Welcome back! I thought the last chapter was LONG and TEDIOUS to
write, but it turned out to be SO short, so I'm going to make this pretty
long. I was thinking of having it be an episode a day. Now I think I'll
have the camp scenes of episode one in chapter 2, and tribal council be in
the next chapter. Make sense? Sorry, long run on sentence.
Chapter 2- Bickering
Day 1- Athena
Arms sore and legs tired, Hermione Granger collapsed on a beach of white sand. She sighed contentedly and stretched her arms up above her head. Closing her eyes, she was finally alone with her thoughts.
'How did I, a respected and honored member of the Ministry of Magic, get myself into this ordeal?' she thought. Thinking back, she was at work when her assistant Penny rushed into her huge, sunlit office.
"Hermione! I have some HUGE news! Guess what it is!" she had exclaimed. Hermione had opened her mouth to try and guess when Penny continued. "There's a new TV show coming to the wizarding community! It's originally from this muggle show called 'Survivor'. It's about..."
"Penny- I know what Survivor is. And I don't think I'd be a great candidate, either," Hermione had responded. When Penny started to retort back, Hermione dismissed her with a wave of her hand.
'I'll bet anyone anything that Penny entered me into this whole mess,' Hermione thought. (A/N It's the present now) She sat up and looked around. Harry was walking towards her. He sat down next to her and put his arm around her. Hermione eyed him and put her head on his shoulder.
Nearby, Draco Malfoy was watching. Without meaning to, he felt something funny happen by where his heart was supposed to be. 'No- I can't be jealous! I don't even like the Mudblood! Who cares if she got together with Wonder Boy? Not me- I could have any girl I wanted on this island. And I think I'll set my sights on Lily,' he thought. But, he was still a tad bit angry, so he walked over to Pansy. "Look at the Mudblood and Potter," he spat. He didn't care about them, he just wanted to make fun about them. She turned and looked over at them. Rolling her eyes, she said to Draco, "Well, who cares? It's not as if THEY'RE important. I'll bet you anything that she'll be the first to go." Draco smirked, but felt a bit uneasy. True, he didn't like the Know-it-all, but then again, he didn't want her to leave just yet. 'WHAT THE HECK?' he thought. 'I CAN'T be infatuated with her! Who CARES if she leaves?' Pansy stared at him.
"What's wrong with you? Now we can have some alone time, Drakie!" she exclaimed. Draco whirled around, which was not a good idea, as Pansy was coming at him. She planted her overly big lips on his soft, natural sized ones and sighed contentedly. He pushed her off of him and walked away. "You'll come back, Draco. You always do," she shouted at him. He made a rude hand gesture at her and walked over to Sean, and Jack, who were discussing Quidditch.
"Hey, guys. I'm Draco Malfoy," he said. Sean shook it, but Jack rolled his eyes. He knew about Draco and his "pureblood mania". Jack was all for wizarding unity- no matter how pure their blood was. To Jack's dismay, Draco sat down with him.
Back on the beach, Hermione started to talk to Harry. "You know, people will think we're going out if we keep sitting like this," she laughed. Harry removed his arm and asked, "So, how's your life going so far? I haven't seen you since Lavender's wedding." When Hermione was about to respond, Harry's face dawned with sudden remembrance. "Oh yeah, Hermione. I've read about you in the Daily Prophet and all that. You're completely famous!" he said.
Blushing, Hermione managed to let out, "Well, yes, I did invent a couple of spells to help make everyday life easier." Harry murmured, "That's great," when Hannah and Lily walked over. 'Oh my goodness,' thought Hermione. 'Lily NEVER should have jumped in the water wearing a white cotton dress. A BRALESS one at that, too!'
"Hey, Hermione," Hannah said. "Harry- how's it goin'?" she asked. Hermione looked at her and saw something in her eyes. She recognized that look- she'd seen it many times before. Hannah liked Harry! Hermione was sure of it. She thought it'd be nice to leave them alone for a while, so she motioned to Lily to join her.
"Let's go for a walk," Hermione said. Nodding her head, Lily got up and walked with Hermione to a rocky area of the beach. "My name's Hermione Granger," Hermione said. She extended her hand, but Lily said, "Where I come from, hugs mean a lot more than handshakes." Hermione felt like rolling her eyes, but instead hugged Lily. "Lily, can I tell you something?" When Lily responded with a "Sure!", Hermione whispered to her, "You're dress is completely showing through. Maybe you could put your buff around...um, your chest, so it won't show as much." Puzzled, Lily asked, "Why is it so bad to show off your assets?"
Hermione was taken aback. "Huh?" she said. Lily explained, "I don't care if people see my chest. Maybe, in fact, that'd be an advantage." Hermione was completely stumped. "Why would THAT be an advantage?" she asked menacingly.
"It'd help me form alliances, if you catch my drift," Lily retorted.
"That's a stupid strategy, if you ask me," Hermione protested.
"I didn't ask you, though," Lily said coolly. Hermione had a bad feeling about Lily. Sure, she LOOKED nice, in more ways than one, but she as a total wench, really. Hermione smirked at her and walked off to find Harry and Hannah snogging the living daylights out of each other. 'Well,' she thought. 'THAT was quick!' However, she let on an entirely different air.
"Harry! Hannah! What in the name of Gilderoy Lockhart's fake stories is going on around here?" she screamed. Everyone turned and stared at them. Harry's face was completely red, but Hannah looked totally unabashed.
"Well, Hermione, you see... I sort of, er... like Hannah here, and, ummm, she sort of likes me back," Harry stuttered.
Hermione almost snorted. 'Very smooth, Harry,' she thought. However, Hannah WAS very nice, she was a big part of the D.A. in their 5th year, too. So Hermione thought that it'd be wise to use Hannah to her advantage. "Well, if Hannah is going to be hanging around you a lot now, maybe we could form an alliance," Hermione suggested. Still blushing, Harry nodded, and Hannah exclaimed,
"That's an excellent idea. But please, let's not let Lily in- she's a total... arse," Hannah stated. Hermione nodded in agreement and Harry did too, even though he hadn't even talked to Lily yet.
Day 2- Apollo
Ron Weasley sighed. 'How on EARTH could people think this is torture?' he thought. Sure, last night's sleep was AWFUL, they hadn't set up a shelter yet, but everything else was pretty nice. White sand, turquoise water... gorgeous girls. He looked around and saw the Patil twins heading his way. They were pretty nice looking, even if he hadn't paid much attention to them in school.
"Hi, Ron," Padma stuttered. Or was it Parvati? He could hardly tell the difference.
"Hi... what're you two up to?" he asked. One of them giggled. 'What's so funny? Did I ACTUALLY say something right?' he thought. 'I'm on a roll!' (A/N LOL) One of them started to stutter "F-fine...", but instead one of the men, Joe Pinulver, came dashing down the beach, yelling,
"We've got Tree Mail!" All the girls squealed excitedly. "Ooh, Tree Mail! I'll bet it's for the first reward challenge!" Susan Bones shrieked. Ron looked at her wonderingly, and she immediately blushed and looked away. 'What?' Ron thought. 'Why are all these girls becoming nervous around me?'
"Now, who wants to read the scroll?" Joe asked. A cute red-headed girl raised her hand, then blushed, as if thinking, 'That's so elementary to be raising my hand. How shall I say I want to while still looking cool?' Ron chuckled, and the same cute girl, named Jenny, turned beet red. Feeling bad for causing the girl distress, Ron mentioned, "Let...um- her do it." Again, he felt bad, as he didn't know her name. Grabbing the parchment, Jenny read aloud,
"You may think it's hard
To do something quite quick.
When in truth it's easier
Than lighting a candlestick.
You'd better do your best
Because if you do win
You'll not regret it- but,
The others will take it on the chin."
"Take it on the chin? Does anyone else know what that means?" asked one of the twins. Goyle, who was standing nearby, merely grunted before Susan Bones muttered, "Must be a muggle term."
"Well, that was quite... vague, but it did say something about having fast reflexes," said Joe. Nodding in agreement, Jenny said,
"No, actually, it says, "... 'think it's hard to do something quite quick.' So we have to do something quickly that seems hard. Make sense?" Ron thought that this might be a good opportunity to do something debonair, so he nodded and gave her a lopsided grin. (A/N Oh, soooo debonair!)
A couple of hours later, the Apollo tribe clambered into their wooden boat to head to the reward challenge. Ron sat towards the middle, and immediately Susan Bones sat next to him. Rowing away, Ron thought, as he had before, 'This is awesome...."
Arriving at another gorgeous beach, the Apollo team got out of their boats and tied it to a nearby palm tree. (A/N Yes, there are palm trees in Greece- I went there last summer to visit family and there were quite a few of them by the beach and everything!) They walked over to where they saw Ann McCarthy standing, followed closely by the Athena team.
"Welcome, everyone! Today is your very first reward challenge!" she said. It sounded to many of the contestants as if she was speaking to them as if they were babies. "Now, will you, the Apollo team, please step over here and onto the burgundy mat? Athena, same for you, only on the turquoise mat." Everybody did as they were told, and the smiley woman said, "Bravo- wonderful. Now, as you probably know, reward challenges are... well, competitions, and whichever team wins gets a reward. In immunity challenges, you win immunity, thus none of you in that team can be voted out. Understand?"
Everyone nodded fervently, and for the second time, Ann exclaimed, "Wonderful!" Hermione, over on the bright blue mat, snorted. 'This woman has got to be the fakest witch ever! Does anyone actually believe she's *that* cheery? Honestly, she had to have put a Cheering Charm on herself," she thought. Harry gave her a questioning look after watching Hermione make odd facial expressions, but she merely rolled her eyes at Harry's confusion.
"Today's challenge is quite simple, really. Don't worry, Mr. Malfoy- they'll get much harder, and you won't be allowed to use magic at all...." she said, before she was cut off by Jenny O'Hara.
"No DUH we're not allowed to use magic- you and the production crew took them away from us during the pilot!" Jenny yelled. Ann McCarthy looked taken aback, then righted herself. "We don't need little nasty comments from *kuritsias* like you, do we?" Jenny looked confused at the usage of Greek, but Ann continued on.
"All you have to do in this reward challenge is to jump off this large cliff behind me and into the Mediterranean Sea. From there on, you swim to your crate and swim down underwater where you'll find a key. Swim up to shore and use that key to open the crate that is there. Inside is a puzzle, and the first team to complete the puzzle and be on shore wins immunity. Are you ready?"
Again, everyone nodded, and climbed to the top of the cliff. "Okay, you'll be jumping in pairs. Get ready... and GO!"
Sure, it sounded easy. But none of them knew what was up ahead.
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I feel so bad for giving Athena more spotlight than Apollo. I'd go back and lengthen it, but then this chapter would be so incredibly long.
Did anyone notice that Ron's getting so much attention? I thought it'd be nice to kind of have him as a male "Cinderella". You know, being kind of dorky in school and then making him out to be this gorgeous Quidditch player... all the works.
Also, isn't Ann a bit fake? She's like the actress in Universal Studios who's always going, "SUPER!" Ha, ha.
And finally, Jenny's a little outspoken, no? She's very open, too- I like this character!
Thanks to all my reviewers-
*WillowHarris1*- Yes, I thought about doing an Aphrodite team, but it didn't seem right for the story....
*burgundyred*- You do know you're one of my favorite authors, right? Yeah, well, thanks for the review. Yes, I've read The Bachelor- SO CUTE- and can you update "Post Hogwarts Affair"? It's my favorite of yours!
*RainboeStar* *domovoi* *Jeannie Vidal-Smith* **Sarah** (Two stars cause it was in your name) *Yuna* and *I like survivor alot* - Glad y'all liked it, it was fun to write!
Sorry for such a long author's note. Please review with a cherry on top!
Chapter 2- Bickering
Day 1- Athena
Arms sore and legs tired, Hermione Granger collapsed on a beach of white sand. She sighed contentedly and stretched her arms up above her head. Closing her eyes, she was finally alone with her thoughts.
'How did I, a respected and honored member of the Ministry of Magic, get myself into this ordeal?' she thought. Thinking back, she was at work when her assistant Penny rushed into her huge, sunlit office.
"Hermione! I have some HUGE news! Guess what it is!" she had exclaimed. Hermione had opened her mouth to try and guess when Penny continued. "There's a new TV show coming to the wizarding community! It's originally from this muggle show called 'Survivor'. It's about..."
"Penny- I know what Survivor is. And I don't think I'd be a great candidate, either," Hermione had responded. When Penny started to retort back, Hermione dismissed her with a wave of her hand.
'I'll bet anyone anything that Penny entered me into this whole mess,' Hermione thought. (A/N It's the present now) She sat up and looked around. Harry was walking towards her. He sat down next to her and put his arm around her. Hermione eyed him and put her head on his shoulder.
Nearby, Draco Malfoy was watching. Without meaning to, he felt something funny happen by where his heart was supposed to be. 'No- I can't be jealous! I don't even like the Mudblood! Who cares if she got together with Wonder Boy? Not me- I could have any girl I wanted on this island. And I think I'll set my sights on Lily,' he thought. But, he was still a tad bit angry, so he walked over to Pansy. "Look at the Mudblood and Potter," he spat. He didn't care about them, he just wanted to make fun about them. She turned and looked over at them. Rolling her eyes, she said to Draco, "Well, who cares? It's not as if THEY'RE important. I'll bet you anything that she'll be the first to go." Draco smirked, but felt a bit uneasy. True, he didn't like the Know-it-all, but then again, he didn't want her to leave just yet. 'WHAT THE HECK?' he thought. 'I CAN'T be infatuated with her! Who CARES if she leaves?' Pansy stared at him.
"What's wrong with you? Now we can have some alone time, Drakie!" she exclaimed. Draco whirled around, which was not a good idea, as Pansy was coming at him. She planted her overly big lips on his soft, natural sized ones and sighed contentedly. He pushed her off of him and walked away. "You'll come back, Draco. You always do," she shouted at him. He made a rude hand gesture at her and walked over to Sean, and Jack, who were discussing Quidditch.
"Hey, guys. I'm Draco Malfoy," he said. Sean shook it, but Jack rolled his eyes. He knew about Draco and his "pureblood mania". Jack was all for wizarding unity- no matter how pure their blood was. To Jack's dismay, Draco sat down with him.
Back on the beach, Hermione started to talk to Harry. "You know, people will think we're going out if we keep sitting like this," she laughed. Harry removed his arm and asked, "So, how's your life going so far? I haven't seen you since Lavender's wedding." When Hermione was about to respond, Harry's face dawned with sudden remembrance. "Oh yeah, Hermione. I've read about you in the Daily Prophet and all that. You're completely famous!" he said.
Blushing, Hermione managed to let out, "Well, yes, I did invent a couple of spells to help make everyday life easier." Harry murmured, "That's great," when Hannah and Lily walked over. 'Oh my goodness,' thought Hermione. 'Lily NEVER should have jumped in the water wearing a white cotton dress. A BRALESS one at that, too!'
"Hey, Hermione," Hannah said. "Harry- how's it goin'?" she asked. Hermione looked at her and saw something in her eyes. She recognized that look- she'd seen it many times before. Hannah liked Harry! Hermione was sure of it. She thought it'd be nice to leave them alone for a while, so she motioned to Lily to join her.
"Let's go for a walk," Hermione said. Nodding her head, Lily got up and walked with Hermione to a rocky area of the beach. "My name's Hermione Granger," Hermione said. She extended her hand, but Lily said, "Where I come from, hugs mean a lot more than handshakes." Hermione felt like rolling her eyes, but instead hugged Lily. "Lily, can I tell you something?" When Lily responded with a "Sure!", Hermione whispered to her, "You're dress is completely showing through. Maybe you could put your buff around...um, your chest, so it won't show as much." Puzzled, Lily asked, "Why is it so bad to show off your assets?"
Hermione was taken aback. "Huh?" she said. Lily explained, "I don't care if people see my chest. Maybe, in fact, that'd be an advantage." Hermione was completely stumped. "Why would THAT be an advantage?" she asked menacingly.
"It'd help me form alliances, if you catch my drift," Lily retorted.
"That's a stupid strategy, if you ask me," Hermione protested.
"I didn't ask you, though," Lily said coolly. Hermione had a bad feeling about Lily. Sure, she LOOKED nice, in more ways than one, but she as a total wench, really. Hermione smirked at her and walked off to find Harry and Hannah snogging the living daylights out of each other. 'Well,' she thought. 'THAT was quick!' However, she let on an entirely different air.
"Harry! Hannah! What in the name of Gilderoy Lockhart's fake stories is going on around here?" she screamed. Everyone turned and stared at them. Harry's face was completely red, but Hannah looked totally unabashed.
"Well, Hermione, you see... I sort of, er... like Hannah here, and, ummm, she sort of likes me back," Harry stuttered.
Hermione almost snorted. 'Very smooth, Harry,' she thought. However, Hannah WAS very nice, she was a big part of the D.A. in their 5th year, too. So Hermione thought that it'd be wise to use Hannah to her advantage. "Well, if Hannah is going to be hanging around you a lot now, maybe we could form an alliance," Hermione suggested. Still blushing, Harry nodded, and Hannah exclaimed,
"That's an excellent idea. But please, let's not let Lily in- she's a total... arse," Hannah stated. Hermione nodded in agreement and Harry did too, even though he hadn't even talked to Lily yet.
Day 2- Apollo
Ron Weasley sighed. 'How on EARTH could people think this is torture?' he thought. Sure, last night's sleep was AWFUL, they hadn't set up a shelter yet, but everything else was pretty nice. White sand, turquoise water... gorgeous girls. He looked around and saw the Patil twins heading his way. They were pretty nice looking, even if he hadn't paid much attention to them in school.
"Hi, Ron," Padma stuttered. Or was it Parvati? He could hardly tell the difference.
"Hi... what're you two up to?" he asked. One of them giggled. 'What's so funny? Did I ACTUALLY say something right?' he thought. 'I'm on a roll!' (A/N LOL) One of them started to stutter "F-fine...", but instead one of the men, Joe Pinulver, came dashing down the beach, yelling,
"We've got Tree Mail!" All the girls squealed excitedly. "Ooh, Tree Mail! I'll bet it's for the first reward challenge!" Susan Bones shrieked. Ron looked at her wonderingly, and she immediately blushed and looked away. 'What?' Ron thought. 'Why are all these girls becoming nervous around me?'
"Now, who wants to read the scroll?" Joe asked. A cute red-headed girl raised her hand, then blushed, as if thinking, 'That's so elementary to be raising my hand. How shall I say I want to while still looking cool?' Ron chuckled, and the same cute girl, named Jenny, turned beet red. Feeling bad for causing the girl distress, Ron mentioned, "Let...um- her do it." Again, he felt bad, as he didn't know her name. Grabbing the parchment, Jenny read aloud,
"You may think it's hard
To do something quite quick.
When in truth it's easier
Than lighting a candlestick.
You'd better do your best
Because if you do win
You'll not regret it- but,
The others will take it on the chin."
"Take it on the chin? Does anyone else know what that means?" asked one of the twins. Goyle, who was standing nearby, merely grunted before Susan Bones muttered, "Must be a muggle term."
"Well, that was quite... vague, but it did say something about having fast reflexes," said Joe. Nodding in agreement, Jenny said,
"No, actually, it says, "... 'think it's hard to do something quite quick.' So we have to do something quickly that seems hard. Make sense?" Ron thought that this might be a good opportunity to do something debonair, so he nodded and gave her a lopsided grin. (A/N Oh, soooo debonair!)
A couple of hours later, the Apollo tribe clambered into their wooden boat to head to the reward challenge. Ron sat towards the middle, and immediately Susan Bones sat next to him. Rowing away, Ron thought, as he had before, 'This is awesome...."
Arriving at another gorgeous beach, the Apollo team got out of their boats and tied it to a nearby palm tree. (A/N Yes, there are palm trees in Greece- I went there last summer to visit family and there were quite a few of them by the beach and everything!) They walked over to where they saw Ann McCarthy standing, followed closely by the Athena team.
"Welcome, everyone! Today is your very first reward challenge!" she said. It sounded to many of the contestants as if she was speaking to them as if they were babies. "Now, will you, the Apollo team, please step over here and onto the burgundy mat? Athena, same for you, only on the turquoise mat." Everybody did as they were told, and the smiley woman said, "Bravo- wonderful. Now, as you probably know, reward challenges are... well, competitions, and whichever team wins gets a reward. In immunity challenges, you win immunity, thus none of you in that team can be voted out. Understand?"
Everyone nodded fervently, and for the second time, Ann exclaimed, "Wonderful!" Hermione, over on the bright blue mat, snorted. 'This woman has got to be the fakest witch ever! Does anyone actually believe she's *that* cheery? Honestly, she had to have put a Cheering Charm on herself," she thought. Harry gave her a questioning look after watching Hermione make odd facial expressions, but she merely rolled her eyes at Harry's confusion.
"Today's challenge is quite simple, really. Don't worry, Mr. Malfoy- they'll get much harder, and you won't be allowed to use magic at all...." she said, before she was cut off by Jenny O'Hara.
"No DUH we're not allowed to use magic- you and the production crew took them away from us during the pilot!" Jenny yelled. Ann McCarthy looked taken aback, then righted herself. "We don't need little nasty comments from *kuritsias* like you, do we?" Jenny looked confused at the usage of Greek, but Ann continued on.
"All you have to do in this reward challenge is to jump off this large cliff behind me and into the Mediterranean Sea. From there on, you swim to your crate and swim down underwater where you'll find a key. Swim up to shore and use that key to open the crate that is there. Inside is a puzzle, and the first team to complete the puzzle and be on shore wins immunity. Are you ready?"
Again, everyone nodded, and climbed to the top of the cliff. "Okay, you'll be jumping in pairs. Get ready... and GO!"
Sure, it sounded easy. But none of them knew what was up ahead.
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I feel so bad for giving Athena more spotlight than Apollo. I'd go back and lengthen it, but then this chapter would be so incredibly long.
Did anyone notice that Ron's getting so much attention? I thought it'd be nice to kind of have him as a male "Cinderella". You know, being kind of dorky in school and then making him out to be this gorgeous Quidditch player... all the works.
Also, isn't Ann a bit fake? She's like the actress in Universal Studios who's always going, "SUPER!" Ha, ha.
And finally, Jenny's a little outspoken, no? She's very open, too- I like this character!
Thanks to all my reviewers-
*WillowHarris1*- Yes, I thought about doing an Aphrodite team, but it didn't seem right for the story....
*burgundyred*- You do know you're one of my favorite authors, right? Yeah, well, thanks for the review. Yes, I've read The Bachelor- SO CUTE- and can you update "Post Hogwarts Affair"? It's my favorite of yours!
*RainboeStar* *domovoi* *Jeannie Vidal-Smith* **Sarah** (Two stars cause it was in your name) *Yuna* and *I like survivor alot* - Glad y'all liked it, it was fun to write!
Sorry for such a long author's note. Please review with a cherry on top!