Total Drama Fiji: Surviving the Drama

Chapter 5: First Immunity Challenge

All three tribes were settling into life on their beaches, building shelter and trying to live as a unit, etc. They had to learn how to effectively live and work together in order to go further in the game; this wasn't like an ordinary Total Drama season, instead of Chef's disgusting food, they had to go out and find it themselves.

As the sun rose to start the second day, all three tribe leaders checked their treemail.

TREEMAIL!

"It's time for the first challenge you shall face. Tribe Leaders, please select an order for your tribe members to compete in. Once all three tribes have their orders, we'll start the challenge."

Laga Tribe (Bridgette, Courtney, DJ, Geoff, Harold, Heather, Lindsay and Trent)

"Okay... I've got to be smart. We don't want Harold to be first or last. I'll go last." Bridgette wrote in the sand as she sat next to Geoff. "I got it!"

Trent, Lindsay, Geoff, Heather, Harold, Courtney, DJ, Bridgette

"It's cool," Geoff smiled. "You know Bridge, you really are cute when you strategize."

Heather stood up and went over to Bridgette. Courtney had just finished boiling water from the fire she made and headed over to Bridgette as well.

Meanwhile, Trent looked around the campsite, hands in his pockets. "Anything I can do to help, guys?

Heather rolled her eyes, "Should have asked ages ago."

Courtney looked around, "Well, I could use some help to tighten the shelters. My CIT hands could only do so much," she joked.

Trent flashed Courtney a smile. "No problem," he told her, kneeling down next to her and getting to work.

Manumanu Tribe (Alejandro, Beth, Eva, Zeke, Izzy, Noah, LeShawna and Owen)

"So, Al... Why not decide the order?" Beth requested.

"Fine, fine," Alejandro sighed, nodding at Beth, "let's see here..."

Noah, LeShawna, Eva, Izzy, Ezekiel, Owen, Beth, Alejandro.

Ika Tribe (Cody, Duncan, Gwen, Justin, Sierra, Tyler, Katie, Sadie)

"Who wants to be first in the challenge?" Cody asked his tribe.

"ME!" Tyler screamed out.

"Alright" Cody replied to Tyler. He looked at the rest of the tribe and realized everyone else was busy. "Hmm... I might just do the rest of the order. So,Tyler, Justin, Duncan, me, Gwen, Katie, Sadie, and finally, Sierra".

All three tribes walked down from their separate beaches and stood on their colored mats before the hosts.

"Alright," Blaineley explained. "Because I'm the Survivor buff here, pun intended, I'll be holding today's challenge.

The contestants who were knowledgable about Survivor politely chuckled whilst those who never watched it looked completely confused.

"Now for today's immunity challenge..."

Part 1

Manumanu:Noah, LeShawna, Eva, Izzy, Ezekiel, Owen, Beth, Alejandro.

Laga:Trent, Lindsay, Geoff, Heather, Harold, Courtney, DJ, Bridgette

Ika:Tyler, Justin, Duncan, Cody, Gwen, Katie, Sadie, Sierra

These are the orders chosen by your leaders.

The first part of the challenge requires each person, in order, to jump off the tribe's platform that's floating out at sea, untie a paddle from the sea floor a few feet down, and jump in the tribe boat. If someone ahead of you doesn't go, you can't go until they're in the boat. Once you have all eight members in the boat...

Part 2

Each person on all three tribes will need to paddle their boat. It can be done in any order you want. Once all eight people have paddled...

Part 3

Once all eight people paddle, your boats will reach the shore and everyone must be standing on the mat on the beach.

1st Place wins a fire making kit and immunity. 2nd wins basic immunity. 3rd goes to Tribal Council.

Blaineley pulled two shrunken head statues out of a bag. "These are your tribal immunity idols. First and second place win these, losers go to to Tribal Council and vote someone off the tribe."

Manumanu Tribe (Alejandro, Beth, Eva, Zeke, Izzy, Noah, LeShawna, Owen)

"You all understand your positions, yes?" Alejandro asked his tribe, "or shall I make a list?"

"Yep, we understand them." Beth nodded, as she wrapped her buff around her hair.

"Nah," Owen smiled. "We so got this! Are you guys excited?! Woohoo!"

"Of course Alejandro would make me go first, it's like I'm testing the jump for him." Noah said sarcastically.

"Good, good. I expect everyone to do their best, contribute, and... Izzy, what are you doing?" Alejandro blinked as the redhead hung upside down from a tree, fiddling with pine cones.

"Huh? Nothing!" She huffed, "Mind your business!"

Laga Tribe (Bridgette, Courtney, DJ, Geoff, Harold, Heather, Lindsay, Trent)

Heather looked annoyed, "Can we get a move on people?"

Trent rubbed the back of his neck, offering a slight smile. "Sorry Courtney. Guess we'll have to finish that up later". They had been chatting prior to the treemail.

Courtney replied to Trent, "Hopefully this won't last long."

Trent continued the conversation. "At least we're not in a radioactive dump, right?"

Courtney gave a relieved sigh, "Right, I would hate to sue Chris this early in the game." She smirked.

Confessional:

Geoff: You know. Courtney and Trent could make a great couple.

"Since you're first in the race, I wanted to wish you luck; it'd be great to win this challenge in first place. Nervous?" asked Courtney

"Well, maybe a little," he admitted, "being up first doesn't help. But knowing I have a pretty girl watching me might help me focus" , replied Trent.

Geoff snickers as he sees Courtney and Trent.

Ika Tribe (Cody, Duncan, Gwen, Justin, Sierra, Tyler, Katie, Sadie)

"Is everyone ready to go?" Cody asked his tribe.

"Sure thing," Duncan grinned. "I am a fast swimmer. Jail really worked up my body."

Cody looks at his own body and replied "I don't really have a fit body"

"But you were able to unleash that right hook of yours," Duncan raised an eyebrow.

"That was only because I was mad, well, mostly jealous" He replied back.

Tyler ran up and grabbed his buff.

The delinquent starts thinking to himself before finally gaining an idea.

Blaineley had acquired a megaphone and was more than comfortable using it. "LET THE CHALLENGE BEGIN!"

"CANON BALL!" Tyler screamed has he jumped into the water.

Noah jumped into the water and swam to the bottom and grabbed a paddle and went back up.

Trent jolted to attention. "Uh, sorry Courtney- talk later!" Trent moved as fast as he could, making his way out to the platform, and diving off. He quickly swam down, grabbing at an oar, not managing to untie it. He returned to the surface for a brief round of air, before swimming back down and grabbing ahold of it, this time, succeeding. He quickly surfaced, shouting, "Grabbed it!" before swimming over to the tribe's boat and climbing inside.

Justin took off his shirt and threw it down.

Noah resurfaces and swims slowly to the boat and eventually gets on it.

Tyler grabs a paddle and swims towards the boat

"Trent's got it!" Courtney yells excitedly.

Leshawna stretches for a second and then swiftly dives down.

It's a close race!" Blaineley cheers. "All three tribes have their first players on board!"

Lindsay dives in and grabs a paddle and winks towards the camera.

Courtney looked at Geoff with her gameface, "Jump as soon as you see Lindsay get in that boat."

Tyler sees Lindsay and waves.

Lindsay waves back at Tyler.

Justin dived into the water, he got out and shook his head around and flashed a smile at the camera. He grabbed a paddle and swam to the boat.

LeShawna struggles with untying but eventually gets it and swims back to the surface, she hurries her way to the boat, throwing her paddle in first and then jumping in herself.

Harold pants up to Heather and gives her a nerdy smile. "Bet I can get to the boat faster."

"Duncan, you're up" Cody told him.

Geoff jumps in next for his tribe. He goes to the paddle and quickly unties before reclaiming to the surface.

Duncan jumped in water and finds the paddle. He uses his knife to untie the rope and swims up.

Cody waited for Duncan to get in the boat before he jumps.

Geoff immediately swims to the boat. He throws his paddle in and climbs up. Panting along the way.

"Doing great guys!" Trent smiled, clapping for his team.

"Eva, go!" Alejandro hissed.

Duncan hops in the boat and looks satisfied.

Heather stretches before diving in the water as soon as she sees Geoff make it to the boat. She unties a paddle with ease and swims underwater to the boat. She waves her paddle in the air so that Harold can dive in.

Cody jumps in the water and swims towards the paddles. He unties one and swims back up, gasping for air. He swins towards the boat and hops in.

Harold runs off the cliff and into the water. He swims sloppily to the paddle and unties it. He then swims to the boat and clumsily climbs in.

"Eva, holding up Manumanu. Not looking good for the reds right now!" yelled Blaineley, who was now working solo as Chris had gone to his trailer.

"Nice work dude," Duncan grinned, smacking Cody on the back.

Confessional:

Duncan: Am I being nice? Meh. But I was thinking maybe I can get Cody in an alliance to get rid of Justin. I seriously don't trust that guy.

"Where is Eva?!" LeShawna screamed, frantically.

"Eva, where are you?!" Alejandro demanded.

"Yeah! Gwen! Your turn!" Cody yelled out. But he realized that Katie, Sadie, and Sierra weren't there; he didn't know where they'd gone.

"Eva, the heck are you?!" Beth shouted out loud.

"Somebody better find DJ quick!" cries Courtney, referring to Laga's missing member as she jumps into the water rather badly. She struggles to fix herself when she goes for the paddles. It took a little longer to untie it, but she quickly swims back to surface and to the boat.

Gwen swims back up with the paddle, swimming to her boat somewhat quickly.

"DJ!" Bridgette yelled. "Almost everyone was on the boat but him and her. They could win this!

Heather growled from the boat, yelling with all of her might, "IF DJ ISN'T IN THIS BOAT AND WE DON'T WIN THIS CHALLENGE SOON I'M GOING TO KILL HIM WITH MY BARE HANDS!"

Courtney glared harshly at the girl for yelling in her ear.

"Eva, dive down in the water and grab a paddle and then swim to the boat," Owen cried. "The fate of humanity depends on it!"

"The fate of humanity? Really Owen?" Noah asked him.

"Can you blame me for trying to win?" Owen asked.

Alejandro swore to himself in Spanish. As far as he was concerned, Eva was done.

'Ow, Heather," Trent grunted, "think you blew out my eardrum."

Bridgette huffed and Heather's aggresivness. "I'LL FIND HIM. NO ONE IS GOING TO KILL DJ. WE NEED HIM." She yelled back at Heather and looked around.

"Where's Katie, Sadie, and Sierra?" Cody asked worried.

"Relax.' Justin says, "I'm sure they'll be here

"Eva!" Leshawna tried, weakly. If her team lost, at least she wouldn't be the first person to be voted for.

"If she doesn't get here soon, SHE'LL be the one who needs to be terrified," Alejandro growled.

Bridgette pouted in dissapointment. "GUYS, I CAN'T FIND HIM."

"Sorry you guys!" DJ called out, having been scared stiff due to something he saw in the jungle. Heading over to the platform DJ quickly grabbed his team's logo and tied it on his already existing cap before jumping into the water. Swimming over to the water with a slight sense of fear at the thought of going underwater, DJ called to his mama, held his breath, and did just that. Successfully tying off the rope on his first try DJ broke through the surface and gasped for air, before looking over at some of his teammates irritated looks and quickly swimming over to his respective teams boat.

"Thank you DJ!" Bridgette yelled as she dove gracefully into the water and swam speedily and grabbed the ore. She threw it into the boat and jumped in. "YES!" She cheered as all her teammates where in the boat.

Heather glared harshly at DJ, "The only thing keeping me from burying you alive is that we're in the lead!"

"Finally!" Trent grinned, "let's start rowing, guys!"

Leshawna's eyes widened and she tapped her foot. "Eva?!" She yelled again.

Heather grinds her teeth and starts paddling the boat.

Courtney puts her determined face back on and starts paddling the boat.

"Come on people!" Bridgette buckles down and paddles, yelling at Harold because he's being slow.

Geoff paddled the boat as hard as he can. The paddle was so heavy that Geoff started losing strength.

Trent began paddling as hard and fast as he could, determined to help his team win their prize.

"Guys?" Gwen frowned. "We need to go. Where's Katie?"

"Keep at it, guys!" Trent called, "we're doing great!"

Laga has a huge lead and they're heading back to shore! Eva is still stalling and Katie is starting to hold up her own tribe too! This could be close!"

"Come on Eva! If snails were in the race! They would be ahead of us!" Noah yelled out.

"Noah? Should I... Try to 'encourage' her?" Beth asked, seemingly worried about their eventual outcome.

LeShawna grunted. "It's like encouragin' a damn wall."

Harold grabbed his inhaler and breathed in while splashing water on Bridgette when paddling.

It had also splashed on Geoff but instead of getting angry...it helped him paddle harder.

"Thanks Harold!"

Heather pushes past everyone when they make it to shore, standing proudly on the blue mat.

Courtney grins victoriously at her teammates as she goes to stand on their mat.

Bridgette jumps into Geoff's arms in excitement. "We won!"

"What if Izzy had an alter ego named Eva and she did the challenge. Would it count as Eva and Izzy doing it?" Noah asked sarcastically.

Alejandro looked at Noah, before nodding. "Alright. THAT was funny."

Blaineley threw her skinny arms in the air. "Laga wins the first immunity challenge!"

She handed Bridgette her shrunken head statue and box of fire making supplies. "These are yours, you blonde bimbo trash, I mean... tribe leader."

She turned out to sea. "One idol left! You guys are still in it!"

"Woo hoo!" DJ cheered, raising his not so skinny arms in the air in celebration, feeling like handing out some more mad cool high fives. With his short cheering bout done DJ made his way over to Harold and Courtney and crouched down to help the two if they needed it.

Eva woke up with a grunt and rolled over onto Noah. "Wow! Watch yourself dweeb!" The angry girl leaped and yelled.

"Look everyone, the wall is finally up" Noah said upon realizing Eva is up.

"The dead been brought back!" Leshawna yelled, filled with relief.

Eva grunted in distaste and looked at the people in boats. "Why are you all looking at me like that?"

"Girl betta' get over here or we'll lose, tho!" She realized.

Eva looked over the edge of the cliff and shrugged. "Whatever," she huffed and jumped into the water. She swam to the ore and literally tore it off of the strong, then jumped into the boat sopping wet and mad.

Once again, Blaineley took out her megaphone. "KATIE AND SADIE HAVE BEEN PULLED FROM THE GAME DUE TO A DOUBLE QUIT. Once one quit, the other quickly followed, and you get the gist.

The challenge is still on, but to make it fair for both teams, Sierra WILL NOT jump until the Manumanu tribe is down to one jumper (Alejandro, who was last in line.)"

Sierra's eyes opened and she finally realized where she was. "Oh!" She shook her head, trying to wake herself up. "CODY-KINS?!"

"Looks like Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum are eliminated," Duncan frowned.

"This is not good...!"said Cody worriedly.

"So, can I jump now?" Owen asked.

"ONCE IZZY AND ZEKE GO!" Blaineley shouted at Owen.

"E-SCOPE IS HERE!" Izzy declared, suddenly rushing out, and jumping into the water. She easily surfaced with the paddle, swimming to the boat and climbing in.

"Thank god!" LeShawna sighed, throwing her head back.

"Now Zeke, you jump" Noah yelled at the homeschool boy.

"After Beth jumps, Sierra jumps, then we race to the finish line!" Cody said.

"Hey Owen, you can finally jump now!" Noah told him.

Beth looked down from the cliff.

"I don't know about this..." Beth gulped. "But I don't wanna get eliminated... Here I go!"

Beth hopped down from the cliff, and splashed into the water. Managing to grab one of the paddles with ease, she soon swam to her team's boat.

Sierra gasped. "Cody-kins! Believe in me!"

Cody groans in response.

"And we're down to two jumpers! The race for second in tight and the action is intense!" Blaineley looked excited from the shore.

"Woohoo!" cried the jolly giant. "Finally!"

Owen hopped off into the water. The splash was so huge... Owen swam to the boat and climbed up.

Sierra dived, swimming to the bottom. She practically bit into the ropes locking away her paddle and swam to shore, hurrying to her team's boat.

"Finally!" Alejandro gasped in relief, diving into the water. He quickly swam down, grabbing his paddle, and surfacing. He waved to his team, before swimming over and climbing into the boat, letting out a sigh of relief. "Now ROW!"

Alejandro and Izzy both began to paddle.

Boarding the boat, Beth soon paddled with the strength she had alongside the other contestants.

Owen rowed as fast as he could.

Duncan placed all his strength into his rowing.

Noah put down his book and started paddling

Zeke climbed into the boat and began to paddle, hoping that it would be enough.

Gwen paddled quickly. LeShawna began to paddle too.

Tyler started paddling, hitting himself in the face with the paddle a few times.

"Finally!" Izzy smirked, leaping on to her mat, Alejandro stepping on next to her.

Uncharacteristically, Owen quickly ran and got on the mat.

Noah ran off the boat, stops and runs back to get his book and headead to mat, stepping on it.

Leshawna crawled out of the boat, dragging herself to the mat.

Jumping off the boat, Beth ran as fast as she could to the mat.

"Justin! Paddle!" Cody yelled.

Zeke jumped out and nearly dove onto the mat.

Gwen looked around helplessly. "Justin!"

"MANUMANU WINS IMMUNITY!", Blaineley announced through her megaphone.

Leshawna sighed with relief, high-fiving her team-mates.

Sierra screamed, still holding Cody.

Gwen face-palmed.

Cody grabs Justin's mirror and throws it in the water, a little angry.

"I've already made my decision for the vote" Duncan told Cody...eyeing Justin.

Blaineley handed Manumanu the immunity statue and a small but of flint to get fire started if they were lucky. "Nice comeback, reds. You impressed me."

She faced Ika. "Ika, not so much. Looks like you're going to the first Tribal Council of the season... right now."

"My vote is the same" He told Duncan.

As Manumanu and Laga celebrated their respective prizes, Ika began the treacherous journey to the season's first Tribal Council. Now only down to six members, soon to be five, no one was looking forward to it.