Still don't own TDI or Xiaolin Showdown!
Chris sat in the main lodge as it neared sunset, with Delilah, Naruto, Damon, Jessie, Trinity, Edward, Coda, DJ, Justina, Eden, and Bartholomew all sitting down at the tables. Sarah burst in with an unconscious Misty over her shoulder, DeShawn pale-faced behind her and still holding his crotch and cross-eyed.
"Clear a table, STAT!" Sarah screamed in fear, and the others made room as she ran Misty's body over to the table.
She began doing the classical movements for CPR without the mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, and Chris watched on in amusement as DeShawn staggered towards the door only to get pushed out of the way by Harriet, who ran to her table and promptly collapsed with crossed eyes.
"I think I'm having heart palpitations," she rasped as she pulled out a fake wand. "Aguamenti."
"What were you thinking, DeShawn?!" Marshall demanded as the larger male collapsed with tears in his eyes. "You just lost us the challenge!"
"Wait, if they lost… that means we won," Edward smiled, and Misty perked up and began cheering with the rest of the Killer Bass team.
"Whoa, hold your horses, guys! That wasn't the challenge!" Chris laughed.
"What did he just say?" Edward said shocked and giving Chris a look that asked if he was sane.
"Who's hungry?!" Chris asked as he removed a purple curtain to reveal a large buffet table lined with food.
*static*
Edward: "After a whole week of eating brown sludge, I almost cried when I saw that buffet."
*static*
Sarah: "And then I saw the buffet table! It was beautiful! There was turkey, fiber bars, baked beans, and maple syrup! Uh… can I have a minute? Oh, oh oh…" *starts tearing up and getting emotional as she recalls the food and asks to have a minute*
*static*
"Okay campers!" Chris yelled as he leapt on the now-empty buffet table with the mass of cosplayers gathered around it.
"I thought eating was the second part!" Sarah yelled as if she was confused.
"What more do you want from us?" Edward demanded in a low growl.
"Weird goth boy is right," Haden said grudgingly. "Haven't we been through enough?"
"Yeah, especially Sarah!" Trinity added, much to the shock of the other campers and most of the onlookers at home.
"Um, let me think about that," Chris said before being silent for a few seconds. "No! IT'S TIME FOR THE AWAKE-A-THON!"
"The what-a-thon?" Sarah asked with a mess of food on her face.
"Don't worry! This is an easy one! The team with the last camper standing wins invincibility!"
"So what you're saying is that you had us run and then stuffed us full of food just to make us really tired so we would go to sleep faster?" Edward asked, and Chris blinked.
"That's right, Ed!" Chris said smiling.
"Man, he's good," Edward conceded.
"So how long do you think it'll be till everyone's out cold?" Trinity asked as she walked up to Edward.
"About an hour, give or take," he replied before seeing Sarah trudge by with drool coming from her mouth. "Yeah… maybe less."
The cameras zoomed in on the sky and began showing a clock to show how much time had passed for the campers.
"We are now twelve hours in with all twenty-one campers still awake," Chris smiled as he watched Sarah jog in place.
"WAHOO!" Sarah yelled with a look of pure insanity and excitement all over her face. "Stay awake for twelve hours! I can do that in my sleep! Wahoo!"
She fist pumped before freezing up and then passing out cold.
*static*
Edward: "The Awake-a-thon was definitely the most brutal thing I've ever done in my life."
*static*
"This is definitely the most boring thing I've ever done in my life," Edward yawned.
"Could be worse," Trinity pointed out. "I could be stuck here without you to talk to."
After a few more minutes of watching the others begin talking, Chris noticed that Haden, Logan, and DeShawn were up to something. Upon closer inspection, he found that they'd formed an alliance. But it was Eden who dropped his MP3 player on accident, and to his calm interest, it was Damon who picked it up with a devilish grin and put it in his shinobi weapons pouch on his hip.
"Won't Eden be mad once he figures out his Ipod's gone?" Naruto asked, and Damon smirked.
"That's exactly what I'm counting on," he smiled devilishly, and the blonde widened his eyes before realizing his doppelganger's plan. "I really am a demon, aren't I?"
"Oh, yes you are, my love!" Naruto swooned before passing out onto the ground.
"Idiot," Haden snorted.
It was at the twenty-four hour mark that Chris took a tally of the sleeping campers. Brett, Izaak, Misty, and a couple of others were fast asleep, with even more nodding off slowly. Jessie was nodding off in her seat next to Brett, and Marshall was marching in place to keep awake. Justina was staring calmly at the ocean as still as a statue.
Tyler was staring at Naruto and Damon's slightly-nodding forms as she began to nod off. Suddenly, as though without warning, she screamed in alarm and jerked backwards off of her stump. The two boys in question stared at her as though she'd lost her marbles right before Chris announced the twenty-four hour mark.
"Time to take things up a notch," Chris smiled as he unveiled a pile of books. "Fairy Tales!"
"Oh, he's not serious," Edward growled as Chris snickered and picked up the first book and began reading calmly.
Chris waited for the thirty-six hour mark before taking another tally. There were now five Screaming gophers left and four Killer Bass. Bartholomew, Logan, Naruto, Damon, and DJ had all fallen asleep by now.
"Okay, favorite song," Edward said calmly.
"She would be loved," Trinity replied. "Favorite color."
"Midnight blue," Edward replied smiling.
"Ooh, mysterious," Trinity smiled. "Mine's a shiny metallic green."
"Chase Young?" Edward whispered to her, and she nodded.
"Yeah," she said shocked. "How'd you know?"
"I've heard some stories," Edward said shrugging. "My parents were really big on folk lore." Right after finishing that sentence he yawned.
"Aw, don't fall asleep," Trinity said putting her hand on his shoulder. "Quick, favorite movie moment."
"You're going to think it's cheesy," Edward said embarrassed. "but… the sword fight in the Princess Bride."
"I loved that movie," Trinity laughed just before noticing Naruto and Damon asleep. "How cute! They even fall asleep together!"
It was at the fifty-one hour mark that Edward and Trinity stumbled over to Justina, grinning like a couple of idiots.
"Look at her! She's like a statue!" Edward chuckled. "She hasn't moved in over fifty hours!"
"We should see what she's doing," Trinity smiled, sensing that Justina wasn't awake.
"Yo!" Edward yelled as Trinity began making loud yipping noises and swinging her arms like a drunken monkey. "Amazing. Look at the concentration."
He poked Justina in the face, who shook her head slightly and opened her eyes.
"Her eyelids are painted! I saw it!" Eden yelled pointing at Justina.
"Get out!" Chris said shocked and grinning like a child. "Oh I've got to see this!" Chris went over to Justina, who stared at him calmly. "That is so crazy incredible! But! You're still out, dude."
As if on cue, it was at the eighty-two hour mark that Delilah smirked as she put a mug full of water underneath Harriet's hand and dropped the female's hand into it.
"Aw, dude, it works! Dudette peed her pants!" Delilah yelled as Harriet jerked awake and curled up to hide her shame.
Meanwhile, Misty was curled up next to Coda, and woke to find herself kissing Coda's ear. She screamed, waking up Coda, who also screamed in shock and horror.
"What is the matter with you people?" Chris asked at the three day mark. "Come on! Fall asleep already!"
"You've got to hook me up, man," Edward said staring at Chris' coffee.
"Alright, you five stay with me," Chris announced. "The rest of you, go and get a shower! For heaven's sake, you stink!"
Harriet was still clinging to her crotch as she bolted away.
"I didn't want it to come to this," Chris said calmly sipping his coffee. "I was talking to Chef Hatchet last night and I said 'Chef, I don't want it to come to this. But darn it, these campers are tough!' So, I came up with the most boring sleep-inducing activity I can find!"
*static*
Edward: "Come on! The others had to be joking me, why was everybody else awake! That was driving me nuts! But when he announced a new activity, I knew that he had something evil up his sleeve. I swear he only does this for a living to watch us suffer. But you know what I say to you, Chris McLean? You know what I say to you and your challenges? Bring it on."
*static*
"The history of Canada," Chris said opening a pop-up book. "A pop-up book, Chapter one, the beaver."
It was at the ninety hour mark that Haden and Eden were found to be asleep as well. Without warning, Trinity fell asleep, with Edward yelling distraught and begging her not to leave him. It was down to Delilah and Edward.
"Bathroom break!" Chris announced.
"I've held it this long, handsome, I can wait," Delilah sneered as she was found holding her crotch.
"Yeah, but can you hold it another ten chapters?" Edward challenged, and Delilah went cross-eyed.
Delilah was soon marching towards the bathroom with a camera behind her, and her threatening the camera person not to enter the stall. After a while, the cameraman knocked on the door.
"Delilah, you in there?" he asked, and opened the door to find the JDC attendee fast sleep on the toilet.
"And we have news!" Chris announced with a beaming smile as a slip of paper was handed to him. "It looks like Delilah took a dive on the can! Which means that the official winner of the sleep-a-thon is… Ed! The Killer Bass win!"
A couple of hours later, the Screaming gophers could be seen cowering outside of their cabin as a mess of things was laying outside, with a screaming angry Eden throwing more things out the window. Chris smiled as he saw a teddy bear that had been thrown out.
"One of you stole my MP3 player!" Eden roared angrily at his team. "I need my music! No one is going anywhere until I get my MP3 player back!"
He threw a book, which Harriet had to dodge as she went into the Killer Bass cabin.
"Damn, he's got a temper," she said shocked to the other girls. "He's going to get himself in trouble."
"Oh, with Damon's mind, that will have already happened," Jessie smiled, and the others all smiled as they realized that their teammate whose name meant demon really was a demon on the inside.
"That's evil," Naruto snickered as he watched the fireworks fly. "Want me to give it back to him?"
"Yeah, she'll get suspicious if it was me," Damon nodded, and Naruto walked calmly out of the cabin and stared at the mess.
"What's up? Whoa, what happened here? Was it Orochimaru?" he asked shocked before jerking and pretending to look around for an unseen enemy.
"Eden lost his MP3 player," Marshall said calmly. "He won't let anyone in till he finds it."
"MP3 player? Oh, this one?" Naruto asked, pulling it out of his ninja gear pouch. "I found it by the campfire pit, I was wondering who it belonged to! You must have dropped it. Here, I even made sure Damon didn't get his grubby little paws on it!"
"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" Eden gushed as he rushed outside and tackled Naruto into a hug. "I am so happy! And, I'm also kind of sorry for letting my temper get the best of me again…"
He chuckled nervously as he stared at his teammates, who were glaring at him angrily. So it came to nobody's surprise at the campfire ceremony when Eden was the only one that didn't get a marshmallow from Chris.
"Real smooth," Eden snarled. "Who needs this lame-o TV show anyways?!"
He kicked Chris' leg as he passed him, causing the host to hold his leg in pain.
"Ow!" Chris yelled. "Have a good night's sleep tonight. You're all safe."
"Bye, Eden!" Marshall yelled in an attempt to be friendly.
The only response the army man had was to throw his stick at the fellow soldier cosplayer, who dodged downwards with a shout of "touchy!".
"To the Screaming Gophers," Marshall said as they touched their marshmallows together, "And to not ending up here next week!"
Ah, Marshall, you fool.
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