"Last time on Total Drama: Dungeon Hunters." Chris started off the episode with a huge smile on his face. "Our contestants took on the castle siege challenge where their goal was to steal the legendary golden sword Aurum from the stage boss Kaiser's hand." A picture of Kaiser sitting on his throne was shown on screen. "After hard fought battles endured by each team the final winner was soon determined when Kazuo of the Red Dragons picked up the legendary sword." A replay of Kazuo was shown picking up the sword was played on screen. "With their victory the defeat of the Blue Nagas was imminent for they were the final losers amongst the three teams and were forced to take on the very first elimination ceremony for the season." A still image of the Blue Naga members were shown sitting right in-front of Chris and Chef at the elimination grounds. "Will the Blue Nagas be able to recover and come back after losing Estwynn? Are the Red Dragons going go be this weeks winners once more? Or will Dylan's game sense be able to carry the Yellow Chocobos to victory after their performance last challenge? Find out now on Total...Drama...Dungeon Hunters!" Chris held his arms open dramatically.

~(Theme Song)

(Cabin 5: Alice and Laren's)

Inside the dimly lit cabin was Laren who was fast asleep on the top bunk with her entire body completely covered by her sheets with only one arm sticking out. As the sunrise slowly creep up on her, the sun's rays were now directed on her face. After a few seconds had Laren's closed eyes soon started twitching before slowly opening. Letting out a soft yawn she soon sat up straight with her arms stretched.

"*yawn* Another bright day it seems." Laren says a bit cheerily as she hops off of her bed. Laren was shown wearing a simple white nightgown with a single bow on her chest. Dropping down on to the wooden flooring caused the bed to shake slightly, disturbing Alice from her sleep.

"Mmm, Laren...keep it down a bit." Alice grumbled as she pulled the covers over her head. "Go back to bed. Its still too early." Her voice sounded muffled from under the sheets.

"Oh fine, you had a hard day yesterday anyways." Laren smiled but Alice didn't even budge. She soon moved towards the sink to freshen herself up. As Laren turned on the tap and scooped up a handful of water, a sudden knocking was heard from the door.

"Knock knock. Anyone home?" A male voice came from outside the door. The guy sounded he was in a very happy mood.

"Just one second." Laren replied as she dropped her handful of water and wiped her hands dry with a nearby towel. As she finished, she soon walked towards the door and opened it up. Standing on the other side was Kazuo barring a huge grin while already wearing his normal clothing. "Oh, hey Kazuo. Your up early." Laren smiled at him.

"Yeah, I figured that I should start off the day early." Kazuo replied. "Anyways, is Alice still inside? I need to speak with her for a bit."

"Yup! She's still inside but she's still asleep though." Laren explained. "Why not come back again later? I'll make sure let Alice know you came by."

"Hmm, I see." Kazuo grinned. "Well, tell her to come find me once she's up and running. I'll just be close by." He took a quick glance inside. "Okay?"

"Sure!"

"Okay. Well, see you all later." Kazuo smiled before leaving. Laren soon closed the door and turned only to see Alice was already seated right up giving her a straight and serious look. She wore a plain white tank top for her upper half but from her waist downward was covered by the sheets.

"Oh, morning Alice!" Laren smiled. "How long have you been up?"

"Why was Kazuo here?" Alice asked in a serious tone.

"He needed to talk to you or something." Laren explained. "He said to come find you once you're ready."

"I see." Alice replied. She soon removed the sheets and swung her legs to the side before getting up. "Well, if you don't mind me, I'll be heading out for a bit." She smiled. She put on her pair of slippers before walking towards the front door.

"What about Kazuo?"

Alice stopped as she was already half way through the door. "We'll see." She said simply as she head out of the door and closing it behind her. Taking the wooden steps down, she scanned around the place to see if she could spot Kazuo anywhere. As she looked around she finally took notice of Kazuo leaning on the cabin next to theirs with his arms. As she approached him, she soon noticed the sly grin on Kazuo's face.

"Morning Alice." He said with a wide grin. "How's the second day threating ya?"

"Lovely." Alice replied sarcastically. "Now cut the small talk and get on with it." She said with her arms crossed as she stared at him with a piercing look. "What is it that you wanted to tell me?"

"Interesting." Kazuo said softly to himself with a smirk. "Seeing what happened yesterday I thought you would be the type to ignore me and yet here you are." He said in an amused tone. "And people say I was the one who gone mad." He gave off a soft chuckle.

"I can see why." Alice replied in a much harsher tone. "Now, if that is all you have to say to me then I better head back inside. I need to get ready before that narcissistic host starts his new challenge." She was about to leave but then Kazuo suddenly stopped her.

"Wait. There is something else I wanted to ask." Kazuo said as he placed a hand on Alice's shoulder.

"Okay, make it quick." She swiped away Kazuo's hand.

"Tell me, if we lose this challenge who are you going to vote off." He said in a rather calm yet serious tone. Alice was about to speak up and say his name but she hesitated and closed her lips instead. "Well?"

"Th-that's none of your business!" Alice said with a hint of uncertainty in her tone all the while glaring at him. "Now go away. I don't want to see that smug look of yours." She soon headed straight back to her cabin and closed the door. Kazuo, grinning to himself, just walked off off-screen.

(Confessional.)

Alice: I just...I keep saying to myself that once we lose he's gone and very much wanted to say it to his face but...for some reason I just can't. *sigh* That Kazuo...what game are you trying to play here?

Kazuo: Hmm, even someone as cold as her got shaken that easily. I wonder if it would affect her in any way later. *grins*

Laren: Umm what just happened? I was bust brushing my teeth when Alice suddenly entered the cabin looking very much down. Did I miss something?

(End confessional.)

(Chef's food tent.)

Inside the make shift cafeteria were a couple of long tables with seats on each side. At the end far end of the large tent placed another long table with silver platters holding different types of food in them, a basket full of bread, and three different dispensers filled with different types of juices along with one pot filled with coffee. Standing in-line for all the food was Lucette who had an empty plate in her hand.

"Hmm, what to eat." She thought to herself as he inspected each sealed platter. Opening up each one she soon saw what platter contained which food item. The first platter she opened had fried rice in it sprinkled with various veggies and spices. The aroma that escaped from it was so inviting that she couldn't help but scoop up a few spoon fulls. The next platter she opened was filled with scrambled eggs sprinkled with chopped green onions. Without much hesitation, she scooped up a few. The last one she opened up held multiple large strips of bacon. Taking a couple strips her plate was now filled with food.

"Man, this looks good. Two days in a row with awesome food." Lucette said to herself as she filled a glass full of orange juice. "Who knew Chef can actually be nice for once."

"I heard that." Chef's voice was soon heard from behind him. Caught by surprise, Lucette nearly dropped her plate but managed to hold on to it tight with only a few bits of rice dropping down along. "Careful their. I don't want to see any of my food wasted."

"A little warning next time then." Lucette abruptly said as she placed his food on a nearby table. She soon went back to the food table to grab a spoon and fork before sitting down.

"If you are wondering as to why I'm being generous with my cooking its mostly because I've been paid a lot more that normal to do so." Chef said as he went to the back of the tent. He unzipped a closed portion of the tent and holding it open before looking back to stare at the lone girl. "Just don't expect me to be nice to you maggots." He laughed quietly before entering the other side leading to the kitchen.

"Okay then..." Lucette trailed off as she watched Chef disappear into the kitchen. "Well, time for the moment of truth. Is this food really as good as it seems." She says as she eyes her food for the last time with a spoon in hand. Taking the first bite of her food, the taste of it was so exhilarating that she couldn't help but eat some more.

As Lucette kept on eating her food, enjoying every piece of it, a new face soon stepped inside the tent without her even noticing. He was a tall and buff specimen with short with short black hair that seemed to spike out as well as a pair of black-and-white skull tattoos in each of his biceps. He wore a light tan V-neck fur shirt that splits down all the way to his pecs to reveal some parts of an ax tattoo. He also wore medium length fur shorts that reached just above his knees. Looking around, he soon took notice of Lucette with his deep brown eyes sitting on her own before approaching her.

"Excuse me." He said in a thick Mongolian accent. Lucette looking up soon took notice of him and couldn't help but drop her spoon with her eyes widened and jaw dropped. "Umm are you okay?" He said looking a bit confused. Lucette snapping back into reality just shook her head but the newcomer thought that she gestured for a no. "Well umm I better get you some help then." He said turning around.

"Wait!" Lucette said stopping him. "I mean um, I meant to say was I'm okay. Really." She smiled. "You were just umm...how do I say this.." She thought hardly about the next thing to say.

"Captivating. Alluring. Attractive. I could go on if you like?" He said jokingly. Lucette just stared at him at a loss for words. "Anyways, since you say your okay, have you seen a Chef Hatchet around? I was told I could find him here." He asked. Lucette just blinked at him a few times. "Umm hello?" He waved his hand in-front of her. Moments later, Chef came out of the kitchen looking a bit angry.

"What's with all the commotion here?" Chef roared as he looked around. He soon took notice of the newcomer. "Oh, its just you Skell." He crossed his arms. "You were supposed to be here a few days ago. What took you so long?"

"Skell huh? That's a nice name." Lucette purred. She held her head up high with her hands with both elbows on the table.

"Well, this place isn't exactly on the map." Skell said jokingly. "And besides, whats important is I'm here and ready to go." He smiled. Chef just glared at him with his arms crossed.

"Wait 'till Chris gets a load of you." Chef shook his head. "C'mon, I'll lead you to his office." Chef soon headed out of the tent with Skell following. Soon after, Ginger and Phoebe walked inside seeing the lone Lucette still staring off dreamily at the entrance.

"Oh, hey Lucette! Sorry it took us so long. Phoebe here took forever to finish." Ginger said with a bit of exaggeration.

"I-I'm sorry." Phoebe said meekly.

"Its okay Phoebe. Your too cute to get mad at for to long." Ginger teased as she patted Phoebe's head. "Anyways, we passed by this new guy before we got here. You know who he is?" She looked towards Lucette.

"Oh, his name is Skell. And man was he handsome!" Lucette exclaimed. "I wonder if he's still single." She pondered to herself.

"Ugh, not this again." Ginger shook her head. "How many guys here are you going to fall in love with?"

"I don't know. Maybe all of them." Lucette giggled.

"*sigh* Just stay away from Jag then." Ginger crossed her arms. "Phoebe here might get jealous." She teased as she pointed at Phoebe with her thumb. The latter just turned bright red.

"Gi-Ginger! That's n-not funny!" Phoebe raised her voice a bit while looking down.

"I'm just kidding Phoebe." Ginger smiled. "C'mon, lets grab something to eat. I'm starving here."

(Confessional)

Lucette: *Whistles* What a fine, handsome, and captivating man he was. I wonder how long will he be staying here for?

(End Confessional)

(The Maze: The Mech Labs)

Inside roaming around the imposing maze filled with high tech machinery and gear was Tristan and Dylan. They were just there blindly roaming around the place all the while chatting to themselves.

"So Tristan, I gotta ask. Why did you agree for me to tag along with you?" Dylan said with a skeptic look. "I mean we are from different teams and all."

"Yeah that is true. Being with you does pose a threat." Tristan nodded. "But then again we will be back stabbing each other anyways once the challenge starts." He thought back to what Kazuo did. "So being with you is no different then being with my own team." Both of them took a nearby turn.

"I guess you're right." Dylan replied in agreement. "I already had Blake defect from my team anyways." He let out a deep breath as he thought back about the previous challenge. "If only I wasn't so careless." He gritted his teeth in anger. "I sensed the arrow coming but I was so hell-bent on killing that paladin that I ignored all warnings."

"Question, how do you 'sense' an arrow coming at you from behind? I saw what happened on the large monitor and you could barely see it flying." Tristan remembered what he witnessed.

"Oh, that's because I gave myself the ability of shadow perception. Basically as long their is some darkness and I am nearby I can tell if something is there or not." Dylan explained. "Before you say anything like 'that's OP' or something it really isn't. Just because I know something is there that doesn't automatically mean I know where it exactly is." He reasoned. "Also, if you're wondering as to why I'm telling you all this all I could say it doesn't really matter much. Since I'm still technically blind in the darkness."

"I see. I'm pretty much straight forward guy. I shoot huge cannons, I throw my pipe wrench, and can summon a volley of cogs. Nothing much other than that really." Tristan said as he drags his mechanical hand on a low hanging pipe. "I simple guy with a straight forward build. That's what I am." He chuckled lightly.

"Their is nothing wrong with being simple really." Dylan interjected. "If you watch e-sports then you would know the most highly contested characters tend to be the most simplest ones. Heck, even in games like starcraft majority of the higher ladders tend to be the human faction." He laughed slightly. "All these characters who takes a lot of skill to play is just for show really."

"Really now." Tristan said with a small smile. "Well then, lets put that theory to the test then on the next challenge." He gave Dylan a serious look. "The next time I see you in the virtual world, be prepared for a cannon shot to hit you in the back instead."

"We'll see about that." Dylan smiled. As they continue on to walk further into the maze taking twists and turns all the while inspecting every room they encounter they both soon found themselves on a large open area with a very deep drop. Ahead of them was just a long narrow bridge leading to a small central area with what seems to be some sort of reactor in the middle off it as it gave off a light blue glow.

"Hm, this looks promising." Dylan said with an amused tone. As the two scaled the entire length of the bridge, they soon found themselves to where the reactor was.

"Could this be what's powering this portion of the maze?" Tristan pondered as he inspected the glass container.

"It might as well be. If I know my sci-fi games, central places like these tend to be boss fights but I doubt Chris put some time into much research into these sorts of things." Dylan said confidently. As soon as he said all this a loud screeching soon echoed throughout the area. "Uh-oh I spoke to soon." He pulled out his sword. Tristan did the same as he drew out his pipe wrench.

As the two wait patiently for whatever it is that might threaten and oppose them, the central pillar they were standing on suddenly started shaking with the sounds of metallic clanging echoing around them. A couple seconds passed with the entire pillar still shaking, a large snake-like machine came slithering down from below them. It stared at them with its glowing red eyes before letting out a high pitched screech and climbing up the pillar fast with its metallic body wrapping around the pillar. A loud crunching sound was heard as it was climbing up with small metallic bits falling off.

"Uh, Dylan. You're the expert here so what now?" Tristan said as he stared at the snake machine climbing up fast.

"Start shooting!" Dylan commanded as he clasped on to his sword tightly. The blade of his sword started to flow with dark energy. "We need to stop it from crushing the pillar." Dylan slashed at the snake's metallic body. Bits of it started flying off but it still kept wrapping itself all over the to pillar.

"Will do!" Tristan replied as he pulled out his cannons from his back. Taking careful aim he let out a barrage of cannon shot most of which hitting the mechanical snake. Small bits and pieces came flying off of it. As the two continued their assault on the giant snake machine's fast moving body, it soon let out a piercing shriek before it's head popped out from the top of the pillar staring at them. With its razor sharp steel fangs protruding from it's mouth, the snake lunged itself at the two contestants.

"Get down!" Dylan yelled as he ducked out of the way off the attack. Tristan following Dylan's lead was able to just barely get away from the snake's attack. The attack hitting the platform they were standing on instead, it ripped through a large portion of it causing the platform to shake a bit. The snake turning its head around to face them lunged itself straight at them with its mouth gaping open.

Tristan able to regain his balance shot at the snake's open mouth causing a small explosion to occur as it pulled it's head back with smoke coming out of its mouth. With the snake now dazed, Dylan took this opportunity to quickly run up its long body until he reached the snake's head. Dylan now standing at the top of the snake's metallic head, he raised his sword up high with the blade pointing down. With the blade flowing with dark energy, he drove his sword into the snake's head causing the it to go out of control.

Shaking it's head wildly with sparks of electricity coming from the sword, Dylan was trying his best to hold on tight. With the snake constantly trashing around and slamming hard onto the nearby walls the entire place looked like it was about to collapse for metallic chunks started falling down from above them.

"Emergency. Emergency. Power core level one malfunctioning." An automated voice echoed out as the room they were in started to flashing bright red lights.

"Get out of here!" Dylan commanded as he held on to his sword tight. The snake bashed itself onto a nearby wall once more causing Dylan to lose his balance but he was able to hang on.

"What about you?" Tristan said looking a bit concerned.

"Don't worry about me, I got things under control." Dylan says as he regained his balance. "Now go! Before the place comes crashing down!" Tristan nodding his head soon started to run across the narrow bridge as fast as he can. The snake seeing this tried to lunge at him but recoiled it's head back when Dylan pulled back on his sword. "Where do you think your going?" He says to the snake as he pushed his sword to the side causing the snake to slam onto the wall next to them.

"I made it!" Tristan yelled the moment he was now back to the entrance. Dylan seeing this pushed down on his sword causing it to sink deeper into the snakes head with electricity flying out. Letting out another ear piercing screech, the snake swung it's head forward this time strong enough to send Dylan flying forward.

"AAAAH!" Dylan yelled from the top of his lungs as he was sent flying towards the bridge. Hitting the bridge with a hard crash he bounced off of it but managed to hold on to the railings to prevent him from falling off. With Dylan now off of the snake's head, it was able to gain some of it's control back as it stared straight at the hanging contestant.

"Dylan!" Tristan called out as he attempted to run up to him. The mechanical snake letting out one more powerful shriek caused Tristan to stop for it was unbearable to hear any longer. "Aaaah." He dropped to his knees as he covered his ears. The snake shifting it's attention to Tristan decided to swiftly lunge at him bringing the bridge down with it. Tristan's body soon disappeared in a flash of lights in the jaws of the snake showing that he was now gone.

"Shit." Dylan cursed as he was now alone still hanging from the bridge. With nothing supporting the bridge from the other side, the remaining portion of the bridge Dylan was still on swung back towards the pillar hitting it with a loud crash. "Ugh." Dylan groaned as he held on tight.

The snake now looking back towards the hanging Dylan just stared at him menacingly with it's laser red eyes. Dylan still not yet giving up, aimed his gauntlet towards the snake as dark energy was collecting all over his palm.

"Take this!" Dylan yelled as he launched the ball of dark energy towards the snake. The attack proving ineffective didn't make it flinch at all. With one last lunge, the snake crushed Dylan under it's jaws and he soon disappeared with a bright flicker.

A few moments later the scene switched to outside of the maze where Dylan was just about to get up with Tristan standing over him giving him a hand. With disappointment all over the two's faces, they both let out heavy sighs from their defeat but soon shrugged it off.

"Well, I guess luck wasn't on our side." Dylan said as he looked back towards the maze entrance. "It seems we haven't prayed to RNG-sus enough." He joked as he let out a soft laugh.

"Whatever you say, bud." Tristan laughed as he placed a hand on his shorter companion.

"Excuse me everyone, may I have your attentions please?" Chris's voice was soon heard in the virtual world. "Please be here by the challenge building for the next challenge is about to begin. Also, I'll be introducing a new special guest so everyone should hurry up and get here." A neon portal soon appeared right in-front of the two. "Like last time, this portal will send you back to the real world. That is all." He ended.

"Oh well, time to get out of here." Dylan says as he approached the portal. The two of them soon got in the portal and were both sent back to reality. The pods they were both held in soon opened up with both of them climbing out. Outside to greet them was Chris, Lucette, Phoebe, Ginger, and the newcomer Skell.

"Hi, my name is Skell. Pleasure to meet you." He says as he gestured for a hand shake from Dylan and Tristan. The two soon shook Skell's hand one at a time before introducing themselves.

"The name's Dylan." Dylan introduced.

"And mine is Tristan." Tristan added in. "So tell us Skell, why are you here for?"

"You see I'm-" Skell was about to start when Chris suddenly cut him off.

"Save the details for later." Chris waved him off dismissively. "Lets wait for the other contestants to arrive."

"Fair enough." Skell replied. After a couple moments of waiting, the next few contestants soon walked in. Walking inside was Gelsey, Kali, Blake, Paris, and Janet all walking in one after another.

"Morning Chris." Paris greeted with a smile.

"Yeah, mornin'." Blake greeted as well.

"Hm, it seems Derek isn't here yet." Janet said looking around. "Second time he left without saying anything." She pointed out.

"Better hope he gets here, otherwise you'll be going in without him." Chris stated. Moments later the door slid open once more letting in the next few contestants. The next ones to get in were Clint, Kazuo, Laren, and Alice.

"Took you long enough to wake up." Dylan grinned as his roommate approached. Clint didn't bother to speak for he just gave him a long look before walking off passed him. "Hey! If we're going to be rivals you might as well join in some friendly banter." He says as he followed Clint.

"Oh, hey there Chris! What challenge do you have in store for us this time around?" Kazuo said in a rather more energetic tone then usual.

"I'll explain it to you all later. We need to wait for a few more contestants." Chris answered him.

"So Chris, who's the new guy? He looks cool!" Laren smiled as she saw Skell.

"Like I said, I'll explain it all later. We just need the others to arrive." Chris crossed his arms in anticipation for the others. The doors soon opened up for the third and final time for Nathan, Derek, and Leonard all came in. Leonard though, no longer made the room smell all stinky for the skunk stench was now washed off.

"Hey! It seems the tomato bath worked!" Chris exclaimed as he took in a deep breath without the need to gag. Everyone else did the same and felt the same way.

"Yeah, I guess you're right. It seems Phoebe here can spend the night once more with Leonard." Paris teased as she softly grabbed on to Phoebe's shoulders from behind. The latter just looked down out of embarrassment.

"P-Paris! Why are y-you so m-mean." Phoebe whined a bit. Paris just chuckled as she wrapped her arms around Phoebe..

"That's because you look so cute when you're flustered." Paris said sweetly.

"Yeah she's right. You do look cute when you're embarrassed and all." Ginger chimed in as she patted Phoebe's head. Phoebe just kept silent all the while looking down.

"Ugh, I just hope that no more stupid skunks start barging in on me again while taking a bath." Leonard crossed his arms.

"Don't worry, I'm sure Phoebe is as innocent as she looks." Paris said with a wide grin on her face all the while chuckling to herself. Blake, catching on to her joke, just shook his head and cringed a little.

"No Paris just stop." Blake said looking very much unamused.

"I said SKUNK!" Leonard yelled out as he caught on as well. Paris just kept on laughing to herself.

"Okay, now that everyone is here, lets start today's challenge." Chris announced to everyone in the room. Skell cleared his throat to grab Chris's attention. "Oh, right. This young man we have here is Skell. He's going to be the secondary host for this season." Chris explained but didn't look pretty amused about it. "Say hi Skell."

"Hello everyone, it's a pleasure to meet you all." Skell gave everyone low bow. Everyone in the room just stared at him all having mixed feelings about having a new host.

"He was supposed to be here on the first day but he wasn't able to make it on time." Chris explained to them. "He'll be the one in charge on keeping a close eye on you guys while you are all in virtual reality. I could be doing it myself but I prefer to watch over you guys from the comfort of my control panel. Now, with that out of the way, let me explain today's challenge." Chris pressed a button on the panel.

"Hey Chris, can I handle this one for now? I mean it is my first day on the job here so what do you say?" Skell suggested as he gave off a sweet looking smile.

"Yeah Chris, why not let mister handsome here the spotlight." Lucette added as he stared at Skell dreamily. Ginger gave Lucette another swift smack to the back of the head. "Ow...are you always going to do that?" She asked as she faced towards Ginger all the while rubbing the back of her head. The latter just gave her a shrug with a sly looking grin.

"That sounds like a splendid idea Chris. Why not let the new host a shot and see what happens from there." Kazuo added as he gave a small smile.

"Ugh, fine. He'll handle things from here." Chris rolled his eyes. "If things go south from here I'm blaming it all on you." Chris soon sat down on his chair with his arms crossed.

"Alright! I'll make sure I won't disappoint!" Skell assured as he gave off a huge smile. "Now, onto the challenge!" He exclaimed as he motioned for the everyone to look towards the monitor that showed an ancient magic sigil laid across an open field. "Today's challenge is called the umm..." He looked back towards Chris. The host just shook his head before answering.

"The Silent Night."

"The Silent Night!" He repeated. "If last challenge your job was to raid a castle this time around you'll be the ones being raided! The rules are simple, all you have to do is to be the last ones standing against the Celestial army. Alternatively, you can also win by slaying the raid bosses that each team will encounter."

"Wait, you mean to tell us we will be defending against three different armies all at once?" Dylan said in surprise.

"Well not necessarily. You see, each team will be stationed in different locations and each location will be defending against a different army." Skell motioned for Chris to press a button on the panel. Chris faking a smile pressed a button on the panel to reveal a wide aerial view of the grassy plain where the sigil was. Three different spots were highlighted in the teams respective colors.

"We'll start off with the red team." The camera view soon zoomed in on the red marker. On screen now showed the same castle that was used from their last challenge. "Since the Red Dragons were the winners of the last challenge they will be defending themselves here in Kaiser's castle!" The castle on screen looked to be utter ruin due to the previous challenge. "And they will take on Lunaris, the Twilight Princess and her Lunar mages." On screen now showed a girl with pale skin and silver hair wearing a light silver breast plating and silver skirt. Covering her arms and legs looked to be silver chainmail. On her back was a long purple cape and attached to her waist looked to be the handle of a sword with the grip colored in a dark blue.

"The weapon that you gain from defeating her is called Lunala the Twilight rapier." Skell explained to them as Lunaris on screen drew out her sword to reveal a thin, sharp, silver blade that seemed to glisten slightly. The sword soon caught Alice's attention for she seem very interested in the weapon.

"Question. Is her weapon by any chance linked to the moon in any way?" Alice asked suddenly. "I mean it is called the twilight rapier." She further added.

"Well, the answer to that question is obviously yes. They are called the Celestial army for a reason." Skell replied. "Now, may I continue?" Alice only nodded in response. "Okay. Now, onto the our second placers; The Yellow Chocobos." The view on screen returned to the aerial view of the open plain, only this time, two team markers is what remains. "The Yellow Chocobos will be defending themselves here in the fortress." The camera view zoomed in on the blue marker to reveal a large wooden fortress with log walls all ending with sharp points surrounding a large stone mansion-like building with a tiled roof. Standing on each corner of the walls are tall towers over looking everything insight.

"The Yellow Chocobos will be defending themselves against Daniela, Crescent General and her cavalry the Crescent Knights." On the large monitor now shows a heavily armor clad female with her silver hair escaping from the gaps of her helm. She was shown riding on an armored horse wearing thick plating. She held proudly on one hand a long silver halberd and on the other a large silver shield with patterns on its front in the shape of the moon. "The weapon you gain from her is called Dana, the Crescent Halberd."

"Hm, the place looks doable. A couple of high places to set up any range attack, durable enough walls, and a strong enough gate to stop attackers." Dylan pointed out every strong point he could find. "With my genius strategy, a place like this wouldn't be to difficult to work around." He gave a confident looking grin.

"Whatever you say captain." Blake said jokingly as he laughed quietly to himself. Dylan however didn't seem to notice him.

"Okay. Now, onto our last placers; The Blue Nagas." The monitor soon returned to the aerial view of the plains once more only having the blue marker left. "The Blue Nagas will be defending themselves here in this umm...I'm sorry but you'll be placed here in this farm area." The monitor soon showed a large area surrounded by wooden fencing. In the middle of it is a large wooden house with a flat roof, a large barn placed near it, a single silo standing just behind the barn, and an old windmill placed on the other side of the house.

"Oh come on. How is that fair?" Ginger complained as she saw the setting. "Do you seriously want us to lose?"

"Yeah, I agree. Do you really expect us to survive there?" Paris added in as well. "We might as well be standing right out in the open." She crossed her arms.

"There is nothing much I can do. You guys lost the first challenge thus giving you guys the shit end of the stick." Skell explained to them as he raised his hands up defensively. "Well, that is what Chris told me in his office."

"Are you kidding me Chris? What kind of ruling is that!" Ginger complained as she looked towards Chris. The host just gave her a sinister looking grin all the while chuckling to himself.

"It makes for better drama." Chris says smiling. "And besides, each team will be given an hour or two to prepare for the oncoming battle." He added. "Also, there is one more thing Skell forgot to explain. The challenge will be held in the dead of night to give the challenge a more ominous feel." The host chuckled slightly.

"I was getting to that!" Skell gave Chris a stern look. "Anyways, the Blue Nagas will be facing off against Selena, the Moon Jester and her Midnight Assassins." On the large monitor now shows another female only this time wearing a complete jesters outfit in the alternating colors of gold and purple. She had a wicked smile on her face as she stares into the camera with piercing blue eyes. She held tightly in both of her hands a comically large scythe with the pole bent slightly outwards and blade shining in a pale silver color.

"The weapon you gain from defeating her is called Silvia, the Moon Reaver." Skell explained to them. "Now, with that out of the way, any questions before we begin?" Skell asked as he scanned the around the room. He soon took notice of Dylan raising his hand. "Yes Dylan?"

"Are there going to be any more weapon drops or chests like last time?" Dylan asked.

"Well, for the Red Dragons there are still chests hidden deep in the castle that may or may not contain anything useful. For the rest, you'll all just have to wait and see." Skell answered.

"Are we allowed to leave our bases and maybe even interrupt the enemy team?" Kazuo asked this time around.

"I'm sorry but once you leave the premises of your base you are automatically disqualified from the challenge." Skell answered as well. After Kazuo asked his question no else asked any. "Okay, lets get this challenge rolling then." The new host smiled as everyone got inside their pods. As the last contestant got inside their pod, only Chris and Skell were left with the camera slowly zooming in on them.

"So, what do you think?" Skell asked Chris with a confident looking smile.

"Eh, could be worst." Chris rolled his eyes. "Now what are you waiting for? Get inside the pod so that I can officially start the challenge." He crossed his arms.

"Sheesh, you don't have to be so butt-hurt about it." Skell said jokingly as he got into his pod. As the new host got inside he soon fell into a deep sleep. A few seconds later the monitor came to life with Skell now in the virtual world standing in the open plains. His outfit was completely the same except he had a grey Viking helm on. With Chris now alone he gave off his signature smile as the camera closes in on him.

"Well there you have it our dear viewers. Today's challenge has now begun with the secondary host, Skell, keeping a close eye on our three teams." Chris took a dramatic pause. "Will the Red Dragons be our winners once more? Will Dylan's strategy be enough for the Yellow Chocobos to win? Or will the Blue Nagas surprise us by beating all odds stacked against them? Lets check in on Skell to find out more." Chris gave off a wide grin as he pressed a button on his panel. The scene soon jumped to where Skell was standing.

"Nice little Segway Chris." Skell commented. "Anyways before we look into our teams let me explain first where I am standing right now." The camera view soon panned upwards to reveal he was standing on the giant sigil that was shown earlier. The camera quickly returned to face Skell. "As you can see this sigil here is where the armies would spawn. A loud horn would start to play out to signify our teams that the onslaught has begun. What the contestants don't know is that the armies will work together and send in units from their respective armies to aid one another." Skell explained to the camera. "Now with that done lets check on the Blue Nagas first."

The secondary host flicked his fingers for his own holographic panel to appear. Skell's panel was more blue in color in comparison to Chris's red. As he pressed on his panel he was soon transported to the gates of the farm place where the Blue Nagas reside. From there, he could already notice the only barricade that they were able to muster up. Standing right in the middle of the entry way were a bunch of hay bales stacked up on top of each other. Looking a bit amused by what he saw, he walked over to the side in attempt to hop over the fence but stopped when an arrow landed right in-front of him.

"Hey!" Skell yelled angrily as he scanned the area. As his voice echoed in the open landscape, a loud howl was soon heard in return. Getting caught off guard, a hawk suddenly swooped down on to Skell trying to scratch and peck away at his face. "Ah shit! What the hell is happening here?" He yelled as he tried to block off the hawk with his arms. As he frantically tried to swing away at the hawk with his arms, another loud howl filled the area but before Skell could react he suddenly got pinned down. Looking up he was now face-to-face with a large wolf staring at him with its yellow eyes all the while growling at him.

"Umm h-hi." His voice trembled a bit as he tried his best to keep calm. As the wolf stared down on him with a low growl, a loud whistle sound was heard and the wolf soon got off of Skell. Quickly picking himself up, he got a few steps in away from the wolf before looking straight only to see Clint giving him a straight look with the hawk perched on his left shoulder

"It seems our security system works." Ginger's voice was suddenly heard off-screen. The view panning to the side soon showed Ginger walking towards the two with a grin on her face. The wolf soon hoped over the fence to stand by Clint's side. "So, what are you doing here Skell? I thought you and Chris would be watching over us back in reality." Ginger stated as she crossed her arms.

"Well, as the secondary host, I was tasked to personally see to what ever it is you guys are doing." Skell explained. "So where are the others?"

"Paris and Phoebe are inside the farm house while Nathan is in charge of scouting around the place." Ginger answered. Nathan suddenly came into view as he was shown in the background exiting the barn. Nathan taking notice of them just gave them a wave before walking off.

"Interesting. So what's the plan here?" Skell asked with a curious look as he pointed towards there hay stack.

"Oh that? That's just there to provide us with some cover. We plan on shooting them down before they could get close." Ginger explained.

"But you'll be up against assassins mostly. How will that work?" Skell questioned at their idea.

"Assassins are also lethal marksmen. They don't need to be near you to kill." Clint said in a rather serious tone.

"Well there's that and besides, there are still infantry to go through first. I've played quite a few video games myself and from what I could tell they usually start off with the cannon fodder first." Ginger added. Skell looked towards Clint to see if Ginger was right and the latter soon replied with a small nod.

"Hmm good to know you guys are making use on off your video game knowledge to give you all a slight chance on winning given the situation." Skell commented.

"Oh its not just a slight chance. We'll make certain of it." Ginger snapped back with confidence in her voice.

"Well good luck to that." Skell smiled. "Anyways, I'm off to talk with the Yellow Chocobos to see what they're up to. You'll all be notified when the battle starts when you hear a loud horn blow."

"Ain't that cliché." Ginger smirked.

"I know." Skell rolled his eyes. "Well, bye." The secondary host waved them off before pulling out his panel and pressing on it.

(Confessional)

Ginger: I hope Clint knows what he's doing. I got a good look at him when our base was announced and at first he wasn't at all interested but when our opponents got announced his mood suddenly switched to a more certain looking one. I may be not as hardcore of a gamer as he is but I trust in whatever plan he has in mind.

Clint: Assassins are only a threat if they're concealed and out of sight. Put them out in the open and they're just as deadly as a common soldier. This place might be ill suited for defending against a siege but I'll take it over a fortress if assassins are the biggest players.

Nathan: Assassins huh? Time to see if AI assassins are better than player who is an assassin.

(End Confessional)

The scene soon shifted to the outside of a tall fortress with the wooden gates closed and walls casting a tall shadow over him. Pressing on another button on his panel, the gates started to slowly open up. As the gap in-between the gates had gotten wide enough a bolt of dark lightning suddenly started zapping towards him but he was able to duck under the attack.

"Hey! What is up with you people and attacking randomly!" Skell yelled. As he looked in-front of him he soon took notice of Gelsey standing on the other side with her staff glowing with dark energy. Standing right beside her was Leonard holding onto his naginata tightly in an offensive stance.

"Oh, sorry Skell. I was surprised when the gates started opening so I prepared a spell to strike who ever was on the other side." Gelsey explained herself.

"Yeah, I would have struck you down if I hadn't notice it was you." Leonard lowered his stance as he returned his naginata on his back. "Now, tell us why you're here so that we can get back to what we were doing." He crossed both his arms

"I'm just here to check on how each team is preparing for the challenge." Skell explained. "Now tell me, what's the plan here? I don't see you guys placing down anything." He says as he looks around the empty courtyard.

"What's their to place? I suspected this place would be empty and turns out I was right." Leonard answered. "And as for our 'plan' its just Dylan barking out orders the moment we all got here." The tone in his voice sounded a bit angrier.

"Speaking about Dylan, where are the others? I don't see them anywhere." Skell asked.

"*sigh* Part of Dylan's plan was to split us all up. Me and Gelsey here were tasked with guarding the open courtyard, Blake and Lucette are up in one of there own individual towers, and both him and Kali are inside the fortress searching around for anything useful." Leonard explained. "I already told him it was a useless effort but all he did was glare back at me."

"Really now. Well, that is all I needed to know. You'll all be notified once the challenge starts with a loud horn blast." He brought out his panel once more. "Bye now." He waved at the two as he pressed on his panel.

"Okay. Bye!" Gelsey waved back with a smile before Skell disappeared.

(Confessional)

Leonard: *glares at the camera* I don't like taking orders from runts like Dylan. He thinks he's such a hotshot just because were in a world where nerds like him dominate. If he crosses me one more time I'll make sure he'll regret ever doing it.

Dylan: That Leonard, I've dealt with types like him before both in-game and out. I may be a laid back person normally but when it comes to a challenge I show how ruthless and serious I can be.

Lucette: *looks depressed* Dylan told me to take charge off one of the towers since I have bow but *pauses* I don't know how to use it. I wanted to tell him that I can't use it but given how he glared at Jag when he questioned him I just couldn't get myself to do it. I hope we don't lose this challenge or otherwise *gulps* I may be their target to be voted off.

Blake: Oh, I'm only here because I got bored. Guard duty is so boring, I rather lay out traps since at the least I can make use of my pranking skills *smiles*. If you're wondering as to why I was able to get away with doing this its because I have the ability to make copies of myself *chuckles*. Don't worry, I'll get back to my post once the challenge starts.

(End confessional)

Skell reappeared once more in-front of the other side of the outer walls of what once was Kaiser's castle. To his surprise the castle was much more in disarray then what he initially thought. The gate that was supposed to be towering over any would be army was completely shattered into pieces with a large ballista bolt stuck on the ground outside. As Skell walked through the broken gateway, he was in utter shock in what he saw inside.

"Dear god, is this what happened last challenge?" He says as he saw scattered dead bodies off soldiers all over the place with the walls and ground still stained in blood. Broken swords, spears, and shields lay a waste around the castle courtyard. "I can only imagine what the inside of the castle will look like." He soon started walking towards the castle.

As he got inside the castle, he soon gagged up at what he saw and smelled. The scene inside was still the same when Kazuo and Derek first got inside save for the fact that Alice and Laren were sitting on the edge of the fountain. The former was just minding her own business by inspecting her dagger while the latter just sat there merrily swinging her legs all the while humming. Alice, now taking notice of Skell, spoke up.

"I see we have a visitor." She pointed her dagger towards Skell. "What brings you here?"

"Oh, Hi Skell!" Laren smiled as she saw him as well.

"Man you guys are ruthless." Skell stated as he walked in. "I never expected this place to be such a mess."

"Thanks. I worked hard to do all this." Alice said calmly as she sheathed her dagger. "Also, that little display outside was made by our team."

"Yup! She was awesome!" Laren said happily. Skell's eyes widened in knowing that only one person did all this and that same person was in-front of him no doubt.

"Damn. Good thing I didn't apply to be a contestant." Skell started. "Anyways, I'm here to ask you guys about your game plan. I did this for all the teams and only you guys are what's left." He explained. "So what is it then?"

"Game plan? If you mean by us just doing whatever we wish then yeah that's our plan." Alice answered.

"What do you mean? Didn't you guys huddle up or something to discuss about strategy and stuff?" Skell asked in confusion.

"I wish. Janet tried to form a plan for us but Kazuo suddenly walked out on us followed by Derek." Alice explained to him. "She tried reasoning with them but Kazuo just gave a back handed wave before entering the throne room while Derek just completely ignored her and climbed up the stairs behind us." She let out a deep sigh. "We may be a team but we sure as don't act like one." She looked up to meet Skell's gaze. "Anything else you want to ask?"

"What happened to Tristan then? He's also part of the team, right?" Skell responded with another question.

"Oh him? Both he and Janet tried to talk some sense onto the other two. Tristan followed Derek while Janet marched in towards the throne room to follow Kazuo." Alice scoffed. "If I were her I would just give up on him. If he wants to play a dangerous game then let him." She said coldly.

"Okay. What about you Laren? What do you feel about the situation?" Skell asked as he turned to face Laren.

"I don't know really. I just find it odd that we're all ready at each others throats when the season has just recently started." Laren pouted. "I just hope things get better in the future." She forced a small smile.

"I see. Well, that is all I needed to know. You will all be notified once the challenge starts with a loud horn blast." He pulled out his panel for the last time. "Well, good luck!" He waved before disappearing and leaving the two alone.

"So." Alice started the moment Skell disappeared. "You really think things would get better?"

"I certainly think so!" Laren answered with a huge grin. "I mean you are warming up to me as a start." She teased.

"Shut up." Alice said as she looked away from her.

The scene soon returned to the open field where the large sigil was with Skell standing right out in the open. The camera soon zoomed in on him as he bore a huge smile.

"Well, there you have it our dear viewers. A close look as to how our teams will be preparing for upcoming challenge." He took a pause with a big smile. "We still have about half an hour left before the sigil would be activated so far now lets see what they are up to." He was shown now pressing on his panel before the camera view shifted.

(Yellow Chocobos)

The scene that was now shown was back at the Yellow Chocobos fort. The camera now started zooming in closer to one of the tall towers that was towering over the front gate. Inside the tall tower was Lucette who looked very anxious about what's to come as she held tightly onto her silver bow. As she stood their trembling slightly as her thoughts were racing by thousands of miles a minute, she soon started to hear someone climbing up her tower snapping her back to reality.

"Hey Lucette! I'm coming up!" Blake's voice was heard from the ladder leading up to her perch.

"B-blake?" She stammered in surprise as she saw him climbing up. As Blake finally reached the top of the tower, he soon climbed inside and sat on the wooden flooring with his back pressed to the wall.

"Whew, that was a tall climb." Blake says as he took in a deep breath. "So, how are things?" He smiled.

"What are you doing here? Once Dylan finds out you are up here he might get very angry at you." Lucette said in a worried tone.

"Nah I doubt he'll notice I left my tower." He reassured.

"What do you mean by that?" Lucette tilted her head a bit. Blake just pointed towards his tower. As Lucette looked towards the tower across from her she soon noticed that another Blake was standing there. "What? How are you able to do that?"

"Easy. I gave myself the ability to make copies of myself." Blake explained. "Though I can only have a limit of having two copies at a time."

"If that's so then how can I be sure that you're real then?" She questioned. Blake just gave the young girl wide grin before standing up.

"Watch." Blake says before turning around to face his tower. The Blake copy soon turned to face towards him with an arrow pointed at him.

"Umm Blake? What are you doing?" Lucette asked with as she faced Blake with a confused look. Without giving out an answer, the arrow that was pointed at him soon took off and shot him directly on to his chest. Blake suddenly fell over backwards hitting the wooden wall hard. "OH MY GOD! BLAKE!" She yelled as she crouched down beside him. As she got a closer look at him she soon took notice of the wide grin he had on his face all the while chuckling to himself.

"Did I get ya?" Blake said jokingly as he laughed silently to himself. Lucette however didn't find his little stunt funny for she was genuinely terrified for him.

"This isn't funny Blake!" Lucette scolded him with her voice raised up a bit. "I was seriously afraid that you got seriously injured before the challenge could start."

"Relax, my clones are just illusions. What ever my clones can do have no real effect." Blake tried to reassure her.

"Still! What if you got shot by a real arrow and I couldn't save you from dying and you disappeared? If that happens the I would be left alone doing something that I can't do causing us to lose and...and..." Lucette started to tear up a bit. "*sobs* I don't want to go!" She started crying a bit louder now while she covered up her face with her hands.

Blake, seeing Lucette cry, started feeling very guilty about what he did. "I'm sorry." He said a bit solemnly. "I didn't intend for this to happen. I thought pulling a prank on you would help pass the time but I never imagined it would end up like this." He soon fixed his position in order to sit up straight before placing a hand on Lucette's shoulder. "Now please, stop crying. Cute girls like you shouldn't be like this." He said with a small smile.

Lucette, hearing his words, started to lighten up a bit for her sobbing started to slowly stop. "*hic* Wh-what did you just say?" She said weekly while still rubbing the tears away from her eyes.

"Oh umm *clears throat* I uhh said to let me make it up to you." Blake lied as he felt a bit flustered about his situation. "You said you can't do something right? So what is it?" He asked trying to change the topic.

"I uhh don't know how to use a bow well." She answered as she wiped away the last remaining tears in her eyes.

"Perfect! Wait no, not perfect I mean umm let me teach you how to use a bow while we still have some time to make it up to ya. Is that okay with you?" Blake offered.

"Okay." Lucette nodded.

"Great! Now..." Blake soon started to teach Lucette how to use a bow properly.

(Confessional)

Lucette: Did Blake just call me cute? *blushes* I didn't expect something like that come from him all of a sudden.

Blake: Dear lord what have I done? Stupid guilt trips got me saying random stuff that I don't mean...Don't get me wrong now! Lucette is cute and all and I can admit to that but...ah screw it! *sighs* I wonder how things will work out for me now?

(End Confessional)

The scene now changed to inside the stone building with Dylan and Kali walking throughout it's hall. The two appeared to be busy looking for something inside.

"Dylan, are you sure there is something hidden in this here fort? We've already searched everywhere!" Kali complained as she looked very tired. "We don't even know how much time we have left before the challenge begins."

"Don't worry about it. We'll be fine." Dylan assured his tired companion. "And besides, we're at the top most floor already. We just need to search the last few rooms up here before calling it quits."

"Ugh, fine." Kali replied. The two soon started to search around the rooms on the floor they are in with little to no success until they reached the final door at the end of the hall.

"One more room to go." Dylan pointed out as he grabbed onto the doors knob. As he tried to open the door it let out a clicking noise as he tried to turn the knob and wouldn't open up. With excitement in his eyes he let out a huge grin before backing away from the door. "I think we're on to something here."

"But how are we going to get in though? The doors locked." Kali asked.

"Easy. We break the door down." Dylan answered as he pulled out his sword.

"Are you sure that would work?" Kali tilted her head a bit.

"Normally it wouldn't but we're in a virtual world so..." Dylan trailed off as he prepared his sword for a swing; the blade of his sword was wrapped in dark energy. "Here goes nothing." He swung at the door and it soon shattered to pieces. "Well, that was easy." He says as he stepped inside the room. Kali followed suit.

Inside was just a regular small room with two square windows right in-front them allowing sunlight to seep in. At the left side of the room is a couple of bookshelves filled with books of varying colored covers. Placed in the middle of the room is a small wooden table with a chair placed behind it. On top of the table was an out of place long dark grey case which caught both of their interests.

"Hmm, what could be in this?" Dylan said as he approached the case with an intrigued look. As he got a good look at the case he soon noticed a button on the case's lock. Pressing the button, the lid of the case flipped right open to reveal its content.

"What's in it?" Kali asked as she peered over Dylan's shoulder. "Wait what? What is that doing here?" She says with confused look.

Inside the case Dylan opened held a bolt action rifle with a long metallic-grey barrel with a dark-brown stock and body. The rifle came with a separate scope and bayonet that have yet to be attached to the actual gun itself. Dylan lifting it up from its case noticed it didn't came with a magazine or any place to hold bullets instead it just held a small knob at its side with a small window right above it.

"I wonder if this thing even works." Dylan pondered as he pulled back on its bolt. He locked the bolt back in and with a click it sounded as if he loaded a bullet into its chamber. "Okay...was not expecting that." He says with his eyes widen. "Now I'm curious if this thing even shoots." He pointed the barrel of the gun towards the window. Pulling on the trigger it let out powerful shot that rang across the room. The recoil of the gun was strong enough to knock Dylan down.

"Dylan, are you okay?" Kali rushed beside him.

"Yeah I'm good." Dylan answered as he stood right back up. "But damn does this thing feel powerful." He commented on the rifle he held. As soon as he said this, Chris' voice suddenly rang out.

"Congratulations Dylan! You have obtained Latona, The Multirifle!" Chris announced to them. "If you are wondering as to why such a modern age weapon exists here its because I say so. Now, onto what It can do." Chris paused for a bit. "This rifle can fire a multitude of different shots. You can select the ammo type by turning the small knob at the side. The window above it will indicate what shot you are using by showing a color. The colors are pretty much generic to its element so no need to wrap your head in guessing to much about it." He explained to them. "The drawback to this weapon is that the kickback is very powerful and each shot must be bolted in manually. That is all." His voice soon faded out,

"Well, that explains why there is no slot for a magazine." Said Dylan as he placed the rifle back in its case. He soon closed the case and carried it with him. "C'mon, lets go see if anyone wants this." He started heading towards the doorway.

"After all that effort in finding this, your just going to give it away?" Kali questioned him.

"If I learned anything from playing RTS games is that I should give my units the most optimal gear possible." Dylan answered as he stepped out of the room. He stopped in place before looking back towards Kali. "And besides, guns aren't really my style." He stated before continuing to walk on out. Kali soon followed him out.

(Confessional)

Kali: That Dylan...I really don't understand him. One moment he's a ruthless leader but the next he'll be much more considerate. I'm starting to wonder if he's someone that can be trusted really. If this challenge and last challenge is anything to go by, he'll openly turn on you if it means his plans will go through.

Dylan: Don't get me wrong guys. I'm open in using guns when I'm in a shooter. Heck, rifles are actually my most preferred gun type. The main reason as to why I don't want to use it is mostly because of its absurd recoil. That thing is more of a hindrance than an actual asset.

(End Confessional)

(Blue Nagas)

The scene soon shifted to inside the farm house where the Blue Nagas are defending. Inside the farm house was just a single wooden table with wooden chairs placed on each side of the table. Seated on one of the chairs was Phoebe who looked very anxious about what's to come with Paris seated right across from her keeping a close eye on her. Elegant violin music was heard in the background for her female doll was standing right behind Phoebe while playing the violin.

"Eeep." Phoebe shuddered as she heard the loud gun shot that Dylan fired. "W-was that a g-gun? P-please tell me th-the challenge doesn't involves guns." She trembled a bit.

"Don't worry Phoebe, things will be alright." Paris reassured her with a calming voice. "Skell said that we will be informed if the challenge starts with a loud horn blast. Besides, Ginger probably dropped one of her guns by accident or something and it misfired."

"O-okay." Said Phoebe as she calmed down a bit. The female doll started to play an entirely different song in which calmed down Phoebe even more.

"So tell me Phoebe, you really like violin music huh?" Paris asked as she pointed towards the female doll.

"Y-yeah, the sound of a v-violin helps soothe me." Phoebe explained with a soft smile. "I-I can even p-play it."

"Really now?" Paris looked intrigued. "Why don't you play one song then."

"I-I don't know, I'm n-not all that g-good at it." Phoebe said while looking down.

"Oh c'mon, pretty please." Paris insisted.

"O-okay." Phoebe hesitantly answered. Without saying a word the doll suddenly stopped playing the violin and gave it to Phoebe. Phoebe, now standing up, placed the violin on her shoulder with the bow on top of the strings. With one fluid motion she started playing the same song the doll was playing and picked up where it left off.

"Wow." Paris said completely amazed by her. Phoebe just kept on playing the violin until she finally finished the song. "You were simply amazing Phoebe! Where did you learn to how to play the violin like that?"

"Um, m-my older sister thought me how. I asked her to t-teach me so that I c-can do duets with her." Phoebe answered.

"You really admire your older sister that much huh? So tell me, what's her name then?" Paris asked.

"H-her name's Winona." Phoebe answered as well.

"Well, tell Winona then that she did an excellent job in teaching you." Paris smiled. "Now c'mon, play some more!"

"O-okay." Phoebe said with a small smile. She soon started to play the violin once more.

(Confessional)

Paris: Phoebe is such an adorable teammate to have. Knowing that she can play the violin makes her even cuter! I wonder if I could get her to play for me during my recitals once this is all over?

(End confessional)

The scene soon cut to outside the farm house where the rest of the remaining Blue Nagas where. Clint was shown sitting on the front porch with Silver laying next to him while his hawk was flying high up in the air circling the entire place. Nathan and Ginger on the other hand were shown standing right out in the open and looked to be talking with one another.

"So, did you find anything else useful to use?" Ginger asked.

"Nope, I searched the barn and it was completely empty." Nathan answered. Ginger just let out a heavy sigh.

"Just our luck. Given that gun shot we heard a while ago, the other teams must have found something useful." Ginger looked to be pretty down. "Can we really defend ourselves here? I know I told Skell that we can do it but I'm starting to have my doubts."

"I'm sure it'll be fine." Nathan assured her. "There is not a lot of places for enemies to sneak up on us so there is at least that."

"Yeah but same thing goes for us. Not a lot of places for us to hole up in once things go south." Ginger reminded him.

"Still, we just need to outlast the other teams. If we can do that then we'll be safe." Nathan said back.

"That's easier said then done." Ginger crossed her arms. "I mean our team really wasn't meant to be sieged on. We're better of attacking someone rather then being attacked."

"Then we'll use that to our advantage." Clint suddenly spoke up as he approached the two.

"What do you mean?" Ginger shot Clint with a confused look.

"We'll spot out the head and cut her off." Clint said with a straight look. "We'll secure ourselves that way."

"But we're not allowed to leave this place, how are we supposed to do that?" Nathan questioned him. Clint shot him back with an even gaze.

"We don't have to leave. Our target is an assassin, she'll come to us." He said to Nathan.

"I see, so we hold them off until the big boss arrives." Ginger let out a sigh. "Well, if its the only shot we have at winning this, It might as well be our best bet." A loud horn blast was soon heard in the distance. "I'll go tell the other two about the new plan. Lets just hope it works out well in our favour." She soon ran inside the farmhouse leaving the two boys alone.

Clint's hawk let out a cry signaling the two that the first waves of enemies are getting close. Clint drew out his bow and readied an arrow while his wolf growled right behind him. Nathan did the same and pulled out his Katana as he raised it high.

"Its do or die time I guess." Nathan stated as he clasped on to his sword tight.

(Confessional)

Nathan: I hope Clint's plan works out well for us. I don't want our team to be in the eliminations two times in a row.

Phoebe: G-Ginger came r-rushing in and t-told us that the p-plan has been changed. *gulps* I j-just hope we d-don't lose again.

(End confessional)

(Red Dragons)

The scene changed to inside the throne room of the castle the Red Dragons were defending showcasing what happened a few minutes before horns started. Inside the throne room were Kazuo and Janet that looked to be arguing with one another. The former was shown sitting on the throne imitating the pose Kaiser was in the challenge before while the latter stood at the bottom of the steps with her arms crossed.

"I'm being serious here Kazuo, If we want to win like last time we have to work as a team." Janet insisted but Kazuo looked like he wasn't even paying attention. "Are you even listening to me?"

"Oh, sorry, I was just busy admiring your persistence is all." Kazuo gave off an amused smirk. "I really like how the choices I made so far has impacted the team. I wonder how far the butter fly effect can take this."

"What are you even going on about Kazuo?" Janet questioned his motives.

"You know, the butter fly effect. The theory where every choice, no matter the degree, will lead to a major change in outcomes." Kazuo explained with enthusiasm in his voice.

"I know what the butter fly effect is! I just want to know why you are so concerned and head strong about it." Janet argued back at him. Kazuo just gave the armor clad girl a slight chuckle before speaking up.

"You know, I get asked that same question a lot." He took a moment to pause all the while baring a huge grin. "Every time I get asked that question I always tell them this; I see it as a way of life, not just some simple theory." He shot Janet a serious look. "And funnily enough, ever since I made it dictate everything I do, I was able to discover things about myself that I didn't know I had in me. Does that satisfy you?"

"So when you told Chris that you do stuff just to see what would happen you were actually serious." Janet said as she looked down. "If that's the case then, why don't you use that logic to see what would happen if you decided to help out now? Even if you made enemies." She suggested.

"You do have a point." Kazuo nodded. "But from where I see things, giving me this suggestion only opens up more choices for me to take with all of them having different effects." He stated. "Now I'm curious to see what would happen if I turned you down now."

Janet, finally having enough of him, just turned her back towards him with a scoff. "Good luck with that then." She said in a cold tone without even looking back. Janet soon walked out of the throne room leaving Kazuo sitting on his throne. A loud horn blast was soon heard off into the distance signaling that their time was up and the challenge has now begun.

"Lets see where this takes me." Kazuo grinned as he leaned back on his glorified chair

In an upper portion of the castle in the midst of long hallway was Tristan and Derek who's bodies were facing each other. Both of them were shown looking out a nearby window seeing the sun now setting over the horizon and the once blue sky slowly turn dark. From the distance they could see the large sigil radiating with magic as it prepares to call fort its armies

"Its time for us to group up with the others." Tristan said as he turned around to face the opposite direction. "Remember Derek, we may not all be in equal terms but we're the best shot you have in making it to merge." Tristan soon ran off leaving Derek alone.

Derek just stood there watching Tristan run off as his foot steps left tapping sounds that slowly started to get feint as he got even farther away. With the mechanic now out of sight, Derek turned around to face the other direction before walking off deeper into the hallway until he was no longer insight.

Back out into the open courtyard Tristan was now with the three female Red Dragon members. The entire place was covered in the dark night with only the light of the full moon shining above them. As all four of them ready themselves for what's to come, the faint sound of metal boots and horse galloping can be heard far out into the distance.

"Well, here they come." Janet says as she holds on to her spear tight. "Are you guys ready?"

"Oh please, the moon is what gave me my arsenal. Fighting under its light will only serve me better." Alice said proudly as she prepared her bow. The bow started to glow in a faint white glow as she held it out.

"There you go! You're now well prepared." Laren grinned as she finished enchanting Alice's weapon. Her pendant was glowing in a similar fashion. "I just hope holy magic would work well for ya."

"Okay enough of the rambling its time for some action." Tristan injected as he saw a glimpse of the army into the distance. Their battle cries were heard echoing out as well as their armor radiating in lunar light.

(Confessional)

Alice: Time to see which side the moon favors. Is it me, her acolyte, or the army she sends. *grins*

Janet: *sighs* Only four of us are willing to work together as a team. I'm starting to wonder if us winning the first challenge was just a matter of luck in all honesty.

Tristan: I really hope Derek comes to his senses soon and come down here to help. I think I get both him and Kazuo's idea about being separate since the goal is to survive the longest but who knows really what would happen if both of them get caught out.

(End Confessional)

The scene now returned to the Yellow Chocobos fortress where Blake was shown hiding behind the wall of his tower as he held on tightly to his bow. Loud banging and shaking was felt throughout his tower and walls for below the walls was the lunar army striking down the gate with a battering ram with silver blunt end while cannons were taking shots at the walls. The prankster tried to poke his head out to send out a couple shots but was forced to duck back in when arrows started flying towards him.

"Dammit!" He yelled as he ducked beneath his wall. A loud banging was felt once more as well as the sound of wood cracking was heard. "Guys! I'm pinned down up here. There's too many of them for me to try and shoot!" Blake called down to the others below him.

"Just hold on up there!" Dylan's voice answered him. "We're still a little bit busy down here!" The scene panned down to show Dylan and Leonard fighting off a few swordsmen.

"Where do they keep coming from!?" Leonard said as he cut down a swordsman with his naginata. Another one soon came charging towards him but he easily struck them down as well.

"They most likely climbed the wall on the other side." Dylan answered him as he blocked an oncoming sword swing. The rifle case he took from earlier was strapped around his back. "Hiya! I just hope sending in Kali and Gelsey was a good idea." He said as he pushed back the swordsman he was fighting. He soon lunged his sword forward to impale his opponent straight in the stomach.

"By the way, what's in that case you're carrying?" Leonard asked as he delivered a powerful kick to soldier that was charging at him causing the soldier to get knocked down. He soon drove his naginata into the soldiers chest.

"Even if I did tell you I doubt you'll believe me." Dylan replied as he cut down the last soldier that was currently in the courtyard. A loud crashing sound was soon heard as small bits of wood start flying everywhere. The two looking towards the gate soon saw it was completely smashed to bits with the rest of the army rushing in.

"Charge!" A female's voice was heard calling out for her soldiers to charge on in. Armor clad knights and spearmen all came charging in the downed gate with some cavaliers rushing in as well. Bringing up the rear of the charging soldiers was the raid boss Daniela raising her halberd high.

"Dammit. Fall back!" Dylan yelled as both he and Leonard retreated back into the fort. "Blake! Lucette! Try and find a way back in here for we can no longer hold them off!" He called out to both of them before slamming the doors shut for they were still up their towers.

"Shit." Blake muttered to himself as he heard Dylan's call. Collecting himself, he soon peaked over his wall to find an opening only to see Lucette's tower being climbed up by a few soldiers with the one leading already half way up. "Lucette!" He called out to see if she was still there but no response came. A couple soldiers hearing him soon looked towards his tower with some already rushing towards the ladder up. "Ah fuck it. I just hope this works." He hoped over the wall and landed on the platform connecting the two towers.

Inside Lucette's tower she was shown balled up in a corner shaking in fear as she held out her silver bow right in front of her. She soon felt the soldiers climbing up the ladder of her tower with the shaking progressively getting closer and closer. As it the soldier got closer to the top, Lucette readied an arrow in her bow and aimed straight at the only way in but her hands were shaking and couldn't point it straight. A few seconds later the soldier climbing up was now at the top with her.

"Eeep." She cried in shock as she let go of her arrow. The arrow she shot only managed to hit the wall behind the soldier. With no other options left, she raised her bow above her head and kept her eyes shut to prepare on what's to come next. As she sat there waiting she soon heard a couple arrows fly passed her followed by someone following down onto the ground below.

"Phew, made it." Blake's voice was heard from right beside her. Opening her eyes she soon saw Blake standing over her with his bow out.

"B-blake?" She said a bit weakly.

"Are you hurt anywhere?" He said out of concern as he crouched down. Lucette, seeing him, couldn't help but wrap her arms around his neck and started sobbing. "Umm Lucette? Umm we don't have time for this." He says as Lucette continued to cry. A few more soldiers were heard climbing up the ladder.

Lucette finally pulled away from him. "I-I'm sorry. I just f-felt the need to l-let it out." She said as she wiped away some tears from her eyes. "B-but I'm re-ready now!" She forced out a smile.

"Good. Since we need to give it our all if we want to make it out of here." Blake soon stood up and readied an arrow. He pulled back on his string and waited a bit before letting it loose the moment he saw the soldier climbing up pop his head over the entrance. The soldier soon fell down to the ground below with a metallic crushing sound.

"Don't worry, I'll give it my best!" Lucette replied with a much more genuine smile as she held out her staff this time around with the gem glowing with magic.

Cannon shots were last heard on-screen before the scene transitioned.

The scene changed to the farm place where the Blue Nagas are defending. The sound of men and horses charging were heard echoing throughout the area mixed with metal clanging, shots firing, and loud growling. The area on scene was littered with dead bodies of soldiers for all of them were being shot down by Ginger and Clint with the few making it close got cut down by Phoebe's male doll who was standing at the front while being accompanied by Clint's wolf Silver.

Standing guard right behind them was Nathan and Paris who held both their rapiers out as they were defending the other three from the assassins who snuck up from behind them. The formers collar though was noticeably glowing in a faint blue light. All of the assassins held scythes and daggers for weapons.

Helping them out was Phoebe's female doll who was playing a fine tune for them that looked to be empowering their weapons. Phoebe herself on the other hand was sitting in-between Clint and Ginger hiding behind the stack they made and she was notably shivering in fear.

"How are you holding up there Phoebe?" Ginger asked as she kept on shooting the soldiers charging at them. She soon ducked down behind the hey stack to reload her guns. "Is everything okay?"

"Y-yeah, I'm g-good." Phoebe replied with a soft tone. "Eeeek." She soon shuddered at the sound of an explosion.

"Sorry Phoebe, explosive shots." Ginger apologized before returning to keep on shooting.

"I know this is a bit random but do your dolls have a name?" Ginger asked suddenly.

"W-what?"

"You know, a name. Do they have names or something?" Ginger repeated her question. "Hold on." She says as she let loose a barrage of explosive shots sending the enemy back.

"Oh, th-that? Um, they d-do have names." Phoebe answered. "The m-male doll is named S-Savior while the f-female doll is named Violin."

"Aww, does are such cute names." Paris cut in as she over heard their conversation. She was shown pulling out her rapier from the chest of one the assassins causing him to fall over. Blood started to pool from underneath him. "Now that begs another question Phoebe, why dolls then? You could have done something like what Clint summons." She says as she parried away a scythe swing. She soon countered with a swift upwards slash sending the assassin stumbling back.

"Oh, that's b-because I like c-collecting dolls." Phoebe answered her as well. "I-It's a l-little hobby of mine." She added.

"Interesting. Well, glad you chose to summon dolls to fight for you then." Ginger said from beside Phoebe as she finished reloading her gun. "Your doll Savior here makes it feel like we're fighting with a complete team." The view panned a bit over the barricade to show the aforementioned doll successfully fighting off all the soldiers coming his way with the help of Silver. "Don't you think so too Clint?"

Clint just ignored her and shrugged his shoulders as he proceeded to shoot down a couple more charging soldiers with great accuracy.

"Hmph, he's just jealous that you have better summons." Ginger teased as she chuckled slightly while continuing to shoot. Clint just rolled his eyes and continued on firing as well.

"Umm guys? We have a problem here!" Nathan called out to them as he was shown backing off away from what he saw.

"Huh? What is it?" Ginger peered back to see what was going on. "What the..." She trailed off as she saw what was happening behind them.

Forming right behind them was a thick amounts of fog slowly shrouding everything in sight. As the fog thickens a silhouette started to appear that looked to be walking closer and closer to the group and had one hand on the hip while looked to be holding on to something from behind. It soon stopped and stared at them with glowing blue eyes.

"Hehehehe. Lets have some fun." A female voice was heard in an eerie tone. The fog lightened up a bit to reveal it was the raid boss Silvia standing right in-front of them with a demented looking smile.

The scene returned to the Red Dragons castle where Janet was shown doing her best to hold of as many soldiers as possible all the while avoiding magical bolts being fired at her. Standing right beside her was Tristan who was shooting down as many target as he can manage with the twin canons on his back while Alice and Laren who were standing behind the two did their best to pick off as many soldiers as well.

"Ha!" Janet yelled as she shoved her spear into a soldier's gut. She soon threw the soldier away with her gravity powers to send him flying towards a group of soldiers. She quickly swung her spear up high to take out a few more men. More soldiers started rushing towards her "Dammit, ha!" She yelled out as she threw away all the soldiers with a cosmic geyser. After that attack Janet looked very exhausted for she was already breathing in heavily.

"Janet! Right above you!" Tristan warned her. Janet looking soon noticed a couple archers up on the walls with arrows aimed for her. As they all fired down on her, Janet managed to jump out of the way with most off the arrows landing right where she stood.

"Gah!" She let out in pain as an arrow managed to clip her on the shoulder while she was in mid jump. She soon fell hard on to the ground for she lost control of herself and couldn't land on her feet. With her now down, the archers prepared their arrows once more to fire down on her.

"Oh no, Janet!" Tristan ran towards and shielded her from the arrows. The arrows hitting his mechanical suit and arm all bounced off him. "Take this!" He yelled at them as he fired multiple canon shots at the archers on the wall. The upper portion of the wall blew up to pieces taking down most of the archers with it but some managed to escape. "Dammit!" He roared at them but soon turned to face Janet. "Are you okay?" He held out his hand.

"Yeah I'm fine." Janet answered him as she took his hand to get up. "It was just- Tristan look out!" Janet shoved Tristan aside for soldier holding on to a spear was charging at them. She managed to stop the soldier from charging at them by pushing him back with her gravity push.

"Phew, that was close. Thanks!" Tristan thanked her.

"No problem." She smiled at him. "You know, I was about to say I was just reckless and that I owe you one for saving me but I guess that serves as payment." Janet said jokingly.

"Aww, I even had a favor to ask you as well." Tristan joked. "Nah, just kidding. I just didn't want us to lose by losing you this early."

"I don't know if I should take that as a compliment or as something else since it sounds like your okay with my dying later on." Janet crossed her arms.

"Hey! That's not what I meant!" Tristan argued back. Janet just gave him a soft chuckle in response. "What's so funny?"

"Will you guys cut it out!? We still have more enemies here!" Alice interjected as she was busy shooting arrows enchanted with holy magic. Each of the arrows that hit their mark caused the target to be ignited in white flames that seemed to drain away their life.

"Fine, we'll settle this on once this is all over." Tristan turned around and aimed his cannons to shoot out another barrage.

The scenery soon shifted to somewhere inside the castle where Derek was shown walking through a long hallway. He could hear off into the distance the fighting that was happening on the other side but couldn't care less to even run around and help. As he continued to walk on forward, he soon found his way out onto the castle garden where he so no one else in sight except for a lone girl wearing shining armor with her long silver hair flowing gently sitting by the edge of the fountain with her legs crossed. Keeping his guard up, he slowly walked forward to meet this person.

"Lovely evening, isn't it?" The girl asked as she noticed Derek approaching but suddenly stopped when she spoke. "Perfect night for a war might I add." She chuckled slightly. Derek just kept his cold gaze at her and didn't saying anything. "I'm guessing you're not much of a talker huh? Oh well, can't be helped. Its not like it would even matter." She laughed at him. Derek said nothing in response as he clenched his fists tightly.

"Hold on there boy, I don't want to fight just yet." She grinned. Derek, without any hesistation, charged towards her with his right arm pulled back. "Oh my, you really can't wait can you?" She says as she moved herself a bit to Derek's right to dodge his punch. Derek suddenly twisted his body around to strike her with his left elbow but she easily stopped him with one hand.

"You seriously have no manners do you?" She shook her head. "But then again I haven't even introduced myself so where are my manners?" She chuckled a bit. She suddenly moved her body to her right to use Derek's momentum to throw him into the water behind. "Anyways, my name is Lunaris. The General, Tactician, and Princess of this army." She introduced as she looked back into the water to face Derek. "So, what's yours?"

Derek came rushing out of the water looking angrier then normal as he came at her with another powerful punch but yet again was easily stopped when Lunaris grabbed hold onto his fist.

"You're not really going to give me the courtesy of your name huh? Oh well, its not like I'll even remember you." Lunaris laughed. Derek attempted to jab at her with his free hand but was forced to stop when Lunaris bent his arm with one hand motion. "You do know its really rude to not answer a royalty when they ask you politely, right?" Derek just kept a strong glare at her with his teeth showing.

"Don't worry though, I won't take it personally." She smiled at him. She suddenly pressed her free hand onto Derek's bare chest through the opening in his outfit. Seconds later a bright light suddenly seeped out from the gap between her hand and Derek's chest and he was suddenly sent flying backwards, smashing through the fountains center piece, and landing farther away from the fountain. Lunaris slowly walked towards where Derek landed all the while having sinister looking smile.

"As much as I enjoyed our little chat I really must be going now." She said in a rather sweet tone as she pulled out her rapier. The blade gently glistened underneath the moonlight as she drew it out. Derek, gritting his teeth hard, tried to get up but wasn't able to. "Good bye now! My men need me." Lunaris jabbed her rapier straight to where Derek's heart is. The latter's body flickered out only leaving behind a blood dripping sword.

The scene soon returned to the courtyard where the it was shown that the red dragons are winning and pushing the forces back. Tristan taking out large groups, Janet mowing down and throwing away anyone that was close, and Alice and Laren working together to snipe at all the archers and mages they could find up in the walls or on the ground. As they continued to fight off against the enemy, the doors to the castle suddenly creaked open. Janet, hearing the door, turned around to face who ever it was.

"Took you long enough Kaz...uo?" She said only to see Lunaris standing behind them.

"What's wrong Janet?" Laren asked as she turned to look as well. Her eyes soon widened to what she saw.

"Good evening. My name is Lunaris, it's a pleasure to meet you all." Lunaris smiled at them. In the background people chanting 'All hail the Princess!' echoed out with others cheering. "So, who wants to die first?"

"Akh der'mo, prosto nasha proklyataya udacha." Alice cursed in her native Russian tongue.

"What did you just say?" Laren asked in confusion.

"Take a hint." Alice replied.

(Confessional)

Alice: Yeah...I didn't intend to speak that way, I said it by accident. I normally speak Russian okay! Kucha idiotov, nazyvaya menya chem-to melkim...Nevermind what I just said.

(End Confessional)

Meanwhile in the real world, Chris and Skell were both shown watching the events play out through the large monitor. Both of whom were watching very closely on everything that was happening to the contestants. As they sat there and watched, three bright flashes of red light flashed on to their faces.

"Damn…" Skell was a loss for words to what he just witnessed. "Is this even fair? She took them out so easily!"

Chris just chuckled quietly to himself while still seated on his chair. "They won last challenge right? It's only fitting for them to have the hardest challenge." He started laughing once more.

The scene returned to the Yellow Chocobos fortress, the event shown took place a couple minutes before the Daniella and her army barged in through the front gate of the fortress.

Both Kali and Gelsey where shown being cornered and surrounded by a couple assassins and soldiers. The formerheld her arm blade out in-front of her while her other hand held her khukiri in a back-handed position right below it. While the latter just stood behind Kali with her staff held out right in-front of her with the ball tip glowing with dark magic.

"Uh, Gelsey? Are you done preparing your spell yet?" Kali says as she blocked a sword swing with her arm blade from an on-coming soldier. She swung her arm to the side to expose the soldier for an attack with her other blade but the soldier managed to move out of the way in time.

"Almost! Just hold them off a little longer!" Gelsey replied before continuing to concentrate on her magic.

"Hurry it up then!" Kali said back. She soon managed to back-step a scythe swing from one of the assassins and instantly punished him by doing a quick jab to his chest with her arm blade. She quickly pulled out her blade and instantly followed it up with a strong kick to knock him far back.

Another assassin came in to attack Kali from behind with his dagger raised but Kali was able react in time and cut him down before he could attack. Immidiately after, a different soldier started to rush her with a spear in hand while she was distracted in which managed to pierce her in the side.

"Gah...dammit!" She coughed out some blood before pulling away. As she pulled herself away from the tip of the spear she immidiately struck down the soldier with her khukiri with a quick downward jab killing him instantly. "Ugh, damn..." She said weakly as she fell down to her side. The few remaining enemies all rushed towards her to finally finish her off but were suddenly struck down with dark lightning.

"Hah!" Gelsey yelled as she finally finished preparing her spell to strike down the remaining enemies. All the enemies that got struck screamed in pain until the spell ended. They all fell down simultaneously with smoke flowing out of their bodies. "Oh no, Kali!" She instantly ran towards her side.

"Took you long enough..." Kali said weakly as she attempted to sit up straight. She suddenly fell back down to her side for the pain was to hard to bare. "Ugh.." She groaned. A loud crashing sound was heard in the other side coupled with loud yelling.

"Kali, we need to get out of here! I think they managed to break in!" Gelsey urged her to get up. As Kali tried to get up once more she instantly stumbled down back to the ground.

"Ugh, its no use. I can't even move in this state." Kali let out a deep sigh. "Just go back to the others without me. Bringing me with you will just slow you down."

"A-are you sure? What about you? How will you handle yourself?" Gelsey looked worried for her.

"I'll be fine. I've got a couple more tricks up my sleeves." Kali reassured her. "And besides, the goal of the challenge is to survive the longest. As long as one of us is still alive we still have a good shot in winning this." The sound of footsteps was heard running towards them. "Now go! Before they catch you."

"Okay. Good luck." Gelsey said before running of into the back entrance of the fort. Kali, now alone, just laid their thinking to herself.

"I hope this works." She mumbled to herself as she focused carefully on what she was about to do. After a few seconds, she was able to conjure up a small shadow space for herself to conceal her from the charging enemies. As she laid there for a few seconds she could feel herself getting healed up for the bleeding stopped but she still couldn't move properly for the wound was still there. "Damn...I guess healing doesn't mean regeneration." She said quietly to herself as a few soldiers ran passed her. "I hope this thing lasts long enough."

The scene now changed to following Gelsey running through the forts hallway as she desperately tried to find her way back with the others. As she kept on running and running, taking random corners, and climbing up sets of stairs all in attempt to not get caught by the enemies who were already searching inside. Keeping up with the pace she was doing, she managed to find her way to a large central hallway in one of the top floors. Following the long hallway she ended up being seen by a group of five knights who were up there in the floor with her.

"There's one. Get her!" One of the knights pointed out as they saw her. All of them started charging at her with their sword and shields raised.

"Damn it." She silently muttered to herself as she raised up her staff. Moments later she threw a sphere of dark magic towards the knights causing a small explosion to occur to knock them all back. With all of them now down, she quickly ran passed them and headed down a set of stairs at the end of the hall.

"I hope they're still okay." Gelsey thought to herself as she ran quickly down the staircase. As she reached the floor beneath, she quickly took the stairs down even further to go another floor down. Now at the end of the long flight of stairs, she now found herself on the first floor of their base for only a long hallway was ahead of her and no more stairs leading down.

"I got to find them." Gelsey said to herself as she ran down the hall.

The scene now jumped cut to the end of the hall where Leonard and Dylan are shown surrounded by groups of heavily armored knights raising their towering shields in front of them in order to keep them in. Opposing the two was Daniella who was still riding on top of her armored stallion. Every enemy soldier in the room was cheering her on along side the sound of the knights banging their shields on the ground.

"You two! Lay down your arms and I might just spare you both with a quick death." Daniella commanded the two with her halberd pointed at them. The soldiers started to cheer her own louder.

"Sorry babe, but I'm not going to give up to you that easily." Leonard answered back with a piercing glare. He held on to his naginata tightly as he did.

"No can do either, I have a track record to keep." Dylan gave Daniella a wide grin. The long sword in his hand was completely wrapped in dark magic.

Daniella scoffed at them. "Then so be it." She said in a calm tone. With a quick motion, she slammed her halberd downwards, striking the ground, in order to create a pale silver shockwave heading towards the two. The attack exploding in-between the two caused them to get knocked back in opposite directions from each other. Daniella quickly followed up her attack by making her horse charge towards the downed Leonard. Her horse leapt forward as they neared him.

"Hah!" Daniella yelled as she lunged her halberd downwards towards Leonard using her horse's momentum. The latter reacting in time managed to use the long pole of his naginata to redirect her attack. The spear tip of Daniella's weapon just landed inches away from his head.

"Hey! Over here!" Dylan announced as he was running towards her with his sword pulled back for a swing. As he got close enough he soon swung his sword sideward but was easily stopped by Daniella's shield.

"Is that the best you got?" She taunted him. Dylan just had a smirk on his face

"Not even close." He says as he twists his body around to continue his attack and struck her in back. Daniella got knocked off of her horse and fell straight to the ground below. As Dylan reached the end of his swing, the long sword he held suddenly became two short swords both being held in different hand positions; one backhanded and the other forehanded.

"You okay?" Dylan held out one of his hands for Leonard to grab.

"Hmph, like that will kill me." Leonard answered him as Dylan pulled him back up. He picked up his weapon from the ground and held it tightly in an offensive stance.

"Heh, the two of you are much more resilient then both of you look." Said Daniella as she was shown grabbing on to her horse's reins. "Makes things a lot more interesting." She added. Daniella was able to mount her horse once more.

"Why don't you get off that horse and fight us like a true warrior you make yourself out to be." Leonard pointed his naginata at her. "Unless you're afraid of getting your ass kicked." He taunted.

"Watch your mouth kid. Unless you want to see yourself six feet under." Daniella retaliated before charging towards them with her Halberd pointed forward and her shield raised high. As she got close, she thrusts her weapon forward towards Leonard.

Reacting fast enough, Leonard was able to side step her thrust causing the attack to hit the shield of the knight behind him. Daniella quickly swung her weapon around for the axe blade to hit Leonard instead. Leonard attempting to block her swing with his naginata but was just shoved aside for the force of the attack was to much to handle.

"Ugh." Leonard groaned as he landed hard on the stone ground.

"Leonard!" Dylan called out to him. Dylan tried to run towards his downed companion but was forcefully knocked away when Daniella's horse delivered a powerful kick with its hind legs. He was sent flying backwards and hitting one of the shields only to bounce off of it and land hard onto the ground. Dylan was now out cold from the attack.

With both contestants laid down on the floor, Daniella moved in-between the two with a wide grin on her face. "Now who to finish off first?" She chuckled to herself as she glanced between the two. "Maybe you first for being such an unruly cur." She moved her horse towards Leonard and was now towering over him.

"Crush him! Crush him!" The crowd of enemy soldiers watching the battle chanted out.

"Heh, not the best way to end this little spectacle but all the more entertaining." Daniella gave Leonard a wide grin. "Any last words?"

"Ugh, fuck you..." Leonard spat back at her from underneath. Daniella just gave an amused chuckle.

"Poor choice in words." She soon made her horse stand on its hind legs with its front legs raised up high. "Say good night." Her horse started to slam down on him.

As Leonard braced himself for the on-coming attack, a bright flash of dark lightning came crashing down just beside them interrupting the horse from slamming down on to him.

"Phew...that was close." Gelsey's voice was heard as she was shown standing outside the ring of knights. She had her staff raised in-front of her with the ball tip pulsing with dark sparks of electricity. Everyone, excluding Dylan, looked towards her direction with surprised looks on their faces. "Now, stop beating up my friends!"

"Why you insolent...men, get her!" Daniella commanded for her soldiers to attack. All the soldiers standing outside the ring of knights did as they were told and started charging at her with their weapons raised.

"S-stay back!" Gelsey warned them as she took a couple steps back. She soon started charging up a sphere forming around the tip of her staff. As all the enemy soldiers got close, she threw her sphere of dark magic at them causing a couple of men to get blown away. The rest that weren't affected by the blast just kept charging towards her. Gelsey tried to channel up another attack but was suddenly knocked away by a shield bash.

"Ugh..." Gelsey let out as she landed hard onto the ground. A soldier was soon able to drive a spear through her stomach. Her body disappeared moments later.

"Hmph, how pitiful." Daniella scoffed at Gelsey's defeat. "Now, where was I?" She said rhetorically but was suddenly got thrown off of her horse when Leonard tackled her with blinding speed.

"That's what you get for turning your back on me after threatening me." Leonard said as he held on to his naginata tightly. "Now get up and fight!"

"You're just lucky that your friend came in before I was able to finish you off." Daniella replied to him as she got up on her feet. She picked up her Halberd and shield afterwards. "I'm sorry my old friend, but I have to do this on my own." She said to her horse who was still shocked from the impact. "Now, have at you!" She charged forward with her shield blocking the cameras view.

As the shield moved away from the camera, the scene now transitioned to the Blue Nagas fight with Silvia in their base. Silvia was shown running around the open battlefield, popping to and from the thick amounts of fog that settled in a while ago, striking them every time.

"Eeek." Phoebe shrieked as Savior got struck by Silvia's attack creating a clanging sound before disappearing into the fog once more. "W-where did she g-go?"

"Look out!" Ginger called out as she blocked the jester's attack aimed right behind Nathan. The Silver blade of Silvia's scythe was locked in-between the two blades of Ginger's guns. "Hah!" She pushed away the scythe and Silvia disappeared once more.

"Thanks." Nathan thanked her.

"Don't thank me just yet. We're still yet done here." Ginger said in replay as she continued to remain vigilant.

"R-right." Nathan nodded as he held on to his rapier, Luciel, tight.

"AAAAH!" A loud screaming was heard through the thick fog. An ominous sounding chuckle soon followed

"Paris!?" Ginger called out as she recognized who it was. "Nathan, we got to find her!" She urged him to move. The latter nodded in response before the two of them ran towards where the scream came from.

As they ran through the thick fog in search for Paris, they soon saw what had happened when they finally found her. They both let out soft gasps when they saw Paris with a bloody blade sticking out through her chest. Her body soon flickered out of the virtual world to reveal Silvia standing behind her

"One down hahahaha." She said in a ghostly tone as she stared straight right at them.

"Grrr. I'll kill you!" Ginger roared at her as she charged at her. She slashed the blades of her guns forwards but the jester suddenly disappeared before she could even land a hit. Ominous sounding laughter started to echo throughout the area. "Enough with the cheap tricks! Come on out and take us on for real!" She yelled out angrily.

"Hmm? If I do that then it'll ruin all the fun." Silvia answered back followed with soft chuckling but hasn't shown herself yet. "I rather keep playing like this. Seeing all your tormented faces is what keeps me entertained."

"Screw you!" Ginger yelled back as she aimed her gun in a random direction. She took a shot with the bullet shot being visible through the fog but hit nothing in the end. More eerie laughter started to play out. "Dammit, this is getting us nowhere!"

"I know but we he have to keep our cool. She wants us to lash out like that so that she can pick us off easily." Nathan said to her in a calm manner to calm her down. "The way I see things is that she's just toying with us right now."

Ginger let out a deep sigh. "I know but- wait! What was that?" She cut herself off when she heard something odd. Listening carefully, a light crackling sound was heard.

"Clint!" Phoebe's voice was heard loudly through the fog. The two rushing back to where they left Clint and Phoebe, they soon saw what had just occurred. Ahead of them was Clint who was standing on his knees with his left over his right shoulder. His arm was noticeably bleeding for blood was trickling down from it. Phoebe was kneeling down beside him while their summons were standing in-between them and Silvia but the female doll, Violin, was standing behind the two. The blade of her scythe was faintly glowing with sparks of energy were crackling from it

"Hmm, you're tougher then you look." Silvia commented at she stared straight at Clint. Clint just glared back at her. "I expected your arm to be sliced clean off." She chuckled a bit. "Oh well, a second hit shall do the trick." The blade of her scythe started to absorb energy from all around it.

As she was busy preparing her attack, the male doll suddenly went into action and started to charge at her with the spear pointing forwards. Seeing the attack heading her way, Silvia simply stepped to the right to avoid the attack. She quickly swung her scythe down to break off the dolls entire left arm. With her still pre-occupied, Silver tried to pounce on her but she suddenly vanished causing him to miss.

"Hehehe. Useless." Her voice rang out for everyone to hear. Silvia suddenly appeared floating right above Clint and Phoebe. "Good night." She said to them while bearing a huge grin. She swung her scythe downwards with the blade glowing in a silver color. A silver colored wave of light started heading towards them.

As the attack collided with them, the two were soon enveloped in a bright flash of light followed by a small explosion to occur. "Nooo!" Ginger cried out as she shielded herself from the bright blast. As the force of the blast ended, another bright flash happened and soon another wave of light was sent flying towards Silvia and knocking her out of the air.

"Aaaah!" She yelled as she got hit by the attack and landing hard on the ground below. As the light faded out, Nathan was soon shown standing in the way of the attack with his rapier held out. His bodly looked badly beaten with some smoke flowing from him. The rapier he held was glowing brightly in a blue-ish white light.

"Nathan!?" Ginger said in surprise.

"Finish...this..." Nathan said weakly before collapsing. His body started to fade away before it hit the ground.

"Hmm...you'll pay for that!" Silvia said in angrier tone as she got up. "Aaaah!" Her body started pulsating with electricity.

"Ginger! F-finish it!" Phoebe called out to her. Standing beside her was the female doll playing its violin while sparks of electricity started flashing from it.

Ginger nodding in response went into action and started running towards the paralyzed jester with the blades of her guns sticking out. She soon ran passed her with a cross slash and with a quick turn of her heel she pointed the barrel of her gun towards Silvia's back and took a shot.

"Ugh..." Silvia groaned out in pain as she fell on her front. Moments later, Savior came in rushing towards the downed Jester to deliver the final blow as it drove it's spear onto her back. "Aaaaah!" She let out with her final breath before dying on the spot. Her body started to fade away like dust followed by the fog leaving only the scythe behind.

With the fog now gone, the scenery went back to normal with no more enemies in sight. Silence fell onto the area for no one made a sound as they thought heavily as to what happened. Moments later, Chris soon slowly materialized on scene with a wide grin on his face.

"Congratulations Blue Nagas! You are currently the first place runner ups for this challenge!" The host announced to them. "Since you guys won this challenge by defeating the raid boss, you guys get to keep her special weapon!" Chris reached his hand out to the side and soon the scythe that was left on the ground slowly flew to his hand.

"Hmm, not really suitable for a price. Let me fix this real quick." With a flick of his fingers, his panel appeared right beside him. Pressing a few buttons the scythe started to glow brightly. As the light died down, the scythe has completely changed it's form into something more radiant than it was before. "That's better." Chris commented with a smile.

The scythe now had a solid white metallic pole that curved outwards with the bottom-end ending with a blade point. The blade now spiked out from its opposite end with it now being in a dark black color but sharp edge of it leading to the tip was glowing in a blue color.

"Anyways, this here is Selena, the Moon reaver." Chris introduced the weapon to them once more. "This weapon here is enchanted with immense amounts of cosmic magic that it allows the wielder to do almost anything." He explained to them. "Well maybe except the whole fog thing. That was special for the boss only." He quickly added. "So, who wants it?"

The three of them just looked at the host in silence waiting to see if someone will speak up.

"Well?"

After a moment of silence between the remaining members, Ginger soon spoke up.

"Well, that scythe looks mighty fine but." She took a short pause. "But if I get that then these two bad boys won't get much use." She twirled both her guns to show them off. Ginger immediately holstered them soon after. "It may be tempting but I'd rather have something more low tier. Something good enough to keep but not to good to overshadow my true weapons."

"Interesting." The host smiled at her. "What about you Clint? You look like the type of guy that would go 'questing' for rare loot." He quickly eyed the aforementioned with a grin.

Clint just returned to him with a straight, uninterested look as he stared straight back at him. He soon got up with the aid of Phoebe's help before speaking up. "Being proficient at ones craft yields better results." He said to him in an even tone. "A sudden change will only leave one nowhere."

"Wow...I have no idea what you just said." Chris said blatantly. "If you don't want it just say so!" He spat at him. Clint didn't give no other response. "Well, that only leaves you Phoebe." He pointed his eyes towards her direction.

"M-me? B-but I cant even f-fight on my own." Phoebe said weakly as she was under Clint's arm.

"You don't have to use it. You can just make your summon use it for you." Clint said to her.

"W-wait, I can?" Phoebe said back with her head tilted a bit. Clint just rolled his eyes in response but nodded soon after. "I-I see..."

"Well? I'm waiting." The host said impatiently. After a few seconds of thinking it through, Phoebe soon came to a conclusion.

"O-okay, I'll k-keep it." She answered him.

"Good. Since if you didn't this weapon would be deleted entirely." Chris said to them as he tossed the scythe towards Phoebe and Clint. Savior managed to catch it with it's good arm before it could land right in-front of them. A dark blue aura emanated from the scythe showing that it was now linked with it.

"Wait, what do you mean delete it? We still have other two members that we could give it to!" Ginger questioned Chris about him.

"Are the two here right now?" Chris said back to her.

"No." She immediately answered.

"Well that answers your question. If they aren't here then they won't have the benefit of being able to decide; dead or not." Chris said to her. "Now..." He trailed off as he pressed some buttons on his panel. A green portal suddenly appeared right beside him. "Since you all finished first, you all get the benefit of watching the other two teams finish their challenge. This portal here will take you to outside the maze area where to large holographic monitors await for you." He explained to them. "I'll be seeing you all their." He soon vanished.

The three of them, now left alone, just stared back at each other and into the portal before Ginger spoke. "Well, lets get out of here then." She says to them before entering the portal first. The other two soon followed after.

(Confessional)

Ginger: Phew, I really can't believe we won that! I mean I never doubted that we could but seeing that we were first to do so was really something. If you're watching this right now Naoto, this just proves you can't count me out so easily!

Phoebe: Um, i-it really f-feels nice that w-we won this challenge. This just m-means we hopefully w-wouldn't have to f-face elimination for t-tonight.

(End Confessional)

The scene shifted to the room outside of the castle throne room. Here, Lunaris and her men were shown standing outside the throne room's massive double doors with the former standing by the foot of it. The young princess just breathed in and out calmly as a small smirk was shown on her lips.

"Interesting place to run and hide to." She said to no one in particular. "Oh well, If I have to get my new throne bloody then so be it." She said to herself. "Men! Open up the door for me."

Two armored soldiers soon walked up taking there positions in-front of the door while facing each other. They both pushed the doors open at the same time allowing for Lunaris to step inside followed by her men. All of the soldiers started rushing to the sides of the throne room leaving only the carpeted walk way open. As Lunaris gracefully walked down the carpet leading to the throne, a voice soon spoke up to greet her.

"Glad of you to make it!" Kazuo's voice was heard greeting her. The camera panning forwards revealed Kazuo sitting on the throne with Laren peaking her head from behind it. "I'm guessing you're here to kill us aren't you?"

"I'd be lying if I said it wasn't." Lunaris said with a smile. "Since you already know why I'm here..." She trailed off as she unsheathed her rapier. "Lets dance, shall we?"

"Lets." Kazuo replied with a smile of his own as he got up and pulled out his sword; Aurum.

"K-Kazuo be careful! She took out Alice and the others easily." Laren warned him as he slowly descended the steps.

"Don't worry about." He said to Laren without even looking back at her. Kazuo was now standing right across from Lunaris who still had a cheery look on her with her sword pointed at him. "Please, let me take the lead." He soon swung at her first. The two blades soon met up with each other making a clanging sound as they did.

As the two blades met, the scene suddenly jumped to Leonard and Daniella pushing the other back as their blades were locked against each other. Leonard suddenly shifted his momentum to strike her with the lower blade of his naginata but was easily blocked by Daniella's shield.

"Hmph, for someone who isn't a knight, you're not half-bad yourself." She commented on Leonard's strength. She soon bashed Leonard with her shield to knock him back and swing at him with her halberd but her swing was immediately stopped by Leonard's weapon.

"If only I could say the same thing for you." He sneered at her. "For a General of an army, I expected more from you." Leonard shoulder bashed her shield to make her move back away from him. He soon took his opening to jab at her but it was still blocked by the shield.

"Oh you'll be eating those words soon boy." Daniella answered back as she shoved the naginata away from her. She soon delivered a strong kick to his stomach sending hi flying back and blocking the camera's view with his back.

The scene now transitioned back to the throne room where Kazuo was shown getting thrown towards the steps and hitting them hard. A white mist was flowing out from his chest with some parts of his robes looked a bit burnt.

"Ugh.." Kazuo groaned in pain but ended up chuckling after. "Didn't expect to get sent back that hard." He said with a pained look as he slowly got up. "I thought all princesses were supposed to be gentle damsels?"

Lunaris just lightly chuckled at him as she approached. "Looks can be deceiving." She said simply as she jabbed him the gut with the butt-end of her sword's handle. Kazuo soon buckled over and fell down to his knees.

"Hah..." He groaned out as he coughed up some blood. "Yup...expected that to happen...*coughs*"

Lunaris soon delivered a strong back-handed slap to his face causing him to twist his body and fall over on his front. She immediately followed it up with a kick to his gut but the moment the kick landed the scene jumped to Leonard being kicked away and skidding on the ground before stopping after hitting a shield.

"Hmph, I guess this filthy cur is all bark and no bite." Daniella said to him in a spiteful tone.

"Urrr...screw you!" Leonard spat back at her as he struggled to get up. Daniella swung at him again with another strong kick to his gut to bring him down once more. She soon stomped down on him causing him to squeal for bit.

"Time to end this." Daniella says as she raises her weapon above her head. With a quick swing of her halberd, bits of blood splattered everywhere with Leonard flicking out soon after. "Now, lets see what we can do to you." She says as she looked towards the unconscious Dylan.

The scene soon soon jumped cut to the castle throne room just to show Kazuo laying still on the ground with Lnaris' rapier jabbed through his chest. His body flickered away seconds later leaving only the sword behind with some of blood dripping from it's tip.

"No! Kazuo!" Laren cried out as she was shown being held up by two armored soldiers by her arms.

"Hmm, such a shame. He didn't last very long." Lunaris said to no one as she shook her head. She soon looked towards Laren who had a terrified look on her face. "Oh well, time to finish the last of your pitiful team." She slowly started walking towards Laren who was trying to squirm her way out.

As the sound of her metalic boots echo throughout the throne room's interior, the scene was constantly jumping back and forth to Daniella and Lunaris walking towards their respective targets. Both of them holding on to their weapons tight to deliver the finishing blows to the contestants.

Both of them now standing right in-front of their respective contestants, they both held out their weapons to finally fiinish them off.

"Insolent fool." Daniella said spitefully to the unconcious Dylan as she raised her halberd high above her head.

"It was a pleasure meeting you all." Lunaris said simply to Laren as the blade of her rapier was pressed on to her neck.

Both bosses delievered their final blows and scene soon faded to white.

The scene now faded back to the real world and back inside the challenge building where all the contestant's pods popped open at the same time. White mist started to burst out of each pod as the contestants held inside them slowly got out. As the mist clears out, everyone was now out of their pods with both hosts waiting for them patiently on the control panel.

"So, what do you guys think about today's challenge?" Chris said to them with a grin as he was still seated on his chair. Skell was just standing right beside him with his arms crossed who also had an amused look on him.

"I'm sure they liked it." Skell answered for them as he chuckled slightly. Everyone in the room didn't bother to speak up and say other wise. "See."

"Just get on with the results already!" Leonard said looking a bit impatient as he glared at the two hosts.

"Sheesh. If you wanted to know if your team lost that badly then you should've just asked." Chris laughed a bit sadisticly as he said this. Almost everyone from the yellow chocobos and some other contestants didn't recieve his joke to well. "Fine, here are the results." He rolled his eyes as he pressed a button on the control panel. The large monitor in the room soon came to life as it displayed two empty boxes on screen.

"For first place we have..." Chris trailed off as the first box started to flicker a bit. Moments later, the Blue Nagas symbol was shown. "The Blue Nagas!" Everyone from the Blue Nagas cheerec except for Clint had a straight look on his face.

"Woohoo! We did it guys!" Paris cheered for her team.

"Y-yeah." Phoebe chimed in as she had a small smile on her.

"Hmph, if you all think you can count as out that easily then y'all are mistaken." Ginger said triumphantly to the rest of the contestants.

Nathan and Clint just kept quiet but traces of contentment was shown on their faces.

"Now, onto the second placers. The team that is shown on screen will be safe while the one who isn't will be seen tonight." Chris said to them with a malicious grin. Tension started to creep up on the other two teams as they wait for the results to pop up.

"The ones who are safe for tonight is." Chris took a dramatic pause. "Yellow Chocobos!" He finally announced. The Yellow Chocobos started to celebrate but the Red Dragons was hard pressed with the loss

"Yes! We did it!" Blake was heard cheering from his team. As he did, Lucette suddenly jumped on to him and hugged his right arm.

"Yeah, you were great out their." She said sweetly to him. Blake felt a bit uneasy with the situation he was in but Ginger managed to save him by pulling Lucette away off-screen.

"Hmph, its obviously because of my ingenious strat." Dylan boasted to get some recognition but no one even looked his way.

"You know, It was a close call actually." Skell suddenly said to them. "Both teams were down to their last member and both of them were pinned down with no hope of escape. It was so close in fact that we both had to look at our scanners to see who died first." He explained to them. Skell soon started prompting in commands on the control panel to reveal some sort of sensor similar to a heart detector on the monitor.

"This is what we looked at to see who died first. We call this the life sensor or something along those lines." He said to them. "To keep the technical stuff to a minimum, we use this to see if the player is still alive or not before the system pulls them out." Skell explained.

"To keep things from dragging on for any longer, Laren's sensor flat lined a second before Dylan's did." Chris suddenly interrupted. "With that out of the way..." The host trailed off as he looked towards the Red Dragons. "Red Dragons, I'll be seeing you tonight."

"*sigh* Things would have been better if we worked as a team!" Janet said to her team but directed it to Kazuo. The aforementioned just chuckled slightly at her.

"Actually, if we did, we would have been wiped out much faster." Kazuo replied to her with a knowing grin. "Me being away from you guys extended our time to making it close." He added.

"I'm sorry guys, I didn't know where else to run to." Laren said with a sad look on her face.

"It's not your fault." Alice said to her reassuringly. Alice still looked hard pressed on the lost. "Lets just head on back to the cabin." She said before leaving. Everyone else soon started to follow her out dispersing as they did.

(Cabin 5: Alice and Laren's. One hour left.)

The scene jumped cut later in the evening inside Laren and Alice's cabin. Inside, the latter was shown laying on the bottom bunk of their bed with her hands under her head staring at the bottom of the top bunk while the former just sat by the edge. Both of them looked a bit down for the upcoming event.

"So..." Laren started. "Who are you going to vote out for tonight?" She asked.

"Isn't it obvious? Kazuo obviously!" Alice answered back with a serious look. Laren couldn't say anything else. "If you're going to ask for my opinion, vote for Kazuo as well."

"But why though?"

"Why? You should already know by now as to why!" Alice raised her voice at her. "After what happened yesterday, that should have been a tell tale sign as to why!" She added with a harsh tone. Laren doesn't know what to say back and started to tear up a bit. Some slight sniveling can be heard from her.

"Laren I..." Alice tried to reach out to her but Laren just brushed her off and ran out of the cabin. "*sighs* Fine, be that way." She fell deeper into her pillow.

(Elimination grounds. Twenty minutes left.)

The scene now jumped ahead a couple minutes later to outside the elimination grounds. The fire in the center was already burning bright with some embers popping from the top. Sitting in one of the stumps ahead of time was Tristan who just stared at the fire.

"Hey, you're here early." A female voice called out to him. Tristan looking to who it was saw Janet standing beside him. "Mind if I join you?"

"I don't mind." Tristan said simply. With a smile, Janet sat on the stump next to his. The two sat there in silence for a brief moment before Janet suddenly spoke up.

"Why are you out here?"

"Just thinking about who to vote off." He answered.

"May I ask who you have planned?" Janet asked as well.

Tristan just shook his head at her. "No, I want to keep my vote for myself for the time being." He said to her. "And besides, I know what you are trying to do. You came to me since I'm all alone to try and persuade me to vote with you." He added with a grin.

Janet started to chuckle a bit. "Good to know you're not that naive of a person." She said back to him.

"Attention everyone! Eliminations is about to begin in a few minutes! Red Dragons, be out here before then to submit your votes." Chris's voice echoed out through the P.A. system.

"Well, time to vote." Tristan said before he got up.

The scene now jumped a couple minutes once again, the ceremony grounds where now seated with the remaining contestants with the two hosts standing in the middle. Skell this time around was the one holding on to a plate of cookies in the shape of dragons.

"Okay, time to read tonights votes." Chris said to them as he pulled out a list of names. "First one that is safe is Laren." He started.

Skell tossed Laren the cookie but was to depressed to bother even catching.

"Tristan."

He was able to catch the cookie but the tail piece broke off.

"Janet."

She wasn't able to catch hers for it bounced off of her hand.

"Alice."

She didn't catch hers for she didn't even care.

"Kazuo. Derek. You two are the final two and one that is safe for tonight is...

"...no one. Its a tie!" Everyone's eyes widened at the result.

"Wow, I just started my first day and its a tie. Isn't this interesting!" Skell grinned widely. "How are we going to solve this predicament though?" He faced the other host.

"Since this is the first tie for the season, lets do things lackluster for more drama." The main host grinned. "Or should I say, Luck-luster." He started laughing for a bit. Everyone just cringed at his bad joke. "Anyways, I expected a tie to happen sooner or later so I had these made." Chris pulled out three different cards in his hands. He showed everyone that each card had a team symbol on each.

"How this will work is that the two of you will choose from these three cards. The one who picks the one with their team symbol is safe." Chris explained to them. "But don't look at them when you get one."

"But there are three cards? What would happen if both of them chose the wrong cards?" Alice questioned.

"Easy. Both will be eliminated." Chris said plainly. The place soon fell quiet. "Now, who wants to go first?" He said after he was done shuffling the three cards.

"I'll go!" Kazuo said happily as he picked up a card. Derek soon went forward to grab his. The two now held a card each with the blank side facing upwards.

"Before the two of you reveal yours, lets reveal what card is left." Chris said with devious grin. He soon flipped the card to reveal the Chocobo symbol. "It seems only one is going home." He chuckled a bit. "Now, Kazuo. Derek. Reveal everyone your cards."

Both boys flipped their cards up to reveal which one is safe for tonight. The one holding the Red Dragon symbol was...

...Kazuo.

"And there we have it folks! Lady luck smiles upon Kazuo!" Chris exclaimed. "Derek. I'll be seeing you later." He pointed towards Derek. "Any last words before we end things off?" Derek didn't say anything. "Nothing huh? Oh well, no one is going to miss you anyway." He chuckled to himself.

"Okay, the ceremonies over! You may all leave now." Skell announced to them. "Derek, follow me." He said to Derek before both of them walked back to the challenge building. Everyone else left the area only leaving Chris alone.

The famed host all alone now, the camera zoomed in on him as he smiled his trademark smile. "There you have it our dear viewers, our once previous champions fell out of glory and became this times losers." He said smirking. "Will the Red Dragons jump back and win just like the Blue Nagas did? Will the Blue Nagas secure another win that the Red Dragons couldn't? Will the Yellow Chocobos be the winners next time to make things even with one win each? And will anything happen to Lucette and Blake? Find out next time on Total...Drama...Dungeon Hunters!" Chris held out his arms dramatically.

Votes:

Alice: Kazuo. There's nothing much I need to say about this

Laren: *sniff* I want to say Kazuo but, after what happened with Alice, I don't think I would want to vote with her. So I'm voting for Derek instead.

Tristan: My vote goes to Derek. Between the two of them Kazuo looks to be the best one to keep in all honesty.

Janet: Kazuo. I don't care if he has the best equipment out of all of us. If he doesn't want to act with us then he there is no point in keeping him.

Kazuo: Hmm, who to vote? Maybe that Derek guy. Yeah, lets be cliché for the first elimination for our team.

Derek: Hmph. Kazuo.

Places:

18th: Estwynn Paratus. The Mech and Hero Enthusiast. Role: Fighter

17th: Derek Wright. The Dangerous Outcast. Role: Fighter

Authors note: Derek. There is nothing much I could say about him in all honesty. He is the type of guy that would do things on his own but would do things for his own benefit due to his strength. In normal circumstances if we forget about the virtual world for a bit his type would easily make it farther than his current placement but since everyone is in a position where even the physically weakest contestant can carry he really won't shine much.

It's really sad for me to drop him since I really like his type since I find them interesting. But as a writer I have to let go of personal bias to make things fair for everyone since none of the characters are mine. All in all, he was fun for me to write for but I couldn't keep for long due circumstances. He had a decent run but who knows he might come back as a returnee for merge.

Anyways, I hope you guys also like the new host added. He was sent it by Obikinoah, another writer here. He's a good writer and stuff. If you guys think I added it for some random reason then you are all mistaken. Read the chapter where I posted the cast list a long time ago. It will serve as an explanation for him being added just now.

Now, onto the chapter question: How would your OC react and feel if they aren't allowed to use their main weaponry for the next challenge and was forced to work with the other teams? As always, send you answers through PMs and I'll be seeing y'all next time. Bye and Happy Holidays!