The Survivor theme song "Ancient Voices" plays, showing the remaining characters in the game:
Alphonse Elric
Erika
Haruhi Suzumiya
InuYasha
Ryoji Kaji
Kenpachi Zaraki
Kyon
Li Syaoran
Light Yagami
Maes Hughes
Meilin
Mihoshi
Misato Katsuragi
Rangiku Matsumoto
Rei Hino
Ryoko
Shikamaru Nara
Spike Spiegel
Episode 3
I Can't Resist Her
Day 7
Reiatsu Tribe
(Ryoko, Light, Erika and Rei)
"We've got treemail!" Rei announces, as she returns to her tribemates with a piece of paper.
"Let's see what this has to say," Light says, as Rei hands him the piece of paper.
"Pack your bags and grab your stuff,
For your tribe it will now be tough.
Since you failed to win immunity,
Your tribe will now be history."
"History?" Ryoko asks. "You mean that we're getting thrown out of the game because we failed to win one of the first two immunity challenges?"
"I highly doubt that," Light responds. "More likely we're being forced to merge with one of the other tribes."
The players begin to gather their things and follow the map on the other side of the paper.
Gotei Tribe
(Rangiku, Kaji, Meilin, Spike and Kyon)
Meilin and Kyon have gone out into the woods to collect their tribe's treemail.
"What type of challenge do you think we'll have this time?" Meilin asks.
"I'm not really sure, though I'm guessing it won't be very fun," Kyon mutters.
Kyon grabs the piece of paper that the tribe received, then the two return to their teammates.
"So, what did we get?" Kaji asks.
"A paper with a map and a poem," Kyon replies.
"Congratuations on your earlier victory,
Now your tribe does not need to worry.
For the two tribes that both times lost
Will now be forced to pay the cost."
"Hmmm… sounds like something bad's happening to the two tribes that lost both challenges," Spike comments.
"At least we don't have to be concerned about that," Rangiku adds.
"Well, let's get going," Kyon says, and the tribe begins following the map.
Merge
"Come on in, guys!" Jet Black shouts to the players.
As the players file in, Jet adds, "Gotei, getting first look at the new Sokyoku tribe, Misa voted out, as well as Usagi voted out of Rukongai and Koga voted out of Reiatsu."
Once all the players have made their way into the designated area, Ryoko brings up a question to Jet: "So, what was that note about?"
"We have had two immunity challenges so far," Jet explains. "The two tribes that failed to win either of those challenges are being dismantled."
Players on the Reiatsu tribe gasp, while there is little response from the dysfunctional Rukongai tribe.
"You will be picked off one by one by your fellow two tribes, to join one of them," Jet announces. "But first, Li, you will automatically join Sokyoku, and Al, you will automatically join Gotei, so you do not have the advantage of knowing someone on your tribe from before the game."
Li walks over to the Sokyoku tribe, while Al goes over to the Gotei tribe.
"Now, it is time for you to choose which players you want on your tribe," Jet says. "Please call this coin, Sokyoku."
Haruhi, Kenpachi and InuYasha all call out their choice of heads or tails at once, with Haruhi and Kenpachi calling heads, while InuYasha calls tails.
"It seems like we have a majority favoring heads," Jet states. He then tosses the coin. "Heads it is. You get first pick, Sokyoku."
The players begin to discuss who they want on their tribe. They then all come to an agreement.
"Light," Misato tells Jet.
"Light, you are now a member of the Sokyoku tribe, handing him a new buff," Jet tells Light. "Your choice now, Gotei."
"We want Rei," Rangiku says.
"Rei it is," Jet says. "Back to you, Sokyoku."
"We're going with Erika," Maes tells Jet.
Erika smiles as she walks over to join Light.
"Gotei?" Jet asks.
"We'll go with Shikamaru," Spike tells Jet.
"Okay," Jet replies. "Last pick, Sokyoku."
"We'll take Ryoko," InuYasha says.
"All right," Jet says. "That means that you will join Gotei, Mihoshi."
Mihoshi walks over to join her new tribe members.
"Now, it is time for our first immunity challenge between the two tribes," Jet states. "First things first, I'll take back the immunity plushie."
Rangiku tosses Kon to Jet.
"Thank you," Jet says. "Once again, immunity is back up for grabs. For this challenge, we will have a simple game of tag. Each tribe will choose one of its members to be 'it.' On my go, this player must tag all of the players on the other team before the other 'it' does so. Any player who is tagged must immediately sit down, and I will be watching carefully to make sure that you do so. All players must stay within the designated area marked by lines on the ground, or else you are automatically eliminated. The first 'it' to tag all of the opposing tribe's players wins immunity. The losing tribe will be forced to join me at Tribal Council… tonight."
Several of the players gasp.
"Hey, it wouldn't be fun if we didn't keep on having Tribal Councils," Jet replies. "Now choose who you want as 'it,' and we'll get started."
The players discuss who they want to be "it," then Sokyoku chooses Kenpachi, while Gotei chooses Rangiku.
"Okay, again, everyone must stay inside this designated area, or you'll automatically be out," Jet states. "For immunity! Survivors ready, go!"
Kenpachi immediately chases down Mihoshi, who decides to run outside of the designated area.
"Mihoshi, I told you, you can't leave the designated area!" Jet shouts. "You're out of the challenge!"
Kenpachi easily tags Al and Shikamaru only seconds later, before Rangiku has made her first tag.
"Sokyoku, building up a quick lead!" Jet announces.
Rangiku comes back with tags of Maes and Li, but Kenpachi also tags Meilin to keep a pretty good lead. The two "it"s begin to have some difficulty now, with players managing to fool them pretty well with juke moves. Kyon skillfully dives underneath a leaping Kenpachi to avoid a tag, while Haruhi fakes out Rangiku to avoid being tagged by her.
"Both tribes, making some great moves so far," Jet states.
Rangiku then manages to tag Misato, while Kenpachi tags Kaji. Rangiku quickly chases down Erika, who attempts to escape but cannot. She then finds a way to tag a leaping Light, who finds himself unable to avoid Rangiku's tag.
"This challenge is going to come down to the wire!" Jet yells.
Kenpachi tags Kyon and Rei, while Rangiku finally manages to tag Light. That leaves Haruhi, Ryoko and InuYasha remaining for Sokyoku, but only Spike remaining for Gotei.
"Spike is the only Gotei tribe member remaining!" Jet shouts. "All pressure is on him!"
Kenpachi starts to have some difficulty in tracking down Spike, allowing Rangiku to tag Haruhi and Ryoko. But right after Rangiku tags Ryoko to leave only InuYasha in the game for Sokyoku, Kenpachi dives and barely touches Spike, in order to win the challenge for Sokyoku.
"Sokyoku wins immunity!" Jet announces.
The Sokyoku players run over to each other and begin to celebrate, while Rangiku hangs her head in disappointment. Spike and Kaji quickly run over to her to comfort her.
"It's all right," Spike says. "I should have escaped Kenpachi at the end there."
"Sokyoku, this is for you," Jet announces, tossing Kon over to Ryoko. Ryoko then squeezes Kon to her chest.
Oh, Ryoko! Kon thinks.
"Gotei, you'll be seeing me tonight for Tribal Council," Jet tells them. "You've got this afternoon to figure out who you're going to vote out."
The two tribes head back to their camps, some of their players going there for the first time, with Sokyoku happy while Gotei is disappointed.
Gotei Tribe
(Rangiku, Spike, Meilin, Kaji, Kyon, Al, Shikamaru, Mihoshi and Rei)
Rei, Al, Shikamaru and Mihoshi begin to make their home at their new tribe, trying to fit in, but they quickly find themselves on the outside, as Rangiku goes into the woods to talk to Spike, Kaji and Kyon.
"We need to remove Mihoshi from this game, immediately," Rangiku tells them.
"That makes perfect sense," Kyon replies.
"That's a great strategy," Kaji adds. "She was clearly the weakest out there today."
"We need to stay together, the five original Gotei, until we've gotten rid of all of the others," Spike comments.
"This merge works out perfectly for us strategically," Kaji says. "Since we have the numbers, we can easily just take out whoever we want who was not part of our tribe originally. It's a piece of cake."
Rei immediately realizes this, but she gets little help from the other players who just moved into the Gotei tribe.
"We're on the outs around here," Rei tells Shikamaru. "We need to try to find a way to get one of the original Gotei players to flip."
"Who cares?" Shikamaru replies. "They're gonna take out the weakest player, right? And that's not one of us, is it?"
"We got a really raw deal when we were forced to join the Gotei tribe," Rei says. "We have only four of us who joined, and we're from two different tribes, while Gotei already has an established alliance. And now, even while I'm trying to do something about it, I'm not getting any help from the od Rukongai tribe."
Meilin does notice that she was left out by Rangiku in her talk in the woods. However, she is completely ignored by any of the former Rukongai tribe members.
"Are the Rukongai people clueless?" Meilin says. "They don't know how this game works, apparently. I'm willing to flip on the Gotei alliance, because they don't want me as part of their group, but if Rukongai isn't willing to talk with me, they won't get my help."
Rei does decide to talk to Meilin, after being surprised to notice that Meilin was not included with the rest of the Gotei alliance.
"It seems like your tribe has turned on you," Rei suggests.
"I think they have," Meilin replies. "If you want, I'm willing to vote with you."
"Great!" Rei says. "But there's only two of us."
"I know that Kyon is loyal to me," Meilin adds. "He'll find out who Rangiku and her lackeys plan on voting for, and then we'll use that information to our advantage."
Sokyoku Tribe
(Haruhi, Kenpachi, InuYasha, Misato, Maes, Li, Light, Erika and Ryoko)
Not even minutes after the new Sokyoku members have arrived at their new tribe, Haruhi has something to tell them…
"I just want to let you know, I'm the leader of this tribe, don't believe anything else anyone else says!" she announces.
"Okay…" Li replies.
"That's great news," Light says. "I'm glad to see that this tribe has taken charge by appointing someone as their leader."
"Hey, what's going on here?" Kenpachi asks, walking over to where Haruhi is talking.
"I'm just letting our new members know who our leader is," Haruhi responds. "Me!"
"Well, don't believe her," Kenpachi tells the new members of the tribe. "I am actually the leader of the tribe."
"Are you kidding?" InuYasha exclaims, overhearing Kenpachi. "I'm actually this tribe's leader!"
Haruhi, Kenpachi and InuYasha then begin to argue amongst themselves, giving Light reason to smile.
"I don't care who's the leader of this tribe, but if they're going to argue over that, it's going to give us a perfect opportunity to gain a foothold in our new tribe," Light says.
A little later, Light talks with Erika and Ryoko alone.
"We've got a great chance at surviving the next vote, even though we're in the minority here," Light tells them. "All we need is to get the 'leaders' of this tribe to continue to fight amongst themselves."
"That sounds great, Light," Erika replies.
"Right, but who are we going to vote for?" Ryoko questions.
"You leave that to me," Light responds. "I'll figure that out at the right time, and then I'll let you know."
"I don't trust Light one little bit," Ryoko says. "I'm just going along with him at the moment because I don't have much of a choice. I don't even care that he spared me last time, that doesn't earn any points with me."
Maes and Misato also talk about their strategies.
"We may need to flip on our own alliance," Maes suggests. "If they're just going to fight over who's the leader, we could gain a big advantage just by joining up with the new people."
"That could work," Misato replies. "But wouldn't it make more sense to vote out the weakest player?"
"Not if that's going to result in us being the next ones voted out," Maes says.
"Our best chance may not be with our original tribe, but with the new members of our tribe," Maes says. "If we can flip on our alliance at the right time, we could end up in a great position."
Gotei Tribe
(Rangiku, Spike, Meilin, Kaji, Kyon, Al, Shikamaru, Mihoshi and Rei)
That evening, the Gotei tribe members are making last-minute preparations on who they want to vote out.
"They tell me they want to take out Mihoshi," Kyon says to Mihoshi.
"Well, that's fine," Rei replies. "As long as it's not one of us."
"We're thinking that if they continue to exclude me, we could turn on Rangiku, Spike and Kaji," Meilin adds.
"I'm all for that, but only if it works out for us in the right way," Kyon responds.
Mihoshi begins to scramble at the last moment.
"Al! Al!" she cries. "Who are we going to vote out?"
"I don't know yet," Al replies. "I just hope they aren't voting out me."
"Shikamaru doesn't seem to want to work with me, so I'm pretty much on my own," Al says. "I'm just hoping to be useful, so I don't get voted out. Hopefully they think I'm useful enough already."
Tribal Council
(Gotei)
The players walk into Tribal Council with their torches blazing. They set them down in the designated area, while Jet Black watches.
"Welcome to your first Tribal Council as the new. larger Gotei tribe," Jet states. "Rei, what is it like so far in your new tribe?"
"Well, it's clear to see that some people are already ostracizing other people in the tribe," Rei replies.
"How would you describe that?" Jet asks.
"The people from the original tribe are not including the people who got added to the new tribe," Rei responds.
"Is this true, Rangiku?" Jet questions.
"Obviously you're more comfortable with the people who you were with from the beginning," Rangiku replies. "It's just natural to have alliances with people who you have been with for a while."
"What about the idea of joining up with the newer members of your tribe, Meilin?" Jet asks.
"That's certainly an option, especially if you are left out of your original tribe," Meilin says. "You have to watch out to see if your original tribe members are turning on you."
Spike and Kaji look suspiciously at Meilin as she says this.
"Spike, you gave a little bit of a reaction over that," Jet states. "Why is that?"
"Well, you wonder why someone would bring up possibly turning on their original tribe," Spike replies. "I would think that you wouldn't want to give your tribemates a reason to vote you out like that."
"Maybe it's because you've never included me, and you're just waiting for a chance to take me out," Meilin snaps.
"I don't think it's that at all," Kaji responds. "We've given you plenty of opportunities to be part of us, and you haven't accepted them. You've put yourself in this situation."
"I don't know what you're talking about," Meilin says.
"Well, it seems we've got some friction within this tribe already, not even a full day after it absorbed four new members," Jet states. "With that, it is time to vote. Al, you're up first."
The Tribal Council theme "Tally the Vote" plays as Al gets up on his way to the voting booth.
Al goes to vote.
"I think that you're the weakest member of our tribe," Al says, holding up his vote for Mihoshi. "That's why I'm giving you my vote."
Kaji goes to vote.
Kyon goes to vote.
Meilin goes to vote.
"I'm voting you out, Mihoshi, even if I don't exactly agree with the rest of my tribe," Meilin says.
Mihoshi goes to vote.
"Meilin, your tribe seems not to like you too much, so I'm voting for you," Mihoshi says.
Rangiku goes to vote.
Rei goes to vote.
Shikamaru goes to vote.
Spike goes to vote.
"I probably should be voting for someone else," Spike says.
After Spike comes back from voting, Jet says, "I'll go tally the votes."
Jet goes to the voting booth, gathers the votes, then returns to the tribe.
"Once the votes are read, the decision is final, and the person voted out will be asked to return to the world of the living immediately," Jet states. "I'll read the votes."
Jet pulls out the first vote. "Mihoshi," he reads, with Mihoshi looking a bit nervous.
"Mihoshi," he says, pulling out the next vote. Mihoshi begins to look even more nervous.
"Mihoshi," Jet reads the third vote. "Three votes Mihoshi."
He pulls out the next vote. "Mihoshi," he states. "Four votes Mihoshi."
Mihoshi looks extremely nervous as Jet pulls out the next vote.
"Meilin," Jet reads the next vote. "Four votes Mihoshi, one vote Meilin, four votes left."
Jet opens up the next vote slowly. "Seventh person voted out of Survivor: Seireitei Forest," he announces, "Mihoshi. That's five, that's enough. You need to bring me your torch."
Mihoshi walks over to her torch and brings it over to Jet.
"Mihoshi, the tribe has spoken," Jet states, snuffing out her torch. "It's time for you to go."
Mihoshi walks into the gate of the world of the living, leaving the remaining eight players.
"It seems tonight's vote came down to trying to make this tribe stronger," Jet says. "That will have to put off any possible alliances turning on each other until the next vote. Grab your torches, head back to camp, good night."
The players grab their torches and begin their walk back towards their camp.
"I guess I wasn't helping the tribe out enough," Mihoshi says. "I got eliminated right off the bat in the immunity challenge, and I guess that's why they wanted to vote me out. It was fun while it lasted."
(Who voted for whom:
Al- Mihoshi
Kaji- Mihoshi
Kyon- Mihoshi
Meliin- Mihoshi
Mihoshi- Meilin
Rangiku- Mihoshi
Rei- Mihoshi
Shikamaru- Mihoshi
Spike- Mihoshi)
Day 8
Sokyoku Tribe
(Haruhi, Kenpachi, InuYasha, Misato, Maes, Li, Light, Erika and Ryoko)
Haruhi is walking with Ryoko over towards the treemail area.
"So, what is this whole thing about being a leader?" Ryoko questions.
"I am the leader of this tribe, whether anyone else wants to admit it or not!" Haruhi shouts.
"Why don't you vote out the other people who think they're the leader?" Ryoko asks.
"I tried to, but it didn't work out," Haruhi replies.
They reach into the treemail box to find a piece of paper and a football.
"American football?" Haruhi asks.
"It's possible," Ryoko responds. "Maybe the note will give us a hint about it."
The players return to the rest of the tribe, where Ryoko reads the note's poem.
"Here's what it says," Ryoko states.
"If you want to win immunity,
You'll have to win at our form of rugby.
Then one player whose team will smile
Will end up being put in exile."
"So I guess we're going to play… rugby?" Misato asks.
"Good," Kenpachi says. "I want a real battle."
Immunity Challenge
"Come on in, guys!" Jet Black shouts.
The two tribes march into the immunity challenge area.
"Sokyoku, getting your first look at the new Gotei tribe," Jet announces. "Mihoshi, voted out last Tribal Council."
The Sokyoku tribe shows no emotion over Mihoshi's ousting.
"First things first, I'll take back the immunity plushie," Jet states.
Ryoko tosses Kon to Jet.
"Once again, immunity is back up for grabs," Jet announces. "Let's get to today's immunity challenge. Today you will play a simple, modified game of rugby. There will be a ball placed in the middle of this field. You will then do whatever it takes to get the ball across your opponent's goal line. The first team to gain possession of the ball across the other team's goal line wins immunity and will not have to visit me tomorrow night for Tribal Council. Sokyoku, you have to sit out one member, who's it gonna be?"
"I will," says Erika.
"Okay," Jet states. "Get to your own goal lines, then wait for my go."
The players go to their respective goal lines, then wait for Jet.
"For immunity!" Jet shouts. "Survivors ready, go!"
Both teams run as fast as they can towards the ball in the middle of the field. Kenpachi is the first one to it, but he ends up kicking it away from his team and over to the Gotei tribe. Meilin ends up with the ball, then passes it to Kyon. Kyon passes the ball over to Spike, who is tackled immediately by InuYasha. There is then a gigantic pileup on top of Spike.
"Spike, really getting pounded down there!" Jet yells with glee.
The ball ends up squirting out, and it is picked up by Maes, who flips it over to Li. Li then tries tossing the ball to a teammate, but cannot find anyone, and ends up being tackled by Kaji and Al.
"Li gets slammed pretty hard!" Jet shouts.
The ball ends up rolling away, over to Rangiku. Rangiku begins running down the field with the ball, shaking off a possible tackle by Haruhi. It looks like she is going to win the challenge for Gotei, but Kenpachi chases her down and slaps the ball away. Light then chases down the ball, picking it up near his own goal line.
"Light, looking for someone to throw it to!" Jet announces.
Light then launches the ball downfield, where it is caught by Ryoko. Ryoko begins running forward, getting held back by a desperate Rei and Shikamaru. She then tosses the ball over to Haruhi, who escapes from a potential tackle from Kaji. Only Kyon stands between her and the goal line.
"You can't stop me, Kyon!" Haruhi shouts.
Kyon charges at Haruhi, but Haruhi spins away from his potential tackle, running past him as he sprawls on the ground. She then crosses the goal line, throwing the ball into the air in celebration.
"Sokyoku wins immunity!" Jet yells.
Haruhi's teammates run over to her and mob her, while Kyon lies on the ground in humiliation, having being embarrassed by her.
"Sokyoku, this is for you," Jet says, tossing Kon to Haruhi. Haruhi squeezes Kon to her chest happily.
Oh, Haruhi! Kon thinks.
"Now comes our twist," Jet states. "Gotei, even though you lost, you will choose one member of Sokyoku to send to Exile, which is a cave deep in the Seireitei Forest. It will be incredibly dark and uncomfortable for whoever gets sent there, but they will have a chance at finding one of the other immunity plushies."
"Other plushies?" Rei asks.
"It will be one of the other modsouls, created by my assistant Kisuke Urahara, originally for the purpose of detecting Bounts," Jet says. "This is an individual immunity plushie, which may be used immediately before the reading of the votes at any Tribal Council. Now, who's it gonna be?"
Kyon points at Haruhi. "Haruhi," he says.
"Haruhi, here's a map to Exile," Jet tells her. "You'll return in time for the next immunity challenge."
"Oh, Kyon," Haruhi says angrily, tossing Kon to teammate Misato while she takes the map off Jet.
"Have fun," Jet jokes, as Haruhi walks away mad, causing Kyon to chuckle.
"Sokyoku, congratulations," Jet continues. "Gotei, I got nothing for you. You can all head back to camp. I'll see Gotei for Tribal tomorrow night."
The tribes walk away from the immunity challenge area, with Sokyoku happy again while Gotei once again disappointed.
Gotei Tribe
(Rangiku, Spike, Meilin, Kaji, Kyon, Al, Shikamaru and Rei)
"That was the worst way to end a challenge," Kyon says. "To end up losing because I couldn't tackle Haruhi, and Haruhi embarrassing me like that, it just couldn't have ended any worse. At least I got Haruhi back a bit by sending her into Exile."
Meilin tries to comfort an upset Kyon.
"It's okay, Kyon, it wasn't all your fault," Meilin tells him.
"I had that chance, though," Kyon says. "I'm so disappointed, I could have given us a real shot at staying in that challenge."
"It's really all right," Meilin replies. "There were a bunch of us who didn't come up big in that challenge."
"I know, it's just… it was Haruhi," Kyon states.
"Kyon's really taking that challenge loss hard, and he's taking it personally," Meilin says. "He doesn't need to worry that much, he's not in trouble of being voted out. If anyone is, I am, and if Kyon's too busy moping around, we're going to end up getting blindsided by his former allies."
Rangiku goes into the woods to talk to Kaji and Spike in the woods.
"We've got to get rid of Meilin," she says. "That's our only choice."
"She was ready to turn on us last night," Spike comments. "You just can't trust her."
"But what about Kyon?" Kaji asks. "She seems pretty close with him."
"I'll talk with him, and convince him to vote with us," Rangiku says. "And even if he doesn't vote with us, you talk Al and Shikamaru into joining us."
A little later on, Rangiku talks to Kyon alone in the woods.
"So, I was wondering…" she says. "Would you consider voting off Meilin?"
Kyon looks stern. "Meilin and I have been close since Day 1," he replies. "I don't plan on turning on her."
"Oh, come on," Rangiku continues, going up close to him. "Pretty please?"
Kyon finds it hard to resist Rangiku's advances. "Oh, all right," he mutters, feeling spineless. "If you say so."
"Thank you," she says, pulling on Kyon's cheek.
"No man can resist me," Rangiku says. "None!"
"I feel really bad about turning on Meilin, but what choice do I have?" Kyon says. "Rangiku talks to me like that, and I… I can't resist her."
Exile
Haruhi walks into the cave, finding it absolutely pitch-black. She considers just leaving the cave, but then she sees one of Jet's assistants, the ever-angry Soi Fon, watching her every moment. So she sighs and continues into the cave, tripping over a rock as she does.
"That Kyon's going to get it when we get back to the SOS Brigade!" Haruhi says. "Sending me into a place like this, what a nasty thing to do to the brigade leader! He ought to be here, not me!"
She finds a place to sit down and rest.
"I wish I had a pillow," she mutters.
She then lays her head down, and it just so happens that there is something soft that is in the very spot on which she lays her head. She quickly reaches back and picks up the object on which she had laid.
"I wonder what this is," she says. "Too bad I can't see it… could it be an immunity plushie? I guess I'll find out when I get out of here."
Sokyoku Tribe
(Kenpachi, InuYasha, Misato, Maes, Li, Light, Erika and Ryoko)
"Now that the annoying girl's out of here, it's only natural that I take over as leader," Kenpachi suggests.
"No way!" InuYasha replies. "I think that means I'm the leader!"
"Our first matter of action should be eliminating one of the so-called 'leaders' around here," Light says. "And I think that blindsiding them will not be all that difficult."
Light and Erika go to talk with Maes and Misato.
"We're thinking of trying to blindside one of the people who call themselves 'leaders,'" Light suggests. "Any idea which one would be best to blindside?"
"Haruhi might end up finding one of the immunity plushies," Misato replies. "I'd go with one of the other two."
"I think that InuYasha is probably the less likely to suspect a blindside," Maes adds. "We're best off voting for him."
"Then he's gone," Light says. "I've got Ryoko on board with us, and that's five. No question we'll be able to take him out."
"I'm not sure getting rid of InuYasha is the best decision right now," Misato says. "I'd rather take out someone weaker, but perhaps they feel that I'm one of the weaker people around here. If I speak against Light, it's possible he could turn on me and have me as the next one out of here."
Gotei Tribe
(Rangiku, Spike, Meilin, Kaji, Kyon, Al, Shikamaru and Rei)
As the tribe gathers logs that night, several of the players notice Shikamaru sitting around doing nothing. Meilin immediately points this out to Kyon.
"If Shikamaru doesn't want to help us, he ought to go next," Meilin suggests quietly to him.
"Good idea," Kyon replies.
"I've got Rangiku wanting my vote, but my first alliance is with Meilin," Kyon says. "I'm simply going to pretend to go along with Rangiku, but vote with Meilin."
"Rei's on board with us, isn't she?" Meilin asks.
"Yes," Kyon says. "All we need is to get Al with us, and we'll have four."
"My fate may rely on whether we can convince Al to vote with our alliance of three," Meilin says. "Tomorrow will be the big day, to find out if we can do that or not."
Day 9
Sokyoku Tribe
(Kenpachi, InuYasha, Misato, Maes, Li, Light, Erika and Ryoko)
"Boy, isn't it nice not having that annoying Haruhi around here?" Kenpachi asks Maes.
"Absolutely," Maes replies.
"You know, she'd have to be the first one I want out of our new expanded tribe," Kenpachi continues.
"But wouldn't that be a potential problem, if she has the immunity plushie?" Maes questions.
"Do you think she's actually smart enough to find it?" Kenpachi asks. "I doubt it."
"You may underestimate her abilities," Maes replies.
"This Maes guy actually thinks that Haruhi girl has the brains to find a plushie in a pitch-black cave," Kenpachi says. "Maybe he's the dumb one, to actually think that, because that girl has no chance at finding it."
Meanwhile, Light goes to tell Ryoko about their plan to vote out InuYasha, while Li sits by, watching.
"We're taking out InuYasha next time," Light tells her.
"Boy, this isn't like you, Light, actually coming out and saying it," Ryoko responds.
"That's because we have the numbers," Light says. "With you there's five of us going to vote for him, and that's enough. I don't have to worry about anyone flipping on us."
"Hey, as long as it isn't me, I don't care who I'm voting for," Ryoko replies.
After hearing what Light and Ryoko were talking about, Li decides on his own plan.
"If they aren't including me in their alliance of five, and are arrogant enough to allow me to hear what they're going to do, I'm going to spoil their plans," Li says.
As the tribe eats lunch together that afternoon, Li brings up Light's plan in broad daylight.
"InuYasha, did you know that Light and his pals are trying to oust you from the game?" Li asks.
"What?!" InuYasha screams.
"He says he's got an alliance of five to take you out, isn't that right, Light?" Li adds.
"I don't understand," Light says. "What are you trying to do?"
"I'm letting InuYasha know now," Li replies.
"And I'm not gonna let it happen!" InuYasha yells.
"Calm down, InuYasha," Erika says. "There must be a misunderstanding."
"There's no way I'm writing your name down, InuYasha," Light tells InuYasha. "Mark my words."
"Li just cooked his own goose," Light says. "If he's just going to try to ruin other people's games, he can have his own game ruined by us changing our plans and taking him out."
Gotei Tribe
(Rangiku, Spike, Meilin, Kaji, Kyon, Al, Shikamaru and Rei)
Meilin, Kaji and Rei all go up to Al when Al is away from the rest of the tribe.
"We need your help," Meilin tells him.
"What is it?" Al asks.
"Shikamaru is doing nothing around this camp, and we want to take him out," Meilin replies. "But we're going to need your vote."
"Okay," Al says. "I haven't heard anything from Shikamaru, it's like he quit playing the game."
Shikamaru, meanwhile, sits by himself in the Gotei shelter.
"I'm sick of this tribe," he says. "Nothing good has come out of it for me, it's so boring. I hate all these people here, and they probably all hate me. I've got no reason to try to talk with them, none of them want to work with me. I'm just going to sit here and see how long I can last without saying anything."
Rangiku makes sure of her plans with Kaji and Spike.
"We're taking out Meilin," she says. "But I get the feeling Kyon isn't on board with us."
"Neither is Shikamaru," Kaji adds. "He refused to accept my invitation to vote out Meilin."
"Well, I'm going to talk to Al," Spike says. "Hopefully he joins us and votes for Meilin."
Spike later goes off into the woods to talk to Al.
"Hey, we're planning on taking out Meilin," he tells Al.
"Really?" Al replies, pretending that he has not heard this already.
"Yes," Spike says. "We're going to need your help to do it, though."
"Okay," Al responds. "I'm on board with you."
"This might be very dangerous, trying to pretend to be part of two alliances at once, but if it's going to make me more popular, I have to try it," Al says. "Then I'll just choose which one I want to support, whether it's Meilin or Spike."
Sokyoku Tribe
(Kenpachi, InuYasha, Misato, Maes, Li, Light, Erika and Ryoko)
Light gathers Erika, Ryoko, Misato and Maes in the woods together, away from the others in the tribe.
"There's been a change in plans," he tells them. "We're going after Li now, not InuYasha."
"Why is that?" Ryoko asks.
"Because Li decided to just spill the beans to InuYasha, and I'm not happy with him about it," Light responds. "We have the numbers to take out whoever we want, so why not take him out instead?"
"That sounds great, Light," Erika says.
"Light's getting way too cocky," Ryoko says. "He thinks I'm right on board with whatever move he makes, but he's wrong. If I want to, I'll just turn on him and spoil his supposedly unbeatable alliance of five."
Maes and Misato agree to go along with Light's plan, while holding some reservations.
"I'm not sure why Light wants to change plans now," Misato says. "Just because Li made him mad? That doesn't make much sense, you can't make decisions just on that. But if we split our alliance now, we'll be in trouble."
"I thought we wanted InuYasha out because he thinks he's the leader," Maes says. "Li doesn't call himself the leader, but now Light wants him out. Whatever, I guess that's who we're going with now."
Gotei Tribe
(Rangiku, Spike, Meilin, Kaji, Kyon, Al, Shikamaru and Rei)
That evening, Rangiku tries to convince Kyon at the last minute to vote out Meilin.
"Come on, Kyon, you can be part of our strong alliance," Rangiku tells him. "We've got Spike, Kaji, Shikamaru and Al all voting for Meilin, and we just want you to join us as well."
Kyon sounds surprised to hear a couple of those names in Rangiku's list. "If you insist," he replies. "I really don't want to vote her out, but if it's going to help my standing in the tribe, I guess I will."
"Thank you," Rangiku responds.
"Shikamaru? Al?" Kyon says. "I thought Shikamaru was not talking to anyone, and I thought Al was on board with us. Maybe both of them were convinced by Rangiku to vote with her too. If so, I might be better off just voting for Meilin and keeping myself safe. I'll have to think about it, right now anything is possible."
Tribal Council
(Gotei)
The tribe members walk into the Tribal Council area with their torches, setting them down, then taking their seats across from Jet Black.
"Let's first talk about the immunity challenge," Jet says. "Spike, you really took a pounding there, didn't you?"
"Why do I get the feeling you thought that was funny?" Spike replies.
Jet gives a wily smile. "Surely that couldn't have been too fun," he adds.
"Actually, it was," Spike responds. "I really thought I'd give our team a chance at winning."
"Rangiku, you almost broke it there to win it for your team," Jet says.
"I was so close," Rangiku replies. "I wanted to give us the victory so badly, but in the end I just came up a little bit too short."
"That brings us to the end of the challenge, where Kyon got embarrassed by Haruhi," Jet says. "What did it feel like to get completely juked out of your shoes by your girlfriend?"
"First of all, she's not my girlfriend," Kyon answers sternly, leading to laughter from his tribemates. "Second, it wasn't fun, but I think I got her back by forcing her to go to Exile."
"Was that choice made because you think she won't find the plushie?" Jet asks.
"I think she will find it," Kyon responds. "And that will be advantageous to me later in the game."
"That sounds like a little bit of a confident thing to say, because you assume that you're going to be around until a potential merge with her tribe," Jet says. "How do you know that there even will be a merge?"
"I'm betting on it," Kyon replies.
"Taking a gamble is sometimes the only thing you can do in this game," Jet states. "Meilin, have you felt like you have to take a gamble?"
"Absolutely," Meilin answers. "I've been pushed to the outs of this tribe, because some people apparently don't like me. But I'm just going to take a chance on my alliance working, and if it does work, I might be in good shape."
"We're not too far into this game, but it can take a toll on everyone," Jet adds. "Shikamaru, you just don't look like you're with it right now."
"I'm exhausted," Shikamaru replies. "I don't know how much more of this I can take."
"Are you quitting?" Jet asks excitedly.
"No, no I'm not," Shikamaru responds. "I'm going to stay as long as this tribe wants me around."
"That is the key, isn't it?" Jet says. "With that, it is time to vote. Al, you're up first."
The Tribal Council theme "Tally the Vote" plays as Al gets up to vote.
Al goes to vote.
Kaji goes to vote.
"I don't get it myself, but Rangiku wants you out, so I'm voting for you, Meilin," Kaji says. "Sorry."
Kyon goes to vote.
Meilin goes to vote.
"Shikamaru, you just don't seem to care anymore," Meilin says. "It's time for you to go."
Rangiku goes to vote.
"This vote is part of my continuing strategy to take out all females," Rangiku says. "That means you, Meilin."
Rei goes to vote.
Shikamaru goes to vote.
Spike goes to vote.
After Spike comes back from voting, Jet states, "I'll go tally the votes."
Jet gathers the votes, rearranges them, then returns to the players.
"Once the votes are read, the decision is final, and the person voted out will be asked to return to the world of the living immediately," Jet says. "I'll read the votes."
He pulls out the first vote. "Meilin," he says, as Meilin looks nervous.
"Shikamaru," he reads the next vote. "One vote Shikamaru, one vote Meilin."
Jet pulls out the third vote. "Shikamaru," he reads it. "Two votes Shikamaru, one vote Meilin."
He opens up the next vote. "Meilin," he says. "We're tied, two votes each."
Meilin looks really nervous as he opens the next vote. "Meilin," Jet says. "Three votes Meilin, two votes Shikamaru."
Jet pulls out the next vote. "Shikamaru," Jet states. "We're tied again, three votes each."
He opens up the next vote slowly. "Shikamaru," he reads. "Four votes Shikamaru, three votes Meilin, one vote left."
Shikamaru seems not to care as Jet opens up the final vote. "Eighth person voted out of… wait a minute, I beg your pardon!" Jet exclaims. "This vote's for Meilin! We're tied, four votes each!"
Meilin sighs after nearly celebrating, while Shikamaru keeps up his nonchalant attitude.
"We will now revote," Jet says. "But first, each of you should give a reason why you should stay. Meilin, you're first."
"Shikamaru doesn't care anymore, he doesn't want to be in this game," Meilin says to her tribemates. "I do want to stay, you should keep me, it will be better for the challenges."
"Shikamaru?" Jet asks.
Shikamaru throws his hands up. "I really can't give you a reason," he says. "Meilin's right."
Jet raises his eyebrows upon hearing Shikamaru's statement. "Okay, with that, it is time to revote. Meilin and Shikamaru will not revote. Al, you're again up first."
The Tribal Council theme "Tally the Vote" plays as Al gets up to vote for the second time.
Al goes to vote.
Kaji goes to vote.
Kyon goes to vote.
"If you don't care, you don't stay," Kyon says, as he writes down Shikamaru's name.
Rangiku goes to vote.
"Don't mess with my strategy," she says, holding up her vote for Meilin.
Rei goes to vote.
Spike goes to vote.
"I'll regret this," he says.
After Spike comes back from voting, Jet says, "I'll go tally the votes – again."
Jet gathers the votes, rearranges them, then returns to the players.
"Again, once the votes are read, the decision is final, and the person voted out will be asked to return to the world of the living immediately," Jet states. "I'll read the votes."
He pulls out the first vote. "Meilin," he says, with Meilin giving a nervous look.
"Shikamaru," he reads the second vote. "One vote Shikamaru, one vote Meilin."
He pulls out the third vote. "Shikamaru," he reads it. "Two votes Shikamaru, one vote Meilin."
He takes the fourth vote out, opening it slowly. "Meilin," he says. "We're tied, two votes each."
Shikamaru keeps his nonchalant attitude, while Meilin remains nervous, as Jet pulls out the fifth vote. "Shikamaru," Jet says. "Three votes Shikamaru, two votes Meilin, one vote left."
Jet opens the final vote very slowly. "Eighth person voted out of Survivor: Seireitei Forest," he states. "This time, it really is… Shikamaru."
Shikamaru gets up from his seat and grabs his torch, then holds it out in front of Jet.
"Shikamaru, the tribe has spoken," Jet says, snuffing out his torch. "It's time for you to go."
Shikamaru walks off into the gate to the world of the living, seemingly not caring.
"This vote goes to show that perhaps there is reason to change your alliances, if it's going to better the tribe," Jet states. "Grab your torches, head back to camp, good night."
The tribe takes their torches, then starts their walk back to their camp.
"I don't know, I guess I just didn't really like it that much after a while," Shikamaru says. "It wasn't worth it, really. I'm kind of glad they voted me out."
(Who voted for whom:
Al- Shikamaru, Shikamaru
Kaji- Meilin, Meilin
Kyon- Shikamaru, Shikamaru
Meilin- Shikamaru
Rangiku- Meilin, Meilin
Rei- Shikamaru, Shikamaru
Shikamaru- Meilin
Spike- Meilin, Shikamaru)
Scenes from our next episode:
Gotei continues to struggle at challenges:
"No! That goes over here!" Meilin cries.
"I think it should be on this end," Rangiku replies.
"No, it should be in the middle!" Al shouts.
Haruhi is sent back to Exile:
Haruhi enters the same pitch-black cave as before, sighing.
"This time there's no plushie," she says. "I really wish there was another one."
And Li tries making up with Light:
"I'm sorry about that," Li replies. "Do you think we can patch things up?"