over again. We've got some new campers joining us at Lake Wawanawkwa, new stunts from them to risk life and limb all for your sick twisted enjoyment, all on the shores of our crappy derelict old summer camp. So, kick back, relax, and enjoy the 2nd season of Total Drama Island!"
The first boat pulled in towards the dock, where Chris MacLean awaited. It was time, time for them to arrive. As it reached the end of the dock and the gangplank came down, Chris smiled slightly. He had to go over the top this season to surpass last season's wicked stunts, and he was pretty sure that he had it down. These campers weren't going to know what hit them.
The first camper stepped off the boat, and out stepped a woman. Her brown hair was pulled back in a ponytail, and she was clad in full camo gear. She surveyed the area furtively, her eyes darting back and forth as if she expected someone to jump out at any second.
"Kelly!" Chris called out. "Welcome to Camp Wawanawkwa!" He moved over to her.
"Oh, yes, hello." She replied calmly. "I'm the first to arrive? Good. Hope you don't mind that I only brought one suitcase, I don't carry much."
"Complaining that you only brought one suitcase? First chick I know that's said that." Chris shrugged. As Kelly moved back to the other end of the dock, the second boat immediately followed.
"Hey, welcome to camp, Henry." Chris greeted the next person. Short, tanned, and dressed in a cowboy hat, T-shirt, and jeans, the next camper seemed ready for this show.
"Yeehaw!" Henry cheered and gave Chris a high-five. "This'll be great, ya know. Never had anythin' like this back on the farm." He turned towards Kelly.
"Hey there, hon!" He shouted. Kelly ignored him and looked towards the dock at the next oncoming boat.
"This is Neil." Chris gestured towards the boat, but no camper stepped off.
"Yo!" Chris called into the boat, but again, no camper stepped off. However, a cloud of smoke appeared at the gangplank, causing the host to cough. When the smoke faded, there was a person standing where it was. He was dressed in a top hat and black cape, carrying a toy magic wand.
"Dang, dude, you sure can make an entrance!" Henry shouted.
"A modicum of magic from me to you. Good to be here on the stage." Neil returned, removing his hat and delivering a sweeping bow to Chris and the other two campers. He moved towards the two campers and took out a deck of cards and began to shuffle it. Chris turned his attention towards the next boat to arrive.
"Welcome, Tanya." Chris greeted the new arrival, a short, curly dark haired girl.
"It's great to meet you...ooph!" She turned to greet Chris, but tripped and fell on her face.
"Aww, shucks, hon." Henry turned to help her to her feet.
"Thanks...I'm Tanya, it's so nice to meet you!" Tanya grabbed Henry and kissed him on the cheek.
"Whoa, hon, don't put yer feet on the gas so fast! Scary!" Henry backed away from her, leaving Tanya to sigh sadly.
"Everyone, this is Allison." Chris introduced the next camper, a red-headed girl with a large pair of headphones on her ears.
"Nice phones." Kelly smiled towards her, but Allison made no response.
"Hello! Are you there?" Kelly moved towards her, and heard the faint vestiges of music from Allison's headphones.
"She must be blasting that music." Kelly muttered, then turned towards Allison again. "Hey, there!" She shouted. Allison turned towards her and removed the headphones from her ears.
"What?" She asked.
"Never mind." Kelly turned away and went back to Neil, who started with a card trick.
"Man, that girl is frosty as..." Chris started, but heard the next boat arrive with the next contestant.
"Meet Edward, everyone." From off the boat came a blonde man dressed in white.
"Hello." The next camper responded tersely.
"Nice to meet you." Tanya smiled. "I'm Tanya. Can I call you Eddie?"
"Edward...Eddie...Ed...I don't care." Edward huffed and walked away from everyone else, only glancing at the other campers. Tanya frowned at his cold response, and sat down on the dock.
"Alright, welcome our next two campers, Kenny and Shannon." Chris directed the group's attention towards the next arrivals. The first was a tall dark-haired well-built man in a green tank top and green cargo pants, while the second was a slim girl wearing an orange shirt and black skirt.
"You two arrived together?" Edward asked.
"They're brother and sister." Chris responded. "We changed the rules up a little. Shannon's 14, so she's younger then all of you."
"Kenny!" Shannon grabbed her brother's arm. "This is great! We're going to do so great here!"
"Yeah..." Kenny trailed off and gently pulled his arm free. "Why don't you go introduce yourself? I'll be along shortly."
"No, let's stick together!" Shannon dragged her brother towards the other campers.
"Hi, I'm Shannon, and this is Kenny. I hope we can all get along as we compete!" Shannon cheered, while Kenny remained mute.
"You two joined at the hip?" Neil asked. Kenny shook his head, while Shannon nodded, completely oblivious to her brother's contradictory remark.
"Shannon..." Kenny tried to wrestle his arm free as the next camper arrived to the dock.
"And this lovely lady is Amanda." Chris helped the next camper off of the boat.
"Hey, now that's what I'm talking about!" Kenny smiled. Amanda was a very lovely girl with long strawberry blonde hair.
"Thank you." Amanda spoke quickly to Chris, and moved to the other campers. She stopped to look at Shannon.
"You..." Amanda started to speak, but paused.
"Yes?" Shannon asked.
"You have...great style. I...I love your skirt." Amanda spoke hesitantly, as if she was unsure of which words to use.
"Really? Thanks! But you're so much prettier. Your hair is, like, perfect." Shannon smiled.
"Not really. Not...like yours." Amanda said. Shannon let go of Kenny to speak with Amanda.
"Now I really like this girl. Gotta learn to speak up though. Hope she's on my team." He said under his breath.
"Next up, meet Bobby." Chris introduced the next man, a short man with perfectly pressed clothes and neat appearance.
"Hmph." Bobby completely ignored Chris as he walked down the dock. He first came across Allison, who sighed at him with indifference as she fiddled with her headphones. At this reaction, Bobby scowled and pulled one of the earpads off of her ear.
"Oh please, Pouty McHeadphones. Treat your betters with respect." He let go of the earpad, causing it to smack against Allison's head.
"Oh, so that's what kind of man you are." Allison rolled up her sleeve and started to move in.
"You think you can take me in a fight, little wimpy girl? Try me!" Bobby and Allison were locked in a staring match and seconds away from fighting.
"Easy there!" Chris stated. "The other campers are still showing up. Spread it out for the whole episode, we'll get better ratings. In the meantime, let's meet our next camper. Welcome to the island, Stella." Chris turned towards the next boat, where a girl with long black hair, dressed all in leather, stepped down to the dock.
"Yo." She waved to the host. "Nice to see ya." She grabbed her luggage and threw it to the dock, only keeping one, a guitar case, with her. She strolled past the other campers
"Nice headphones, girl. They give out good bass?" She said to Allison, who smiled only briefly at finding someone like her, before going back to glaring at Bobby.
"Welcome, Daniel." Chris greeted the twelfth camper to join them. Dressed in a pair of bright orange goggles and a white fur hat, a summer camp seemed the last place he would visit.
"Good to be here." Daniel responded, reaching back into the boat to pull out a pair of skis.
"Skis?" Kenny asked. "It's the middle of the summer."
"They're lucky." Daniel returned. "Besides, you can cross-country in the summer. Or we can get really lucky and get a freak blizzard!"
"I like skiing!" Tanya moved towards the newcomer. "Can I help you with those?"
"No thanks, sweetie. I got it." Daniel moved to the end of the dock, with Tanya following him.
"I think she doesn't get that it's supposed to be about keeping a boyfriend." Kenny gave an aside to Edward, who didn't respond.
"Our next contestant is Jessica." Chris introduced a girl who wore an excessive amount of jewelry.
"Ugh, what kind of place IS this!" She complained. "Daddy would never let me stay here! There's...just nothing! Even poor people should have brains enough not to make this crap!"
"Oh, great, a spoiled princess." Kelly moaned to Neil, who shared in her distaste.
"What are all you looking at. You've never seen someone who doesn't share in your squalor?"
"Hey, prima donna!" Bobby shouted. "Why don't you take your fake tan off this island and spare us the trouble later. Even Headphones and Magician over there are better then your noise!"
"How dare you!" Jessica retorted. "Do you know who I am?"
"No, and that's how it's going to stay." Bobby snidely spit in her direction, causing the princess to groan.
"Hey, Chris, bring us the next contestant. Anything's better then her mouth." He ordered the host.
"O...kay. Everyone, meet Martin." Chris directed the group's attention to the newest arrival, a tall, black haired man wearing blue jeans and a white polo. He fingered a crucifix around his neck frequently.
"God gives us this fortunate day. Blessed be." He intoned solemnly.
"A preacher?" Kelly wondered. "I thought they stuck away from those types of people on these kinds of shows."
"I'm okay with 'em." Henry responded.
"As long as he doesn't try to convert me, or think my illusions are witchcraft and heresy or something, I'm fine." Neil finished.
"Hey man, good to meet you." Kenny greeted him. Martin smiled at him, and moved over to join Edward and Allison.
"And our next contestant is Patrick." A young man waled down the gangplan at Chris's introduction. Dressed in a white button up shirt and red cardigan, he seemed just as out of place as Daniel.
"Psyched to be here, Chris." He high-fived the host. "And psyched to meet you all as well." He looked at the other campers, and stopped when he saw Stella tuning her guitar.
"Hey, sweet instrument. You any good?"
"Maybe." Stella brushed him off. "I've got enough skill to whip anyone in Battle of the Bands and be on my way."
"Nice. I sing, so I'm always interested in meeting someone new in the music world."
"I'm sure the holy man would love to hear your preppy choir-singing, but this is rock-and-roll, sweetheart." Stella returned to her guitar, while Patrick, sighing, turned around taking a seat on the dock.
"And next, we have Michelle." Chris introduced the next camper, a trim, beautiful girl with golden hair, and a belly-baring tight violet midriff shirt coupled with light pink hot pants.
"A pleasure, Chris." She traced her finger under his chin. "Mmmm, I do like a man with good introductions."
"Not bad at all, huh?" Chris smiled broadly as she moved towards the campers. She stopped at Martin, and smiled at him.
"You're certainly a charmer. I'll bet the girls just love those deep eyes." Martin started to smile as she played with his hair.
"Must...resist temptations." Martin said aloud while touching his crucifix.
"Oh, gave your heart to God? Well, love thy neighbor, right?" She walked away, and blew a kiss and winked towards Kenny.
"How do you get them to smile like that?" Tanya asked.
"It just happens, sugar. Why, you don't have any luck?" Michelle asked. Tanya shook her head. Michelle sat down beside her and started asking her questions about her technique as the next boat arrived.
"Everyone, meet Diana." The next contestant slid down the gangplank railing. Diana had red hair, a sullen expression, and wore a gray skullcap, an off-white skirt, and a jacket that appeared to have the sleeves cut off.
"So cheap. Where do you shop, Goodwill?" Jessica sneered at the newcomer.
"I clearly have more taste then your bling. And, word to the wise, your mascara makes you look like a drag queen. Oh wait, you are. Sorry." Jessica gasped in shock and revulsion, while the other campers smiled.
"Oh, I hope she's on my team!" Neil smiled. "Hey, there, I'm Neil. I'm looking for an assistant for my magic act." Diana chuckled at his response.
"You're either very direct, or very bad at picking girls up. I'll take a pass, Mr. Wizard, but give me a ticket to the show and I'll clap for you."
"I was just playing around." Neil responded. Diana looked like she was about to say something else before the next camper's boat sounded the horn to signal an arrival. From off the boat descended a man dressed in a flight jacket and crumpled grey fedora.
"All right, Nicolas. Welcome to camp." Chris greeted.
"This is gonna be sweet!" He responded. "Hey there, everyone! Nice to meet you all."
"Shoot, son, it's great to meet'cha!" Henry cheered.
"You...you look great." Amanda said. "That's a...vintage Air Force jacket."
"It is, it's my dad's. Wow, you got a great eye. And a great look too." Nicolas responded, causing Amanda to blush.
The next boat came to the dock swiftly, with the camper sitting on the very top of the boat, clinching onto the guard rail. He seemed garish, with his hair dyed completely silver, and screaming a loud scream of excitement as the boat roared in.
"And that is Jacob." Chris responded. Jacob didn't exit the boat via the gangplank. Instead, he leapt off the boat as it was still moving towards the dock. He lost his footing and crashed straight into a pile of luggage, causing an errant suitcase to strike Jessica from behind.
"Whoops, sorry about that. I got too excited. Too much fun on the roof of that boat, felt really good. Hey, is this the place we're staying at. That's wicked!"
"Well, good to see you made it. Just go over there, okay. Try not to destroy the dock until I get off it." Chris pushed Jacob away from him towards the other campers.
"Sure, no problem. Hey, everyone. I'm Jacob, but just call me Jake." Jake waved at the other campers, who gave a cacophony of responses. However, they were already focused on the next boat, in which heavy footsteps brought down the next camper. Dressed in combat boots and denim, and walking forcefully forward, she definitely seemed like a woman on a mission.
"Linda, good to see you." Chris responded. She glared at that host.
"Yes, indeed. I'm here, and not a minute too soon." Linda responded. "These are the competition? Well, hello everyone. I'm pretty sure the rules allow you to drop out and save me the trouble of beating you, so, feel free, okay."
"Heh. I'll pass on that, hon." Michelle responded. "If you want to win, it's going to be the real way."
"I expected as such. Thought I'd save you the trouble. But I've no qualms about winning the old-fashioned way." Linda smiled.
"Hey, at least she's up front about things." Nicolas mused to Shannon. She nodded.
"I'd take her over that Jessica girl." She admitted.
"Ingrid, welcome to camp." Chris greeted the next camper. Dressed in a black skirt and pink vest, she seemed almost young and girly when compared to the others.
"Hi, there." She waved to Chris and the other campers.
"Hi, I'm Jake. It's nice to meet you." Jake moved forward to shake her hand, but ended up stepping on her foot.
"Oops, sorry." At Jake's clumsiness, Ingrid merely put a large smile on her face.
"Oh, accidents happen. I'm sure you'll be more careful next time." As she moved away from Jake, however, she muttered that he would be the first to go.
"All right campers, please meet our final contestant, Greg." The last boat arrived, depositing this Greg, who had slicked back hair and a perpetual smile.
"Hey, there, Greg's my name. Nice to meet you all. How are ya doing today?" He spoke quickly.
"I'm Linda." Linda answered Greg.
"Linda, eh? Well, it's a pleasure. Gonna have a good time here. Gonna win the prize, of course, but that don't mean we can't be friends. Hey speaking of friends, we had this great old time with a bunch of friends where we snuck into the neighbors barn and tipped his cows. Cows give milk, and it makes me wonder who ever thought to first get milk from cows." Greg's brain raced a mile a minute and jumped from topic to topic near seamlessly.
"Okay, it seems like we've got all of our campers here." Chris spoke loudly to get all of the campers to listen to him.
"Everyone, meet by the campfire pit. I'll explain the rules for anyone who doesn't know, and divide you into your teams."
And the game will soon be afoot. Please, read and review, and let me know what you think of the characters or of the writing. If you are curious, yes, the winner and voting order have already been decided. However, feel free to guess the order in which the campers get voted off.