The Tenth Challenge
"Hello team Destiny's Ninjas!" Ansem shouted as soon as he could see the approaching team.
"I wonder what todays challenge is?" Vexen mused as they walked up to where Ansem stood.
"Probably something to do with banshees--I just know it!" Demyx said, his face contorting in fear.
"That would be, like, the stupidest challenge ever." Imogene said appearing next to Demyx.
"Aaaah!" he leapt back in surprise. The girl was dressed in a school uniform with her hair in two pigtails. In her arms, there were two textbooks--an English one and another one titled, 'So You Want to Take Over the World'.
"What are you staring at?" she asked smacking her gum loudly.
"Um, nothing."
"Listen, can we hurry up and announce this challenge? I have some major partying-er, I mean studying to do." Imogene said.
Ansem muttered something under his breath and asked, "So, how was your first day of togetherness?"
"Not cool, yo, not cool." Xemnas said, still blushing from having his clothes exposed. [See chapter 20 for an exclusive description of Xemnas' Barbie shirt and Abercrombe jeans - At the moment, he was holding his cloak to his chest self-consciously.
"I think we need to rename ourselves." Vexen said. "Because I am sick of everything around here revolving around 'Destiny'." He waved his hands in the air as he said Destiny.
"What was that gesture for?" Xigbar asked.
"I felt it necessary to convey the concept of 'Destiny'." Vexen answered waving his hands in the air again.
I want lemonade! Okay, back to the story…
"You cannot change your name, you ingrate!" Ansem shouted through a megaphone.
"Whatever." Vexen said deciding to ignore the man.
"Did you hear me? I said, you cannot change your name, you ingrate!" Ansem shouted into the megaphone again.
"Aaah! I heard you, you old bat!" Vexen said covering his ears.
"Well that's the pot calling the kettle black." Ansem retorted. There was a loud 'oooh, burn!' from the team.
A flustered Vexen said, "J-just tell us the challenge already."
"Alright, today's challenge will test the limits of your minds-" at this, Sora whined and clutched his head.
"Thinking hurts my brain!"
Ignoring Sora, Ansem continued, "As I was saying, it will test the limits of your minds by asking you a series of questions. Those who score within the top six will receive prizes, however, only the person who scores the highest shall win the immunity idol." Ansem referred to a bottle cap necklace (with Destiny written all over it) that was hanging on a post.
Then, Ansem's lovely (lovely meaning old and wrinkled) office assistant, Doris, showed everyone to their desks and passed our pencils and paper. Ansem went to the front of the 'classroom' and began.
"Question #1. What is the traveling velocity of an African swallow?"
"Aaah! I give up!" Demyx cried, holding his head and falling out of his seat in a faint.
"Dude! What kind of question is that?!" Xigbar exclaimed.
"Just answer it." A few scribbled answers later, Ansem said the next question. "What is the Spanish word for toilet?"
Yuffie raised her hand. "Can I use the phone a friend option?"
"That's only on 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?' not 'Survivor'. Get your TV shows straight. Next question, on the hit show, 'My Friend the Emotionally Unstable Panda' (not an actual show to my knowledge) who was Panda's best friend?"
"If a tree falls in the middle of a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound?"
"How many times do I have 'Destiny' tattooed on my body?"
"What was my mother's maiden name?"
"How old do you have to be to legally ride a bike?"
"Why do Vexen's feet stink?"
"Hey!" Vexen shouted indignantly as he stuffed flowers in his boots.
The questions went on like this for a while before Ansem said, "Okay, the final question is: What is the color of my eyes?" everyone looked up and squinted at him, then scribbled an answer on the paper. "Now I will grade your papers accordingly - in the meantime, please enjoy this lovely elevator music." He pressed a button and elevator music began playing. After a few minutes of grading filled funness, he stacked all of the papers. "And now the person who scored highest on this challenge was--"
"Hold the phone!" Imogene shouted.
"What?" Ansem asked, irritated at her interuption.
"I wanna ask you a question!" she said.
"Fine, if it'll make you happy." the host said, giving in.
"Okay, if you were bent on taking over the world, what would you do first? A) Enslave all minor celebrities and command them to make lemonade stands, B) Hold the world's cheese supply for ransom, C) Kill a mosquito, or D) Blast Antarctica in half and then kill a mosquito?"
"What kind of question is that?"
"Just answer it."
"Fine, B."
"What a wonderfully evil answer, Ansem." Imogene giggled as she scribbled something down on the paper in front of her.
"Anyway, as I was saying, the person who scored highest on this challenge was...Sora!"
"Yay!" Sora yelled happily. An odd sort of scream issued from Zexion's pocket interrupted everyone's shock that Sora won.
"Um…Zexion? What was that?" Riku asked nervously.
"The sound of my pride dying." Zexion answered emotionlessly as he pulled out a little mini heart shaped thingy labeled 'pride' out of his pocket and tossed it aside.
"Now hold on! I refuse to believe that this little mental case managed to beat all of us!" Xemnas yelled.
"Well, face the facts you whimpering little boy!" Ansem said as he draped the immunity bottle cap idol around Sora's neck.
"What about the rest of us? Who all gets the prize?" Cloud asked.
Ansem grinned. "Oh, I haven't forgotten about that. But first, don't you want to know what the prizes are?" he pulled out a sack. "These are prizes that I'm sure everyone wants. They are the things you miss the most." Ansem pulled out a little TV.
Sora gasped and yelled out, "Telli!" He ran forth, hugging it.
"Wait a sec…that's Sora's actual television, straight from his room!" Kairi realized.
"Yes. The top scorers, get their own prized possessions."
"So you snuck through our stuff? How'd you manage that?" Xigbar asked.
"He he. Wouldn't you like to know…" Ansem said. "Okay, the second highest scorer was…Zexion!" Ansem reached into the bag and pulled out a switchblade.
"Nancy!" The stoic Nobody suddenly exclaimed rushing forward to claim his prize lovingly.
"Nancy?" the rest of the group asked. Getting over the fact that Zexion had named his switchblade, Ansem announced the next winner.
"Next is Vexen." Ansem pulled out a worn out looking science kit.
"Yeah! Now I can combine this with the stuff I already have at the camp!" Vexen said happily as he stroked his green hair. "Though first things first - I need to make a formula that will help my hair. I'm getting split ends!"
"Oh you poor man!" Marluxia exclaimed clutching his own hair in fear.
"Cloud, you're up." Cloud's prize turned out to be…a set of Harry Potter books.
"Cool! I can catch up on my reading!" he said hugging the books to his chest.
"Next is my dear buddy Riku." Riku stepped forward with his fingers crossed. "Riku, you have an odd choice in your most missed item." Ansem said as he pulled out a set of earplugs.
Riku leapt for joy. "Yes! Hahahah! Woohoo!"
"Now I bet the rest of you are all wondering who will be the last one to get a prize." the rest of the group nodded. Doris handed Ansem a flashcard with the name of the last winner. "And the is-" Ansem looked down at the card. "Um, Doris? Are you sure this is right?" The woman nodded. "Alright," Ansem continued skeptically, "The winner is Xemnas!"
The leader of Organization 13 laughed and proclaimed, "Darkness always prevails!" Getting over the initial disappointment that they lost to Xemnas, the rest of the group got curious.
"What is his most prized possession?" Demyx wondered.
"Yeah! Hurry up and show us!" Xigbar said.
Ansem reached into the sack and pulled out…a copy of High School Musical!
"Ooh! It's my favorite movie!" Xemnas shouted gleefully. No one quite knew what to say to that.
"Uh, it's even signed by the cast…" Yuffie pointed out.
"So what if I'm a huge fan who may or may not have a poster of Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron hanging in my room!" Xemnas shouted defensively.
(A/N: I am not a fan of that show and to this day, I have no idea why I know and remember what the cast members names are. You just pick up odd things on the path of life.)
-Council Fire
"This is your first tribal council as a unified group. What are your feelings on this?" Ansem asked putting a microphone next to Zexion.
"Eh. I don't really care." he replied as he fingered Nancy.
"Well, what about you?" Ansem asked heading toward Kairi.
"Aaaah! The pedophile is coming toward me!" the girl screamed, hiding behind Axel.
"You are wearing my patience, girl!" Ansem yelled looking behind Axel. But, instead of Kairi, there sat a panda munching a leaf. It looked up and tilted it's head questionably at Ansem's puzzled expression.
"Aah! Kairi turned into a panda!" Sora exclaimed.
"That can't be her. There has to be a logical - aha! There she is!" Vexen said pointing. Kairi was currently trying to escape by building a rocket.
"Damn! I've been ratted out!" she yelled glaring at a nearby rock.
"Doris! Don't let her escape!" Ansem commanded.
The normally docile old woman leapt into action and whacked Kairi over the head with a ruler. "It is time to vote!" she shouted with an 'or else' expression on her face. So, fearful of the old woman, everyone got on with the voting.
After a few minutes, the votes were tallied and ready to be read off. "The votes follow as such: Cloud - 3, Axel - 2,
Yuffie - 7. Yuffie, you are the next to be voted off of the island! And about time, too!"
"Hey! What's that supposed to mean, 'about time'?" Yuffie asked.
"It means that I don't like you and that I'm glad that you're going." Ansem answered, folding his arms and nodding.
"Wha-but-" Before Yuffie could say anymore, she was grabbed by a giant gorilla wearing a red head wrap, and was thrown, screaming, through the trapdoor. Ansem laughed, coughed, then continued laughing.
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