Disclaimer: I do not own Total Drama Island or any of its characters.
Warning: The following chapter contains: Explicit Language, Explicit Sexual References, Adult Themes, Drug Use, and Violence.
You have been warned!
"Good Morning Campers! It's Frederick of course, Welcome to the Jungle, it's going get a whole lot worse before it gets better. No breakfast for you this morning, Chris has a special surprise waiting for you all down on the beach. So head over there, NOW!" [1]
"I'm really starting to hate that guy." Oz commented as she arose from her bunk. The others slowly began to wake up with the exception of Aquila who was already awake reading a book.
As Oz descended down from her bunk, Lizzie getting up from the bunk under her grabbed Oz's dangling ankle and pulled her forward flying onto the floor below with a thud. "Not as much as I hate you." Lizzie spoke to her before Lizzie stood up and stepped over Oz out of the cabin.
Charlotte reached down and helped pull Oz up off the ground. "Does that girl ever have a good day?" Charlotte wondered out loud.
"I think she's always having a good day. I'm starting to be convinced she takes pleasure in other people's pain and misfortune." Bambi commented as she started to throw on a shirt.
Dani thought for a second. "So would that make her a Sadomasochist?"
"No, Schadenfreude is taking pleasure in other peoples misfortune. Sadomasochist is someone who enjoys pain." Frederick corrected her.
"Oh, thanks Frederick." Dani said.
At that moment Bambi froze putting on her shirt, now only half way on. "Wait, Frederick are you watching us?"
"That would be my job, yes. Don't worry, it's not like I'm making bootleg recordings of all the moments you are naked or in otherwise compromising situations."
Putting down her book Aquila just shook her head, "Well that sure is comforting." She remarked sarcastically. Getting up Aquila then followed along with all the other females out of their cabin and down towards the beach. They were quickly met with the guys who were slowly exiting their cabin together.
"I'm fucking starving, Chris had better have a good excuse for us missing breakfast." Ethan complained as the whole group started down the wooden stairs towards the beach. When they reached the bottom of the stairs they saw Chris standing out at the dock next to an old scruffy looking motor boat.
"Welcome contestants, glad you could all make it in good time." Chris said greeting them with a smile.
Dani leaned over to Aquila and whispered. "That smile means bad things are coming."
"Yeah well it's not like we were given a fucking choice." Oz said rolling her eyes.
Chris like always simply shrugged off Oz's comment. "Since we've had four elimination challenges in a row, I thought it was about time to give you all the day off." Grins grew on the campers faces. "And take you on an educational tour of the laurentians." Everyone simultaneously gave out a sigh of disappointment. "Plus if we devote at least one episode to educational purposes we get a ton of government education grants. So all of you get on is boat and we can begin our tour."
Doug Confessional: "A boat trip through the laurentians? Seems like as good of a time as ever." Doug opened up a small baggy and ate the contents.
Home Base
Zakk shot up and out of bed. He looked around his trailer to see that Frederick was already up. Expecting to be woken up early by Chris to set up the challenge, Zakk was surprised to see the sun already out. Stumbling he made his way to the door. He flung the trailer door open only to have the sun beam down blinding him, making him stumble and crash down onto the ground below. Once he finally regained his vision Zakk looked up to see Frederick and Lily sitting on lawn chairs a few feet away. "Yo what's going on? Where is Chris?"
"Chris is with the contestants taking them on a boat ride for some reason. Something about enacting revenge. I dunno, all I know is he gave us the day off." Lily explained to him.
Getting off the ground Zakk grabbed a chair and joined the others, "Cool."
Resort
Gabby woke up and was surprised to find herself lying on the sunken couch and not her bunk back at camp. It took a second but quickly everything came back to her, where she was, that she had left the night before. She sat up and looked around, from the big windows in the front of the building she could see right down to the water and the mountains off in the distance. It was a spectacular view. The sun provided most of the natural lighting of the inside. Gabby then noticed a key pad on the nearest wall which had a note next to it saying "Push Me". She walked over and gave it a quick inspection before pressing the red button.
"Welcome to the new Playa del Losers." A voice said through the speakers of the intercom.
Gabby recognized the voice. "Frederick? Is that you?"
"You're right, it is I Frederick. This is a recorded message. And in case you were wondering, yes you are that predictable. This new Playa del Losers has a boating/swimming dock, pool, Jacuzzi, sauna, arcade, gym, fully stocked fridge, open bar, everything you need to distract yourself from the horribly crippling depression knowing you failed miserably in your quest for greatness. The best feature though is the mini theatre, where you can tune in an watch your fellow campers try to stay alive in the game as it happens." [2]
Walking out of the main room, Gabby found a set of stairs down. The stairs lead down to the basement where she found the gym and arcade but most importantly the theatre. It was a windowless room with a huge screen on one side. There were about a dozen chairs all at the back of the room. She walked over and turned on the screen.
"You'll be able to switch between over two hundred live feeds from cameras all over the campsite and island."
Letting out a sigh, Gabby picked up what looked to be the remote. She began to switch between the different feeds but noticed emptiness to the campsite. "Where is everyone?"
Somewhere Far From Camp
The others all sat on the boat in their misery listening to Chris ramble. The only thing they had to enjoy was the beautiful scenery they continued to pass by. "The Laurentian Mountain range is one of the oldest in the world. It contains rocks deposited before the Cambrian Period 540 millions years ago." Chris went on about reading from a piece of paper, nobody really paying all that much attention.
"Are you just reading the wikipedia page or something Chris? I mean there's got to be something interesting about this place." Lizzie groaned. She looked over to see Oz leaning her head against Eddy's shoulder, which made Lizzie just roll her eyes. [3]
"You want interesting huh?" Chris asked. He then gave a quick survey of the area. "This seems like a good spot." He said to himself. Chris then reached over and shut off the motor, more so than that he made sure to rip the cord right off the engine.
The others watched on with shock and confusion. "What the hell are you doing Chris? You're going to strand us here." Alexei questioned.
The smirk on Chris grew even bigger. "That's the point!" Just then a jet ski drove right up the boat. Chris reached down and picked up a cement block from the boat. "This whole tour thing? Yeah I lied, welcome to your next challenge!" Chris then dropped the cement block down onto the boat, with everyone watching not thinking to do anything to stop him. The cement block smashed right through the bottom of the boat making it begin to sink immediately. At that moment Chris jumped onto the jet ski. "First team to build a raft and make it back to camp wins, loser sends someone home!" The jet ski began to drive away, "Nobody fucks with Chris Mclean you hear me! Nobody!" Chris yelled at them as he was driven off.
"Well this sucks." Kyle pointed out as the boat quickly sank and everyone had to swim to the nearest coastline.
Home Base
"Pull!" Zakk called out. Sitting about twenty meters away Frederick tossed a clay plate through the air. Zakk shot at the plate with a paintball gun. It took about three shots to finally hit it. The plate shattered on impact. "God, these are some cheap ass plates." Zakk muttered.
Out of one of the trailers came Lily who was surprised to see Zakk and Frederick in the midst of their makeshift skeet shooting. "Well I found the beer." Lily told the others holding up a six pack in one arm. "Where'd you find the paintball gun?"
"In the inventory locker, there's about a dozen in there, probably for a challenge soon." Frederick explained.
Lily walked right up to Zakk, "Mind if I have a go?" Zakk handed her the gun and grabbed the beer. Lily brought the paintball gun right up to her chest. "Pull!" she directed to Frederick. A plate was sent flying in the air. Lily shattered it immediately with one shot.
The two guys were impressed. "Nice shot!" Zakk complimented her as he took a seat on one of the lawn chairs by Frederick, cracking open one of the beers. He then tossed the pack to Frederick who stumbled for a second nearly dropping them.
"Thanks, my father is an active skeet shooter. He's taken me out to the range more than a couple times. Let's go for two this time." She ordered Frederick who nodded. "Pull!" Fredrick tossed two plates into the air and just as they left his hand Lily was about shoot them, shattering them into pieces.
The sound of movement came from behind Lily, they all turned to see Chris make his way into the camp. "You realize those are the only things we have to eat on for a couple weeks." To which the three teens let out a collective shrug. Chris grabbed a lawn chair and took a seat with the other two guys. He then snatched the beer from Frederick. "I'll be having one of those."
"So uh, Chris? Where are the campers?" Lily asked.
A smug smile entered Chris' lips. "They're ship wrecked somewhere far from here, and have to make a raft back here without any tools. So they'll be occupied for next few hours."
Frederick scratched the back of his head, "Wait, wouldn't they just be able to easily build a raft out of their lifejackets to get back here?"
Kicking back, Chris put his hands behind his head, leaned back and closed his eyes. "They didn't have lifejackets."
There was a pause of silence as Frederick stared at Chris in disbelieve and anger. "Uh, Chris you realize that taking a boat full of teens into the far ends of the lake without giving them lifejackets is incredibly illegal. Added to the fact that you purposely ship wrecked them, putting them in a life threatening situation. They could sue the show like crazy."
All the smugness immediately escaped from Chris who sat right back up. "Shit."
Middle of Nowhere
"Okay so it's decided, when we get back, we all sue Chris and the show like crazy, for putting our lives in direct risk." Lizzie spoke to the whole group which gave a collective nod. "Well I guess we better start this challenge."
The teens then separated into their two teams. They moved to the far ends of the rocky beach they now occupied. Team Blue all knelt down in a circle. "Alright, we need a plan." Kyle told his group. He then paused waiting to be cut off. A few awkward moments passed as everyone stared at Kyle waiting for him to finish. "Okay, well, this is different, alright, has anyone built a raft before?"
"I have," Aquila spoke up. "It will be hard without tools, but we can make it work. First we need all available logs, and then tie them together with twigs."
The plan was simple enough for others. "Guys grab logs, girls grab twigs then?" Ethan suggested.
Charlotte rolled her eyes, "In your dreams," As she got up she used her force to push Ethan back onto is ass. "I'll grab some logs." With that she walked to the tree line a few meters away. The next to get up was Aquila, once she was standing she cracked her neck then went to join Charlotte.
As Ethan got up, Kyle placed his hand on his shoulder. "Smooth." Was all Kyle said. Ethan immediately swatted Kyle's hand off. Ethan marched into the woods but well away from the other females.
Team Red was much slower to form up and form any kind of plan. Right before they formed up Doug grabbed Alexei and pulled him aside. "What is it Doug?" Alexei asked.
"I'm going to be completely honest with you Lex." Doug spoke quietly. "Thinking like everyone else that this was going to simply be relaxing tour through the lake. I may of, taken some hallucinogenic substance." Alexei immediately face palmed. "Luckily, though, I don't think the shrooms have kicked in yet." Doug then reached over with his hand to pat his friend on the back.
Halfway through Doug immediately stopped, Alexei just stood there as Doug wide eyed stared at his own arm with amazement. "Aw shit." Alexei swore to himself.
Alexi walked over and joined the rest of the group. "Okay, listen up." Lizzie spoke to the others immediately taking control of the group. "I want to hear people's strengths in this situation."
"I'm good at wood working," Ataksa told them. "But I don't know how good I'll be without any tools."
Earl surveyed their surroundings. "Ataksa will probably be better at building the boat, but I think I can pull off some kind of log rolling system to help get logs from the forest to the beach easier and faster."
Looking at the others Alexei just shrugged. "I'm the biggest one here."
"We'll need to tie the logs together right?" Bambi asked Ataksa who nodded. "I'm pretty good with rope and knots."
Rin tried to think of someway she could be useful. "I can go and salvage stuff from the woods."
"Alright sounds good." Lizzie said to everyone. "Ataksa and Bambi will build the boat, while Rin and Alexei will get us logs and twigs and stuff, and Earl will build one of his contraptions that doesn't involve getting us home." Lizzie then wondered for a second. "Wait, where's Doug?" They all turned and saw Doug lying on the beach looking up at the sky laughing himself silly. "What the fuck is he doing?"
Alexei shook his head. "Yeah about that, Doug mistakenly took some shrooms before the boat ride, so he is kind of out of commission for this challenge."
It did not seem to mind Lizzie though, "Well, at least we lose this challenge we all know who we'll be voting out." With that the group split up, Alexei paused before entering the forest, he looked over to his friend. Doug was still lying there seemingly having a great time. With a sigh Alexei went to find some logs.
Resort
"God damn it!" Gabby yelled at the top of her lungs. She was upstairs storming around the sunken couch. It had finally happened, it had fully sunken in that she was out of the competition and was currently having a meltdown. With her fists fully clenched she began to punch the cushions as hard as she could. It all seemed like a bad dream. Everything was going so well and then she got eliminated out of nowhere. She was feeling so empty, she could really use some cheering up and yet here she was alone.
Stumbling she walked over to her bags, which were still lying on the floor just inside the door. She reached over and grabbed inside to find a pack of cigarettes. When she found one she placed the smoke in her mouth. It took a second for her to find her lighter. The first few puffs were soothing, but then she was interrupted.
"Smoke detected. This is a no smoking building. Please smoke outside." Frederick's automated voice called out on the intercom. Gabby sighed, she opened the front door a tossed her cigarette. She then walked over to the key pad, she examined it for a second before punching it with all her might. She then grabbed the smashed machinery, ripped it off and threw it across the room. From there she walked over to the sunken couch where she jumped down onto. She placed her head in her hands and tried to hold back the tears.
Middle of Nowhere
Ethan was reaching down and picking up twigs. "Hey what are you up to?" A voice called out from behind him. He turned around to see Oz standing over him carrying a log in on arm.
"Gathering twigs, figured someone should grab some." Ethan scoffed at her. Once he was finished he turned and began to walk back towards the beach.
Oz watched him go for a second before hurrying up and following close behind him. "I just wanted to say that you should watch what you say. You're one of the few people I consider a friend on our team. If you keep saying dumb things like that you're more than likely going to be eliminated, which is really going to help me in the long run." Oz said to him sarcastically.
Still not in a good Ethan stopped turned and looked right at Oz. "You're not my friend."
Surprised by Ethan's comment Oz just shrugged it off. "Fine." She then walked right past him and kept moving towards the beach. Ethan let out a sigh, knowing he had to stop making people hate him. He turned and hurried to catch up to her.
"Hey I'm sorry okay; I'm just in a bad mood. And I don't hate women okay?" Ethan tried to explain to her.
"You could have fooled me." Oz replied as they finally made it back to the beach. There they saw Aquila and Dani starting to make progress on building the raft. Kyle and Charlotte were still out collecting logs. Standing off to the side looking up at the sky was Eddy.
Aquila stared at Eddy for a few moments before turning to Dani. "What is he doing?"
All of a sudden a single engine plane flew over their location. Everyone stared up at the sky and watched it pass. When it was directly over them a bag was thrown out. Eddy reached into his pocket grabbed a cigarette and placed it in his mouth. He stuck a match on his pants and lit it. He took one puff then stretched out a hand and caught the falling bag. He then tossed the bag to Dani and Aquila. Inside was a number of different tools and plenty of rope.
"I've got to admit." Dani said. "I like having the guy with the superpower on our team."
Things were not going as smoothly on the other side of the beach. Ataksa, Bambi, and Lizzie were hard at work trying to tie the logs together with twigs. Not that far over at the tree line Earl had just finished constructing his log rolling system. He began push logs down towards the beach. Alexei walked up and took a second to observe Earl's system of having smaller logs used to roll bigger ones.
Earl saw Alexei and decided to take advantage of the situation. "Hey Lex? You seem good with the ladies. Could you give me any advice on this whole Rin situation?"
"You might want to ask someone else, I'm not as great with the ladies as I may seem. I'm sure one of the other guys here is probably a better choice." Alexei tried to explain to him. Earl just gave Alexei a glare, which made Alexei think for a second. "Nope, you're right, there is no one better. I am your best bet." Alexei then tried to come up with some advice. "All I'd say is give her some space. Don't rush into anything. I think at this point if she wants to pursue anything, she's got to be the one to initiate it."
Satisfied with the advice Earl nodded, "Thanks man."
Back over on the beach, Rin made her way from the forest over to those working on the raft. "I've got more twigs and found some rocks with sharp edges like you asked." Rin informed them. Lizzie was quick to grab one of the rocks.
"Good, now we can start hacking away at these annoying branches." Lizzie said with satisfaction. She began chopping the branches off the logs, it was not an easy feat and needed a lot of force. With one wrong slash Lizzie's hand grazed a sharp edge of a log and cut open the back of her hand. "Damn it!" she shrieked in pain.
Everyone stopped what they were doing and watched her. Lizzie was forced to rip the bottom section of her shirt off and use it to cover the wound. Everyone went silent and all you heard was the continuous laughter coming from Doug lying on the beach staring up at the clouds. "That's it! I'm going to give that freeloading bastard a piece of my mind!" She yelled out heading straight for Doug.
On her way over she was stopped by Alexei who ran into her way. "I wouldn't do that. Doug is clearly having a 'good trip' right now. If his situation changes drastically, such as being yelled at, he might to start having a 'bad trip'. Do you want him to start freaking out and us having to sacrifice some of our workers to keeping him calm?"
While she was still angry, Lizzie understood his point, but knew she could still gain from the situation. "Fine, I won't make you friend start 'bad tripping' on the condition that you and snow queen over there agree to vote him off. I want to know you're willing to put the team ahead of personal conviction. If we lose today, it'd better be unanimous or you're next." With that she turned and headed back to the raft. Alexei just could not believe his luck.
Home Base
"If I had won the money?" Zakk repeated the question that was given to him. He, Frederick, Chris, and Lily had moved their lawn chairs down to the beach awaiting the teams to return. "Fuck I don't know, bought myself a sweet guitar. Throw a big ass party, invite all my friends from Georgia and Illinois, fly them out to NYC for the night. Other than that, just used it to play for college and rent, it's expensive to live in New York man. I don't want to be homeless, I've experienced not having a home and needing to live with friends, it fucking sucked. What about you Lily?"
Lily thought for a second sipping her beer. "I don't know, I never thought that far. It was all about winning the money for me more than actually getting the money. All my family have acquired all sums of money, this was sort of my chance."
"And you totally blew it." Zakk said with a chuckle.
To which Lily just shrugged, "At least I'll be going back to my family's Italian Villa without the money. Sure beats going back to New York to a shitty one bedroom apartment struggling to pay rent."
"Touche," Zakk responded, accepting defeat. "If you already had money though, then why are you even in this contest? I think if you're already rich why try to take the money from people who actually need it? I mean Chris, why do you accept rich people into this contest? Seems a little unfair."
Chris chuckled to himself. "Fairness plays no role in the selection process. You're all here representing a demographic for kids to relate to, so the goth, skater, rich spoiled brat, and other kids all have someone to cheer for. You're auditions all went through rigorous test screenings and board meetings in which every flaw was scrutinized. If you witnessed even five minutes of the process, you'd have been brought to tears, and you're the ones who were selected."
The others were intrigued, "I never would have guessed it was so impersonal." Lily found surprising. "So it was never about whether we were good enough for the show, just had the largest appeal as decided on by a test group?"
To which Chris nodded, "Zakk's was here for the southerners, metal heads, broken homers. Frederick was here for the African-Americans, impoverished inner city kids, nerds. Lily you were here for Europeans, Italian-Americans, kids belonging in high society. I could go on."
"We get the picture." Zakk said. "So Frederick, what would you have done with the money?"
"I'd have moved my family out of the ghetto." Frederick was quick to respond, "I'm not too heart broken over losing the money. I'll eventually move my family out of the ghetto, I mean I've got full academic scholarship to some nice universities. It would just have been nice to get them out of there sooner, also help some of my street friends stay out of gangs and drugs."
Frederick's answer was not what the others were expecting. "That's very noble of you." Chris pointed out. "What do you plan on studying?"
Frederick let out a little chuckle. "I'm going into economics, become a banker and make millions stealing money off Wall Street." The others looked at each other and nodded with agreement about the truth of Frederick's plan.
Resort
Gabby was down in the arcade. It was large open room with a bunch of old arcade machines lining the side wall. There was a pool table, foosball table, and a ping-pong table. Gabby was standing at the ping-pong table ready to serve. She threw the ball up and smashed it down at the other end. The ball then simply bounced off and onto the ground from the lack of an opponent. "Okay, this is just dumb." Gabby said to herself. She dropped the paddle to the floor and proceeded to exit the room.
From there she looked over and saw the theatre. She thought for a second about going and seeing if she could see what was going on. But she decided she really did not want to know. It was hard enough remembering her own elimination, the last thing she wanted to see was someone else go through it. Instead she walked back up the stairs and out to the front of the resort. She looked at the pool and thought how dumb it was to have a pool when there was a swimming dock just down the hill at the water.
She walked over to the small diving board by the deep end. She stepped onto it and walked to the edge. She then sat down having her feet graze the top of the water. She then lied back looking up at the sky, wondering if someone else was watching it too.
Middle of Nowhere
Doug had the biggest smile on his face as he stared up at the sky, the sun was starting to set and the colours were magnificent. Slowly the magic mushrooms were beginning to wear off. The rest of his team were not as happy. They were still struggling to get their raft together. With the help of Earl's log moving system, they had plenty of materials; they were just still struggling to get them together.
On the other side of the beach, Team Blue was pushing their completed raft into the water. With the help of Eddy's tools they were able to complete their raft much sooner. The whole team gave on final push and the raft made its way onto the water. Charlotte immediately jumped onto the raft. "Alright! Let's go!" She called out going to the far side of the raft pointing forward. "Onward!"
"One second." Kyle said grabbing the bag of tools while the rest of his team began boarding their raft. Kyle walked over to the other team. Lizzie looked up as Kyle approached her. "Here, so you guys don't get stuck here after dark." Reluctantly Lizzie grabbed the bag from Kyle. He then turned and walked back to his team. He was the last one to get on.
"Let's go!" Charlotte demanded, still standing at the tip pointing forward.
The rest of the team started to use their makeshift paddles to push the raft forward. Oz looked up at Charlotte who had not moved. "Are you going to stay standing there?"
"Yes. I'm providing motivation! Now move it!" Charlotte ordered.
It took another good hour before Team Red finished constructing their raft. Without those tools it would have taken much longer. The team was exhausted and depressed having lost the challenge. The only one who was still happy was Doug who was back to normal as the shrooms had worn off. "That was the best trip ever man. All the colours of the wilderness came together. We've got it all wrong dude, thinking air, water, trees, dirt are separate, they're all the same man." Doug was explaining to Alexei as they boarded the raft.
"Not only that," Doug continued, "I saw your animal spirits, Alexei you were like a big grizzly bear man. And Ataksa, you are also a bear, but like a polar bear. That's got to mean something." Ataksa liked the thought of having a connection with Alexei. "Bambi, you are a beautiful butterfly, Rin a fierce but stunning cat, like a puma. Oh man, Lizzie, you are an eagle, a scary one." Lizzie rolled her eyes, finding Doug's observations stupid, "And Earl, you're a muskrat man!"
"What? A muskrat? Really?" Earl called out in surprise. "Everyone else gets something cool and I get a muskrat?"
Doug just shrugged, "I didn't pick them I just saw them in a hallucinogenic state."
It was not long until Team Red finally made it back to camp. There they saw Team Blue, Chris, and the interns all hanging out on the beach. As soon as they landed Chris walked up to them. "It should not come as a surprise to anyone, that your Team has lost the challenge." Ataksa gasped in fake surprise, which got glares from Chris. "Now you must face elimination, right now. Follow me up to the fire pit.
Elimination Ceremony
"Thank you all for voting!" Chris said with pleasure holding a plate of marshmallows. "Now when I call your name and toss you a marshmallow, you ar-" Chris stopped mid sentence. "Ah fuck it." He then lobbed the plate of marshmallows in the fire. "You all know who is getting eliminated. Doug you're out! Taking magic mushrooms during competition was really really stupid. I can not stress how dumb a decision that was. Now let's look at the votes just as a formality."
Earl Vote: "Doug."
Rin Vote: "Doug."
Alexei Vote: Shakes head, "Doug."
Lizzie Vote: "Doug."
Bambi Vote: "Doug."
Ataksa Vote: "I can't believe I'm saying this. Doug."
Doug Vote: "I vote for nobody, wasn't really there for the challenge. I'm eliminated anyway. Hi Mom! I fucked up didn't I?"
"6-0, that is pretty sad. Anyway, thanks for playing Doug. I'll admit I'm surprised you even lasted this long. Say your goodbyes then head down to the dock." With that Chris made his exit.
Doug put his hand through his hair as he stood up. The first person he was greeted with was Ataksa, he gave her a warm hug. "Take care of yourself girly."
Ataksa knew what the result was going to be but it was still hard for her to keep back the tears. "Say hi to Gabby for me." With that they broke their embrace. Then it was Alexei's turn. Doug extended a hand, which Alexei swatted away and brought Doug into a big hug.
"I'm going to miss you man. You were the most fun I'm probably going to have on this island." Alexei told him.
All Doug could do was chuckle. "That didn't sound gay at all." He commented sarcastically. "I wished this bromance couldn't have ended either." With that Doug squeezed Alexei's ass. While all the other onlookers questioned the two males' sexuality, they let go and Doug began to make his way to the dock.
On his way Doug found Kyle waiting on the path. Doug walked right up to him; the two friends looked at each other but did not speak. They shared a quick hug and then Doug continued down. He made it to the dock, when he got there he saw his bags but no boat. He turned around to see his friends watching from a distance. He gave a final wave as the boat came to the dock. Taking a deep breath Doug stepped onto the boat. Slowly the small island he had called home the last few days disappeared.
It took a little while before the boat arrived at it's destination. Doug looked up to see the big white house on the top of the hill. It looked very posh and well kept, basically everything the camp wasn't. Slowly he got off the boat and started to climb up the stairs from the dock to the resort. When he reached the top he saw Gabby sitting on the ground outside by the pool having waited to see the new arrival. Her eyes shot open as she jumped up and rushed to him. "Doug!"
She tackled him into a hug, nearly sending both of them down the hill. Tears filled Gabby's eyes, but for the first time in the last few days, they were tears of joy. "Did you get eliminated just to be with me?" Gabby asked, speaking in almost a disappointed tone if that was the case.
Doug shook his head, "Naw, I took shrooms before a challenge, started to trip balls and did not contribute at all to the team making us lose."
"Oh." Gabby responded with.
"But from this moment forward, it will have been because I wanted to be here with you." Doug declared.
Gabby chuckled as she held Doug even tighter, "I'm so glad you're here."
Afterword:
About this chapter, I wanted to focus a little bit more on those outside of the competition than I had done in previous chapters. Last chapter had a lot of the interns but there was only really one scene of them interacting. I have also enjoyed really eliminating those you would not expect. Though I am sad the Doug/Alexei bromance has come to an end (for now).
I have decided to end this story next chapter. I have come up with an idea for next chapter which I think will give the story a proper send off. There will be two more chapters, the next one which closes the story, and a second one detailing what happens next in the competition just so I don't leave you all in the dark. The second chapter will also include in depth analysis of every character. I'm looking forward to writing these, while I'm sure some of you will be sad this story will be over, I think you'll all really enjoy what I have planned.
Also with this chapter, this story becomes the longest story I have ever written, the first one to surpass 40,000 words. And if I get at least 7 reviews, it will be the first time I surpass 100 reviews. I'd like to thank everyone for letting me reach these milestones. It was because of you loyal readers/reviewers that I kept this story going.
References:
[1] Welcome to the Jungle – Guns N' Roses
[2] Dilbert
[3] The information Chris is reading, is in fact from the Wikipedia article