Hiya Folks! It's me once again! This chapter will be starring Gwen so you're questions will be answered. Yay! Whatever...

Still don't own it so stop bugging me!

Chapter 5: Gwen

As soon as I heard Noah demanding to Chris why we were all here, I just had to see. I know we had all been attacked, but I didn't see how it really concerned him. Why had he brought us here?

"All right," Chris said, "Everyone gather at the campfire pit so Chef and I-"

"Pass," Chef muttered, heading into the kitchen with his big ol' butcher's knife.

"Er, so I can tell you all what's going on," Chris continued, "Five minutes, everyone."

"I guess we should go tell everyone who didn't hear that," I muttered to Trent and Cody.

"We should," Trent agreed. The three of us sighed. We were saved from having to move when Bridgette and Leshawna walked by.

"Hey you guys!" I called to them, "Meet by the campfire pit in five minutes! Spread the word!"

"All right y'all, we're going," Leshawna replied.

Stretching, I got up to head to the pit and Cody immediately got up with me. I sighed. I guess he was still loved me, though I had rejected him. That was life.

We three kings (no, I'm just joking), we headed over to the campfire pit. We (or at least I) didn't want to miss a word of what Chris had to tell us.

When we got there, only Noah, Heather, Duncan, Harold, Beth, and Ezekiel were there. Trent, Cody, and I sat down in the middle of the group and Beth slid over next to Cody.

"Do you mind if I sit next to you?" she asked, somewhat nervously. Cody gave her a confused look.

"I guess not," he replied, puzzled. As Beth moved closer to him, he moved closer to me. Sigh! Oh well. I guess I couldn't blame him. Beth even creeped me out sometimes.

Heather sat filing her nails, while Noah glared at her from the other side of the pit. Duncan was giving Harold a "power noogie" and Ezekiel stared at the ground, by all accounts, lost in thought. And of course, Cody was pressed to my side. Beth was rambling on about something, and Trent had brought out his guitar and was playing softly.

What seemed like way more than five minutes later, everyone was finally there. After Leshawna threatened Duncan, she came and sat next to Trent and me.

"Hey what's up, Girlfriend?" Leshawna asked me.

I sighed. "Oh nothing much," I replied. "You know, right now I can't breathe." I casted a glance at Cody and Trent.

"Mm- Hmm! I know how that feels," she said, nodding. "Trust me baby."

I nodded as Chris came up to the front of the group to speak. "All right campers," he began, "By now you're probably wondering why you're all here. Well, when the police started hearing about all of your reports of attempts on your life, they immediately blamed Chef and me."

"That's dumb," Ezekiel said, "Why would they blame you guys?"

"Well..." Chris replied, pausing. He was obviously thinking back to all of the horrible, dangerous things he had us do while we had been at Camp Wawanakwa. "Uh, anyway, the police said that if anything happens to you guys, we're going straight to jail," he continued, "so we asked you guys to come back here to try to clear our names. The courts forbid us from leaving."

"Forget that!" Heather growled, standing up. "I'm not helping you! You can forget it." She started to storm away.

"That's cool," Chris said calmly. "You don't have to help. And you also don't have to help find the assassin so he'll go to jail and stop trying to kill you all. I understand." Heather stopped. Dang, he was good. Growling, Heather stormed back to the pit. "All right then," Chris continued as Heather sat down. "Since the court won't let us leave the island, we had to search around here. We found out one thing: that the assassin is on the island. But now Chef and I are restricted to the camp, so you guys have to find out more." As we all got up, Chris threw in one last thing. "Oh, and if you guys ever get into trouble, come find Chef or me, because we don't want to go to jail."

"Wow, Chris was really scared, don't you think?" I asked Bridgette and Leshawna, as we headed towards the Gopher Girl's cabin.

"I know," Bridgette agreed, "I thought I would be happy to see the day Chris was so nervous, but not like that."

"Well, we can cross him off the list," Leshawna said. We looked at her.

"What do you mean?" I asked.

"The suspect list," she replied. "We should try to make a suspect list. That way, we can start narrowing it down."

"Good idea," I said. "Now, the person doing this would either hate the twenty-two of us campers, Chris and Chef, or the show in general."

"Maybe a rival TV show," Bridgette suggested. "One that got really bad ratings because of Total Drama Island."

"That would make sense," I replied. "With Chris out of the way, or if one of us was killed, no one would watch the show anymore."

"Oh ya! My girlfriend's thinking!" Leshawna exclaimed, "We already have a lead to go off of."

"I think we should spread the word that no camper should go off alone," Bridgette added. "Unless they have a plan, going alone would be dangerous."

"I agree," I said, nodding. "Especially since some guys *cough* Geoff *cough* are too clueless to think of that themselves."

As Bridgette gave me this hard stare, Leshawna nodded thoughtfully. "Us three should split up and tell the others what we've thought of," she told us. "Maybe they've thought of something too."

We high fived each other and split up.

Well, there's that. Ezekiel is up next, and he's got a few things to say. Whether or not anyone's going to listen. And yes, we are just taking the idea that Beth has a crush on Cody and throwing it into ours. Personally, I don't agree with that pairing, but that's just me. Believe what you want.

Read and review or I'll send my shadow after you. And trust me, he got some really weird things for Christmas...