A/N: Whew, here is one of the pair of chapters I have been excited to do since Rapa Phooey II. I really hope you all like it as much as I did making it. I know I shouldn't put quantity over quality, but I can't help but measure each chapter's success by how many reviews I get from it (Still bummed by how the Caribbean part 2 chapter was received, really wanted to add some Scott Pilgrimesque into my story). Anyways enjoy :D
Chris "Last time on Total Drama Luxury Tour… our teams had one final conflict before dissolving. They had to retrieve World War One turrets from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. After bringing them up to their ships and fixing them up, they proceeded to blowing the holy hell out each other. Duncan and Gwen, who wanted to room in the luxury suite that is the Captain's ship, threw the challenge and ended up sending DJ home, ouch! Now that teams have merged, where will our contestants go this time? Find out here on Total… Drama… Luxury Tour!"
*cues theme music*
**Heather**
The only standing ship sails towards its next destination in the early night sky.
Heather was the one manning the ship for everyone. Suddenly she feels a cold hand touching her shoulder.
"Eek!" She spontaneously said in a panic.
"Heather, I didn't know I was that intimidating to you" Alejandro said with a smug grin.
"Oh… it's you…" Heather muttered with discontent.
"Who did you think it was?"
"No one, I just got startled because it was so dark out here"
"Well on a lighter note then, pun intended, I would like to ask you about Cody"
"W…what about him?" Heather asked uncomfortably.
"Like I said before, since Alaska, I have been watching everything that transpired and I could not help but notice how popular the nerdling was with you ladies…"
"…As always I have no idea what you are talking about…"
"Don't play dumb, I know Sierra likes Cody, I know Bridgette likes Cody, and I know someone else likes Cody…" Alejandro gave an inquiring smirk towards the queen bee.
"I don't need to have this talk with you" Heather said as she angrily stormed off.
**Cody**
Cody sneezed while sitting in his room.
"How am I gonna tell this to Gwen" the geek said to himself while trying to rehearse everything that pops up in his head.
C.C.
Cody "DJ wanted me to tell Gwen the cold hard truth about Duncan, but how can I?"
**Gwen and Duncan**
"I still feel bad for having to vote out DJ" Gwen confessed to Duncan.
"It's no big deal" the punk shrugged, "Sure he's out of the game, but it's not like we threw him to sharks or anything"
"I guess…"
"It'll be fine, let's just concentrate on offing the rest of the competition" The delinquent said while ending the conversation.
The ships eventually reached the dark port where their GPSs instructed them to go to.
"Where are we?" Gwen asked while stepping out of the ship with everyone.
"And where's Chris?" Tyler added.
Suddenly a chariot drives by the group. A ghoulish looking old man was the driver. He glares at them, following a gesture with his boney finger for them to hop into the horse pulled vehicle.
"Does he work for Chris?" Cody asked.
"Wouldn't surprise me" Heather responded.
The ten competitors nervously complied as the withered geezer whips the horses to pull the buggy towards their next destination. The horses pulled them for hours on end before they eventually are taken to a decrepit old castle. As the competitors step out, they are greeted by Chris who is dressed in a lab coat and Chef who is dressed as Frankenstein's monster.
"Welcome shipmates, to Bran Castle, Romania!" Their host announces, "History tells us that this place once housed Vlad III the Impaler, otherwise known as…"
"Count Dracula!" Gwen eagerly finishes for him. As if on cue, thunder crackled loudly, panicking everyone.
"Indeed, some say his vampiric corpse still walks amongst the living within these walls. For today's challenge, all of you will be hunting the undead bloodsucker relying only on mallets and stakes" Chris instructed.
"But nothing can stop a sparkling vampire!" Lindsay protested as the goth angrily glared at her.
C.C.
Gwen "She should have been eliminated on the spot for speaking about that trashy book"
Chris continued, "This challenge is fairly simple, to win invincibility, all you have to do is last til' daylight, alive. Either that, or slay the deadly vampire to ensure invincibility only for yourself, if you dare try"
"Oh please, Dracula is just a story" Heather scoffed.
"Hehe… that skeptic thinking won't do you any favors Heather" Chris chuckled, "Now, each of you must spend the night at the castle during your hunt. If, for whatever reason, something happens to you during your stay, consider yourself eliminated from the challenge. Now good luck, vampire hunters"
The teams hesitantly enter with their stakes and mallets into Bran Castle. As soon as the last competitor enters, the door slams shut and locks them all in.
"I… I don't think we'll be going anywhere, dudes!" Tyler nervously said as they find themselves in the dark interior of the decaying building.
"Buck up, Tyler!" Alejandro tells him, "We can do this! Whatever Chris has for us, we can overcome!"
"Guess we should split up, huh?" Duncan suggested.
"Fine by me" Heather said as she drags Cody away, "Come on Cody, let's bail on this bad company.
"I'm coming with you two!" Sierra tells the queen bee.
"Me too, I mean, it's scary in here!" Bridgette said nervously.
"Then go together, Cody is in MY alliance!" Heather sneered at the two.
"He owes me for treating me so poorly last season!" Courtney then cut in.
"Oh please, you had it coming!" The queen bee shot at the CIT.
"Girls, come on, let's ju…" Cody stopped midsentence while staring at the dark figure behind the group, "D…D… DRAAAAAAACULA!"
Everyone turns to see the large cloaked shadow hover above them. It was hardly visible to them, only a massive shadow with glowing red eyes and the size of a full grown man. Without warning, the shadow swoops down and snatches Bridgette. It covers her mouth as it quickly flies away with her down the castle corridors. Everyone was in awe after hearing the muffled screams of the surfer girl fade away.
"BRIDGETTE!" They all holler at once.
"What are we gonna do?" Sierra asks in a panic.
"Calm down, we just have to…" Heather's words were cut short as thunder roared outside, scaring everyone off and fleeing in different rooms of the castle. In their blind panic, everyone now finds themselves separated and lost within the old building.
**Tyler**
"Lindsay? Lindsay? Where are you Linds?" The jock nervously called for her in a cobweb filled hallway. He then hears some creaking on the floor a few feet behind him, "Lindsay?" He nervously turned to see the shadow man standing behind him.
"DRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACULA!" The jock said in a panic and begins running. However, the jock trips on a loose floorboard and is thrown out the castle window while screaming.
**Alejandro**
The Latin mastermind finds himself in the Dining room, he nervously clenches his mallet and stake looking for the vampire.
"That thing was certainly bigger than Ezekiel…" He said to himself, being reminded on the London incident.
Suddenly, Alejandro heard a creek in the floor. He turned around to see one of the dining chairs floating in the air. The wooden seat then hurls itself at the arch enemy. Alejandro, in a panicked sate, dodged it, only to see more and more chairs hover above him.
"Chris doesn't have the budget for this!" He said while fleeing from the oncoming chairs.
**Cody**
Cody, now lost on the second floor, finds himself in another dark hallway. As the geek navigates through the darkness, he feels a hand grabbing his shoulder.
"AHH!" Cody screamed in terror.
"Cody! It's me!" Gwen said, reassuring him.
"Oh, hehe… hey Gwen" The geek embarrassingly grinned at his gothic crush.
"By the way, Cody, I was wondering if you wanted to form an alliance with me and Duncan" Gwen proposed.
Cody nervously looked at her, reminded by what DJ told him back at the Mediterranean, "Gwen… I can't…"
"Why not? We can take out Alejandro and Courtney and eventually make it to the final three! I know you and him didn't always see eye to eye but I'm sure we can work something out!" the goth assured.
"…"
"Cody?"
"…"
"Is there something you want to let out?" Gwen asked.
"What the hell do you want me to say, Gwen?" Cody finally snapped at her, "That I will start to like him? That I will grit my teeth and deal with him for the rest of the game? That is too much for me!"
"But Cody…"
"Gwen, make no mistake, I am grateful you at least you think of me as a friend despite my feeling for you, but I HATE Duncan! Whatever you see in him, I cannot. To me he is a total jackass who makes off on the expense of others. He shows no remorse to the people he hurts and for you to tell me that I have to forcefully align and cope with my most hated adversary being with the girl I would take a bullet and then some for? No… that is too much to ask, even from you…"
Gwen sadly frowned at the geek, "Even "you" are against me being with him?"
"In the end it's your decision, but riddle me this, what do you like about him that doesn't involve shallow outer attraction?" Cody inquired.
"He and I share the same interests! We like the same movies, music, style…" Gwen defended in frustration.
"…do other interests include pulling pranks on others, bullying the weak, arson, and theft? What about all your other interests GWEN? What about your drawings? Have you once made a sketch since dating him? What about the environment? Have you once even mentioned it since going out with him? And what about the rest of your friends? From Courtney to DJ you always caved in to Duncan on giving everyone else the cold shoulder! I am not saying this just so you would go out with me! Because I know damn well that telling you this here and now probably blows all chances of future consideration. But I know for one thing that you were never like this when you were with Trent! I am telling you this because I bottled it inside me since Greece! DUNCAN IS WRONG FOR YOU!"
As if on cue, the delinquent walks behind Cody after speaking his words of wisdom, "You finished, yet?"
Cody defiantly stood his ground, "Yes." The geek then proceeded to walk the other way.
The delinquent turned to Gwen, "You okay?"
"Y…yeah, I'm fine…" Gwen responded uneasily.
"Well, looks like the kid won't be joining our alliance anytime soon, guess we'll need to try and win over Tyler, Lindsay, and Bridgette if she's still in one piece" Duncan informed.
"I guess so…"
"Let's split and search for them, I'll meet back with you later, pasty" The couple parted. Gwen shed one tear for alienating her last friend.
**Tyler**
Tyler recovers from the fall.
"Ugh… where am I? Wha…" The jock finds himself in a hedge maze.
He slowly walks down between the hedge walls looking for an exit but continues to find dead end after dead end. After a couple minutes of walking, he hears footsteps following his.
"Lindsay?" The jock asked again nervously as he looked behind him.
To the contrary, the figure behind him was none other the same shadow that took off with Bridgette.
"AHHHHHHHH!" Tyler screamed as he flees through the plant labyrinth. The jock runs for dear life as the shadowy figure takes chase. Tyler's athleticism proved to be pointless as he reached his final dead end, "N…nice… vampire?"
Showing no remorse, the shadow dives right at him.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
**Heather**
Heather was startled after hearing Tyler's scream from outside. She slowly backs away from the living room into another figure behind her.
"Ahh!" She yelped.
"Ahh!" Lindsay did as well.
"Oh, it's Lindsiot…" the queen bee said to her discontent.
"Hi, Hanna, scared of the vampire too?" Lindsay cheerfully asked.
"There are NO VAMPIRES! This is just one of Chris's stupid games!" Heather sneered.
Suddenly another figure enters the room. The two nervously look as the shadowed entity slowly approaches them. The two hold each other in fear until it revealed to be none other than Bridgette.
"Brenda, you're okay!" Lindsay happily said.
"What happened?" Heather asked the surfer girl.
"Nothing… come here you two… I have a surprise…" Bridgette said with a cruel grin as she was revealed to be much paler than usual.
"Bridgette?" Heather nervously said as she and Lindsay slowly back away.
"Don't be frightened… I only bite a little…" The surfer girl then hissed while revealing two sharp fangs peaking out of her mouth.
"VAMPIRE!" Heather and Lindsay both scream as they fled for dear life.
**Courtney**
The CIT walked into the castle kitchen.
"Cody? Alejandro? Anyone?" she called out while searching around the area.
Suddenly, a nearby pot starts boiling on its own. Courtney nervously approaches it and reaches the top that covered the pot. As the lid was removed, a hand is shout out and tries to grab her.
"Eeeeeeeek!" Courtney screamed, fleeing the vicinity.
**Sierra**
"Cody? Cooody? Where aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaare yoooooooooou?" Sierra beckoned for him to no avail, "Maybe I'll run into him after completing the challenge. Now if I was a vampire, where would I sleep? Maybe the cellar…"
The stalker walked downstairs into the basement to search for the ancient bloodsucker. She soon realized how dark it really was. She reached into her pocket for a flashlight. Just as she turned it on, she sees Tyler grinning at her.
"EEEK! Oh, hi Tyler!" Sierra said, while being startled.
"Hello Sierra…" The jock said deviously.
"Why are you talking in such a low tone?"
Tyler said nothing and slowly approaches her.
"Tyler?"
Sierra notices fangs pointing out of his mouth and slowly backs away from the altered jock. As she backtracked, she bumped into another shadowy figure. She nervously looked behind her and saw the dark shadow that once nabbed Bridgette. Without hesitation, it grabs her.
"!"
**Cody**
"Sierra?" Cody shouted in concern after hearing her scream from the castle library.
Another set of footsteps approach the geek minutes after.
"Gwen?" Cody asked the shadow.
"'Fraid not… twerp…" Duncan said slowly approaching him.
"What do you want?" Cody said angrily.
"You know I take exception to what you said about me earlier…"
"I stand by what I said" the geek said defiantly.
Duncan grinned and cracked his knuckles, "You'll be crawling by what you said in a minute…"
"You think this kind of stuff impresses Gwen?"
"Well she likes strong men, let alone men…" The delinquent sneered.
"Do you even care what you are doing to her?"
"What am I doing to her? Enlighten me!"
"YOU'RE CORRUPTING HER! YOU'RE MAKING EVERYONE TURN AGAINST HER!" Cody screamed at the punk.
"Deal with it, because she trusts my word more than she trusts yours… Now then, where were we, pipsqueak?" Duncan approaches Cody, ready to clash.
"Fine…" Cody said, not willing to back down.
"You won't get a cheap shot in this time…"
**Chris**
"Hello ratings!" the host happily responds as he watched the fight from his camera room, slash, laboratory alongside Franken-Chef, "If the vampires don't get you, the Duncans will… Who will make it out in one piece? Find out here on Total… Drama… Luxury Tour!"
Teams:
Competitors: Duncan, Gwen, Heather, Cody, Sierra, Bridgette, Courtney, Tyler, Lindsay, Alejandro
Peanut Gallery: Owen, Beth, Eva, Ezekiel, Harold, Noah, Trent, Geoff, Leshawna, Justin, Sadie, Katie, Izzy, DJ