It was the morning of the next challenge and Lightning was returning from his morning run to find Dawn sadly sitting at the steps of the Screaming Beavers' cabin with her hands to her cheeks. "You still worried about hipster girl? Still am myself; especially since we are now down another teammate and we were already at a disadvantage already with how many we are down compared to them Hamsters." Lightning as Dawn just continued looking depressed and not replying to Lightning's comment.
Dawn however had several squirrels coming near her and going onto her arm and saying something into her ears as she looked hopeful about what they were saying. However there was Chris coming nearby with a megaphone that he used an airhorn into making everyone wake up and get out of bed.
"Rise and shine campers! Your challenge starts in a minute!" Chris said to the looks of disbelief on everyone.
"Everyone; I know that your all not exactly awake but I have been having my animal friends on the island keep an eye out and the squirrels have spotted a figure going about the island the past few days that could be Zoey!" Dawn was telling everyone as they looked hopeful.
"If it is then what has she been doing?" DJ questioned still looking relieved as Dawn looked worried.
"I am sure that she will be alright and she can tell us when we find her!" Lincoln said putting his arm around Dawn's shoulder assuringly as they smiled at eachother.
"Things would be much easier if someone with access to the cameras on the island can tell us!" yelled Gwen warningly glaring towards Chris.
"That's for me to know and you all to possibly find out but for now it's time for your 20 kilometer run around the lake!" Chris said as they all blinked in disbelief but Lightning was grinning.
"Piece of cake; Lightning has been running around the island every morning since Lightning arrived!" Lightning bragged as he began starting. and Chris got his air horn to make everyone start their run faster.
"What about breakfast..." moaned Ezekiel as he was starting to run but Chris was just grinning.
Dawn was sighing sadly in the confessional in her lotus position; "my apologies but... The day after our last challenge Zoey ended up missing and despite how much we looked; we couldn't find her... Zoey if you can somehow watch this... I miss my best friend..." Dawn explained wiping away a tear.
Lightning was cheering as if he had won a race as he entered the mess hall and followed by the campers all looking tired; followed by Lincoln. "Wait what... How are you second behind Lightning?" Lightning asked in disbelief.
"A lot of experience in running... Ten sisters..." Lincoln explained as Lightning blinked as more campers got in looking tired; including Dawn looking depressed as he went to comfort her.
"Oh... Lightning should have expected this from his mortal rival!" Lightning told him as Lincoln blinked at him as last in ended up being Lindsay.
"Wait... Did we win the challenge?" Courtney asked as the Killer Hamsters got excited and started cheering with Dawn managing to give Lincoln a smile as he embraced Gwen.
"Uh negatory; that wasn't the challenge!" Chris informed them as they all stared at him in more disbelief as he was in front of a curtain. "Now who's hungry?" Chris asked as the curtain opened up revealing a table in front of a huge feast.
"Countless weeks of eating brown slob... I almost cried when I saw all that food..." Gwen said in the confessional.
"I will tell you that everyone going for the food; it actually beat out even the messiest meals that I ever had in my family." Lincoln said in the confessional looking quite confident in what he was saying.
After a huge gorgefest; just about everyone was full as well as moaning and groaning with Dawn flossing out bits of her vegetables that she had gotten; "Lightning eat like a king..." Lightning moaned.
"Best meal ever aye..." Ezekiel said finishing his drumstick.
"Okay campers; time for part 2 of your challenge!" Chris said through his megaphone as they all just looked at him. "It's time for the awake-a-thon! The team with the last one awake wins!" Chris explained as they just stared at him.
"So your 20K run and the eating frenzy were part of your evil plan to make it harder for us to stay awake?" Gwen asked and Chris confirmed it with Gwen admitting that he was good. Chris then had them move out.
Chris was smirking in the confessional; "Can you all keep a secret? I was actually saving this challenge for when both teams have merged and it's every camper for themselves but... The day after the last challenge; all the campers did something that REALLY got on my nerves so this is kind of a punishment." Chris explained with a laugh.
At the campfire pit the clock showed that they were awake for 12 hours as the campers were sitting down with Chris saying that they were all still wide awake. They looked all sleepy with even the most awake campers having bags in their eyes. Lightning was doing star jumps with an unnerving looking smile and look in his eyes.
Gwen muttered about how boring this all was; "Come on everyone; let's try and stay awake by talking to eachother!" Lincoln said trying to be encouraging to the Killer Hamsters. "Well... Anyone want to bring up a subject?" Lincoln asked as Cody looked at him.
"Well I am kind of glad that we dumped Owen; we may not have been able to get much with him. Plus now I don't have to worry about this bet that I made with him with the loser having to do our laundry for the rest of our time here." Cody decided to say as they looked at him.
"What was the bet?" Sadie asked as Cody looked to Gwen.
"I bet that I could get Gwen to give me her bra..." Cody explained and they all looked at him with him gulping and a strong glare from Gwen.
"Keep going dead man walking!" Gwen snapped at him but Lincoln got in front of her and got him to stand up.
"Come on Cody; I just thought of an idea that is sure to help you stay awake!" Lincoln said with a fake smile walking Cody with his arm around his shoulder.
"What are you doing Lindsay?" DJ asked Lindsay who standing on her head with her hands on the ground.
"Trying to get the blood rushing to my head." Lindsay explained as they then heard yelling and they looked towards the beach where there was Lincoln standing in the ocean dunking Cody's head in the water.
Hours later both teams were still up and Cody shivering but still sleepy but then there was Sadie who ended up falling asleep first. "Congratulations campers; you have made it to the 24 hour mark! Time to take it up a notch... Fairy tales!" Chris said showing a stack of books with Chef dressed as a pink sheep with a harp.
"Oh; he's not serious!" Gwen ranted sitting next to Lincoln.
"I like fairy tales; whether it's the stories or the movies as long as they are done right..." Dawn said with a smile but sighed.
Chris started reading slowly a boring story as Chef played the music and Cody ended up falling asleep next. However from the trees there was an arrow on fire that landed next to Lindsay causing her to topple over and be knocked out as she landed on the ground. Dawn blinked and looked to the trees but there was nothing up there.
"This a joke McLean? You pull all of this on this challenge and now you try and kill us?" Lightning demanded as they all glared at him with the Screaming Beavers too tired to try and check on Lindsay but Chris and Chef were stunned as well.
"...I promise you that we had nothing to do with it!" Chris defended as Dawn came up to them and then nodded.
"I see nothing but honesty in their auras but Chef is thinking about the arrows and matches that had gotten stolen from the equipment locker yesterday. Been saved for an upcoming challenge." Dawn said as everyone glared as Chris just flashed them a smile before continuing to read.
Chef was doing a ballet dance in a tutu set to Swan Lake music and DJ tried to strap himself to a tree to help but ended up falling asleep with the tree toppling over.
Courtney said in the confessional that she figured that she could outlast them all by keep moving.
Courtney was moving about as campers had falling asleep with her, Gwen, Ezekiel, Dawn and Lightning still awake last. Chris came with a pop-up book about the history of Canada with the first chapter being beavers a national symbol and a 'dam' fine animal. Courtney groaned as she finally fell asleep along with Ezekiel and Dawn was actually struggling to stay awake.
"Must... Hear... Beaver history..." Dawn stated but ended up falling asleep and landed on Lincoln with them snuggling up to eachother.
"Great... If only I had someone to talk to... I would even take homeschool..." Gwen muttered as Lightning grinned at her as he kept doing star jumps.
"You can't outlast me goth girl; I am Lightning..." Lightning bragged but he ended up tiring himself out to the point where he fell asleep.
"Gwen is the last one awake so the Killer Hamsters win!" Chris exclaimed as Gwen finally let herself fall asleep and ended up landing next to Lincoln with her snuggling up to him as well.
Later once the campers were all awake; they were all in the mess hall to discuss what had happened. "All in favour of declaring that the worst challenge that we have had to deal with so far then please raise your hands and say 'aye'!" Lincoln declared out loud with his arm raised and just about everyone raised their arms and said 'aye'.
"Impressive considering the first thing that we had to do was jump off a freakishly tall cliff!" ranted Gwen as Cody was looking nervous at Lincoln and Gwen.
"So Lincoln, Gwen... Since you have both pretty much forgiven Ezekiel for what he said previously and the whole hunt thing..." Cody asked as they silently glared at him.
"Just stay away from us Cody..." Lincoln muttered as Cody got the hint.
"Another loss; how did Lightning end up on the team that kept losing!" Lightning ranted at the Screaming Beavers' table as they were dealing with their latest defeat and Lindsay just looked frightened. "If I remember you were the first one to be out!" Lightning declared pointing to Lindsay who jumped.
"Me? It wasn't my fault! Someone shot an arrow on fire at me!" Lindsay complained but Lightning kept glaring at her.
"Maybe so but from what I could see; you are the most useless one here!" Lightning fired back as Lindsay looked upset and DJ glared at him and put an arm around her shoulder.
"Not cool man after what she had been through; you know what? I volunteer myself! I have had a good run and besides I think that I better get out before it gets scarier!" DJ offered as Lindsay smiled gratefully but Lightning shook his head along with DJ.
DDD
"Once again Screaming Beavers; welcome to the campfire ceremony where the one that doesn't get a marshmallow much walk the Dock of Shame, board the Boat of Losers and they can't come back ever!" Chris said with the marshmallows at the campfire pit. "So the campers that are safe are... Zoey, Lightning, Dawn..." Chris said tossing Lightning and Dawn their marshmallows but Dawn looked displeased.
"Not amusing in the slightest Chris." Dawn said with DJ shaking his head in agreement as they saw that Chris had two marshmallows on his plate.
"This last one goes to... Lindsay! Sorry DJ; it's your time to go!" Chris said throwing a marshmallow to Lindsay as Lightning looked angry and Dawn looked sad but DJ hugged her.
"It's okay Dawn; I had a good run and take care of everyone and say goodbye to Zoey for me when you find her!" DJ smiled and waved to them as he walked the Dock of Shame as Lighting stomped on the ground.
"You two had better work twice as hard! Lightning can't take another loss of this team!" Lightning ranted with his arms folded glaring at Dawn and Lindsay.
"Safe for now... Relatively speaking... Good of DJ to take the elimination for me but I still have someone out there that fired that arrow at me... Wait; could she have... She wouldn't..." Lindsay with her eyes in realisation and looked nervous in the confessional.
"With my aura reading I can actually tell who voted for who in these eliminations and this time... Lightning and I voted for Lindsay and Lindsay voted for DJ with him going for himself and that would make it a tie... But I read Chris had counted 3 votes for DJ so... Could that mean?" Dawn explained in the confessional pondering.
The campfire pit was empty but on one stool was the one last remaining marshmallow. A figure leaped down and picked it up. The camera saw that it was Zoey looking serious.
"You have been allowed this reprieve Lindsay for now because after what you have done... Revenge is a dish best served cold..." Zoey stated in a quiet voice.