"Today's challenge is as old as time itself, a classic twenty-one camper brawl on top of…a water trampoline!" Chris explained.
"Is this the only challenge for the day?" Donovan asked.
"Hahaha…no…," Chris said, looking serious, "This is only part one, part two will be explained soon enough, but for now, please, all aboard the water de trampoline!" Chris said, in a terrible French accent. The campers quickly obeyed, but what exactly were the rules of this challenge? "Alright campers, for this part of the challenge, your goal, is to simply knock the other campers off of the platform, and overall, be the last person standing!" Chris said, with a grin.
"So…, try and knock everyone else off?" Max asked with a smirk.
"That's correct Max," Chris stated, with a nod, "Now…go, I guess…"
The challenge started off, as expected, with the campers running at each other, Bruno of course ran right at Donovan and Connor.
"You guys may be one ahead of us, but soon, you'll be one behind," Bruno said with a hearty laugh.
"Oh yeah, and why's that Bruno?" Connor asked.
"Because, I can take you both without even using my hands!" Bruno stated, as he hooked his arms, and started charging.
"When I count to three Donovan…, jump…," Connor stated, but Donovan was to scared.
"Oh my GOSH! HE'S GONNA KILL ME!" Donovan shouted, as he ran right off of the trampoline.
"Nice listening skills…," Connor said, as he used the extra spring of the trampoline to propel himself directly over Bruno's head, as he slid down his back.
"Nice moves kid, but I can easily recover," Bruno said, as he slid to a stop, and turned around, "Now watch thiiiis!" Bruno shouted, as he slammed his fist into the trampoline. The impact caused a ripple effect. Due to this, Connor was catapulted from his position on the trampoline, and flew off of the other end.
"How did he do that…?" Connor muttered, as he finished shooting a stream of water between his teeth.
"Nice shots big guy," Max said, who was now sitting on Bruno's shoulder.
"Huh…, how did you get there?" Bruno asked.
"I walked!" Max said with a chuckle.
"Well get OFF!" Bruno shouted, as he spun around, attempting to punch Max, but before he could, Max was gone. Not like, he jumped off. Just plain gone. Bruno stumbled and fell down, and looked around, "Where'd that weirdo go?" Bruno asked, as he stood, but as he did, a sharp force swept him off of his feet, and sent him spiraling directly off of the trampoline. "How is that even possible?!" Bruno growled, as he emerged from the water, his face was bright red.
"Sorry man, but the weak guy, just tossed your butt, OUT of the building," Max sang, as he danced off to fight someone else.
Meanwhile, Ivan was dodging an onslaught attacks by Quill, Elysa, Todd, and Azalea.
"You will have to do better than that to defeat me and my warrior training," Ivan stated.
"You were the last person standing on your team last challenge, you won't be this time!" Elysa shouted, as she ran at Ivan on her hands and feet. Ivan simply responded by drawing his wooden sword.
"I'm sorry, but you. My friend, are wrong," Ivan said, as he launched himself into the air, when he came down, he tripped Quill and Todd out with his sword, knocking them both into the water.
"Now Max and Norm are the only guys left on our team dude…," Quill sighed.
"Don't count the girls out just yet man!" Todd said, with a smile.
Ivan quickly made a dash towards Azalea, slinging her over his shoulder, and continuing to run as Elysa chased him, Ivan backflipped over Elysa, near the edge of the trampoline, leaving a huge puddle. As Ivan backflipped over Elysa, he set Azalea down on her back, and allowed Elysa and Azalea to both slip off the edge of the trampoline, both of them falling into the water.
"I told you that you would have to do better," Ivan said, resheathing his sword.
"He's good," Elysa muttered, as she breathed out in the water, creating a storm of bubbles.
"His future does look bright, he seems to be very confident in himself," Azalea chimed in.
"If only he was on our team…" Todd sighed.
"So Kimmy, whaddya say we do those awesome back to back spy movie thingies?" Norm asked.
"Whatever…," Kimmy said with a roll of her eyes, as Norm stood at her back.
"We must take down the weak!" Norm shouted, as he threw Lola square off of the trampoline, who was just simply walking by.
"You will pay for that…," Lola growled from the water. Norm dodged an attack attempt made by both Phillipi and Ronny in unison, allowing Kimmy to kick both of them off of the platform.
"She's got a good kick…," Ronny said, "…ow!"
"She will die…," Phillipi whispered evilly, as Ronny got wide eyed, and slowly swam away.
At this point, the campers remaining on the platform were Omar, Ivan, Mona, Candy, Kirsten, and Wanda for the Lion's, and Max, Norm, Kimmy, Taylor, and Haley.
"We should easily be able to win if we focus my friends, we are one ahead!" Ivan stated.
"We should be able to win if we dance our way to victory!" Max cheered, as he started doing a strange interpretive dance, Kimmy and Taylor looked at each other and raised an eyebrow.
"He's weird…," Kimmy stated.
"Agreed," Taylor agreed, with a hairflip.
Meanwhile, Omar tried to run at Haley, who was sitting down in the center reading a book.
"You can never hope to win, if you aren't even trying!" Omar yelled, as he tried to karate chop Haley, however, she simply blocked with her book, which unfortunately for Omar, was a hardback. "Ouch, that's my good hand!" Omar stated, as he gripped his now red hand, becoming an easy target for Norm to flying kick off of the trampoline.
"Weaklings have no place in this world!" Norm shouted, as Omar flew into the water, "Nice thinking Haley, your brain is definitely your strongest aspect!" Norm said, as he ran off to rejoin the battle.
"Idiot…," Haley mumbled, as she placed her book back in front of her eyes, ignoring the battle that was occurring around her.
"Mona, I think I know how we can defeat Norm," Candy whispered.
"And how's that?" Mona asked.
"Well…, on the first day out here…, when you showed up, Norm said you were hot…," Candy replied, Mona simply replied with a smile.
Norm was busy facing off with Kirsten, who was still picking her nose, "That is disgusting…," Norm gawked, "Girls are supposed to have much more manners than that!" Norm snapped.
"Oh shut it…, you and your big mouth are giving me a headache," Kirsten muttered with a roll of her eyes.
"I have the right mind to throw you off of this platform!" Norm replied with a shake of his fist.
"I can help you with that…," Kirsten replied, as she simply allowed herself to fall backwards and into the water.
"That was easy…," Norm commented, as Mona came up behind him, and hugged him.
"Oh Norm! Great job!" Mona shouted happily, as Norm slumped to the ground, blushing.
"M…, Mona, aren't you on the other team?" Norm asked.
"Yes silly, I'm just so proud of you!" Mona said, as she fluffed his hair.
"Why th…thank you…, whatdidIdo?" Norm asked.
"Silly," Mona said, turning his head, so he'd be looking into her eyes, "You've almost beaten us!"
Norm blushed even harder, and then gulped, "Uh. Yeah, I'm pretty good!" Norm said.
"But not good enough…!" Mona shouted, as she quickly changed the entire moment from a happy one for Norm, to a very depressing one, as she quickly spun him off of the trampoline, Norm however, had hearts in his eyes.
"I love a strong woman!" Norm said from the water, Mona simply rolled her eyes.
"Wanda, Candy, you two will be my easiest prey of the day!" Kimmy stated, as she readied herself in a fighting stance.
"Ugh…, she's too strong for us Candy," Wanda whispered.
"We need a miracle at this point," Candy replied.
"NOOO!" Mona yelled, just as Kimmy tripped both Candy and Wanda off, Mona came flying out of nowhere, and tackled Kimmy directly off of the trampoline, and all four of the girl landed directly in the water, all at once.
"Nice move Mona…, but now…Ivan's our last hope," Candy said, as her, Wanda, and Mona, all looked up on the trampoline. The last three people were Ivan, Max, and Haley.
"Oh, and it looks like Mr. Domo-Arigato is our last camper standing!" Max said, with a sarcastic bow.
"You will be more serious, if you wish to win," Ivan said, reading his sword into a fighting stance.
"Serious isn't fun though, being a goofball is what I live for, if only other people could have as much fun as ME!" Max stated.
"You still have one teammate remaining, so it is two on one, but I will still fight with all my might," Ivan explained.
"Good to hear, and I will fight with whatever I can!" Max laughed, as he too got in a stance.
"This is gonna be AWESOOOOOME!" Omar chimed from the water.
At the start of the now epic face-off, Ivan made a fierce jumping move to the left, Max followed his movement, but Ivan wasn't only jumping to left so Max would follow the movement, he was jumping to put pressure on the area where Haley was sitting. Her lightweight, caused her to unnoticeably bounce closer to the edge.
"Is Haley even gonna move…, she's just sat there the entire challenge…," Kimmy said, facepalming.
Ivan made another swift jump, this time, closer to Haley. He repeated this series of movements until Haley was in position to be knocked off, Ivan than ran towards Max, but back flipped before getting too close, this tempted Max to leap towards Ivan. However, when he did, Haley flew off the back of the trampoline. "I have caused you to defeat your own teammate," Ivan said, again getting in a fighting stance.
"No matter, she wasn't helping in ANYWAY!" Max shouted, as he danced towards Ivan.
"This fighting style is very strange…," Ivan commented, as he dashed at Max with his sword. Ivan swung his sword, at the same time that Max kicked, the kick and the sword clashed, "Very clever move."
"I pride myself on my timing," Max replied with a smirk, as he brought his leg down, this caused Ivan's sword to point down toward the trampoline, and then spring back up, which made Ivan drop his guard, "I also pride myself on my strategy!" Max chuckled, as he kicked Ivan off of the platform, winning the first part of the challenge for his team.
"Excellent job Max," Chris cheered, as Max smirked, and pulled his fedora over his eyes. "Now, once part two rolls around, it will be even HARDER!"
Aaaand there you have it folks, Max takes the first half of the challenge for the Dolphins! Now; for part two!
P.S.: Please review, favorite, follow…, do what you please, I'd appreciate SOME feedback on this story, two reviews and nine chapters is really not helping my confidence with this story.
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Til' Next Time, Peace Out!