Oh man, I gotta hurl my favourite character of the season this chapter? Oh well. Thanks for reviewing, Ali6132 and Derpimelt1000 (good idea, but I'm too lazy to reupload, so I'll just start from here).

I talked to Cameron about Mike the next morning, before anyone else (except Jo, who always went for a workout/run each morning) was up. With Brick on the other team, they were the only ones in the boys' cabin, and Cameron had been studying Mike as he slept, because he often talked in his sleep as one of his personalities. "I've so far documented three alternate personalities. I'm still trying to work out what exactly triggers each of them."

I nodded. "And if we worked out how they're triggered, then it would be easier for Mike to control them and know when they were being triggered!" I sighed. "I know it's kind of awful to view Mike as something scientific...but, he kind of works as a case study. It's really interesting."

Cameron nodded. "I know what you mean – I count Mike as a friend as well as a teammate, but he's also just like a psychology textbook."

However, something happened that morning that put all thoughts of Mike out of my head. I had just finished showering, and put my clothes back on, when I realized something was missing. "Where's my lucky necklace?"

I ran to the mess hall, where everyone else was. "Hey, has anyone seen my necklace? It's a heart-shaped block of amber!"

No one had seen it, but Scott sidled up to me. "Someone's been stealing stuff. I think it's Brick. When he joined our team, Lightning's protein powder immediately went missing! I bet he took it, and he probably took your necklace, too. He's been on both teams, so he knows what stuff everyone values."

I frowned. "Brick? He's not the type. Why would he steal stuff?"

But it did seem strange. Lightning and I weren't the only ones to lose things throughout the day.

But let's start at the beginnning. Soon after I asked about my necklace, Dawn informed me that my Chi was looking shrunken, whatever that meant. She said it was probably because I'd lost my necklace.

"By the way," she said even more quietly, "You should have more confidence in yourself. Your necklace has nothing to do with your luck."

I stared at her. How had she known I considered my amber necklace lucky? "Let me guess, it's in my aura?" I said, heavily sarcastically.

Dawn nodded seriously. "I'm serious, though, Shannon. You have luck because you think you do. Even without your necklace, you need to have that same frame of mind." She smiled sympathetically. "I hope you find it, though."

Chris actually drove us out of the mess hall with a giant raccoon, but there was a plus to the challenge. Not a big one, but still.

Izzy wasn't the only old castmate we saw. Chris introduced the challenge with two blonde girls in a boat. One of them was Dakota. The other was...

"Classic competitor, Bridgette!" Chris announced.

Bridgette was one of the nicest competitors I remembered – chilled, natural, honest, friendly. She'd been good on the first season, but got voted off early on the other two, first because she and her boyfriend Geoff wouldn't stop making out in the second season, and in the third season, she'd been manipulated and not only pretty much cheated on Geoff, but got frozen stuck to a pole and got kicked off.

"Let's get this over with." Bridgette said, frowning. "Remember, my contract said demonstration only."

"Relax, no demo needed." Chris told her. If Bridgette didn't have to do anything...then why did Chris bring her back? At least Izzy had a reason to be around when she was.

The first challenge was for a teammate to grab some skis underwater, in a diving suit. The rest of us would pump air for them. As usual, the winning team would get an advantage – whoever got the skis first.

"Listen up, Maggots, I'm diving!" Jo said.

"You do everything, Jo!" I snapped. "Let me have a try at this!"

"Shortcake, take a look at yourself!" Jo said impatiently. "I doubt you could even move in a diving suit. And I think we all know who the strongest swimmer is."

"What are you saying, none of us can do it?" Anne Maria argued. Jo answered by putting the diving helmet on Cameron, who instantly fell over.

I folded my arms. "That's not fair – Cameron's spent most of his life in a bubble. The rest of us haven't."

But Jo wouldn't listen. "Get busy pumping air, and don't make me use my whistle...all right, who took my whistle?"

Yes, that was the next thing to go missing.

The other team made Brick dive. They would – as if Brick and Jo weren't competitive enough with each other!

Our team had even more drama. I crouched with Cameron and Anne Maria who were yelling for Jo, but I was keeping an ear out for a conversation Mike and Zoey were having about the thing with Vito.

"I swear, I don't know how I ended up kissing Anne Maria!" Mike was telling her. "Sometimes I get so deep into character, that I don't know what I'm doing!" I would really need to talk to him about his personalities – and soon. I knew Zoey pretty well now, and I wanted to try to get him to see that she wouldn't get weird on him for that.

"So...you're like a method actor?" Zoey was asking.

"Exactly! Look, Zoey, you're, like, the most amazing girl I've ever met!"

"The most amazing?" I knew Zoey would start smiling at this.

"Yeah! And if you don't like my...um...funny characters, then I'll totally retire them!"

"I don't want you to give up acting, but maybe just...tone it down?"

"Consider it toned."

It was Anne Maria who realized that Zoey was standing on the air tubes, and pushed her off.

"Don't push!" Zoey snapped, giving her a shove back. "Are you wearing orange paint?" she asked, looking at her hand, which was coated in fake tan.

"Oh, no. Nobody disrespects the tan!" Anne Maria pushed Zoey so hard she fell over, and because she hung on to the first thing she could think of – Mike's shirt – it ripped off him.

Mike gasped, and his hair looked slicked back. I knew before he spoke that it was Vito again. "Ladies, why fight? There's enough candy for everyone, candy being me."

"Oh yeah, Vito!" Anne Maria grinned, being all over him again. "Gimme some sugar."

Poor Zoey. "I get the message!" she said, looking like she was about to cry. I walked down the beach with her, keeping silent until she seemed ready to talk.

"I don't know what Mike's doing." I said finally.

"I don't get these mixed messages he's sending." Zoey murmured. "First he calls me amazing, then he becomes that Vito guy and suddenly he's all over Anne Maria."

"I didn't mind her until she started being all over him." I remarked. "It's like Mike can't control his characters, and she just takes advantage of it all."

Zoey started drawing a broken heart in the sand.

Dawn, who was collecting shells, came up. She smiled at me and then said "Don't worry, Zoey. You won't be lonely forever."

Zoey looked up in shock, and then said "Oh. Hey, Dawn. Well, tell that to Anne Maria and Mike. Or should I call him Vito?"

"Trust me, Mike likes you a lot." Dawn told her.

"How can you be so sure?" Zoey asked.

"It's all over his aura." Dawn answered. "The Mike parts of it, anyway."

"Dawn, can I ask you something?" I said. "Will there be anyone...out there...you know, for me?"

Dawn's ethereal-looking blue eyes focused on me. "I can see that part of your aura." she smiled. "You like C-"

"Shh!" I whispered.

"Sorry." Dawn whispered back. "You like Cameron, don't you?"

She could see it. And yes, I did. I liked Cameron a lot. At first, we were just friends, but I liked him the more I hung out with him. He was adorable – super-smart, but pretty innocent, and he was sweet with it. That was just the type I liked.

"Don't worry, he likes you too." Dawn said. "I've seen his aura."

I still couldn't be sure, and Zoey had suddenly processed what Dawn had said to her. "What do you mean, the Mike parts?"

There was a pause.

"Dawn?" The blonde had completely disappeared. Zoey and I looked at each other.

Zoey gave a sigh. "To be honest, I don't know about Dawn. She's nice, but she creeps me out sometimes. I mean, reading auras, talking to animals...teleporting?""

"I like her." I answered. "She's such a sweet person. She does creep me out a bit, but I don't mind."

The Rats won the first challenge. They got a speedboat for the next part of the challenge. We got a leaky dinghy.

Everyone seemed to be looking at Brick suspiciously, now. Scott outright called him a "stealer", which he clearly took as "stealing victory".

The challenge was to waterski, and be the first to ring three bells on those spiky bomb things. It was four, but Bridgette and Dakota accidentally hit one with their boat.

"Rude!" snapped Dakota, clinging to a buoy.

Bridgette landed on the dock, and Chris laughed. "See? You totally got to demo!"

I ran over and helped Bridgette up. "Are you OK?"

But there was no time for her to answer. We had to start the challenge. Three campers would waterski (four on our team), one would drive, and one, would fire a cannon full of gulls at the other team – rattlesnake-seagulls.

"I'll drive, if that's OK with everybody." Zoey offered.

"Whatever." Jo shrugged. "I'm gunning!"

"I'm tannin'!" Vito announced.

"And I'm watching Vito!" Anne Maria added.

"And I'm telling you two to stop admiring each other and focus on the freakin' challenge!" I yelled. Zoey was seething.

So Vito stood on one ski, Anne Maria on the other, and Cameron and I were on their shoulders – Cameron on Anne Maria's, and me on Vito's.

Vito was good for one thing – he did punch Fang in the nose when he was following us.

"Go get your missing tooth from Scott!" I yelled at Fang. "Remember, he's got it? He's over there!" I pointed.

When we were losing, the Rats having hit one bell, Cameron managed to say something to bring out Svetlana.

"I can't stay here if he's going to start gymnastics!" I panicked.

Cameron held out a hand to me, shifting so he was on only one of Anne Maria's shoulders. I took his hand to step onto her other shoulder...and didn't let go again.

Holding Cameron's hand felt really nice, and he seemed not to notice I was hanging on. I mean, I loosened my grip on it, and he didn't let go.

It was a good thing I'd moved. Svetlana did some awesome manuvers. But we crashed into a rock. We had to get the last one.

Jo looked at me and then Cameron. "Time to take one for the team, string bean!" she yelled, grabbing Cameron and hurling him to touch the last bell.

When the bomb exploded, we had won.

"Cam!" I cried, but he'd have to go into infirmary for awhile. We all congratulated him.

Later that night, something strange came to light. The Rats discovered that all the stuff that had been taken was found in Dawn's bag. Jo's whistle, Lightning's protein, my necklace – and the other things that had been stolen, like Scott's shark tooth and Anne Maria's hairbrush.

"Friends, you must listen to me." Dawn pleaded. "I was framed!"

"Forget that!" Anne Maria snapped. "You're getting a beatdown!"

Jo blew her whistle. "Back off, helmet hair, this one's mine!"

"Ladies, ladies, this is a Rat problem." Scott said. He said they'd deal with it. Everyone walked off except for Scott. "See you at elimination." he said before leaving.

Dawn looked at me, the only one who hadn't left.

I gave a sigh. "Dawn, you said you hoped I'd find my necklace. But you also said I depended on it too much. Was taking it your way to get me to see that?"

"I didn't take it!" Dawn said pleadingly. "Please, Shannon. I wouldn't do something so underhanded."

I stayed calm. "How did it get into your bag, then? You say you were framed. When did you leave your bag unattended?"

"I forgot it at the dock." Dawn murmured. "When I came in to talk to my teammates, Scott had it, and he purposely spilled everything out of it to make it look like I'd taken those things. It wasn't me."

I frowned, starting to believe her now. It was true that stealing didn't seem like something she'd do. "That would point to Scott, but he said he'd lost his shark tooth. Why would he frame you, anyway?"

"Because I discovered that he is a traitor. "Dawn answered, her pale face contorting into a scowl. "I'm done for now, I know it. Shannon?"

"What is it?" I asked.

"Warn your team." Dawn said. "Expose Scott for the traitor he is. Please."

I managed a little smile. "I'll try. I'm sorry, Dawn. I knew the idea of you stealing didn't sound right. I'll miss you."

Dawn left that night at elimination. I knew I would miss her a lot, even though we weren't on the same team.

Yes, Dawn is my favourite! It sucks that she left so early. Cameron is my second favourite. But Dawn is kind of an expy of Luna Lovegood from Harry Potter, my favourite HP character, so I love Dawn too. Please review!