On that afternoon Lincoln and Gwen were by a tree in the forest working on their own drawings together; Lincoln was finding it nice and peaceful and it was nice to share his like of art and drawing with someone else. He wasn't super into art and considered it more of a hobby; but sitting here with a new friend to share in it was just nice.
He ended up deciding to try drawing the campers around here and decided to start with Gwen and hoped that he had gotten her good sides with his drawings with how much he was concentrating on the details; as well as listing qualities that he liked such as finding her a pretty girl who was cool and really nice behind that exterior that she was just projecting.
He decided to go with Dawn who was really sweet, cute, pretty as well, the aura reading was a bit creepy and was weirding out the other campers but other than that her way with animals was pretty cool.
He realised to himself that the two girls were the ones he really wanted to draw but stopped as Gwen showed her amazing drawing of the forest; "Incredible; you have a guranteed future as an artist if you want to pursue it! I bet any museum will want to go for what you can do!" Lincold told her with a smile as she looked modest about that.
"Thanks; I am glad that I have someone else to show my drawings to besides my brother; there is my Mum but she gets obsessive and embarassing about stuff like that... I really don't want to know what she is doing right now with me gone... You should have seen how she acted when I got in... Acting as if I had solved world hunger." Gwen told him and Lincoln held back a laugh.
"I cam imagine; 10 sisters who can get obsessive and as far as they were always concerned... I am not even allowed to call a female friend with privacy." Lincoln told her as Gwen snickered at that with them laughing together. "You are really cool Gwen; if you don't have people wanting to be your friends back home well then it's their lose." Lincoln said as Gwen smiled some more.
"Thanks Lincoln; what are you drawing..." Gwen asked moving her head to take a closer look but Lincoln kept them hidden from her view red faced; not wanting to make this awkward by having Gwen see his drawing of her. "Okay then; if you want to keep it to yourself... Do you hear that?" Gwen asked hearing a sound and they blinked in fright as they heard a growl.
Upon spotting the bear they scampered away with Lincoln not noticing that he dropped his drawings. They ended up looking back to see if they were getting away from the bear only to find the bear had stopped getting his ears scratched by Dawn; "Words keep failing me about this girl..." Gwen muttered and Lincoln would agree if he wasn't too amazed by what was going on in front of him.
He saw her talk to a group of sharks to convince them to give her and Zoey a ride back to the beach but this was something else entirely.
"Dennis here wants to apologise as he didn't mean to scare you; he saw you drawing and just wanted ask if you could please draw him a portrait." Dawn explained and this somehow managed to further shock them as Dennis the bear struck a pose for them.
"Be happy to... Your gift with animals is really amazing... Not even with my sister Lana have I seen anything like it..." Lincoln said in awe as Dawn smiled at it with him and Gwen getting out their notebooks and pens.
The next morning the speakers in front of the cabins roared as Chris's voice echoed out saying "Alright campers; enough beauty sleep as it's time to show you what you are made of in your 2nd challenge..."
"It has been a bit of a ride so far and we are only on our 2nd challenge! Early in the morning after our first challenge; Ezekiel invited us with him to go hunting... It didn't exactly end well..." Cody explained in the confessional and gave a sheepish smile and a cough.
"Our first morning here and the idiots thought that trying to hunt at 10 to 5 in the morning was a good idea; I had to chase after them to make sure that they don't get themselves killed especially as Lincoln was nowhere near wake enough to know what he was being asked to do; Ezekiel was lucky that Lincoln was willing to move past that considering Ezekiel was the 'brains' for lock of a better word for the whole operation. We all agreed to never speak of it again so don't expect it being brought up again." Gwen said in the confessional with a frown shaking her head.
"Lightning was doing his morning jog on the first morning and I had to save the Hamsters from a net trap that they set up; hard to believe that they beat us Beavers the previous day. Lightning commented in the confessional shaking his head.
Camera footage of Lightning bringing Lincoln, Ezekiel & Gwen down from the net are shown.
"I was really worried that things would get heated yesterday at breakfast when a food fight ended up breaking up. Seemed like everyone had a good time though that took part." Zoey said.
"Oh man... That food fight... It was nothing like I had experienced... Lincoln pretty much led the Hamsters like he was an experienced military commander... I guess he would have all that experience with how much sisters he has..." DJ muttered out as he was sitting at the confessional; as if he was relaying a harrowing experience on a battlefield.
Footage of the food fight were shown.
Two stands in front of a stage was set up with the campers sitting down with their teams; "are we going to see a musical? I love musicals; especially the ones with singing and dancing..." Lindsay commented excitedly and made a kissy face at Tyler as he sat down next to her with Cody looking jealous from the Killer Hamsters' stand.
"I was on a stage just like this aye; as part of a national spelling bee I won... If this is another one..." Ezekiel commented and got skepitcal looks towards him and he just looked confused. "Yeah; you can be surprise at how smartical I can be!" Ezekiel said in a bragging voice and they all rolled his eyes at using the word 'smartical'.
"Welcome to our new state of the art theatre!" Chris greeted them as he went up on the stage to face them. "A summer camp favourite for this challenge; a talent competition! Each team has 8 hours to pick their 3 most talented campers to represent them in the show tonight with anything goes as long as its legal. Former BJ, DJ and rap legend Master Chef Hatchet will show his approval via the Chef-O-Meter. The losing team will send a camper home tonight... Good luck!" Chris explained and this got the campers excited.
With the Courtney was showing off her impressive violin skills to her teammates and they nodded along with her thinking that they were certainly a promising talent. Courtney then took a bow and asked the teammates "okay so who wants to audition next?"
Sadie and Katie showed off their dancing skills but their teammates weren't as impressed. As Owen was jugging an entire bottle of juice; Gwen was thinking about Lincoln's little magic trick the previous day and was about to face him when she saw that he wasn't there. "Ezekiel; have you seen your first friend?" Gwen asked Ezekiel who shook his head.
"He left aye as soon as Chris said what the challenge was; said that he wanted to get ready..." Ezekiel explained and Gwen thought that she had a feeling about what he was doing.
Owen finished drinking the juice and burped the alphabet in one go with the boys excited but the girls just speechless. "That was one of the most disgusting displays that I have ever experienced in my entire life and I once walked into my school janitor lip syncing to Billy Ray..." Courtney muttered ready to just write him off.
"I can also toot Beethoven's fifth..." Owen told them bending down with his behind facing them but was met with a resounding no from the girls.
"Lincoln please tell me that you have a talent to use because from my calculations... We could very well kiss our hopes for an early winning streak goodbye..." Courtney muttered but then there was a smoke bomb set off and suddenly Lincoln appeared in a teenage version of his first middle school talent show attire complete with fedora.
"You are about to be amazed by the mind bending magic of Lincoln!" Lincoln said excitedly with Gwen open mouthed at his looks.
"Lincoln looks good..." Gwen muttered with a small smile in the confessional and then frowned as something came to her. "Wait... No other camper can see these right?" Gwen asked.
Courtney looked like she was giving Lincoln a chance as he took out a deck of cards and moved his head away asking Courtney to pick a card and mesmerise it. Courtney did and put it back as Lincoln shuffled his deck. "This is the 5 of clubs and your card was the 3 of diamonds!" Lincoln said taking out the card without seeing it and Courtney nodded as the others clapped.
"All well in good Lincoln but why didn't you pick out my card?" Courtney asked with her arms folded shaking her head but much to her confusion Lincoln smirked.
"Look in your left pocket Courtney." Lincoln told her and Courtney shrugged as she went into her left pocket and paused as she slow took out the 3 of diamonds from her pocket and was open mouthed as she gave Lincoln the card back with their teammates clapping hard.
"Lincoln... That was amazing... First the doves coming from my ears..." Gwen told Lincoln in amazement as he looked like it was no big deal. "That is quite a talent and I think it's safe to say that you are in..." Gwen said with the others nodding and Courtney putting a huge green tick next to Lincoln on her checkboard.
"I love the look Lincoln buddy; I bet you did that just to dress to impress your girlfriend." Cody smirked as they were red in the face with Gwen looking annoyed with them.
"Oh really; you two would make a great couple..." Katie and Sadie squealed at once but they shook their heads.
"Just friends and we haven't known eachother for that long..." Lincoln said fighting back the red in his face.
"Yeah yeah; all I'm saying is that 'just friends' don't leave marks on your necks like you did yesterday Gwen." Cody answered with Lincoln stepping away and Gwen looking like she wanted to hit something to take out her frustration.
"I know I said we aren't going to bring that up again but since Cody decided to ignore it first; I want to get the context known so there are no misunderstandings... The two of us along with Ezekiel got caught in a net trap; we were stuck there for over an hour and thinking of food made me imagine it too real and I ended up accidentally biting into Lincoln's neck due to how how close we were in that stupid net. Look you just had to be there... Uhh, there probably will be people at my school watching thinking that the goth loner tried to be a vampire now..." groaned Gwen in the confessional.
With the Screaming Beavers; DJ was showing off his ribbon dancing routine while Justin was just sitting down showing off his looks, smile and posing. Lindsay was cheering for Tyler as he was showing off his yoyo skills only to get tossed a football by Lightning who looked smug as he had a soccer ball with his along with a basketball.
"Throw that back at Lightning!" Lightning said as he started kicking up the soccer ball while juggling the basketball with one hand and ended up catching the football with his spare hand to claps from the teammates and a smug smile on his face.
"You want to try a talent out Dawn? I don't have a super special talent that I think I can try out but I think they have us covered..." Zoey called out to Dawn but noticed that her attention was watching the Killer Hamsters' practice and noticed Lincoln trying out his magic tricks. "Wow; look at Lincoln... I bet if he wanted to try that getup out on a date then..." Zoey said looking at Lincoln but then noticed the look on Dawn's face.
"Sorry... I kind of just noticed Lincoln looks a little handsome in that suit on top of being funny, nice and doesn't let what he goes through in his big family get to him and still acts as a loving brother and son..." Dawn said in a low voice as Zoey had a thought and giggled.
"Dawn... Are you having a crush... Oh; a summertime romance between two opposing teams..." Zoey commented as Dawn looked embarrassed at the thought as she slowly shook her head. "Come on Dawn; nothing to be bashful about..." Zoey smiled patting Dawn on the back.
"Don't be ridiculous; just a friend who happens to have a lot of admirable qualities and looks cute and handsome in a suit like that..." Dawn replied and shook her head as she realised her words. Trying to get away from the subject Dawn spoke up saying "I would like to put out my talent as an audition..."
That night Chris was at the stage with the non competing campers in the stands as he introduced the show saying that the scale of points in the Chef-O-Meter were 0-7; first up for the Screaming Beavers was DJ in his singlet. DJ looked impressive and great with his ribbon dancing routine... At first until he ended up tripping once his ribbon got caught onto his leg with the campers wincing. "Oh... Let's see what Chef has to say..." Chris said as the Chef-O-Meter showed 2 points.
"Bad luck DJ; up first for the Killer Hamsters is Courtney!" Chris introduced with the campers clapping as Courtney came onto the stage and performed a strong performance with her violin earning a standing ovation from the campers and a perfect 7 with her taking a bow.
Up next was Lightning for the Screaming Beavers as then brought all sorts of games balls with him and Tyler standing next to Lindsay up in the stands with Justin sitting next to her other side. "Justin; is that a spider..." Lindsay asked Justin looking to a spider on his arm.
"What spider... SPIDER... GET AWAY YOU BEAST! I CAN'T HAVE YOU BITING ME AND RUINING MY SKIN!" Justin screamed running away to get the spider off and ended up running into Justin as he was about to throw the football to Lightning on the stage.
It ended up being thrown hard at Lightning's foot causing him to drop his balls and hold his foot with everyone blinking; Justin and Tyler got up and had looks of murder towards them as the Chef-O-Meter gave him a mere 4.
"Not since my sister Leni did I see someone so scared of a spider..." laughed Lincoln. "Anyway; I was up soon and no Yodel Boy trying to discourage me from doing my magic act... Little inside joke with my friends who I hope are watching right now..." Lincoln laughed some more.
Next up was Owen for the Killer Hamsters and the girls looked away disgusted as Owen started tooting Beethoven's 5th only to end up messing up; "Sorry, the dinner acted up... Can I go again..." asked Owen as the Hamsters facepalmed and the Chef-O-Meter showed a big fat 0 though represented by no green lines.
"Finally for the Screaming Beavers is Dawn!" Chris said as Dawn came onto the stage followed by all sorts of birds and they began humming as she started singing a song from her favourite singer Kenya Lennan which was quite calming. The campers all seemed to be calmed by it.
"My soul was touched..." DJ said in the confessional with his hand to his stomach.
Dawn bowed as they loudly clapped and got a perfect score from the Chef-O-Meter. "Could be a deal breaker if the last Killer Hamster chokes or not... But here is Lincoln..." Chris said introducing Lincoln as he stepped onto the stage and posed with his head down.
"I am going to need my lovely assistant..." Lincoln said pulling out his hand and Gwen came onto the stage looking embarrassed by the description; Lincoln then began pulling doves from Gwen's sleeve as they then began flying about and then more from his hat as he pulled it out.
He did the card trick with Gwen and threw them onto the ground as they landed in a perfect house of cards position and a box was brought out; Lincoln then helped Gwen into it and closed it. He put all sorts of blades through it and actually cut through it with an axe that he ended up needing Owen's help to use. He then pushed it up on its side and opened it with Gwen stepping out perfectly fine as they took a bow to the massive cheering.
Lincoln then finished it off by pulling out two bouquets of flowers; one for Gwen and then threw the other to be caught by a red faced Dawn who caught a wink from Lincoln; intending to tease whoever caught it but was red faced when he saw that it was Dawn and Gwen chuckled upon seeing that.
There was a perfect 7 from the Chef-O-Meter with the Screaming Beavers sighing and Lightning was already furiously looking at Tyler and Justin; deciding which one to eliminate. "Once again the Killer Hamsters have won and that means another Screaming Beaver is voted off..." Chris announced to the cheering of the Killer Hamsters.
"We lost again and have to vote someone off... I went with Tyler and it's a bummer that I have to vote off another potential friend but did you see that wink Lincoln gave Dawn?" Zoey said excitedly in the confessional.
"I like Tyler too much so I have to go with Justin; I do feel a little bad intentionally sabotaging my team like that by placing the spider there on Justin's hand but I think it could be easier if I could influence who could be eliminated... I have eyes on some and the potential drama that could be better than soaps; could all be ruined if someone ends up eliminated too soon... Besides; with Justin gone there is no question who is the prettiest now." Lindsay said in the confessional shaking her head as if regretful.
Dawn waved to Lincoln as he was being congratulated by his teammates; "Thanks for the flowers and you looked incredible out there in your suit... You were incredible I mean..." Dawn called out to Lincoln with them both embarrassed and Zoey was smiling next to her.
"Come on now Zoey; I just think of him a new friend that I really like... Besides it looks like Gwen might have a better chance if they get closer..." Dawn commented as Zoey shook her head.
"Just because they are on the same team doesn't mean that they will get together; I saw that wink..." Zoey told Dawn who put her head down.
"Oh; I saw that too! You two looked incredible and I bet Lincoln is too shy to admit it outright... Look what I found him drawing yesterday and dropped; I forgot all about it and just wanted to show it to you before giving it back to him!" Lindsay told them showing the drawing of Dawn that Lincoln had done the previous afternoon with them surprised.
"Wow... He really likes you already... Not like he did this for Gwen if he felt the same for her..." Zoey commented with a smile hoping that she could get someone to love just like Dawn will have.
Dawn looked at the detail and the compliments and blushed; "Do I really have a chance..." Dawn commented with Zoey putting a hand around her shoulder as Lindsay took the drawing back.
"We will make sure!" Zoey promised and Lindsay nodded her head with Dawn too distracted to even think of reading auras.
"Plus since I don't think Lincoln wanted you to even know about this; I think that it would be best to keep it between us 3." Lindsay told them and they nodded at once.
Lincoln was being teased by Cody and Gwen about the wink he gave Dawn when she caught the flowers; "Lincoln the Ladies Man... You are going to make your assistant jealous... If only we could get her clothes to match the role..." Cody laughed with them embarrassed and Gwen looking frustrated.
"Was just something for whoever caught; Dawn is cool and so are you Gwen... I am going to go and change..." Lincoln muttered walking off.
"Be careful that your man doesn't get stolen by Dawn." Cody told Gwen who got angry.
"He is not my man and besides; would it matter if something happens between him and Dawn?" Gwen asked ignoring a faint hint of jealousy at the idea but Lindsay came up to them.
"Oh Gwen; can I ask if you and Lincoln have gotten together... I saw him drop this yesterday and I thought that it was super sweet..." Lindsay swooned as Gwen was open mouthed looking at the picture and Cody looked smug.
"I don't see him doing this for Dawn..." Cody snickered.
"This is why he didn't want me looking at what he was drawing yesterday..." Gwen muttered thinking about how how they were drawing together and she was unknowingly being used as muse for her fun nice friend who didn't look bad in a suit. "Me and Lincoln though... I need to think about this..." Gwen muttered.
"We will be here to help; the wingman and Lindsay here!" Cody called out making a pose as Lindsay giggled.
"Gwen, Cody... I would hate for this to be complicated if Lincoln finds out that you saw his private drawings and feel betrayed by the lack of privacy so..." Lindsay asked and they gave quick nods. "Good; I have to go to the campfire pit..." Lindsay said with a wave as she skipped away.
At the campfire pit Chris was facing the Screaming Beavers at their stumps; "Once again someone is eliminated... When I call your name then you will receive a marshmallow and be safe from elimination. Whoever doesn't will go to the Dock of Shame and board the Boat of Losers. Dawn, Zoey, DJ, Lindsay, Lightning..." Chris said tossing them the marshmallows with Tyler and Justin looking nervous.
"You two and your shenanigans almost cost your team a better chance at winning... The final marshmallow goes to... Tyler!" Chris said tossing a relieved Tyler the marshmallow as Lindsay embraced him as a dejected Justin went down to the Dock of Shame.
"We have got to start winning... 3 losses in a row to a group named after Hamsters... My father would be so ashamed..." Lightning told himself shaking his head looking quite determined and competitive.
Lincoln had changed clothes and was going to head inside his cabin when he found Lindsay running up to him; "Lincoln; I found these yesterday after you dropped them running from that bear... I totally forgot all about them until now. Super sorry about that." Lindsay told him giving him the drawings with his eyes widened. "You are a great artist as well as magician." Lindsay complimented as Lincoln smiled relieved to have them back.
"Thanks for that Lindsay and thanks for bringing them back to me... Did you show anyone them?" Lincoln replied and Lindsay shook her head as Lincoln was relieved as he hid them in his pocket to put away for later. He said goodbye to her as she went to her cabin and Lincoln went inside to get ready for bed.
"So nice and considerate of Lindsay; a lot like Leni... It's a good thing that Gwen nor Dawn found them... Things would be super awkward between us..." Lincoln thought with a smile on his face.