Note: Now that the first chapter is out and I don't have to deal with the annoying "assigning people" stuff, the chapters should hopefully get longer and more detailed. I'll make a point to revise chapter one soon, so watch out for that, even though nothing would be added that you have to read. Anyway, I appreciate the reviews; thanks for letting me know what you think. :D
Oh and yeah, I don't own TDI. Goes for all chapters.
"Departs All Yours" – Second Challenge
Chris stood on the dock of Camp Wawanakwa and grinned at the camera as the crew began to prepare for the start of the second challenge the campers would partake in. "Last time on Total Drama Island, the first challenge began with a one-legged relay! The Marine Cows were set to win until footage of Noah cheating disqualified him! It wouldn't matter though, for Justin cheated at Blindfold DDR and Heather lost out to Duncan in a Jumping Jack contest, making the Coral Fish last time's losers!
"It came down to Harold, who would have cost the Coral Fish the relay race had Noah not cheated, and Justin, who made them lose the Blindfolded DDR challenge. In the end, Harold received the final marshmallow and Justin was sent home on the Boat of Losers. Now this time, our campers will compete in a Water Balloon Fight, in which the last one standing wins immunity for their team. Who will get voted off and who will just be soaked? Find out in the most dramatic campfire ceremony ever!"
The camera crew cut off the scene there, allowing a space for the theme song to be added in-between this point and the start of the challenge.
Chris, not wanting to strain his voice, brought out a gong and crashed it against the side of the Coral Fish cabin that was housing the females of the team. Heather slammed the door open before the gong even stopped reverberating in Chris' hands. After seeing their host grinning at her, she lost all self-control and shrieked at the top of her lungs. "What is wrong with you, you…crazy, sadistic, ugh!" She stomped off to the showers while numerous heads of other campers popped out of doors, obviously both worried and aware that the bomb could go off again at any moment.
"Well, I see some of us didn't get enough sleep," Chris was nonchalant about Heather's outburst, simply shrugging. He turned to the other girls of the Coral Fish cabin, but he made his statement loud enough so that the other campers could hear him. "Breakfast will be in thirty, after that please report to the dock for the second challenge!" Quite a few of the less-than-enthusiastic campers, such as Noah and Ezekiel, groaned and mumbled a few words under their breath before retreating back into the cabin to get ready.
No one attempted to even go near the showers until after breakfast.
Heather charged in five minutes late to breakfast, expressing her clear annoyance about nobody telling her when breakfast was, even though she knew better than anyone why no one spoke with her.
(Confession Cam – Heather)
"These losers here are all so lame. None of them are even close to competent enough to match against me! This will be the easiest hundred-grand ever made."
(Normal Perspective)
She took her seat, rather begrudgingly, beside Eva. "Listen team," she started, preparing to win them over with a passionate speech. She failed. "Our one loss has already been two too many!"
Lindsay interjected here, "So I know I'm not the best at math, but I think your counted wro-", Heather, yelling, cut her off.
"It's an expression you nitwit! Now, if there are no more stupid comments here, I'm trying to raise moral!"
"It's not a very successful plan," Noah stated from the Marine Cow table, who had been eavesdropping to see what had made Heather freak for the second time. "Yelling among teammates has been known to drop moral by as much as forty-three percent."
"What is wrong with the people here! No one understands my methods, last week was a fluke! All Justin's fault, but he's gone now, so let's focus on whatever this next challenge is and make them vote off one of their nuisances!" She narrowed her eyes and stared Noah down.
Duncan gave a half-laugh as the Marine Cows began to head to the dock. "Well, let's see what the challenge is before you go claiming victory, huh?" The Coral Fish began to follow after Duncan, who was the last of the Marine Cows to leave. Heather, infuriated, was going to teach the 'punk' a lesson when her stomach abnormally rumbled and she settled for turning and grabbing food before she left.
"Well, campers, there are twenty-one of you left for the second challenge, which is a favorite no matter where you go: the classic water balloon face-off!" The campers looked at each other, as if to ask 'what water balloons?' Answering the unspoken question, Chris pointed along the beach to Chef, who was dragging a wheelbarrow load of water balloons up to the campers.
Chris turned back to the campers, "Now, each of you will receive only one water balloon," he stressed 'only one' so that he could make sure the contestants understood. "So, throw them wisely, because you wouldn't want to be unarmed in this contest! If a water balloon hits and bursts on you and you get wet, you are to; a. give your water balloon to the person who soaked you if you still have one and b. head back to the dock. The team with the last camper who remains dry will win the challenge and, along with immunity, a relaxing massage!"
There was murmuring among the teams, the boys discussing who they should go after and the girls discussing how they could best win the massage. As they gathered around the wheelbarrow and took a water balloon, Lindsay ended up getting the last one, and as everyone else moved back to Chris, hers popped after getting pricked on one of her nails. She was instantly soaked and Chris winced, "Uh, well, since we don't have another water balloon, I think Lindsay has to sit this one out."
(Confession Cam – Trent)
"Okay, so she was the one who popped her own balloon, but she already has to sit out? Harsh, man, they were already down a member. Oh well, just makes it easier for us, I guess. Eleven versus nine shouldn't be a problem."
(Normal Perspective)
Lindsay, frowning and getting holes burned into the back of her by the eyes of her teammates, took a seat on a picnic table that had been set out by Chef to be able to discern who was out and who wasn't. Chris grabbed the attention of the campers again by waving his arms and announced more information about the challenge, "Now, everyone must head through to the clearing in the woods here. That's where today's challenge will take place. Everyone head on over there!"
The campers scrambled to the clearing while being excessively careful with the water balloons so not to pop them and end up out before the game began, like Lindsay. As soon as they all reached the clearing, Chris had the Marine Cows to move to the woods in the left of the clearing, the Coral Fish to the right, and then shot a starter-gun. "Let's go!"
Almost all the campers dispersed among the trees instantly to find the members of the opposing team to soak them before they were soaked themselves. Heather, however, stayed exactly where she was; keen on making the opposition come to her. She didn't take so well to the other member who stayed behind, however. Ezekiel was leaning on a tree, hat over his eyes, snoring softly. Heather's eyes narrowed a bit and she thought about waking him up, but decided against it, feeling it might be a good lesson for the boy.
Eva snarled, determined to soak someone soon. She saw her chance when Katie and Sadie appeared (without water balloons, too, Eva could only guess how they had wasted them). She didn't even hesitate and flung the water balloon instantly and with a force equal to that of an infuriated gorilla. Both girls were drenched, the balloon perfectly targeted as to soak both girls in one throw.
They burst into tears at the sight of Eva and fled to the picnic table. The athletic girl, now balloon-less, headed back to where the team had started, wondering who she would encounter.
As Katie and Sadie ran back to the table, they witnessed multiple people from both teams get soaked, including Owen and Beth. By the time they actually got to the Loser Table, there were seven campers (both of them, Lindsay, Owen, Beth, Noah and Harold) at the table.
Duncan tapped Courtney on the shoulder, startling the girl and almost making her hurl her balloon at him. She fumed while he grinned a little bit, "Well, well, Princess, you seem jumpy today."
"Get lost, Duncan, I'm trying to win," she tried to walk away, but he caught her arm. "I said get lost, Neanderthal!" with that she wrenched her arm from his and started forward, head held high and eyes closed in the "I'm better than you" spirit.
And then she walked into a tree, popped her balloon on a branch and was rightfully soaked.
Duncan began to laugh uproariously, earning himself a slap to the face. "It's not funny!" When he didn't reply but just kept laughing, she grabbed his water balloon from him and hit him in the face again, this time soaking him.
He immediately stopped laughing and grinned at Courtney, "Well Princess, I didn't think you had that in you! But now we're both wet."
Courtney frowned, realizing she had, through her anger, just taken both herself and Duncan out of the game. She started back to the table, moping, when Duncan called out, "Wait!"
She turned back to him, confused.
"Wanna hold hands?" He smirked. She hit him again, giving him a black eye, and marched back.
Back with Heather and Ezekiel, the bossy teenager began to become royally annoyed at Ezekiel's lack of movement (even though she hadn't moved yet either). His snoring had dwindled her last – and only, to be brutally honest – nerve to nothing. She grabbed his water balloon, discarded by his feet, and dropped it on him with an 'Hmph!'
The boy's eyes flashed open, bewildered, as water trickled down his shirt and soaked through his clothes. As he made eye contact with Heather, he screamed, not quite awake enough to discern the girl from a Sasquatch, and charged towards the Loser Table.
As Heather flipped her hair and went back to sitting on the rock she had claimed as her 'playing area', Eva came, snarling, from the brush. "If you're gonna drag this team down, then at least give me your water balloon."
"Look, Little Miss Sunshine, but there is no way you're getting my water balloon. I need it to protect myself."
"You won't need protection if you just sit there like the worthless player you are!" She roared, grabbed Heather's water balloon from her hands and threw it onto the floor, mindlessly soaking both of them.
"You little freak! Don't you know what you've done! You've ruined my hair! You will pay for this, Eva!" With that, she marched off, steam coming out of her ears, leaving a snarling Eva to follow behind.
Chris, after scanning the Loser Table, made an announcement over the loudspeaker. "All remaining campers, pay attention! It seems that the only three left in the game are Gwen and Trent from the Marine Cows and Bridgette for the Coral Fish!"
This made Bridgette, hiding in a bush, mentally freak. Her whole team's winning or losing depended on her now. She bit her lip, hearing footsteps behind her.
(Confession Cam – Bridgette)
"So I'm literally freaking out at this point, I'm the only camper left for my team and even the slightest noise is making me paranoid. I nearly wasted my balloon on a squirrel that climbed the tree next to me. I have to clue how I'm gonna do this!"
(Normal Perspective)
Formulating a plan, Bridgette set to work. When she was ready, she gave off a little squeak to try and attract Gwen and Trent to her.
Trent and Gwen, who had paired up, heard the slight squeak from the bush about twenty steps in front of them. They had heard the announcement, and realized that Bridgette had to be worried, being the last member for the Coral Fish. They grinned at each other and advanced cautiously.
A somewhat familiar blue sweater confirmed their suspicions. Trent quietly threw his water balloon, drenching the figure. When they were cheering however, they noticed that what they thought was Bridgette was actually just her sweater wrapped around a short tree.
"Auuuuuguahguahhh!" Bridgette swung down from a tree, water balloon in hand, ready to soak the Marine Cow duo when Gwen's fast reflexes hurled her own balloon at the surfer girl, drenching her and making her fall from the vine onto the floor of the woods. She looked herself over, completely soaked and hair dripping the cold water she was covered with, then to Trent and Gwen and started laughing.
"Way to go guys, you got me," she grinned, and Trent helped her up while Gwen grabbed her jacket for her and they walked back together.
"Eh-hem," Chris started, looking at both teams. "After looking at both the tapes of the game and Duncan's black eye, I have to say we have some real issues in these teams. Fighting, soaking each other with the water balloons…and I just wanna say…keep it up! Our ratings are through the roof!" He paused to let the campers glare and then continued. "But being serious, it seems that Gwen and Trent are the only two left dry, and being on the same team, that means the Marine Cows win the second challenge!"
The Coral Fish campers groaned, not wanting (or believing that they had to, in Heather's case) to go to the Campfire Ceremony again. "So, everyone into the Mess Hall for dinner, and the Coral Fish, meet me outside at the dock afterwards to say goodbye to one of your team members!"
All the campers shuffled into the Mess Hall, where they were tortured into eating Chef's food (some campers even felt jealous of the camper who would be going home, at least they wouldn't have to eat here ever again).
"Coral Fish!" Chris yelled, as they sat on the stumps near the dock. "I'm disappointed to see you here again for the second week, what's going on?"
Heather, taking charge, stood up and answered, "We have so many losers on this team its unreal. I just can't believe you all!"
Eva snarled, "And the biggest loser on this team is you, Heather."
Heather sat down and started a glaring contest with Eva. Chris, not wanting a fight – even though it might bring ratings up, he knew when things went too far – stepped in and started calling names. "Bridgette, Izzy, Owen, Ezekiel, Tyler, Harold, LeShawna, Heather." He tossed all of them a marshmallow, and then looked at the campers whose names hadn't been called.
"Well, Lindsay, Eva. Here we are, just the two of you left without a marshmallow. One of you will be going home tonight on the Boat of Losers, never to return. Your fellow teammates have voted for the one of you who they think has brought the team down to this Campfire Ceremony. And that's why the last marshmallow goes to………Lindsay."
(Confession Cam – Heather)
"And that's all she wrote. Silly Eva, thinking she stood a chance against me."
(Normal Perspective)
Eva snarled in surprise, not expecting the verdict to swing against her favor. She grabbed her bags and hurled them perfectly onto the boat, then marched off. Before she left, however, she turned back to Heather, "Don't think you'll win just because you're tricky, Heather! There's more to this than being able to force people against each other!"
And with that, she jumped onto the boat, leaving a fuming Heather and Total Drama Island behind.
I like this chapter a lot more than the first one (for which I'm glad!), and I hope everyone who reads it does as well. Reviews are loved and challenge requests/ideas are cherished. Also, please see my profile for a note concerning updates.
"Next time, on Total Drama Island, Courtney and Bridgette compete against each other in a painting challenge. Meanwhile, the remaining members of the teams must build a Soap Box Racer and choose a driver to represent them in a derby! Who will pull through for the team and who will just let everyone down? Find out next time, on Total Drama Island!"