Special Note: I'd like to thank IamaRidaa for putting my OC in her story "I'll Always Be Here". It was a maximum hoor to work with my favorite author and I hope to see more of Gloria interacting with Ridaa's character.
[One fine morning, the campers were in the mess hall eating leftovers from the last challenge. Heather was still shivering after being stuck in the freezer yesterday]
[Heather sneezes]
Gwen: Need a little echinacea?
Heather: [stuffy nose] Ha, you're so funny. You think that you can just lock me up in a freezer and get away with it? I am gonna make you sorry that you ever met me.
Gloria: Too late for that. [fist bumps Leshawna]
Heather: You are such a… a… a… achoo! Ugh! I hate this place!
[Later, at the docks]
Chris: So, last week's challenge exposed a few Gopher issues. And I'm sensing a little something funky floating in the Bass pond, too.
[Duncan nudges Courtney and she powerfully shoves him into the lake]
Gloria: Weird, I don't have a problem with the team I'm on. Except for her. [Points to Heather]
Chris: So, this week's challenge is going to be centered around building trust. Because all good things begin with a little trust.
[Confessional: Gwen]
Gwen: I trusted Trent once. He left me buried alive on the beach.
[End confessional]
Chris: There will be three major challenges that will have to be completed by two or more members of your team. Normally, we like to have the campers choose their partners, but not this time! More fun for me!
[The campers and Gloria are later seen by a rather huge mountain]
Chris: Okay! So for the first challenge, you'll be doing an extreme freehand rock climbing adventure! DJ and Duncan will play for the Bass. Heather and Gwen for the Gophers.
Gwen: Ugh…
Gloria: Uh, I think there is a mistake, Chris. Heather is not exactly trustworthy. Don't you think you might need someone else.
Chris: My show, my rules. Here's your belay and harness. [Gives them to Gwen but Heather snatches them away from her]
Gwen: Hey! What's your damage?
Heather: If you think I'm letting you hold me up, you're nuts!
Chris: You won't be holding her up exactly. One camper pulls the slack through the belay as their partner climbs. If the climber falls, the belay will stop them from crashing. The catch? Both the side and the base of he mountain are rigged with a few minor distractions like… [Booby traps are placed all over the rock wall] Rusty nails, slippery oil slicks, mild explosives and a few more surprises.
Harold: Wicked!
Chris: The person on belay must also harness their partner up. It's all about trust, people. And remember, never let go of the rope. Your partner's life depends on it.
Gwen: Excuse me, can we trade partners? I really don't feel like being dropped on my head today.
Heather: Please. As much as I love your company, I'm not gonna throw a challenge just to kill you. Yet. Now spread 'em.
[As Heather set up the harness on Gwen she adds an extra rope]
Heather: There. You're all hooked up.
Gwen: What's the second rope for?
Heather: It's a backup line. [Grins devilishly]
Gwen: What are you smiling about?
Heather: Nothing. I'm just really happy we got on this challenge together.
[Gloria looked at Heather suspiciously]
[Confessional: Heather]
Heather: It's all her fault for messing with me. I've got a doctorate in Revenge and Humiliation.
[Confessional: Gloria]
Gloria: I don't trust Heather. The only thing she cares about is winning. And she'll humiliate anyone just to get there. If I have any chance of getting that prize I need to do something about the one person dishonest enough to take it from me.
[End confessionals]
[As Gwen and DJ began to climb the explosives go off and Gwen fell off. Luckily, Heather pulled her back up]
Heather: It's okay, I've got you!
Chris: I promised surprises! Habanero pepper sauce, anyone? [Chris starts squirting hot sauce on the campers]
Heather: Ugh! What the heck, Chris?! [As she was wiping the hot sauce off her face, Gwen fell off with no one to keep her rope up]
Gloria: Gwen!
Chris: Muy Caliente.
[Chris then shoots hot sauce at Duncan but he drinks it]
Duncan: Is that the best you can do?
Chris: [hushed, aside] Is that the best we can do?
[As the campers continued to climb up the mountain]
Heather: Come one, Gwen. You don't wanna fall behind. [Heather pulled on the third rope and pulled off Gwen's skirt]
Duncan: Well, you don't see that every day.
Chris: No, you don't, my man. No, you don't.
[Gloria angrily glares at Heather for her dishonest deed. Gwen's skirt fell onto DJ's face and he was so shocked by it he fell. The rope snagged Duncan's foot and both boys were left hanging in the air. Gwen meanwhile caught the torn skirt.]
Duncan: [groans] This bites.
DJ: Ugh. Big time.
Gwen: Aw, screw it. [Gwen continued to climb up to the top of the mountain]
Chris: Looks like the Gophers have won the first challenge.
Gwen: Yeah! [Realized her underwear was still exposed] Crap!
[After the challenge, the campers decided to take a break while the other contestants were doing the challenge. Gloria was in the cabin re-sewing Gwen's skirt]
Gloria: [Hands over the skirt to Gwen who was under a curtain] Here you go, all fixed and now it will be so strong it won't tear off.
[Gwen grabs the skirt and puts it on]
Gwen: Wow, thanks. How did you know how to sew like this?
Gloria: We fairies have great sense in fashion. Back home we had clothes made to match our personalites. I learned how to sew back at class I took when I was seven.
Gwen: Wow, I never knew you were so talented.
Gloria: Thanks. [sighs] I don't get why Heather keeps doing this to you guys. I mean, we're on the same team! We should be working together not sabotaging each other.
Gwen: Look, Gloria. You shouldn't let Heather get in your head like that.
Gloria: Easy for you to say, she just embarassed you for the second time!
Gwen: Don't remind me... But still, Heather may be mean, dishonest, bossy, cruel, and all around horrible. But you shouldn't let her bother you.
Gloria: You're right. But still, that doesn't give her the right to this to us. But we'll show her. In fact we'll show that dope MacLean not to mess with me!
Gwen: What do you mean?
Gloria: I mean that we should form an alliance!
Gwen: Alliance?
Gloria: Yeah. Originally I was going to do it with Beth but she got voted off. My plan is we along with others form a group to help me get to the finale. We'll literally have a friendship finale.
Gwen: Hmm... Well, if you're sure you won't try and boss us around.
Gloria: I treat my teammates right.
Gwen: Then, I'm in. [Gwen shakes hands with Gloria]
Gloria: Now, first things first. How do alliances work?
[Meanwhile in Balsa, many fairies were gathered in the royal throne room]
Richter: My people! For far too long we have let that human and his underlings push us around. This is our home! We should fight for what's ours. And that's why I have gathered you all here, our best and brightest to join in my army! Together we will fight Maclean and take back what's ours! Who's with me! [The fairies cheered]
Mucina: Are you sure we can fight them, Richter?
Richter: I am positive. We have faced multiple advasaries before, we'll take down these humans. I just hope they haven't done anything to harm our daughter yet.
[Meanwhile, the campers and Gloria were gathered to see the next challenge in motion]
Chris: Good news. The third round involves three more challenges. It's the three blind challenges. It begins with the blind William Tell, followed by the blind trapeze, and culminating in the treacherous blind toboggan.
Gloria: William Tell?
Chris: One of history's greatest marksman. He shot apples off of people's heads.
Gloria: Oh my. Isn't that dangerous?
Chris: Yes it is. Which is why it's our first challenge. [Places an arrow on DJ's head] Like legendary marksman William Tell, you'll be knocking arrows off your partner's head with crab apples.
Courtney: Um, wasn't it the other way around?
Chris: Shush! Also, the shooter will be blindfolded! [Puts on the blindfold. The bass backs away from DJ knowing the danger of the challenge] The person who knocks of the arrow while causing the least amount of facial damage wins. [Launches an apple]
Gloria: This cannot be safe.
[The apple hits DJ's crotch and he fell to the ground]
Chris: Aw, nuts! Leshawna and Owen, you'll be one team. Courtney and Sadie, you'll be the other. [DJ continues to groan in pain]
Harold: I'm violently allergic to apples!
Sadie: Ooh, let me shoot! I'm a good shot!
Courtney: [sighs] You'd better be.
[Courtney and Owen were prepared for the challenge with arrows on their heads and Leshawna and Sadie were ready with blindfolds on ready to shoot]
Chris: Okay, let's rock and roll!
[The shooters began to launch apples at the targets and were hitting Owen and Courtney missing the arrows. Leshawana pulled back the slingshot and launched the apple and it completely hit the arrow]
Leshawna: Ooh! Did I get a bullseye?
[However, Sadie continued to pelt Courtney with apples even though her team lost]
Chris: Leshawna won already!
Courtney: Hey moron, it's ov- [gets hit in the head with an apple] ooh!
[Sadie continued to pelt apples all over the island. Hitting a bear, a seagull, and a hit a saskquatch's tv as it was watching it. Meanwhile, Cedric was still wandering around the forest looking for Gloria]
Cedric: Princess Gloria? Princess Gloria? Oh, I know you're out here somewhere! I don't care how long I have to look but I will find you! And nothing will stop- [Just then Cedric got hit with an apple] Ow...
[Back with the contestants]
Chris: Sadie! It's over, man! Let it go!
Sadie: Oopsie. Sorry.
Courtney: Ugh… You're going down. [Falls down]
[Then, the second challenge was underway.]
Chris: And now,the blind trapeze! To avoid serious injury, the trapeze has been set up over this pond, which is full of jellyfish.
Gloria: How is that avoiding injury?
Chris: You two will stand blindfolded on the platform until your partners tell you when to jump.
Heather: And then?
Chris: Then hopefully they'll catch you. Or that's gonna be one heck of a painful swim. [laughs]
[Confessional: Gloria]
Gloria: I seriously doubt that Chris has any concern or care about what he does to these people.
[End confessional]
[Harold was already on the trapeze swing waiting for Bridgette]
Harold: Okay, Bridgette! Jump now! [Bridgette was too scared to jump] Aw! If we're going to win, you've got to trust me!
Bridgette: Okay, sorry! Next time!
Harold: Okay. One. Two. Three. Jump! [The surfer girl jumped onto Harold's hands]
Geoff: All right! You did it! Woohoo!
[It was then the Gopher's turn to do the trapeeze. Heather was the one blindfolded while Lindsay was the one swinging.]
Lindsay: Okay, one! Two! Three! J-Jump! No, oh, no, not yet!
[Heather jumped but Lindsay missed her and she fell right into the jellyfish filled pool]
Chris: Ooh, that's a point for the Killer Bass!
Gloria: I feel like I should feel bad for her. But I don't. Weird. [Gwen snickers]
[Confessional: Gwen]
Gwen: Ahh. Sometimes the universe just gives you a freebie. [Gives a thumbs up]
[End confessional]
[Later, the gophers and the bass were prepairing for the final challenge]
Chris: And now, the final leg. The blind toboggan race.
Leshawna: The say what?
Chris: Each team will have a driver and a navigator. The driver steers while the navigator show directions. Oh yeah. And the driver will be blindfolded!
Geoff and Harold: [gasp]
Chris: Not many of you left, huh? Keep losing you guys. [laughs] Oh, well. Uh, Gloria and Leshawna for the Gophers, and Geoff and DJ for the Bass.
[The teams were ready on their toboggans]
Chris: On your marks. Get set…
[The teams were pushed down the slope. Gloria was guiding Leshawna as they slide down]
Gloria: Okay! Left! [They go left] Right! Left! No wait, right! [The gophers were sliding around in a zig zag]
Leshawna: Are you sure you know what you're doin' girl?
Gloria: Of course I do! [They slide right into a rock and the two spiraled in the air an right into a river]
Leshawna: What happened?
Gloria: Nothing! Just a little turbulance... [Sees that they are going into a waterfall] A lot of turbulance!
[They were about to go over the waterfall and Gloria had to think fast]
Gloria: [thoughts] I gotta do something! But I can't just expose myself! [Sees Leshawana blindfolded] Well, she's blindfolded so I guess it'll be okay.
[Just as they were falling down the waterfall, Gloria transforms into her fairy form and flies over the falls]
Leshawna: Ooh, girl! We are flying now!
Gloria: [laughs nervously] We sure are... [Gloria flew over to the hill and turns back to her human form as they landed and continued sledding] Right! Left! Right! [An explosive hit DJ and Geoff as they flew and landed right on the finish line] Darn.
[The bass cheered as they won another challenge. But as the teams gathered for the results...]
Chris: And the Bass are the winners of the toboggan race!
Killer Bass: [cheering]
Chris: Unfortunately, I said that these were blind challenges. By taking off the blindfold for a moment, you broke the number one rule, which makes the Gophers today's big winners!
Screaming Gophers: [cheering]
Gwen: Rock and roll!
[Gwen, Gloria, and Leshawna high five]
Leshawna: Oh, yeah, baby! That's how we roll!
That very night, the gophers rest easy knowing that none of them is getting the boot. Then, while the rest of Gloria's team was resting the girls were got to talking...
Gloria: So that's my plan. We create a real friendship finale and win our way to end. And possibly kick out Heather in the process.
Leshawna: I'm down for anything if it means kickin' Heather out.
Gloria: Perfect! Then all we need now is Lindsay's support.
Gwen: Lindsay? She'll never join us. Heather's got her wrapped around her finger.
Gloria: Come on, she can change. After all, Beth was able to stand up to her. Besides, we're only doing to actually work together on this show. As a team. And rubbing it in Heather's face. Who's with me? [The three girls put their hands in the middle. Gloria smiled at this]