Nobody245: Of course I'll always give you reasons to worry, it wouldn't be fun for me if I didn't see any readers concerned for specific characters' fates. For Fergy, I personally didn't think he needed to take down any of the villains, since his arc was more focused on him maturing.

That's quite the interesting prediction you have for Chloe potentially becoming the fourth villain, we'll see if this will hold up in the future.

The K-Shida's do indeed have strong members, but their lack of cohesion is definitely going to be their biggest flaw which was always bounded to be the case considering Sunny's on the team. As for the question relating to which member does Rainy have a crush on, no comment there.

The Five Souls seem to have unity compared to the previous team, although your prediction about Ciara becoming a villain is quite interesting to see even for me.

The Losers Team having Jun and Hannah with them definitely makes you question how things will play out for this team, that and also how Chloe and Ingrid are involved heavily with Jun.

As always, I'm glad to hear you're excited for the next chapter!

gamergirl101: Playing an object of protection for another person is definitely a risky move for the person who is doing the move, so I'm glad to see that using this move in my story was able to catch you so off guard.

Gucci Mane LaFlare: New teams definitely do help prevent dynamics from getting stale.
First impressions aren't everything, it sounds like Fergy is an example of this in a good way which is good to hear.
Admittingly, I do think that the challenges have been sorta underwhelming, but it sounds like you're liking them fine which is definitely interesting to hear.

Artamis9: Thank you, I guess that since from the very first episode for this season the characters have really been the main focus rather than the challenges, so it's great to hear that you enjoy the characters!

PurpleShadowManipulator: This'll be a good review.

As you analyze so well in this chunk of your review, a lot of things could happen to The K-Shida's ranging from Rainy potentially voting off Sunny to Alex potentially getting Leo away from Sunny, there's definitely quite the amount of routes this team could take and it's especially great to see that you are making tons of predictions here.

Ciara is definitely not helping herself by flirting with Lia's man, this is especially true considering how Lia's been acting these past few episodes and it is pretty much a death sentence to try and take away a YouTuber's significant other.

I did kinda enjoy the first two rounds of the challenge also, especially since the leaders were facing each other and how Leo was treated kinda showed the difference between the teams, the fighting could've been a lot shorter since Fergy was up against an officer-in-training and a sassy dancer.

Neil Ferguson definitely had the spotlight last chapter, and I'm so goddamn happy to see that you thought he was perfectly written because I absolutely loved writing him and the ending of his arc since his interaction with Jun was something I liked because I just kept thinking to myself "How would a broken person speak to a person who is swimming in confidence?" and then when the story reached the part where Fergy was physically and internally beating himself up was something I'd been planning for a while (which basically was inspired off the "Heavy" music video), and then Hannah helping him out afterwards in a chat I KNEW I had to write as best as I could so it could achieve what I wanted it to achieve.

Now the elimination concludes his arc and I have Fergy's form to thank for this since it basically confirmed that Fergy had never gotten the girl he had a crush on but he always made sure to help them out which they'd never figure out, so I used this and decided to end Fergy's arc in the same way except everyone knows about it this time and having Fergy take himself out was the best ending I think I could've gave the guy since for once he's in control.

I want to thank you also Shadow, for sending in Fergy and I'm glad to have been able to write him in a way you enjoyed so much. I'm also glad to hear you'll keep on reading!

Candela Monsoon: Yeah, from the sounds of things your internet isn't the best.

Sunny is quite obviously one of the biggest concerns for The K-Shida's because of his attitude and position in the game, so hearing predictions from you like how Rainy won't be affected too much by the elimination of her brother and that you think the Alex & Evan duo won't be eliminated anytime soon are interesting to hear.

The Losers Team's dynamic being a seesaw is one of the best descriptions of the team I think I've seen and it's so accurate how Hannah and Jun are at the opposite ends for it, technically Chloe and Ingrid can tip the seesaw any direction they can.

I'm just gonna say one thing here...you forgot to mention Jared (your own OC) here when talking about the rest of The Five Souls XD.

At least the consensus seems to be that "the challenge is alright, although the characters are more important" and I'm so happy to see that, I feel like character writing is one of the most important aspect to writing especially in a story like this so I'm glad to hear you and others say that you all enjoy it.

Looks like I made a very smart choice by having Fergy be front and center for the ending of the previous chapter, especially since you apparently loved his character so much and that makes me very happy to know that I could create a character you could enjoy this much even if the template for the came from another person, but nevertheless I shall not give Fergy a hug.

Hannah's definitely an interesting case so far, although it sounds like you think of her as a not-so-villainous kind of villain, which is quite the take, you'll have to wait and see if that's correct though.

Sounds like Ciara's the popular "they're going out soon" person, although it's for good reason.

Speaking of next episode which you said at the end of your review-!

Here's the next chapter!


LeeandLie-This Game (English Cover of No Game No Life's Intro)

"Won't hesitate, I know we won't lose our way."

Evan was seen holding a bow and had a pack of arrows strapped onto his back.

"And this road we have chosen's no mistake."

Alex on the other hand, was seen with a camera in his hands.

"Without our pride, nothing is holding us back."

Rainy and Leo were both seen standing behind Sunny who crumbled his fists.

"I can see that the way to a victory begins with this paaath!"

Hannah was seen smiling at the camera before frowning a little while looking beside her.

"We Are Maverick."

Chloe and Ingrid both stood behind Jun, but Chloe was glaring at Jun while Ingrid had heart eyes.

"We won't give in until we win This Game."

Miriam was seen smiling while there was fire behind her.

"Though I don't know what tomorrow holds,"

Jared and Lia look ahead of them, Lia's eyes were brown.

"I'll make a bet and play my cards to win, This Game!"

Ciara and Kyle stood by each other, however, Kyle had his hands in his pockets and Ciara was looking at Jared while smirking.

"Unlike the rest, I'll do my best,"

The camera then showed Evan, Alex, Rainy, Leo, and Sunny, The new K-Shida's.

"And I won't ever lose!"

Before showing the new Losers Team which consisted of Hannah, Chloe, Ingrid, and Jun.

"To give up this chance would be a deadly sin,"

It lastly shows Miriam, Jared, Lia, Ciara, and Kyle in the final team shot, they were The Five Souls.

"So let's bet it aaaall."

Sunny, Jun, and Jared were all seen running away from their respective teams.

"I'll put all my faith in us, so let-"

All of them charged towards one another.

"The Games Begin-"

Sunny, Jun, and Jared all get ready to punch one another.

"We Are Maverick!"

Jun and Jared ducked below Sunny's punch however.

"Shall we begin!? Only the strong will win!"

Evan was seen firing his arrow which Jun was barely able to dodge.

"We'll surpass the challenges it takes to win!"

Jun then kisses the cross he's wearing before Jared was seen pointing over to Lia.

"So put your bet iiiiiin!"

Sunny turns around and he looks over at Lia.

"I'll put all my faith in us, so let-"

Lia was seen beginning to charge towards Sunny, only for a lightning bolt to strike between the two.

"The Games Begiiiiiiin!"

Rival was seen standing in front of everyone while smirking, a silhouette was seen behind Rival before Rival winks at the camera and it turns to black.


Total Drama: Move Along

Episode 9: To Be Happy


A foot was seen descending onto the ground, it seemed that the person whose these feet belonged to had olive skin. Their foot gently stepped onto a field of grass, the grass were all completely green while the wind kept blowing them which made the grass all lean towards the direction of the foot which was on top of them. A deep breath was heard before this person took a few steps forward while the sun continued to shine on them.

The person said no words and instead decided to continue walking forward for no reason rather than the fact that it was all they could even do. The wind continued breezing through the person, although it was eerily one of the only noises which could be heard, just the wind, no voices, no creatures, the only other noise besides the wind was the crunching of the grass. It was unclear what was happening, but the sun in the sky was seen shining brightly as normal, but suddenly a bunch of clouds were seen appearing in the sky.

"Hm?"

A noise came out from the person who was walking on the grass before they looked up at the sky and noticed that the sun which was bringing light to the entire place, was slowly being covered up. The clouds were dark and there were even rumbling sounds coming from it, the clouds were seen slowly consuming the sunlight and so all the grass in the fields were all now in darkness. Despite the sun being out, the field of grass were able to be seen while their green color slowly went away and began getting replaced by a more yellowish color.

The person in the dream continued to just stand there while staring up, they appeared to have pure long black hair which was still being blown by the wind. It didn't look like the person was moving even despite the lack of light which was now surrounding them, they instead let out a sigh before turning around. Even now, it was hard to make out the person's face due to how little light there is and they seemed to be simply walking away from the direction they originally intended to go towards.

"Why'd you do it?"

A female voice asks which made the person stop dead in their tracks after hearing the voice which they seemed to have recognized. They appeared to have see-through glasses which made their widened pure grey eyes now clear, the pupils in their eyes seemed to have shrunk and a gulp sound was heard coming from the person. The voice which they heard had startled the person and this voice made them feel...sorrowful.

"I-I-I had no choice..."

The person in the dream finally speaks, it was a female voice and it was now clear who this voice had belonged to and who this person inside of this dream was.

"Yes you did...Rainy Persnisky."

Rainy stood there in silence after hearing the voice speak back to her, the clouds in the sky now beginning to have water fall down from them. The rain quickly began coming down onto Rainy while she stood there with her fists clenched and her face showing something that she normally doesn't show all that often, emotions. Her eyes began swelling up with tears and she was trembling right where she stood while she had her back turned to the person that had made her look like this.

"N-No, I didn't...my brother told me to vote you out and I did, Rae."

Rae was now seen standing a decent distance away from Rainy while she had her fists crumbled also, she seemed to be more angered than she normally does. She appeared to be spiteful and filled with rage which were all directed towards the person who she confidently had thought was her friend. Then, Rae takes a step forward towards Rainy while the sister of Sunny then tries to take a step forward in an attempt to escape.

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Rainy suddenly feels the ground beneath her fall apart, she tries reaching out for something to grab to try and save herself from falling. She closes her eyes, unable to grab something to prevent her from going down with the rest of the ground and she realizes that there's no for her to get out of the situation. Instead, she tries reducing the amount of fear she's feeling by trying not to worry too much, however she suddenly feels her hand grab onto something.

"Huh?"

Rainy questions after feeling her hand being grabbed by someone, she then opens her eyes to see that she was just about to fall down into a pit of fire. She gulps after seeing this pit before noticing that a familiar person was seen standing down in the pit of fire that was awaiting her down below. The person had blonde hair which was currently tied up in a bun and they had deep green eyes which they were using to stare daggers into Rainy, they had a wide smile on their face while they did so.

"Come down here...sis~"

Sunny pleads while he stood in the pit of fire which Rainy was one drop away from entering, Rainy stares at her brother with a look of fear now present on her face. After seeing this, she quickly looks away so she can try to get her attention off of her brother who she was severely scared of, however her look of fear immediately goes away after she was able to look away from her brother. Instead, her look of fear goes away after noticing that the person who was grabbing onto her hand and holding it, was Rae.

"Go f*** yourself."

Rae tells Rainy her last words with one big smile on her face while she closed her eyes before she lets go of Rainy's hand, her face remaining unchanged while doing this. Rainy was seen screaming while she began falling down into the pit of fire which her brother was inside of, she swung her arms around as she desperately tried finding out a way to get out of her situation. However, she is unable to do anything and instead Rainy closes her eyes and lets out a blood curdling scream while tears began forming in her eyes.


*The K-Shida's*

Rainy then opens her eyes upon waking up from her nightmare she just had, the girl immediately sits up while she began breathing in and out quickly to herself. Her first action she takes after waking up from her nightmare is to grab her chest while she closed her eyes once more.

"It doesn't look like you had a nice sleep." Rainy heard a voice which makes her eyes open, she then looks besides her and noticed another glasses-wearing person who was standing right by her bed, it was Alex.

"Were you watching me sleep?" Rainy asks while there was a drop of sweat that was present on her right cheek.

"Don't make it sound like I was perving on you, I only went over to you when you started yelling your sleep." Alex explains, this makes Rainy sigh while she lets go of her own chest.

"Guess I was louder than normal when I was sleeping." Rainy responds, her monotone voice becoming present once more.

"Indeed you were, it's probably for the best that everyone else had decided to go outside before your nightmare began taking place." Alex confirms while looking at the door to the cabin.

"...How'd you know I had a nightmare?" Alex hears Rainy ask, this makes him sigh before he looks back over at her.

"Do you really need me to answer that, especially since I saw you when you woke up?" Alex sarcastically answers before pushing up his glasses.

"You do make a valid point there...so, Why'd everyone else leave?" Rainy questions Alex about more things.

"Sunny wanted to make sure that Leo would learn his place, however Evan decided to follow them since he wants to make sure that your brother doesn't do anything illegal." Alex answers her question with a straight face, Rainy then sighs.

"That sounds normal and expected of those three, even if it's not the best thing our team should be doing." Rainy comments on the matter.

"True, however I think we should focus on just me and you for now, especially since from what I was able to pick up from your sleep: You're not okay." Alex states with no smile, instead he just stares intently at Rainy.

"...And here I thought I was the only person who could really emotionally read others." Rainy remarks while looking down.

"Thing is, you're one of the smarter people of our team so I figured that I'd be the best person to speak with you, especially since you're not the only person who lost a friend this season." Alex confirms while closing his eyes, he quickly sees a vision of Vince before opening his eyes.

"While the two of us may have lost our friends so far this season...but you didn't vote him off, did you?" Rainy asks, looking down still while her hair covered her eyes.

"So that's what is giving you your nightmares, not only because of the fact that your only friend is gone because your brother told you to vote her off, but also because if it weren't for you voting for her, she would still be here." Alex responds, his tone of voice having more conviction than it did ever before.

"I would've expected you to have picked up on that sooner." Rainy states, her voice sounded more serious than it usually is and she looks up at Alex after saying her words. Her pure grey eyes now making the girl look like she was completely dead on the inside and that all her emotions were completely non-existent now. It was like Alex was staring into a void of some kind, the kind of void that's empty of all meaning which also would be one that you'd find it impossible to escape if there even was.

"No matter how dead you may try to look or sound, it's clear to me that you're emotionally vulnerable, so let's just sit down and chat with each other." Alex says before he sat down on Rainy's bed, she stares at him with a emotionless expression once more.

"...Well, there is something I wanted to talk with you about, so we could talk about that." Rainy confirms before Alex nods, the two of them once again look at one another, neither knew exactly how to approach the situation but they knew they had to try their best in their own ways to get through it. So, Rainy opens her mouth and she closes her eyes, choosing to say her next words very carefully while she loosens her low pigtail braids. Alex was able to hear what she says and his eyes widened upon hearing these words that were spoken to him, however Rainy's voice was unable to be heard at the time.

"Hey campadre?" A familiar male voice was heard before the owner of the voice was revealed to be someone who has decided to recently learn some Spanish to insult their teammate. It was Sunny Persnisky and he was seen smiling at the screen while the sun was shining brightly on him, he appeared to be outside in a place where there seemed to be a lack of trees. Then, it is shown that the place where Sunny was at was a place which had tall yellow grass surrounding the entire place which was probably because of it's overexposure to the sunlight, although it seemed like the perfect spot for someone whose named after the sun.

"I'm ready." A voice responds which makes Sunny let out a bit of a chuckle, he then crumbles his fists before he began charging towards who he thought was the only other person near him. He was charging towards Leon 'Leo' Salvatore whose hair seemed more blonde than it normally did because of the lack of orange highlight, it's color was duller than it originally was. Rather than fight back against Sunny who seemed like he was gonna beat him up like he usually does, Leo just stood there and accepted whatever was gonna happen to him next.

"Excellent, I hope you don't take the lost too hard...honey~" Sunny sadistically teases the brawler while approaching him, he then attempts to swing his right hand to try and clock Leo with a right hook.

"CUT IT OUT!" Another voice suddenly was heard, Sunny's eyes widened after hearing this before seeing a arrow narrowly missing his right hand and it breezes right past between Sunny and Leo. The arrow noticeably flew a football field length away after it had missed both of the person who were nearly hit by it, the arrow finally dropped onto the grow and it disappears into the yellow grass surrounding it. Sunny growls after watching the arrow fly off before turning his head and he looks at the direction it came from.

"Who are you and how dare you attempt to stab my right hand!?" Sunny angrily asks, he then blinks after seeing that the person who had fired the arrow also had a bow in their hands.

"I'm Evan Herbert, and you're the criminal I'm gonna need to keep an eye on." Evan introduces himself while tightly clutching onto the bow in his hands, he had a pack of arrows which he strapped onto his back. He then pulls one of the main arrows by the nock which was sticking out before he puts it in front of the string on his bow. Without much hesitation, he pulls the string back and puts the arrow on the string while he aimed it directly towards the person who he saw as his target that was gonna hurt Leo once more, Sunny.

"Oh, so you're one of those police officer wannabe's?" Sunny realizes with a disappointed tone in his voice.

"Unlike you, I've clearly been raised in the right ways, I've been raised to know that scaring people into serving you is wrong." Evan states, glaring at the delinquent with a look of disdain.

"Just because you were raised to believe doing things which normal people would consider 'good' does not mean you have any right to talk down to me like you're some sort of messiah. Who do you think you are, Jun?" Sunny questions while crumbling his fists, it seemed that this was a conversation he found rather annoying.

"Please don't compare me to that annoying rich boy, and the only reason why I am a messiah is because I'm standing here against you!" Evan shouts before firing his arrow that was aimed for Sunny's head. The arrow spins after being shot to the point that steam began coming out the tip of the arrow because of how much momentum it was gaining. However, a big smirk appears on Sunny's face and he moves his head to the left which made the arrow go right past his head, only for him to grab the arrow's wood with his left hand.

"Didn't they teach you to only shoot out of self-defense?~" Sunny continues teasing the officer-in-training, he then tightens his grip on the arrow he caught. In a matter of seconds, the arrow breaks in half and the pieces of the sharp object fall onto the ground after being crushed in half by Sunny's strength.

"When I'm around, no matter who it is, I ain't letting you hurt ANYONE." Evan confirms before dropping the bow, he then grabs the strap around him before he throws it off him.

"Leo doesn't seem to mind it, isn't that right darling?~" Sunny flirts with his non-boyfriend with arrogance being clear as ever to hear.

"Even if I didn't, I'm too weak to do anything about it." Leo responds in a monotone voice, he sounded devoid of life now.

"You know, you may be right about you being weak, Leo-" Evan comments about Leo while looking at him.

"See?" Sunny questions laughing a little to himself.

"But you, on the other hand, Sunny, are just pathetic." Evan finishes his sentence, turning his attention to Sunny with this comment while deciding to drop his bow and arrows. This comment made Sunny blink, it seemed to take him a bit to process the words he heard come out of his adversaries' mouth which suddenly made everything go silent with nothing but the blowing of the wind now being heard. Leo reacted to the words by gasping quietly to himself, shocked at what he just heard before he looks down and began thinking deeply to himself.

"...Well I was always taught that an injured colleague loses their value." Sunny states before he wastes no time charging towards Evan, Evan notices this and decides to do the same and so he charges towards his opponent. The two of them glared into each other's eyes, despite being teammates the two of them looked like two lions who were fighting for control over their pack. In the center of this current predicament was Leo who simply watched all this go down as he felt like he couldn't do anything even if he tried, instead he decides to just watch the events unfolding in front of his eyes.


*The Losers Team*

A pair of closed eyes were seen opening up after the screen cuts to them opening after getting a bit of sleep. Their eyes were blue and seemed to have an entire array of emotions on display from the looks of it alone, from the small sparkles in them to how abnormally small their pupils even were, the blue eyes then blinks once. This person was then seen sitting up and it was revealed that the person was Hannah Jordan, she rubbed her forehead after waking up before closing her eyes.

"Let's just say I don't use my brain as much as I do my heart, and my heart tells me that it doesn't matter if I barely know you." Fergy's words echo through her head after she woke up, remembering what he said and how they sounded like words you'd expect more from a easily-manipulated lovestruck child.

"Looks like I'll be putting the Confessional Room to good use." Hannah comments before chuckling a bit, it was clear that she had a lot of things on her mind and that the confessional room is the place for her to say what was currently on her mind.

"W-What should I d-do? What s-should I-I do? Wh-What should I-I do? What sh-should I d-do?" A voice that sounded like it was trying to find ten different ways to stutter was heard. Hannah turns her attention and looked at the only person on the term who she's observed stuttering more times than a glitchy tape recorder, it was the girl who was in the center in the conflict between Jun and Chloe, Ingrid Glenmarie. Currently, she was pacing around the room while looking down at the ground.

"Because I know you'll be able to make it pass the merge without me, I know it's probably a weak reason for not voting out Jun or Chloe, my reason for doing that was...her." More of Fergy's words from the previous day echoes throughout Hannah's head while she stared down at the person who he had voted himself out for.

"I don't know, What should you do?" Hannah decides to speak up loud enough for Ingrid to hear her, the awkward girl blinks before looking behind her and she sees the person who had accidentally overheard her.

"EEEP!" Ingrid shouts out before backing up, a blush appears on her face after she does back away a bit. "S-Sorry, I thought you w-were still as-asleep." Ingrid states while taking deep breaths, which could be heard all around the cabin.

"It's okay, also there's no need to be afraid of me!" Hannah exclaims, a smile suddenly growing on her face before she tilts her head to the left. This makes Ingrid blink and she tries processing the sudden change which she saw the Jordan sibling go through, one moment ago she was just neutral and now she looks very happy.

"A-Are you s-sure about that?" Ingrid asks cautiously while she began backing away even more which makes Hannah sigh.

"Look, I'm trying my best to try and work with you, so can you please just try and at least try to work with me here?" Hannah requests, dropping her over exaggerated smile and she now seemed a bit more annoyed.

"Sorry a-again, I'm not exactly in the i-ideal mindset right now." Ingrid admits while she taps her pointer fingers against one another.

"That part is obvious, what isn't is, What are you freaking out about?" Hannah questions while she began looking around, she noticed that both Jun and Chloe weren't inside the cabin at the moment.

"Well...Jun and Chloe went o-on a walk with each other this morning, but I f-feel like something might happen between the two of them because of m-me, and honestly I may like Jun, but I don't want C-Chloe to get hurt either." Ingrid explains, she looks down at the ground while she spoke.

"Sounds like you really care for the both of them, how likely do you think it is for the two of them to fight each other though?" Hannah decides to test Ingrid's knowledge.

"There's no exact measure for fighting in general, however if they do g-get into a fight and get injured, t-then they'll be two out of the 5.8 million people who die as a result of in-injuries each year." Ingrid answers, she begins sweating after saying the fact.

"You really need to learn about more stuffs than the likelihood of people dying, especially since you can apparently cook." Hannah responds while she pats the awkward goth's back.

"Oh r-right! Let's just say cooking hasn't really been something I've been t-trying to do as of late since Chloe's trying to teach me h-how to drum." Ingrid says before she nervously chuckles.

"Why don't we try to cook something right now? I've always wondered how sweet food were made." Hannah suggests which makes Ingrid's eyes widen a bit and her eyes sparkle a little.

"A-Are you sure? I don't think I'm t-that good at cooking..." Ingrid displays her lack of self-confidence once more.

"Of course, besides I'm fine with smoke as long as it's not the cigarette kind, my brother likes bringing that around with him way too often." Hannah confirms before she gives her teammate a thumbs up.

"Speaking of your f-family, I think I remember seeing your sister a few t-times, do you mind telling me a few things a-about her if that's alright with you?" Ingrid asks before she sat down on her bed, Hannah then blinks before she lets out a sigh.

"Well I guess that it's only natural you'd be curious about Kaylee, you and her are quite similar so of course you'd want to know more about her, anyways, we can discuss about her right now and get to cooking later, deal?" Hannah asks before she puts out her hand.

"D-D-Deal." Ingrid answers with a lot of stuttering, she then shook Hannah's hand before she sat down by her.

"Kaylee...She never really had a lot of friends growing up aside from two, but recently she hasn't been speaking with them at all since she believes that they will just betray her, the reason she thinks this is because last year she got betrayed and was back-stabbed by another friend she had...her friend's name was Yuki Miyamoto." Hannah begins telling the story.

"W-Why'd Yuki betray her!?" Ingrid asks, she already seemed to be very engaged with the story.

"Honestly, I don't think even Yuki herself knows why she did that, after all I keep getting the sense that she's not proud of what she did. Anyways, back onto Kaylee, she's obviously a goth thanks to multiple factors when she grew up, one of which being the fact that our parents never really cared for her and so she became a goth growing up who also really loved playing her guitar, but something else which I noticed throughout Kaylee's entire life was that she was always so lonely and she only had her guitar to care for...honestly, I can't imagine how it must feel to have been lonely for so long but there's one thing I was able to learn from her which I think you should probably learn." Hannah states before she stares at Ingrid with a serious look on her face.

"W-What's the l-lesson?" Ingrid asks one more time.

"Bad people have a reason for being who they are, it doesn't excuse their actions but sometimes people are awful just so they can avoid the feeling of loneliness." Hannah gives Ingrid her last words before she stood up and walks away soon afterwards. Ingrid simply looks down and she grips onto her bed while taking in the words which were just said to her.

Outside, Jun and Chloe were seen walking alongside each other while they both looked ahead, the two of them were in completely different mindsets right at this moment. Where they were going was unclear but Jun decided to put out his left hand and Chloe accidentally walks into it which makes her bump back a bit. The punk drummer growls before she glares over at the team leader.

"From what Jesus is telling me, this is the best spot for the two of us to speak with each other." Jun decides to speak his newfound made-up language.

"You really think I care about what a made up being says to you inside of your head which is filled mostly with thoughts of yourself?" Chloe sarcastically asks, she crossed her arms while doing so.

"Well excuse me for speaking Christianese-" Jun begins responding.

"That's not even a real language! You literally just made that up!" Chloe angrily and loudly points out.

"And besides, don't act like your mind isn't filled with thoughts of glory and fame, I know that simpletons like you love getting attention especially when you believe that you're so good at something." Jun completely ignores Chloe and instead he finishes his sentence with a smirk.

"Christ you're annoying, are all Christians like you?" Chloe asks before gritting her teeth.

"It doesn't take a genius to know that not all Christians literally show up whenever someone says-" Jun pauses mid-sentence, he then quickly runs off into the forest while Chloe just stands there and facepalms.

"Why is this guy the leader of our group?" Chloe grumbles before she takes her hand off her face, she then sees Jun run back soon after and he was out of breath now.

"J-Jesus." Jun finishes his sentence before he takes the time to catch his breath.

"Shall thou sorry a** begin speaking with me now?" Chloe asks impatiently while she taps her left foot on the ground.

"So you use that kind of language too?...How disappointing." Jun says, he shook his head as he spoke.

"I WILL CASTRATE YOU!" Chloe continues to snap.

"Oh well, guess I'll make a compromise since you do play a very important role on our team." Jun seemed to be too into his own words to pay attention to anything which Chloe was saying to him.

"...At least you noticed that much." Chloe reluctantly responds before she takes a deep breath in and then out.

"Considering my role on the team, considering the dynamics is the thing which I need to do the most, besides my father taught me that no matter how great you are you need to prove your worth whether you like it or not, that's why I joined this show." Jun explains before he leans against a nearby tree.

"Sorry, all I'm currently hearing coming out of your mouth is: I AM THE KING OF THE WORLD WHO HAS BEEN SENT BY JESUS TO SPREAD HIS WORD!" Chloe does an intentionally poor imitation of Jun by waving her hands randomly around her.

"Hmmm, maybe I'm more than just who you say I am, maybe I'm more than just the king...anyways how about we talk about Ingrid?" Jun decides to move the conversation along.

"Don't get too comfortable with Ingrid she's my...friend, after all!" Chloe loudly declares while Jun closes his eyes.

"You do make a valid argument with what you're saying, it's clear that you don't like the fact that Ingrid clearly likes me and I can't blame you completely for that." Jun says which makes Chloe look at him with confusion.

"Okay, I doubt you're going to get her to hate you so what are you planning?" Chloe questions before she takes a step closer to him.

"Nothing much, it's just that I'll make sure not to vote you off if you let me continue to hang out with Ingrid the way I have, then once the merge begins she'll be all yours." Jun offers before he puts out his hand.

"...So correct me if I'm wrong-" Chloe begins speaking.

"You don't need to tell me twice." Jun bluntly says.

"But you're basically telling me to let you do whatever you want with Ingrid until merge, and if I let you do so then you won't vote me out?" Chloe repeats what she heard.

"Exactly, the three of us could simply vote off Hannah at the next elimination and so that'll guaranteed yours and Ingrid's safety, besides there's no way we're losing two challenges in a row." Jun confident speaks up, he then chuckles right after speaking.

"What I'm going to say might be bad to point out but I don't think even you're not dumb enough to notice a specific hole in your deal." Chloe responds while she stares at Jun's hand.

"Of course I noticed that you could probably try voting me out if you could, so rather than try convincing you otherwise...I dare you to try me and see how that works out for you." Jun simply states while he glares at the punk drummer.

"..." Chloe remains completely silent and she stared right back into the king bee's eyes, the two of them both looked like the two of them were completely serious right now.

"So...deal?~" Jun asks, a smirk grew on his face once more before he waits for Chloe's answer which he knew would decide what her place in the team would be in his eyes, either she was going to be a target or another pawn.

"...Deal." Chloe accepts and she shakes his hand.

"Excellent, well I think this concludes our meeting here, see you next time, Blinding Fire." Jun states before he pulls away from the handshake soon afterwards and he walks away from her soon after. He didn't seem concerned at all and instead he kept a look of confidence on his face with his smirk, everything was going to work out for him in the end in his mind. Chloe simply stood there and watched the leader walk away, she didn't seem to be that upset anymore and instead she walks the opposite direction of Jun, deciding to spend some alone time for once.


*The Five Souls*

A person was seen entering the cabin and they seemed to be holding some kind of spray-paint in their hand, they walked over to a nearby trash bin and puts the spray inside of it. They then put something into one of the pockets of their jacket before walking away soon afterwards, the camera then turns to static for a bit before it could show where the person would be going. Eventually the camera was working once again but everyone on The Five Souls were all seen laid down on each of their bed since they all were asleep, all except for one person.

"Well I can't say that was a disappointing night." Ciara says while she opened the door to the bathroom and she exits it soon after. She looked around the cabin and noticed that everyone was still sleeping.

"What are you talking about?" She suddenly heard another voice speak up, she then looks over at who said this and saw that the person who has seemingly now woken up was Jared.

"Ah, well let's just say that I was able to get to sleep with two people this season, which means that I've slept with one more person than I expected myself to." Ciara says with a smile on her face.

"...There's a bunch of questions I could ask but since I just woke up, I'm not going to bother asking them right now." Jared says before he reaches over to the side of his bed and he picks up his glasses.

"Well to answer one of your questions: It started off kinda disappointing but by the end of the night, it got really good." Ciara describes in detail about her night.

"What kind of questions do you think are going around in my head?" Jared asks before he puts on his glasses, he then sits up on his bed.

"The kind which I'd expect from a teenage boy, and yes it felt good if you're also wondering about that." Ciara responds.

"Actually I'm not going to ask how your one night stand went since I'm not really into that kind of stuff, I'm more concerned if you cleaned up the bathroom since we all have to use it." Jared confirms after letting out a sigh.

"Don't worry, I made sure to clean it up thoroughly and as much as I could~" Ciara answers, smirking while saying this.

"I think you might want to rephrase that." Jared says before he looks over at the bathroom door, it didn't seem like there was anything wrong with it so he begins internally thinking that maybe Ciara was telling the truth in the most Ciara way possible.

"Nope, besides wouldn't you like to mess up the bathroom tonight?~" Jared suddenly hears Ciara asks which makes him gulp a bit.

"N-NO! THERE'S SO MANY THINGS WRONG WITH T-THAT!" Jared loudly says while he was blushing.

"Hey August, do you mind keeping it down?" Kyle asks, sitting up in his bed after Jared's yelling seemingly woke him up.

"Yeah now I'm awake too, thanks leader." Miriam sarcastically remarks after she sat up in her bed since Jared's yelling had also apparently waken her up.

"S-S-Sorry! I'll make sure to keep my voice down next time!" Jared apologizes, Ciara then pats his head while giggling.

"You know you don't have much confidence like Jun does." Ciara says which makes Jared look down.

"I know..." Jared admits, Ciara then takes her hand off his head.

"And when it comes to using force Sunny would absolutely kick your perfect butt." Jared continues to listen to Ciara.

"That sounded a bit weird, but you're definitely right about that excluding my butt being perfect." Jared responds, continuing to be pessimistic and he puts himself down even more.

"But honestly you don't need to be either of those things, right Lia?" Ciara asks before she looks over at Lia who stood up from her bed, Jared then blinks before he too looks over at the YouTuber.

"Agreed, you don't need to force other people to do what you want to do, and you don't need to have absolute confidence in your plans in order for them to work. I know that you think that you're not the perfect leader but to me, you don't have to be." Lia says while she begins walking up to the team leader, Ciara begins backing away and Jared watches Lia.

"If I'm not the perfect leader then I'll just be voted off once I make one big mistake which costs us our team." Jared continues to pessimistically speak about himself.

"Have you seen the other teams? The only thing Jun's good with running at is his mouth and Sunny's ego is bigger than his head. Sure you're definitely weak and I'm pretty sure your back is missing a very vital bone, but stop thinking so negatively and putting yourself down, if you're going to continue being our leader then you better act like it!" Miriam shouts which makes Jared's eyes completely widen.

"You sure have a way with words." Kyle comments while looking over at Miriam.

"Well I'm just trying to help our team leader to stop verbally abusing himself and putting himself down! It's only our second day and you're already assuming the worse even though we didn't lose yesterday's challenge? Well you better use that smart brain of yours to figure out how dumb that is, now get your s*** together because if we need to constantly give you pep talks then you're just a hindrance!" Miriam finishes yelling at their team leader.

"..." Jared just sat in complete silence after hearing everything which was said to him.

"As harsh as Miriam is, she's right, in fact I'll slap you again if you continue to negatively think this way." Lia states, she sat down next to him while speaking.

"...Do you guys really think it's that easy?" Jared says quietly while he looks down, his hair was now covering his eyes.

"What was th-?" Lia begins asking.

"Nothing, I'll try my best to make sure you all won't need to give me another therapy talk in order for me to be the leader I should be." Jared simply states before he stands up and looks at his entire team with a smile on his face.

"Maybe next time instead of all of us needing to speak with you, we could just bang it all away?" Ciara suggests before everyone stares at her.

"Just because something is good at relieving stress, it doesn't mean you should do it." Jared simply responds, everyone then heard a door open up and they all looked at the direction where they heard the sound from.

"That doesn't mean you should never not do it." It was Rival who said these words, he then closes the bathroom door after opening it and he looks at The Five Souls.

"Out of all the guys on the island, why did you sleep with the temporary host?" Miriam asks while she looks over at Ciara.

"It's not like anything is going to come out of it, besides, I still got to work on my ability to seduce other guys." Ciara quickly explains why she did what she did.

"Honestly I really enjoyed last night but I won't show any bias towards your team, also I'll make sure to make sure nothing like this happens again." Rival states before he began walking out of the cabin.

"You just didn't want Sunny to have been the only guy you slept with on this island, did you?" Miriam immediately figures out Ciara's real reasoning.

"At least more positives than I expected came out from it." Ciara comments before she giggles while Miriam simply rolled her eyes.

"Oh by the way...it's challenge time!" Rival confirms upon turning around to face The Five Souls.

"Alright then! Let's get going team!" Jared declares before Miriam, Lia, and Ciara all nod, meanwhile Kyle simply stares at the team leader.

"I should probably talk with him after today's challenge, after all, I know for sure that he's going to need a lot of mental help." Kyle thinks to himself before him along with everyone else on the team exits the cabin.

"Hey Lia's Loosie's, text the other teams and tell them to meet at the west side of the island!" Rival directs before he continues walking forward, his hair was actually a darker shade of red than it usually is. But right now The Five Souls were too busy to notice this being it was currently...challenge time.


*Challenge Time*

Eventually everyone reached their destination and saw that there was seven tables which had a pair of chairs at every one of them, each table also had an umbrella covering the sunlight over it. Plus, the two cups on every table had tea inside each of them. However, Rival stood right behind everyone and now his hair had a white ahoge on top of it, however only three people actually paid attention to this since everyone else were trying to figure out what the challenge was about.

"Ciara?" Miriam asks while looking over at Ciara for an answer as to why Rival looked much more different than he did yesterday.

"No idea, one moment he was his usual self and then when I woke up he looked different...maybe I should try to do the same thing tonight and see if he changes again~" Ciara suggests while a cheeky smile appeared on her face.

"For the sake of our team and Jesus-" Miriam begins speaking.

"DID SOMEBODY SAY-!?" Jun suddenly pops out from behind Miriam, only for him to be shot in the head by a bullet which bounces off his head, Jun immediately falls onto the ground after feeling the bullet's affects.

"Awww, I accidentally used a bouncy bullet rather than a real one." Rival responds while staring at his bullets, he then reloads his revolver before putting it back in his pocket and he chuckles a little.

"On second thought, I think I'm going to need some space." Ciara confirms before Miriam nods in agreement, after a sudden static appears on the screen, the camera goes back to normal and shows that the big sadistic smile on Rival's face seemed to have gone away and that he was back to normal.

"You saw nothing..." Rival states, he looked over at Lia while he said this.

"I don't know what you're talking about SMG4." Lia remarks while looking away, her hands were behind her back and she whistled after speaking.

"What's today challenge, anyways?" Alex decides to ask the question everyone was was wonder while he adjusts his glasses.

"Oh right, Today's challenge will be a very important one for all of you and your futures!" Rival announces, this was able to get everyone's attentions and they all stared at him with curious looks on each of their faces.

"Does that involve mine?" Sunny asks a question of his own.

"Actually you don't have a future, so who here is gonna try taking a guess as to what shall happen today!?" Rival loudly asks everyone, Sunny simply glared at the host.

"Fighting Challenge?" Hannah takes her first guess.

"No." Rival answers.

"Singing Challenge?"

"No."

"Dating Challenge?"

"Yes."

"Gaming Challenge?"

"Does No Game No Life have a second season?"

"Running Challenge, then?"

"You literally guessed it right already." Rival decides to stop continuing the back and forth he was having with Hannah.

"I know." Hannah confirms before giggling a little while she smiled at Rival, he simply responds by playfully rolling his eyes.

"Whatever you say, so yeah, today's challenge is called: Love or War, and basically you will all be dating each other!" Rival announces proudly while looking up into the sky, Jun was seen getting onto his feet.

"NO/YES!" The cast loudly responded to this, Lia, Miriam, Evan, Hannah, Leo, and Chloe all seemed opposed to the idea while Sunny, Alex, Ingrid, and Ciara all cheered for this idea, meanwhile Kyle, Jun, Rainy all simply shrugged at the idea for the challenge and Jared simply looked down, everyone then looked at each other.

"And you all will be dating someone from the other team." Rival decides to clarify what he meant.

"NO/YES!" No one's response changed and everyone reacted the same way.

"Unfortunately, however, my co-host wanted me to show you all an example on how dates should go, although that prick never informed me on who my date is, I'm sure it won't make much of a difference." Rival explains before he lets out a sigh while leaning back in his chair, he impatiently taps his foot on the ground while he waits for his dating partner.

"I'm pretty sure you're gonna regret saying that." Rival heard a voice from behind, he then chuckles and rolls his eyes.

"Whatever you say, Hey why don't you pass me some beer which I can smash over your head?" Rival states before looking back, he saw that it was his good old 'friend', Adrian Grey.

"If you even try me, I'll make sure to help you with your family reunion." Adrian remarks while glaring at the current host, the red-haired host then gets out his seat and began speed-walking his way towards Adrian.

"You're gonna PAY for that one, YOU FRIENDLESS PIECE OF SH-!" Rival begins shouting while crumbling his hands, his red eyes beginning to turn into a darker shade than it currently is.

"R-Rival?" Rival hears a female voice behind him which stops him in his tracks, he then remains standing in his place for a bit before turning around and he looks at the person who said his name.

"...Kay..." Rival confirms, staring at Kay while he sweats a bit.

"Now, start your date." Adrian commands while pushing Rival, He then stumbles forward but he was able to grab onto the table before looking back over at his test date.

"Y-Yeah, let's start." Kay responds before sitting down in her seat, Rival then nods before he sat down in the seat across from hers.

"...So..." Rival says while looking down, it looked like he had no idea on what to do right now.

"How's things between you and E-Erin been going?" Kay decides to ask the worst kind of question.

"Well, things have been going well all things considered, although she doesn't really seem to catch onto my flirting or adult jokes." Rival answers her question.

"That's Erin for you, she's not really that smart when it comes to adult stuff and yet she's very o-optimistic especially when she builds her inventions which have a ninety-nine percent failure rate." Kay speaks about another girl who the conversation should probably not be about.

"Yeah...so, How have you been doing since the whole incident with Yuki?" Rival asks while staring at the girl sitting across of him.

"...H-Honestly, I'm still t-trying to get over it, being b-betrayed by someone who you thought was your friend really does suck, and yes that's an u-understatement." Kay answers, a frown grew on her face while she stared down.

"It doesn't just suck, it just blows since it may suck to suck, but it also blows to suck." Rival says stuff that makes no sense, a slight smile comes onto his face while speaking.

"Looks like you've lost your sense of h-humor after all this time." Kay comments before yawning.

"Guess you could say that I really do blow at being funny." Rival remarks with a smirk now, Kay then snickers a little before she shook her head in response to this bad pun.

"Just stop while you're behind, especially since this conversation is just stringing along." Kay decides to make a pun of her own, she picks up her guitar after saying this and she plays all her strings.

"If we break into a musical, I'll make sure that we're going to sing something more complicated than-" Rival began saying while he looks up into the clear blue sky.

"DO-RE-MI-FA-SOL?" Kay finishes his sentence.

"Exactly, although maybe the two of us could find a song with that inside of it's lyrics, then who knows? Maybe you could become the next Mariah Carey." Rival states, looking back at Kay while saying this.

"She isn't rock though?" Kay points out while tilting her head to the left.

"You're correct, but knowing you, you could rock my world despite that~" Rival flirts before winking at Kay.

"T-T-T-T-Thanks." Kay stutters a lot while a blush glows on her face, this makes Rival laugh a bit to himself.

"Anyways, this was a fun test date, but I'll get back to you later." Rival says, standing up from his chair after speaking.

"Thank you..." Kay quietly whispers while Rival was currently looking away from her, she had a smile on her face and had her hands on her chest while staring at the red-head.

"Two years later and your feelings haven't changed." Adrian comments while standing by Kay.

"Alright everyone, I hope you all took note of that test date since all of you will have to date each other, however you all can have two ways to approach the situation!" Rival announces while Kay was seen getting out of her chair and she walks away in the background.

"Neat, What are these other ways?" Kyle asks, this makes Rival chuckle.

"Glad you asked, because I was going to tell you all the answer even if you didn't, so basically you can all either make the other person fall for you or you can battle with the other person until they fall onto the ground with their eyes closed!" Rival loudly confirms like usual.

"That sounds like a good way to see who has 'game' and who is physically strong." Sunny comments before he looks at Alex, Evan, and Leo.

"You really need to get laid again." Kyle and Ciara remarks in unison, they then looked at each other before they high-five one another.

"Distractions aside, the teams with the least amount of points by the end of the challenge will be sent into tonight's elimination where the ninth contestant of the season will be eliminated." Rival confirms.

"Wait, how will you be able to tell when one of us falls for the other person for even a moment?" Chloe asks a very good question.

"F*** you, that's how." Rival gives a very good answer.

"That's not even an answer!" Chloe points out.

"The only way to forfeit is if you verbally admit defeat, by the way, now each teams have been already decided by this girl." Rival says before he points to another person who was walking up to him.

"I'm on my waaay!" The girl who was running up to everyone had a pixie cut styled bright purple hair, she also wore a pink zipped up hoodie which had a black heart on it. It seemed that she also wore a tank-top under the hoodie but it was unclear how it exactly looked, what was easy to identify however, was her black jeans which were ripped at her knee. Lastly, she wore grey running shoes which had a purple long sock coming out of it, she appeared to be 5'8" and she had a happy smile on her face.

"Hey, only I can sing Castle on the Hill, Sarena Riley Penman." Rival confirms the name of the girl who ran up to him while holding a list on her hand.

"And you can't call me Sarena, 'Drama'." Riley remarks before she hands over the list to the host.

"Okay okay, also where's the pen, man?" Rival makes one of his more subtle puns which was so subtle, it wasn't even put in bold.

"I've got it right here, and I'll have you meet Anubis if you make another pun out of my name." Riley states, pulling a pen out her pocket while she spoke.

"If you insist, anyways you can put the pen back in your pocket because I don't really need it." Rival confirms, Riley then nods before following his orders and she puts the pen in her pocket.

"Goodluck with hosting the the rest of the pre-merge!" Riley says before she turns around.

"Thanks, also make sure to actually watch this season of Total Drama." Rival states, he looks over at her while saying this.

"No promises!" Riley responds before she runs off, Rival watches her do so and he couldn't help but let out a chuckle before he looks back on over at everyone else.

"I'll just quickly announce the pairs now: Ciara and Evan! Alex and Hannah! Jared and Rainy! Ingrid and Leo! Chloe and Kyle! Lia and Sunny! and Jun and Miriam!" Rival decides to quickly get straight to the point and he announces each duo.

"Yes! I didn't get Sunny!" Ciara proudly cheers.

"It doesn't really matter who I'm paired up with." Evan answers with indifference while he had his right hand in his pocket.

"At least I'll be able to speak with a friend again." Alex says with a smile on his face.

"Someone I trust is better than someone I hate." Hannah comments, she too had a slight smile on her face.

"...I don't think the date will end well." Jared admits before he nervously chuckles.

"...I can't blame you for thinking that way." Rainy responds while she looks towards the ground.

"Well, Leo doesn't l-look like a bad guy so I think that i-if his voice remains low things will go w-well." Ingrid states her opinion with a slight yet nervous smile, meanwhile Sunny whispered into Leo's ear.

"I'll keep my voice low." Leo confirms after listening to the leader of his team.

"Ugh, I didn't come onto the show to date anyone!" Chloe complains.

"Doesn't sound like things will be going smoothly between me and her, but I guess we'll have to wait and see just how badly things might go." Kyle says with his hands inside his pockets.

"There are MANY things wrong with all of this!" Lia angrily states while she grits her teeth and closes her eyes, her hands were both clenched and she didn't look happy at all.

"Well I'll definitely be a-able to overcome today's challenge." Sunny tries speaking with confidence but the stutter in his voice made it obvious that he wasn't too confident.

"You start a fight-" Jun begins speaking before he looks over at Miriam.

"I start a war." Miriam finishes his sentence and the two of them glare into each other's souls while Rival looked at the both of them, Adrian was seen standing by Rival while he too heard this.

"Should we sue them for that?" Adrian questions while he looks over at Rival.

"Nah, although I doubt the two of them even know how glad I am to hear those words." Rival responds, he had a smile on his face while he spoke.

"I'll take my leave now." Adrian says before he suddenly walks offscreen once again.

"Anyways everyone: It's dating time!" Rival declares with a big smile on his face, the camera then cuts to everyone after they all had sat down at their own respective tables.


*Love or War*

Ciara and Evan

"...So..." Ciara begins saying before sitting awkwardly in silence while Evan just stares at her.

"...Why'd you start speaking without even knowing what to talk about?" Evan asks while he still had his right hand in his pocket.

"Look, I was just trying to try and mimic what Rival did earlier, I still need to improve my flirting game after all." Ciara explains.

"Guess I can't say much to respond to that then, especially since hooking up with other people never really crosses my mind that often." Evan comments while he leans back in his chair.

"That's actually kinda obvious, although considering the fact that you look strong I don't think it should be that hard for you to go get a girlfriend, I mean hell you and Jackie were very close before she got eliminated." Ciara says while she looks up at the umbrella which was over the two of them.

"Honestly I wish I would've been able to prevent her elimination, she was definitely gone too soon." Evan states while he looks down at the table and he clenches his left hand into a fist while he did so.

"Hey police boy, I'm not kinky enough to be into that." Ciara decides to make a dirty joke while she points to Evan's right hand, he then slowly looks over at her.

"I can see why you need to work on flirting because that was just awful." Evan remarks while he unclenched his left hand.

"Wait a second, I got an idea!" Ciara thinks to herself before a big grin is suddenly formed on her face.

"Why does it look like you're trying to imitate The Grinch?" Evan asks while he scooting his chair back a bit.

"Let's not focus on that part, first I want to know how you're doing Evan!~" Ciara's voice suddenly sounds less like it's a voice that's good for signing.

"Okay you're creeping me out a bit with whatever the hell you're doing." Evan says and he stands up from his chair after saying this, he then begins walking away.

"Hell-" Ciara thinks fast and she stands up, only for her to intentionally start falling down right after standing up, this caught Evan's attention and he turns around before he began running towards her. Ciara closes her eyes and puts her hands in front of her face while she continues to slowly but surely fall onto the ground. However, Evan was able to just barely be able to catch her using just his left arm.

"...Why does this feel like some serious deja vu?" Evan asks while he looks down at the guitarist.

"I knew you'd catch me, you're just that kind of person~" Ciara responds before she opens her eyes and she had a more genuine smile on her face.

"...Jackie..." Evan says, finally realizing why this felt very similar, he then blushed afterwards.

"The Five Souls get their first point!" Rival announces after watching this go down, Evan then pulls Ciara onto her feet while he stares at the host.

"Wait, I didn't even fall for her!" Evan insists before he grits his teeth.

"Considering the fact that she reminded you of the person you have a crush on-" Rival began explaining.

"I don't have a crush on ANYONE!" Evan shouts once again, trying to convince the host the opposite of what he currently was saying.

"Because you blushed while Ciara was in your arms, and because I'm NOT an idiot, it seemed right to award her the point especially since you were blushing, and blushing equals shipping material so there's that." Rival finishes his explanation, it didn't sound like he believed any of what Evan said to him.

"...Dammit." Evan simply says before he lets out a sigh and he walks away from the table while Ciara giggled a little.

"I can relate to how he felt in that moment." Ciara confirms.

"Love can sure be quite the inconvenience, anyways congrats on giving your team their first point." Rival responds before Ciara gave him a thumbs up, the host then walks over to the other tables while Ciara simply sat back down in her chair and began relaxing.


Alex and Hannah

Hannah's and Alex's heads were seen turned towards Ciara's and Evan's date and the two of them watched until the date had ended, after that had happened the two of them looked at one another. Alex seemed to be relatively calm, although he was sweating a little the little drop of sweat was too small for any normal person to see. Luckily, Hannah was a normal person and so she didn't notice the sweat which Alex was currently sweating but she had a neutral look on her face.

"So, How has things been g-going with your new team?" Alex asks, the slight moment of stuttering caught Hannah's attention but she decides to answer his question anyways.

"Truth be told, it's not looking good for me at the moment." Hannah responds before she picks up her cup of tea and she takes a sip out of it.

"That's very unfortunate to hear, it must be more unfortunate to have seen Fergy get sent home yesterday however." Alex says before he also took a sip out of his tea.

"You make it sound like I had a crush on the guy." Hannah points out while she now stares at the only boy-with-no-stereotype.

"Am I wrong?" Alex asks while he stared back at her.

"I'll only answer if you give me your honest feelings on Vince." Hannah gives him a condition in order to get her answer to his question.

"...Well played, actor girl." Alex doesn't answer, however he was sweating more now and Hannah now noticed his nervousness.

"Remember that you're not the only person here who is in it to win it, luckily because we were on the same time I'll be friendly with you." Hannah confirms states, she then takes another sip of her tea.

"At least you're someone who I know I can trust, anyways if you'd like any advice on how to try and get on your team's good side then I'll try my best to give you some." Alex confirms while he puts his hands on the table and he intertwined his fingers while he does this.

"You're just dragging out this conversation because you know that you can't get a point aren't you?" Hannah bluntly says which makes Alex sit in silence and simply blink for a short amount of time.

"Was it that obvious?" Alex asks while he looks down.

"Painfully." Hannah answers while nodding, she then takes another sip from her tea.

"Well I doubt you could get me to fall for you." Alex states after quickly getting over how obvious his plan was.

"Hehe, Are you sure about that Mr. Jones?~" Hannah questions while a big smirk appeared on her face, all of a sudden she seemed to be filled with confidence.

"...Guess I'll just forfeit this one." Alex automatically confirms and he stands up, Hannah then giggles while Rival walked over to the two of them.

"Wait are you going down without a fight?" Rival asks Alex while crossing his arms.

"Let's just say that I know when I should give up." Alex simply explains himself while shrugging, Rival then sighs before walking him walk off.

"The Losers Team have just received their first point!" Rival reluctantly announces, he then began walking away to try and get to the other tables.

"You know I may not want to end up like my sister, but seeing you speak with her earlier finally made me understand why she's had a crush on you for so long." Rival suddenly heard Hannah's voice, he then stops walking before he turns around.

"Now that you know why she likes me, you now understand why I wished someone better could've gotten to her first." Rival responds, he sounded completely serious while saying this.

"I can definitely see why you think so, but, be glad that you're able to make her feel happiness, as you know she doesn't have a lot of friends and the last one she had..." Hannah says while she began looking down.

"I still can't stand what had happened to her, anyways, I should probably get back to hosting right now, all this serious talk is making me want to get some more beer." Rival responds, he turned around and is able to walk away this time but his smile seemed more forced while he walked.

"Kay's so lucky that she got to you first, Rival Survival, so I won't go after you but I'll gladly go after someone else." Hannah says while looking at Rival, she then looks over at the pair which was across from her.


Ingrid and Leo

The pair which was sitting across from Hannah and Alex's table were Ingrid and Leo, the two of them were currently staring at one another. Ingrid was just trying to think of ways in which she could start up the conversation since she's never really been on a date before. Leo, on the other hand, was unsure about what to do since right now he couldn't take any orders from Sunny and he had to try and make her fall for him since there was no way he'd willingly fight with Ingrid.

"D-Did you know that a-according to Wikipedia, t-twenty two people have ever been c-castrated?" Ingrid spews out a fact which makes Leo's eyes widen.

"No...so may I suggest that we talk about other things that won't make me uncomfortable?" Leo suggests with a nervous smile on his face, he a drop of sweat was seen on his forehead.

"Apologies, I'm n-not exactly t-the best when it comes to tal-talking with other people..." Ingrid says while she puts her pointer fingers against one another and she looks away.

"No offense but that's kinda obvious, although I don't think you need to be the best in order to speak with other people." Leo responds, he looked down at the table upon saying these words.

"Why is th-that?" Ingrid nervously questions, however she soon realized that there was no reason to be afraid of Leo even though he's very buff and looks like a bodybuilder times ten.

"Well just look at me, I'm weak and yet you're listening to what I am saying, plus this conversation hasn't gone badly yet, right?" Leo points out.

"The conversation j-just started t-to be fair, also I h-haven't really contributed much to it so f-far." Ingrid counters what the brawler was saying to her.

"Well it's like you said, the conversation's still young, so let us try to think up of a way for you to speak more!" Leo's voice began getting louder and he began having a smile on his face.

"You d-don't need to-" Ingrid was going to insist.

"An idea has just came to mind! Do you have any friends outside the game?" Leo asks a question which makes Ingrid frown.

"Y-Yeah...th-they even made m-me who I-I am today..." Ingrid says, looking away while she spoke.

"That's interesting to hear, if you don't mind me asking what made you friends with them?" Leo fires off another question which had just came to mind.

"Well one d-day I tried to be-befriend someone wh-which didn't work, but after th-that Minerva approached me after she o-overheard me talking about blood loss a-and so she made m-me apart of her friend group, it was nice not being a-alone for once but...I didn't feel like my-myself." Ingrid explains.

"Oh, that really sucks to hear, honestly talking with other people have never really been a problem for me so I can't really relate to your issues, which is why I'd personally try my best to help out with your issues." Leo confirms which makes Ingrid gasp.

"R-R-Really!?" Ingrid asks excitedly.

"Really! After all other people are always worth helping out!" Leo exclaimed which made Ingrid's eyes more narrow.

"What a-about you, though?" Ingrid asks another question, this one however was a more concerned question.

"Let's just not focus on me for now, after all the definition of selflessness is to focus on other people rather than yourself!" Leo insists, he kept a smile on his face but it now felt more like it wasn't a smile of happiness.

"You're right about t-that, but if we're both being self-selfless then who's going to h-help out who?" Ingrid asks before she looks down and begins thinking to herself.

"I'll help you out, no matter what you say that won't change." Leo states while staring into her eyes, Ingrid's eyes widens once more.

"W-Wow..." Ingrid thinks to herself.


"Really? That's all you need to say for your current thoughts?" Another voice was heard while everyone suddenly was paused, it sounded a little crazed and frustrated, the voice also sounded like it was growling and it sounded a little high-pitched.

"It's not l-like I've been known t-to say m-much, okay?" Ingrid was heard responding to the voice.

"You could at least give us more to work with, we're having your thoughts in here for a reason." The voice was heard explaining while Ingrid was seen sitting down inside of the Confessional Room, the door was open but someone was filming her.

"I'm trying my b-best here, okay?" Ingrid insists while she had a frown on her face.

"Whatever, now lets hope that the editor of this show remembers to cut this out otherwise this will be one hell of an awkward moment." The voice comments before Ingrid nods in agreement.

"Yeah, especially considering what y-you are, n-no o-offense!" Ingrid immediately apologizes and bows quickly.

"I'm pretty sure it's a little too late for-" The voice suddenly stops and Ingrid stared at the thing which was speaking to her.

"Are y-you oka-?" Ingrid began asking, the camera quickly turns to static before showing and some barfing sounds were heard while Ingrid was heard screaming.


"The K-Shida's earned their first point!" Rival was heard suddenly announcing, Ingrid was seen blushing while she looked at Leo.

"W-Wait, w-what?!" Ingrid asks before Leo chuckles a bit.

"I wasn't even trying to make you blush." Leo comments after he saw Ingrid blushing.

"Should've know I a-am the five through seven percent of t-the world who h-have an uncontrollable blush." Ingrid states while looking down.

"No offense but I'm just really glad you finally said a fact that wasn't creepy." Leo responds which makes Ingrid giggles nervously.

"Are my f-facts that b-bad?" Ingrid asks.

"Yeah but if you want to keep saying them then I ain't stopping you, especially because I can't." Leo responds before he stood up and walks away first while Ingrid stares at him.

"If you want some advice on what to do here it is: Yes, there are two paths you can go by. But in the long run there's still time to change the road you're on." Rival says while standing by Ingrid, this makes Ingrid squeak while jumping a bit.

"There's many q-question I feel like ask-asking right now." Ingrid says before Rival already began walking away.

"And it makes me wonder." Rival began singing to himself, he then points Ingrid to stand by Hannah which she listens to.


Jared and Rainy

Next pair which were currently tasked with facing off against one another in this competition were Jared and Rainy who both were staring into each other's eyes. Jared knew that the both of them were physically weak but even still, he had a different plan which was currently being created in his mind since he needed to either fight or flirt, both of which he sucked at. Rainy, on the other hand, simply kept an expressionless face like normal and it was unclear what she could possibly be thinking right now.

"So, Lovely whether today isn't it?" Jared decides to ask the first question with a neutral face.

"Crap! I didn't mean to ask about the whether, I meant to ask about the clear skies specifically!" Jared internally criticizes himself.

"The whether is sunny so I guess sunny means that it is lovely, right?" Rainy asks in a monotone voice.

"Sky-wise, yes. Person-wise, definitely not." Jared answers before gritting his teeth.

"I'm talking to Sunny's sister here! It's such a bad move to talk bad about Sunny in front of his sister!" Jared continues yelling at himself.

"Yeah he's definitely not the best person I know, don't tell him I said that though." Rainy speaks like normal, although her voice does speed up a bit at the end.

"Even if I could, I'm pretty sure he'd just beat me up regardless on who it came from." Jared says with a nervous smile on his face.

"Sounds like you've been able to figure him out very well, congratulations." Rainy says, Jared then gulps after hearing this.

"Her voice is literally the same so was that sarcasm or was she being sincere?!" Jared continues panicking inside of his head.

"As someone who's been with him for so long, I can say that he's feared by many people for a pretty good reason, he rules by fear and manipulation because it's how he was taught to rule people." Rainy states before she picks up the cup of tea on her table.

"While that method is very effective, there's other way to lead a team without constantly making them look more depressed than a dragon who can't fly." Jared points out before he begins sweating.

"Actually that's what happens in the first How To Train Your Dragon movie, and in the third movie it has a sad ending which means I USED A METAPHOR THAT WAS TOO DEPRESSING!" Jared continues to have an existential crisis.

"Funny thing is that you're right about that, from my perspective especially I know that people sometimes prefer to follow people they respect...unfortunately Sunny believes that you're either with him or against him." Rainy confirms, she then takes another sip of her tea.

"From what I'm picking up on, it sounds like you're telling me that you're clearly afraid of Sunny and that's why you follow and vote with him." Jared confirms before he picks up his cup of tea.

"This tea is too much for me to drink! Especially since it's a few millimetres more than the tea I normally like to drink!" Jared directs his rants about everything towards a cup of tea.

"Guess I should've known that you would figure that out, although that's not what I'm more surprised about you." Rainy says, putting back down her cup of tea.

"What do you mean?" Jared questions while tilting his head.

"I'm more surprised you're able to make this conversation go so well considering how you're obvious panicking and I also get the feeling that you're not in the right mindset." Rainy explains while she stared at the perfectionist.

"..." Jared's thoughts go completely empty and in response to what he heard, he puts down his drink and stared back at the empath.

"Guess you know what I'm going through, honestly I know that my team are counting on me to win but it's just so damn tough when even I succeed my efforts are for nothing, which makes all my suffering for nothing!" Jared begins shouting while clenching both his fists.

"On one hand a part of me wants to help you get over your current inner turmoil but I can see why even Lia is fed up with this side of you, because you are a good guy and everyone knows that...you're just so harsh on yourself and not only that, it's clear as rain that you also need to stop complaining because this is a cutthroat game and so of course not everything you do can ever truly matter." Rainy responds while she puts both her hands on the table.

"I KNOW THAT! THAT'S WHAT MAKES ME HATE MYSELF MORE!" Jared shouts while slamming the table and standing up, this makes Rainy's eyes widen, "I know that some of the things I do and that my suffering will be all for nothing sometimes, but it still doesn't hurt any less when it does happen!"

"Honestly I didn't think you'd be this emotional." Rainy says while Jared eyes begin tearing up.

"Unlike you I actually know how to show off my emotions!" Jared yells which makes Rainy stand up right afterwards.

"DO YOU REALLY WANT TO SEE MY EMOTIONS?..." Rainy asks while she looks down.

"Try me, considering the fact that you eliminated your friend, I doubt you even regret doing that." Jared simply answers.

"SHUT UP!" Rainy angrily shouts, there were tears in her eyes now.

"..." Jared listens and he simply looks at her in shock, he genuinely didn't expect her to be showing this much emotion and now that he saw tears in her eyes he couldn't help but feel bad for the girl. Meanwhile, Rainy wasn't using her head at all and for what seemed like the first time, she was getting overly-emotional and her tears signified just how she really felt on the inside. Jared walks around the table and he puts his hands on Rainy's shoulders while she looks down.

"There...you saw my emotions, are you happy now?" Rainy mumbles.

"No, in fact I'm sorry for having you be like this, I should've known to not judge a book by it's cover because now I see that you're just a human being like everyone else here and I hope you find happiness." Jared says, this catches Rainy's attention and she looks up at him.

"That'll be easier s-said than done." Rainy responds while she looks to her left.

"True and honestly, I don't know how you'll find happiness but knowing you, you'll find a way even if you're brother tries convincing you otherwise." Jared says, Rainy looks back at him once more with a slight smile on her face.

"Jared..." Rainy responds before she is hugged by him and she closes her eyes while letting the pessimist continue to hug her and she simply enjoys the embrace. However, she instinctively blushes which she immediately notices and her eyes shoot open while Jared seemed to be completely oblivious to what she was currently doing. The only thing which he was thinking about was just cheering up Rainy because he just wanted to help her out.

"The Five Souls are now at two points!" Rival's voice was heard announcing which made Jared blink before he looks down at Rainy.

"I couldn't help it." Rainy remarks which makes Jared smile a bit.

"Well you can hug me for as long as you want, after all, Lia and Sunny are going to be too focused with their 'date' to even notice us hugging each other." Jared says which makes Rainy nod.

"Okay...thank you." Rainy responds before she wraps her arms around Jared and the two of them continue to hug each other.

"This is too wholesome for me to ruin." Rival comments while watching this before he simply walks past the two of them and lets them continue doing their hug.


Chloe and Kyle

"You have got to be kidding me." Chloe states, her right eye twitches while she says this and she glares at the person who was sitting across the table from her. The person was obviously Kahlin Mora who was seen laying back in his chair with his hands behind his head and he simply looked right back at the drummer. It was unclear what approach would the two of them take with one another since while Chloe seemed more like she was up for a fight, Kyle normally doesn't fight other people.

"No idea what you meant by what you just said, so you wanna play some Uno?" Kyle asks after he found a deck of Uno cards right beside the table.

"What's that even supposed to do? They're just dumb cards, in fact you know what? LET'S FIGHT EACH OTHER!" Chloe shouts before she stands on the table which makes Kyle sigh.

"Should've known you weren't a fan of cards in general, oh well I guess we could fight each-" Kyle is unable to finish his sentence before Chloe jumps off the table and she tries stomping on her opponent, however Kyle was able to roll off his chair. This causes Chloe to stomp the chair and she flattens it with her feet before she looks over at Kyle who had his hands in his pockets now.

"Let's rock and roll." Chloe decides to say before she charges towards Kyle.

Bobby Helms-Jingle Bell Rock

"Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock."

Kyle steps out the way and he puts out his foot, Chloe reacts on time by jumping over his foot.

"Jingle Bells swing and Jingle Bells ring."

She rolls through after doing this before she turns back and she attempts to grab Kyle's right arm.

"Snowin' and blowin' up bushels of fun,"

The baseballer reacts by pulling his right arm out of his pocket and he catches Chloe by grabbing her wrists.

"Now the Jingle hop has begun."

Chloe reacts quickly by jumping up, this causes some sticks to come out of her sleeves and she catches them with her hands.

"Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell, Jingle Bell Rock."

Upon noticing what Chloe was doing, Kyle quickly kicks the drummer in her stomach while he lets her go and the girl stumbles away, however she had her long and wide sticks in her hands now.

"Jingle Bells chime in Jingle Bell time."

He reaches into his pockets once more and Kyle holds his baseballs in his hands before he tosses both of them into the air while Chloe began running towards him once again.

"Dancin' and prancin' in Jingle Bell Square,"

Kyle then throws the baseball in his left hand first and the camera follows it in slow-motion.

"In the frosty aiiiir."

Chloe tries countering this by putting both her sticks in front of her in an 'X' sign.

"What a briiiight time, it's the riiiight time,"

Next thing she knows, both of her sticks have just been splintered with the baseball responsible for this seen already falling onto the ground.

"To rock the night awaaay."

But Kyle chuckled while Chloe's eyes widened upon seeing that he still had a baseball in his right hand.

"Jingle bell time is a swell time."

"Strike." Kyle states before he throws the baseball, he throws it too fast for Chloe to block it so it just slams into her forehead.

"To go glidin' in a one-horse sleigh."

Chloe closes her eyes and she falls onto her back after getting hit in the head with the baseball, Kyle simply sighs in relief before he looks over at Rival.

*Song Ends*

"The Five Souls have just gained their third point!" Rival announces, Chloe was then seen rubbing her forehead while she was on the ground and she groans while doing this.

"Ugh...maybe I should've brought better sticks with me." Chloe says before she opens her eyes and she sees Kyle with his hand out.

"Personally I think that a baseball bat would've been more likely to work, but it's not like you knew you were facing off against me specifically, although it appears that this battle could've gotten much worse if it did go on longer." Kyle responds, Chloe then stares at his hand before she accepts it with a smile.

"You could say that again, anyways thanks for helping me up..." Chloe looks away while it looks like she was thinking something.

"Kyle." Kyle says after figuring out why Chloe went silent.

"Kyle, I'll try my best to remember that." Chloe responds before she lets go of his hand and she begins walking away, quickly she kicked the ground before she went over to the rest of her team.

"You got some balls." Rival makes a quick joke while he walks pass Kyle who rolled his eyes.

"Thank you for the compliment, no thank you for the pun that was worse than being dragged into the water by the Lake Van Monster." Kyle makes a remark right back at the host.

"Jokes on you, the only Van I know is Van Halen...Actually yeah my jokes might be getting worse today." Rival admits before Kyle laughs a bit.

"At least he's aware." Kyle says towards the camera before he walks away from the table.


Lia and Sunny

"Nope." Sunny simply says, he stood up and walks away from Lia right away before the two of them could even speak to each other. This made Lia blink and she simply sat down before she looks down at the table and began tapping her fingers against each other while she was beginning to think to herself. Sunny, on the other hand, had just decided to not deal with the YouTuber because of how things went between them last time when her eyes turned red, and he knew that he'd make her eyes go red again and if he was being honest...he was actually kinda scared.

"Wait, you're giving up already?" Rival asks while he stood in front of Sunny.

"Well..." Sunny says before he looks around at everyone else who was watching them.

"Come on Sunny, it's combat training time! And Remember, don't talk to anyone else if they catch you training!" An older male voice echoes through Sunny's head.

"But-" Sunny's voice was heard responding while currently Sunny was still looking at everyone who had their eyes on him.

"Talking with people will only distract you from your training which will make you weaker! And do you want to be seen as weak?! Do you want to be seen as weak from Misty?! from your Mom?! from ME?!" Sunny then clenches his fists after he remembers these words which were told to him.

"No! I'm not going to give up, especially now!" Sunny answers the host's question before he turns around and he speed walks back over to the table while he stares into Lia's eyes.

"I don't want people to be afraid of me, I just-" Lia thinks to herself, she was still lost in her thoughts.

"Hey Lia! Let's do this!" She suddenly heard Sunny's voice and she looks over at the delinquent who kept staring into her eyes.

"Alright then, What would you like to talk about?" Lia asks before she grows a smile onto her face.

"How are things going with your team?" Sunny answers her question with a question.

"Well our team don't seem to be at each other's throats, but Jared's thinking pessimistically again and honestly it pains me to see him that way." Lia says while Sunny rests his head on his right hand.

"Oh really?" Sunny asks sarcastically.

"Yeah, after all if I'm unable to help out the guy I'm the closest with on this island then maybe I'm just a worthless person." Lia simply goes on and she looks to be deep in thought now.

"Personally I'd just tell the guy to get his crap together because a leader needs to be confident in their abilities in order to give directions." Sunny responds, he leaned back in his chair while saying all this.

"That's we did this morning but I feel like there was a much better way to deal with the situation." Lia confirms before she grabs her own hair.

"Nah, some people need a wake up call, in order for them to not be weak then they better prove themselves to be strong so they could erase all doubt in their own head." Sunny states, closing his eyes while continuing the conversation.

"That's easier said than done..." Lia whispers to herself while her eyes widened, she was now able to figure out what Jared had whispered earlier.

"So are you ready to fight me now?" Sunny asks, Lia then blinks and stares into his eyes.

"I'm not a fighter, so no, would you like to do a Draw My Life video with me though?" Lia decides to ask a question of her own after answering Sunny's question.

"Well too bad! 'Cause I'm fighting you anyways since you're going down, besides YouTube is overrated and all your fans are idiots if they watch your videos." Sunny states before he then blinks upon seeing the YouTuber look down.

"...What'd you say to me you little-?" Lia cuts herself off before she glares into Sunny's eyes, her green eyes were gone and she had red eyes.

"Okay maybe my plan wasn't all that good..." Sunny realizes, after saying this he pushes the table into the air and he tries to make sure that it lands on Lia.

"Testing how strong she is when she's at her strongest is probably not my greatest plan but at least I can gauge what her full potential is!" Sunny thinks to himself, then he watches the table he flipped over falling back towards his side. He slides back and is able to move out the way of the table just in time, however he doesn't see Lia on the other side of it.

"Behind you~" Sunny heard her voice from behind him, he is able to duck before Lia is able to land her punch she was attempting to hit on him and she stumbles in front of him.

"Behind you!~" Sunny thinks to himself before he grabs Lia's hair and he uses it to lift her in the air, he decides to jump up while he held onto her hair. He thinks fast and he swings Lia down and he slams her into the ground while he lands back on the ground and the slam caused a crater in the air. The delinquent chuckled while he kept holding onto her hair and there was some dust which was covering Lia.

"My turn." Sunny hears her voice once more and suddenly he feels her hands wrapped around his neck and his eyes widened upon feeling this. Once again, the delinquent reacts fast and he backhands her hand off of his neck, but he is then punched in his face and the punch sends him flying through the air and he crashes through the table they sat at earlier.

"Ugh..." Sunny says, feeling the affects of his crash through the table and he slowly gets onto his feet but he sees red eyes glowing through the dust which was going into the air. The red eyes began getting closer and he watches Lia emerge from the dust with her fists clenched, her walking got faster with each step she was taking and Sunny gulps while he watched her. He then lets out a sigh before he closes his eyes and falls onto his back which made his opponent stop in her tracks.

"All I needed to do was to see how strong she was, now that I've got the information I needed, I need to preserve my energy for more important matters." Sunny explains inside of his head.

"The Five Souls get their fourth point, which means they are safe from elimination and that now it's between The K-Shida's and The Losers Team!"" Rival announces, Lia's eyes then goes back to normal and she gasps after this happens.

"DAMMIT! I DON'T WANT TO HURT PEOPLE!" Lia shouts in her mind, she then slaps herself in her face and she falls onto her knees.

"Hey Lia, you okay?" She suddenly hears another voice, Lia then looks over and saw the person who had asked her this question.

"...Jared." Lia confirms who it was.

"Slapping yourself is my thing by the way, so please don't do it." Jared remarks, it sounded like he was trying to make a joke.

"Heh, you're not wrong about that." Lia responds, she began to smile once more while she stares at her friend.

"Good, now lets go back to the rest of our team, Miriam's the last person up so we can't miss what happens with her." Jared explains before he puts out his hand for her to grab.

"Alright then, let's go!" Lia states before she grabs onto his hand and stands up on her own since she knew that Jared was too weak to actually pull her onto her feet, plus she was on her knees, but she held onto his hand just to make him feel better. The two of them nod at one another while Sunny was seen getting up in the background and he walked towards the rest of his team while he rubbed his face and even his back. Jared and Lia both began walking towards the rest of their team also while they held each other's hands and Lia had a smile on her face during this...Jared, on the other hand was looking down.

"I'll have to thank Rainy for letting me know that Lia had gone into her rage mode, since now I see just how scary she can be." Jared confirms in his mind before he slightly looks at the girl he was walking with but he kept a frown on his face while this happened.

"It's still a better love story than Twilight, at least." Rival remarks before he went over to the final pair who were going to decide what was going to end this challenge.


Jun and Miriam

"Let's just get straight to the point." Miriam states before she places something down on the table before she flips it, she then has a stare down with the person she wasn't going to even try to seduce.

"For once it appears we're on the same page, you common atheist." Jun responds, he currently held a cup of tea in his hand which he had there even before the table was flipped.

"Well this atheist is going to make you realize that you aren't Moses in this story and that the only thing you'll be sea-ing is the light you so desperately believe in!" Miriam makes her longest and most aggressive comeback yet.

"Nice pun, also if Jun wins this then The K-Shida's are going into elimination, but if Miriam wins this then we'll have a sudden death between The K-Shida's and The Losers Team!" Rival was heard explaining which made The Losers Team and The K-Shida's both stare intently at the battle which was about to take place, The Five Souls decided to also closely watch the battle since their teammate is in it.

"Your words certainly pack quite the punch, however I won't lower myself to trash talking you since I'm pretty sure that you would also like for the talking to stop, especially since the second option finally allows you to put your hands on me." Jun responds before he takes a sip of his tea.

"Indeed, but I just thought that I might as well give you some time to say your final words before I finally put an end to your streak of luck." Miriam explains with a slight smile on her face.

"Don't you think you're getting ahead of yourself with that comment?~" Jun asks before chuckling a little.

"This coming from the most arrogant person on this island? Oh yeah, I'm the one getting ahead of myself, now...Are you ready?!" Miriam asks before she puts her left foot behind her.

"Between you and me the winner shall be decided on who wants it more, so that's why I'm sure that I'll be able to get my team to the next point and secure our safety for tonight, but I guess we've talked too much so I guess we shall now begin our battle." Jun states while he sees Miriam charge towards him and she grabs onto the handle of the umbrella which was in the ground.

"Indeed we shall!" Miriam thinks to herself before she pushes herself off the umbrella and she sticks out her foot while she began flying through the air.

"That was a nice visual." Jun simply responds in his mind before he steps out of the way and Miriam lands on her feet besides the rich kid. Right after landing by him, she turns around and tries using her leg to sweep the king bee off his feet.

"Huh?" Miriam questions in her mind and she's unable to react on time as Jun threw some of his hot tea onto the dancer's face. She falls onto the ground and tries wiping off the tea from her face while Jun walks over to the flipped over table and he picks up a golden fork which was right beside it.

"Hello golden fork, let's show this lowlife a proper beat down." Jun states in his mind before he charges over to Miriam who was able to finally get onto her feet. Next thing she knows, Jun's holding a gold fork and she sees that he's trying to use it to stab her eye using his left hand. Luckily, she's able to use her right to swing up and she kicks the elbow of Jun's left arm which causes him to drop his gold fork, a crack sound was also heard.

"AHHH! MY ARM!" Jun shouts before he grips onto his newly dislocated elbow.

"You get what you deserve." Miriam remarks before she jumps into the air and nails Jun in his stomach with a dropkick which makes him go airborne for a short period of time. Eventually he lands on his back on the ground and grits his teeth after this happens, meanwhile Miriam was able to land safely back on her feet.

"Y-You...YOU CHEAP DANCER!" Jun shouts, he then uses his right arm to push himself onto his two feet while he glares over at Miriam.

"Y-You-You don't know when to shut up, do you?" Miriam makes fun of the loser team's leader before she began charging towards him once more.

"I could say the same for you~" Jun thinks to himself before he steps on a metal plate which was on the ground and he launched it into his right hand, Jun then catches the metal plate before he swings it and brutally hits Miriam's face when she gets into range. This causes a mark on the fiery dancer's face and she goes flying, her back then slams against the handle of the umbrella.

"GAH!" Miriam responds in pain before she fell onto the ground, she was now beginning to shake after she fell down. Jun simply looks over at the metal plate he used and he noticed that it was bent in half and that it won't be able to be used to hit Miriam once again. So, he throws the metal plate aside and decides to pull one of the stands off the table which was flipped over earlier and he tightly grips onto the stand using his right working arm.

"You're dead meat!" Jun shouts while he had a big sadistic smile on his face, Miriam finally got onto her feet but she didn't have anytime to rest once again especially since he swings what used to be a table stand right at her head. Once again, Miriam was able to just avoid this attack and instead the object he connected with the umbrella's handle. Miriam thinks quickly and she grabs onto the stand before pulling Jun straight into the umbrella's handle and his head brutally collides with it.

"How'd you like that, rich boy?!" Miriam asks before she rips the table stand out of Jun's hand before she throws it aside and instead she grabs onto his hair before she began pulling it.

"AGHHHHH! YOU'RE GOING TO PAY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FOR THIS!" Jun shouts while he glares up at the girl he was fighting, there was a bruise on his left cheek.

"You REALLY want me to beat you up, don't you?!" Miriam loudly asks before she pulls his hair more.

"Y-You...YOU B-IDIOTIC COMMONER!" Jun prevents himself from swearing and instead he spits onto Miriam's face.

"Ooooooh." Everyone responds after they watched Jun do this, Jun had a proud smile on his face after he did this. The fiery dancer had closed her eyes due to this and she uses her right hand to wipe the spit off her face.

"You blinked!" Jun shouts before he pulls a pen out of his pocket and he aims the tip of it for Miriam's chest, this time his swing landed and he stabs her chest.

"FUUUUUUUUUU-!" Miriam begins shouting in pain while this happens, however Jun then punches the dancer right in her stomach and pulls out the pen while he did this. Miriam then stumbled backwards and collapsed onto her back while she grabs onto her chest. Jun fell onto the ground afterwards also and he just kept on smiling before he looks over at his pen.

"Whatever...it...takes." Jun states with a smile on his face.

"Miriam!" Jared shouts, he was breathing very quickly while he looked at the state of his teammate who was currently clutching her chest, recovering from her face being burnt by tea, and had a red mark on her face from the metal plate she was hit with.

"J-Jun!" Ingrid also shouted, Jun currently had a bruise on his face and already had bruises on his face, part of his hair was ripped out, and he had a dislocated arm.

"I'm actually impressed by how well these two fight, they might not be fighter-fighters but they sure can battle." Sunny simply thinks to himself, he seemed like he was used to sights like the one he was currently seeing.

"Jun! Miriam! Do either of you want to quit now?! It's okay if you want to!" Rival shouts, Jun and Miriam both looked over at the host before they glared at each other one last time.

"NO!" Jun and Miriam respond in unison before the two of them got onto their feet one more time.

"This proves what I've been theorizing this entire time." Jun says with a wide smile on his face.

"W-What's that?!" Miriam asks, she had some trouble speaking because of chest-related wounds she current had.

"Jesus isn't watching over me...I AM JESUS!" Jun yells out before he rips off the cross necklace he'd been wearing this entire time and he runs towards Miriam while he held it. Miriam simply rolled out of the way before the self-proclaimed messiah was able to hit her with his cross.

"Alright chest, WORK WITH ME HERE!" Miriam states in her mind before she turns around and she waits patiently for Jun's next move while she reaches into her pocket.

"Looks like she's got something prepared, however I won't let her use it!" Jun states in his mind, he then uses his pen from earlier in an attempt to stab Miriam's arm while she was reaching for her pocket.

"Got hi-!" Miriam thinks to herself while she began smiling, she attempts to swing up her right leg to hit Jun's right arm. However, she coughs out blood from her mouth which gets onto Jun's face and this makes him stop in his tracks and he tries wiping the blood off his face.

"H-HEY!" Jun angrily shouts, Miriam began stumbling around after this happens and her vision was beginning to get blurry.

"Dammit, I'm on a time limit..." Miriam realizes before she stumbles her way over to Jun who was still still wiping the blood off his face, however he watches the dancer go up to him.

"What do you have to say to JUN KAMOSHIDA?!" Jun loudly and angrily asks while Miriam grabs onto his shoulders, she glares up at him while she did so.

"W-Who?~" Miriam taunts him before she returns the favor from earlier and she spits right onto Jun's face, right after doing this she slaps him with all she's got and this makes Jun fall onto the ground. Meanwhile, Miriam stayed standing on her feet even despite the fact that she was shaking like crazy, and she was standing while there was a satisfied smile on her face.

"Y-Y-YOU..." She begins hearing Jun speak once more, this time he had his back turned to her and was back on his feet once more. But this time he sounded more deranged than before, Miriam simply blinks but she watches Jun while he began slowly turning around to look at her.

"F-Finish your sen-sentence already." Miriam says weakly, Jun slowly walks up to her while the dancer simply stood where she was and clenched her fists.

"YOU BITCH!" Jun yells as loudly as he could before he swings his right arm, since she was unable to move out the way or block, Miriam simply stood there and closed her eyes. Jun's punch lands and he nails Miriam right in her face with his punch.

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Another loud cracking sound was suddenly heard and all of Jun's fingers on his right hand were all pointed in all different kinds of directions due to how much power he placed into his punch. The punch he delivered made Miriam collapse onto the ground once more, but this time her eyes were closed and she barely moved after falling down, although she did have a slight yet weak smile despite being knocked out. Jun then heavily pants before he looks around at the carnage the two of them caused, he then raises an eyebrow while looking over at the flipped over table before he walks over to it before he picks it up by getting on his knees and he sucks to object into his mouth before he drops it into his pocket, he stands up right after doing this.

"The match is over! Adrian, call over the medic!" Rival shouts out, Jun then turns around before he spreads his right arm out and looks towards the sky.

"M-My t-time is now." Jun confidently says before he collapsed onto the ground soon afterwards and is now completely unconscious.

"Jun!" Chloe shouts before she rushes over to the team leader while Hannah and Ingrid followed behind her.

"A-Are you o-okay?!" Ingrid asks while she stares at Jun while she began tearing up.

"..." Hannah simply remains completely quiet and she stares at Jun's unconscious body while thoughts ran through her mind.

While Chloe, Ingrid, and Hannah were all at Jun's unconscious body. Jared, Lia, Ciara, and Kyle all ran over to Miriam's unconscious body.

"Someone quickly get something to cover her wound!" Jared states to the rest of his team while he gets onto one knee.

"Yeah! Here's my sweater!" Lia answers while she takes off her blue sweater and hands it over to the team leader, Jared then wraps the clothing around Miriam's neck before Ciara gets onto her knees by the two of them.

"Is she going to be alright? I mean she isn't going to die, right?" Ciara asks the team leader.

"I'm pretty sure that Jared's less worried about if Miriam's going to die since she isn't in fatal condition, but rather he's more concerned if she'll be medically cleared to compete more since if she isn't then she's out of the game." Kyle decides to answer the flirt's question.

"Glad to hear that you understand Kyle, although if the medic comes soon then she'll be alright...but it still is worrying seeing her in this state." Jared says, staring at his teammate's unconscious body.

"Tara Jane Guerrero, reporting for duty!" Tara shouts before she ran over to Miriam and Jun, she then picks up the two of them before she places the both of them on her shoulders. After doing this she runs off with the two unconscious people while The Losers Team and The Five Souls both watched with worried look in all of their eyes, meanwhile The K-Shida's had some members like Evan, Alex, and Leo looking concerned while Sunny and Rainy simply watched.

"Looks like we're going into elimination." Sunny simply says which catches the attention of the rest of his team.

"It looks like that's the case indeed, so I guess we should now prepare for tonight?" Alex suggests.

"Right, the people from the other teams aren't with us." Evan reminds himself before she shook his head.

"Alright then, let's get preparing." Rainy responds, this gets a nod from the rest of her team.

"G-Got i-it." Leo says before The K-Shida's all walked off so they could all begin making plans to try and get ready for elimination, whoever will go home shall be decided by all five of them after all.


*After the Challenge*

Eventually they all reached their cabin and The K-Shida's all began immediately planning out tonight's eliminations with Sunny deciding to drag Leo and Rainy to the porch of their cabin. Meanwhile, Alex and Evan were inside their cabin and the two of them were on top of Alex's bed where they both also began strategizing on what to do. The people who were going to be focused on first were Sunny, Rainy, and Leo, the later two were both sitting down while they listened to the team leader.

"Tonight will be our new team's first elimination, however I must first discuss with you two about what happened today." Sunny says, this makes Leo gulp while Rainy kept a straight face.

"I apologize for ac-acting different than usual during the ch-challenge!" Leo immediately apologizes for nothing.

"...While it wasn't exactly the best thing to watch you be annoying again, it did get us the win so I'm going to have to reluctantly give you some credit for getting us a point." Sunny explains, this makes Leo gasp and he slowly begins smiling.

"R-R-Reall-?!" Leo was going to ask.

"That doesn't mean you can act the way you did before!" Sunny states, this makes Leo's smile go away.

"O-Okay..." He quietly responds while looking down, Sunny then looks over at Rainy.

"As for you..." Sunny says, Rainy then closes her eyes and begins grabbing her knees.

"What if he knows what I said earlier? If so then he's not going to hold back!" Rainy begins worrying in her mind, she even began sweating while she awaits her brother's words.

"You did fine." Rainy hears which makes her eyes open and she looks at her brother with widened eyes.

"What do you mean?" Rainy asks.

"Normally I wouldn't like seeing you hug other guys, but if you're close to Jared then that means we could use that to our advantage since the guy seems to be getting along with most people on this island." Sunny explains.

"W-W-What?" Rainy questions, she begins to sound worried now.

"Perhaps we could use your trust in Jared to take him down once the merge comes, and once he's gone then I'll be the only team leader remaining in the game and I'll run the game even better than even dad could ever!" Sunny loudly states while he had a big smile on his face.

"Sorry for j-jumping in so suddenly, b-but why don't you target Jun first?" Leo asks.

"Well the answer to that is simple: Does anyone like Jun besides Ingrid and Chloe?" Sunny answers the question with a question.

"B-But-!" Rainy sounds like she's trying to say something.

"But what?~" Sunny asks while he stares at his sister, Rainy then stares into her brother's eyes before she closes her mouth and simply looks down.

"What's our pl-plan for tonight?" Leo decides to ask a question of his own, trying to move the conversation down a different path.

"The three of us will simply vote out Evan or Alex, whoever we vote out will be decided at tonight's elimination since we've got tonight right in the bag, right team?" Sunny asks after he sorta answers Leo's question.

"Yes Master/Brother..." Leo and Rainy respond before Sunny lets out a sigh of relief and he walks off into the forest, leaving his teammates on the porch to reflect on what just happened.

Inside the house was a different story however, since it was just Alex and Evan who were talking with each other about what they were going to do tonight. Evan was seen pulling his right hand out of his pocket, his right hand looked completely numb and despite his best in moving it, Evan was unable to even move his hand one inch. Alex stares at it with a concerned look on his face while he looks at his teammate's right hand.

"I take it that Sunny did this to you, didn't he?" Alex asks, immediately figuring out how this happened.

"I might've underestimated him earlier..." Evan admits before he looks away.

*Flashback Starts*

Sunny and Evan glared into each other's eyes while the two of them charged towards one another, Evan then swings his right arm in an attempt to try and punch Sunny's face. However, Sunny catches his punch using his left hand and he grits his teeth since the impact of the punch actually made him move back on the ground while he kept his feet planted into it. After doing this, Evan begins rubbing his fist into Sunny's hand before he then uses his left hand to try and punch him in his face.

"On your left!" Sunny shouts before he throws Evan's right hand towards his left fist and so the officer-in-training accidentally punches his own hand because of this.

"AGH!" Evan groans in pain after doing this, he then tries shaking off his hands but Sunny grabs onto Leo's arm and he uses it to spin Leo around in his arm and he swings him in a circle. After a while, he lets go of Leo and he throws the brawler into Evan and he falls onto the ground while Leo's entire body lands on his right hand.

"I was right, people are weapons~" Sunny remarks before he chuckles at his own joke while Evan grits his teeth before he pulls his right hand out form under Leo and he looks over at his opponent.

"You're so HEARTLESS!" Evan shouts before he attempts to punch Sunny using his left hand, however the delinquent moves out the way of his punch and he grabs his right wrist.

"I wonder if this'll counter a police brutality." Sunny says before he rips off a nearby tree branch off a tree and he lifts it up into the air.

"Piss off!" Evan shouts before he headbutts his opponent, however Sunny keeps his grip on Evan's wrist and instead he is able to twist it.

CRACK!

*Flashback Ends*

"And that's how it happened..." Evan finishes explaining what happened.

"You sure did describe what happened in detail, anyways I'm sure that I can help out with your wrist since all he did was twist your bones out of place." Alex confirms.

"Yeah untwisting it myself is more painful, also I don't know which area I should exactly twist which is why you're needed in order to do this." Evan says while he looks down.

"Alright, I'm currently your therapist so you can tell me more about your opinions while I analyze which area exactly need to be fixed." Alex responds before he begins checking out his teammate's right hand.

"Well I just can't believe that he'd use Leo as a weapon like that, and that Leo just let it happen!" Evan states while he clenched his left fist.

"Sounds like getting Leo away from Sunny is going to be very difficult for us to do then, especially since he's one hell of a good fighter." Alex responds while he gets off the bed and he looks on his bed, he finds a med-kit which he opens open and he pulls a reflex hammer out of it.

"No kidding, but I guess that just means Sunny is going to be the bad guy we're going to need to try our absolute hardest to bring to justice!" Evan states while Alex climbed back onto his bed and he began lightly tapping spots around his wrist.

"Looks like that'll be the case for sure, but tonight we can't vote for Sunny." Alex confirms which makes Evan's eyes widen.

"What?! Why not!?" Evan loudly asks while Alex eventually found the right spot and he wraps his hand around his teammate's wrist.

"Because it's for the better if we vote for someone else, so please...trust me." Alex pleads while he began blushing while he kept holding onto Evan's wrist.

"How am I supposed to trust you when-?!" Alex heard Evan continue speaking, this makes his blush go away and instead he twists his wrist.

CRACK!

"AGH!" Evan shouts in pain while he grits his teeth, he then looks over at Alex while he stares into his eyes.

"...Just trust me." Alex simply states before he lets go of his teammate's right hand and Evan stares at it. After a bit, Evan's able to move his hand around freely like he could before which makes him let out a sigh of relief before he once again looks over at the guy-with-no-stereotype.

"...Alright, I'll trust you." Evan confirms before he hesitantly puts out his right hand.

"Thank you." Alex responds with a smile before he uses his left hand to accept the handshake and the two of them nod at one another before the camera cuts away from the two of them.


*Elimination Ceremony*

*After the Votes*

Once again, the camera decides to go straight to after the votes where Leo was seen walking out of the confessional room after he made the final vote. While he walked out of the room, he looked down and he sees the seven torches which were in the campfire which meant that nearly one-third of the cast were gone by now. After noticing how much people were already gone and that it's been a week since everyone's arrived on the island, he was slowly taking in the fact that nearly half of everyone were also almost gone and that this was the third to last elimination before the merge.

"Hey! Get over here!" Leo's train of thought was interrupted by Sunny, he then snaps out of his thoughts and he nods before sitting by the rest of his team who were all sitting on five of the twenty-one stumps.

"I'll go read the votes." Rival confirms before he walks towards the Confessional Room and he opens the door to it before he stares at the box which contained everyone's votes. He looks in the box to quickly check if the votes had been tampered with before he closes the box up afterwards and he picks it up in his hands. After doing this he walks towards The K-Shida's who were all sitting down and they all waited in anticipation with how tonight's votes were going down.

"We've got the numbers tonight, and luckily I told my fellow comrades to vote out one of the two outsiders of this team, and besides, whoever is under my lead will always be more useful than people who try to go against me." Sunny explains in his mind while he had a confident smirk on his face.

"Tonight will be very important in deciding what will happen with our team in the future, if it weren't for Sunny feeling cocky I'm pretty sure I'd be anxious like everyone else is, especially since tonight's voting is something I hope turns out well." Rainy's face remained neutral like usual.

"Sunny told me who to vote for and I made sure to follow up on who he wanted out, after all, I don't even know what Alex and Evan are planning to do, but if things don't go according to plan tonight then I'll gladly accept any punishment my leader dishes out to me." Leo says while looking down at the ground.

"It pains me to not vote for Sunny tonight, especially since I REALLY want to vote him out for everything he's done to everyone on the previous team and for being a more ruthless leader than even Jun was! At least Jun was just annoying personality-wise!" Evan shouts in his mind while gritting his teeth.

"Me and Sunny clearly have the biggest plans for tonight since we're trying our best to have elimination go our own ways, so tonight will decide who is really the leader of this team and tonight will decide who is the smartest person on our team." Alex states internally, he was taking deep breaths and The K-Shida's all intently watch the host.

"Alright, someone else found one of the three elimination-preventing objects of the season." Rival confirms to the team who were currently at elimination. After confirming this he looks around at Sunny, Rainy, Leo, Evan, and Alex before he asks them a question, "If you'd like to play it, now would the time for you to play it."

"Wait, What didn't Chris say that all three of them were found two days ago?" Sunny points out.

"He was lying just to scare you all." Rival confirms.

"Of course he did." Evan responds while shaking his head.

"Anyways if anyone here posses one of the objects, then this is your last chance to play it." Rival states one more time.

"..." Everyone now remained completely silent after hearing this, Rival decides to look around to see everyone else's reaction to the current situation. Sunny remained completely silent and his smirk from earlier was completely gone. Leo gulps before he began looking around at everyone else also since the elimination-preventing object could definitely ruin the original plan depending on who has it and how it's going to be used. Evan immediately glares at Sunny since he was the last person he wanted to see have the object, he then looks over at Rival after he does this. Alex gulps while he had a poker face on, it was actually a good poker face and so it was hard to tell whether or not he potentially has the object with him or not. Rainy's entire body was shaking because of the tense atmosphere everyone was giving up and she looks like she was in the North Pole with how nervous she looked, although this was as a result of her condition.

"Last chance..." Rival states, this got all of The K-Shida's to all look over at him and they were all silent once more.

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"Alright then, I'll go read the votes." Rival says before he reaches into the box which contained everyone's votes using the small hole that was above it. He seems to have gotten a picture and he slowly puts it out of the box and he stares at it with a straight face. Everyone else simply waits in anticipation and they all began wondering who the first vote was for.

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"Alex." Rival reveals the first picture which had a picture of Alex on it, the picture had a bunch of X's on it which made Alex let out a sigh before he looks over at Sunny.

"So I was your target tonight?" Alex questions while he looks at person who he knew this vote had belonged to.

"Between you and Evan, I just want you around less, plain and simple." Sunny explains, his smug look from before was now back and he even chuckles after saying what he said.

"I can see why, especially since I too devised a plan for tonight which you should be weary of." Alex responds before looking away from the delinquent and he looks over at the host along with the delinquent himself.

"Second vote..." Rival says before he reaches into the box and he pulls out the next picture which he holds in his hands.

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"Alex, that's two votes for Alex now." Rival confirms after he flips the picture around and he shows another picture of Alex which had just one 'X' on it. Alex then blinks before he looks back over at Sunny before Sunny chuckled.

"You got any last words? Because I've got more power on this team than you do." Sunny states, his confidence was going through the roof now.

"Don't count me out yet, you may be hot-" Alex began saying.

"What?" Sunny asks right after hearing this.

"Because it'll be you who will crash and burn." Alex finishes his sentence while he had a slight smile on his face.

"Nice, your insult was actually better than mines when I was a little baby." Sunny remarks, the rest of their team remained quiet while the two of them had their war of words.

"Third vote..." Rival says which catches Alex's and Sunny's attentions, they both saw that Rival had the next picture in his hands and that he was ready to reveal who the next vote was for. He then slowly turns the next picture around to reveal that the third and potentially final vote was for...

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"Rainy." Rival confirms, this made Alex let out a sigh while Sunny raised an eyebrow while everyone saw an 'X' on a picture of Rainy.

"Wait, they voted for Rainy? That's a strange choice, honestly I thought they'd more likely go after Leo..." Sunny internally responds to the news, his smirk was still on his face but it seemed to have less confidence.

"And now the fourth and potentially the final vote goes to..." Rival says before he reaches into the box once more and he pulls out the next picture. He stares at it for a bit while a smile grew on his face upon seeing it, after he gets a smile on his face he turns the picture around and reveals it to be for...

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"Rainy, that means Alex and Rainy are tied with two votes." Rival confirms while revealing the fourth vote, Sunny's look of arrogance was now gone and he had a serious look on his face.

"Alright, it looks like Alex and Evan both targeted my sister...That's a bit of a dick move but I've still got the numbers on my side!" Sunny states in his mind while he began sweating.

"You shouldn't have ever underestimated me Sonny, now this final vote will make you realize one crucial thing." Alex internally says to himself.

"None of them voted me? Well I'm glad to know that but if Rainy's eliminated then that would mean Sunny will only have me left...Sorry Alex, but I prefer you being gone now." Leo confirms to no one but himself.

"Luckily, Rainy is the sister of Sunny so while she's innocent, I needed to trust Alex and now we'll see if my trust was for something or nothing." Evan thinks, all of the boys were now staring intently to see what was the final vote in the box.

"It looks like both Alex and Evan voted for me! This vote will decide who is eliminated next!" Rainy loudly states in her mind, she squinted her eyes and once again was reacting like everyone else but was doing it even more extremely.

"This vote is officially the final one and it will decide who will be going home next, Alex or Rainy...so, the fifth and final vote belongs to..." Rival explains before he reaches into the box once more and began searching for the fifth vote which was inside it. All of The K-Shida's eyes were on the box and they all silently await the final results which would decide who won this elimination, Alex or Sunny. Eventually, Rival felt something in the box and he slowly pulls out the final vote and the smile on his face goes away after he does this, he then looks at the final vote before he looks back at all of the five competitors sitting in front of him.

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"Rainy Persnisky, you're the eighth person eliminated for Total Drama: Move Along." Rival confirms while revealing that the final vote had indeed belonged to Rainy since it had her picture and an 'X' on it.

"...ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?" Sunny angrily shouts after he saw this.

"Wait, if m-me and you voted for Alex...then that means-" Leo begins speaking before the two of them looked over at Rainy who had a smile on her face.

"I'm glad I got the chance to be on the show. Thank you, for giving me a face and a voice." Rainy says after she stands up before she walks away from her brother and the lionheart brawler.

"Told you I'd make your wish come true." Alex responds while Rainy walked up to him.

"Thank you for that, at least you got rid of a member of Sunny's alliance." Rainy says before Alex nods in agreement.

"Yep, now Sunny knows that ruling over someone using fear alone can only get you so far." Alex states before he smiled at Rainy's brother.

"Wait you two planned this out?" Evan asks while he walks up to Alex and Rainy.

"We had it planned out since you went out this morning, honestly I know that I should've told you that sooner but it was just for the audience's sake why no one else was informed about our plan." Alex explains, Evan then nods after hearing this.

"Got it, well at least it seems like you're glad to be eliminated...that's something I'd never though I would say on this show." Evan says before he laughed a bit.

"Well, I just felt like I don't need to win Total Drama to feel happy, so once again I thank you two for going along and voting me out." Rainy thanks the pair of boys once more before he looks over at Sunny and Leo.

"But WHY?!" Sunny loudly asks before Rainy lets out a sigh.

"Brother, I know you probably might never understand this but: Sometimes your actions can have more consequences on you especially when you do it to another human being." Rainy cryptically answers her brother before she turns around.

"SCREW YOU FOR LEAVING ME BY MYSELF!" Sunny angrily shouts while his sister continues to walk away.

"I'm sorry, but you're not the only person who needs to move on from our past." Rainy states with her back turned to her brother, Sunny then kicks the ground.

"LEO! LET'S GO!" Sunny demands, Leo then nods before he stood up and followed Sunny into the darkness of the night.

"Good job Rainy." Rival simply says to the competitor who has officially been eliminated before he pats her head.

"Good job for what?" Rainy questions while she looks at the host.

"Making your brother ticked off, honestly I don't like the guy at all." Rival responds while Adrian was seen grabbing Rainy's torch and he looks over at Alex and Evan.

"I wish I could've learned from you two." Adrian simply says while he looks down a bit, he then throws the torch into the fire where it was burnt while Alex and Evan looked at Adrian with looks of confusion.

"You got any idea what he means?" Evan asks while looking over at Alex.

"...Ooooh." Alex finally realizes, only for Adrian to walk away after saying this which makes Alex add onto what he said, "I'll tell you about it, later."

"Anyways, you got any last words for everyone else remaining here?" Rival asks Rainy, the empath then shook her head.

"Not for anyone else here." Rainy answers verbally after shaking her head.

"Alright then, see ya Rainy!" Rival exclaims before he takes a step back, Rainy simply remained where she was standing with her eyes closed.

"Hey Jared...you were right...I found a way to be happy." Rainy thinks to herself while she continued to smile, however the Chain of Shame was seen coming out of the forest after she says this in her mind. The collar on the long chain snaps shut around Rainy's neck, however she kept the smile on her face and simply accepted her fate. After this happens, she's dragged into the forest by her neck thanks to the Chain of Shame without making a single noise and instead the only noise that was heard was her being dragged farther and farther away until there's nothing but silence left.

"Alright, you two can head on out now." Rival says, Alex and Evan both nod at the host before they walked off while they looked at one another.

"Sounds like your plan you told me about before I left the cabin this morning worked." Evan says, Alex then chuckles before he looks back at him.

"Yep, after all Rainy is great when it comes to emotions, but when it comes to general intelligence she's not as strong in that as I am by a long shot." Alex explains while he had a smile on his face.

"It does sound like that's the case, honestly I'm surprised your plan worked on Rainy...so, How are we going to get Sunny out?" Evan questions while he looks down and begins thinking to himself.

"We'll discuss that tomorrow, for today let's just enjoy our victory." Alex answers before he pulls out a piece of what used to be a swinging door from out of his pocket, which he holds in his hands.

"To choose to take a life, or refuse to hold the knife-" He then looks at the camera while holding this piece with a smile on his face.

"Either way I'll find despair!" He then throws the piece into the air while the screen glitches a few times before it goes into the outro.

Erika Harlacher-Zetsubousei Hero Chiryouyaku (English Cover of Danganronpa: The Animation's outro)

"Let's do the dance! You must keep step in this living hell,"

The camera cuts to Hannah who was seen smiling in the picture while wrapping her arm around someone who wasn't there.

"With the beating of your heart it goes ra-ta-ta,"

It then slowly zooms out to reveal that Jun was also in the picture smirking and he had his arms crossed, he also had his eyes closed.

"Like the lucky boy, Whose one desire is just to find a way to survive."

Ingrid was seen turned away from Jun, however she was looking at him with a nervous smile while Chloe was seen standing by Ingrid while she side-eyes the both of them while having a overly aggressive smile.

"What were my dreams before this newfound reality?"

Sunny was seen smirking at the camera also while he had his arms wrapped around someone who wasn't there and Leon (Who was proudly smiling at the camera).

"Trapped me here amidst your laughter, that-"

Evan and Alex were seen also smiling while the two of them were standing back to back with each other.

"'U-pu-pu.'"

The camera then shows Lia who had put up the pace sign behind Jared's head and she makes it look like he had bunny ears, while Ciara had both of her arms wrapped around Jared while she winked at the camera and was smirking, all while Jared had a slight smile on his face.

"I scream out, but my desires are left unanswered,"

Kyle was seen with one hand in his pocket and he used the other to give a peace sign for the camera while looking relaxed as always, and lastly Miriam was seen with crumbled fists while she stares at the camera with a fiery smile.

"Use your head or you've never getting out alive."

The last shot seen was The K-Shida's, The Losers Team, and The Five Souls all separated from one another, but everyone were seen doing their things in this photo before the camera cuts to black as soon as the song gets cut off.

Total Drama: Move Along


Remaining Contestants:

The K-Shida's: Sunny, Leo, Alex and Evan.

The Losers Team: Jun, Ingrid, Chloe, and Hannah.

The Five Souls: Jared, Lia, Ciara, Kyle, and Miriam.

Eliminated Contestants:

Eliminated: Kennedy (1st) , Li (2nd), Vince (3rd), Jackie (4th), Brooke (5th), Rae (6th), Fergy (7th), and Rainy (8th).

Elimination Preventing Objects:

The Hidden Safety Necklace: Played by Fergy

The Hidden Invincibility Statue: ?

The Hidden Immunity Idol: ?

This time around I shall be apologizing to CookieAndRevengeCake for eliminating Rainy this chapter, My main reason for eliminating her is because I felt like taking away Sunny's sibling would put him in a more interesting position game-play wise and I wasn't planning on eliminating Sunny here since he's one of the few characters I have who can be called the "antagonist" of the season so I want him to stick around longer, although I'll admit that Rainy's character development does somewhat come out of nowhere in my eyes, I felt like eliminating her would also be a shocker and also I feel like her emotionless personality would eventually get tiring so having her develop here would be the best move which is also meant to show that some people are more human than they appear. Now the in-story reason for her elimination is that she feels guilt over eliminating Rae two episodes ago and so she tells Alex to have her get voted out since she knows that if he stays on the show any longer her brother will force her to eliminate more of her friends, and when she interacts with Jared later he is able to comfort her which solidifies that if she stays on the show any longer then she won't be happy, especially since she would never want to eliminated her brother.

I hope you readers enjoyed Rainy's character since while her development was sudden, I enjoyed having her grow the way she did and believe me when I say things'll be interesting when she talks with Rae.

Also I shall once agian leave the link to my Discord server!: discord . gg / MJ8qF9v (Without the spaces, of course) The server is called "Time, Fire, and War"

I feel like while this episode's challenge was a step up from the previous one since it had character interactions between different characters from different teams and three fights! I will admit that the first two battles were just tastes of what was to come while the third one was the most brutal out of the three and was the most serious, but the third battle was ALSO just a taste of future battles since things will get much more destructive and personal in later battles.

And now for the question of the day!:

(For the people with OCs): What has been the highlights of this story for you? It could be just about anything.

(For the people without OCs): Does this chapter count as a Christmas special? (It was posted on December 25th)

Anyways this will be the last chapter of the infamous year known as 2020, it hasn't been a good year but luckily 2021 will come soon and so while things might not get immediately better, lets hope next year is a big step up from this year. Where I am it's Christmas so I wish you all a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Now to end this chapter with two words other than "Merry Christmas"-!

PEACE OUT!