A/N:I realise that I am updating more than usual. He he. Anyway, I hope you like this chapter! Oh, and the animals are indeed real!

Disclaimer:I do not own any familiar Zoey 101 characters nor do I own any familiar America's Next Top Model Characters.

Chapter 7

Zoey was in her dressing room, checking herself out in the mirror. She had on a light blue mini dress with slightly puffed up sleeves and black thin lines running down the dress. She had on dark blue ballerina slippers and her hair was done in two buns and she had washout blue hair-dye on. She was also wearing gloves that matched the dress and small white wings on her back. Her make-up was done with her whole eye area covered in dark blue eye shadow paint with some white strokes in it. She was wearing blue mascara and her lips were soft pink with some lip-gloss. She smiled at her reflection. She was actually modelling! Well, sort of, anyway. She squealed and escorted herself to the background she was chosen with, a jungle area. Many people, including Tyra, and photographers were there. Before she could look at anymore of the scenery, Jay Manuel came and smiled at her.

"Zoey Brooks, you look awesome!" he said, clapping. Zoey laughed and modelled playfully a bit. They both chuckled at this and Jay led her to the scenery. "All right, all you have to do is act graceful and free. And…action!"

Zoey began to do some ballet moves she had taught herself a few months ago. Luckily, she had the perfect shoes to do these poses, and the photographers seemed to love it! She lifted her toes and spun around gracefully, pretending she was a bird. Her expression remained soft and friendly. After she was done, she bowed, bending one leg slightly and keeping the other straight. She smiled and "flew" off the stage(she jumped off it and landed perfectly). I wonder how the others will do she thought to herself.

Dana looked in the mirror of her dressing room and took a deep breath. She was dressed rather skimpy, but she didn't care. She wanted to look hot! She was wearing a furry orangish-brownish bikini top with matching bikini bottoms. At the back of her underwear-like bikini bottoms, there was a long piece of furry orangish-brownish material. She had matching heels, cat ears, and a matching masquerade mask. She was wearing extra-long fake eyelashes and her eye area was covered in orange, brown, and white eye shadow paint. Her lips were done in an orangey shade of lipstick and her tan looked perfect with everything she had on. She smiled and acted like a cat by pretending to slash the mirror with her fake, extra-long nails. She walked outside where she found Jay Manuel waiting for her.

"Ah, there you are, Dana! You look so sassy, sister!" he said as he walked to her. She smiled her fake fangs and looked at the scenery. It looked like a jungle of some sort. Jay caught her staring and led her to where she would be modelling, on a tree branch. She climbed up very cat-like so she could practise acting like one and stood up.
"All right, and a 1, and a 2, and a 1, 2, 3 go!" said the photographer.

Dana rolled her eyes and began walking very cat-like across the branch, stopping every once in a while to pretend to lick her paw and then walking ever so slowly back. She climbed up on another branch slowly and smiled very feminine-like. When she was done, Jay came and congratulated her. "Well done, Cruz, you looked so sexy up there!" he said.

Dana grinned and walked back to her dressing room. I can just imagine how jealous the other girls will be once I tell them of my photo shoot Dana thought.

Nicole looked at herself in the mirror. She didn't look half as bad as she thought she'd look! Except for the huge ears she had to wear, the silky silver mini skirt and the slinky matching top looked fabulous with the grey pumps. Her eyes were tinted grey and silver streaked like lightning all over her lips. Her hair was pulled back so you couldn't see it and the huge ears just clashed with everything, but over-all it looked…cute! Nicole shrugged and walked to the scene she was chosen with: Africa. She squealed when she saw Jay Manuel.

"Hello, Nicole, you look cute today!" he said.

Nicole jumped up and down. "You-you're Ja-Jay Man-Man-Manue-uel!" Nicole screamed than calmed herself. "I'm sorry, I'm just a huge fan of you!AHHHH!" she screamed again.

Jay chuckled and smiled. "I'm flattered!" he said, and he led her to the scene. "Just act…like an elephant!"

Nicole looked puzzled. "How do I act like an elephant?" But there wasn't enough time to ponder that now, she had to pose! She stepped up to the background and began to act like she thought elephants acted-very slooooooow. She still kept a model pout and a model smile every now and then, but over-all she acted like a true elephant. She smiled and walked back to her dressing room.

Quinn felt excited when she looked at herself in the mirror. She was wearing a shirt-attached-to-shorts outfit, where her yellow slightly puffy outfit was shorts attached to a shirt. Her furry orange socks and yellow slippers were most comfortable and the furry orange arm-warmers felt cozy. Her hair had the braids taken out and put into a puffy ponytail, making it look as though she had short hair. They had used blond washout dye and she had hardly any make-up on, just some yellow eye shadow and some soft pink gloss. She walked into the area she had to model in: a jungle. She smiled at all the people and photographers and jumped onto the stage. "I'm ready!" she announced happily. She could see Janice Dickinson in the crowd waving. Quinn waved as well and began to hop around like a monkey. The photographers noticed she had begun modelling all ready and started taking shots of her monkey business. When they were done, she hopped back to her dressing room.

"It was amazing, just being up there and dancing gracefully!" Zoey announced to Dana when they were back in their room. She was washing out the blue hair dye they had put in her hair during the shoot. When her hair turned blond again, she brushed her teeth and put on a silk red dress.

Dana smiled and said, "Yah, well you should have seen me in that cat costume. Jay said I looked sexy!" Dana, as well, brushed her teeth and put on a black velvet dress with a gold and white brooch in the centre. "We'll just see who'll get eliminated today!"

"Oh, I hope it's that Jhadorah Nightly girl, she was so snobby!" Zoey said as she put her hair up with some ruby pins.

"Nah, I think it should be Lauren Chubbs, that girl can really act like a little child at times, you know?" Dana said, putting some mousse in her hair to make her curls less tangly.

"Maybe, but either way, I hope none of us get eliminated!" Zoey said, now putting on her ruby gemmed scarlet heeled sandals.

"Hope? Girl, please, we'll all stay in, even Quinnsane over there!" Dana said, putting on her black pumps.

Zoey and Dana grabbed their purses and walked to the little ballroom in the hotel.

"I am so psyched!" Nicole cried from the bathroom. She and Quinn were getting ready to meet Tyra and the gang at the little ballroom in the hotel to find out who would be eliminated. Nicole was putting on her sheer pink lipstick and was also putting on her pale blue eye shadow in the other hand. She already had on her pale blue halter dress with matching heeled sandals.

"Calm down, we don't know if we'll be eliminated or not yet!" Quinn said. She had on an orange sundress with some orange flip-flops and no make-up on whatsoever. Her hair was again in braids and beads. She had washed out the blond hair dye and had her normal, brown hair back.

"C'mon, let's go!" Nicole exclaimed as she grabbed her purse and headed out the door.
"Nicole, wait!" Quinn shouted behind her, grabbing a small little bag. She sighed. No respect for the geniuses! she thought as she ran after Nicole.

In the ballroom, the table where all the judges sat in the original America's Next Top Model was sitting right in front of all the models. Tyra smiled and said, "Hello, ladies. It is time for our first elimination. We will call you guys up one by one and show you your best photo. We will go by alphabetical order by first name, so Arewin Nature, you're up first!"

Zoey rolled her eyes. Now she would have to be last! Oh, well. Better than being first!

Tyra turned on a screen and pressed a button. Suddenly, the blue screen turned into a picture of a horse. "Arewin, you posed as a Mustang, let's see your best photo!" The horse suddenly turned into a girl wearing pieces of brown material all over her and a furry hair arrangement.

The judges began talking about how great it was and how bad it was. You either had to love it or you had to hate it. When they were done talking, Tyra stood up again.

"All right, next is Crystal Love!" Tyra exclaimed. She pressed a button and the screen turned into a picture of a wolf. "Crystal, you played the Grey Wolf, and this was your best shot." The screen turned into a picture of Crystal dressed up in a grey furry mini dress with grey slippers and furry grey arm warmers. She had grey eye shadow paint slashed all over her face. The judges looked impressed and talked about it for a while. Soon after, Tyra began calling the other contestants. Dana Cruz, the Wild Mountain Cat, Jennifer Kroomreither, the Wild Rabbit, Jhadorah Nightly, the Mexican Free-tailed Bat, Julia McDonald, the Great White Shark, Krysta Waters, the Black Finless Porpoise, Lauren Chubbs, the Grizzly Bear, Nicole Bristow, the African Elephant, Pooch Sun, the Robin, Quinn Pensky, the Tamarind Lion Monkey, Stephanie Ciminion, the White Tiger, Violet Potter, the Black Cat, and Zoey Brooks, the Rare Blue Lorikeet. When Tyra finished doing everyone, she ordered them to go into the Waiting Room while she and the judges thought about the task and the contestants. Twenty minutes later, the girls were called back in. They saw Tyra standing at the front, holding a bunch of papers.

"I have 13 beautiful photos in my hands right now, and those 13 beautiful girls that are on these photos will be going to the next round of becoming America's Next Top Model Junior," Tyra said. "The first person I am going to call…" Tyra pulled out a photo. "Dana."

Dana smiled with relief and walked up to the front.

"Congratulations," Tyra said. "You are still in the running of becoming America's Next Top Model Junior!"

Dana whispered 'Thank you' and walked to the side.

"The second name I am going to call…" Tyra said. She pulled out a photo. "Crystal."

Crystal walked up to the front. "Congratulations, you're still in the running to become America's Next Top Model Junior!"

Crystal took her photo and walked to where Dana was.

Tyra took out another photo. "Zoey."

Zoey came to the front, took her photo, and walked to the side.

Tyra took out the next photo. "Arewin."

Arewin took her photo and walked to the side.

"Quinn."

"Stephanie."

"Violet."

"Lauren."

"Julia."

"Jennifer."
"Pooch."

"Krysta."

Tyra looked at the two girls standing in front of her. "Could the two remaining contestants please step up to the front?"

Nicole and Jhadorah both stepped up. Nicole looked at Jhadorah. She had purple hair with green streaks and dark purple lipstick. Her dress was black and it was ripped at the edges. Her face was so pale it looked almost…purple! No wonder she became one of the last contestants. But why was Nicole? Didn't she do well?

"Jhadorah and Nicole, I would like you to look at each other for a minute," Tyra said.

Nicole turned slightly as Jhadorah had. She noticed Jhadorah's eyes were a violent shade of green and she had an eyebrow piercing. Nicole felt frightened by the glare Jhadorah gave her.

Tyra looked at them both. "Nicole, tell Jhadorah one of her best qualities, and Jhadorah, vice versa."

Nicole looked around Jhadorah's face, looking for something that she could compliment. "Um…your skin looks very…smooth!" Nicole said.

Jhadorah glared at her and said, "Your hair looks pretty good, I guess," and when Tyra wasn't looking she added. "You look like a dog!"

Nicole opened her mouth to say something back but Tyra had turned and she couldn't say anything more.

"All right, there is only one photo in my hand, and that photo belongs to…" Tyra turned it over. "Nicole."

Jhadorah swore loudly and stomped off to find her bags. Meanwhile, Dana, Quinn, and Zoey were jumping for joy.

"Nicole you made it!" Zoey said. She hugged Nicole.

"I know, can you believe it?" Nicole squealed. Even Dana had to congratulate Dana and give her a hug.

"That was the best day of my life!" Zoey said when they were walking back to their rooms.

Dana shrugged. "It was okay, I guess."

"Okay?" Nicole exclaimed. "It was awesome!"

Quinn yawned. "I have to get to bed. See you guys tomorrow! Tyra said that we get a break and we'll be going to a dance party!"

Zoey screamed excitedly. "I can't wait!"

The girls said their goodbyes and walked into their own rooms.