Again I must apologize for how long its taken me to update this story. But I hope you'll stick around and enjoy reading this chapter and the rest of this story. :)
Chris was in the camera room of the manor with Chef, who was reading the manga that Chelsea found the key in yesterday.
"Last time on Total Drama Rosewood manor, our first challenge began, and with it came the beginning of what's sure to be one of the most dramatic seasons yet! The challenge itself, find the keys that were scattered around the manor. It was neck and neck for the entire time, until Chelsea found the last key and won the challenge for her team in a book that was supposed to belong to this place's original owner." Chris explained, glaring at Chef when he mentioned the book. Chef simply glanced at him and shrugged.
"Anyway, David wound up being the first one to take a ride on the Train of Shame, but is he really out of the game? And who will be the next person to be eliminated? Find out right now on Total Drama Rosewood Manor!"
The day after David's elimination was rather uneventful, Chris didn't have the teams do a challenge and the teens spent the day just hanging out and getting to know each other. Everyone was currently in the dining room having dinner. The sun was beginning to set on the manor, the orange evening sky cascades through the windows of the manor. The food that everyone was eating was much more normal when compared to the asphalt gruel they all had yesterday.
"Hey Chel, you alright?" Clara asked. Chelsea wasn't eating much and she had a frustrated look on her face. She was still annoyed about not losing yesterday.
"Its nothing, I'm just not too hungry." Chelsea replied.
Clara was going to respond but Chris entered the dining room.
"Good evening teams. Hope you're all ready for tonight's challenge!" Chris began. "But before I do, now that a camper has been eliminated, I can explain a new part of the game. Before, if a camper was eliminated, they could never come back." Chris began.
"What about Izzy and Eva?" Kaz interrupted.
"And Courtney." Hester added.
"And Owen."
"And Dakota."
"Heck even last season, Kevin and Sarah came back." Karlene noted
"Alright enough, most of them couldnt come back. But this season, being voted off doesnt mean youre gone for good. After taking the Train of Shame and heading to the Station of Loserdom you have the possibility of finding a Golden train ticket. Finding it will allow one person to go back into the game. But theres a bit of a catch, if you find it then you can either use it on yourself or use it on slmeone else to bring them back!" Chris explained.
"So if David finds it he can just come right back?" Shawn asked.
"Thats right, and there are a total of three tickets at the station so only three of you can come back after elimination. Now to the challenge; you'll need these."
Chris handed the teams two sticky notes that had been written on.
"These are the first clues to the challenge. You'll have to follow the instructions on the note and solve the riddle. But to make things more difficult for you and more hilarious for me, Chef and I have set up traps all around the manor that can separate you from your team. The first team who solves the riddle wins the challenge. Your challenge begins now ans ill he watching your progress from my office. Have fun!" Chris finished, leaving the room.
"So what does it say?" Charlotte asked.
"'Behind the face of a man of history lies your next clue'." Josh read, he and the rest of the Scorpions tried to think of what the clue meant before Toshiko figured it out.
"Face of a man from history... if I'm correct then it should be in a painting or picture."
"We should check the two paintings in the foyer! There are the two big ones there, remember?" Clara noted
Meanwhile, Nanette read her team's clue for the Bats.
"'Follow the somber melody to its source. Then embrace your inner surgeon to find the next clue'."
"Somber melody?" Karlene asked in confusion.
"It's an instrument." Adrian said.
"There's an organ in the foyer." Edward said monotonously.
"Then lets go!" Shawn exclaimed. Both teams hurried over to where they thought the next clue would be.
*confessional*
Chelsea: As much as I want to go home I can't really ditch mt team right now. I don't want to deal with them on my case for not caring about the game.
Josh: After losing yesterday my team and I will have to work double time if we want to win.
Emma: I hope my sister sill be okay, if my team wins again then she might get voted off...
*end confessionals*
The two teams entered the foyer, which now had a new carpet that connected the door that the teens just came out of and the door opposite of it, and the stairs, the Bats turned their attention to the organ piano while the Scorpions went up the stairs to check the paintings above. Once the Scorpions climbed the stairs, the bottom five steps of both stairwells retracted into the walls and revealed a hidden passageway. This all happened completely silently and out of the view of everyone.
The Scorpions looked all around the paintings but they couldnt find anything either on or in the corners of the paintings' frames.
"We checked all around both paintings but theres nothing." Kenji groaned. Toshiko looked at the painting of the man and placed a hand on the glass protecting the image. She traced her hand around the parts of the painting she could reach and stopped suddenly.
Toshiko then lifted the painting slightly and reached underneath it to pull out another sticky note, leabing the rest of her team except for her brother shocked.
"How did you do that?!" Cherry asked.
"I figured that that if the clue wasn't in or on the frame of the paintings, it would be underneath it." Toshiko explained.
"And the hand thing?" Felicity added.
"If the clue was underneath the painting then I would be able to feel around to find the exact spot where the painting would shift slightly in position. I'm an observant person and I notice the little things." Toshiko further explained.
*confessionals*
Charlotte: Ok Toshiko is kind of creeping me out but I guess as long as she isn't hurting anyone then her weird skills could help us win.
Ben: Ok, gotta watch out for that girl, she might find out what I'm planning.
Kenji: Yeah, my sister has a few odd skills but trust me, she means well.
Josh: Ok that was weird... but arent we all?
*end confessionals*
At the same time, the Bats were inspecting the piano, trying to figure out where the clue was. Andrew was checking underneath the instrument, Karlene was checking underneath and around the seat. The others were pondering where the clue could be.
"Its not on the chair." Karlene informed them.
"Or in the piano." Andrew added.
An intruiged look grew on Adrian's face. He sat down and began to press on the several keys of the organ. He eventually pressed a key that was more faint when compared to the with others. Adrian pressed the key again, though with a bit more force. A sticky note flew out of the organ's pipes and was promptly caught by Clara.
Once both teams had their clues and were about to read them, the carpet quickly yanked everyone underneath it and rolled up to trap them. On the floor above where the Scorpions were, the floor beneath a few of them suddenly retracted causing Cherry, Toshiko, and Kenji to fall.
Shawn, Clara, and Nanette had been caught up in the carpets, which were quickly being sucked into the now open staircases. Nanette was the first to be taken by the stairs with Shawn close behind, though he caught the railings and held onto it with his life.
"HELP! THE STAIRCASE IS EATING ME!" He shouted. Kazuki and Adrian went to go help him and were successful. Nanette tried to hold onto something, she ended up grabbing onto what was closest to her at the moment, which was Andrew, causing the boy to fall.
"What are you doing?!" Andrew shrieked.
"Please don't let me go!" Nanette pleaded. The others went to go help Nanette, who was clinging to Andrew's leg.
Growing frustrated with Nanette, Andrew shook Nanette off of his leg and let her get sucked into the stairs, which then closed and the stairs themselves turned back into their original shape.
"Why in the world would you do tha?!" Karlene shouted, half crying.
"Hey, she suddenly grabbed my leg and I panicked ok?!" Andrew replied. "What does the clue say?"
The Scorpions, hearing everything, reminded themselves of their own clue.
"'Look to the sky and seek out the highest point of the manor'. We need to head to the roof." Santiago read for her team as they headed to the upper floors. Adrian read his team's clue.
"'Head to where those who meet their end take their ride to their last destination'."
The Bats pondered of where the next clue would be before Emma figured it out.
"I got it!" She exclaimed. "'Meet their end' as in the end of the game, and 'take their ride to their last destination' as in a train ride to where the Losers go!"
The Bats then hurried off to the manor's train station.
*confessionals*
Karlene: How could he just let Nanette go like that?! Nanette isnt going to like this, she's going to get back at him...
Hester: Hmph, what Andrew did kind of reminds me of what David did yesterday.
Andrew: Hey, she shouldn't have clung on to me like that, if she wanted help she could have just called for it.
Andi: This challenge just started and I'm already getting stressed. There's traps everywhere, and with what just happened, who knows where they are!
Santiago: Man, this challenge is already insane!
*end confessionals*
The six contestants that were caught in the traps ended up in the kitchen closet. They were unharmed but slightly shaken up.
"Is everyone ok?" Shawn asked.
"Yeah."
"I'm ok."
Clara and Cherry responded. Toshiko and Kenji noticed Nanette trying to force open the dlor to the room they were in.
"Nanette, whats wrong?!" Kenji asked.
"Andrew let me get caught in that trap, he didnt even try to help. I swear ill get him back for that!" Nanette hissed.
"Looks like we have our first victims." Chris announced through an intercom in the room.
"Chris, where are we?!" Toshiko asked in an irate tone.
"Calm down, you're in the kitchen closet and youve been taken out of the challenge. The door will remain locked until the end of the challenge." Chris explained.
*confessionals*
Toshiko: I have no reason to worry, I have full faith in my team.
Kenji: Ok, so I got trapped in an empty room. No big deal. Its not like the room is slowly gpinf to close in on us, right? Being the guy I am, I knew the hest thing to do was remain calm.
Nanette: It's one thing to not help, but to push me off and let me get caught?!
Shawn: So it's all up to the others then, no biggie, at least now we can relax at least for now.
*end confessionals*
Kenji was slowly beginning to panic in the room, he was breathing heavily and his left eye was twitching. Clara grabbed Kenji's hands and looked at him right in the eyes.
"Kenji, its ok, just close your eyes, take deep breaths and imagine wide open spaces." Clara said in a soft tone.
"Wide open spaces. Wide open spaces." Kenji repeated as he followed Clara's instructions. Toshiko looked intruiged at how Clara helped her brother.
*confessional*
Clara: What kind of teammate would I be if I just let Kenji panic like that? Besides hes kind of sweet.
*end confessional*
The two teams headed over to where their next clue resided, the Scorpions were heading up the stairs to the roof, the base of the stairs opened up, along with the floors of the floors below it which created a path right to the room the eliminated contestants were.
"So its on the roof?" January asked.
"Yup, not too much longer now, were almost there." Jason answered. The stairs suddenly retracted again, this time turning into a sort of slide that caused January, Charlotte and Josh to fall. Everyone else managed to grab onto either the railing or the leg of one of their teammates. Once the three had fallen to the lower floors the stairs went back to normal.
"Damn it McClean, are you trying to give us heart attack!" Santiago cursed.
The Bats were in the hallway that lead to the train station. There didn't seem to be any traps in the hallway and they arrived at the station without any issue.
"Ok, now we just have to find the clue." Adrian said.
"Lets just get this over with." Andrew groaned, sitting in one of the chairs, Chelsea sat in another chair. "I've got a date with my bed and I'd rather not miss it." The two were suddenly taken by a trap door that appeared from underneath the chairs.
"Figures." Kaz said, laughing a little bit.
"I got it!" Emma called out, finding the clue by the ticket booth.
"Well what does it say?" Karlene asked.
"'Head to the land of knowledge and learning, your reward is the piece which holds the thoughts of the owner'. The land of knowledge... The library!" Emma read. The group ran back to the hallway but stopped when they saw the hall now had pitfall traps in several places, leaving the team to jump to the other end of the hallway.
"Oh of course!" Kaz said, annoyed with what he had to do.
The Scorpions arrived at the roof and faintly saw the clue on top of the flagpole of the manor.
"I got it!" Santiago said, he tried climbing the flagpole but he quickly slipped off. Felicity noticed something odd about the flagpole.
"Wait, instead of trying to climb it, can you try bending the flagpole? Or at least try to push it towards us?" Felicity asked.
"Um, sure?" Santiago replied, not sure why Felicity asked this of him. He grabbed the pole and pulled it downward as much as he could. Jason and Ben helped to pull the pole down enough to where Andi could reach it.
"Ok, the clue says 'Head to the land of knowledge and learning, your reward is the piece which holds the thoughts of the owner'. It sounds like we need to head to the library." Andi read.
"Well come on then! Let's go!" Felicity announced. The Scorpions then raced to the library as fast as they could.
The Bats were still in the pitfall hallway. Everyone was having a bit of difficulty making the jumps, especially Karlene and Emma who were beginning to fall behind.
"Pick up the pace back there!" Kaz called to them.
"Hey, this isnt exactly easy you know!" Karlene replied. The two girls jumped to another platform but sidnt make land correctly, leaving Karlene grabbing on to the ledge of the platform and Emma holding onto Karlene.
"Dont let go!" Emma pleaded.
"Its too late!" Karlene replied, unable to hold on for very long due to the extra weight Emma put on her. The two fell into the darkness below and ended up with the other teens that were taken out of the challenge.
"Girls! Youre ok!" Karlene squealed, giving her best friends a hug.
"So where is everyone headed now?" Cherry asked.
"Our team is going to the library but I don't know about the Scorpions." Emma replied.
"Our team was headed to the roof but I'm not sure where they're headed to now." Charlotte added.
"Lets just hope we get out of here fast." Kenji said.
Both teams entered the library and met up with each other. Kazuki's eyebrow twitched when he noticed that his siblings weren't with the rest if the Scorpions. The teams quickly scattered to find their target.
The library was soon in a frenzy over what the teams needed to look for. The teens looked behind, on top of, ans inside nearly every book they could find.
Emma looked behind one of the bookcases and saw a key. Believing the key to be what they were looking for, she reached for it and managed to grab it. However, once she held it in her hand everything seemes to change. The room was now empty and pure white, the bookcases were now black and completely empty. The windows showed nothing but a pitch black darkness. Until Emma looked closely at it, she slowly walked over to it and saw a white face with pitch black eyes and a wide open grin.
When Emma saw it she seemed to hear it laugh. Her skin became cold and she could feel it crawling. She then felt a hand on her shoulder that snapped her out of her daze.
"Emma, are you ok?" It was Hester. "What are you doing just standing around like this?"
"Uh..." Emma tried to say, she looked back at the window and saw the normal night sky, everything else was back to normal as well. "I thought whatever we were looking for was by the window."
Hester gave her a suspicious look before shrugging off whatever suspicions she had.
"Well if you find it, let us know." Hester said as she left Emma alone. Emma reached into her pocket and found the strange key, nothing happened to Emma this time when she touched it.
*confessional*
Emma: What just happened?!
*end confessional*
Andi looked at one of the bookcases while thinking about the clue.
'Your reward is the piece which holds the thoughts of the owner...' She pondered. She noticed an old notebook with a picture of a rose etched into its spine. Out of curiosity, she took the book out and looked at the cover.
The book's cover was completely blank except for a name on it, Anthony Bartholomew Rosewood.
"And the game is over! Thanks to Andi, the Silver Scorpions win!" Chris announced via intercom.
Once the game had ended, the door keeping the eliminated contestants in the locked room opened allowing them to exit.
"Freedom!" Kenji called out as he bolted out of the room.
Some of the Bats groaned as they now had to send someone home. January gave her friends a concerned look.
The Bronze Bats had taken their places at the Elimination Ceremony. Chris seemed excited to semd someone home.
"Welcome to your first elimination ceremony, I shouldnt have to explain how this works but since its been a while ill say it again. If you get the most votes, you've been voted off and you get to join David in his search for the Golden Ticket. Now go ahead and make your votes." Chris said with his usual grin.
*confessionals*
Nanette: I said that I would get him back for earlier...
Edward: As much as I don't care for the rest of this team, if rather not risk elimination again and to do that we need to vote off the weakest link.
*end confessionals*
"The votes have been tallied, if I call yoir name then youre safe, for now. Tje first marshmallow of the night goes to... Hester."
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"And Chelsea." Chelsea caught her marshmallow but was seething with frustration.
*confessional*
Chelsea: You have got to be KIDDING!
*end confessional*
"Nanette and Andrew, you two were the only ones to receive any votes tonight but only one of you will be leaving. The final marshmallow goes to..."
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"Nanette."
"What! Oh come on!" Andrew said in anger.
"I told you I'd get back at you." Nanette said calmly, she smirked as Andrew went on the train and left.
"Well with all that being said, Bats, youre free to go. With Andrew being the second one voted off, the teams are now even once again. Who will win the next challenge, will anyone find any of the elimination statues? And will David and Andrew find a way back into the game? Find out next time on Total Drama Rosewood Manor!"
Kazuki and Edward went back to their room, they were both silent until Kaz broke the silence.
"Edward, yesterday I said you might be the person I was looking for. Do you know what I meant by that?"
"No, enlighten me." Edward replied in a dark tone.
"In a game like this you need allies, someone that can watch your back. I suggest we form an alliance." Kaz said, offering a handshake.
'If we make an alliance then I can doublecross him when the opportunity arises.' Edward thought to himself. "Deal." He said, shaking Kaz's hand. Kaz himself hid a hand behind his back and crossed his fingers: he was lying.
Meanwhile, Clara and Toshiko were heading back to their room and noticed that there was a rose on the dresser that Clara had her clothes in.
"A rose? Perhaps one of the boys has developed a crush on you?" Toshiko pondered.
"You really think so?" Clara wondered which of the boys it could be.
Andi, was reading the journal that she decided to keep from the library. Chelsea was already fast asleep and Andi herself was beginning to grow tired.
'So this man, Anthony was the one who owns this place, and it was built in 1798.' She thought to herself. She turned the page and saw a picture of a woman that looked very similar to Clara.
'What? Who is this?'
Andi put the picture back into the journal and closed it, she couldn't stay awake for much longer and she knew it.
At about 3 a.m., Andi suddenly stood up in bed, her eyes looked lifeless, as if she was sleepwalking. She walked over to the wall of her room and pressed her hand on a part of the wall that acted like a button, which caused the wall to open and reveal a small entry way that had a ladder that led into the basement.
Andi suddenly awoke, noticing the hidden path. Andi wanted to ignkre it and go back to bed but something seemed to be calling her downstairs. Out of morbid curiosity, Andi went down the ladder and into the basement.
The basement was just as Chris said, a single hallway with various rooms. She tried the door in front of her and it opened. The room itself had a faint glow of light on it. The room was grey and there was a painting of the same woman in the foyer, it was essentially anither hallway.
Andi walked down the hallway, which was completely empty, at some point the hallway became completely blood red and the ground became soft and moist. Andi hesitated but reluctantly continued. Eventually she found something on the ground and picked it up. She gasped and dropped it when she realized that it was a human heart that was in half. Once she dropped it she heard something laugh behind her.
The way she came from was the only way out, so she slowly turned around. The white face that Emma saw earlier charged at her at an intense speed. Andi had no time to react and everything suddenly went dark for her...
Andi then woke up in her bed, Chelsea was still asleep as well. She looked at the hidden part of the room with the ladder and saw the wall slowly go back into place. Andi was too tired to deal with what happened and decided to go back to sleep.
Thanks for reading this chapter. Sorry that it took so long to get it out but now that I'm out for the semester the next chapter will hopefully be out more quickly.