Sorry for the extremely long wait! There could be plenty of excuses I could give you but I won't bother! I will just do my best to get chapters out faster since I FINALLY have a new laptop! I may write a sequel for this, depends on if I get enough ideas on how to make it work and it will decide how this one will end so we'll see. Thoughts?
Also, KOTE's birthday was yesterday. This story is officially a year old!
On another happy note (for me at least!), I got to go to Rihanna's homecoming concert last week Friday!
And . IT. WAS. AWESOME!
Disclaimer: See Chapter 1.
Nasira, Hasim, Marcus, Jamilah, Alyssa and Samuel sat in Alyssa's basement again.
"So, let's discuss this latest bit of information that we've gotten about Radcliffe, shall we?"
He waved his staff and a projection of a figure in a hooded cloak appeared, speaking.
"I'm sorry. I cannot reveal myself to you, no matter how much I want to. It would place me in too much danger, among other things. What I can say is that you really should keep an eye out on Alejandro. He is the son of Santos and Marisela Burromuerto former Human Shape-Shifter and current witch respectively, younger brother of Carlos and José and the nephew of Julio Burromuerto the hypnotist."
"Ever since Santos lost his powers in a shape-shifting attempt gone very awry he disappeared for a while and somehow remade himself as a diplomat in his homeland. He accomplished this with Radcliffe's help. In exchange for this Radcliffe has asked for Alejandro's services for messing with the Keepers in game. Marisela actually has no idea of what is going on within her family. She has nothing to do with this. Neither does Carlos, who is the same man you now know as Tiana's boyfriend. Guess why the brothers never come when she invites them... Also, he is the one responsible for Ezekiel's behaviour in Tanzania..."
Hasim made the image disappear.
The room was silent for a moment before Samuel spoke up. "Even before I realised he had powers, I never trusted that boy from the beginning!"
"Oh really?" Alyssa raised an eyebrow. "What about the first few episodes of Total Drama World Tour, Cheffy?"
"Well, a little after the beginning anyway... I'll do my best to keep him away from the girls. Question though. Do I break the façade of Chef Hatchett and tell them that I am Samuel?" He asked.
"I see no need for that yet. However Sierra and Cody on the other hand..." Jamilah spoke up.
"But you will need to let Princess Sierra and Cody know about Alejandro." Marcus said. "They both know he's evil, but have no idea that he was the one who organized Gwen's elimination with that little trick he learnt from his uncle and messed with Ezekiel. They need to keep him away from them, especially Heather..."
"And the more recent update we also got about Courtney. Wow. He's pulling all the stops this time, isn't he?" Alyssa said.
"Granting power in exchange for her services. I must admit, that was a brilliant move on his part, recruiting her like that." Nasira said.
"So what do we do to keep an eye on the Keepers back at Playa Des Losers 2 then? We have no one to keep an eye on them there..." Alyssa said.
"I have an idea if Marissa and Aideen will agree..." Samuel said.
Everyone turned to look at him.
"Aideen's grandson from Anya, Shane is doing Media Studies at University of Toronto right?" Samuel asked.
Everyone nodded.
"And Kimberly, Aideen and Marissa's mutual granddaughter and Travis and Milah's daughter is into media and things like that, right?" He continued.
They nodded again.
"If everyone agrees to it, perhaps Shane could pretend to observe the production process, claiming it to be part of his studies. Kimberly could go along if she wants to, but Shane's studies will be their cover. She'll just visit him, pretending that it is an ordinary visit. It's being filmed on a weekend so Kimberly could spend the weekend with Marissa in Toronto if she likes. This is only temporary though because the location where the losers are will be moved to the final destination soon." Samuel suggested.
"That's a brilliant idea!" Alyssa exclaimed.
"I must agree with Alyssa on this one." Marcus said. "That is a good idea. But will Marissa, Aideen, Anya, Travis and Milah agree? I certainly know Shane and Kimberly would..."
"Well Shane is 20 and Kimberly is 18 so I think they'd be more than capable of making decisions of their own." Hasim said.
Nasira thought for a moment. "That could work..." She said after a while. "But is it wise to get Kimberly into this? I know she can be a good person sometimes, but her personality is mostly... insufferable..."
"Perhaps, but she is more than capable on the magical front, so maybe we should give her a chance." Jamilah said.
"Well then, do we ask?" Samuel asked.
"I think we do!" Hasim exclaimed.
"What about Carlos and Marisela? We can't just let them go ignorant!" Alyssa exclaimed.
"I'll tell Carlos and Tiana about this in case Radcliffe tries to use him to get to her. Jamilah, can you go in another form and let Marisela know what's happening?" Marcus asked.
"I most certainly will!" Jamilah declared.
"What about Nadir? Aren't the Keepers supposed to go there next? Will Sierra go with you, Hasim?" Alyssa asked.
"Actually, I am not going this time." Hasim said. "Sierra said that she would love to take them on her own and I have no problem with that. Plus Vesta and the other Old Keepers have said that they would like to take the girls to Hamilton..."
"And I'm watching that little twerp, Al. I can't wait to see him go down!" Samuel/Chef punched his palm, switching his beanie for his Chef's hat.
"Radcliffe's plans are falling down all around his ears!" Alyssa grinned.
"And I actually can't wait to see his reaction to it. He was always an overly arrogant fellow..." Marcus said, getting up from the table. The others followed suit.
Cody stretched and yawned in his seat.
"Being in First Class rocks!" He exclaimed.
"Indeed it does!" Alejandro commented.
"I know what you're up to, you know. Don't think you can play me now!" Cody thought.
"My socks are still on? I'm still in the same position I fell asleep in? I don't smell like crazy? Sierra left me alone all night!" Cody exclaimed.
"Well Sierra did try to sneak in seven times, but I sleep with one eye open for a reason." Alejandro boasted.
"And maybe I should too, around you!" Cody thought.
"Thanks! Thanks so much!" Cody exclaimed eagerly. "Thank goodness for drama class at school..." He thought.
Alejandro smirked evilly, thinking that Cody was putty in his well chiselled hands.
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Alejandro: He yawned a bored sort of yawn. "Win African challenge; invite pathetically grateful nerdling to First Class, win today's challenge, get nerdling to vote for Heather. Done, done and oh so close I can taste it..."
Alejandro strolled into First Class with a cart full of sweets. Several different kinds. Candied apples, lollipops, bonbons...
Cody went wide-eyed at this.
"While you were sleeping, Chris delivered my prize for winning!" Alejandro explained.
Cody's mouth watered at the sight before him. "Must keep clear head!" He shook it to clear it.
He lifted one of the candied apples and removed something from his bag that looked like a handheld barcode scanner and held it to the apple.
He did this for several other items on the cart.
"Good thing I managed to build this scanner! Not only does it detect what something is made of, food or otherwise, but it also picks up other substances like poison and identifies unknown objects!" He thought.
"Sadly, I do not have much of a sugar tooth." Alejandro said.
"Really?" Cody raised an eyebrow.
"And as my dear mama always says, I am sweet enough already."
"She wouldn't say that if she knew what you were doing..." Cody thought.
"And I would rather not pollute my system with chemicals and dyes." Alejandro said.
"You're pretty polluted otherwise. Mentally for example. So why bother?" Cody thought.
"So since I don't eat them, I think you should enjoy them." Alejandro said.
"All the sweets are safe though, so why not enjoy them?" Cody thought before beginning to gobble up the sweet treats before him.
Sierra had dragged Heather and Izzy down to the cargo hold and was explaining the situation to them.
"NO way! You're the Nadiri princess?" Izzy gasped in surprise. Heather had a stunned look on her face.
"Yep!" Sierra pulled a ring of gold, with a small sun made of citrine embedded in the centre from her pocket, held it up for a moment and slipped it onto her finger. Nadir's sceptre-ring...
"How come you didn't tell us before?" Heather asked.
"We had no reason to yet, but we do now! Cody would have been here too but he's up there with Ale-Jerkface..." Sierra got a dark look on her face.
"What is the reason then?" Izzy asked.
"Radcliffe has inside agents in this contest!" Sierra exclaimed.
"WHAT?"
"Yes, he does! Alejandro has been working for him this whole time! Not only is he a shadow master, but he also learnt a little mind control from his Uncle Julio and that was what was behind Gwen's elimination in China!" Sierra exclaimed.
"You mean he... hypnotized us?" Heather said in disgust.
"Looks like it..." Izzy said, equally disgusted.
"And Courtney back at Playa Des Losers 2 as well. Apparently he got to her and offered her powers so she could have a chance of defeating you!" Sierra said.
"Wow, Courtney's really gone over the edge, hasn't she?" Izzy shuddered.
"Like I've said before, she officially replaces you as being a perfect ten on the crazy scale!" Heather said, wide-eyed.
"And about Alejandro..." Sierra started.
"He's got to go!" Heather pounded her palm.
"Hold on." Sierra held up a hand.
"We have to keep on acting as if we don't know a thing about this!"
"So what do you mean...? Just let him stay?" Heather asked incredulously.
"Not at all! We just keep on acting like we would around each other if this situation wasn't what it is and then we turn around and eliminate him..." Sierra snapped her fingers. "Just like that!"
"An alliance of sorts, huh?" Izzy mused for a second. "I like it!"
"Wait, what about Gwen, Bridgette and Lindsay? Courtney's there with them now!" Heather exclaimed.
"Don't worry; there are people there with them too..." Sierra said.
At Playa Des Losers two young people, a male and a female were walking up to the gates.
The male was average height, had black ear-length hair and brown eyes. He wore a simple black T-Shirt, jeans and sneakers.
The female on the other hand was more on the tall side. She had a caramel skin tone, wild, curly black hair that just reached her shoulders and hazel eyes. She had a pair of golden-brown horn rimmed shades perched in her hair and was wearing huge gold hoop earrings, a purple spaghetti-strap top with a short-sleeved open black jacket over it, black knee-length jeans and black stiletto ankle boots.
"Well, we've finally arrived, haven't we, Kimmy?" The man gazed up at the building.
"This is going to be real fun." The woman said sarcastically.
"Look at this way, Kimberly. It puts even more excitement into your life, right?" The man put his hand on her shoulder.
"You know Shane, that's true!" Kimberly brightened. "I get an excuse to come to Toronto without Female Satan after all!" Kimberly grinned.
"Surely Talia isn't that bad?" Shane raised an eyebrow.
"You've obviously never been on the receiving end of her pranks..." Kimberly said. "Now let's get inside."
They went straight down to the TV lounge where the contestants were watching and sat quietly in the back.
When they saw Courtney get up and walk off, their eyes followed her.
When Courtney returned a short while later, she noticed them looking at her.
"What are you looking at?" She snapped.
Everyone else who had been watching Heather, Izzy and Sierra in Economy Class turned to watch.
"Me? I don't know, but I certainly wasn't looking at you." Kimberly smiled- a taunting sort of smile that would make you want to punch whoever had it.
"This is gonna be good." Shane pulled a bag of popcorn out of his backpack and watched eagerly.
"Who is she?" Gwen asked.
Duncan shrugged. "I don't know, but if she's going to taunt Courtney like that, I may just like her!"
"Listen. You do not want to mess with me." Courtney said, walking up to her.
"Uh-oh..." Shane ran for cover. It never ended well when people messed with his cousin. Usually for the other person seeing as Kimberly certainly wasn't the most pleasant person to begin with...
"That's nice. You also don't want to mess with me." Kimberly said casually, glancing at her nails.
This seemed to aggravate Courtney even more.
"I don't appreciate you staring like that." Courtney said in a chilling tone.
Everyone else shuddered.
"As a friend of mine, Jane would say, who'd want to stare at your awful speckled mug?" Kimberly said.
This set things going in Gwen, Bridgette and Lindsay's minds.
"Jane? Her name is Kimberly; she knows someone named Jane..." Gwen thought.
"Vesta's granddaughter's name is Jane and Kimberly awfully resembles..." Bridgette thought.
"Oh my gosh! Kimberly! Travis and Milah's daughter!" Lindsay thought.
They looked at one another. "And the guy she's with. Does that mean..." They trailed off as they heard the sound of a slap.
Kimberly touched her cheek tenderly and looked at Courtney slowly.
"Oh HELL NO!" She yelled.
She tugged her earrings out of her ears.
"Wow. When a woman takes off her earrings like that, you know a fight's about to happen!" Leshawna commented.
"Shane, hold these." She tossed them at him.
"You really shouldn't challenge people you don't know, you know."
And with that, Kimberly delivered a sucker punch that literally sent Courtney spinning across the room.
The room burst out into cheers (Duncan the loudest!) as Kimberly dusted off her hands, went to reclaim her earrings and sat putting them on as if nothing had happened.
"The interns told me that Lindsay of all people managed to beat you in a fight. One would think you'd learn your lesson about starting fights by now with a track record as pathetic as that..." She said as Shane came to sit beside her.
Gwen, Bridgette and Lindsay decided to approach them.
"Excuse me, but aren't you..." Gwen fiddled with the Silver Star.
"Yep. Kimberly Bryan here. Daughter of Travis and Jamilah Bryan also known as Milah, granddaughter of Marissa Bryan and Aideen Robinson former Water and Fire Keepers."
"Do you always go around introducing yourself like that?" Shane asked. "Sheesh. Talk about long winded introductions! My name is Shane Jones. You don't know her but Anya is my mother. She's Aideen's oldest so, yeah. Aideen is my grandma too. Pleased to meet you three."
"Why haven't we seen you before?" Lindsay asked.
"Walk with us, won't you?" Shane led them out of the room. Kimberly followed, throwing hateful glances at Courtney who after glaring at Duncan who was still laughing and pointing at her turned to glare at her too.
Kimberly flipped her off.
"Well you all know about Radcliffe and previous tactics he has used to try and destroy the Keepers, right?" Shane said.
The three Keepers nodded.
"Well..." Kimberly paused. "He's taken it much farther this time."
"What do you mean?" Gwen asked.
"Radcliffe has inside agents in this contest." Shane said.
Gwen, Lindsay and Bridgette stopped in their tracks.
"Wha?" Bridgette froze.
"How?" Lindsay asked.
"Who?" Gwen asked.
"Alejandro in the game and Courtney here." Kimberly said.
"No way... She wouldn't!" Bridgette exclaimed.
"Yep. Apparently she wants revenge that badly that she agreed to become part of Radcliffe's team in exchange for powers of her own so she can destroy those she hates..." Kimberly threw a glance at Gwen.
"Because of me..." Gwen thought sadly.
"And Alejandro?" Bridgette asked.
"He is the one behind Gwen's elimination in China. There's a spy in Radcliffe's midst who tells us that he not only has shadow-based powers, but also learnt a few hypnotism tricks from his uncle Julio." Shane said.
Gwen clenched her fist.
"Wait, what about Heather and Izzy? They're there with him!" Lindsay squealed in fright.
"Don't worry about them. They're well taken care of." Kimberly said.
"We're here to help you three just in case something happens. We don't know what he could do! I'm posing as a simple student in search of information and Kimberly is pretending to just visit me." Shane explained.
"In the meantime, you all should get back and watch the episode. And whatever you do..." Kimberly raised an eyebrow.
"Don't let Courtney know we're onto her." Gwen nodded.
"Good." Shane and Kimberly gave them two thumbs off as they went to talk to the interns and get the hang of the place.
Sierra laid back on the bench in Loser Class on a bunch of pillows that she had inexplicably obtained (if you didn't know she had magic, that is!) talking to Heather and Izzy.
"So, what do you recommend?" Sierra asked.
Heather sighed. "I am NOT a therapist!"
"JUST PRETEND!" Sierra insisted.
"I can give you some advice!" Izzy butted in.
"You giving someone advice as a therapist? Hell, YOU need a therapist, Izzy!" Heather said to her.
"How is this supposed to do anything, anyway?" Heather asked.
"Just give me some advice. Pleaaseeeeee?" Sierra looked up at her with wide eyes.
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Heather: "Marry somebody you don't have to trick into it, move out of crazytown and join the rest of us in the real world and LEAVE HEATHER ALONE! Is what I would have said." She sighed. "But with Alejandro in First undoing all my hard work on Cody, Mrs. Crazytown..." She paused. "Mrs. Crazytown number two, that is... and Mrs. Crazytown number one are my only chance! So... Do not judge me."
Izzy: She was sitting there arms folded and lips pouted. "Why doesn't Sierra trust my relationship advice? I'm just as good as giving at giving advice as Heather, heck even better! I've got my PhD in Psychology after all! Hey! I'm like the Canadian, female, redhead, teenage version of Dr. Phil! Maybe I can get my own TV show! Hear that, Oprah Winfrey?"
Chris: He was laughing hysterically. "Izzy, getting her own TV show? HA! Listen, I know Oprah and she'd never help that psycho get a show..." His phone started ringing. "Hello?" He held it far from his ear as the person on the other end began screaming and shouting loudly at him. He hung up.
"Okay, okay! So maybe I don't know Oprah! Point is, she'd never give Izzy of all people a show!"
"You wanna know what I really think?" Heather asked.
"Yes. Maybe. No. Yes. Maybe?" Sierra said.
"It is time for you to start trusting the girls in your life!" Heather said.
"How will that save my relationship?" Sierra asked.
"Boyfriends come and go, but girlfriends are forever." Heather said.
"It's true you know!" Izzy exclaimed. "Like they say! Chicks before d-"
"We get the idea, Izzy!" Heather cut her off.
"Anyway, we are going to get Alejandro out of the game. You, me and Psycho over there." She said, thumbing Izzy over her shoulder who was now preening herself like a cat.
"Jeez, I wonder how cats do this so easily! This is hard!" Izzy exclaimed.
"Okay then..." Heather said weirded out.
"Oh please. As if you want Alejandro gone!" Sierra waved her hand dismissively.
Heather froze.
"Yes, I DO want him gone!" Heather insisted.
"Let's face it, Heather, you totally like him!" Izzy teased.
"DO NOT!" Heather insisted.
"You're so into him, his kidneys are getting crowded!" Sierra said.
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Sierra: "Between me and Cody-wody and the Heather and Alejandro lovefest, this plane is starting to feel like one huge double date in a can! Well, except for Izzy, she's like an extra wheel. And Chef and Chris. Chef isn't really Chris' type. Even though some shippers might argue otherwise, just like they do for Noah and Cody..." She got a menacing look on her face at the last part.
Chef and Chris were in the cockpit as Chris made an announcement to the contestants to prepare for landing.
"I hate this backwards piece of crap that they call a plane! This is bad even by prehistoric standards! They want planes; they should see the ones that Zenith had..." Chef thought.
"Come on; just let me fly it once! What can it hurt?" Chris whined- for the 50 millionth time that day. Or at least so it seemed to Chef. Being Immortal did wonders for your patience living forever and all, but Chris was starting to test his...
"NO FOOL! Do you want to crash this plane and kill us all?" Chef asked. "Or rather, everyone except me?" He thought.
"It's technically my plane you know." Chris said.
"Which you don't know how to fly!" Chef exclaimed.
Chris began reaching for the controls and as he did, Chef slapped his hands away.
As a result, since no one was paying any attention to the controls, the plane knocked over a stone head on what seemed to be a tropical island below them.
Alejandro and Heather got off the plane and walked over to the knocked over stone head.
"Another piece of world heritage destroyed." Alejandro commented. "With all the damage this show's done so far, I'm surprised world governments haven't sued it yet!"
"That's not the ONLY chiselled rock that's gonna get destroyed today!" Heather said.
"Chiselled, you say?"
Nearby, Izzy, Sierra and Cody stood watching the two.
Cody had carried a basket of candy with him and was munching a few.
"Did you girls get the news about Alejandro and Courtney?" Gwen asked Izzy.
"Yep. We're fine. What you see is just an act." Izzy replied.
"Good." Gwen said.
"I'm not so sure about that..." Bridgette said.
"What do you mean?" Heather asked, butting into the conversation.
"I think you might know what I mean Heather. Let's just leave it at that for now." Bridgette said.
The other Keepers looked puzzled at this but left it at that.
"Who's with you girls? Kimberly and Shane said that someone was with you just in case Alejandro tried anything!" Lindsay said.
"Kimberly and Shane?" Heather asked puzzled.
"Kimberly is Travis and Milah's oldest daughter and Shane is Aideen's oldest grandchild from another daughter. Since they're the oldest of the Keepers' grandchildren, they volunteered to come over here, just in case!" Gwen explained.
"Oh. This jerkass with the bad hairdo is calling us to do the challenge. Talk to you all later!" Heather said, cutting off the Link.
All five contestants burst out laughing when they saw Chris' costume- something that looked like a grass skirt with a split on each side, sandals and his legs were covered in something they couldn't recognise- fur possibly- up to his knees. His chest was bare with some weird white markings on it and he wore a stone necklace with bone in it.
Perched on top of his head was a large, multi coloured headdress.
"And I thought the last one was bad enough, but this one takes the cake!" Heather said.
"No crazy outfit will hide your ugliness Chris!" Izzy cackled.
"You have to admit, that getup really doesn't suit you!" Alejandro said.
"Chris, maybe you should change..." Cody said.
"Seriously that outfit makes you look-" Sierra was cut off by Chris.
"ENOUGH ALREADY!" Chris yelled.
Chef came along just then and when he saw Chris and his ridiculous outfit, he burst out into laughter, which of course triggered off even more laughter in the others.
"OKAY OKAY! ENOUGH!" Chris yelled.
Everyone finally became quiet.
"Welcome to Easter Island, aka Rapanui. This place is old. These dudes were carved so long ago no one even remembers why anymore!" Chris said.
"Oh really?" Deanna asked.
"What do you know about the Easter Island heads?" Heather asked.
"Just that a certain Earth Keeper named Tarija made them..." Deanna smirked.
"Really? When?" Heather asked.
"She was the third Earth Keeper and was from somewhere around there, I believe." Deanna said.
"Today you our final five are going on a highly traditional Easter Island egg hunt. You know, the old-fashioned eggs that come from birds, the flying things with feathers and talons and vicious kill-you-in-a-second beaks..." Chris continued.
Everyone except Izzy went wide-eyed at this. She was actually fiddling with a stone in her hand and when she was bored with it, threw it at the host whom it hit in the head.
"OW! Izzy what's wrong with you?" Chris whined.
The contestants looked at one another.
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Heather: "Is he REALLY asking that?"
Alejandro: "No one may ever know how that loon's mind works..."
Sierra: "Do we even WANT to know what's wrong with Izzy?"
Cody: "Would even Dr. Phil be able to help that cuckoolander?"
Izzy: "Nothing's wrong with me! Why would Chris even think that? Admit it! Wouldn't you like to throw a rock at his head too?"
"Anyway..." Chris rubbed his head where the stone had hit and winced.
"Traditional Rapanui headdresses. Wear them with pride, chickens!" Chris threw a bunch of smaller headdresses to the contestants. Alejandro's was blue, Cody's was purple, Sierra's was green and Heather's was pink.
Izzy caught a bright yellow one and examined it. "Hey! This shade will make me look like Big Bird's cousin or something!" She pouted.
"Deal with it." Chris laughed.
Izzy growled, picked up another rock and threw it at him, this time knocking him over.
"Hidden in these head things are a bunch of coloured eggs that match the colour of your... headthings." Chris said, leading them to another area.
"Wow Chris. You really did your research..." Heather remarked sarcastically.
"Your challenge is to find three eggs in your colour, then make a break for the massive underground cavern system and book it all the way to the highest point on the island. Reach the top with all three eggs to begin the second part of today's challenge." Chris explained.
"What happens if we drop an egg?" Heather asked.
"You'll have to come all the way back here for a replacement." Chris said.
Alejandro raised his hand.
"And no, you cannot take a backup egg."
Alejandro narrowed his eyes at him. "How the hell did he know I was about to ask that?" He wondered.
"First to the top gets a big advantage in part 2. Now scramble!" Chris exclaimed.
The contestants ran off.
"Ha ha, scramble. Their challenge focuses on eggs. Get it? Scrambled eggs?" He said to Chef who had come to stand beside him.
Chef rolled his eyes.
"These look disturbingly familiar..." Alejandro said, gazing up at the stone heads.
Sierra gazed around. "It's everyone who's been voted out!"
Alejandro leapt on top of the Lindsay head and began climbing.
Sierra reached up towards Ezekiel's nose and rummaged in it of the egg.
"It's not even his real nose, but MAN this is disgusting!" She thought as she pulled out a blue egg.
"Got one!" She held it up.
Alejandro glanced at her. "Blue's my colour! Thank you Sierra!"
Sierra narrowed her eyes at him before throwing the egg at him.
He swung himself upward to avoid being hit and it smashed on Lindsay's head.
"Oops! I guess that's what happens when you're a home wrecking husband stealer and destroyer of dreams!" Sierra said. "Among other things..." She thought viciously.
Alejandro glared. "I will keep that in mind when I locate one of your eggs!" He said.
Meanwhile, Heather was over at Courtney's head and managed to locate one of her eggs.
"Who knew Courtney could actually be useful for something?" She said in surprise, holding it up. "Who would've thought?"
"I wish I could say the same of Lindsay..." Alejandro said. "Oh wait, is that-" He rummaged in Lindsay's ear and pulled out nothing. "Nothing but air..." He said. "How ironic..." He thought.
Cody gazed up at the Duncan statue with utter loathing.
"Gwen stealer!" He exclaimed, kicking the statue.
A purple egg drooped out of its nose and he dove forward to catch it.
"Sweet!" He exclaimed.
Izzy was climbing up Bridgette's statue singing.
"JUST GONNA STAND THERE AND WATCH ME BURN!" She sang rather loudly (and off key!).
Everyone turned to look at her weirdly.
"What?" Izzy asked as she found a yellow egg in Bridgette's ponytail clip and leapt off.
"Seriously, what's wrong with you people?" She asked as they continued to stare.
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Izzy: "Everyone keeps looking me today like I'm some sort of weirdo! Seriously, all I did was sing a song!"
Sierra was next to find an egg- in Harold's ear.
"Yay! One for me! Now I just need something to carry it in..." Sierra glance over at a large clump of grass nearby and before anyone could react, she had somehow made a basket to put her egg in.
She found another one of hers in Tyler's head and squealed. "Another one! And there's more!" She found a purple egg and squealed again, running over to Cody to give it to him.
"CODY!"
Cody was about to climb Duncan's head to see if there were more eggs when he heard the shout and looked around.
Sierra placed the egg gently in his basket.
"Really? Thanks!" He said in surprise.
Sierra shrugged. "Of course! Anything for my hubby-wubby teddy-weddy bear..." She pinched his cheek.
Cody shuddered. "I will never get used to this. EVER." He thought.
Courtney had decided to stop watching the episode and go up to her room. Something was really bothering her.
"Who is Kimberly? And Shane? How come I have never seen them before?" She pondered.
She opened up her laptop and turned it on.
"Why do they suddenly show up as interns when the show is almost over anyway?" She thought.
"I can't really do much without last names though... Is it worth contacting Radcliffe for?" She fiddled with her necklace.
"No. It's not worth it." She said aloud. "What if it's not something to worry about?" She rummaged through her drawer for the Liquid Masquerade and took a sip, scrunching up her face as she did.
"ACK! The taste never gets better at all..." She shuddered and went back to her laptop browsing a few random sites, bored.
Back at Rapanui, Alejandro was walking around idly, juggling all three of his eggs.
"Let me guess. Your second cousin twice removed is a clown?" Cody asked sarcastically.
"No. I was in Cirque Du Monet's all child show Infantile. That is quite the handy basket." Alejandro nodded towards it, which only held two of the three eggs that Cody was supposed to find.
"And I'm not sharing it!" Cody thought.
"CODY! FAMILY MEETING, RIGHT NOW!" Sierra shouted dragging him away.
"What is it, Sierra?" He asked.
"First off, here. I found your third egg." Sierra placed it firmly in the basket alongside the other two.
"And second, we're going back to my home world after this." She whispered
"When did you get the message?" Cody whispered back.
"A message appeared in my magic diary a few minutes ago..." Sierra said trailing off as she saw Alejandro looking weirdly at them.
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Alejandro: "That's odd. Sierra isn't acting as crazy as she normally would and Cody seems less... afraid of her... Why? I need to find out what's going on there..." He smirked.
Meanwhile, Chef was helping two interns to put back up the Easter Island head that the Jumbo Jet had knocked over. While Chef pulled on a rope that was tied around it, the two interns were pushing from the other side.
"This is Chris of all Chrisdom, seeking Chef Hatchett, over!"
Chef glanced at his pocket and reached for the walkie-talkie in there, letting go of the rope in the process.
He realised this and grabbed hold of it with one hand before it could crush the interns.
"Need no deaths on my watch!" He thought.
"When you're done slacking, think you could give me a hand?" Chris asked.
"I'll give you a foot too..." Chef muttered.
"I heard that!" Chris snapped.
"Who the hell cares?" Chef muttered.
"I heard that too!"
Chef rolled his eyes.
Meanwhile, Izzy had found all three of her eggs, carrying them in the basket that Sierra had made for her earlier and was proceeding through the tunnel humming happily.
"This challenge was actually pretty fun!" She thought. "Egg hunts? Really? Has he run out of ideas?"
She soon heard a rumbling noise.
"What is that?" She wondered out loud.
She soon got her answer as a giant boulder roared towards her.
"Oh CRAP!" Izzy went wide-eyed and quickly dodged out of the way.
Izzy, still wide-eyed went back out into the path after making sure everything was clear. When she saw that it was, she continued on, with a pissed off look on her face.
"ONE OF THESE DAYS I WILL KILLTHAT MAN!" She roared.
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Izzy: She was holding a pen and notepad, writing. "I am going to find a way to kill Chris with an egg for having to go through that stupid tunnel!" She held one up. "Perfectly karmic death to me! Now how do I go about making these things unbreakable? Maybe I could hard-boil it and then cover it in hot lava? Nah. Maybe I should cover it in hot metal! Nah, that wouldn't work either..."
As Izzy walked, she heard voices behind her.
"I hate this stupid cave, I do, I do, I really do!" Heather complained.
"And so do I. Sometimes I really wonder if it was worth it to come-" Sierra stopped herself before she said anything she shouldn't.
Izzy cackled mischievously and hid in a crack in the cave walls as they passed.
As soon as they did, she jumped out from behind them and put on her creepiest voice.
"Hello my friends..."
Sierra and Heather screamed.
"IZZY!"
"What? Can't I say hello to my new frieeeeeeeeeeeeennnnnnnddddds?" Izzy put an arm around both of them, both of whom were looking at her weirdly.
"No. We are not friends, you nutcase!" Heather snapped.
"I am NOT a nutcase!" Izzy exclaimed. "Do you see any nuts anywhere?"
"Okay, you've seriously just won a one way trip to the nuthouse with a luxury solitary padded cell and a designer straightjacket..." Heather said, inching slowly away.
"Really?" Izzy said excitedly. "When do I leave?" She was jumping up and down excitedly.
"Um, Izzy, do you really think jumping up and down like that is a good idea in this rather unstable..." Sierra trailed off as they heard a loud rumbling noise.
"Is that..." Izzy trailed off.
"Another boulder, yes!" Heather snatched them out of the way before it could squash them.
"That was a close one..." Izzy said.
"Too close!" Sierra said, wide-eyed. "That thing almost squashed the eggs!" She held her basket close to her protectively.
Heather raised an eyebrow at her, weirded out at her expression. "Where the hell are all these boulders coming from anyway?" She wondered.
Somewhere above them at the exit of the tunnel, Chris and Chef stood laughing.
"Whoo! That was hilarious!" Chef laughed in spite of himself.
"Agreed. That was awesome man! Did you see the looks on their faces? Priceless!" Chris laughed so hard that he began to cry.
"Hey dude, why don't you send some more down there?" Chris suggested.
Chef grew a mischievous smirk on his face before hauling Chris up by his necklace and throwing him down there, the host screaming all the way.
"But doing stuff like this to you will always be more fun..." Chef chuckled as he sent another boulder down.
"These tunnels are almost as dark as a night with no moon..." Alejandro thought as he walked through the tunnels alone.
"Oh well. It will all be worth it when I beat Heather..." He smirked as he juggled his eggs idly.
Rumble... rumble... rumble...
"What was that?" He asked, startled as the noise he was hearing grew louder.
He whipped around to see the biggest boulder he had ever seen in his life rolling straight at him.
"*Spanish Censored*!"
He didn't even have time to move before it ran him over.
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Alejandro: "When I win the million dollars, remind me to use it to build a Canadian Alcatraz just for Chris..."
"AAH!"
Chris was still rolling down the tunnel that Chef had thrown him down, shrieking like a little girl the whole time. He was getting bruises and scratches too, and that did not help.
"Ouch, my face! MY BEAUTIFUL FACE! Eee!" He screamed at an even higher pitch than he did before as he slammed into a wall. "Ouch..." He wailed.
On the other side of that wall, Cody stood listening. "Sounds like Chris took a tumble!" He chuckled.
"I totally wish I could see that!" He thought.
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Chris: "That fall was embarrassing... I hope it gets edited out on the DVD..."
Chef: "I talked to the producers. They ain't editing it out! In fact, it's going to be in the top ten most hilarious injuries section in the special features!" He chuckled. "I'm ordering my copy in advance!"
"Now I have to go back for more eggs..." Alejandro thought. "Great. Just great."
Sierra, Heather and Izzy ducked into a hole in the ground as a giant boulder rolled over them and popped up.
Heather began laughing as she saw Alejandro running past, spattered all over with egg and lots of bruises and scratches covering him from head to toe.
"Awww, did the little-bitty-baby lose his wee little eggs and has to get more?" She taunted him.
"The Latin Liar lost all his eggs and has to go get more! Hahahahaha!" Izzy laughed a laugh that any evil overlord would be proud of.
Alejandro glared at them and said something in Spanish which made Sierra go as wide-eyed as the two Keepers did when they translated for her.
One of Sierra's eggs suddenly leapt out of her basket and Heather caught it.
"Keep your eggs under control, Sierra! This one almost fell out!" Heather exclaimed, putting it back in.
"Technically, it DID fall out- you just caught it Heather..." Izzy pointed out.
"NOT NECESSARY, IZZY!" Heather thought, glaring at her physically.
"HEY! DON'T YOU YELL AT ME!" Izzy snapped back.
"ENOUGH WITH THE YELLING ALREADY!" Gwen yelled.
"Isn't that bit hypocritical of you, Gwen? I mean, you just added to the yelling..." Bridgette thought.
"Sorry..."
"Maybe we should move on…" Sierra suggested.
"Good idea."
"Yep, we should."
Alejandro was muttering to himself as he climbed up Owen's head in search of more eggs.
"Great! A piece of toast…" He threw out a burnt piece. "… a jar of grape jelly…" Alejandro shuddered as he remembered watching I Triple Dog Dare You! "…sausage..." He threw that aside as well. "…and a coconut? You useless lump! You still torture me with your… uselessness!" He kicked the statue which somehow actually managed to emit a large, loud belch which knocked him off his feet and slammed him into the ground.
"*CENSORED!*" He roared.
An egg dropped on his head and rolled off into his hands. His mood immediately changed as he smirked.
"Bueno…" He chuckled mischievously as he clutched the egg to his face with quite the creepy expression on his face.
"Okay, that expression really creeps me the hell out…" Gwen shuddered as she watched.
Everyone else in the room, even Eva, nodded in agreement.
"For real." Kimberly commented to Shane who had just come back in.
"I've got quite a bit of information now for school, enough to study and hopefully maintain my 4.0 GPA and thus my full scholarship…" Shane said.
"Don't give a rat's ass, Shaney!" Kimberly said, waving him off.
Shane glared. "One, don't call me that and two why are you always so mean?" He raised an eyebrow.
"It amuses me!" Kimberly shrugged. "Messing with people is fun!" She smiled sweetly.
Shane deadpanned.
"Wait a minute- I just noticed- where is Courtney? She's disappeared!" Kimberly swept her arm across the room and as Shane followed it, he saw his cousin was right- no Courtney in sight.
"We need to find out where she is. If only Rika were here…" Shane said.
"I know, right? Best psychic tracker I know!" Kimberly exclaimed. "And she knows how I feel about annoying younger siblings- Hiroshi and Hitoshi are like the Japanese-Canadian Weasley twins!"
She sighed.
"Gonna have to do this the old-fashioned way then…" She suggested.
"And what would that be?" Shane asked.
Kimberly smirked- not unlike the creepy smirk Alejandro had before.
Shane shuddered.
"You are almost as bad as your sister. You know that?" Shane said.
"But this time, I'm doing it for a good reason. Hack into the phone line and send the Keepers a text telling them to come up here, won't you?" She said nonchalantly as she searched Courtney's empty room. "I love having a technopath cousin…"
Shane's finger changed into something resembling a telephone plug and he put it in the telephone socket.
Minutes later, Gwen, Lindsay and Bridgette were up there.
"What's the deal?" Gwen asked.
"Courtney has disappeared. She probably went to Radcliffe so we figured while she was gone, why not search her room and see if we could dig up some dirt on the bastard?" Kimberly shrugged as she put her hand on Courtney's dresser drawer- and pulled it back sharply.
"Ouch!" She clutched her hand and shook it. "That stung!"
Shane moved forward to touch it and he pulled back his hand just as sharply.
"There's a jinx on that drawer!" He exclaimed.
"But why?" Lindsay asked, puzzled.
"It must be something really important in there…" Gwen said.
"Like what?" Bridgette asked, fiddled nervously with the bracelet that Magalie had given her before.
"Can we penetrate the spell?" Gwen asked.
"I might- but my magic would probably leave traces and then they'd be able to tell who was up here- not good…" Kimberly said.
"So where does that leave us?" Lindsay asked.
"Perhaps if you did it Gwen?" Shane suggested. "You are more powerful than any of us- if anyone is able to do it without leaving a trace, it should be you!"
"The spell words are vicissim maledictione." Kimberly said. "Try it!"
Gwen followed her instructions and a clear shield with purple lightning-like streaks appeared around the drawer and disappeared.
They were all silent as Gwen hand went towards the knob to pull it open.
She had almost touched it when Gwen had a vision.
"CRAP! Courtney is coming back!" She exclaimed.
"Go on, go! I'll put the spell back on!" Gwen ran them out of the room as she put back on the spell and dashed out behind them.
She had no sooner shut the door than Courtney had returned.
"Something's off…" She whispered in an eerie tone.
But she couldn't tell what…
Izzy was juggling her eggs and humming happily.
"I'm singing in a cave, I'm singing in a cave!" Heather and Sierra covered their ears.
"I'll wipe away all of your tears!"
"More like cause them…" Heather muttered.
One of Sierra's eggs bolted out of the basket.
"Oh dear…" Sierra looked up at it.
The egg began to fall.
"HOLD THESE!" She handed Heather the other eggs and dove to catch the egg, barely catching it.
The egg began to shake.
"Oh, look! It's hatching!"
Izzy, who was still singing rather loudly, took no notice of it.
Heather on the other hand was eyeing it wearily.
It hatched- producing a bird oddly resembling Cody.
"Oh look, it's Cody Junior!" Sierra cooed, standing up, holding him close to her.
"He's so adorable!" She snuggled him close.
"Obviously mileage varies there…" Heather muttered.
The bird eyed Izzy over Sierra's shoulder and even put its wings over where its ears might have been, grimacing.
After less than five seconds, Cody Jr. apparently decided that he wasn't going to tolerate Izzy's poor excuse for singing and flew at her suddenly.
"Cody Junior! NO!" Sierra shrieked as he attacked Izzy.
"You blasted bird!" Izzy shrieked, trying to swat it away with no success as it kept dive-bombing her.
"Stop it!" Sierra exclaimed.
"Why? He's just avenging our eardrums…" Heather shrugged.
By now, it had erupted into an all-out brawl, with clouds of dust flying everywhere and Izzy was shrieking and snarling.
"GET OFF ME YOU *CENSOREDING* bird!" Izzy roared.
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Chef: "I don't blame that creature for not liking her singing!" He shuddered.
Izzy: She looked very grumpy, in addition to having scratches and dirt all over her body, and her hair was messy, with a few feathers in it. "Anybody know any recipes for bird stew?" She grumbled.
Sierra suddenly burst in with Cody Junior on her head, startling her.
Sierra: "Don't. You. Dare…" Sierra glared
Izzy: "GET OUT OF MY CONFESSIONAL!"
Sierra: "NO!"
Izzy: "THEN PREPARE TO FACE THE CONSEQUENCES!"
They then began to slap fight as Cody Jr. face-winged and flew out, rolling his birdy eyes.
Heather: "Those two ought to be committed to the loony bin. With immediate effect!"
Heather watched, weirded out as Izzy finally managed to side-sweep the bird into the nearby wall.
Sierra growled and pouted, but said nothing.
The bird bounced back and instead of flying back to Sierra, it went to Heather.
"Get off me, you blasted bird!" Heather shooed it off.
"Can you at last try to control your… your… bird child?" She asked, annoyed.
"I am! I'm giving him time outs, I've taken away privileges… I've also…" Sierra was cut off by a shrieking Cody and Chris running past them.
"RUN AWAY!" They shouted.
"BOULDER!" Heather shrieked as it came rumbling down towards them.
They all ran pell-mell screaming.
"AAH! Where's Alejandro anyway?" Heather asked as they ran.
"Who gives a- uh-oh…" Izzy stopped in her tracks as she exited the cave and saw Alejandro with his eggs, juggling them with a smirk on his face.
"What took you guys so long?" He asked.
Izzy, Sierra, Heather and Cody stood there twitching, all ignoring Chris being barrelled into the air by the boulder behind them and face planting on the ground, right beside Chef, who looked annoyed.
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Cody: "But… but… HOW? He had to go back for more eggs! How, how did he manage to pull that off?"
Heather: She glared at the camera. "I want to know how he managed to pull that off without cheating!" She paused. "Then again, he probably DID cheat somehow…"
Alejandro: "Let's just say I have my ways of doing things…" He chucked.
"Um, what do I do with this?" Alejandro held up a catcher's mask. "I don't have to play baseball, do I?"
"Thankfully no. Nor any other sort of sport which requires a ball or ball-like object to be hit…" Chris winced at the memory of the first challenge in African Lying Safari where the plums had hit him in the- well, you know where.
"All you have to do is climb up to that bird's nest…" He pointed upwards. "…and give back the eggs you have in your possession in the order in which you came out- Alejandro first, Izzy second, Cody third, Sierra fourth and Heather last. Whoever manages to get all three eggs in first wins. Good luck trying to get past the angry Condor bird…" He chuckled as the giant bird flew overhead screeching.
They all looked up at it and gulped.
Alejandro put on his mask.
"Whatever you do, don't let him win this!" Deanna instructed.
"Never." Heather replied.
"Good luck with that you guys. I hear that Condors gouge out the eyeballs of predators." Alejandro said.
"Good luck keeping yours then!" Heather said in a fake cheery voice, waving him off, which annoyed him.
Alejandro clutched his eggs close to him and attempted to begin the long climb when Chris ahem-ed.
"WHAT NOW?"
"Music time!" Chris sang as the chime to indicate the start of a song went off.
As Alejandro went up, a wonderful, awful idea occurred to Heather.
She laughed on the inside as she focused on the ground around them as it began to shake.
Alejandro was just about to put in his egg in when the ground shook, interrupting his song.
"What- AHHH!" He screamed as he fell to the ground.
"Good one!" Deanna cheered.
"Thanks." Heather replied, smirking.
Izzy went up and managed to put in the first egg, but the bird swooped down around her and knocked her off the nest with its giant wing.
"Rats!" Izzy hit the ground with her fist.
Cody went next and somehow managed to climb and eat a chocolate bar at the same time. The Condor flew at him and swiped the chocolate bar right out of his hand, knocking him off balance and into the ground where all of his eggs splattered in his face.
Sierra went up and managed to put two of her eggs in before the bird had a go at her. She had almost put her third egg in when Cody Jr. flew off her head and went straight for Heather.
"NO! Not her!" Sierra shrieked as she fell to the ground.
Heather went up and as she was about to put in her third egg, the Condor came dangerously close to her.
Everyone else gasped.
She ducked as it came back and put in her third egg as Cody Jr. flew off to follow it.
"Yes! Yes, yes, yes, YES!" Heather climbed into the nest and jumped up and down, cheering.
"Congratulations Heather! You're in the final four!" Chris called up.
"Of course! I-" Heather sensed a movement behind her and ducked just in time for the Condor to smack into one of the stone heads instead of her, knocking it over, which in turn caused a domino effect with the other statues, which everyone watched with blank faces.
Heather, Izzy, Cody and Sierra were in the cargo hold in a huddle as they talked. They did not realise however, that Ezekiel was lurking in the shadows, watching them.
"Alejandro is so gone!" Izzy cheered.
"I know, right!" Heather smiled with glee.
"And after this, we're going to my home planet! I'm so excited! I've mastered teleporting people from separate locations so I can teleport the others at Playa Des Losers 2 to Nadir at the same time I teleport us!" Sierra smiled.
Heather looked puzzled at this. "So why didn't Hasim ever do that?" She asked.
Sierra shrugged. "Dude marches to his own beat! How would I know?"
"Well let's get to it! Alejandro won't know what's hit him!" Heather rubbed her hands together and cackled.
Izzy watched, her, looking slightly creeped out. "Okay, you're weird…"
Heather looked back at her incredulously as they left the cargo hold.
The five remaining contestants sat in the area where results were announced waiting for Chris to arrive to give his usual pre-voting speech.
"Okay guys and gals, boy do I have a surprise for you!" Chris grinned.
Izzy and Heather and Cody and Sierra looked at one another nervously. Alejandro perked up.
"You all know that Heather won Immunity and as a result cannot be eliminated and automatically goes to First Class. However, today we have only a teeny-weenie-itsy-bitsy-tiny-little…"
"OKAY! WE GET THE POINT, *CENSORED*!" Izzy roared, shaking a fist.
"Okay, sheesh! Anyway, we had a poll on the Total Drama site asking who they would give immunity to in this challenge if they could. The results were fun."
"Uh-oh…" Cody thought.
"And it seems as if the fans like their… antagonists, quite a lot…" Chris' grin became even huger.
"I hope this isn't going where I think it is…" Heather thought.
"So… they voted for our favourite Spanish dude Alejandro to receive immunity today in addition to Heather!"
Everyone else's jaws dropped while Alejandro simply smiled.
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Heather: Her eyes flashed angrily. "What an ass pull!"
Izzy: "You'd better hope I don't catch up with you, online voters!" She shook a fist.
"So if you all wanted to vote for him, you're gonna have to find someone else to vote for instead." Chris chuckled.
The contestants burst out in an angry uproar.
"Well, it looks like I-" Alejandro started to speak but was cut off by Heather standing up to backhand him.
Back in the cargo hold…
"So who do we go for now?" Sierra asked.
"I'll go!" Cody volunteered.
"NO!" Sierra wailed.
Izzy put a hand on her shoulder.
"I'll go." She said.
"What?" Everyone turned to look at her in surprise.
"I said, I'll go!" Izzy insisted.
"Are you sure?" Cody asked.
"I don't think I ever really wanted to win anyway." Izzy shrugged. "I had lots of fun here and that's what I really wanted!"
Heather looked as if she couldn't understand what she just said. "What's the point of entering a competition if it's not to win?"
"You wouldn't understand, 'Miss I'm Not Here To Make Friends'!" Izzy said.
Heather looked appalled.
"Well, as long as it isn't me…" Heather shrugged.
After Izzy's elimination which was actually non-eventful, she, Heather, Cody, and Sierra were standing on a flat area of land with the Jumbo Jet frozen in mid-air, right above them.
Sierra took off her ring and threw it up into the air where it transformed into a sceptre in a flash of golden light and caught it one hand.
She swept it broadly in mid-air, grinning as she finally got to show the Keepers her home world.
Keepers of the Elements, in case you haven't noticed, officially has its own TV Tropes page. HyperForce has also exceeded himself with drawing a promo poster for it! Check out his gallery and the trope page, links to which are on my profile!
In a future chapter, I will write about the Old Keepers' past. What would you like to know? Let me know!
Also, what do you think about Shane and Kimberly? They're only two of the Old Keepers' grandchildren and more will be introduced eventually!
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