Hey guys! Tatiana here with another update! In this chapter the campers are jumping for the win! Some are fearless... some are not and some are just plain mean. FEATURING THE FIRST OUTHOUSE CONFESSIONALS! Enjoy.
Without giving the host an answer, Yuko took a run at it and jumped.
"COWABUNGA!" The nutty seventeen-year-old oriental kid screamed as she did a jack-knife and landed in the safe zone.
"Let's get these devils off of the cliff! Who's next?" He turned to the Tasmanian Devils side.
"I'm next." Fiona smiled. Rubbing her hands, the wannabe model exhaled before she jumped. Falling into a graceful swan-dive, the sixteen-year-old girl elegantly landed in the safe zone.
The Tasmanian Devils cheered.
"Me next!" Serinity promptly jumped off. The quiet girl with a white bikini top with black shorts effortlessly made it into the safety of the buoy net.
"Yes! I'm going for it!" Maverick pumped his fist and flew off of that cliff. The sixteen-year-old boy made it into the safety zone, but just by a hair.
Next to jump were Arianna and Christina. Both made it to the safe zone. Five Tasmanian Devils were left.
"Uh… Is there an easier way down besides this?" Sam questioned as she nervously eyed the drop.
"Well, yes, actually but it won't count as a successful jump." Chris was suddenly holding a bright yellow chicken hat. "This hat marks you as a chicken for the rest of the day and your team cannot count this jump."
Sam shuttered at the hideous looking hat.
Cut to the FIRST Outhouse Confessional.
"That hat was really hideous…It was a really ugly hat besides it clashes with my hair." Sam gave the camera a wide-eyed, horrified look.
Static.
"I'd rather jump off a cliff than be seen in such a horrible hat! It clashes with my hair." With those words the blue-haired girl jumped from the cliff. Sam made it to the safe zone.
Chris turned to the last four campers.
"All right, who's it gonna be?" He questioned.
"I'll do it." The blonde-haired-with-red-tips- rocker stepped forward. Chris's smile tripled.
The eighteen-year-old cracked his neck, took a few steps back and then began running to the edge. "GERONIMO!" And his feet left solid ground. He made it to the safe zone.
"I'm goin' for it!" Nathan just hopped off the cliff. Chris laughed.
"Dude! That guy is seriously lacking in momentum. Here's hoping the sharks and squid all ready had lunch today." The TV host looked to the nearest camera. Sure enough, Nathan was far short from the safe zone.
With a splash, Nathan landed outside the safe zone. For a second, he failed to surface but then he did. With a scream and the two sharks and giant squid right behind him, the frantic sixteen-year-old wallflower swam to shore. Scrambling onto the beach, Nathan looked like a drowned rat. Chris laughed.
Chris turned to the last two campers.
"All right, who's it gonna be? Mathias or Junpei?" He questioned. Mathias and Junpei whimpered but jumped noneless. Mathias made it by just a hair and Junpei landed outside the safe zone.
Blinking in surprise, Chris turned to the camera.
"Well, that was… surprising…" Clearing his throat, the TV host smiled. "So the Tasmanian Devils have a score of eight successful jumps. Will the Electric Eels be able to beat that?"
He heard a scoff behind him.
"Of course." It was Geoffrey. "They got eight. We're all jumping here and unless one of us wants to be shark-food, we're getting into that safe zone."
Chris nodded.
"Brave words. So… who's first?" He questioned slyly. The campers and Geoffrey promptly shut their mouths and shuffled their feet.
Cut to Outhouse Confessional.
"Okay… so I kinda let my mouth run…" Geoffrey looked off as flies buzzed around his head. "I was gonna jump! But not first."
Static.
Finally Alecia got fed up with the silence.
"I'll do it." The black-haired rocker stepped forward.
"Props for being the first, Alecia." The TV host stated. The seventeen-year-old girl smirked at him.
"I bet you say that to all the girls, McClean." She gave a toothy, mocking smile. Chris's face fell straight if tinted red a little.
"Ha, ha." Chris rolled his eyes.
The seventeen-year-old cracked her neck, took a few steps back and then began running to the edge. The campers and Chris McClean rushed to the edge to see if she was going to make it.
"Holy cheese!" Dominic gasped. "The wind's blowing her out of the safe zone! She's gonna be squid food! By the way did you know that there are two species of squid that reach gi-normous sizes? The Colossal and the Giant Squids!... Sometimes the Humboldt's but mostly Colossal and Giant!"
"Oh… she ain't gonna make it!" Halona bit down on her fingernails. Then, in a tiny splash, Alecia landed in the safe zone. "Yeah! She did it!"
Down at the lake, the bubbles of the jump were all that were seen of the seventeen-year-old.
"Uh… Why isn't she coming back up?" Damon questioned, his eyes shifting from the lake to Chris. But then Alicea's head broke the surface.
Giving her team and a miffed Chris McClean a wave, the black-haired rocker swam over to the tug boat as it pulled up along side the safe zone. Without much of anything else, Alicea was hauled back to shore and given a towel.
"One for the Electric Eels." Chris looked back at the Tasmanian Devils team. "Who's next?"
"Hey! Weirdo!" The brunette rich kid pointed into the center of the Electric Eels. He was referring to Clyde who was quietly minding his business.
Cut to Outhouse Confessional!
"I am NOT about to lose this challenge but I'm not stupid. I needed someone to keep the sharks occupied as the rest of us jumped to victory." Cyel swatted the flies buzzing around his head. Then he smiled devilishly at the camera. "And I found the perfect shark/squid chew-toy."
Static.
The sixteen-year-old with the emo haircut and black trunks blinked.
"I'm talking to you! You have the lame pathetic emo haircut and black swimming suit!" Cyel's comment only made Clyde sink deeper behind the crowd of teens.
The rich teen snarled, not like NOT having his way. Stomping toward the retreating Clyde, Cyel snatched him by the shoulder.
"You are THE most pitiable person on our team aside from her-" He tossed his thumb toward Erin as he ushered Clyde to the ledge of the cliff. "-so therefore, this team can afford to lose you."
Clyde was insulted and offended but he was more focused on the edge of the cliff.
"I'm not jumping! No way!" The sixteen-year-old violin player dug his heels in the dirt as Cyel pushed.
Cut to Outhouse Confessional.
"That Cyel dude is not cool." Clyde folded his arms and frowned at the camera. "This challenge should at least kill me if I fail." He lets out a long sigh. "If only fate would be that kind."
Static.
"Suck it up you big baby and jump!" The more Clyde dug his heels in the dirt, the harder Cyel pushed. Finally they were at the edge of the cliff. "Now… (strain)… JUMP!"
"NO w-AAAAAAAAA!" The ledge crumbled and Clyde went falling. Cyel was holding on by his tiptoes as he tried to retake his balance.
Clyde's screaming could be heard before it faded and a faint splash was heard. Jared was standing closest to the ledge.
"He's got it! He's in the safe zone!" Jared cheered. The other campers breathed a sigh of relief.
Cyel was still teetering on the ledge.
"Hey! Help me!" He squeaked at the long fall to the water below. No one moved. "I said: HEL-!"
And the earth under his feet gave way. The seventeen-year-old brunette boy in the tiny Olympic-issued light red and blue trunks fell off of the cliff. The other campers rushed to the side, hoping the rich snob would miss the safe zone. Sure enough and with a belly-flop heard around the world, Cyel landed in the water outside of the buoy net.
Cut to Outhouse Confession.
"Oh!" Damon laughed, hold his stomach. "Cyel's jump was priceless! Thank you instant replay!"
Static.
"That was awesome!" Candy cheered but then she fell serious at the severe belly-flop. "OooooOOOo! THAT is gonna leave a mark."
Cyel surfaced with a huge gulp of air.
"Ha!" Clyde smiled at the mean brunette kid as he was being whisked to the shore by the tug boat. Cyel growled.
"Come back and say that to my face, you-!" Then he felt something brush up against the inside of his leg. "WAAAAAAAA!"
Making like something out of the Gospels, Cyel jumped out high into the air and sprinted like a gazelle over the water before he tumbled to a sandy stop on the shore.
Up above, Chris McClean and the other campers were laughing.
Chris McClean cleared his throat.
"Very dramatic campers, but let's get back to the jump please." The TV host looked into the nearest camera. "It looks like the Electric Eels have two good jumps, courtesy of Clyde and Alecia!" The Electric Eels team cheered. "But also, Cyel had failed to get into the safe zone so his jump didn't count as a point. Sorry dudes."
The campers' faces fell momentarily but then Chris snickered.
"I'll go! It'll be fun like that one time I jumped off the high dive and hit my head on the diving board on the way down! I was ten so I wasn't that coordinated but I can do this!" With all that jabbering, Candy was lucky she wasn't pushed off by Chris. And with an excited squeal, the oblivious sixteen-year-old girl with blond silky hair jumped.
The oblivious girl landed safely in the safe zone.
"Woo! You go Candy!" Jared smiled but then gulped. "Let's just hope I can make it." Holding his nose the sixteen-year-old boy jumped for it. Jared made it.
Next to jump were Geoffrey, Damon, Halona and Erin. All made it safely in the safe zone.
Amaryllis was next. The auburn-haired girl looked at the drop and shuttered.
"Don't worry, Amaryllis; I'll be right behind you." Dominic placed a hand on her shoulder. Amaryllis turned to the boy and smiled shyly which made Dominic's face flush.
"Thanks, Dominic. I guess… I guess, I'll see you on shore." The red-haired boy patted his hand on her shoulder. Dominic's shyness got him best of him and he pulled back his hand.
"Uh… Yeah! I'll see you at the bottom." Turning back to the cliff edge, Amaryllis jumped.
The girl landed safely in the buoys. Dominic slapped his forehead.
Cut to Outhouse Confessional.
"Why did I lose it and pulled my hand away?!" Dominic lamented dramatically, clearly convinced his chances with Amaryllis were shot down in flames. "I am SO stupid!
Static.
"Dude, you better jump." Chris nodded, reading the boy's face. "That… was embarrassing."
Nodding, Dominic sucked up his embarrassing moment with the pretty auburn-haired earthy and jumped for it. Chris watched.
"It's good… It's good… It's- Oh!" Dominic's body met a buoy. Chris laughed as he saw the boy slide off of the buoy and into the safe zone. "Romeo's hit a buoy but it's a successful jump. I wonder if a head injury will keep him from wooing Amaryllis. Anyway, the Electric Eels won by a landslide! Ten to eight! I will see the Tasmanian Devils at the Campfire tonight…"
Minutes later, Chris rounded up the 22 campers in the middle of the camp. Shivering and wet, most of the campers were ready for warm clothes and lunch. Leave it to McClean to drag on their suffering.
"Great job campers! But today's challenge goes to the Electric Eels and their impeccable participation. The Electric Eels have won immunity from being voted off and a brand new Jacuzzi!" He gestured for a large thing under a blue tarp with Chef Hatchet standing by.
The brawny chef rolled his eyes as he yanked off the tarp and posed to sell the item. The Electric Eels team squealed in delight.
"Oh, thank the higher power for jet-stream massages!" Halona eyed the Jacuzzi hungrily.
"The Jacuzzi is the Eels' and the Eels' alone." Chris then turned to the Tasmanian Devils team. "Devils, you were unable to beat the Eels' ten successful jumps with a measly eight good jumps. You are to be at the campfire after dark. Sorry."
The Devils team moped at their loss.
"In the mean time, Chef Hatchet has prepared lunch in the mess hall. Use this time to change clothes and get to know each other… Not necessarily in that order." Chris shooed the campers away. The teens were left to themselves.
As the boys were walking back to their cabin, Cyel got a stinging rat's-tail across his backside.
"YEOW!" The rich seventeen-year-old leapt five feet in the air. Whirling around, the brunette glared at the prankster.
"Great jump, Cyel." Sam commented, wringing her towel into another rat's-tail. "But I don't think the sharks would spoil their palate by eating your prissy butt."
The two seventeen-year-olds had a face off.
"Big words for a delinquent castaway!" Cyel snapped back. A crowd was forming around the two. "At least I'm popular!"
As the crowd of teens "Ooooooh"ed again, they turned to see Sam's reaction. The girl chuckled so easily, it made the hairs on the back of Cyel's neck stand.
"Popularity? Pfft! Eat your heart out, Mr. Cyel Draconis Highloathe." The blue-haired girl folded her arms. Then she looked the boy straight in the eye. "You may be popular back in the world, but not here. Here, you're just a snotty loud-mouth who will be put in your place."
With that Sam threw her towel on Cyel's head and walked off to the cabin. Cyel pulled off the towel, revealing his pretty face flushed with anger. But before he could squeeze out a chaser for the blue-haired harpy, the other campers followed suit and threw their towels on his head.
Cut Outhouse Confessional!
"OH! That Sam THINKS she knows it all! She THINKS she can waltz up, tell me what I am and walk AWAY?!" Cyel was shouting at the camera. "Oh-ho! Have I got news for HER! I am Cyel Draconis Highloathe! She doesn't know who she is MESSIN' WITH!" He gave the camera a liberal shake.
Static.
"Whoa! Sam and Cyel have some vicious vibes between the two of them." Serinity gave the camera a concerned look. "I just hope they don't do anything foolish and get hurt. Camp Wanawanaka isn't about pecking order, it's about unity… Right?"
Static.
Minutes later the teens showed up at the mess hall with dry clothes and stomachs rumbling. They were greeted by Chef Hatchet and several bubbling caldrons of unknown food items. The burly chef eyed them all angrily.
"Get your trays and get over here you little sissies!" He shook a ladle at them. Squealing like ten-year-old fans, Alicea and Mathias were first in line.
Cut to Outhouse Confessional.
"Verbal abuse, nasty food AND threats all by Chef Hatchet!" Mathias squealed. "It's all I ever wanted! I can die happy now."
Static.
"What's on the menu Master Chief?" Mathias looked over the grub. Chef Hatchet cleared his throat.
"Pea soup, beef chili and mystery soup." The chef returned, tapping his ladle impatiently. Mathias looked over the nasty looking chow.
"I'll take it all!"
Grumbling, Chef Hatchet spooned all three of his concoctions down onto Mathias tray. Squealing again, the sixteen-year-old boy skipped to a table. Alicea was next and she looked like she couldn't hold in a loud fan-scream very much longer. Sighing, Chef Hatchet slopped the soup onto her tray and motioned for her to get out of the way. Taking her tray to the opposite side of Mathias, Alicea sat.
The teens lined up and flinched at Hatchet's menu. But all got their tray and sat where they wanted. The first table had Mathias, Alicea, Sam, Halona, Geoffrey, Yuko, Roland, Clyde, Erin, Nathan and Christina. The second had Candy, Arianna, Amaryllis, Serinity, Fiona, Junpei, Maverick, Jared, Dominic and Damon. And as soon as Cyel, the last to get his tray, walked over to the two tables, everyone stopped talking. The seventeen-year-old boy frowned when he saw that he was getting the cold-shoulder and icy glares.
"Fine! Who needs you suckers anyway?!" With that the brunette rich kid walked out of the mess hall and ate his meal outside on the steps.
Cut to Outhouse Confessional.
"What a bunch of losers! They think they can snub Cyel Draconis Highloathe?!" Cyel glared at the camera. His frown deepened. "This is all that Sam's fault! If she wasn't such a harpy, those other kids would like me!"
Static.
Hours later, the Tasmanian Devils were seated around a campfire. But this was no ordinary camp ritual, this was THE Campfire Ceremony. Here, one camper's fate would be decided by his or her peers.
"Devils… welcome to Camp Wanawanaka's first Campfire Ceremony of the year." Chris McClean stated. But everyone's eyes were drawn to the big plate of marshmallows in his hand. "I'm sorry to see such a fine looking group before me tonight. I really thought today's challenge was in your favor. But sadly, one of you will be going home tonight." The usually sadistic TV host was strangely serious. "These are the marshmallows of immunity. If you receive a marshmallow tonight, you will stay but if you don't get one… You will have to walk the Dock of Shame, catch a ride on the Boat of Losers and never, ever come back. When I call your name, come get your marshmallow. Yuko."
The spazzy oriental girl was the first to receive her marshmallow.
"Fiona." Fiona was relieved to hear her name and gladly dashed up to get her marshmallow.
"Roland, Maverick, Mathias; get on up here my brothers." Chris called the three boys up. The three hugged their marshmallow before eating it.
"Serinity." He called the girl up to receive her marshmallow. Walking and taking her treat, Serinity quietly ate it as she watched the other campers get called up.
"Sam, Nathan and Christina; well done." They claimed their marshmallows.
Two campers were left.
"Guys." Arianna and Junpei sat before the fire. "I have only one marshmallow left for the evening and I have to say that this vote was unanimous. The camper with a marshmallow and who will NOT be going home is…" The TV host paused as the camera zoomed in on Arianna and Junpei.
"Junpei." Chris called out.
Cut to Outhouse Confessionals!
"The girl's jumpy, totally shut off and probably not the best for challenges in the future. Sorry Arianna. You gotta go." Nathan gestured, pulling his wavy brown hair a little.
Static.
"Junpei's weird but I think he's going to be more of an asset to the Devils than Arianna. Sorry dude." Sam waved at the camera.
Static.
"I'd like to vote off…" A pair of brown eyes appeared at the bottom of the camera. "YUKO!" Yuko screamed, jumping to her feet. "She's a spaz! When she jumped off the cliff, there was no form in her jack-knife Mc-Twist! She's gotta go!"
Static.
"Arianna… Sorry dude, but you're walking the Dock of Shame tonight." Chris motioned for the docks. Arianna hung her head, disappointed that his stay on Total Drama Island was only a day.
Getting her stuff, the shy nervous girl was hauled onto the Boat of Losers and whisked away from the island.
Sorry Arianna! Please don't hate me!
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-Tatiana.