Chapter 3 Arrival and dodgeball
Heads up, the next chapter will have their first zombie encounter.
12:22pm.
They arrived at the island, Chef pulled the boat up, turned it off and the twenty six of them got off onto the dock.
They looked around and didn't know of how such a peaceful island could be so cursed.
Then they looked to the dinghy to get their belongings and gasped.
"Where the hell's our stuff" Heather wailed.
Chris saw that the dinghy was missing, and wasn't to overly concerned.
"I guess the rope snapped when Chef put the pedal to the medal" Chris said honestly.
"You mean our stuff is out there sinking to the bottom of the ocean somewhere" Duncan protested.
"Looks like it" Chris laughed.
"I knew it was a bad idea to put our belongings in there" Courtney pointed out.
"Now welcome to season five campers. This small island will be where you spend the next eight weeks" Chris gloated.
"But what about the curse" DJ worried.
"DJ" Chris said getting a little irritated, that the subject had to come up again. "I promise nothing bad will happen here. Except from maybe our extreme challenges that you'll be participating in."
That didn't make him feel better, he gulped.
"As I was saying" Chris continued, "There will be two new teams of twelve competing for one million dollars." He reached into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper He unfolded it. "When I call your name and please stand over there" he motioned pointing to the left. "This shall be known as the Oak Team. Now for the contestants that will be on that team.
Heather."
Heather reluctantly walked over and took her spot where Chris told her to stand. Awaiting the other eleven to join her, anxious to see who would join her."
"Courtney" Chris continued.
"What I'm stuck on a team with her" Courtney demanded, "You are so going to get sued." She went over unwillingly and stood next to Heather.
The two crossed their arms and looked in other directions.
Duncan crossed his fingers hoping his name wouldn't be called.
"Duncan" Chris continued.
Duncan sighed and walked over to his team, obviously very mad and upset at the same time.
"What you're putting him on my team" Courtney shouted pointing at Duncan and glaring at Chris.
"This isn't my best day ever, Princess" Duncan huffed as he stood next to Heather.
Chris just laughed at their discomfort and misfortune. "Alejandro."
Alejandro kindly went over and took Courtney's side.
This got Courtney to come down and feel happy as she cooed over the Latino.
"It's a pleasure to be on your team" Alejandro said taking Courtney's hand a sweetly kissing her.
"I think I'm goanna be sick" Leshawna joked, pretending to gag.
"Katie and Sadie" Chris continued.
Everyone had to cover their ears as the two squeakers squealed the entire way over to their team. Then they squealed even more when they found out Justin was on their team when his name was called next.
12:29pm
"Noah, Eva, Ezekiel" Chris continued scratching an ear, thinking he may have gone death in it. He was fine.
The three walked over and joined their teams. Katie and Sadie continuing to eye Justin all over. Ezekiel watched and didn't know what he had, that he didn't, besides useless muscles and good looks.
"Last two people, who are they goanna be" Chris taunted.
Honestly, none of the remaining 14 campers wanted to be on their team.
"Bridgette and Geoff" Chris finished.
They didn't like it, but they were happy to be together, so they reluctantly joined their team.
"So that would leave the remaining twelve of you the Maple Team" Chris announced. "Leshawna."
"Yah, Leshawna's in the house" she cheered walking over to the opposite side of where the Oak team was.
"Sierra and Cody" Chris continued.
"Oh yah" Sierra cheered.
"Oh man" Cody said to himself.
The two walked over and joined Leshawna.
"Lindsay, Beth, Tyler, and DJ" Chris continued.
Lindsay and Tyler hugged while DJ and Beth high fived and joined there other five comrades.
"Harold" Chris continued.
"Yes" Harold wheezed.
"Yah, my string bean" Leshawna said giving her own bear hug.
"Gwen, Trent" Chris said.
The two smiled at each other, grabbed each other's hands and joined there groups.
"Last but not least, Izzy and Owen" Chris finished.
Owen and Izzy cheered. Owen grabbed Izzy and they gave each other their own forms of bear hugs.
"Now said teams are said. Maple's cabin the west and Oak's in the east. The main lodge is the biggest one over there, the latrines are the smaller one in front of the main lodge and the outhouse or confessionals are that one over there. And over there is the fire pit where one of you will be sent home after our usual bonfire ceremony."
They all took in their surroundings.
"Now your first elimination challenge starts at 6pm. So meet me at the main lodge then. Until then, spend this time to explore the cabins, the latrines, main lodge and campfire pit. But don't go into the forest."
"Why not" Beth asked?
"So you don't get lost and I get sued" Chris lied.
Everyone went off to claim their bed in their cabins, knowing they had over five and half hours of free time.
While they did that, Chef came down with a four wheeler. He loaded the crates onto the back and drove them to the shed, put them in it, locked the door and gave Chris the key who put it in the safe on the boat.
For the next five hours the campers decided who would get what bunk beds and who they would share them with. The cabins were separated into two sections, one side for ladies and dude get the other. On each side were three bunk beds and three dressers. One bunk bed and one dresser went to two people.
In the Maple cabin for pair ups for bunk beds
Girl's side:
Lindsay on top and Beth on bottom.
Gwen on top and Leshawna on bottom.
Izzy on top and Sierra on bottom.
Boy's side:
Trent on bottom and Tyler on bottom.
Cody on top and Owen on the bottom.
Harold on top and DJ on bottom.
In the Oak cabin for pair ups for bunk beds.
Girl's side:
Katie on top and Sadie on bottom.
Courtney on top and Bridgette on bottom.
Eva on top and Heather on bottom.
Boy's side.
Noah on top and Justin on bottom.
Duncan on top and Geoff on bottom.
Ezekiel on top and Alejandro on bottom.
The Oak team did a lot of bickering but did finally come to this conclusion. While the Maple team made little to no bickering at all, as they chose theirs.
For the remaining four hours and forty five minutes, the campers did as Chris said. Explored their campground. They also did as Chris was told and did not enter the forest, even though some really wanted to.
The latrines had five bathroom stalls, four showers with hot water, six sinks with mirrors, and a sky light in the ceiling.
The fire pit had large black bucket with burnt pieces of rubble, twelve tree stumps against a big stone wall.
5:58pm
The twenty four campers were now all sitting at their respective tables with their horrendous food prepared by Chef.
The main lodge was composed of two separate rooms, half kitchen and half dining room. The dining room had the only exit, the two double doors. Two large long tables in the middle, a large moose head was above the doors.
The kitchen was composed of cabinets on all around two walls with a large stove at the far back, a walk in freeze stood next to that. A large table stood in the middle. Separating the two rooms was single door and a small window, with a surviving slide on the dining room side. The Maple team was near the doors while the Oak team was nearest to the kitchen.
Maple team table. Gwen and Trent sat at one end of the table talking quietly to each other, as they tried to swallow Chef's food. Sierra, Cody, Harold, Leshawna, DJ, Beth, Lindsay and Tyler were having their own conversation with one another. Owen was just gulping his food down like it was the most delicious thing he had even had. Izzy was standing above him on the table filtering the food off the tray into his mouth.
At the Oak table was sort of quiet. At one end Alejandro and Courtney were swooning over each other. The other end had Justin, Katie, Sadie Noah, and Ezekiel having a conversation. Yes, Ezekiel had actually started to talk to the three, but not about why the twins over Justin so much. Heather and Duncan sat across from each other talking to each other. Talking about getting everyone on their team to go on their side and vote the Courtney and Alejandro off first, if they lose the challenges. Duncan also had his knife out, carving a skull into the table, which Heather found rather fascinating. Bridgette and Geoff were making out in the center of the table, from across the table. Eva was in between the two couples and wanted to either strangle them or her for allowing herself for being tortured by sitting in between those four idiots.
6:00pm
Chris comes walking in with his usual dumb goofy grin.
"Alrighty, campers" Chris announced. "It's time for your first challenge. Meet me on the court in ten minutes."
6:10pm
The twenty four campers were now in a court.
"You're first challenge is a simple game of dodgeball" Chris stated chuckling.
They were in a court large square court. One door led in and out. Silver metal walls spread all around them. There was no roof, so they could see the late evening sun still poking around the sky. In the court itself was a usual dodgeball court. Black lines lined the outsides with a red one in the middle to show it was the middle. 6 red rubber balls were placed on them very neatly, evenly spaced. There were two sets of bleachers on both sides of the where the teams would be. Finally a ref's high chair was set in the middle.
"Didn't we do this in season one" Cody asked?
"Yes we did" Chris assured, "but this time is different. You know the basic rules. If you get hit, you're out and if you catch a ball then the throwers out. But this is how it's different. In this specific game, the one who catches a person's thrown ball, cannot and mean not bring someone back into the game. They are perminately out. Not to mention yet that all 12 players for both teams will be playing at the same time."
They all groaned, but went along with it.
"So does everyone get what's going on and how to play" Chris asked?
Most shook their heads yes, some shook them no. But Chef blew the whistle for them to take their positions. The two did as told and stood behind the black lines. Chef took his seat in the ref's chair and blew the whistle to let the game begin.
"Begin" Chris shouted, as she stood by the ref's chair.
6:13pm
Three from each team dashed for the red rubber attackers. Heather, Eva and Duncan went for the Oak team while; Sierra, Owen, and Cody went for the Maple team. Cody was the first to reach the rubber balls. He picked two up at once and made his way back.
Sierra was second scooping up two as well and running back. Owen on the other hand was too late because Eva and Duncan had beat him there. Owen ran and slid onto his back. They each held them up there's high. Owen winced at the sight of both of them aiming at him.
They took aim and fired. Owen quickly separated his legs to dodge Duncan's and accidently held his hands up to defend his face from Eva's. He caught hers.
Eva looked wide eyed as Chef blew his whistle and pointed to her than the bench. She huffed and took a seat.
"12 to 11" Chris enjoyed.
Owen quickly got up and raced over. The Maple team now had all six red rubber balls on their side.
"Awesome" Harold said, as Sierra gave him a ball. Cody gave one to Gwen.
The one Duncan had thrown landed in front of DJ, so he picked it up and smiled.
DJ, Harold, Cody, Owen, Gwen and Sierra all smiled evilly at the Oak team. They all gulped in result.
They all raised their arms in sympathy ready to strike down half of the entire team. The lowered them down and fired all 6 shots at once, ready for it to be 5 to 12.
DJ's was barreling down on Duncan. He raised his hands in the air and caught it, and then he helped use it to deflect Gwen's. Heather ducked and Owen's missed but Harold's came smacked her right in the temple. Geoff jumped into the air to dodge Sierra's and Cody's just bounced off the wall where no one was.
Chef blew his whistle and Heather and DJ took a seat.
The Oak team now had all six on their sides, but they decided not to waste them all. Duncan, Geoff, and Alejandro each took one and threw them, keeping the other three as backups.
6:18pm
Duncan's was aimed at Harold who did his flailing arms lean back technique to dodge it.
Alejandro's also missed. He had aimed for Owen who nearly side stepped it.
Geoff's was headed for Lindsay. She was too scared to move, so Tyler pushed her out of the way and took it in the stomach instead.
Chef blew his whistle and took a seat clutching his stomach. He looked up at Lindsay when he sat down, he saw her blow him a kiss and he went redder then his sweat suit.
Fast forward time: everything here is in order.
Alejandro gets hit in the eye by Beth.
Courtney returns the favor and hits Beth in the nose, not doing too much to her braces and glasses.
Izzy throws one and gets a double target. She hits Katie in the chest which bounces through the air and hits Sadie on the top of her head.
Owen gets hit in the stomach by Bridgette whom he doesn't feel.
Leshawna deflects Justin's just to be hit in the stomach by Courtney's
Justin gets hit in the cheek by Sierra which leaves a red mark, which he flips out from, panicking that it won't get away. He is so scared and frantic; he trips over a red rubber and gets a large bump on his forehead which freaks him out even more. Eva had to come and strap him down to the bleachers.
Duncan not liking how annoying Justin felt he should get even with her by aiming at Cody. So he threw it only for Sierra to jump in the way and take it to her gut. She limps over and joins her team. Duncan has a smirk while Cody's cursing at him and feeling the pain for Sierra since what he did for Gwen in the first season.
"And it's all tied up again folks" Chris yelled all excited. He had joined the Maple team and was sitting on the edge of their bleachers. ""There are six people a piece for both teams. Oak team: Bridgette, Geoff, Duncan, Courtney, Noah and Ezekiel. Maple team: Trent, Gwen, Cody, Izzy, Lindsay and Harold. Now let the game continue."
6:55pm
There were four balls on the Oak side and two on the Maple.
Lindsay and Gwen had them for the Maple team while Courtney, Duncan, Bridgette, and Ezekiel had the Oak's
Ezekiel stepped forward first ready to prove his skills. He accidently stepped on his shoelace as he walked forward. He fell flat on his face, and the ball went sailing through the air where Izzy caught it.
Chef blew the whistle and Ezekiel took a seat holding his nose.
Bridgette and Courtney and Izzy and Gwen double teamed and threw their four balls at once. Courtney and Bridgette's were direct targets on Gwen and Trent. Gwen and Izzy were also successful in hitting Geoff and Bridgette. Bridgette and Gwen had just hit each other in the head knocking each other out. Trent dragged a dazed Gwen and Geoff dragged a dazed Bridgette.
"4 to 3 now" Chris enjoyed.
Duncan had his still and hit Cody somewhere that made everyone cringe and made Sierra come out and bring Cody to the bench.
"3 to 3" Chris enjoyed, "Once again a tie."
The three on the Maple team glared at the ones on the Oak team and vis versa.
"Lindsay, Izzy and Harold vs. Noah, Duncan and Courtney" Chris shouted.
Three red rubbers to each side.
Seconds later a psycho crazy Izzy pegs Noah in his face with hers which causes him to sprawl through and do a back flip through the air and hit the wall face on upside down. Everyone winced at his pain. And as Izzy was in her jump she felt the stinging feeling of the Courtney's that had just left a large red mark on her forehead. She came crashing down, head first. Somehow being able to stand up and Noah being able to do the same thing.
They took their seats.
Chef blew his whistle. The four remaining looked up and saw Chris.
"Break time" Chris said. "We shall now play with only four balls now so give me two."
Duncan threw one to him while Lindsay rolled hers; he stuffed them behind the Maple team's bleachers.
"Let's finish this" Chris said, "Let's take this sample to the lab and see what you're made of."
The two bleachers went wild to cheer on their team mates. Mostly the Maple team since they were a lot nicer.
Harold and Lindsay stood on one side with red rubbers at their feet while Courtney and Duncan were doing the same thing on the other side. Duncan and Courtney for some reason felt closer, a connection happen as they were going to do final battle.
"Get ready, set" Chris said all excited, so were the campers. Chef blew the whistle.
The four grabbed the red rubbers and waited for their opportunity. Lindsay somehow felt smarter as she glared at Courtney, and Harold glaring at Duncan and vice versa.
7:02pm
Duncan aimed at Harold. Harold aimed at Duncan. Courtney aimed at Lindsay and Duncan as well.
Harold dodged to the left and missed Duncan's. Duncan dodged Harolds but got hit by Lindsay. Unfortunately Lindsay got hit by Courtney's. Duncan and Lindsay took their seat.
"And now it's one on one" Chris cheered. "Harold vs. Courtney."
They rolled one more ball of the court, set the other one at their feet and got ready for the whistle.
The maple team cheered on Harold
The Oak team cheered on Courtney.
"Go Henry" Lindsay cheered.
"You, can do it man" Trent cheered.
"You got the skill" Tyler cheered.
"You did it once before, you can do it again" Gwen cheered.
"WHoooohoo, go Harold" Owen cheered.
"You can do it string bean" Leshawna cheered.
"You're smarter than her" Cody cheered.
"Wipe the floor with her" Beth cheered.
"We're your number one fan" Sierra cheered.
"Lay a curse on her" DJ cheered.
"Smash her in the face" Izzy cheered jumping up and down.
"You can do my fair lady" Alejandro cheered.
"Yah don't mess up" Eva grunted,
"Go team, go" Noah cheered sarcastically.
"Go Court" Geoff cheered.
"You can win" Bridgette cheered.
"You can win maybe, princess" Duncan cheered.
"Make our team look beautiful" Justin cheered.
"Make Justin beautiful" Katie and Sadie cheered.
"Don't mess this up you B***h" Heather growled.
"Don't lose because you're a girl" Ezekiel warned.
Eva slugged Ezekiel in the head knocking him unconscious.
Chef blew the whistle.
7:28pm.
Courtney and Harold grabbed there red rubber balls. They stared menacingly at each other.
For some odd reason they didn't move a muscle for twenty minutes. The audience's best guess, to size their opponent up.
7:48pm. The sun was now gone and the stars and full moon shined above in the sky, and the torches around the court flickered in their light.
Then finally after 20 grueling minutes. Harold made the first move he chucked his ball as fast as he could at Courtney.
His team watched in excitement and the other team in horror as the ball was directly on target.
Courtney watched in wided eye motion as the ball came closer and closer. Then she smiled as she simply moved her head to the right, and the ball sailed past her head. It bounced off the wall and rolled to her feet.
Harold and the rest of the Maple team looked on with surprise. The Oak team was cheering their heads off, minus a grumpy Eva and an unconscious Ezekiel.
She picked up Harold's ball and smiled evilly at him. He gulped and looked on with horror. Now it was Courtney's turn to throw some red rubber balls. She took one in each hand and threw them both at Harold at the same time. She knew whichever way he would run or move was likely to be hit by one if not both dodgeballs. She crossed her arms in front of her at her proud award achieving moment.
Harold looked on with horror as two red rubber dodgeballs came flying at him.
7:51pm
Courtney, the Oak team, the Maple team were all wide eyed surprised, even more then when Courtney dodged the red rubber.
Then the Maple team let out the loudest cheer ever. Harold stood still, legs together, arms outstretched. A red rubber ball in both hands. He figured he would get impaled if he moved, so he did the most logical thing he could think of, catch both of them at the same time, in which he did.
"And the Maple team win" Chris cheered. "Now both teams meet me at the campfire ceremony in ten."
The maple team all ran and over and congratulated the skater nerd. DJ and Owen hoisted him onto his shoulder.
"That makes twice" Leshawna cheered.
"Oh great we lost" Heather burst out.
"It's your fault" Courtney barked at her.
"Yah, well I think it's your fault" Heather insisted.
"Oh yah" Courtney barked at Heather.
"Yah" Heather barked back.
"Ladies, Ladies, please" Alejandro said trying to stop the cat fight before it started. Duncan was actually wanting to see one.
"Stay out of this" Courtney said accidently pushing him into Eva sending them both crashing to the ground. She looked over and realized it was Alejandro.
"Oh Alejandro, I'm so sorry" Courtney ran over and pulled him up, checking him over to make sure he was alright.
"Aw man I was really looking forward to cat fight" Duncan sighed.
"Why would you want to see two cats fight for, eh?" Ezekiel asked? "It be a lot more fun watching dogs fight."
Courtney helped Alejandro up and dusted him off.
"Are you alright" Courtney very sincere?
"Yah, I'm fine" Eva snorted getting up.
Courtney ignored her.
"Yah, I'm fine" Alejandro responded. "Just watch who you punch if you don't mind."
"I will" Courtney said blushing.
8:01pm
Chef went to the main lodge; he entered the kitchen, set his whistle on the table. He sat down on a chair, kicked it back so he was leaning against the counter and his feet were on the table. He pulled his chef's hat over his eye and put his arms behind his back. He started to doze off.
He then heard the door open, but didn't close.
"Whatcha need Chris" Chef called out, not opening his eyes.
He didn't get an answer.
"I said Whatcha need" Chef repeated again still not opening his eyes.
Once again he didn't hear anything.
Then a second later he felt himself falling through the air as he fell backward in his chair. He landed on the hardwood floor with a hard thud,
"Ah, what happened" he asked looking around?
He saw a pair of jaws sink its teeth into his shoulder. He shrieked in pain and terror.
8:02pm.
The campers were all gathered on at the campfire. The fire was big and furious as it flickered in the air and burnt the wood.
Chris stood on one side staring back at the campers. His back to the camp and the fire light dancing off half of his face.
The campers had their backs to the stone wall. Some were sitting; some weren't, because there weren't enough stumps.
"Oak team" Chris started, "It sucks to be you, because it's time to send one of yah home." He looked at the miserable faces of the Oak team and burst out laughing.
"What's so funny McClean" Duncan demanded.
"Oh, your faces are priceless" Chris laughed out. "You guys really thought the dodgeball game was the challenge. It was really just a test to prove your skills for the real challenge that will start in five minutes."
He stopped laughing at them and looked to see the anger and disparity in them. But he didn't see any of those emotions on their faces. Not even Eva, Heather, Duncan or Courtney had a scowl on their faces. It was like they hadn't heard a single thing he said.
The looks on their faces resembled something like fright or terror. Their eyes were wide eyed, showing how scared they were. They were trembling and backing up against the stone wall.
"What's wrong with you guys" Chris laughed.
"I think I know what the legend is" Owen choked out.
"And it's come true" Leshawna added.
Heads up, the next chapter will have their first zombie encounter.
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