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♥ Troyella-5♥
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Chapter One- North
Nine teenagers came out on to the field, eight stumbling the whole way, and one, who's way to excited.

The eight fell right on to the grass dozing off.

Aaron came out, and laughed, "You do know that you're on camera right?"

Sharpay shot up in an instant and rushed back inside, while the other seven waved it off.

"Who cares."

"If you don't get up, you'll have to do suicides," Aaron warned.

That got Taylor, Gabriella, and Kelsi up, and off to change.

"Winner gets to go to a Laker's game," Aaron bribed.

And that got the rest of the guys up.

Everyone came out in comfortable clothes half an hour later, while almost everyone.

"Sharpay right?" Aaron said.

"Yeah," Sharpay said proudly.

"Are you sure you wanna wear that?" Aaron asked.

"Yeah," Sharpay said in a 'duh' tone.

"Okay..." Aaron said unsurely.

"Well anyways, clothes will be given at each tent so you won't have to worry about that. You will all be given a tracer, which you will put around your ear. Just in case you get lost, or if on the last day and you're not even close to the finish line," Aaron said handing them a tracer.

"Troy and Gabriella, you're team one. Chad and Taylor, team two. Jason and Kelsi, three. And Zeke and Sharpay, four. At some stations, you may need to go to your team number's table, instead of a random table."

They all nodded.

"Here's a backpack for each team. In the morning, you will need to pack your lunches. Sometimes, you'll make it with jam, bread, or whatever that will be in the basket. Or there will be a seperate basket labelled lunch, and your dinner will be in a different basket. Water bottles will also be supplied in the picnic basket. Throughout the competition there will be trash cans where you'll be able to throw out the garbage or water bottles, whichever. Today's lunch is already packed for you. It doesn't matter who cares the bag. And there are sunscreen, bug spray, and stuff like that too," Aaron said handing each team a bag.

"Well you're off, and remember, no cheating, since there are cameras everywhere!" Aaron said, then walking off the grass.

They all stood there uncertain of where to go.

Suddenly, Troy grabbed Gabriella arm, and they ran in a direction where a small wood sign had been place.

It took the other three teams a few moments before they realized where to go.

Troy and Gabriella
Troy and Gabriella were the first to reach their destination, they rushed to the table which had a sign, "Team One."

There was a compass and a paper and pen, Troy grabbed the compass on the table, leaving the sheet of paper and pen, and looked around the area for their instructions.

Gabriella saw four trees that had a wooden sign nailed to them, and pulled Troy to the one labelled, "Team One."

"Your school and your rival school, what's on top?" Gabriella read out loud.

"What?" Troy asked.

"Our school, East High, and our rival school," Gabriella thought out loud, "What's our rival school?"

"Um," Troy said closing his eyes trying to think, "West High!"

"Okay, East High and West High," Gabriella clarified, "What's on top?"

"I don't know. The sky?" Troy joked.

Gabriella laughed, but looked up at the sky, "I don't think so."

"Where's the sheet of paper?" Gabriella asked Troy.

"At the table," Troy answered before Gabriella rushed back to the table.

Gabriella grabbed the pen, and wrote down East High and West High on the sheet of paper.

Gabriella kept on tapping the pen against the table.

"Wait, the compass. They wouldn't just give us a compass, right?" Troy asked, slipping the backpack off his back.

Gabriella stopped tapping, and her eyes grew wide, "Your right!"

"Okay, so the two schools have 'High' in common, but----"

"Both have a direction!" they both exclaimed together.

Gabriella quickly drew a compass, North on the top, South on the bottom, East on the right side, and West on the left.

"So the clue was your school and your rival school, what's on top," Gabriella repeated, drawing a big circle around east and west.

"So what's on top?" Gabriella asked Troy.

"North," Troy answered with a smile.

Gabriella thought about it for a moment, then nodded her head, "Yeah. North is on top. So we go north?"

"Well that's what the clue says," Troy exclaimed, fidgeting with the compass to find North.

"That way," Gabriella pointed, slipping the compass into her pocket, and the two of them disappeared in a group of trees.

Jason and Kelsi
Jason and Kelsi were the second to reach their table, they noticed that each table had a fair amount of space in between to prevent cheats.

When Jason and Kelsi had gotten there, Troy and Gabriella had already been scribling on to something, then fifteen seconds later, were running off.

"First let's find the clue," Jason suggested.

Kelsi nodded, and they went to the tree with "Team 3."

"Compass has three kids, Esther, Sam, and Will," Kelsi read.

"Okay..." Jason said slowly.

"What's on the table?" Kelsi asked before rushing back to their table.

"A compass, paper, and a pen," Kelsi said slowly, "Wait, the word compass is in the riddle."

"Uh huh," Jason nodded, "Compass has three kids."

"Well a compass has four directions, but not three..."

"...Maybe that's the point!" Kelsi said, "Three kids...Esther, Sam, and Will."

"The first letter of their name is the first letter of three directions. East, South, and West."

"It's missing north," Kelsi said, then looking at the compass then at Jason, then back.

A smile crept up her face, "Let's go!"

Chad and Taylor
Chad and Taylor reached their table a second after Jason and Kelsi.

The clue was, "Up."

"What the hell?" Chad exclaimed.

Taylor saw Jason and Kelsi leaving their table, "Okay, think Chad. It has to do with a compass, paper or pen."

"Well I guess up on a compass would be north?" Chad thought out loud two minutes later.

Taylor grinned, and Chad grabbed the compass, finding north.

Chad kept spinning around trying to find north.

"That way," Taylor said, jerking Chad in a direction.

"No, it's that way," Chad argued.

They spent three minutes arguing until Chad finally shouted, "North!"

And Team Two was gone, and Team Four wasn't even close.

Zeke and Sharpay
"Would you hurry it up!" Zeke yelled at Sharpay.

"Well sor-rie."

When Zeke arrived at their table, everyone was gone, Zeke gave out a sigh.

"Come on, Sharpay!"

"What!" she screamed.

"Which street does Mrs. Darbus live on?" he asked her.

"North Street," she shrugged, flicking air off her shoulder.

Zeke picked up the compass, and adjusted it to find North.

"At least you're good for something," he muttered, pulling Sharpay with him into the group of trees.

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