¡Gracias por los comentarios! I think that's Spanish for thanks for the reviews (or at least I hope it is. I know los comentarios is comments, so I figured it would work the same way).
Anyways, I really had to get this chapter done because I cannot wait for the next challenge. Unlike this challenge, I've had the next and ninth challenges already planned out with the people who are in it being interchangeable. I've told Clumsy in Action and GossipQueen101 (thanks to both of you!) about it so far, and both of them loved the idea, so hopefully I can get it out soon. Oh, and the next challenge (day, episode, whatever you want to call it) is when I think I'll try out letting you guys vote. Hopefully that will go well.
Yes, I am aware that some of the things they are doing with this sand are against the laws of physics. No, sand doesn't stick to itself well enough to make a giant boulder. It does clump into balls and barriers, though.
The title of the chapter was inspired by an episode of South Park, except for the sand Kyle had to get out wasn't in his shorts. It was somewhere else. Yuck.
Disclaimer: The only things I own in this story are Lacey and the challenge idea. Everything else belongs to either whoever owns Total Drama Island or Chris. Oh, and Chef Hatchet's sand mermaid belongs to Chef.
Chapter Eleven: (Maybe You'd Be Much Nicer if You'd) Get the Sand Out of Your Shorts
"Group huddle!" Addy shouted to the Devious Deer as they got to their side of the beach.
"Wait," Bren said to Addy, who he was walking near. "You have a strategy?"
"No." Addy shrugged. "But Tanya does." She pointed her finger to the drama queen, who was already fidgeting because her feet had sand on them. "She thought I was louder than she was, though."
"I don't know. She does yell a lot." Bren replied as they walked towards the group. Addy giggled at that as they joined the huddle that was being formed. The only people who weren't in the huddle were Lacey and Blair, who stood just outside of it.
"Get closer; we can't let them hear my top secret plan!" Tanya insisted.
"I don't touch other people." Blair replied dully.
"Especially not while I'm in my bathing suit." Lacey agreed. She and Blair high fived at that.
"Well, could you guys get at least a little closer?" Tanya asked. Both girls took a single step closer to the group, laughing at Tanya's reaction.
"We're closer." Blair shrugged.
"Fine, whatever." Tanya turned back to the gathered team. "I think what we should do is…"
Confession Cam
Tanya: "Well, I think I've mentioned before that I hate Sienna," the drama queen said, thinking back to the past few episodes. "But I changed my mind. I don't hate Sienna. I simply dislike her. Now, Blair? I hate Blair."
Lacey: "Blair's cool. She reminds me a lot of a more boyish version of myself." She pushed her hair out of her eyes before stopping dead still. "Wait; don't tell her that, okay? I really don't want to meet her feminine side!"
Blair: "I don't like Tanya." The tomboy shrugged. "That's all there is to it."
End Confession Cam
"Okay, who here is not willing to go in the water?" Jake asked the Tremendous Tortoises, who he had somehow gotten to gather into a group. Sienna and Kyra's hands went up. "Why not?"
"I'm afraid of large bodies of water." Kyra confessed.
"I'm not a very strong swimmer." Sienna replied. "That and I don't want to get my hair wet."
"Oh, that's a good reason, too!" Kyra nodded.
"Okay then," Tom took over for Jake, taking on a serious tone like some kind of army commander. "We're going to need a couple of people with a good arm, who thinks they can do that?"
Morty, Irving, and Riley's hands went up.
"Cool."
"Oh, oh, I have the best idea!" Aaron said to Tom.
"Not now, Aaron, I think this will work best." Tom said. "We can try your strategy next."
"Fine."
"Okay, so here's what our plan is…"
Confession Cam
Aaron: "We should have used my strategy first. It would have worked…"
Riley: "Maybe if I'm lucky Haley will choose to take off her top and use it as a slingshot or something…" he spaces out with a goofy smile on his face, obviously daydreaming of the scene.
End Confession Cam
"Okay, teams…" Chris said when the two teams seemed to be ready; both lined up facing each other since they couldn't touch the sand until Chris said go. "On your marks… get set… let's get sandy!"
Confession Cam
Joe Howlett: He is laughing hysterically in the bus seat, clutching his sides in amusement. "Did he really say 'let's get sandy'?" he laughed again. "I mean, really? Can't he pay somebody to write this stuff for him or something?"
End Confession Cam
When Chris finished shouting, the teams got right to their strategies. Jayna and Kestrel hopped in the water for the Deer while Haley, Blair, Russell, Carrie, and Addy started to pile up sand into a barrier. Bren, Joe, and Lacey had started creating balls of sand by wetting some sand and squeezing it in their fists, obviously planning to chuck it. Tanya seemed to be supervising.
For the Tortoises nobody jumped into the water just yet, though about half of their team was already making a sand barrier. Riley, Irving, Morty, and Tom were making sand clumps similar to the way the Deer were, though Riley's looked more like some kind of a boulder than a ball. Once they seemed to be equipped with enough clumps of sand, the four boys started to chuck it at the other team, the sand flying high into the air and coming down on the other players. Several of the throws fell short, though Morty's nailed Blair, who had been looking down at the time, in the chest. The tomboy looked up and wiggled both of her middle fingers in Morty's direction.
"Nice shot," Riley said to Morty.
"Thanks," Morty replied, chucking another in the Deer's direction. He looked over his shoulder at the prankster only to see him attempting to pick his sand boulder up over his head. "What are you doing?"
"What… does it… ouch… look ... like I'm doing?" Riley said between grunts as he attempted to lift the sand ball. It was a miracle the thing stuck together as he hoisted it onto his back.
"Well, I'd say it looks like you're being an idiot." Morty replied.
Riley looked between Morty and the sand boulder several times until standing up straight, letting the giant pile fall to the ground. "You're right. This is stupid." He said. "It needs to be bigger."
Confession Cam
Riley: "That Morty's a genius. Of course my sand boulder needed to be bigger. The bigger, the better!"
Morty: He sighs and shakes his head disappointedly. "That's not what I meant…"
End Confession Cam
"Can we throw them yet, Tanya?" Lacey asked as she packed another sand ball tightly and put it on top of the pile she had stacked at her feet.
"Just wait a second," Tanya said, watching the status of their sand barrier. The pile of sand seemed to be well on its way to becoming a wall. She looked out to the ocean and saw Jayna dunking her head under and coming back up only to shake her head no to Kestrel.
"Watch out Tanya!" Addy shouted.
"Watch out for wh-Ahh!" Tanya moved her head just in time to dodge a sand ball. The sand whooshed past her ear and kept going. If that had hit her, it would have hit hard. She looked over to the Tortoises' side to see Irving and Tom high five. "Okay, you guys can start throwing now!"
"Sweet!" Joe Howlett commented as he, Bren, and Lacey started to chuck the sand balls over to the other side. Joe's landed just short of the sand they were piling up, Lacey's landed right on top of the wall, and Bren's hit Joe Freeman in the head.
"I got him!" Bren said to the other two sand throwers, grabbing another clump and chucking it.
On the other side of the beach, the Tortoises noticed that their opponents had finally started to throw, which just made Tom, Morty, and Irving start to throw faster and harder. Riley was crouched over rolling sand up into a giant boulder the same way you'd roll snow into part of a snowman.
Irving hurled another sand ball at the other team at the same time Joe Howlett slung his. The two orbs of sand collided midway and fell to the ground, disappointing both guys.
Meanwhile, Kestrel and Jayna were still out in the ocean attempting to find anything that they could use. Jayna's eyes were already turning red from opening them in the salt water. They were very far from the shore already and still hadn't found anything. Chris had made the right choice of words when saying they'd put the items "way out there." These items were actually way out there… way, way, way out there.
"Is that a bucket?" Kestrel asked Jayna, treading water for a moment. Jayna looked down and saw a red object somewhere way under the water with fish swimming around it. It definitely looked like a bucket.
"I think so." The environmentalist replied. "You want to get it or should I?"
"You can get it." Kestrel replied. "I'll keep looking."
Jayna nodded in agreement and sucked in a deep breath, diving under the water. Her dirty blonde hair floated around her as she dove down, her eyes slightly stinging and blurry from the salt water. She kept swimming down, feeling fish swim past her and skimming her arms. This bucket was tied up really, really deep.
When Jayna finally neared the bucket, she realized that it was tied up by a rope, the other side tucked under a rock. Little fish swam mindlessly around it and over it, never stopping to actually look at it. The environmentalist kicked her feet and swam towards the rock that the rope was tied under, lifting it up.
That was when her eyes went wide. There was a hole under that rock, and sticking out of that hole was a tentacle… which was wrapped around the end of the string.
Confession Cam
Jayna: "Okay. Chris is good." The environmentalist admitted. "Actually, he's really good. I mean, first he abuses sharks so that we can battle over them, and now he's conning the poor little squid into holding a string for him? I'd say it's animal abuse, but I'm pretty sure he pays them."
End Confession Cam
Back on the beach, the Tortoises' sand barrier was starting to look like a rounded out wall, already practically covering the crouching campers that were making it. Several of the builders had been hit by sand balls, Kit-Kat even getting nailed right in the center of her forehead. Luckily, it was a really small one so it didn't hurt all that bad, though she did get sand in her eyes.
Tom, Morty, and Irving were still chucking the sand balls at the Deer, though now they had Kyra making the ammunition for them. Riley was still looking dung beetle-esque as he rolled his sand boulder up. Kyra rolled several clumps of sand together and handed them all to Tom, who hurled the quintet of sand balls at full force towards Lacey.
On the other side of the beach, Lacey spotted the sand balls coming straight at her and panicked, not wanting to get hit. There were five of them making a beeline for her at all different heights, so unfortunately if she ducked or moved, she would probably still get hit because she'd hesitated for so long. So, she did the only thing she could think of at the moment.
"Hey Joe, come here! It's really, really important, so come fast!" she shouted, already feeling guilty for doing it. The movie geek, who had been standing a couple feet away from her launching sand, walked over to her and Lacey did the first thing that came to mind. She grabbed him by the arm and pulled him in front of her.
"Lacey!" Joe Howlett shouted, realizing she'd just put him straight into the line of fire. It was too late to move, though, and he got hit by all five of the throws, one in the face. Lacey stopped using him as a shield and ran out from behind him once she knew that all the throws had hit him. "What was that?"
"Um…" Lacey paused for a minute and then pointed to Bren, who was rolling a clump of sand in his hands. "Bren did it!"
Confession Cam
Lacey: "I guess I could be considered a bit… impulsive." She said. "I do a lot of stupid things because I act before I think. I mean, there was making Chef Hatchet mad at me the first minute I saw him, breaking into the Mess Hall, attempting to sabotage the other team in the Talent Show, letting Carrie take the blame for taking the harmonica…" She has a discomfited expression on her face. "Just add using Joe as a shield to that list."
End Confession Cam
Kestrel had swam away from Jayna and had spotted something under the water that looked a lot like a shovel, so he'd dove under to see.
Under the water, he could see that the shovel was tied by the handle to a thick piece of seaweed using a rope. It seemed like if he pulled hard enough, the seaweed would just pop right out of the dirt. So he put two hands on the plant and yanked upward… only to find himself sprayed in the eyes with a black substance. The artist blindly swam back up to the surface without the shovel, and wiped his face off when he resurfaced. He then dunked his head under the water to see what had squirted him only to see a gray-white squid peek its head out from inside the patch of seaweed, ink floating in the water around it.
"Oh, oh, can I throw one?" Kyra asked Irving, already holding a sphere of sand in her hand.
"Why not? We need all the help we can get." Irving replied.
"Yay!" Kyra cheered. She brought back her arm and flung the sand up into the air with all of her power. She watched the Deer, expecting her throw to hit Tanya in the head… only for something to land on top of her head. She put a hand up to her hair and felt what was in it, frowning when she realized that she was hit in the head with her own ball of sand. She rolled up another pile of sand and tried again, this time trying to aim a little straighter. She was sure it was going to hit Tanya in the head on this throw.
"Hey! Where'd dis come from?" Kyra turned her head to see that Glisa now had a pile of sand on her head.
"Sorry, Glisa!" Kyra smiled embarrassedly and picked up another sand ball. This one was going to hit one of the Deer. It had to. She brought her arm back and then whipped it forward, the sand flying into the air. This time, it did go straight to the other side.
Kyra watched in excitement as the sand flew in a straight line to the Deer's side of the beach, going in a straight line towards one of them. Her smile faded, however, when she realized who she was about to hit.
"NO!!!" she screamed as her victim was hit and fell backwards. She stared in horror at what she'd just done.
Kyra had hit Russell in the face.
"RUSSELL?!" Kyra shouted to the other side of the beach. Several of her teammates turned their heads when realizing that the childish girl was calling out to a member of the other team. "Russell, are you okay?!"
Back on the Deer's side, Russell was lying flat on his back in the sand, pushed back by the impact of the throw. He was muttering something in return to Kyra with a blush on his face when realizing that some of his teammates had turned their attention to him.
Haley nodded and shouted to the other side, "He's okay Kyra! Just a little flustered!"
"Okay, thank y-OOF!" That was when Kyra was nailed in the face with a ball of sand and fell backwards.
"Take that!" all of the heads on the Deer team turned to Blair, who had gotten to her feet and had chucked a ball of sand at Kyra. She had a satisfied look on her face and had her arms crossed triumphantly over her chest.
"Why'd you just randomly throw that?!" Tanya asked, angry that somebody had strayed from her plan.
"Because she hit Russell." Blair replied. "It's payback since I knew he wouldn't throw one back at her."
"Is she okay?" Russell asked, sitting up and looking over to the Tortoises. Kyra was lying on her back in the sand, most likely complaining about having sand in her eyes.
"She's fine Russell, don't worry about her." Blair said to him. She nudged him in the arm. "I've got your back."
"We need a new strategy!" Tanya said to her teammates, walking over to stand with the wall builders. Joe, Bren, and Lacey moved towards her to hear her plan, still throwing as they did so. "We need to find some way to get more sand on them at a time since their throws seemed to be more accurate than ours. Anybody have any ideas?"
"What if," Bren spoke, "we get our fastest or strongest players to go over there and kick and throw sand onto them from a close distance? We can get piles of it on them if we do that."
"I like that." Carrie said to Bren.
"Fine." Tanya approved.
"Bren, I think you should go over there since you're our strongest player," Carrie said to the martial artist, "and Addy because you're one of our fastest." The hyper girl hopped to her feet when she heard her name and slung an arm around Bren's shoulders.
"We can be distraction buddies!" Addy said to the martial artist, who found himself not liking the term "distraction buddies".
"Blair," Tanya instructed the tomboy, "Since you obviously have an arm, go throw with Joe and Lacey. I'll help Russell, Haley, and Carrie with the wall."
"Wow, I'm amazed," Blair mocked, picking a handful of sand up as she got up off of the ground. "You're actually going to get sand on your hands?"
"I'm making a sacrifice for our team." Tanya answered, kneeling in the sand between Haley and Carrie and starting to bunch up the sand.
"Hey," Haley said a moment later. "What ever happened to Jayna and Kestrel?"
To answer Haley's question, Jayna and Kestrel were both caught up in underwater battles with squids. Kestrel's squid was small, and right now was stuck to his face spraying ink all over him as its method of defense. The artist kept trying to yank the squid off so he could just grab the shovel and go, but the little creature's tentacles were practically crazy glued to his face. Whenever one came loose it would make a sickening popping sound that was audible even under the water.
Jayna's squid was not as little as she had thought it was. She had attempted to grab the bucket and rip the rope from she squid's hand, only for it to crawl out from its hole. Unfortunately for the environmentalist, she had underestimated the size of the animal and the squid hadn't crawled out of the tiny little hole that its tentacle stuck out of. Instead, it had just lifted itself out of the sand, revealing that it was at least ten times the size of Kestrel's. She found herself being squeezed by a giant tentacle, the bucket just inches away from her. If her arms weren't being pinned to her sides, she could have easily picked up the bucket. Unfortunately, the squid didn't seem to want to let her go.
Meanwhile, the Tremendous Tortoises had sent Jake, Kit-Kat, and Glisa out to sea to go find the objects because their barrier was in good shape. Aaron had insisted that they use his plan now, but his teammates had said "later" again and left him disappointedly working on the wall. Riley was still rolling his sand ball like a dung beetle, the weapon now up to his waist in height. Kyra had recovered from her blow to the head and was now furious, making sand balls for Morty, Irving, and Tom at an extremely fast speed, muttering something about wanting them to chuck them at Blair.
The Tortoises were caught of guard, however, when they saw two figures running straight at them. As they came closer, the team could start to make out exactly who they were: Bren and Addy.
"Hit them!" Sienna shouted to the guys who were throwing sand. "Hit them before they can get over here!"
Irving, Morty, and Tom started to rapidly throw the sand balls at Bren and Addy, though none of them seemed to hit their targets. Bren would always lithely dodge the throws while Addy would just run past them. The closest any of the three got to hitting one of them was one of Irving's throws skimming Addy's arm. They didn't stand a chance.
As the pair got nearer, Joe Freeman, Daphne, Sienna, and Aaron started to brush and kick sand at them, hoping it would stick to their legs as they ran past them. Addy started to run around the team's area, darting in and out between the standing and crouching Tortoises and playfully hopping over their wall, though not destroying it. Morty, Tom, and Irving directed their throws at her figuring she might be easier (and less threatening) to hit than Bren. As they did this, though, they didn't see Bren step up behind them.
Bren reached out and grabbed Morty by the back of his bathing suit and hoisted him into the air, walking away from the battle.
"Hey, what are you doing?" Morty shouted. "Put me down!"
"Hmm…" Bren said, looking around the beach and completely ignoring the sand that was being thrown at his back. "Where can I put you?"
"You can put me down you idiot!" Morty argued, kicking his feet around and flailing his arms. Bren was holding his too far out in front of him, though, so his kicking and screaming did nothing.
"I know!" Bren finally said, ignoring Morty. "I'll put you over there!"
"You'll do what?!" Morty asked as Bren brought the arm holding him up back. "No! No, you are not going to throw me! You can't throw me, can you? Let go of me!"
Morty's protesting didn't do much as Bren chucked him into the air. He went soaring higher and higher and higher until he finally felt himself descending. He screamed at the top of his lungs as he near the ground, mostly because of where he was landing.
"MY MERMAID!!!" That's right, Morty had just landed on and destroyed Chef Hatchet's sand mermaid. He sat up covered and sand and looked around, only to be grabbed by the arm and yanked to his feet. "Why are you over here?!"
"Bren threw me over here!" Morty replied nervously. "I swear!"
"He destroyed my mermaid!" Chef Hatchet shouted to Morty. The look on his face was terrifying: his unibrow was lowered over his eyes in frustration, his mouth was wide open showing yellowing teeth being gritted together, a vein in his neck pulsed wildly. He could probably scare away his own reflection with that expression, even while he was wearing the pathetic duck floatie. "Where is the little creep?"
"He went that way!" Morty shouted, pointing in the direction that Bren had walked away.
"He is going… to pay!" At pay, Chef dropped Morty and reached behind his back, pulling out a giant squirt gun.
"Where did you get that?" Morty questioned.
"Don't question me, boy." Chef said, stomping off. Morty just stood up and ran back to his team.
"What happened to you?" Irving asked, grimacing at the sight of Morty being completely coated in sand.
"Just don't ask." Morty replied, picking up a ball of sand and slinging it at the Deer.
Confession Cam
Morty: "I don't think I have ever been so afraid of a man wearing a duck around his waist." He is coated in sand from head to toe, attempting to brush some off of him. "I'd honestly hate to be Bren right now."
End Confession Cam
Lacey, Blair, and Joe Howlett were still launching sand balls over to the other team when Addy came running back.
"Did you do anything?" Blair asked her.
"Oh yeah," Addy nodded. "I kicked so much sand on some of their builders it wasn't even funny! Actually, yes it was! Hahaha!"
"What about Bren?" Joe asked.
"Oh, I don't know about him." Addy said, picking up a ball of sand and attempting to throw it across the distance of the beach. It didn't make the distance it needed. "Last I saw he was walking off holding Morty by the shorts!"
Blair just gave her a confused look. "Okay then…"
"Hey Blair, you want to see something cool?" Lacey asked the tomboy, picking up a ball of sand.
"Sure."
"I'm going to pitch this ball like a softball and hopefully it'll have enough power behind it to make it all the way to the other side of the beach."
Lacey rolled the sand into an orb, placed it into her right hand, and then planted her feet firmly on the ground. She then wound her arm around in a windmill motion and then released the ball around her waist. The ball went flying at a high speed only to hit Joe Howlett, who had just been running away from a sand ball across Lacey's line of fire, in the back of the head. Blair instantly started to laugh when Joe turned around and saw that it was Lacey again.
"Are you trying to get sand on me?" he asked, attempting to shake the sand out of his hair.
"Hey, you can't blame me for that one!" Lacey protested. "You were in my way! That'll teach you to run in front of me!"
Joe just rolled his eyes at her and went back to throwing, making sure to stay as far away from her as he possibly could.
Confession Cam
Joe Howlett: "Let's see… since I've been placed on the same team as Lacey she has gotten me hit in the face with globs of slime when she was breaking into the Mess Hall, managed to get me threatened by Tanya by adding onto the fact that I said she smelled, convinced me to help her sabotage the other team, used me as a shield and made me get hit with five of Tom's throws, and now she's hit me in the back of the head at a close distance with a throw that probably could have gone a lot farther." He counts off all of the things on his fingers and then looks up at the camera. "So, judging by those odds, if we're on the same team for any longer I'll be dead by the end of the season. Nice."
End Confession Cam
"Guys, guys! Did you see what I did to Morty?" Bren shouted, running up to his teammates that were making the wall. "I threw him across the beach. He was covered in sand!"
"Cool!" Haley shouted, ducking from a clump of sand that had just been thrown at her head.
"Awesome!" Carrie agreed.
"Good job." Tanya approved.
"Hey, do you guys hear that?" Russell asked. The other four stopped talking for a moment and listened in. Something that sounded a lot like a battle cry sounded through the air and seemed to be getting louder. "Doesn't that sound kind of like-"
"CHEF!" Haley pointed to the large man, who was bounding towards them with a huge squirt gun with his mouth wide open, letting out a demonic battle cry. He looked determined and terrifying as he ran across the sand, a stone cold glare set on his face.
"Crap!" Bren shouted, running as Chef Hatchet pumped his water gun. Chef chased right after him, completely ignoring the rest of his team.
"This is for my mermaid!!!" He shouted, squirting the gun at Bren. The stream of water hit Bren in the back and he was squirted halfway down the beach. Chef ran after him, pumping the water gun, as the martial artist got to his feet and started to run again.
Under the water, Jayna had managed to squeeze one arm out of the squid's bone-crunching grip and grabbed onto the handle of the bucket she was trying to get. She then brought back this arm and hit the squid over the head several times, regretting every moment of it. The squid, in a daze, let go of her and swam away, wobbling in circles a little as it did. Jayna smiled in victory and swam to the surface with the bucket, swimming towards the shore.
"I'm finished!" Riley shouted. "It's perfect!"
Tom turned around to see that the prankster had rolled up a ball of sand so large that it came to his chin in height. He was attempting to lift it at the moment, though he seemed to be unsuccessful.
"What the heck are you doing?" Tom asked, walking over to Riley.
"I'm gonna… ugh... throw this… over there!" Riley said, huffing and puffing as he hoisted the boulder into his arms. "And I could use some help!"
"Fine, fine, what do you need me to do?"
"Can we stop building this wall now and start throwing?" Haley asked Tanya. The wall was high enough so that they could hide comfortably behind it, which they were.
"Sure, go right ahead." Tanya agreed. Haley stood up and brushed off her knees and then looked up… only to see something huge coming straight at them.
"Oh my god, what is-" she was interrupted, however, by the object hitting her and knocking her over on top of Tanya, smothering them both in sand. Carrie and Russell could only gape at the sight in confusion.
"Haley!" Riley shouted from the other side of the beach. That's right; the object that Haley was hit with was none other than Riley's sand boulder.
"Woo!" Tom cheered. "We got them!"
"Yeah, but we got Haley!" Riley pointed out.
"So?" Riley just gave Tom a look. "She's a Deer. Weren't we aiming for the Deer?" Riley's look just got more intense. "What did you like her or something?"
"Yeah. Did you not see me sitting with her on the bus?"
Tom thought back to the bus ride. "Huh. Guess I really never noticed."
"Dude, we probably just drowned my girlfriend in sand!"
"Okay, when you put it that way, it does sound really bad!"
"I have to go help her!"
"I don't think-"
"I'm comin' Haley!" Before Tom could answer, Riley went running across the battlefield, getting pelted with several sand balls in the process. That didn't stop him, though, and he kept running like a madman towards the other side of the beach, ran around the Deer's wall, and kneeled down to the pile of sand.
"What are you doing here?!" Carrie asked, chucking sand at Riley.
"I'm helping my girlfriend!" Riley replied, digging through the pile of sand that Haley was under.
"Your girlfriend?" Russell asked. "My sister?!"
"Yeah, Braniac, your sister. Nobody likes Tanya." Riley kept flinging sand back and digging through it until a hand emerged from the pile. "Haley?!" He pulled at the hand until a head came up from the sand.
"Riley?! What the hell do you think you're doing over here and why haven't you been covered in sand balls yet?" It was Tanya. "Guys, get over here and throw stuff at him! He can't be-"
"Yeah, yeah, shut up!" Riley shoved Tanya back under the sand and kept digging until coming in contact with a foot. "There she is!" He kept digging in that area until Haley climbed out of the pile of sand, gasping for air. "Are you okay?"
"Riley?!" Haley asked when realizing who'd pulled her out of the sand.
"Yeah! Are you okay?" Riley asked her, ignoring the fact that Carrie and Russell were bombarding him in sand balls.
"Yeah, I'm fine, it's just sand." Haley replied. "Hey, didn't I land on Tanya? Is she still-"
"Tanya's fine, forget about her! Nobody likes Tanya anyway."
"You have a point there." Haley agreed. She then glared at Carrie and her brother. "Will you guys stop?"
"No! He's on the other team! If we cover him enough, we'll win for sure!" Carrie said, throwing the sand even faster now.
"I just don't like him!" Russell was throwing the sand as fast as Carrie.
"You know, you might want to get over to your team before they kill you." Haley said, pointing out that Sienna was attempting to wave Riley back over to their side.
"Eh, they'll have to just-"
"How dare you push me back under the sand?!" Riley was interrupted by Tanya, who had dug her way out of the sand and had just put him in a headlock. "Look at me now! I'm a mess! And this is all your fault!"
"Tanya let him go!" Haley shouted.
"Look what he did to me!" Tanya said gesturing to her sand covered body. "I am a mess! He deserves to pay for-"
"He's turning blue!"
"So?"
"Let him go!" Haley then grabbed onto Tanya's arms and pulled her off of Riley, leading to her landing in the sand again. Riley took in as much air as he could as his face returned to its normal color. "Now you get back over onto your side of the beach before you get killed!"
"Fine, fine." Riley got up and started to run to the other side of the beach, being bombarded in sand balls in the process.
Haley was faced by several dirty looks, the dirtiest of all being from her brother.
Confession Cam
Russell: "My sister is going out with him?!" he asks, he jaw dropping open. "I mean, out of all people she chooses the meanest guy on the island? What is wrong with her?!"
Tanya: "That stupid Riley! He plucks me out of the sand and then pushes me back in when he realizes I'm not that viewing world flashing, tube top wearing, Tortoise loving-" the screen fast forwards and Tanya's mouth is still moving, "-flirty, short shorts wearing, silky pajama owning-" the camera fast forwards again, "-way too nice, braless traitor girlfriend of his!"
End Confession Cam
"Do you see anything?" Jake asked Kit-Kat and Glisa. The three of them were still scanning the ocean for any items, though they'd come with no luck.
"I don't think so." Kit-Kat replied.
"Hey!" Glisa shouted. "Doesn't that look like a bucket?" Kit-Kat and Jake both looked down and saw exactly what she was pointing to.
"Yeah!" Jake nodded. "But what's that thing next to it?"
"Did it just move?!" Kit-Kat asked.
"I t'ink it did!" Glisa shouted. "Is it coming towards us?"
"Swim! Swim as fast as you can!" The three started to swim away from the object at full speed, hoping that it wouldn't get to them. They didn't seem to be fast enough, because the three of them were all pulled under the water one after another within seconds.
"Mhm mmm mhmn mhh!" Addy heard a muffled voice running towards her and turned her head only to see somebody with what looked like a squid stuck to their face walk up to her. He was holding a shovel in one hand and was covered in black ink. "Mhmmn? Mhm mn hmmn mnm!"
"Kestrel?" Addy asked. He nodded. "Is that a squid?" He nodded again. "Is it stuck?" He nodded a third time. "I'll save you!"
Addy ran up to Kestrel, grabbed the squid and pulled. The squid didn't move a bit, though one of its tentacles made a gross popping sound when it unlatched from his face.
"Oh, this thing's really stuck!" Addy remarked. "Give me that shovel!" Kestrel handed her the shovel and she wedged it in between his face and the squid, pulling back. The squid unstuck itself from Kestrel's face one suction cup at a time, making sickening sounds with every pop. Once the squid was on the shovel, Addy flung it across the beach to the Deer's side. It landed on top of Joe Freeman's head and he got up, screaming and running in circles.
"Thanks for that!" Kestrel said, smiling that his face was finally free. "Does my face look fine?"
"Um…" In truth, Kestrel's face had several rings on it in swirling patterns from where the tentacles were. "You look great!"
"Cool, what should I do now?"
"Help me throw stuff at the-"
"I've got it!" Addy and Kestrel turned to see Jayna making her way out of the water, getting hit in the head with a sand ball in the process. She was holding a bucket triumphantly in the air. "I got it!"
"Where'd you get the giant hickey?" Addy asked, pointing at Jayna's side. On Jayna's skin was a giant red ring that looked similar to the ones that were scattered around Kestrel's face.
"Whoa! Did you have some romantic affair with a whale or something?" Kestrel asked.
"No! I got into a fight with a squid to get this bucket!" Jayna held up the bucket in front of him. "And you should be talking. You've got them all over your face! Now if you don't mind, I'm going to hand this over to Tanya and see what she wants me to do with it."
"I'll give her this, too." Kestrel said, following the environmentalist with the shovel in hand.
Confession Cam
Kestrel: "My face doesn't look that bad, does it?" he leans in to look at his reflection in the camera and grimaces. "Now I wish I hadn't looked…"
End Confession Cam
The Tortoises' wall had been finished and now everybody was attempting to either make sand balls or throw at the Deer. Daphne and Sienna seemed to be attempting to stay behind the barrier more than the others, though Sienna had gotten sand in her hair when Blair had hit her with a sand ball. Joe Freeman was still running around with a squid (which seemingly fell from the sky) clamped to his head.
"This isn't working!" Sienna commented after chucking a sand ball. "Half of our throws are missing!"
"Well, we need a new plan then!" Daphne said, poking her head up over the top of the barrier and throwing a sand ball. As soon as the ball left her hands, she ducked back down behind the barrier, not even bothering to see it land.
"Oh, oh!" Aaron raised his hand. "Can we use my plan now?"
"What is it?" Tom asked. Aaron explained his plan to the team and they all smiled at it, nodding and agreeing as he spoke. "Let's do it, then."
"Wait," Kyra spoke up. "Where're Jake, Glisa, and Kit-Kat?"
Jake, Glisa, and Kit-Kat were currently being held under the water by a giant squid, which was just holding them up using three tentacles and examining them, turning them at all different angles. Unknown to them, this was actually the same squid that had just held Jayna, and now he wanted somebody to replace her. The three Tortoises just stared scared stiff at the squid, realizing that it was guarding a bunch of shovels and buckets.
The camera shifts away from the ocean and to Chris, who is still tanning in his beach chair with his sunglasses on. He lifts up his glasses and looks at the camera.
"Oh, we're doing this already?" he asks. The camera nods up and down. "Okay, well, what will happen to the campers next? Find out after the commercial break on Total… Drama… Island… Again!" He puts his sunglasses back on and then lies back down. "Now go away and let me tan."
I don't like this chapter very much. I loved the part where Riley pushed Tanya back under the sand, though!
Okay, now on to a more serious note... both Clumsy in Action and I have made our own respective websites for Total Drama Island: Again! Here are the web adresses:
The one created by me: http: // total -drama -island -again. webs. com/
The totally awesome one created by Clumsy in Action: http: // total -drama -island -ktd123 .webs. com/
Just remove the spaces and you'll be there! Mine has character bios and a little more info on the challenges while CIA's has the theme song, couples, and confession cams (lots of confession cams in this one, by the way. Sorry about that!). Both are works in progress!
Oh, and there's a poll on my profile if you haven't voted already. I forgot to mention it last update, but some of you already found it!
Who will win the sandfight? Will Jake, Kit-Kat, and Glisa escape the clutches of the giant squid? Will Joe Howlett survive being on the same team as Lacey? Will Jayna be able to convince her team that the mark on her side isn't a whale hickey? All of these questions and more will be answered... next chapter!