Chapter 6 – The first Task

John woke abruptly as Christy slapped him across the face for constantly standing by her bed, just staring at her. "Cant you just say, please go away?" John protested. "It makes me feel better if I slap you" Christy replied.

"Look at this" said Chris Jericho, holding out a scrunched up bit of paper that he found. "A note!" said Shelton eagerly. Dave then read it aloud.

Hi guys!

Hope you had a good sleep because we are getting right into the action today! Please meet me down by the beach by the cliffs

Mr. McMahon

Team Dulong Tribe made their way over to the cliffs, where the other team, Fiore, was already standing. "Welcome Dulong!" Mr McMahon boomed as they moved closer. They turned their heads and saw what looked like a small playing field, with large amounts of thick mud in it, two opposite corners of the field had a small circle, cutting off at the lines, like a triangle with a rounded bottom. There were also two sticks in the ground at each end of the field that had fire on the tips.

"Welcome Dulong" Mr McMahon boomed as they came to a halt. "Today, the first challenge is going to be, capture the flag! Or, capture the flags I must say. The rules are simple. Everyone in team Dulong has a flag inside the small circle there with your initials in it.. Fiore, your flags are in the other circle. Your goal is to get one of your opponent's flags and transport it to the fire on your teams end. Once you have set it on fire, the persons initial that were on that flag are eliminated. Last person or persons standing from one team is the winner. Ready, go!"

Randy jumped straight into the mud and was clawing his way towards the other team's flags. He grabbed Edge's flag and was immediately swarmed by everyone, jumping on him and yanking the flag out of his hand.

They began to yell as John made off with a flag and was sprinting towards the fire. He was grabbed around the legs and he came tumbling down, pulling the fire stick down with him. He extended his arm and a flicker of flame got the flag as it began to burn.

"Big Show is eliminated!" Mr McMahon yelled.

"WHAT!" Big Show yelled. He kicked the mud and walked back to the edge of the playing field.

Several fast and furious eliminations were made until it was only Randy and Ashley versus Shawn and Christian.

Randy stood in the middle of the playing field next to Ashley who was wiping some mud out of her eye. Shawn and Christian stood, guarding their flags.

Randy bent down and whispered in her ear. "I'll make a distraction and you go in there and grab the flags"

"Then?"

"Run like hell"

"Okay"

"Go!"

Randy sprinted to the left as Ashley got low and shifted across the mud. Shawn and Christian tore after Randy as he ran the other way, back to his own flags.

Ashley ripped the flags off the pole and ran as fast as she could back to the fire at her end. Shawn and Christian realised what was happening and changed direction, sprinting after her instead.

Randy grabbed Christian around the shoulders, sending both men to the ground, as Shawn continued the chase.

Shawn lunged for Ashley and her legs crumbled beneath her. She cried out in pain as Shawn landed on her. Shawn tore the flags out of her hand and went for hers and Randy's.

Shawn sprinted to the other side of the field. Randy, instead of making chase, went over to her.

"You okay?"

"Why aren't you chasing him?"

"I wanted to see if you were okay"

Ashley smiled as Randy crouched down next to her and turned her over.

Shawn raised his arms triumphantly as he dropped the burning flags that were Randy and Ashley's.

"Fiore win immunity!" said Mr McMahon.

Randy groaned as he threw Ashley's arm over his shoulder and helped her walk towards the others.

"Unlucky dude" said John, patting him on the shoulder.

"Teams, go back to camp, Dulong, ill see you tonight" said Mr McMahon.

Edge laughed as Dulong walked back to camp.

"Too bad Dulong, the bitch wasn't fast enough, better luck next time" Edge smirked.

Randy turned and felt his fist connect with Edge's jaw. John and Dave instinctively grabbed his arms.

"You wanna talk crap about my team? Let me go John, you too Dave"

He yanked his arms free of Dave and John and walked back to camp, muttering "Come on" to the rest of his team.

They were down, but not out.