TDRTPI EP 2 PT 1:
Harrison snored as his music blocked out all sound in the cabin while Joey pulled a pillow over his ears.
'Uggghh will he ever put that thing away!' Joey thought. 'I need to get out of here, maybe get some peace outside'.
Joey jumped out of his bunk bed, and walked past Kyle and Zach (who's snoring was just as annoying as Harrison's iPod).
He walked outside in the dim moonlight and sat down against the wooden steps, and leaned against the wooden post holding up the porch roof.
He began to close his eyes, picturing himself in the future with the million dollars.
"Hey Joey what are you doing out here?" Joey nearly jumped out of his skin, and (in his fright) smacked his head back into the wooden post. Even with his blurred eyes, however, he could make out the image of Kayla sitting on the other side of the porch.
How did he miss her sitting there? Was she there before? Was she following him?
"OMG sorry Joey I didn't mean to-"
"No no it's...its fine." Joey cradled his head while looking at Kayla. She looked away from him for a moment and stared outside.
"Why are you out here?" She asked him. He half-heartedly laughed.
"Well, nothing really, just the other guys are hard to sleep in the same room with, that's all."
"Haha I know how you feel Madison wears this weird face mask thingy and it freaks me out!"
Joey stared at her. "It's a face mask."
"Yeah that's what I said."
"No that's the name of what she's doing it's for - well you know what never mind." Joey chuckled.
"Oh ok." Kayla smiled. "Hey can I ask you a question?"
"Oh uh sure." Joey wondered what she was going to ask.
"Well, what would you do if you won the million?" Joey pondered this for a moment. He had said that he really just came to win and show off his skills, but he never thought about what he would do if he did get the money...maybe buy a laptop? Or maybe something like Harrison's iPod...
"I...I don't know..." He said.
"Oh, well I know what I want to do with my money!" She practically jumped up and down.
"Oh? And what is that?"
"Split it with all my friends!" This sudden statement shocked Joey. Split it? With her friends? Seriously? Who would do something like that, most people would keep it for themselves.
"Wow. That's awesome." Just as Joey finished his sentence, Kayla immediately turned towards him.
"Are you my friend?" The question hit him so fast that he didn't know how to respond.
"Excuse me?"
"Are you my friend Joey?" She asked him once more. Almost as if she was asking him if he wanted to split the money.
"Y-Yeah." Is all he managed to get out, before she leaned in and hugged him.
"Thanks! I'm happy we're friends! I don't have many friends at home but I'm glad we are!" Her hug was nearly crushing his spine while her white hair nearly choked him to death.
"Umph! Uh y-yeah me too. Can you let go now?" Kayla instantly let go.
"Hehe, sorry. Well it's getting late now...I think we should really get to bed..."
"Um yeah. See ya tomorrow." Joey concluded as he waived her goodbye and walked back into the noisy cabin.
'Great. Back to square one...'
Unnoticed by both, a pair of eyes was watching them the whole time.
-CONFESSIONAL-
"Well I must say it is interesting to see those two grow close. But if they get too close they'll vote everyone off. I have to keep them distant so I can vote the both of them off later. But for now, I'll let them be."
(Terrance)
-CONFESSIONAL-
"Hm. Kayla is kinda weird...but she's really nice. She said she would split the money with everyone! Everyone! Now who can argue with that? I'm going to see that she stays out of trouble. She's like an ace in the hole for everybody, only I'm the only one that knows it...plus she's a really good friend."
(Joey)
-CONFESSIONAL-
"Wow. Joeys really nice! He said he's my friend! YES! Maybe we can get to the final two together... But that's far from now. For now, I gotta focus on getting rid of people like Isaac and Mark. They're both very mean..."
(Kayla)
-THE NEXT DAY-
"Wakey-wakey rise and shine!" Chris's voice boomed through the megaphones attached to the wooden poles outside.
"Uuuhh wha-ouch!" Joey yelled as he suddenly arose and hit his head on the ceiling from his bunk bed.
"Noooo mom five more minutes..."Zach said half asleep.
"C'mon guys we don't want to be late." Kyle stated as he walked out of the cabin. Harrison, still with the iPod earbuds in his ears.
"Ugh somebody please wake up music boy!" Terrance said annoyed. Nobody, however, was around when he asked.
"Ugh fine I have to do everything myself!" Terrance walked over to Harrison's iPod and turned it on. Then, he quickly raised the volume to the max.
"AAAAAHHHHHH!" Harrison bolted upright and ripped the earbuds from his earbuds. "What the heck was that for!"
"Challenge time music man let's go!" Terrance said arrogantly as he too walked out.
*Outside the cabins*
"Good morning everybody! How'd you sleep?" Joey was about to answer when, "Don't care; today's challenge will be a long marathon run! Each team will have to run 3 times around the island to complete the first part of the challenge! Each team must have EVERY player to participate in the second part of the challenge! Remember that! Once you have finished the second challenge, you will wait for the other teams to arrive. Chef and I have a special challenge for part 3! Haha!" Chef and Chris high-fived.
"Chef and I will give you 5 minutes to prepare yourselves, then, I will call you to the starting line. You may only run when I fire this starting gun. Oh and one last thing,"
The contestants looked at Chris with puzzled faces.
"There may or may not be some traps along the track, so beware! Hahaha!" Everyone cringed. "Alright your five minutes starts...now!"
*Team Challenger*
"Okay guys what should we do to warm up?" Madison asked her teammates.
"Well, on my soccer team back home, we would make a circle and do a series of stretches before we ran...maybe we should do that?" Zach stated. Madison clapped her hands together.
"Good we'll do that! We'll follow your lead Zach!" Zachary then made everyone from a circle around him.
"Okay, first we'll start with touching your toes." Zachary bent down and easily touched his toes. Everyone followed suit except for Kayla, who instead raised her foot and grabbed onto it.
"Uhhhh Kayla?" Joey asked looking at her.
"Mhm?"
"You're supposed to do it this way..."
"Ooooooohhhh whoops haha."
-CONFESSIONAL-
"Okay maybe Kayla's a little bit of an airhead...doesn't matter, she's still important to the team. Well...more important to me." Joey then folded his arms.
(Joey)
"I was the captain for my varsity soccer team two years in a row! I'm great at running! We ran for 40 minutes straight each day for two weeks straight to get in shape. This should be easy. I just hope my teammates don't slow us down..."
(Zach)
*Team Endeavor*
"Alright guys I say we do what they're doing." Isaac said eyeing the other team.
"No, I think that we should run in place, it will get us ready for running the track!" William pointed out. Many of the others nodded in agreement.
"Okay then fine, we'll do it your way then." Isaac relented. Team Endeavor began jogging in place.
-5 MINUTES LATER-
Suddenly, the sound of an air-horn rang through everyone's ears as Chris sat on his chair, holding down the button. When he finally released, half of the contestants were on the floor cupping their ears.
Chris pulled out two earbuds and laughed. "Hahahaha! Oh man I've been waiting to use that all day! Ok campers! Your five minutes are up! Get ready to run!" The campers lined up on the starting line and got ready to run.
"On your marks…"
"Get set…"
"GO!" Chris fired the starting pistol into the air, and the campers began their run. Team Endeavor took the lead quickly, and was really putting space between the other team.
"Hah! We showed them! We're gonna win this thing easy!" Isaac laughed as he quickly looked behind him and noticed the other team falling behind.
"I would not be so sure, they could be slow, but they could also be conserving their energy-"
"Oh shut it! We're in the lead and that's what matters!" Isaac cut Alexander off, and continued running.
"Yeah, this is awesome! We're gonna win this!" Nicky said confidently. Mark, who was running next to her, frowned.
"True, but what about those traps Chris said he'd set. I wonder what they are and where they could be…" Then, without warning, Penelope screamed. Team Endeavor turned around and noticed that she had fallen into a pit trap, (without the spikes of course).
"Great! You just had to say it didn't you!" Isaac snarled at Mark.
"Alexander, come help me get her out of here! The rest of you guys run to the finish line!" Darryl said. Alexander approached the pit trap quickly, and began to help Penelope out of the trap.
*Team Challenger*
"Oh great! We've lost sight of them! They're gonna win! Thanks Zach now we're going to lose!" Madison whined.
"Excuse me, I don't know if you've noticed, but we're conserving our energy. They're sprinting! It will be only a matter of time before they slow down and we pass them easy! Just you wait!" Zach responded. He had done enough running in soccer to know that if you sprinted all the way through you would not make it to the finish line before someone who jogged. Unless of course you were a great runner…
Unnoticed by the rest, Kayla began slowing down, little by little. So little that it was barely recognizable. Kyle, who was not the best runner and was second to last in their group, noticed this.
"Kayla are you ok?" Kyle asked. Kayla turned to him, her face red and sweaty.
"Oh yes Kyle I'm fine thank you." Kayla then picked up the pace again and caught up with the rest.
-CONFESSIONAL-
"Okay, I'm not the best runner. Running's not my thing really. I mean, I can run for a bit like anyone normal, but I can't run for long distances! I just hope I don't get one of those things when I run for too long…"
(Kayla)
"I think something's wrong with Kayla. I saw her face and it looks like she's going to puke or something…I wonder…maybe running's not her forte…well I shouldn't be talking it's not mine either!" Kyle laughed.
(Kyle)
*Team Endeavor (Alexander/Penelope/Darryl)*
"Alright! Almost got you! C'mon just a little more…aaaaaannndddd there!" Darryl and Alexander pulled Penelope out of the giant hole.
"Thanks!" She said brushing herself off. Darryl and Alexander nodded, and the trio continued running.
*Team Endeavor*
"Ugh! Where are those idiots! They're going to, *cough cough* slow us *cough* down! Man I need a break!" Isaac had his hands on his head, and was panting heavily. Practically everyone else was in the same shape except Mark.
"C'mon guys, we must keep going! We need to past the finish line and then we can rest!" Mark tried to motivate his team. Unfortunately, it didn't have the desired effect.
"Ugh Mark they're nowhere in sight I need a break!" Isaac panted. Mark, realizing that he was getting nowhere, gave in.
"Fine, we can rest for two minutes, but then we have to get going!" With a loud thump, the rest of the team collapsed onto the ground.
*Team Challenger*
"Look! Who's that?" Joey asked aloud. Up ahead, were three other contestants, running, and panting as they tried to catch up to the rest of their team.
"It looks like Alexander, Penelope, and Darryl! We're catching up!" Madison said excitedly. Team Challenger began to pick up the pace, but Kayla and Kyle were unable to catch up.
"Oh no! I can't do this!" Kayla cried. She was beginning to feel a slight pain in her legs, and she knew what would follow if she continued running like this. But she needed a break!
"C'mon Kayla we can do this together, just keep running!" Kyle said confidently. Kayla nodded and continued running.
*The rest of Team Challenger*
Team Challenger easily passed Alexander, Penelope, and Darryl, and were still running onwards.
"Hold on." Joey noticed they were missing two people. "Where's Kayla and Kyle?" Madison turned her head so she could look at the back of the group.
"Great! Now we're down two people! Joey go back and get them over here!"
"But I-"
"Just go!" Madison ordered. Joey sighed and turned around. 'Where are they!' he thought to himself.
*Team Challenger (Kayla and Kyle)*
Kayla and Kyle were running as fast as they could, when a figure appeared ahead of them. Joey was slowly jogging towards them, and when they were close enough, he joined them.
"Guys! We just passed our second lap up ahead you guys need to catch up!" Kayla, could barely speak because she was panting so hard, opened her mouth to speak but Kyle cut her off,
"We're trying Joey, but we just can't run any faster!" Joey groaned. How was he supposed to get these two to run faster! They just can't! And they're still on their first lap!
Kayla was panting and sweating. This was so not what she was good at! She hated running! (Especially now!) Without warning, a bolt of pain shot through her leg, sending her to the floor in a heap. Sand flew everywhere as she made contact with the beach floor.
Joey and Kyle turned around to see Kayla on the ground, cradling her leg in pain.
"Go Kyle I can catch up! We need to win this!"
"No Joey we'll do this together." Kyle said. Both boys walked over to Kayla and slowly helped her to her feet. Her eyes were tearing up and her leg wasn't moving, as though it were made of stone.
-CONFESSIONAL-
"Great! Just Great! Now I have this horrible cramp to deal with. I hate these! They hurt so much it's like I broke my leg or something! I hate running!"
(Kayla)
*Chris and Chef's Camp*
"Ya know Chef this is getting kinda boring. They've only triggered one trap and it wasn't even that funny. We need to send in something to make things interesting!" Chris said while sipping a coffee and relaxing in his lawn chair. Before him lay multiple TV sets showing the campers running around the island.
Chef instantly whipped out a small walkie talkie and turned it on.
"Yeah! He said it's good let's bring it in!" Chris looked at him dumbfounded.
"Uh chef what are you talking about?" Chef laughed.
"You'll see. Trust me you'll like it." Before long, two interns brought out a giant box with the words DANGER and WARNING on it. The box moved back in forth while snarls and screeches emitted from within.
"Remember Scuba bear?" Chef asked Chris with a grin on his face. Chris leapt from his chair in excitement.
"You mean...you mean you brought him back?!" Chef nodded. "Oh man I love this job. I don't know if there's a day that I regret signing up for it! Well would you look at that, we're out of time! Haha, well, watch as Scuba bear wreaks havoc on our contestants next time on Total Drama Return to Pahkitew Island!"