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[Confessional]
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You know I keep that Candy, yeah
I need more like Mandy, yeah
Stay up, take addies, yeah
I'mma try fix this damage, yeah
I'm in my head again
I took more medicine
Ripped out the parts out from my heart
In my chest again
Hi guys, Pixel here, welcome back to the latest chapter of Total! Drama! Maelstrom: Island!
And we're back at it, you know what it is. Man, the last chapter was a success and I'm happy you guys liked the changes I made to the challenge since like I said, the canon felt off and I realized it was favored for the Gophers, so I had to make it fair and more…real, you know?
Now, I didn't expect this chapter to be long, given the lack of action in it but it was nice for a chance to go nice and slow since I took this chapter as an opportunity to develop some relationships in the teams while also plant a seed or two here and there. What seeds have I planted? You'll see in this chapter and you can place your bets. :3
Now, I did the same things as I did, I changed some things here and there for realism and to incorporate the inclusion of Dawn and Naruto in this story since there are some things I didn't like in the canon version and I'll continue this thread from now on.
Well, that's all I have to say for now. I'll talk to you all later in the end notes and let's just this chapter started!
"This chapter of TDM:I, contains scenes of extreme stunts and actions performed by fictional teens. Do not try anything that you read here at home. Seriously, you could get really messed up."
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Last time on: Total Drama Maelstrom: Island…
"Last time on Total Drama Island…" Chris recounts as the camera pans in on him. "The campers were forced to conquer their deepest, darkest fears and while all were tasked to face them, not all succeed. Others surprised the group and faced them head-on. In a not-so-shocking twist, Tyler let the Gophers down when he was too chicken to face…the chicken! Get it? Hahaha, and it was buh-bye to Tyler. Once again, the Gophers face themselves behind the Bass as they now have 9 members on the team. Can they pull this funk they're in out of the water?" Chris asks as he was on the docks. "Find out today on TOTAL…DRAMA…ISLAND!"
Total Drama Maelstrom: Island
Episode 7: Up the Creek
A new day comes on Camp Wawanaka and we find ourselves with Naruto, sitting on the stairs leading to the beach from the Mess Hall, with his guitar and amp as he's busy strumming a melody on his instrument. And while he plays said melody, he hits the wrong note and stops as he lets out a frustrated sigh
"Damnit!" Naruto yells, frustration in his tone and expression before he starts playing the melody again. The reason why he was doing this and was frustrated by this was he was trying to find a certain sound and he thought that by playing this melody, he'd find it but as you could see, his mission was not going that smoothly. Naruto strums the melody and feels he's getting close but he once again hits the wrong note and he lets out a massive groan while throwing his head back. "Oh c'mon! I was right there!" He yells, feeling like he'd tear his hair off. What he wasn't aware of was that someone was right behind him and saw his reaction
"You seem to be really working hard on that." This person says and Naruto turns his head around to see who it is. To his surprise, it was Gwen, who was smiling at him. "Hey." The goth greets the rocker who smiles back at him
"Hey." Naruto greets as he sets his guitar down to the stairs and stands up and looks at her. "Whatcha doin' here?" He asks, curious about why Gwen was here so early in the day.
"I felt like taking a bit of a morning walk around the camp. Clear my mind and just relax." Gwen says as she steps onto the stairs and sits down as she looks at Naruto. "And you? What were you doing there?" She asks and Naruto sits back down to the stairs and grabs his guitar.
"Oh, I was trying to find my sound." Naruto says while resuming his strumming as Gwen raises an eyebrow
"Your sound?" Gwen asks, wondering what he meant by that
"Yeah, my sound. You know how most musicians and artists have their own unique take on the arts?" Naruto asks and Gwen nods, knowing what he was talking about since she knew some poets had their unique in saying their poems. "Well, I've been trying to find my own for a while now and…" He says and Gwen starts to get the idea
"You haven't found it from what I saw earlier?" Gwen asks and Naruto just turns from her and sheepishly nods
"Y-Yeah…I haven't." Naruto says while Gwen just chuckles a bit
"I'm sure you'll find it soon. It's bound to happen?" Gwen says, softly punching Naruto's shoulder to assure him he'd find it. She looks around and notices a lack of a certain someone. "So, where's Dawn? I was surprised to not see her with you since you two were tied to the hip during the break." She says as she remembers seeing Dawn and him hang out or just be near one another for the past three days.
"Dawn said she wanted to be alone for the morning so she could be one with Mother Gaia so I let her by. Plus, it gave me the time to try and find my sound." Naruto says while he starts to strum freestyle as Gwen just nods, seeming to be satisfied by his answer
"Oh, okay." Gwen says. After a while, the two just remain silent with the sounds of the waves of the lake crashing and Naruto playing his guitar filling the air before the blonde/redhair turns to Gwen
"So…how have you been feeling? Since the last challenge?" Naruto asks, wanting to know how was she doing after the whole mess of being buried alive and being left there. Gwen sighs and she looks down at the stairs
"I've…been feeling better. Some of the girls, mainly Leshawna, Bridgette, Dawn, and even Courtney have been cheering me up. Hell, even some of the guys too, like Owen offered me his lunch yesterday but I told him not to while Duncan asked if I wanted to punch something and I took up his offer on that for a later date." Gwen says, chuckling a little from the memories of everyone trying to help her out and she did feel grateful about them
"And Trent? How have you been dealing with him?" Naruto asks, addressing the elephant in the room as Gwen sighs
"I've…been ignoring him these past few days. He's been trying to apologize and all but…I'm just not ready to face him yet." Gwen says while Naruto nods, understanding her
"I sort of get it. You need some time to process your feelings before you can face him. I get that fully. But if you want to talk about it some more, I'm right here for ya." Naruto says. Hearing that causes Gwen to smile a little as she looks at him
"I'll take you up on that. Thanks, Naruto." Gwen says as Naruto smiles
"No problem Gwen." Naruto says
Attention all campers! Report to the middle of camp to gain your instructions for the next challenge!
"That guy really knows how to ruin our relaxation time…" Gwen says while Naruto nods
"Tell me about it." Naruto says as he stands up and disconnects his guitar from his amp before picking up both items. He turns back to Gwen. "Wanna walk back together?" He asks
"Sure." Gwen says before she stands up and the two make their way to their cabins to get ready for today's challenge
[Timeskip: 10 minutes later]
It was now challenge time. All of the Killer Bass and Screaming Gophers, except weirdly enough Beth, were gathered at the beach with Chris in front of them. On the beach were several canoes with half of them being green for the Gophers and the other half being red for the Bass.
"Bass, Gophers, today's challenge is a true summer camp experience." Chris says as he directs everyone's attention to a map he had on a board that was set next to him. "A canoe trip. You'll be paddling your canoes across the lake to…Boney Island!" The host explains the challenge of the day to everyone before saying the name of the island in a spooky tone, getting many of the campers to raise an eyebrow. "When you get there, you must portage your canoes to the other side of the island, which is about a two-hour hike through treacherous, dense jungle." He says
"We gotta pour what?" Geoff asks, confused as to what Chris told them to do with their canoes.
"Portage." Chris corrects Geoff, who still looking confused due to not knowing what that word meant while a fly flew through his right ear, and came out the other ear... "Dude, walk with your canoe." The host says as Geoff lets out an 'Oooh', now getting it. Chris just shakes his head as he only wonders about his country's future before he resumes explaining the details of the challenge. "When you arrive at the other end of the island, you'll build a rescue fire that will be judged by me. The first team to paddle home and return their canoes to the beach is the winner of invincibility! Move, campers, move!" He yells and the campers start heading to the canoes on the beach only to be stopped by Chris as he remembers one last detail. "Oh, wait! One more thing I should mention. Legend has it, if you take anything off the island, you'll be cursed forever!" The host says, again in his spooky tone as thunder goes off, causing all the campers to look up to the sky and were freaked out by the fact that no cloud in the sky showed it was going to rain.
"Yeah, baby! A cursed island! Wooo!" Owen cheers, with enthusiasm. However, no one seemed to share his enthusiasm as they simply silently stared at the big guy.
"Now, get in your canoes, and let's have some fun!" Chris says as the campers slowly head off this time with Owen cheering again.
Just then a toilet flush was heard and suddenly Beth came into the scene and stopped in front of Chris with some toilet paper attached to her shoe. "What'd I miss?" The braces-wearing girl quickly asks.
"Canoes." Chris says, pointing in the direction of the beach with Beth quickly taking off. He hopes that the others would explain the rules to her and the curse he said regarding taking things off Boney Island
[Confessional: Cody]
"Chris told us to pick a paddling partner. It was time for me to make my move." Cody explains while his mind was currently focused on impressing a certain goth girl. "If I could just get Gwen alone for five minutes, I knew I could woo her with my manly charms."
[End Confessional]
At the beach, the campers were quickly paired up with each other such as on the Gophers, Leshawna and Izzy, and surprisingly Heather and Owen. Gwen was walking down the stairs to the beach when she stopped to see Trent looking up at her with a smile. The guitarist gestured his eyes to the canoes, silently asking the goth to share a canoe with him. Gwen didn't know what to do, since she still wanted to be away from Trent for a little bit but the universe would her help on.
"Come on, Gwen!" Gwen hears someone call out to her and suddenly Cody appears as he puts an arm around her shoulder. "You and me, open water! What do you say?" The nerd asks. Gwen let out a mental sigh since as much as she would really not want to be with Trent on a canoe, Cody was pretty much one of the last people she'd want as a partner, given she was aware of the MASSIVE crush he seemingly had on her. But seeing as she had no other option since everyone else was with their partner, she sighed and looked at Cody
"Sure, why not?" Gwen reluctantly says, surprising Cody and Trent
"Wait really?" Cody asks, in a surprised tone before he quickly shakes his head before he nods, "I mean, sweet." He says, smiling while flashing his gap tooth. Trent sees this and was about to say something but he is cut off by the sudden appearance of Beth and Lindsay as they surround him.
"Trent!" Lindsay yells as she and Beth surround Trent and grab his arms. "You have to come with us!" The bombshell says while she starts to pull Trent with her. Trent just turns back to Gwen as he's dragged away.
Upon seeing Trent leaving, Gwen let out a sigh before she saw Cody still had his arm over her shoulders. She quickly gets his arm off her and puts Cody in an armlock with the geek grunting as a cracking sound was heard
"Let's make one thing clear. I'm in charge during the ride. Got it?" Gwen says as she narrows her eyes at Cody who nods.
"S-Sure!" Cody yells and Gwen releases him and she makes her way to their canoe while Cody just eagerly follows her
[Confessional: Cody]
"Yes! Yes! Yes! It is so on!" Cody cheered as he celebrated by playing an air guitar.
[Static]
[Confessional: Gwen]
"Cody? He's like an annoying brother. A really annoying little brother." Gwen gives her opinion on Cody before sighing. "At least it's better than Trent…"
[Static]
[Confessional: Cody]
Cody was still playing his air guitar as he performs a solo
[End Confessionals]
Izzy was trying to push her canoe before she tripped and fell into it. She flips and lands on the canoe, sitting in it with her life jacket suddenly on while Leshawna walks up to the canoe.
"Hey, just follow my technique. I'm 1/87th Chaircki, which would mean the tribe could claim me at any time." Izzy says as Leshawna picks up one end of the canoe before she starts pushing it
"Let's hope it's today…" Leshawna mutters, just having a feeling that today was going to be a long day.
The Bass arrive at the beach and make their way to their canoes as Duncan picks Katie and Harold, much to their dismay. Bridgette looks around for her paddle partner as she saw Naruto with Dawn and surprisingly Eva as they were putting on their life jackets, pairing up for the journey. She continues to look around before she spots Geoff, heading down the stairs, and looks at her with a smile. She cringes a little as she remembers his little…gift he gave her this morning and her reaction to it wasn't that good.
Geoff was hoping to get her to be his paddle partner and he thought that this would come true as he saw Bridgette supposedly smiling and waving back at him. "Courtney!" Geoff's eyes widen a bit as he sees that it was the CIT herself that Bridgette was waving to. "Be my partner?" Geoff face palmed as Courtney nods and headed over to Bridgette.
[Confessional: Geoff]
"Man, I thought Bridge and I were tight, but suddenly, I don't know, it's like she's fadin' on me." Geoff says with a sad tone and frown before his mood takes a sudden 180. "Nah! It's all good!"
[End Confessional]
"Hey Geoff, need a partner?" Walking up to Geoff and patting him on the back was DJ, who the party dude quickly gave a thumbs up to.
"Excellent!" Geoff eagerly says as he follows DJ to the canoe they'd be sharing. As they head over to their canoe, they pass by Bridgette and Courtney. Geoff looks at the surfer girl only for Bridgette to avert her eyes away from the party dude. When DJ and Geoff reach their canoe, DJ seems to be a bit skittish as he taps the canoe with his foot and Geoff grabs both the life jackets out of the aquatic vehicle.
"Yo, man. Do canoes flip over a lot?" DJ quickly asks as that was something he wanted to know before getting into this thing.
"No, you're thinking kayaks." Geoff tells DJ making the brick house breathe a sigh of relief as he catches the life jacket Geoff threw to him. But Geoff wasn't finished "Unless we hit some rough water." The party dude says while putting on his life jacket
That quickly makes DJ tense up again. "Water can get...rough?" DJ asks in a nervous tone
"Oh yeah." Geoff says, speaking as if it wasn't really a big deal for him. "Sometimes it can get totally radical out there!" He says and DJ swallows the lump in his throat
[Confessional: DJ]
"When I was eight, my brothers dared me to jump off the high-dive platform at the pool. I was scared, but I jumped. I wasn't gonna let them call me chicken." DJ says as he finally gives the story of why he has a fear of water. "I landed on my butt. Sounds better than a belly flop, right? Wrong. My trunks went so far up my butt, I had to go to the hospital and get them removed. They invited a new word for what I did. The wedgie flop. I've been afraid of water ever since." The big guy says while shivering a bit, remembering that fateful day from his past.
[End Confessional]
DJ holds onto the canoe tightly as Geoff pulls it into the water. The brick house flinches a bit when the canoe shakes as Geoff gets in.
"Dude, relax." Geoff says to DJ in a calm tone as he hands his friend an oar. "We're gonna be fine." He says
"If this canoe's a-rockin', don't come a-knockin'!" The two watch as the canoe Owen and Heather were in passes by them…only for Heather to get sick of Owen's antics and club the back of his head with her oar. "Ow, that smarts!"
Soon enough, everyone was in their canoes and was in either pairs of two or three. Chris was on the beach and aiming a gun into the air.
"On your marks…" Chris counts down as he puts his thumb on the trigger and raises the gun. "Get set…"
-BANG!-
"Paddle!" Chris fires his gun to signal the start of the challenge as all the teams quickly start paddling their canoes in the direction Chris instructed. And as they left, a hawk crashed to the ground from the air in front of Chris with the host having accidentally shot the animal. "...That's gonna get me a lawsuit from every animal rights fanatic in the country."
Before he could hear Dawn shouting distance. "BIRDIE NO!"
"…And there's one already on the island…" Chris says that he had a feeling he was going to get a lot of emails in the coming days…and a lot of yelling from Dawn later…
As the teams were paddling, many of them decided to pass the time with conversation.
Over on Gwen's and Cody's canoe, Cody decides to make his move on Gwen.
"So…do you wanna go out sometime?" Cody asks, hoping Gwen will agree
"No." Gwen instantly declines the offer in a fast response which did put Cody down a bit but the nerd wasn't going to give up that easy, especially since they were alone together
"How about Friday night?" Cody asks, again hoping the goth would say yes. (a/n: Gettin' freaky on a Friday Night, yeah!)
"Uh, let me think about it-no." Gwen again declines the offer in a fast response but once again, Cody was not one to quit
"Saturday's good for me. How about Saturday?" Cody asks and Gwen's eye starts to twitch since he was starting to get on her nerves with his pestering
''I'm not going out with you, ever.'' Gwen says, emphasizing her decline with a hand gesture. And Cody puts his hands up
''Okay fine, geesh.'' Cody says, finally getting the message. They continue to paddle for a bit before Cody asks something. ''So is Sunday out of the question?'' He got an answer with an ore hit right to the coconuts
[Confessional: Cody]
"Okay, maybe she wasn't quite ready for the Cod-ster." Cody says as he was still determined to hook up with Gwen
[End Confessional]
Not too far from Gwen and Cody. Izzy and Leshawna were paddling along as Izzy was telling a story to the Homegirl
"And these bushmen taught us how to catch and properly cook crocodiles as well as Koala." Izzy tells her story as Leshawna cuts her off
"Uh…isn't killing a Koala bear illegal?" Leshawna asks since she was well aware of the animal being on the endangered species list so, if you were to kill one, you're pretty much screwed
"Oh, I don't know. Probably yeah." Izzy says as she laughs while Leshawna looks at the camera next to them with a concerned expression
A bit further up ahead of them were the trio of Beth, Lindsay, and Trent as Lindsay just stretched a bit before she lay down on the canoe with her head on Trent's lap as she looks up at him.
"You don't mean if I lay here and work on my tan, do you?" Lindsay asks as Trent just smiles and nods
"I don't mean one bit." Trent says as he was mesmerized by her beauty and body since she was wearing a different outfit. She had on a red crop top that did nothing to hide her bosom while she wore a pair of denim jean shorts.
[Confessional: Lindsay]
"Heather asked me and Beth to be with Trent so we could try and make Gwen jealous but…I don't think she'd be jealous since I haven't seen Gwen near Trent for a while now." Lindsay says that she remembers how Gwen avoided Trent during the break. Hell Heather told her to wear something different for this reason.
[End Confessional]
In the back, Geoff and DJ were paddling their canoe as Geoff was in deep thought over something. He thought about why Bridgette had been acting weird toward him since this morning and he couldn't think he couldn't think for any reason that could be the problem with this. So, he needed to ask for some advice and he decides to ask DJ for his thoughts regarding this
"Can I ask you something, dude?" Geoff asks, getting the brick house's attention. "I gave Bridgette an awesome gift this morning, but she's been sending me some weird vibes."
"I thought something seemed off between you two." DJ says while scratching his chin a bit as he couldn't help but notice that there was an odd vibe going on between Bridgette and Geoff. "What'd you give her man?" The brick house asks since he was curious about just what was this gift.
"I gave her this awesome coin case!" Geoff explains what he thought was an awesome gift for Bridgette. "I used this pic of me and you and did a little editing and got this pic of Bridge. Got it to make it look like I had my arm around her."
DJ's eyes widen…and he quickly figures out why Bridgette was avoiding Geoff like the plague. "You're serious?"
Geoff grins and nods his head, feeling rather proud of it. "I made it in arts and crafts yesterday."
What the two didn't know was that Bridgette was talking about the gift to Courtney since The C.I.T. had noticed her strange behavior on the beach when Geoff passed them.
"Ohmigosh Courtney!" Bridgette exclaims. "It was so bad! He made me this change dish with this really bad photo-shopped picture of us on it!"
Courtney grimaces since she could hear from Bridgette's tone, the gift had to be that bad. "That's... that's pretty bad Bridgette." She says
"And it only gets worse from there." Bridgette says as Courtney just sighs, getting a bad feeling about what could be said in a bit
"And how is it worse?" Courtney asks
"He craved something to the back of the case and it wrote:-" Bridgette says as we cut back to Geoff
""I hope you think of me when you drop loose change into this."" Geoff repeats what he craved in the case as he felt it was romantic. DJ just stares at him for a bit before he face palms and sighs at this while Bridgette gags as Courtney also face palms.
Geoff finally takes notice of the vibes DJ was sending out and asks. "Not good?" And DJ just shakes his head
"Damn, dude. That is so bad, we need a new word for how bad that is." DJ tells Geoff, making the party dude slump down a bit. Looks like his gift wasn't as good as he thought it was. Or even half that. DJ sees this and decides to give some advice he got from his brothers. "Look man, dating's like…hmm…" The Jamaican stops as he puts a hand to his chin and tries to think of a good example to use to help Geoff out. But just then DJ spots something in front of them and snaps his fingers. Perfect. "Ok, so this may seem off topic but I'm gonna go somewhere with this. So it's obvious that Naruto and Dawn got a thing for each other right?" He says as Geoff looks up and sees in front of them, Naruto was telling a story to Dawn and Eva as they paddle
"Well duh." Geoff says as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. "I think everyone on the island and those watching can see those two click with each other."
"Well take a look at 'em now." DJ says and Geoff decides to look at them did as DJ told him and saw Naruto supposedly telling Dawn and Eva a story as the nature lover and Jock were laughing a bit before they gasp at something he said next, "See that man? Naruto's just being casual with her. He's been friendly with her since Day 1. Gettin' to know her and all that stuff. He's treading slowly and working his way up the tiers into a relationship." DJ says as Geoff looks at him
"How many tiers are there?" Geoff asks curiously.
"Just don't do tier 15 man." DJ immediately and firmly tells Geoff that the party dude doesn't understand what he meant by not doing tier 15.
"So what?" Geoff asks as he tries to get exactly what DJ is telling him. "I should like just try and take things slow with Bridgette before I try anything big to show I like her or something?" He asks and DJ nods
"That's how it works." DJ says as Geoff puts a hand to his chin in thought.
"So in other words…I messed up?" Geoff asks and DJ just crosses his arms in response and nods
"You messed up dude." DJ bluntly says and Geoff sighs
"I have a lot of work to do, don't I?" Geoff asks and DJ once again nods.
"Yes, yes you do." DJ says. "And you should say sorry to Bridgette for the gift you gave her." He says and Geoff just sighs again before he nods
"Okay, I'll do it the first chance I get." Geoff says
"Sweet man. You got this. I believe in you." DJ says with a smile as he puts his hand on Geoff's shoulder with the party dude smiling back at him
"Thanks dude." Geoff says
Over to the trio of Dawn, Eva, and Naruto, the blonde/redhair was finishing up a story for the two
"And to the very day, I've heard he's still traumatized by corncobs. So much that he breaks out in a panic upon seeing one." Naruto finishes his story with a grin while Dawn and Eva look pale and shocked after hearing his story
"You're one evil dude Naruto." Eva says after a while of silence and Dawn nods
"Yes…indeed." Dawn says
"Hey, the guy laughed at my sister when she fell and hurt her knee. There was no way I was going to let him leave town before I got revenge. Besides, from what I last heard, the dude got sent to some juvie. So it was a win-win to me." Naruto says
"But still…how can you set hair on fire with a pair of dice, a flashlight, some water balloons, and a corncob?" Eva asks, wondering how the logic and actually psychics work on that and Naruto just shrugs his shoulders
"I don't know." Naruto says, feeling like whatever he did was normal while Dawn and Eva just glance at each other
Back in the canoe Gwen and Cody were sharing, Cody had his head down after multiple attempts to ask Gwen out. He knew the reason why, but he still wanted to try. But seeing he failed, he might as well speak up about it.
"I think I know why you keep shooting me down." Cody finally spoke up and Gwen didn't seem interested at all that he was saying, so he continued. "It's because of Trent, isn't it?" He asks and Gwen suddenly jolts and to him, that confirms his theory and he feels he has her attention. "Look, I'm pretty tight with Trent," he continues, smiling, "and I was definitely sensing an 'I'm into Gwen' vibe from him." He says as he doesn't notice her stiffen. Gwen turns around and gave him a wary look. "I'll put in a good word for you… you know, if you want." He concludes what he had to say.
At that moment, Gwen hesitates. Should she go with Trent? She had been actively avoiding him since the fear challenge and she really wasn't sure about her feelings for him. On one hand, he was pretty laid back and fun to hang with but on the other hand, so was Naruto since she found herself loving to hang around him since they clicked with one another, despite their limited interactions. Yet for some other reason, she felt more drawn toward Naruto, maybe it was a gut feeling. But she also knew that Naruto had spent more time with Dawn, so she felt they'd be a couple if things went well. Her mind was totally confused by this since she had no idea what to do…
But to Cody's perspective, he took her silence as a "Yes"
"Sweet, I'll even help you get in the same boat on the way home. It's the least I can do." He adds. After all, despite his own feelings toward Gwen, he knew she was into Trent and Trent did seem to genuinely be a nice guy.
"And since I'm helping you with, I could need some help from you." Cody says, trying to start off casually since he had another reason. He didn't want to be mess up on his words. "Since I'm in a bit of trouble myself…" His statement causes Gwen to turn to him
"…What do you mean?" Gwen finally asks with a raised eyebrow as Cody just rubs the back of his head sheepishly
"Well… I kinda bet Owen that if I got your bra, he'd do all my dishes for the rest of the competition." Cody says
-WHACK!-
And once more, he receives another blow to the coconuts.
"Heh…right. Asking too much. Got it." Cody says, holding his pride. He soon notices a fog start to form around him, something that confused him. "Hey, was that always earlier?" He asks as Gwen looks around the fog and was also confused
"No…I don't think so." Gwen says
The teams paddle a bit further as the fog gets denser while they see flocks of birds flying away from something
''Spontaneous fog...birds flying away…I'd say we're getting close to this island.'' Naruto says, seeing the fog around them until he hears Dawn suddenly gasp. He turns and sees she was looking forward with her eyes widened. "What's wrong?" He asks, noticing Dawn's change in attitude.
"That island…it's completely covered in darkness." Dawn says in a grim tone as she points forward. Naruto looks forward…and gasps at what he saw. Boney Island. And it wasn't exactly a friendly sight. The eerie fog bordered the island and the rock formations in the front made the part of the island they were paddling to look like there was a giant skull looking down at them. While Naruto couldn't sense things in the way Dawn could, he could safely say something didn't exactly feel right about this island.
"Well…not exactly an ideal vacation spot." Naruto tries to joke as he and all the other canoes soon reach the shore of the cursed island.
"Okay. Did you see that skull?" Izzy excitedly asks, truly the only camper who wasn't frightened or freaked out by Boney Island one bit. "How cool is that?! It's like this place is haunted or something!"
The sound of howling winds and horrible screeches was heard not long after Izzy's declaration.
"Uh, Dawn…is this place haunted?" Katie asks while Dawn just looks at the skull rock formation on the island before turning to her with a worried expression
"…Do you want an honest answer?" Dawn hesitantly says, making Katie's eyes widen.
"Let's just get this over with!" Gwen shudders, picking up her canoe alongside Cody as they take off into the jungle. The others soon follow and the two teams run their way through the jungle in the direction Chris pointed out to them on the map this morning. The scenery seemed to only get darker and grimmer as they ran forward. There were skulls all over the place either on the ground or staked on spears. Many trees seemed to be bitten down with the stumps having large teeth marks on them.
"I don't really like the look of this place guys." DJ says in a fearful tone with members from both teams nodding in complete agreement.
Just then, halting the progress of both the Bass and Gophers, was a large tree falling right in front of them. Everyone flinch and look around to see what caused this and a few spot shaking bushes and some large glowing eyes peeking out.
"I think I saw something." Cody whispers as the shaking bushes get more violent.
Something finally emerged from the bushes and everyone was treated to what looked like beavers…but were the size of bears and had tusks on them.
"Monster…beavers!" Cody yells as nearly everyone screams in terror as the monster beavers all look at them with rather…hungry expressions.
[Confessional: Chris]
"A remnant of the Pleistocene Era, the woolly beaver is a day-active rodent indigenous to Boney Island." Chris explains what the deal was with those monster beavers. "Oh yeah, and they're meat eaters." He says before he winks to the camera and laughs
[End Confessional]
Luckily for the Bass, it seems all the woolly beavers had their eyes only on the Screaming Gophers as they all scream and proceed to run away as fast as they could.
"That's good." Courtney whispers to her team with a smile. "With those overgrown rodents focused on the Gophers we can-"
Suddenly more growling gets the Bass's attention and they all watch and flinch as more woolly beavers emerge from the bushes and surround the Bass. "Or…not…" The CIT squeaks out.
"Any chance someone has a giant toothpick they can munch on?" Harold fearfully gulped. As the prehistoric beavers edged closer to everyone.
"We could run for it…" Bridgette whispers, she and some of the others gulp as they see the woolly beavers start
"Or fight our way out…" Eva whispers while she was looking around for a large branch to use against the large
"Everyone, remain calm and quiet." Dawn speaks up to everyone as she takes her hands off the canoe she, Eva, and Naruto were carrying. "Let me speak to them."
"What?! Are you crazy!? Do you want to be eaten by these monsters!?" Courtney yells, not wanting to see one of her teammates be eaten alive
"No." Naruto suddenly says, gaining everyone's attention as they turn to him and see he had a serious expression. "Let her do it. If she could talk to man-eating sharks, then I have no doubt she can do the same with these beavers." He says as everyone was reminded about her strange skill in speaking to animals. Maybe she could calm down these beavers. Naruto just looks at Dawn and whispers. "Be careful." To her and she nods at his words.
Dawn turns back to the beavers and takes a deep breath before she slowly approaches the beavers who seem to go on guard as she steps forward.
"Hey, it's ok. We're not here to invade your land, honest." Dawn says and everyone watches in amazement as Dawn's words actually seem to calm the woolly beavers down a bit as they all go from looking at Dawn like food to looking at her with a curious look. "We're just trying to reach the end of the island. We're deeply sorry for disturbing such beautiful creatures like yourselves." She says as she smiles
Everyone smiled…and then gasped as the beaver Dawn was in front of stood up on its two hind legs and showed off its full height and grabbed her. Everyone, especially Naruto, who was getting ready to run to Dawn before she was eaten alive, but he didn't have to…as they watched the beaver start licking Dawn like a happy dog, causing her to giggle as the beaver set her down
"Uhhhhh, I'm totally not the only one seeing this right?" Katie asks in a shocked tone as they watch as all the beavers that were previously keen on eating them, start crowding around Dawn and acting like dogs that just had their owner return home.
"Hehehehe, that tickles!" Dawn laughs as multiple woolly beavers happily lick Dawn to show their affection. Meanwhile, Dawn proceeds to give as many beavers as she can head scratches. "Aaawww, you're all just a bunch of softies aren't you~" She says while scratching a few beavers' heads
[Confessional: Chris]
"Man, that girl just takes the fun out of everything." The host said with a small frown on his face. "Is it so hard to ask for a bit of screaming and running away action from deadly man-eating animals nowadays?"
[End Confessional]
Eventually, all the woolly beavers stop crowding around Dawn and simply sat in front of them with their large tails happily pounding down on the ground.
"Thank you so much for that, it felt really nice." Dawn says to the prehistoric beavers making them all make some happy-sounding grunts. "Excuse me, if it's not too much trouble do you think you can lead us to the beach at the end of the island?" She asks and she was delighted to see the woolly beavers all nodded as they gestured their heads for the Bass to follow them before taking off into the jungle. "Alright everyone, let's go!" Dawn says as she rejoins Naruto and Eva in holding their canoe.
"Are we seriously gonna follow a bunch of dino-beavers?" Courtney asks in a bit of a fearful tone.
"You got any better ideas?" Duncan asks as everyone else decides to follow the beavers and not voice any complaints. Courtney looks to Bridgette who simply shrugs making the CIT sigh before they decide to follow as well.
"Have I ever told you how amazing you are?" Naruto whispers to Dawn with an impressed grin on his face. "Because you are." He says and Dawn blushes in response
"Well, you could say it more often." Dawn jokes with a giggle as they continue to follow the prehistoric beavers to their destination. And thanks to the beavers, the journey was going rather smoothly. Soon they hit a path that split into two directions, the beavers led them to what they said was the right direction. According to Dawn, their beaver to human translator.
The Gophers…didn't have it nearly as easy as the Bass. Without someone like Dawn with them, they resorted to running away from the beavers that tried to attack them. After losing the beavers, they thought got away and were finally alone when they instead walked into a small pond that had a bunch of rather large nests surrounding them…only for a bunch of prehistoric geese to start chasing them.
Luckily for them, Cody was actually the one to save them as he brings a loaf of bread with him after revealing he only brought it in order to make him and Gwen a romantic picnic and throws it to the prehistoric birds which gets them to leave them alone. Eventually, they came across the same splitting pathway the Bass passed by earlier and after seeing the Bass go right, they chose to go left.
Things seemed to finally be going well for them as there was nothing in their way to disturb them. At least, that was until Trent suddenly starts to lower into the ground.
"Whoa. Guys, uh, don't wanna panic here, but I'm shrinking!" Trent yells to everyone as they all look to see where Trent ends up standing. A pool of quicksand…
[Confessional: Trent]
"Right. How am I supposed to know what quicksand looks like?" Trent asks with a frown. "It looks just like sand."
[Static]
[Confessional: Chris]
"Hahahaha! Can you believe they fell for that?!" Chris says while laughing hard at the fact that Trent actually ended up getting into the quicksand. "Haha, I set it up, but I didn't think anyone would walk into it! Haha, that's just great! Ahahahahaha!"
[End Confessional]
"Uh-oh…" Trent lets out as everyone gasps as they watch the guitarist sink further down into the quicksand.
"Trent's stuck!" Lindsay screams as she and Beth set the canoe she, Beth, and Trent were carrying. "I'm coming, Trent!" The blonde yells as she goes toward Trent in an attempt to rescue him
"No don't!" Trent yells but his words are in vain as Lindsay soon finds herself sinking in the quicksand right next to Trent.
"I'm stuck too!" Lindsay gaps as she looks at her sinking body. "I so didn't see that coming." She says, while Trent just face-palms
"Help! Somebody, help us!" Trent shouts out as he and Lindsay were now neck-deep in the quicksand
Everyone quickly looks around to see if there was anything they could do, only to find nothing. Just then Cody spots something as he lets go of the canoe he and Gwen were carrying, with the goth setting it down on the ground as Cody runs off. Everyone watches as Cody climbs up a tree and grabs onto a vine and uses it to swing down to the quicksand pit to try and grab Trent's hand…only to miss and slam right into a tree.
Luckily, the vine comes back over the pit with Trent quickly grabs it and climbs himself and Lindsay out of the quicksand while Lindsay holds on to his leg. The pair lands safely on solid ground and everyone cheers as Cody, who was in a bit of a daze, walks over to the now-safe Trent and Lindsay.
"Whoa. Hey, thanks bro." Trent says up his hand for Cody to high five only for the still dazed Cody to miss. "You're a lifesaver."
"I am?" Cody asks he shakes his head to get his senses back. Lindsay then came in and hugged Cody.
"My hero!" Lindsay happily says before letting go of Cody. "Where did you learn to do that?"
"You know, I watch a lot of movies." Cody says as he sheepishly rubs the back of his neck, making Lindsay giggle a little bit.
"This is very touching, guys, but we've still got a challenge to win!" Gwen yells at everyone making them all quickly scramble to pick up their canoes again and quickly run forward, while making sure to walk past the quicksand and keep a much closer eye on the ground.
[With the Killer Bass]
The Killer Bass were all making good progress with their hike. The woolly beavers continued leading them to where they needed to go and they were able to avoid most obstacles in their path. For example, not ending up in any quicksand.
But all good things must come to an end eventually as Geoff suddenly trips on something and falls hard to the floor
"AAAHHHH!" Geoff screams in pain as he holds his left leg in the air. "My leg! I'm down! I'm down!" Geoff yells. Everyone, surprisingly including the beavers, stops to check on him. "Oh, it's so unfair! Why did this have to happen now? Oh! Why? Why?!"
"Geoff!" Bridgette calls out in concern as she goes to check on him. Some of the others set their canoes down and go to Geoff
"Hey man, calm down! Everything's going to be okay" Naruto tells Geoff as he and Dawn check on him. "What's wrong with your leg?"
"My leg is itching like crazy!" Geoff yells as he starts scratching his leg around to calm it down only to be met with a sudden rush of pain. "Never mind! I can feel it now burning! It's starting to hurt so bad!"
"Stop scratching! Let me take a look at it." Dawn tells Geoff as she gently takes his leg to examine it. Geoff winced a bit but tries to keep still as Dawn looks over his leg. The aura reader squints her eyes as she spots something stabbed into Geoff's leg. She turns to Duncan. "Duncan, may I please have your knife? I believe I've found the cause of Geoff's injury." She says. Duncan raises an eyebrow at the strange reaction before he shrugs and pulls out his pocket knife and hands it to Dawn. Using the knife, Dawn carefully reaches out to Geoff's legs and ends up pulling a small splinter out of it.
A few deadpanned at Geoff, thinking he was just being overdramatic
"Dude, seriously? You were freaking out over a splinter?" Harold asks but Dawn was looking at the splinter on the knife
"S-Sorry guys. Guess I overreacted." Geoff sheepishly says while rubbing the back of his neck
"Yeah…you were…" DJ says with a deadpan expression. He moves over to Geoff and holds out his hand to the party dude. "Feeling better?" He asks and Geoff nod
"Y-Yeah. I'm feeling much better now. The itch stopped." Geoff says as he takes DJ's hand and the big guy helps him up to his feet
"Great, now we can continue on our hike. We have to get our fire started before the Gophers do." Courtney says. The Bass nods and they were going to their canoes to pick them up again when Geoff suddenly falls back down again, this time landing on his face.
"Geoff!" Bridgette again calls out to her in concern as she goes back to check on him and helps him sit up. "What happened!?" She asks as Geoff looks at his leg.
"M-My leg…I can't feel it…I can't feel it!" Geoff screams, now shaking his now numb leg
"What? How? How did that happen?" Katie asks
"Wait…" Dawn says as she was still looking at the splinter on the knife. She sees something from it before she starts looking around the area. "Hmmm…" She hums a little while looking for something before she finds what she was looking for. "There!" She yells as she points toward a bunch of plants, causing her teammates to be confused.
"What?" Courtney asks, confused by what Dawn had pointed toward. "They're just a bunch of plants."
"Specifically, Burning Nettle(*1)." Dawn says as she throws the splinter away into the plant. "It's a plant with toxin in its hairs, if it comes into contact with your skin, it will cause a burning and itch sensation that will last for a few minutes but if you have a large exposure to the hairs, the skin exposed to the hair will cause that part of the body an itching or even a numbing sensation and that thorn that was in Geoff's leg must have been coated in some of its toxin."
Geoff grimly sighs before looking at Dawn.
"Just give it to me straight Dawn. Just how long do I have?" Geoff asks as Dawn just smiles at him
"Oh no, no it's not fatal." Dawn says, making Geoff the Killer Bass sigh in relief. "Don't worry, it was just a small thorn so it couldn't have that much sap on it. Your leg should just be numb for about the rest of the day and maybe tomorrow. All you have to do is not move your leg too much and you'll be back to normal in no time." She says while she hands Duncan his knife. Geoff sighs again before shaking his head.
"No, you dudes should go on without me." Geoff says, looking at his team. "I'll only slow you down."
Courtney was about to take Geoff up on that offer and walk away only for a growling prehistoric beaver to stop her.
"We're not leaving any man behind!" DJ firmly says. "Not on my watch!"
"Here's let me help ya man." Naruto says as he proceeds to pick up Geoff and carry him off to the woolly beavers. "Any of you mind helping carry him?" He asks them and one of the beavers nods as it lowers itself a bit allowing him to put Geoff on the prehistoric beavers back.
[Confessional: Geoff]
"I didn't know if I was gonna make it." Geoff said which was followed by a sharp inhale. "It was touch-and-go."
[Static]
[Confessional: Bridgette]
"I've seen surfers get eaten by sharks before, but this?" Bridgette said with a look of horror on her face. "This was horrifying!"
[Static]
[Confessional: DJ]
"The man just...kept going!" DJ said with the utmost respect for Geoff. "Riding on a giant beaver or not, the dude's got heart."
[Static]
[Confessional: Courtney]
"It was just a splinter…not like a stick stabbed into your thigh…" Courtney says with a deadpan expression, not knowing why was this a big deal
[End Confessional]
The Bass continue their journey through the jungles of the island before they eventually reach the other side of the island. When they got there, they saw that the Gophers had somehow beaten them to the beach. Looks like the path the beavers led the Bass down was the safer path, it was also the longer one. The Gophers wave to the Bass in a bit of a taunting fashion, only to gasp in horror as they see the gang of woolly beavers with the Bass.
The beaver carrying Geoff carefully slides the party dude off of it onto the sand as Dawn proceeds to give each one a pat on the head.
"Thank you all so much for your help. We really appreciate it." Dawn thanks them and the beavers respond by giving Dawn a lick before walking away into the woods.
"Alright, everyone! We gotta get some wood and quick! We're already behind!" Courtney yells, quick to take charge as everyone sets down their canoes and gets to hunting wood, while not taking wood from the trees around them at Dawn's request.
With Chris monitoring them from a helicopter up above, the two teams quickly try to get a big enough fire going. On the Gophers' side, Heather was rubbing two sticks together to try to get a fire going while Leshawna was banging rocks together, causing sparks to fly but still no fire ignited. Heather stops her actions as she looks over at the Bass side of the beach and was surprised as she saw that the Bass already had a fire going.
"How'd they do that so quickly?" Heather asks and Duncan turns to her as he silently answers her question by pulling out and igniting a lighter he had on him with a smirk on his face. "What?! Is that even allowed?!" She shouts while Chris from his helicopter sees the item in Duncan's hand
"No rule against carrying lighters." Chris says as a camera goes over to him in his helicopter. "Edge, Killer Bass."
The two teams continue to search for firewood around the beach as Beth spots something in a bush. She drops her stack of sticks as she finds a wooden tikki head in the bush. Finding it interesting, she picks the tikki up from the bush and places it in her pocket before picking up her sticks and going off to find some more, unaware of the dangers she just unleased
"Thanks for saving my butt man." Trent says to Cody as the two are taking a break with Trent lounging on a rock while Cody is standing near him.
"Just looking out for a fellow Gopher." Cody says as he pulls out a can of Soda from his pants and cracks it open. "Wanna sip?" He offers the can of Soda to Trent who cringes as he sees where that can be previously
"N-Nah, I'm good." Trent declines the offer while pushing the can away from him. Cody just shrugs as he takes a sip from his drink before he looks at Trent.
"Trent, let's talk. Mano to Mano." Cody says and Trent raises an eyebrow
"Uh, okay." Trent says. "What do you want to talk about?" He asks as Cody decides to speak what was on his mind.
"It's about Gwen." Cody says and Trent's attention is caught fully. "Look, I hit on her and I struck out a few times." He says before lowering his head, remembering all his attempts when they were coming to the island. He shakes his head and looks back at Trent. "Point is, she's not into me, she's into you."
"And how sure you are? Since for one, we know she's into someone on the island who plays guitar there's only me and Naruto who play, and two, she's been avoiding me these last couple of days." Trent says with a sigh, remembering all the failed times he tried to talk to Gwen, only for her to walk away or when someone called out to her before he could
"Oh, I'm positive man." Cody says. "I got her to agree to ride with you on the way back home." He says with a grin but he is taken back when Trent jumps off the rock he was on and glares right into Cody's eyes
"If you're lying, I won't have any problem rearranging your face! You know that right?" Trent threatens Cody who just holds his hands up at him
"Dude, buddy. What do I have to gain from lying to you?" Cody asks and after thinking about it, Trent calms down
"Okay, if you're telling the truth. I appreciate your help man." Trent says. "So, what should I do?"
"Bro, I got you. If I was you, here's what I would do." Cody says and as he was about to say what he was about to say, Heather suddenly appears and comes up to them
"Ladies, if you're almost done with your tea party? We're in the middle of a challenge here and we're still behind." Heather says, giving the two slackers a firm expression
"R-Right." Cody and Trent say before they go back in search of wood while Heather just turns to her left and sees Naruto and Dawn talking happily about something and she narrows her eyes a bit before she turns and walks back to her fire
The Bass were taking their pieces of wood to their burning fire as Geoff was seen, dragging himself across the sand, carrying pieces of wood in his hand before he throws his wood into the fire.
"You shouldn't be straining yourself like this. Dawn said so." Courtney says
"I know that, but I can't just sit around and do nothing while my friends are working hard! I got to do something!" Geoff yells before he turns himself and resumes dragging his body across the sand.
DJ frowns at seeing his friend in such pain. He gains an idea and turns to turns to Bridgette
"Hey, Bridgette! You have first aid training, right?" DJ asks and sees Bridgette nodding. "Why don't you help Geoff?" He says. Bridgette thought about it for a little bit before she shrugs her shoulders and heads over to Geoff as DJ smiles
[Confessional: DJ]
"Geoff's a good guy. And I own him big time. He helped me get over my fear of water. So when I saw him striking out with the ladies, I had to step in and help a brother out." DJ explains with a smile on his face. "Plus, he's someone on my list to help out, Naruto's also one on that list, need to help him with Dawn since we all see how those two click with one another. Can't let him make the same mistakes as Geoff." He says before he chuckles as he realizes something. "Hey momma look, I'm playin' cupid!"
[End Confessional]
As Bridgette looks over Geoff's leg, the party dude turns to DJ and sends him a smile and nod while DJ just discreetly winks at him. The others return with their pieces of wood and toss them into the fire as Courtney sees the flames and frowns
"I don't think this is big enough." Courtney says as everyone looks at the fire and sees she was right, despite the large amount of wood they collected, the fire was still not growing.
"She's right y'all. You heard the woman, we need more wood. Let's go!" DJ yells and everyone goes back in search of more wood. Harold, in a panic, rushes to his team's canoes and grabs all of their oars before tossing them into their fire as firewood, this shocks everyone in the Bass
"HAROLD!" Naruto yells, he and some of the others rush back to the fire to see if they can grab their ores and save them but it is too late, the ores were completely engulfed in flames "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO!?" He yells
"How are we supposed to get home now?!" Eva shouts at the nerd who steps back in fear
Over at the Gophers' side, they were looking at their fire as it was big, they felt it wasn't big enough since they just ran out of wood on their side of the beach. Just then, Izzy walks up to the fire holding something in her hands
"This ought to do the trick." Izzy says as she was playing with a goo-like ball with some sticks sticking out of it
"What is that?" Leshawna asks, looking at the goo-like ball Izzy had
"It's a homemade fire starter I made out of some tree sap, twigs, and other materials." Izzy says. "Stand back guys, this is gonna be big." She says with a smirk, one that tells the others to take several steps back. Izzy throws the DIY fire starter into their fire and…
-BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!-
An explosion akin to a miniature nuclear one goes off on the beach with the blast sending everyone flying back. The blast radius of the explosion was so large, it reached the height Chris was in his helicopter, forcing the host to move back before he too got blown up.
Back on the beach, it looked like a freaking warzone as branches of trees were laying everywhere on the sand, and inside of a deep crater, was a large fire roaring.
"What in the great earth mother is that!?" Dawn yells as she and most of the others sat up while their ears were ringing from the explosion
Naruto was lying on the sand, groaning from being blown back by the explosion while also something landing on his chest. He lifts his head to see what landed on him and to his surprise, he saw Izzy, who was covered in soot, lying on his chest. Izzy groans and lifts her head off Naruto's chest and she looks at him as the two stare at one another
"Hi there!" Izzy greets him ever so chirper like she didn't get blown up
"Uh…hi…" Naruto greets back with a pause. Izzy looks at him and sees his whisker marks and asks a question
"Are those whisker marks on your cheeks scars or tattoos for like your clan or something? Izzy asks while Naruto blinks a bit
"They're not…tattoos, they're my birthmarks…" Naruto says and Izzy's eyes light up
"Really?! That's so cool!" Izzy yells, ecstatically before she looks at him with a smile. "It really makes you look feral like a tiger or a fox! What else is there about you?"
"Uhh…" Naruto utters, really not knowing what to say about that but he was fortunate as Chris reappears
"Woo-hooo!" Chris yells from his choppa, as he grabs a megaphone and uses it. "We have our fire-building winner! Looks like the Gophers are back in the game after all! Point to them!"
"Oh, well looks like our chat has to wait." Izzy says with a pout. She leaps off Naruto and flips in the air before landing on her feet before she looks down at Naruto. "I'll see you later Whiskers." She says with a smile as she waves at him before turning around and walking back to her team while swaying her hips. Naruto sits up and watches her leave as someone walks up beside him
"Naruto, dude. You okay?" Naruto turns to his side and sees Duncan looking at him with a concerned expression. Naruto looks back at Izzy and slowly gives his teammate a nod
"Yeah…I'm fine…" Naruto says after a bit as Duncan helps him back to his feet and to their team to regain their bearings and regroup
Izzy arrives at her team while cleaning herself from the soot on her as her team looks at her in a stunned state
"Where did you learn to do that?" Heather asks as Izzy looks at her
"Oh, I spent a summer training with the Reserves. I learned a lot from them but I also got into a lot of trouble there. I like blew up the kitchen by accident which is why the RMCP is still after my butt. I'm like totally AWOL right now!" Izzy yells as some of her teammates look at her weirdly while Leshawna just rolls her eyes, not buying her story.
Eventually, the teams get up, dust themselves, and start making their way to their canoes to head back home and complete this challenge. As they were about to board their canoe, Cody decides to commence his plan
"You know, since you are still shaken up with the quicksand. We should you split up." Cody says to Lindsay and Trent, catching the blonde's attention while Trent realizes what he was doing. "How about I go with Lindsay and Beth and Gwen can paddle aback with Trent? Sounds good?"
"Sounds good to me." Trent says as he looks at Gwen with a smile, as he hoped Gwen would agree but to his surprise, Gwen turns away from him and rubs her arm
"Actually…I'd feel better if I could go with Lindsay and Beth." Gwen says as the four were surprised by this
"R-Really? You sure?" Trent asks and Gwen nods. Seeing as he struck out again, he sighs and nods. "Okay…guess I'll paddle back with Cody then." He says and the three girls walk to their cameo to get ready to leave. Once they had left, Trent turns to Cody. "Dude, what was that? I thought you said she'd be cool if we rode back."
"I-I don't know. I thought she'd be cool with it!" Cody says since he really thought Gwen would be into the idea.
"Well, clearly she wasn't! Man, so much for getting excited!" Trent groans as he runs his hand down his face
"I'm sorry Trent. I didn't mean to make things worse for you." Cody says and Trent just sighs
"It's…fine…c'mon…let's go and get ready." Trent says while he walks to their canoe
With the Bass, they were by their canoes with their life-jackets on but they still had one massive issue at hand
"What are we going to do without paddles?'' Bridgette asks as she and some of the others glare at Harold who flinches at the glares.
"You guys could get someone to swim behind the boats and push them." Suddenly Izzy, someone from the opposing team, speaks up to the Bass as they look at her. "I did that once for this huge like, sixty-foot yacht; the whole crew had to flutter kick for like, eight days to get to shore. And like, four of us got eaten by sharks. I didn't, hehe, not me. But it was insane. Okay, later!" Suddenly Leshawna aggressively paddled forward to shut Izzy up as the red hair falls on the cameo
After hearing her idea, the Bass thought about it and felt it was their best bet.
"That might work!" Geoff says with a smile while he was on Naruto's back. If someone strong enough could swim fast enough, they might just be able to barely make it in first.
"We need someone big enough to push all the canoes back." Bridgette says as she puts a hand to her chin in thought before she smiles and looks at the two strongest of the Bass. The Jamaican brick house, and their resident strong-woman. "DJ, Eva. You're you two are our strongest here, you guys got to do it."
"Okay." Eva says, shrugging her shoulders as she processes to take off her shoes for the swim but DJ flinches a bit as Geoff speaks
"You can't ask him to do that!" Geoff says, knowing about DJ's fear of water. "The dude can't swim!"
"Geoff, I know you two are friends, he's mine too but it's either him or two of us others to help Eva but we'd could get tired before we make it." Naruto says as he walks over to DJ and puts his hand on the brick house's shoulder. "It has to be him or we're screwed." He says and Courtney nods
"He's right. He and Duncan might do it but they'd be too slow." Courtney says as she grabs Harold's arms and points at them "And these skinny arms aren't going to cut it."
"I'll do it!" Geoff says as he was about to get off Naruto's back, only for Dawn to stop him.
"Remember what I said, Geoff." Dawn says, reminding the party dude of her orders earlier. "You have to let your leg take it easy in order for your body to completely heal from the Nettle's toxin."
"I can do this." Everyone looks to DJ as he spoke in a completely serious tone. "I have to."
"You sure dude?" Naruto asks and DJ just gives him a shaky nod
[Confessional: DJ]
"It was all up to me." DJ says to the audience at home with a determined look on his face. "I needed to swim like a Killer Bass should and no wedgie flop was going to stand in my way."
[End Confessional]
"That is one…brave man." Geoff says while pointing at DJ. The party dude's respect for the brick house was at an all-time high at seeing DJ willing to put his fears aside to help his team once again.
"You're a good man DJ. You have my respect." Naruto says, with his respect to the brick house going higher than before. "Alright. Duncan, Dawn, Bridgette. Help me stack the canoes onto each other and let's get ready." He says as he sets Geoff down and they get to work in stacking all the canoes on top of one another before they all climb onto the top one. Eva and DJ put their shoes into the canoe with the others and nodded to each other before they push the canoes and teammates into the water and began pushing
As it turned out, this was probably faster than using oars with DJ and Eva pushing them forward, the Bass were able to easily catch up to the Screaming Gophers. In fact, they didn't just catch up. They passed them! All the Bass were cheering DJ's and Eva's names.
Back on Total Drama Island, Chris was waiting for the teams to arrive as he spots something tall coming fast. He sees it was the Bass and he takes a step back, as he sees where they were heading
Apparently, due to everyone cheering on DJ and Eva and the two not seemingly knowing when or how to stop, they had no idea they were heading straight to a large rock. And when they reached the beach, they proceed to fly off the rock like a ramp, fly over Chris, and crash on the other side of the beach. But hey, they were still the first team on the beach!
"The Bass are the winners!" Chris announces leading to the Bass to cheer for the victory.
As the Gophers arrive at the beach and see they have once again lost a challenge, Leshawna gets off her canoe and glares at Izzy
"You cost us the game! You are dead!" Leshawna yells at Izzy who gets out of the canoe and looks at the homegirl
"Okay, you are so lucky my license to kill is currently expired." Izzy says and Leshawna had enough as she grabs one of their ores and this causes Izzy to run while she gives chase
"And stop with all the shit you're saying!" Leshawna yells, swinging the ore at Izzy as they run past the Bass.
"I hope she doesn't kill Izzy with that." Naruto says while chuckling a little bit
"Hmmmm…" Dawn suddenly appears next to Naruto with her hand on her chin as she hums while feeling something from the Gophers. "Something doesn't seem right." Dawn says as she looks at the Gophers
"What? What's wrong?" Naruto asks the aura reader with a raised brow.
"It's the Gophers." Dawn explains to the blonde/red hair while she frowns. "I feel a dark presence around them. Like the one from Boney Island."
"Eh, it's probably just Heather." Naruto says as he jokes/shrugs before he turns to Dawn. "Although I think it's a safe bet that Izzy's the one going home tonight." He says and Dawn simply hums in response before she and Lincoln walk off to go and celebrate with their team
[Later that night]
[Location: The Dramatic Bonefire Ceremony]
Once again, night fell upon Camp Wawanakwa and the Dramatic Bonefire Ceremony was taking place, with the Screaming Gophers once again on the chopping block to send one of them home where tonight the 6th camper would be leaving Total Drama Island. Forever.
"And now, the always anxiety-inducing marshmallow ceremony." Chris says while holding a plate of eight marshmallows. "When I call your name, come and get a marshmallow. Beth. Trent. Gwen." The three campers smile and went to go get their marshmallows with Trent looking at Gwen who just passes him, grabs her marshmallow, and walks away, causing him to frown as he goes and grabs his. "Cody. Owen. Heather. Leshawna."
The four call all go and grab their marshmallows before heading back to their stumps minus Gwen who left as there were two campers yet only one marshmallow. Izzy and Lindsay.
"One last marshmallow." Chris says with a grin as he tosses the marshmallow up and down in his hand. "The person who doesn't get this marshmallow will walk off the Dock of Shame and take a ride on the Boat of Losers. Who's it gonna be?" He asks with a grin to get the two remaining campers' nerves up
But before Chris could name the camper that was staying, a helicopter was heard and everyone looks up to see one flying above them with a searchlight shining down from it and onto Izzy.
"Izzy!" A voice calls out from within the helicopter. "We know you are down there! You are under arrest!"
"You mean all that trash you were talking was true?" Leshawna asks with a surprised look and tone as she remembers all of Izzy's crazy stories she told during the challenge. Including one where she was wanted by the RCMP for blowing up their kitchen.
"No. Just the RCMP part. See ya!" Izzy says before standing up and points up at the helicopter. "YOU'LL NEVER GET ME ALIVE!" She shouts as everyone then watches as she manically laughs before quickly running away with the helicopter in hot pursuit of her.
"Well. That wraps that up." Chris says after a little as he sees the helicopter chase Izzy as everyone watches the scene with shocked looks. "Night everyone."
At the Bass cabin, the team hears the blades of a helicopter which also shakes the building a little bit as they go outside and see Izzy running while a helicopter, with a searchlight shining down from it and onto her, chasing after her
"What the?!" Duncan yells, in disbelieve at what was going on while Naruto was looking at the copter
"Hey, Whiskers!" Naruto hears and sees Izzy waving at Naruto with a smile "I'll see you later!" She shouts as she runs into the forest as the helicopter flies above the forest, chasing after her.
The Bass were in shock as they didn't know what happened in the Bonefire Ceremony for something like this to happen. Some decide to go back into their cabins to go and sleep this off and forget about it while some go out to go to the Gophers to go and ask what happened during the ceremony.
"What just happened…" Naruto utters after a while, confused by what just happened. He decides he should get some sleep since Gwen had asked him if he wanted to hang out with him tomorrow to help him find his sound and he agreed.
Inside the girls' cabin of the Bass, Bridgette goes to her bed and finds a certain gift on the floor, completely shattered
"Oh man…" Bridgette says as she crouches down to the floor and sees Geoff's gift was in pieces. She looks over to Courtney who was getting ready for bed. "Go any glue?" She asks and Courtney just laughs
"I wouldn't waste my time fixing that." Courtney says while she looks at the gift. Bridgette picks up the pieces and looks at them before she smiles
"Maybe I would." Bridgette says as she goes over to the cardboard to place the pieces safely so she could begin fixing the gift tomorrow
Over at the Gophers' cabin, in the girls' cabin. Beth was on her bunk, reading a magazine she borrowed from Lindsay, with the wooden tikki head she took from Boney Island, unaware that the tikki head was emitting an aura around her and the rest of her team, an aura that would change the game soon…
つづく
Teams-
Killer Bass: Bridgette, Courtney, Dawn, DJ, Duncan, Eva, Geoff, Harold, Katie, Naruto.
Screaming Gophers: Beth, Cody, Gwen, Heather, Lindsay, Leshawna, Owen, Trent,
Eliminated: Ezekiel, Justin, Noah, Sadie, Tyler, Izzy
Remaining Campers: 18 (a/n: I just realized there are 8 dudes on the island left while there are only 10 chicks left. Well…at least it ain't a sausage fest.)
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"C'mon ?-chan! ?-chan wants to play with us!" A little blonde boy yells to me as I just sigh
"Do we have to play with ? I mean, she's a naughty girl and she'll just make whatever we play not fun." I say with the blonde boy looking at me with a confused look
"Oh, I don't think she means it. She's pretty nice to me." The boy says
'Yeah, when you're around her.' I thought
"C'mon ?-chan. It'd be more fun with you playing with us." The boy says as he gives me a look that made him so adorable, I knew I couldn't say no to him once I saw that look. I sigh and nod
"Fine…I'll play with you guys." I say and I see the boy in front of me give out what I could describe as one of the biggest and brightest smiles I've ever seen
"Yes! Oh ?-chan will be happy to play with us." The boy says before he goes into the backyard where…she was waiting for us and I sigh again
"Yeah…she sure will…" I say since I had a feeling just what we'd play once I got to the backyard
My eyes open as I stare into the bunk above me. I look around and I see my teammates sleeping in their bunks as I just look back to the bunk above me and think about what I just dreamt.
'Why did I dream about that? I haven't thought about that kid in years so…why did I just now…' I thought as I just stared at the bunk for a bit before I sighed and turned around in bed and went back to sleep…I needed to…
While not one of my longest chapters, it was one of my calmest ones.
Hi guys, Pixel, here, finishing up this newest chapter of TDM: I. And again, thank you to all of you who followed and read this story, it means a lot to me to see the response the story is getting. Thank you.
I liked the chapter since it once again presented me an opportunity to develop some bonds and relationships which I know is one of the main things you all want to see in the story and I hope you all have seen the seeds I've planted
(*1): I felt that Geoff's injury in the canon version was complete bullshit since that's no way you'd go down if you had a splinter in your leg. As someone who broke his ankle once, I know how real injuries are compared to something that small so I had to think about something that could put him out of commission for the rest of the challenge and I came across the Burning Nettles. Apparently, in some cases if you're exposed to them for a long period of time, they do cause that area of your skin with the hairs that came into contact to go numb so I had the idea of the toxin in the hair stabbed into Geoff's leg, so he'd first like the burn and itch before his leg would go numb from it. I have no idea if that actually works since the Burning Nettles plants aren't in South Africa and so I've never come across one to know how it feels. I'm basing what I read.
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