Author Notes:

Hey guys! The lovely Light of the Dawn had a brilliant idea. Now, I know it's super confusing keeping track of fifteen characters, so she suggested I have a list at the begging of each chapter of who's kids were who's. Below is a list of who is who (with a small description of their looks and personalities and parents) and a list of who's died. If you already know, feel free to skip and head straight into the chapter! Fair warning, it's about to get dark. Really dark. And the plot is a bit complicated, so if you're into a fluffy light read, this is not your fan fiction. You have been warned!

Peace, Love, & Silence,

-thehugbandit

Daisy

Daisy is the daughter of Tyler and Lindsey. She's often described as very level headed and highly intelligent, though when around unfamiliar people or her parents she dumbs herself down to lower their expectations of her. Like her mother, Daisy has incredible style- even wearing her mother's signature boots. She has dirty blond hair and bright blue-green eyes and moderately tan skin.

Link & Zelda

Link and Zelda are the mutant twins of Sam and Dakota. They often speak in unison and are very mechanical when it comes to interacting with others. They are completely dependent on each other and prefer to be alone.

Reject

Reject is the lovechild of Duncan and Dawn. It was a one night mistake that her parents won't let her forget. Ever. Despite her horrid name, Reject refuses to let it get her down. Though she's extremely shy, she's surprisingly optimistic. She's tall, curvy, with long burgundy brown hair and piercing green eyes.

Nashira

Nashira is the daughter of Owen and Izzy. She's spunky and sometimes has extreme mood swings. Like her mother, her favorite color is green and she wears it often. She has long, curly pale strawberry blond hair, liquid green eyes, and a milky complexion.

Coda

Coda is the daughter of Cody and Sierra and has a lot of the same characteristics as her mother. She's a super fan who has a good heart. She's tall with lavender hair and dark skin.

Bobbi

Bobbi is Brick and Jo's daughter. She's nothing like her parent's. She's bubbly, kind, and a fashion diva. She's also obsessed with Daisy because of her mother's legacy.

Tina

Christina, or "Tina" for short is the 25 year old daughter of Chris. Her dream is to become an actor, and so carries herself accordingly. Like her father, she has jet black hair, tan skin, and dotted black eyes. She has a very delicate figure and is short, which she vainly tries to hide with high heels and a tall bun.

Huck

Huckleberry, or "Huck", is the son of Chef Hatchet. She's tall, dark, and handsome; and mostly keeps to himself. When it comes to Tina, he can be very social and very protective. He is noted to be very intuitive and kind.

Lyric

Lyric is the son of Gwen and Trent. He's very kind and caring, like his father, but inherited the sassy jean from his mother and is quick to make his opinion known. Lyric is very musically inclined and park of a pop-punk band and dresses accordingly. He has dark hair, gray eyes, and pale skin and wears skinny jeans, converses, band tanks, and leather jackets.

Beau

Beau is Courtney and Scott's son. He can be quite unpleasant when he's alone, but for some unexplained reason he has become instantly attached to Reject even to the point of professing his undying love to her within seconds of meeting her. Beau has pale skin, freckles, deep raven red hair, and oily eyes.

River

River is Bridget and Geoff's son. He's fun, laid back, and easy going. Like his parents, he's super into sports and always carries a skateboard with him. It's extremely difficult to get on River's bad side and people often think of him as dimwitted though he sees and notices things most people ignore. River has tan skin, long blond hair, and droopy blue eyes.

Rico

Rico is the son of Heather and Alejando and basically a carbon copy of his father. He seems quite pleasant and self-absorbed, but is clear with his alternate motives. He has dark, lifeless eyes. Dark skin, and dark hair he lets loose in a messy flop.

Leon

Leon is the son of Mike and Zoey and couldn't be more different from them. He is calm, cool, and collected and very indifferent to everyone around him. He has a large bold cross running up his right arm, chocolate eyes, and chocolate hair.

Nathaniel

Nathaniel is Noah's son and looks strikingly similar to his father. He's sarcastic and mean, but highly intelligent and skeptical of the events happening around him.

Girls:

- Daisy

- Zelda

- Reject

- Nashira

- Coda

- Bobbi- deceased

- Tina

Boys

- Lyric

- Link

- Beau

- River

- Rico

- Leon

- Nathaniel

- Huck

Chapter Three: Silence

Hush. So silent not even the wind dared to speak. So uneasy and thick the tension could practically be split in half. So painful it was almost agonizing.

The herd of people in their utter state of shock simply huddled close around the trembling girl, watching her ever so closely as she shakily tried to swat away the blood caking into her golden locks of hair and beautiful tanned skin. Reject was the first to step forward and lay a sympathetic hand on the sweet Daisy's shoulder. She squeezed tight, feeling first hand just how shaken she was.

Huck's horrified eyes flickered quickly around the grand open ballroom, looking for a culprit, but none stepped forward. He couldn't help but feel a certain ping of guilt for not trying harder to convince his counterpart of a scan. He tried to reason with himself that there was no way for him to know that things would escalate so rapidly, and a part of his brain was blissfully in denial. Perhaps this was all just a twisted game? But that felt like a lie, and so he suppressed the thought deep into his subconscious.

"Who?" The crowd turned to face the speaker. Nathaniel stood perfectly still with a tanned finger cupping his chin. It was clear he was lost in thought, in his own little world trying to make sense of the new piece of information thrown at him. After a couple of slippery seconds, his eyes darted up to Daisy. "Who supposedly died?"

"You don't believe me?" She snarled, tears still firm in her murky blue eyes. Reject held her tighter, sensing the rage licking at the blond girl's skin. "I don't even know you!"

"That works both ways." Nathaniel smirked. "How do I know this isn't a challenge or some ploy to throw me off guard? I call shenanigans!"

"Call shenanigans all you want." Daisy snorted wiping a trail of tears away with the back of her hands. "But I know what I saw. Bobbi is dead."

Nathaniel opened his mouth to protest further, but was promptly cut short by a dark object being tossed carelessly into the group of people. Reject pulled Daisy out of the way just in time and the long and chunky object hit the marbled floor right where she would have been. Huck whipped his head backwards hoping to catch a glimpse of the intruder, but all he managed to spy out of the corner of his eye was a fast moving blob. He frowned turning his attention back at whatever was chucked at him.

Nashira screamed. River gagged, choking back spit. Leon tensed up, clutching his hands into tight fists. Tina's eyes rolled into the back of her head and fainted into Huck's arms. Beau protectively and instinctively grabbed Reject who was still clinging onto the trembling Daisy. Coda started crying. Lyric's eyes widened in horror. Rico's face twisted with disgust, and Nathaniel silenced himself. What their eyes drank in was something much too horrifying and graphic for words. Bobbi's bludgeoned severed arm had splattered right in the middle of their group. Nerves and ligaments gushed out of the rough gaping socket as blood, the warm crimson liquid, gushed out of it, staining the sweet marble floor with it's deep color.

"How?" Leon growled, enraged. "I didn't even know the girl and I know she didn't deserve this!"

"She was a bit annoying." Daisy sniffled. "But she meant well and always had a positive thing to say about everyone and everything."

"Amigos," Rico whispered, "is that a note?"

Huck cocked his head off to one side narrowing his gaze into the palm of the gory looking hand. Sure enough, there was a small folded up piece of paper resting in her hand pinched between her palm and thumb. Huck glanced around the group hoping someone would pick it up but quickly realized not a soul was brave enough to touch the dead girl's flesh, so inhaled slowly and crouched to her severed arm. He hesitated before plucking the note from her grip and slowly unraveled the blood stained paper.

"Greetings contestants." He read aloud. "Now that I have your attention, I can officially welcome you back to a revival season of Total Drama. I've gathered you all here for various reasons and rest assured, I'm watching you all very closely. The name of the game is-" Huck paused, a lump formed in the back of his throat causing him to choke. He couldn't find the strength to speak the last word, so Nathaniel ripped away.

"Survival." He finished with a frown. "The name of the game is survival."

Huck nodded taking the note back as he slowly rose to his feet. "You each have a specific role to play. Christina and Huckleberry, you will learn to love the roles your fathers played. You will act as hosts for me as I watch you from hidden cameras I've strategically placed around the castle. The rest of you will live in your parent's legacy's causing drama and playing the game the world has grown to adore. Those of you who bore me will promptly be executed. Please do not try to reach the police, to ensure you do not ruin the fun I have put up a barrier and have shut down the phone signals. Anyone who tries to be a hero will die."

Huck flipped the note, but there was no more. He gulped.

"Well?" Nathaniel grumbled. "That's it? It's kind of vague, don't you think? What are the rules? What are the challenges? How do we survive? You know, if this is all real."

"Yeah." Daisy sniffled. "How do we win?"

Huck shook his head asking himself the same string of questions. He looked down at Tina passed out on the floor and exhaled slowly.

"I don't know." He admitted, and at his words, the entire ballroom was enveloped in silence.

"We should go get help!" River said scooping up his skate board. "We can't just sit here!"

"No." Leon's voice fell flat. He rolled up the sleeves of his jacket showing off his tattoo. "We have to stay here. Play by his rules until someone notices us missing. It's the only way to survive. The note said it."

"No, mi amigo. I agree with the skater boy. We have to try to escape." Rico reasoned. "I'm much too pretty to die."

"I don't feel like that's wise." Nashira said playing with a ringlet of strawberry blond hair. "I've seen enough horror movies to know running is a surefire way to die. And crazy runs in my family. Never cross a crazy person."

Leon looked at the girl cocking his head curiously off to one side. Nashira's cheeks warmed with embarrassment causing her to drop her gaze to the ground.

"This can't be real." Reject murmured still rubbing Daisy's back. "It just can't. Things like this only happens in movies. It can't be happening."

"It's no trick." Huck sighed examining the arm. His nose twitched at the stench of blood and flesh. "This is real."

"And how can you tell?" Nathaniel asked being the skeptic of the group. Huck shook his head.

"I graduated with a Master's degree in Medicine and a minors in Anatomy. I know a real from a fake. And this is about as real as they come."

"See?" Daisy snapped. "I told you!"

Nathaniel shot her a nasty look. She rolled her eyes.

"Incoming!" Beau screamed. And just like that, the other arm came flying into the middle of crew. Huck's face deepened. Wrinkles burdened his entire frame as he shakily reached for the disfigured arm and plucked the second note from her hand.

"Rules." He read aloud. "Number one, don't call for help. Number two, don't try to escape. Number three, stay alive. Number four, don't disobey me."

"Seems a bit simple." River said rubbing a hand across the back of his neck. Huck nodded.

"There's more."

"More?" Daisy gasped. Again, he nodded.

"Apparently we're being broken off into teams." He snarled through gritted teeth. "Tina and I will each be leading two different groups."

"Will there be challenges?" Nashira asked thoughtfully. Huck shook his head no.

"Apparently not."

"Let me see that." Nathaniel said snatching the bloody sheet out of Huck's hand. He flipped it around and frowned. "Christina and Huckleberry will be leading two groups." He mumbled following along the beautiful calligraphy. "In Christina's group there will be Reject, Beau, Lyric, River, Rico and Daisy. Huckleberry's team will include Nathaniel, Nashira, Coda, Link, Zelda, and Leon. There will be no challenges, you will simply survive."

"I don't like this." Reject said wrapping herself in her arms. "I don't like this at all!"

"We shouldn't split up." Lyric reasoned. "We should all be on guard at all times."

"But the note says we need to split up!" Nashira cried. "We must obey the rules!"

"No, do you hear yourselves?" Nathaniel snorted. "You sound crazy! I don't know about you, but I'm getting out of here."

"What?" Daisy gasped. "You're even crazier than I thought! You can't escape!"

"Oh yeah? Watch me."

There was a certain air of confidence that radiated off the arrogant boy as he took a staggering step towards the door. River watched especially closely and hugged his board close to his chest, wondering how this act of rebellion would play out. Daisy was much too frightened to pay him any attention. Instead, she cowered into Reject's chest hiding her face in her new friend's bosom. No one uttered a word against him as he slowly strode towards the double edge doors. Perhaps fear had cornered their hearts, or perhaps they were curious, testing the rules without reacting themselves.

It seemed like forever before he finally breached the exit. Once outside, dark clouds tempted to swallow him whole. He stepped into the haze with the same amount of confidence he had in the walk over and continued his path for another couple of meters before turning back to the group.

"See?" He smirked smugly. "Nothing. This game is a joke. I'm leaving. Anyone else care to join me?" There was still a pressing amount of silence gripping on the people sitting safely in the ballroom. Nathaniel arched his brows. "Really? " He asked. "No one?"

"Si! I shall join you, amigo." Rico said raising a hand. "I'm beginning to question this game as well. If it is real, I don't want to die and you're the only one who seems to know how to survive. But if it is fake, then I don't want to undergo any amount of psychological trauma the game might have in store. I mean, look at this beautiful bonita over hear. A woman should not let her face stain with tears." He said gesturing to Daisy. "This game is simply not for me."

"Good." Nathaniel grinned. "I'm glad to see someone here at least has a brain."

Rico's grin turned smug as he started up after Nathaniel. He paused at the entrance and turned back to the room and sighed.

"My only regret is that I will not be sharing my handsome with all of you for much longer." He announced with a formal bow. He then turned swiftly on his heels and started to march off, passing Nathaniel on his way, when suddenly his swagger was cut short by a an arrow zipping. The weapon pierced through his skin ripping away part of his flesh as it penetrated his body. Rico's dead eyes widened, shocked, and Nathaniel froze.

"It's happening again!" Daisy half sobbed half screamed. Nathaniel blinked twice as Rico turned, a trail of blood running from his mouth down his neck and into his shirt. He reached an arm out to the once confident boy and limped forward, coughing up the crimson liquids as he did so. Nathaniel simply stared, too stunned to do anything else as the dying boy approached him.

"Run!" Reject cried. "Nathaniel, what are you waiting for?" She screamed. "Run!" As if hearing her voice for the first time, he suddenly felt the urge to obey. He sprinted forward, darting away from the castle. Reject's screaming turned frantic. "No!" She shrieked. "Wrong way! Wrong way!"

But it was too late. Another arrow went soaring through the air and caught Nathaniel in the back of the neck. The boy didn't stand a chance. It all happened desperately fast. Once running and a half a second later he was face down in the mud eyes forever wide and dead.

Reject's screaming didn't cease, and it was enough to finally wake the sleeping Tina. She blinked twice, stretching a hand upward, reaching for her bulky friend.

"What? Why is it so load?" She croaked touching her free hand to her head. She took a second to examine the room and saw that everyone's gaze was fixed ahead at the door. She shifted her body, propping herself up on her arm and narrowed her eyes. Rico was still alive and frantically trying to reach the inside of the castle again- arrow still attached to his back. Tina sealed her eyes shut not wanting to believe what she was seeing. This wasn't what she signed up for. She didn't ask for this, none of this. The gig was supposed to be simple, so why wasn't it?

"Someone's out there!" River shouted. "Look out!"

Rico's failing responses couldn't comprehend what the blond surfer was screaming. He just continued limping, arms stretched wide, as a figure lunged forward with a knife, clinging to dying boy.

"Someone help him!" Reject cried. "Please! Someone save him!"

Leon frowned, looking over the herd of people watching in terror. He noticed how Huck had become aware of Tina's presence and was absorbed in comforting her and how everyone else was too scared to do anything. Something switched on inside of him, and suddenly he couldn't watch. Not anymore. Acting on pure instinct, he ripped the board away from River and got a running start. He threw the board to the ground and jumped on. The momentum sent him flying towards the Latin beauty and the attacker attached to his back.

It went blank. It was just a blur. One minute, he was standing by a group of strangers, the next he was ripping a dying boy back inside a condemned castle. Somehow, he managed to get them both inside and shut the door, but not before the attacker got in a few nice jabs. Rico took the brunt of the blows, receiving four stab wounds in the back and three on his right side. In his attempt of heroism, Leon got nicked on his tattoo but other than that managed to get away unharmed.

Both boys collapsed to the ground. Rico passed out from blood loss. Leon stared up at the ceiling panting heavily.

Nashira slowly glided forward, closing the gap between them. Leon rolled over on his side to look at her. Her face was hard, indifferent, and suddenly serious. A drastic change from early. She crouched down to Leon's side, wiping his cocoa hair away from his dark eyes. Her porcelain fingers brushed his dark skin. She shook her head no.

"In rescuing him, you sealed your fate." She breathed. "It's a rule. Don't be a hero or you die."