Hey! I'm back! I'm happy that I got so many reviews so quickly! Either way, if you have ideas for future challenges and plots, please PM me! And remember! YOU get to decide who goes next! Here we go with the second episode!
(If you have already read this chapter, I just want to say that I made a couple mistakes when writing this. I have fixed said mistakes. Enjoy.)
"Last time on Total Drama: Pahkitew's Vengeance! We got see how the new cast builds their mighty castles, only to watch them come crashing down! Eduardo the EMO kid was sent packing as he preferred to just say "Whatever" instead of helping his team not get crushed. This season we came across some very super powered teens, like Micheal the Watch Bearer, who managed to completely obliterate the Extreme Eagles fortress in the Capture the Fort challenge!"
"Will he prove useful yet again in this weeks challenge? Or will he be able to drive everyone bananas?" Chris joked as a large gorilla wearing a red and silver collar suddenly appeared next to him, pounding his chest and roaring. Chris coolly pulled out a remote and clicked it, opening a trap door under the gorilla's feet and sending him into the lake below. "Camera hog" Chris joked, laughing at his own horrible comedy.
"Who will win? Who will live? Who will be shoved into the Torpedo of Shame next? Next, on Total! Drama! Pahkitew's Vengeance!"
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The sun slowly rose into the sky, shining its warm rays of light through the forest of Pahkitew Island. Birds sang their morning songs with cheer, one of them alighting onto the window sill of a certain tree house that sheltered 7 sleeping contestants. One such contestant blinked open her eyes and yawned, stretching her arms and cracking her back before climbing out of bed. Humming quietly to herself so as not to wake the others, she tip toed across the floor and grabbed an old towel from the sink, climbed down the rope ladder, and headed off into the woods.
Since Chris had been too cheap to buy anything useful for the season, the contestants had no choice but to shower and use the bathroom in the woods (though not necessarily in the same place). Zelda hummed a bit louder as she walked deeper into the forest, heading towards a small pool toward the Western part of island with a cool waterfall and stream that eddied into the surrounding lake. Little did she know that someone was following her, stalking their ways through the trees out of her line of sight.
Once she reached the small pond, barely avoiding Fang on the way there, she stripped off her sleep wear and waded into the water all the way up to the waterfall where the spray covered her naked form. She began to sing quietly to herself as she soaked her hair, completely unaware that a pair of blue eyes were watching her. The stalker crept silently through the brush, being extremely careful not to step on any stray twig, lest he give away his position.
Zelda was just about to get out of the pond when she heard a splash to her left. She cracked open an eye, expecting to see an animal of some sort, something like a duck or beaver, but saw nothing. She shrugged her shoulders and went back to her shower, oblivious to the figure moving beneath the surface of the pond toward her. A rippling noise met Zelda's ears and she looked around, once again finding nothing unusual. A couple minutes later Zelda was sure she heard another splash, accompanied by heavy breathing, as if the thing stalking her was a mere 2 feet away.
That was when she was noticed the blonde covered ball sitting on a pile or orange cloth.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Zelda screamed, covering her most private parts as Alan moved through the water towards, a sort of disturbing, hungry look in his eye. Zelda continued to scream, throwing water at him in the hopes that it would forestall him in coming closer. Alan merely moved under the water to avoid the barrage of water, causing Zelda to scream even more, tears already start to form in her eyes.
"Please! Just leave me alone!" she begged moving behind the waterfall.
Alan merely smiled wickedly and crept forward. "C'mon, Beauty. Let's see what you're hiding."
Zelda screamed even more picking up a nearby branch, fully prepared to smack Alan over the head with it and hopefully give him some brain trauma. She raised the branch up and was braced to hit over the head when he grabbed the stick and flung it back over her shoulder. Zelda was now all the way backed up against the rock face behind the waterfall, still covering her nether regions and breasts. Just when it looked like Alan was gonna get what he wanted, her a flash of red light, turning the water a crimson pinkish color. Alan completely ignored, he was so close to his quarry. Zelda however, knew what that familiar red flash meant.
"Any last words before we begin?" Alan growled, a creepy smile on his face.
"Yes; Say hello to a little friend of mine." she smiled evilly.
Alan raised an eyebrow in confusion, but shrugged it off. Just as he was about to ravish Zelda's body, he was suddenly yanked back through the waterfall, his screams echoing across the island. Zelda crept to the waterfall and peered through to see a 4.5 metric ton Stegosaurus standing up to its knees in the body. Its spiked tail was hooked on Alan's orange hoodie, and it was whipping him back and forth like a rag doll, smacking its tail – and Alan – on the ground, much to Zelda's sick pleasure. The Piece de Resistance was when the Stegosaurus gave a twirl of its tail and sent Alan flying clear across the island with ease. The dinosaur grunted with satisfaction as it watched Alan sailing through the air.
"That's gonna hurt on landing." Zelda laughed. The Stegosaurus bellowed its agreement, and a flash of light later, was gone. "You okay?" Micheal asked her, his back to her.
"Yeah, I'm okay." she told him.
"He didn't touch you anything?"
Zelda shook her head. "Nah. He was pretty close though, until you came in and kicked his butt."
"Good. If he comes back, just give a shout, okay?" Micheal said, an evil grin forming on his face.
Zelda blushed and waved him off before disappearing back behind the waterfall.
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"Man, that was close." Zelda sighed with relief. "Next time that little prick comes near me . . ." she trailed off. "Thank goodness for that Animatrix of Micheal's."
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"I'll admit, that felt good." Micheal smiled. "I've been meaning to have a word with that little moron the moment he set foot on the island. Next time he tries that, he's gonna wish he never met me."
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"Note to self," Alan moaned. "Do not get on Micheal and/or Zelda's bad side."
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"I can't believe we lost!" Maurananei yelled.
"Well, to be fair, they did use an elephant to beat us." Caroline coughed, her condition not any better than from a few days ago. Whenever she coughed or talked for that matter, it felt like her insides were going to come marching out on her tongue. "Yeah, but that should be illegal!" Maurananei aargued.
"We used flaming arrows, bazookas, mines, and pyrotechnics against them." Mitchell stated as he doodled with a stick in the dirt. "Using an elephant to destroy our house is just as fair."
Maurananei grumbled and folded her arms, admitting defeat. "What do you think the next challenge is?" she asked. Mitchell shrugged his shoulders and Caroline coughed. Trey sat up on a boulder, tuning his guitar. "I dunno, man. Probably something that's gonna kill us." Maurananei frowned. "As if that's any help at all."
"WOOOOAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
Maurananei glanced up to see a small, stuffed dummy wearing an orange hoodie and large glasses come flying through the air at a break neck pace. Upon closer inspection, it revealed to be Alan, his face a deep shade of purple and his arm twisted at an unnatural angle. Maurananei quickly jumped and stumbled around for a few seconds with her arms up before Alan crashed landed into her arms, knocking both of them to the dirt. "Thanks . . ." Alan moaned as he sat up on top of Maurananei, his hands unconsciously on her breasts.
"You have three seconds to get your grubby hands off of me before I send you flying back to wherever you just came." she growled, throwing an dark glare at Alan. The small boy quickly retreated and cowered behind a rock, having seen his life just flash before his eyes like a silent movie. Maurananei glared after him and picked herself up, dusting off dirt and leaves. "Where's Hade's Daughter?" Maurananei asked, looking around the dark, dank cave they called home. After their first structure had been destroyed, the Extreme Eagles had relocated to a nearby cave, most possibly used by the previous contestants of Pahkitew Island.
"I'm up here!" Mortisha's echoed through the cave, drawing everyone's eyes to the roof of the formation to see Mortisha hanging by her feet with her cloaked draped over her like a vampire. All around were hundreds upon thousands of bats, all chattering and squeaking away. How no one noticed them in the first place was anyone's guess. "How'd you get up there?" Trey asked her. Mortisha merely shrugged and jumped down to the floor of the cave with ease, landing on her hands and pushing up so that she did a flip before landing on her feet. "Ahhh, reminds me of the bat colonies beneath our house." she sighed as a couple bats flew by. Everyone else ducked as the winged animals flapped past them so close you could practically feel their fur.
"Just what kind of house do you live in?" Mitchell asked her. Mortisha shrugged and began to list off features of her home that included (but not limited too) a personal graveyard, a private swamp complete with quicksand, a dungeon in the basement that led to the sewers, and an assortment of unusal and dangerous pets. "You seriously own 11 venomous snakes?" Maurananei asked her. "And you routinely shoot your brother out of a cannon?"
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"Okay, I've seen some pretty big freaks in my life." Maurananei said. "But she is the biggest one of all! Well, except for Izzy. That girl is more than a few sandwiches shy of a picnic." she said, shivering at the thought of Izzy suddenly appearing.
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"Attention fresh meat!" Chris's voice yelled over the loud speakers. "Meet me at the beach in 10 minutes! Oh, and bring your bathing suits, too!"
"Great. On the bright side, we still have our luggage." Maurananei grumbled, moving toward the back of the cave to where a pile of suitcases and bags lay scattered about. She knelt down to open a dark green suitcase with three red claw marks painted on the front. She opened it up and pulled out a two piece, purple bikini and white flip flops, and walked out of the cave to change. She was soon joined by the other girls, and a quick death glare at Alan, they were all dressed and ready to get wet.
"Today's challenge is all about using all your other senses other than your eyes," Chris announced to the swimming wear clad teens. "Part 1 of the challenge is to find a key, using any other sense than your peepers! The key is hidden at the bottom of the lake, among several other keys that are completely useless. Each team will send in one player at a time, but each contestant must go in at least once. Once you have a key, climb back onto the dock and run over to the treasure chest over yonder," said the host with his trademark grin, pointing to a large treasure chest on top of one of the island's 1,000 ft tall cliffs. "When one team finds the right key, they will get a leg up in the next challenge!" Chris announced with excitement. "What's the catch?" Alex asked, suspicion all over his face. The same feeling was soon on all the other contestants faces. "What? Me add some unexpected and most likely deadly twist to the game?" Chris asked in mock hurt. The players glares only deepened. "Fine. Way to spoil the surprise," Chris whined. "To keep things interesting, we have brought back the classic nemesis's of the cast of Total Drama: the freshwater man-eating sharks!" Everyone moaned and complained.
WWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNNKKKKKKKK!
Everyone covered their ears as Chris used his air horn to silence them. "ZIP IT!" he roared. "Your challenge begins . . . . . NOW!" he announced, sounding off the air horn for a second time. Everyone quickly ran to the end of the dock, both Trey from the Extreme Eagles and Alex from the Rampaging Rhinos diving into the water to begin their search. "We got this one in the bag," Kiko smiled. "Alex is a surfer, and Micheal can just turn into a dolphin or something!" The Rhinos cheered, their victory assured. "Oh, yeah! I forgot to mention that I'm allowing Micheal only 3 transformations for the entire challenge!" Chris announced as he climbed up into a lifeguard chair to watch. The Rhinos groaned. Just then, Alex came up with a key shaped like a skull. He quickly ran off the docks and through the forest, skillfully avoiding several logs and rocks that appeared in his way, before running up the cliff, making it to the top 10 minutes later. "Who's next?" Kiko asked.
"How about Micheal?" Zelda suggested. "No!" Toni cried. "Even if he turns into an animal that can find the keys, we won't know if it's the right key!" Everyone's faces fell, and Anuok walked to the end of the dock and dove in, disappearing beneath the surface of the water. The silent girl swam through the murky water of the lake, swimming past schools of fish and cranky crabs that sat on the lake bottom. Several keys glinted in the sunlight that shone through the water, catching Anuok's eye. She quickly decided on a key and began to swim to the surface, low on oxygen. She was almost there when she saw something out of the corner of her vision. It was a shark!
Anuok screamed a silent yell and swam in the opposite direction hoping to ditch the shark in the process, but it was hopeless. No matter where she went, through caves, through seaweed, even through a sunken ship, the beast was still behind her and closing. Just when she thought she was going to pass out from lack of oxygen and become a shark's mid morning snack, there was a flash of light overhead and she felt something else enter the water. She was barely even thinking as she suddenly appeared on the surface, her skin pale as she gasped for breath. She blinked her eyes, forcing the water of them and looked around. On the shore was her team, cheering. Chris and the Extreme Eagles were just staring at something behind her, slack jawed. Anuok dared a peek behind her to see a 23 ton Spinosaurus behind her, its long jaws dipped in the water. Anuok didn't question the sudden appearance of the beast and quickly swam to shore, pulled herself up onto the dock, and began running to the chest.
"Yeah! Get em, Micheal!" Toni yelled as the Spinosaurus suddenly drew to its full height of 27 ft with the shark that tried to eat Anuok flopping around in its mouth. Spinosaurus gave a sudden movement of his head, and the shark slipped closer to going down his massive throat. "Noooo!" Chris yelled in desperation, jumping off his lifeguard chair and onto his knees, clasping his hands together tightly. "Please! Don't do it!" he begged. The dinosaur seem to consider the tiny human that was before him for a moment before it twisted its head to the side and back, letting the shark go from its mouth as it did. The carnivorous fish flew the air and off into the distance, safely out of the danger of being eaten. The Spinosaurus roared and stalked back onto the shore, every step it took shaking the island. Chris breathed a sigh of relief and climbed back into his lifeguard chair, trying to pretend that he hadn't just begged one of the contestants not to do something. Everyone else snickered as Micheal, still in Spinosaurus form, stalked back behind his team., covering all of them in his shadow.
"That's one transformation down!" Chris announced. "Choose your next one wisely!" The dinosaur glared at him and growled, sending shivers down Chris's spine. "Where do you even get dinosaur DNA?" Zelda asked Micheal. "The Dinosauria family went extinct 65 million years ago!" The Spinosaurus shrugged its large arms in a human like fashion. Zelda was about to ask more when Anuok came running out of the woods, with a ticked look on her face. Just as she slapped Micheal's ankle, signaling for his turn, Trey jumped out of the water and began running for the trees.
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"Other than having my own band, I'm also on the swim team," said Trey as he tuned his guitar. "Mostly because I can hold my breath for a long time. Guess I must have large lungs or something. Which would also explain my sonic yells, now that I think about it." the musician said as he put two and two together.
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With a tremendous splash that soaked everyone to the bone the Spinosaurus entered the water, its large sail stick up out of the water like a giant fin. The sail moved about for a few minutes for the the dinosaur resurfaced with a key between its lips. "Great," Kiko sighed. "How's he supposed to open the chest when he's the size of a train and doesn't have any thumbs?" "Chris, can one of us go with Micheal to help him open the chest?" Toni asked. "Hmmm. Let me think . . . . . NO!" Chris yelled with a wicked laugh afterward. Everyone glared at him, Micheal growling menacingly. "You know Chris, Micheal could just eat you if he wanted to. Chef wouldn't be able to do anything to stop him from doing so." Zelda said, an evil grin crossing her face. Chris's face paled silently, and he quickly sent Micheal on his way, with Zelda on his back.
The duo tromped through the forest at a fast pace before making their way up the cliff side, thankful that they didn't have to do it from the other side, with it's sheer 1001 ft drop. As they stomped up the hill, a loud BANG! went off to Micheal's right, and sudden wave of heat nearly sent them tumbling. "AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Zelda cried as Micheal swerved through the now numberous explosions on the hill.
"Let me guess . . . . you had some left over mines and you hate to waste some good pyrotechnics." said Kiko with a wicked smile on her face. "You know it!" Chris chuckled as Zelda's screams and Micheal's roars echoed across the island. As the rest of the Rhinos glanced nervously at each other, Trey came running back from the woods and slapped Maurananei's waiting hand. She quickly dove into the water and began to search for a key, using her hands mostly to try and find it. Quickly located one hooked around the bony finger of a skeleton wearing an intern's shirt and swam upward. A sudden movement to her left and she suddenly thrust her fist forward, socking the shark in the nose, stunning it for a few seconds. She quickly resurfaced and climbed onto the dock as a charred Micheal and Zelda returned to the dock. "Your turn, Kiko." Micheal coughed as his watch changed him back to his human form. Kiko rolled her eyes and planted her feet firmly on the dock. "I had to slog through a mosquito filled, gator crawling swamp stocked to the brim with slime last challenge!" she growled. "There is no way I'm diving head first into a leech filled, shark infested lake with the infamous Chris McClain as our lifeguard." Everyone glared at her. "You have got to be kidding me." Micheal said, pitching his brow. "I just ran up a 1001 ft tall cliff with Zelda on my back, through exploding mines layed out by a mad man, and you're telling me that you aren't diving into a simple hole filled with water!?" he roared. Kiko huffed and turned her back away from her team. 10 seconds later, Kiko found herself at the bottom of the lake, with Micheal, Alex and Reese dusting off their hands in satisfaction.
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"That was actually kind of theraputic," Toni sighed. "The girl's started to grind my nerves for a while now. Last night she 'accidentally' dropped a soda can full of fire ants into my bean bag chair in the Hangout of Awesomeness last night. Couldn't stop scratching my butt all night!"
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"Did I just seriously miss Kiko getting dunk in the drink!?" Maurananei pouted, until a smile crossed her face. She quickly got up and posed a sexy pose in front of the camera. "Do you like what you see Chefy Wefy? I could show you even more if you want . . ." she said, slowly untying the straps of her bikini. The camera quickly flashed out before Maurananei could take anything else off.
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Growling and cursing under her breath, Kiko dove beneath the lake and resurfaced a few seconds later with a key shaped like Chris's face. "Please tell me that the key with your ugly mug on it isn't the one we're looking for." said Kiko. Chris merely grinned, but the wild look in his eye and scary smile he gave said it all. Kiko shuddered and ran through the woods with the key in hand as Maurananei returned. "Kiko has the winning key!" Caroline cried.
"Who told you!?" Chris demanded. Everyone gave him a 'you can't be serious' look before all running after Kiko, the Eagles determined to steal the key and Rhinos determined to defend it. Micheal reached for his watch and was about to hit the activation button when Zelda's hand quickly snapped to Micheal's wrist. "We need to save up those transformations." she told his confused look. The duo quickly followed their team and tackled Maurananei to the ground just as she was about to grab Kiko's foot. "Get off of me, weaklings!" she hissed, pushing Micheal off of her, but not before he socked her in the jaw, a slight sign of remorse in his eyes. Maurananei however, didn't catch it and roared like a bear before pouncing on Micheal.
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Micheal sat on the confessional toilet, trying not to pass out from the wretched smell. "I don't like to punch girls," he said, sheepishly rubbing the back of his neck. "If it's a villianess trying to take over the world with giant robot monkeys, sure, I'll punch her lights out. Any other girl? No. Unless they really set me over the edge." Micheal said, thinking of such an incident.
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The rest of the group rushed past the brawling Zelda, Micheal, and Maurananei as Kiko began her run up the cliff, her cheeks flushed red. "And it looks like both teams are doing anything they possibly can to keep the other from reaching the top of the cliff! Anything's legal! Except death! Don't want to be responsible for anything not worth suing for." Chris chuckled nervously as he watched the teens beat the crap out of each other. Trey began to play another rock solo on his guitar, briefly drawing the Rhino's attention until a pressure point between his neck and ear was pressed by Anuok, slipping him into unconsciousness. Toni was soon kept busy by a flame throwing Mitchell, and Reese was literally thrown out of the battle by a giddy Mortisha, who seemed to love beating the tar out of him. The Rhinos cast pitied glances as they past him and Mortisha, with the later, force feeding him mushrooms freshly torn off of a pine tree. Alex was soon engaged in a slap fight with Alan as Anuok and Caroline squared off. Caroline tried to look frightening, but was soon sent into a retreat by a far more intimidating Anuok. Caroline screamed as Anuok ran after her, determination in her eye.
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"Yeah, pretty much anything physical I can't do," Caroline says. "Unless you count running, climbing, and lifting heavy animals. One time, I lifted a full grown horse over my head! Take that, Rodney!" she yells at the camera, referring to last season's 'ladies man'.
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"Attention, dorks of all shapes and sizes!" Chris yelled into his megaphone. "As much as I like to see you all suffer, and at the hands of each other no less, but Kiko has already won the challenge for the Rampaging Rhinos!" The Rhinos cheered as Kiko stood triumphantly on top of the treasure in her white bikini. The Eagles groaned and cursed, ending their separate battles and grouping together into their teams. "Meet in 15 minutes at the junk pile from last challenge." Chris instructed to them. "Wait!" Zelda cried, nursing a black eye from her battle with Maurananei. Micheal had received a bruised arm and several cuts in the scuffle, and Maurananei had walked away with only a bruise on her forehead.
"What's our prize!?" she ordered. Chris glared at her. "You'll find out in the next challenge. That is, if you're up for it." he told her, laughing manically at the end and drawing looks of worry and fear from the contestants.
"Tell me why we're still in our bathing suits!?" Maurananei whined. "Not that I'm complaining much." she added when she saw Chef, sending shivers down his spine. Chris sighed and continued on. "Anyway, your next challenge is to hunt for the most dangerous, most elusive, more freakish animal known to man!" Chris said with hatred in his eyes. "His name? Ezekiel!" Everyone gasped. "Didn't get blown up with the island in season 5?" Kiko demanded. "Sadly, he didn't." Chris growled. "Instead, he somehow ended up here and has been stalking me ever since last season. You lucky teens get to go out into the woods with nothing but your bathing suits, and hunt him down!" Everyone immediately began to whine and complain until Chris blew his air horn for the 3rd time. "Zip it! Now, since the Rhinos won the last challenge, they get these nifty, automatic loading blasters filled with tranquilizer darts!" Chef tossed the Rhinos their weapons, Reese collapsing under the weight of his until Anuok took it for him with ease, earning a sigh from Reese. "The Eagles get these teeny tiny blasters from which they can only fire one dart at a time." The eagles groaned as they were tossed their weapons. "The last we saw of Zeke the Freak, he hiding somewhere in the woods," Chris said. "Be careful when you go in there, as the inhabitants might not want you there. Oh, and Chef placed about a bazillion booby traps to try and catch Zeke." The teams groaned once more before Chris blasted his air horn. "Man! Do I love this thing! Your challenge begins as soon as I fly to a safe distance away from this island. GO!" Chris yelled as he climbed into his personal helicopter manned by Chef. The craft flew up to a thousand feet above the island before Chris blasted the air horn through his megaphone.
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"First chance I get, that air horn is going bye bye." Kiko growled.
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"Eagles! This way!" Maurananei commanded as she clipped her blaster to a small belt around her waist. "And try to avoid any traps!" The Eagles went for a solid 10 minutes before they had to stop and rescue Alan from a snare trap that pulled him up a dozen feet and left him hanging there. One could almost here Chef and Chris laughing. Maurananei growled and gave the tree Alan was strung up in a solid punch before Alan came crashing down, moaning his thanks into a pile of wet leaves. As Mortisha and Trey helped him up, a small bluebird landed on Caroline's shoulder and began to sing its sweet song. Caroline smiled. "What's that? You've seen Ezekiel?"
The bird tweeted before flying off. Caroline smiled again as Maurananei starred at her flabbergasted. "Can you seriously talk to animals?" she asked the small girl. Caroline nodded with a broad smile on her face. "Mr. Sweetywings said that Ezekiel was over by the beaver dam, bullying the poor beavers."
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"Am I seriously the only one who doesn't have super powers around here!?" Maurananei howled angrily. "There's Mitchell the Living Barbecue, Micheal the One Man Zoo, Trey the Sound Barrier Breaking Rockstar, and now Caroline the Female Dr. Doolittle!"
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"C'mon, Micheal! Turn into a dog or something! Maybe you can pick up Zeke's scent!" Kiko coaxed the watch wearing teen. Micheal shook his head. "I've only got 2 more transformations left. We need to save those up. And I seriously do not want to smell Zeke. When was the last time you think he took a bath?" he said, sending shivers down everyone's spine. "Point taken." Kiko agreed, not pushing the matter any further. However, one could almost see the envy in her eyes as she eyed the powerful device that resided on Micheal's wrist.
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"I've got to get my hands on that watch," Kiko said, pounding her fist in her hand for emphasis. "Fortunately, I know a little pink genius who owes me a favor. Micheal will never suspect a thing." she said with a devilish look in her eye.
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"Something about Kiko bothers me," stated Toni. "The way she's been eying everyone like their plump gazelles for the taking. Trust me. I would know." she said as her eyes suddenly became golden colored and cat like. In the length of a second, their back to their hazel color, making you think you might have been imagining it, as if it were never there.
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"What does this Ezekiel look like anyway?" Reese asked Anuok. She quickly pulled out her notepad and began to furiously draw on it as the others looked over her shoulder. "Wait, Anuok. He had less hair on his head, and sharper claws." Alex noted. Anuok nodded her head and added the features to her drawing before showing Reese the picture. And what he saw frightened him.
It was a drawing of a boy of medium height with sickish, pale skin. He had only a few strands of wiry, greasy hair left on his head, and he sat on his haunches with his hands on the ground, like a front pair of legs. He was still dressed in his jeans and sweatshirt, which were ripped and covered in stains from who knows what. His bare feet and hands were deformed and had razor sharp claws at the ends. His teeth were sharper, and bits of toxic saliva that ate away at the ground beneath his feet dripped from his mouth, with a wild and crazed look in his eyes. Reese screamed and dived behind a bush. "Chicken." Kiko said as she pulled him out. He was soon back on his feet and reaching for his blaster when he saw a pair of eyes watching him, yellow and catlike in appearance.
"RUN!" Reese yelled as Ezekiel jumped out from his hiding place in a oak tree. Everyone panicked and ran in the opposite direction as Ezekiel chased after them, snarling. It was only after he had chased them into a dark cave did they remember that they were supposed to be chasing him."Get him!" Kiko commanded, leveling her blaster at Ezekiel. The mutant teen paused and sniffed them curiously before jumping out of the way as a dart was suddenly shot at him. The dart embedded itself into a tree as Ezekiel jumped into the treetops and disappeared in a shower of leaves. "Alex!" everyone yelled angrily. "Sorry." he apologized, lowering his blaster. Everyone threw a glare at him as they left the cave and wandered through the forest again, forming a tight ring with Reese in the middle, Anuok, Alex, and Kiko pointed toward the front, and Zelda, Micheal, and Toni at the back. "Why am I in the middle?" Reese whined.
"Because you can't carry your blaster and Ezekiel scares the crap out of you." Toni answered.
"Fair point. Continue being my human shield." Reese squeaked, ducking down into the middle of the crowd. "Wait. Human shield!?" Kiko exclaimed. "Nah-ah. No way. If anyone's going to be shielded, it's gonna be me!" Kiko yelled, pulling Reese from the middle and shoving him into his spot. "Hey what are you – " Reese said just before a heavy bag of sand fell from the sky and landed onto Kiko's head. "Ow . . . . ." she groaned.
"Thank you, Karma." Reese said, folding his hands together.
"You said he was here. Why is he not here!?" Maurananei roared at Caroline. Caroline was cowering on the ground as Maurananei yelled at her. The others were searching around the area for signs of their quarry; tracks, saliva, trampled brush, etc. "Maybe I could ask the beavers?" Caroline squeaked. Maurananei glared at her before stiffly nodding. Caroline breathed a sigh of relief and dove into the river, swimming toward the beaver lodge, silently thanking Chris for forcing her to stay in her yellow one piece. She was gone for a few minutes before she came back and crawled up onto the bank.
"Well?"
"They said he was heading toward the Northern end of the island last they saw of him." Caroline coughed. "They also asked us to kick his butt."
"With pleasure." Maurananei grinned evilly, cracking her knuckles. She ran off into the woods northwards, leaving her team behind. "Should we, uh, follow her?" Mortisha asked, pointing her blaster after Maurananei. The team thought it over before heading in the opposite direction, leaving Maurananei to chase the beaver's theory alone. The group of 6 teens stalked through the forest, flinching at every leaf and twig that snapped. They knew exactly how dangerous Ezekiel was. They had all seen the 100th episode that had taken place on Wawanakwa. And while they had all enjoyed watching Chris being dangled over a pot of boiling toxic waste, it didn't make it any less terrifying. The group would stop every now and then so Caroline could ask directions from unfortunate animals that had encountered Ezekiel.
There he is!" Alan yelled, pointing to a small lump that moved behind a bush, snarling and hissing. Before anyone could do anything, he lowered his small water gun like blaster and shot three darts at the lump, each containing enough tranquilizer to fell a beagle. Each struck with aimed precision, and Alan gave a small victory dance. Unfortunately, it wasn't Ezekiel. "SASQUATCHANAKWA!" Trey screeched, belting out on his guitar. The attack had no affect on the large ape man however, and the Extreme Eagles were forced to flee as Sasquatchanakwa them through the woods, roaring and pounding his chest like a gorilla. "Why does this keep happening to us!?" Caroline cried.
Meanwhile, Maurananei had encountered Ezekiel, and was currently chasing him through the woods while dodging what she hoped to god was mud. The little freak was hurling the wet globs at her with precision aim, hitting her everywhere. Soon we covered in a thick, brown layer of the stuff. "When I get my hands on you, you little monster, I swear I'm gonna wring your scrawny neck!" she roared. Ezekiel merely laughed at her from the safety of the trees, throwing another ball of the sludge at her. "RAAAAGGH!" she roared as she began to climb the tree Ezekiel was in. "That's it! No more Mrs. Nice Girl!" she roared as she clambered onto the limb Ezekiel was on. The little mutant jumped from the branch to the next of another tree just as three darts hit the tree where he had been seconds before.
"Do we have to carry her with us?" Toni growled. "Her snoring is driving me crazy!"
"And she's drooling!" Alex added.
Kiko, unfortunately, hadn't woken up from her accident earlier and was still as of late, out cold. So both Toni and Micheal had to pitch in to carry her, with Micheal holding her feet up, and Toni carrying her shoulders. "I mean, sure she's a grown woman and all, but she ways a ton!" Toni hissed. "Lets just hope we don't get into anymore traps again." Micheal grunted.
"Well, if you used that watch of yours . . . ." Toni trailed off. Micheal sighed and gave in. They weren't making any progress with Kiko out of the game. And who knows? Whatever the watch might give, might actually help them in their hunt for Zeke the Freak. The duo propped Kiko's body up on a stump to allow Micheal to access his watch. Seconds later, a red flash engulfed him and a large creature stepped out. The being was at least 12 ft tall and was covered in tough, red skin. 4, large, muscled arms hung down from his hard-as-rock sides as he stood on two powerful legs. He wore black shorts similar to Micheal's black swim trunks and a white and red shirt similar to the one Micheal had been wearing before his transformation. Four golden eyes sat on the front of his noseless face as a large, short beard and mustache covered his lower jaw. "That's new." Zelda commented as everyone starred at him in shock.
"Yes!" the large alien cheered. "I love this guy!"
"Can he carry Kiko?" Toni asked. The alien nodded and hefted the woman over his shoulder with ease. He picked up his blaster and strapped his over his back. "Can you also carry my blaster?" Reese wheezed. Micheal nodded his head and picked up the weapon in his hand and loaded it, ready to shoot at a moments notice. "Yes! With this hulking mass of muscles and bones, we have a much more substantial chance of catching Ezekiel sooner than the Eagles will!" Zelda shouted. The others cheered and grabbed their weapons. Anuok scribbled something on her notepad and handed it to Reese to read. "Anuok wants to know if you can do anything else to help us." he said to Micheal. The large alien thought over for a moment before snapping his fingers. "Oh, yeah! Nisilaha are awesome trackers, some of the best hunters in the galaxy!" he exclaimed. He quickly got down to his knees before sniffing the ground and pointing East. "That way. I can smell the little vermin from a mile away."
The team ran in the direction that Micheal had indicated, Micheal running ahead to make sure they were still on the trail, more than once "accidentally" hitting Kiko's head against a tree branch. He was sure she was going to wake up with one killer headache. If she woke up. "Do you hear something?" Alex stopped, the rest of the group stopping as well. "It sounds like someone screaming . . . ." Zelda said just as the Extreme Eagles came running out of a stand of trees as if their butts were on fire. Both teams collided and fell to the ground. "What is wrong with you guys? Can't you see where you're going!?" Toni yelled as she rubbed her sore head. Kiko had gone flying from Micheal's grasp and landed in a tree upside, still asleep.
"Running . . . . . Sasquatchanakwa . . . ." Caroline said.
"What's a Sasquatchanakwa?" Micheal asked as he stood up and strapped both of his blasters back onto his back. His question was soon answered when the giant ape came crashing through the forest with a log raised over its head, ready to swat the pesky contestants like the flies they were. "Quick! Everyone behind me!" Micheal yelled. No questioned as they all crowded behind the Nisilaha. The Sasquatchanakwa raised its log a little higher before swinging down, expecting to hit the strange being before him on the head and watch it fall to the ground. Before he could make contact, Micheal grabbed the log in one hand and ripped it out of the ape's grasp as he punched it in the face, sending it flying back into a tree. He yelled a battle cry and charged at it, all 4 arms raised up and clenched into fists. The Sasquatchanakwa growled and butted its head into Micheal's gut, stopping him cold as he knocked the air out of him.
The yeti roared and tackled the Nisilaha to the ground as both were prepared to fight a battle to the death. "Go!" Micheal yelled to his team. "I'll catch up once I'm done with Banana Breath here!" The Rhinos quickly ran off while the Eagles sat there, stunned.
"Come here, you little monster!" Maurananei yelled as she jumped from branch to branch, copying Ezekiel's game. She had been chasing the little hooligan for what felt like hours upon hours, but were at the most only adding up to a half hour. As much as Maurananei hated to admit it, Ezekiel was beginning to impress her. He had alluded Chris and Chef's grasp for more than 6 seasons. And while he had been captured twice in season 3, he just kept on coming back for more, in the famed words of Chris McClain, "like a one man cockroach infestation". That meant she was going to have to use every trick she had picked up while she was on the streets.
Suddenly, the branch broke beneath her! Screaming, she plunged to the forest floor and landed on a wet pile of leaves. She groaned and began to pick herself up when the ground beneath gave out, plunging her once more to her doom. She landed a few seconds later at the bottom of a pit, filled with the wet leaves from above and sharp very uncomfortable rocks. She glanced around her and noticed several sharpened stakes in the ground, ready to skewer anything that fell in. "Good thing I missed those." she said quietly to herself.
"Really? Stakes at the bottom of a pit trap?" Chris asked Chef. "Isn't that just a lawsuit waiting to happen?" Chef shrugged his shoulders before both of them burst into laughter. "CHRIS! Get me outta here!" she bellowed, pounding on the walls of the pit with enough force to send rocks and dirt falling down. If Chris heard (or cared) he didn't show it. Maurananei stopped hitting the walls to study the pit for a minute. The pit was at least 10 ft deep, more than twice her height. There was nothing in the pit she could use to get back up; the stakes were too old and rotten to support her weight if she used them, and there was nothing else long enough to reach the top. "Hello?" she called out. "Anybody? Caroline? Trey? Mitchell? Chef? Mortisha? I'll even take someone from the Rhinos!" No one answered as she sighed and curled up on the bottom of the pit, little hope left. "Guess I'll just wait here until they come find me." she said to herself.
"Do you (pant) really think we (pant) should of (pant) left Micheal back there?" Reese wheezed as the team ran along. They had been running nonstop for what seemed to be an hour at the most, putting as much distance as they could between them and the angry Sasquatchanakwa. "I think (pant) Micheal will be (pant) fine." Toni gasped. "Lets rest for a minute." As soon as she said that, the team collasped to the ground, too exhausted to go any further.
"Agh!" Reese cried out after a few minutes. "I think I sat on poison ivy! Oh, why did Chris make us stay in our bathing suits!" he cried, scratching his bare skin raw. While everyone watched in pity as Reese used a pine cone to scratch his armpits, Anuok quietly began her climb up into a tree and crawled out onto a thick limb before assuming the lotus position. She closed her eyes, and breathed calmly, pushing out the noise of her team mates below. Her mind began to clear and she could see an image forming in her mind. It was of a large, red behemoth dusting of his hands in satisfaction before walking into the woods, in the direction she and her team had ran.
She breathed a sigh of relief. So he's okay, she thought. Good. If my predictions are correct, we'll need him at a later date. She pushed past the picture and looked deeper in her mind and saw a picture of Fang, the Laser Eye Starfish, and several other species of marine life all laughing and pointing at something, a loud wailing being heard over their laughter. Anuok smiled and pushed the image aside to look even deeper into the future. What she saw next shocked her. Down at the bottom of deep, dark, pit was Maurananei curled up into a ball as the light faded overhead and the moon and stars came out. She peered closer, and saw thin streams of tears coming from her eyes, flowing over her scar. On the pit wall next to her were 5 tally marks, signaling how long she had been there. Anuok gasped and her eyes flashed open, causing her to lose her balance and fall out of the tree and into the arms of an approaching Micheal. She landed with a dull THWACK! and blinked her eyes for a second before shaking her head. Micheal set her on the ground as she quickly made a series of rapid hand gestures.
"Does anybody understand that?" Alex asked. Zelda moved forward and asked Anuok to repeat what she was trying to say once more. "Anuok says that we have to go rescue Maurananei. She's trapped at the bottom of a deep pit and there isn't anyway out." she translated for the silent girl. Anuok gave a thumbs up to confirm what she had said to be true. "Why should we help her?" Toni asked. "She's an Eagle, for crying out loud!" Most of the team nodded their heads in agreement. "But should we really leave her to suffer? Anuok said she was trapped down there for 5 days." Zelda argued. The team shifted uncomfortably. Zelda sighed. "Fine. We split up; a few of us go rescue Maurananei, and the others go hunt down Ezekiel, okay?" The team agreed quickly and split up, with Micheal, Toni, Alex, and Reese going off to find Ezekiel. Anuok, Zelda, and a still unconscious Kiko would go after Maurananei. "So, where exactly do we go to find her?" Zelda asked the mute girl.
Anuok paused and closed her eyes for a few seconds before pointing off towards the North. Zelda and Anuok each quickly grabbed one of Kiko's legs and pulled her along like a sled through wet leaves, mud, and much more . . . . . disgusting . . . . . things. "She is gonna be sooooooo mad when she wakes up." Zelda giggled. Anuok smiled.
"Hello?" Maurananei called weakly for the hundredth time. "Anybody there?" She sighed after minutes of silence and lay down on the ground to rest. It was all she could do ever since she fallen down into the pit trap who-knows-how-long ago. "Maybe splitting off from my team wasn't such a good idea after all." she said quietly. "They're probably having the time of their lives without me around to scare the crap out of them."
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"I have a . . . . hard time making friends," Maurananei sighed. "I guess my criminal nature doesn't exactly make me the friendly type."
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"Splitting up was probably the worst thing our team could have done." Caroline said. "Not only did we manage to anger a Sasquatchanakwa, but we aren't any closer to finding Zeke, and the animals – sweet and helpful as they are – aren't very good at directions. Oh, I wish Maurananei was still here. I owe her from helping last challenge." said Caroline, remembering how weak and helpless she felt. At least the other team was nice enough to drop her off with her own team after they destroyed their shelter. "Oh, Maurananei! Where are you!?"
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Minutes after Maurananei had dozed off she heard a scuffling sound overhead and shot straight up. "Hello? Hello? Can anybody here me!? Please, help!" she yelled, waving her arms around. A figure appeared at the lip of the pit, and a dripping sound started to echo off the walls. "Wait, is that . . . . ?" she started but was interrupted by a savage snarl. "Ezekiel!" she yelled. The little mutant was the last person she want to see, but at the moment she was kind of desperate. "Look, I don't like you, and you don't like me, but you have to get me out of here!" she begged, dropping down to her hands and knees.
Ezekiel cocked and eyebrow and grunted in confusion.
"I'll do anything!" Maurananei cried. Ezekiel smiled and his eyes narrowed as he eyed her.
"Does that mean you'll help?" she asked, to which he nodded. "Great! Get me out of here, and I'll do whatever you want!"
Ezekiel held up a claw and twitched it back and forth. "No? What do you mean, no?" Maurananei roared. Ezekiel smiled playfully, showing his rows of teeth, before puckering his lips. Maurananei shivered at the thought of what he was suggesting.
"Fine. I'll kiss you." she stuttered. "But only as soon as you get me up to the edge! I give you a 5 seconds head start, and then your butt is mine!" Ezekiel snarled, signaling his agreement. He disappeared for a moment before returning with a dead pine tree in his jaws. The needles were long gone, and what remained was a maze of sharp sticks and branches that acted like a ladder. Ezekiel threw the tree down into the pit trunk first, and Maurananei began to climb, cursing as she was scratched by the sharp branches, until she made it to the top. Ezekiel sat in her way, and Maurananei knew she was going to have to go for her. She closed her eyes and puckered her lips, forcing herself to inch forward until she felt greasy, dirt covered skin. Maurananei immediately recoiled, spitting. She jumped over Ezekiel and ran towards the nearest river to wash her mouth out as the little hooligan roared and beat his chest like a gorilla in triumph, running after her like a wild beast.
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"Kissing him was the most revolting, disgusting, most hideous thing I have ever done! Worse than that time I was dared to lick a toilet seat!" Maurananei cried, spitting onto the confessional floor. "And the worst part is, my Chefy Wefy won't trust me again! I kissed another man behind his back!" she cried, tears streaming from her face. "No! Get it together, Maura!" she said to herself. "You'll just have to win Chef back!"
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"I can't believe she kissed him!" Micheal, in his Nisilaha form, bellowed. "I'm not one to use manipulation, or anything, but if someone was looking for something to use against Maurananei, that would be it.
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"Yeah, I saw Maurananei kiss the little freak," Alan admitted. "I ended up going in the wrong direction during the Sasquatchanakwa chase and saw the whole thing unfold." Suddenly, a thought occurred to him. "Maybe I can use this to my advantage." he said, rubbing his hands together manically.
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"Wow. That was unexpected." Zelda noted as she saw the whole scene unfold before them. "Guess we don't have to rescue her after all." A moan caught their attention, and they turned to see Kiko's still form move. She blinked open her eyes and rubbed her head, which felt like it had taken the place of a drum at a rock concert. "Oh, my aching head," she moaned, standing up on wobbly legs. "What happened?"
"You received a server blow to your cranium that sent you into temporal cognitive state." Zelda explained, receiving an odd look from Kiko. "You got hit on the head by a bag of sand." Zelda explained with a heavy sigh. Kiko nodded her head. "How are we doing on the hunt for Zeke?" she asked, hoping against hope that her team had gotten somewhere. "Unfortunately, we haven't had much luck. We found Ezekiel once, but Alex scared him off before we could fire." Zelda told the woman. She gritted her teeth, resisting the urge to punch Zelda in the face, even though she had nothing to do with it. "He is so getting shot out of that submarine." Kiko growled as she walked into the woods. Zelda and Anuok ran to catch up with her, their blasters ready to fire. "You never know. Nobody's exactly happy for you being MIA for half the challenge." Kiko's eyes widened in worry before blinking back to normal. "We'll see about that." she said under her breath.
"Did we really have to watch the fight?" Caroline asked.
"Duh! Of course we did!" Trey exclaimed. "Too bad we didn't bring any popcorn."
"Too bad that Sasquatchanakwa stole your guitar when you weren't looking." Mortisha giggled as she remembered the surprised look on his face when the yeti snatched the instrument from his grasp and fled into the forest before Micheal could do anything else to him.
"Don't remind me!"
"All I can say is, that Sasquatchanakwa's gonna need a lot of sunscreen." Mitchell laughed.
"I know! I always knew they were hairy, but I didn't think they had that much hair on them!" Mortisha smiled. She was finally making friends with her team mates, barely containing her excitement.
"Had being the key word." said Mitchell drawing laughs out of everyone except Caroline. The small girl was laughing along nervously, trying to sound like she had enjoyed watching the fight.
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"I don't like to fight." Caroline sighed. "There I said. Go ahead and laugh at me. It's just, I can't stand the thought of two innocent creatures fighting each other for no reason." She sighed again. "I mean I know Micheal did his best to try and not hurt the poor Sasquatchanakwa too much, but why does Chris love violence so much!?"
"BECAUSE IT'S FUN TO WATCH!" Chris's voice rang out from the speakers. Caroline sighed again. "There really is a lot of sighing on this show, isn't there?"
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"Look, I know maybe shaving the guy was a bit much." Micheal admitted, his 12 ft frame barely fitting in the outhouse confessional. "But it was the least damaging thing I could think of! I only did that for Caroline's fragile mental state. Girl needs some friends, and if she's ready, then I'm willing to listen to her troubles and then punch them in the face! Anybody who loves animals as much as she does is okay in my book."
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Suddenly, something dropped out of the trees and landed on the ground with a sickening THUD! Everyone quickly loaded their small guns and aimed it at the figure, waiting for it to move. "Is it Ezekiel?" Mortisha asked. "Nah, it's too wimpy to be him." replied Mitchell. "That, and it's wearing a pair of red swim trunks." The figure groaned and raised a shaky hand to help itself up. "Alan? What were you doing up in that tree?" Mortisha asked the dizzy boy. Alan gave a quick shake of his head to clear his thoughts (and vision) before answering. "I, um, got separated in the, uh, Sasquatchanakwa attack. Ran up a tree for safety and fell out when I heard your voices."
Everyone seemed to buy the story and proceeded onward without question until they came across another shape in the middle of a clearing. The figure was hunched over a small, unidentifiable pile as it snarled and slobbered to itself, as if it were talking. "Sssssshhh." Mitchell signaled, drawing his blaster nice and slow. The others copied his movements, waiting until the signal. "How many darts do we have left?" Mitchell hissed so the figure wouldn't hear.
"One." "One."
"Uno." "Eins."
"Great. Just perfect." Mitchell grumbled. "Make every shot count, okay?" Everyone nodded their heads and as one stalked closer to their quarry, their fingers ready to snap back on the trigger. The figure didn't pay them any attention and continued concentrating on his small pile. "What is he even doing?" Trey whispered as they got within a couple yards of the beast. The thing's ears perked up and it quickly spun around to face them, growling like a dog. It was holding something between its teeth, and guarding something at its feet. "Is that what I think it is?" Caroline asked with a trembling lip, pointing toward the remains in his teeth.
"Yep." Mitchell said sadly. "It's exactly what you think it is."
"What's left of Maurananei; nothing but her flip flops and bikini." Mortisha said sadly. "If only I could have gotten in on some of the fun, the lucky girl." Everyone exchanged glances before leveling their guns at Maurananei's murderer.
"FOR MAURANANEI!" Mitchell roared. Everyone fired their darts at once before throwing their guns aside and throwing themselves at Ezekiel before he had anytime to react. A cloud of dust and dirt was picked in the scuffle as the contestants all punched, slapped, clawed, and beat Ezekiel to a pulp, while also trying to defend themselves from his blows. Mitchell quickly lit his fist ablaze and socked Ezekiel in the gut as Caroline pulled at the remains of Ezekiel's hair. He screeched in pain as he clawed Mortisha's arm, creating four thin, red lines against her pale, white skin. Mortisha responded by biting him in two places (recoiling at the taste of Zeke in her mouth) and poked him in the eyes with her fingers. Ezekiel howled in pain and dodged a weak punch thrown by Alan before ramming him in the stomach, sending him out of the fight.
"He's getting weaker!" Trey cried, noticing a dart that stuck out from Ezekiel's back and another that sprouted from his thigh. Trey reached over his shoulder to grab his guitar, only to grasp nothing. "Right. Sasquatchanakwa took it." he said to himself just before Ezekiel kicked him in the face. The little mutant was gaining the upper hand as he grabbed Mortisha and threw her into a tree, much to her delight. Mitchell set his other fist on fire and stabbed it forward, aiming for Ezekiel's head, but the boy dodged and rolled all his attacks. He rolled like a ball as Mitchell fired another ball of flame after him and stopped as he grasped a tree branch. Mitchell fired another ball of fire, and Ezekiel swung his branch like a baseball bat, sending it back to Mitchell.
Mitchell's eyes widened just before the ball of flame smacked him square between the eyes, sending him spiraling to the ground like an airplane shot out of the sky. Ezekiel then turned to Caroline and smiled viciously. He knew that the fight was over. The trembling, quaking girl before him couldn't do him any harm. She couldn't defeat him, beat him, lock him in a cage like Chef had done (after several dozen tries that is). She was completely helpless, unable to even defend herself if so chose to attack her. "You . . . . nothin' . . . . . can . . . . . do." he snarled, barely forming human words with his deformed lips. Caroline gasped and fell back as Ezekiel roared and pounced at her, only to be knocked aside by a large stone that had hit him in the shoulder.
"Come on, Caroline!" Maurananei cheered from behind a thick bush, her head peeking over the edge. "Get him while he's dazed!" Caroline looked over at Maurananei in shock before something clicked in her head. She got up from the ground and stalked over to Ezekiel, who held his throbbing shoulder. She glared at him, pure hatred in her eyes that wasn't there before. "Never pick on my friends." she hissed like a snake before drawing her fist and socking Ezekiel in the face, an audible snapping being heard as his nose broken in two. Ezekiel sunk to the ground and didn't move as Caroline yelled in triumph.
"And the Eagles win the hunt for Zeke the Freak!" Chris yelled above the roar of the helicopter. Collective groans of disappointment and anger could be heard as the Rhino regrouped at their tree house to change back into their normal clothes. "The Rhinos will be sending one sorry competitor home tonight! Torpedo needs num-num!" Chris yelled. "And it was no thanks to Kiko!" Chris caught something out of the corner of his eye and turned to see a glob of something white smear itself all over the helicopter windshield. The chopper shuddered as Chef began to fumble with the controls. It shuddered and jolted as something else hit it. Chris yelled as it went down through the air, the engine smoking. With a loud CRASH! the helicopter smashed into the beach below.
"What hit us?" Chris asked as he crawled out of the wreckage. Chef shrugged and removed a piece of wreckage that was trapping him. "Oh, well. At least my gorgeous face is still alright!"
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"Noooooo!" Chris wailed as another glob of the white stuff hit him in the head, ruining his perfect hair and facial features before the camera. "Wait, is this mashed potatoes!?" Chris yelled as he tasted the stuff. He quickly noticed that the entire water front was filled with starring fish, sharks, dolphins, octopuses, and Fang all laughing and pointing at Chris's misery. "Stop it! Stop laughing!" Chris screamed, running back into the woods, drawing the attention of the birds, squirrels, and other wildife as he ran by, screaming.
"Thanks for the prediction, Anuok." Micheal said, dusting off all 4 of his hands. "I have to admit that was pleasing." Anuok smiled as she, Micheal, and Zelda climbed down from the tree they had perched in. Anuok, having returned with Kiko and Zelda, wrote Micheal a note telling her of her prediction, asking if he wanted it to make it "come true." Micheal had agreed without hesitation, and had brought Zelda to help predict the amount of force, trajectory, and angle to throw the massive magnitude of mashed potatoes they had stolen from Chef's kitchen. The end result was very satisfying. "Anyway, who do we vote off tonight?" Micheal asked as he and the girls strolled back to the tree house. Anuok shrugged her shoulders while Zelda thought it out. "Perhaps we should obviate Kiko? She refused to jump into the lake and was asleep for a quarter of the challenge." Anuok once again shrugged her shoulders, unsure whether or not they should do away with Kiko. "I dunno. At least Kiko helped us before she got conked on the noggin. Alex wasn't exactly useful." Micheal said.
It was something to ponder.
"Alan, if I catch you looking at me, I swear I'll break you in two!" Maurananei threatened from behind another bush. Alan squeaked and to the base of a tree and began to climbing up, out of reach of Maurananei's deadly gaze. After Caroline had beaten the crud out of Ezekiel, the boy's had to walk back with their hands over their eyes as Maurananei had, unfortunately, been stripped of her bathing suit by a certain little, mutant hooligan who was currently residing in an iron bar cage. Needless to say, Maurananei wasn't exactly happy with walking back to their cave in the nude (she had threatened every camera man they came across. If any of them leaked the footage out to the press or didn't delete it, she would break every bone in their body. The camera men and interns quickly complied).
"Prepare to eat my dust tonight." Mitchell said to Trey. They were arguing over who would win at the latest Mario Kart game, and were already making bets. Mortisha and Caroline had also joined in the fun, with Mortisha siding with Mitchell and Caroline with Trey. "Whatever, dude." Trey sighed as he twiddled his fingers as if he were playing his guitar. "I just wish I had my bass back."
"Wish granted, dude." came a deep voice. Micheal with Zelda on his shoulder appeared through a stand of trees with Trey's bass in one of his giant hands. Trey practically screamed like a little girl when he saw it and ran over to Micheal and snatched it out of his grasp, more than happy to have his bass back. "Thanks, man! You're the best!" Trey asked.
"Aw, you're just saying that. Besides, you should really be thanking Zelda. She tracked Sasquatchanakwa down and grabbed the thing while I distracted Banana Breath. Poor guy won't be able to walk right for a week." Micheal laughed as he remembered the short fight that had ensued in the Sasquatchanakwa's cave. Trey grabbed Zelda's hand and shook it vigorously before going back to tuning his bass up, reveling the sound and feel of it.
"Why are guys being so nice anyway?" Maurananei asked as she out from behind the bush, back in a change of her regular attire. Micheal shrugged his shoulders, Zelda bouncing up as he did so. "Just thought Trey might want his bass back, that's all. Besides, I knew Caroline would feel bad about it, so I killed two bird with one stone, as they say. And it's just an expression, Caroline." he said quickly before Caroline could gasp at the thought of Micheal throwing a boulder at a bird and laughing about it.
"Whatever. Go back to your team before they decide to eliminate you." Maurananei said, rolling her eyes in disbelief. Trey thanked Micheal and Zelda one more time before they headed off.
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"I just thought Trey might want it back?" Maurananei said in a mocking voice. "Please. I don't trust those Rhinos farther than I can throw them. And if I was throwing Micheal, that wouldn't be very far."
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"Campers. Tonight, for the first time, one of you will be going home." Chris announced as the bright warm fire lit up the Elimination Area. "And, you can't come back. Ever." The teens looked at each other suspiciously, most being thrown at Kiko, who glared right back at them. Zelda was cleaning her pink glasses while Anuok chewed nervously on her nails next to her. The Animatrix had changed Micheal back into his human form, and was currently in recharge mode. Reese glanced back and forth between Toni and Kiko, who were engaged in a glaring contest at each other. If looks could kill, those two would have been melted statues.
"When I call your name, come up and receive a marshmallow." Chris announced, holding up a tray with 6 fluffy, white marshmallows on it. "Anuok."
The silent girl smiled and ran up to grab her marshmallow, relishing in the delicious taste as she ate it.
"Zelda and Reese." The two contestants high fived each other and went to grab their marshmallows casting worried looks at Micheal. They relaxed when he was called up next, thankful that their friend was safe for another round.
"Toni." Chris announced. She quickly ran up to the tray of marshmallows and grabbed one, smiling slyly at Kiko's horrified face. It was down to 2 campers left.
"Kiko! You're in danger of going home for refusing to participate in a challenge and dozing off while your team mates carried your weight. Literally." Chris smiled as a flat screen TV popped up behind him showing the footage of Anuok and Zelda dragging her across the ground. Kiko threw a look at them, but they ignored it, having a laugh at Kiko's expense.
"Alex, you're on the chopping block for scaring off Ezekiel. That's pretty much it. Zeke Scaring." Chris said as Alex relaxed slightly. Kiko had many more reasons why she could be going home, so Alex was feeling pretty safe. "And the camper going home tonight is . . . . ."
Silence fell upon the teams as Chris kept them in suspense. Well, more silent than it usually was at an elimination. It was so quite, it seemed even the fire had decided to stay silent. The wind refused to blow past them, and the usual wolf howl that haunted the night was no where to be heard. The campers that were already safe, their fluffy marshmallows in their hands, glanced at each other, unsure whether Alex or Kiko would be going home tonight.
"Alex. You're taking a ride in the Torpedo of Shame." Chris proclaimed, throwing Kiko her marshmallow. She nearly fainted from relief when she caught it and stuffed it in her mouth, relishing its symbolism and taste. Alex sighed and got from his log, following Chris to the submarine that was dock at the pier.
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"Whew! Made it through another elimination." Kiko said with relief. "I guess I have to start pulling my weight if I want to stay in it. I'm gonna need that watch sooner than I thought. Time to get my little minion to work. She said, rubbing her hands together.
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"Any final words, Alex?" Chris asked. Alex shook his head sadly and climbed into the capsule. It quickly sealed shut and Chef stuffed it into the launch tube. "Fire!" Chris cried as he pressed the remote control. There was dull boom as the capsule was fired, racing through the water toward the horizon. "Now that that's over, lets get rid of the trash." Chris said, turning to face a sleeping Ezekiel. Chef quickly stuffed the little monster into another capsule before he could wake up, and Chris pressed the button, sighing with relief as the vessel was fired off. "Finally. We got rid of him!" Chris said, just as a loud snarl echoed through the sub. "Wait, we did fire Ezekiel out of the torpedo cannon, right?" Chef shrugged and left the submarine, climbing up through the hatch. Chris shivered and sat down in the recliner, ignoring the nagging feeling in his head. "Well, either way. . . . who will go next? Who will be the best? And will I ever find out if I got rid of Zeke once and for all? Find out next time on Total! Drama! Pahkitew's Vengeance!"
"Zelda." a voice hissed. Zelda glanced up from her book to see Kiko from the doorway, gesturing for her to come outside. The rest of the team had gone off to bed, Micheal snoring like an elephant and Reese snoring like a hamster. Zelda closed her book and tip toed out to the deck, where Kiko was waiting for her, leaning against the railing. "Remember those favors you owe me?" Kiko asked slyly. Zelda nodded her head. "Well, I've decided to cash one of them in; I need you to make me a duplicate of Micheal's watch." Kiko said, drawing a gasp from Zelda. "But, I can't do that!" she cried. Kiko clapped a hand over Zelda's mouth. "Sssshh! Look, I just need one for something . . . . special." Zelda cocked an eyebrow. "Please? I need it! Besides, you owe me one!" Kiko argued. Zelda sighed and rubbed her forehead. "I'll see what I can do. I'll need you to get a basic layout of it, before I can even begin making a copy." Kiko pumped her fist. "Yes!" The 2 girls crept back into the tree house, unaware that they were being watched from the roof. A sleek, black panther jumped down from the roof and landed on the deck with a barely audible thud. The cat slunk into the tree house and stalked up to Toni's bunk, its black coat keeping it hidden in the dark. All one could see of the big cat was its glowing eyes as the moonlight reflected on them, turning them an eerie green. A lump the length of Toni's bed lay under the covers as the panther tugged on the sheets, pulling them away to reveal several pillows. The black panther jumped onto the bunk and held still for a moment as its shape rippled.
Its ears became less pointed and moved down to the side of its head as its face began to pulse and swell, falling in some places and rising in others, as the face of a girl with mocha skin and chocolate brown hair emerged. The tail slurped back up into her spine as the black fur disappeared to reveal soft human skin. A bright red tank top and black shorts appeared as the leg bones ground and shifted into long legs and a pair of arms. The claws grew dull as individual fingers and toes appeared and the remnants of the fur finally vanished. The panther was gone. In its place was Toni in her sleepwear.
She yawned and crawled under the covers. "I knew there was something off about her."
And there's the second episode! Please vote for who you want to go next by PMing me. If you have any constructive criticism about the story or your character (if they're in the story) please comment in the reviews below. If you have any ideas for challenges, please PM me. Seriously, I have no idea how the people that make Total Drama come up with those things so easily. Now if you'll excuse me, I have a Skulduggery Pleasant book to read. Adios!