Author's Note: I'll put the votes for each couple to the right of their names, and an "X" for them being voted off on the left.
-Izzy and Owen-2
-Heather and Justin-21
X-Lindsay and Tyler-0
-LeShawna and Harold-4
-Beth and Cody-4
X-Eva and Ezekiel-0
-Bridgette and Geoff-13
-Gwen and Trent-62
-Courtney and Duncan-86
X-Sadie and DJ-2
-Katie and Noah-8
A voice comes on over the loudspeakers. It wasn't Chris, Chef, or any of the other campers' voice.
"Why hello there, visitors. We had been getting pretty lonely. But now we are so glad you've come!" exclaims a high-pitched voice, "Have you liked our little games? I sure enjoy them. I also enjoy watching you… watching your every single step. Did you know that I might actually let you out of here? No, silly-billy, I'm not going to kill you. Well, not all of you." The voice giggles. "Here's how my game works: Inside one of these fancy-schmancy carnival games are tickets! Your friend Gwen already has three tickets. After your whole group collects 100 tickets, meet me at the carousel. You give me the hundred tickets, and I'll give you the key to get out of here. You got that? Good! But remember, if any of you try something funny, I may just have to hurt somebody." More giggles. "Not that I want to! But if you're playing my game, you have to play by my rules. Have fun!"
The announcement ended with an ear-piercing squeal of static. The campers cover their ears. After the static was over, the couples looked at each other. The girls were crying and the guys looked… really freaked out.
"God, this is like a freaking horror movie!" Courtney exclaims. Duncan wraps his arms around her.
"What are we going to do?" Gwen sniffs. Trent rubs her back.
"We better play more games," Trent says. The campers are quiet as they look around at all the games. The games had weird names like "Spear the Clown" or "Hook the Rat".
"How about the House of Mirrors?" Geoff suggests. Everybody nods and they head into the building.
The room was lit by multiple red light bulbs. It was dim and musty smelling. The campers formed a line with Duncan and Courtney at the front, Gwen and Trent in the middle, and Geoff and Bridgette at the back. They slowly inched forward. Duncan had his hand out, waiting for him to run into a glass panel. They turn around a corner and Courtney screams.
"Clown!" she yells. A clown was dangling from a cracked glass panel. There was a knife through its chest, holding it up. Dried blood was streaked down the mirror, and above the clown's head were the words 'Who says carnivals aren't fun?' written in blood.
Courtney turns around to look at Gwen. They exchange a look, and turn around to look at Bridgette. But she and Geoff were gone.
"Bridgette? Geoff?" Courtney calls. No answer.
Then the lights flash off, and Courtney grabs onto Duncan. Once the lights are back on, Gwen and Trent are missing.
"Gwen! Trent!" Courtney yells. The lights go off again and Courtney screams. Something warm and wet had touched her arm. Another bleeding clown?, she thinks. Pop Goes the Weasel started playing, so loud that Courtney wanted to cover her ears. However, she didn't want to let go of Duncan.
Something hit the back of Courtney's head and she became very dizzy. Courtney leans against Duncan and he holds her up. Pop Goes the Weasel filled her head.
Da, dada, da, da, dadada. Da, da, da, da-adada. Da, dada, da, da, dadada. At the "POP! Goes the weasel" part, the lights flash on, and Courtney and Duncan find themselves surrounded by bleeding clowns with an array of weapons. Courtney screams. But then once Pop Goes the Weasel restarts again, the lights turn off again. The song replays several times over, each time the lights flashing on at the "POP! Goes the weasel" part. And when the lights were off, the clowns were bumping and shoving Courtney and Duncan, but they managed to hold onto each other. Then one clown shoves them particularly hard and they break apart.
"Duncan!" Courtney yells. A flash of light reveals Duncan being held back by multiple clowns. Then it goes black again.
"Courtney!" Duncan shouts back. Courtney falls down after being knocked on the head with something. She lands on something soft. Duncan?, she thinks. Then a wave of blackness overtakes her.
"Gwen? Gwen?" Trent says. He's holding Gwen in his lap. The last thing he knew was they were walking in the House of Mirrors, and then a trap door opened and they dropped into this empty room. There was a bare light bulb hanging from the ceiling. The light from the light bulb didn't reach all the way to the corners of the room, and Trent didn't really feel like getting up to explore.
Gwen's eyelashes flutter open. "Ugh, Trent, my head hurts like crap!" Gwen complains. Trent chuckles.
"Sorry 'bout that, Gwen. You must have hit it when we fell down here.]," Trent says, kissing Gwen's forehead. She blushes, but then terror fills her eyes.
"Where are we?" she asks.
"Um, I don't know. We're just in a room underneath the House of Mirrors," Trent answers.
A voice comes on over the speakers in the room. "Why hello Trent, Gwen. Sorry you two had to be the ones to fall into my trap. I try not to make people suffer as much if they have tickets. But anyway, I will give you a chance to escape," the whiny voice says. More light bulbs turn on, and now the whole room is lit. On two opposite sides of the room were huge walls with spikes.
"Here's my challenge: I will open the trap door you two fell through. However, you have to find your own way out the trap door. Meanwhile, those two spiky walls you saw will keep moving forward. Too slow? Then, sadly, the walls will impale you. Good luck!" the voice exclaims. The spiked walls shudder, then slowly start drawing in.
"What do we do, Trent?" Gwen whimpers. Trent had never seen Gwen so scared before. It was… weird.
"I say we climb the spikes," Trent suggests.
"What?" Gwen asks.
"We climb up the spikes. Then when the walls get close to the middle, where the trap door is, we'll climb out," Trent explains.
"Oh, yes! Let's try it," Gwen says, relieved. They hoist them selves onto the first large spike. Trent barely touched the tip of it, and it had drawn blood like a needle.
"Ouch!" Trent says, shaking his pricked finger.
He and Gwen climb near the ceiling and, slowly, the walls move towards each other. They are nearing the middle when Gwen suggests, "Can you climb up first?"
Trent hesitated, because he didn't want to be too slow and get Gwen killed, but then he said, "Sure." The walls were near the trap door now, and Trent jumps. He grabs the edge of the trap door and pulls himself up.
"Come on, Gwen," he calls, holding his hands out for her. She jumps, and grabs his hands. Gwen yelps as a spike pricks her leg. She pulls her leg away from the spike.
Trent yanks Gwen up, and the walls crash together below them. Gwen sits, panting, on Trent's lap in the House of Mirrors. "Are they trying to kill us?" Gwen asks, exasperated.
Bridgette and Geoff are flying down a metal slide. The metal is cold on their skin, and the curvy slide goes on and on. Each time they come to a turn, Bridgette and Geoff slam into the metal wall of the slide.
Finally, they fall into a small room, with the walls, floor, and ceiling all made of concrete.
"Ow!" yelps Bridgette, hopping up and rubbing her sore butt. Static buzzes over the loudspeakers, and they cover their ears.
"Hope you like the little surprise I left you," the voice says, and giggles. All of a sudden, from a crack between the walls and ceiling, hundreds of spiders crawl out. They climb down the walls, and all over the floor. Bridgette screams.
"Ahhh! I hate spiders, I hate them!" she shrieks. Bridgette jumps into Geoff's waiting arms as the static comes on again.
"Now, be perfectly still and they won't mess with you," the high-pitched voice orders, "But I bet you're wondering how you get out of here, hmm? Well, just do 50 sit-ups, and I'll release a rope ladder that you can climb back into the House of Mirrors with."
"Wait! The floor is covered in spiders!" Bridgette exclaims. The voice giggles.
"That's my point, silly. Just remember, there are some poisonous spiders in this mix too." The static comes on, and the voice is gone. Soon the static is gone also.
Bridgette shakily climbs out of Geoff's arms onto the floor. Spiders swarm her feet. Bridgette screams and a few climb up her leg.
"Bridge, calm down!" Geoff orders, "Don't make any unnecessary moves or sounds." They slowly lower themselves onto the squirming floor. Spiders crawl onto Bridgette's legs and arms, but she presses her lips together to suppress a scream.
Geoff and Bridgette start doing sit-ups. A couple spiders climb up Bridgette's shorts. She whimpers.
"It's alright, Bridge," Geoff whispers. She looks over at him, and sees he has spiders crawling on the brim of his hat and throughout his pink shirt.
"50!" Bridgette exclaims, hopping up. A shrill beep echoes throughout the room. The spiders jump off Bridgette and Geoff and crawl through the crack between the walls and ceiling. A rope ladder falls from a trap door in the ceiling.
"Let's go, babe!" Geoff says, and they rush up the ladder back into the House of Mirrors.