Chapter 29

The three Avatars waited all night and when morning finally came they could see Chef's boat with Chris smiling at the bow.

"Greetings campers! Did you get my document?" Chris asked.

"Here!" Gwen tossed the camera onto the boat.

"Hey watch it! This is expensive!" Chris complained as he caught it. "So...did you find anything scary?"

"Your attempt at horror was rather disappointing Chris. Those traps were easily spottable and easy to avoid." Dawn said.

"And the fake sounds at night sucked." Elliot nodded.

"Uh..."

They turned around to see Duncan, Heather, Cody, and Courtney lying on the dock as they started to wake up.

"Wha..." Courtney sat up. "When did we get here?"

"Finally! I was getting annoyed at having to wait for you to wake up!" Elliot sighed in relief.

"How did we get here?" Heather stood up and stretched her limbs.

"Don't you remember? We found the dock after walking around for hours and we were all exhausted that we slept here." Gwen explained.

"Uh...I don't remember any of that." Duncan replied. "Does this mean we're done?"

"We filmed the stupid cabin and a few of Chris's dumb traps. I'd say we're done." Elliot shrugged.

"Hey! I'll have you know that those traps were recommended by several producers of the best horror films in Canada!" Chris complained.

"So that's why they were really cheap?" Gwen smirked.

"Burn!" Elliot laughed. "I was just about to ask that!"

Chris pouted as they walked onto the boat. "Whatever! We got a schedule to keep to. So let's get back to the plane and take off!"

"You think something crawled onto his head and died under that mop like wig he likes to wear?" Elliot asked, snickering.

Chris growled, annoyed at Elliot's little nickname for his precious hair style. The boat ride back to the plane was quiet as the three Avatars were deep in thought.

'Okay, we established that Nebula's Avatar is not one of our team. So that leaves Team Victory and Team C.' Gwen thought.

'It seems that way but just because the numbers are smaller doesn't mean it'll be any easier.' Andromeda replied. 'Nebula has still managed to hide himself from our sight.'

'Right.' Gwen sighed and thought over who was left on the list.

Team Victory: Bridgette, Ezekiel, DJ, and Lindsay

Team C: Alejandro, Noah, Owen, and Tyler

'Out of all these guys who would have the most chance of being Nebula's Avatar?' Gwen thought it over.

'Most spirits offer the contract when the person is out of sight. So if Nebula was offering the contract he'd have to make sure the person was alone and far enough that he'd reveal himself.' Andromeda pointed out.

'Ezekiel lives in the Prairies, good chance there. Noah lives with seven siblings so I doubt he'd have privacy in his own home, Tyler lives in suburban area, Owen lives in Muskoka and Alejandro...He's the only one who we almost know nothing about aside from Sierra!'

'You have a prime suspect but the chances of him being innocent are the same as the others.' Andromeda pointed out.

'But not a lot of them are as devious and smart as he is. The way he played LeShawna and Bridgette proves that.' Gwen replied.

'True but even someone who you've known all your life can still surprise you. You will need more evidence to prove this.'

'You're right.' Gwen reluctantly admitted. 'I better contact Kurt and the others soon and see how they are holding up.'

'A wise decision.'

The trip back the plane was completely silent.

Xxx

The plane was now back in the air, heading for its new destination. Chris had been disappointed with the film because apparently the camera had been turned off after the first day. He didn't know that Dawn used a special Method that erased the footage of anything that might even hinted as to what had really happened on the Departed Witch's island. He had spent the night complaining on how Team Amazon couldn't do one simple task which led to Elliot throwing an apple at him because she was tired and his rants were disturbing her sleep. They spent the next week in Economy Class trying to relax with Team C who had lost the challenge in Newfoundland.

Keyword: trying.

"Economy can kiss my aching butt." Heather groaned. "I bet Alejandro's in there making Team Victory feel welcome. That jerk."

"By the time we get back in there the place will smell like...dude." Courtney shuddered.

"I'll take dude over leaks any day." Gwen spoke up and winced as a drop of water fell on her head.

"It can't be worse than camping out." Elliot replied. "At least we have real food here."

"True that." Duncan snacked on a sandwitch.

"Where'd you get that?" Courtney asked.

"I stole it from First Class." Duncan shrugged.

"Uh!" Courtney shook her head.

Any further conversation or complaining was cut off as the engines let out a groan and the plane started shaking.

"What now?" Gwen groaned.

"Uh, attention passengers...AAHHHHH!" Chris let out a scream as the plane started descending.

Everyone screamed along with him until it crashed and everyone went flying or rolling all over the place.

Gwen landed face first on the floor with Elliot landing on top of her. "GAGH!"

"Sorry!" Elliot rolled off her. "Are you okay?"

"...Yeah..." Gwen groaned as she stood back up. "Just peachy."

Xxx

"Two airports on the island the size of a postage stamp and he misses both." Chris remarked, glaring at Chef. "But somehow it's my fault."

"You blew our money for the season on Chris World!" Chef retorted.

"So now what?" Gwen asked.

"Well, we're out of gas, plane's busted, and we're broke. But the show must go on! We can't waste any of this footage!" Chris replied with his award winning smile. "Think of the awards we'll get on Clip Toon!"

"Where are we anyway?" Tyler asked.

"Jamaica mon!" Chris answered. "We were supposed to land at Ocho Rios but since somebody forgot how to fly." Chris glared at Chef who glared back with his arms crossed. "We'll have to do the challenges here instead and fast before anyone who owns this dump shows up and asks for a location fee."

'Jamaica?' Gwen thought and looked DJ. 'That's right. DJ and his mother are moving back here when the show's over.'

"Cool! I can catch some surfs in before we leave!" Bridgette smiled.

"Didn't you guys budget for the whole season?" Noah asked.

"Some things cost more than expected. Air plane ready hot tubs don't grow on trees you know." Chris retorted.

"You must have an emergency fund!" Heather exclaimed.

"Spent it on our last fuel up." Chris replied.

"Which went so well." Noah rolled his eyes.

"I can't be stranded here! I don't have enough sunscreen!" Lindsay cried.

"Grab your board shorts and meet me at the waterfall." Chris said as he and Chef walked off.

Xxx

Ten minutes later they were all standing over a cliff with a waterfall in their swim clothes and Noah and Duncan were busy laughing their asses off at something.

"Pretty blouse!" Noah commented.

"It's a Dashiki, mon!" Chris retorted.

"Yeah, a woman's Dashiki!" DJ laughed.

"What?!" Chris gasped.

"Can we get to the challenge please?" Courtney asked impatiently.

"I like to call our first challenge, the Treasure Hunt of Death!" Chris announced.

"Real original." Elliot muttered.

"We were supposed to do this at Dunn's River Falls but this far more dangerous water fall will have to do." Chris continued.

"So...it's another water challenge?" DJ asked.

"Afraid so. Want to say a few prayers?" Chris asked.

"No need, I came prepared." DJ took his shirt off and revealed the life jacket underneath.

"Your challenge begins with a dive off Beautiful Where Ever We Are Falls into the lagoon far below."

"Which is full of what? Sharks?" Noah asked.

"Nope." Chris replied making everyone sigh in relief which was what he had been waiting for. "Electric eels and sharks."

'Why am I not surprised?' Gwen sighed.

"Players must tag team dives into the infested waters for as long as you can hold your breath to search the lagoon floor for pirate treasure." Chris continued. "AKA, the gold chains Chef always wear on Karaoke Night. First team to bring me Chef's treasure wins a major advantage in the next challenge. So good luck."

"Whoa! Let's do this!" Tyler walked up to the edge of the cliff.

"I guess I'll go first." Bridgette stepped forward.

"I got this in the bag." Cody smiled.

"Ready, Steady, Freddy, GO!" Chris said and the challenge was on.

They all jumped off and landed in the water.

"Come on, Cody! Beat those sharks!" Elliot cheered.

A moment later Cody crawled up onto the beach gasping for air while Tyler floated up to the surface.

"Whoo-hoo! I got the chains!" Tyler laughed.

Too bad he realized too late that he was holding an electric eel. "Oh no!"

It quickly shocked him and he let go while Bridgette remained under water for another minute. Cody ran back up to the cliff and tagged Heather who was prepared to dive.

"You have a beautiful form!" Alejandro called out.

"What?" Heather turned around and slipped off the cliff. "AH!"

She hit the water with her head being the first to land on it followed by the rest of her.

"Oh!" Gwen and Elliot winced at the pained look on her face. "That had to hurt!"

"Nothing personal!" Alejandro called down.

Heather growled as she sank below the water. Tyler ran back up with Noah, Alejandro, and Owen waiting to be tagged but he ran passed them. "Best two out of three?"

He jumped off before anyone could replied and landed back in the water. He came back up holding a tire." Whoo-hoo! Yeah...Oh man!"

Bridgette ran up and tagged DJ who jumped into the water but he instantly floated up to the surface.

"Just got to..." DJ tried going underwater but the life jacket he was wearing kept him floating on the surface. "Okay, slip off the jacket. You can do this, DJ."

He struggled to pull it off him but it seemed glued to him.

"No you can't...there's got to be a way!"

Heather ran up and tagged Elliot who grinned as she jumped off the cliff. "Cannonball!"

She slammed into the water and let out a big splash. DJ walked back up to the top and tagged Ezekiel.

"Yoo-hoo! Here I go!" Ezekiel walked to the edge, not noticing the bowl containing DJ's lucky fish.

"Zeke, dude watch you're..." DJ started.

"What?" Ezekiel looked back, accidently knocking the bowl into the lagoon.

"NO!" DJ ran forward and jumped after his lucky fish.

He grabbed it as he landed in the water and instantly floated up to the surface with the bowl safe in his hands. "That was too close! Good thing I'm not cursed anymore!"

Tyler landed in the water again and came back up holding a grandfather clock. "Whoo! I got it...Oh come on!"

Elliot had come back up from the water with nothing in her hands.

"I think I'm getting burnt." Gwen looked at her skin and noticed it was becoming slightly pink.

"Tag!" Ellito tagged her on the shoulder.

"Ow!" Gwen winced and glared at Elliot. "Ell!"

"Sorry!" Elliot ran behind Dawn.

Gwen sighed and dived into the water, eager to get it over with. However her danger sense instantly went off making her alert as she looked around. She spotted the danger in the form of a hungry shark swimming towards her and she swam faster than she had ever swum before, escaping the shark before it took a bite out of here. She ran behind a rock to hide and peeked out when she saw the shark swim past the rock. She was about to swim back to the surface but she spotted something shiny.

There, nestled in the skull of a dead animal were the golden chains!

She grabbed them and swam back up to the surface.

"I got the gold!" Gwen shouted up, earning cheers from her team.

But their celebration was cut off as electric eels wrapped themselves around Gwen's body and started shocking her.

"Gwen!" Cody and Duncan said as they jumped off the cliff followed by Alejandro.

They landed around her with big splashes which shook some of the eels off. Cody tried to grab the eel biting at her hair but it shocked him, making him jump back. "Ow!"

Alejandro however was the one who saved the day by pulling Gwen to shore and lifting her up out of the water.

"Here you go." Alejandro handed Gwen over to Duncan. "I believed she is your teammate."

"Hey! The golden chains!" Heather ran down, pointing at the chains around Alejandro's neck. "Those are ours!"

"They were but now they are mine." Alejandro smirked.

Heather tried to grab them off him but he ran past her, jogging up the cliff and stopping in front of Chris. "Pirate booty: check!"

"And Team Chris wins!" Chris announced, earning cheers from the rest of the team. "Will Gwen recover? Will Chef fix the plane while I'm still young?"

"I don't know, did we land in the seventies." Noah chuckled.

Chris quickly pushed him off the cliff and smiled at the high pitched scream Noah let out as he hit the water.

"Find out after the break on Total...Drama... World Tour!"

Xxx

Gwen was put on a stretcher and wheeled into a tent where there was a man wrapped head to toe in bandages.

'Well at least I'm out of the sun.' Gwen thought, wincing from the electricity still shocking her. 'Thank God a Spirit Avatar has higher pain tolerance.'

'And things were going so well for you.' Andromeda remarked.

'At least I can rest.' Gwen sighed and leaned back on her bed.

A pair of screams reached her ears, making her sit up. 'DJ? Bridgette?'

Gwen would later find out what happened when DJ and Bridgette were wheeled into the infirmary.

"DJ? Bridgette? What happened?" Gwen sat up.

"My curse Gwen...I was still cursed and I ended up getting a lot of animals and Bridgette hurt!" DJ cried.

"It wasn't you, DJ!" Bridgette spoke out, wincing in pain as the doctor wrapped her foot in bandages. "It was Alejandro! He tricked you!"

"What did he do?" Gwen asked.

"He lied to DJ about Irene being good luck and I think he broke one of the boards!" Bridgette shouted with anger and sadness mixed with pain in her voice. "We got launched into the air and we crashed into the woods!"

"What?!" Gwen got off her bed and was at Bridgette's side. "He launched you guys off into the woods just like that!?"

"Yeah..." Bridgette winced in pain as a tear fell from her eye. "I think my leg's broken."

Gwen could tell from the bruises and cuts on Bridgette's right leg that she had a rough landing.

"Damn it..." Gwen growled.

She suspected Alejandro was as dirty as Heather but she didn't expect him to go this far.

'That bastard!' Gwen thought in her head. 'If not for the fact he was human I'd slice him to bits with my sword!'

'Calm down Gwen! Don't let them see how angry you are!' Andromeda spoke up. 'Get too angry you might unconsciously tap into my power and show it to everyone who is watching!'

'I know...I know...' Gwen took a deep breath. 'But that doesn't mean that Alejandro is not going down the next time I see him.'

'I know.' Andromeda agreed.

Bridgette suffered a broken leg while DJ's right arm was broken and he got himself a concussion from the landing. Gwen planned to make sure Alejandro himself was aware of her anger at this.

Xxx

Gwen quickly changed out of her swim suit and back into her Avatar clothes before stepping out out into the cafe section. She spotted Alejandro and stomped over to Team C's table.

"Hey Gwen! You okay?" Owen waved at her.

Gwen ignored him and concentrated on the person sitting next to him.

"Why hello, Gwen. I trust your injuries from the eels have healed." Alejandro flashed his infuriating smile.

SMACK!

Everyone in the room almost stopped moving as Gwen slapped Alejandro across his face and knocked him down onto the floor.

"You two faced smug bastard!" Gwen grabbed Alejandro by the collar and pulled him back. "It's not enough to screw with everyone's heads but now you try and kill us!" She slammed him into the wall. "WHAT KIND OF GAME ARE YOU PLAYING WITH THAT?!"

"I honestly do not know what you are talking about!" Alejandro cried, actually looking scared.

"And you think I wasn't watching the show from the TV in the infirmary and I didn't spot you sabotage the boards that launched DJ and Bridgette off and nearly kill them!" Gwen roared.

Technically she wasn't entirely lying as there was a TV inside the infirmary, it just wasn't turned on. Luckily Gwen knew how to bluff and if Alejandro really did do it he wouldn't bother to defend himself if he thought he had been caught.

"I honestly had no intention of damaging that board! My hand slipped and the board seemed to be weak!" Alejandro hastily explained. "It was never my intention to har...OH!"

Gwen had cut him off by kneeing him between the legs, hard. "Don't think for a second I am just another gullible fan girl who literally falls on her knees for you! I know when someone is lying to me to save their worthless ass so save your breath. I don't expect you to stop with lies and manipulations to win this game; in fact I've come to expect it. But if you pull another trick that gets any of my other friends injured or endangers them again you're going to wish you jumped off the plane without a parachute!"

She dropped him and watched as he curled himself into a ball. Ignoring the shocked looks of everyone in the cabin Gwen stepped out of the room leaving them and Alejandro groaning in pain. She didn't care what they had thought about what she did. She had come to expect someone to lie, trick, and even blackmail everyone so they could win but endangering someone's life, almost killing them was too much.

She walked out of the plane and back into the infirmary where DJ and Bridgette were resting.

'DJ's moving back here when the show's over. This isn't what anyone had in mind when we had to say goodbye.' Gwen thought sadly.

She had hoped to have one last party with DJ before he left Canada but his and Bridgette's injuries made it hard to be happy about anything.

"Gwen?" Bridgette asked.

"Hey guys." Gwen walked in. "How are you holding up?"

"Been better." DJ shrugged and chuckled a little. "Been this isn't how me and Mama imagined how we'd be returning to Jamaica."

"You got screwed over, big time Deej." Gwen sat next to DJ's bed. "You weren't cursed; this was something Chris and Alejandro used to mess with you. Chris did it because your fear of hurting animals made it easy for his ratings to go up whenever an animal was near you and Alejandro tricked you to make you screw up."

"Maybe but it still sucks that all those animals got hurt." DJ admitted. "I couldn't stand how they all got hurt like that. If there was one thing I would wish for from this show it would be to never hurt another living animal ever again."

Gwen's eyes slightly widened as she felt Andromeda's power flare from within the Star Necklace. But before she could respond a familiar and unwelcome bell tone was heard.

"Oh no." Gwen groaned.

"Oh yeah." Chris stepped in. "This moment seems perfect for a song."

"Do we have to?" Bridgette asked.

"Well, Gwen actually has to or she can take the helicopter home with you two." Chris smirked at the dark haired girl's scowl.

DJ sighed as music started playing.

DJ: I miss the way my Bunny said hello
Jumping onto my lap to nibble on the carrot I had
Times like those, made the day seem slow

Gwen and Bridgette: Ooh ooh

DJ: I miss staring at the sky
And watching the seagulls fly
I miss the smell of the forest
It almost makes me want to cry.

Gwen and Bridgette: Ooh ooh

DJ: Why did I let it go?
I remember the time when animals would surround me
When I had food they take a bite
I stayed with them all day and I would say goodnight

Gwen and Bridgette: Ooh ooh

DJ: I never meant to hurt them
Oh you poor little guys
When you cry
I always asked why
Oh you poor little guys
If I could I'd take it all back
Oh you poor little guys
I wish for just one more chance
Just one chance and I'll never let it go!

As he finished singing Gwen's Star Necklace flashed for a mere second.

'Andromeda.' Gwen thought. 'Looks like we may be granting another wish.'

Gwen put her hand on DJ's shoulder to comfort him and Andromeda channeled her power through that simple touch into DJ. Gwen heard a sound at the entrance and looked to see...

"Bunny?" Gwen asked.

DJ and Bridgette looked up as Bunny ran in and hopped onto DJ's lap.

"Bunny, quick get away from me before your hurt!" DJ cried.

Bunny however simply lied down on DJ's lap and fell asleep.

"Gwen, hurry and get her off before she's hurt." DJ said desperately.

"DJ, you're not cursed and Bunny's going to prove it. Just watch her and don't move a lot." Gwen smiled as she stood up. "Stop being so afraid and just relax. Your off the show, you don't have to be scared anymore."

She walked out of the tent, leaving DJ with his beloved Bunny. Time would only tell if DJ would believe if he was never cursed to begin with.