Total Drama: Gerhardsson Island

by GwendolynD

Whilst, on the hunt for a new ratings grab, Chris McClean, inherits an Island from a mysterious relative.

11. Extreme to the Insanity

Extreme to the Insanity

Diamond made her way through the water, it was so, so peaceful, empty of idiots. The plant-life and sea creatures at Gerhardsson Island were allot more interesting than anywhere else, maybe she'd go back if she were bored, but she didn't really want to be near that island now.

She smirked to herself, but maybe at a later stage.

She sighed flopping down onto the Ocean floor. Today was going to be another elimination day she was not looking forward to it. Glimmer and Sparke were both insane! Glimmer, real name Holly Holiday- what a name! Is a curly haired gossip freak, whose irritating voice made it sound like she was floating with the fairies. Sparkle, real name Miguel something or rather, was another gossip freak, except he took it a step further by pairing everyone together, though Diamond hated to admit it, but he did have some witty moments that were rather amusing, but Aaargh! What made things worse was that unfortunately it wasn't all for show, they were this spastic in real life and tonight being an elimination night meant that once more she'd have to deal with their shenanigans.

Aaaargh! Diamond roughly lifted her tail and slammed it into the sand, just why did she sign up for this?

….

Back at the island, the contestants were fast asleep, well until Chris blew his horn into the speakers that is.

"Aaargh!" Randy screamed as he covered his ears, falling out of bed in the process. He groaned as he got up, massaging his sore body feeling very grateful for the carpet, Damn Chris.

"Down in thirty seconds campers!" Chris yelled into the speakers.

Randy groaned again as he opened the door and rushed to go down stairs, to only be barreled down again as Mistawasis accidentally knocked into him as he ran by double speed.

"Oh sugar let me help" he grinned at the Zombie and gratefully accepted the hand.

"Thanks" he said after he was pulled up.

Darla grinned at him "Not a problem, now let's get moving- oh wow, that looks like the way to go"

Randy looked to where Darla was pointing and a big grin crossed both their faces as they watched Albhe slide down the banister. The two shared a grin before they raced towards the banister to do the same.

When everyone had arrived Chris told them they had ten minuets' to get ready before they had to be ready. Once they were ready, he told them to follow him and then he turned around and started leading them out of the mansion and through the island. On and on he went, twisting and turning following a path only he knew.

"And Halt!" Chris said when they finally reached their destination.

Dante wiped some sweat from his brow; it was a humid day today, walking through a dense forest for over an hour, not a bright idea. Around him his fellow competitors seemed to be fairing the same, poor Olive had a cut on her cheek, he hadn't seen it, but from what he had heard she had fallen into a rather vicious bush.

This place was weird, but he still liked it. It fascinated him. He had enjoyed exploring it the other day and he really wanted to explore more.

"Right that's your challenge!" Chris said pointing to an area that was a dark blue court that seemed to be hovering over the water, the two shorter sides of the court had normal sized walls bordering it and the longer sides had smaller walls bordering it, as their wasn't a door- it would make accessing the court possible "EXTREME DODGEBALL!"

"Yes!" Randy fist-pumped the air "Totally awesome!"

"Er, when you say extreme, just what exactly do you mean?" Marina asked. As much as she liked the idea, she was rather weary of Chris.

Chris grinned "Get onto the court and find out"

Marina sighed, she should've known she wouldn't get a straightforward answer from Chris.

The contestants stepped onto the court, most looking wary. A boat then arrived, Oleander and Vincent dressed as referee's, stepped off it and Chris got on. The boat then sped away.

Vincent had a bag of balls slung over his shoulder and Oleander had a remote in her hand. They both stepped onto the court, once on Oleander pressed a button and the court moved upwards until it was about 20 meters high.

Randy gave a whistle of appreciation, when he casually walked to one of the sides to appreciate the view "Wow wish I had my camera"

Oleander pressed another button and the ground began to shake.

"I see what he means by extreme!" Jordon yells, as she falls into Marina and the two get knocked to the ground.

"No kidding" Marina mumbles from her spot under Jordon.

Jordon grins sheepishly at her and helps her up.

Oleander presses a button again and the floor stops moving.

"Right!" Vincent says as he lays some of the balls down in a line at the centre of the court "It is the best out of three, you have to play all three games even if one team wins the first two, you have ten minuets' before each game to strategize and catch your breath"

"The floor will only be still before the start of each game, we are the referee's so our word is the law here, so you know, we are the ones to bribe and we accept all sorts of bribery" Oleander adds with a sly grin.

Albhe winks at her "Anything hey?"

Oleander winks back "Anything"

"Hey!" Nelly interrupts, not caring for their banter "do they bench a player, you know to keep things fair?"

Oleander and Vincent both shook their heads "Nope"

"Never told to even things up" Vincent supplied.

Nelly opened her mouth to argue, but Dante put a hand on her shoulder "Hey, we can still beat them, even if we are one down"

Nelly sighed and nodded, knowing it was best to not make a scene. Just where was a mentally deranged mermaid when you needed one? She would've made a scene, no problem; unfortunately she , Nelly, had an image to uphold.

"Oh and careful" Vincent says as the group separate into their teams and walk into opposing sides of the court "these balls are not normal balls, just something for you to think about"

As the teams split, Marina catches Skyler's eye, he grins at her and she gives a small smile back. She was still going to keep an eye on him, but he had pulled her aside the day after the challenge and apologized for his actions. He explained to her that he liked her and that he was jealous at the attention Albhe was getting from her and just the general ease he was with her.

He also added that his actions, were out of character for him and that he was appalled by his own actions. He asked her to give him time to show that what she had felt- as in the cheating, wasn't him, that act of jealousy was a one off.

Marina in all honesty didn't know what to think about that. She'd be flattered if he did like her and before the incident he did seem a relatively nice guy. But, on the other hand, was it all just a ploy to throw her off? To keep his sabotage a secret? Maybe he is genuine, maybe he is tricking her, she really didn't know.

Shaking her head of her thoughts, she looked to her team "What do you all think?" Marina asked when the Daisy's grouped.

"I dunno" Geordie said, with a big grin on his face "All I can say is this sound like a whole load of fun!"

"Perhaps" Nelly added a small smile graced on her features "but could we focus on strategy?"

"Yes" Marina nodded.

"If I could interject" Sojiro spoke before anyone else could, remembering the last challenge when he couldn't get a word in "but would the other team risk hitting Blue, knowing what he is- well at the start of the game at-least?"

They all turned their heads to look at Blue.

"Why would they hit me?" Blue asked, sounding genuinely confused.

"Because it's Dodgeball" Geordie replied.

"Do you know how to play?" Nelly asked, already guessing the answer.

Blue shook his head.

Dante bit his lip, a small smile creeping onto his face "I guess we have to change our priorities to teaching Blue how to play"

Meanwhile, on the Tulip side.

Randy unable to keep still, kept hoping from one foot to the next in excitement. Olive put a hand to his shoulder "Calm"

Randy gave a bashful grin "Sorry, just can't help myself"

Darla chuckled "All good hun, just save the energy for the court"

Randy gave a sheepish smile and saluted her.

"Alright gang" Necalli said squishing Olive and Sasha who were flanking him, closer to his side and gesturing to the others to gather around "lets do this, let us get the ball rolling, lets…"

"I think what we need to do first is organize our own strengths and weakness, so we are able to maximize them to the best of our abilities and limit our weaknesses" Sasha said after she had quickly shimmied out of Necalli's grasp on her.

"Dodging I'm good" Mistawasis quickly added "but" he held up his claws "I may accidentally puncture the balls if I try to catch or even handle them"

Sasha hmmnd in agreement "That does serve as a problem, we can't actually test the balls beforehand to know for sure either, since you have speed as your advantage, try to grab a ball first and avoid trying to catch, until we know for sure whether or not they can stand your claws"

Necalli shook his head in amusement "What a cool problem to have!"

The rest of the team looked at him oddly, bar Darla who grinned and kissed him on the cheek "Oh hun, never change"

Necalli blinked at her action before looking down at her "Oh thank-you sweetheart, you are quite wonderful yourself"

Darla giggled.

Sasha glared at the duo "I suppose your main weakness is your inability to focus"

Necalli grinned at her rather unabashed by her statement "It is something I do struggle with daily, but I have yet found a reason to try and cure it, but maybe your professional and knowledgeable guidance I could be helped immensely"

Sasha sighed, seeing that arguing with Necalli would waste precious time, she instead focused on the others "Well anyone else?" she looked Randy's way.

Randy shrugged "I'm actually pretty good at sports, I'm not as fast or strong as my werewolf form, but good enough I think to give ourselves an advantage"

Skyler gave a wry grin "I'm probably second fiddle to you when it comes to speed and strength, but my telekinesis could be good for use"

Sasha nodded "If you stay near the back, preferably back corner you'd be out of our way most of the time"

Skyler nodded "Right"

Jordon gave a sheepish grin " I dunno how much good I'll be, speed and strength I also have, but I'm also a bit of a klutz that first time when they started shaking the floors , I fell"

"Stick to dodging until you get your balance don't try catching or throwing in-case you accidentally get one of us out"

Jordon grinned and saluted. She hated that she couldn't be as useful to her team, but she knew what Sasha said is true, she needed to get used to the moving floor first before she could be any real help to her team.

As Sasha successfully organised the Tulip's, the Daisy's continued to teach Blue the rules. Well, Marina was teaching Blue and the rest of team was strategizing, it was taking Blue a while to understand.

When the giant digital clock started beeping, Oleander and Vincent blew into their whistles.

"Teams, places! You must have one hand on the wall" Oleander yelled, as the walls on the far ends of the courts glowed in fluoro lights an image of the logos' of each team. The teams were standing on the wrong sides of the court, so they had to cross the court to reach their assigned side.

Once the teams were standing aligned against opposing walls, one hand on each wall, Vincent and Oleander raised their whistles to their lips and paused….and then blew.

….

ROUND ONE HAD BEGUN!

Mistiwasis raced forwards, quickly picking up a ball. He grinned happily when he found it was hard enough to withstand his claws and quickly chucked it towards the Daisy's, but found he had to duck, when the ball reversed and went towards him, unfortunately Skyler who was behind him, didn't have fast enough reflexes and was hit.

Oleander blew her whistle "And out-"

Sojiro smiled breaking his usual mask for a moment, enjoying this new development, things were definitely interesting.

Skyler sat at the benches. Ah-well he was out, well for now. He had every faith in his team to bring him back into the game. For now he'd do his best to be of use- like cheering on the team and keeping an eye on the other teams strategy- if there is any strategy to be found in such game, especially as it was currently set up- extreme was perhaps even an understatement. Ouch! He winced sympathetically as the floor gave a sudden jerk sending most of the contestants to the ground and Geordie from the Daisy's was hit in the head from his own ball.

"Out-" Vincent called.

Skyler looked to Geordie as he sat at the bench at the other-side "We should've been equipped with helmets hey!"

Geordie looked to him startled, not expecting Skyler to speak to him, but he grinned anyway "Tell me about it" he then turned to watch a game, giving an excited shout when Blue successfully dodged a ball.

Skyler too turned back to the action.

Nelly blinked in surprise when Blue successfully kept dodging balls, even one that suddenly split into five smaller ones- all aiming at him. He even managed to catch two.

"And out!" Vincent called.

"No-one threw it!" Sasha yelled.

Vincent blinked.

Oleander nodded grinning.

Vincent shrugged and the game continued. It was sooo Total Drama.

Blue hummed to himself. He was enjoying himself, Mamma was right, everything had a use, a lesson learnt, even annoying neighbours. He made a half startled, half noise of laughter, when a ball zoomed off the court and exploded into smoke.

On the other-side, Randy blinked at the ball he had just thrown "I'm so glad I over-shot that" he said to no-one in particular, more to himself in shock as to what happened.

Olive who was near-by, laughed "This is insanity!"

"No-" the floor shook violently mid-sentence and he and Olive tumbled. Sojiro, who was one of the few still standing, took this opportunity to take aim, unfortunately for him, Sasha was still standing and she aimed a ball at him, so he had to dodge and throw- so luckily for Randy and Olive his aim was off.

Laura and Mistawasis, were teaming up, to take Nelly out, however, before they could throw, a ball shot up from underneath, smashing through the floor, fortunately they were both able to dodge it, unfortunately their opportunity had gone.

The ball itself, shot right up and came zooming down, heading towards a startled Vincent. Vincent caught it and then threw it off the court in-case it did something else "Whoever threw that is out" he looked to Oleander "Someone threw that one right?"

Oleander chuckled and pointed to a startled Marina who had a gaping hole by her feet. As Marina sat to join Geordie, seconds later a startled Olive caught a ball Noelle, who at that point hadn't actually tried to throw the ball it just left her hands, went to sit by Marina and Skyler entered the game again. She, Geodrie, and Marina shared a look, before chuckling, it was utter madness and in the case of madness, what else can you do but laugh?

."What a game" Geordie said watching the madness unfold, the contestants grappling to get any result as they all tried to deal with a moving floor and insane balls. "This is brilliant!" he laughed, when he too re-joined the game, Blue having caught Necalli out.

Necalli sat on the bench a similar look of awe, fascination, and pure excitement on his face. It seemed Necali had similar, if not the same view as Geordie towards the game. Marina and Noelle shared a look, when Necalli got up and started doing wild cheers for his team, enthusiastic movement's matching his cheers.

"TO THE LEFT TO THE RIGHT TO UNDER RANDY'S LEGS

LOOK AT OUR SASHA WHIRL

WATCH OUT FOR THE BALL BEHIND YA!

BAM! WHAM! DOUBLE WHAMMY!

BETTER LUCK- OUCH!"

Sasha had cuffed him in the back of the head. She had been aware of the ball behind her, she could hear it, she had been mid-duck, when Necalli's loud voice interrupted her and she had hesitated, so when Nelly threw her ball, with the speed and accuracy the werewolf/vampire could muster- which was very fast and the second she hesitated was the second she needed to dodge. So thanks to the loud mouth she was out.

Knowing it would be a waste to try and make him see sense, she instead decided to focus on the game, more specifically the balls, if there was some sort of pattern she could discern, as they were the greatest unknown right now.

Laura nodded to herself 'Right we can still do this' she said to herself, even though seconds after Sasha was out, a sudden lurch from the court, meant Jordon who was slowly getting used to things, fell to the ground once more, bringing an unlucky Randy with her and both were hit by a lucky shot from Geordie. The ball hit Jordon and bounced of her, hitting Randy too.

Laura dodge another and a second quickly, which were fired of in quick succession, almost toppling herself, when the floor lurched again, but thanks to her being a Theriantrope, she had good reflexes and balance, so she was able to keep herself steady and pick up two balls herself- Olive, she saw did fall, but she was able to get up quickly and jump over a ball as she got up from her spot.

She grinned at Olive who grinned back, before paling quickly in horror, Olive pointed and quickly went back down to the floor- Laura turned and quickly flattened herself to the floor, as a ball zooming their way grew in size, she could feel the breeze as it zoomed centimetres above her. She grinned to herself as she got back up, both balls still in hand- things moved real fast in this game, one glance at a friend and she was almost out!

Laura decided to take a chance, she decided not to aim, the way things were going, the balls did anything, but what you actually wanted or expected it them to do, so chancing it, she aimed one up and over the Daisy's heads and the second one far out left towards the Ocean.

Success! The one that went up, split into five and zoomed towards Nelly, she had managed to dodge all, but then when Nelly thought she was safe, one of the smaller ones lifted again and hit her.

Nelly had tried to object, but both umpires said she was out, so that was that. Tulip's had four benched, and the Daisy's three. She glanced to a grinning Skyler, who gave her a thumbs up, She chuckled, having a telekinesis is real handy.

Oleander glanced at the giant digital clock behind Vincent, she blinked in surprise eleven minuets? How was that possible, how could all of that only happen in just eleven minuets? She shrugged and continued to supervise the ongoing chaos.

Nelly watched from where she sat. Side lined- she huffed, she couldn't believe she was here. She crossed her arms and continued to watch the game, she glared at the umpire's- that was not fair! She had dodged all of them! As far as she knew, a throw only counted if someone previously held the ball. Thinking on that, earlier when Sasha called 'no one' had thrown the ball. She turned her attention to the telekinesis, the only person here, who could've done that- in both incidences, she glared at him- he was on her list, he was gone!

Noticing her look, he grinned at her and waved.

Nelly almost growled, he-was-so-gone!

Sasha watched intently from where she sat, she had seen the balls do seven different actions:

Blow up into mist

Grow in size

Split into five smaller ones

Went in any direction at dangerous speeds and strengths

Turned Invisible

Kept bouncing everywhere, unless caught

And some were actual normal rubber bouncing balls

They all looked the same, dark blue with feint lines criss-crossing them, creating a grid like pattern on the balls. However, there were slight differences in them and she was positive each ball had a different pattern depending on what they did. She was positive, that the one that grew in size had the large grid pattern- the squares that were formed were the largest. She hadn't figured out the rest, but given a bit more time, she'd figure it out.

"GOOD O'L DARLA

COMES FROM SPARTA!"

Sasha glared at Necalli "Shut it! I need to concentrate"

He blinks at her and then smiles "Why didn't you say so, I would've stopped earlier"

He then mimes zipping his lip and went on to supposedly miming out the rest of his cheering.

Sasha sighed, trying to work that one out would give her a migraine she was sure of it. Strategy was something she could and should focus on, so she cleared her head on focused once more on the game.

Back on court Sojiro was enjoying this, the game and the extremeness of it gave him a challenge, he hadn't had in a while. So far Gerhardsson Island did not disappoint. He hoped it would keep going the direction it was.

.He ducked, hearing the sound of a ball whizzing by, thankfully it passed him and it smashed into the wall behind him, the contact turning it visible.

He nodded to Blue, who had also dodged that same ball, reminding him once again, to never under estimate people, you never know what they are capable of. Speaking of, he spared a glance to Sasha, the humanoid dragon. He was surprised she was out early, but-

He jumped over a growing ball and caught another, meaning the Wendigo was out and Miranda was back in.

But, this game was unpredictable and fast paced. Something could be said at this stage, in the first game, to be out and studying the balls and their movements.

Sojiro grabbed the hand of Blue and pulled him down, sliding the both of them across the court, so they could dodge the barrage of balls that came from the three balls, he was sure Skyler was responsible for- all splitting into five, making it fifteen balls they had to dodge.

"Thanks!" Blue said, quickly jumping back up again.

Pure joy and excitement, it radiated of him, like an excited kid on Christmas. All of these people/ human like beings, he could read. He knew them all, without having met the individuals previously, but others like them over and over again. So he could read them easily. The life sized Voodoo Doll, was different. He was an endearing enigma to him and that like the contest itself was interesting.

He nodded to Blue in response "You're better to us on the court, than off"

And that was the truth.

Darla laughed out loud, having once again fallen onto her arse "How tha F*** AM I STILL GOING?"

As much as she was enjoying herself, she was surprised she was still on the court, when some of their other players, more competent players were already out.

"ARSED IF I KNOW!" Jordon yelled back, laughter in her voice, as she quickly dodged a ball thrown by the ninja-esque Sojiro. She swears he probably lives monk like, meditation, sleeping on a bed of nails and all that, boy he was talented!

The floor lurched again, but she kept her balance- she had gotten used to it now. Unfortunately for her, it lurched a second time as she moved her body in an odd angle to dodge a straight shot form Miranda and she fell- straight into Darla knocking her over- sliding under her, but also, half on-top on her, the two entwined into a mass of tangled limbs.

The pair laughed as they helped each-other off the floor.

"Oh God, I think I might actually end up with a few 'war' bruises" Jorden exclaimed, her voice as bubbly as ever, even if they were under a vicious attack.

Darla laughed "Tell me aboUUU!"

"ANOTHER TIME MAYBE!" Jorden laughed as Darla once again fell on her arse. Near her Olive also fell and a shot from Dante (which was actually aimed at Skyler), hit her out. That really could've been her- Lady Luck must be on her side.

Darla lifted the hair from her eyes and watched briefly in amazement as Sojiro continued to dodge, with amazing speed, the barrage of balls thrown his way by both Laura and Skyler.

"Eeep" she squeaked, opening her legs and lifting them as a ball landed right where they were and rolled under them. Yup, definitely on her side, no way was still here by sheer skill!

"Is that for me Vanilla?"

She chuckled at Albhe who had thrown it "Another time Sugar"

Albhe chuckled. He couldn't help himself. It was the opportunity presented at him, either he'd get his goal of her spread legs, or she was out and it made it look like he actually cared. So, win- win. Sports, sweating, unnecessary stress- wasn't for him. In-fact he barely tried; he had zoned out during their team meeting and really hadn't done much on court. How he was still in it, he didn't have a clue; he barely tried to be in it.

Well, in all fairness he hadn't tried to be 'out' either, that was the least he could do for his team- he supposed. In fact they ought to be grateful that he didn't just walk off and eat the gummies he had in his pocket.

This… bored him.

It was just a game.

No matter how you dressed it up. Sure, the first few minuet's were interesting, he enjoyed watching the balls go crazy, but at the end, it was a bit repetitive. He dodged another ball and headed to his safe spot- leaning against the wall in the far right corner. It was a fairly quiet undisruptive corner.

To someone who wasn't near bored…Necalli, who was still happily doing his weird version of mime/cheer. He laughed trying to mime catching a ball, when Sasha kicked him, nodding her head in the direction of the court "You're back on"

Necalli grinned "Oh joyous of joys! Your right!"

He bounded back on and Laura grinned at him, dropping the ball she had just caught. On the other side, Marina went back to the bench, having been the one to throw the ball.

However seconds later, Necalli was back on the bench.

Sasha pursed her lips-the Sasha equivalent to slapping her forehead. Just what was she going to do with him?

She turned her attention back to the game and watched as many balls heading towards members of their team moved left and right, vanishing of the court, whilst a few lifted from the ground and headed towards a few members on the other side.

Skyler's work, she assumed. It seemed his work was not a waste as Albhe had been hit and he casually strolled to the bench, seating himself next to Miranda. He then got from his pocket some gummies and started munching on them, he turned to Miranda and offered one to her.

Jordon tumbled, having dodged an attack from Geordie, but luckily for her, she didn't fall as Skyler had run forward and caught her. She grinned at him "Thanks"

He grinned back .

Hearing a scream, he turned and with his other hand caught a falling Darla.

"Now, what I lucky guy I am, two gorgeous girls on my shoulders" Skyler quipped.

Both Jordon and Darla chuckled. Looking across, Skyler saw that Sojiro and Blue, both had two balls in their hands and ready to strike. Sojiro nodded to Blue and the duo threw them.

Using his powers, Skyler lifted himself and the three other ladies above the court, missing the onslaught. Not something he can do all the time, but desperate times called for desperate measures.

"If you don't drop now, I'll call you all as 'off court' and Daisy's win!" Oleander yelled up at them.

"Yes mam!" Skyler yelled in reply and he carefully lowered himself and the three other members of the team. Unfortunately, as he was taking too much care in the others and not himself, Geordie who had spotted a great opportunity, had used his powers to redirect a ball and hit Skyler.

The three girls who were left on the Tulip's side looked to each-other and then across the way, it was three to four. Unfortunately for the three, Sojiro had made sure, he, Blue, Geordie, and Dante all had two balls each.

It was a massacre, the last three standing were down in seconds.

"DAISY'S WIN ROUND ONE!" Oleander yelled as Vincent blew loudly into his whistle.

...

The floor stopped shaking and the two teams separated for break, Oleander promptly starting the timer of the large digital clock.

...

CONFESIONAL SOJIRO

"I had underestimated the Voodoo Doll, Blue, I'll keep an eye on him" he paused his normal smile gone, his face more conflicted , he looked down for a moment, "a potential- ally, perhaps one might be needed in this game" his face then was schooled back to his normal blank expression with a small smile "you never know"

END

...

CONFESIONAL BLUE

"I've changed my mind about Sojiro, he was fun." Blue pauses thinking of something "Nelly doesn't like him, I can tell, but I don't know why"

END

...

CONFESSIONAL RANDY

"I don't know what to make of Skyler, he seems like a good guy and normally I'm a very good judge, but we did just lose because of his accident, not to mention what Olive and I overheard"

He sighs long and hard "I mean, just, this is so complex, maybe it's the game getting to me, but I'm wondering if that accident is actually an accident" Randy says as he runs a hand through his hair "Gah! I don't know!"

END

...

In a studio somewhere in Jamaica, were two individuals. One was a woman, roughly mid-thirties, about five foot seven, curvy, with a light tan, big dark blue eyes, and a mass of dirty-blonde curls surrounding her smiley oval shaped face. The other, was a man, who looked to be around the same age as the woman, rough caramel light skin, a little taller maybe five foot nine or even six foot, he was fit, well built, clean, fresh, a rectangle face, and high wel defined cheekbones, dark brown spiky hair, and hazel eyes.

The woman was Holly Holiday and the female Miguel Hermandez, or otherwise known as 'Glimmer' and 'Sparkle', the two hosts of the aptly named Canadian chat show 'Glimmer and Sparkle'

They were in Jamaica as their show was doing a Total Drama special, whilst this latest addition was aired.

The duo were sitting in identical black chairs, in what looked like a make-up room, three people were with them doing their make-up and hair. In-front of the duo was a giant mirror- well it spent most of its time as a mirror, but by clicking a button on its side, it turned into a television screen and the duo were watching the current episode and off-course deleted scenes only viewers of their show would see.

"Oh! Isn't this exciting!" Holly said as she watched the screen in-front of her.

"Oh I know pet" Miguel replied.

"Oooooh!" Holly squealed "Isn't Necalli the cutest, I just want to squeeze him"

"He'd be much cuter if he and Sasha got together"

Holly nodded, clapping her hands watching the action "Oh! Oh- speaking of cuteness" she pointed to Blue.

Miguel shivered "Sorry pet, but he gives me the creeps!"

Holly rolled her eyes "Oh hush"

Miguel grinned before pointing to the screen "Now that" he pointed towards Albhe "I wouldn't mind some of that"

Holly 'hmmd' in agreement "You do know, who he is right?"

"What do you mean?" Miguel questioned her, his eyes never leaving the screen.

"Albhe O'Conner- the male model- Christine's son" Holly whispers.

Miguel gasped "Oh how did I forget such a name, someone get him eliminated stat!"

Holly laughed "I'll try to arrange it"

"Hurry dear"

Holly chuckled "And if he is straight"

"Then you can have him, but I call dibs"

Holly chuckled as the duo continued to watch, a smile playing on her lips, Miguel as usual, was great fun. He never disappoints her.

As the duo watched, back at Gerhardsson Island, the contestants' were getting back to court as it was almost time for the second game.

…

"Oh" Oleander said casually, as they made their way to their respective sides of the court "the floor for this match will be a little different" she pressed a button on her remote, the opposing bits of court Vincent and Oleander stood on raised creating a platform for them and the floor began to move, like mini rolling hills. Oleander pressed the button again, when she and Vincent were level, they set up the balls.

Sasha sighed, during the break, she had told her teammates what she had discovered of the balls, but if the floor had changed, so could the balls.

"One sec!" Jordon called running to the confessional.

...

CONFESSIONAL JORDON

"YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME!" Jordon glares at the screen looking annoyed.

"Seriously TD? Seriously? If this keeps up, I'm going to have to bite myself!"

END.

...

Once ready, Oleander presses the button again, the platforms raise, the floor moves and Vincent and Oleander blow their whistles.

ROUND TWO HAD BEGUN!

Blue laughed out loud as he tumbled down the mini hills, somehow managing to catch a ball in the process. He wondered briefly if Ma could do this to the floors at home, he was sure she could. He was so happy he was here, the Island, the mansion- which was HUGE! He'd never pictured such a place! And the people, his fellow competitors, the two interns, Chris and Chef, they were all cool.

He didn't understand why the others didn't like Chris or Chef. Chris was funny and Chef, he was so nice- cooking for them, dressing up to entertain them!

Seeing a ball head towards his fellow competitor he grabbed his sleeve and pulled him towards himself. Sojiro glanced in Blue in surprise, before noticing the ball he had missed.

"Thanks" he said to Blue, before focusing on the game. The floor was harder than last time, so most of the players were having trouble staying up-right, let alone be of any use, which was no good for either side. On the other side Laura and Darla were already out and on their side, Dante, Noelle, and Albhe.

Nelly having noticed the interaction between the Imp and Blue, growled to herself, she had to do something about him. But first, she concentrated on staying in. It had only been about one minuet or perhaps two and yet she was exhausted. Despite the floor, Skyler was able to be very useful and effective- note the three that were already out.

She looked to Geordie, the one with wind powers "can't you do something?"

"I'm try-!" but he was cut off due to the fact, he was hit with an invisible ball thrown by Sasha- a very satisfied looking Sasha. Nelly felt frustrated at how quickly their team was falling, until a second later, Marina had managed to catch one of the many balls Skyler had sent flying and so he was out and Dante was back in.

As he exited, Skyler mimicked tipping a hat in Marina's direction, which she chuckled at, before resuming her attentions to the game- in goodtime too, as a growing ball was heading their way.

"Eeep" Marina ducked, pressing herself to the floor, Dante tried to do the same, but the floor caused him to fall backwards, right at the spot where the ball was landing, taking a chance he raise his arms and tried to catch it and grinned to himself when he had caught Randy out.

He and Marina shared a high-five after she had helped him up. He had now evened the score; each had five members left on the court. However, second later Mistawasis had caught one of Nelly's balls, switching it once more in the Tulip's favour.

And on it went, the game was insane and fast paced neither team staying in the lead for long. Oleander grinned enjoying watching the competition, neither team was backing down, both determined. If the Tulip's won this round, the final round was bound to be something. Vincent however, was getting a little bored, glancing at the clock now, he noticed it had been forty minutes, it was getting a little repetitive, he needed to do something to change things up. But, the only question was- what?

At the moment benched on the Daisy's side: Blue, Noelle, Albhe, and Nelly. Blue was happily talking to Noelle as they watched the game supporting their team. Albhe was lazily eating his gummies his mind wondering to other places. Nelly was fuming, not only was this the third time she was benched, but they were getting no-where; they had passed up two chances, where they had the Tulip's down to two players on the court!

On the Tulip's side, it was Necalli, Jordon, Laura, and Sasha. Necalli, Jordon, and even Laura, who had joined mainly due to the sheer excitement of her friends, were all cheering madly for their team. Sasha was ignoring them in favour of thinking strategy.

They were a good team, holding firm to their ground, despite being youngling's, wiser than she had given them credit. It had been a while since she had spent time around those of their age, so she had forgotten. Her conversation with Laura the day after their first challenge had reminded her of that.

…

Three Days Earlier

It was afternoon and Sasha had gone around to every member of the Tulip's and suggested they should perhaps do some team building exercises as a team to get them working together more efficiently as a group.

Laura was by herself reading a book in mansion's library. She had found the library day one and had been itching ever since to explore it. It had a massive section on plant life, she had to have a look at some!

Laura nodded when Sasha told her, her idea "That sounds like a good idea"

And Laura meant it, s Sasha explained, if they bonded well, they'd most like work better together.

As Sasha got up to leave when, Laura made a comment to make her sit back down again.

"What do you mean?"

"I haven't known you for a long time, but from day one you came across as a leader, someone who could take charge and isn't afraid to speak your mind and yesterday- you were so quiet" Laura said.

Sasha looked to the girl, studying her admittedly ashamed that she had underestimated the girl and her teammates. She really hadn't expected them to notice.

"Do you want to talk about it" Laura offered when Sasha remained quiet.

"Not that you have to" she tried to amend "but I know it helps"

Sasha complied unashamed of her own confusion and ignorance.

Her answer making Laura smile, "I don't think any of us really understand emotions either, I think most of us are outsiders in our own right, I don't really know for sure, I could be wrong, in-fact don't quote me on that-but" Laura paused trying to stop her ramblings and focus on her point "what I am trying to say is, I've been thinking on this for a while, even normal humans go through their own struggles and I don't think anyone understands, its illogical to everyone" Laura bits her lip and looks down, feeling a little overwhelmed at the intensity of her own little speech.

Sasha sat back and watched Laura staying silent, making the girl shift nervously. She had come to that same conclusion in her life many times over and over the last two days she had to re-learn that lesson. The initial contact of the intense and wild emotions of the young had overwhelmed her.

She was admittedly surprised of such words from a youngling.

She smiled at the girl, who gave a weak smile in return "Thankyou"

She got up to leave, when something occurred to her, something about the way Sasha spoke "Wait- how old are you"

Sasha paused at the doorway and only gave Laura a mysterious smile as a response.

…

She gave a glance to the girl, who on her own her if surrounded by less enthusiastic friends, probably would have never had the courage to do something that required her to stand out so, but now she was. That really did say something about the girl.

Since, they knew which balls did what, part of their strategy was to immediately get rid of any of the 'lose cannons' the balls that went in any direction and the ones that turned into mist, because they could be dangerous to both teams. The other balls, however, you were actually able to aim with. They had targeted Sojiro and Blue this round, as they were the teams strongest players. But, maybe their focus should be on the others, so they could gang up on Sojiro and Blue, when it was down to the last two. She knew her own focus on Blue and Sojiro, had even caught herself of-guard. Sasha nodded to herself, mind made up, yes that is what they'd do.

She tapped Laura "New plan, could you get the other two to listen"

Laura nodded grinning.

On court, Mistawasis was feeling very proud of himself. Besides Sojiro, he was the only person who hadn't been 'out' yet, well for this round. He liked that he could be useful to his team and so far he had kept his control. Though-

"Whoah!" he dove as the floor moved, moving him up, feeling quite happy with himself as he managed to catch a ball, getting Marina out and allowing Necalli back onto the court.

Necalli ran to him "Nice man!"

Mistiwasi nodded "Thanks"

"So" Necalli said as they dodged a ball "New plan, save-woah!"

The floor toppled them, Mistiwasi pushed Necalli out of the way "Thanks!" the boy yelled before he continued his original train of thought "save Sojiro and Blue for last, concentrate on the others-"

"OUT!" Vincent quickly blew his whistle. Dante had caught one of Olive's balls.

"first" Necalli finished quickly "Got it?"

Mistiwsi nodded "Yes"

"Good, you tell Darla and I'll tell-Woaaah! Oh Hi" the floor had slid Necalli towards Skyler's feet, the Quetzalcoat grinned up at the very amused Angel/Demon hybrid. Mistaswasis himself laughed at the image as he made his way towards Darla.

On the other side of the court, Dante shoved Geordie down, who hadn't noticed the ball flying straight at him. Most had been out two or three times, but Geordie had been out five.

"Geez man, something bothering you?" Dante asked.

Geordie gave a sheepish grin "Sorry"

"WHAT FOR?" Dante yelled as he jumped over a ball and used the ball in his hands to deflect one.

"POWERS!" Geordie yelled as he threw a ball and dodged another "SKYLER'S BEEN DEAD USEFUL, I THOUGHHT I COULD HELP- BUT-YEEOW"

Dante grinned as he helped his mate once more, stopping him from falling.

"Thanks" Geordie said, before running to grab a ball "I TEND TO OVER DO IT!"

"PRACTICE WHEN YOU'RE NOT ACTUALLY IN PLAY!" Dante yelled back as he ran forward to try and catch a ball, he did, but then at that moment, the floor created a mini hill behind him and he fell backwards, dropping the ball, Geordie ran forwards and dived catching it before it hit the ground.

"DANTE OUT! DARLA OUT" Oleander yelled.

"Good-luck man!" Dante said sharing a fist-bump with Geordie, as he passed him and went to sit on the bench.

Because of Geordie's catch, the Daisy's after their last near win once more had gained a relatively strong advantage- they had five on court, whilst the Tulip's had three.

It was Necalli, Skyler, and Mistawasis on the Tulip's side and Geodrie, Blue, Noelle, Sojiro, and Nelly left on the Daisy's side. Albhe was meant to go back on, when Geordie caught that ball, but he had 'graciously' allowed Nelly to take his place.

From his spot on the podium, Vincent still didn't know what to do, he had very little options considering he couldn't move from his spot. Not to mention who to support, supporting the Daisy's would mean the game could be over quicker, but on the other hand if the Tulip's won the third round would be allot more interesting….

"COME ON GUYS!" Marina yelled from her spot on the bench, cheering on her team as a throw from Sojiro got Skyler out. However, seconds later a catch from Necalli meant Jordon was back on and Geordie was out.

Dante gave Geordie a high-five as he sat down "Nice going"

Geordie shrugged "Doing alight"

Dante then passed him a ball he had picked from the court "It's one of the ones that go in any direction my friend"

Geordie grinned at him "Thanks mate"

Albhe peered over Marina to see what the two were up to. Hearing the answer, Marina also turned on her spot and the three of them started to help Geordie. If he could get better control of his powers it would be a great advantage- though Albhe honestly thought it would be fun if he lost control anyway.

Marina gave him a light punch to the arm, when he suggested it.

Albhe shrugged, "Certainly would liven things up"

Marina chuckled "I think things are exciting enough"

Dante nodded "I couldn't agree with you more"

Geordie nodded, tongue pocking out as he concentrated on creating a small breeze and moving the ball between his two hands.

Albhe shrugged, before they turned their attention back to Geordie, at-least helping this guy out would entertain him for a while. He laughed when Geordie accidentally put the entire game on pause, because he had almost knocked Vincent off his podium- ok maybe more than just a while.

Vincent gave Geordie a glare, before he resumed the game. Though, it did give him an idea, he just needed to think things through a bit- though hopefully the game would be finished soon.

"NECALLI OUT!" Oleander yelled as the ball Nelly had thrown successfully hit him.

Vincent nodded to himself; the Tulip's were just down to two, Jordon and Mistawasis.

'HOW THE HELL DID SHE DO THAT?' Vincent watched bewildered amidst the loud cheers from the Tulip's as Jordon had managed to catch a ball whilst falling and landing on her bum seconds after a lowly thrown ball had passed barely missing landing onto it.

Noelle was out and Sasha was back on.

Vincent groaned-this game was going to take forever! It had just passed the hour mark! Whilst on the other side Oleander gave a startled laugh, she was enjoying this. A good strong competition was brilliant; she just wished she was part of it, she really enjoyed being in the thick of it.

Noticing Albhe had left the training to Dante and Marina, Vincent called him over.

"Wanna make things interesting?" he asked the Incubus, speaking in a low voice not wanting attention drawn to himself.

Albhe raised an eyebrow curious "What did you have in mind?"

Vincent gestured slightly to the ball bag "There are balls in there where only meant to use for round three- they don't have any lines on them- tell Geordie they do nothing so safer for him"

Albhe grinned slightly "What do they do?"

Vincent shrugged "Don't know"

Albhe nodded and walked towards the bag of balls. He smirked to himself as he picked out a ball, but a possible something was worth doing the small task Vincent had told him to do. He'd do about anything if it spiced things up a bit. He then handed the ball to Geordie telling him as Vincent suggested that it was just a normal ball.

Vincent nodded to himself, that should do it. He really didn't know what the balls did, but he can say that Chris told him they were normal and not many were to be used, being on a platform he needed someone to actual pick up the ball- eg Albhe and as for him interfering with the Daisy's- simple the lads practice was detrimental to all- example when he was almost knocked of his platform- it would be reasonable to think he'd want to create some sort of safety measures.

Since the teams were even once more- four on each side, he was glad he had taken this precaution to shake things up. He grinned, when once again Geordie lost control of the ball he had been practicing with, just he had hoped- the ball went mad- shrunk split in two- the balls went everywhere like two ping-pong balls on a strong caffeine shot- zipping here and there bouncing from one person to the next-

The result, was two people left standing, Mistawasis on the Tulip's and Blue on the Daisy's.

Blue laughed, happy and loud, ball in hand. He was really enjoying himself. Mistawasis, on the other hand was breathing heavily exhausted, no ball in his claws.

"CONCENTRATE KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL" Sasha tried to shout over the Tulip's cheering "YOU CAN DO THIS"

Mistawasis nodded- yeah he can.

Blue shrugged, dodging and catching was really his strong suit, throwing wasn't really, but he'd do his best for his team. That's what mattered- right? He glanced at Sojiro catching his eye and Sojiro nodded having faith in Blue, in that nod alone telling him he could do it. Nelly noticed the exchange, not liking it.

Blue's chancing it, aimed slightly to Mistawasi's left, happy to see he had made the right choice- the Wendigo had moved that way to dodge.

The ball grew in size, heading towards Mistawasi, he sucked in his breath as he though what he had to do, he reached up-

-And

-the floor lurched-

-He fell backwards-

-his body moving closer towards the ball-

-he changed his bodies angle-

- -give better reach as he fell-

-one option remained-

-claws wide-

-and-

-he brought the ball to his chest, arms and claws wrapped around it.

Ignoring his teams cheers, he released the ball and clunked his head to the floor, head pounding, body aching, breathing was hard, drenched in sweat, and unsure whether he could actually move, even though the others couldn't see it, he grinned to himself.

He felt gooooood.

He could hardly believe he did that! Feeling a hand gently resting on his shoulder, he turned his head startled, to see Olive smiling down at him "You did brilliantly Mist"

Mistawasis shrugged feeling awkward at the compliment "I just did what was needed"

Olive sat down by him "A bit more than that" she said softly.

Sasha nodded still standing as the rest of the team collapsed around him "You stretched yourself for the benefit of the team, you did well"

"Er" Mistawasis stared at them dumbfounded. He didn't know what to say. This whole experience was weird for him, people being generally nice to him or at-least treating him if he were normal, wasn't something he was used to.

On his other side, Laura laughed as she lay by him her head level with his "Just accept the compliment and say 'thankyou'"

Mistawasis nodded "Ok thanks"

Olive patted his shoulder from where she sat "You'll get the hang of it eventually"

…

Oleander and Vincent stood together eyeing the exhausted contestants.

Vincent wiped his brow "We're going to have to do something"

Oleander nodded "But what?"

Not they were concerned about lawsuits, that were Total Drama's problem, but it wouldn't be good for anyone if things went longer and they had yet to start the final game. However, it seemed Total Drama was prepared for anything. A helicopter, with the Total Drama logo plastered on both sides, flew overhead, a door opened and a bag was lowered.

"You are now given a thirty-minute break before the last challenge" a voice said through a megaphone as the bag was left centre court and the chopper flew away.

Oleander and Vincent went to it and opened it. It was filled with water bottles, ice-packs, and oatmeal bars. To avoid chaos, Oleander quickly blew into the whistle- loud, so attention was brought to her.

"Hold it- we" she gestured to herself and Vincent "will pass these out evenly no one, I repeat no -one misses out!"

The contestants nodded and sat or in some cases collapsed back onto the floor knowing that some sort of relief was coming their way.

…

Holly and Miguel, were now on a stage, sitting on a fluffy red couch as they watched. Around them, set and crew were doing prep for the show, some near them were taking notes, they had to be ready for whoever was voted of.

As everyone rana round like mad chooks, Holly and Miguel were still enjoying the show.

'Mistawasis what a kinky fellow" Miguel commented. He was wearing a tight black shirt, with black jeans and matching pink sparkling coat and shoes. Holly by him wore a off-the-shoulder, fifties dress with white and blue circle print on it and white heels- her clothing and jewellery just as bubbly as her personality.

"Oh!" Holly laughed, loud her bubbly voice echoing around her "dear what a mind you have"

"Seriously, Pet, think seriously- Dom or Sub" he spoke fast as he normally did, his tone rough and sultry, sounding as if he snacked on raw chillies daily.

Holly used to him, understood him and replied just as quick "Sub, he is too much of a sweetheart"

Miguel nodded "Makes sense, now that Olive, you saw her earlier, do you think she likes him?"

"No, I think she and Randy"

"Oooh wouldn't that be a cute couple"

Holly nodded "Do you remember two days ago as they ate breakfast"

"It was adorable!"

Holly turned her direction to Nelly "Someone who isn't adorable"

"I'd love to inspect her brain, I wouldn't understand a thing, because well never studied it and who had the patience to, but bet it would be interesting"

Holly chuckled "Oh I agree, but Sojiro and Blue"

"The Voodoo still gives me the creeps"

"-but you have to admit they were cute" Holly cut in quickly.

"I will give you that, but only, only because-"

"Of how it affected Nelly!" the duo said together. They shared a grin.

"Pet, Pet, can you imagine? How she handles it?"

Holly nodded "That sly fox, Sojiro, slowly, slowly, getting under her skin"

"Oh so waiting for the explosion"

The two clinked their glasses 0f champagne as they continued to watch, matching Cheshire grins on their faces.

…

"Times up!" Oleander yelled.

"No new floor?" Jordon asked, hope very clear in her voice.

Next to her Olive gave a small smile "I don't think so" at the same time Vincent gave a loud resounding 'No'

Jordon bumped her shoulder with Olive's "See, you never know"

"New balls this time!" Oleander supplied herself and Vincent sharing the same evil grins.

Jordan shrugged "I think I can handle that" she looked to the two referees'/ interns "No moving floor- at all"

Vincent nodded.

"Yes!" Jordon jumped up into the air excited.

...

CONFESSIONAL SASHA

"I am quickly learning that it is very hard to get an advantage in this game, nicely done, nicely done"

END

...

CONFESSIONAL GEORDIE

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

"Yes!"

Each 'Yes' punctured with a resolute punch in the air.

He is grinning madly "I LOVE THIS GAME!"

He exits a dopey grin on his face.

END

...

The teams once more lined up, though a little more refreshed thanks to the bag from the helicopter, still tired, but also determined. They were going to win!

Darla from her spot playfully made eyes with Albhe daring him, egging him on. Albhe amused played along.

The two referee's/ interns took their posts on both sides of the court and together blew their whistles.

ROUND THREE HAD BEGUN

Nelly had raced forward, having heard the conversation between Albhe and Vincent last round, knowing it was one of the blank faced balls that had caused the destruction at the end of the last round.

Sojiro, hadn't heard the conversation, but he had noticed it was a ball with no lines that had caused the destruction last round, he had seen the look of determination across Nelly's face as she looked at the only blank ball on the line midcourt and knew exactly what she was going to do- he saw her charge straight at it, knowing how detrimental and unpredictable it could be- he ran forwards and as she threw it he hit as far from the court as possible.

"Why you-" she glared at him fiercely, but he started to walk away. She looked ready to follow him, when-

"Sojiro Out!"

Sojiro calmly left a fuming Nelly and sat on the bench.

Oleander gave Vincent a 'look' at his call, but he just grinned, he wanted this round over ASAP.

On the Tulip's side, Laura threw the ball in her hand, but it just seemed to hover there, so she grabbed it to throw again, but…

"Laura Out!"

As Laura left, Darla went to grab the ball, but Sasha stopped her "Wait" she pointed at the ball, the two ducked as a blurred spinning ball came their way, Sasha pointed at the ball again "its moving"

"Oh Geez!" Darla laughed out- for she was right, it was moving, just at a really, really slow pace, they were going to be easy to forget about or even run into, Total Drama just knew how to complicate things.

'This is getting ridiculous' Noelle thought as she ducked a ball she had just thrown- it had headed towards the Daisy's- she managed to aim fairly well surprisingly, but then it came back- like a boomerang of sorts.

She honestly did not expect the challenges to be this hard!

Near her Dante grit his teeth as he pulled the ball towards his chest- it was slippery so it was very, very hard to keep a grip on, otherwise it would be him who was out and not Olive.

"Behind you" at Nelly's warning he was able to swiftly move out of the way of a ball that was coming from behind.

"Thanks" he nodded to her.

And she nodded back in reply, before she quickly dove to catch another ball marking Darla as out.

Like last round, despite being tired, both teams pushed themselves so they didn't lose. Back and forth it went, the Tuli[p's would have the advantage, but a few minuets' later the Daisy's would have the upper hand.

Twenty minuets' in, it was even; both teams with seven on court.

On the court Marina was loving it. Good strong competition, she thrived in it. She was starting to feel her muscles ache, but it only pushed her, the more pain the better.

To her it meant she was giving it her all.

She'd probably be sore and unable to move tomorrow, but it would be worth it- well- Marina grinned to herself- if they didn't have a challenge that is.

"Woah- watch it! She grabbed Geordie's arm and pushed him down, when she saw him go to catch a ball.

He gave her a look "I could've caught it and Sasha would be out"

"It's a slippery one" she replied. She wasn't a Sasha or Sojiro, but she had noticed the balls with the zig-zag lines on them were the slippery ones.

"How-" the duo jumped apart as Geordie spoke just missing a fast moving ball "Can you tell?"

"The ones- oomph" the ball Marina caught was really heavy!

Geordie gave her a high-five "Nice!"

"ZIG-ZAAAAGS!" she yelled as she tried to throw the ball.

Her eyes widening slightly when it went a bit further than she thought, seeing Geordie wink at her she chuckled "Thanks".

The sideline practice last round must've really helped, from the little she knew of him, the big stuff he had no trouble with but the smaller, more controlled, he tended to over- do it.

On the other-side of the court, Olive threw the ball in her hands to the side. This round she mainly concentrated on dodging. Having good reflexes meant she was rather good at that- catching she was alright at too, but throwing was not her strong point.

With some balls being heavy or slippery, she felt best it wouldn't do her any good to try. She used to pass her ball to someone else or throw it off court, but since this round the referees were counting her pass as getting someone out (which she had quickly found out earlier), so now she just tossed them of court.

"Woah!" She pushed Jordon back who almost ran into the ball she had thrown about a minuet ago.

Jordon grinned at her teammate "Thanks"

Olive smiled "your welcome"

Olive shook her head in amusement as the girl zoomed around the court.

"Funny what a stable floor can do"

Olive snuck a glance at Randy and chuckled "Yeah, I'm with you on that one"

They shared a look, when Jorden physically pulled both Necalli out of the way, before running forwards and catching a ball making Marina out.

Olive chuckled "She really is making the best of the new conditions"

Randy nodded in agreement "That she sure is"

…

Half-an-hour later Darla collapsed on the floor in-front of the Tulip's, where Randy and Mistawasis were seated "Ugh! I'm so sore, I don't think I'm going to be able to walk properly tomorrow!"

She looked up to the two amused boys "How about you two?"

Randy chuckle handing her an ice-pack, for which he got a 'thanks hon' from Darla "I'm with ya, I don't think my body has worked this hard- ever!"

Mistawasis shrugged "Probably not the worst, but not something I am used to either"

"Oh, are you some sort of fitness fanatic?" Darla asked.

"Sort-of" Mistawasis replied, not really going into it. Wanting a distraction, he looked to the court and was feeling grateful when he found one "Look" he pointed.

In that moment both Laura and Olive had caught a ball.

"GO GIRLS!" Darla whistled and cheered making allot of noise, Randy joining in, though not as loud.

Mistawasis sat back in relief.

"You know," Darla said after she had quietened down "I'm not really sore"

"What do ya mean?" Randy asked her.

She shrugged "I think it has something to do with being the 'undead', but I don't feel the pain I just say stuff like that, because it makes me feel more human"

Randy nodded as he watched the game, his face allot more serious than earlier "Yeah, I get you"

Mistawasis also nodded "Wanting to be human-" he left the sentence open, there was no need to finish it, knowing the others understood him.

"Normal" Randy finished Misawasis's statement. He was sure everyone here had thought about it at one point, even the more adjusted ones. It was weird to have people to talk about being a werewolf with, before this competition he had felt so alone, he tended to stray from people, but here for once in his life he wanted to be social, because here, there were others that understood.

"Come on glum-bums, we can be moody and depressing later, but for now we have a job to do!" Darla said standing up, she turned around and grinned at the two boys "Were going to cheer for our team"

Randy shrugged and got up "Why not?"

They then looked to Mistawasis who shook his head "Nope, no can do"

"Come on man, don't leave us hanging" Randy said.

"If I heard correctly, I heard a mention of cheering, because that is what I do best!"

Darla and Randy grinned at an approaching Necalli, whilst Mistawsis groaned. With the three badgering him he had no choice really, but to begrudgingly join in.

Darla jumped up and hugged him, when he did stand up "You won't regret this"

Mistawasis stiffened in the hug, not too used them, which Darla in her excitement hadn't noticed.

Darla then turned to Necalli "Oh cheer master, lead the way!"

On the Daisy's bench, Dante was helping Geordie, whilst Nelly sat next to them completely focused on the game, why they conversed on such mundane things was beyond her, especially with something so important going on.

"So, hoping for a plant based or non-plant based challenge next?" Geordie asked as he slowly passed the ball to Dante using his powers.

"Plant based, I don't want to be completely useless to the team" was Dante's reply. The first night he had confessed his fear to Geordie if things carried on like the first challenge, there might be both unbearable pressure from the team, but also a target on his head.

"I get ya" Geordie said as he slowly pulled the ball back towards himself.

Dante nodded grinning, Geordie wouldn't be practicing as hard as he was if he didn't understand him "So slow down mate, if you get to good, you'd be the one with the target on your head"

Geordie laughed, unfortunately losing control of the ball.

Dante shrugged picking it up "You're getting better"

Geordie grinned "Thanks man"

Back on court, compared to the last two rounds Albhe was having a good time. Mainly because, this time he was able to create a game for himself. It had taken a bit of time on the bench t work it out, but he had figured out what the new seven balls did.

There was the one that split in two and went spastic, he actually hadn't seen one of those, since Sojiro knocked it out of Nelly's hand, which really was a shame, it may have ended things quicker. Then there was the one that just went really fast- that was a bore. The boomerang ones was alright, it had its moments, but wasn't all that interesting. The balls that spun around really fast was again amusing in moments, but the three he really enjoyed, besides the spastic one, was the heavy ones, the slippery ones, and his favourite the really slow one. It was amusing to see someone throw it and then a few minuets' later get themselves out by running into it.

You see, the heavy ones didn't start out heavy, it was only after being thrown did they 'gain weight' so to speak. He'd deliberately threw them to the back of the court missing and see someone pick it up and struggle. He had to be careful with who he 'aimed' for because a few people like Jordon and Randy had no issue with those.

The slippery ones, well he'd just throw them, because seeing someone either catch or throw with those was hilarious. Well, except for Sasha, she was too good with them, it was almost annoying really.

The slow ones- he just liked seeing how many people ran into them.

He had a very random point system based on the outcome, the more hilarious the better, not that actually tallied it- that would be weird.

He suddenly laughed, when a slow mover he had thrown had almost gotten Noelle out, by dodging it she had lost her balance and fell on her bum. That'll be about a ten pointer he thought to himself.

Noelle got up rubbing her sore bum, hearing his laughter, glanced back at him before facing the Tulip's side again.

"Whats so funny?"

"You, a fantastic stack by the way"

She opened her mouth to argue, seeing a fast paced ball coming her way and jumped over it, whilst behind her Albhe side stepped it, "Glad I could amuse you" she responded dryly. It wouldn't be good to argue, plus seeing someone stack it was amusing.

"You're doing an alright job, you need to up your game" Albhe replied picking up a slippery ball.

She chuckled "Alright I'll do my best to improve"

Albhe then threw it towards Laura giving her a catch.

Noelle gaped at him "What are you doing?"

"Watch" Albhe said as they both dodged a spinning ball. And sure enough, Laura grabbed at it, but ended up dropping it, meaning she was out.

Albhe smirked at Noelle, who risked glancing at him to glare "You just got lucky" she hissed at him.

"Nope, been doing that all game" well it wasn't all game but it felt like it.

"What!" Noelle spun around this time to face him properly.

"Move" he said as he pushed her out of the way, both only just missing being hit.

Noelle turned to face the Tulip's side again "Thanks"

Albhe used their position to sling his arm over her shoulder "Ain't that what teammates are for"

Under his arm Noelle just sighed.

….

By the hour-and-a-half mark Vincent was ready to tear his hair how, this was ridiculous! Walking over to the bag of balls he looked in it for the only other plain ball, h then dropped it and rolled it on the court.

Nelly seized it immediately and before Sojiro or anyone else could stop her, she threw it.

Like the first time, it was chaos. Any attempt to actually play was gone, everyone concentrated on not being hit. Unfortunately for Vincent it did not result in the end of the game.

He groaned long and loud.

On the other side of the court Oleander, who had seen everything play out, laughed.

…

As time went on, everyone was exhausted, even slacker Albhe, and the two Stalwarts Sasha and Sojiro were showing signs of slowing down.

The rest looked like they were on their last legs.

Marina bent down and rubbed her legs getting ready to go back on, they were definitely burning now, she could feel heat radiating of them.

Skyler bit his lip, this had to end somehow, but how? He stepped back and went into the corner, it was a risk because it was seven at once, but they needed to end the game. Taking his time he concentrated on the balls and slowly lifted them.

Noelle on the other side of the court seeing this, suddenly saw red. She didn't know where her anger came from, but grabbing a ball, she threw it at Skyler- hard!

Seeing him double over, she could only stare in shock.

She didn't notice, Skylers lack of concentration meant he dropped the balls getting the remaining Tulips out or the cheers from her own team. Or even notice the fact that Skyler had straightened and was actually fine.

All she could think of was her anger- she remembered how she panicked when she saw him make such a risky move. Why had she reacted as such?

"Nicely done" Marina said placing a hand on her shoulder and shaking Noelle out of her trance.

Noelle shook her of and went to sit by herself.

Marina paused wondering if she should go after her.

"She'll be fine, just needs some space"

Marina turned to face Geordie who had an icepack in his hand and handed it to her, before he sat down on the floor.

"Oh-god get down here, I never knew sitting could be so good! Actually" Geordie changed from sitting to lying and stretched out "Aaaah much betta"

Chuckling Marina lay down to join him. She looked his way "Are you sure"

Geordie nodded "I'm the same, sometimes I need time to just be by myself"

Marina nodded accepting that.

Most of the contestants were soon joining Marina and Geordie on the floor; they were all exhausted and had rightly earnt a break.

Dante nudged Nelly "See, what did I say, we still beat them one player down"

Nelly smiled and nodded at Dante in agreeance. However, inside she was seething, they should've won in two rounds and not to mention how casual Dante and some of the others were around her- she hated it! It was only day five of being 'chummy' with these inferiors and she wasn't sure how much longer she could handle it.

From her spot, lying by Geordie, Marina lifted her hand and a few seconds later a giant wave of water came and spread above them all and drenched them, as she was too tired and sore to even try and carefully control it and turn it into mist. But, she and everyone else, didn't really care.

"YOU ARE A GOD SEND!" Necalli yelled out as he rolled and splashed with the water. He accidentally knocked and splashed a few people, but they were all too busy recuperating to care really.

Marina chuckled "YOU ARE VERY WELCOME!"

...

CONFESSIONAL SASHA

"I find myself time and time again, revaluating and readjusting my strategy for this game. I have found it increasingly impossible to decipher all possible outcomes and possibilities, especially since this competition is run by experts in chaos, disorder, and madness"

She gives and irritated sigh.

"Adjusting to every new moment in-front of me, with no future plans, because I have found plans of any sort in this game are redundant, is all I have, but that is not enough!" she gives a steely, strong, gaze to the camera. Which really says something about this woman, despite being exhausted and sore, she can still appear as tough and sturdy as any mountain.

Sasha continues "To get ahead requires out of the box thinking, I know for example that the games are set-up at night, I could scout the workers here, follow them and get an idea of what is ahead- but that could mean allot of unnecessary work for me and exhaust me in the process, rendering e useless, or as they are filming us, editing it immediately and setting up things for the contest here, there has to be a base of some-sort, underground- if I find that, I could find all sorts of production notes- like what events they have planned for us, the team would greatly benefit from that and it could be done, no problem…"

Sasha trails off, looking pensive for a moment "Which brings me to my dilemma, in a war, there are no rules, you do what is best for your side, in a fair fight, it is regulated heavily, so do I treat this competition as war or a fair fight?"

Schooling her face back to neutral, Sasha exits, her dilemma occupying her thoughts.

END

...

When Sasha exits, most people are standing up and stretching their muscles. Hearing a cracking noise, they turn their heads towards the intern-Vincent, who grins sheepishly at them. The cracking noise, was his him rolling his neck, popping it in the process, causing a few people to wince at the noise.

Vincent shrugs "right well, now that I have your attention, I can let you know, where going to bring ourselves back down, so brace yourselves" he then nods to Oleander.

Oleander pressed the button to bring them down. The court started to move, but then stopped having only moved about two meters. She pressed it again, but nothing happened.

And again, still nothing happened.

She handed it to Vincent, who by this point had walked to her side and had his hand out, silently asking for the remote. He hit the remote against his thigh, before pressing the button and the court went back to where it was before.

Vincent grinned "There it just needed the touch of a Mystro"

Oleander rolled her eyes "Alright Mystro bring us down again"

Vincent hit the remote before pressing the button again, however this time the court went up a further ten meters.

"Perhaps" Sasha stepped forward "it would be best if we arranged to get ourselves down- Skyler can fly and carry someone, I can carry someone, I am sure Necalli can carry two, Marina can assist a few people, Jordon probably won't have a problem diving down"

Jordon nodded, cutting Sasha off "Yeaup, can do"

Sojiro stepped forward "I can also bring myself down, not an issue"

"There" Sasha said, "Not a problem"

Vincent waved her off "Nah, we've got this, it is our responsibility to bring you all back and we shall all do that" he then shook the remote vigorously, gave it a good wack against the short wall behind him and hit the button…..

"Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh" everyone started screaming as the court plummeted at lightning speeds, Noelle helping Geordie keep Blue in place, as he was made out of fabric he couldn't really keep a grip on anything and would've kept siding into things.

Unfortunately the court didn't stop when it reached its original spot inches above the water it went a meter, almost two meters underwater, before it shot back up and stopped at its original point.

The contestants and the two interns lay on the floor, hands reached out grabbing the benches, the confessional, or each-other, wet drenched and panting. For a brief pause, no-one did anything, but when the court didn't move, they scrambled to the edge and over the small wall, most collapsing onto the ground.

Dante as a general rule loved nature, but right here, right now, he loved it a whole lot more. He flattened himself against it, lying spread out, resting a cheek towards it, he breathed in and smelt it- oh! It was goood!

"Earth! Beautiful Earth!" Jordon exclaimed, before dramatically kissing it.

Near her Laura chuckled "As long it is in a good mood and doesn't start eating us or something, I agree with your sentiment"

Dante chuckled "If it starts eating us, even I will start hating nature, well just a little"

"Just a little?" Jordon looked to Dante oddly.

Dante shrugged "It would be an amazing thing to witness"

Laura nodded "Wouldn't it?"

Jordon blinked "Seriously?"

Olive shivered "I think it is dead, but I seem to remember one season Chris owned such a plant or something similar"

Laura perked up "Oh wow- do you remember the season? I want to look this up"

Jordon started laughing noticing Dante with a similar expression, she patted his shoulder "Down boy"

Dante made a noise that very realistically mimicked a whining dog, the entire group laughed.

"Oh" Laura said between gasps of laughter "that- was-too-good"

Dante shrugged, grinning broadly. Leaning on each other, the contestants helped each-other up and slowly made their way back to base. Once there, Noelle rushed into the mansion and straight the confessional.

...

CONFESSIONAL NOELLE:

Noelle is sitting in the confessional, her face is pale with the tiniest hints of grey, her eyes distant "I cannot believe I did that" She buries her face in her hands "Oh Gods"

She sits there for a minuet not really doing anything.

"I just" she says, her face still in her hands, her body hunched over, she then bites her lip and looks up her eyes wide, she sets her jaw staring dead straight into the camera "I gotta get out"

"Otherwise, I don't know how" she says softly, before she gets up and quickly exits the confessional.

END.

...

Exiting the confessional, she went straight to her room, she had some thinking to do.

Laura, who noticed Sasha immediately head to the confessional just after Noelle had left it, put a hand on her arm to pause her "Your voting already?"

Sasha nodded "Yes"

"If you don't mind me asking, but who are you voting for?"

"Necalli" Sasha said immediately and clearly, even though the boy in question was in potential hearing distance.

"Er why?" Laura liked the guy, he was nice and fun to be around, she hadn't even considered him- or anyone else for that matter.

"He has potential, but he is too easily distracted and has a tendency to create accidents that have the potential to be detrimental to our team, in a game like this I don't have the time to discipline such an individual" Sasha calmly explained.

"Huh" Laura hadn't really thought about that. She wondered how she sat on Sasha's critical eye, useful or hopeless? Or for that matter what anyone else thought. Maybe she was on the chopping block?

"Is there something else you wish to discuss?"

Laura blushed slightly, having forgotten about the girl standing there "No, go on"

Sasha nodded and went into the confessional. Laura went to communal lounge, following Mistawasis and Necalli, the duo having passed them during their conversation. She glanced at Necalli and was surprised to see he looked perfectly at ease, in-fact in contrast to Necalli, Mistawasis looked uncomfortable.

Entering from the other side of room, was Jordon who waved at Laura before joining the duo. Laura sighed feeling resigned; plastering a smile on her face she went to join her teammates.

"Yo!" Necalli greeted rather enthusiastically, when Laura joined them.

"Er Hi" Laura replied rather weakly as she sat 'so where are the others?"

Jordon and Skyler shared grins "we saw Randy pull Olive aside" Jordon started.

"Which could mean two things: either they have an alliance or there is something going on between the two" Skyler gave a sly smirk as he said the last part.

"So Darla just had to spy and find out" Jordon finished.

Necalli chuckled "Wouldn't that be fantastic, especially if they caught her spying on them"

"Er- about voting, what are your thoughts" Mistawasis said, completely ignoring Necalli's comment. Something Laura was grateful for, talking about someone spying on a potential relationship just made her uncomfortable.

"Well," Jordon spoke up for once looking serious "maybe Olive or Randy- is there really much difference between the two, well voting wise?"

Laura bit her lip, she did have a point, but so did Sasha, she shared a glance with Mistawasis.

Skyler gave a half-shrug "Well, if I have to pick between the two, I'd vote for Olive, Randy is more of a pal and at this stage he is a better performer competition wise, I mean I think Olive is fantastic, but-"

"Its ok" Laura said grinning up at him "you have to vote for someone"

"I voted for Necalli" as one, the group turned to face Sasha.

"That is what we are doing here, discussing votes" Sasha said at the now silent group, all staring at her a little dumbfounded.

"So Er" Skyler said, looking straight at Sasha trying to ignore Necalli who sat by his side "Why did you vote Necalli?"

As Sasha told the group why she voted Necalli, Darla was sitting with Randy and Olive, having a serious conversation.

They were out the front, down at the beach away from the mansion. Randy had dragged Olive hear hoping they were at a great enough distance to not be over-heard. Darla had followed them, hoping to receive some juicy gossip, not expecting to hear what she actually heard.

"So Skyler cheated? Are you sure?"

Both Randy and Olive jumped slightly and turned around startled.

"He didn't deny it, when Marina confronted him" Olive said, after she had calmed down.

"Do you know what he did?" Darla asked.

The duo shrugged.

"Were not completely sure but Marina did say she felt it, so we think it has to do with the water, but considering the challenge it could be a number of things" Randy explained.

Darla frowned "So Marina knows"

Both Olive and Randy nodded.

"Before you ask, no we don't know if anyone else knows, we haven't heard anything and the others seem to trust Skyler enough"

Darla looked between the two of them "So that's what the two of you are doing- you are working out whether to tell others, to have him voted off"

Olive nodded chewing her lip "It wouldn't be fair if it was an honest mistake, but it didn't sound like it"

Randy nodded "I watched him this challenge, round one when he levitated you Darla, Jordon, and Laura- we lost because of that and round three, well it wasn't just him, but he was part of the resulting loss…"

"It could be a load of innocent co-incidences or very well covered sabotage" Darla concluded. She massaged her temples "Gah- this is giving me such a headache- why can't it be simple!"

Randy snorted "If we were on the other team it would be"

"Oh" Darla pushed for more.

"Nelly, I'd vote for her" he answered his voice firm.

"Oh" Darla leaned in "Do tell"

"I don't really have any evidence, but I'm a good judge of character and Nelly my gut is telling m she is bad news" Randy explained himself.

"And Skyler" Darla asked.

Randy shrugged "I don't know"

Olive gave a wry smile "Back to the beginning"

Darla lay down, plopping her legs on Olive's lap, her feet using Randy's knees as a foot rest "I suppose getting rid of him would eliminate the problem"

"Maybe we should talk to Marina" Olive spoke softly "I think she may know more of what happened and her input may help"

Darla nudged "Geez girl, why didn't I think of that?"

Randy knocked Darla's feet off his knees, before he got up and gave a hand to the two girls.

"Time to look for a Water Nymph" he said.

Darla saluted "Aye Aye Captain"

As the trio went to seek out Marina, they didn't notice Nelly stepping out from behind the tree. She had heard the entire conversation.

….

Nelly stood where she was wondering what to do. She had left the house, because she needed some air- there was only so much niceness a creature like herself could handle. Seeing the trio at a distance, she changed directions. Noting their close proximity to each-other and the fact that they had made an effort to be away from everyone, she had kept herself at a reasonable distance and hid, which is lucky considering what she overheard. She was going to keep on her jog and file it away for later, when she noted one the interns bringing out the sign for the 'Whirlpool of Shame'. Nelly approached the intern- Vincent , she thinks his name is.

"I heard you second round, with Albhe" she said when she was close enough to him.

Vincent rolled his eyes "What do you want?"

Nelly pauses "You don't care that I could go to Chris or a producer with this?"

Vincent raises an eyebrow at her; does she honestly think he'd care? "Well"

"Well" Nelly stresses the word, giving him a look of irritation, which he just grins cheekily back at "well, do you collect the votes"

Vincent gives a half-shrug "tonight I am yeah"

"Well, I was hoping you could rig them"

"Interesting" Vincent replies "who do you want out?"

"Sasha" Nelly says immediately, with-out her she was sure the Tulip's would crumble.

"Nope" Vincent smirks at her, enjoying the frustrated look on Nelly's face, he was sure she was used to getting her way at all times.

Vincent shrugs "I like Sasha, she is hilarious"

Nelly sighs, it was worth a shot. "Fine- Randy then" the werewolf was annoying at the moment, but he had the potential to do more than just bug her; especially with what she had just heard.

Vincent shrugged "Maybe"

"Maybe?" Nelly shrieks out, her red eyes bulging. She did not come here, just for a maybe! She grabs him by the neck and brings him close "You will do as I say" she hisses out through her clenched teeth, her red eyes boring into his.

But, despite the situation Vincent chuckles "You're too easy toots"

Nelly releases him and he falls to the ground "You were winding me up?"

Vincent shrugs as he gets up from the floor and rubs his sore neck "Partly, but really, why should I do your biding?"

Nelly gaped at him "You said you would"

Vincent shakes his head, eyes flashing with mirth "Nope, never did"

Nelly fumed, but he was right, she just assumed his curiosity was an acceptance of doing her task. By now, she should've known better, in fact she did know better. She looks to him wondering what she could do in order to get his co-operation, she really didn't have much up her sleeve…"Sex"

Nelly knew many men, even a few women lusted after her and it wouldn't be the first time she'd offered her body up as an exchange, or well at-least made it appear that was what she was offering. None of the filth ever actually touched her, no one did anything that she didn't permit, there were a handful of people she actually deemed acceptable. Even now, as she said it she realised this was the first time she actually seriously considered it, but just how desperate was she?

Vincent just chuckled, bringing Nelly out of her musing "Don't worry, I like you and I like the game you're playing, it makes things interesting"

"So you'll make sure Randy is gone" Nelly hated how desperate and helpless she sounded right now. She growled to herself, this guy was really irritating her.

Vincent just smirked at her "Maybe"

"I'm not going to get a straight answer from you, am I?"

Vincent grinned "Nope"

With that final response, Vincent left.

Nelly sighed, she hated, hated, relying on others, especially those of such an unpredictable nature. However, that was all she had for now. She shrugged if things didn't work out she could have him fired or killed, either would do really.

And with that happy thought she made her way back to base.

….

As the clock chimed seven, the Tulips, one by one slowly made their way to the single log-bench that circled half of the fire-pit.

Sasha was the first to arrive and she sat at the furthest end knowing it would be easier for the group. If Necalli went home, or anyone else, she'd be fine. Like anything else, she'd simply readjust.

Next to come in was Necalli and Mistawasis. As usual Necalli was doing most of the talking.

Necalli was relaxed, even though he potentially could be going home. He knew he had one vote against him, how many others he didn't know. He honestly didn't mind, the time spent here was enjoyable, so if his time was up, it was up.

He knew him and Skyler both voted for Olive, whether Jordon did, he honestly didn't know. Mist and Laura, he knew he was an option, Olive, or Randy even.

As for the missing three: Darla, Olive, and Randy- he didn't have a clue.

He looked to Laura, who looked as if her world is ending "You need to relax the sky isn't going to fall on our heads- yet"

He grinned at her, when his words made her smile "Thanks"

He tipped an imaginary hat "You are very welcome M'Lady"

Jordon came bounding in behind her, looking like her usual perky self "I could bite you if you like"

"What!?" Laura shrieked turning around, looking at Jordon in shock.

Jordon chuckled "Sorry, its what I do – I bite people and it relieves them of stress"

"Really?" Skyler joined in the conversation as he sat down, his eyes shining with interest.

Jordon nodded "Yup, need good stress relief come to me, though in a more serious note, I try to avoid biting people, so go to a masseuse instead"

Skyler nudged Jordon "those three look like they could do with one"

Jordon, Laura, Mistawasis, and Necalli all looked where he was pointing to see Darla, Randy, and Olive enter. As he correctly noted, they looked extremely stressed.

Randy ran a hand through his hair as they sat. They did the right thing, well it was done now.

Olive clamped her hands together in her lap as she sat down, she knew it was going to be stressful, but not this stressful.

At that moment Chris entered a big grin on his face "Welcome Tulip's to your first ever CAMPFIRE CEREMONY" he bellowed out dramatically.

The contestants as one glared at him.

Chris grinned "Why the glum faces? This is just your first ceremony?"

He laughed when they only continued to glare "Wow, you lot are such weaklings!"

"Hey, that's-" Skyler began to speak.

"Sssshhh" Chris shushed him "Only I am allowed to speak"

He cleared his throat "Right on with the ceremony" he pulled out a coin "receive one of these, you are safe and if you don't down the Whirlpool of Shame and never to return- EV-ERRR" Chris then placed his hand into the bag "the first coin goes to: Jordon"

Jordon squealed catching the coin happily.

"And- the next is Laura"

Necalli nudged her when she didn't move to catch the coin, as Laura was too nervous she didn't hear her name being called out.

"Mistawasis" the wendigo had trouble trying to catch the coin, but he managed- just.

Chris shook his head sadly "That's almost sad" he then pulled out the next coin "Sasha"

Sasha caught it with efficient ease.

"Darla" the zombie caught the coin a big grin on her face.

Chris paused pretending to search his bag "and Olive"

Olive let out a "Eeep" as she grabbed the coin with both hands. Randy by her, nudged her "See your fine"

Olive let out a small smile.

Chris paused and decided to address the campers, whilst he stood on his podium- sending someone home was one of his favourite parts of the gig, so he liked to savour it for as long as possible. He grinned, his eyes taking in the final three "One of you is going home, so who would receive the final two coins- can't say it was a joy, but-"

"OUT WITH IT" Jordon shouted, normally she was very patent and didn't understand unnecessary shouting but the tension was giving her a massive headache, possible migraine, and even worse a massive nose bleed.

Chris at first had looked to her shocked, but he waved her off "Sorry, do-things-in-my-ooowwwwnnn-paaaaccccceeee" he spoke slowly for impact but also just to annoy her.

Jordon groaned long and loud.

By her Laura chuckled, "There, there" she pat the Unvampire's back.

Randy by this stage couldn't keep still; he kept shifting and tapping his feet on the ground. He hated sitting still for so long and really by this stage if he was leaving, it would be great to just know already!

Skyler was still and rigid, barely breathing, he was not ready to leave. He didn't expect to win, but he had more to give and liked to learn more and spend more time with the others here.

One particular individual, standing out in his mind.

Necalli however, was perfectly at ease. He was happy no matter what; if he left he'd find another adventure somewhere else. Noticing this, Chris gave him a look of annoyance "Oi! Don't you care that you could be going home?"

Necalli chuckled "Either way I'm happy"

Chris groaned "Way to take all of the fun out of it" he then chucked Necalli a coin "Here"

Necalli caught it "Awesome!"

Chris mumbled something under his breath, before turning his attention to the other two.

Randy was still having trouble staying still and Skyler looked down unable to take it anymore. He wondered if he'd be able to say goodbye.

Chris grinned loving the sight "And-the-laaast-coooiiiinnnn-goooooeeeesss-tooooooo"

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Randy stilled suddenly and Skyler kept looking at the floor.

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"Skyler!"

Both boys were frozen. Skyler looked up not believing he was still in, he didn't even catch the coin that hit his knees and rolled to the floor.

He then grinned "I'm still here" he said faintly.

Jordon patted his shoulder "That you are"

Randy nodded and hugged Olive and Darla, who were by his side "Thanks guys, its been great"

He then got up and hugged the others. Well, Sasha gave him a firm handshake "You did good kid"

"Nough of a farewell get going!" Chris pulled him out from the Tulip's and prodded him in the direction of the Whirlpool of Shame, causing Randy to laugh. As he reached the Whirlpool he lifted his camera that was hanging around his neck and took a photo just as he jumped in.

…

End.

Geez- Nelly and Vincent- way to ruin my story! I honestly had a story arc set up for Ryan…oh well.

In-case you were interested:

The first match was 37minuets

The second was 1hr 21 minuets

The third was a ridiculous 2hrs 33 minuets.

I purposefully made it insanely log, because I once watched an episode of survivor and saw the majority of contestants hold on to a long for over an hour- I stopped watching after the hour- I'm not actually sure how long it was, which got me thinking about people and the extremes they go to in competition mode, but also I thought with Total Drama…why not (as it always is) exaggerate it.

I did try to break it up so it didn't feel like you were watching over four long hours of dodgeball ;)

Also, timing wise, they were woken up exactly 3.59 am and the walk was only 30 min, but for Dante and the others it felt longer because of the humidity (and added heat from the TD crew- in my head they can do about anything) it felt double time.

It was roughly 11.30 in the afternoon by the time they got back. So, a little over 7 hours before campfire and therefore roughly 7 to vote and any other shenanigans. 'Shrugs', in my head the ceremony is at 7pm and they have from when the challenge ends till about 6.30 to vote before the results are collected and tallied.

Well, hope you all enjoyed.

GwendolyD