Blainley was eating some breakfast, which was just a plate with some lettuce set on it. She used her forks to pick up a piece and nibbled on it before pushing the plate forward "Ah, that was a good meal"
She lightly pat her stomach before standing up and looking into the mirror, turning to the side to get a better look at her figure. "I hope that meal doesn't go straight to my hips." the host murmured.
Blainley turned around, smirking at the camera "Been a little bit hasn't it? Last time on Legends, the contestants were sent to Caslte-McBlainerific! In there, they went through multiple trials, until they were found worthy of the sword!"
"Peter tried desperately to be special, but he just couldn't be. And in the end, the one to release the sword and vanquish the dragon would be Rayna" The scene showed Peter electrocuting himself when Rayna took the sword, killed the dragon, and then kissed Blainley.
"Though… she maybe got a bit too frisky" Blainley cleared her throat as the recap editor focused on this for a bit long "Ok. That's enough!"
The camera moved back to the hostess "Thank you. In the end, Peter was sent home for failing to give Lightning or Willow a chance at the sword. With the teams being even again, it's time to see if the Sphinxes can turn around today, or start their losing streak!"
Intro plays
"Dear mom and dad, I'm doin' fine" At the front of the Japanese island, Blainley and Shion were standing next to each other, with them both trying to push the other off screen. Sugar was standing behind them, trying to bring the dazzle and steal the attention from the hosts. While Blainely was enjoying the camera's attention Jake suddenly popped up, before writing something down in his notes.
"You guys are on my Mind" the camera flew to the middle of a large lake in the middle of the island. on the water Rhonda and Justin were sitting on a small boat together. It was so small they were stuck leaning against each other.
"You asked me what I wanted to be" Rhonda smirked confidently at him as she leaned towards him, however, the model looked uncomfortable as they both tipped over the side as some bubbles slowly surfaced. Jackson popped his head out of the water before discretely swimming away.
"I wanna be famous" on the nearby beach Vernon was quietly writing music down on a small notebook. He smiled as he seemingly finished before a bald eagle flew down and swooped the note from his hands.
"I wanna live close to the sun" the bald eagle flew through the forest with its catch. On the ground Nick smiled to himself before writing that down in a bird watching book.
"Go pack your bags because I've already won!" Lightning was running through the forest with a confident smirk on his face as he tried outpacing Wyonetta who was running right next to him with just as confident a smirk.
"Everything to prove, nothing in my way," the duo sprinted past Char, Jasmine, and Donna sitting together on some fallen trees while eating a small snack on their nature trek.
"I'll get there one day" on the other side of the island Anne Maria was lying down on the sand to get a good tan. As Maria enjoyed the sun, Rayna suddenly popped in next to her to enjoy the tan together while winking.
"Cause I wanna be famous!" On the other side of the beach, Sadie was sitting on some stone steps while fawning over Capone. Willow sat behind her, and looked totally out of place and confused about the fawning.
"Na na na na na na na na na na na na na na na!" On the dock Blainley was on earlier, Peter was snapping pictures of where she stood, taking pictures of her footmarks in the sand before sighing miserably.
"I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous. I wanna be, I wanna be, I wanna be famous" All of the contestants were sitting together, with Anais and Jake sitting across from each other. The shorter girl leaned in with Jake, only to kiss him on the cheek. Jake smiled to himself, before immediately turning away from her to write in his notes again as all of the contestants slowly whistled.
Intro Ends
The episode started with Rayna skipping through the mansion halls with some roses in her hands. Eventually she stopped at the female sleeping room. She pressed her ear to the door, finding that a few of them were inside.
The shipper had a small smirk as she opened the door and walked inside "Hey gi-girls…" Rayna smirk disappeared when she found the people inside were having a mess.
Anne Maria was sitting up in her bed, constantly spraying herself as the room filled up with her toxic spray-tan. It was almost too hard to see anything. Rhonda meanwhile was leaning against the wall, clearly glancing through a small hole that was there for who knows how long. They had only been up for a few hours but everything that was in her bed was thrown around. Then there was Sadie, she was the least destructive. She was just doing her nails without any cover, staining the bedsheets.
"Uh, morning guys" Rayna turned on the interior fan, causing the toxins to start dispersing.
"And good morning to you Rayna!" Sadie smiled happily at her, while the other two just continued to not pay attention. "Whatcha holding there?" she gestured to the flowers in her hand.
"Oh, the boys in the other room were telling me that I should come over and give you some gifts from them," the shipper smiled casually.
This immediately gathered the attention of the girls, who looked at her expectantly. "I knew Justin was going to be getting me something nice"
"That's a good guess" Rayna walked to the wrestler before handing her a bouquet "Justin said to tell you that he doesn't know what he'd do without you"
Rhonda's face lit up in a confident smirk, as she took the flowers from her "I knew it was just a matter of time before he wanted the Rhonda experience"
Now, there was only one bouquet in her hands. Anne Maria and Sadie silently glanced at each other as the shipper slowly walked over to them. "I'm sure it's for me," the Jersey Girl smirked.
"Not right, actually" Rayna turned to hand the bouquet to Sadie "He said he loves your sense of fashion and just how cute you are!"
Sadie stared at the bouquet, before jumping up and down in glee, screaming "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"
The shipper smiled at Sadie's excitement before joining in on her "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"ing.
Now that Rayna had set up the two girls, they started walking out of the room. Anne Maria, meanwhile, just looked furious.
Confessional: Anne Maria
She had her arms crossed and looked seriously upset "I can't believe this… THOSE TWO got themselves the only hot guys on this team. I can't imagine any reality where that would make sense. But whateva. It's not like I need no blind guys simpin over me"
XXX
"Sorry I don't have anything for you" Rayna apologized, before a small smile formed on her face "But I do have something rather nice for you as well"
Anne Maria silently looked down at her, still looking very annoyed "And what would that be exactly?"
The Shipper pulled a large box of chocolates from the back of her shirt. It was shaped like a heart and had a nice ribbon on it. "Because believe you-me, you have quite the admirer"
"Oh" Maria actually looked surprised by the sudden gift. She opened the top of it, finding multiple different types of chocolate set out for her "This is a lot nicer than some stupid flowers"
"You know it" Rayna had a small grin before sitting on the bed. She pat the bed next to her "Does that mean you'll accept my company?"
"Eh, sure" the Jersey girl shrugged before sitting next to her, tossing one of the chocolates into her mouth "mmm, wow, that actually tastes great!"
"Only the best for the team's best girl"
Anne Maria just smirked smugly to herself before chewing on another piece of chocolate "You know it toots"
Confessional: Rayna
The shipper had a new smirk on her face "Today couldn't have gone better, honestly. Rhonda and Justin? Check. Sadie and Capone? Check! Rayna and Anne Maria! Oh you know that's getting checked. Now to make this whole team perfect I just have to get Char and Jackson kissing. Considering they spend all their time together shouldn't be too hard" she snickered.
Rayna then had a small frown directed at the camera "Oh don't act like I'm being evil. Rhonda and Sadie deserve someone hot and… nice? I can't just leave Anne Maria out of the ship factory or anything"
XXX
Speaking of those two, they were enjoying the mansion's multiple services. Char was getting his back massaged while Jackson played some darts.
"Your hands are quite nice…" Char groaned slightly, smiling "I'd be happy to give you five stars" with every move of her hands, the chubby gentleman groaned happily.
"Can you stop making those noises? I'm trying to focus on beating my last score" Jackson chucked another dart, though this dart landed on the wall instead of the board. He just sighed in slight annoyance.
While they were distracted they could hear the others coming into the room for their breakfast. He turned to the noise, and almost immediately regretted it when he found them all sitting in little clusters.
Anne Maria was still eating her chocolates from the box as Rayna just smiled while silently watching her. Sadie was constantly leaning against Capone, who just looked like he was ignoring her. And Rhonda was currently shoving some of the pancake into Justin's mouth, presumably thinking it was hotter than it actually was.
"They got closer?" He scowled slightly.
Char slowly raised his head, seeing what he was getting upset over "Oh… boy."
"Now you see the problem. Relationships are just alliances without the specifics" Jackson crossed his arms "I suppose I'll need to find a fast way to split them all up…"
As he watched them he could almost immediately pick up on issues. Specifically Capone glancing at Justin randomly and Justin just looking uncomfortable.
Confessional: Jackson
"There's nothing I've come to hate more than love…" Jackson scowled "It's entirely overrated and makes everyone obnoxious. Once the relationships are ruined, they'll all bicker and eliminate each other slowly but surely"
XXX
The losing team, the Sphinxes, were all still sitting inside their cave while Jasmine and Willow went to work on getting them some berries. As per usual.
"You got a lot more berries this week" Jasmine smiled down at the greenette, who had a faint smile.
"I-I didn't get nearly as much as you usually get. B-but thanks" Willow walked to the entrance of the cave, finding all of their team was sitting around a fire.
"Hey, you guys shouldn't produce a fire inside a cave" Jasmine worried, but didn't actually walk inside the cave "The smoke will have nowhere to go and it'll get into your lungs"
Nick just smiled at the two of them "Don't worry, we're not far off finishing our meal"
Jasmine sniffed the air, smiling slightly "Hey, what are you making anyhow? It smells right good!"
Instead of responding, the boyscout finished what he was doing to place the meals he was making and placing them onto makeshift plates. The smoke made it had for the Aussie to see, but eventually the boyscout would walk over to her and hand her a plate with some skinned, well cooked meat.
"Blimy, this looks great!" Jasmine smiled, "How'd you get so much meat?"
Nick just smiled before pointing at his 'skinning an animal' badge "I've got plenty of experience"
"Well, we still got some berries for everyone" Jasmine held up her collection of blue and red berries "Do we have a make-shift bowl for these?"
"Oh, of course!" the Boy Scout raised a glass bowl, which just continued to impress Jasmine as she put the berries in the bowl with Willow.
"You're right impressive Nick, I had no idea boy scouts were so well versed in craftin stuff"
Nick just smiled unatturally wide at the praise "Yea, I'm not half bad at this stuff. Please do eat up" he nodded before walking back to the others, setting the berries on the ground. And like Jasmine asked, he put out the fire.
"Thanks for the meal Nick" Donna gushed as she shared her meat with Mittens, who seemed to be enjoying it more than anyone would've guessed.
"It's ok…" Jake murmured while eating his meat "Tastes better than berries"
Confessional: Nick
The boyscout had a confident smile on his face as he whittled a little wooden statue of Donna "Now that everyone sees my use on this team, I just have to keep things going well until they all feel reliant on my help. Then, before you know it my 'troop' will be in tip top shape"
He blew on his statuette "I'm sure she's going to love this. And when she's not so interested in it, I'm sure Mittens can use it as a chew toy"
XXX
To most of their surprise, they spent most of the day without any challenges coming their way. This gave all the contestants the chance to enjoy themselves.
"So… what do you want?" Anais deadpanned as Jake and Lightning surrounded her.
"We need someone to judge who gets to the Styrax Japonicus first" Jake looked like he was pumping himself up "I need to show him that I'm the fastest person here!"
Anais just stared at him "Are you sure that's… a good idea?"
Jake just smirked "I'm first at everything, of course I'd be the fastest"
"Yea, let tubby embarrass himself" Lightning smirked just like Jake.
The braniac girl just sighed, before walking away from the two and standing by the tree they spoke about. She silently looked at the two of them, seeing they were currently in sprinting poses "I can't believe I'm the one they called in for this…"
"Just give us the go-ahead shortie!"
"Ready…" Anais sighed "Set go"
They both jumped from their starting points, sprinting as hard as they could to the tree. Almost immediately Lightining took a big lead over Jake, which only continued to grow. Jake lowered his head to try going faster, however, this left him open for a smirking Lightning.
The jock slowed to a stop before moving his foot in the way of Jake's momentum, causing the chubby boy to trip and roll a few feet before coming to a piteable stop. This gave Lightning the chance to lightly jog past him to tap the tree.
"That'll show you for challenging Sha-Lightning!" he laughed smugly before leaving the two brainiacs alone.
"I can't believe he brought me over here just to have someone watch him embarrass Jake" Anais frowned before looking down at Jake.
He wasn't getting up from the ground, the only movements he was making were repeated, but slow shaking.
"Are you ok?" Anais crouched down next to him, assuming he was crying "I wouldn't bother with someone like Lightning upsetting you. Jocks are always like that"
Jake took two deep and loud breaths before pulling himself up "You're right, I shouldn't be bothered. I know I'm the first person to everything. He was just jealous and sabotaged me"
"Well, I don't know how much I'd agree to that…" she murmured "But you're definitely smarter than most of the people on our team from what I've seen. Having another intellectual is actually rather nice"
He seemed a bit happier at this point, smiling softly "Yea, good to focus on the things I'm entirely first at until I can be first at something else"
Anais nodded with a small smile "I-I guess that's looking on the bright side"
Confessional: Anais
"You know, ignoring that competition we had prior, Jake's not a bad guy. In fact, that argument was pretty nice. I hope to have another intellectual argument with him to stimulate my brain. It's much more interesting than hearing Wyonetta talking about jockstraps"
XXX
Once night struk, and everyone was fast asleep. But, whilst they were sleeping, they were all dragged far from their bases. Sugar, and the other interns, were dragging their beds deep into the forests.
None of them noticed this until they were already in a clearing. Surprisingly, none of the contestants seemed to notice themselves being dragged, as they were all still stuck in their pajamas.
In a few moments, they were awoken by a sudden and loud alarm "GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD MORNING CAMPERS!" Blainley's voice spoke over them, as everyone fell out of their beds in shock.
"Ugh, it's too early in the morning for this…" Justin groaned. His face was covered in green goo and he was wearing a blue sleeping gown "Doesn't the host know I need my beauty sleep?"
Rhonda immediately turned to him when she heard him grunting, before frowning at him being fully dressed "Ah, drats" She wore a vibrant fuchsia t-shirt with a wrestler graphic on the front and eggplant purple basketball shorts.
"U-U-Um, do we need to be doing a challenge right now?" Jasmine looked around nervously. She was wearing a gray t-shirt with black underwear on "I-I kind of didn't dress right for this"
Behind her stood Willow, who was flushed red in embarrassment, on account of her height being waist-level with Jasmine.
The greenette was wearing a white tee shirt and green pajama pants with white polka dots all over them. "I-I might have to second her suggestion" she murmured.
"Sorry kids, but we just don't have the time for that" Blainley suddenly appeared from the forests, riding atop a black stalion "Because this challenge is all about you making it back to civilization!"
This immediately piqued Nick's attention "Just get through the forest? Oh, I was born for this challenge!" The Boyscout was wearing a white undershirt and a pair of dark blue sleeping pants.
"It isn't that simple Nicky boy, because today's myth is lurking in these very woods as we speak. But it'll be way more fun if you all have no clue what it is, so that'll just be our little secret"
"Any rules we need to know then?" Anais placed her hands on her hips and looked up at her skeptically. While she seemed to be acting pretty seriously, her attire made it somewhat hard. The genius didn't want any germ buildup in her pajams, so she was only wearing her orange underwear and bra "A-and it's way too cold out here"
Blainley silently shook her head down at her "Does anyone on your team actually know how to dress themself?"
"Dress oneself?" Jake leaned up, revealing that he was entirely naked "That's right, first person to be naked and first contestant to steek on tv"
"I wouldn't say you were the first" Rhonda smirked to herself, lightly nudging a nervous Justin.
The majority of the cast covered their eyes, seeing as Jake was doing exactly what he claimed. He was buck naked and having a great time with it.
"Ok. Shion, get over here!" Blainley had her eyes covered.
The co-host eventually arrived with a calm smile "Yes~?"
Blainley didn't even give him a moment before ripping off his shorts and handing them to Jake "Put these on"
Shion just smiled to himself "Mildred, if you wanted to get that close you should have asked~ I would've said no, but still"
"Just get out of here" she shooed her co host away, who just skipped happily in his underwear. "Anyways, contestants, all of you need to make it back to the river. If even one of you doesn't make it, you're up for elimination"
"Sounds simple enough!" Donna smiled "I have an amazing sense of direction" Donna's attire was rather… peculiar, like most of the people on her team. She was wearing a g-string and her shirt.
With that Blainely rode away, leaving them to their own devices.
"All of ya'll are gonna sha-freeze out here!" Lightning shook his head dissaprovingly at everyone, even though he was only wearing black shorts.
"So do we have a gameplan for getting back?" Anais looked to the others, choosing to ignore the outfit situation "We shouldn't wander aimlessly around here"
Donna just jumped up and down "I know what we should do! I'm great at directions"
"I can climb a tree" Wyonetta smirked. She was wearing a grey sleeveless shirt and grey sweatpants "If I get high enough I'll probably find some lights from civilization"
"That's a good plan. I'm impressed you formed it" Anais nodded.
Wyo silently glared at her "When I'm back down I'm going to sock you" she threatened before disappearing up the tree.
Meanwhile, the Sphinx had their own plan brewing.
"Everyone wanna just split up?" Capone asked casually. He was wearing White shirt, black sweatpants
"Sounds fine by me" Jackson shrugged. Surprisingly, he wasn't wearing a shirt. He was also wearing blue and black plaid pajama pants.
Anne Maria was busy spraying herself. She was wearing a simple orange tiger stripped sleeping gown "Yea, sure, whateva. How are we doin the whole splittin up thing?"
"I think it's more than fair to do the pairs from this morning" Rayna suggested casually. Her pajams were very simple, just being a red shirt and blue shorts.
"EEEE, good idea, Capone and I should get to know each other better!" Sadie grabbed the body builder. Her sleep attire wasn't far off her usual attire, with a blue crop top and jean shorts now on her.
"Works just fine for me. Hopefully Justin and I won't get… distracted" Rhonda smirked at him.
While they were all speaking amongst each other, they could suddenly hear horse clopping coming in their direction. "Oh, Blainley must have forgotten to tell us something" Jasmine turned to the direction.
The clopping only got louder, until finally the source was seen. Before them stood a figure on a black horse dressed in all black. He looked like he flew straight to the forest from the 1800's. But, the most striking thing of all was that he didn't have a head, instead he had a brightly lit pumpkin head atop his shoulders.
Many of the contestants started looking terrified, except for one of the Tengu.
"Oh, real scary! Lightning aint afraid of no veggie!" Lightning laughed as he walked over to the creature.
"Lightning, I know your head is as empty as a glass jar but don't get close to it" Anais groaned.
Lightning just scoffed "Don't worry little girl. It aint gonna do nothin"
The jock stood next to the monster, smiling confidently to himself when it unsheethed a sword from its hilt. Lightning didn't pay him any attention before he suddenly swung his sword down on Lightning's back.
"Hey, what where you're slashin!" Lightning turned around, showing multiple cut marks on his back.
Jasmine immediately grabbed Willow and Anais "Alright, we need to get movin!" she yelled before both teams started running away, leaving behind Lightning.
"Where are you all sha-OW!" Lightning whined in pain as the Horseman drove over him, trampling him under his horse's hooves.
The horseman laughed manically as he chased the two teams. This left one Wyonetta still high up in the tree, looking around "Nothing here…"
She looked back down, seeing they had all ditched her "Ugh, of course"
Confessional: Anais
Anais had a small, but still entirely smug smile "I think I'll take it upon myself to explain all the legends to the normal people who may not know about the legend. The Headless Horseman is a myth from New England where he would kill people. That is, until you pass over a runing stream"
"Feel like you're caught up?" Anais taunted before the horseman suddenly broke through the confessional door, causing the brainiac to scream in fear.
XXX
After some time Jasmine was panting weakly "Ok… I think we're safe now"
She turned around, seeing that she had lost just about every single teammate of hers. All she had now was Donna and Mittens. "Where did everyone else go?"
Donna just smiled innocently "We left Lightning and Wyo behind at the start. Then Nick and Anais started going in a different direction because they thought it would be faster"
Jasmine slapped her own forehead "I never got why folks complain about people splitting up in these kinds of movies but I'm starting to get it"
"We can make it out on our own!" Donna beamed excitedly "I know exactly how we can get back!"
"Oh, really? Did you see where they dragged us from?" Jasmine smiled down at the latina. Her smile shrunk slightly at her shaking her head "Then what do you have? A compass?"
Donna just turned to the camera "Do you know where our base would be?"
"Ah, right, I forgot you did that" Jasmine murmured, watching her in silence.
"That's right!" Donna smiled "It's that-a-way!" she pointed in a seemingly random direction.
The Aussie just shrugged "Might as well give that route a try" The two of them started walking through the forest, mostly in silence.
Not too far away, Char and Jackson were hiding behind a tree. Char looked close to having a heart attack, but Jackson seemed just fine. "D-do you think we managed to evade the monster?" Char looked over his shoulder, not seeing any horseman.
"Eh, not like it wouldn't kill us if we didn't hurry" Jackson shrugged "It's just a challenge. But… if everyone's scared of the monster, I think we could use that to a potential advantage"
Char frowned nervously "D-do we have to use that?"
Jackson silently stared at him with a deadpan expression "Yes. We do. All I need from you is to find the Horseman and take him this way" he pointed past them "I saw one of those couples going that way"
"Ok" he let out a soft sigh before moving away from the tree and back in the direction the horseman was prior.
The shirtless boy smiled to himself before going after the couple he saw prior. Eventually, finding Capone and Sadie. Capone chose to walk ahead of Sadie, primarily just so she'd stop talking loudly right into his ear.
"Hey guys" Jackson walked up to them "You guys seen any of the others since we ran in different directions?"
Sadie turned around with a wide smile "I saw Rayna and Maria going another way. I hope everyone is ok…"
"Uhuh…" he slowly nodded while walking past her, going straight for Capone "Hey, bud, having fun with your partner" Jackson asked with a casual smirk.
"Not in the slightest. But what's it to you?" Capone frowned at him "I haven't exactly talked to you before"
"I'm just here to try helping you out. Sadie's so annoying with her constant "EEEEEEEEEEEEEEE"ing and all that, so how about you and I swap partners?"
Capone tilted his head "You want me getting pulled down by your chubby partner? No thanks"
"I wouldn't look at it that way. Look at it in the sense that if you're the last two to make it to the finish line Char would be the easy target. You could even play the card that you were trying to protect him"
This seemed to actually interest the body builder "Ok. Sure, I can do that. Where is the lardass anyhow?"
The moment he asked this, they could hear the loud clopping of a horse coming their way. "Ope, that might be him" Jackson turned his head to see the Horseman barreling straight for them "Yep, that's him. See you around Cappy"
Jackson moved back to push Sadie and himself out of the oncoming horseman's way as Capone silently glared at him. He didn't have much time to be annoyed by Jackson before he had to start running.
"Woah, thanks for the save Jackson!" Sadie smiled up at him "That guy was totes close to running me over"
"Was just happy to help" Jackson had a small smirk on his face
Confessional: Jackson
"Now that I'm alone with Sadie, all I have to do is put a few negative thoughts into her head and well, that's the last of her budding relationship with Capone"
XXX
The two of them slowly walked through the forests by themselves. Sadie was effectively talking Jackson's ear off, clearly annoying him. "Hey, Sadie, you have a thing for Capone, right?"
This almost immediately quieted the woman, who started blushing "Oh, well, Cappy's pretty handsome and strong. And he totally gave me flowers this morning!"
Jackson tapped his chin, just thinking about that before shaking his head "Who gave you that?"
"Rayna" Sadie smiled.
"Ah man… I told her to not mess with my man" Jackson slowly shook his head.
Sadie stared at him for a moment "Y-your man?"
"Yea, Capone and I are in a pretty serious relationship. I'm just a lot more open about it than he is" Jackson had to force the vomit coming from the idea down his throat.
"Oh, I'm totes sorry!" Sadie apologies profusely "I didn't mean to mess with your relationship. I just had no idea, I promise I won't mess around with him anymore"
"Thanks" Jackson had a small, warm smile.
While his plan was going into effect, one of the Sphinx's other ships was walking around aimlessly. Rhonda was constantly on guard while Justin walked ahead of her with an annoyed expression.
"I can't believe that host would make us do a second challenge at night. Doesn't she know how much work goes into looking this good?" Justin turned to Rhonda for her agreement.
Which the giant woman was happy to oblige with "Oh I totally agree. Granted, I'm sure you'd look just as good if I was keeping you up all night"
Justin just continued to smile calmly at her "Why thank you for the charming comment. But seeing as it's just the two of us, and you're a wonderful ally, I think we should talk some strategy"
"Like that?" Rhonda smashed her fists together "Need me to intimidate some losers?"
"Actually, that's close to what I was thinking. I believe we should start targeting Capone if we start losing"
"Well, he's the guy Sadie's crushing on so fine by me!" Rhonda quickly nodded.
Justin smiled "See, that's why I added you to my alliance Rhonda. Along with that beautiful smile of yours"
Rhonda could feel a small blush form on her face as she kabedoned him to a tree. "Well, seeing how it is just the two of us, I think I can be paid. After all, you wouldn't have eliminated Vernon if I voted for someone else"
The model was cornered, and quite frankly he didn't have a good response for that. Luckily for him, they could both hear the loud laughter of the Horseman.
"Oh thank goodness" he sighed as Rhonda turned to the monster.
She just smirked "Come and get some you headless stooge!" Rhonda beat her chest like an angry gorilla.
The horseman just rushed toward her. Rhonda was getting ready to take the beast head-on. That was until it just ran straight past her, pulling Justin onto the back of the steid and continuing to ride on.
"Hey, he's mine you bastard!" Rhonda started running after the villain. Because of her size, she had an awful time trying to keep up with a horse going at full speed.
Justin turned to her. He then looked at the ground but was clearly terrified about what jumping might do to his impeccable body.
He took a deep breath before sighing "Rhonda, if you save me I promise to let you sit on my face!"
Rhonda's eyes bulged out of her head before she suddenly went at what looked like 80 miles per hour. Even the horseman was shocked when she suddenly got up to the horse and grabbed Justin in the matter of seconds.
"Gotcha" she smirked, before the horse suddenly came to a stop. Rhonda looked at it in confusion before sprinting straight across a bridge over a river.
"I think we made it" Justin sighed in relief once Rhonda finally came to a stop.
"Yep. we sure made it" Rhonda stared at Justin in silence. The model stared back for a moment before sighing.
"A deal's a deal…"
Not too long after they got there, the bushes started ruffling. Jasmine walked through the bridge with a surprised expression "I gotta say Donna, that was some impressive navigation!"
"Yea, I get lost a lot when walking around" Donna shrugged.
The two walked to the free zone, which is when they saw Rhonda casually sitting atop Justin. Jasmine stared at them in silence before quickly moving her hand to cover Donna's face "Well, third and fourth contestants here isn't bad…"
"You're just staring because you're jealous" Rhonda smirked at them.
Confessional: Justin
"It's hard to keep a woman like Rhonda on board with my schemes. She's not like most women I get working for me. Most of them are content to just stare, Rhonda, she is a more hands on person. But it doesn't matter. Once we reach the merge, I can ditch her for an easier woman to control. Maybe Maria, maybe Willow. We'll see"
XXX
With both teams now having people finished, leaving the clock ticking faster for the teams. Nick's team was quickly beginning to feel this pressure "Keep up guys, we gotta keep things moving!"
He looked behind himself, finding Willow was close to passing out from pure fear. And also just having to walk so much. Anais was only fairing slightly better, as she constantly had to cover herself with her arms to not freeze to death. And then lastly, there was Wyo, who just looked annoyed to be following his orders.
"I'm almost sure we're not far off. We live in North Japan, so the moss says we're going the right way" Nick smiled.
"How do we know we're going the right way?" Wyonetta crossed her arm "Maybe they took us west or east"
"She… makes a valid point" Anais hunched forward, looking ready to throw up "C-can someone carry me or something? M-my body isn't built for this"
Nick just smiled back at her before putting her onto his shoulders "This fine for you?"
"The air is slightly colder, but I do appreciate the concern" Anais nodded down at him.
"A-any chance I-I can also take a ride…?" Willow chuckled nervously.
"Sorry… Willow, I don't know if I could be physically strong enough to carry both of you" Nick smiled apologetically. Until he saw Willow look down in disappointment "Ok. Fine" the Boyscout picked her up in the bridal carry, clearly beginning to get tired from this.
Wyonetta snickered slightly at Nick "You're a real loli magnet"
"Please, don't say that out loud" Nick murmured, now blushing slightly. That was when they heard a haunting laughter.
"Oh it's that thing again" Wyonetta groaned, turning to the horseman.
Anais smiled a bit "This just means we're likely in the right direction!"
Nick and Wyonetta stared at the horseman. For some reason he wasn't running up to them. Instad, he was just standing there. "What's he doing?" Willow whispered nervously.
The villain was happy to respond by pulling his pumpkin head from his shoulders. He juggled it up and down in his hands before throwing it as hard as he could at the team. Anais and Willow started panicking in udder terror.
Wyonetta wasn't as nervous as she simply crouched down and grabbed a thick stick. She got into a batting pose before smashing the stick against the pumpkin, sending it flying back to the Horseman.
On contact, the pumpkin splattered into a surprisingly strong fire. At the same time, it blew the horseman up. "Woah, I didn't think my batting strength could kill someone." Wyonetta slowly smirked "I gotta get Michael to play baseball with me when I get back"
Anais stared at the wrecked monster before quickly jumping off Nick and rushing over to it.
"Hey, wait, it might still be dangerous!" Nick warned before tossing Willow aside and running after her.
When he caught up to Anais, he found she was crouching on top of the multiple pieces of their horseman. Nick could now see that the horseman was made of many robotic parts "Oh, that makes sense with the headless part"
"And it's also how we'll win!" Anais had a new machine in her hands "This machine has satellite imagery, so we should be capable of finding where any of the other contestants are"
"Oh, that's actually very clever" Nick smiled.
"I know" Anais smirked before raising her remote up "Alright, everyone follow meee!"
Nick saluted with a confident smile, before following behind with Wyo and Willow.
With this new lead, they quickly made their way to the zone, giving the Tengu a great numerical lead. However, at near the same time: Jackson, Sadie, Capone, and Char all making it at a similar time. Leaving both teams with just two contestants remaining.
Char groaned to Jackson "I… hope that was worth it" he was covered in multiple scratches.
Jackson smirked slightly before gesturing to Sadie, who was patting Capone on the back and giving him a thumbs up "I'd say it was more than worth it"
"If you say so…"
Still in the forest, Rayna and Anne Maria looked totally lost. In fact, they hadn't even seen any Horsemen around in a good while.
"I think we're totally lost" Anne Maria placed her hands on her hips "This is what I get for walkin with you and not followin Justin"
Rayna clutched her chest "T-that was a deep blow. But I promise we can still get out of here or else our team can just vote for me, I promise!"
"Yea, sure, whateva ya say" Anne Maria kept walking through their set path, with things continuing to be entirely quiet.
In the distance, they could see a bright glowing light coming their way. Both girls dove into the bushes to avoid its vision. However, as they dove out of the way, Anne Maria must have rolled something. As she held her leg and tried everything in her power to not repeatedly grunt in pain.
Rayna moved her hand to cover Maria's mouth, helping to keep her silent as the horse drove straight past them. Once it was far enough away, Rayna looked to her "Are you ok?"
"Do I sound like I'm fine?" Anne Maria glared, though her voice just sounded whiney "I twisted my ankle or somethin"
"That's bad…" Rayna worried, glancing the way the Horseman went, seeing he wasn't coming back. Once she was sure of this she picked Anne Maria up in the bridal carry with a faint blush "Ok, let's just go the way it came from. It was probably running from the end-zone to find some of the other contestants!"
"Best plan we have at the moment" Anne Maria angrily crossed her arms "And thanks for helping me along, I guess"
"Happy to help" she grinned before going as fast as she could in their path.
After a good amount of running, they could see the bridge every other contestant used to get across. But the main concern was they could see Jake running at the exact same time. He looked bruised up and totally exhausted.
"We gotta hurry!" Anne maria leaned up a bit "No way am I allowing us to lose to that schlub"
"I-I can only go so fast…" Rayna groaned "N-no offense to you of course" Anne Maria only glared at her for a moment before trying to think of a way to get ahead of him.
The Jersey Shore girl wasn't the… brightest contestant. Even on her team. So by the time she had a decent idea Jake was already crossing the bridge.
Rayna silently groaned in defeat as she followed behind him, before collapsing on the ground "I'm sorry guys… I really tried to get here as fast as possible…"
"What are you apologizing for?" Rayna looked confused. She was also, naturally, still on Justin.
"Didn't we lose or somethin?" Anne Maria looked at the others.
Capone chuckled a bit "Nah, the other team still doesn't have one of their contestants"
Speaking of the Tengu, they were all glaring at Jake or the woods "Where the hell did Lightning go!? He's the fastest of us, how could he not be here?" Wyonetta complained.
Jake shrugged a bit "I have no idea. I've just been trying to not die myself…"
Blainley suddenly appeared to the contestants, still riding atop her horse "I'm sure you've all caught up with what's happening right now. Tengu, you've lost another challenge and will be sending another contestant home!"
"Will we need to wait up on Lightning?" Jasmine turned to the host.
"A-a-and can we change before the vote?" Anais whimpered.
Blainley smiled "I find your outfits amusing, but sure, you can all go change while we find Lightning and bring him back. The bases should just be a little further ahead"
Justin finally moved away from Rhonda, sighing in relief "Finally, getting back to the rest" he pulled a sleeping mask from his pocket and put it over his eyes "Rhonda, mind carrying me back? I think I've done enough running for now"
"You've got it" she smirked before grabbing him and running ahead of the others.
Confessional: Wyonetta
"That still doesn't track. Sure, Lightning's a dunderhead, but if I can destroy a Horseman he can too. Plus, Jake made it to the end, there's gotta be something that happened besides getting trampled at the start"
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The Tengu trudged back to their base, with all of them getting dressed in their proper outfit "Oh, this is so much less embarrassing"
"I choose to not think about running around in the attire I was" Anais murmured, twirling slightly in her dress.
"Was a pretty fun challenge at least" Jake smiled to himself.
"It sure was!" Donna smiled "Pajams are so comfy, so at least the challenge was always comfy!"
Before anyone could respond, multiple lights appeared above the elimination ceremony. "I think that means we gotta head over" Nick guessed.
"But where's Lightning?" Wyonetta frowned "I thought he'd come here to change"
Jasmine and the others just walked over to the ceremony "Guess we'll just have to find out"
With that, the Tengu arrived at the elimination ceremony. To their surprise Lightning was indeed already there, but more importantly he was in a full body cast. He was so bad they actually had to sit him into a wheelchair.
"Lightning?" Wyo looked at him "What happened to you?"
The jock grunted, trying to say something but was muffled by the bandages covering his head. "He's fine, don't worry kiddos. What really matters is having the vote. You all know how this goes so get to it!"
Confessional: Donna
"I really like Lightning, he's got such a fun sense of humor with how he acts better than everyone else! It's hilarious. But… I think I have to vote for him. I hate seeing someone in pain like that"
Confessional: Willow
She silently tapped Lightning's image "Yea… I somewhat wish I voted for Lightning last time over Peter. Then he wouldn't be in that body suit"
Confessional: Lightning
The jock tried to move his hand to stamp one of the people, but he couldn't move his hand enough to actually stamp it. Eventually he just sighed out of anger.
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Once that was done, the Tengu sat together at the ceremony. "Now, for how's safe. Anais, you got a good chunk of your team to the finish line. So you're safe"
Anais raised her hand. Catching a giant pumpkin in her hands "A-am I supposed to eat this…?"
"It's your choice" Blainley shrugged "You could at least act more appreciative of what I give you"
Anais just looked at it before sighing "Yea, thanks"
"Also safe would be Donna, Jasmine, Wyonetta, and Nick" the four of them caught small squashes in their hands.
"Oh, squash" Donna smiled at hers "Do you know what squash is in Spanish?"
"Also safe we have Willow, you're really getting lucky now" Blainley threw a squash to Willow, which hit her head on "And thus, we only have our bottom two."
Jake just smiled to himself, while Lightning just glared at him.
"Jake, overall you're just not nearly as useful as Lightning. If the team needed an intellectual, Anais has already proven her use as that" this made Jake frown a bit "And Lightning, your one use is being brawny, and look at you now!" Lightning silently glared at her.
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Lightning! You're out champ!"
The jock sighed slightly in defeat. "Sorry to have you go so soon. But as a formal apology, we won't be throwing you off a plane or anything. Shion, please take him to the soonest flight please"
Her cohost came over, grabbing Lightning's wheelchair before leading him away. The contestants sat in silence as he was driven away.
"Does anyone know how to make pumpkin pie?" Anais held her pumpkin above her head.
"Yea, sure, I can do that" Nick smiled "I can even make some soup out of our squashes"
"Sounds like a good meal for all that runnin" Jasmine smiled as they all stood up and started walking back to their base. Aside from an annoyed Wyo, none of them seemed too bothered by Lightning being gone.
The last of the contestants to start walking away was Jake, who just smiled in the direction Lightning was being taken. His smile grew slightly as a memory formed in his head.
The scene moved back to the middle of the challenge. Jake and Lightning were running together through a graveyard.
"I think we lost it…" Jake groaned, hunching forward as he tried to catch his breath.
"Man, this challenge is sha-lame! First Lightning's stuck with tubby, now Lightning has to run like a wimp!"
"I'm not that out of shape" Jake shrugged "I would've been the first to the tree earlier if you didn't trip me"
Lightning turned to him "You're still on that? Listen tubby, Lightning is number one! In fact, Lightning's gonna ditch you so he can be the first to the finish line!"
He raised his hands up in the air, clearly confident that he will be first. Jake's eye twitched when he mentioned 'first to the finish line'.
"Hey, one second Lightning" Jake smiled up at him "I think I just saw the idol!"
Lightning looked at him "Why would Lightning bother with an idol? Lightning is his own idol!"
Jake grit his teeth "Ok, well I have something else to give you then"
The jock just looked away from him, stretching quickly "Just make it fast tubby. Lightning's got some gold to win!"
A small smirk formed on the chubby boy's face when he pulled a shovel from one of the recently covered graves. While the Jock was still looking away, Jake smashed the shovel over his head, causing him to collapse on the ground.
"Sha… what was that?" he weakly let out.
Jake simply responded by bashing him with the shovel all over his body, trying to break as many bones in his body as possible.
"Not going to be first in anything for awhile now huh!?" Jake's face was covered in an intense bloodlust "All you'll be first at is first contestant to break all his bones!"
He slammed Lightning a few more times, just making sure Lightning wouldn't get back up. Now that his work was done, he tossed his shovel away and started running away.
Confessional: Jake
The chubby boy had an innocent smile "I might have overreacted a bit, I admit as much. But I just can't help it. I'm the first at everything! Having that jock constantly talk about being first was getting me to my breaking point!" His smile was turning into a vicious glare. "Just like that one fucking bastard who drank the caprisun before I had the chance to even get mine open! He had that coming!"
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AN: And there goes out first canon contestant. I know everyone loves Lightning, and honestly, I love him just as much as the next guy. But ever sinec I got Jake, my plan for Lightning was just to be his first victim with how much Lightning likes to win at everything. I also hope this was a good surprise for everyone, Jake is someone I also wouldn't expect to be a major antagonist before seeing his form, but hey, best boys bein best boys.