AN: You think you want this now, but trust me, if you aren't mentally prepared, you don't want this.
TDNKCI: Episode 4: "There's Real Demons Among Us"
Chris's Recap:
"Last time, on Total Drama Nui Kaua, The Cursed Island…
The challenge was an island-wide paintball game and the curse saw Lena, Aleister, and Azami stranded on Weliweli, but those are insignificant compared to the social game that was the previous episode! Drama among each of the teams rose ever higher as the divisions on the Demons continued to deepen and cement themselves, Lucien lied his way into the Children of Isaac alliance on the Mummies, Molly ruffled feathers as she prepared to sink her teeth into Aleister on the Vampires, and with the help of Molly and Daniel's behavior and subtle manipulations, Freya was able to create a rift between Aubrey and Kyle so large it caused him to vote for her at the Banshee's elimination, where instead, thanks to Freya and Sherwood, Nick, the Leeroy, was voted off instead. We have 20 contestants left, and we're going to be down to 19 shortly! Who is the outcast among these castaways? Find out right here, on Total Drama Nui Kaua...The Cursed...Island!"
Location: Po'ino Bonfire Pit
Contestant(s): Aubrey, Freya
Freya tapped her foot as she waited impatiently for Aubrey's answer. "I'll give you your choices again." She said. "You give me all the information I need to capture Kyle's heart, or both of you get eliminated the next time we lose."
"I...I'm not sure…" Aubrey mumbled. "I don't want him or me to be eliminated but-"
Aubrey clutched her heart.
"My heart is telling me that I shouldn't help you…I still want to trust him, even if he voted for me. He's just depressed and confused, but I'm sure we can talk it out."
"Your heart doesn't know what it's talking about." Freya snarled. "Trust? You think you can lecture me about trust? I'm about to drop a truth on you, rich chick. The show might start us off in teams, but the only one you can ever trust is yourself. If you want to resign you and Kyle to failure, go ahead and be my guest, but if you want to do the normal thing, you'll help me even though it hurts you, because your brain is telling you that it's the right choice. After all, the more time you spend on the island, the more chances you'll have to get your crush back, right?"
Frey smirked as she noticed the small spark of hope in Aubrey's eyes.
"Hey yeah...and maybe if I help you, I can figure out more about him as well, right?"
"That's right." The hunger in Freya's eyes was growing to match the hope in Aubrey's. "You don't have to like me, just work with me."
"Then i guess...it's a deal." Aubrey said as the girls shook hands.
Confessional: Freya: The Bloody Banshees
"Mmm! That desperation! Did you see that? Full control of the team at last! Nick's elimination was a loss, but a necessary one. Not only would it seem awkward to keep him close to me after eliminating Aubey if Kyle had his way, but I'd run the risk of Molly getting to him again. The only opening to disrupting my team should be threw me, after all. That's why, as unfortunate as it is for her, Aubrey will be the next one to leave should we lose again. I only need her around for information on Kyle after all, and once I have the information, the act itself of seducing him should be easy. He's smarter than Nick was, but his about the same level of simplicity when it comes to his emotions, and the heartbreak he must be going through, if fiddled with correctly, can make for an excellent accelerator of this process. Man, it's so much more fun to play this game when I don't have to worry about a little shit stabbing me in the back!"
End Confessional
Location: Macabre Mummies Campsite
Contestant(s): Daniel, Jamal, Lucien, Tori
"Which one of you voted with Lena back at our last elimination?" Daniel asked as the four Mummies on the main island huddled in the shelter that Isaac had created to avoid the gentle, but persistent and annoying rainfall.
"Don't look at me!/" Jamal rhymed. "One of them, it's gotta be!"
"It was me." Lucien continued his lie, to Tori's intrigued expression. Taking credit for something like that only made him look dangerous and untrustworthy, and it shifted suspicion off of her, who was the actual one to vote with Lena.
"Why did you vote for me?" Daniel asked, the information seeming to not phase him.
"It was an attempt to become a swing vote, but it failed, and you're still here." Lucien shrugged with a laugh. "I guess I gotta learn to be a bit better with the cards I'm dealt, huh?"
Confessional: Tori: The Macabre Mummies
"Ohhhh...I see the game you're playing, Luci. You're an interesting one. I suppose I'll thank you for masking my actions by playing along with your lie for now."
End Confessional
"I'll say." Tori laughed. "I was trying to pry the information about how voted against Daniel from Lena herself, and rather than stay hidden, you took credit then too. Your lack of subtlety or a good poker face is going to get you eliminated."
"So can I assume you're both still on this side then, and Lena is alone in more than just the sense that she's stranded on Weliweli?" Daniel asked, seemingly completely disinterested in the positive responses he received from both of them. "Alright then. This conversation is over and done with."
Confessional: Daniel: The Macabre Mummies
"They were both lying to me back there, but it doesn't truly matter whether Lucien or Tori was the one to write my extra name down, what does matter is that they were working together, which means that they need to be broken apart. And if the Banshee's elimination has played out the way it naturally would, there should be three people on that team ready to, intentionally or otherwise, cause some emotional strife."
End Confessional
Location: Weliweli Island
Contestant(s): Aleister, Azami, Lena
"Hey, hey, which of the other three teams do you guys think lost?" Azami cackled as the contestants on Weliweli Island woke up from three crudely made personal shelters of varying effectiveness, Azami's somehow being the most, followed closely by Lena's, while Aleister's, while fine for himself, was a tad unstable.
"I hope it was my team." Lena admitted. "That Daniel fucker needs to leave already."
"What did he do?" Aleister asked.
"Isn't it obvious?" Azami continued to cackle. "She's mad that Daniel LOST to ME in the relay race challenge!"
"No, shut the fuck up." Lena dismissed Azami to turn and talk to Aleister. "He's bringing the team's morale down to the bottom of the fucking barrel, he voted off Isaac due to petty jealousy, and then he voted Phooka off using poor challenge performance as an excuse, even though his performance wasn't that good either, and Phooka being Kaleaf's cousin could have opened up an opportunity for us to align with the Demons. The most aggravating part though, is that the little shit doesn't seem to have any shame at all. The sooner someone kicks his head in, the better."
Confessional: Aleister: The Visceral Vampires
"So it appears that the Mummies are led by this Daniel character and that Lena is opposing him heheheheheh...I'll be sure to share this information with my teammates after the next challenge."
He begins to blush slightly as he continues to speak. "I'm sure Molly will be happy to hear it...and maybe I'll let Freya know too."
End Confessional
Confessional: Azami: The Dreadful Demons
"Well of COURSE Phooka was eliminated, she was losing the challenge FIRST!" Azami is gesturing as though her reasoning should be obvious to anyone. "And a loser is only good for losing!"
End Confessional
Location: Dreadful Demons Campsite
Contestant(s): Barnard, Helen, Jaime, Kaden, Kaleaf
"So, when you and Azami were fishing, did it even once dawn on you that our camp near the volcano is not equipped with any sort of fridge or freezer to keep the fish cool?" Jaime asked Kaden bitterly as the entirety of the Demons on the mainland returned from throwing a bunch of rotten fish carcasses into Mt. Immolate.
"No sorry." Kaden scratched his head under his hat. "We sort of lost control when we began a competition."
Confessional: Kaden: The Dreadful Demons
"I mean, when a girl as attractive as Azami is invites you to do something, wouldn't you agree as well?"
End Confessional
"Well, it looks like one of you is going home first then." Kaleaf spat in a calm anger.
"Wha-?!" Helen turned shocked, only for Barnard to calmly state what ended up being both their feelings on the matter.
"Now hold on, that's a little rash." He pointed out. "There are plenty of fish in that river. They aren't in danger of being over-hunted, even with the mistake that Kaden and Azami have made. This incident alone is not enough to warrant their eliminations. Honestly, it seems as though you're only trying so desperately to paint others as villains here because you are afraid that, as a returning contestant, you'll be voted out first, not that I blame you for it."
"You don't know a thing about me so keep your mouth shut." Kaleaf snapped back.
"I know enough to know that Barnard isn't far off the mark." Helen huffed as she crossed her arms. "But we shouldn't be discussing who to eliminate when we haven't lost a challenge yet."
"We were on the same page and then we weren't." Barnard gave a disappointed sigh. "I feel this goes without saying, but it would be foolish to assume we'll all survive every challenge until a merge. Of course such a thing would be ideal, but let's be realistic here."
"And what is this realistic idea you apparently have?" Jaime rolled her eyes.
"Azami goes first." Barnard shrugged as he held up his hands as if to say "It's bound to happen eventually."
"Now hold on!" Kaden stood up for his absent ally "Azami might not have the most agreeable personality, but she's getting results!"
"I'm not sure what the problem is either." Jaime rose a brow.
"Oh, I see…" Kaleaf realized. "We can thank Lucien for this development. He told Chris that he put the most threatening people all on the same team, which would follow that we're all standing on equal ground with Azami anyways."
"Rendering her physical abilities rather moot in light of our own." Barnard affirmed Kaleaf's theory with a nod.
"It's foolish to dwell on this." Helen argued, clearly not in the mood. "As it stands, we're in the team phase of this game. We won't get anywhere by dividing ourselves prematurely. Take it from someone with experience."
"In that case, I'm surprised your 'experience' hasn't noticed that this team was divided to begin with." Jaime snarked. "First it was newcomers against returning members, and now it seems as though out of everyone, only Azami and Kaden are clearly allied."
"Which is the second reason I have to target her." Barnard explained. "I'm sure you'll agree, Helen, that we don't want to divide the team by forming such tightly-knit cliques prematurely, right?"
"I can't argue with you there." Helen sighed.
"And the third reason is more emotional." Barnard admitted. "She's the only one I can say with certainty that I don't like."
"Well, I can't say I like the idea of eliminating someone whose proven herself to be a powerhouse…" Jamie looked off into the lake, covered by approaching storm clouds. "But if you insist, and nothing happens to change my mind, I'll vote with you."
"I was already voting her." Kaleaf shrugged.
"Hang on!" Kaden exclaimed, desperately. "We can't just treat this as a foregone conclusion! What about trying to remain a team, right?"
"What team?" Kaleaf growled as he slowly turned his head back towards Kaden. "It's the four of us, each all alone, and then you and your little girlfriend together. If my experience has taught me anything, it's that if we don't vote her, we're going to vote you, and you don't want to put up with something like that, trust me."
Having said his piece, Kaleaf turned to continue into the campsite with the rest of the team.
Only Helen and Kaden remained behind.
"You get it, right Helen?" Kaden asked. "Why are we going to get rid of Azami when she hasn't done anything wrong?"
"I'd change things if I could, Kaden." Helen sighed. "But even if I voted alongside you and Azami, the most we'd accomplish is a tie. Furthermore, her competitive and persistent personality doesn't mesh well with any of theirs. Me either, to be honest."
"But can't we, I don't know, vote off Kaleaf instead?" Kaden pleaded.
"Kaden, I really really do not want to keep talking about voting someone off. It'll only help us resign to a losing fate if we keep it up, and I thought we all wanted to win."
"I guess you're right." Kaden grunted, dissatisfied, before kicking up some dust. "Ugh, but why don't they get it? Can't they see that she's trying way harder, putting in far more effort, than anyone else here?"
Helen's eyes widened. Her lips gradually curved into a smile.
Confessional: Helen: The Dreadful Demons
"Watching Kaden defend her like that...It brought back memories of Zero Sum. He's trying his best to further both their games, all on his own. I dislike Azami, quite a bit in fact. But then again...I also disliked Carys."
End Confessional
"What is it?" Kaden asked, confused.
"Just thinking of someone I know." Helen replied through a soft chuckle. "You look and sound nothing like him, but you've got the same drive. It's a little nostalgic."
"Huh…" Kaden sighed. "Well, does this mean you'll help me out?"
"Perform well in the next challenge, and I may." Helen laughed louder this time.
Confessional: Kaden: The Dreadful Demons
"Okay, so if it's me, Azami, and Helen, then we can tie the votes. If we all go for Kaleaf then...hrngh...It'll be hard to get rid of him though, even in a tiebreaker. Azami's pretty strong and fast, but Kaleaf could probably keep at her pace easily. I certainly hope Helen does manage to think of something. All this plotting and scheming just isn't for me. I'd rather win through sheer effort like Azami."
End Confessional
Location: The Visceral Vampires Campsite
Contestant(s): Antonio, Molly, Samuel, Twilight
"Hey, sher-...I mean, short stuff." Twilight walked up to Samuel, who was sitting at the dining table of the resort that the team was allowed to stay in. "About last challenge…Good job clenching the victory for us. Especially against the Banshee slut."
"Really?!" Samuel perked up from the seat before coughing and gathering his composure again. "*Ahem*, Uh-, I mean… Yeah, it was nothin' don't worry about it. I'll clench a victory for us in this next challenge too."
"Don't try to play the cool guy act now, short stuff. You're still 'short stuff'."
"When can I become 'miracle man'?" Samuel joked.
"Hah!" Twilight let out a loud laugh. "You're alright, Samuel. You want to be called 'miracle man', then earn the title. The sooner you do, the sooner I'll stop confusing the two of you."
Confessional: Twilight: The Visceral Vampires
"Probably shouldn't have made both nick names start with 'S-h', that's throwing me off."
End Confessional
"Hey, Antooonioooo?" Molly asked in as seductive a voice as she could while she walked by the door to Antonio, Aleister, and Samuel's room. "Wanna form an allliance with me?"
Antonio slowly stood up from the bed he had been resting on.
He slowly put on his slippers.
And then moved.
Stepping once.
Every.
Few.
Minutes.
Until finally, he had reached the doorway where Molly was standing. She did her best to ignore his imposing and overall unattractive presence to her, as she had a job to do in gathering allies on this team.
Antonio leaned in close to Molly, who gulped before leaning in towards him as well. Was she going to have to kiss him already? He was too ugly for her! More importantly, what if her toy Nick on the Banshees found out?
Antonio's lips parted, and as Molly's began to as well, Antonio let out a firm "No." Before slamming the door on a pursed lipped Molly.
It took her a couple moments to process the information. When she did however…
'BEEEP BEEEP BEEEP you fucking BEEP BEEP BEEP with a BEEEP BEEEP and BEEEEEP as well! You BEEP!"
Confessional: Samuel: The Visceral Vampires
"Geez, where did someone from high society learn to curse so vulgarly?"
End Confessional
Confessional: Antonio: The Visceral Vampires
"Molly...would look ...far more attractive...in the Coffin of Shame."
End Confessional
Confessional: Molly: The Visceral Vampires
"This show just keeps getting worse and worse! I'm already on the outs of my team, none of them want my money or rockin' bod besides maybe Aleister, who by the way is exiled on Weliweli, and I haven't even heard from my prey on the Banshees yet! The worst part though...is that now I look just like my inferior sister. You'd think this resort would have hair ties, but apparently they were confiscated after Natalie went apeshit for fear of them being used to strangle someone, so that's another thing I can thank that psycho-chick for. We better win the next challenge, alright? Because I am not ready to go home yet!"
End Confessional
Location: Nahele Forest
Contestant(s): Aubrey, Freya, Kyle, Sherwood
Confessional: Kyle: The Bloody Banshees
"So...I found a good spot in Nahele Forest...and I thought I'd be able to play some happy country songs to cheer myself up after everything that happened but…I ended up playing a different one instead. About ten times."
End Confessional
"Old school McGraw, coming out of my doors," Kyle began to sing again after taking a sigh. Despite the tone of the song, it did seem to at least be calming him down from the emotional mess he was the previous night.
"Had to pull over, couldn't take it no more.
Got this thing running in park,
Hazards lighting up the dark…
I was just out driving around,
Wasn't scanning for a memory to slow me down,
But damn if yours didn't, baby
I'd'a paid that DJ not to play it."
"He's here." Sherwood gave a disinterested sigh as he showed Freya where Kyle was practicing. "Don't interrupt the song. Show up after it ends and he's lingered for a bit."
"I know, I know, now get out of here and back to the camp. Make sure Aubrey is on her way."
"'Cause I'm sitting here knowing what it's gonna take to fix me," Kyle continued to sing.
"It ain't a bar, it ain't a beer, and it ain't the whiskey,
I'd give anything to hear you say you miss me tonight…
Yeah anybody else, with any kind of sense,
Would've done moved on, said 'it is what it is',
But I'm off on the shoulder in a mess, all wrecked inside,
Baby, I'm broke down and it ain't the truck this time."
As Kyle continued to sing, Freya slowly walked forward, her eyes on her prey like a panther ready to pounce.
"People slowing down, wanna see what's wrong,
I got my hand out the window, just waving 'em on
'Cause I don't wanna have to explain.
Don't want no one to see me this way.
Don't need no gas, don't need no ride.
Everything on this Chevy is running just right.
I just need another minute or too,
'Till this song's over like me and you."
Sherwood slowly sank back into the woods at Freya's command to pinpoint Aubrey's location.
"I'm sitting here knowing what it's gonna take to fix me,
It ain't a bar, it ain't a beer, it ain't the whiskey,
I'd give anything to hear you say you miss me tonight,
Yeah, anybody else, with any kind of sense,
Would have done moved on, said 'it is what it is'
But I'm off on the shoulder in a mess, all wrecked inside,
Yeah baby I'm broke down, and it ain't the truck this time."
As Kyle began a guitar solo, Sherwood returned, and motioned Freya a tad closer to him.
"She's on her way. You'll have to work fast."
Freya nodded and dismissed him before returning her gaze to Kyle.
"Yeah, anybody else, with any kind of sense,
Would have done moved on, but I'm here like this,
Off on the shoulder in a mess, all wrecked inside,
Yeah baby I'm broke down, but it ain't the truck this time
No it ain't the truck this time…"
Freya, upon noticing the song was ending, began to slowly walk forwards. Time to act.
"I got nowhere to go, nowhere to be,
I'm nobody baby, if you don't love me…"
As Kyle strummed the final few cords of the song, Freya gently sat herself down on the same log Kyle was using while he put his instrument back in its case.
Confessional: Sherwood
"You could almost begin to hear the string orchestra, she was approaching this in such an ominously precise way. Bloody terrifying."
End Confessional
"I really wish you didn't think so poorly of yourself, Kyle." Freya spoke softly, inflecting her voice with a false worried tone. "You're a very important member of this team you know."
"Thank you, but-"
"Even after everything you don't believe me?" Freya inflected her voice with more worry. "I thought voting off Nick would show you how serious I was!"
"It's not that I don't believe you…" Kyle turned to look at Freya, his first mistake, as he was met with a nervous gaze that he recognized, but didn't realize was fake. "I-it's just...hard to accept that all this has happened."
"I understand." Freya inched closer. "I find it hard to accept too. I thought I was careful enough to not let myself be betrayed by my ally this time, but it happened all over again." She maked a giggle by speaking up as she continued to speak. "I speak from experience when I say that people shouldn't play with others like that! I'd rather everything be direct, you know?"
"Yeah!" Kyle agreed. "Why can't everyone just wear their hearts on their sleeves? I would have been fine if Aubrey had just told me that she wasn't interested and left it at that!" His second mistake.
"Right?!" Freya contorted her face into a more eager and agreeable one for a split second, before reverting back to the nervous and worried facade she had created.
"In that case, I know this will sound weird Kyle, but...I am interested in you."
In any other emotional state, Kyle would have never believed this, but given the events he had witnessed, and how he felt after playing his country song, instead, he blushed and replied with "Wait, are you serious? What about Nick, you aren't just on a rebound are you?" His third mistake.
"I was confused and trying to make you jealous, Kyle!" Freya momentarily hid her face in her hands, faking her sad tone, before looking back up. "Because you only ever saw me as some villain, that's how I resorted to acting. I didn't want to disappoint you…And…"
She slowly leaned in, and when Kyle did not back away at a moment's notice, his fourth mistake, Freya placed a gentle kiss atop his forehead.
"I'm not on some rebound. I promise that's the most I'll do if you didn't like it, but I find you so strong and kind and attractive. In a game like this, that's a real threat! At first I thought I could do what Oswald did to me to you, but I can't! I can't vote off the boy I like! That's not a bad thing, right?"
"N-no...that's not a bad thing." Kyle's face was bright red as he replied his fifth mistake.
"Then…" Freya slowly leaned her head in again, and Kyle, who was too deep into the lie to realize what was going on, didn't back away or put up any resistance.
3…
"Sherwood?" Aubrey asked as she approached Sherwood. "Have you seen Kyle? I need to tell him something important!"
2…
"He's that way." Sherwood pointed towards the clearing.
1…
"Kyle!" Aubrey panted as she ran into the clearing and put her hands on her knees to catch her breath, "Don't-"
Aubrey looked up, saw Freya's and Kyle's locked lips, and fell to the ground.
Sherwood looked into the camera of the intern following him around as Freya separated her mouth from Kyle's followed by her tongue and a string of saliva..
"This is the most bloody disgusting thing I've ever seen on this show." Sherwood commented to the intern. "It's fitting one of the teams is named after them, because now it's obvious. There's real demons among us."
Confessional: Freya: The Bloody Banshees
"Heather, take notes." Freya smiles as she dusts her face while looking at her make-up kit's mirror, before putting everything away and closing the case shut. "That's how you cause a total heartbreak."
End Confessional
Freya looked back out of the corner of her eye to see Aubrey slowly trudging back to the cabin, a defeated aura all around her.
"What is it?" Kyle looked over as well, but Aubrey was already gone.
"I was just wondering if some angel was watching over me, that was just so wonderful." Freya lied back to Kyle.
*BEEEEEP*
"Attention campers…" Chris announced. "Please meet me atop Mt. Immolate for your next challenge! And for the announcement of this episode's curse!"
Location: Mt. Immolate Summit
Contestant(s): All Remaining
"Welcome back, Weliweli Island three!" Chris exclaimed happily as Chef led Lena, Aleister, and Azami up to the mountain summit, where all six of their eyes opened wide.
"The fuck is this shit? My team didn't lose?" Lena asked in genuine disbelief.
"HA!" Azami pointed. "The Banshees sent all three of us to Weliweli and they still LOST!"
"VOLUME!" Lena yelled at Azami as Aleister joined his team. "Learn to control it you fuckin' moron."
"Like I'm going to talk to anyone from a team of LOSERS!" Azami did not back down.
"Actually, didn't we win the last challenge?" Lucien asked with a look of innocent curiosity on his face.
"Oh, this is going to go to her head isn't it?" Barnard sighed to himself as Azami turned to her team. "You didn't come in FIRST? HA! I knew I was the reason we kept winning!"
"Azami, maybe tone it town a bit!" Kaden rushed up to her and crouched over. "People are thinking of voting for you because of that…" He whispered "So keep your voice-"
"You guys are thinking of VOTING for me?!" Azami asked.
"Excuse me!" Chris spoke through a megaphone. "We're about to partake in a challenge, and I would like to explain its rules please!"
The contestants went quiet.
"That's better." Chris smiled. "Now, this challenge is very simple. Can I get one male and one female volunteer from each team?"
"I'll go." Tori rose her hand right away.
Noticing this, Lucien also raised his own hand. "Yeah, sounds like fun."
"Alright, that's Tori and Lucien for the Mummies." Chris pointed. "Banshees?"
"Want to go up?" Freya asked Kyle as she rested her hand on his arm and looked up at him.
"Oh, um...Okay…"
"And we have two for the Banshees with Freya and Kyle!" Chris pointed. "Vampires?"
Confessional: Molly: The Visceral Vampires
"Oh, I see how it is! You got rid of my toy to get me off your back huh? Well guess what, I'm taking you down, Freya!"
End Confessional
"Us!" Molly, uncharacteristically enthusiastic, pulled Aleister up as she hooked her arm in his.
"Wh-what?" He asked, confused.
"And Molly and Aleister for the Vampires!" Chris nodded. "Demons, you're up!"
"I think it should be Kaden and Azami…" Jamie suggested. "You guys work well with each other right?"
"No, something's not right here…" Kaleaf shook his head. "Helen and Barnard."
"I don't think that's a good idea." Barnard responded. "I have no quarrel with Helen, but we don't have nearly as much synergy with-"
"That decision is final." Kaleaf determined as he used his superior physical might to either of them to push them both forward.
"Helen and Barnard for the Demons!" Chris announced happily.
"Great! We have our Nui Kaua Newlyweds!"
"Excuse me?!" Helen asked. "I am not going to-"
"Relax, relax." Chris laughed. "It's just the name of the challenge, check it out!"
He clicked a button on a remote he was holding in his hands as a large game-show like contraption rose from the volcano.
Confessional: Helen: The Dreadful Demons
"Oh great...this machine again."
End Confessional
"The volunteer pairs from each team will sit in the seats labeled with their team's logo." Chris exclaimed. "And will take turns answering questions about their partner!" He let out a couple laughs.
"Meanwhile, the partner will be writing the correct answer down. If both answers match, the team earns a point! The team that earns the least amount of points by the challenge's end will be sent to the Po'ino Bonfire Elimination Ceremony, where they will vote off a team member. And now, for the curse! It's the 'Wedding Party' curse!"
"Wedding party?" Lena folded her arms.
"Yes, a wedding party" Chris nodded, " and what wedding party would be complete without a banquet? Chef!"
Chef strolled out bringing a large table full of exquisite and gourmet food.
"It's been a tough season for the teams so far, so every contestant who is not directly participating in the challenge can dig in whenever they want."
"What's the catch?" Barnard asked, realizing easily that there was a catch.
"The catch…" Chris grinned. "Is that for every team member that takes food from the table, their team loses an overall point in the challenge."
"Oh, that's not that bad." Kyle sighed in relief as he looked at Freya. "The most we'd lose is two points!"
"But do you really know your partners?" Chris grinned sadistically. "Or rather, do you know what they'll write down? Because by no means do the answers have to be truthful. They just have to match."
"I see…" Tori smirked. "So in other words, this is a mental game."
"RIP Molly and Aleister." Samuel sighed to a snickering Twilight.
"Also…" Chris grinned. "I'm sure some of you will find some interesting things if you do decide to eat the food. It may help you or your team later on in the game you know."
Freya struggled to keep her poker face up as she noticed Aubrey heading towards the food.
Confessional: Freya: The Bloody Banshees
"There's a freaking tiki clue in there, I know it. I can't let Aubrey get her hands on it though! I need someone else in there to keep her focused on the food and not what may be in, near, or under it."
End Confessional
Freya shot a nervous glance towards Sherwood, who ever so slightly shook his head in a declination. The team was already down a point, he wasn't going to lower them further.
Freya changed gears and delivered the look to Daniel, who noticed it, and noticed Aubrey.
He put his hand to his mouth and thought to himself for a bit, before heading over to the table as well.
"Daniel, what the hell/?" Jamal asked. "We might lose if things don't go well!"
"Ignore the shit." Lena said as she ushered Jamal away from the table. "He's just trying to prolong his own stay in the game. He doesn't care about any of the rest of us."
"And?" Daniel was disinterested. "So what? We aren't here to participate in a morality play. I've said this already. Maybe your time on Weliweli has messed with your memory. Figures."
Samuel, Antonio, and Twilight all paid the table no attention.
"At least our team doesn't have a good for nothing on it." Molly sighed in relief.
Confessional: Samuel: The Visceral Vampires
"Our team's good for nothing is participating in the challenge, and is perfectly capable of losing on her own."
End Confessional
"Can I get an explanation of why YOU TWO are eating?" Azami asked, annoyed, as she noticed Jaime and Kaleaf both going for the food.
"It might be because all the fish you and Kaden caught went completely rotten and ruined our chances of getting anything decent to eat for the week, but that's just my best guess." Jaime responded sarcastically.
"To prevent either of you from eating to punish you." Kaleaf announced.
"This is too far." Helen whispered to Barnard. "It's too detrimental to the team as a whole to punish either Azami or Kaden in this manner. Not to mention the high possibility there's a tiki hint in that food."
"I agree." Barnard whispered back. "But we should deal with it after the challenge. The two of us need to focus and win this for the demons. We're already behind thanks to those two."
Challenge: Nui Kaua Newlyweds
Pairs of contestants will take turns answering questions about their partner, while their partner writes the correct answer down. Matching answers (whether true or false, so long as they match) get a point. For every team member eating at the 'Wedding Party' curse's banquet table, that team will lose one point from their total score. The team with the least amount of points will be sent to the Po'ino Bonfire Elimination Ceremony.
Mummies Newlyweds: Tori, Lucien
Banshees Newlyweds: Freya, Kyle
Vampires Newlyweds: Molly, Aleister
Demons Newlyweds: Helen, Barnard
Teammates Eating For Mummies: 1 (-1 from total score)
Teammates Eating For Banshees: 1 (-1 from total score)
Teammates Eating For Vampires: 0 (-0 from total score)
Teammates Eating For Demons: 2 (-2 from total score)
Challenge Begin
Question 1: What is your partner's favorite thing to do?
As the contestants all took their seats, Chris took out the first question. "We'll have four questions to ask you. For the first half of the challenge, we'll be asking the women these four questions as they pertain to the men. When we're done, we'll switch and ask the men four questions about the women. That's eight questions total. Let's hope you know each other well enough! Now, the first question...Ladies, what is your partner's favorite thing to do?"
All the contestants on the contraption scribbled in their answers, and Chris pointed.
"Alright, Tori, Freya, Molly, Helen, let's see what you wrote!"
Tori's Answer: Make Jokes
Freya's Answer: Play Country Music
Molly's Answer: Spend Time With Cute Girl
Helen's Answer: Debate
"Wow, okay!" Chris said as he looked at the answers the male contestants had written down.
"It looks like the questions will need to be harder because…"
Lucien's Answer: Make Jokes (Match, Mummies+1)
Kyle's Answer: Play Country Music (Match, Banshees+1)
Aleister's Answer: Hang with Cute Girl (Match, Vampires +1)
Barnard's Answer: Debate (Match, Demons+1)
Question 2: What would your partner say is their greatest weakness
"Our greatest weakness, or greatest fear?" Lucien asked, wanting clarification.
"Weakness." Chris grinned. "Though it might be a fear, It all depends on what you write, my man."
The contestants once again all scribbled down their answers, and when they were done, Chris had the contestants reveal their answers.
Tori's Answer: Stupid
Freya's Answer: Naivete
Molly's Answer: Is Awkward
Helen's Answer: Attachment to Friends
Lucien's Answer: I'm Kinda Stupid (Match, Mummies +1)
Kyle's Answer: I'm A Naive Country Boy (Match, Banshees +1)
Aleister's Answer: Not That Athletic(Not a Match)
Barnard's Answer: Attachment to Friends(Match, Demons +1)
Question 3: Who is your partner's crush?
Tori's Answer: Lena
Freya's Answer: Aubrey
Molly's Answer: Molly
Helen's Answer: No One
Lucien's Answer: Lena (Match, Mummies +1)
Kyle's Answer: Freya (Not A Match)
Aleister's Answer: Freya (Not A Match)
Barnard's Answer: No One (Match, Demons +1)
"Hey!" Freya faked sincerity in her original malicious smile. "Kyle, you wrote my-"
"You were the one who was there for me during my depression." Kyle answered sincerely. "That means a lot, I really can't thank you enough for helping me through that."
Freya was not expecting the complete sincerity, and, being caught completely off-guard, blushed and sat back into her seat.
"He-he wrote…" Aubrey barely looked up from her food to see Kyle's answer before returning to chowing down on it.
"Aleister, what the fuck?" Molly asked her partner from her seat.
Confessional: Molly: The Visceral Vampires
"Someone, It can be either Freya or Aleister, I don't care, but they have to pay for robbing than answer from me!"
End Confessional
"A-Aleister, I'm flattered but…" Freya looked up at Kyle. "I already have Kyle as a boyfriend. If you liked me, you should have said so way at the beginning..."
"Screw all of that shit, what's my name doing up there?" Lena asked. "Seriously you two, this isn't fucking funny, take that shit down!"
Confessional: Tori: The Macabre Mummies
"It was a guess on my part to be honest, but I don't know why Lucien is doing all of these things he's been doing. He's a very curious contestant. Very curious."
End Confessional
Question 4: What is your partner's most valued possession?
Tori's Answer: Hair
Freya's Answer: Dog Tags On Neck
Molly's Answer: Sister
Helen's Answer: Mother
Lucien's Answer: Sense of Humor (Not a Match)
Kyle's Answer: Dog Tags (Match, Banshees +1)
Aleister's Answer: Sister (Match, Vampires +1)
Barnard's Answer: Mother (Match, Demons +1)
"And that's a wrap on the first half of the challenge…" Chris grinned. "As you can see, the Demons lead with 4 points overall, followed by the Mummies and Banshees both with 3, and the Vampires following behind with 2, but, in actuality, factoring in the munchers at the table…"
Chris pressed a button and the positions shifted to their true areas.
"Everyone is at 2 points! This is still anybody's game!"
Confessional: Daniel: The Macabre Mummies
"I nearly choked on this thing to get it, figures." He held up a small scroll, clearly a note to a hidden immunity tiki. "And…" He holds up a second one. "I managed to snag the one near Aubrey as well. Unfortunately, they're clues to the same immunity tiki, because I'm apparently never allowed a lucky break."
End Confessional
Confessional: Kaleaf: The Dreadful Demons
"Hmph." Kaleaf holds up his own clue. "This is going to help me going forward in the competition. I'm not going home as easily as I went home last game."
End Confessional
Switch (Males now answering questions about the females)
Question 5: Which remaining contestant does your partner dislike most?
Lucien's Answer: Jamal
Kyle's Answer: Aubrey
Aleister's Answer: Freya
Barnard's Answer: Kaleaf
Tori's Answer: Jamal (Match, Mummies +1)
Freya's Answer: Freya (Not A Match)
Molly's Answer: Freya (Match, Vampires +1)
Helen's Answer: Kaleaf (Match, Demons +1)
"I would like to state…" Tori announced. "That for the record, I do not dislike Jamal. I simply like him the least among all of us."
"Hahahaha!" Molly pointed at Freya. "Not only did your pity party on yourself not work, you missed out on a point because of it!"
"Stop that!" Kyle defended Freya. "It takes a lot of courage to admit something like that. You shouldn't look down on-"
"Pfft, whatever." Molly brushed him off and returned to paying attention to the challenge.
Confessional: Freya: The Bloody Banshees
"Oh no, the pity party worked perfectly thanks to you, Molly. You are the cement that I will use to connect the bricks of the tower that is Kyle's loyalty to me. It's a nice day when someone so sweet and innocent is taken complete advantage of." For a split second, Freya frowns, as if thinking about something, before the confessional cuts out.
End Confessional
Question 6: What would your partner say is their greatest strength?
Lucien's Answer: Luck
Kyle's Answer: Beauty
Aleister's Answer: Money
Barnard's Answer: Sociability
Tori's Answer: Luck (Match, Mummies +1)
Freya's Answer: Beauty (Match, Banshees +1)
Molly's Answer: Money (Match, Vampires +1)
Helen's Answer: Decision Making (Not a match)
Question 7: What is your partner most afraid of?
Lucien's Answer: Frogs
Kyle's Answer: Betrayed by Lover
Aleister's Answer: Losing Money
Barnard's Answer: Blood
Tori's Answer: Beetles (Not a match)
Freya's Answer: Betrayal By Lover (Match, Banshees +1)
Molly's Answer: Tacky Outfits (Not a match)
Helen's Answer: Blood (Match, Demons +1)
"Currently, all teams are tied at a total of 4 points each, taking the eaters into account!" Chris announced "This last question could be the game maker or breaker!"
Question 8: What number, 1-10 is your partner thinking of?
Lucien's Answer: 7
Kyle's Answer: 1
Aleister's Answer: 4
Barnard's Answer: 3
Tori's Answer: ….
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Freya's Answer: …..
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Molly's Answer: …..
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Helen's Answer: …..
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"WHAT?!" Azami stood up as she looked at the scoreboard.
"Mummies...5, Banshees 5, Vampires 5, Demons...4? We LOST? YOU LOST US THIS CHALLENGE!?"
"None of this would have happened if you hadn't gone overboard in catching fish." Kaleaf scoffed as he stood up from the table and began to walk down. "Let's follow the drill and just head to Po'ino already."
"Helen…" Kaden tapped Helen on the shoulder as the two began to lag behind the rest of the group. "Please tell me you've thought of something to help, please!"
"I'm debating doing something…" Helen said. "I don't want to have to do it, but it help me accomplish what I set out to obtain by coming here for another season in the first place. Ah, Barnard!"
Helen called up to Barnard, who, after confirming that he had been called, walked to where the two were.
"Are you still voting for Azami tonight?" Helen asked.
"I don't have a choice do I?" Barnard shrugged. "I can't bring myself to vote off anyone else on this team."
"I see...so then the best Kaden could hope for is a tie."
"Afraid so." Barnard nodded.
Helen sighed. "Alright, thank you."
"This doesn't ruin your plan does it?" Kaden asked, in a bit of a worry. "I don't want Azami to go when all she was trying to do was provide for those ungrateful people!"
"It doesn't ruin my plan at all." Helen clearly didn't seem to want to go through with whatever she had planned. "But given my experience in this season so far, I think it's the best action I can take."
Location: Po'ino Bonfire Ceremony
Contestant(s): Azami, Barnard, Helen, Kaden, Kaleaf, Jaime
"Demons...I think I speak for everyone other than Azami when I say that we all knew this was only a matter of time." Chris laughed as the Demons crowded around the bonfire.
"Let's just hurry up and vote already." Kaleaf pushed Chris to hurry. "We all know that we're voting Azami off."
"NO WE DON'T!" Azami shouted as she stood up. "If anyone one of the two who actually LOST in the challenge should be going home!"
"That's ridiculous." Barnard shook off the accusation. Helen and I performed within the standard deviation of the contestants. There's no guarantee that any of you could have done any better.
"In that case, it should be one of the people who did nothing but eat!" Kaden argued.
"We only ate because someone forgot that fish need to stay cool or they you know, rot!" Jaime responded without missing a beat.
As the Demons all began to argue, or in the case of Barnard, calmly debate, who should go home and why, Helen's patience finally ran out.
"Everyone SHUT UP!" She yelled. "You are by far and away the worst team I have ever had the displeasure of working with. Not even on Total Drama, either! I mean in every event, club, sport, anything I've ever done that required teamwork, no matter how many of them I joined or will join in the future, I am 100% fucking positive that they were, are, or will be a better team than you guys. I'll go in alphabetical order for this, so Azami, you first. You're a bratty bitch who doesn't realize everything she thinks is funny or fun is actually a huge pain in everyone else's ass! And stop with the winner-loser dichotomy! There is never a black and white outcome to any event on this game, and that includes the competition, so learn to chill the fuck out every once in awhile. Maybe this dilemma won't happen again!"
She turned to Barnard. "Barnard, for someone who seems so logic focused, and facts oriented, you sure do have a hypocritical way of looking at this game by not voting with the logic you claim to love so much and instead just keeping who you like around. You might think your debates are an interesting form of conversation, but they're nothing but annoying arguments for the sake of conflict to the rest of us! Either put your money where your mouth is and vote like the cold robot you don't want people to see you as, or find a way to socialize without critiquing everyone's viewpoint of every situation. That only hinders teamwork!"
"Jaime, stop snarking and contribute something of value to this team. You've done nothing but harp on everyone else's ideas, but I've yet to see you do anything of merit for this tribe, yet somehow, you have the gall to act like you're better than those actually working to provide!"
"Kaden, you're too obsessed with Azami! This is a competition, not a dating service! If you aren't going to take things seriously and realize that there's a whole rest of the team here, you can't blame them when they all vote you off!"
"Finally, Kaleaf, what the fuck is your problem? No, seriously, I'd like to know. Ever since the 1st day you've been antagonistic towards me, and you know what? I could handle that, but now it's grown into this grudge you seem to have against the whole team. If you're heading back into that unhelpful phaze you were in when I first met you back in Nui Kaua, you better fucking stop, because none of the people you see before you will put up with any of your shit if that happens!"
"Are you done?" Barnard asked as Helen backed off panting angrily. "Because I feel like you were going somewhere with this, and you haven't gotten there yet."
"Don't chime in...ass…" Helen said through heavy breaths. "Gotta regain...my voice…"
After an intern brought her a glass of water, she continued.
"Well, what do you all have to say for yourselves?"
Barnard rose a hand.
"Helen, I can understand how you feel, but don't do something you'll regret later."
"Can you, Barnard?" Helen responded. "Because when I look around, I don't see anyone else here who was violently injured, had their elimination forced upon them, and was then invited back only to be in a shitty team full of shitty people! Not only does this team suck, but Isaac was voted out first, Freya's dominating her own team, and Twilight, the one person who actually can understand what I'm going through, is always on the other side of this goddamn island! I don't have any of my actual Zero Sum friends competing here with me either, No Kaede, No Peter, No Hubert, and whenever you guys act similar to them, I realize how much more fun I had in that season! That's why-"
Helen rushed up into the Coffin of Shame.
"I'm voting myself off! I would rather place 20th in this game than spend any more time talking to any of you! If you all keep the same attitudes you have right now going forwards, I sincerely hope each and every one of you loses! Chef, take me away!"
She slammed the lid of the Coffin of Shame shut.
"Huuuhhhh..." Chris said as Chef drove off with Helen inside the Coffin of Shame before any of the other Demons could comment or truly defend themselves.
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"Good riddance." Kaleaf finally said.
"Yeah, who does she think she is, telling us all off like that?" Jaime wondered aloud.
"I KNEW she was a LOSER!" Azami's loud volume persisted.
"She was honestly the most hypocritical out of all of us." Barnard shook his head. "Besides, being a veteran in this game gives you an unfair advantage. It's kind of hard to pull the victim act when everyone knows you have more experience."
No one seemed to have truly listened to any of the words that Helen had spat in her anger.
Kaden, however, knew what had truly happened.
Confessional: Kaden: The Dreadful Demons
"Helen...thank you...so much! You saved her. You didn't even like her but you still saved her, because you realized that she didn't deserve to leave so early on when she was trying so hard. The rest don't want to admit it, but they all know that now that you've laid all the problems we have out in the open, we need to address them. We'll be stronger coming out of this Helen...thank you, thank you for doing it again...making yourself a martyr."
End Confessional
"And that's a wrap on episode 4?" Chris asked the camera, still a little bewildered at Helen's sudden self-elimination. "Will the Demons recover? Will Aubrey ever win Kyle back? Will Lucien's motives and actions ever become clear? Find out only one of these...next time! On Total Drama Nui Kaua…
The Cursed…
Island!"
*Final Confessional: Helen
"Well, I didn't do nearly as well as the last time I participated, nor was I voted out naturally as I had hoped to be, but I did leave on my own terms this time, so am at peace with this placement. I don't see myself coming back for another season, not unless it's an all stars one or a heroes vs villains or fans vs favorites or something like that where I know I'll be able to see Kaede again. This whole experience just...wasn't fun for me. It's like coming home after studying abroad to find that everything has changed, nearly no one you know still lives in the area, and you aren't welcome there for no real reason. I want to have faith in that team to come through and become better, and I know at least Kaden will. Maybe Barnard too. To be honest though, I just want to put this all behind me and not deal with anymore Total Drama for a long time."
End Confessional*
The Votes(for those who are curious)
Helen voted for...Helen
AN: So, Helen…
Helen was honestly nothing more than a place holder. It was either going to be her returning from Zero Sum, or Peter, depending on which of the Ka Lani members got eliminated first in Nui Kaua (And their first true elimination was Aleister, thus creating a need for a female character to even out the ratio), thus, Helen returned, and it was not as though she was without good reason to. To be honest though, she didn't do much besides complain about her team, though she served as a good tool to demonstrate just how hostile everyone was both on her team in general, and towards returning contestants. Helen's early self-elimination was planned from the get-go, though the circumstances around it changed slightly here and there, and it's final product was this both heartwarming and heart-wrenching Po'ino Bonfire Elimination.
Having studied her actions throughout the season, Helen, receives the status of: Neutral
Why?: There is no mistaking that Helen is a hero….in Zero Sum. Here? Not quite. She's clearly not a bad person along the likes of Freya or Daniel, but she's not as canonically Heroic like Isaac or Kyle. She was far more neutral a player this time around, her only notable act being what you just saw, and that alone does not a hero make.
Helen's best moment?: I personally think Helen's best moment was during the relay race challenge. Azami may have been the one to truly win it for the Demons, but Helen was the one who dragged them out of last place and even into second, even after the significant disadvantage she was put in thanks to Natalie's assault on Kaden.
But all of that is just what I think about Helen, what about you guys?
Would you give her the same status I did?
What do you think her best moment was?
And what do you think the next curse will be?