Kuki was scared once again. She was sitting in her tent, cuddled up to her blanket and shivering like a leaf. Maybe they shouldn't have told all of those scary stories. The fire was still glowing, the only light was from its flickering flames. She decided that she was getting too cold, so she would go and warm herself up by the fire.

She walked out slowly and quietly, her blanket wrapped around her. She went and sat on one of the logs and glanced around before gazing blankly at the flames dancing around in the fire. They were fascinating, so beautiful, so calming. She was almost in a calming trance watching the colours of orange and yellow dance together in a passionate tango.

"Gotcha!" A voice said, she felt two hands grab on her shoulders tightly. She screamed louder than she thought possible, struggling out of the grip and turning around to see who it was.

"Wally!" She yelled. "Don't do that! You really scared me!"

"Chill out Numbuh 3, I was only having a laugh." The blonde aussie chuckled.

Nigel, Hoagie and Abby appeared out of their tents with their torches.

They looked at the two and sighed.

"Numbuh three, must you scream at some unknown hour in the night? Some of us are trying to sleep!" Numbuh one scolded her.

"Sorry Numbuh one, I think I just made her jump a little." Wally said to him. Abby, Hoagie and Nigel sighed and went back into their tents. Wally waited until he saw their torches go out before turning and looking back at Kuki, noticing that she had tears in her eyes.

"Hey, It was only a joke." Wally said, trying to comfort her. He sat the opposite way to her on the log.

"No, it's not that." Kuki replied trying to hold back her tears.

"Was it 'cause Numbuh one yelled at you? He's always cranky when he's woken up, you know that. You've seen Lizzie do it so many times" Wally said, extremely concerned for his friends sorrow.

Kuki quickly shook her head. Biting her lip.

"What's wrong?" he said softly.

"I just feel like I'm being watched! It's so scary here!" She said bursting into tears.

Wally didn't know what to do. He pulled her into a hug and soothingly stroked her hair, repetitively pushing it out of her face.

"Shh," He whispered into her ear. "I'm right here, I promise I won't let anything happen to you."

They sat there rocking back and forth for ages, so long, the fire was running out. Wally realized the sudden darkness and glanced over towards the fire, noticing that the flame was just about ready to retire.

"It's pretty late." He said. "We'd better get to bed."

Kuki looked up at him and gave him a look of fear.

"I don't want to be alone." She whispered.

She watched Wally as he scratched the back of his head in thought.

"Well…I s'pose you could come in the tent with me if ya want." He suggested, going a bright red, thankful that it wasn't clear thanks to the lack of light.

Kuki nodded. Wally stood up and held out his hands to help her up. She accepted and took his hands as she stood up.

"what is it with boys and their growth spurts?" she thought to herself. Observing that Wally was now about the same size as her.

He wrapped his arms around her and they walked towards his tent. When they both got in, they lay down and Wally cradled Kuki in his arms like a mother would with her vulnerable child. Kuki calmed down extremely quickly, sensing Kuki's stress disappear, Wally also relaxed and soon fell asleep.

She lay there for quite some time, rewinding in her head what had just happened. She was always sure that Numbuh 4 hated her. Yet, here he was, watching over her like some guardian angel. She'd always been certain that she had feelings for him but had never even thought that he cared for her in the slightest.

She traced her finger down the shoulder of his pyjama top, feeling a huge wet patch on his arm where she'd been hysterically sobbing. It was now pitch black and despite having a serious phobia of the dark. She wasn't scared. Wally had promised to her that he wouldn't let anything happen.

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Kuki woke up pretty early. It was bright, but the grass was still wet from the morning dew. She stepped out of the tent and decided to have a bathe in the water. It was quite warm, so Kuki went into her tent and changed into her swimwear. She dived gracefully into the water and happily swam around. Playing, dancing and splashing. She got out after about five minutes after she began to feel the cold. Quickly she went back into her tent, dried off and changed into her clothes. She heard somebody moving around outside the tent but it didn't bother her. It was no longer dark and she was no longer scared.

She stepped out of the tent, ready to bid good morning to her fellow early rising team-mate. When she did, she stopped and froze with horror. This wasn't Numbuh 4, nor Numbuhs 1, 2 or 5. It wasn't a KND member!

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Wally woke up with a yawn. Stretching his arms out above him and then snuggling up to his pillow.

"I had the greatest dream" He whispered into it. Opening his eyes again, he looked down towards the entrance of the tent. He saw a pink, fluffy blanket with multicolour rainbow monkeys on it. Usually, waking up and finding something like this next to him would sicken him. This time he just smiled dreamily.

"It wasn't a dream."

He stepped out, looking around. Kuki must already be awake.

"Kuki, are you in there?" He asked, poking his head into her tent. She wasn't in there. He thought hardly, where could she be?

Suddenly his transmission watch started flashing. He looked at it and pressed the button.

"Wally? Are you there?" He heard Kuki's voice appear on it. Her face slowly emerged through the snow on the screen.

"Kuki? Where are you?" He asked, looking at her in the screen. She looked terrified, as if she'd seen a ghost.

"We're not the only ones on this island. There's somebody who already lives here! He's not happy about us being here and he's captured me! He said he's going to eat me Wally! I can't…"

"Kuki, Kuki! Calm down! Where are you?"

"I don't know!"

"Okay, is there anything that stands out to you, or do you remember what way you went?"

"He took me down the…No, no please! I don't…"

Kuki was interrupted by a hand grabbing the transmission watch, and pressing the off button.

All that was left on Wally's screen was End Transmission.