Disclaimer: I don't own Total Drama. If I did then Total Drama World wouldn't have been so bad that some fanfiction writers have done a better job of the season than the actual writers did. Seriously though go check out Strix Moonwing's, TDICharlie Brown, and JoeMerl's works on the subject. They've done great work and unlike the actual World Tour it's actually very creative.

Chapter 17: Dia de los Muertos Part 2


As the sun began to set on Central America, a young man in his early 20's stood at the balcony of his family's Cabo resort, glaring across the Gulf of California. He was of Spanish descent, and had spiky light brown hair and soul patch, wearing a collared blue shirt. While he did this, another more elderly man who appeared to be a butler approached him.

"Young master, you really should be getting to bed. You'll need some sleep for what's to come."

"I can't Jeremías. Not knowing that monster is still out there. I refuse to sleep until I avenge mí hermano menor." The man said before taking a large sip of his fancy coffee.

"You're going to go up against that Mad Hatter child? I hope your well prepared, because your brother tried the same thing and it got him a horrible fate." The butler warned his employer's son, who's eyes narrowed in response.

"I know, I saw the tapes that monster sent out. I may not be able to win, but the least I can do is hold him away long enough for something to change." The young man said before turning around and heading back inside the mansion to get another drink of coffee from the machine.

"He should be here by tomorrow. That so called 'Royal Flush Challenge' of his will go ahead if he's not stopped here. And that's what I intend on doing once he arrives in Cabo." The man said menacingly before taking another sip of his latte.


"Welcome to Total Drama World Tour. The clock is running down on the not so sunny winter of Mexico, and our three remaining contestants are digging up the beaches of Puerto Vallarta. Or at least two of them are as we haven't seen everyone's least favorite omnicidal maniac in an hour."

"But Sasuke Uchiha has nothing to do with the game. Heck, he's in the other story!" Chef mentioned offhandedly to Chris who proceeded to scold him.

"What did I tell you about breaking the fourth wall Chef? Even after all that time they've had ahead, neither Tyler nor Duncan have been able to find the five Dia de lots Muertos offering skulls hidden under the beaches." Chris continued to announce, before turning to the punk and jock in frustration "Seriously what are you guys doing? Cedric will catch up, if you don't pick it up!"

"Blame yourself for putting the skulls in a places that only Neil deGrasse Tyson could find!" Duncan snapped back at the host in irritation with how horribly the challenge had been going.

Tyler than spoke up to state his opinion on the matter "What's worse is that Cedric will probably ace the challenge no problem once he gets here. Knowing how hard he made it to find Cody."

"Thanks for putting my mind back on that bullshit Tyler. You think after that hint the pipsqueak gave me he'd be easier to find. We've pretty much checked everywhere on the plane except Chris' lounge." Duncan pointed out, glaring at the host while he did so.

"Hey, you're not pinning this on me; I want that psychopath gone just as much as you guys do. Even with the surplus of ratings we keep getting fined by governments every time he kills somebody. I searched my entire lounge top to bottom but Cody was nowhere to be found. The theory that Cedric tossed him out the plane mid-flight is becoming more and more likely."

Tyler winced at the thought of his missing friend being condemned to such a fate, and while Duncan had similar emotions due to how bad such imprisonment would be, he expressed it by pounding the sandy ground "Of course Cedric makes his identity easy to figure out, but when it comes to taking him out he's as cryptic as hell."

"In all fairness wouldn't you be secretive when it came to your weaknesses?" Chris defended the demon's strategic actions which confused the others.

"So let me get this straight, you're defending the guy who's killed way over 200 people." Tyler asked, clearly a bit peeved with Chris' callousness regarding the demon's behavior.

"Hey I'm not saying anything he's done is right, but you can't deny the dude's one smart cookie."

"Thank you for the compliment McCeiling."

Chris jumped when Cedric suddenly appeared out of nowhere, after his encounter with Chupacabra's Cedric was very worse for wear even with his immortality. He'd clearly restricted his regular healing powers in an attempt to mess with the others, as his injuries included his eye hanging from it's socket, half his face turn off, a tarot card in between his ear, and carrying his severed arm.

"I see you haven't been able to find the other skulls yet. That makes things much better for me." Cedric said as he sewed the tarot card back onto his arm, which allowed to heal along with the rest,of his injuries.

Tyler than proceeded to try to bitterly trash talk the demon, and got up in his face "Just because we haven't found our skulls doesn't mean you can find them any easier von Túfeice."

"Oh really Red?" Cedric snapped his fingers causing all the sand on the beach to levitate in tons, causing the jaws of anyone watching to drop. The demon then proceeded to notice the five skulls were floating in the air along with the large clumps of sand, and used his telekinesis to attract them all to his hands.

"That was almost too easy! It's a good thing you men are so simple!" Cedric laughed at his competition before noticing Duncan's angry glare "You making eyes at me muchacho?" The mad hatter than proceeded to drop a large pile of the sand onto the delinquent in retaliation.

"I'm not just going to let you walk the easy path on this game we've all worked so hard on. You don't even know anyone here." Tyler ignored his shaking legs and channeled his hatred.

"That's not exactly for multiple reasons. For one plenty of people knew about me beforehand; Beanpole, Pride, Slash, Napoleon Dynamite, and the one Hawaiian guy who can make squirrels bow at his feet." Cedric made small bowing motion with his hands before speaking again "And another thing, you shouldn't be so hateful towards me Red. If it weren't for me getting involved you would have gotten eliminated back in Area 51 in Gluttony's stead. You're just lucky his leave was vital in my plan to get rid of Greed!"

The jock felt his heart drop at the truth of this, before stuttering out in denial "th-That's not true! I could have made it this far without your help!"

"It's almost cute how pathetic you sound Red. Almost as pathetic as the coward buried in sand over there."

"Be quiet! Duncan, may be jackass with a capital G, or J as I've recently been told, sometimes. But he's sure is a much better person than you've ever been!" Tyler defended his former teammate, which resulted in Cedric suddenly bursting into laughter.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh man, you are really just a pack of comedians aren't you. Listen bud, I know better than anybody that Pride is little more than a coward. He could have told you about me anytime after I'd killed Greed, but he wanted to keep his own reputation intact from my blackmail!"

"Well maybe he's changed. Have you thought have that? He's worked harder than anybody else to bring you down!"

"There's not room in his heart for change. So let me ask you this Red, do you really think he could change. Not from a being a coward, but from the root of that problem, being a proud criminal. He did all that just to protect his bad boy reputation. Do you really think he could reform after he let me run free for such a petty reason?"

A long sullen silence from Tyler followed this question, much to Cedric's delight "That's exactly what I thought Red. This three ring circus of 24 teenage tossers makes me laugh. But only because I think it's kind of pathetic, especially Beanpole, thinking he could interfere with my game of cards." Cedric mocked his body, to Tyler's anger before he felt the demon hand him cringed upon seeing that it was the candy skull representing Alejandro.

"I think it would be a bit boring to crack Greed's skull open a second time don't you?" Cedric said before cracking the other four offerings open and consuming the Cayenne peppers inside "You'll never beat me Red. It's best to just give up and head home to say goodbye to friends and loved ones, one final time!"

While Tyler stood there shuddering, Duncan came up having dug himself out of the pile Cedric had buried him in "Are you kidding me? He got four of those skulls?"

"Take it." Tyler gave over the skull, ignoring the punk's objections.


Confessional:

Tyler: "Did I mention I really hate that guy? Because I do! *sighs* But I could only imagine how the would've gone had Cedric not gotten involved. Me and Gwen wouldn't have lasted nearly as long in the game, she and Duncan wouldn't have learned a thing, Al and Heather probably would have made it to the end, and I'd still blindly follow him!"

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Duncan: "He dropped a pile of sand on me. I'm actually starting to miss Chris' methods of tormenting us!"


"Excuse me ladies, if your done with your tea party you've got a boat ride to take, and I've got a hot tub to rejuvenate. So get your tail feathers moving, we can only edit so much on our budget." Chris ordered the semi-finalists, who proceeded to dart towards the speed boat, trying to overtake one another.

As to be expected Cedric made it to his assigned boat before the others did and taunted them as he sped off across the gulf "Eat sea salt you bunch of bitches."

"You are so going to be shark bait!" Duncan growled before he hit the gas on his own boat and sped after the mad hatter, with Tyler quickly following.

All the while Chris and Chef watched them as if they'd forgotten something "You think we should've told them about the rumors of dangerous uncharted islands in the gulf."

"Nah, I'm sure they'll figure out on their own." Chris answered his reaper cohost before they burst out into one of their usual bouts of cruel laughter.

While the hosts were laughing their asses of back on the coast, Cedric and Duncan were participating in another path of road rage. Or at least Duncan seemed to be raging, while Cedric drove the motor boat with normal lackadaisical fashion "Bet I can make it to Cabo faster than you red eyes!"

"Fascinating, I think I'll you up on that offer Pride." Cedric said before pointing his hand behind him and firing another torrent of flames which lit up the evening and gave him a much needed boost against the formerly mohawked teen "Well what do you know, I guess I'm going to win that bet!"

Cedric then looked out the side of his Crimson eyes to see that Tyler was picking up the pace on his boat in an attempt to catch up to him. Seeing this display of determination, Cedric merely groaned "Great, they're breeding. Let's just take care of this quickly."

"Oh crap! Crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap, crap!" Tyler repeated upon realizing he'd sailed right next to Cedric, who was now trying to take chunks out of him with his blade. Out of desperation, he reached into the water and grabbed a swordfishes, barely managing to parry the strikes directed towards him.

The demon realized this was getting him nowhere and made another more simple move. He simply stabbed the boat's motor, causing Tyler to fall back severely. Cedric snickered to himself, thinking that it would be smooth sailing from here on in. This was quickly proved false as Tyler jumped onto his back from his own slowing boat.

"Get off of me you damned moron!" Cedric growled in rage as he was blinded by Tyler's hands, and started hitting Tyler in the face in an attempt to shake him off. While stunned by Cedric's blows, Tyler still tried to keep Cedric away from Cabo by grabbing the wheel and making a complete u-turn.

Unfortunately a combination of his dizzy state and general clumsiness, resulted in their boat head straight towards Duncan's "Turn you idiots! Turn!" The delinquent's warnings went unheard as the boats crashed into each other in a head collision, resulting in both being completely totaled by the impact.

Duncan rose up from the wreckage as quickly as he could to catch his breath, and noticed Tyler bobbing in the water alongside him. His normally tempers flaring up from the crash, he dunked Tyler's head under water in anger "What the heck was that dumbass?! Now we have to swim across this entire stupid gulf!"

"It's not all bad you know? We may be stuck, but at least Cedric is stuck with us." Tyler tried to make the situation slightly better, only to realize Cedric had already used his powers to make a large ice raft in the middle of the water.

After wringing the water out of his signature top hat, Cedric yelled over to them "Man, if you really want yourselves to be dead that badly, I've got a length of rope back on the plane you can borrow. But that will have to wait for after Cabo." Cedric then unleashed another burst of flames from his hand, giving him a method out of the gulf.

Duncan gave the jock another annoyed glare, who once again tried to lighten the mood "Well, look at it this way. At least it can't get any worse now." Just as he said that, a crack of thunder rang out across the Mexican sky and rain began to fall.

"Well now it can't." Tyler groaned out half heartedly in response to their terrible luck, only for it to once again get worse as they saw the fins of great white sharks encircling them. In response they both immediately swam off in the opposite direction.


Confessional:

Tyler: "I've really got to learn to keep my mouth shut."


Night had now fallen over the Western Hemisphere as the sun continued it's journey around the globe, and Tyler and Duncan had finally found land after their hour long journey through the dangerous waters. Tyler currently had several shallow shark bites covering him, and Duncan had a long electric eel wrapped around his body, which shocked him periodically.

"I thought that when Noah warned us about eels he meant Alejandro. Never thought he was talking about the real thing." Duncan growled before ripping the eel off and tossing it back into the ocean "Great, not only have we handed the million to Cedric, but now we're castaways again."

"If I start talking to a coconut I like Owen did, hit me." Tyler poured some sand out of his shoes, before collapsing on the ground from exhaustion.

"We should probably look for a place to crash for the night. Chris probably won't have laid the skulls out till morning, and it will take Cedric at least that long to find Cabo." Duncan grabbed Tyler by the tracksuit, and began dragging him through the jungle of the deserted island.

"So any more ideas of where Cedric could have hidden Cody. Cause I'm really not liking our odds in that regard." Duncan tried to strike up a conversation, only to realize Tyler had drifted into a deep sleep "I like your idea Tyler. I should probably catch a few z's myself, with the day we've had."

After finding a small clearing that was safe for the semi-finalists to rest in, Duncan made a small bed out of leaves for Tyler to sleep on, before making another for himself and passing out in under 5 minutes. Several hours later, Tyler awoke in the early hours of the morning with aching joints and tired body parts.

He walked outside onto the beaches of the deserted island and stared at large harvest moon glaring down at him for the winter night sky. He knew that Cedric was still making his way across the Gulf of California if he hadn't already made it there. And unlike he or Duncan, Cedric had a method of travel that didn't put him at danger of being torn to pieces by the ferocious sharks in the waters nearby. Judging from past challenges, Tyler suspected the sharks and other aquatic dangers were deliberately laid out by Chris to make the challenge that much harder for them.

With that thought in his mind, he began to think about the game as of recent. How Cedric had completely dismantled the game, which was previously just Al and Heather trying to out manipulate each other, into a plethora of madness and chaos amongst the players. And that of course put him in control.

Even knowing who he really was since Australia, things haven't really changed with who controlled the game. He was easily able to knock out Courtney and Gwen, and had been utterly trouncing them at challenge so far. But his manipulative scale had made it far past the game.

Cedric wasn't just content with just causing mayhem in the game, but also causing it across the world. He already made it clear how easy it was to destroy even large portions of cities, and with his powers growing stronger with every day he's out, a cataclysmic event could occur from his final plan. Tyler could only think about how the rest of the world was taking the recent events around the demon in human's skin.

He was broken from his thoughts when he heard a pair of feet coming his way on the sandy ground "You still awake man?"

"Yeah, woke up about five minutes I think. I hope we're not stuck here or something." Tyler said to the punk who sat down next to him on the shore.

"This has been one crazy season hasn't it? Even for this show." Duncan said somberly as he watched the moon, before blurting something out "I heard what Cedric said to you earlier. You know when I was buried in sand."

"Oh." Tyler awkwardly stuttered trying to come up with an explanation.

"That's one thing I actually want to try after this season. Changing I mean. If there are guys like that lunatic in prison, that's not a good investment in the future. I hate admit it, but I've never been more scared in my life than facing Cedric head on. And that's because unlike me, the guy really is fearless. And that's just not human. It's…scary. That and the odds of him ripping one of us to pieces in a few days are incredibly high."

Wanting to take the subject matter of Cedric's upcoming challenge off of his mind, Tyler came up with another thought "How do you everyone else is taking this?"

"Probably in an underground bunker. Noah's making fun of everyone, they've got a gas hose for Owen, Heather's bitching about losing again. The usual except in an apocalyptic situation." Duncan joked, trying to lighten the mood of the situation.

"I don't think their doing that…I hope that Lindsay is doing okay. She's probably scared out of her mind right now. It won't be long if he wins till Cedric sets his sights on Canada…This all just bites. How can we stop some with brains, brawn, complete invincibility, and no fear?"

"He might have some weakness. Demons are weakened by religious objects, so if we find something Cabo like that, we can take him to town with it. Also, Cody mentioned something about that talisman somehow causing him a weakness."

Before Duncan could elaborate any further, the two of them saw a crow descend nearby, which suddenly turned into Chef who was back into his Grim Reaper uniform, carrying a small hatchet and a large bazooka on waist and back respectively. Seeing as neither of the semi-finalists had seen Chef in uniform they were a bit confused.

"Hey Chef, what are you doing?"

"What I'm doing is helping you take down the Zodiac before he causes anymore trouble on earth! Listen and listen good, I've detected a sealed soul on the plane, and odds are it belongs to String Bean. You just gotta find out where he's being kept." Chef revealed to the delight of Tyler.

"So then Cody's still alive!"

"Did I look like I was finished talking jockstrap? Listen up, it's 7 in the morning right about now and if my information is right the Zodiac should reach shore at around."

"Then why are you coming a full hour ahead of time when you can just transport sarge?" Duncan asked with his normal sarcasm, which got a very angry explanation out of Chef.

"Because maggot, I've got this." Chef showed off a small black wristwatch pointed to 7 "The to-die list has very specific I times. So when we've got to reap someone, we just use the watch to skip to that specific time. With some DNA of course." Chef pulled some of Cedric's brown hair and stuck in the watch.

After adjusting the time on the watch, Chef put Tyler and Duncan over his shoulder in preparation to teleport "Now it's only fair I warn you that since your still living, your faces might melt off from this."

"Wait, what?" Tyler asked concerning the abrupt statement before they vanished in a flash of black.


An hour later, Cedric had made landfall on the shores of Cabo San Lucas just as Chef predicted. He had long since left behind his raft of ice, and flew the rest of the way on his broomstick. Once he'd landed on the beach, he dispelled the cleaning instrument and took a peek at the large and beautiful city.

"Would you look at that? A king sized city to cause trouble on. And no idiots to try and 'stop me' anywhere in sight. Now I've got plenty of ways to find the skulls, but what would be the most destructive." Cedric thought aloud, before hearing two familiar screams falling from the sky nearby.

The two landed in the ocean with a loud and painful splash, before emerging completely soaked and visibly annoyed with what had just happened "Ok seriously? If you're going to put us through some weird time warp, at least come out with us."

"Duncan, I think we've bigger problems bro." Tyler said discreetly as he saw Cedric glaring at them from the shore. Both teenagers felt a large amount of fear coursing through their souls. This only got worse when they saw Cedric slowly walking their way. For reasons not even they understood they made movement towards the mad hatter as well.

The final three met in a small triangle in the middle of the beach, with clear fury in some of their eyes. Keyword being some, as Cedric merely had bored amusement in his crimson eyes "So you finally showed yourselves. I suppose this is all part of his plan. That stupid waste of space's plan!"

"…Chef?" Tyler asked, confused with the demon's sudden anger.

"No you wanker! Beanpole!"

"Cody has nothing to do with us being here. But we do know that you're still hiding him somewhere on the plane. Now tell us where he is, or we'll mess you up!" Tyler threatened.

This got a weird look out of Duncan "How exactly are we going to mess him up again?"

"I'm playing it by ear!"

"Playing it by ear? Man you people are incredibly stupid. I've been planning this entire thing out for six long years and you think you can beat me without coming up with a single moment of forethought!" Cedric gaped incredulously in response to this, before bursting out into laughter "Let me show you how badly this will go for you both."

Cedric placed his palm against the sandy ground, which suddenly caused a plethora of shadow loa to shoot out of his hand and spread across the beach. The demon's grin widened upon seeing their jaws drop "I can easily get the rest of the offerings with this beauties here. But you won't step one toe off this beach. For the challenge or for Beanpole."

"Ok any ideas?" Duncan asked nervously as he saw Cedric approach them with bloodlust in his eyes.

"Why are you asking me? You've dealt with this guy a lot more than I have!" Tyler pointedly answered back to his question, while the demon continuously forced them back, all the while unsheathing his weapon.

Before anything else could happen, dozens of pain filled screeches filled the air from around the semi-finalists. They looked around in shock to see that several of the shadows were dissolving in light, with large holes or cuts made into their figures. Upon seeing this massacre of his shades, Cedric growled in frustration.

"Great! What the hell is it now?" The demon turned his attention to the source of the attack, and saw a young Latin man wearing a blue vest, holding what appeared to be a high powered flashlight. To Cedric, the man appeared to be vaguely familiar "Do I know you from somewhere?"

"You killed my brother, and hurt my uncle. My name, is José Burromuerto." The man revealed his identity, to the shock of the semi-finalists.

"Wait, Alejandro had an older brother?" Duncan asked with his jaw wide open.

"Yeah, he told me about him a few times." Tyler said with an angry tone in his voice, still being very bitter with the manipulations of his late former friend. Before anything else could occur, José tossed them similar high powered flashlights to the one he used to dispatch the shadow loa.

"These flashlights emit an incredible light. Use those to take out any of his minions. Now go complete your task, I'll hold him off for as long as I can." José exclaimed, pointing towards the radiant city ahead of them.

Duncan turned to face Tyler and came up with a plan "I'll take care of the rest of the skulls. You run to the plane and figure out where he's hiding Cody." Both of them ran off towards the city, only to get immediately stopped when Cedric sped in front of them at speeds undetectable to the human eye.

"Where do you think you're going? I thought I told you that you wouldn't be stepping one toe off this beach!" Cedric yelled with excited bloodlust, before José unexpectedly socked him in the stomach. This move allowed Tyler and Duncan to escape into the city to complete their respective goals. To the demon's further surprise, he found the blow had somehow caused a large burn on his core.

"Let me guess, you have a cross pendant in your hand don't you?"

"If I didn't have something of the sort, you'd just rip right through me. This is the easiest way to make sure I can keep you down." José shrugged in admittance before getting into a boxing stance.

"So Diet Greed, you openly acknowledge you've got no real shot of actually beating me in physical fight. I guess that makes you slightly smarter than everyone else who's challenged me. Keyword being slightly!" Cedric took his cigarette from his mouth and breathed fire at the Latin, who barely managed to jump out of the way.

After avoiding the flames being fired toward him, José made a charge towards the demon and began attempting to punch him again. This didn't work in the slightest as Cedric lazily side stepped his blows with a disinterested look on his face. This struggle continued for about ten more minutes, with the only sounds made on the beach being José's grunts of anger and the noise of the tides hitting the shore.

This changed when Cedric asked while continuing to dodge the angry Latin "I just noticed something about your attacks Diet Greed, you've never seemed to aim for anywhere but my chest."

"It's the family code to never go for the face!" José cried before he managed to land another blow on Cedric's stomach.

However unlike the last time this happened, Cedric seemed to be in very little pain from the punch and even let a large smile spread across his face "That's an interesting sentiment Diet Greed, especially considering how sneaky your family has proven to be with the exception I gave a heart attack. But next time, make sure you're hitting me with the right hand."

The demon then moved quickly and grabbed onto José's body before encasing him in a thick layer of ice, leaving only his head unfrozen. While the Latin struggled, Cedric did something that shocked him; he used his telekinesis to lift himself up into the air. After giving the frozen Latin a chilling sideways glance, he looked at mainland country to the east.

"I've been stagnating a bit since that house party in Gothenburg. I need to try something a bit bigger, and it just so happens to be that we have a entire country right over that gulf!" Cedric mocked him before creating a small but intense blue flame in the palm of his hand "This cold winter weather doesn't really suit Mexico very well. Let's change that shall we?"

"No! You can't this!" José cried in a desperate attempt to stop the mad hatter from destroying the country.

"Why not? In case you haven't noticed, I'm all the way up here and you're a snowman. Now then let's make some more papers Beanpole! 5, 4, 3, 2,-SHIT!" A literal second before Cedric could start his destruction of the country, he felt something sharp and toothy clamp down onto his neck. While he couldn't really see exactly what it was, he felt that it contained a familiar soul.

However, he seemed to realize what it was when he saw the veve of Papa Legba glowing a blue light embedded in it's spiky exterior. When he did recognize the talisman, Cedric was very visibly furious "You've dealed yourself back in? But how is this even possible."

"Because he's got people on his side, unlike you." Tyler revealed his prison from above the shore, before jumping down and walking towards the demon "I found it in the one place we hadn't thought to check. The confessional septic tank! I may not know anything about this voodoo stuff, but I know that Cody is somewhere in that thing!"

"Great deduction Red, but you actually have to press down on the veve for him to be released back into our body. And what's worse for you is that while you've outlived your usefulness to me, your usefulness to Beanpole and Pride is going to outlive you!" Cedric placed the ashes from his cigarette onto a tarot card with the veve of Damballah and a crying child on it, which he proceeded to blow into Tyler's face.

The next thing Tyler knew he was surrounded in a thick purple mist in the middle of nowhere. While he was confused as to was happening, this only got worse when Cedric's voice echoed from the fog "This is the Fog of Id. Here you will be forced deep into your soul to face the most primal fears of the human mind."

"Come out and fight me like a man von Túfeice!" Tyler angrily yelled into the darkness, and got only silence in response. Once he'd released another irritated growl he heard numerous tiny footsteps in the darkness. He blanched when he saw he was completely surrounded by a plethora of chickens and let out a scram of fright "Come on Tyler, they can't hurt you anymore than Cedric can. He's gotta be stopped!"

After a few deep breaths, Tyler gained a look of determination and yelled "You can't scare me bring it on!"

"Oh really. I'll have you know this was just a warmup Red. The real fun's just about to begin." Another familiar voice came out from the darkness. Thought Tyler could've swore it was Cedric, the voice sounded completely different though it still had the same mocking tone.

He winced when he saw that is way a red eyed Cody who walked through the most surrounding this strange world "It's funny how you think you stand a chance of actually winning, considering I'm the only reason you're still in this game. If I had never gotten involved, then you would have gotten the boot in Nevada instead of Gluttony." Tyler quickly stood his ground against the apparition.

"I'm not going to be fooled. I know it's you again Cedric!"

"Actually no you're a bit off there Greed." Cedric said as he himself came out of the mist, before both of them spoke at once "We aren't seperate beings, but the two faces of the same person!"

"No, I've known Cody for two years. Both of us know what it's like to be jilted off the show for stupid reasons, and I know that you're not Cody! If you were, you would have gone after me last time instead gone." Tyler rationalized the situation with a stoic look, while Cedric angrily put out his cigarette.

"Smart child." Cedric proceeded to speed into Tyler with a hard right, which knocked him back to reality and right on his ads. When he regained orientation, Tyler saw Cedric was standing above him with his cane unsheathed "My voodoo didn't help much in the situation, so let's do this the old fashioned way.

Tyler winced when the point landed right in between his legs, and started back up as fast as he could away from the mad hatter's assault. Cedric just slashed at him as he backed away, cutting bits of hair and his cheeks. This came to an end when Tyler literally backed himself into a corner. With this opportunity in front of his him, the demon dropped his cane and began to strangle Tyler.

"What's the matter Red? Aren't you going to cry for mommy? Oh wait, you can't! I murdered her six years ago! And your about to join her!" Cedric mocked the suffocating jock who moved his arms around wildly in attempt to somehow escape the mad hatter's tightening grasp.

"TYLER! CATCH THE SKULL!"

Just as Tyler thought he was gong to die at Cedric's hands, he saw that was Duncan standing at the top of the hill, with all five of the remaining skulls in his arms. The delinquent tossed the offering representing Gwen to Tyler who grabbed it with what little strength he had left, and thinking quickly, broke the skull right on the veve. Then to the surprise of those fighting against him, the talisman began spewing out blue lightning and Cedric began screaming in agony, before he collapsed onto the beach.

After a few moments of shocked silence, another form came up where Cedric was, despite being a completely different person. Cody was now back in control of the body. Visibly frightened, Cody began panicking "What's going on here? Where are are we? Where's hatter?!"

"You're back bro!" Tyler happily exclaimed while patting his friend on the back.

"Tyler? You're still alive?…I guess you know about my little secret now huh?" Cody awkwardly asked concerning Cedric, to which Tyler delivered a somber nod.

While this exchange was going on, Duncan slid down the hill and confronted Cody himself "Your lucky I recognized who he was before he did any real damage. But I guess the best thing he's gone for good."

"No he's not. Just because I'm back in control of our body doesn't mean I've managed to find a way to reseal him. He could be su about anywhere really. He might even be-"

"Right here." Cedric revealed his presence in the form of a shadow loa reflection, right behind the small group "It appears you've managed to worm your way back into my plans Beanpole. It's for this reason I can't stand you!"

"Believe me Hatter, the feeling is very mutual." Cody returned the glare Cedric was giving him.

"Oh well. You can't interfere as long as we're temporarily separate and my actual soul is dormant. And as long your still in the game so am I. All I have to do is break the rest of the skulls Pride bro-" Cedric didn't finish his sentence as a blast of light pierced the shade he was using.

This was from José who had thawed out his arm and pointed his flashlight right at Cedric "Now matter how powerful you may be, you're still weak to light in that body!"

"Well that's just great. I have to find a new body for this thing to possess while it restabilizes. Good thing I've had an extra one on hand for awhile now. Now then, by the time I come back to finish you all off, one of you will be eliminated. I'll face whoever's left in the Royal Flush Challenge at New Orleans. Now if you excuse me I've got some healing to do. See you on Christmas Day!"

"No! I'm not letting you get away from me again!" Cody yelled as he leapt at Cedric with what little energy he had, only for the mad hatter's shadowy body to vanish and for him to collapse onto the sandy ground "Well, I've lost all feeling in my legs."

After seeing Cedric narrowly escape defeat once again, Duncan growled in frustration "You've got to be frickin' kidding me! Even after all that we still couldn't beat this guy! Is he really that invincible!"

"Not quite." Those around turned their heads when Cody said this, focusing all their attention onto him "The talisman has another function besides just removing souls. It can also contain a soul. If we use this function against him we can bring him down with his own weapon. And I've got just the idea to do it." Cody said with his normal gin, but with a much darker spin on it. That is untill he saw José still half covered in the shell of ice.

"Who's that guy?"


"This has been quite the season if I do say so myself. In three days the fate of the entire world will be decided by how the final challenge goes. And I have to say, that is awesome!" Chris said happily before continuing to ramble "The ratings this season have more than made up for all the financial trouble Cedric's caused!"

"Don't remind me." Cody said flatly, while staring down at the floor of exit row with a guilty look on his face.

"I have only one marshmallow to give tonight. Tyler, you've got immunity for managing to stop Cedric for the time being. Duncan, Cody the two of you are fair game." Chris said before ominously picking up the fluffy snack "Boys, this is the final marshmallow of the entire season."

"We've already decided who's going home this time around. Just get on with it." Duncan droned irritably at the host.

"This is the final time I'll ever be doing the drop of shame; let me use it!" Chris snapped back, before regaining composure "The final marshmallow goes to…

Duncan."

The host tossed Duncan the marshmallow, while Cody gave a sigh of resignation and walked towards the drop "Cody, your done like dinner. See you in three days."

"I'm not really surprised. I flat out told both of them to vote for me." Cody informed the host as he strapped on the parachute.

As opposed to Cody, Tyler seemed very conflicted about the elimination "Are you sure this is for the best man? It doesn't feel right voting you off. I've already gotten rid of all my other friends."

"It's the quickest way we can keep Cedric from the million. We're both under the same game file, so if I'm voted off, the so is he. Just remember the plan and you'll be fine." Cody gave his reasoning to the jock.

"Take care man. And be sure to get that restraining order against Sierra!" Duncan reminded him about his situation with the stalker, to which the geek gave a thumbs up.

"Wait I'm confused, what plan are you talking about. And how many ratings can it get us?" Chris asked excitedly.

"Let's just say that you'll see plenty in three days later. But if you really want to know what we've got in store, check the cameras in your office Mc-" Cody couldn't finish his sentence, as Chris pushed him off the plane out of frustration from getting his name wrong.

"I WAS GOING TO SAY MCLEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!"

While they listened to the geek's screams as he descended back down to earth, Duncan faced Tyler with a glimmer of content "So the mighty Team Amazon has fallen. I guess it's down to us."

Before Tyler could answer back in response to his statement, Chris suddenly appeared behind them and pulled the finalists into a one armed hug "The final two, Tyler and Duncan. Hey I didn't see it coming either. What does Cody have planned? Who will win the million? And can we bring down Cedric's reign of terror? Find out next time on Total! Drama! WOOOOOOOOOORLD TOUR!"


(A/N): And thus the climax is to begin. I've actually had the idea of Cedric having to fight separate from Cody's body for quite some time now. The geek's been absent for most of the story, but since he's one of the main characters I've got throw him a bone for the finale. Sorry I had to eliminate him, but I figured he'd vote himself off at the very least to keep Cedric out of the game for the time being. Only downside is that the next chapter won't be the final one. There are still three chapters left to complete after this one, and the next two of those will be for one purpose. To further explain the origins of the story. Specifically, Cody's former friendship with Cedric, Duncan's first trip to juvie, and finally Cedric's ultimate goal. Expect the next chapter out hopefully sometime this week.

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