We are about to finish an outdoor challenge involving three schools of Sodor, with Northwestern high school clearly in the lead over the other two schools. Vicarstowns showed they had no patients while working with others as they displayed their impatient while needing to ride horses during the trot to Bluff's Cove for their school, almost about to commit a harsh treatment to the horses when some of our friends haves stopped them from such an act. The Students of Knapford were also very hard to work with when they believed their privileged life can achieve any obstacles only to find they have been wronged in two events thus far. Can the opposing schools ever know how to get along with others on the Island while on the Rallies for the Cure? Let us read on and find out, shall we?
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Rallies for the Cure part 3.
Last time we were watching the students of Northwestern high school complete two events over the competing schools, Knapford High School, and VicarsTown High. While the students from Vicars town failed to earn their horses trust and began to use cruel methods to gain obedience. While two boat racers belonging to Northwestern high school, the speedboat belonging to Knapford High miscalculated his actions as he and his crew were capsized after the warning from both Thomas and Trent about the treacherous Sudiran fall seas during the challenge. Then both Trent and Thomas had to stop in their part of the challenge to rescue the crew of the capsized vessel only to have the crew members a serious talk about their actions while speeding in rough rouge seas during this time of the year. With two challenges down it will be soon time for the Bush survival challenge to begin before allowing for the bike race to Knapford for the final trial and hopes to raise enough for those who depend upon the rallies to help Cancers centers to find ends to Childhood cancers for the survival and health of their children who had fallen ill to the disease.
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It was that afternoon after the events included the trot to Bluff's Cove and the boat rally to the homestead lagoon that almost ended tragically if it was not for the efforts of both Thomas Billington and Trent Dimes (Ten Cents) in helping another participant taking part in the challenge. Then announcement of the trials will continue but the judging for the Bush survival challenge will take place the following day. This gives the teams an ample amount of time to build their structures due to what has been presented to them. Each team will be signed in an area to build structures above the ground level knowing how much colder it would be this time of year to camp in the wilderness. Each area also must include a place to store firewood to keep themselves warm, have with them food items that will last them overnight regardless the conditions they are kept in. Each team must have enough spaces where everyone in their teams have a place to sleep the overnight hours and do what must be done to prevent the changing conditions of the weather and build the structures to make sure they can survive not only the weather, but must be able to keep the cold out. This is what the students from the homestead and the international boarding house wanted to try and see if they can take such a challenge to see if they have what it takes to be survivors of any outdoor situation. Those who are participating for Northwestern high school will be Oliver, Gina, Donald, Douglas, Applejack, Twilight Sparkle Flash Sentry, Axel, and Frida. Two students from KNapford high who had some experience in the great outdoors sort of speak, they go by the names of Jovanni Ginerwick, and Waldon Darringnor. While four students from Vicars Town are also participating even though they hardly ever know about participating on outdoor activities that did not include rough sports.
The teams from Northwester high school will be split up into four teams with Oliver, and Gina, as team one, Donald and Douglas being part of team two. Applejack, Twilight Sparkle, and Flash Sentry will be part of Team Three, while Axel and Frieda are taking part in team four for their school. The four students from Vicars Town are also splitting into groups of two. One team has two participants Boris Allagiers, and the other is Natty Warningten, both did have camp outs behind their homes but not much of anywhere else they could have, the other team for Vicars Town were, Oslwald Jaspintin, while his teammate Harriet Younling wanted to take part since they are eager to learn about outdoor training, but felt they can managed even without the skills they needed for this trial.
While the teams gathered around Game Warden Dex Manatou to announce his participation in making sure every student will be monitored on how their building structures are coming along and make sure no one is taking supplies from other teams who depend of the materials to take part in the challenge. Also, to make sure the students will be kept watch to prevent any predators to show up unannounced while the trials are underway.
Game warden Dex Manatau. "Remember everyone, while everyone else is resting for the night, I will remain to make sure everyone here are taking part in the overnight bush challenge. Each of you will have to build structures that will make sure you not only kept warm but to be ensured that you have a safe place to spend the night. Remember this is an outdoor challenge that also means you must have your wits if you want to succeed in surviving an outdoor situation like we are undergoing as we speak. I do not want anyone to take away anyone else's building supplies if you feel you need additional supplies for your camps, each of you must be fairly equipped before the start of the builds. Alright everybody, I am about to time the amount of time each build took during the challenge. All challengers get ready to start your campsites, on your marks, get set." This is when Game warden Dex started his timer. "Let's get going on your builds everyone."
All the contenders viewed the materials presented to them and Oliver and Gina knows of what structure they can build, while Donald and Douglas had a structure of their own in mind, Twilight, Flash and Applejack have an Idea of a structure that can house all three of them, Axel and Freida remembered the kind of ancient structures they can make from the materials presented to them and waited no time in preparing the ground for the structured to stand on. The team from Knapford have seen the types of materials in front of them and were disappointed that they had to use primitive style of building using nothing but large poles mounds of stone, piles of stringy sticks and forked branches and a huge straw stack. Neither Jovanni nor Waldon have not learned how to use such materials in their memories. The crews from Vicars town have ideas of how to use them but need to make sure not to break or bash apart their materials knowing finding spare items so close to darkening skies will be impossible to find.
While the outdoor challenge was on the way, back on the homestead some of the residents and the other two schools are in a middle of a discussion on how poorly they behaved before the people who were once engines and tugboats who had worked tirelessly since each engine was built from a very long time to be part of the Northwestern Railway before their humanization the previous year. There with them are the principals and the families of the teenagers of the schools to hear it from the ones in question about their actions and attitudes for the events displayed from earlier of the day.
Lucile Hat. "Well this is a fine turn of events. Not only have I seen such sportsmanship from my students, but to hear how the other students handled their performance during the trials make me wonder what kind of educations you have been taught other than the usual curriculums."
STH. "I am very proud of how my former engines turned humans have handled themselves throughout the trails, but how they managed to prevent further disasters because of the behavior and attitudes of the other schools."
Principal Bernard Nawintin is the principal for Knapford High while Principal Louis Churron is head of Vicarstown High.
Principal Nawintin. "Yes, it appears that my students lack good judgement if they want to improve to the rest of the Island and the world that they can take care of themselves beyond their parents care. It seems however that the privileged life must have plagued their heads about being able to stand on their own two feet when they needed to."
Principal Churron. "Yeah it appears that my students lack discipline if they want to continue without the pressures of the world they hardly know beyond their own front doors."
Then the adults turned to the students from both schools about their actions during the events earlier.
STH. "I hope you lot have come to the conclusions for your downfall for today. Each of you were wiling to take all or nothing on a cause that will enlighten a chance for struggling families whose Children fallen ill to related cancers."
Principal Nawintin. "It appears that my students may have missed the reasons for our participation about the rallies for the cure to end childhood cancers. The competitions between the schools have made them too thick to know how to handle themselves during any outdoor related event. Now I am ever wondering if the students taking part in the outdoor trials ever understand what kind of skills are needed to survive the greater outdoors."
Principal Churron. "I just hope my students have those kinds of skills too, if not then I feel they needed more than just brute strength and toughness to make it through the sudrian wilderness tonight."
Thomas and his friends from the homestead, the international boarding house, and the smelter's house cannot help but wonder what was going on in their minds to act the way they did during the trials earlier in the day.
Percy. "Maybe we need to ask what was on their minds at the time."
Shawn Brightly (Sunshine). "Or maybe they needed better social skills if they wanted a better relationship with everyone else on the Island."
Pinky Pie. "After all what is the point of finding friends if the thought of winning all the time prevents them from making friends in the first place."
Fluttershy. "Take it from me and Pinky Pie when we learned that the best way to part of something good is to make it fun and not make too much fuss about it."
Emily. "I just wished someone had given those students a fair talk about finding fun during a challenge."
James. "No kidding Emily."
Edward. "That is enough everyone, I am sure the students from the other schools have learned their lessons right now and must face the consequences of their actions today."
Trent. "I just hope it was not too harsh, just enough for them to learn sense."
Back to the outdoor challenge each of the students have their structures to take shape, Oliver and Gina are making a Viking style structure to where they have a lower level from ground level then make the roof structure using some of the Straw and mixed them with some mud made from clay, water the cut straw, and ash from their wood fires to make a component known as lye. It helps keep everything together and dry firm to keep the cold air away and leaving an open vent at the top to let the smoke out. While the Twins managed to make two dugout style camps using the natural earth for the foundations, followed by using the timbers and sticks to make the walls and benches before making the roof structure that has some peeled tree bark to act as roofing materials to help keep the inside dry and able to keep warm. Twilight, Flash, and Applejack had made a native American long house using the long poles to make the frame before bending the top to form an arch, then securing it to the ride pole then allow something called cob. The same materials that Oliver and Gina are using in their outdoor structures. There Axel and Freida, are busy building their own version of a hunting cabin by using the timbers for the framing of the walls, roof and ridge poles and beams to help shape their structures to prevent any cold air reaching the inside and have an opening in the top for a stone fireplace to keep a warm fire burning during much of the night into the morning. The students from the Knapford high School, are using their mathematics to help make sure the structure is sound and secure and have a nice roaring fire by the end of the night but did have some difficultly understanding on how to source out their other materials to make the structures sound. The students from Vicars town have begun by making the cots first by remembering how to build such items in their backyards since they hardly ever go beyond city limits without anyone allowing them time to learn more that what they have learned so far. They opt for a four-sided camp shelters that will have an open fire pit in the middle and all the structures will consist an elevated cot style bedding while walls go up on three sides of the bed arrangements. While there will be roofs over the sleeping areas where water and cold are to slide away from the sleeping participants while there will be an opening to allow for the students to walk in but keep unwanted visitors away such as wild critters.
Game warden Dex Manatou can tell that everyone will have a fair chance of dealing with the elements but do worry about the students from Knapford High, The are just using a stick frame without knowing how to make the materials in order to keep the cold and the weather away form their sleeping quarters. The students from Northwestern have seen their problems and wonders how much time they must really experience bush crafting where they came from.
Oliver. "My goodness have they not know how to make a cob with the mud and the straw?"
Gina. "I do not believe they claimed they know anything about bush crafting in the great outdoors."
Applejack. "I guess their lifestyle have prevented them to learn how to make things with their own hand, and not know how to use the basics for survival."
Twilight. "I just hope they can figure it out before the night becomes light again."
Donald. "Who knows, I just hope their upbringing have not them so soft in the head for a challenge like this aye Douggie."
Douglas. "Aye that be right Donnie, it would be best if someone could come up to lend them a hand in how to use their imaginations on how to find the resources in building such structures in the wilderness."
Back at the homestead, most of the people had gone home but not some of the students from both schools Frances Doulongoul, and Luard Nottington from Knapford and Deloris Granger and Rudy Crockerton from Vicarstown stayed to apologized about not only their actions but their behavior from before.
Thomas. "You lot wanted to say something to us?'
Luard. "In a way we do."
Rudy. "We do as well."
Rosie. "We are listening."
Frances. "First, we wanted to apologize for out behavior towards you from the trot to Bluffs cove, and the boaters challenge. We always seem to pride in being the school for the privileged children of the Island, however you have shown us it is not about how privileged we are, but how much we needed to learn about standing on our own two feet."
Deloris. "We need to say sorry too, until today we never get to experience anything beyond our neighborhood to learn anything else but city life and city life is filled with stranger danger challenges and learning how to get around such crowded and cramped area were we hardly have a chance to breath unless we are home and have no resources in understanding how our world as a whole works. We are really sorry everyone."
Thomas. "The first step to know of how you made your mistake and learn from them. Then if you still have trouble find out more about yourselves if you want for everyone else to respect you for who you are rather than what kind of lifestyle you are from. Everyone of my friends from the railway have their faults including me when we believed we knew more than what we claimed we did, only to get into a smash or a muddle when any of us should know better than what we believed in at that time."
Deloris. "Is there away for us to find our true colors of what we can really do if we give it a try."
Rarity. "Believe me darling, if my sister and her friends gave up on how we say from our world, ah, what allows for you to be you. Then the skies the limit of learning what each of you are capable of doing."
Emily. "All you need to do is to lower you walls and allow for others to enter you center. That way you can also learn what it takes to learn from others and find friends within them."
Luard. "You mean you would like to be friends with us too, even if we are not of the same school?"
Thomas. "We may be from different schools, but we do share the same Island and world not to learn from one another about how to find the respect and friends we tend to lack when we think only of one way and not the others."
The students from the two schools smiled and shook hands with the northwestern Students, before they headed home with their families for the night. Then it was time for the homesteaders to head for their homes to see which teams have made it through the night.
The following morning in the middle of the bush crafting challenge the participants have slept through the night with flying colors with the Knapford team to have a hard night with parts of their structure uncovered that allowed for the cold air to flow through. The rest of the structures have different designs but all passed the ability to weather the cold and prevents the critters from reaching their faces and had kept the warm fires burning to be kept warm until it died down during the night and the warmth was kept inside until the morning light. Dex Manatou was impressed on how most of the participants have the skills to perform this quest. Dex along with the other judges have came to every structure to see if they all not only passed but to see which structure had kept warm much of the night before sunrise.
Dex Manataou have seen each structure and all the participants are to head to the homestead for everyone to hear how everyone had fared in the bush craft challenge. Thomas and the rest have managed to meet up with everyone and learn about the results of the Bush craft challenge. "Every one of our participants have done very well with the exception from the Knapford team, we have together the ranking of the results of who had the best structure from the challenge. Then it reads, from sixth place is the team from knapford, in fifth place are the Scottish twins Donald and douglas, even though they made incredible structures, I however need them to find ways of keeping critters away from their bedding arrangements." Both Donald and Douglas felt very embarrassed, since they have not had the encounter of any critters while they were sleeping in them. "In fourth place we have Axel and Freida, I loved the fact you are thinking bigger, must remember to use the items that were there for a simple structure, not to make residential cabin from them." Both Axel and Freida realized they were thinking too big to make a simple structure for wilderness challenges. "in third place we have structure from the Vicarstown High, it was not bad since it was meant for there to be four to be sleeping there but must find a way to prevent the weather from waking you where you sleep." The students from Vicars town are proud and realized where they needed more protection from weather related situations. "We have two structures that had the potential to pass this challenge, While I do believe in traditions, it is best to work with what you have been given to make it through the outdoor challenge. In Second place, it is Twilight, Flash and Applejack with their structure, it was very good, and you used a good amount of the material given to you. Just needed a place to allow air flow for all parts of your structure. And the winners of this outdoor bush craft challenge are Oliver collet and Gina of Northwestern High school everyone. Let us give our contenders a grand hand for this enjoyable event ladies and gentlemen."
After that everyone gathered not only with their school mates but the other schools too and making this part of the challenge less hectic than the other two challenges.
Twilight. "Well that was a very good challenge everyone, I am glad to take part in something that can help families with their struggles while dealing with their children dealing with cancer related illnesses."
Axel. "I guess we should have kept our structure under our expectations, but you know of what they say, learn form your mistakes and try again into another trial."
Freida. "It may not be the winner for today, but it is a winner in my book if we can make a fine structure for any outdoor activity under the northern sun."
Gina. "WE did a grand thing haven't we my Oliver."
Oliver. "We sure did Gina, well now that this challenge is down one more is to go and that is the bike rally to Knapford center." Then their friend came up to see the winners of this year's competition.
Duck just ran up to his Great Western Friend for a well done on the win. "Well look at what we have here, two more champs from our school to make it to the next round my friends."
Nia. "You two had made such a great structure, plan to use it for next year's visitors to the homestead?"
Oliver. "Why not, after all, those who have visited the homestead often wanted to see the new structures in the bush, so I vowed to allow for the Viking structure for the next Holiday time."
Gina. "And maybe to make it a bit better than how we left it just now."
Now that the Bush challenge was over it was time for the final challenge for the cure, and that is the bike rally to Knapford center where the finish of the race will take place. Those who are participating are Gordon and Scot Gresley, Rainbow dash and Starlight Glimmer, Conner and Caitlin, Rebecca, and Ariel Billington (Thomas's Sister). Allister and Rolland are part of this challenge as are the two students from Vicars Town Patricia Alexia and Hunter Woodrow. The treatment from Knapford high seems to be less than how they appeared from the day before. After the events from the previous day, Roland and Allister realized they needed to give better respect for the other schools since this is to raise awareness for childhood cancers and the important part of the races is to have fun not make fun of other school because of their class of society. The students from Vicars have also seemed less brutal after the talks from their principal about how not to use brute force to make an appearance if they wanted respect and remained open for anything along the way. Our friends have seen the new look on their faces and realized that the events from the previous day must have gotten to them somehow.
Then Henry have seen Allister and Rolland walk by and have seen the change in their eyes and decide to say something that the knapford students have thought would have been said from a student from another school.
Henry. "Good luck on your rally today you two."
Both Rolland and Allister had turn around and were stunned of what Henry had said.
Rolland. "Have you said something to us?"
Henry. "Yes, I have said good luck on your rally today."
Allister. "Even if we might be the winners instead of anyone from your school?"
Henry. "It doesn't matter whose school will win, all that matters that everyone have fun and remember that we are here for a good cause, Every family who's child is battling a serious disease such as any ailments related to cancer but need the fund to find the cures if their young ones are to survive into adulthood."
The students from the other schools smiled and everyone is on better terms this time. It was time for the bikers to line the starting line for Knapford center. Announcer. "All bike racers report to the starting line." Then one by one each racer no mater which the school they represented began to line up to begin the race. Gordon and Scott are beside each other unlike the last race they were in they bid each other a good luck for the run.
Gordon. "Good luck Scott, see you when we reach Knapford."
Scott. "Same with you brother, may the best one win."
Ariel. "It doesn't matter which among us wins, the real winners will be the families who desperately needed the funds to help their children fight a life-threatening disease."
Rainbow Dash. "Well that may be true but watch out for me you big boy engines, make way for the top flyer of the wondercolts."
Starlight just giggled before readdressing back to Rainbow Dash's comment. "Rainbow only in Equestria are you part of the Wondercolts, here you are part of the Northwestern high School."
Rebecca. "Just the same Starlight, let us have a great time you guys."
Conner. "Same with you Rebecca."
Caitlin. "Same for everyone here, even you two Patricia and Hunter.:"
Hunter. "Like wise.'
Patricia. "Let us get this show on the road."
It was time for the race to start. Announcer. "Racers at the ready, on your marks, get set." "Bang.' And they are off after the sound of the cap gun going off, most of the riders know that this is just the beginning of the race and decided to gain the speed as they get closer to knapford center. Scot and Rainbow are clearly in the lead followed by the Vicars town team with Gordon fowling right behind them. Starlight and Ariel decided to take their time but gained enough speed to keep up with the rest until they feel the right time to overtake everyone.
The rest of the homesteaders are in the center of Knapford waiting for the rally results as they made their way across the county side. Everyone was enjoying the ride from the countryside into the big city along the Sudrian coastline.
Ben. "I see something Bill."
Bill. "I see something too Ben."
Then into view came the Vicars town riders getting closer to the finished but was clear that they were starting to tire out due to the distance they traveled. Followed behind them were the students from knapford, then from behind them are the students from Northwestern high school. This is when the racers from Northwestern started to pick up with Rainbow Dash and Scott coming in close, but Gordon was coming up from behind them beginning to take the lead with Rebecca following beside him. The rest of the riders including Ariel began to see how soon this race is to end. The Ariel have seen the gap where she can take over the pack and decided to make her move but to be out paced by Gordon and Rebecca after watching how close Ariel was.
Edward. "They are coming in close."
Thomas. "Remember everyone no matters who win, the children and their families will be the real winner for our efforts for today."
Then the riders are coming so close it could be anyone's challenge and to the finish line was Rebecca for Northwestern high School followed by Gordon, then Scott and finally the rest of the racers with the Vicars town riders finishing last in the race. Everyone came over to congratulate their friends and Gordon had to come over to his girlfriend and gave her a well-deserved well-done hug from him along with a kiss for a fun time during the race.
Rebecca could not help but felt blessed when she felt Gordon giving her love for such a fun rally for the cure. "Thank you, my wonderful Gordon, at least I know who is going to bring me home after my win today."
Gordon just chuckled. "I am always blessed when you and I share such moments my dear lovely Rebecca, we are both winners when it comes to finding a cure for the children and their families who desperately needed the funds to allow the children to reach adulthood if the cure is ever to be found any where at any day." Then the two came together for a last kiss before everyone is to head over to the announcement booth for the judges for the events from the outdoor challenges.
Announcer. "We would like to take this time to congratulate our contenders on a well done to raise awareness for the cure to childhood cancer. Even there were some hiccups with some of our participants these last two days. I would like to say the lessons learned from the events must have surely left a valuable mark for those who have seen how the event played out as they did. Now as we draw our event to a close I would like to give to all our participating schools a metal for their participation in the events to allow the awareness for childhood cancers." The metals are passed around by Lady Hat and congratulated everyone including the students from Northwestern High school for their wonderful display of sportsmanship and remembering their fellow men no matter how the danger there must have been during the event. Everyone deserved to have a metal for making this awareness for the cure, one to remember by. "To all of our students who taken part in the awareness for the cure to end Childhood cancer, we like to say thank you, you all have proven to be the best of our Island, there fore you all had made us all proud of your commitment. Once again thank you Students of Sodor area High Schools."
Everyone of the students from all three schools came forward and gave a bow in respect of their schools and the appreciation for their hard efforts to be part of a wonderful cause to find the cure for childhood cancers, or any cancer that can take any life young and old alike.
Then Thomas came to us and gave us this message.
Thomas. "WE here on the Island of Sodor would do what we can to help find the cure to end Childhood cancer. Now we are asking you to see how you can participate in finding the funds to help fight this disease and let them know who are fighting cancer that they are not alone, and you have them in their prayers. Thank you."
This is all for now, come back next time when the everyone will be telling spooky stories around the bond fire again like last year. What kind of spooky tales are to be told this year? Come back when we return to Northwestern High School year 2.
