"Welcome campers to Total Drama Island…two!"Chris, our host holds up two fingers. I feel out casted as we all await on the dock for Chris's commands. Everyone has been on this show before, some multiple times. Dakota couldn't come back due to her…conditions, they had to pick another person and that happened to be me. "This year we shall have the Furious Ferrets and the Devious Dingoes!" He introduces the teams. "All of you guys should be aware of how the game is played so I'm not really going to go over it." He looks to Lindsay who looks slightly confused. "Chef and I will be assigning everyone to different teams. Once you know your team, you can battle for beds! Ferrets get Cabin Chef and Dingoes get Cabin Chris, the coolest one." He smirks. "Let's begin!" Everyone seemed to form a line and you can hear Chris telling each member which team they belonged to. I begin to see people running for their cabins and then I look behind me. I'm near the end! I'll never find a good bed in time, is there a possibility I might have to sleep on the floor?! "…Ferret!" Chris points at Harold. Harold cheers silently and grabs his duffel bag to run to the hills for his bed. The person in front of me is next. "Hmmm…Mike, DINGO!" Mike nods and picks up his suitcase and walks casually with Zoey to Dingo. I step forward and Chris rubs his chin. "I've never seen you before…"
"I'm Haven Nichols, the new cast member." I say to remind him. He snaps his fingers.
"Oh yeah…great." He says not enthusiastically. "Well…hmm…Ferret! Sorry, new members can't get the cool cabins." He nudges me. I sigh and pick up my rather heavy suitcase. I begin to walk up the hill towards Cabin Chef. The suitcase handle is cutting off my circulation so I drop it back on the ground just to wheel it.
"Need help?" I look up and it's Alejandro. That's just what I needed. Alejandro, a strong, manipulative player to start off at me for elimination.
"I got this." I begin to drag it through the grass which doesn't work quite as well.
"Seems like you're struggling…" He teases me as he proceeds to follow me.
"I'm fine; it was just cutting off my circulation." I pick it up again and begin to walk faster. "Don't you have to get to your bed?"
"Eh, I can figure it out." Alejandro must be on team Ferret too. "So, what's your name?" He tries to start up another conversation.
"Haven Nichols." I say as I make it up the porch steps. Alejandro skips ahead and holds open the door. "Thanks." I get inside and rest my suitcase down to see that I was right, basically every bed was already taken. In our team we have Duncan, Harold, Alejandro, Cody, Sierra, Courtney, Noah and Geoff. That means Zoey, Mike, Gwen, Beth, Lindsay, Cameron, Scott, Bridgette and Heather are on Team Dingo.
"There is a free spot here." Beth taps the upper bunk to her bed. She must have seen the terror in my eyes. I bring myself and my suitcase over to her, give her a grin and place my suitcase on top bunk to claim.
"Hey, where's my spot?" Duncan drops his duffel army bag. He was the last teammate to come through. Courtney launches off the top bunk of her bed and walks over to him.
"You have to be quick on your feet." She teases him, I see him becoming pink in the cheeks.
"Harold, give me your bed." Duncan distracts himself from Courtney's lust. Harold looks up from his comics and sighs as he gives up his somewhat comfortable bed for the floor. Suddenly, a speaker enters the room and its Chris commanding us to meet outside the cafeteria for our first team challenge. We all walk outside and I try to find a spot to fit in. Luckily, Beth has officially let me become her friend because she takes my wrist and drags me to a good clearing to see.
"Campers, your first challenge is a race!" I hear the groans already. "A partner race." This time, I'm the only one groaning. Chris stares at me with squinting eyes. "Are you done, Haven?" I realize that all eyes are now on me as I'm being recognized as the newbie. I blush and look down at my shoes. Chris clears his throat. "Anyways...you and your partner must race around the island avoiding dangers that Chef and I have prepared just for you! After finding three clues that are scattered around the island, you must take the last clue and swim across to the tugboat we have out. The first one there gets a nice meal for tonight, they will be unable to become eliminated tonight and their team doesn't have to go through elimination!" Who would want to be my partner? I look around frantically when Chris begins again. "Everyone will get an assigned partner." He goes around and begins assigning people partners. Some look fine with the person they get, others look a little pissed.
"Haven I assign you to the very appealing, Noah!" He announces. I look over to see him sitting far off reading a book. Are you kidding me? I walk over to my partner.
"Hey partner. We kind of need to get ready to race around the island so..." He holds up a finger to shush me and flips the page. "Look, it's going to start in a few so could we.." He does it again. I sigh loudly to irritate him on purpose then I sit next to him. He closes the book a moment later and places it in his bag.
"Woo, let's do this." He says sarcastically. I get up and he follows me to the starting line.
"Ready...set...go!" Chris waves a red flag. Everyone starts to run...except Noah. I turn around to see him casually walking towards me. I stop running and stare at him with disbelief.
"Noah! We're losing!" I call over to him. "Come on!" He finally reaches me and stops.
"Racing isn't my thing." He says placing his hands in a folded position.
"Neither is me kicking someone's ass, now let's move!" I slap his arm and start to run again. I look back and Noah is following my lead. He catches up to me and makes it farther ahead than me. He puts his hand in a tree and gets out a piece of paper. I stop to breathe and get myself in control. "How did you find that so fast?"
"I was in the back reading when I notice in the distance Chef hiding the papers. I'm not stupid you know." He rolls his eyes. He begins off again in a completely different direction. I follow him and I start to feel stupid as he keeps finding and figuring out the clues quickly. We have the third one and now it's time to swim. He leaves his bag on the shore and takes off his shirt. He hops and begins to swim like a pro. I meanwhile stay back. I forgot my swimsuit, I can't do this! I don't even like lakes with sharks in them. Noah is now the one shouting for me to hurry. I sigh and get in with all my clothes and I paddle my arms and legs to him. He was a better swimmer (Obviously because he seems to be better at everything currently than I am.)
"There's the boat!" I point it out right in front of us.
"No way." Noah sarcastically comments. We get onto the boat and disappointment hits us. One other partner pair is here. Just when we thought we had won. It was Zoey and Mike.
"Sorry Ferrets." Chris smirks at us. I felt really tired all of a sudden. It just hit me how much running and swimming we did for nothing. Chris gets out the megaphone and announces to the other groups that are beginning to swim that it was all over and that the dingoes have won. "See you Ferrets at elimination." Noah squints his eyes at me.
"What?" I whisper before getting back into the water to swim back with him.
"Now we might be eliminated because we were so close. Great, if I would've known we were going to suck, I would've not have found the last clue so quickly." He complains. I feel disappointed in myself and for my team. If I didn't slow our pair down, we could've won. Now it's time to face my team mates in elimination.