The Lost Chp of The Princess and the Spider
A/N: 'Sup all my Total Drama Fan friends! I know you guys are waiting for the next chps of my Spooktacular and It takes two to tango. For the latter story, I just updated and you guys gave me some really nice reviews, but I'm need to get back to Spooktacular because people have been waiting for an update for it for quite a while. For Spooktacular, I've been mapping out the plot for next chp as well as writing a song for the ending (although that isn't until much later). Anyway, this oneshot is because my good friend Strix Moonwing won my March 14th Pi Day Contest (insert Kermit the Frog flailing around going YAY!). I asked her what she would like for her prize and she said that she'd like to see the return of Spider Duncan and Courtney from her phenomenal fanfic The Princess and the Spider, which is one of the best Total Drama stories on this website in my humble opinion. To be honest, when I first received this request I was a little nervous, just because I realized that I was going to have to work with animals in this oneshot, which I have not done before. I told Strix my concerns, but she reminded me that with nothing ventured, there is nothing gained. So here it is Strixy, and I only hope that it live up to the source material! As for you other readers, it may help to read Strix's story (which is in my favorites if you need a link) and insert this oneshot somewhere in the middle of Chp 20 (Showdown with the Shadow). You'll notice that Strix refers to the idea behind this oneshot at the end of that chapter and most of the animals that the cast will be turning into were the ones SHE originally had in mind (I asked her). So without further ado here we go!
Disclaimer: I don't own Total Drama OR The Princess and the Spider. Wow, I really need to start owning stuff.
Chp 20 ½ : Call of the Wawanakwa
The possessed dolls began advancing towards the terrified campers, with evil glares shining on their button eyes. The Courtney doll approached the Duncan doll and wrapped her small cloth arms seductively around his waist as her own mouth became unstitched. As the string fell from her mouth, she let out a high-pitched giggle that sent shivers down the spines of the entire cast.
Just as the Duncan doll's had the same voice as Duncan, albeit with a darker, crueler tone, Courtney's doll sounded similar to the original, although her voice seemed both shriller and raspier.
The Courtney doll rested her head on the Duncan doll's shoulder and purred, "Daaarrrling, these pathetic humans BORE me so. It would simply be MUCH too easy to devour their souls. Shan't we have a little ENTERTAINMENT before our meal?"
The Duncan doll's button eyes flashed with recognition as he caught on to what his depraved darling was thinking. The doll let out a coarse chuckle as he said, "Ah my pet, you truly are one of the most spiteful, heinous, and malignant minds in all of the underworld."
"Flattery will get you EVERYWHERE," she purred, before let out another shrieking cackle.
The Duncan doll turned to the other dolls and barked, "You heard your mistress! She would like some entertainment before we dine!"
The other demon-possessed dolls weren't smiling anymore and some seemed to be grumbling. They were all for scaring the humans, but they come to EAT, not to play, but then again… such opportunities rarely came up in their line of work. Moreover, there was a legend in the underworld that a soul was much more satisfying if it had been thoroughly entrenched in fear before it was devoured.
All the dolls shot into the air and began to glow a sickly green color. Suddenly, all of the cast-mates except Duncan and Courtney rose into the air as well.
Bridgette cried, "Geoff, what's happening?"
"I don't know Bridge! Just stay calm! No monsters are going to hurt you while I'm around!" shouted Geoff, although he looked equally terrified.
A slightly reassured look appeared on Bridgette's face as she took some solace in what her boyfriend said, but the comfort was short-lived as each of the contestants was coated in a green light that both Duncan and Courtney both registered as very familiar.
Suddenly a series of "poofs" seemed to explode in the air, and the cast-mates shot back down towards the Earth and landed all over the place.
Duncan and Courtney looked on in horror as their friends (and a few enemies) landed on the ground vastly different than when they had left it.
Duncan made his way over of Geoff and shouted, "Geoff? Dude? Are you okay?"
Geoff's eyes fluttered open and he groggily, rubbed his head with three of his arms. Wait… THREE? His eyes shot open as he saw that his "arms" were actually three long pink tentacles, with five others hanging limply at his side to make an even set of eight.
The rest of the cast-mates also seemed to being becoming aware of their new forms, as Geoff heard a scream from his left.
Tyler was looking at where his arms used to be and saw crimson red feathers the same shade of red as his jumpsuit. Instead of hands, he had feathery wings, and when he brought them up to his face, he found a hard yellow beak and a waddle.
Courtney said tentatively, "Tyler, you're a…" but before she could finish her sentence, Tyler began stuttering, "I'm a ch… chi… CHICKEN! AIEEEE!" cried the former jock as he ran around as fast as his drumsticks could carry him, clucking incessantly and molting his feathers quite rapidly.
Courtney remembered that Tyler had said that he had a phobia of chickens in the first season, so she didn't want to imagine what was going through the poor boy's mind now that he WAS the thing he feared.
Geoff felt groggy, but then he remembered something… no… someone telling him that she was afraid… BRIDGETTE! Geoff began to rapidly twist his head around crying, "Bridgette? Bridgey-Bear? Where are you Babe?"
"Under here…" came a muffled reply.
Geoff looked right, then left again, before realizing that the response had come from above, he raised his tentacles and felt that his cowboy hat was still on top of his head. He lifted it off and peered inside to see a starfish with Bridgette's sweet green eyes staring back at him. The starfish was also a sandy shade of yellow that reminded Geoff of Bridgette's soft blonde hair.
"Bridgette? Is that you?"
"I can't tell my arms and legs apart!" the poor girl wailed.
Geoff waved a tentacle before her and said, "I know how you feel."
Duncan looked at the two unsympathetically as he waved his own multiple legs, "Yeah, yeah, join the club Octopus-boy!"
Courtney looked around and said, "Looks like you three were not the only ones who changed either."
The voodoo dolls had mysteriously disappeared into thin air, and besides Tyler, who was still running clucking his head off, Trent also rose from the ground, although he was now a Canadian goose. He flapped his new wings, seeming to get a feel for them before he started twisting his long neck and calling "Gwen? Gwen, where are you?"
"Up here…" came a weak call.
Trent looked up to see a cat black fur and blue stripes that with down the length of her body, clinging tightly to a branch from a nearby tree. She had a tuft of blue hair on her head and Gwen's deep dark eyes.
Without any hesitation, Trent flapped his graceful wings and flew up to the branch. "Climb on," Trent said gently, and Gwen nervously wrapped her front paws around his neck, before he took off and managed to make it down to the ground safely.
Izzy, who had also been in the same tree as Gwen, came scampering down from the branches, but she was now a bright red squirrel. With a chitter she said, "My mom always said that I was a little nuts, but this is ridiculous! By the way, has anyone seen Big O?"
Her head turned as she heard some grunting coming from by the stage. A big pink pig with messy blonde hair was munching on a bunch of mini-hot dogs that had fallen off the refreshment table before this whole mess had happened. The pig raised his head and saw the eyes of more than one of his recently transformed cast-mates staring at him before he said, "What? Inter-species transformation makes me hungry."
"You better MOOOOve over Owen, we've got bigger problems than your appetite," said LeShawna, who made her way over to the others, now with the body a big, brown cow with black spots.
"Fear not fair LeShawna! For I shall break this foul enchantment that turned you into quite a lovely specimen of bovine beauty," cried Harold as he rode on her back like a noble knight on a fine steed. Harold had been transformed into a weasel and was now sporting dark markings around his eyes that looked very similar to his glasses.
"Ugh, stuff it you fur-coat wannabe!" barked Heather, who has been turned into a Doberman Pinscher. Gwen giggled, causing Heather to turn her head and growl, "And what do you find so funny about this?"
A toothy grin spread across Gwen's feline face as she said, "I just find it funny that I've been saying that you were a female dog ever since we met, and now I've finally been proven right!"
Heather looked like she was one second from chasing Gwen back up the tree, when Trent flew between the two of them and said, "We need to see if everyone else is fine… well, relatively speaking."
Trent turned and called, "Anyone else around here?"
From underneath a floorboard, two little gray mice popped up and scurried over to Trent. Both of their ears were black, but they were different in that one was taller and skinnier, while the other was shorter and plumper. They both scampered up to Trent and said, "Here we are Trent!"
The plump mouse turned to the thin one and said, "Omigosh Katie! I was SO scared when those demon-thingies changed everybody…"
"I know! I was totally scared too! That's why I'm SO glad Trent is here! Even as a goose, he's SO strong, brave, and handsome!"
A dark look came over Gwen's face and she hissed, "Back off, before I turn you both into appetizers!"
The two mousy girls squeaked and clung to each other in fear, while Trent shot Gwen a curious look. The black cat down her head and began to fiddle with her whiskers as she murmured, "Um, they were getting on my nerves."
"Pssh whatever, it's not like that that bird-brain is as handsome as me, and I'll even take this look any day compared to having to walk around with Duncan's face, " said Justin as he emerged from the bushes as a beautiful, royal blue peacock.
Katie and Sadie looked at Justin, then Trent, then back to Justin before silently agreeing between themselves and scampering over to Justin, fawning over him just like they had been fawning over Trent just moments ago.
Justin basked in their worship and sighed, "Ah my public, how I have missed you so."
The cast heard some chirping and looked up to see a little brown bird with gliding towards them. The sparrow had feathers on her breast that were an odd shade of green, and a tuft of feathers on her head that stuck out like a side ponytail. Beth landed and hopped over to the rest of the cast and chirped, "I'm here!"
"Is it over?" came a trembling voice from near the bleachers. A long neck, followed by an even taller body came into view as DJ crept towards the others, failing horribly at trying to make his new ostrich body seem as small as possible.
Courtney did a quick head count and said, "Hm, we're only missing Cody, Zeke, Lindsay, Noah, and Eva."
All of the cast-mates then jumped one foot in the air as they heard a blood-curdling scream.
Out from the bushes leaped a young deer with two beavers and a hare on his back. Behind was a black wolf with copper colored eyes. DJ took one look at the wolf before he shrieked and jumped behind LeShawna's cow body for protection. Gwen saw that the young buck happened to have buck teeth and she cried, "Cody?"
Cody turned his head and saw the strange gathering of animals staring at him.
"Guys?" he called, still not slowing down, which turned out not to be such a good idea as he soon realized when he slammed headfirst into the stage.
Cody collapsed and seemed to be dazed, while the animals on his back rolled, seemingly disoriented by the impact as well.
The contestants suddenly heard a gruff voice, "I told that loser to slow down, but it's not like anybody listens to me anyway."
Duncan raised an eyebrow as he turned to the black wolf and asked, "Eva? Is that you?"
"What was your first clue genius?" Eva spat as she laid down on the floor.
Out of the animals that had been riding Cody, the hare was the first to rise.
She had sunny, yellow fur and a bright blue bandana tied around her head, pulling her ears back so that they resemble tresses on golden hair. She took a quick look around and saw all the other animals staring at her, then said in a groggy voice, "Daddy, why are we at the zoo?"
Despite still being in a foul mood after having become a fowl, Tyler pushed through the others and made his way towards the hare. He stared at her large blue eyes and asked in a weak voice, "Lindsay, is that you?"
Lindsay's long ears perked up slightly in recognition of her name. She turned to Tyler and said, "T… T…"
Tyler nodded his head excitedly and said, "Yes Lindsay! It's me, it's T…"
"TALKING CHICKENS? Wow! This is one great zoo!"
All the excitement faded from Tyler's face, as Lindsay continued to stare at him with a blissfully naïve expression on her face. The blonde bunny continued, "By the way, Mr. Chicken, have you seen my boyfriend Tyler?"
The blankness from Tyler's face began to be replaced with rage and it look like the young rooster would let loose a stream of curses that would even make a sailor blush, but once again he was cut off by Lindsay who said, "I really hope he's alright. I miss him so badly."
Upon hearing this Tyler froze, then downed his head with a rather defeated look upon his face, his eyes rose to meet those of the beautiful hare and he said in a sad voice, "Yeah, I saw him a little while ago… he… he told me to watch over you until he got back."
"Really? That was so sweet of him! I hope he comes back really soon!"
"Yeah, me too Linds… Me too."
Tyler turned and made his way back to the rest of the cast with Lindsay happily bouncing behind him.
Cody also rose to his feet, although quite shakily, in a way that Courtney thought kind of reminded her of Bambi.
Cody made his way of to the others and whispered, "Is that bloodthirsty beast still chasing us?"
Duncan cocked an eyebrow and said, "Relax, it was only Eva."
"Eva! That makes it worst! She would probably scare normal wolves!"
"Hey, I heard that!" Eva growled from where she was laying, causing Cody to let out a tiny shriek before jumping for protection behind LeShawna.
Finally, the two beavers rose to their feet, but when the cast got a good look at both of them, they saw that one of them wasn't a beaver at all.
The first beaver to approach the others was Ezekiel, who ran up to the others crying, "Guys! I think the demons really messed up Noah, eh! They turned us all into animals, but they turned him into some type of weird mutant beast!"
"For that last time…" Noah cried in an exasperated tone as he finally approached the others, "I'm not a mutant beaver! I'm a platypus!"
"Bless you," said Ezekiel, none the wiser.
"That's not a sneeze you moron! I'm a duck-billed platypus!"
"Oh, so you're a freaky bird then!"
"I'm not a bird, I'm a mammal!"
"So you don't lay eggs?"
"Well technically platypuses can lay eggs…"
"So, you are a bird then! Though you look kind of chubby to be a bird, eh."
Ezekiel turned to the others and said, "Poor fella, those demon things probably scrambled up his brains."
"For the last time, I am NOT a bird!" Noah cried in a huff, and then murmured under his breath, "And I'm not chubby either," though as he said this, he self-consciously sucked in his little platypus belly.
"Bout time you maggots managed to herd yourselves together! You'd think you were all newbies like back in Season 1!" called out Chef's voice.
All of the transformed teens looked around, trying to find the large, angry black man, but to their surprise, they heard his voice say, "Down here!"
The cast looked down and before them stood a rather muscular, dark grey rat staring up at them. Courtney asked, "Chef? They got you too?"
"Yep, just like back in the Amazon. They managed to pull a little voodoo on Chris too," said Chef, before he reached behind him and yanked a large squirming leech with sharp teeth off of his back.
The cast let out a collective, "Ewww…" before the leech turned his head to face them and said, "What? As if you guys look better!"
The cast saw that the leech had long dark hair and familiar beady little eyes. Duncan eyes flashed with recognition before he asked with a chuckle, "Chris, is that you? Hehe, geez, it couldn't have happened to a better guy."
"Can it delinquent," the wriggling host shot back, "before I have Chef latch me onto you and I drain your bodily fluids."
Duncan slightly retched in mouth at the mental image, while Courtney turned to Chef and asked, "Chef, you have the most experience out of all of us with the occult. The demons said the wanted 'entertainment' before everyone, but then they disappeared. Why would they do that?"
Chef looked grave as he answered, "Demons are considered the predators of the underworld. They would gladly rip a human soul to shreds, but sometimes if they have enough power, they like to 'play' with their food before they eat."
Courtney's voice took on a shaky quality as she asked, "What you mean 'play'?"
A dark, familiar voice responded, "The large vermin is referring to the exquisite joy… of the HUNT!"
A dark cloud formed over the cast and the voodoo dolls from before fell down from its depths, like droplets of rain.
As the dolls hit the ground, they fell on their sides, completely limp and their stitched mouths ripped open.
Courtney looked at the dolls, but then a shrill voice called out, "Those pathetic vessels are no longer of use to us."
Courtney looked up and saw the voices were coming from the dark cloud itself. The deeper of the two voices from the cloud said, "The transformation curse we placed on your pathetic friends cost us a lot of energy and a bit of time, but it was well worth it to get these."
From out of the cloud, two shapes began to take form, one was looked like the upper torso of a boy, but with six arms, while the other looked like a girl, but her hair was whipping back and forth like a bunch of hissing serpents.
Duncan and Courtney looked on in horror as they both recognized that, despite the obvious difference, these two figures greatly resembled themselves, where the six-armed shadow boy had a smokey Mohawk and the girl with the whipping hair had a bunch of freckles on her nose.
Courtney tried to stay brave, but every fiber of her spider body was screaming for her run in the opposite direction from these monstrosities. She suddenly felt a warmth on her shoulder and turned to she Duncan standing right beside, giving her a tender, comforting look before he turned to face the demons.
He said in a defiant tone, "You guys were those dolls that looked like us before? Why the sudden change? Did you want to see if you could get any uglier?"
The teen demons smirked and each placed a hand on their chests, and then slowly withdrew them. As the hands got farther away from the demons' chests, a bright light seem to emerge from within them.
The male demon looked down at Duncan and said, "Foolish arachnid! These lights represent what you and your friends have lost. Your human essence! Unlike the soul, which is the core of one's being, the human essence is linked to the body. If a demon manages to take the human essence from a victim, said victim is reduced to the form of an animal, while the demon no longer needs a pathetic vessel like those wretched dolls. With your human essence, we can create lovely bodies," the demon purred the final point as he wrapped one of his many arms around his partner.
The demoness flirtatiously cackled, then continued, "Not only can we create bodies from your human essence, but we can also use these new forms to have some… fun. I do believe after we have hunted you all down, we will transform ourselves into your duplicates and return to have some MORE fun with your families."
"No!" shrieked DJ, who was still cowering behind LeShawna, "I beg you, please don't hurt my momma!"
The demons merely chuckled at DJ's desperate plea and said, "You should be more concerned about you and your friends right now."
With that being said, more shadowy figures began emerging from the cloud until it was gone, and there were twenty-four shadowy figures standing before the cast. One for each transformed member of the cast.
The leader demon looked at the trembling herd of animals before him and said with a smirk, "Any last words?"
Duncan stepped forward. He had never been one who was good with words, but he felt emboldened. He was ready to stand up to these freaks and give a heartfelt speech of the strength of the cast and how despite their slim odds, they would cling to whatever forlorn hope they had.
However, just as Duncan was about to open his mouth Noah shrieked, "EVERY MAMMAL FOR THEMSELVES!"
With that being said, the terrified assortment of animals fled into the nearby woods, desperate to put as much distance between them and the demons as possible.
Duncan and Courtney were left alone in front of the demons for an awkward moment that seemed to last an eternity, before Duncan muttered, "Ah, to heck with it," before he grabbed Courtney's front spider leg and the two scampered away as fast as their limbs could carry them.
The leader demon looked to the others and said, "Let's give them five minutes. I wouldn't want this to be TOO easy."
END OF PART 1
A/N: For those of you who had a difficult time remembering who turned into which animal, here's a helpful list below the A/N to keep things organized. This was supposed to be a one-shot, but I thought I'd see if you guys would like where I'm going with this so far. Remember, none of this will make sense unless you have read Strix Moonwing's The Princess and the Spider. Part two will be the final part of this little number and there will be more surprises and hilarity to come! Remember, I like writing stories for YOU my lovely readers, so just like this oneshot was suggested to me by a friend, if you ever have a suggestion I'd love to hear it and even if I choose not to write about it, I'm still glad you shared your thoughts with me.
Beth = sparrow
Bridgette = starfish
Cody = deer
Courtney = spider
DJ = ostrich
Duncan = spider
Eva = wolf
Zeke = beaver
Geoff = pink octopus
Gwen = cat
Harold = weasel
Heather = doberman
Izzy = red squirrel
Justin = peacock
Katie = mouse
LeShawna = cow
Lindsay = hare
Noah = platypus
Owen = pig
Sadie = mouse
Trent = goose
Tyler = rooster
Chef = rat
Chris = leech