After that announcement, it wasn't long before my "classmates" joined me on the beach. All eighteen of us stood around, waiting for all of our questions to be answered.

"Does anyone know what exactly is going on here?" asked Dana.

"Whatever it is, I wanna know now!" demanded Sapphire.

"Please don't worry boys and girls." Replied Donald in his annoying Mr. Warn voice. "Everything will be okay."

"Don't worry everyone!" shouted Gavin. "I'll take care of this!"

"Shut up weirdo!" replied Harvey who punched Gavin in the stomach, knocking him to the ground.

Dana quickly ran over to Gavin to make sure he was okay.

"Hey!" yelled Irene, who walked over to Harvey, and slapped him right in the face. "Cut it out!"

"Idiots." muttered Ellen. "I'm surrounded by idiots."

"Whoever brought us here really should get here soon." said RK. "Or else most of us won't be left standing."

"Just be prepared to work hard everyone!" added Kirsty.

"No surprise you're as smart as you are beautiful." Stated Henry, who walked right up next to her."

"Ugh." Groaned Kirsty, who quickly moved away.

"I'm trapped on this freaking island with a bunch of lunatics!" I thought to myself, as I started to play with my ponytail.

"Whoever called us here, I'm sure they'll be here soon." Said Dane.

"Shut up water girl!" Shouted Harvey. He walked over to Dane and punched him right in the stomach.

"Ow!" Dane screamed in pain, as he fell to the ground.

"Hey!" I shouted at Harvey.

"Not cool dude!" Replied Sam.

Irene stormed over to Harvey and grabbed him by the throat, he started to wheeze in pain as he struggled.

"I'm only gonna tell you this one more time." Said Irene, who looked ready to murder Harvey. "Cut that crap out."

"What?!" Screamed Harvey. "What I do?!"

Irene just shook her head in disgust, as she pushed Harvey to the ground.

"Just watch man, I'm gonna prank that jockhead so good." Rory said to Raj.

Miranda walked over to Dane, who was still on the ground. She helped him to his feet.

"Thanks." Thanked Dane, who gave Miranda a smile.

"You're welcome." Replied Miranda, who turned away from Dane shyly.

"Seriously considering walking right out into the ocean." Said Simon. "You people honestly wanna make me blow my brains out."

"Hey man" Replied Bridget. "That isn't artistic at all."

"Wasn't trying to be artistic, art whore."

"Do you need a talking to too?!" demanded an angry Irene.

Simon simply turned away and walked away from the group a bit.

"Everyone her sure is tense." I thought to myself.

"While we're waiting, does anyone wanna hear about my collection?" Asked an eager Raj.

"Nobody cares about your collection!" Cried an annoyed Sapphire.

"Nobody...cares?"

"Hey come on guys." Urged Dana. "Everyone needs to keep a cool head here, we're not gonna end up okay if we don't."

"Be on your best behavior boys and girls" Said Donald, who was using Mr. Warn.

"Oh my god, you are so annoying!" Complained Sapphire.

Ellen looked like she was ready to yell at everyone, most likely due to her being annoyed with everyone.

I felt someone grab my arm, therefore I turned to see who it was. It was Sam.

"Natalie!" She blurted out.

"Yes Sam?" I replied.

"What do you think is gonna happen?"

"You mean with whoever brought us to this island and called for us?"

"Yeah!"

"I'm not sure fully, but we should at least find out why they brought us here."

"Okay!" Sam did some backflips.

Everyone stayed with the group, but started kind of doing their own thing. Sam continued doing back flips across the beach, while Miranda, RK, and Simon just stood off to the side a bit, watching everyone else. Sapphire started to complain about whatever to Ellen, who looked liked she was ready to explode. Henry tried flirting with Kirsty again, who just gave him a good kick to the shins. Donald tried to perform for Rory, Bridget, and Dana, but none of them were entertained. Harvey started punching Raj, but Irene came by and started beating him up. Gavin finally got off the ground and tried to get people to listen to him, but no one would. As for Dane, he just took a seat on the beach, looking kind of down. Even he looked upset, he still looked so cute. I walked over to him.

"Hi Dane." I greeted.

Dane looked up at me. "Hey Natalie."

"Are you doing okay, Dane? You seem kind of down."

"Well, I..."

Before he could finish, Sam came by still doing backflips and landed on Dane's head, knocking him to the ground. Sam was totally oblivious, and kept on backflipping across the beach.

I gasped. "Dane!" I immediately helped him up. "Are you okay?!"

Dane appeared to be fazed by what happened, as his head appeared to be spinning. "Why is the beach going around and around?"

He then nearly fell over, so I grabbed his shoulders. "Easy there Dane, you're pretty dizzy right now."

"Ow...Ow wow, uh..."

I tried to keep a smile from showing on my face, even now he was so cute. I held onto Dane until he regained his full balance. He rubbed his head in pain, but he wasn't dizzy anymore.

"Thanks Natalie." Dane smiled appreciatively.

"You're very welcome." I returned the smile. "Anyway..."

"Attention students!" The unknown voice from before cut me off. "Glad you all made it!"

"Seriously, now?!" I angrily thought to myself.

Everyone stopped doing what they were doing and looked around.

"Where are you?" Demanded Ellen. "Show yourself."

"Yeah!" Agreed Harvey. "Come on out or I'm gonna kick your ass!"

"We wasted enough time, now come on!" whined Sapphire.

"Kids these days!" replied the voice. "No patience or respect for their elders!"

"Our...what?" asked RK.

The voice was silent for a few moments, but then we heard a giant splash coming from the water. Something had jumped out of the ocean and was coming down on the beach. Multiple people screamed in terror. Whatever jumped out of the water appeared to be a tall figure, it landed on the beach right in front of the group. It was some kind of robotic otter that stood on two legs. It was brown and black, with very evil looking eyes that glowed red. It also had a tail that looked painful if it had that intention. I started to get scared again, so I started playing with my ponytail.

"Aaaaahhhhh!" Sapphire screamed. "What the hell is that thing?!"

"Looks like...a robotic otter." Replied Rory.

"A robotic otter that swims in water!?" Gasped Gavin. "This might just be new cryptid!"

"Shut up geek!" Harvey punched Gavin in the stomach, knocking him back to the ground.

"Harvey! Cried Dana. "Stop hitting people!" She went over to Gavin to make sure he was okay.

Irene looked absolutely furious. She storm over to Harvey and grabbed him by the shoulders, and literally lifted him off the ground. Most of us stared at her in shock.

"Wow." Simon remarked. "Either Nature Dyke is on steroids or Lance Armstrong Junior forgot to take his."

"Listen to me closely Harvey." Hissed Irene. "Didn't I tell you to cut that crap out?!"

"What though?!" Harvey asked as he struggled to get out of Irene's gasp.

His comment only made Irene angrier and she punched him right in the face, sending him flying a decent way across the beach. People continued to look shocked.

"Remind me never to make her mad." Henry stated.

"My oh my." Remarked Bridget. "I love a woman who knows how to hit.

"He deserved it." Replied Kirsty.

"Uh guys." Cut in Raj. "We still have this robotic otter to deal with."

Everyone turned back to the robot otter, who was looking quite annoyed.

"About time!" The otter stated. "You kids need to start paying attention to me!"

"What...What are you?" asked Miranda.

"Are you a crytpid?" asked Gavin.

"I'm not a cryptid!" The otter replied. "But as for what I am, well more like who am, I'm Aqua Tail!"

"Aqua Tail?" Dana replied with a confused look on her face.

"Artsy indeed." Bridget added.

"This is still really weird though." Sam added in, while actually standing still. "Just what is going on here?"

"If you all would stop interrupting me, I could tell you!" Aqua Tail screamed at us.

Everyone was silent and turned their focus to Aqua Tail, seeing that everyone was listening. He smiled.

"Okay students, here is what we got going on for you. First off, like I said, My name is Aqua Tail. I'm the one in charge of this little vacation, and will be supervising you."

"Vacation?" Frowned Ellen.

"Supervising?" Asked RK.

"Student?" Stated Donald in his Mr. Warn voice.

Aqua Tail raise his hands or paws or whatever up. "Let me finish, and then you can ask questions. Anyway, for where you are, you're on an island!"

"No...shit..." Muttered Harvey who was slowly getting up from the ground, but still clearly in pain.

"But what part of the world is this island located at?" Kirsty asked.

"And how did you bring us all here?" Added Rory.

Aqua Tail shook his head. "Sorry kids, classified information."

"What?!" I cried.

"Why can't you tell us?" Asked Dane.

Aqua Tail smiled. "Because I'm evil."

No one had a response to that.

Aqua Tail groaned. "Tough crowd, tough crowd. But anyway again, you don't need to know where exactly this island is located, as well as how you were all brought here."

"But.." Began Sapphire.

"Shut up! Moving on!"

Sapphire squealed in shock, as Aqua Tail continued.

"However, I will tell you why you all were brought to this island. You were brought here to play a game!"

"A...game?" Questioned Irene."

"What kind of a game?" Asked Raj.

Aqua Tail suddenly paused to give us all a a grin, a very evil grin. "Why a killing game of course!"

With the mention of the word killing, silence not only consumed us, but the entire island. Everyone was affected in someway by the mention of that word. It chilled me to the bone, I started playing with my ponytail so hard, it started to hurt.

"Killing game?!" Gavin exclaimed. "What killing game?!"

"I don't wanna kill anyone." Henry stated.

"Answer me otter." Ordered Ellen. "What the hell are you talking about?"

Aqua Tail's evil grin only grew larger. "A killing game is exactly what it sounds like, there will be killing!"

Dreadful silence came upon us again.

Aqua Tail sighed. "I guess I need to explain everything to you children, so here we go. In this killing game, you will live your lives on this island, and by live your lives, I mean live your lives, there is no escape."

"What the what what now?!" Cried Sam.

"Mr. Aqua Tail." Began Donald in his annoying voice. "Making people live their lives on an island isn't very nice."

"Easy there kids!" Aqua Tail held his paws up again. "There is a way off this island."

"Tell me already, so I can do." Replied Simon. "This place makes a concentration camp seem like Candy Land."

"If you insist! The only way off this island, is to kill a classmate!"

The dreadful silence came back, before everyone started to freak out.

"Are you serious?!" Cried Sapphire. "I have to kill someone in order to get off this island?!"

"No way!" Hissed Irene. "I won't allow this!"

"This is...is just crazy!" Dane added.

"Cut the shit Otter Boy!" Harvey exclaimed.

"Even I don't think this joke funny!" Added Rory.

Aqua Tail started laughing. "I told you that you were all brought here to play a killing game, so don't sound so surprised! Again, if you want off this island, you have to kill somebody!"

"Just kill somebody?" Asked RK. "Once somebody kills another person, they'll be able to leave?"

"Not so fast there Mr. Manning, it isn't that easy and simple. Killing somebody is the first step, but then you have the class trial to beat!"

"What is a class trial?" I asked.

"Simple really, on the side of this beach, there is a cave, inside that cave, we have a little courtroom. After a murder happens and the survivors investigate, we'll all go to the court room for the class trial. During the class trial, the survivors will debate and argue over who the killer is, before voting on a final answer. If you vote correctly, the killer will pay for their crimes."

"Pay how?" Kirsty asked.

"Execution, my dear."

That got all of us shaking again.

"But...that only happens...if we vote correctly right?" Miranda asked. "What if...if...we vote incorrectly?"

"Well like I mentioned before, the killer will get to leave this island, but as for the rest of the survivors, they will all be executed!"

"This can't be happening!" I mentally yelled to myself. "This can't be happening!"

"And they said my act was fucked up." Simon commented. "What kind of otter shit are you trying to pull?"

"This isn't artistic at all!" Bridged cried. "This is just...too cruel!"

"Why are you doing this?!" Demanded Gavin.

Aqua Tail laughed. "You don't need to know that, just that this island will be your new home, and your only way of moving is getting away with murder!"

"Enough of this!" Growled Irene, who had started moving towards Aqua Tail. "You won't get away with this! I'll stop you!"

"Let me at him first!" Cried Harvey. "I'm gonna drown this otter!"

"I wouldn't do that if I were you." Aqua Tail replied, as he backed away from Irene. "Anyone who breaks the rules will die."

"Rules?" Asked Irene as she stopped.

Aqua Tail nodded. "I guess I should go over the rules now, but first, time to get to those tablets."

Everyone shifted their focus to their tablets, which now turned on. I saw on mine it had quite a few apps.

"Take a little bit of time to familiarize yourself with your tablets." Aqua Tail instructed. "They will be important during your time on this island, but save the one that talks about the rules for last."

Like Aqua Tail suggested, I spent some time playing around on this tablet, it had quite a few apparent apps. One had little bios on my classmates and listed some information about all of them. One was a map of the island, which really wasn't that big. I had pretty much explored the entire island during my investigation. Another app was my profile, which includes an awkward looking picture of me.

"Ugh!" I thought to myself.

Another app on my tablet was labeled files, but it was empty.

"Excuse me, Mr. Aqua Tail." Donald said in his annoying voice. "This app labeled "Files" it is empty."

"Can you please stop using that annoying voice when you speak?!" Whined Sapphire. "Or better yet, don't speak at all!"

Ignoring Sapphire, Aqua Tail replied. "Oh yeah, about that one, we'll get to that later when it matters. Everyone ready to go over the rules?"

Everyone either nodded or replied yes, we all hit the app labeled "The Rules" and waited for Aqua Tail to begin.

"As I mentioned before when Irene was gonna kill me, she would be executed for breaking the rules, which assaulting me in any kind is one of them. But we'll go over them in order. Rule number one, students will live their lives on this island forever, unless of course they wish to escape by murder. Rule number 2, any student who kills one or more other students, will be considered "the killer." Rule number three, once three or more students discover the body of a murdered student, the rest of the survivors will be called to the location. Also note, if the killer leaves the dead body, but comes back to it for any reason, they are considered one of the three. Rule number four, after Aqua Tail calls everyone over to the location of a discovered body and goes over the process, they will have a time limit of two hours to investigate, but they may spend that time doing whatever they like. Rule number five, after the investigation is over, everyone must gather at the courtroom on the beach for the class trial, emphasis on everyone must be at the courtroom for the class trial. Rule number six, if the killer is voted for after the class trial, they will be executed, while the survivors continue their life on this island. Rule number seven, if the killer isn't voted for, everyone except themselves is executed, while the killer will be able to leave this island."

With each rule Aqua Tail listed, I got more and more scared. I continued to play with my ponytail. I also noticed most of the others were somewhat freaked out as well."

Aqua Tail continued. "Rule number eight, any kind of violence against Aqua Tail is forbidden, so good thing I stopped you Miss Blair."

Irene only growled at Aqua Tail as he continued.

"Where was I? Oh, rule number nine, Aqua Tail will never harm any students, except of course if they break any rules or are on the losing side of the class trial. Rule number ten, anyone caught trying to damage the security system on their huts will be executed."

"You mean whatever was on the door to my hut was a security system?" Asked Dana.

"Correct! I guess we haven't gotten to that part yet, but each time you exit your hut, the door automatically locks. But all you have to do to get back in is scan your tablet, but only your tablet can open your hut."

"Noted." Commented Ellen.

"Anyway, Rule number eleven, new rules may be added at anytime, while any current rules may be updated as well. Rule number twelve... actually, no, that is all the rules for now!"

"What kind of shit is this?!" Harvey demanded while flexing his muscles. "You think I'm gonna play this stupid game?!"

Aqua Tail laughed. "As long as you follow the rules, I don't care what you do, unless you want to die of course, which if that is the case, go ahead and break the rules!"

"Why you..."

"Stop!" Dane ran over to block Harvey's path. "If you touch him, he'll kill you!"

Harvey punched Dane in the face, which quickly knocked him to the ground. "I'm gonna kill you after I kill this otter!"

"Dane!" I cried as I tried to run to him, however Miranda got to him first, and got down on the ground to make sure he was okay.

"Damn it!" I thought to myself. "I'm too slow!"

"Why are you such an asshole Harvey?" Asked Rory.

"You're nothing but a big bully." Henry frowned.

"Perhaps his whore of a mother spent more time loving every man at the bar than she did loving him, so now he takes out his feelings of neglect on everyone he meets." Simon rudely joked.

Raj and Gavin started laughing at Simon's joke, while RK and Donald snickered. Harvey went red and directed eyes full of hatred at Simon.

"I'm gonna fucking kill you! Harvey shouted as he charged at Simon, but before he could get far, Irene stepped into his path, her eyes burning with even more intense hatred.

"Looks like I was too soft with you before, but now I mean business." Irene growled as she grabbed Harvey and spent the next few minutes beating the crap out of him. Once she was done, Harvey was lying on the ground, beaten and bruised, while Miranda helped Dane to his feet, leaving me quite jealous.

"Are you okay Dane?" Asked Dana.

Dane nodded. "I am, thanks to Miranda of course."

Miranda blushed as she looked away. "You're too kind Dane."

Now I was really jealous.

Dana smiled and nodded, as she turned her attention to Harvey. "He really doesn't deserve it, but I can't ever leave someone like this." She got down on her knees to make sure Harvey was alright."

Aqua Tail laughed. "I love it! The despair is already in the air!"

"Despair?" Questioned Kirsty.

"Never mind that, getting back on track, that should do it for both the rules and your tablets. Like I said before, to get into your huts, just scan your tablet on the security system, which is pretty much the knob. And then, just a few more things to go over and then we should be good to start the killing game. You have free roam of the island at all times, go wherever you want, whenever you want, but I don't recommend going too deep into the water, it gets pretty deep after awhile.

"Wait a minute!" Sapphire yelled. "That lifeguard girl can just swim off this island to get help if we're allowed to go wherever!"

Dana shook her head as she helped Harvey to his feet. "I am the Ultimate Lifeguard, but that doesn't mean I can swim forever, we have no idea where we are or how long it would take before I reached land."

"Plus, who knows what dangerous creatures lurk in these waters." Gavin added.

"But I wanna go home!" Moaned Sapphire.

Aqua Tail laughed. "Like I said, I don't recommend going too deep into the water, but you are free to try it! Anyway, I'm sure you all been to the supermarket. Whenever you need something, you're free to take whatever you want, no money needed."

"No place of business would allow customers to just take whatever!" Cried Kirsty. "Are you insane!?"

"Probably!" Aqua Tail laughed. "Also, I'm sure you all noticed the hotel as well, he pointed towards the hotel. "While you all got your own huts to sleep in, if any two of you, or even three or four or more wanna get it on, you got plenty of rooms to do your stuff!"

"Sweet!" Exclaimed Harvey, who then fell back down as he was still too injured to stand.

"Hey Kirsty!" Said Henry.

Kirsty immediately slapped Henry in the face, knocking him to the ground as well.

Dana, who was looking at Harvey again, left him to go over to Henry. "We need to have a serious talk about hurting each other once we're done here." She stated.

"Of course." Agreed Bridget "However, that hotel does interest me." She said that in a sexy tone.

"Can we just let Aqua Tail finish?" Asked RK.

"Thank you" Thanked Aqua Tail. "Moving on, I'm sure you all saw the bathroom as well, which is the only bathroom on the island. Therefore, if you have to go in the middle of the night, you put yourself at risk of someone stalking you in the night!"

That legit made me scared, the fact that anyone could be lurking around, even hiding in or around the bathroom, waiting for someone to walk by and kill them.

"That sure is messed up." Rory said. "We can't even piss or shit without someone trying to kill us."

"Tough shit!" Aqua Tail replied. "Anyway, in terms of food, there will be a large buffet of food and drinks at the hotel patio each day, three times a day. Any other time you wanna eat is on you, the supermarket does have a large supply of food as well, that is restocked regularly."

"But where does all of this food and supplies come from?" Asked Sam.

"Tell it to the writer of this story, but I believe that pretty much covers everything you need to know. Any questions?"

All eighteen of us shot our hands up.

"No questions? Awesome! Then let the killing game began! Good luck everyone!"

With that, Aqua Tail ran towards the ocean and dove him, leaving us all there on the beach, not knowing what to do.

Irene was the one to break the silence. "We need to discuss this, all of this."

"Agreed!" Replied Gavin. "We should go over everything that needs to be addressed."

"Good thinking children." Added Donald in his annoying puppet voice. "We should brainstorm ideas."

"Hard work is the key, so count me in." Confirmed Kirsty.

"I need to make sure everyone is gonna be okay, so of course!" Dana added.

"Guess this is our best course of action." Commented RK.

"Huh? What's going on everyone?" Asked Harvey, who appeared dazed from Irene beating him up.

I was still feeling scared, but I'm sure everyone was. "Let's do it guys. Let's head up to the hotel patio to go over everything."

Everyone was either scared, uncertain, or really not sure of the full situation, but everyone agreed the best thing to do for now was to talk as a group and consider all of our options. Therefore, my classmates and I walked towards the hotel patio to discuss this.