Day 1

The Kera Tribe

Observantly Yue watched Eli and Madison slip over the side of the boat. He would be put on a tribe with the remaining twenty, which included ( much to his dismay ) Ruby and Spinner

At least I'm not stuck with Kero, he thought thankfully, he could just see the chaos now...

"Looks like we're going to be on a tribe together", Ruby said excitedly.

"Yippe", Spinner muttered dryly, "just what I need, to be seperated from Master and stuck with you guys."

"You think I like this arrangement? I would much rather be with Sakura and the others", Yue resorted stiffly. Spinner returned this with a firey glare.

"Oh come off it you two, this is going to be great!", Ruby insisted pulling them both to her side in a kind of head lock. Both Yue and Spinner squirmed uncomfortably and tried to get away, but Ruby only squezzed tighter.

"Well you remaining castways will be the Kera tribe, Indoneisan for monkey", Jeff announced. Ruby released them and clasped her hands together in a thrilled way.

"Aww, we're the monkey tribe", she swooned. Yue rubbed his neck and sent her sharp looks from the corrner of his eye.

"That settles it, I wish you all the best of luck", Jeff finished, with a nodd towards them before handing off the map and allowing the new Kera tribe down to their raft. Yue stepped up to the rail and looked the rope net over critically. In one swooping motion he comfortably flew himself down and took a seat with Spinner following closely. Ruby stood on deck looking pouty, she wasn't in her true form and would have to crawl down. Spinner and Yue gave her smug smiles.

"Arn't you coming Ruby?", Spinner inquired expectantly. Ruby just stuck her tounge out at him then lunged off the deck, gracefully landing in the raft along side of them.

"Show off...",Spinner muttered. Ruby winked playfully. Slowly the small raft filled and the tribe Kera was finally assembled. Yue scanned the many faces who looked at him with curiousity. He couldn't help noticing most of them were kids.

I'm suposed to out wit, out last, and out play, a bunch of kids?

After a few moments of content staring a voice broke the silence, "Well what are we waiting for? Let's get to that island!" Broke from his concentration Yue looked up to see that a tall blonde haired girl was speaking. "-hmmm, let me see...there has to be some kind of ores on this dinky boat..." Yue looked to below his feet, he had sat right next to them and before he knew it the girl was scrambbling his way. "There they are!", she cried out triumphantly, pulling them out from under Yue with out any explanation. Ruby and Spinner sinckered, Yue sent them death glares. "-now who's rowin'?", the girl asked brightly. She was met at first with blank stares, but then, despreately wanting to get going, Yue snatched one from her hand.

"Uh, okay, anyone else?", the girl babbled on.

"Ugh, how embarssing, give me one", a little girl with pink hair mumbled misrably as she snatched one up too.

"Can I have one?", another girl asked kindly, she was sitting next to the pink haired girl.

"Sure thing there Hotaru", the blonde girl beamed as she handed one over.

"Thanks", the girl replied politely.

"Your welcome, now, I still have quite a few left and I know Raye really needs a workout...", the blonde girl continued suggestively as she stuck a paddle in the face of a girl with long black hair. The Raye girl glared at the blonde girl with raging eye's.

"Your the one who needs a workout!", she steamed, "Why don't you row?" A sour look grew on the bubbly blonde's face, smugly she replied with, "Can't, I sprained my pinky remember?" At this Raye looked ferious.

"That was weeks ago!", she protested angrily.

"Geez...such a temper...", the blonde muttered.

"Umm, I'll have an ore", a small girl spoke up. She sat next to a funny looking man who seemed to be in what looked like a long black cloak and wore a white mask, he nodded for one too. The blonde quickly handed them the two paddles then promptly pulled down on her eyelid and stuck out her tounge at Raye before taking a seat. Irritatedly Raye picked up the ore the blonde girl had dropped and they all began stroking. About thirty mintues in, signified by the blonde's whining ( that sounded nothing short of her dying ), they decided it was time to trade.

"Owww, I think my arm's about to fall off", she whimpered.

"Don't get to close to the water then, I hear sharks can smell blood a mile away", the little girl with pink hair said darkly. The blonde cried out and scrambled away from the edge.

"Why did you tell me that you little brat!", she snapped, all the while maintaining an annoying whine.

"Just saving your life...", the little girl insisted matter-a-factly. The blonde wailed some more.

"Get ahold of yourself Serena", Raye barked.

"I can't when my arm is going to fall off!", the blonde protested feverantly.

"...and ate by sharks...", the little girl added. Hotaru sat, sunk back in her seat, embrassedly as Raye and Serena fought across her.

"- your so mean!"

"-oh grow up!"

"Waaa!"

"Ahrrr!"

Suddenly silence engulfed the tourmented raft. Realizing how loudly they were yelling ( not to mention the scene they were causing...) Serena and Raye haulted their fighting abruptly and were met with small eye's staring back at them.

"Heh, heh, heh", Serena laughed nervously, "Sorry?" Raye sent her one more glare before sitting again.

"Umm, how about we just switch already?", a little girl with blue pigtails suggested into the vast and uncomfortable silence. Everyone nodded and picked up an ore. The rest of the trip there was non-stop, though not as quiet as it could have been ( Serena still whimpered and sat in the middle of the raft...) Finally as they drew closer some shouts of excitment were heard. Suddenly a cat like creature nobody had noticed jumped up on the front of the raft. Everyone looked up in surprise. Apperantly it had expected them all to freeze, and cried, "Stop!" Slowly they complied. Confused looks were sent around. Then the cat like creature smiled a mischievous grin and took out it's claws, hovering them inches above the inflatable raft. There was an intake of breath.

"Uhhh, what an ugly cat", Serena muttered. No one could argue. At this the cat brust out it's demands,

"I'm not some ugly cat, my name's Meouth, and I'm going to steal all your pokemon for team rocket, so surrender...or meet your doom...", Meouth said grimly as he poked a tiny hole in the raft. There were crys of protest.

"Pokemon! What the heck are pokemon?", a green boy exclaimed.

"Team rocket? That sounds like a lousy video game...", another boy remarked.

"Waaaa, I don't want to get wet! Waaaa!", a spoiled looking girl cried.

"Me either!", Serena started in. "Waaaa!" Through the distress a boy with spiky black hair and red head band approuched the cat. There was Silence. Both Serena and the spoiled girl watched in mid-wail.

"Not one of you", Meouth complained.

"Alone Meouth? Doing team rocket's bidding without Jessie and James? They have you trained well", the boy commented thoughtfully as he reached down to pick the cat up by the scruf of it's neck. Quickly Meouth ducked out of the way and sprang into the air. Skillfully the boy grabbed him. The whole raft held their breath as they waited to see who had prevailed. The boy laid face down, slowly he sat up and much to the tribe's horror Meouth was looking up at them sheepishly as two sets of punture holes we visable in the bottom of the raft.

"Oh no! We're sinking! I'm going to drown, no- worse, I'm going to be eaten by sharks!", Serena cried hysterically.

"Don't look now, but I see a fin", the small girl with pink hair pointed out.

"Rini that is not funny!", Serena objected, wailing evermore.

Great everyone on my tribe is a basket case, Yue thought as he sat back with Ruby and Spinner and watched the drama unfold.

"This is better than the movies, we're right in the action", Ruby smirked.

"Please Ruby, try not to enjoy yourself so much, they are your tribemates", Spinner reminded implacatingly.

"Geez...who made you Master?", Ruby sniffed.

"This is no time to create our own disputes, let's get to shore", Yue interjected as he stood.

"-I'm not kidding, look!", Rini insisted pointing towards the water. Sure enough a terrifing fin was cutting through the ocean around them.

"Waaa!', Serena screamed, brusting into more fits, her cries of panic joined by the spoiled girl as water continued to flood the hopeless raft.

"Wait a mintue, that's no shark...", said a boy whose almost entire body was made up of what looked to be machine. Just then the shark transformed into a green boy.

"Nope, it's just me", the boy assured. Serena and the spoiled girl colasped into a greatful heap.

"I don't know about you all, but I want to get to camp, and as you can see we're sinking so, let's get a move on", Yue said suggestively as he took to the air.

"Hey, take me with you I don't want to swim", Ruby protested.

"I'm not carrying you anywhere", Yue objected.

"It's just water Ruby, toughen up", Spinner added as he joined Yue in the sky. Ruby sent them resentful glares.

"You'll regreat this", she warned as she dived into the clear water. Reluctantly she was followed by the rest of their tribe, until only Serena and the spoiled girl remained, up to their knees in water, but they refused to abandon ship.

"Oh come on Serena, your already half-way wet", Raye groaned.

"And I dont plan to get the other half", Serena stated stubbornly.

"Mimi, you can't stay there all day, according to my calculations you only have another ten mintues, why waste time?", a boy with short blue hair and glasses asked the spoiled girl. For a moment she remained firm, but then her expression wavered and she jumped in.

"Aww, my new dress", she whined. Now all that was left was Serena.

"Chicken Serena?", Rini challanged. Serena's face grew fiery.

"Am not", she cried as she jumped in.

"Now why couldn't we have done that an hour ago?",Yue muttered, holding his head. Finally with all their tribe mates in tow the small group made their way to the island.

"Eww, I must have drank a gallon of salt water", Serena moaned.

"Actually that's not scientifically correct, you'd surely be dead", the boy with the blue hair and glasses from before, spoke up.

"Are the scienctists at their lab, me?", Serena prosisted.

"Well- no, but", the boy stammered.

"I rest my case", Serena inturupted. Ten mintues later an exhausted Kera tribe srcambled onto the beach. Yue and Spinner landed feeling quite refreashed after their short flight, though the same could not be said for the others as they all laid panting.

"You-you-are-horrible-", Ruby said between pants, staring up at Spinner and Yue lothingly. Yue and Spinner exchanged unfazed looks. It was quite awhile afterwards before the tribe came around. The Mimi girl began to whine about her dress again, Serena wailed about her arm being this close to falling off, Raye was yelling at Serena, and the Meouth creature was fighting with the spiky haired boy.

"Ahem", Yue began as he inturupted the newly developing chaos. Everyone looked up.

"Since you all seem to be regaining your strength", Yue stated as he scaned the spiky hair boy with Meouth in a kind of headlock, "Why don't we start on our camp?", he suggested. Everyone nodded in agreement and the work began.

"Okay, now, who wants to get the water?", Yue asked as everyone looked around. When no one answered, Yue tried again, "How about you, you, you, you, and you, go get water?" Rini, Serena, Hotaru, Mimi, and the girl with the strange friend, all pointed to themselves questioningly.

"Us?", Serena wonderd.

"Yes, have a problem with it?", Yue persisted with one of his hard stares.

"Uhh, nope", Serena cowerd.

"Good", Yue smiled, "On to other business like who will get the fire wood and start a fire?" More shifty looks were sent around, but then a few hands shot into the air.

"Okay", Yue nodded satistfiedly to Raye, Ruby, the strange man in the mask and cloak, the small girl with the blue pigtails, and the blue haired boy with the glasses.

"Well that settles it, the rest of you will help me collect the bamboo frauns and then assemble our shelter", Yue instructed. Once all the jobs had been assigned they all headed out.

"Great I'm stuck with you ya little runt", Serena gumbled at Rini as she tried to read the map that lead them to their well.

"I'm not the one who put us together, believe me I don't want to be with you, your a total embarssment", Rini scoffed.

"Hey!", Serena cried offendedly.

"Could we please try to get along?", Hotaru suggested sweetly.

"How much farther? Do we have to go into the jungle? My dress might get torn...", Mimi fretted.

"Well I'm trying to see...", Serena replied squinting at the map as she was having difficulties reading it.

"I know your brain is backwards, but can you really read upside down?", Rini questioned dryly.

"What? What's that suposed to mean?", Serena snapped tearing her eye's away from the map to glare at Rini.

"I mean you have the map upside down genius", Rini pointed out.

"Why you little-", Serena raged.

"Hey, it's not my fault-", Rini objected.

"Could I see the map?", the small girl with the strange friend, wondered.

"I supose", Serena agreed uncertainly.

"Good, now we'll finally get somewhere", Rini muttered. With both hands free now Serena cased Rini ahead. Everyone sweatdropped.

"What's up with them?", Mimi asked confusedly.

"It's nothing new, their always like that", Hotaru sighed.

"Oh...", Mimi and the other girl nodded.

Moments later it was decided that they would have to trek into the jungle after all.

"Ooooh, I really don't want to go in there", Mimi complained.

"It's says we have to", the girl with the map confirmed.

"Eww, arn't there like...bugs", Serena said as they all stood at the jungle's edge, peering in aprehensively.

"...and scary animals...", Rini added. There were slow nodds.

"But we have to get the water, I'm sure it's not in there too deep", Hotaru insisted as she fought her way in. Hesitantly, they followed.

Swack

"Ouch! Rini I am walking behind you", Serena protested as another branch slapped her in the face.

"Oops, sorry", Rini called back innocently.

"Once I get up there...", Serena threatened.

"Look! I see it!", Hotaru announced excitedly. Quickly they all hurried towards her and sure enough their well stood before them.

"Good work Hotaru! Let's get some water and get out of here!", Serena declared.

"Now...", Serena continued as she pulled the lid off, "Who's got the water jugs?" There was silence.

"Anybody?", Serena proded.

"I thought you had them", Rini replied giving Serena an irritated look.

"I had the map", Serena snapped in her defense.

"I'm afriad I don't have them either...", Hotaru answered, defeatedly. Mimi and the other girl shook their heads no also.

"Great, just great, we're going to have to go all the way back now", Serena steamed feriously. Frusteratedly the group stomped back to camp. Meanwhile Raye, Ruby, the strange man in the mask and cloak, the small girl with the blue pigtails, and the blue haired boy with the glasses were all moving along the jungle collecting fire wood.

"So this spot looks good", Ruby suggested. Everyone looked around at the many branches that sacttered the ground and agreed. After a few moments of silent searching, Ruby's curiousity got the better of her.

"Um, so where are you from?", she questioned interstedly at the odd man with the black cloak and white mask. He looked towards her and nodded with a series of of strange noises, "Uha, Uha, Uha." Ruby twitched.

"I'm sorry what?", she presisted.

"Uha, Uha, Uha", he replied paiently. Ruby looked at the rest of her group in puzzlement.

"Maybe he speaks a forgien language?", the boy with the blue hair and glasses said excitedly.

"Uha, Uha, Uha", he tried.

"Uha, Uha, Uha, Uha", the man replied a little more meaningfully.

"Uha, Uha, Uha, Uha, Uha", the boy went on.

"Uha, Uha, Uha, Uha, Uha, Uha", the man answered.

"Uha, Uha, Uha, Uha, Uha, Uha, Uha", the boy continued, deeply emersed in his converstaion.

"You actually understand him?", Ruby wondered skeptically.

"No, but it's sure fun", the boy said brightly. The whole group fell over anime style.

"So what's your name?", Ruby asked the boy.

"Joe, what's your's?", Joe answerd, struggling with a branch half his size.

"Ruby", she replied with a toss of her hair.

"I'm Raye", Raye piped up, tossing another branch into the pile.

"I'm Sasami", the sweet girl with blue hair added as she carried a whole bunch of branches to the pile, raising an eyebrow at Joe and his one stick.

"Uha", the odd man chimed in. Everyone stared at him blankly and then continued on. Soon they had accumulated enough to take back to camp ( though they had to make more than one trip due to Joe's inabilty to carry more than one branch at a time ) Back on the beach Serena's group was tromping back with all the water they could carry.

"Ugh, I'm not going to have an arm left after this show", Serena grumbled as she heaved her heavy water jug along. No one else was really happy with carrying their's either.

"Oww, my arm is killing me", Mimi complained.

"Just a bit further", Rini assured as she almost tripped over her own feet in trying to drag her jug after her. Finally they all came to a stop in front of Yue, panting.

"Well here they are", Serena said accomplishedly.

"Thanks, but you forgot one", Yue answered implying to a jug that sat at his feet. All the girls exchanged a look.

"No way am I going back again", Serena refused with a look that could of even intimadated Eli. Yue stared back at her with a look of mild amusment and even a bit of aprehension.

"Fine, don't, we'll fill it tomorrow. You've all done good work, take a rest", Yue commented before returning to shelter building. The group let out a small sigh of relief. Soon after Ruby and company arrived as well with their last pile.

"There you go", Ruby said statistfiedly.

"Thanks, be sure to lite a big one", Yue said giving her an encourging pat on the shoulder as he past her with more bamboo frauns. Ruby's eye's followed his retreating back with venom. Sighing annoyedly she lead the group to dig a fire pit. Slowly the roof, walls, and sleeping platform of the shelter were constructed.

"These just need to be tied", Yue said as he made final adjustments. Spinner nodded and quickly knotted two bamboo frauns together. Finally the whole tribe was able to stand back and admire their work. A nice blazing fire burned off to the side, while water boiled over it, the jugs set nearby, and then there it was, their shelter.

"Only a one roomed shelter? Isn't that kinda basic? I mean, don't we want to make a statement?", Ruby scrutinized.

"It does make a statement", Yue replied glancing at her. "It says, I'm sturdy, I'll keep you dry, and I provide a place to sleep. Tell me what else should it say? Welcome to the diva shelter with it's very own salon?" Ruby glared back at him.

"Well it still should atleast have more than one room..."

"It has plenty of room, just ask the hardworking people who built it", Yue insisted. Ruby felt her cheeks burn red. Sensing a dangerous vibe between them, Spinner was quick to clear the air in a spur of the moment suggestion, "I agree it looks great, deffiantly something we should celebrate, how about our own party as a tribe?" Many faces brightened at the idea, including Yue and Ruby's.

"Good thinking Spinner", Ruby grinned as she pintched his cheeks teasingly.

"You do not do that to a guardin", he protested sourly.

"Aww what's that, wittle Spinny-poo?", Ruby replied sweetly, ignoring his objections and taking ahold of his cheeks again. Everyone sweatdropped.

"Well let the festivities begin!", the green boy cried. After some debate it was decided that they would play some games and have some entertainment and dancing, not to mention food, which was on everybody's mind.

"First game", a smart looking boy announced, "Will be the makeshift-horse shoes!" The tribe devided into two seperate lines of ten and then began the competition. First up was boy with blonde hair and a white hat ( which kinda looks like Gilligan's come to think of it...lol! ) Slowly he approuched with his three makeshift rings ( seashells ) A stick suck out of the sand ominously ahead of him.

"Go T.K!", Joe, Mimi, and a boy with viberant orange hair, cheered.

"Well doesn't someone have a fan club?", Ruby remarked with an eyebrow raised. T.K flushed red in embarssment.

"Don't listen to her, she's just jealous she doesn't have any friends to support her", Yue stated crisply. Obviously the tension hadn't broke between the two. Carefully T.K tossed his first ring...and missed.

"It's okay, try again!", Mimi encourged. T.K smiled and nodded, then tossed the second ring...and it swiped the top.

"Third time's a charm", Joe quoted. Determinedly he tossed his last ring and...it hit!

"Yay!", Mimi, Joe, and the boy with the viberant orange hair cried. T.K bowed playfully and then took a seat on the sidelines.

"So that was one point for...T.K", Serena noted as she drew a point in his collum. Next to go was an interesting boy with sandy blonde hair and goggles strapped to his head, while in the second line Rini had just finished with zero points.

"Come on, let me see you get three", the smart looking boy challanged the boy with goggles good naturedly.

Do all these kids know eachother?, Ruby thought unamusedly. Accepting the challange the boy tossed his first ring...which unsurprisingly missed.

"Give it another go", the smart boy prodded. Again the boy with goggles tossed a ring...and though it was closer, it missed.

"Don't tell me there will be no hits?", the smart looking boy wondered, urging his friend to prove him wrong. The last ring was tossed...and for a moment it seemed he had hit it, the boy had even broke into a victory dance, but then it bounced off, barely an inch away. The boy's face fell.

"Oh well, so you won't be the horse shoe champion", he shurgged.

"No points for...", Serena began. "Hey, what's your name?"

"Takato", the boy answered on his way to the sidelines.

"Takato", she finished. In the next line the green boy had gone and had amazingly landed all three rings, but the boy who was almost all machine was crying foul-play.

"He cheated. It's cheating to turn into a garaffe and basically drop the rings on the post", the boy protested.

"Hey, I was like this when we started, just because I'm more equiped for the job than you doesn't make me a cheater", the green boy argued. Everyone thought this over and decided the machine boy was right.

"Sorry, but it isn't your true form", Yue shurgged.

"...poor losers...", the boy muttered under his breath as he joined T.K, Takato, and Rini in the sidelines.

"Your name?", Serena wondered.

"That's Beast boy, and I'm Cyborg", the boy who was almost all machine answered, "and I'm about to make three rings fairly, because I am the most equiped person for the job", Cyborg went on, giving beast boy an implacating look. One...two...three...every ring missed.

"I-I, I must have programed too much strength into my system, maybe my caculations were alittle off...", he stammered checking himself for errors.

"Or maybe your just bad at it", Beast boy chimed in. Cyborg looked like he was going to have a system melt down.

"Ummm, Cyborg, no points...", Serena quickly jotted down. As the late afternoon wore on, both lines had seen some great hits and some embarssing misses.

"-and two for...", Serena asked the boy with the spiky black hair.

"Tracy", he answered, taking a seat with the majority of his tribe. Slowly the two lines dewindled down to two people, Yue and Ruby. Everyone watched with nervous expressions.

"Watch me make three", Ruby smirked, her eye's flashing competively.

"Misses?", Yue questioned without missing a beat. Ruby shot him leathal looks then tossed her ring feverantly...and it hit!

"Hmmm", Yue said thoughfully. With out notice ( without looking! ) he tossed his ring followed by the familiar clunk of a hit. Much of the tribe expected nothing short of a royal blow up from Ruby in return, some even found themselves backing up, but she remained silent and made another shot...that hitting too. With the game turning so unpredictable the group held their breathes as Yue made another effort-less hit.

"Now wait just one moment", Spinner finally interjected. "Who says your not using magic? In fact I know your using magic, and that's called cheating and abusing the privilege. Let me see you both make a real shot", Spinner challanged. Yue and Ruby gave him disgruntled looks for ruaining their glory. He just smirked smugly back.

"Hey- you busted me for cheating and all the sudden you can?", Beastboy cried in an outrage. Yue shurgged, "Everybody agreed you shouldn't cheat."

"Injustice!", Beastboy declaried.

"Give it a rest BB, it's not like you'd win anyways", Cyborg reamarked.

"With three hits?", he protested. There was a sudden Clunk. Everyone diverted their attention from Beast Boy to Ruby who looked satistfied with herself.

"There, no magic at all", Ruby put simply, "Well were waiting..." Yue gave her a glare then turned to toss his ring...and it missed. There was a great silence...a great, great, great, silence. Yue finally moved from his froze position to face Ruby, though shockingly she looked nowhere near as pleased as he would have thought, infact her eye's almost seemed to blaze as the sunset behind her.

"I guess you win", he began. Her betrayed look remained. She stared at him with her arms crossed, seeming as though in some kind horrible disbelief.

"Cut the act", she snapped then stormed off. The whole tribe watched her go stunndly. Everyone looked from one another in confusion. No victory dance? No victorious laugh? No jumping up and down? No tormenting words? No ranting, raving, or gloating? Who was she and what had happened to Ruby?

"What?...", Yue questioned Spinner, if anyone knew Ruby, it was him. Spinner looked tired.

"Why did you let her win?", he asked instead. If Yue had been taken off guard, it never showed.

"What do you mean..."

"I mean, why did you let her win?", Spinner persisted. Yue's eyes flickered coldly.

"I didn't." His words closed the matter. There was an undeniable shift in the air around them.

"Well...who's up for game two?", the green boy coaxed, trying to brighten the mood. Slowly the rest of the tribe agreed to it.

"The second game will be", the smart looking boy began, "the beach race!" Everyone was excited for this one. Quickly they all assembled ( except Ruby ) at the starting line (a strip of seaweed ) Tracy was sitting this round out and would be the Ref.

"On your marks...get set...go!", he cried. They were off, though Serena and Rini, who had been hazardously placed next to eachother ( the work of Raye ), fell to the ground in a wrestle. Mimi had been holding her own pretty well when she tripped, fell, and ripped her dress. She now sat whining in the middle of the track with the rest of the tribe trying to dodge her, Joe was unsucessful. Avioding the road obstacle, the odd man and the girl that was his friend ran past. Not surprisingly Yue was in the lead, but he was closely trailed by Spinner, T.K, Takato, and the smart looking boy. Somewhere along the way Cyborg had caught Beastboy in a net, only to have him get out and chase Cyborg around as a T-Rex. Sasami and Hotaru managed to be a match for eachother and brought up the rear. The boy with viberant orange hair had found himself a problem with Meouth as they both duked it out a little ahead of the girls, they on the other hand waited paiently for one to run the other into the water. And so the race worn on fericely and steadly, one by one, many fell behind until it was just Yue in a mere jog down the beach.

Poor kids, they had no chance againist me, Yue thought sympathetically when suddenly- Raye shot up past him! Looking back at him to relish in his shocked expression she smiled, though much to her disappointment he didn't look surprised in the slightest. With the finishing line drawing close, Yue spead up, but Raye was determind to win and continued to push ahead. It was a tense finish as it seemed they both tied.

"Well with no photo finish...", Tracy shurgged. With good sportsmanship Raye and Yue settled on it as a tie and shook hands.

"Last game", the smart looking boy announced. "Twister!" Everyone froze. Twister?

"Yeah Twister!", Beastboy cried as he laid down the last leaf on the makeshift board he had created. Without notice Ruby walked up looking strangely pleasent, "I'll play if I can be the Spinner." And so it was set, the first challangers being, Serena, Rini (Raye's doing again), Meouth, Tracy, Cyborg, Beastboy, Joe, and the odd man.

"Okay", Ruby said as they all assembled, two to each side of the board. There was a slight pause as Ruby spun...

"Right foot...leaf ", she ordered. Everyone stuck there right foot onto the leaf.

"Serena...that's your left", Rini critizied. Serena steamed at her, but changed feet.

"Moving on...", Ruby continued as she gave Beastboy's bark arrow another spin.

"Left foot...seashell", she instructed. This time Serena got it right, and the other followed in suite.

"This hurts", Serena whined, "I wanna know who chose seashells for us to lean on?..."

"Yeah this kinda does...", Joe piped up. BeastBoy just grinned innocently from across the board.

"Alright...", Ruby went on, spinning again, "left hand...leaf"

Stiffy everyone tried to reach the leaf which was situated uncomfortably far away from Joe, Rini, Serena, and the odd man. Beast boy, Cyborg, Meouth, and Tracy, had an easy time as they all just bent down. Serena went to set her hand down when the odd man reached for the same one. Realizing this he calmly said, "Uha." Serena's skin crawled.

"Uhhhh", she stammered, while trying to maintain her balance with one hand off the board.

"Uha, Uha", the man insisted.

"Uha, Uha, Uha", Joe chimed in.

"It's okay I have some experiance in this...", he assured Serena.

"Uha, Uha, Uha, Uha, Uha", he went on.

"Ummm", the girl who was the odd man's friend, inturupted.

"It's okay, I've got this handled", Joe persisted and went to continue his pointless conversation.

"But your weirding him out...", the girl protested.

"I-I- what?", Joe stared her confusedly, regaining composure, he managed, "I think I know more than you do about how to talk to foreign creatures, even if you had atleast half the credits I have..."

"I speak his language", the girl cut in, slightly defensive. With a great cry Serena colapsed.

"That was my bad arm!", she wailed.

"I'm sorry you fell, he was offering you to share the leaf with him", the girl went on.

"Awww", Serena moaned, but left the board with less protest then anyone imagened possible ( maybe she was more than a little freaked out?...)

"One down, seven to go", Ruby remarked as she spun. And so the game continued...until one by one they fell after being twisted into many difficult posistions. Meouth and Tracy dropped at the same time due to Meouth poking Tracy's hand with his claw, natually Tracy took him down with him.

"Cheater!", they both cried, but they fell fair and square, so off they went to join Serena. It wasn't much longer until Cyborg and Beastboy met the same fate. Cyborg had happened to be leaning slightly on Beastboy, and, already at odds with him as it was, Beastboy changed into a monkey, causing Cyborg lose his balance. Unbeknownest to Beastboy though, he was falling straight for him. They both laid across the board in a heap.

"Out!", Ruby called, as fight ensued between them.

"-fell on me!"

"-turned into a Monkey!"

"Cheated!"

"I said out!", Ruby repeated and pointed for them to join the others. Dragging their feet the whole way, and still bicckering, they complied. No one dropped for a long while after that. The odd man and his friend hung in there pretty well and Joe and Rini were certainly holding their own...that was until Serena got a bright idea.

"Hey Rini...whatcha up to?", Serena smiled brightly.

"Oh, I don't know, just relaxing", Rini grumbled back through flintched teeth as she strained to keep herself up. There was an awed gasp.

"Awww, isn't this just beautiful?", Serena exclaimed bending down to pick up a broken sea shell that was ground into the sand. Bump. And that was it. Down Rini went.

"Out!...finally...", Ruby muttered under her breath. Out raged, Rini got to her feet. Serena meet her flashing eye's and then made a break for it. Everyone watched as the two ran up and down the beach.

"Anyways...", Ruby continued and the game went on. Unceremoniously, Joe colasped, then the odd man, and his friend won. Everyone one clapped at her victory and the next players were gathered. Takato, the smart looking boy, Mimi, the boy with bright orange hair, T.K, Raye, Sasami, and Hotaru all took to their sides of the board.

"Ready?...", Ruby began as she started the round off with a big spin. "Left hand seaweed." With ease they all bent down.

"Eww", Mimi complained, "Spin already." With narrow eye's Ruby spung.

"Well?", Mimi persisted impaiently.

"Line", Ruby replied with a smirk. Amazingly after that it hit line after line after line, until Spinner finally stepped in.

"Enough Ruby, you've had your fun", he scolded.

"I don't know what your talking about...", Ruby replied indifferently, but as Spinner turned away she shot him an ugly look. Game play proceeded with out anymore lines though suspiciously seaweed was a popular space. An exhausting twenty minutes later no one had fallen, but the strain to stay up was obvious from all of them.

"Right foot seaweed", Ruby announced as she watched them all streach even further. Mimi was having difficulties.

"Ugh, I give up! I will not, will not, place my hand on that seaweed again!", she cried and instead of falling, simply walked off the playing board.

"Well, I'm sorry things had to turn out that way", Ruby said, desperately trying to hide the smile that was pulling at her lips. Spinner cleared his throat and she glanced at him innocently, then resumed spinning. It wasn't long after that when the rest of them started dropping. First it was Hotaru, then Sasami, followed by Takato, and the orange haired boy. It was down to two, Raye, and the smart looking boy.

"Left leg seashell", Ruby declared as the two moved into awkward and painful positions.

"Okay...right hand-", but Ruby paused.

"What?", Spinner questioned looking at her confusedly.

"The tide's coming in", Joe answered, watching water wash over the sea shell spaces. The competition was now ferice. Ruby spung again and called out, "Right hand...seashell." Under enormous perssure and with great concentration, Raye and the smart looking boy began to shift. Most the shells were underwater now, but the one closest to Raye was not and she quickly, but carefully, moved for it. Just an inch above, she went to put her hand down...

"WAAAAA!" Surprsied, Raye slammed her hand down, slipped, and fell. All eye's went to Serena, who was the one screaming, with Rini attatched to her, pulling on her hair.

"Sorry? Heh heh...", she laughed nervously. Raye lept to her feet and chased them both across the beach.

"WAAAAAA!" Everyone sweatdropped hopelessly.

"Well, I think we have a winner", Ruby remarked redircting their attention to the smart looking boy. "Good for you."

"Yeah, great job Henry", Takato said, congradulating his friend. A good natured applause sounded and happily everyone turned to the night's final events.

"Party time!", Beastboy cried breaking into a series of odd dance moves.

"Puh-lease, your embrassing yourself, this is how it's done", Cyborg protested as he began to do what could only be called the best Robot number anyone had ever seen.

"Ha! What a joke! Your seventy-something moves bow to my modern style. The only thing your missing is the disco ball", Beastboy scoffed. A heated dance competition broke out.

"Well, no need to ask which one of you wants to handle entertainment...", Yue muttered. Everyone nodded slowly.

"Tracy, Raye, Spinner, and I should fixed up the meals, does anybody here play an instrument?"

"I can sing", Mimi chimed in brightly. Yue looked down at her with an eyebrow raised. He seemed to be considering her in slight amusment and sadly didn't see the wild attemps the orange haired boy, Joe, and T.K were making at not letting her sing before he answered.

"I supose some singing would be nice and add to the party atmostphere, sure." Mimi looked eladed with joy.

"I can play the drums-"

"And I learned the harmonica from Matt", T.K and Raye added. Yue nodded seeming statistfied.

"Great, now we still need a few of you to tend to the fire and decorate this place. Ruby why don't you be in charge of that? Okay let's get going" Yue said, leading Raye, Spinner, and Tracy into the jungle for food. Ruby looked after them with burning eye's.

"Leave me to take care of the small stuff...I'll show him..." An hour later you wouldn't have even recognized the streach of sand they called camp. In small jars fire flies glowed emitting a soft light casting a magical feel through out the area, a makeshift table was construted for the food Yue had promised, threaded leaves and flowers hung like streamers over head, and a lovely space for T.K, Raye, and Mimi to preform had been cleared.

"Wow", the four breathed as they emerged from the jungle.

"Ruby, you did all this?", Spinner questioned amazedly.

"Well, we all did", she replied, strangely willing to share the spotlight.

"I'm very impressed, I never thought this place could look this good", Yue piped up, genuinely seeming to like it. Acting more like herself Ruby tossed her hair back, "Of course you couldn't, that's why I was the head of decor." Yue seemed to be tested by her sudden snideness, but Tracy spoke before he could say anything, "Ahh, I agree that this place looks perfect, but, could we set our stuff down?." There Tracy stood under the weight of two huge makeshift platters of fish and coconuts. Quickly they were shown to the food table and they all unloaded their goods. Now the party was set.

"Uno, dos, tres, let's party!", Beastboy exclaimed and the festivities began. Cyborg announced that he could add to the band and suddenly turned into a bigtime stero system. Raye got situated behind a giant hallow log, intended to be drums, and T.K pulled out a shiny harmonica and blew a few opening notes as Mimi took the stage.

"Hem hem, any requests?", she asked beaming at them all.

"How about I Will Survive, by Gloria Gaynor? It's seems fitting", Tracy suggested. Everyone agreed.

"Okay", Mimi nodded and then looked to Cyborg, "Hit it." Familliar piano notes filled the air.

"At first I was afraid,
I was petrified,
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side,
But then I spent so many nights just thinking how you did me wrong
And I grew stong
And I learned how to get along
And now you're back
From outer space-" Mimi began to move around and dance animatedly as the music picked up.

"-I just walked in to find you here
With that sad look upon you're face,
I should have changed that stupid lock,
I should have made leave your key,
If I'd known for just one second
You'd be back to bother me-", a few spins...

"-Go on now go,
Walk out the door,
Just turn around now,
Cause you're not welcome anymore,
Weren't you the one who tried to hurt me with goodbyes
Do you think I'd crumble?
Do you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh no not I-", hair thrashing around...

"I will survive
Oh as long as I know how to love
I know I'll stay alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
And I will survive
I will survive
Hey Hey!", a jump...

"-It took all the strength I had
not to fall apart
kept trying hard to mend
the pieces of my broken heart-", a tearful grab at her heart...


"-And I spent oh so many nights
Just feeling sorry for myself
I used to cry-", a pretend sob...

"-But now I hold my head up high-", holds head up...

"-And you'll see me
Somebody new
I'm not that chained up little person
Still in love with you
And so you felt like dropping in
And just expect me to be free
But now I'm saving all my lovin'
For someone who's lovin' me-", points to herself and dances fericely...

"-Go on now go
Walk out the door
Just turn around now
Cause you're not welcome anymore
Weren't you the one who tried to break me with goodbye?
Did you I crumble?
Did you think I'd lay down and die?
Oh no not I-", compleately belting out the song now...

"-I will survive
Oh as long as I know how to love
I know I'll stay alive
I've got all my life to live
I've got all my love to give
I will survive
I will survive
Hey hey!"

The night air went quiet again as before it was shattered by noise that was a cross between screaming, loud music, and wailing. Mimi's audiance stared at her with small eye's wondering if they would ever get their hearing back, and if they did, would they want too if she sang again? When the chripping of crickets became obvious the giant smile that graced the girl's face began to fade. This was when Joe erupted into applause followed by Raye, T.K, Cyborg, then the rest of the tribe. The now thuderous clapping seemed to do the trick and Mimi was grinning from ear to ear again.

"Aw, thank you, thank you, I'll be here all night", she bowed. The party went on and Mimi sang for the rest of it covering melodies from all ends of the music world, none of which sounded remotely good, but the band played their loudest and eventually it all blended together. The odd man and his friend danced to some of the more lively songs and Yue even ( under Spinner's inistance ) invited Ruby to dance, but she declined due to that she suddenly felt violently sick. Awhile later though she took to the floor with Spinner joined by the orange haired boy and Sasami, and Raye and Tracy. The rest of the evening was full of laughs and great food. Meouth preformed a few tricks and Tracy showed off some of his Pokemon sketching skills by drawing his Venonat. Hotaru spent most of the night playing peace keeper to Serena and Rini and Beastboy joined the dancing crowd with his bazzire moves.

"Well", Yue said at the close of party. "This has been great, now let's get to bed so we can win reward tomorrow." Everyone nodded and headed for a good night sleep in their shelter.