Before we start, guys, I want to thank decoy73, who was also the supplier for the general idea of this fic as well as the majority of the curses you will see(both this and last episodes' included) for creating a TVTropes page for the Total Drama Nui Kaua Series trilogy! You should all go over there, check it out, and add tropes and stuff to fill the page out! Every character from Zero Sum to The Cursed Island has a section just waiting to be given life by you! It'd be a great help and really cool of all you readers! Anyways, here is a nice long Episode 2 of Total Drama Nui Kaua: The Cursed Island!
TDNKCI: Episode 2: "If You're Not First, You're Last"
Chris's Recap
"Last time, on Total Drama Nui Kaua: The Cursed Island…
"We greeted 18 fresh new contestants as we began a new season of Total Drama, and then brought back 7 losers from Zero Sum and Nui Kaua to compete alongside them, and boy aren't they a competitive bunch? The big twist on this season was revealed to be a different curse plaguing the island every week, and the very first curse was given to Lucien, a French blonde guy who I probably shouldn't have left in charge of choosing the teams, as he totally stacked the Dreadful Demons team assuming he would get to be their extra 7th member. He assumed wrong and was the first of many to end up in exile on Weliweli Island, where he would remain until a team lost the first challenge.
The challenge was a hunt around Nui Kaua for small geocache boxes that not only gave whichever team found them immunity, but also awarded them one of three different campsites on the island, ranging from a luxurious camp staffed by professional interns down to a camp styled after the campsites in Zero Sum, where most of what made a camp a camp was missing.
In the end, because no one would listen to Isaac's advice, the Macabre Mummies became the first team to lose a challenge this season, and were stuck with a campsite that had diddly squat, heh heh!
While most of the team discussed who to vote off and Daniel made a campaign for Isaac, Isaac himself was busy building a shelter for his team in order to keep them safe from the elements, which earned a begrudging amount of respect from Lena.
At the Po'ino Bonfire Elimination Ceremony, Isaac's speech as to why he should stay was enough to convince Lena to vote for Daniel instead, but not enough for everyone else, and Isaac became the first contestant to lie in the Coffin of Shame and ride the Horror Hearse off of the island, but not before smiling and delivering a speech claiming that justice will win out in the end. After the elimination, Daniel checked the votes as they burned in the fire, to make sure the rest of the team voted for Isaac, but instead found that one other contestant had voted for him as well. With Lucien filling Isaac's spot on their team, and Daniel knowing that there's someone out there who wants him gone, how will the Mummies' dynamic play out? Which team will run to victory, and which contestant is out of breath already? Find out right now on Total Drama Nui Kaua...The Cursed...Island!"
Location: Macabre Mummies Campsite
Contesant(s): Daniel, Jamal, Lena, Lucien, Phooka, Tori
"Dude, where you been man?" Lucien asked as Daniel reluctantly joined everyone else at their campsite.
"I was just thinking to myself." He lied before heading more inwards towards the camp.
Confessional: Lucien: The Macabre Mummies
"He probably should have just 'thought to himself' for a bit longer, because Lena is not looking too happy about the results tonight." Another strange hint of knowing shines in Lucien's eyes.
End Confessional
"I wish I could say that I can't believe you stupid assholes, but the sad truth is that I totally expected this from you cowards." She mumbled as she made sure that the now heavily pouring rain wasn't getting through the roof of the shelter.
"I hated that guy's act just as much as the rest of you, but I could at least understand he was an asset!"
Confessional: Tori: The Macabre Mummies
"Lena is...interesting...none of us asked anyone about the result of the vote, and she could easily have just kept her opinion to herself, but she's choosing to reveal she didn't vote for Isaac. It's quite interesting really, but I have no clue why she's doing any of this."
End Confessional
"You." Lena turned to Daniel. "You better show promise in the next challenge, otherwise your bitch-ass is about to become the Coffin of Shame's next offering from this team." She nodded her head towards Lucien. "Hear that Luce? You're not the bottom man!"
"Cool." Lucien grinned as both he and Daniel entered the rather cramped shelter along with the rest of the team. "It'd probably smell down there."
"Oh my goodness, you might actually be worse than Isaac." Daniel mumbled under his breath about Lucien before turning to Lena.
"Don't act like you know me. I was doing a lot of thinking about Isaac's farewell speech, and he's right. I can't just complain and do nothing. Stop acting like I'm the bad guy here."
"Well, you're damn sure not the good guy here." Lena turned over in an effort to go to sleep.
Confessional: Daniel: The Macabre Mummies
"None of what I told Lena was a lie, but the implications of it are a bit ironic, what was said conveys the exact opposite meaning of what is meant. I'm not going to complain and do nothing. I'm going to do whatever I have to do to further myself in this game, and if I can't win against someone with the childish ideal that justice exists in this world, then I'll just have to eliminate them earlier. Man...now that I say this aloud, it's way more work than I'd have liked to have to do here. Figures. I sign up for this show to get away from my overbearing family and treat myself to a small vacation, and it just so happens that this show is in the wet season, and that I'm going to need to do just about as much work as I have to do around the house as well."
End Confessional
Location: Dreadful Demons Campsite
Contestant(s): Azami, Barnard, Helen, Jaime, Kaden, Kaleaf
"Of course they decided to not give us a cabin, why would they?" Jaime grumbled as the rain-soaked team huddled together for warmth around a fire they were able to light with their charcoal while Kaden and Kaleaf used some of the team towels given them to shield the fire from the rain.
Confessional: Helen: The Dreadful Demons
"We got the fishing spear, the charcoal grill, the charcoal for the grill, the set of team towels, the self-filtering water bottles, and the canoe. I wanted to make a shelter right away, but nooooo, the fire was more important to Azami, and Kaleaf seems to be holding a grudge against me for being the judge of his team during the challenge that got him eliminated, but he was so badly hurt that I fainted from the sight of it, so it's really his fault. In the end, it came down to a vote, and here's the result you see. A tired, wet team of people who don't get along well. *sigh* I wish I could trade all these people for my old team from Zero Sum…"
End Confessional
"Guys, I don't want to be that guy," Barnard said "but what are we going to do about sleep? We need to be prepared for whatever challenge Chris throws at us tomorrow, not to mention whatever curse he has planned. I personally think it would be best if two of us went to go look for a place to take actual shelter for the night."
"Okay, I can see where this is going from a mile away." Jaime sighed. "No. No two people are going to sneak off anywhere. That's how secret alliances are formed, and right now, we should focus more on unifying this dysfunctional group that's being called a 'team'. If one of us gets up to look for shelter, we all do."
"With all due respect Jaime," Barnard straightened his back as he spoke matter of factly. "You do not know that. I, in fact, suggested that two people seek shelter because it's the most we need to go looking for it, thus putting the least amount of team members in exposure to the elements while on their search."
"Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that an alliance could easily be formed between the searchers."
"And a separate, and stronger one could be formed between the people that remain." Barnard responded. "That alone should be enough incentive to-"
"SHUT UP ALREADY!" Azami yelled so loudly that the fire died. She stood up. "I'll go find shelter myself!"
"Well, now we might as well all go considering our fire has been snuffed out." Barnard said.
"Great." Kaleaf sighed. "If we have it this bad, we're not much better off than the Mummies, and they have Lucien on their team now to replace whomever it was that they voted off."
"My money's on Jamal, because with his rhymes/ He was annoying at all times." Kaden predicted.
This encouraged the rest of the team to laugh.
Confessional: Kaden: The Dreadful Demons
"For that one glorious moment, I had unified us as a team. Absolutely the highlight of the night for me."
End Confessional
"What about you guys, who do you think it was?"
"Isaac." Azami almost immediately responded. "He was the only return, and with his personality, I bet they were I-sick of him. HAHAHA!" Azami was the only one to laugh at her joke, but her laugh was louder than the thunder accompanying the heavy rainfall.
"That didn't work as well as Kaden's joke did." Helen said.
"Screw you, it worked BETTER! It's not my fault your sense of humor is shot!" Azami huffed as she walked further ahead of the group. "This way! Helen'll just get us lost since losing is what she does best!"
Confessional: Azami: The Dreadful Demons
"As you can probably tell, I have a hard time admitting...the d,f, and l words, mainly because I've never been put in that kind of a position, since I'm a natural winner! Just like that one time I won this show! You'll see, just you wait!"
End Confessional
Confessional: Helen: The Dreadful Demons
"Brat! *hmph*"
Confessional: Jaime
"What a brat…"
Confessional: Barnard
"She's a bit of a brat…"
Confessional: Kaleaf
"Man, is she ever the brat..."
Confessional: Kaden
"She's adorable, and when she's in a better mood and we have better weather, you know I'm gonna make a move, but yeah, she was acting like a bit of a brat."
End Confessionals
Location: Bloody Banshees Campsite
Contestant(s): Aubrey, Freya, Kyle, Misha, Nick, Sherwood
"It is pouring out there, huh?" Aubrey asked as the Bloody Banshees all hung out in the girls' side of the cabin.
"It's as though the heavens themselves are weeping for whoever it was that Lucien replaced on the Mummies." Kyle agreed.
"It better have been Isaac." Freya said as she painted her toenails in the corner of the room. "I want to deal with as little Zero Sum contestants as possible."
"Wait, that's why you want him gone?" Aubrey asked. "Not because he's strong or a good guy? You want him gone because it gives you more attention?"
"Says the girl who doesn't realize what a blessing it is to have piles of money at home and instead wants to prove she can be normal." Freya retorted. "Listen Aubrey, it's best you learn it now and early, but you can't ever be normal and win this show. The successful ones are the contestants that command attention. If you'd use your brain, you'd realize that relying on your money would be a far bigger personality for you, and help you get further in the game as a result. I guess your twin is the smart one out of the two of you."
Confessional: Aubrey: The Bloody Banshees
"She's worse than Molly! I signed me and my twin sister up for this show to prove to her that money and being an attention whore never win, but Freya...Ugh, why out of all the Violent Quakes did it have to be her? I'd have preferred Oswald to this girl!"
End Confessional
"Now that ain't the slightest bit o' nice!" Kyle observed. "Shouldn't we be gettin' along as a team? Not insultin' one another?"
"Relax, she's just cranky that we didn't win the deluxe campsite." Sherwood yawned as he covered for Freya.
"And I did find our team our box. I wouldn't be so quick to assume I won't work with you just because I'm not fond of you." Freya replied. "Oh, whoops! That slipped out without thinking about it." She turned towards Misha.
"I am pretty fond of you, Misha. I wish you would socialize with us more!"
"O-o-o-oh! Um...I- I'm not sure if I-...I don't….but….I'll t-t-t-try if you c-care that much."
"I'm sure we'll all think you're wonderful." Freya smiled.
Confessional: Freya: The Bloody Banshees
"I care about Misha about as much as I care about a tree falling in the forest when I'm not around. It's not my problem. What I do care about, is making sure I have enough contestants under my wing that I don't need to worry about a repeat of what happened to me on Zero Sum."
End Confessional
"Seriously…" Kyle said to Nick and Sherwood as the boys headed into their side of the cabin for the night. "She went from antagonizing Aubrey to defending her character to encouraging Misha to talk to us. I've seen her season, she's a tricky one. We should be careful to mind what she says."
"Nahhh." Nick gave a 'don't worry about it' gesture. "She's just a hot, somewhat bitchy chick. There's nothing really to worry about."
"What 'bout you Sherwood?" Kyle asked as Sherwood jumped onto his bunk. "What do you think?"
"I think talking about girls when we could be sleeping and getting rested for the next challenge instead is a dumb idea." Sherwood answered.
Confessional: Sherwood: The Bloody Banshees
"What I also think is that if Kyle's seen Zero Sum, he might know something about Freya that I don't, and that means I might be able to find leverage over her to help make her the shield I hide behind until the merge gets here."
End Confessional
Location: Visceral Vampires Campsite
Contestant(s): Aleister, Antonio, Molly, Natalie, Samuel, Twilight
"What's wrong, Sh-, I mean Samuel, can't sleep?" Twilight asked as she walked to a lavishly decorated lounge where Samuel was sitting on the couch in front of a fireplace.
"I'm concerned about how best to neutralize Natalie." Samuel mumbled as he motioned over to a wrecked dining area that Natalie had destroyed because her food tasted 'too good, so something must have been wrong with it.'
"Yeah, I know that feeling." Twilight sighed. "Chick needs to realize that we can't exactly go around all violent all the time. It definitely didn't win me the million dollars last time I played."
"But you know…" Samuel said. "If the situation called for it, say there was some asshole on our team who really needed a good walloping, I certainly wouldn't hold anything back on them."
Twilight began to laugh a bit.
"Man, I can't believe I almost called you by Four Eyes's nickname earlier. You've got some fire in you, but fire can burn, kid."
"What you think I couldn't do it?" Samuel asked, a little irritated.
"It's more like I'd be seriously impressed if I saw something like that in action." Twilight responded. "Look, we need to sleep."
"Samuel…" Antonio appeared in the hallway leading towards the boys' room in the building. He had a bunch of red splattered all over a white smock. "We're turning the lights off…"
A crack of thunder accompanied a lightning flash that momentarily lit up the whole area.
"...Come to bed…and get a loooong rest..."
"Did...did he kill someone?" Samuel asked Twilight, who sighed.
"Yo, Splotch, easy on Jr. over here. Your paint is creepin' him out."
"Oh." Antonio looked down at the paint on his smock. He looked back up.
"This is tomato juice. It got on me when Natalie had her...episode…"
"I can hear all of you!" Molly stuck her head out the girls' room and called down the hall. "There's 20 dollars in it a night for each of you if you shut the fuck up and go the fuck to sleep!"
"So yeah! Just fucking wake me up shrieking like that!" Natalie's voice was heard coming from the same room. "So tell me, do you want to suffocate under the pillow, or would you rather die from blunt force trauma as I smash your head against the bedpost?"
"Eeee! Twilight, Antonio, you're the only ones scary and creepy enough to save meeee!"
"It's fucking Katelyn all over again." Twilight rolled her eyes as she and Antonio both rushed towards the girls' room.
Samuel got up and went to the boys' room, where Aleister was lying in bed, but not yet asleep.
"We'll be running tomorrow." He ended up saying to Samuel. "I just know Chris is going to make us run. He wouldn't waste all the opportunity that the mud will provide for epic slipping fails."
"Running through muddy terrain, huh?" Samuel wondered. "I think I might have something to help us with that then…" He began to reach into his bag and he pulled out an object to show Aleister.
"Ohhhh! Hehehehehehehe, those will definitely come in handy!"
Location: Macabre Mummies Campsite
Contestant(s): Daniel, Lena, Lucien, Jamal, Phooka, Tori
The chorus of ribbits woke Phooka up first.
She rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't just seeing things, but as it turned out, a whole small community of frogs were out and about, hopping through the mud and puddles left behind by the storm the previous night.
She very slowly got out of the shelter and looked around.
The sun was already almost directly overhead.
"It's already almost noon?" She wondered aloud, surprised.
"I don't care, even if it's noon./" Jamal mumbled. "You're talking is waking me up too soon."
"Hey…" Lucien yawned as he woke up. "You think it ever rains on the sun?"
The chorus of ribbits grew louder and more numerous with Lucien's question.
"The frogs know apparently." Daniel stretched as he woke up. "Why don't you burden them with your inane questions?"
"BEETLE!" Tori screeched as she woke up to see a large beetle on the side of the shelter. She quickly fumbled over Lena and Jamal, who were still trying to sleep in the shelter, and rushed out of the construct.
"Jamal, Lena, wake up." Phooka quietly said. "We need to go find food."
"We have beetles and frogs…" Lucien shrugged. "And frogs are better than you think."
"Well, how do we cook them without a fire/?" Jamal asked. "Don't make me work while I'm still tired."
"I know how." Daniel responded. "We use another camp's fire or something."
"That's a great idea!" Lena stretched as she growled. "Do you know who would be able to have led us to another team's campsite? Muscle man!"
"We all saw the camp on the beach near the docks though." Daniel replied. "We can go there."
"I'm not asking another team for help." Lena refused. "I'll find a way to make my own fire, and catch my own damn frogs. The rest of you can follow the cynical asshole if you want, but you'll be put on my enemy list."
"Whatever." Daniel mumbled as he began to walk towards the Bloody Banshees campsite, Jamal and Lucien following after him.
Tori looked back at Lena. "You're playing dangerously right now." She said, before smiling. "I like that about you. I think I'll go off on my own as well for a while."
She headed towards Mt. Immolate, leaving Phooka and Lena alone.
"You're still here? Decided not to be a dumbass sheep after all?"
"I….." Phooka tried to say something but couldn't bring herself to do it, and simply began to chase after frogs to catch.
Confessional: Phooka: The Macabre Mummies
"I wanted to vote for Daniel so badly! Ugh, why didn't I? I thought that everyone except Isaac would be voting for him, and I didn't want to end up the second one to leave afterwards if it turned out I was on the wrong side of the majority! I didn't know that freaking Lena was going to vote Daniel! If I had known that my vote totally would have changed! But I can already hear what Lena would say if I told her that. That I'm a coward. That I lack spine. And from my actions on this show so far...she'd be right…" Phook seems on the verge of tears as the camera cuts out.
End Confessional
Confessional: Lena: The Macabre Mummies
"I don't care that a giant mother fucking storm just happened. I'll find a way to make a goddamn fire to cook my own food and no skinny grey-haired twerp is going to tell me otherwise!"
End Confessional
Location: Bloody Banshees Campsite
Contestant(s): Aubrey, Daniel, Freya, Jamal, Kyle, Lucien, Misha, Nick
"So...let me get this straight." Aubrey said as Daniel, Jamal, and Lucien stood outside the doors to the Bloody Banshees' cabin. "You want us to just...make you guys a fire?"
"All the wood near our campsite is too drenched for it." Lucien explained. "If it isn't too much to ask, you girls are all incredibly hot, so you could totally make a fire, right?"
Misha blushed as she saw Lucien and cowered back into the corner.
"I'm….h-h-h-h-h-h-h….urf…" She fainted.
"I'm considering building your team a fire." Freya said. "Flattery gets you far with me, however...What's in it for us?"
"I agree." Aubrey nodded. "Except for the flattery part. Why should we just build a fire for you guys?"
"A large alliance. We'll take care of your team, if you take care of ours." Daniel responded.
Confessional: Daniel: The Macabre Mummies
"No we won't. We just want the fire."
End Confessional
"Hey, boys!" Freya called to the boys' side of the cabin, where Kyle and Nick both emerged from.
"Could you be suuuuuper helpful and build the Mummies a fire?"
"A fire?" Kyle rose an eyebrow. "Couldn't you just get Isaac, your returnee to...do...it…"
Kyle's voice trailed off as he realized why the Mummies could not enlist Isaac's help with creating a fire.
Confessional: Kyle: The Bloody Banshees
"Isaac was voted off after all? Well, it'd be foolish for me to trust any of the remaining Mummies. He was one of the returning contestants I wanted to play with when I was interviewed and now he's gone right away? Are there only two good souls per team on this island or something?"
End Confessional
"This...this has to be some kind of trap." Aubrey said, still not convinced.
"If Aubrey ain't convinced, I'm not inclined to trust your words alone." Kyle shrugged at Freya. "I saw your last game."
"Niiiiick…" Freya pouted. "Please? For us girls?"
Nick seemed to ponder it for a while.
"I'll be really happy…" Freya gave a coy smile.
"Ah, what the hell," Nick grinned with a shrug before leaping off the cabin porch and rushing towards the Nahele Forest. "KIIIIINGSTOOON!"
Confessional: Nick: The Bloody Banshees
"Like I said before, Freya's just a hot, somewhat bitchy chick, but I don't mind her being somewhat bitchy as long as she doesn't mind my method of doing things. What guy, besides like, Sherwood, doesn't want to mak with a hot chick?"
End Confessional
Location: Mt. Immolate
Contestant(s): Azami, Barnard, Helen, Jaime, Kaden, Kaleaf, Sherwood, Tori
"Whoah, the hell are you doing all the way out here?" Tori asked as she bumped into Sherwood.
"Regaining my sanity." Sherwood responded. "I live with a country hick, a reckless idiot, a rich girl trying too hard to be normal, a succubus, and a girl with more social anxiety than should be humanly possible. Why are you all the way out here?"
"There's too many beetles in the forest." Tori shrugged with a smile and a small nervous chuckle.
Sherwood didn't laugh.
Confessional: Sherwood: The Bloody Banshees
"Pffft...That's bloody brilliant! She's scared of beetles, and she has to live in the forest! That's amazing! It took all I had to not laugh my head off when she told that to me!"
End Confessional
"I guess we're both climbing the volcano for now then." Sherwood shrugged as he and Tori walked up the volcano.
"So…" Tori called to Sherwood a few paces ahead. "Which uh...which of your teammates are you getting along with the best?"
"I'm worried I might have given you the impression that I didn't mind talking to you." Sherwood responded. "Allow me to clarify. Don't talk to me just because we happen to be going in the same direction. I have no interest in getting to know someone who could very well be the next eliminated contestant from their team."
"Nah, I doubt it." Tori responded, ignoring Sherwood's comment about not wanting to talk. "I voted out Isaac with the majority sooo...I'm pretty sure I'm safe for at least one more round, you feel me?"
"I would not like to feel you, no."
"I feel like your constant bickering shouldn't be what this team wakes up to!" Jaime called from a cave in the side of the volcano.
Sherwood and Tori gave each other confused looks as the rest of the Dreadful Demons all poked their heads out of the cave.
"What are you doing in there?" Tori asked.
"That's none of your business, blondie!" Azami called. "The volcano belongs to my team now! Deal with it and leave!"
"No one ever said it was your team." Kaleaf noted as he turned his head towards Azami.
"We were sleeping in this cave because our own campsite lacks any proper shelter at the moment!" Barnard called out.
Everyone on the team turned to look at him.
"You can glare at me all you want, but I wasn't the one who suggested we build a fire instead of a shelter first, and I see no reason to be secretive about why we were in this cave."
Confessional: Helen: The Dreadful Demons
"Oh, so now one of them has common sense!"
End Confessional
"Look, the fact of the matter is that some of us would rather catch us much shut eye as possible!" Kaden called out. "So if you could please not talk so loudly that would be great."
Confessional: Sherwood: The Bloody Banshees
"You know? I feel there's something to be said that the Demons have taken up residence inside an active volcano. Something about that just feels... correct."
End Confessional
"Hey, your name was Tori right?" Helen asked Tori. "There's something I want to know. Who did you guys vote off last night?"
"Hmm...I don't know if I want to tell of you that." Tori grinned coyly.
"It was Isaac!" Sherwood called up.
"You're a bit of a bummer, dude you know that?" Tori asked.
Sherwood shrugged. "I don't care if that team knows who your team voted off, and they'd learn it eventually anyways."
"I KNEW IT!" Azami announced at the top of her lungs."I think that amazingly accurate prediction has earned me the position of leadership on this team."
"Why would you throw away that returning contestant?" Jaime asked. "You guys hit the jackpot getting only him. He was straightforward muscle, could help with camp stuff, and wasn't at all a threat in any way since there was only one of him!"
"My reason specifically? Because I want to see how well a team without a returning contestant will do against three teams with two each!" Tori responded. "I don't think I could tell you anyone else's reasoning though!"
*BEEEEEEEEEEEP*
"Attention campers!" Chris announced. "We're about to start our next challenge, so everyone meet me at the beach outside the Banshees' cabin!"
Location: Nui Kaua Beach
Contestant(s): All Remaining
"Welcome to the great Nui Kaua Island Relay!" Chris held his arms out. "There are six of you on each team, and there are six legs of this race. Each team member must participate on one leg of the race, and hand off their copy of this episode's curse, bound in a nice scroll so that no one can read it, to the next contestant in line and they begin their leg of the race. The very first contestant to cross the finish line and grant their team immunity may immediately open up their team's copy of the curse scroll and read it aloud for all to hear! My particular advice? Don't open the scroll before you cross the finish line, otherwise your team is immediately disqualified. My other advice? Make sure you run like your lives depend on it, heh heh!"
Confessional: Kaleaf: The Dreadful Demons
"And in true Nui Kaua fashion, Chris is making us run all around the island.. again…"
End Confessional
"The first leg…" Chris announced "Will be across this beach...then, another contestant will take your team's copy of the curse scroll at the entrance to the Muliwai River for the second leg of the race. The will run the entire length of the river and hand it off the the third member of your team, who will run through the Nahele Forest until they reach the fourth teammate at the base of Mt. Immolate. That teammate will run up and down the trail of the volcano until they reach the fifth teammate waiting at the entrance to Nui Kaua Field, who will run the length of the field until they reach right back here again, upon which, the sixth teammate will take the curse scroll and run as fast as they can towards the Nui Kaua Bridge. The first player there wins it for their team and may read the curse immediately! I'll give you time to decide who is going to perform which leg, and we'll get started.
Challenge: Island Wide Relay Race
Leg #(Terrain): Mummies Runner, Banshees Runner, Vampires Runner, Demons Runner
Leg 1(Beach): Phooka, Misha, Samuel, Kaleaf
Leg 2(River): Tori, Aubrey, Twilight, Barnard
Leg 3(Forest): Lena, Kyle, Antonio, Jaime
Leg 4(Volcano): Lucien, Nick, Natalie, Kaden
Leg 5(Field): Jamal, Freya, Aleister, Helen
Leg 6(Beach To Bridge): Daniel, Sherwood, Molly, Azami
Leg 1
"Contestants all ready?" Chris asked as Phooka, Misha, Samuel, and Kaleaf all took their places at the starting line, while Daniel, Sherwood, Molly, and Azami all gave them vastly differing pep talks.
"Don't trip." Daniel advised Phooka before ignoring her completely.
"If you don't run fast, we're voting you off." Sherwood crossed his arms at Misha, who gulped.
"Hey, other teams, there's like, a hundred dollars in it for each of you if you forfeit the challenge and let Samuel here win."
"I don't need you to bribe the opposition for me! I can take these guys easily!"
"Come on, Kaleaf! Remember everything that Nui Kaua taught you and forget it!" Azami cheered. "Because you lost that show and we want to win this challenge!"
"Set…" Chris remarked as Phooka, Misha, Samuel, and Kaleaf all got ready to run.
Phooka looked over at Kaleaf, who nodded back.
"Don't worry about me. Worry about yourself."
Samuel smirked as he lifted his foot up to show that he was wearing cleats.
Confessional: Samuel: The Visceral Vampires
"The spikes on the bottoms of cleats are helpful to avoid tripping and falling, like in mud, so I've given the entire team cleats I brought with me to the island...just in case."
End Confessional
Misha took a deep breath and moved her hair away from her right eye, reavling it to be a transparent pink.
Confessional: Misha: The Bloody Banshees
"It's a glass eye. I don't know why, but I always feel a lot less nervous and a lot more confident when I show it, unfortunately, when it takes in light I, for whatever reason, get really tired, really quickly. This relay race? The perfect chance to use it and prove to my team that I'm not some dud competitor!"
End Confessional
"Go!" Chris announced as the contestants all took off.
Kaleaf immediately took a large early lead on the rest of the contestants, sprinting as fast as he could down the beach.
Misha was in a far second place, with Phooka in a close third, meanwhile, Samuel's cleats were giving him trouble running through the wet, and thus sticky sand.
Confessional: Samuel: The Visceral Vampires
"Uh-oh...this isn't the way I wanted this to happen…"
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"Barnard!" Kaleaf announced as he came up towards Barnard while Tori, Aubrey, and Twilight all looked nervously for their own contestants.
"Go!" Kaleaf shoved the Demons' scroll into Barnards hands.
Barnard nodded and took off and Kaleaf collapsed on the ground.
"You okay there, Fast Feet?" Twilight asked.
"I was...sprinting...as fast...as I could go…" Kaleaf responded through heavy breaths.
"Misha!" Aubrey exclaimed as Misha came into eyesight.
"Run, Phooka, you can catch up to her!" Tori exclaimed.
"Dammit, where's Samuel?" Twilight mumbled as Misha reached Aubrey, and Phooka reached Tori shortly after and the two took off.
"Phew." Phooka headed over to where Kaleaf was resting.
"So, how are you holding up cousin?"
"I dislike most of my team greatly." Kaleaf responded. "What about you?"
"I dislike most of my team greatly." Phooka almost laughed back.
"Why did you vote off Isaac?" Kaleaf wondered.
"Because he was a returning player and he kept trying to assert authority which a lot of the team didn't like so-"
"But why did you vote off Isaac?" Kaleaf asked, seriously.
"B-because I thought there was no point in resisting and-"
"Phooka, you can't give in to that mentality. When I did, I got so frustrated that I was voted off. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and fight."
"I...I guess." Phooka mumbled as Samuel finally showed up.
"Here!" He handed Twilight the Vampires' scroll. "Run!"
"Don't need to tell me twice…" Twilight grumbled as she took off down the river. "Goddamn starting a relay race in last place a-fucking-gain…"
Leg 2
"Oh my god, how are you catching up to me so quickly?" Aubrey asked as Tori stayed hot on her trail as they ran up along the river.
"More like why haven't I been able to pass you yet?" Tori responded with a laugh.
Confessional: Tori: The Macabre Mummies
"I was born under a lucky star. I've always had some extraordinary breaks of luck, though I do suppose I've had some bad luck too, otherwise I wouldn't have blown my inheritance gambling."
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Aubrey and Tori both shocked Barnard as they passed him.
"Oh, that can't be good." Barnard looked back, expecting to see Twilight, but was relieved when he didn't see his Vampires opponent.
"Good luck, Kyle!" Aubrey announced as she reached Kyle and handed him the scroll.
"Thanks." He nodded before he began to run into the forest for the third leg of the race.
"Lena!" Tori rushed up towards her teammate and handed her the Mummies' scroll. "Run like the-" but Lena had already taken off into the forest at a full sprint.
Confessional: Tori: The Macabre Mummies
"God help me if that girl isn't something…" Tori smiles at the camera as she slowly shakes her head.
End Confessional
"Jaime…" Barnard said through large breaths as he came up to his teammate. "Go!" He handed her the scroll and sent her forwards.
Antonio stood and watched his competition run ahead in silence.
"Twilight." He eventually said as he stood over a resting Barnard. "How far behind is she?"
"Apparently pretty far behind." Barnard sat up. "I'm honestly surprised your team is doing so poorly right now. Especially with those cleats on your feet to provide slipping and falling.
"Maybe combat should become an option…" Antonio mumbled.
"I hardly think combat is necessary in a race such as this one. I believe taking longer steps is in fact the key to faster movement."
"I...was not serious…" Antonio mumbled.
Confessional: Antonio: The Visceral Vampires
"Why is everyone so quick to assume I'm about to do something a serial killer would do? I'd be more worried about Natalie doing it! Heck, now I am worried about Natalie doing it!"
End Confessional
"Antonio!" Twilight finally appeared. "You run faster than you've ever run before, you hear me, Splotch?"
"I hear you." Antonio answered as he took the scroll and ran forward taking long steps.
Leg 3
"Out of the way! I'm not letting this team blow another challenge!" Lena announced as she almost unnaturally rushed passed Kyle, whose eyes went wide.
"You're excused!" he called as he tried to pick up the pace, but he was already running as fast as he could.
Confessional: Kyle: The Bloody Banshees
"I'm a little worried those of you at home are getting the wrong idea. I was running at full speed, it's just that that Lena girl from the Mummies was going at an almost supernatural speed!"
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Confessional: Lena: The Macabre Mummies
"I am not going to let this team go to another elimination ceremony in a row, even if I don't like any of these assholes, I'd still rather an asshole I don't like on another team go home instead!"
End Confessional
Antonio bounded through the wood until he reached Jaime.
"Oh, of course it would be mister long legs…" She sighed as she did her best to make sure Antonio didn't pass her.
When the two of them reached Natalie and Kaden, both Lucien and Nick were already heading up the volcano.
"Run!" Jaime said as she shoved the scroll into Kaden's grasp. He nodded and turned to run, before two cleats were pushed into his back with force by Natalie.
"AURGH!" He wailed from the pain as he looked back to see Natalie had the cleats on her arms and was holding the Vampires' scroll in her mouth.
"The hell was that about?" Jaime's eyes widened as she looked at Natalie.
"You want a cleat to the face?" Natalie asked as she rose a cleat hand towards Jaime, who reluctantly backed off.
"Jeez…" Kaden pressed his shirt against his back as Natalie easily overtook him and he hobbled as quickly as he could up the volcano.
Leg 4
"Dude, we've got company!" Nick told Lucien as the two contestants reached the summit of the volcano and noticed Natalie and her cleat hands quickly catching up to them.
"Man...she looks angry…" Lucien observed. "Maybe we should get out of her way?"
"Yeah...I think maybe…" Nick said as he slowed down and got out of Natalie's path, while Lucien sped up as he rushed down the mountain.
Confessional: Lucien: The Macabre Mummies
"I meant get out of her way by completing our leg of the race...I thought he'd get that…" Lucien's eyes twinkle again as he gives the camera a friendly smile.
End Confessional
"Niiiick!" Freya called from her spot at the base of the volcano. "You come down here ahead of psycho cleats woman, I'll give you a reward!"
"Oh, heck yeah…" Nick psyched himself up before running past Natalie. "KIIIIINGSTOOOON!" He announced as he shoved her aside and rushed passed her.
"You've got to be kidding me." Helen rolled her eyes as she looked at Freya. "Have you really not changed at all since Zero Sum?"
"Have you changed?" Freya retorted to Helen. "You still rock that dumb class president at her school vibe, I see."
"Here you go, Jamal my bro." Lucien said as he handed Jamal the Mummies' scroll.
Jamal nodded and took off through the field towards Daniel.
"Hah, I did it!" Nick announced as he reached Freya before Natalie had made it to Aleister. "Kingston is number one! What's the reward?"
Freya looked at Helen defiantly before pulling Nick in for a passionate kiss that managed to even get Aleister's attention.
"What are you doing gawking?" Natalie shouted at Aleister. "GO!" She smacked him in the face with one of her cleats.
"Oh my god! What the heck is wrong with you?" Helen asked Natalie as Freya pulled herself away from Nick.
"I better get going before the Demons get here." She patted him on the chest. "But the more you perform well in challenges, the more of that you can expect." She gave him a wink before running to catch up to Aleister, though with her sandals flopping everywhere, she wasn't able to go very fast.
"Kaden!" Helen exclaimed as Kaden came down the mountain. "What happened to you?"
Kaden pointed to Natalie as he ran as fast as he could.
"You are nothing short of a monster!" Helen exclaimed at Natalie who gave a huff of indifference.
Helen took the scroll from Kaden and rushed down the field.
Leg 4
Helen almost effortlessly passed Freya. "Probably shouldn't have spent so much time on that kiss!" She taunted.
In a few more feet, Helen had passed Aleister as well, and could see Jamal running ahead of her.
"Hey Aleister!" Freya called as she ran slowly behind the wounded Vampires contestant. "Don't think I didn't see you looking earlier! You weren't jealous were you?"
"No, I wasn't jealous!" Aleister called back. "I was just surprised you did something like that so suddenly in the middle of a challenge and-."
"Well if you ever want to have some fun yourself, you know where to find me." Freya grinned.
Aleister froze as Freya passed him with a witch's cackle.
Confessional: Freya: The Bloody Banshees
"Kissing Nick? Eh, if it means his small mind remains loyal, it's not too much of a bother on me. The Aleister line? I knew it'd make him stop momentarily, thus the Bloody Banshees are out of last place, and all Sherwood has to do is run us home without letting Molly overtake him. We're all set."
End Confessional
"Here, Daniel/ Take the scroll!" Jamal 'rapped' to his teammate.
"We're first?" Daniel didn't seem convinced of the situation, but turned and sprinted towards the bridge.
Confessional: Daniel: The Macabre Mummies
"I honestly did not think our team would end up doing as well as we did this challenge. I had Lena decide the order as an excuse to vote her off if we lost, but so far, the only one who has done a poor job is Phooka, who, incidentally, I probably don't need around anymore. There's no way Lena could get along with someone as dumb as Lucien, so I bet I have his vote, and along with Jamal, Tori, and myself, that's four total."
End Confessional
"Azami, you say you're a winner, prove it!" Helen said as she handed Azami the scroll.
Azami immediately rushed after Daniel.
"Here you go, Mr. No fun." Freya said as she handed Sherwood the scroll shortly afterwards, and he took off as well.
"Here…" Aleister held out the scroll for Molly, who snatched it away from him.
She turned to an intern holding a camera.
"You!" She pointed. "You look like you have strong legs and arms. I'm prepared to write you a check for $1,000 if you carry me to the finish."
"I'm contractually obligated to not accept any bribes from anyone other than the host." The intern replied.
Molly gave a sneer before very slowly running towards the finish line.
At The Finish
"We're here at the finish line!" Chris announced. "And both Daniel and Azami have come into view! It's neck and neck now...It's Daniel, it's Azami, it's Daniel, it's Azami, it's…."
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"Azami!" Chris exclaimed as Azami cartwheeled passed Daniel and Chris onto the bridge.
"Azami wins the relay race for the Dreadful Demons!"
Confessional: Azami: The Dreadful Demons
"Of course I did. You see, I live my life by a very simple motto that I have always followed: 'If you're not first, you're last.' and I have always been first!"
End Confessional
Daniel crossed the line second, and gave a tremendous sigh.
"Welp, everything's gone horribly wrong...Figures."
Sherwood crossed the line third, and Molly, much later, crossed the line in last place.
"You've got to be kidding me…" Samuel sighed as the contestants all reconvened.
"Shit…" Twilight sighed. "Goddamn last place. I forgot how shitty that felt."
"AHEM!" Azami announced. "I have a CURSE to read!"
She unfurled the Demons' scroll and began to read aloud.
"Monsoon Curse." She announced. "Sometimes, a large storm comes in and kills even healthy passengers on a boat, while straning others at sea. Inspired by the storm we had last night, every team that did not place first in the challenge will have to vote someone off tonight, starting with the 4th place team, and ending with the 2nd place team. In addition, once the 4th place team has voted out their contestant, they will be taken to Weliweli Island where the will remain until it is time for the next challenge."
"Great. We don't get to live in the goddamn resort camp? It's just gonna be empty?" Twilight asked.
"Guess so!" Chris grinned as he gave a nod. "Banshees, Mummies, Vampires...looks like you all have some discussing about who to vote off to do!"
Location: Bloody Banshees Campsite
Contestant(s): Aubrey, Freya, Kyle, Misha, Nick
"I'm telling you, we need to get rid of her! She's way smarter than you think she is!" Kyle tried to explain to Nick why to eliminate Freya.
"Dude, she's easy as hell. She's no threat or anything. If you ask me...I say we get rid of Sherwood. He must have been voted out first for a reason."
"He was voted out first because an alliance of villains that wanted to keep another villain safe voted him off because he was the least villainous." Kyle explained. "Sherwood only wants to know he's safe. I doubt he cares one way or the other who actually goes home. I've watched the series man, could you trust me on this?"
"Why don't we vote off Misha instead?" Nick asked. "She's not going to open up to any of the team anytime soon, and she's kind of weird…"
"I...I really think we should vote Freya, like Kyle said." Aubrey nodded. "I've only seen Nui Kaua, but if Kyle's seen Zero Sum, we should at least trust him…"
Confessional: Aubrey: The Bloody Banshees
"And also because one Molly is enough in my life, thank you very much."
End Confessional
"Do you hear that Misha?" Freya asked as she and Misha hid outside the cabin. "They're trying to get rid of me, even though I encouraged Nick through his part of the challenge, and I helped us get our campsite last time, plus, if it weren't for this curse, I'd be the reason we're not in last place. They're demonizing me up there! I just wish...I just wish I could have an actual friend you know?"
"I….I know!" Misha perked up.
"Isn't that Kyle so mean?" Freya asked with watery eyes.
"Y-y-y-y-yeah…" Misha responded.
Confessional: Freya: The Bloody Banshees
"Me, Misha, Nick, Sherwood." Freya counts on her fingers. "That's four out of six votes, but the thing I love most about those four out of six votes... is that I really only need three going forwards." She pulls one of her fingers down. "Three out of five votes, see? It's just a matter of who to eliminate first."
End Confessional
Location: Visceral Vampires Camp
Contestant(s): Aleister, Antonio, Samuel, Twilight
"Look, I think we can all agree that the four of us are the sane members of the team." Samuel said as they all sat under his bed covers behind a locked boys' room door while Natalie destroyed all manner of things in the main area of the resort.
"We need to get rid of that dangerous bitch." Twilight grumbled. "But I also don't want to have to deal with Molly any more than I have to."
"It's….a lesser of two evils thing…" Antonio observed. "Is the violent, but dedicated sociopath better than the fragile but lazy rich girl?"
"If it's strength, I think Twilight and I have that covered." Samuel said.
"Again with that?" Twilight asked.
"I'm serious!" Samuel responded. "I'll prove it to you too!"
"The longer Natalie stays here, the more worried I am that she's going to kill someone." Aleister voiced his concern. "My Nui Kaua facade might have complimented her toughness, but there is such a thing as too far, and she's far past it."
Location: Po'ino Bonfire Elimination Ceremony
Contestant(s):
Visceral Vampires(1st participating): Aleister, Antonio, Molly, Natalie, Samuel, Twilight
Bloody Banshees(2nd participating): Aubrey, Freya, Kyle, Misha, Nick, Sherwood
Macabre Mummies(3rd participating): Daniel, Jamal, Lena, Lucien, Phooka, Tori
"Ohmygosh!" Aubrey gasped as she saw Natalie being restrained by Chef along with Twilight and Samuel already.
"Yo' Chris!" Twilight called out. "The five of us all put in votes for this terror you've set loose on us, you think you could just skip the ceremony itself and jam her in her coffin?"
"I'll kill all of you for this!" Natalie shrieked as she was placed in the coffin by Chef before he closed the lid and locked it shut.
"None of you know true fear until you meet me!" She fought vigorously against the Coffin of Shame as Chef quickly jumped in the Horror Hearse and drove her off the island.
"That was...not what I had expected to see…" Sherwood announced as the Visceral Vampires were ushered towards the docks, where a boat was waiting to take them to Weliweli Island.
"Banshees!" Chris grinned as the Banshees all sat down around the bonfire. "Welcome! For those of you that are new, or that don't remember, allow me to explain how this works! You'll each vote one of your fellow teammates off of the show, and then I'll tally the votes before handing each safe contestant a commemorative crystal ball. If you do not receive a crystal ball, you must get in the Coffin of Shame, and ride the Horror Hears off of the island, giving up your chance at the million dollars.
"You know who to vote for." Freya whispered to Nick, who nodded.
Kyle and Aubrey exchanged nervous glances.
"Aubrey." Chris grinned. "You're up first."
After each of the Bloody Banshees had voted, and Chris had tallied the votes, he came back with a platter of crystal balls.
"Alright. I've tallied the votes. If I call your name, come up and receive a crystal ball. If your name is not called, you're out. Now, without further ado...Sherwood! Congrats on making it higher than 24th place this time, bro!"
"Yeah, yeah." Sherwood stood up and went to receive his crystal ball.
"Our second crystal ball…" Chris grinned. "Goes to Aubrey!"
"For real?" Aubrey stood up, excitedly before walking up to receive her crystal ball.
"The third crystal ball...belongs to Nick." Chris announced.
"KIIINGSTOOOON!" Nick yelled as he jumped through the fire like a stuntman to grab his crystal ball, miraculously coming out of the inferno just fine.
Freya turned her gaze towards Kyle and the two squinted at each other.
"Next up…" Chris grinned "Is Kyle!"
Kyle stood up and grabbed his crystal ball from Chris.
"Ladies…" Chris addressed both Misha and Freya. "This is the final crystal ball of the night...and…
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"Now that looks like it's caused some tension." Chris grinned as Misha got in a newly returned Coffin of Shame, too scared to say goodbye to her team. "You better get going Banshees, before the Mummies get here. They have a longer trek than you, and you don't want them to see who you voted out just yet do you?"
"No...I guess we don't." Aubrey nodded as the Banshees all began to walk back.
"Oh no you don't." Freya stopped Kyle, turning him around and grabbing him by his collar far more tightly than he would have thought her capable of.
"You're going to tell me why you and Miss Normal Wannabe voted for me."
"You can't control me, miss." Kyle responded. "Our team doesn't need a seductress like you running it." He said defiantly. "Even Oswald, one of this series' biggest villains, knew you were trouble."
"Let me tell you something, Kyle." Freya brought him in closer. "Your continued existence on this team and show is at my mercy. I could just as easily have gotten rid of you as I got rid of Misha, but I kept you around to warn you that the game you're trying to play, and the game that I plan on running are vastly different, so you best stay out of my way. Otherwise, you'll soon learn firsthand that I am far worse than Oswald could ever hope to be. Enjoy your remaining time on this island while you can, country hick."
She let go of his collar and watched him head off towards the Banshees' cabin, before finally heading that way herself.
A few moments later, the Macabre Mummies arrived.
"Mummies!" Chris announced. "So glad you could make it!"
"Yep." Lena grunted. "Time to vote out Daniel."
"Me?" Daniel asked. "Last I checked, Phooka was the worst performer in our challenge today, not me."
"But I-!" Phooka began.
"It's fine." Lena grunted at Phooka. "Just more motive for you to vote that asshat out this time, right?"
"R-right!" Phooka found a small amount of resolve. "After all, I wasn't the one that blew the lead we had!"
"We'd have had a bigger one if you'd have done better." Daniel shrugged.
"Wow...I didn't think I'd be seeing another one of these arguments from this team so soon! This is great!" Chris laughed. "Unfortunately, we're pressed on time, so let's get straight to the voting!"
After the Mummies had all voted, Chris pulled out a plate of five crystal balls.
"Tori, Jamal, Lucien, and Lena." He passed a crystal ball out to each of them. "Crystal balls for all of yalls."
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Daniel rose a brow. "It was three to three votes? That doesn't sound right."
"It certainly does sound right." Chris responded. "I'm not Valve. I can count to three."
"But can you count to four?"
"There are four teams on this show aren't there?" Chris gave as an example. "In any case, you both got three votes against you, and in traditional Nui Kaua first tiebreaker fashion, it'll be a staring contest!"
"Come on, Phooka, you've got this assfucker!" Lena...pep-talked…
"Contestants ready…" Chris began "Go!"
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"Come on, stand up to him!" Lena rooted for Phooka. "Send this twerp to the coffin where he belongs!"
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"I….I…." Phooka blinked.
"Oh god, I couldn't do it. I just couldn't. Those empty...soulless eyes…"
"Hmph." Daniel shrugged as Chris tossed him the last crystal ball. "It appears your getting rid of me tonight was a pipe dream, never to be realized again." He remarked towards Lena, who snarled back.
"Fuck you. I'm making sure you go down one way or another. Even if it takes me until the finale to do it!"
"Sorry, I couldn't be more helpful…" Phooka turned to Lena.
"I'm sorry too." Lena snarled, still mostly at Daniel. "Sorry that you had to lose to that bastard. Even if you were a coward for most of your play of the game, you deserved better."
"The unfortunate truth of this world is that deserving better is not something that life cares about." Daniel said. "You need to learn to accept that trying to do whatever it is you have the preconceived to be the 'right thing' is nothing more than a self-destructive waste of time."
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"It's not a waste of time." Phooka finally broke the silence as she got in the once again returned Coffin of Shame. "I felt awful voting with you last episode, but this time? Voting against you, even though I lost? We almost took you down, and we got help from a third party. The battle was lost sure, but the momentum of the war is shifting in our side's favor." She looked up at the sky.
"Cousin, I'm sorry we couldn't spend more time together on this show. It appears I fought against a foe I could not defeat."
With that, Chef drove away, and Chris sent the Mummies back to their camp.
"And just like that we're down to 21 campers remaining!" He announced.
"Can the Demons survive another challenge? How will the Vampires fair on Weliweli? Can Kyle survive on the Freya-controlled Banshees, will Lena or Daniel ever get rid of one or the other? Find out next time, on Total Drama Nui Kaua…
The Cursed…
Island!"
*Natalie's Final Confessional:
Natalie is in a straightjacket and muffling very angrily at the camera, eventually, someone comes to untape her mouth.
"I am going to fucking murder all of those Vampire assholes who voted me off! Especially that Twilight bitch! I thought she was alright, but it turns out she has less guts than a jellyfish!" Natalie is then re-taped over and continues to muffle angrily before being wheeled away.
End Confessional*
*Misha's Final Confessional:
"I….I guess I saw this coming….I'm not the best…..socializer. I didn't think I'd be voted out as soon as I was though! I thought we had all agreed that Kyle would go first! Oh...Oh….urf….I think I understand now...Who I want to win?...Um...Freya was nice to me...so her...unless she was the one who voted for me...in that case Aubrey!"
End Confessional*
*Phooka's Final Confessional:
"I am not happy that I was voted out so early, and by Daniel and his posse no less, but I am glad that I at least went down swinging, like my cousin and Lena told me to. I lost but...I lost as me, not as a sheep blindly following the vote of the majority, and hey, my vote was even enough to tie it up! Someone else out there seems to have the back of the good guys, and that's great to know! That's more people than Daniel was originally counting on to oppose him! Keep going, Lena and Mystery Voter, you too Cousin, I'm rooting for all three of you."
End Confessional*
The Votes(for those who are curious)
Visceral Vampires Elimination:
Aleister voted for...Natalie
Antonio voted for...Natalie
Molly voted for...Natalie
Natalie voted for...Molly
Samuel voted for...Natalie
Twilight voted for...Natalie
Bloody Banshees Elimination:
Aubrey voted for...Freya
Freya voted for...Misha
Kyle voted for...Freya
Misha voted for..Kyle
Nick voted for...Misha
Sherwood voted for...Misha
Macabre Mummies Elimination:
Daniel voted for...Phooka
Jamal voted for...Phooka
Lena voted for...Daniel
Lucien voted for...Phooka
Phooka voted for...Daniel
Tori voted for...Daniel
Bonus Scene: Location: Nahele Forest
Contestant(s): Tori
Tori was standing next to a smoldering pile of logs.
"It's no fire…" She said into the camera filming her. "But there's still something there, and gosh darn it, if that doesn't give me such intriguing vibes." She turns to the fire as she adds some kindling. "Let's see where this goes, shall we Lena? I never could resist putting my money on the big risks."
AN:
Alright, I've got three characters to go through, so I'll go in the order they left: Natalie, Misha, and Phooka
Natalie: I accepted Natalie for one reason and one reason only, I wanted to see what would happen if a clearly Chaotic Evil contestant was put into the show. The answer I got while working on the elimination order was...nothing good. She was so violent and volatile that I just couldn't see the team doing anything besides voting her off if they lost, even if Natalie tried to intimidate them into keeping her around, it would likely only scare them into voting her off even more. That said, Natalie has sworn to attempt to kill her former teammates, and certain things may or may not happen in later chapters (I am trying to get you paranoid, is it working?)
Having studied her actions throughout the season, Natalie, receives the status of: Villain(but is anyone surprised?)
Natalie's best moment: In all honesty, I don't know if I can call any of Natalie's moments best, considering the more in-character she was, the more dangerous it was for the other contestants. As a person, Natalie's best moment would have to be the walk to the Screaming Winds campsite in episode 1, part 2, since she didn't get violent, but her greatest moment when she was having a fit? I'm going with her threat to Molly, giving her a choice of dying through either suffocation or blunt force trauma before Twilight and Antonio have to come in and stop her.
Misha: I accepted Misha because let's face it...there wasn't a single shy character besides her on this cast. In addition, Misha reminded me a lot of Kaede from Zero Sum, and I simply had to see how well that kind of personality would mesh in this game. Unfortunately, Misha suffered from a severe case of The Unluckys. As I thought up plots for a bunch of these characters, Misha was almost always ending up the victim of one of the season's MANY villains. I really would have liked to give her more development, but a heartwarming story about a girl learning to overcome a mental problem of hers thanks to making friends on a reality show was just not the genre this particular season was going, hence her early elimination. Plus, I'm sure it made all of you hate Freya, that team's clearest villain, even more for doing that.
Having studied her actions throughout the season, Misha, receives the status of: Neutral
Why? Mainly because Misha didn't have quite enough time or enough will to socialize in order to become a Hero, at least the kind I'm thinking of. Was Misha a good guy in the grand scheme of this season? Yes, absolutely, but a Hero? Not quite. Perhaps even just short, but not quite.
Misha's best moment: Me personally? I believed Misha's confessional(interrupted by Kaleaf) to have been her best moment, mainly because it gave everyone a clear grasp on her character. Someone who very much wanted to overcome her social anxiety, but clearly had a severe case of it.
Phooka: My goodness, Phooka has a story behind her. The original Phooka was submitted alongside her twin brother, however, soooo many male characters came in and barely any females were submitted(sound familiar *cough* Nialasach *cough*) that I could only end up accepting Phooka. Originally, Phooka actually was planned to make it a small amount farther (not much mind you, only a few episodes), so she could have time to bond with Kaleaf and we could see family in action, however...Aubrey and Molly already had the family trope down, and I was starting to come up with ideas for a few antagonists that would better suit the tone of the story, thus...Phooka instead gets a small arc about actually standing up for herself instead of trying to protect herself from being hurt, which I think, in all honesty, is so much sweeter than just two family contestants hanging out.
Having studied her actions throughout the season, Phooka, receives the status of: Hero
Just barely, but I like to think that…well, I'll let her best moment(imo) explain my reasoning.
Phooka's best moment: Standing up to Daniel, her subsequent elimination, and final confessional all culminated into one big best moment that helped Phooka earn Hero status. In the first Episode, she was presented as meek, broken, and more concerned with not having a target on her back, but thanks to talks from Lena and Kaleaf, she was able to find a small purpose in herself, and even though she lost, she lost her own entity, not a sheep contestant, effectively following in Isaac's footsteps and leaving with a smile so to speak.
But all of that is just what I think about Natalie, Misha, and Phooka. What about you guys?
Would you give them the same statuses that I did?
What do you think their best moments were?
And what do you think the next episode's curse will be?