Another morning at the camp and Zoey was resting by the tree preparing herself and looked up with her now normal look as Dawn, Lincoln, Gwen & Ezekiel all walked up to her. "So Zoey... We are all in the final 5 and isn't that cool? Just feels like yesterday we all met eachother on that cruise ship and now here we are having outlasted 11 other contestants and I honestly never expected to get this far..." Lincoln muttered as Zoey just stared making all but Dawn looked nervous as Dawn just looked sad.
"So; after all this is over... You think that you could take it down a notch since there is no need for competition..." Gwen asked but Zoey jumped and got up the tree and used a switchblade to cut a feet trap and the rope to a wooden cage and held it up allowing the other camps to walk away as she then let it down onto no one.
"Chris probably set these traps up." Zoey said simply jumping down as they stared surprised that her instincts caught that.
"Thank you Zoey. So glad that you were able to stop that from happening to us as I would have done for all of you." Dawn said gratefully with a smile along with Lincoln, Gwen looked uncertain at Zoey but she flashed a small smile before her usual face returned.
"Hold on a second... Is that my switchblade? I thought that Cody took it since he had taken my flask..." Ezekiel shouted in realisation looking at the switchblade and then Zoey rolled her eyes as she then tossed Ezekiel the switchblade. "Thanks aye... You have no idea how many scrapes this has gotten me out of!" Lincoln smiled as there was a call from Chris at the speakers to make to the mess hall for breakfast.
The 5 were at their tables trying to dig into their bowls of paste with even Dawn struggling to get into it and Zoey just refused to even touch her's. "Good morning campers; tonight you shall be acting as game wardens and rangers!" Chris said greeting them as he made himself known "You have 8 hours to trap a wild animal and to bring it back to the campfire unharmed." Chris explained as they blinked and Dawn looked worried.
"So this is real hunting?" Dawn asked concerned but Chris shook his head.
"Rangers and game wardens often have to relocate animals for their own good and for the good of campers." Chris replied and this made Dawn feel a bit better. "Who says that Reality TV doesn't teach you anything!" Chris grinned looking at the camera.
"A challenge that involves catching animals and there is someone here that's basically Dr Dolittle and a Disney Princess... I wonder who is winning today..." Gwen muttered sarcastically in the confessional.
"I would never think of harming animals so I am pleased that our challenge involves them getting unharmed." Dawn smiled in the confessional.
At the boat house Chris has a hat filled with pieces of paper: "Choose your animal." Chris siad as they took their pieces of paper.
"Frog." Lincoln said reading off his paper and smiled. "Should be easy enough; my sister Lana has a pet frog and once we teamed up together to free the frogs from the school when I was in elementary school." Lincoln explained with a nod of his head.
""Duck." Ezekiel read off his piece of paper.
"Bear." Dawn read as Lincoln and Gwen shared a look.
"I will never forget that night where Gwen and I ran from Dennis the bear when he found us only to find Dawn calming it down and saying that he just wanted his picture drawn." Lincoln said in the confessional not feeling worried for Dawn.
"Beaver." Zoey read from her piece of paper.
"Raccoon." Gwen finally ready from her piece of paper.
"You all have 60 seconds to gather equipment from the boat house to nab your animal. You should be familiar with it Zoey since he broke into it yourself to steal all that equipment including the bow and flaming arrows." Chris explained and glared at Zoey who smirked.
"Using the sheer power of my thirst of vengeance; I gathered the strength to break that padlock with my bare hands." Zoey said with her smirk in the confessional.
In the boathouse, Gwen got a net, Ezekiel smiled as he found duck bait, Lincoln got himself a small creature net with a handle and Zoey found a tranquiliser gun in a crate as Dawn went up to her to try and say something when Chris came in. "Minute's up campers... Now go and hunt!" Chris said and this sent them rushing out.
"I don't know Dennis; even with our Save Zoey Alliance... I am kind of scared that we can't get the old Zoey back..." Dawn was telling Dennis the bear casually in his cave as she was in her lotus position and he casually gave a roar to him. "Give her time to herself and realise that she prefers the old self on her own? That's great advice Dennis; thanks!" Dawn told him gratefully as they shared an embrace.
"Let's go and see how Lincoln is going on." Dawn said getting up and so did Dennis.
In the woods Gwen spread her net out and covered it in leaves and spotted a raccoon nearby and got into a bush. "Courtney had found and adopted her racoon no problem so this should be a cinch..." Gwen said and the racoon went into the net and she started to pull it up and grinned victoriously, however there was animal yelling and the claws started to rip the net open making Gwen gulped.
Ezekiel spread out his duck bait by the beach and waited out in the sand; a duck came to take it and Ezekiel rushed to it. He picked it up and yelled as it started pecking him in the eye and he landed in the water.
Zoey spotted a beaver making a dam and aimed her tranquiliser gun at it and fired. "Bullseye." she said to herself.
Lincoln waited as he spotted his frog and launched himself at it with the net and after a few minutes of wrestling he got it in the net. "Huzzah... You might as well call me the Frog Whisperer!" Lincoln grinned and jumped as there was Dawn appearing behind him casually with a smile and Dennis who waved at him. This caused Lincoln to quickly check his net as the frog jumped out and it ended up accidentally kissing his lips.
Lincoln managed to catch it in his net again and gaged with his mouth as Dawn giggled. "Rebecca; sorry but it's supposed to be the frog who's a handsome prince." Dawn told the frog as she smiled at Lincoln who was red in the cheeks.
"How sad is it that what happened doesn't even make the top 10 most embarrassing things that ever happened to me in front of a girl I like or liked." Lincoln admitted with his head down in the confessional.
Later everyone was with their animals at the campfire pit and Chris was glaring at them; "You alright Gwen?" Lincoln asked Gwen checking over Gwen in concern as she had a black eye as she sighed.
"This one didn't go without a fight." Gwen explained as Chris shook his head as Ezekiel was smiling even though he was wearing a soaking wet set of clothes since he had his duck. Lincoln looke to Ezekiel but got a thumbs up in return.
"Zoey; I just want to say that if you need space and nt have us force yourself through an intervention to change your again after your ordeals then I and everyone else will give it to you!" Dawn todl Zoey who blinked and everyone else looked to Dawn as she nodded and they nodded at once.
"Dawn got her bear back here in no problem. Notice my shocked face." Chris said pointing to glaring voice and they started laughing at his reaction. "Laugh all you want but I was hoping for injuries from whoever got the bear and I was certain that they were an easy out so I am going to have to check out everyone's animal." Chris muttered as he then started inspecting their animals.
"A few feathers Ezekiel but I will give you that as long as everyone else's isn't in perfect shape." Chris said as Ezekiel looked nervous and Chris checked Lincoln,s frog, Dennis, Zoey's beaver, Dennis and then Gwen's racoon. They were tense as Chris shook his head as he showed a bruise on the raccoon's paw with blood on it.
"Oh come on! I am certain that the blood was mine and look at my eye, this beast clearly harmed me more than I harmed it!" Gwen complained but Chris shook his head as they all gasped.
"Wait..." Lincoln muttered never really thinking about who was being eliminated that episode and it turned out to be one of his girlfriends.
Lincoln went to protest but Gwen sighed and got up saying "I had a good run and I'm rather proud of how well I did. You take care now and I will see you soon. Dawn; took care of him for us." Gwen told him assuredly and gave him a smile before directing her last words to Dawn with her nodding.
She leaned in for a kiss and Lincoln returned with everyone else smiling and Zoey did as well but they let go and Gwen looked like she was going to be sick. "... You kissed your frog; didn't you?" Gwen asked as Lincoln muttered guiltily as she just sighed.
At the Dock of Shame; Lincoln was waving to Gwen with a smile as she was on the Boat of Losers and she waved back to him smiling as well before it fell as she was out of sight. "Don't worry Lincoln; we will see her again soon. It's not goodbye forever and after the show we will make sure that are all in touch!" Dawn assured him with asmile and a hand on his shoulder as his face let up again.
"I am here for you Link and I will do so again once Dawn is eliminated since I am sure that it will be the two of us in the finals!" Ezekiel told him confidently as Zoey managed to pot a hand on Lincoln's shoulder and sighed before putting it away before the guys noticed but Dawn did.
"We will definitely see if you are right Lincoln after tomorrow as for the penultimate episode... Double elimination!" Chris explained with a smirk behidn him making their eyes widened. Chris turned to the camer and pointed to it saying "Stay tuned to see which 2 of our final 2 are walking the Dock of Shame and which 2 are staying to compete for oodles of cash in our big finale which... I triple dog dare you to miss!"