Right. The statue puzzle episode! I'm looking forward to this. Thanks for reviewing, SuperKitty4789, yeezynight14, Nicky Haugh, Pokemon FTW, Bloodylilcorpse, Piecesxoxo, Liz the Sweet Writer and OmniPlanckInstant.

ThatBritishGuy: If you are going to use the review section to character bash and insult without any reasoning for your insistence (I listed deserved victories and you ignored it), I will keep deleting your reviews. I would have said this in a PM if you reviewed under a username, but as it is, I can't.

The free day was pretty good. I was glad that I didn't need to get to know any new names, and the other Heroes were all really nice.

The Villains mostly stayed in the spa hotel. We didn't see much of any of them. Lightning was back for the day, but he had to go back to Boney Island before dinnertime, so we barely got a chance to talk properly before Chef dragged him off.

I spent most of the day just hanging out with the others. I made a special effort to get to know the old cast. Since Owen was gone, that just left the three girls. I was already getting to know Sierra really well, and Beth and Lindsay, while hanging out together, were both friendly and all five of us Hero girls were soon good friends. We even treated the night like a sleepover. Sierra had brought snacks with her luggage ("I remember Chef's inflight meals," she explained, "And even that weird Chinese food in that one challenge was better!" Yeah, she had won that challenge) and so we stayed up late, braiding each other's hair and scoffing Doritos.

"I just wish we had drinks too." I said wistfully. "It would be so cool if we could mix some cocktails."

Zoey blinked at me. "Danni, are you saying you actually drink cocktails? Like, regularly at home? Aren't you still seventeen?"

I shrugged. "It's only eight months until I turn eighteen. What, don't you drink at all?"

"I don't really like alcohol." Zoey admitted. "So I don't."

"We should so take you out somewhere after the show's over." Lindsay suggested. "Trust me, one sip of vodka and you'll never dread drinking again!"

"Do you go out much, Lindsay?" I asked, interested.

"Are you kidding?" Lindsay giggled. "I go out all the time! I love the clubs."

"I'd go out almost every night if I had more friends." Sierra spoke up. "I still try to meet up with Cody every so often, but we never actually, you know, go out together, even as friends. And most of my other friends are just pen pals."

I'd found out that Sierra didn't actually live that far away from me, so what I said next was totally fine. "Why don't we have a girls' night sometime after the season? In fact, all five of us should go out together. We only have about five weeks here – less than five, even. We definitely have enough time!"

Still, life in the cabins wasn't all fun and games. For the next two days, Chef woke us by throwing gruel into the cabins to eat. Only Sierra ate much of it at all. "It makes me feel like I'm on the first season!" she explained when I asked. "It doesn't matter that it's disgusting – it's a nostalgia thing."

And then, the second challenge day arrived. Chris called us around eight-thirty, maybe nine. The sun was already pretty high. "Attention, campers!" the loudspeaker shrilled. "It's challenge time! Get your hineys down to the beach, pronto!"

I literally hadn't seen any of the Villains since the first day apart from Lightning, so I surveyed them as we reached the platforms that had been set up – one for us, one for them. I caught Anne Maria's eye as I looked over at them. She gave me a slight smile – we'd been friends, after all – but she also gave a thumbs down, and I knew what she meant. I answered by drawing a finger across my throat, still smiling sweetly.

Lightning was only brought back from his last night of exile after everyone else was assembled. As for the other villains – well, Alejandro somehow managed to get up to the platform while walking on his hands – yes, that was what he was doing. It seemed to be as natural to him as regular walking – apparently, though, he'd probably never walk regularly again. Maybe his legs would wake up at some point, maybe they were paralyzed forever, but for now, they weren't working.

Duncan winked and made a finger pistol as Gwen climbed up to their platform, but she didn't seem to notice it.

"Ooh, somebody's invisible!" Chris chuckled. "Harsh. TV couples – is it ever a good idea?"

"I don't think it's the TV show!" I called up. "I think it's a mistake of team placings!"

"What are you talking about?" Sierra whispered to me.

"Look, I know you were mad at Gwen last season, but you have to admit that Gwuncan aside, she's not a villain." I whispered back. "She's caught up in her own misery – that's why she didn't notice Duncan just then."

Anyway, it was a pretty easy challenge. Well, sort of. Back in Season 3, the teams had to find pieces of a statue and assemble it. This time, we had to dig for seven parts of a statue in our half of the beach, and put it on our platform. The pieces would make up an icon of one of the places visited that season, like the Eiffel Tower for Paris, or a kangaroo for Hanging Rock.

It was only after a few minutes that Chris told us about the booby traps in the sand and the crab moats around our platforms (the Villains were able to prod theirs with a spade, but we didn't get ones because we lost the last challenge).

Chris finally blew the air horn to start, and we got into a huddle. "We should divide our area into seven different segments, and each dig in one." Zoey suggested, taking charge.

"I agree." I said. "Someone needs to sacrifice themselves to get the moat open, though, before we start on that. Who's going to do it?"

I glanced around, looking for the most self-sacrificing member of our team. But it was clear who had the job. "Oh, fine, I'll do it." I sighed. "You six stake out a section for me once I get out, okay?"

"Go team!" Zoey said, putting her hand into the middle of our huddle.
"Go team!" the rest of us echoed.

And that was it. The challenge began, and it was not a fun one. Not only did I spend most of it with red patches where the crabs had attacked me all over my legs and arms, but the sand was getting all over me. At least the Villains didn't get sandy hands.

And as it was, I could hear Anne Maria complaining about the sand STILL getting up her nails on the other side. After she'd done it more than twice, I heard Heather offering to find someone in the spa hotel to take her nails out completely.

I felt like Miss Totally Unfortunate during the whole challenge, sacrificing myself so no one else had to. Maybe it was karma. Last season, it was always Brick who got the short end of the stick. As it was, he was hard at work almost immediately, and didn't hit any booby traps for the whole challenge. I hit the very first one, and got covered in a bunch of laundry. There was one good piece of luck about it, though.

Among the laundry was a brown fedora. "Hey, Mike!" I called. "Isn't Manitoba Smith good at finding stuff?"

"Yeah, why?" Mike called back.

"I found a fedora!" I explained. "Would you mind letting him take control for some of the challenge?"

Mike shrugged. "Well, I wanna win, and we haven't found any pieces yet, so...all right."

And sure enough, once Mike's Australian alter got control, he immediately dug up our first piece and put it on the platform. Then he caught sight of Zoey. "Well, looks like the real treasure is right here beside me," he grinned, "Wink wink."

The Villains weren't having as much luck as us. Heather was trying to organize them, which was all right, but none of them really wanted to listen to her. They found their pieces fairly easily, though. I was starting to think Chris had gone easier on them.

By the time an hour had gone by, both of the teams had only found one piece, and Chris was losing patience. Luckily, we found far more after that.

There was one thing of importance that happened. Scott tried to sabotage us by finding one of our pieces, and hiding it in the Villains' section, but Manitoba caught him at it.

I only saw it because he accidentally activated a trapdoor, which held...

"Bees!" Scott screamed. "BEES!" he turned to run, hitting Manitoba in the head with his shovel in the process.

That was the thing. When he came back to life, he was Mike again, and for whatever reason, he couldn't trigger Manitoba.

But I didn't worry about it. We didn't need him – we got the sixth piece soon after that incident, and Zoey suggested Beth, Lindsay and I start working on the puzzle while everyone else continued digging.

"So...let's remember...where did you go on the tour, anyway?" I said, trying to remember. "Egypt...well, this is definitely not a pyramid or a sarcophagus, so it's probably not an Egyptian icon."

"What's a sarcopha-thingy?" Lindsay asked.

I sighed. "Sorry, Linds. I meant, like, a mummy case. You know, those really pretty cases that the ancient Egyptians used as kind of mummy coffins."

Beth had begun fitting pieces together. "I've found the base of the statue." she told us. "But I'm not sure what it is."

I picked up another piece and tried to fit it. "It's a body shape, I think." I mused. "Like a woman's...I know!" I turned to Lindsay. "You went to New York, right?"

I wasn't sure if she'd remember, but she nodded enthusiastically. Then she sighed. "Chris wouldn't let me go shopping, though! So unfair!"

I just smiled, though. "You'll get to go shopping in NYC sometime, probably. But I think we might have the Statue of Liberty to build."

Beth looked at the pieces she'd already fit. "That's it!" Her eyes lit up. "Let's get this done quick, then we can help find the last piece."

The three of us got it done quickly. I cupped my hands around my mouth and called out to everyone "It's the Statue of Liberty! We're looking for a torch!"

It was a close call, but just as the Villains found the clock face of Big Ben (London clock), the torch was sitting on the end of Lady Liberty's outstretched hand.

We all started cheering. "Spa hotel! Spa hotel!" most of the veteran cast girls chanted.

Chris cleared his throat. "I do require a Hamster to volunteer for exile duty."

"I feel it should be my duty to take the first exile," Brick offered, "So-" He was taken off by Chef within the next ten minutes.

I met Lightning before elimination as usual. The Villains had already had to move their bags into the cabins, while we Heroes went to move ours into the hotel (I had already claimed one of the two-person bedrooms for Zoey and I).

"So have you discussed with the others who to vote off?" I asked.

"No." Lightning shrugged. "Heather wants Anne Maria to go. I want one of the pretty boys out."

"Well, if you vote for one of them, do you want the weak one or the strong one?" I asked. "Justin's pretty lazy, if I remember right. Alejandro, though, he always does his best and said best is usually top-notch."

"Uh-huh." Lightning nodded. "Which one's which, again?"

I paused, trying to think of a way to differenciate them. Finally, I remembered the easiest thing. "Alejandro's the one who can't walk properly right now." I reminded him. "And they have different coloured eyes – Alejandro has green, Justin has blue." When I'd said Justin had a weird face, I'd completely forgotten the most reedeeming part of his face – whether he was scowling or sullen, his eyes still retained perfection. Why, why, why did those eyes have to be given to someone so shallow?

Lightning's vote didn't really matter, anyway. Not in the grand scheme of things. Just before Chris announced the votes, though, I heard something just beside me. Something from one of my teammates. Something dark and demonic, something that stirred a faint memory from last year.

"One by one, they will all fall."

I turned to look, just as Zoey said "Huh? Did you say something, Mike?"

Mike took a sharp intake of breath, and said innocently "No, just sitting here."

I shrugged. Maybe it was nothing. Mike's personalities weren't gone – and maybe there were a few I didn't know of yet. Mike's other personalities seemed all right. How problematic could another one be?

Justin was in the final two, but so was Anne Maria. "Anne Maria, you're on the chopping block for not working hard and complaining about ruining your looks." Chris said. "And Justin, you're on the chopping block for...actually, the same thing. And tonight's loser is..."

There was a pause. I prayed for Justin to go. Anne Maria may not have been the nicest person alive, but she was my friend, and I wanted to actually talk to her while she was here.

The pause seemed to go on forever. Then Chris finally said it.

"...Anne Maria!"

I didn't stay to watch my friend get flushed. I didn't really want to see her go, and as the winning team, we were allowed to leave after the votes were announced.

I was just glad we had a free day and another night in the spa hotel. We were going to have so much fun!

Yes, Pokemon FTW, you were correct. I planned Anne Maria to leave long before writing this – I have every elimination already planned out, but still, nice prediction!

Sorry for the long wait. I can't garuantee when the next one will be out, but as university is over for another year, I may have more time. However, there is a chance I'll be working for the next three weeks, so I'll see what happens. It might be then, or if not, it'll be February.

Oh, and send in your predictions for the rest of the season!