Leo's pov
My eyes quickly opened as I heard a loud horn outside the cabin. I looked over at the clock. It's 7am and he's waking us up.
I looked at the other guys in my cabin and they looked just as annoyed as me.
"Morning hope you slept well." Chris said.
"Hi Chris, you look really buff in those shorts." Heather said.
"I know, Okay I hope you're all ready because your next challenge begins in exactly one minute." Chris said.
"Oh excuse me, I don't know if that's enough time to eat breakfast." Owen said.
"Oh, you'll get breakfast Own. Right after you complete your 20 kilometer run around the lake." Chris said.
He has to be kidding.
"Oh so you're funny now, you know what I think would be funny." Eva said as she moved over to punch Chris but was stopped by Duncan and Geoff. I walked over to Eva and put my hand on her shoulder.
"You need to calm down a bit Eva, I'm sure we're all upset but you don't want to be kicked out of the game for hitting the host." I told her. Eva looked at me and then glared at Chris.
"You're enjoying this aren't you." Eva said.
"A little." Chris said.
Confessional
Courtney
"Okay that girl Eva has to get a handle on her temper. She's only been here one day and she's already thrown her suitcase out a window and broken a lock on one of the restroom doors. She's lucky Leo was there to calm her down or she may have broken loose from Duncan and Geoff's grip and gotten kicked from the show for attacking the host. Honestly Leo is so kind, he helped me and DJ with our fear of jumping and he even calmed Eva down in a nice way."
"Okay runners, on marks, get set, go!" Chris yelled and I took off. Like I said before I had a well fit body and I didn't get this by genetics but by hard work. While running 20 kilometers will be hard, it's nothing I can't do.
After about an hour and 30 minutes I finished the run with Eva and Izzy coming in before me. I expected as much from Eva but I'm surprised Izz is so fast.
After some time Owen came in carrying Noah with a tired Leshawna coming in right behind them. Harold isn't back yet damn we lost. It's fine we still have Katie to vote off. She's my safe plan for whenever we lose, although Harold isn't physically gifted he is rather smart and we could use his brains for later challenges.
I was cut off from my thoughts by hearing the other team celebrating their win.
"Whoa, there! Hold your horses guys. That wasn't the challenge." Chris said.
It wasn't? Then is he trying to make us tired for the real challenge?
"Who's hungry?" Chris said as he showed us a buffet table.
I really couldn't believe it. After eating Chef's disgusting food I couldn't help but feel an incredible amount of happiness spread throughout my body.
I looked around to see how full some of the people were. I was hungry, yes but I didn't eat enough to make me feel tired. Chris wanted to make us tired that was clear as day. First the run and not this food, and there's also the fact he never said the team that eats the most food will win any type of challenge. He was trying to make everyone tired for the real challenge to make it harder on us.
"Okay campers." I heard Chris yell with a loud speaker. "Time for part two of your challenge." He said
"I thought eating was the second part." Owen said.
"What more do you want from us?" Gwen asked.
"Weird Goth girl is right. Haven't we been through enough." Heather said.
"Um, let me think about it, NO! It's time for the awake-a-thon!" Chris said.
Oh he has got to be kidding.
"Don't worry this is an easy one. The team with the last camper standing wins invincibility." Chris said.
"So what you're saying is the 20k run and the food were part of your evil plan to make it harder for us to stay awake." Gwen said.
"That's right, Gwen." Chris said.
"Man he's good." Gwen said. No he's not good at all, this was expected. Maybe if you idiots thought with your head more than your stomach you would have realized that. However it's fine after all this makes it easier for me to win.
"Move, move, move." Chris said.
12 hours
I looked around at everyone, everyone was already tired from the 12 hours that we've been up for. But everyone was still awake. Well that was until I saw Owen drop to the ground. Good, they only have 10 now which makes us up one player.
I notice people talking to each other a lot, it seems like everyone is making their move now to make friends.
I saw Lindsay being an idiot like always and trying to stay awake by doing a handstand. Doing a handstand only uses up more energy which will make you tired more easily. At least she's not on my team.
"Lindsay, Beth can I talk to you for a sec?" I heard Heather call out to them. Everyone was either too tired to hear or didn't care about it. I watched as Heather, Beth and Lindsay made their way a little bit far away from people so no one could overhear. Seems like Heather will be the one to take control of her team… Unless I take that power away from her before it can even start.
Taking control of my team is or should I say was rather easy. I've made everyone like me and showed everyone I will do whatever I can to help us win. Everyone also believes I'm a nice person who feels sad when having to vote someone off but will vote people off with logic. All this means when I ask people to vote someone off they will believe it's for the betterment of the team.
Making people like me from the other team won't be hard at all, however it'll be harder for me to convince them to vote someone off since we're on opposite teams. That is unless I make Heather the most hated person on their team.
Something then caught my eye, I watched as Eva dropped her MP3 player and Heather picked it up. Oh this will be good. I'll just wait for my time to strike.
24 hours
We're 24 hours in and I'm starting to feel very tired as well. The other team was down to 9 players as Owen, Noah and Izzy fell asleep. While my team was now down to 10 since Katie fell asleep. We're still doing good since we're still one player up. I noticed Bridgette was about to fall asleep so I walked up to her and sat down next to her.
"Hey." I said.
"Oh hey." She said, it seems like she was too tired to even notice I sat down next to her.
"I know you're tired but try to stay up a little longer ok. We lost last round and I think it'll be good for the team's mood if we won this one. Plus I also want to get to know you better." I told her.
"What do you want to know?" Bridgette asked.
"What's your favorite color?" I asked.
"Baby blue." She told me. "And yours?" She asked.
"It's crimson." I answered back. "Do you do any other types of activities besides suffering?" I asked.
"Well I really like to take care of animals." Bridgette told me.
"Animal person huh, I should have known, considering that you're a surfer." I told her.
"Oh and what's that supposed to mean?" She asked me.
"Nothing much, I just think since you spend a lot of time in water you learn to care for the animals who live in it. I think it's lovely that you care for animals." I said to Bridgette.
"You do?" Bridgette said surprised.
"Yeah, you value animals which means you're a good person which means I know I can trust you." I told her. I then looked at her and leaned a little closer. "It's amazing how someone could be such a kind human, have an amazing personality and be so beautiful all at once. You really are incredible." I told her with a small smile. I noticed a small blush appear on her face as she looked down towards the ground.
"Thanks." She said in a low and soft tone.
"Don't thank me, I'm just being honest with you." I said to her, although I did leave out that she's dumb at the end but hey she doesn't need to know that. After all, having someone who has a crush on you isn't bad at all, it just means you'll have someone who won't ever vote you out. Manipulating these people is too easy, it's almost boring.
"Congratulations campers. You've made it 24 hours, time to take things up a notch. Fairy tales." Chris said as he pulled out a book.
Man, he's trying really hard to make us fall asleep.
"Once upon a time, there was inside this boring kingdom, a boring village, and inside this boring sleepy village, filled with very boring children, who did very boring things." Chirs said as he started reading off the book.
I had to blink a few times as I saw Chef jumping around in a pink leotard with a skirt on it. I looked around to see if everyone else was seeing what I was and by their confused faces I could tell they were.
Slowly one by one everyone began to fall asleep. I then felt something hit my shoulder. I looked to see Bridgette's head on my shoulder.
40 hours
The other team had 6 players left while we had 5 left. How the hell did we lose the number advantage? These people are so useless. The last people on my team awake are Duncan, Eva, Ezekiel, Courtney and I. I'm honestly surprised Ezekiel made it this far since from what I've seen he's an idiot, who has no common sense, and is not physically gifted but I'll give it to him the kid has determination.
I then smiled as I saw Beth and Lindsay pass out leaving the other team with 4 players left.
51 hours
I can't even think straight anymore from how tired I am. My eyes were becoming harder and harder to keep open but they opened wide when I heard Eva yell. I turned to see that Justin had painted his eyes and was eliminated.
85 hours
I along with Duncan were the only two people left on my team. I kept myself awake by pitching myself whenever I felt my eyes start to close. To be completely honest my arm is killing me from the pain but I refuse to lose, not when I'm so close to winning.
I saw Chris walk up and start to talk but I'm so tired my mind didn't really pay attention at all to what he was saying. At this point all my mind knew is that as soon as I'm tired I need to pitch myself to stay awake.
I did however become a little more aware when I noticed Duncan get up and go somewhere.
As I felt my eyes start to close again I pinched myself once more. I then felt someone grab my arm and put it up.
"The winner Leo!" Those were the only words my ears picked on before I let myself fall asleep.
I woke up to yelling outside my cabin. I got up and looked at Ezekiel who seemed to be hiding.
"Hey, what's going on man?" I asked. I was still tired from the challenge.
"Eva is going crazy cause someone took her MP3 player." Ezekiel told me. At those words I couldn't help but let a small smile come to my face.
"Ah I see, ok I'll handle it." I told him.
"Hey don't go out there she'll kill you!" Ezekiel told me. I patted him on the back as I walked towards the door.
"Look Ezekiel just trust me alright." I told him and opened the door to see Eva throwing a lot of stuff outside.
Like I said before I would take control of the other team and that moment is now. Although I won't be playing the part as its leader. The other teams are filled with idiots or people I see unfit to lead the team. However there are two people who I can use, Noah and Heather. Both of them are rather smart and will do what it takes to win the game so they'll vote out people I tell them to.
Now most people would pick one person but I however will choose both of them. I will set things up for both of them to take control of half the team and then make them clash with each other. I'm no fool, once the players reach a certain number the teams will merge together. This is where my plan comes in. By making Noah's half of the team clash with Heather's side once the teams merge they will still have bad blood. So they'll keep picking each other off one by one which means I'll have no one aiming for me. Once one side wins I'll use the people who were in my team to vote the remaining side off. By the end there should only be members of my team left, and since I'll make sure each person in my team likes me more than anyone else in the game they won't vote me off. This will grant me a spot straight into the final two.
One wrong move and this plan can very well backfire on me, so I'll have to create back up plans as the game goes on so if my plan does backfire I'll have a back up plan to keep myself in the game.
I waited outside the girl's restroom as I was told by Lindsay that Heather was showering. So far I've been waiting for 15 minutes and even from all the way over here I could still hear Eva freaking out.
That's when I saw the door open with Heather coming out. She looked at me.
"Why are you standing outside the girl's restroom? Don't tell me you're some kind of creep." Heather said.
"Oh no I'm no creep. I was actually waiting for you." I said. Although I was planning on acting nice I'll have to show my real self to Heather and Noah for this plan to work out.
"What do you want, I'm busy." Heather said.
"I think it's rather smart how you took Eva's MP3 player. You knew she would freak out after all her anger issues are clear to everyone. Her freaking out will lead to my team becoming mad at her and wanting to vote her out. It's genius really, however your plan had one flaw. I'm in the game as well, and I'm so much smarter than you." I told her as I walked up to her. I then grabbed her bag.
"Hey what the hell are you doing!" Heather yelled as she reached to grab it but I simply kicked the back of her leg to make her fall. As I looked around I saw a lot of things people took to the shower but then I found what I wanted. I took out the MP3 player from her bag and threw the bag back at her.
"I want to help you." I told her.
"Help me? After you kicked me into the ground. Yeah right as if" Heather said.
"Well I wouldn't have gotten the MP3 player if I didn't. I have an offer for you. Let's work together." I told her.
"And what do I gain?" Heather asked.
"You get a free spot into the final 2. I have full control of my team already and with my help you can have full control of your team. Think about it, the both of us can control this whole game." I told her with a smirk.
"And why shouldn't I just tell people you've been pretending to be nice." Heather said while glaring at me.
"Because no one would believe you. Especially if I tell everyone you're the one who stole Eva's MP3 player and bring this back as proof." I told her while showing her the MP3 player.
"Tsk, fine then how do I know you won't back stab me?" Heather asked.
"Because I honestly like you. You're smart and cruel, you're willing to do whatever it takes to win and I find that so attractive in a woman. To put it simply, I won't backstab you because I've fallen for you." I lied to her. Truthfully I have no feelings for her.
"Yeah right as if I'll believe that." Heather told me.
"It's fine if you don't believe me. I'm a messed up person and although many people would be turned off by you, I love smart, cruel and beautiful ladies like you." I told her with a smile. "Don't worry in time I'll show you my love for you, so what do you say, do you want to rule this game together?" I asked her once more. Heather looked thoughtful for a few seconds.
"Fine, just don't be dead weight." She told me.
"As you say my love. Although I do have a small issue to report." I told her.
"What's that?" She asked.
"You see Noah is already beginning to take control of your team." I told her.
"What? How do you know this?" Heather asked me.
"I heard Izzy and Noah talking about it in private. Noah is the leader while Izzy is his right hand woman. I think it's best if we vote out Izzy. We don't know how many people Noah has met so it'll be hard to get people to vote him out but Izzy is a much more simple target." I told her and then threw Eva's MP3 player to the ground and stomped down on it till it broke. "Especially with this. Eva is currently losing her mind, go hide this under Lizzy's bed while I tell Eva to go check your team's cabin. Eva will lose it trying to find it and will lose it even more when she sees it's broken. She will most likely end up breaking some stuff inside your team's cabin which will lead to your team becoming mad at Izzy and wanting her out. At that point there will be nothing Noah will be able to do to save Izzy." I told Heather. Heather looked at me and smirked.
"You're an evil genius." Heather told me.
"I know." I responded with a wink.
As I walked back to my team's cabin I passed by Ezekiel.
"Hey what happened. I thought you said you'll talk to her but you just left." Ezekiel said.
"Yeah sorry I had to use the restroom." I told him and walked over to Eva. "Hey Eva." I called out.
"What!" Eva yelled at me.
"You've been searching our cabin for a long time, you said someone took it so why haven't you checked the other team's cabin yet, it could have been one of them." I told her.
"Guess you're right." Eva said as she angrily made her way to the other team's cabin.
Everyone then heard yelling, stuff breaking till finally a loud, and very loud angrily voice was heard.
"YOU THINK YOU CAN BREAK MY STUFF AND GET AWAY WITH IT! LET'S SEE HOW YOU LIKE IT WHEN I BREAK ALL OF YOUR STUFF!" Eva's voice yelled out in anger.
I watched as multiple things were sent flying out their window breaking. Perfect.
I watched from the top of a tree as the screaming gophers had their elimination. One by one everyone got a marshmallow till Izzy was the only one left without one.
As everyone walked off I jumped off the tree and made my way to Noah, making sure Heather didn't see me.
"Hey Noah." I called out. Noah turned to look at me with a raised eyebrow.
"What?" He asked.
"Come with me real quick." Told him. He listened to me and we walked into the woods a little. "I wanted to tell you that Izzy was framed by Heather." I told him.
"What proof do you have?" Noah asked me.
"I don't have any physical proof, just my words. I heard Heather talking about it with Beth. They wanted Izzy out since she refused to join their alliance." I told Noah.
"Heather having an alliance with Beth. I see it, she has been hanging out with her and Lindsay more since the challenge." Noah said.
"I'm telling you because I think you're the only smart one who can take on Heather. From the way I see things going Heather will take control of your team and soon this whole game if she isn't stopped. A game with her as the ruler is bad with how mean she is." I told Noah.
"Why don't you do something about it then. From what I've seen you seem to be smart." Noah told me.
"I'm a bit smart, yeah, but I don't have the skills or power to do anything against her, plus she scares me a bit." I told him with a chuckle.
"Ok well I don't really have anyone who can vote with me." Noah said.
"I think you can get Gwen, Trent, Leshawna and Owen to vote with you. Leshawna and Heather already have small beef going on. Trent is a good guy so if you tell him what Heather did he'll want to help you get her out and Gwen has a small crush on Trent and I can say there's a 70% chance she'll join whatever alliance he joins. And you can just give Owen food to vote with you." I told him
"Seems to me like you're good at manipulating, because what you're suggesting is manipulating." Noah said with narrow eyes. I simply gave a sad smiled.
"You're right, what I'm doing is manipulating and I hate it so much. It's a skill I'm good at but I hate it so much." I lied to Noah. "I just want everyone to be happy and I think getting Heather out will make this game a lot more peaceful. I know what I'm doing to get that peace is evil but still…. I just want everyone to be happy." I said with a sad smile while looking at the ground.
"Fine, I'll see what I can do." Noah said.
"Thank you." I said softly. Man playing these people will be easy however Noah could become troublesome in the near future, he's more sharp than I gave him credit for.
Confessional
Noah
"Do I trust Leo, well regarding Heather yes. However I don't buy him being such a nice person. It seems so real though but my gut is telling him there's something off about him. But as of now I have no reasons to suspect him of anything but I will keep my eye on him."
Confessional
Heather
"With Leo controlling the other team once I take care of Noah and his little alliance I'll be in control. I'll use that idiot Leo's crush on to get him to do what I want and when his use is over I'll get rid of him."
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