Well, since school has started up again, chapters will come up less often. But I'll try to update as much as I can! Anyway, enjoy the chapter!
"Last time on Total Drama Island, our nine competitors went on a hunt, with our special guests Ella and Dawn being here to help! Speaking of Dawn, I still don't know what she meant about Johan but I don't really care! As for the challenge, Tamara found out about Hayden blackmailing Dutch, Astrid proved she's still tough as nails and Luis showed us he's still a wimp! Hehe! Viola proved she's also a strong competitor by bringing her animal back without a scratch! My idea of making this an automatic elimination challenge caused Ruby to take the fall! 8 campers remain and soon it'll be seven! Who will make it to the final seven? Find out now on Total Drama Island!"
It was the middle of the night, Tamara couldn't sleep, she was too angry at Hayden to sleep. She needed someone to vent her anger to but the other girls were still sleeping.
*confessional*
Tamara: Oh I can't take Hayden abusing Dutch for his own personal gain! I know Dutch isn't the nicest person around but at least he's been showing signs of changing!
*end confessional*
Just like Tamara, Nikki had a bit of trouble sleeping as well, she was still thinking about what Dawn said about Johan's past. Dawn told her that she shouldn't talk to him about it but she couldn't stop thinking about it ever since.
*confessional*
Nikki: I just don't understand what Dawn meant! Maybe I'm thinking too much about it, but I am Johan's girlfriend! Maybe I should ask him about it.
*end confessional*
Eventually, exhaustion caught up with Nikki and she fell asleep. She and the other interns were woken up suddenly by Chris.
"Attention interns! I need you to help set up today's challenge!"
"It's 4:30 in the morning! Can't this wait!" Sapphire whined
"Cognitive function depends on good sleep!" Briar added
"Listen I don't know what you just said and I don't care! We have to get the challenge ready so MOVE! MOVE! MOVE!" Chris ordered, everyone moved in the direction of the cliffs.
The following morning, the boys had woken up, Luis and Michael went to go brush their teeth, Hayden pulled Dutch aside.
"Dutch, the last challenge was too close for comfort! Chris is not letting up with his challenges so I need you to help me whenever possible! I'm sure I don't need to remind you of our agreement." Hayden said, Dutch nodded sadly. "Good! Keep this up and I might not tell the others about Charlotte's pregnancy!" Hayden left the cabin leaving Dutch by himself, Dutch glared at Hayden as he left.
Luis and Michael left the bathrooms after brushing their teeth, they began talking about Hayden and Dutch.
"Do you think Dutch is really changing?" Luis asked
"I'm not really sure, I think it depends on how he was before coming on this show. Counting his actions throughout the previous challenges, he seems to be having a change in attitude! But for now the bigger threat is Hayden, he's going down!" Michael answered, Luis nodded in agreement.
"I honestly would have never guessed that Hayden would be so heinous and maniacal! Though people have been known to do crazy things at the promise of money." Luis added, the two boys headed for the mess hall for breakfast.
In the girls cabin, everyone still seemed upset about Ruby's elimination.
"Well this stinks! Ruby was cool and having her gone means we have one less vote against Hayden!" Astrid stated
"Complaining won't do anything! We're going to have to put everything we have into this challenge!" Viola exclaimed, Astrid, Tamara, and Corlissa all agreed. The girls then headed for the mess hall as well.
Back at the cliffs, the interns and Chef finished working on the challenge while Chris was watching them from the top of the cliff.
"Are you gonna do anything besides stand there?!" Chef called out to Chris
"Um... Hello! I'm supervising!" Chris answered, Chef rolled his eyes, the interns joined Chris once they were finished building the challenge. The only issue is that Chris never told them what exactly the challenge was.
"Alright ... we finished! But what did we build exactly?" Mike asked
"All in due time Mike! You'll all see what the challenge is along with the contestants!" Chris told them.
"Are you serious!? We spent almost 3 hours building this damn thing and you won't even tell us what we built!?" Ciana snapped, Chris simply smiled at her.
"Why don't you head to the mess hall and get some breakfast! I'll call everyone over here later!" Chris replied, not even answering Ciana's question. The interns, along with Chef, headed off to the mess hall. Along the way Nikki confronted Johan.
"Hey Johan, I wanted to ask you something."
"Yeah? What is it?" He said
"It's about what Dawn said, about your 'troubled past'. What did that mean?" Nikki asked, Johan sighed but answered her question.
"It's not something I really want to talk about. I've made some mistakes before and they always seem to catch up with me..." Nikki felt even more concerned, why was Johan being so cryptic?
Some time later, everyone (except Chris) was in the mess hall eating their breakfast, but everyone was silent. Things were tense, Tamara was aware of Hayden blackmailing Dutch, Luis and Michael were keeping a close eye on Dutch, and the girls were still plotting to eliminate Hayden A.S.A.P! The interns talked amongst themselves, careful not to cause an awkward moment, except Ciana who didn't really care as long as there was some action.
"What's with everybody? All of this silence is kinda creeping me out!" Mike said
"Tension is high mostly due to Hayden's past actions and Dutch's less brutish behavior. The girls are most likely thinking of a plan to have Hayden eliminated while Michael and Luis are making sure Dutch isn't tricking everyone into thinking he's changed." Briar explained
"How do you know this stuff?" Sapphire asked her.
"I'm very studious, and I re watched some of the past episodes from this season!" Briar said. Just as everyone was throwing away their trash, Chris entered the mess hall.
"Good morning campers! Let's not waste any time, meet me down at the beach and I'll explain the challenge!" He announced, everyone left the mess hall and headed down to the beach as soon as they could. Once they arrived at the beach, they all immediately noticed that there was something jutting out of the wall of the cliff that was covered by a large tarp.
"Campers, this challenge will be the most physical, extreme, and difficult challenge yet!" Chris announced, Luis gulped in fear. "Now Chef!" Chris said into a walkie - talkie, Chef then appeared in a helicopter that had a machine on its underside that removed the tarp from the cliff. Revealing the challenge to be some sort of obstacle course that scaled the wall of the cliffs. There were 4 large ball shaped machines coming out of the water, they seemed to be soft enough for someone to get hit by them and not get seriously hurt but hard enough to disorient them. The level above it had spaces requiring the contestants to jump to the next platform. The third level had a large empty space that separated the 3rd and 4th levels, this empty space was filled with two logs that rolled continuously. The 4th level was a rock wall leading to the final level which was a vertical climb that ended at the top of the cliff.
"This is the McLean Obstacle Course! Patent Pending. You'll start at the beach and hop along the Bouncy Balls of Doom, climb up to Platforms of Pain, head up to Log Rolls of Terror, next is the Rock Wall leading up to the Vertical Climb! Falling in the water serves no penalty, but you have to start from the beginning!" Chris explained
"That's it?" Astrid asked
"What do you mean 'That's it'! We spent hours making this thing!" Ciana shouted, this seemed to make everyone shut up until Chris spoke up again.
"And to make things a bit more interesting, I've decided to make this challenge an automatic elimination!" The contestants were horrified at this, a few gasped at Chris' words.
*confessionals*
Luis: A physical challenge... I think this will be my last day here...
Viola: This win is as good as mine! I do Parkour regularly and I even have a YouTube channel dedicated to Parkour! This'll be a snap!
Hayden: Some of the more physically adept contestants will most likely do well at this challenge. I need to do everything I can to make sure one of them goes down since they will give me more trouble later on.
*end confessionals*
"Alright! Without further adieu, let the challenge begin!" And with those words the campers dashed onto the obstacle course, Viola quickly took the lead, everyone except Luis was close behind. Luis was struggling to stay on the first Bouncy Ball.
"Come on Luis, you can do this?" Michael called out.
"He's dead weight, but if you want to help him and get yourself eliminated with him then be my guest!" Hayden taunted, everyone gave him a nasty glare. Everyone continued to the second level, except Luis, who was on the third Bouncy Ball, but he fell of a few moments after.
"Why don't you just quit now!" Astrid shot back at him, Hayden did not look intimidated in the slightest. Viola jumped from platform quickly and elegantly. The others were astounded with how easily she did this, even Hayden acknowledged this, though he soon had an evil smirk on his face. Meanwhile, Luis got the hang of the Bouncy Balls and made it across with relative ease, he made it to the second level while everyone else made it to the Log Rolls of Terror.
"We won't stop until we bring you down!" Corlissa snapped, nearly falling off of the log and into the water below. Thankfully she regained her footing and finished the log roll.
"Like that'll ever happen!" Hayden snapped back at her. From below, Luis finished the platforms and headed on to the log roll, he was getting tired...
Back in the interns cabin, Nikki was in the lounge reading when Briar entered the room.
"Hello Nikki, are you still feeling unsure about what Dawn said concerning Johan's past?" She asked, Nikki looked up from her book.
"Oh, hey Briar! Yeah, I am... how did you know?" Nikki answered.
"As I said in the mess hall earlier, I'm very studious, so I know about how a person's body language usually reflects on their current emotions. As for Johan, did you speak to him about it?" Briar responded.
"I did, but he just says he isn't comfortable talking about his past..." Nikki replied
"Hmm... perhaps it would be best to confront Johan about this when he feels ready to tell you about it! If he is comfortable with it then perhaps you can help him move on!" Briar said words made Nikki feel hopeful.
"Thanks Briar! So I should just give him some time?"
"Exactly!" Briar said, she left the room, leaving Nikki to return reading her book.
Back on the obstacle course, everyone was on the rock wall, with a little encouragement from Michael, Luis managed to catch up to the others! Though Luis was growing increasingly exhausted, Viola was nearing the end of the rock wall and was about to head up to the Vertical Climb.
"Go Viola! We can't let Hayden win!" Corlissa cheered, unbeknownst to the rest of them, Hayden removed one of the rocks from the wall while nobody was watching and kept it hidden as best as he could. Hayden then maneuvered himself past a few of the others, finishing the rock wall. Viola was about halfway up the Vertical Climb.
"And Viola is nearing the victory!" Chris announced.
"Not if I can help it!" Hayden said, thankfully for him, the others did not hear him. Hayden threw the rock he took at Viola, it knocked her off of the Vertical Climb and into the water back at the bottom of the cliff!
"Oh! Now Viola has to re do ALL of the obstacles!" Chris announced, the others all gasped at Viola ' misfortune. As Hayden approached the Vertical Climb, he noticed that some of the floorboards were not properly held down, taking the opportunity, he destroyed the floorboards! This made it impossible for the others to reach him, Hayden then began the climb. The others (except Luis) finished the Rock Wall, but they were stopped by the destroyed floorboards.
"Damn, there's no way to cross!" Corlissa cursed.
"We can't let Hayden win, there has to be something we can do!" Tamara added. From down below, Viola tried to race back up to the top as fast as she could to avoid elimination. While she finished the Bouncy Balls, Luis finally finished the Rock Wall and joined the others but he nearly collapsed from exhaustion.
"What *panting* did I miss?" Luis asked, immediately Dutch grabbed him and tossed him to the end of the climb. Both Luis and Hayden inched closer and closer to the finish line until...
"It's a tie!" Chris announced.
"WHAT?!" Everyone yelled.
"At least it might be! We're gonna have to review the footage. But either way this challenge is over!" Chris explained.
"Oh man..." Viola said, she was halfway through the Rock Wall when Hayden and Luis crossed the finish line.
*confessionals*
Viola: I lost... How could I lose?! Hayden WILL pay for this! Mark my words!
Luis: What Dutch did was not very kind and very dangerous! But I must admit, it was a very smart idea!
Hayden: Like I said, I can not be stopped!
*end confessionals*
Some time later, Chris and the interns had reviewed the footage of the challenge, everyone else was waiting in the mess hall, the interns were giving Hayden nasty looks. Hayden simply shrugged this off.
"Well campers we reviewed the footage and it is safe to say that this challenge did in fact end in a tie!" Chris announced, everyone except Hayden gasped. "Well... we actually still aren't sure but due to time constraints, we can't really have a tiebreaker challenge. So both Luis and Hayden have immunity! However since this IS an auto elimination challenge, the person is last place is going to be eliminated! And that said person is... Viola!"
'What?!" Corlissa argued
"Come on!" Astrid stated
"Complaining won't help girls..." Viola announced
At the dock Viola had gathered her things and walked onto the boat, before the boat went off Hayden spoke to her.
"I must admit, you almost had me! But I already told Ruby, I will not lose!"
"You're wrong, you may have gotten me, but you will be stopped Hayden!" Viola hissed
"You poor pathetic fool..." Hayden said calmly, Viola was about to respond, but the boat went off before she could say anything. The others (minus Hayden) waved goodbye to Viola as she left.
"And so Viola has taken the boat to Loserville! Can Hayden be stopped? I don't know but it sure makes for good television! Who will go down next time? Find out next time on Total Drama Island!" Chris signed off.
After Viola left, the interns were taking it easy back in their cabin, Chris soon entered holding a few envelopes.
"Mail call!" Chris announced, he tossed the letters onto a table. Nikki took all the letters and gave them to who they were sent for, she looked a bit uneasy when she saw that one of them was addressed to Johan.
"Um... here Johan, this is for you." Nikki said, handing Johan his letter. Johan read his letter and immediately had a grim look on his face. He then crumpled up his letter and threw it away. Nikki looked worried.
"What did it say?" She asked
"It's nothing, don't worry about it..." Johan answered, he kissed Nikki on the cheek and left the room, leaving Nikki confused and worried...
Well, that's it! *sigh* Eliminating Viola was NOT easy, but someone had to go. As for Viola herself, it was pretty fun writing for her! Also I know the plot I have for Johan seems a little late since this story is nearing the finale, but don't worry it'll make sense eventually, just be patient. Anyway, hope you enjoyed the chapter!