Total Drama Tides

After a season filled with joy, gifts and snow... lots and lots of snow. Saint Productions brings you, Total Drama Tides. Three pirate ships, and a new, much more Zactastic host! With the song of Sirens in their hearts, the bodies of true Hotties, the mental state of a Shark, and the goal of becoming a Pirate, these Twenty-Four sailors are in for a memorable Summer!

Written By: Mroddy

Cast:
[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Alfie. Alfie] - The Candy Lover

[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Andre. Andre] - The Musically Inclined

[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Angel. Angel] - The Fan-Girl

[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Blake. Blake] - The Hockey Star

[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Cherry. Cherry] - The Basic White Girl

[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Colin. Colin] - The American

[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Damien. Damien] - The Legacy

Elyar - The Secret Agent

[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Emmett. Emmett] - The Muscle Head

[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Fleur. Fleur] - The Foreign Fashionista

[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Grayson. Grayson] - The Prep

Hannah - The Gamer

[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Kimmi. Kimmi] - The Best Friend

[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Leo. Leo] - The Thespian

[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Malia. Malia] - The Parent's Favorite

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Sam. Sam] - The  Thirsty   Pretty Boy

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">Sarah - The Singer

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">Tameron - The Butler

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> [http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Trixie. Trixie] - The Puck Bunny

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> [http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Viola. Viola] - The Pessimist

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> Wing - The Pirate

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;"> Yasmin - The Scholar

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">[http://totaldramaislandfanfiction.wikia.com/wiki/Youri. Youri] - The Effeminate

<p style="font-weight:normal;font-size:14px;line-height:22px;">Zaina - The Flower Girl

Chapter One: The Lowest Ebb
A tall, and incredibly dashing man walked through the white sand. The man had brown hair that was messily gelled, and light blue eyes that looked on in awe at the vista before him. The turquoise water of the Atlantic ocean allowed him to check himself out. He wore a white short-sleeve button down, with a vibrant tie-dye tee beneath it. Dark denim shorts covered his thighs, with leather flats for his feet. He stood on the shore staring out at the ocean, behind him the green ecosphere of Brazil.

"It's really warm," a girl's voice sighed from behind the man. The camera panned to show a shorter teenage girl. She had hazel eyes, and brown hair. She wore a purple sweater, and simple denim. "How much longer do we need to wait, Zac?" The girl pulled on the collar of her sweater for a breeze.

Zac shrugged, "Well, if you let me give you a makeover so that you wouldn't look so boring, you wouldn't be sweating ten pounds off right now." He looked at the girl and rolled his eyes, "You just look so plain, and what kind of name is Rhonda?! You Americans are just so… so weird." He made a disgusted face, and waved her away.

"You're just jealous that I get to bring Total Drama to America," she teased.

"If you survive until then." Zac said flatly, and walked over to the docks. Rhonda followed quietly behind him. "Where are the contestants, they should be here by now."

"They're probably hiding from you," Rhonda whispered and giggled. "Who would have thought that Canada would vote for YOU to be the host. I mean you put Heather to shame during the aftermath."

The host growled, "The old cast was made up of losers and wannabes. They weren't worth my time, they almost ruined a perfectly good show with their levels of crazy. No, this time I have a good cast, a cast I won't need to mock and destroy."

"AHHHHHHH!" A voice screamed, as a male raced out of the rainforest behind the pair. He was tall and had darker skin. His dark mane of hair was filled with twigs and his brown eyes were fully dilated. He wore a navy tee with a tribal design print on it and denim. He was barefoot.

The host stared at the intern, "You're late Mana. And where's the contestant? You're supposed to guide them here. And where's the machete I gave you! You're ruining everything!"

"OH MY GOD," the intern panted, "There's something in there!" He spoke with a Brazilian accent. "It tried to eat me! It grabbed the machete and it tried to take my head off!"

Zac blinked. "Well, are you going to bring me the contestants or what?"

Rhonda gasped and ran over to the intern and gave him a hug, "You're kidding right?"

"I'm the host, I'm not going to go in the rainforest where there are things that want to eat me. And you're here learning to host, so if you died I think I would get sued. He's just an intern, a rather disappointing intern."

Mana's face lit up, "I can do it! I will do it! Don't be disappointed in me!" He announced as he raced back into the forest.

"He's going to kill himself for you, and you don't even care?" Rhonda gasped.

Zac shrugged as he sipped from his glass of pink lemonade. "You'll understand when you host your own, lesser version of Total Drama."

"I thought Canadians were supposed to be nice." The interning host laughed, as she walked beside Zac. A voice let them know that the first contestant was on their way. The pair waved into the camera and smiled, "Welcome to Total Drama Tides!"

"This season we have the wildest cast yet, and we're going on a wild adventure! The seven seas are waiting!" Zac added.

Mana jumped out of the forest followed by a fit male with deep green eyes, matching the tropical greens surrounding him. He had deep brown hair that was perfectly gelled up, a handful of freckles were laid out across his face. He wore a navy and grey prep school uniform. with his school's beaver emblem sewn into the shoulder. "See!? I can do it!"

Zac smiled, "Now go get the other fourteen." He turned to the new arrival. "Welcome my-man Grayson!"

"Why can't we be somewhere, less warm?" Grayson groaned, removing his blazer.

The host sighed, "I didn't want to have to pay for our Brazilian intern to fly all the way to Canada. You know with our currency and all."

Rhonda stared at Zac. "So instead you flew 18 contestants, a camera crew, a hair and makeup staff, me, and you to Brazil?"

"Well, duh. It was the best option." He placed his hand on Rhonda's shoulder, "When you're host you'll understand."

"Wait you mean you're not a contestant?" The prep asked staring at Zac. "You look so young."

"You're so sweet! But no, I'll be your host, and this is Rhonda-"

Rhonda cut in, "You think I look older than HIM?" Grayson whistled and slowly walked away as Rhonda's face turned red.

Grayson walked towards the water, and stared down at his reflection, "Why is the water so… green?"

"We weren't allowed to film anywhere else. Just don't touch the water ok?" The host rolled his eyes.

The next contestant was much more petite. He had platinum blond hair that shagged to one side of his face. He had light green eyes, with large eye lashes, he seemed eager to be here. "I know what you're going to say! And let's just get it out in the open now. I'm an actual guy," he held his crotch, "I was just born beautiful. I can't help that," the contestant laughed.

"Whatever you say pip-squeak." Grayson shrugged and ruffled the smaller boy's hair.

Rhonda laughed, "Well, at least you tried, Youri." Youri's optimistic face turned into a frown.

(CONF): Youri groaned as he stood behind a wooden steering wheel, "I was hoping that people wouldn't bug me about my feminine looks here…" He huffed, "Well I'll just have to prove to them that I'm a manly-man!" He flexed, but his tiny cupcake biceps caused the camera man to laugh.

Mana groaned as a slim teen wrapped her arms around his neck. She wore a lightly tanned cowgirl hat, a pastel blue ribbon wrapped around it. She had a light denim jacket, with a white tee, and beige capris. Her cowgirl boots, with every step Mana took slammed into the intern's more delicate regions. Her wild blonde hair blocking most of his view. "I don't get paid enough for this," he groaned, falling over in front of Zac and Rhonda. The girl landed on her two feet.

"You don't get paid at all," Zac stated, before turning to the new arrival, "Welcome to the show Trixie!"

The cowgirl took a step towards Grayson, "The pleasure is all mine." She undid the ribbon wrapped around her hat, formed a lasso, and threw it at Grayson. She pulled on the ribbon once it landed over the teen, pulling Grayson to his knees.

"Can I help you?" Grayson rolled his eyes.

"Do you even workout? You're kinda slim." Trixie examined as she walked in circles around the teen.

"I'm the captain of my school's fencing team, now do you mind, like I don't know, untying me?"

Trixie yawned, "Boring, I've already dated a fencer." She pulled on her ribbon, which forced Grayson spin around, until he was free. "So where are all of the other guys?" She asked looking around.

"Ummm, hello?" Youri groaned.

The cowgirl giggled, "You're adorable. Don't ever change."

Grayson had just finished picking himself up from the ground when the next girl arrived. She wore a modern styled white dress that danced in the breeze, a thick black belt was tied around her waist showing her petite figure. Her grey hightops barely left an imprint as she walked in the grass. She carried a wide brimmed olive coloured hat in her hands. "Heeeello!" Grayson purred as she walked towards the group.

"Let's welcome Fleur to the show! Our international guest for this season." Zac clapped slightly, "Let's hope she isn't as much of a failure as the last one." He yawned.

Rhonda nudged the host, "Don't say that about the aftermath host!"

"I'll never understand what Canada sees in him."

"You did single-handedly make him the most emphasized person in the country less than a week ago," Mana added. The intern ran off when Zac threw a fruit at him.

Fleur blushed as Grayson approached, "Allo." She blinked a few times.

"Do you understand me?" He asked.

"Ah," Fleur played with the necklace around her neck, "Little."

Grayson shrugged, "Talk to you later! Ok?"

Trixie walked towards the girl, and wrapped her arm around her. "Don't worry about him, he's just a fencer! You can have me instead!" Fleur smiled again.

"Thank you," she tried to say, but her french accent covered the word and she blushed further.

"De rien," Trixie whispered, which caused Fleur to light up. The french girl placed her hat on her head as she walked alongside Trixie.

(CONF): Fleur stared at the camera, "This is not fashion show?" She pouted. "But I will, how you say, make the best of the maple syrup!"

(CONF): Trixie smiled, "Who knew dating that cyclist wouldn't be such a waste of time." The girl pulled out a small diary, and pointed to a picture of a teen on bike, the word 'cyclist' underneath it.

"Finally! My ratings booster, I could feel the cancellation coming!" Zac announced as Damien arrived. The newest arrival had ragged brown hair covered by a red ball cap. He wore khaki shorts, and a deep blue tank top. "How's Heather's little brother doing these days?"

Damien scratched the back of his head as he arrived, showing his arm pit hair. "Hey guys! What's up!"

Rhonda pulled Zac to the side, "Wait you actually stunt-casted Damien? You do know that he -"

Zac cut his interning host off, "That he's super famous, yes I do. Now if you don't mind, I thought we agreed you would speak after me."

"Whatever, your loss."

Youri stared at Damien, "Your, uh," he grimaced, "Hair is showing." He pointed at Damien's armpits.

"They gotta breath too man!" He hugged the smaller guy, his arm pits wrapping around Youri's face, turning him green.

"Help. Me." The smaller teen begged, as his eyes rolled into his head.

"Sorry little guy!" Damien apologized, and let go. "So is this where the shows taking place? Is it cheaper production this year or something?"

"Not exactly, you'll see." Zac announced.

Rhonda snickered "The government was afraid we'd ruin the Olympics." The host glared at Rhonda who waved innocently.

"Put me down!" A new contestant yelled as he stared at Damien with his blue eyes. The new arrival had short dirty blond hair, and was tall and slim. He wore a heathered maroon and grey baseball tee, and khaki shorts. A dark red bandanna was pressed against his hair. His arms were wailing out trying to touch Damien. "Please!"

Mana dropped the teen, "Ok? But you told me to carry you because the bugs would eat you?"

"Good morning Sam," Zac greeted, but the contestant was too busy casually flexing in front of Damien.

Sam innocently flexed by Damien, "How you doing?"

Heather's brother eyed Sam, "Is that even a question?" The blonde stared back, and flexed his bicep.

"Do you go to the gym?" Sam questioned.

"Yeah?" Damien questioned.

Sam grinned, "You should, like you know, prove it." He encouraged, trying to get the boy to show off his muscles.

"I'm gonna go…" Damien cautiously said, as he pointed left, and started to walk to his right. "Wherever you're not…"

"I can flex for you if you want," Youri spoke up, as he did the muscle man pose.

Sam shook his head in defeat, "Thanks, but I'm into guys." Sam walked away as Youri's face went red.

Fleur sat along the dock with Trixie, "You are…. Tres belle, in heart and body." She smiled and brushed some of her own hair out of her eyes.

"Thanks Fleur!" The cowgirl took off her hat, and switched it with the one that Fleur was wearing. The two girls giggled at each others mismatched outfits.

"Ahhh Angel! You wouldn't believe how much paid me to have you on the show!" Zac smiled at the latest arrival. She had long brown hair with blonde streaks going into Zac's mouth causing him to cough it up. She wore a white flowy tee, with Cody Simpson's face on it, his signature on it in hot pink. She wore light-wash jeans with multiple rips, and hot-pink high top shoes.

Angel blushed, "He did that, for me!? Ahh, isn't Cody the sweetest!?" She lifted her shirt slightly so that she could kiss the singers face.

"I don't think that's something to be happy about." Youri scoffed, and rolled his eyes. "What are you, his stalker?"

"There's nothing wrong with being a stalker!" Rhonda spat out, as she wrapped her arm around Angel. "Don't worry, I'll keep you safe from all the meanies!"

Zac threw a rotten fruit at Rhonda. "No picking favourites! That's like rule number one!"

Rhonda growled as she wiped the gooey substance off, "We'll see about that…"

"Thanks for your concern everyone!" Angel smiled, "But I'm Cody's girlfriend!"

Youri nodded, "Yes, and I'm super macho," he stared at her, "Some things just aren't believable."

"I believe her," Rhonda sighed. Angel giggled as she skipped over to where Fleur and Trixie were still giggling.

"No. Please! Make it stop!" The latest contestant moaned. As she tried to run away. Her brown hair was curled. Her darker skin, matched her dark ensemble. A charcoal cardigan, with a cheetah print romper. She looked mortified. "Make the giggling stop! I can't do this! Take me back!" She jumped onto Mana, but he dropped her.

Zac laughed, "Sorry you'll be stuck here like me. Now Viola, I got over it, so you should too. I don't like whining." The host groaned and turned to Rhonda who was braiding Angel's hair.

Viola huffed as she stomped over to a secluded bench. "If I die. I blame the gigglers." She pointed at the girls who innocently waved back.

"Tu join us?" Fleur asked, her eyes wide. Viola responded by facing the other direction.

The host turned to his intern, "Mana? Why are you stopping you're only halfway through?"

"I'm so tired," he panted. "I wasn't built for this."

"Then why don't you use the rover?" The host pointed to the four-wheeler. Mana groaned but got into the four wheeler and drove off.

"Mana do this! Mana don't eat my egg rolls! Mana come do my hair! Mana! Mana! MANA!" The intern yelled as he was out of earshot.

"Hello?" A girl whispered in front of the rover. "I think I might be lost." Mana managed to stop just before he rammed into her.

"Sorry! Malia! You shouldn't be here!" Mana yelled as he jumped out of the rover. "I could have killed you!"

Malia frowned, "I thought you had forgotten about me. I didn't want to be alone!" She apologized. The intern gave the girl a hug.

"It's ok, come on, let's get going." He motioned for her to get in the rover. She wore a hijab flecked with the colours of a sunset, and a coral coloured sun dress that complimented her sandy skin. Her deep brown eyes stared at the intern in awe.

"You're very kind."

The rover made it back to the dock. "It's about time." Zac yawned as he stared at the sky. "It's getting dark! Unless you want to drive that thing in the dark I suggest you hurry up."

"He's not," Mana whispered to Malia who giggled as she jumped off of the rover.

"Hello friends. My name is Malia." She introduced herself, but everyone was busy with their own conversations. The girl sighed and walked over to sit beside Viola. Viola turned to look at Malia before she closed her eyes again.

"Hey! Hey! Hey! C to the H, to the E to the R-R-Y is here!" Cherry announced as she stood on the rover, waiting for someone to help her get down. Her white short-shorts easily contrasted her sun-kissed skin, and her hot-pink crop top brought out the pink streaks in her blonde hair.

Grayson was the first to respond. He approached the girl. "Hey, I'm Grayson." He said smugly. "What would you do for me if I helped you down?" He winked.

Cherry blushed, "How about I don't destroy you. What do you think I am, some blow up doll that you can just kiss and make me fall for you." Cherry put her aviators on. "Just don't drop me ok?"

Grayson shrugged as he put his arms out to catch Cherry, "Whatever, you're not worth it anyways."

"GRAYSON!" A females voice squealed as she ran through the forest.

Zac groaned, "She's supposed to arrive last!"

"I couldn't stand to be away from my," She put on a baby voice, "Gray-Son! Any more!" The new arrival wore a red flannel dress, and a beige utility jacket over top. She had straight black hair, and wore a heart locket around her neck.

In shock, Grayson failed to catch Cherry who face planted into the dirt. "K-Kimmi?" He tried to play it cool. "What's up?"

"I hope you don't mind! But when I heard you applied for the show I just HAD to!" Kimmi giggled as she skipped over top Cherry and jumped into Grayson's arms. "Did you miss me?" She asked as she kissed his cheek.

"You bet I did!" He replied smiling, and swung his girlfriend around.

Viola stared at the pair. "Yep. There's no way they're going to last past the first elimination." She laughed to herself.

"But they're so cute together! And he's such a gentleman, did you see how he was going to help Cherry down from the rover?" Malia added, as she smiled at the couple.

"Not everything is what it seems." Viola sighed.

"Excuse you?" Cherry shouted. "Like, hello? Who do you think ARE jumping on top of ME!?" Cherry picked herself up from off the ground, her cherry red lips leaving a kiss-print in the dirt. "Someone get me a tall, nonfat latte with caramel drizzle stat! But first, let me take a selfie!" She pulled out her phone, and did her best duck lips and took a selfie. She looked at the picture, and saw Kimmi and Grayson kissing in the background. "Wait what! Hello? Like why are you kissing HER?"

Grayson stared at Cherry, "She's my girlfriend."

"Yeah, well. Ok." Cherry snapped and walked away from Grayson.

(CONF): Chery sat on the giant conch shell, "Like why is he dating HER? Like she's not even on my level of pretty!" She pointed to an app on her phone that ranked the hotness of the people around her. "See? I'm number one, Grayson is number two, and she's all the way down there at 21!"

Trixie sighed looking at all of the contestants, "Where are all of the guys! I mean I love my cowgirls, but common, I need me a real cowboy!"

Rhonda nodded, "It is a little… feminine right now. Did you actually cast any guys?"

Zac huffed, "Of course I did! Everyone just came in the wrong order!"

Another contestant arrived. The new teen wore a blue and white plaid tee that hugged his torso, khaki shorts to show off his defined legs and white sneakers. "Now that's what I'm talking about!" Trixie announced as she motioned for Fleur to watch, and jumped into action. "Hey, I'm Trixie."

"Eh, uhh." The contestant mumbled his words. "Gonna go…" He fumbled and ran off to where Sam was waiting.

Sam eyed the teen, "Nice to meet you," he offered his hand, having learnt from his encounter with Grayson.

"Blake," he replied. He gripped onto Sam's hand, and Sam fell onto him.

"Oh! Sorry! My bad, I lost my footing…" Sam chuckled blushing.

Blake nodded. "Yeah sure whatever… Why are there so many girls." He groaned.

Sam lit up, "You… don't like girls?"

"Something like that," Blake scratched the back of his head. "Do you play hockey?"

The blond shook his head, "Maybe you could show me how?"

"Sure! It's really all about getting a good grip on the stick, not gonna lie." Blake added, which caused Sam to blush.

"Hey guys!" A new voice introduced himself. Everyone stopped what they were doing and turned to face the new arrival.

"American!" They all silently said.

"Or Colin, Colin's cool too," he announced and put his arms up to protect himself from the objects they might throw.

"Don't hurt him!" Rhonda shouted as she watched the Canadians all pick up nearby objects to toss at the American. "I'm American too!"

"No you're not! You don't sound like. Them." Damien growled and lowered the stick he had found.

Zac blew a whistle, trying to calm everyone. "Look! Rhonda is American, I just had her take Canadian lessons before coming onto the show. Now if any of you hurt Colin I'll make sure this show takes a pit stop to America." The contestants all gasped in fear.

"Uh, thank you?" Colin sighed and walked over to Damien. "What's up?"

"Not much… Just chilling you know, the usual." Damien said slowly as he looked at the new arrival. Colin had shaggy amber hair covered by a green beanie. His chin was covered in light stubble. He wore a chocolate baseball tee, and light wash ripped denim, around his wrist there were a number of coloured bands. He was fit.

"Do you play any sports? Like football?" Colin asked, but Damien shook his head.

"In a field yeah, but not on an actual team or anything."

Youri spoke up, "I play football! It's hard to catch someone like me!" Colin looked at Youri before he returned his gaze to Damien.

"Maybe we could play sometime?"

"The idea of you tackling me to the ground isn't very pleasant…" Damien laughed.

Zac shot daggers at Mana, who arrived riding the back of a blond contestant. "He offered! I swear!" Mana yelped as he jumped off the contestant and raced off.

"Why would you help him Alfie! He's not getting paid to do this, so I hope you know you won't either!" Zac sighed.

The curly blond shook his head. His big blue eyes stared at Zac. "It was fun! Plus it was the right thing to do!" The new arrival wore a denim jacket over his yellow tee, with navy shorts. "This is going to be such a fun Summer!"

"That's the spirit!" Rhonda encouraged.

Alfie ran over to where Sam and Blake were talking. "What are we talking about?" He eagerly asked. The two teens smiled down at him.

"Just sports." Blake grinned, "Do you play?"

"I'm a swimmer! I play water polo sometimes too! Like an otter," Alfie made otter sounds, drawing laughter from the guys.

"Nice!" Sam smiled, and stared at Alfie's slim body. "You must be strong if you carried the intern all the way over here!" Alfie nodded.

"FINALLY!" Zac groaned as Mana arrived one last time along with a teen with breezy blond hair and blue eyes. His short-sleeved button-down shirt was a dark chambray, with a white tee underneath. He had dark emerald shorts and white toms. "Welcome to the show Leo!"

"It is my pleasure to be here!" The teen quickly walked over to Zac, "I didn't get the script, am I supposed to improv?"

Zac sighed, "I knew you were going to be a problem, but Mana insisted you stay on the cast. This is a reality television show. Just be yourself, ok?"

Leo frowned, "I don't think that's a good idea."

"Then play someone interesting, ok?" Zac groaned.

"To be… or not to be…" Leo started to proclaim.

Mana dragged the teen off to the side. "Hey! Look I stuck my neck out for you, don't let me down ok? Just don't be so… theatrical, be the best version of yourself."

Leo nodded, and looked around at the other contestants. He slouched a little, "So, what's on the agenda?"

Zac grinned, "Much better." He snapped, and Rhonda jumped onto a giant gong, which echoed across the dock yard. The contestants all perked up, and formed a circle around Mana, Rhonda and Zac. "Now that you're all here -"

"Where are Andre, Hannah and Emmett?" Damien asked.

Rhonda spoke up, "We're getting there, just shhh for now!"

Zac smiled, "You're learning!" He chuckled, "Before we talk about those three losers, let's get you guys set up in teams for now yeah?" Mana, Rhonda and Zac all revealed bandannas in their hands, fuchsia, turquoise, and gold respectively. "This season there's going to be three teams! The first," He started.

"Will be the Screaming Sirens!" Mana shouted as he tossed bandanas to Cherry, Damien, Grayson, Kimmi and Leo. The team cheered as they formed a circle. Cherry and Grayson stared at each other. Cherry kissed her middle finger and blew a kiss towards him.

"We can all become best friends!" Kimmi cheered as she pulled everyone in for a group hug.

Rhonda spoke up next, "The second team, known as the Killer Sharks will be, Alfie, Angel, Malia, Trixie and Youri!" She handed them all their turquoise bandanas.

"This is so cool!" Alfie grinned as he raced around, high fiving all of his team mates.

Trixie frowned, "it's be cooler if there was an athlete on our team! We're going to get destroyed!"

"What are you talking about, Alfie's a swimmer!" Angel grinned. Trixie wrapped her arm around Alfie.

(CONF): Trixie turned the pages of her diary until she reached her destination. She turned the book to show the camera. The page had the word 'swimmer' written in, but above there was no picture. "Finally! A swimmer, they're a rare class of man!"

Zac grinned, "And finally! The best team! The Zactastic Hotties!" Blake, Colin, Fleur, Sam and Viola all groaned as Zac gave them their golden headwear.

"Was the name necessary? I feel so objectified." Viola groaned.

"Let's take it as a compliment," Sam suggested. "We are all attractive after all."

Zac turned to face all of the contestants, "Now that you have your teams let's get this show started! Last season the cast spent their time embarrassing themselves, and my company at a winter camp! This season, with the generous donations that have been made to my company, we will be sailing the seven seas! We'll have you face all kinds of new and extreme challenges! This is one Summer you won't ever forget."

"For better or for worst…" Rhonda quietly added.

"So like World Tour? But on a boat?" Youri asked.

"Not, a boat," Zac sighed, "multiple boats!" He pointed at the three pirate ships at the end of the much-longer-than-needed dock. "And your first challenge is to get on those ships and meet me at a local island! Your team captains will be waiting for you on the ships. You're going to have to learn to sail those things sooner or later!"

The contestants all stood around talking with their new teams. "That means go…" Mana added, as he tried to shove the contestants towards the ships.

"Oh! Let's go guys!" Blake shouted as he started to race down dock. Once he got close to one of the ships, a cannon ball blasted a hole directly in front of him. "WHAT THE MAPLE!"

Zac whistled, "Oh… Yeah, so those aren't actually my ships… so try not to die." Zac, Rhonda and Mana all boarded a smaller motor boat. As the trio started to sail away, pirates started to race out of their ships.

The contestants stared at the hosts as they left them alone on the dock, and then turned to face the horde of pirates coming for them.

The screen faded to black as the words "To be continued" took it's place.

Chapter Two: Brings the Highest Tide
“This is it. This is death.” Viola slowly said, as she opened arms, embracing her impending doom.

Fleur slapped the girl. “Non! Tu must have faith!” She beamed as she took off one of her shoes and threw it at a pirate who was about to tackle Viola into the ocean. The pirate froze and then began to cry.

A second pirate groaned as he dropped his cutlass, “Look what you did now!” He stomped over to his companion, “Don’t worry lil’guy she’s just a big old jerk, let’s go home to momma, she’ll make you your favourite ice cream!”

“Oh. I guess I won’t die today.” Viola sighed, and rubbed her face, “That hurt.”

“Sorry,” Fleur frowned.

Blake grabbed a stick from the ground, “Did you still want me to teach you how to play hockey?” He turned to Sam with a grin.

Sam bit his lip, “Yeah I do!” He paused, getting an idea, “You know, I should probably hold onto your shirt, you wouldn’t want it to get… damaged.” The blond said, trying to hide his smirk.

The hockey star nodded. “That’s a good idea, thanks man!” He pulled off his top, revealing his toned body. Sam eagerly took the shirt from him, and wiped the drool away from his mouth. Blake raced down the dock, stick in hand. When a pirate appeared, he struck them into the ocean.

Standing away, where it was safe Sam started shouting, “WILL HE GET THE HAT TRICK?” As Blake launched a third into the ocean Sam cheered out, “HE DOES! Blake scores a hat trick!”

The hockey star turned around and did his victory dance. Behind him, a cannon ball was barreling towards him. From the side, Colin tackled him into the ocean. “Watch out!”

“What gives!” Blake groaned as he swam away from Colin. “I was fine!” Beside them, a cannonball sunk to the ocean below.

Colin rolled his eyes. “You were about to become fish food.”

“Let me worry about me.” Blake pulled himself onto the dock, and removed his now soaking wet shirt.

“Why do you have to be so ignorant.” The american huffed and got himself onto the dock, and also removed his shirt.

Blake walked over to Sam before looking back, “Coming from the American?” Sam sat down, “This is all too much,” he whispered to himself as his head turned from one heart throb to the next. “The heat… It’s getting to me.”

Blake nodded and pulled Sam onto his back. “I won’t leave you behind budd, because that’s what Canadians do.”

Kimmi giggled as she watched Grayson enter a sword fight with a pirate, “I believe in you Gray-Bear! Protect my honour!”

A swarm of pirates were circling Cherry. She stared at them all as she applied her Starbucks branded lip gloss. “She smells pretty.” The tallest pirate said, the other all murmured, “Pretty.”

“Is anybody going to help me or what?” Cherry groaned as she started to file her nails.

Damien ran towards the circle, but Leo stopped him. “Wait! She can do this, she’s a strong and independent woman.”

The trickster shook his head, “No. No she is not. She’s just a basic white girl.”

“I heard that!” Cherry yelled. “Don’t compare me to those,” she spat, “girls. I’m unique!”

“Then lose the lipgloss, it’s all they want,” Damien shrugged.

Leo grabbed a stick from nearby and started to swing at a nearby pirate. “It’s amazing what life skills the theatre teaches you.” He grinned as he shoved a pirate into the ocean with ease.

“Yeah! Go team!” Kimmi cheered from the side.

Grayson, after he took care of his own pirate ran towards Cherry. He swung at the pirates dispersing them. “You’re welcome.” Grayson slyly said.

“I didn’t ask for your help.” Cherry rolled her eyes as she finished braiding her hair. “I was distracting them for you.”

Kimmi skipped over to the rest of her team. “That was great everyone! We’re like a super team of besties!” She wrapped her arms around Grayson’s waist. “Let’s go get ourselves a pirate ship!”

At the furthest edge of the dock, the Killer Sharks weren’t having such an easy time. Angel, Malia and Youri were tied up as Alfie and Trixie hid behind barrels. Alfie turned to Trixie, “So what’s the plan.”

“Why me? Why don’t YOU have a plan?” She asked.

The candy lover shrugged, “You have a hat, people who wear hats usually have the plan!”

Trixie sighed. “Fine.” She looked over at her teammates who surrounded by pirates. She returned her gaze to the swimmer beside her, with a smirk. “Hold still.” She grabbed her lasso, as Alfie’s cheerful face fell to regret.

The scene cuts to Trixie dragging a tied up Alfie behind her. “How do you boys feel about having a cowgirl sailing with you?” She beamed, and fluttered her eyes. Angel, and Youri both rolled their eyes.

The taller pirate, who was busy poking Youri with a stick looked up. “We’ve never sailed with any girl who wasn’t mother before.” He jumped up and walked over to Trixie. “Who’s this?”

“He’s my offering to you. He’s the last remaining member of my team. Wouldn’t want anybody trying to stop us from sailing away into the sunset now would we?”

The pirate walked closer to examine the boy, “How did you, a girl, manage to tie up him, a man.” Angel and Malia both growled into the fabric tied against their mouths.

Trixie winked, “I guess you could say I’m good with ropes.”

The smallest pirate, a child walked over. He had big eyes and simply held up his shoes to the girl, “Can you tie these for me?” He whimpered. Trixie nodded and sat the boy down so she could tie his laces.

The scene cuts to the inside of one of the pirate ships. In a poorly lit room, Alfie, Angel, Malia, Youri and a mysterious person were tied up. “So what exactly was her plan?” Youri spat. “Because as far as I can tell, we’re still tied up.”

Alfie gulped, “I uh, didn’t ask. She had the hat!” Youri just stared at the boy before turning to Angel and Malia.

“Trixie did remove our gags atleast. She must have a plan.” Malia tried to calm her team.

“Who’s that between you?” Youri pointed his head towards the person with a bag over their head.

“I’m not sure? I got here when you did.” Angel shrugged. “Hello? Mr. Bag head? My name’s Angel, and you are?”

Youri tried to schooch over, but ended up falling on his face. Angel and Malia giggled. “Stop laughing! Just take the bag off of them!” The pair nodded, and using their mouths pulled the sack off of their head, revealing a male. He had pale grey eyes, and short dirty blonde hair. He wore a emerald green tee and grey sweat shorts. His arms were both tied, a gag placed around his mouth.

“Emmett?” The team said in unison.

The scene cut to the Zactastic Hotties. Blake and Colin both raced up a rope that attached to one of the pirate ships. They both furiously looked over at the other. At the dock, Fleur, Sam and Viola watched. Sam spoke up, “Aren’t they dreamy.” He moved their shirts that he held to his nose and sniffed. He passed it to Viola, “Smell it, doesn’t it smell dreamy?”

The pessimist stared at Sam, “I do not have time for such trivial things. Relations always come to an end…. One way or another.”

Fleur frowned. “Oui, but that is le point, non? To become better, et uh,” She flexed her arms.

“Stronger,” Sam snapped his fingers as he guessed the word.

“Oui! Stronger.” Fleur giggled and gave Sam a hug.”

Viola shook her head. “If you plan on losing this challenge, please continue giggling. If not, let’s get climbing.” She pointed to the ship where the boys had managed to make it aboard and were motioning that it was all clear.

Once the three were on the ship, Colin spoke up, “We’re behind.” He pointed at the two other ships that were starting to leave the dock.

“Then let’s get moving,” He said quickly, as the girls approached. He raced down to the lower deck and cut the ropes that attached them to the shore.

Viola climbed up the mast, and let the sails fall. “I can feel the wind in my hair… I don’t like it.” She growled as she jumped down.

“What took you guys so long?” A voice called out from the other end of the ship, where the wheel is located.

“Did we miss one?” Colin asked, as he readied himself to tackle the pirate into the water.

“Non!” Fleur shouted and wrapped her arms around Colin before he charged at the mysterious person. “C’est Hannah!”

“Who?” Sam asked.

Colin whispered, “Crazy chick from the first season who tried to kill Britt.”

“Oh yea!... Wait she’s our captain? Lord have mercy on us all.” Sam whispered back as the girl in question approached.

Hannah had long brown hair that rested on her shoulder. Around her neck was a simple key necklace. She wore a baggy white t-shirt, with a power star on it, and short black shorts. “Wait! Where’s the other guy?” She asked, as she counter her team mates.

“I don’t know, he left when the girls and Sam got here.” Colin shrugged.

“But he was the cute one!” Hannah whimpered.

Viola’s eyes went wide, “Not another one!”

The scene cut to the third and final? Ship. “Do you ever feel like you’re forgetting something really important?” Damien asked as he scratched at his head.

“Sometimes I forget my lines, but then I just adlib and no one ever finds out!” Leo chuckled.

Kimmi smiled as she rested her head on Grayson’s shoulder, the pair sat by the edge of the ship and watched as the waves crashed against the ship. “I’m so, so, so! Excited that we get to do this together!”

Grayson smiled, and turned to kiss her forehead. “Me too, Kimmi cub, me too.”

Cherry stood behind the wheel, alone. “She’s like a sorority girl. All bubbly and peppy, who is she trying to fool?”

Leo turned to Cherry, “What are you trying to say?”

The basic white girl shrugged, “No girl is ever THAT happy to be with a guy.”

“Sounds like someone’s jealous,” Damien chided in with a grin.

“Of her? No, she’s trying to hard to be unique.” Cherry scoffed and walked off.

“Gray? Why are there three ships behind us?” Kimmi asked, confused. She pointed to the first ship, that was a pale yellow, and then to a second that was turquoise, and then to a third, that seemed to be coming out of the fog that was a dim purple.

Grayson jumped up, “Guys!? Do any of you know how to arm the cannons?”

The scene cuts to their destination, a tropical island. In a cabin, Mana, Rhonda and Zac are watching the events take place on a number of monitors. “I don’t remember hiring the pirates to chase after them?” Rhonda whistled innocently. “What did you do!”

The co-host turned to Zac, “Well, don’t be mad! But, I well, wanted to practice picking a cast so I made a fourth team.”

“YOU WHAT!”

Mana, who had stopped watching the monitors, turned to watch the argument, and stuffed popcorn into his mouth.

“Get rid of them!” Zac shouted.

“I can’t they signed contracts, like the rest of the cast.” Rhonda repeated. “They’re part of the show now.”

The host breathed heavily, “Who did you get for their captain!”

The scene cuts to the fourth pirate ship, this one a dim purple colour. The words ‘Introducing The Pillaging Pirates’ appeared over the screen briefly. Standing at the bow of the ship with outstretched arms, was a girl. She had long blonde hair, around her head she wore a floral crown. She wore a spring green dress that was much shorter than it was in the back. “I’ll make you proud Lexi,” She whispered into the wind, “No matter what.”

“Lady Zaina!” A masculine voice called from the deck behind her. “I think the other ships are about to fire at us.” The captain turned to face the man. He had bright blond hair, and green eyes. He wore a grey blazer, with a white button down beneath it, his legs were covered by grey dress pants.

“Thank you Tameron. Wing? Out maneuver them! We can’t be put out of this on the first day!” The teen behind the wheel nodded. She wore a maroon captains hat, her emblem two wings in the center of it, covering her amber hair. A gray frilly shirt covered her torso, a maroon sash wrapped around her waist, gray flare pants covered her legs leading to her leather boots.

“Aye, aye!” Wing shouted back, as she dramatically spun the wheel, and the ship instantly turned, causing the team to lose their balance.

A dirty blonde haired girl was knocked into a boy as they crashed to the floor. She wore a bright, floral patterned dress, a large green-jeweled necklace hung from her neck and ivory flats. She blushed as she picked herself up. “I’m so sorry Elyar!” She gasped.

He wore a short sleeve black button down, with a white tee. Black shorts covered his fit legs. He picked up his black shades from the wooden ship and put them back over his eyes. “Fear not Sarah! This happens all the time.” Sarah helped Elyar up, and they both walked over to the helm to see what was going on.

In the captain’s cabin, an African-Canadian teen with long black hair that clung to a dusty book. She wore a simple grey skirt, a beige tee and an army-green utility jacket. She grabbed her glasses before they fell to the ground, and put them back on. “I’ll get back to this later,” She hid the book beneath the mattress and climbed up the ladder to the helm.

“We’re under attack,” Zaina sighed, as the rest of her team arrived.

Yasmin spoke up, “It would seem that Rhonda forgot to mention we were joining the competition.”

“That’s terrible!” Sarah clapped her hand to her mouth in horror as a cannon ball flew past their ship.

“Arrrg! But this be my favourite part!” Wing grinned devilishly as she steered the ship out of harm's way.

Tameron held onto Zaina’s hand, “My lady, might I suggest we escort you down below for safety.”

Zaina shook her head, “Thank you, but I’m the leader here, I need to lead.”

Sarah jumped into Elyar’s arms, as the pair rushed downstairs. “Great minds think alike,” he chuckled.

The screen switched back to the dark cabin of the Hottie’s ship. “What’s taking her so long,” Youri complained.

“Did you hear that!” Malia whispered, as a cannon fired.

“It’s that that bad guys, I’ve been fired out of a cannon before, it’s fine.” Angel encouraged.

“Why?” Alfie asked.

“Cody Simpson was staying in the penthouse suite.” She replied innocently. Emmett tried to speak, but his words were blocked by the rag.

Alfie stuffed some skittles into his mouth and laughed. “I like you.” He proclaimed.

The other teens all stared at Alfie. “YOU’RE UNTIED?” They all shouted.

“Well yeah? Trixie wouldn’t just tie me up and abandon us.” He replied.

“And you didn’t want to mention this before because?” Youri glared.

“We were bonding…” He whimpered back.

“Just untie us.”

At the helm of the ship, Trixie was living the life of luxury. She laid in a hammock as the pirates fed her grapes. “Momma’s gonna love you!” One of the pirates encouraged as he fanned the cowgirl. “So brave, and strong. Just like momma.”

“I’m real excited to meet momma bear too! Just make sure that we drop the prisoners off at that island. And we’re good to go.” The sound of cannon shots knocked Trixie out of her hammock. “What was that!” She muttered as she jumped back to her feet.

“Some of the other ships are firing at each other.” A pirate replied. “What should we do?”

“Just get us to the island!”

The screen switched to the Siren’s ship. “These balls are heavy!” Leo groaned as he barely managed to load the cannon again. “How much longer until we get there?”

“I can see it!” Cherry shouted, “But we’re falling behind! At this rate we’ll get there last!”

Kimmi perked up, “As long as we don’t arrive last we’re fine!”

Grayson though that over, “So just target one ship, ignore the pirates.” He pointed towards the yellow ship in front of them. “That one.”

“You don’t have to outrun the bear, just your slowest friend…” Damien repeated, “Nice thinking!”

Grayson grinned, and Kimmi kissed him, “He’s my little thinker!” Cherry turned to the ocean and gagged.

On the yellow ship, Blake raced up to the helm, “Sam! We have a problem!” The hockey star was exhausted from loading the cannons, “They stopped firing at each other.” He groaned, as he tried to catch his breath.

“That’s a good thing,” Colin rolled his eyes.

Blake shook his head and weakly pointed at the other ships. “They’re just firing at us.”

Viola turned to Fleur. “Can I go back to thinking we’re going to die?” She asked sarcastically.

Fleur face turned to a frown. “Oui, my friend.”

“They really hold a grudge against me, don’t they?” Hannah groaned.

“I have a plan though,” Blake offered, and pointed to the three rowboats. “We’re almost there, he stared at Sam and Colin, and very briefly looked at the three girls. “We might be able to get there before they do.”

“I call dibs on being with Blake!” Hannah shouted as she tried to grab the heart-throb, but he dodged.

Blake blushed, “Actually, I was hoping to go with Sam.” Sam turned red, as joined Blake int he first row boat.

“I’m honoured,” Sam smiled, and when Blake wasn’t looking he blew a raspberry at Hannah who growled. “Who can resist me?” Hannah muttered as she watched the pair fall into the water.

“Plenty of people,” Viola said flatly.

“Come!” Fleur dragged Viola into the second rowboat. “See you there!”

Colin turned to Hannah, “Guess that leaves us,” he offered his hand, which Hannah gladly took.

Back on the Pirates ship, Zaina grinned. “We’re catching up!”

“I am glad, m’lady.” Tameron bowed.

“What island do you come from again?” Wing questioned Tameron.

“It is very small, but it is a beautiful place. Some know it was Floria, I know it as home.”

“I have never heard of such a place,” Yasmin stated. “And I know of many, many places.”

Wing scuffed her nose, “Ye would not want to know of such place. It is not a home. It is a place filled with civil war and crime.”

“Coming from the pirate,” Tameron growled.

“I think it sounds beautiful, tell me about it again.” Zaina asked, her eyes wide.

In the cabin, Elyar and Sarah sat across from each other. “Rhonda asked me to come onto the show,” Sarah sighed. “She never told me why though, she said I would know why when I got here.”

Elyar nodded, “I feel like Rhonda has many secrets. I can not believe that she's hosting this season, she's so… new.”

Sarah nodded, “But at least she seems really nice! She's nothing like Chris!” She paused, “It’s funny I used to always dream about coming onto the show, a lot of my friends did actually. I can't believe that I’m here.”

The screen jumped to the Shark’s ship. “On three,” Emmett repeated. “One,” he started, as he and his other team members started to sneak out from the cabin. “Two,” he continued as they reading their ropes. “Three!” He shouted as they jumped at the pirates who were surrounding Trixie.

“Ahhh!” Trixie yelled out. “What did you do?” She asked, as they tied up and gagged the pirates.

“We’re rescuing you!” Emmett said flatly, “Because it seems like you forgot about the rest of your team.”

Trixie shook her head, “No. I did not. I was just making sure that we would get here first. Who better to drive the pirate boat then the pirates?” She pointed to the sand that the ship was slowly rolling onto. “Oh, would you look at that, we’re here.” The cowgirl smiled and attached rope to the side of the ship. “Well, are you ready to win?”

The rest of her team only stared at her, but followed as she zipped down the rope. “Way to go Trixie!” Angel cheered.

“Yes, you did good!” Malia smiled.

“You could have told us your plan,” Youri, the last to fall to the ground growled.

“Pouting doesn’t look good on you,” Trixie commented.

Mana, Rhonda and Zac waited eagerly for the them. “Congratz! You’re the first to arrive and the Killer Sharks win the first challenge of the season!” Zac announced, and then he saw Emmett who only glared at the host. “Sorry about the after show… and you know tying you up against your own will and stuff.”

“Uh huh.” Emmett said flatly.

Alfie pulled all of his teammates into a hug, “We won! Cheer up!”

(CONF): Emmett sat on a giant clam shell. “Do I want to be here? No.” He paused, “Would I rather be here, than with Rosalie? Yes.”

“YES!” Rhonda cheered as the purple pirate ship dragged across the sand. “My team beat you precious Hotties!”

“Who even is on your team?” Mana questioned as he waited for the teens to get off of the ship.

Zac groaned as he saw their captain - Zaina. “You picked Zaina?” He hissed.

“Oh shush! She’s a queen!” Mana cheered and gave Rhonda a giant hug. “You’re the best ever!”

“Oh, trust me, that’s not the biggest surprise,” She smirked and pulled out a camera to take a picture of Zac’s face. As the last member of the Pirates came into view, her floral dress and dirty blond hair made Zac turn white.

“Sarah?” He muttered. “How did you even find her?”

“I’ve learnt from the best.” Rhonda giggled, and walked over to welcome the second place team. “Great work guys! You’ve placed second and have avoided elimination!”

“Who are they?” Sarah asked, pointing to Mana and Zac.

“That’s Mana, the intern here, and the taller one is Zac… The host.” She whistled innocently before skipping back over the pair.

(CONF): Zac stared into the camera. “Sarah used to be a…. Friend. That’s all!”

(CONF): Sarah ran a hand through her hair, “Well, atleast now I know why Rhonda wanted me on the show.”

“What’s wrong?” Elyar asked Sarah, but she only shrugged.

“Nothing! Let’s celebrate!” She announced and she skipped over to the other team, Elyar in hand.”

“What should we do?” Yasmin asked Zaina, as she, Tameron and Wing waited for her decision.

“Let’s go meet the other competitors!” Zaina was met with a cold look from Emmett but he softened it as she approached. “I’m sorry about Rosalie, Emmett. I know we weren’t close but I know how it feels.” He nodded.

“Wait? Who are they?” Youri questioned.

“They’re the fourth team,” Zac groaned out, “The Pillaging Pirates.”

Mana walked over to the sailors, “Come, we have food prepared for all of you,” He announce and led the two teams into the forest.

Rhonda stared at Zac, “So…. About Sarah…”

“I don’t want to talk about it. Where are the other two teams,” He glared at the ocean, not looking at his co-host.”

Rhonda looked down at her gps tracker, “They should be here any second.”

On queue, five contestants raced down the beach towards the hosts, while three rowboats appeared on the shore. “It’s a race to the finish, make sure the cameras catch this.”

The screen shows Grayson as he runs towards the host, and the splits the screen to add each additional contestant as they make their race to the finish. “Faster!” Grayson yelled out as he saw the other team start to run. “We’re almost there!”

“CHARGE!” Hannah yelled as the rowboats landed.

“I can’t believe we landed so far away!” Leo groaned, “My body wasn’t meant for all this running!”

“The cannons didn’t kill me so I could die of exhaustion.” Viola muttered.

Damien shook his head, “You’re really something else.”

“Go! Go! Go!” Fleur shouted.

“Stop talking and just run!” Cherry yelled.

Sam raced behind the still shirtless, Blake and Colin, “I don’t know if I’ll make it!”

“WE DID IT!” Kimmi cheered as her team arrived just moments before the Hotties.

“Crap!” Blake sighed, as he and the rest of his team arrived.

“We were so close!” Colin added.

Rhonda and Zac looked at eachother and nodded. Zac spoke up, “Well, the Screaming Sirens were the third team to arrive, however it seems as though they forgot a key part of the challenge.”

Rhonda continued, “You were to rescue your team captain and bring them here. Without Andre your team is not complete, and that means….” The Zactasic Hotties started to cheer.

“No, not this time,” A familiar voice sung out from behind the hosts. Everyone turned around to see Andre. His shaggy brown hair was dripping. He wore a black tee with a coloured explosion on it. Maroon shorts covered legs. “Who knew that, that time that Dania’s dad tied me up would end up being useful?” Andre scratched the back of his head.

The Sirens rushed over to hug their captain, “At least we know what we forgot now,” Leo added.

Zac turned back to the Zactastic Hotties. “You all disappoint me. I name my team after you and you let me down like this!” He shouted.

“What he’s trying to say,” Rhonda finished, “Is that you all suck, and lost today’s challenge let’s head back to your ship, because it’s time to send someone home.

The screen fades to black, and then returns to show the yellow pirate ship. In the background, the sun is setting. Zac and Rhonda are standing at the edge of the ship, while Blake, Colin, Fleur, Hannah, Sam and Viola are all sitting on treasure chests. Zac spoke up, “Congrats on being the biggest let down of the season! Here we are at the elimination ceremony. You have all cast your votes. Rhonda will fire fireworks out of the cannon, if your face appears, you are safe. If it does not, first of all that means your team thinks you suck. And second, it means you must take the plank shame, into the ocean of losers. And you’ll never return to my show again, because you’re pathetic.”

Rhonda blinked, “In a nice way, if your face doesn’t appear in the sky, you’re out.” The contestants all nodded.

Zac turned to Hannah, “You’re the captain of the team, who do you think are the strongest members of your team?”

Hannah shrugged, “Blake and Colin. They basically did the entire challenge for us.”

“Sam,” Rhonda asked, “How did you feel when you found out that Hannah would be your captain?”

“Have you ever eaten toxic sludge?” Sam retorted.

“Ok!” Rhonda smiled weakly, and turned to Fleur, “You have big shoes to fill, with a lot of the early polls saying you’re the next Britt, thoughts?”

The french girl blushed, “It is, an, how you say,” She motioned a salute.

Viola muttered, “Honour.”

“Oui! An honour to be put in same boot as Britt.” She smiled.

Zac nodded, “Viola? Your thoughts on your team?”

“I feel as though I have been put on an episode of Degrassi.”

“Colin, and Blake? Who's the weakest member of your team?”

“Colin,” Blake muttered.

“Hannah,” Colin stated.

“Well, that’s all the questions we have for tonight. Rhonda, could you fire the first three?” He asked, and she nodded as she shot three cannons. “These three sailors received no votes tonight.”

As the shots were fired into the sky, Sam’s, Fleur’s and Viola’s faces let up the pink sky. “Yay!” Fleur cheered as she wrapped her arms around Viola.

Sam grabbed onto Blake’s shoulder, “We made it!”

“Not yet,” Blake said slowly, as he waited for the next cannon, but Hannah’s face lit up the sky.

“Blake and Colin, it seems that your team wants to continue to be the laughing stock of the show.” Zac muttered out.

“Did you vote for me?” Colin turned to Blake who nodded. “I didn’t vote for you, I want us to stay strong. We need to win!” Colin’s face paled as he turned to sky and watched as the final face lit up the sky - his own.

Sam gasped, “What?”

Blake sighed, “Don’t make a scene, it happens.”

“Why? He was our best teammate!” Sam shouted as he watched Blake make his way across the plank of shame.

“You’re reaction is exactly why.” Viola said coldly. “We don’t want you two to become a power couple. We don’t need another Alejandro and Heather.” ]

Blake’s face paled, “But I’m straight!”

“Too late!” Zac laughed as he shoved him into the ocean.

“What do you mean he’s straight? If he was straight he would have wanted to be with me in the row boats!” Hannah argued.

Sam shook his head, “He’s afraid of girls!”

“Crap.” Viola muttered.

Zac turned to the camera, “And that was the second part of episode one! Be sure to catch next week’s episode because the cast is going to go exploring! And let’s just say the locals may have died out many years ago!”

Rhonda continued, “Will the Hotties come to regret their decision tonight? Will the Sirens keep their happy-go-lucky friendships, or will drama finally erupt. Will the Sharks be able to continue to win under Emmett’s leadership or will they crumble under the pressure. And will the introduction of the fourth team blow the minds of the others or what?”

“What fourth team?” Hannah asked.

“Exactly!”

Zac turned to Rhonda. "Have you seen my hair gel? I ordered some extra stregnth stuff because of the high winds." He sighed as he palmed his hair back into position as the wind tried to send it crashing down.

The cohost shook her head. "No? Is it missing?"

"Obviously, if I'm asking." Zac rolled his eyes and walked away. "Can't trust an American to do anything right." He said as Mana fanned him.

Chapter Three: Tribute to the Pirate Gods
The screen jumps to the night sky, then panns down to reveal Rhonda and Zac standing on a beach. Zac spoke up, “Last time on Total Drama Tides!” The screen switches to pirate ships docked as pirates rushed out of them and charged at the contestants. “Our sailors arrived, and fought their way to their very own pirate ships!” The scene changes to a green pirate ship, “The Killer Sharks through Trixie’s brilliance won the first challenge, securing Emmett for their team.”

Rhonda began to speak, and the screen switches to show a purple ship, “A secret team joined the show, led by Zaina! They managed to place second, surprising everyone when they turned out to not be killer pirates!” The screen switched back to the beach, in black and white. “In a race to the finish The Zactastic Hotties came in last! When Andre, who the Screaming Sirens had forgotten to rescue proved himself and managed to get here all on his own! In a shocking! Elimination, Blake was sent home after his team feared that he and Sam would become a power couple! Plot twist? Blake’s straight!”

“Find out what happens next right here on, Total Drama TIDES!” The pair shouted.

“That was… decent.” Zac assured. “By the end of the season you should be able to do a much better job.”

Rhonda rolled her eyes. “Yeah whatever! It’s not like I’ve been practicing that in my bedroom for years or anything.” Zac sent a questioning stare at the co-host who blushed.

The scene switches to a large bonfire, with carved tree stumps surrounding it, filled with tropical fruits and meats. Seated around the fire were all of the sailors, and Mana who casually poked at a ham cooking over the fire.

The screaming sirens sat together. “This food is so good, man!” Andre said in between bites. His teammates stared as their captain ate.

Leo spoke up, since no one else would. “Andre? We’re sorry about you know… leaving you to die in a cabin. I usually don’t play the hero, not used to saving people.” He tried to joke.

Andre stared back at the teen, a banana half sticking out of his mouth. “It happens. Don’t worry about it.”

“Don’t you… sing instead of talk?” Damien chided in.

The musician chuckled, “Lindsay would only fall asleep if I sang to her, and she got very upset and confused when she heard my normal voice.”

Kimmi grabbed her wooden cup and raised it in one hand, and grabbed her locket in the other “A toast! To us becoming the best of friends, for now, and forever!” Grayson raised his cup, and the others followed.

“To friendship!”

“To us,” Grayson smiled as he pulled Kimmi in for a kiss. “I don’t know what I would do without you.” He whispered, causing Kimmi to giggle.

(CONF): Grayson stood in front of the ship’s wheel, “Having Kimmi here is great! I don’t know what I would do if she weren’t here.” He said slowly.

Cherry rolled her eyes and got up from the makeshift table. She trotted over to Mana. “Excuse me? Intern?”

“Mana.” He repeated.

“Ok, sorry. Mana,” She said sarcastically while moving her hands in a formal way, “Where are the starbucks coffee, and cresents located? I’m on a strict diet regiment.”

The intern stared at her, “One second. Let me go get you some from the nearest Starbucks on this deserted island.”

“Awww! Thanks!” Cherry smiled and pinched his cheeks, “Like you’re totally the best!” She walked back to her team and Leo only laughed.

“You know he’s kidding right?”

“What!?” She turned back to see that Mana hadn’t moved a muscle, in fact he had pulled out a book. “I need him to like me!” She groaned.

“Mana likes everyone. Just not you.” Leo laughed more. “But I’ll bite. Why?”

Cherry crossed her arms and motioned for him to follow. Once the pair were back at their shore she spoke up. “People just aren’t THAT happy! There is like something seriously wrong with her!”

Leo grunted. “Are you seriously back on this!? I already told you! I’m an actor. I would know!”

“Fine! Don’t believe me!” Cherry threw her arms up and turned to the ship. “I was just, like, trying to be nice!”

“Nice? Or trying to get with Grayson?” Leo remarked as he rolled his eyes and walked onto the ship.

The scene jumps to one of the cabins on the Pillaging Pirates ship. “Why is it that we have to share a room together?” Yasmin questioned as she stared at Sarah. “It is like oil on water. We are not compatible!”

Sarah shook her head, “I think that we’ll get along great! You can tell me all about,” She read the book in Yasmin’s hand, “The Wing Family, and I can tell you all about all of the fun and cute things I saw today!”

Yasmin hid her book, “There is nothing to talk about today.” She crawled into the bunk bed. “I am going to sleep now, and you should too.”

A knock was heard on the door. “We need to talk.” A voice echoed.

Yasmin stared at Sarah who smiled shyly, “I’ll be back soon!” She assured.

Sarah followed the figure to the deck of the ship. He removed his hoodie, revealing it to be Zac. “You need to leave.”

Sarah rolled her eyes. “No I don’t.”

“Yes. Yes you do. This is not a good idea. What were you even thinking?”

The girl slapped him. “Not everything is always about you! Why do you have to be so selfish. Sometimes I might want to, you know live out my own dreams!”

“This isn’t over.” Zac scoffed and rubbed his face. “You will leave. One way or another.”

“I’d like to see you try. We both know you wouldn’t!” Sarah smirked. “Now, I’m going to go to sleep so I can win the challenge tomorrow. Night boo.” She sang out as she climbed down the ladder. The host sighed as he walked off of the ship, hoping he wasn’t seen.

The scene jumped back to the bonfire. Tameron watched in disgust as Wing shoved banana after banana into her mouth. “Must you eat in such manner?” He questioned.

“I don’t tell ye how to eat!” Wing retorted, as she watched Tameron gently cut his ham before delicately placing it in his mouth.

“Because I eat properly, perhaps?” The butler said slowly.

“Oh look at you and ye big words! Arrr!” Wing shouted as she popped another banana into her mouth.

They both turned to Zaina. “What do you think?”

Their captain looked at the two before sighing, “I think we have more important issues at hand.” She got up from her seat and walked over to the fire pit to throw the rest of her food away. “I’m not going to let you down again Lexi. Not this time.” Mana gasped as Zaina walked beside him. His breath left his body as he stared.

Elyar sat alone, with his perfectly gelled hair as he watched his team disperse. “Mission under control. Target locked.” He said into watch as he moved over to join the Sirens.

“Faster!” Emmett yelled as he stood in front of Alfie, Trixie and Youri who were doing pushups on the beach. “We will win. And you will be strong. We won’t let anyone take us down! But you must go faster!”

Trixie seemed to have no trouble as she moved her torso close to the sand and then back up. Her eyes watched Alfie, as he pushed himself against the ground. Youri however seemed to be having issues. “This is stupid!” He grunted, as he fell face first into the sand.

“What was that?” Emmett asked as he marched over to Youri.

“This. Is. Stupid. There’s no way that doing some pushups is going to make us any better. You’re big and strong, and you were an early boot last time!” Youri spat out, causing Alfie and Trixie to both ooooooh.

Emmett sighed. “I was distracted last time. I let my emotions cloud my judgement. I can assure you that won’t happen again. I’m here to win. If you don’t want to win, feel free to leave - I don’t want any quitters on my team.”

“We’re done for today. I’ll see you all tomorrow. Right?” Emmett asked, and stared at the three, who all nodded.

(CONF): Youri slouched against the wheel, “No matter how much he tries I won’t ever be big or strong like Emmett.”

“Do you want a lollipop?” Alfie asked innocently.

Trixie’s eyes went wide. “You’re very forward.” She took a step closer to the teen.

Alfie pulled out a lollipop from his pants, and shoved it into her mouth. “It’s strawberry flavoured.”

“Mhmmmph!” She mumbled as she took the lollipop out of her mouth. “Oh. Why do you have so much candy?”

The blond shrugged, “Why not?”

“It can’t be healthy… How do you stay in shape?” Trixie gasped.

“I work extra hard!” Alfie smiled and walked off to the pirate ship. “I’ll see you in the morning? It was nice hanging out!” He said with a bounce in his steps.

Youri smirked. “As long as he has candy he won’t need any of your sugar.” The feminine boy walked off, leaving Trixie on her own. She pulled out her journal and stared at the blank swimmer page.

The scene switches to one of the cabins. “Can you keep a secret?” Angel asked Malia as they crawled into bed.

“Of course!” Malia replied. “It isn’t right to break a the trust.” Angel nodded as she pulled out an mp3 player. “No! You shouldn’t have that! If Zac see it you’ll get in so much trouble!”

Angel frowned, “He won’t find out! Come here.” Angel motioned for Malia to sit with her. “Cody gave it to me. It’s filled with all sorts of fun music.”

Malia shook her head. “Your secret is safe with me. But I can not indulge in this. It is wrong!”

“Come on! It’s not that bad! It’s just Cody Simpson!”

“Who is this?” Malia asked puzzled.

Angel’s face went white. “You don’t know who Cody Simpson is? 1D? Justin Bieber??” Malia shook her head. “Please! Just listen to one song!”

Malia bit into her lip, “Fine!”

The Zactastic Hotties ate in silence. “Food is very good, non?” Fleur suggested, trying to make conversation.

“You’re still gay though, right?” Colin asked as he looked over at Sam.

Sam shrugged, “Obviously.” He replied scootching closer to the American. “Why do you ask?”

Colin pulled on his beanie and looked back at the teen, “We don’t want another Blake-Gate incident.”

Hannah gasped. “Wait! That means he just wasn’t into me? That’s not possible!”

Sam chuckled. “I would argue that point.” The team captain threw a juicy fruit at him, which exploded on contact. “I take that back.” He muttered as he licked his face clean.

“I think it is time for leaving,” Fleur whispered and tugged on Viola’s hand.

“Stay and get caught in a food fight over love or leave with the bubbly blonde.” Viola looked up at the sky. “Why have you done this to me?” She shouted, but followed Fleur back to the pirate ship.

“Tu are very nice to me. Thank you.” Fleur smiled and tried to give Viola a hug, but she jumped out of the way, as if a snake was about to bite her.

“Goodnight.” Viola replied and walked onto the ship.

The screen pans up to show the moon, before it slowly pans back down to show four figures standing in the darkness. It zooms in, revealing them to be the veteran players.

“Why did you bring us here?” Hannah sighed. “Do you have more mean things to say about me? Don’t think I didn’t hear the interviews that you and Rosalie did.”

Zaina nodded, “Just because you two got a happy ending doesn’t mean the rest of us did.”

Emmett shook his head. “Guys, not everything is as it seems ok? We all have a reason for being here. And we all want to go far right?” He asked, and the others all mumbled in agreement.

“Dania’s dad bet his lucky racing horse I would be first out.” Andre commented with a grin. “Guess who has a new horse!”

Zaina spoke up. “Emmett. What are you suggesting?” The girl tightly braided flowers together as she spoke, barely looking up at the others.

“We could work together. We all want to go far, we can do that together.” Emmett suggested, moving his hand into the centre of the others.

“I think I’d like to decline this quest,” Hannah stated. “My team doesn’t need you, and neither do I. Not after everything you’ve done to me.”

Zaina spoke out next, “And I remember correctly, you three were all basically the first boots, I don’t need you. You need me.” The flower girl smiled before she finished. “Good luck though, because my team is something Lexi can be proud of.”

“Same here.” Hannah added, as she followed Zaina’s lead back to their ships.

“Didn’t your team just lose… and then vote off your strongest member?” Andre muttered.

“It was a bug. My team’s updated now, and stronger than ever.”

Emmett turned to Andre as the others left, “What about you?”

“I would man, really.” The musician offered the muscular teen a smile, “But I can’t give Dania’s any reason to think that when I win it was because of someone else.” Andre patted Emmett on his back, “Good luck.” He whispered out as he walked away.

Emmett stared at his hand surrounded by darkness. “I can’t believe that.” He fell to his knees in defeat. “This is going to be harder than I thought.”

The screen fades to black, an image of the sun shining down on the beach, with the sailors standing in front of the hosting trio replacing it. “Have a good night's rest?” Zac questioned.

Youri rubbed his eyes. “No. All I could hear were those two.” He stared at Angel and Malia, “Singing some teen pop song that nobody cares about.” Malia blushed.

“I could hear you singing along!” Angel teased the boy.

“Not gonna lie, I was singing along too.” Rhonda whispered.

“Do you even know how to be professional?” Zac asked, while staring at Rhonda.

Rhonda smirked, “I don’t know have you tried asking Sarah?” Zac turned a bright red. “Moving on! Today we have your second challenge! We’re going retro and taking a note from Total Drama World Tour! In the finale, Alejandro and Heather had to build each other and then toss it into a volcano. So today, you’ll be building your team captain, and using them as an offering to the overlord Cthulhu.”

“Cthulhu, a creature praised by cults, part dragon, part octopus, part man.” Yasmin stated.

Grayson raised an eyebrow, “Is this for real?”

Wing squished a banana on his forehead, “Yes! Cthulhu rules the ocean! Do not mock his name.” She said, her face a pale white. “No one lives a day on the sea if they do not make this offering.”

Kimmi giggled as she licked the banana off of Grayson’s face, “Tasty.”

“Isn’t the white stuff supposed to be on your face?” Damien teased, and Grayson punched him in the arm.

“I don’t get it?” Kimmi said innocently. Mana giggled innocently and whispered into Kimmi’s ear. “Oh my god!”

Zac groaned. “What did I say about helping the contestants?” The host squirted a bottle of water at the intern. “The last team to put their offering into the volcano will be sending someone home tonight. The volcano, for those of you who don’t know is the big mountain thing in the sky.”

Damien spoke up, “Also. No pineapples guys, just no.”

“Go or whatever.” Zac announced and pulled both Mana and Rhonda by their ears. “Looks like we need to go over how to interact with the contestants again.” The two moaned out in pain. The screen pans to show the Killer Sharks. Emmett wrapped his arms around his team to form a huddle. “Ok! Here’s the plan. Alfie, Trixie and me will get the parts for the tribute, you three,” He pointed at Angel, Malia and Youri, “Will put it together! Then we’ll all take it to the volcano where we will win!”

“Sounds good! I really like the part where we win.” Alfie grinned.

Trixie lit up, “Come on Alfie! Let’s go!” She tied her rope around her wrist, and then around Alfies, “This way we won’t get lost!”

(CONF): Trixie is shown sitting on the edge of the pirate ship, “This is the perfect challenge! I will finally be able to get close to Alfie and then he won’t be able to resist me!”

(CONF): Alfie is shown sitting crossed-legged. “This here is my treasure! Don’t tell Zac about it!” He begged as he opened up a treasure chest that was filled with candy. “My precious!”

Youri’s face fell flat. “Why do I have to stay here? With the twiniots?” He motioned towards Angel and Malia who were building a sand castle.

Emmett smiled and brought Youri in close, “Some one has to make sure they don’t get lost. And you’re just the man to do it!”

“I can’t believe that we get to build Emmett today!” Angel cheered.”Our team must really have a lot of faith in us!”

Malia nodded. “It’s nice to not feel like the weak link. My parents would be so upset if they thought I was doing bad here!”

“I think Cody would break up with me if I was the weakest link!”

The camera pans over, to show the Pirates. “What shall we do mi’lady Zaina?” Tameron asked, and gently bowed to their captain.

“Arrrr! Yes, what will you be wishing we do!” Wing added and glared over at Tameron.

Zaina looked at her team and paused, “Well I think, that we should all go and collect the pieces that we need to make me! I’ll go alone, Tameron and Wing you can search together, and then Elyar, Sarah, and Yasmin!”

Sarah giggled and wrapped her arms around Elyar and Yasmin, “Let’s get going!”

Elyar nodded, “Mission accepted! Agent E is on the mission.” He pulled Sarah onto his back. Zaina weakly looked over at him at the mention of the word Agent.

“We’ll meet back here when you find your stuff.” She murmured out before walking away on her own. Yasmin groaned, “Why me?” She stared at both Elyar and Sarah who waved and smiled back at the girl before they dragged her off. “Help me!”

“Come on Yasmin! It’ll be fun! You can tell us all about that story you’ve been reading!” Sarah encouraged.

With the trip out of sight, Tameron and Wing shot daggers at one another. “So we meet again, Captain Wing.”

“Hello Tam-Tu,” Wing bowed at the butler. “Pleasure to see you again.” She teased. “If you think you’re going to get the treasure, ye best be thinking again. This one is all mine,”

The butler growled. “You stole from us once, you will not do it again. It will be coming back with me.” The two stared at each other before they walked off in opposite directions.

(CONF): Tameron is shown polishing the wheel, “She can not be allowed to run off with it again. This time I will stop her. I must.”

“We need to get going.” Cherry decided, as her team stood in a circle.

“We need a plan first!” Grayson argued.

“If we don’t get going, we’re going to to lose this challenge.”

“If we don’t have a plan we won’t even do the challenge!”

Kimmi stepped in between the pair, “Come on guys! I thought that we were all BFFs!”

“She’s right,” Damien added, “We won’t be able to win if we’re fighting against each other.”

Leo added, “Together or not at all. The show must go on!” The actor nudged Andre.

“Ah yeah! What they said. Damien, you and I will go and try and slow the other teams down. Kimmi and Grayson you two try and get some wood and stuff for the tribute, Cherry and Leo you two can get fruit and yeah.” He declared. His team split into the smaller groups and started to walk off.

“Blessed up, that I don’t have to be with Kimmiot or her boy toy.” Cherry sighed and turned to Leo. “Have you thought about what I said?”

Leo sighed, “Are you still on this? And no. Even if I DID think you were right, which I clearly do not, why would it even matter.”

“They’re totally playing us!” Cherry sighed. “Like why can’t you see that! They don’t love each other.”

“If I play along for just one day will you finally drop it?”

“Yes!”

“Fine, then let’s get to spying.” Leo sighed. “I can’t believe I’m going to do this.”

Andre turned to Damien, “So what do we do now?”

Damien stared at his captain, “I mean, that’s kinda what you’re supposed to tell me.”

“Oh, sorry? I’m still getting used to this whole competition thing.”

Damien patted Andre on the back, “Don’t sweat it bro. If we set up some traps we can slow the others down!”

The singer nodded, “So how do we do that?” Damien facepalmed.

(CONF): Damien stared at the camera. “Andre’s a great guy and all… but his skills on this show… maybe not the best.”

“I’m going to go with Colin!” Hannah announced.

“But I called dibs!” Sam shouted and grabbed on Colin’s arm.

“When did you do that?” Hannah glared.

Sam shrugged, “Right now, DIBS!”

Fleur spoke up, “Why we no go together? We are strongest when we stay together!”

Colin lit up. “Yeah! We will do best when we stand united.” He shrugged Hannah off and wrapped an arm around Fleur.

“Her?” Hannah and Sam both muttered under their breath, and looked at each other.

“Next time on The Bachelor,” Viola slowly said and motioned as if there was a noose around her neck.

The screen jumps to the forest. “Are you having any luck?” Trixie asked as she tried to lasson some fruit down from a nearby tree.

Alfie shook his head. “The trees are really strong, I can’t break anything off.”

“This is going to be harder than I thought,” Trixie sighed. Her lasso knocked a coconut out of the tree, and Alfie tackled her out of the way. “Woah- Thanks!”

“Don’t mention it!” Alfie smiled and offered Trixie a hand to get back up. “Maybe we should just head back we’re not having any luck here.”

Kimmi rested on Grayson’s back. “We’re finding so much!” She giggled as she grabbed more of the branches from the trees.

Grayson smirked, “Maybe we could take a break?” He stopped walking, as they approached the base of a waterfall.

Kimmi blushed, “I guess so!” She jumped off of his back and the two sat down on the rocks and watched the water pour down the waterfall. She leaned in and gave her boyfriend a kiss.

Behind the foliage, Cherry turned to Leo. “See! That’s like not a real kiss!”

“I mean, maybe she’s just not very good at it?” Leo offered but stared intently.

Elyar put Sarah down. “I’ll be right back ok?” He turned to Yasmin, “Don’t let anyone do anything to her ok?”

Once Elyar was out of sight Yasmin turned to Sarah. “What do you know of Elyar?”

“He was recruited, like me.” Sarah shrugged, “He seems like a nice guy!”

Yasmin nodded, “I see.” She turned back to her book.

“So what’s so interesting about your story book?” Sarah asked as she ran her hand through her hair getting rid of the twigs.

“It’s about a far away kingdom. It has an interesting history,” Yasmin noted.

(CONF): Yasmin is shown scanning through her book. “Something isn’t adding up. Elyar… Sarah… AND me? All recruited? Something’s fishy about this team.”

The screen jumped to where the trip of hosts waited on the volcano. "I can't believe another intern quit today." Zac sighed. "They're dropping like flies! This one said something about a monster at night?" The host rolled his eyes, "Come on, just man up. If you're too afraid to work here, just quit no need for pety excuses."

Mana nervously laughed. "Yeah monsters... so not real."

Rhonda eyed the intern. "Didn't you say something a monster in the woods back in Brazil?"

"No!" He gasped and quickly fanned Zac, trying to change the topic.

“Are you guys seriously ok with letting the team carry you?” Youri stared at both Angel and Malia who were counting the clouds in the sky.

Angel shrugged, “We’re a team for a reason, we all bring different skills.”

Malia nodded, “It just so happens that strength is not one of my skills. “

“So what exactly are your… skills?”

“I’m really sneaky! And can shoot myself out of a cannon!”

“I’m very polite, and very good at being silent.”

“Sounds useful,” Youri groaned and then groaned even louder when he saw Alfie and Trixie come back empty handed.

Alfie frowned. “Things didn’t turn out so good.” He popped some skittles into his mouth.

“Yeah, it turns out the jungles a lot harder to deal with.” Trixie added.

Emmett walked towards the others, dragging a giant makeshift bag filled with sticks and fruits. “Are you guys ready to build me?” He grinned.

Angel and Malia cheered, “Nice job!” While Youri only glared.

The hotties appeared on the screen. Fleur carried a makeshift version of Hannah, she was only missing her hair. “You look very pretty,” Fleur smiled as she patted the tribute Hannah.

“Let’s make sure we throw the right Hannah into the fiery pits of the island, we wouldn’t want to lose our captain.” Viola stated and sent a stare towards Hannah.

Colin started to climb a tree, “There are some vines up here!” He grabbed onto a vine, that sent a cage down over his teammates sans Hannah.

“You did this!” Sam glared at Hannah.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about” Hannah rolled her eyes, and then locked arms with Colin when he fell back to the ground. “It looks like we’re going to have to finish this challenge on our own.” Hannah grinned.

“I’m so sorry guys! I don’t know what happened.” Colin groaned and tried to lift the cage to no avail.

Viola looked at both Fleur and Sam. “Please help, I’d much rather be our tribute than stuck here.”

“I like your enthusiasm,” Fleur smiled and hugged Viola, “But we be stuck here!” She frowned.

“If only we had Blake here to help lift the cage.” Sam sighed.

“Just give us the tribute,” Hannah declared. “We’ll finish the challenge without you guys.”

“She’s right.” Colin sighed. “We’ll come back for you guys later. But we need to win this.” Fleur nodded and handed the tribute through the cage to Colin, their hands briefly touched. “We’ll come back.” He assured.

“I’m not worried about you,” Sam stated, “It’s her I’m worried about.” He stared at Hannah.

The scene jumped back to the beach where Tameron and Wing both just arrived carrying an assortment of items. “I see you didn’t get eaten by the man-eating villagers,” Wing observed.

“Likewise.” Tameron calmly said. “Shall we put together our tribute?” Wing nodded. When the pair had finished, the trio of Elyar, Sarah and Yasmin returned.

“Wow! You guys are good!” Sarah cheered as she saw the finished tribute of Zaina.

Elyar nodded, “You work like a great team!”

“Yes… They do.” Yasmin noted. “Now we just need our captain.”

“Sorry…” Zaina muttered. Her knees covered in grass stains, “I got lost.”

“Arrr! That'd be ok lady captain! We are ready to venture forth! And offer tribute to Cthulu!”

Zaina nodded, “Then let’s get going.”

“I’ll lead the way,” Elyar added. “I think I found a path earlier.”

The screen jumped to the volcano. Mana, Rhonda and Zac waiting at the top. Mana carried a giant leaf as he cooled Zac down from the heat of the volcano. Rhonda stared through binoculars trying to spot the teams. “Are you prepared to lose another one of your Zactastics?” She asked.

The host removed his sunglasses, “No. They won’t be losing today. I can feel it.”

“Feel it? Or Rigged it?” Rhonda countered.

“No. Listen.” He paused and motioned down below.

“You can hold me a little less.” Colin shouted as Hannah clung to his back while he scaled the volcano.

“Ooooh, burn!” Mana chuckled.

“Did I tell you to stop fanning me?” The host groaned as he felt a bead of sweat drop off his face. “I don’t do well in the heat!”

“Sorry!”

“ONE! TWO! THREE! ONE! TWO! THREE!” Emmett shouted as the camera panned down to show the Killer Sharks all attached by a vine rope, and Emmett and Alfie scaling the mountain while the rest of the team hung on.

“Looks like it’s a race to the finish!” Rhonda announced. Colin turned to Emmett who turned to Hannah who turned to Alfie. “We’re that far behind!?”

The two teams quickened their pace as they tried to scale faster than the other team. “Not this time Emmett!” Hannah shouted as she encouraged Colin to climb faster.

Emmett turned to Alfie. “Give me your rope!”

Alfie shook his head, “There’s no way you can carry everyone and still climb to the top!”

“I’m not going to! You’re going to race up there and drop the tribute in!”

Alfie nodded and shoved candy into his mouth before he climbed beside Emmett so that he could drop off his load. “Are you trying to kill us!?” Youri shouted up.

“Oh hush! He has a plan, I’m sure,” Angel shouted back as she started to feel herself drop. She looked back up and Emmett barely holding onto the four of them.

“No! You need to go faster Colin!” Hannah shouted.

“I can’t!” He groaned out, as his movement slowed. To his side Alfie raced past.

“I have a plan!” Hannah announced as she used her arms to throw the tribute up and over the ridge - except once her hands let go on Colin, she started to fall. Colin managed to catch the tribute but missed Hannah. “Bad idea! Bad idea! She shouted as she fell.

To the side, Emmett managed to swing his team over to catch Hannah, but the extra weight pulled him down further. “Grab on to the rocks everyone!” He shouted.

“We have a winner!” Rhonda announced, as she turned to Alfie who launched the tribute of Emmett into the volcano.

“Winner? You mean we just did all of that to come in first? I thought we were almost eliminated!” Trixie shouted as she desperately clung to the rocks.

“GO COLIN GO!” Hannah shouted as the American slowly, but surely climbed to the top and dropped their tribute off.

“Second place goes to the Zactastic Hotties!” Zac announced and gave Colin a giant hug. “Way to go!”

“Water?” He moaned out. Mana threw a bottle of water to the teen.

The scene switches to the jungle, and splits into halves. On the left, the Screaming Sirens, and on the right, the Pillaging Pirates. “Why do we have to walk in such a strange path?” Zaina argued as they followed closely behind Elyar who led them in a zigzag motion.

“Just trust me.” He replied.

On the left side of the screen, Damien grinned as he could hear a team trapped inside a cage shout for help. “Well our plan worked!”

Andre nodded, “Yeah! I can’t believe it!”

Leo watched as Grayson and Cherry walked in front of the rest of the team. “I think she likes him,” he said, not realizing who he was talking to.

Kimmi gasped. “What!? No she can’t! He’s my boyfriend!”

“Oops!” Leo’s face went white as Kimmi started to panic.

“She’ll ruin everything!”

(CONF): Leo stares into the camera. “She was right… Somethings up with her. No one likes their boyfriend - especially Grayson? Of all guys that much.”

“How long have you been dating Grayson?” Leo asked.

“Since the Winter formal,” She said, starting to calm down. “He was the perfect gentleman, and brought me flowers.”

The actor nodded, “And has he always been so… friendly with girls?” He asked, as he pointed to Cherry who had her arm wrapped around him.

“He’s a nice guy, silly.” She giggled “He doesn’t want to hurt her feelings is all.”

Snap. A cage fell down onto the team. “What?” Andre gasped.”We didn’t put a cage here?”

Damien nodded. “We didn’t. Somethings wrong about this.” He groaned and tried to lift the cage.

“Way to go guys.” Grayson sighed. “This prolly cost us the win.” He grabbed onto the cage to help lift it.

Kimmi jumped onto Grayson’s back, “I’m scared!”

“Like, of course you are.” Cherry sighed.

The screen grows to only show the Pillaging Pirates as they arrived at the base of the volcano, and then it fast forwards to show them as they drop their tribute. “Coming in third! The Pillaging Pirates!” Rhonda grinned.

“Mana. Go rescue the others. Let them know they lost, and they will be voting someone off tonight.” Zac stated as she jumped onto Rhonda’s back. “Take me to the beach.”

“Oh I’ll take you somewhere, alright.” Rhonda rolled her eyes.

The screen jumped to the first place team, the Killer Sharks as they began to sail to their next destination. “I can’t believe that worked!” Alfie cheered as the team celebrated by eating a large amount of fruits.

“To Emmett!” Angel announced, and raised a glass in honour of their captain.

“To Alfie!” Trixie added and raised her own glass. The team all raised their glasses in honour of their win.

Malia smiled, “I am really proud of our team today!”

Youri walked off, and Trixie followed. “Hey! I just wanted to let you know that you were wrong!”

“About what? About the twiniots? The muscle head or the toddler boy?”

“Alfie!” She said. “I don’t think his candy is going to stop him from falling for me.

“Whatever.”

(CONF): Youri is shown slumped against the wheel. “My team will see! Emmett isn’t all he’s cracked up to be!”

The camera pans over to show the yellow pirate ship, with the Zactastic Hotties. “You came back for us!” Fleur grinned and gave Colin a giant hug which caused him to blush.

“I couldn’t just leave you all!” He gave his team a hug. “We’re stronger together,” He smiled.

Sam blushed, “I still wish we kept the cage… it could have been fun.” His team laughed, but shook his head, “I’m not kidding,” he whispered.

Colin turned to Hannah, “And you! Because of you we didn’t lose!” He gave Hannah a giant hug and she started to blush. Viola slapped herself.

“What are you doing?” Hannah questioned.

“Sorry I just wanted to fit in.” She rolled her eyes, as he cheeks also turned red.

The camera shows the fourth place team as they sat around the Plank of Shame. “Welcome!” Zac started, “This is the elimination ceremony, you don’t want to be here. But because you guys managed to trap yourselves you’re going to stay here! And one of you will be going home.” Rhonda turned to Andre, “So how? How did you end up in your own trap?”

Their captain muttered, “We didn’t put the cage there. I don’t get it.”

“Great answer,” Zac rolled his eyes and turned to Kimmi, “Your relationship with Grayson has been put into question by your team, thoughts?”

Kimmi who sat in Grayson’s lap gave her boyfriend a kiss. “I love him. He’s just so good to me. I don’t know what I would do without him.” She turned to Cherry who rolled her eyes.

“And your thoughts Grayson?”

“Anyone who doesn’t believe in us can leave.” He shrugged.

“Cherry? Do you think that their relationship is a threat? Or a benefit to the team?”

Cherry laughed while she applied her lip gloss. “I don’t see little girls as a threat.” She turned to Kimmi and Grayson.

“Leo?” Mana asked. “I put my faith in you, but you loss today. Why do you think that is?”

Leo sighed, “There’s a lot of drama on our team. It might be behind the scenes but it’s still there. You can’t put on a great show if your actors hate each other.” He stared at Cherry.

Zac turned to Damien. “Your sister used to be on the show, do you think Heather would be proud of you right now?”

“She’ll always be proud of me.”

Zac shrugged, “Well you all cast your votes. If you face is shot out of the cannon you are safe. If not, say goodbye and walk the plank.” He snapped his fingers as Rhonda lit the first two cannons, and both Kimmi’s and Grayson’s faces appeared. They shared another kiss.

The cannon fired again, and Rhonda turned to both Damien and Andre, as their faces lit up the sky. “It looks like your little fumble today didn’t influence the others.”

Cherry turned to Leo. “Like, later.” She waited, for the final cannon to fire, and watched as her own face appeared one final time.

“Wait what?” Leo questioned.

“I love Kimmi. You shouldn’t question that.” Grayson said flatly,

Mana sighed as he shoved the actor onto the plank. “You just couldn’t lay low, could you?”

“You!” He glared at Cherry who winked back. “Like…. Oh my god, I think they’re faking it.” She rolled her eyes and blew a kiss towards Leo.

Damien turned to Andre, and whispered, “Do you have any idea what just happened?” His captain shook his head.

Zac turned to the camera. “Bye Leo! Nobody liked you anyways! Tune in next week when our sailors finds out that when you become an explorer you might just be opening a huge can of worms! Will the Sharks keep up their winning spree? Will the Sirens bounce back - And just what is the relationship between Cherry and Kimmi? Will the Pirates be able to come together or will they fall apart. And finally how will my little Zactastics fare I’m think GREAT!?”

The screen jumps to the fourth and final ship - belonging to the pirates. Zaina stood at the front of the ship as she tried to attach her creation as a figurehead for the ship. Her tears were silent as she desperately help onto her floral figure of Lexi. Behind her, Tameron appeared and helped her. “Do not fear Lady Zaina. You are broken now, but I will help you return to your glory. One way or another.” He finished tying the knots, and carried Zaina away.

She wrapped her arms around him and continued to cry. “She hates me…”

Case Four: An Incy Situation.
“Time: Unknown. Location: Unknown. Crime: Destruction of an Incan Monument. Culprit: To be determined.” A narrator's voice spoke out, the sound of a typewriter clicking in the background.

The screen fades to show the cast of the show surrounded. Incan warriors pointed their spears at the outsiders. The steady beating of war drums echoes throughout the stone temple. Zac hid behind Mana while Rhonda was discussing terms with the larger Inca who had a feathered headdress. The co-host turned back to Zac with a gloomy face. “They require a sacrifice. Someone needs to be given up in order for the rest of us to be let go.”

“Ok!” Zac bounced back up, his hair magically springing to attention with him. “Hannah you go!”

“WHAT!?” She jumped into Colin’s arms. “I’m not ready to die yet! I haven’t gotten to play the new Pokemon yet!” She turned to Sam. “Take him instead!”

The Incan leader nodded approvingly, “We like!”

“COLIN! SAVE ME!” Sam screamed, and jumped into Colin’s other arm. The american stared at the two in his arms.

“I’m not this strong,” He groaned as the three crashed to the floor. The Incan warriors laughed and threw fruit at Colin.

Fleur stepped in front of her team. “Stick together! We refuse to be, uh, err” she pulled out a knife and pretended to stab her chest.”

“Sacrificed?” Viola said flatly. “Actually… That sounds like a great idea, I’d finally get out of being on this soap opera.” She turned to the trio on the floor, both Hannah and Sam had wrapped themselves around Colin who desperately tried to get back up.

“Fine with me!” Zac grinned. “You guys lost the challenge anyways.”

“Might I suggest…” Mana pulled out a detective's hat and magnifying glass, “We find the team responsible and then offer a sacrifice based off of that?”

Rhonda nodded, “Their leader agrees. We have until the Moon starts to set to figure out exactly what happened.” She walked closer to both Mana and Zac, and whispered “We need to get everyone off of this island.” The pair nodded. The warriors rested their weapons, and just stood in a circle around the sailors.

Mana walked over to Pillaging Pirates. “Where were you before this whole thing started?” He looked at Zaina. The team captain sighed, before she started to recount her story. The scene fades to purple, a chibi version of Zaina appears in the bottom left corner. The purple fades to black and white, revealing the Pillaging Pirates, pirate ship. Zaina is shown to wake up in her cabin, beside her is a picture of Lexi she turned to it, whispered she was sorry before she got out of bed. She walked towards the door of her cabin and waited, hearing voices.

“What were you doing in lady Sarah’s room?” Tameron asked, as he scrubbed the cabin floor, and watched Elyar as exited the singers room and stretched.

The secret agent put his shades onto his face, “She had night terrors. I did what any man would do and helped her sleep.”

The butler nodded, “Was it him again?” Elyar nodded back. The door opened and Sarah walked out, “Good morning, lady Sarah.”

“Gooooood morning,” she sang softly. She turned to Elyar and gave him a hug before she walked back up the stairs.

Zaina walked out of her bedroom and strutted past the two boys towards Sarah. She wrapped her arms around the girl. “Don’t worry. The nightmares go away. Believe me.” She looked into Sarah’s dim eyes who smiled back.

“Thank you… But I think it’s just beginning.” She whimpered and continued her ascend to the deck of the ship.

Wing hung from the sail ropes, and yelled at their captain. “ARR! Zaina me captain, I be thinking!” She dropped down, driving her knife straight through the floor. “Ooops.” She muttered before turning back to Zaina. “Ye should join me crew!” Wing pulled out a Captain’s Hat from her jacket and placed it on the flower girls head. “It fits!”

Zaina blinked. “Arrr!” She grinned and gave her friend a giant hug.

“Aye! Let us begin the sacred ritual to Cthulu!” Wing pulled out two bananas from her hat and smushed them in her hands. She rubbed the mush across Zaina’s face with two fingers creating two stripes. She whispered words into the wind before she grabbed Zaina and threw her overboard.

(CONF): Zaina stood behind the wheel, her pirate hat sitting proudly on her head. “I will sail the seven seas, and I will find a treasure worthy of Lexi’s heart.”

The screen faded back to the present, as Zaina’s chibi icon vanished. “Is that what you were doing in the water” Yasmin questioned.

“Yes?” Zaina replied.

“I had to get up from my book to go help you out of the water because captain crazy threw you overboard? This is illogical. There is no documentation that, THAT is how you appease Cthulhu anyways.” Wing growled. “For the ocean we please. They,” She pointed at the Sirens, “Made not an offering, and now we be here!”

“Like it wasn’t our fault!” Cherry burst out. “We were totally trapped!”

Mana turned back to Yasmin, “Continue explaining how your team got here.”

The screen fades back to purple. A chibi version of Yasmin appeared in the corner. It fades to black and white and the Zaina is shown drenched in water on the ship's deck. “Welcome to me crew.” Wing grinned and walked away from Zaina who was coughing up water.

Yasmin looked down at her leader and sighed, “If you are attempting to kill yourself I know of much faster ways.”

Zaina’s eyes glossed over as she looked up at Yasmin, “It’s not that.” She sighed and walked off.

“Finally,” Yasmin smiled. “Peace and quiet. She crawled to the floor, and put her back up against the mast and pulled out her book. She placed her cup of coffee to her side.

“Is it story time already!?” Sarah chimed out as she plopped herself down beside Yasmin.

Elyar sat on the other side. “I love a good story. Great for the battle field.”

The scholar looked up at the pair. “You’re not going to leave until I read this to you are you?” The pair shook their heads. “Fine.” Elyar pulled out a white blanket and pulled Sarah in to snuggle. “The kingdom was always a peaceful place. It was off of the maps, and any explorer who found it kept the kingdom a secret in order to keep the peace. The people were kind and beautiful. But this new ship, it wasn’t much like the others. There was a lone pirate who sailed it. He was brave and courageous. His maroon clothes were slightly tattered but his captains hat was intact, it bore his crest a set….” Yasmin gasped and closed the book. She picked herself up, “That’s all for today!” She muttered and rushed off.

“Arrrr!” Wing cheered out, “We be here!” She announced as the ship pulled onto the sandy beach of their destination.

Sarah turned to Elyar and shrugged, “I wonder what happened?”

Elyar nodded. “I’m sure we’ll find out sometime! Come on, let’s go!” The teen smiled and pulled on Sarah's hand as he rushed to the beach to meet the hosts.

“It’s about time you got here!” Zac groaned as he got up from his towel where he was tanning. “We’ve been waiting! I almost got a sunburn!” As the host got up, Mana stopped waving a giant leaf to cool him off.

“You know you really don’t have to do that, right?” Rhonda whispered, as she raised an eyebrow. “It’s not like Zac’s going to abandon you on some island if you don’t as some strange sacrifice to Cthululululu or whatever.”

“Anyways,” Zac announced. “Our best experts,” Zac pointed to Rhonda and Mana who both pulled out glasses, “believe that this used to be an island that was settled by the Inca. Today, your challenge will be to bring back an ancient treasure, whoever brings back the worst treasure- or doesn’t will lose the challenge.” The host started to walk off.

Once he was out of earshot, Rhonda spoke up, “If you guys can’t find anything, then I hope you’re good at crafting stuff! We tried our best, but the Inca have been lost for centuries.” She gave a shy smile before she followed Zac. Mana stared at the contestants, and then ran after the hosts.

The pirates all stared at Zaina who was observing one of the flowers on the ground. “This one is so pretty,” She picked up the fragile purple flower.

Tameron walked up behind her, “Fragile, but resistant, and ever-so beautiful. Reminds me of someone,” he smiled gave her a pat on the back.

She turned back to the rest of the team, and noticed that the other teams were already gone. “Today, we win!

Wing jumped in front of the others, “Follow me! I know my treasures well!” She announced and sent a wink towards Tameron.

As Wing led the group, Yasmin rushed up beside her, breathing heavily. “Wing? May I ask a question, for my research?” The pirate simply nodded. “Your crest, the wings? What do they mean? Why did you choose it?”

The pirate stopped. “Do ye hear that?” She whispered, and pulled Yasmin into a brush, the rest of the team was only a few feet behind them.

“You didn’t answer my question!” Yasmin groaned as she tumbled into the foliage.

Out of nowhere, darts flew at the rest of the team, knocking Elyar, Sarah, Tameron and Zaina out. “Shhh!” Wing growled and moved her hand over Yasmin’s mouth. The pair waited in silence as they watched their teammates get dragged off by buff men in feathered outfits.

“Were those…” Yasmin asked as she flipped through the pages of a book. “The Inca?”

Wing growled. “It’s because they didn’t offer a sacrifice to Cthulhu. We can still live. Just don’t be touching ANYTHING.”

“But this could be the find of the century!” Yasmin argued.

“Finders keepers? No. Be found and be kept. SHHH!” Wing muttered as she dragged Yasmin behind her. “We be rescuing me crew!”

The scene fades back to the present, Yasmin’s chibi icon disappeared. “See? We didn’t touch anything.” Yasmin said flatly, while glaring at Wing.

Mana stepped closer. “OBJECTION! Your story proves nothing.” The intern stepped towards Sarah who cowered as the man approached. “Your turn.”

The screen faded back to purple, a chibi version of Sarah appeared in the bottom corner. The screen jumps to black and white. Sarah shook Elyar who was asleep beside her. “Wake up! Elyar? Please? I can’t do this alone right now.” The singer sighed as she watched from inside a giant cage. The Incans were preparing a giant bonfire.

Zaina turned to Sarah, “It will be ok. I promise.” She gave the girl a hug, and offered her a flowery bracelet. “It brings peace.” Sarah nodded.

“Would that be sire Sam?” Tameron questioned as he looked through the cage, at a teen who seemed to be in close quarters with the head chief.

“He looks like he’s in trouble!” Sarah groaned. “We’re going to die here!” She moved her hand to cover her mouth.

Elyar woke up, and instantly jumped to his feet. “Fear not. They can do nothing to us here.” The secret agent pulled out a badge and called for one of the Incas to come over. He revealed the badge, and the Incan nodded and ran off. The cage was shortly lifted off of the four. Elyar walked over to Sarah and offered his hand. “I won’t let anything happen to you.”

“I’m sorry, but what just happened?” Tameron questioned and stared at Elyar.

“I am part of an elusive group of agents.” He started, “I’m afraid that is all I can tell you without killing you.” He flashed a charming smile before he started to walk off with Sarah. “Come on, I want to show you something.”

Tameron sighed, “I hear you’ve joined the pirates. May I ask why?” He turned to Zaina who shrugged.

“Wing makes me feel like I belong. I have a purpose with her.”

The screen switched back to follow Elyar and Sarah. “This island is one of the islands under my protection,” he whispered softly. “A number of islands throughout the world are home to a wide range of tribes and kingdoms that have either been… forgotten or never discovered. This one is where the Incas were relocated.” The pair arrived at a giant wood port. “Many years ago, agents brought them here to preserve them.” He pointed up at a giant statue of man in tattered clothes. “Aile.”

Sarah stared at the statue it was at least four times bigger than either of them. “Was that his name? Was he the one who brought them here?”

Elyar nodded, “Yes. The Inca look up to him like a god now. He saved them, and now, it is part of my job to keep them safe.”

“You’re not going to kill me, right?” She giggled and hugged her friend.

He shook his head. “No, but I do need to go explain what has happened. Stay here, ok?” She nodded as he walked away.

Sarah sat as she watched the waves crash against the wooden dock. She heard sounds and turned, “Youri?” She asked as a petite person raced across the dock, they stopped and looked at her briefly before they ran off again. When she turned back around, a hooded man was there.

The screen fades back to the present. “Enough!” Zac growled. “This isn’t getting us anywhere move on to the next team.” Sarah looked up at Zac briefly before she returned her gaze to the ground.

“Fine!” Mana turned to The Killer Sharks. “Start your story, Trixie.”

“I mean… if you insist.” She shrugged.

The screen fades to blue, and then fades into black and white as chibi version of Trixie appeared in the corner. Angel, Malia and Trixie are in a cabin together. “Finally some girl talk!” Angel grinned as the three girls sat on their beds.

“What is girl talk?” Malia questioned as she stared at the other two.

“You know? Where we talk about things that we don’t want the guys to hear.” Trixie smiled. Malia still looked confused, so Trixie started. “Like how I think that Alfie is really, really adorable and hot!” Malia giggled.

“Oh yes, yes! I understand!”

“We already know that Angel doesn’t have place in heart for anyone besides Cody Simpson…” Trixie started.

“Hey now! I can make it room if I really wanted to! But I don’t because he loves me!”

“Yeah, ok.” Trixie forced a smile, “but what about you Malia? Is there a guy here that you like?”

Malia blushed. “Well… My parents would NEVER approve but…”

“GIRLS? Where are you? We’re almost there.” Emmett shouted out as the three giggled.

“We’ll continue this later!” Trixie smiled and ran out of the room.

Emmett stared at Trixie, “You missed our morning training!”

“Sorry!” Trixie sighed, “It was just nice to hang with the girls.”

“We need to make sure the team is performing the best….” The muscular leader sighed, “Alfie was looking for you.” She lit up slightly before wandering over to wear the blond boy was.

“Trixie!” Alfie beamed and gave his friend a hug. “You weren’t there for boot camp! Were you sick? Do you want candy? It always makes me feel better!? I don’t want you to be sad!” He quickly said, handing her a candy bracelet. “Smile Trixie!”

Trixie giggled. “I’m feeling better already.” She attached the bracelet to her wrist. “Where do you even keep all of this?” She asked.

“All of my candy?” He replied and looked around to make sure that nobody was looking. He leaned in close to Trixie and whispered, “The treasure chests!”

“Clever!”

A barrel crashed against the deck. “You need to drop your attitude Youri. You’re going to drag the whole team down.” Emmett stated between his teeth.

“You need to stop thinking you’re in control here!”

Emmett sighed. “I am doing what’s best for the team. I don’t want any of us to go home.”

“No. YOU don’t want to go home. Stop trying to make this seem like it’s about us as a team! You just want to prove your blood-sucking thing of a girlfriend that you’re not a total farm-boy loser!”

Malia whimpered as she arrived onto the deck. “Guys? Please stop, fighting is not the answer. Think of what your families would think. This is not how we do things.”

Angel jumped behind her, “Agreed! Let’s just go down there and win this challenge, and forget this ever happened ok?”

“Who asked you?” Emmett and Youri both growled out and stared at the two girls.

The screen returned to the present. “I hope we make it out of here alive,” Zac muttered to Rhonda.

“Me too! I don’t know what Toby or Jenny would do without me!”

Zac groaned at the names, “Don’t tell me those two are going to be your co-hosts? Are you trying to ruin the Total Drama brand?”

Rhonda stuck her tongue out at Zac, “Don’t treat me like a child!”

“Don’t act like one then.” He pulled out a mirror and adjusted his hair, “Do I look ok?” Rhonda rolled her eyes.

The screen fades back to blue, and then to black and white. A chibi version of Emmett appeared in the bottom of the screen. “I like can not believe that like he just passed out!” Angel gasped dramatically.

“Atleast you won’t fight anymore,” Malia shrugged.

“It’s not my fault. He started it!” Emmett chuckled.

Trixie nodded, “It doesn’t matter I’ll carry Youri, let’s just get going. I don’t want to lose this challenge!”

Alfie’s nose perked up, “Do you smell that?”

“Smell what?” Angel asked confused.

“SUGAR!” He cheered out and raced through the forest. His team chasing after him.

“Alfie! Come back, this isn’t a good idea!” Emmett shouted.

“My nose never lies!”

Angel pipped up, “I believe him! It’s like that one time I lost Cody in the West-Ed mall, and I had to spend forever trying to find him. But then I remembered I had a gps tracker in his shoe!”

Malia whispered to her friend, “What does that have to do with smelling?”

“Cody smelt sooooo good!” Angel giggled and hugged her friend.

“Are those two even for real?” Trixie giggled as she and Emmett chased after Alfie.

Emmett shrugged. “Angel atleast has wits about her, Malia… I don’t know she just seems so out of place.”

The cowgirl nodded, “She is a little off…. Isn’t she.” She sighed.

“MY NOSE LIED TO ME!” Alfie gasped stuck a lollipop into his mouth. “Oh…. It was prolly just my lollipop.” He turned back to his team. “Sorry guys, all that’s here is a giant temple of some sorts.” He started to walk back towards his team. “Way to go Alfie! You might have just won us the challenge!” Emmett grinned and gave the boy a giant hug. “Come on!”

Alfie whispered, “But there’s no candy in there! And I’m almost out!” He pulled on his pockets to reveal all he had left was a few pieces of licorice. “I won’t make it man!”

Trixie handed Alfie his candy bracelet, “Here.”

Alfie’s face lit up. “Are you sure? Do you really mean it?” She nodded. Alfie wrapped his arms around Trixie. “Thank you!” He started to munch on the bracelet.

“Let’s go!” Emmett announced.

The screen fades back to the present. “You mean, you knew we weren’t alone on the island, and you still chose to go into the scary temple of death?” Mana questioned, shocked.

“Yeppers! That’s exactly what we did!” Youri rolled his eyes, and Emmett elbowed him.

“Is that where you found this?” Rhonda pointed to her head dress. And the Killer Sharks all nodded.

Zac grinned, “Now that’s a story I want to hear!”

A chibi version of Malia appeared on the screen as it faded to blue, and then to black and white. “It’s really dark in here,” Malia whispered as she clung to Angel.

Angel pulled out a lighter and lit it, giving the team some light. Her team turned to her questionly, “What? How else am I supposed to get past Cody’s security?” She turned to a torch on the wall and lit it aflame and handed it to Emmett.

“My parents would never approve of our friendship,” Malia giggled and she intertwined her arm with Angel’s. “You're far too adventurous.”

“I just like having fun is all,” Angel shrugged. She handed Malia a lit torch, and marveled at the way the light reflected off of her hijab. “That’s really beautiful,” she commented.

Malia blushed. “Thank you, I made it myself.”

“AHH!” Alfie shouted as the ground beneath him shattered. Trixie quickly lassoed him, and Emmett helped pull him back up.

“Is this… safe?” Malia asked.

“We’ll be fine. You can wait outside if you want.” Emmett offered. “It shouldn’t be too much farther.”

“I’m sorry team… It’s just I can’t.” She whimpered and made her way out of the temple.

“That wasn’t part of the plan!” A voice argued.

“What plan? This is MY plan. MY idea, you’re just part of it!”

“But he was actually totally nice! He so didn’t deserve that!” Malia listened carefully, trying to match the voices to the other contestants, but she couldn’t.

“Why are you even doing this to yourself?”

“I have my reasons, and you have yours! Just stick to the plan.”

“Do you really think he’s going to fall for it?”

“I know he will.”

“RUN MALIA RUN!” Trixie shouted, as she grabbed onto the small girl. The rest of the Sharks racing behind her. “It’s going to crash!” She quickly added, as they rushed down the stairs.

On Angel’s head was a feathered headdress. “Do I look amazing or what?” She giggled once they made it out of range of the crumbling temple.

The screen returned to the present. The blue sky had started to make way for the orange of dusk. “So you destroyed an entire temple?” Mana questioned.

“Yes,” Emmett replied, “But not the statue! My entire team was with us. We had nothing to do with it.”

Zac spoke up, “He was a point. They,” he looked over to where the Inca were sharpening their spears, “Want us to offer up whoever destroyed the statue. They either don’t care about the temple… or don’t know. Let’s not remind them.”

Mana turned to the Hotties. “Your turn. Speak up now, or forever be guilty.”

“Oh boy… You may as well slaughter us all know.” Viola started. The screen turned to a golden yellow, and a chibi Viola appeared in the corner of the screen. The colour faded to black and white as Viola sat on the stairs that led up to the deck where the wheel was.

“Day three. My teammates are insane. I am now certain I am on the new season of Degrassi. With great and emotionally deep characters, such as Fleur. The girl from Paris who unknowingly accepted to go on a date with Colin. May her soul find peace after Hannah and Sam finish with her. Sam and Hannah, thirsty gay and thirsty psycho. Colin. The American who is seemingly attractive, but oblivious to everything around him.” Viola stared at the camera before biting into her apple. “And me, Viola. Only normal member of the team.” A loud scream pierced the air, and Viola turned to the sound. “It looks like Hannah and Sam just found out that Fleur and Colin are on a date. Good luck Fleur.”

The screen followed Viola as she walked down the stairs and into the cabins below. Hannah and Sam were yelling at one another. “WHAT! Do you mean he’s on a date with HER?” Hannah huffed.

Sam groaned as he did a quick rep of push ups, trying to get his muscles to glisten in his sweat. “I just woke up, and Colin wasn’t there! There I saw him with FLOWERS going to HER room! She must be stopped, we can’t let this happen!” He jumped to his feet. “He loves me!”

The gamer slapped Sam. “Don’t you dare! My hotness level is WAY higher than yours ever will be! Besides, you’re a guy! He’s totally straight!”

The gay teen stared at her. “Just you watch little missy.” Sam grabbed his shirt and wiped the sweat off of himself, and then tossed the dirty laundry at his team captain. “I have a plan.”

“Same here!” Hannah growled as she raced past Viola. “Shouldn’t you be steering the ship?”

Viola’s face turned white as the ship rocked back and forth, “Ooops.”

“Oww!” Voices called out from one of the cabins nearby. Viola walked towards the room, and opened the door. In front of her, Colin, Fleur, Hannah, and Sam who was still shirtless were in a dog pile in the centre of the room. A small table, flowers and steak was spread across the floor.

“Why wasn’t I invited to the team orgy.” Viola sighed, and went to help Fleur up.

Fleur was blushing, “We were in the eating of breakfast, when Sam and Hannah joined us. I asked them if you would be in the joining of us, but they said died.” Fleur blinked. “And then,” she motioned around the room, “caput.” She sighed and wrapped her arms around Viola who groaned and stared into the camera.

Colin was blushing as he tried to get out from beneath both Sam and Hannah but they weren’t budging. “Hello? Are you alive?”

Sam groaned, “I think my mouth is injured, can you feel it for me?”

“If I could move.” Colin muttered back, and Sam jumped to his feet. “That’s what I thought,” He winked at Sam who blushed. Hannah still didn’t move.

“I think she died. We’re finally free!” Viola said cheerfully.

“Does anyone know CPR?” Colin gasped as he shoved the girl off of him. The contestants stared at each other before Sam begrudgingly stepped forward.

“I hate my life.” He groaned as he got down onto his knees and performed the kiss of life. Hannah’s eyes lit up as their lips touched, she slapped the teen and ran away. “You’re welcome.” He rolled his eyes and turned to Colin. “How was your date?”

Fleur's eyes went wide. “D-date? Is what?”

Colin winced, “You mean… you didn’t know this whole time?” The american’s face went red as he slapped himself.

Viola stared into the camera. “See? Such a diverse and deep team.”

The screen returned to colour as Zac groaned. “Ok. We get it, you don’t like your team.”

Fleur frowned and gave Viola a giant hug, “This can not be in the truth!” With her touch, Viola’s eye twitched.

“Friendship is futile. We will all leave sooner or later. In your case,” she glanced over at both Hannah and Sam, “It will likely be sooner.”

Mana turned her focus to the french girl. “Your turn! Please, tell me you saw who destroyed the statue!”

The screen switched to a golden colour, with a chibi version of Fleur appearing in the bottom of the screen. It fades to black and white, and the Zactastic Hotties are seen cowering in the bushes. Hannah spoke up, “See! I said stalking the pirates would be greatest option! Wing really knows how to sniff out treasure.” She whispered as the Incans captured the majority of the other team.

Fleur whispered, “Shouldn’t we help them?”

“I am in agreeing with her. They might get hurt!” Colin turned to Fleur and smiled.

“Same!” Sam cheered out.

Viola sighed as she turned to her other team members. “The coast is clear, we should be in the following of them.” Fleur turned to Viola and nodded.

“Lead the way!” She cheered. Hannah glared at the pretty blonde and back at Sam, she ran her finger across her neck, and Sam nodded. The captain made her way to the front, as she followed the tracks left by the Inca.

“So… Fleur. Why are you on the show?” Sam asked as he walked beside the french girl.

Her eyes lit up, “I thought this was Britain's Next Top Model!” She frowned, “I was mistaken.”

“You would be a true beautiful model.” Colin smiled and wrapped his arm around her. “You should be in the showing us of your model walk!” Hannah suggested and winked at Sam.

“Ok!” Fleur giggled as she left Colin’s embrace and walked in front of the others. As she began to strut Hannah turned to Sam and nodded.

“LOOK OUT!” They both shouted as they threw fruits at the girl. Before the fruit could reach the girl, Viola jumped into the way, wielding a large stick and swung at the fruit sending them flying. “Wow! Where did the monkeys appear from?”

Viola glared at the pair before turning back to Fleur. “I used to be in the playing of basketball before I discovered my teammates were useless.” Fleur ran up and jumped to hug Viola who reluctantly opened her arms.

“You’re amazing!” She kissed Viola’s cheek in thanks.

“We are here!” Colin announced as he peered over the cliff, and down at the Incan village. He pointed to the cages where the Pirates were held. “We need a plan.”

Hannah stared down, “If my years of gaming experience have taught me anything,” She paused, “It’s that there will be only one way we can do this and still be making it out in all pieces.” She turned to Sam. “You, will be the wench and will flirt with him.” She pointed at the leader of the Inca. “While we, rescue the others.”

The screen returned to the present. Rhonda sighed as she looked up at the sky, “We’re running out of time.”

Fleur frowned. “I am sorry I was not in the mode of helping.”

Mana frowned, “Don’t worry! I think I almost figured it out! You were great!” He smiled and turned to Colin. “What happened next?”

The screen returned to the golden colour, as a chibi version of Colin appeared. It faded into black and white, showing Colin, Hannah, Fleur and Viola running away from a hoard of Inca. “I don’t think that the plan worked!” Colin shouted as he carried Fleur who had hurt her ankle.

Hannah groaned, “Sam must of insulted him or something! I knew I should have sent you! You’re hotness and charisma skill are way higher!” The american blushed.

“You’re really… kinda handsome.” A girl's voice flirted.

“It’s not the time to state your affection, Hannah!” Viola growled.

“You’re kinda hot too, I guess.” A voice replied.

Fleur turned to Colin, but he didn’t say anything. “Who is in the speaking?” She called out to no reply. As the group raced towards the shore, stone came crashing down behind them. The team looked up, and saw what remained of the statue, and two figures who ran away. The Inca surrounded the team. The leader walked towards them, attached to a chain was Sam, who was now shirtless and being walked. “I think I’m his pet now.” Sam groaned as the leader petted his hair.

The screen returned to the present. “We’re finally getting somewhere!” Mana cheered out. “Now for the last team so i can finally put all of the pieces together!” The intern turned to Sirens.

The screen turned to a light red, as a chibi version of Kimmi appeared in the corner. The screen faded to black and white. The girl is shown waking up from her bed, “Grayson?” She whispered out. When no one replied, she turned to her side, and saw that he was missing. “Oh….” She whispered to herself. She crawled out of the bed and pulled on one of his shirts, and put on her own jeans.

The door opened, as Grayson cheerfully walked in, with two plates with fruit and bacon. “Breakfast is served,” He smiled and crawled into the bed with Kimmi, wrapping an arm around her.

“I missed you,” She whispered.

“I know,” He smiled back and stuffed an orange slice into his mouth and smiled, revealing orange teeth. Kimmi giggled and kissed him on the cheek.

Once the pair were eating Kimmi got up. “I’ll see you later, right?” She asked as she headed for the door. Grayson nodded. The girl kissed her heart locket as she left the cabin.

“Kimmi!” Andre sang out and waved at the girl.

“Andre! Hey!” She smiled as she approached her captain who sat on the steps playing his guitar. “What are you doing?” She asked as she sat beside him.

“Just working on a song for Dania,” he blushed. “I like to think she’s at home right now, watching me.”

Kimmi giggled and wrapped her arms around him. “That’s so cute! She’s a very lucky girl!”

“Or unlucky,” he sighed dropping his pick.

“Don’t say that!” Kimmi frowned and moved her fingers to Andre’s face and made him smile. “Be happy!”

Andre flashed a smile. “It's just hard knowing that if I don’t go far here than her dad will never let us date. Why did she have to like me, of all people.” He groaned.

“Then we will just have to make sure we don’t lose!” She cheered.

“WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON’T KNOW HOW TO MAKE A STARBUCKS COFFEE!” Cherry shouted at Damien who raced out of the kitchen in an apron.

“She’s nuts. Save me!” He shouted as he cowered behind the pair.

Cherry stormed out of the kitchen. “I require my tall triple frappe mocha-mellow pumpkin spice latte EVERY Friday!”

“Well I’m sorry that this isn’t Starbucks!” Damien groaned.

Cherry put her sunglasses on, “If I don’t get my mocha-mellow you can like totally forget about us winning today.” She crossed her arms and turned away from team.

“One tall triple frappe mocha-mellow pumpkin spice latte, cooled to the right temperature,” Grayson announced as he walked out of the kitchen and handed the girl her coffee.

“How did you know how to make this.” She questioned, staring at the fluid and sniffing it. “It smells divine!”

“Gray-bear used to work at the Starbucks at his school,” Kimmi giggled.

The taller, white girl stared at Kimmi. “Like, who asked you?”

“She’s just trying to be nice, someone Cherry.” Grayson said. “This is our peace offering.” He winked as he pointed to the message he had written on the cup.

Cherry lipped her lips. “Cherrylicious.”

The screen returned to the present. “Your team is low-key insane,” Zac sighed as he turned to the sky. “And if you don’t finish telling your story we’re all going to die.” Mana nodded and turned to Damien.

Kimmi raised her hand, “Can I pee?” Rhonda nodded and led Kimmi away from the group

The screen turned to the dim pink, and then to black and white. The Sirens were walking through the forest. “I think that we should split up,” Grayson announced.

Cherry nodded, “Yeah… like we’re not really getting anything done here.” She scoffed as a plant touched her skin.

Andre nodded, “That seems like a good plan, “Damien and I will keep going, you three should head back and see if we missed anything.”

“No!” Cherry, Grayson and Kimmi all said in unison.

“I think I should come with you two,” Kimmi suggested, “I really feel like I haven’t gotten a chance to get to know my new BFF’s” She smiled and wrapped an arm around both Andre and Damien.

“Yea, and I think Cherry and me should be able to figure this out… quickly.” Grayson added.

“Like yeah!”

Andre and Damien turned to each other and then at Cherry and Grayson, and then at Kimmi. “I mean if you’re ok with it broski,” Damien shrugged.

As the trio walked away Kimmi turned to Damien. “So why did you audition for the show!”

Damien shrugged, “I don’t know. My sister was on it awhile ago, and I just thought it would be a good idea. To get out there and stuff? I was supposed to be on last season, but Lindsay thought it wouldn’t be a good idea…Zac didn’t seem to think so though!”

Andre frowned. “Last season would have been the bomb if you were there! Maybe I wouldn’t have left first!” He chuckled and lightly punched Damien in the arm.

Kimmi smiled, “Aww, last season looked like so much fun! I’m jealous that you got to be on it for even an episode!” She frowned.

“Why did you join the show Kimmi? You see like you already have it all? You know, with Grayson.” Andre asked.

She blushed and then lightly giggled. “Graybear is such a cutie, isn’t he? I’m so lucky that I found him… But I made a promise,” she grabbed onto her locket. “And I can’t break it. Not now… Was that Youri?” Kimmi gasped as a figure raced through the woods. Before the guys could say anything she had already raced after him.

Once she was out of earshot Andre turned to Damien, “How can she be so  oblivious  to Cherry?”

Damien shrugged, “I don’t even know, it’s so obvious.” He groaned, “Let’s climb up the tree so that we can get a better view.” Andre nodded as they climbed up.

“Do you see that?” Andre gasped and pointed to where two figures, Cherry and Grayson were basically on top of each other. “We can’t let Kimmi find out.”

The screen returned to the present, Kimmi and Rhonda were still away. Mana turned to Grayson and Cherry, “You’re lucky this challenge wasn’t about finding the biggest cheaters. But you may as well explain yourselves.”

The screen faded back to the light pink, and then into black and white. Cherry and Grayson were a mere centimetres apart as they stood in front of a giant rock statue. “You’re kinda, like so, handsome.” Cherry winked as she leaned in a little bit further.

Grayson blushed, “And you’re kinda hot… If only I knew what two attractive people are supposed to do when they’re alone… together.” He grabbed Cherry’s shoulders and moved around her, and pressed her against the stone.

Cherry’s breathing got deeper. “Like, I don’t know either…. Maybe you should teach me.” Grayson leaned in to kiss Cherry, and she kissed back. Leaving a trail of cherry-red lip marks across his cheek and neck. “I should go!” She gasped and raced into the forest behind them.

Grayson wiped his face and neck off before he raced after the girl. “Cherry wait!”

The screen flashed back to the present. Cherry glared at Grayson, Andre was busy wiping off what lipstick was still on Grayson’s body. “I have everything I need.” Mana announced. He walked towards the Sharks, “Your team was the only team to actually do the challenge, and also the only team I know for a fact had nothing to do with the destruction of the statue. You guys were never anywhere near it.”The sharks cheered out and shared a group hug, asides from Youri who groaned.

Mana turned to the Pirates next, “And you… Well you were the obvious choice at first. No one seems to know what happened to Wing and Yasmin after they were separated from the rest of the team. Plus your team had the opportunity to destroy it, while Sarah was alone with it…” Zac growled out. “But she had no reason to… So you are also safe.” The pirates cheered.

The intern turned to face both the Sirens and the Hotties. “I think the answer is obvious.” He turned to Grayson and Cherry. “Cherry ran off after you kissed her because the force was so much that it crashed the statue, sending it falling onto the Hotties who were being chased by the Inca.”

Everybody gasped. “And we would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for you, and your meddling manatee!” Grayson said light-heartedly.

Kimmi skipped back after using the restroom, “So what did I miss?” She asked.

Zac finished reviewing the footage and turned to Mana, “Mana is correct. The Sirens caused the statue to collapse and will now need to vote one of their own to be offered as a tribute to the Inca.”

“You had footage of this the entire time?” Youri groaned.

Rhonda shrugged, “Sort of. Someone scrapped most of the footage so it mostly useless... Besides this was way more fun.”

“We don’t have time to have an actual elimination ceremony,” Zac pointed to the sky above, so if you guys could all just announce who you want to eliminate, that would be perf.” Andre stepped up, “Cherry.”

Kimmi cast her vote next, “Damien, like I’m sorry! You’re really like nice, but yeah.” She frowned at her friend.

Damien turned to Cherry, “Cherry. You know why.”

Cherry rolled her eyes. “Damien.”

“Cherry.” Grayson announced last.

Cherry gasped. “This wasn’t according to the plan either! I didn’t want to be on this like stupid show anyways! But I totally don’t want to be offered up as a tribute to the Inca gods!” The girl tried to run away but tripped over her Starbucks lip balm and fell into the Inca leaders open arms.

“Me likey.” He announced and dragged Cherry away. The Inca army vanished into the forest, leaving the remaining contestants shocked.

“That was… just a challenge right?” Yasmin asked, “If there was actually an Inca city here, someone would have found it already…”

Zac and Rhonda frowned. “Sadly not. And Cherry was one of our biggest rating boosters.” The hosts sighed as they walked back to the ships. “Tune in next time when the teams deal with the aftermath of almost being sacrificed to the Incan god! And will Kimmi finally discover the truth about Grayson? All of this and more… next time on Total Drama… TIDES”

The screen fades back to black and white. Sarah is shown in front of the statue. “What are you doing here?” She whispered, backing away from the figure. “I didn’t tell anyone! I swear! I won’t!”

The figure approached Sarah. “They better not. I can not afford for this to get leaked.” Sarah took another step backwards, and knocking the statue over. She gasped.

The screen fades back to the present.

(CONF): Sarah is shown in the dark, staring at the camera. “Thank you Zac… I don’t know why, or how you did it… but thank you.”

Chapter Five: Red Sky at Morning...
The screed showed the casting trip, Mana, Rhonda and Zac on their jet boat, the four pirate ships behind them. Zac spoke up, “Last time on Total Drama Tides, our pirates found themselves in an Incy situation when the island we were visiting turned out to be inhabited by the lost Inca civilization - this was made worse when one of the pirates destroyed their prized statue.”

Mana slowly put his detective hat away, “After taking a closer inspection, I was able to discover that it was Cherry and Grayson who while making out caused the statue to fall.” Zac looked away from the camera while Mana continue, “Knowing the truth, Andre and Damien voted off Cherry, leaving her to spend her life with the Inca.”

Rhonda pulled out a paper umbrella and used it to block the sun, “In the end though, last episode just brought out more questions and mysteries than it seemed to answer! Who exactly are Tameron and Wing? Where exactly was Youri? And who keeps visiting Sarah?” She poked Zac’s cheek. “Stay tuned, because this episode is going to be a wild ride!”

As the intro cut, the three stared at eachother. "So which one of you is it?" Zac asked as he stared at the pair.

"Is what? You're pet?" Rhonda chuckled as she nudged Mana in the arm.

"I am simply dedicated to the job!"

Zac turned to the pair again. "No. There was another monster sighting last night." The host pointed at Mana, "You're the only intern I have left. I had to hire... actual filmographers or whatever they're called to film the show."

"Why is that bad?" Rhonda asked confused, "Don't you want better quality?"

The Canadian turned red. "No, because now they will be able to tell just how low-quality you actually look! WHY WON'T YOU TAKE MY FASHION ADVICE!" He growled as he flipped through his phone, showing Rhonda a number of potential outfits that she could wear.

"..." Rhonda gasped.

"PJ?" Mana jokingly added. Mana and Rhonda turned to each other and giggled as Zac walked away from them.

"Was it something I said?" Rhonda blinked.

The screen switched to the Killer Sharks’ dining cabin. The six members sat at the table eating their breakfast in silence. Emmett reached over for the pepper and gently sprinkled some onto his eggs. Beside him, Youri made a face.

“Are we going to talk about yesterday?” Trixie questioned, and turned to the other members of her team.

Malia spoke up, “About the fact that we just lied to Zac! He’s going to find out! I don’t feel good about this, at all!” Angel wrapped her arm around Malia.

“What were you even doing Youri? I hope that it was worth it.” The fangirl sighed. “It’s not even like you were good at being sneaky, the other teams saw you!”

The petite boy chewed his lip. “Not all of us can be expert stalkers. And it doesn’t matter. Like always Emmett saved the day, didn’t he?”

The muscle head sighed, “I shouldn't need to save the day. We’re a team. We do this as a team.”

“Then maybe we should all start pulling our weight.” Youri sent a glare over at Angel and Malia. “As far as I’m concerned we could afford a few less mouths to feed.”

“Can you pass the sugar?” Alfie asked to no one in particular as he poked his eggs.

Angel grabbed her toast and threw it at Youri. “We’re valued members of this team! Isn’t that right guys?” No one said anything as Youri pulled the buttered toast off of his face. “Guys?”

Malia looked into her friend's eyes and grabbed her hand. “Let’s go Angel… I don’t think we’re needed here.” She sighed softly, as tears started to fall from her eyes.

“Is no one going to pass me the sugar?” Alfie frowned, and got up from the table and grabbed the sugar pot. He gasped in horror and dropped it as it shattered on the floor. “It’s… It’s empty!” The teen raced to his secret stash of candy, only to find it was also missing. He turned to the camera, eyes wide and let out a scream.

(CONF): Alfie sat on the dinghy attached to the ship, “I don’t think I’ll make it. This is the end. He gasped as he licked the last bit of sugar from his hand. Send help!”

“We can’t tell her.” Andre groaned.

Damien sighed as the pair sat on the edge of their ship, “What do you mean we can’t tell her?” He looked over and saw Kimmi standing at the bow of the ship, her arms wide opened as the wind danced with her hair.

Andre stared back at him. “You should know more than anyone considering yous sister and all, and how you were low-key on last season. But Jade? Ivy? Hannah? HEATHER? A woman scorned is a monster! And it’s always the sweet ones that end up being the scariest!”

The legacy contestant turned back to the musician, “You don’t think that she would do anything bad… do you? She’s so sweet.”

Andre shook his head. “And she’s so in love with him.” He sighed as he watched as Grayson walked up behind the girl and wrapped his arms around her waist and they shared a kiss. “He’s such an ass.”

“Agreed. So we don’t tell her?” Damien asked, and Andre nodded.

“Now we just need to make sure the other teams don’t get any funny ideas.” Andre sighed.

(CONF): Andre sighed. “I don’t know what I’m doing here anymore. I used to think that if I had a second chance I would be able to do it! You know, win? But my team has lost twice in a row now, and we’re basically a ticking time bomb now.”

(CONF): Damien sat in the crow's nest as he gazed into the camera. “If Kimmi finds out, and if she wants revenge, I don’t think I’ll stop her. Sometimes revenge can be the best kind of therapy.” He chuckled.

The camera panned to the bow of the ship. Kimmi pressed her cheek against Grayson’s as they watched the red sky. “I’m really glad that we got to come here together Graybear. I don’t know what else I would rather be doing this Summer!”

Grayson smiled and played with her hair. “You’re such a cutie, and I’m so glad you followed me here. “I’m sorry we eliminated Cherry… I know you were kinda friends.”

Kimmi smiled widely, “That’s ok! As long as I still have you! And it’s not like you have a history of getting rid of my friends or anything!” She grasped her locket. “Let’s just make sure that we win today ok? I don’t think I’m ready to lose you.” She stared into his eyes.

“I don’t want to lose you either Kimmi cub.” He planted a final kiss on her forehead before he turned to the boys and rolled his eyes. Once he was close enough he whispered, “Thanks for not ratting me out.” Andre and Damien both turned to each other and smiled lightly.

The screen jumped to the purple ship. Elyar and Sarah stood in front of the wheel. “You know, you never told me why you were washed up on that island.” He teased.

Sarah gasped. “Don’t remind me!” She covered her breasts. “I like to think that I was fully clothed back then!” She giggled, but then looked back at the sea.

“Was it bad? Did something happen?”

The singer sighed and gently turned the ship's wheel. “I was sailing around the world with my… best friend. There was a storm one night,” her voice started to fall from it’s normally peppy sound, “And then I woke up with you staring down at me… I thought he died.”

“Did he?”

“No…” She smiled lightly. “Was that one of the islands you protect?”

(CONF): Elyar sat on his bunk bed and stared at the camera. “Sometimes I wonder about my team… We just seem so linked together but... Why?”

Wing gazed down at the newest member of her crew, Yasmin who had just finished crawling back aboard the ship and was soaking wet. “Arrr, now ye be a real member of the Wing clan.”

Yasmin wrang out her clothes. “Does this mean,” she took a breath and wiped her glasses off, “That you will finally tell me about your family?”

“We all be family now. Tell me about yours and ye will learn of mine.”

The scholar groaned. “Why does everything have to be about tricks with you. My parents both work for a university. They’ve been away studying for years.” She pointed to her book. “This is what they sent me last year. That’s all I know about them. Ok?”

The pirate captain grinned. “Me father passed away, but not before telling me about mother. She was a fair maiden and she was captured. Now she’s a prisoner.” Wing spat as Tameron walked past the pair, with Zaina in tow. “And I won’t be stopping until I see her.” She shoved a banana into her mouth.

“Tell me more about your home country please?” Zaina asked as she walked beside Tameron. “It sounds so beautiful. Lexi would love it.” She whispered.

Tameron pointed at the bandana that Zaina wore on her head, “Take it off first. Pirates are not welcomed in the Kingdom of Floria.” Zaina nodded slowly and removed it, “Second, you are strong, Lexi will come back.”

“Only if I can prove to her that I’m worthy.”

“Perhaps, or perhaps milady simply needs to believe herself worthy.” The butler grabbed onto Zaina’s hand and sat her down. “As promised. My home kingdom was once a glorious place, protected from the outside world. But a storm came one night and everything changed.”

The screen divided into three, as Elyar, Tameron and Wing told their stories. “That island was home to a kingdom, we had been serving and protecting it for many generations, but that night everything changed.”

“A storm caused me father's ship to end up on an island. He had good relations with the people there for many moons... But that night everything was different.”

“A pirate ship attacked that night. Our people were unprepared. Many children were taken in hopes of finding the princess.”

“I was the only one stationed on the island… I had to keep you safe when I heard the cannons fire, but that meant the island was left on it’s own.”

“Me father's crew sought protection from the storm, but they took me mother.”

“The battle continued throughout the night. The event is known as the Deflowering of Floria. The royal children were kidnapped. With only the Queen left to protect her people…”

“A civil war broke out, with the people of Floria hoping to end the reign of the Queen who clearly could not protect them any longer, I was forced to flee and my people have not since returned. Many say the civil war is still happening.”

“With the royal twins in tow, me father left the island, his crew lost. He vowed to one day return to Floria and rescue me mother… So now it’s me task.”

The screen jumped to the Hotties ship. “Can she walk?” Viola questioned as she watched Fleur attempt to step away from Colin’s protection, but tumbled over.

“Uh yuy!” She murmured out, as the American helped her back to her feet.

“I wish that was me…” Sam groaned as he watched the way Colin held Fleur close to his body. He and Hannah were leaning against the railing, and looked down at the other members of their team.

Beside him Hannah groaned. “He prolly thinks that we’re a couple now, since you just HAD to perform CPR on me.” The gamer groaned, “I had a couple extra lives stored!” “I know I would be jealous if someone was dating me.” Sam muttered.

“Yeah! Ever since Saber my hotness level has been rising!” The pair turned to each other.

“Are you thinking…”

The scene cut back down to the trio. “I think I will be in the ok.” Fleur sighed as she gripped onto a wooden cane. “Thank you two.”

“I can’t believe that happened.” Colin gasped. “I just hope you heal soon, this is a dangerous show.” He said as he remembered that they were almost all killed by the Inca empire. He looked up and gasped.

Fleur turned her attention where Hannah and Sam were making out. “Are they, how you say?” she made kissing sounds with her lips.

“Dating? Making out? Kissing? Showing their eternal love? Yes. Yes they are.” Viola turned to Colin who stared at her.

The pair stopped locking lips and looked down. “Oh sorry… Didn’t see you there.” Sam scratched his head and wiped away Hannah’s excess saliva from his face.

“You’re such a great kisser Sam!” Hannah said shocked.

“Well duh?”

The screen jumped, revealing the four ships all docked on an island. The cast stood in front of the three hosts. “So after yesterday's traumatic events I thought it would be a good idea to offer some assistance in your grieving process.” A tall teenager walked out from behind Zac, he had large, strawberry blonde hair, and wore a light blue flannel shirt. He had a fit body, and blue eyes that stared longingly into Zac’s before they shared a kiss. The host coughed slightly, “Welcome Hayden, my boyfriend, and your counselor for today.”

“Hayden is going to be shadowing you guys as we go through today's challenge.” Rhonda started, “I think it’s important to make sure that you guys keep him safe… because I don’t think Zac would like it if his boyfriend got killed.”

“That being said…” Mana dropped a giant bag filled with swords. “This is another dangerous challenge. We’re going to be saying hello to some of our old… friends. Who stole a map that we need.”

Sam raised his arm. “Does Hayden do private sessions?” He winked innocently at the new arrival.

“Why don’t you ask your girlfriend?” Zac replied and stared at Hannah who blushed.

“Girlfriend?” Everyone else asked shocked from the other teams.

Hannah pulled Sam into a kiss. “We’re dating now.”

Sarah raised her arm. “Boyfriend? You’re dating someone, Zac?” She asked lightly and the host nodded. “Oh…” Elyar wrapped an arm around his friend.

“So what exactly is the challenge today?” Emmett asked as he grabbed one of the swords and practiced swinging it.

As if on queue, the screams of pirates filled the shore, as a hoard ran at the contestants. “GET ME MY MAP!” Zac shouted as he, Rhonda and Mana jumped on their jet boat and rushed away.

“Not these guys again.” Trixie yawned and walked towards the pirates. “Miss me?” She winked.

Alfie tackled the girl out of the way as an arrow raced past her face. “Momma told us not to trust you!”

“Thanks!” Trixie screamed as she and Alfie raced back to the other contestants.

“What do we do?” Malia asked as she frantically looked around for a way to help.

“Figure that out.” Youri rolled his eyes as he finished wrapping his fists in a cloth. He walked towards the closest pirate and kicked them to the ground. Angel raced up beside him and tied the pirates arms together. “Where did you learn to tie knots like that?”

The girl winked. “I have lots of practice!”

“There’s so many of them!” Alfie shouted out as the pirates kept clashing against the teens.

“We’re not alone.” Emmett added, as he looked at the other three teams who were also fighting back the pirates.

“We make a break for it!” Damien grunted to the rest of his team as the pirates swarmed them. “We should be able to sneak away while they’re busy with the others. “We can’t afford to lose again!”

Kimmi’s face went white. “No! We can’t they’re our friends! You don’t just leave people behind!”

“If we don’t we’ll lose the challenge,” Grayson added. “There’s no way four us will cover as much ground as all of them.” “You guys go. We’ll stay.” Andre decided. “We’ll make sure they don’t suspect anything.”

(CONF): Andre smiled weakly into the camera. “I can’t let them tell Kimmi about Grayson… If she was going to stay, one of us had to keep her away from the others.”

The team nodded in agreement as Damien and Grayson snuck off. Kimmi smiled at Andre, “Thank you!” She giggled and picked up a sword. “CHARGE!”

“Who should keep an eye on her?” The Hotties asked as they stared at Fleur. “I am feeling useless.” The french girl pouted as she attempted to walk in the sand with her cane but toppled over.

Viola helped her back to her feet. “I will. At least it will be a quick and painless death. Just don’t giggle or squeal, or be happy.” She stared down at Fleur who offered a smile.

With swords in hand, Colin, Hannah and Sam walked away from the pair. “Since when were you two… a thing?” The American asked as he smacked a pirate away.

Hannah offered a laugh, “Since always… You didn’t know?” She nervously glanced at Sam who facepalmed.

“Ever since I first saw him-” Sam blushed, “I mean her all tied up, I knew it was meant to be.”

Colin smiled, “That’s really cute! I kinda feel the same way about Fleur… But she just doesn’t seem to understand when I try to flirt with her.” He frowned. “Any tips?”

Hannah and Sam stared at each other and grinned. “Maybe save the day or something. Girl’s love that.” Sam smiled.

“Heroes always get the girl at the end of the game!” Hannah added.

“They’re really queite good at this.” Yasmin observed as she, Sarah and Zaina watched the other three members of their team fight off the pirates.

Sarah giggled. “Yeah, Elyar is really something isn’t he…”

“He’s so brave and strong,” Zaina added.

“Hey girls!” Hayden smiled as he walked over. “How are you all feeling?”

“Right now?” Yasmin asked and pointed to the pirates that were surrounding them. “Attacked.”

“How long have you and Zac been dating?” Sarah asked curiously.

Hayden chuckled, “I’m supposed to be asking you guys the questions, come on!”

“I feel so lost without her.” Zaina admitted.

“Without who?” Hayden asked.

“Lexi.” She frowned and fell into Hayden’s arms. “I’m not strong or brave like them. I’m weak. I’m stupid. I’m useless. I didn’t deserve her.”

Sarah and Yasmin exchanged a look as Hayden pulled Zaina away from the others. “Why do you say that?”

“I’m not special like Tameron. I’m not from somewhere beautiful. I was adopted. I fell in love with flowers and plants and everyone at school hated me. I’m not a pirate like Wing,” she pointed at the bandana on her head. “I’m not smart like Yasmini, or charming like Elyar. And I’m not attractive like Sarah. I’m Zaina, the lame-a.” She started to cry onto Hayden.

“Shhhh,” he hushed. “Don’t say that. You’re special! You’re Zaina! You have a giant heart. And it’s natural to miss someone who was so important to you, like Lexi was. But if you want to recover, and have a chance at being friends with her again, you need to move on.” He pointed to the other members of her team. “They need a leader. Lead them.”

In the safety of their ship, Rhonda and Mana gasped at Hayden’s recommendation. “Your boyfriend is trying to ruin our favorite couple!” Rhonda booed as they threw popcorn at Zac. “Why did you even bring him here?”

“Our contestants needed some closure.” He said flatly.

Mana sipped from his cup of Tim Hortons and smiled. “You know this is starting to taste not bad.”

Rhonda slapped the cup out of his hands, “Don’t you dare say that! Come back to me Mana!”

The scene returned to the shore. “TEN!” Elyar shouted out as he knocked another pirate to the ground.

“Thirteen” Tameron announced as he used an umbrella to KO another.

“Pssssh. Twenty-one!” Wing yelled as she flung two bananas at two separate pirates, knocking them out.

The trio all looked at each other. “This doesn’t mean the past is in the past.” Tameron said courtly. “Floria remembers what you both did.”

“HA!” Wing laughed. “More like what Floria did!”

Elyar sighed as he walked past the pair. And back to the rest of his team, “It’s clear now.”

(CONF): Elyar stared at the camera, “I knew those two were familiar… This won’t end well.”

The four teams came together again. “Any idea on where we need to go?” Emmett asked.

Hannah shrugged, “Even if we knew, I doubt we would tell you.”

“We need to not hate each other guys,” Andre groaned. “This isn’t just a challenge. Those are real pirates! We need to stick together.”

“Is that why Grayson and Damien snuck off during the challenge?” Youri said flatly and stared at Kimmi. “She doesn’t know does she?”

“Know what?” Kimmi asked as Andre dragged her away.

“Nothing, Youri’s just being a jerk. Let’s go.”

Zaina returned to the contestants after talking with Hayden. “There.” She pointed to the giant tree house. “That’s where the map is. It’s in three parts. Whichever team doesn’t get a part is voting someone off.”

The camera panned to show four paths through the forest. And it zoomed in on as the Zactastic Hotties took walked through one. “You were all tres, tres amazing!” Fleur giggled as she rode on Viola’s back. “Oops! Sorry, me forgot!” She hugged Viola who grimaced.

“We have a good shot at winning this I think,” Colin grinned as he pointed to a rope ladder that led up to the tree tops.

“Looks like Fleur’s going to have to stay down here,” Hannah shrugged.

Sam nodded, “There’s no way she will be able to climb up the rope with her ankle like that.”

“I’ll stay with her.” Colin said quickly.

“No!” Viola muttered. “I will. You need to win the challenge.”

“Be the hero!” Hannah and Sam cheered, which cause Colin to nod.

“Fine.” He climbed up the rope, and Hannah and Sam followed behind him.

Hannah and Sam walked slowly behind Colin as they walked across the rope bridges that linked the trees. “Do you really think this is going to work?”

“Of course!” Sam said as he locked hands with Hannah who barfed in her mouth. “Love always wins!”

She nodded. “Always.”

The screen jumped to the Pirates. “We just need to work together!” Zaina said as they walked through the jungle.

“We’re a great team!” Sarah smiled. “Maybe we can even win a challenge for once!”

Tameron stared at Wing, “Perhaps. Perhaps not. Only if we all want to work together.”

The pirate snickered. “Comeon Tam-Tu, like old times. Captain Momma prolly misses us!”

Yasmin stared at the pair, “Captain Momma?”

Tameron sighed. “A fierce pirate captain. She takes in a large number of orphaned lads for her crew. She is renowned and feared by all.”

“If she’s actually here we could all be in trouble.” Elyar said grimly.

The team stopped as they found a wooden cabin. “What do we do?” Sarah asked.

“Move forward.” Zaina announced and opened the door. Inside they found a staircase. “And upwards.”

The screen cut to Damien and Grayson. “Why did you do it, bro?” Damien asked as the pair wandered through the treehouse fortress.

Grayson shrugged. “You saw Cherry. You saw how hot she was and she was basically throwing herself at me.” He opened another door. “What was I supposed to do?”

“Say no? Be true to Kimmi?”

The prep-school boy grinned. “Common, you would have done the same.”

“No. No I wouldn’t have.”

Elsewhere in the fortress, Alfie was shivering. “Am I the only one who feels like I got locked in an ice cream truck?”

Trixie looked over at Alfie who was shaking. “No… It’s actually really warm here. Are you ok?” She asked as she pressed a hand against his forehead.

“He looks sick,” Malia added.

Angel frowned. “He looks like what Cody looks like when he sees me after a long time.”

“Sounds like a bad time all around,” Youri shrugged.

Emmett stopped. “We can’t have him holding us back. Trixie and Youri you two stay with him” He turned to Angel and Malia. “Time to show that you’re valued members of the team.”

Angel and Malia turned to each other and smiled. “We won’t let you down!”

Once the trio disappeared, Trixie dragged Youri away from Alfie. “I know what you did. But why? What does getting rid of his candy have to do with anything?”

Youri shrugged. “Let’s watch Emmett save the day now.” He crossed his arms and sat down. “With Angel and Malia there’s no way.”

“You’re willing to lose the challenge to prove your point?” Trixie gasped.

“Trixie…” Alfie moaned out in pain. The cowgirl sent a final glare at Youri before she returned to Alfie. “I’m here.”

(CONF): Trixie flipped through the pages of her diary. “I’ve dated lots of guys… but Alfie is the first that I actually care about. Ugh. What is wrong with me?”

“Are you not telling me something?” Kimmi asked she she and Andre wandered through the jungle.

Andre rubbed the girl's back. “It’s nothing honest. Just keep smiling and let’s win this challenge.”

Kimmi huged Andre. “Dania’s a lucky guy to have you.”

He smiled back. “Thanks… Sometimes I wonder if she would be better off without me though, her father can be a scary man sometimes.”

“Love conquers all.” Kimmi replied.

The screen switched to show a map of the treehouse fortress. The Killer Sharks, Pillaging Pirates and the Zactastic Hotties all appear to be just outside of a large chamber where Grayson and Damien are.

“You smell of Cthulu.” A female's voice called out to the pair in her chamber. “Idiots you are for thinking you would survive the seven seas without making a sacrifice.” Damien and Grayson exchange looks as three doors opened around them. Emmett, Angel and Malia walked in through one, the whole Pirates team in the second, and Colin, Hannah and Sam in the third. “Oh…. you brought some friends. It’s a shame you will all end here.” A slim woman with scarlet red hair jumped to the floor of the room. She snapped her fingers and pirates stormed the room, dragging Colin, Emmett, Elyar, Sarah, Yasmin and Zaina away. “Now it’s even.”

“Miss me?” Wing smiled innocently as she appeared behind the Captain and tricked to smack her with a banana, but she moved in such a way that she ate it instead. “Ahhh, Little Wing. It’s been too long.” She kicked her to the ground. “And you brought your little Tam-Tu with you? Adorable.”

“Who is she?” Malia gasped as she raced to hide behind Angel, who puffed out her chest.

“An old friend… And who might you be?” She smiled at Malia. “You do not need to fear me.” She motioned for Malia to join her. “You feel lost and abandoned. Why is that.”

“Ignore her Malia. Remember you’re part of the team!” Angel cheered and hugged her friend.

“She’s the captain of all those pirates.” Tameron stated and nudged Wing pointing towards the map on the wall.

“You can call me mother.” She smiled and turned to Hannah and Sam. “Why is it you fake your love for one another? Is it because of the boy you came here with?” She paused, “This is why girls are not allowed in my crew. Pathetic.” She slapped Hannah and then Sam. “Get it together.”

Damien and Grayson bolted for the map on the wall. Mother jumped to the pair and grabbed them by their shirts. “You hate each, other yet work together. Who is your captain? Do they have no mind?”

The screen switched to the jungle floor. Fleur cuddled up against Viola as she napped. “Why am I left with you? What have I done to deserve this.” Viola groaned.

Sarah groaned as she wrestled against the cage bars. "Why do I always end up behind bars. It's like that one time at band camp... and that other time at music camp," she frowned, "And that time with Elyar..."

Hayden walked over to her. "I thought you guys were supposed to keep me safe?" He chuckled, pulling up a seat as he examined her from the other side.

"Hayden?" The singer sighed. "This really isn't the time."

"I think it is." He smiled, and pulled out a notebook. "You seem down, and confused. Friends of Zac shouldn't ever be sad. I want to help."

Sarah's face lit up slightly, "He called me his friend?"

The american nodded, "He spoke of you very fondly last I saw him." She blushed and looked away. "Can we talk now?"

"Yes..." She stared into Hayden's light eyes, "I can see what he likes about you. You're very persisitent."

It was Hayden's turn to blush, "Don't tell him I told you, but... He misses you Sarah."

"Then why did he leave me," she slowly said and looked away.

"Leave you?" Hayden questioned, confused.

"I'm done talking." The singer decided.

The screen jumped to Andre and Kimmi. “Do you hear that?” Kimmi asked and perked up.

“It’s the others!” He grinned.

“Our friends! They need help!” The pair raced to the sounds, and found two pirates guarding a door. Kimmi screamed out for help, as the pirates raced to find her. She then knocked the two out. “All clear!” She giggled.

“You’re amazing. Grayson’s… a lucky guy.” He smiled.

The pair opened the door and saw the contestants who were captured. “Let’s help them!” Kimmi decided, but Andre put an arm out to stop her.

“Kimmi… If we help them we might not win.” He said slowly, thinking.

“But they’re our friends!”

The scene jumped to where Hayden was sitting with Youri. “You have a lot of hate going on. You’re aware that Canada has you voted as one of their least liked on the show?”

Youri rolled his eyes. “Once Emmett is gone they’ll see! They’ll see that I’m a good guy!” “Why is it Emmett’s fault? Why do you project your failure onto him?”

Trixie shouted out, “Because he’s a coward.” She craddled Alfie who was passed out, and whispered to him, "He won't get away with this."

“Just leave me alone. I don’t need this.” Youri groaned, and walked away from Hayden.

The scene returned to Mother’s lair. The eight contestants all stood in front of Mother who blocked their way to the map. “My crew worked hard to get this map, why would I let you take it?”

Malia jumped at Mother, but she swatted the small girl to the side. “Your determination is nice. But you are weak. Come here, girl. Allow me to be nurture you, and make you strong. Look at Little Wing.” She pointed to the girl who was close to the map on the wall, but slipped on a banana peel. “I can do wonders for you.”

“She doesn’t need you!” Angel decided. “She’s strong without you.” Malia looked at her friend with hopeful eyes but shook her head weakly.

Hannah and Sam stared at each other. "Why are we still holding hands? Colin isn't even here." They both recoiled at the realization.

The doors to the room opened, as the other contestants raced in. “CHARGE!” Emmett shouted as the contestants all raced at the pirate captain. Mother swung at the first handful, but she was greatly out numbered.

"Noooo!" She screamed as they tied her down. "This can not be happening!" She tried to loosen the ropes but to no avail.

Behind the group, Kimmi gave Andre a hug, "You made the right choice!"

"Did I though?"

“Good bye mother.” Wing waved as she grabbed onto a piece of the map. "I can't wait to see ye get out of this mess!"

“This isn’t the end.” She muttered and stared at Tameron. “I helped you escape her once and this is how you repay me?” Tameron sighed looking at Mother.

"That is far in the past now Mother, I do not care to remember those days." He pulled out a single rose from his pocket and left it with Mother. "For beauty can not hide a thorny past."

"I got it!" Colin grinned as he grabbed the second piece to the map. He raced over to both Hannah and Sam who kissed on his approach. "Do you guys want some alone time or something...?" He made a face and walked past the pair.

"This stupid plan of yours isn't working," Hannah groaned and stomped in place.

"MY PLAN? This was your plan!" Sam growled.

The scene jumped back to the jungle. Fleur had woken up. "Come on, let's be in the method of going." The french girl smiled and jumped to her feet.

"You... You can walk?" Viola stared as the fashionista was able to bounce of both of her feet.

Fleur blushed and raised a finger to her mouth. "How you say, ummm, secret?" She giggled.

"Why would you lie about that?" Fleur shrugged and walked away from Viola. Viola turned her gaze to the camera, "Things are getting complicated here at Degrassi high."

Andre and Emmett looked at the last piece of the map as they tackled each other to fight for it. Angel shoved Malia forward as she raced for the piece, Grayson, Kimmi and Damien behind her. The girl watched as they were catching up. With a tug at her hijab, she undid it and threw it backwards, blinding her pursuers, allowing her to get the final piece of the map. The room went silent as Angel tore off her top to give to Malia to cover her hair. “No.” Malia gently shook her head, allowing her hair to flow. “I can do this.”

The screen cut to the dock. Zac stared at the contestants as Mana put the map together. “Sharks, Hotties and Pirates, congrats you all win. Bonus points to Malia and the Sharks for that performance. The Sharks cheered out and hugged Malia - asides from Youri who rolled his eyes.

Rhonda turned to the Pirates, “You guys did great too!” Tameron and Wing sent each other a glare but joined in on their team hug.

Mana walked towards the Hotties. “And somehow, you guys also won... “

“Sadly.” Rhonda added. The hotties joined Fleur on the ground and shared a hug.

“And like always, we’ll be seeing you all at the elimination.” Zac turned to the Sirens and sighed.

The screen switched to the Screaming Siren’s ship. The Kimmi sat on Grayson’s lap, and Andre and Damien sat on either side of the pair. Rhonda sighed as she turned to the team. “Zac would be here, but he’s too busy locking lips and saying goodbye to Hayden. So I guess you’re left with me!” She giggled, “And Mana!” She cheered as the intern waved to the contestants.

“We tried to warn you that you were going to get cursed,” Mana frowned. “But you guys didn’t listen and now look, after tonight there will only be half of you left.” The intern walked towards Andre. “After you went through so much in the first season, why don’t you take this seriously? Don’t you want to get Dania back!”

The musician looked at the ground. “I miss her. But I don’t know if I can go against my morals just to win a challenge. I want to prove to her dad that I can win, but I’m not going to change who I am to do so.”

Rhonda turned to Kimmi, “You’re the last girl on the team, don’t you think you owe it to Cherry to win?”

Kimmi smiled lightly, “Cherry was my friend in so many ways… but in other ways she wasn’t. Cherry’s gone now though, so that doesn’t matter. I want to move forward.”

Grayson raised his hand, “I have something to say,” He lifted Kimmi off of his lap and turned to look her in the eyes. “I think we need to br-”

“Wait!” Damien shouted. “Kimmi, you need to know this! Grayson cheated on you with Cherry!”

“I know.” Kimmi shrugged. “Grayson always cheats on his girlfriend.” Everyone gasped and turned their attention to her. “That’s why I wanted to come on the show.” She pointed to the cameras. “Millions of girls are at home watching this, and now they all know the truth about him. No matter how pretty he is, or how wonderful his words are. He’s famous now, and no girl will ever want to date him again.” Kimmi grabbed her locket and threw it at Grayson. “Remember Jamie?”

Grayson stared at Kimmi who was starting to tear up. “Jamie jumped off the bridge after she saw you kissing girl number 4. I couldn’t keep her safe from you! She wouldn’t believe me!” She sniffled and looked up at the red sky. “I made a promise that night that I would end you!”

Rhonda and Mana turned to each other speechless. The girl host started to slow clap, “Power to you!”

Kimmi looked down at Grayson. “Cherry? She didn’t want to be here. She was willing to do anything to leave the show and get home to her Starbucks sooner. She doesn’t want to be your girlfriend.” The girl groaned, “before taking a seat beside Damien. “Let’s move on.”

The intern lit the first cannon as Andre’s face appeared in the sky. “As you know,” Rhonda started, “If your face appears in the sky you are safe tonight. You still have your shot at staying with Dania,” Rhonda smiled. Mana shot the second cannon, and Damien’s face appeared. “And you still have your chance to get your revenge. Lord have mercy on Zac’s soul.” Mana chuckled as he and Rhonda shared a look.

“I think it’s obvious who’s going home at this point,” Rhonda stared at Grayson who was still speechless. “But fire away Mana.” Mana shot the final shot into the sky as Grayson’s face appeared.

“What?” Everyone apart from Andre and Damien gasped. The pair stared at each other.

“We didn’t know Kimmi.” Andre apologized.

Damien spoke up, “We didn’t want you to get hurt!”

“Bye-bye Kimmi Cub,” Grayson muttered as he walked away from the elimination ceremony, Kimmi’s locket in hand.

Kimmi turned to Andre and Damien, “it’s ok.” She gave them both a giant hug. “It’s not your fault! I should have told you guys. Friends forever ok?” She whispered and they nodded.

Mana and Rhonda wiped away each other's tears as they pointed to the plank of shame. “It’s time to go Kimmi.”

The girl nodded as she walked onto the plank. She whispered softly to herself, “Red sky at night, sailors delight.” Before she jumped into the ocean below.

The scene jumped to the shore where Hayden was locked in Zac’s arms. “I’ll miss you,” the Canadian whispered.

“I know you will.” Hayden blushed, “But don’t worry about it, you’re doing a great job here!”

The host frowned, “It’s hard… being here without you. Mana and Rhonda hate me I think.” Zac snuggled his head onto Hayden’s shoulder.

Hayden smiled, “Speaking of Rhonda… You wouldn’t believe it! She asked me to join her show!”

“WHAT!?” Zac screamed into the sunset as Hayden chuckled. Somewhere in the distance Rhonda slept with a grin on her face.

Back on the island... "My little Tam-Tu, I knew you wouldn't leave Mother here to rot." She rubbed the ropes that contained her against the thorns of the rose to loose the rope enough for her to break free. She let out a screech, and summoned a number of pirates. "Arm the ships. We have a new mission."

Chapter Six: The Lost City...
The screen flashed to reveal the trip of hosts on their motor boat. They led the the four pirate ships behind them to their next destination. Zac who, having run out of hair gel had resorted to wearing a red and orange ballcap, stood up and turned to the camera, “Last time, the four teams battled it out against the Mother of the ocean in order to retrieve this,” He pointed to the map.

Mana smiled and spoke next, “This map is going to lead us to the most dramatic location yet! And after Kimmi’s shocking reveal and elimination, the show is really just starting to heat up!”

Rhonda stared at her phone as she sent another text message, Zac glared down at the co-host, as Mana nudged her. “Oh!” She shouted, shoving her phone into her pocket, “Will the cast be able to find clarity, or will all of the mysteries blow up in their faces! Stay tuned and find out!”

Zac waited a few seconds before he turned to his co-host. “What was that? Are you trying to get my show dropped? Our rankings are topping Frozen, and we’re one of the highest rated shows on the network!”

“No! That’s not it,” She turned to her phone, “It’s just… You know, stuff.”

“Whatever. I’ll be back. Just make sure you keep following the map.” The host muttered as he pulled off his shirt and hat and jumped into the water.

“Where is he going?” Mana asked, and frantically tried to catch his boss’s clothing before they got wet.

Rhonda snickered. “Probably going to pay a visit to get some sharks ready to tear the teams limb from limb.”

“Why don’t you like him?” The intern asked, as he scooched over beside Rhonda.

“You do realize he could single-handedly ruin the Canadian stereotype of being a nice?”

Mana shook his head, “He’s just determined. Why would you even come here if you thought he was so mean?”

Rhonda stared at the rising Sun, “The network made me. It’s not like I thought he was interesting, or cool, or Zactastic before I actually met him!”

(CONF): Fleur is shown sitting on a treasure chest. “My team is still not knowing of my ankle. It is in the feeling of goodness, but,” she blushed, “It is tres nice to have them care for me.” She frowned, “Viola knows… But I am thinking she won’t tell. She is how you say,” the girl paused, thinking of the words, “golden in heart.”

The Zactastic Hotties all sat on Fleur’s bed as they ate their breakfast, asides from Viola who was slumped against the side of it. Colin fed a handful of berries to Fleur who blushed as she nibbled down on them. “You all really did not have to eat on my sleeper. I could have been in the joining of you upstairs.

“I told you this was just a waste of time.” Hannah groaned as she tried to get comfortable on the petite bed, but just ended up snuggling closer with her faux-boyfriend, Sam who winked back at her.

Sam awkwardly patted Hannah’s head. “Don’t be silly. Fleur loves it here. And all of us sharing a bed with Colin is kinda great…” He paused, “I mean us all sharing a bed is great!” He quickly corrected.

“Yes. All of us.” Viola repeated as she banged her head against the wooden side of the bed.

Colin sent a gaze at Sam and Hannah. “Wait are you two… a thing?”

“Well duh!” Sam announced and pulled Hannah in closer.

(CONF): “As attractive as Colin is,” Sam observed as he rummaged through Colin’s clothes. “He has the memory of a goldfish.”

Hannah got off from the bed and pulled on Sam, “Well… we’re going to go do.. Couple stuff.” She said innocently. Once the pair were out of the room, she turned to Sam, “See! He’s starting to get jealous! This is my best plan ever!”

Sam stared at Hannah. “You do know that they probably think we’re going back to my cabin to do the…. Coitus, right?”

Hannah blushed, “Where’s the rewind button when you need it. This is why I need a higher charisma level.” She moped.

Back in the cabin, Viola got up to leave. “Well… I see when I’m not needed.” She spoke and turned for the door.

“NO! Please be in the staying!” Fleur pleaded and gave Viola her best puppy-dog eyes.

Colin pinched one of her cheeks, “You’re cute when you do that.” Fleur gave the American a strange look but then smiled when she saw Viola return to her seat on the floor.

“Can I… Can I PLEASE be doing your face?”

“Excuse me?” Viola and Colin questioned.

Fleur pulled out her makeup kit. “Please?”

“No!” Viola argued and got up to leave, but Colin grabbed her.

“Come on, she’s injured it’s her only request.” Viola stared at Fleur’s ‘injury’ and then back at Colin. She returned to her seat.

“Do you have any midnight blue.” Fleur squealed in delight, as she went to work on Viola’s face.

(CONF): Wing stood at the edge of the pirate ship, staring through her personal handheld telescope. “Seeing Mother again reminded me of the past… Of me childhood and how lucky I am to have had Tam-Tu at one point. Arrrrrrr,” She sighed and put the spyglass away, “When he left me… Me be stuck with her alone.” A tear fell from her eye and she walked away.

Elyar, Tameron and Wing stood alone in a room staring at one another. Elyar spoke up, “We’re all obviously here for a reason. Would one of you care to explain why?”

“To you? You let my kingdom fall to into her father's hands.” Tameron groaned and stared at Wing. “You failed us. You do not deserve to know.”

“For once,” Wing paused, “Me be agreeing with Tam-Tu. You abandoned your post many moons ago to keep her safe. A stranger whom ye know nothing about.”

The agent sighed. “We all know what could have happened had she wandered into the kingdom. It’s a mess there.” He examined the pair. “Is she here… The princess?” Tameron and Wing exchanged glances before they left the room.

Zaina sat behind the captain's wheel as she and Sarah took turns steering the ship. “Hayden seemed like a nice guy.” Zaina smiled and gave a nervous glance to Sarah.

“He was nosey. And I KNOW nosey, I went to band camp! Four times!” Sarah groaned and walked over to the edge of the ship and stared out at the water below, where Zac was swimming. She rolled her eyes and turned back to Zaina. “He seemed to be a miracle worker with you though.”

The flower girl blushed. “He was.” She walked over to Sarah and offered her a hand. “We can do this, ok?”

The singer nodded. “I don’t think there was really ever a doubt that we could.” She teased and accepted Zaina’s hand.

“How do you know Elyar?” Zaina added.

The pair walked back to the wheel. “I had a sailing accident a few months ago. He rescued me. He’s been by my side ever since.”

“Is he…. Your boyfriend?”

“Omg! NO!” Sarah gasped. “He’s like my big brother!”

(CONF): Elyar is shown seated on a barrel. He pressed a button on his watch, and a hologram appeared. ‘Target: Sarah Weiss. Secured.’ He let out a long sigh, as a timer ticked down above the name. He banged his head against the wall, and turned the watch off.

Yasmin clutched an envelope that a seagull dropped on her. It had her family’s signature crest, a tree sapling. She quickly tore it open and stared at the hand-written letter. The written appeared rushed and ragged. The edges of the parchment were torn. Yasmin’s eyes caught the final two words, “Save us.” The academic shoved the letter into her pocket and stared out at the sky.

The screen jumped to the turquoise ship. Emmett and Trixie are sparring on the main deck. The pair clashed and danced as their foil blades created a show of sparks. Each step they took was matched, and every swing parried. “Where’s Alfie?” Emmett asked, “I was hoping he would be here for training.”

Trixie sighed. “He still has the shivers. He’s trembling like a cold horse in July.”

“And the girls?”

“I don’t know, having fun?” She groaned and dropped her weapon. “I think I’m done for today. Alfie’s probably getting lonely.” Trixie stepped away from Emmett. “Maybe you should get some rest. You’ve been working really hard lately.”

The captain shook his head. “I’ll rest when we win.”

Once Trixie was out of sight Youri walked out from the shadows. “Looks like you’re losing your team. It’s going to get hard to win the challenge when you’re the only one left trying. Mr. Macho man.”

“Don’t you ever get bored of hating on me?” Emmett groaned as he walked over to the crow's nest, wrapped his arms around it and began to climb.

“Surprisingly not. Well.. When you’re ready to win the challenge you know who to apologize to.” Youri chimed as he skipped away, biting into a chocolate bar.

The scene jumped to Angel’s and Malia’s shared cabin. The walls were plastered with black-market posters of teen heartthrobs. “You were so brave yesterday!” Angel shouted as she ran her hand through Malia’s dark hair. “You won the challenge for us and shut Youri up!”

Malia blushed, “I was just being a team player. We all would have done it!”

“Youri wouldn’t.” Angel corrected. The girl looked at Malia’s hair, “Are you sure you want me to do this?”

“Yes! Not wearing my Hijab makes me stronger. It makes me more…. Like me, and less like the person I am at home. I don’t need to take care of my brother all of the time here. I get to be myself. And I would LOVE to have my hair braided by my best friend.” She encouraged Angel.

The pig-tailed girl nodded. “What about your parents though… Won’t they be upset?”

Malia looked away from the camera. “Not if this is what makes me happy.”

(CONF): Trixie stared down at the diary in her lap. It was opened to the swimmer page. Alfie x Trixie was elegantly scribbled randomly across the page. “This isn’t good.” She flipped through the pages, each page had a sport and a photo of a guy. “Why is he so special.”

“Feeling a little under the weather?” Youri slyly asked as he walked into Alfie’s cabin. Trixie sat along the edge of his bed, a damp cloth pressed against his forehead.

“Does this make you feel big and tough?” Trixie hissed. “You’re no better than Duncan or Heather.”

Youri shrugged, “They both won.” He pulled out another chocolate bar. “Mhmm, so good.” He bit into the cocoa filled goodness.

Alfie’s eyes lit up. “Candy?” He weakly whispered.

“Yes. Candy.” Youri offered Alfie a bite, who eagerly sunk his teeth into it.

Trixie dragged Youri by the shirt of his collar out of the room. “What do you want?”

“Throw the challenge, and I’ll make sure your little sweety gets some sweets for his sweet tooth.”

“You’re insane.”

“Angel and Malia won’t get lucky twice. Emmett can’t win the challenge if you two aren’t competing. If you want Alfie to be back on his feet you better throw the challenge.” Youri pulled out a bag of gummy bears. “An act of good faith.”

Trixie took the bag. “You need to have more faith in those girls. They’re going to surprise you.”

“They’re too busy having a self-discovery moment.”

The screen switched to the final ship, that belonged to the Screaming Sirens. Grayson is shown in his bedroom barely clothed, a small locket hanging over his exposed chest. He carefully made his bed and then pulled on his outfit for the day.

In Damien’s room, Andre and Damien sat in silence. “We mucked up,” the singer frowned as he solemnly strummed his guitar.

The legacy contestant nodded and rubbed Andre’s back. “How were we supposed to know. She never said anything.” Damien jumped onto his bed on his back and sighed. “We’ll just have to make sure he leaves next. For Kimmi.”

Andre shook his head. “No.” He stopped playing his guitar and turned to face Damien. “We can’t keep losing. We’ll win. For Kimmi.”

“Bro! What about Grayson!? We can’t just let him get away with that! It’s like he doesn’t even care!”

“Let him live with the guilt then. We can’t lose. We have to be strong, for Kimmi, for Cherry, for Leo.”

On a small jet boat Zac, Emmett, Hannah and Zaina were gathered. “Where’s Andre?” Emmett asked.

“Was he eliminated?” Hannah gasped. “Not really shocking, I guess he came in with the lowest experience level.”

Zaina shook her head. “Kimmi went home, don’t you pay attention to the fireworks?”

Zac pulled out three files, turquoise, golden yellow, and a deep purple, he handed them to the respective team captains. “Inside you’ll find a profile on the three remaining Sirens. Today there will be two challenges. One challenge for immunity, and a second for the members of the Sirens. The second challenge only you three will participate in.” The host started to explain as he watched the three captains.

Emmett flipped through the file and then looked up at Zac. “Have you even read these?” He asked as he stared at Damien’s booklet.

“No. That’s why I have a co-host and an intern.”

Hannah spoke up, “But- I think you’d want to-” But Zac cut her off.

“I know everything I need to know about you all. Stop wasting my time.”

“So what’s the challenge?” Zaina asked.

“You three will be responsible for convincing the remaining Sirens to join your team. After the elimination today whoever is left on the Sirens team will be given the choice on what team they want to join.” Zac waited to see if the three had any questions, and when they didn’t he shoved them off of his boat and raced off. “Good luck!”

The four ships stopped at a rocky ledge. “We’re here!” Rhonda announced through a megaphone as she, and Mana stared at the map. “Welcome to the lost city of Atlantis.”

Zac glared at Rhonda, “You need to use a happier and more excited voice for that. We’ll have to have you rerecord that later for the actual show.” Rhonda sent a glare at Mana who smiled apologetically.

“Like totally sorry!” Rhonda rolled her eyes.

“Is that sass I’m detecting?”

(CONF): “Is that an ass I’m detecting, eh?” Rhonda muttered to herself as she stared into the camera. She gasped as she realized that she said ‘eh’. “This is not good.”

Zac walked towards the ships to greet the others. Mana raced over to Rhonda’s side. “He needs you. Don’t forget that! All of the polls show that you are JUST beneath him in popularity!” Mana handed Rhonda a small plush Manatee. “Without you the ratings would tank!”

“So this is Atlantis?” Damien asked and pointed to the rocky cliffs that surrounded them.

Andre nodded, “It always seemed a lot more lively in the movies.”

Wing jumped in front of the others and raced to the rocky mountains, her ear pressed against the stone. “Shhhh! Cthulhu speaks to me!”

“Cthulhu!” Grayson announced, as if remembering something. “That’s why all of this bad stuff has been happening to me! I’m cursed because we never offered a tribute to him!” He declared.

Damien rolled his eyes and muttered to Andre, “Yeah, it has nothing to do with being a cheater.”

Andre nodded but turned to Wing, “Do you know some way for us to stop the curse?”

The pirate groaned and threw a banana at Andre. “Me be speaking with ze lord, hush.”

(CONF): Zaina stared at the camera, “There’s strength in numbers, if I can get them to join my team, I can’t lose!”

Zaina walked over to her pirate captain. “We should help them.” She giggled lightly and pulled out a banana from Wing’s hair and started to eat it. “We’re not here to make enemies.”

Wing who was half-listening to her captain slammed her hand against the rock wall which caused a staircase to appear that led deeper into the mountainous cliff. “Ay-Ay captain.”

The remaining contestants stared in awe at the hidden passage. “How did you do that?” Emmett asked quickly as he pulled out a flashlight from his pocket.

Sam groaned. “THAT’S what that was?” The blond blushed and shoved his hands back into his pockets.

His gamer of a ‘girlfriend’ wrapped her arms around him. And whispered into his ear, “If you’re trying to blow our cover keep flirting with the Apollo apostle.”

Yasmin was already on the scene with a pocket lamp, and a journal. “It appears to be rather dated. This hasn’t been opened in centuries.” The scholar tried to take a step forward, but the host blocked her path.

“Not so fast!”

Fleur who was conveniently on Colin’s back spoke out. “Is this the being of place of new challenge?”

The american nodded, “Is that why we had to get the map to lead us here?” He walked closer to the stairway, as Fleur lit it up with a match.

Mana walked over to the others and started to hand out torches. “This is the next location, and this is why we needed the map. This is Atlantis and you will all be the first people to explore it in a very…. Long time.” The intern stopped as he returned to Zac’s side.

Elyar’s eyes went wide. “Wasn’t Atlantis lost?”

“All of the stories say that it sunk forever ago, no one's been able to find it since.” Sarah added.

Tameron walked towards the doorway as well, he pulled out a handkerchief and brushed the edges of the arch revealing a blue-green colored stone. “It was always Mother’s dream to find the city and make it her new lair. Luckily we got here first.” He turned to Wing who gave a solemn nod.

(CONF): Tameron appeared in front of the camera as he adjusted his bowtie. “Mother once rescued me from my captives, the Wing clan. I repaid my debt, it is the Florian way.”

Trixie, and a now much peppier Alfie joined Emmett by the doorway. “This isn’t gonna be a normal rodeo, now is it?”

The candy lover put his arm on Trixie’s shoulder, which caused her to blush. “No… It doesn’t look like it.”

“This one time, Cody Simpson and I tried to find Atlantis!” Angel cheerfully explained to Malia. “Except he ended up going to the Atlantis casino and I ended up just snorkeling in the fountain…” She giggled.

Malia, who’s hair was skillfully braided now giggled. “He must really love you! You two were always off on adventures!”

Youri groaned as he rolled his eyes and stubbornly walked over to Viola. “Do you ever feel like your team is just filled with a bunch of whackjobs that Zac found on Tinder?”

“Daily.” Viola replied as she glanced over to where her team waited. Hannah and Sam were busy scheming in an attempt to get Fleur off of Colin’s back, while Colin was attempting to ask Fleur out again, while Fleur was just being plain adorable.

Rhonda spoke up. “Before you is the path to the City of Atlantis. Today your challenge is simple, get to the city of Atlantis. The last team to arrive will be sending someone home. But be warned, all is not what it seems as you make your descent into the city.”

The three hosts all gathered by by another rock formation. The host hugged his employees close to his chest. “Ta-ta for now!” he slammed his elbow against the stone wall. “HOLY MAPLE BEAVERS!” He screeched out in pain as Rhonda and the contestants all snickered. Mana pulled out a bag of ice from his safety pack that was inside of his bag. The host turned to Rhonda, his face a flush red, “YOU SAID IT WAS HERE!”

“Eh?.” The American girl looked at the Canadian host. “My bad.” She slammed her own arm against a different section of the rock, as the three vanished from sight.

The teens stared at where the hosts were standing just moments before. “They’re like a dysfunctional family.” Andre chuckled.

“You would know.” Youri rolled his eyes, and grabbed the torch from Andre’s hands. “Say hey to Dania’s daddy when you go home for me.”

Emmett lifted the petite teen by his collar and placed him back in front of Andre. “Say that you’re sorry and give him the torch back.” Youri struggled against Emmett’s force as his limbs waved throughout the air.

“Sorry.” Youri muttered out, knowing Emmett wouldn’t let him down until he did so. The captain let him down and he raced off to the rest of his team who were giggling at his expense.

Andre looked up at Emmett. “Thanks.”

“I’m really sorry about everything, you know. With Dania?” The muscular teen wrapped an arm around Andre. “I’m here if you need to talk ok?”

(CONF): Hannah grimaced at the camera. “Zaina and Emmett are basically fighting over those three. Your party is only as strong as your lowest level and those three have yet to win a challenge. Idiots.”

Zaina and the other Pillaging Pirates were in a circle. Zaina looked over at Wing who kept trying to creep over towards the entrance, but Elyar kept pulling her back. “I know I haven’t really been all there for the past while,” She started as she stared at the Lexi-sculpture she had created and then mantled to the front of the ship. “But I want to do better! I want to do this for us, for us to win!” The blonde girl cheered, for the first time in a very long time.

The team all put their hands into the middle and raised it shouting “Pirates!”

“With that in mind,” Zaina turned to Wing and rubbed her back. “I need you to do a favor to me.” She looked over to where the Screaming Sirens were frantically trying to patch their ship that had crashed into the rocky shore. “You need to break their curse, and help them find Atlantis.”

The team stared at Zaina. “But Zaina… how are we supposed to find Atlantis if she’s helping the other team?” Sarah asked. “This seems like that one time at band camp when we thought merging with the other camp would make us more popular.”

“Did it work?” Elyar asked.

“That was my last year of band camp… it burned down.” Sarah shrugged.

Tameron pulled Zaina aside, “Are you sure this is a wise choice mi’lady? You are still fragile. Are you certain.”

Zaina squinted at Tameron. “Yes.” She said sure of herself.

Yasmin shoved her letter into a pocket. “I’d like to join Wing if that is ok.” Zaina nodded in reply. “It is very appreciated.”

Tameron attempted to protest, but Zaina shook her head. “We can do this.” She plucked a small flower from the ground beneath her and placed it in Sarah’s hair, “We will all do this.”

“It’s good to see you back in action, Zaina.” Elyar patted his captain's back.

Wing and Yasmin made there way over to the three remaining Sirens. Wing pulled out her banana war paint and smudged it across their faces. “This be a tough task at ye hooks. But a strong pirate will break the curse of Cthulhu.”

Yasmin nonchalantly nodded along as Wing described the trials they would face. A great creature would need to be slain and delivered to the ocean, a sacred dance performed, and, an oath made. Everything that she had read about. The scholar looked confused though when Wing tore their shirts off. Once Wing pushed the three Sirens through the doorway Yasmin spoke up, “Why did you do that? They don’t have to be shirtless to break the curse. That’s not in the book.”

Wing nodded as she shoved a banana down her throat, “But they be hot like Sun.” Wing raced after the trio giving a hearty laugh. Yasmin blushed lightly and picked up their shirts.

(CONF): Yasmin showed a white tee covered in red stains. “Someone is hiding something. I’m going to find out who.”

Angel picked up a message in a bottle from the shore. She peered inside of it, finding a Cody Simpson touring flyer. The pig-tailed girl squealed and jumped onto Malia hugging her. “CODY SIMPSON IS GOING ON TOUR WITH BLAINERSON MCMANLY!”

Malia gasped as she saw the image. “Is this the Cody Simpson you are always speaking of?” She pointed at the image in Angel’s hand. “There used to be a girl at my school who posted posters of her everywhere before she got expelled or something.” She bit her lip, “But he is very… appealing to the eye.”

The fangirl blushed and looked away. “I wish I could have met her…” She giggled awkwardly.

(CONF): Angel stared into the camera. “That girl was me… But I wasn’t expelled… not exactly.” She twiddled her thumbs. “Someone's parents petitioned the school that I be homeschooled until I could learn to control my emotions towards Cody!” She huffed. “Like that would ever happen! He’s like such a dreamboat!” She kissed the poster and then stared at the camera. “Do you mind? This is a private moment!”

(CONF): Malia blushed. “My parents are very strict on boys. When the crazy girl started to shove images of Cody Simpson into everyone’s lockers they took it upon themselves to have her removed from the school. She retaliated by painting his face onto the football field… She’s kind of my idol.” Malia’s face looked worried, “You can’t put that on the television! My parents would disown me!” She reached out to the camera and tried to get the footage but to no avail.

Alfie sucked on a lollipop, his peppy attitude having returned. “I can not believe that we’re about to find the city of Atlantis! That is WAY cool!”

The country boy looked over at Alfie. “Glad to have you back on board… But where did you find the candy?”

The candyholic looked over at Trixie who replied, “We found some stashed away,” She took a defensive step towards Alfie and placed her cowgirl hat on his head. “He’s still recovering though. Right Alfie?” She wrapped her arm around his shoulder and pressured it.”

The blond teen coughed a few times and smiled up at Emmett. “Yeah!”

Youri walked towards his team. “Such a shame. I was,” Youri put a heavy emphasis on his next word, “really, looking forward to us winning the challenge today.” The teen pointed to a small splinter in his finger, “But it looks like I won’t be able to help out too much either.”

Emmett looked over his team. Angel and Malia were doing their own thing as they hugged and spun each other around in circles, Trixie was comforting Alfie and never let Emmett get close, and Youri… Well Youri cradled his injured finger. “Well…” He started but no one listened, “Let’s get going?”

(CONF): Emmett cupped his face. “I don’t get it. I thought we were making progress as a team! But now it’s almost as if no one is even trying! If I need to win the challenge all by myself I will!”

Deep below the surface the camera turned to show Zac, and his team as he waited on a large seafoam throne. To one side, Mana fanned him with a giant piece of kelp, to the other Rhonda sat on her own throne. “See, I told you this was a good idea!”

“You mean stealing a map from one of the most fearsome pirate crews that ever lived, and then instead of turning over the location of the city to a university or something, you kept it for yourself for a CHALLENGE?” Rhonda rolled her eyes and rolled her fingers against her throne.

Mana’s eyes went wide, he knew the hosts were about to have another one of their fights.

Zac let out his acclaimed Chewbacca sound. “We can not simply let our ratings tank! Once you’re a host you’ll understand- You do what must be done, matter the cost.”

Rhonda tugged on the strings to her hoodie. “I’d NEVER endanger the lives of my cast! That’s dangerous and cruel!”

“You say that now, but you’ll see. Everything changes. It’s my job to prepare you for that.”

“Holy maple syrup! Well you’re doing a bad job at that!” Rhonda shouted and then gasped, slapping her hand across her mouth.

Zac snapped his fingers. “Get us some Timmies,” The host turned to stare at Mana.

Rhonda groaned. “I need some air!” She jumped out of her seat and marched away.

Mana stopped fanning the host and started to race after her, but Zac stopped him. “What do you think you’re doing?”

“This place isn’t safe! What if she gets hurt.”

“I want Tim Hortons,” The host restated. Mana frowned as he turned around and walked the opposite direction of his friend.

The camera pans to show Zac sitting alone on his throne.

The scene jumped to show the Hotties as they made their way through the labyrinth. Fleur clung to Colin’s body as he carried her through the rocky pathways.

Sam whispered into Hannah’s ear. “How does she do it? How does she always end up beside him?”

The captain shrugged. “Maybe it’s a love potion! She is from Paris after all.”

“I’m sure that’s exactly what it is.”

Viola gripped her arms as her teeth chattered, “I always knew I’d die freezing and alone.”

“Non! You are in the having of me!” Fleur shouted and quickly corrected herself, “us!” The frenchy blushed as she hid her face in Colin’s neck.

The American blushed at the feeling of Fleur’s lips against his neck. “You know in America usually we start by kissing each other's lips.” He teased as he swung Fleur around so she was in front of him and puckered his lips.

“Nonon! Not in the meaning!” Fleur tried to protest but Colin’s laughter cut her off.

“I’m just kidding! Dinner first, ok?” She nodded nonchalantly.

The team shared a laugh, including Viola. Sam stopped as and stood straight, and perked his ears up. He turned left and then right. “My gay-dars going off!” He whispered into Hannah’s ear. “This is not an alarm! Fire the cannons!”

Hannah gripped onto Sam. “This is it! Now you can finally prove that Colin is straight! Go free my little Navi. Lead us to the holy grail!” The captain turned to the rest of her team, “Sam’s going to lead the rest of the way, he thinks he caught whiff of something.”

The scene switched to the Sharks as Emmett led his team through a knee-high water pathway. “We’re almost there guys! Just a little bit further!” The farmboy turned to the rest of his team but they were less than enthusiastic.

Youri, with his short high was waist high in the water and essentially swam through the path. “Why do we even let you lead us again? It’s not like you care about our limits.” The teen pointed to Alfie who clung desperately to Trixie’s back.

“I’ll be alright!” Alfie gave a goofy grin towards Emmett. “I’m just a little tired still! I’ll be ok!”

“Stop being so nice,” Trixie grunted. “Emmett either we take a break, or we’re not going to make it.”

“There’s no way to say this song’s about no one else,” Angel sung out loud, letting her voice echo through the cave. “I love this song!” Malia cheered out as she added her voice to Angel’s as the pair sang Cody Simpson together.

Youri groaned. “Why are they still around?”

Trixie rolled her eyes, “Because they actually try to win.”

“Do you see all of the pretty stars Trixie? I think you’d like them.” Alfie giggled as he stared into thin air.

“We can’t just take a break, we’ll fall behind. I don’t want to lose any of you. We’re a team.” Emmett adjusted his train of thought.

“Is it just me or did the air suddenly become ten times less annoying?” Youri asked.

“The girls!” Trixie shouted, realizing the singing had stopped. The group stopped arguing in time to turn around and see a giant crab cornering Angel and Malia.

Trixie who was the closest tried to jump to their rescue but Youri started to drop gummy bears into the water below with a sly grin on his face, and she stopped. “I can’t do it Emmett. It’s too big.” She whimpered out and turned away from the crab and everyone else.

Emmett charged towards the crab. “What’s gotten into you?” The captain let out a bear growl and rammed into the shell.

The girl of faith stared at her savior as the crab released both her and Angel. She clutched onto her friend, “This is my punishment.” She whispered and tried to cover her hair up with her cardigan.

Angel placed a hand on Malia’s shoulder and stared deep into her eyes. “Are you sure? When even Cody’s body guards try to get me to leave Cody alone I never did. I kept fighting. I kept sneaking into his washroom. I kept stealing his pillows. I never let them keep me away. Are you really going to let a big dumb crab decide that you need to be lost in the wind again?” Malia nodded as she pulled her cardigan back over her arms.

“Never.”

Emmett looked back at Trixie and Alfie and then to Youri. “A change in plans. I’ll carry Alfie. Angel you keep Youri safe, and Trixie and Malia you two watch each other.” Youri glared at Emmett. “I’m just teasing,” he winked.

(CONF): Emmett lifted the cameraman as if he was a weight. “My team is broken up into three main pairs. Emmalie 2.0, Trixie and Alfie, the twins, Malia and Angel, and me and my champ Youri. Hopefully by splitting us all up we’ll be able to grow more as a team.”

(CONF): Angel stared blankly at the camera, “This is like that one time when Cody said we should take a break. Not. Going. To. Happen.” She rolled her eyes and started to giggle.

The screen revealed the Sirens and their two guides, Yasmin and Wing as they traveled through ruins. The walls were covered in drawings, most seemed to depict the great Cthulhu as he destroyed man.

“The King of the sea had many children,” Yasmin spoke out as she translated the writings on the wall, “while most were loyal he had many who betrayed him, Cthulhu was one.”

Wing nodded as she peeled a banana and tossed the peel behind her, it landing on Grayson’s head which caused both Andre and Damien to laugh. “Aye, this is the tale of how Cthulu came to be.” The pirate captain paused, “And it will be how we break ye curse.” She turned to the Sirens. “Cthulhu had made many an enemy by dethroning his father, many still be searching the seas for him.” Wing motioned for the others to listen. In the silence a soft buzzing could be heard. “Some went mad with anger.” In the darkness ahead a soft yellow glow faded in and out of vision.

Damien jumped onto Andre. “What is that!”

“What? Is Heather’s brother suddenly afraid of… well I mean, what exactly is that?” The musician teased

“A killer electric eel,” Grayson noted as he pointed to a drawing on the wall.

“No one asked you,” Damien scoffed.

Yasmin yawned, “At least now we know why you guys lost so much, Elyar owes me a book.” The scholar smirked at Wing.

“What’s that supposed to mean!” Andre challenged.

“Ye fight more than a bucket of lobster.” Wing added.

Damien growled, “It’s not our fault that we have the lowest of the low on our team,” the prankster glared at Grayson.

“Ignore him, he’s just upset that he’s not living up to his sister’s legacy. How do we defeat the creature?” The prep questioned as he picked up a branch from the ground.

Wing nodded, “If I be in the knowing do ye really think it’d still be living?”

“Aren’t you supposed to be helping us?” Damien asked as he got off of Andre’s back and walked towards the pair. “Or are you just making sure that your team doesn’t come in last?” He turned to Andre and whispered, “We can’t trust them.”

The scene switched to join the Pillaging Pirates. Zaina led the team with Sarah by her side. “I’m really excited!” Sarah beamed as she and Zaina walked through the cob-web filled halls. “This is way better than band camp!”

Zaina smiled at her friend. “This is SO crazy,” she pushed open a door, “I never thought I’d get to visit Atlantis!”

The singer turned and wrapped her arms around Zaina, “I’m so happy that you’re happy again! You were totes my favourite last season! You were so robbed!”

The flora lover blushed, “Really?” She wrapped her arms around Sarah, “That actually really means a lot. Thank you. I thought that everyone hated me…”

Sarah gasped, “No! Everyone loves you! I think Mana and Rhonda are secretly hoping you win!”

“Who?” Zaina asked.

(CONF): Rhonda stood on Mana’s back as they glared at the camera. “We want to be mad right now… but she’s too much of a queen!”

“Are you ever going to admit that Floria was your fault.” Tameron said flatly, not even bothering to look at Elyar.

The agent groaned. “Stop. This isn’t helping. And you know it.”

Tameron shrugged. “Just stay away from Zaina.”

“Why are you so obsessed? She’s just a girl…. Oh wow!” Elyar gasped, “Do you like her?”

The butler turned a bright red, “No! It’s nothing like that. She’s getting too close to Wing. We-I-We… ugh! She can not become one of those…. Things.”

Elyar put an arm out to stop Tameron. “It’s her, isn’t it?” Tameron gave a solemn nod.

The team arrived in a giant chamber, the centre had an Atlantean warrior statue it was surrounded by water. Three other doors led to into the room. “I think we’re getting close.” Tameron announced. The four walked to the edge of their platform before the water.

“How deep do you think it is?” Sarah asked as she clutched onto Elyar.

The agent pulled out a flashlight from his pocket, turned it on and then tossed it into the water. For a few seconds the light danced across the water until it returned to the darkness. “Deep.” Sarah’s hand locked onto Elyar’s.

Zaina looked around the chamber. The small platform formed a ring around the room, but their was no path that crossed to the middle portion. “I think it’s too dangerous to try and swim across. We don’t know what’s in there.” She sighed and pointed down at the water beneath.

Zac is shown alone in the throne room. “What’s taking them so long,” he frowned as he looked around the room and frowned. “I always knew I was meant to be King… but I thought there would be people around there with me…”

The scene switched to show Mana and Rhonda as they sipped from their cups of Tim Horton’s. “Won’t Zac get mad you gave me his coffee?” Rhonda asked quietly.

Mana chuckled, “Not if I say I lost it, throw in a little bit of an accent, maybe say ooops! He’s not the brightest guy around.” He wrapped an arm around Rhonda. “We don’t get to spend as much time together as I’d like.” He admitted.

The co-host smiled, “I know! We’re always busy working!”

“Who keeps calling?”

“Just the higher-ups. Apparently Canada and the States are actually really starting to like me. They think I should start my show early! Like soon. The beginning of June!” She revealed and stared into her coffee.

Mana pullled out his phone, “But it’s already June first!” He looked over at Rhonda who didn’t return his gaze, “Oh…” His voice dropped into sadness. “Are you leaving me?” Rhonda didn’t say anything and only wrapped her arms around her tall friend and started to sob.

The screen switched to show Grayson as he parried the giant electric eel as it lunged at the teen. “Maybe a little help over here?” The teen heartthrob begged but his teammates stood on the side watching.

“I don’t know I’ll have to think about it.” Damien chuckled and rolled his eyes.

“You are your sister! You’re both the same! Always in it just for yourselves!” Grayson spat.

Damien charged at Grayson knocking him to the ground. “Don’t you dare talk about Heather like that! The producers did that to her! She’s nothing like that!” The pair fell to the ground as they wrestled for dominance.

The eel charged up to lunge at the fighting pair, but Andre raced in front of them and tossed his guitar to block the hit. “Guys! This isn’t the time!” Upon the impact his guitar exploded, driving giant splinted through the eel, pinning it to the wall.

Wing examined as the eel stopped moving. “Interesting strategy mates. Me likes.”

Yasmin shook her head, “I don’t even think it was a strategy. I think they’re just idiots.” She grabbed the bloody white shirt from her small bag and tossed it at the three guys on the ground. “I don’t even think this mystery is worth solving.”

“Why did you bring my shirt?” Damien asked as he picked up the white tee up and got back onto his feet.

“So we made an offering to Cthulhu what’s next.” Andre said softly as he played the air guitar sadly.

Wing jumped at Damien and grabbed his shirt, “No! No shirts allowed in me crew!”

Yasmin chuckled. “You must make your oath to Cthulhu. You must swear to not let anyone stand in his way and aid in his quest to dominate the seas…. But be sure that’s what you want to do. He takes this seriously.”

“He doesn’t exist. This is just dumb guys. We’re not even cursed! Can we please just move on and win this challenge?” Grayson pleaded.

“No. I swear fealty to Cthulhu.” Damien swore as he placed a hand on his heart. “What afraid you won’t even be able to be loyal to Cthulhu eh?”

Grayson looked down at the ground, “I swear my loyalty to Cthulhu.”

Andre glanced between Damien and Grayson, “I swear fealty to the lord of the sea, Cthulhu.”

(CONF): Andre stared at the camera shaking slightly. “First I lose Dania… and then I lose the guitar she gave me… And now we’re going to lose the challenge-again because I can’t lead a team. And I can’t win anything. Only lose things, people… and everyone thing else.”

(CONF): Damien rolled his eyes as he sat on a conch shell. “There’s nothing I hate more than when people call Heather a monster! She’s not! The show lied!”

Wing walked towards the three boys and began to paint images on their torsos, while Yasmin demonstrated the ancient ritual dance they would need to perform. The screen cut to black, the words “To avoid accidental selling of your soul to the lord Cthulhu this portion of the episode has been edited for your protection.”

The screen returned to show the Hotties as they entered the giant chamber with the statue. “Huh! This is not fair at all! I’m positive that my gay-dar led me here but this place is basically empty! Where are all of the hotties!” Sam pouted as he stomped in place.

The rest of the team stared at him, “Oh, honey, stop acting like Bowser, we still have a challenge to win.” Hannah said as she tried to not gag on her own words. The gamer wrapped an arm around the teen and whispered, “You better get your gay-dar back up and running soon!” “We’re not alone!” Colin stated as he pointed to the fully reunited Pirates, and the Sirens who were on the other side of the chamber. “I wonder why they’re still waiting here.” He said as he started to walk towards the other teams.

“Excuse you? Since when did you become Mario and not a Toad? We don’t go anywhere unless I say so!” Hannah argued, but the rest of her team had already started to follow Colin.

“This is, how you say…. Like popular thriller show on the Netflix,” Fleur questioned.

“Strange?” Viola finished. The french girl gave her a giant hug to which she cringed slightly. “Why are you always so mushy, it’s low-key scarier than those two over there.” She pointed at Hannah and Sam.

“We are in the being of friends, non?” Fleur replied.

“Yeah! Come on Viola, we’re all budds here.” Colin grinned and wrapped the three into a group hug. Hannah and Sam looked at each other and then raced to join the hug and touch Colin- Sam made it first.

The screen jumped to show the Sharks as they dragged themselves out of the water and onto the stone pathway. “Feeling a little better champ?” Emmett asked as Alfie faded back into consciousness. The bigger teen ruffled the blond's hair. “Huh. Uh yeah!” He beamed and started to cough. “Are we there yet?”

Emmett smiled at Alfie, “Almost, I can feel it.” The blond smiled back and closed his eyes as day-dreamed eating a lollipop, and licked Emmett’s cheek. The buff teen blinked twice before he kept moving towards the open chamber ahead.

Angel stared at Youri. “You remind me of Cody’s maid. She had really pretty eyes like yours.”

The small teen blushed and groaned. “Stop! I don’t want to be pretty!”

“It was just a compliment,” the fangirl sighed as she let a frog out of her hair. “I was hoping maybe we could be friends!” She flashed a smile.

“With the crazy-stalker girl? Yeah, maybe not. This isn’t a nightmare.” He stared at Angel as she smiled harder, “Not yet atleast.” He shuddered. “Besides, you’re obviously a pathological liar. Really, you dated Cody Simpson? Please.”

Angel slapped Youri. “I did!” The boy rubbed his face and turned and walked away.

Malia walked beside Trixie. “Do you love Alfie?” She questioned without skipping a beat.

The cowgirl stopped dead in her tracks, “Wh-what? Where did that come from?”

“You spend all of your time with him, and take care of him. You smile when he looks at you, and he seems to make you happy. It’s like one of my romance novels.” Malia smiled and took Trixie’s hand.

Trixie blushed slightly. “Love’s a little bit more complicated than that.”

“So do you love him?” Malia repeated.

“Well I guess the whole gang is here,” Zaina acknowledged as the final team arrived in the chamber.

“Did we lose?!” Emmett and Youri both shouted, with varying intentions.

“No.” Andre reassured Emmett, “We just can’t figure out how to move on from here.”

“I HATE HIM!” Rhonda screamed as she raced into the chamber and awkwardly stared at the teens. “Oh… hello contestants.” She whispered and then ran back the way she came. Damien grinned and ran after the girl.

Hannah shrugged. “Has anyone tried jumping into the water?” She asked and stood over the ledge.

Zaina shook her head. “We tossed a flash light in. It’s deep.”

“Really deep,” Sarah repeated.

Yasmin read the words along the walls. “It could just be an illusion,” She pointed to the water, “the Atlanteans were known for being tricksters.”

“I say we jump!” Wing shouted and ate a banana in preparation. Zaina tried to walk up beside Wing to join her, but Tameron grabbed onto her arm.

“Do not. This is not sane. It can not be safe. Please mi’lady.” The butler pleaded. Zaina stared back at Tameron.

“If ye want to win, this is the way, pirate Z,” Wing assured as she launched herself headfirst into the water. The chamber fell into silence.

The scene switched to show Damien as he cornered Rhonda. “Why so glum?”

“Chum.” Rhonda snickered quietly to herself before turning to face Damien. “Zac’s a monster. He’s too cruel to be Canadian.”

Damien nodded, “He’s let the production get to him. Media can be a tough world. Let me help you.”

Rhonda’s eyes lit up, “I don’t ever want to become like him. I can’t. I won’t let it happen.” She whispered and walked into Damien’s arms. Heather’s younger brother smirked as he closed his arms around the girl.

The screen returned to the chamber as a message in a bottle floated to the top. Colin and Emmett fished it out of the water and read the note, “It’s safe.”

“We can win this Andre! We just have to jump! Now! Before they do.” Grayson shouted at his captain who hesitated.

The musician shook his head. “Damien… He’s not here.” He frowned. “We can’t win now.”

Hannah shrugged at Andre, “Once a loser, always a loser. “ She laughed as she jumped into the water below.

Colin looked at Fleur as he grabbed her hand. “Are you ready?” Once the girl nodded, he looked over grabbed onto Viola’s hand. “Are you?”

“If I’m going to die it may aswell be in the lost city of Atlantis.” Viola shrugged.

Sam silently sniffed around the room, “I can smell it, he’s around here somewhere.”

Colin pushed Sam into the water, “Come on no time to waste!” The teen then jumped into the water.

Zaina and Emmett stared at each other and then at Andre. “We’ll wait.” They both announced to their teams.

“Finally decided you want to lose too?” Youri grinned.

Emmett shrugged, “Something like that.”

Andre gave Emmett a hug, “Thank you.” The teen turned to Zaina and offered her a hand shake, “You too, for everything.” The two other captains smiled at Andre.

“Do you guys even care about winning?” Grayson gasped. “Whatever, I’ll see you on the other side.” The prep decided and jumped into the water.

“Emmett?” Trixie asked. “Why aren’t you trying to win? You always try to win.” The muscular teen didn’t reply.

“Mi’lady -” Tameron started.

Zaina smiled back at Tameron, “It’s ok. I understand, you just wanted to keep me safe. I think you four should just go through for now.” Her team appeared confused but complied with her request and jumped down. Emmett turned to his team, “You guys should too.”

“How do we know you won’t just jump in right after us?” Youri growled. Once the team refused to jump, Emmett picked up Youri and tossed him in. The other jumped in after him.

“What’s going on?” Andre asked as Emmett and Zaina stared at him.

“Nothing.” They both stated.

“Hey guys! What’s up?” Damien asked as he walked back into the room.

“Jump.” Emmett stated without looking at Andre or Damien.

“What?” Damien asked.

“Jump.” Zaina repeated.

“Jump,” Andre reassured, and then Damien jumped. Andre stared at the pair, “thank you.” He said before he jumped into the water.

“Jump.” Emmett said as he stared at Zaina.

“Jump.” Zaina requested.

“There’s someone on my team who needs to go.” They both said at once.

“Rock, paper, scissors?” Zaina requested?”

Emmett grinned. “Rock. Paper. Scissors,” he nodded.

The scene jumped to the elimination ceremony. “Welcome for the first time,” Zac grinned as he walked around the glass room. Outside fish were swimming. “The Pillaging Pirates.”

The pirates stared at Zaina. “Why?”

“I know how it feels to be Lexi now. I understand who I was now. I get it. I was over powering and restricting. I wasn’t a good friend.” The girl said her voice low.

Sarah placed her hand over Zaina’s giving her strength. “Be strong.”

“I had to do this. For her, maybe now she’ll know I forgive her, and I understand.” Zaina smiled softly and turned to the other members of her team.

“I don’t understand?” Yasmin questioned.

“I don’t expect you to.” Zaina stated and stared at Elyar, Tameron and Wing. “I can’t keep letting you guys fight over me. I’m not a secret agent on a mission to save the world. I'm not a lady who wears dresses and dances in the moonlight. And I'm not a pirate lord who is seeking to rule the seas. I'm just Zaina. The girl in love with flowers..." She stared into Sarah's eyes, "And Lexi."

“This is like my favourite soap back home.” Mana gasped and shoved popcorn into his mouth. "I knew she loved her! #TeamZexi!" He shouted and ripped off his shirt to reveal a Team Zexi tee.

“This is getting to be too much talking, let’s cut to the drama!” Zac tossed a marshmallow to Sarah, Elyar, and Yasmin. “Congrats you’re all safe.”

Yasmin stared at her team members. “Are we though? This doesn’t feel right.”

“Zaina.. Are you sure?” Sarah asked and strengthened her grip.

Elyar gulped. “There was no right answer tonight.”

Zaina nodded. "I have to learn to be ME! Not who everyone else wants to me to be. I can't believe I did this to Lexi last season. She just wanted to have fun and be my friend."

“Wing” Zac tossed a sweet to the pirate captain. “For some reason you’re still safe.”

Tameron tried to walk over to hug Zaina, "I don't want us to end like this." He whispered

Wing stopped him. “No. Ye heard her. She doesn’t want us. Any of us.” The pirate turned to stare at Tameron and Elyar.

“Zaina… You can’t be doing this. You can’t go home because of this. There’s too much that you don’t know. Please mi’lady don’t do this.”

The girl stared at Tameron, “Who said I was going home?”

“Zaina. You are also safe. Tameron, it’s time for you to go.” The team stood in silence as Mana dragged Tameron away tears starting to fall from his face.

“Zaina… You must know you’re my sister. And we’re-” Tameron shouted before Wing tossed a banana into his mouth cutting him him.

Zaina stared as her long-lost brother was torn away from her. And turned to Wing who shrugged, “Oops.”

A scream was heard and a trident flew through the air and lodged itself into the floor and through a familiar purple hoodie. “Rhonda?” Zac questioned and looked around the room. “Where’s Rhonda!? I knew the room smelt less American than normal!” A rhythmic beating was heard as if an army was approaching.

The screen faded to black as the words “To Be Continued…” appeared.

Chapter Seven: (Wo)Man Down!
… and now the Continuation of Total Drama Tides.

Wing pulled out a cutlass from her sash and jumped to protect Zaina. “ARRG! Ye do not have time for the tears of the Kraken! Sash up, this be war.” The pirate captain announced as he eyes darted around trying to find the source of the sound.

Zac raced to the hoodie the usual purple was stained with red. He gripped the trident and pulled it out of the hoodie. “Rhonda?” He softly said. He then turned to the contestants. “Hide. This is not a drill.” He stared at the teenagers who did not move. “I said RUN!”

Yasmin looked up from a book she had found. “It would appear that perhaps Atlantis did not simply sink on it’s own. It seems that it was sunk. The inhabitants were not the friendly type.” She announced and shivered as the lights in the room went out.

“Elyar!” Sarah yelled as she raced into his arms. “I’m scared.” She whispered as he squeezed her. “This never happened at band camp, and if it did usually it was because Billy was making out with his trumpet again.”

Elyar tried to not laugh. He looked at at Wing who had Zaina on her back. Their leader was still in shock from Tameron revealing they were siblings. “Let’s go.” He announced as he pulled on his infrared glasses and gripped onto Sarah’s hand. Yasmin walked beside him and beside her was Wing.

“They’re awakening.” Yasmin whispered.

“I know what to do. Don’t worry.” Elyar ensured. “This is a classic situation.”

Wing rolled her eyes, “Always by ye blasted code book.”

(CONF): The angle is different than normal, the screen is moving and is focused on Wing’s face. “Arr! Tam-Tu be gone now. The treasure be all mine! Unless the dreaded traitor agent gets in me way.” She growled and moved her hand over the camera screen.

The Sirens sat around a coral sculpture. “I guess this is goodbye, yeah?” Andre said softly, not willing himself to look over at his teammates.

Damien nodded. “I suppose. We could stick together though. We won’t be as likely to get voted off that way.” Grayson away from the pair and listened, he too was figuring out which team he wanted to join.

“So we should join the Sharks.” Andre said, just as Damien muttered out the “Pirates.” Andre shook his head and looked at the legacy contestant, “Emmett has been nothing but nice to us.”

“But Zaina made it much further last season. And she seems to be a capable captain… Emmett seems… I don’t know he just doesn’t have what it takes. I wouldn’t be surprised if his team voted him off next.” Damien added.

“He’s my friend.” Andre sighed. “We’ll stay friends though, right? Even on different teams?” Damien nodded as they both turned to Grayson to hear his response.

“Unlike you two idiots, there’s only one valid option. The Hotties. Unlike the other loser squads they actually tried to win the last challenge.” Grayson shrugged and started to walk away to find his new team. He whispered to himself, “Plus neither of you will be there to ruin it for me.”

“This is code NOT ZACTASTIC! I REPEAT CODE NOT ZACTASTIC!” A voice screeched over the cameramans walkie. “This is not a drill. Code NOT ZACTASTIC!” The hosts voice repeated. “RUN!”

The camera fell to the ground, the frantic running of the camera man could be heard. “What just happened?” Andre’s voice asked as he walked towards the camera and picked it up. He turned it towards Damien.

“Do you think this is a challenge? They old producers liked to do this a lot.” Damien stated.

“I don’t think Zac’s that clever.” Grayson replied as he returned to view. A loud scream echoed through the glass halls of Atlantis as the trio stared out, the lights flickered off. “Definitely not this clever.”

The scene jumped to show Emmett as he lit a conch shell torch. “I can’t believe they just left us.” He examined as Alfie picked up the camera.

“It’s clearly just a challenge. What, suddenly not macho enough to handle it?” Youri rolled his eyes. “Just because you some how managed to win the last one, don’t think you can do so this time.”

The captain groaned. “Can we not get past this? We all know you want me gone.” He turned to Alfie and Trixie. “I know he’s blackmailing you guys or something.” The pair said nothing. “Can we not just move on? We all have something to prove here. We can do this together.”

Youri rolled his eyes. “He doesn’t care about us. Don’t even fall for it. He just wants to go back home and rub it in the media’s face that he can do this without Rosalie.”

Alfie’s voice broke the silence. “We can do it guys! All together! Emmett’s right! We need each other. Let’s just stop fighting. Please? It was way more fun before all of this drama!”

Trixie spoke up, “No. Youri’s right. Emmett doesn’t care. He’ll do whatever it takes to win.” She turned to the camera in Alfie’s hands. “You can not trust him, for your own sake.” The cowgirl turned on her cowgirl boots and started to walked off. “Come on girls, we have to go.”

“Why did you stop humming Alfie?” Emmett questioned as he tried to look past Alfie into the darkness.

Alfie shrugged, “The girls stopped singing.” Trixie started to run, “They NEVER! Stop singing.”

Youri laughed to himself, “Well would you look at that the weakest links are the first out.” Malia’s scream broke the veil of silence and was soon replaced by her sobbing.

The Sharks found the girl on her knees crying. Angel nowhere to be found. “A knight. He- he -had a trident.” She muttered as her face fell into Trixie’s open arms. “He took Angel.”

The scene switched to a large glass dome. The Hotties were pressed against the glass as they watched the angler fish, one of the few sources of light. “It’s how you say,” she pointed to Viola.

“Dark?” Hannah asked.

“Depressing.” Sam added.

“Nono, comme Hannah.”

“Pretty.” Colin affirmed and Fleur nodded eagerly.

“It’s pretty.”

“You think I’m pretty?” Hannah blushed and walked over to Fleur.

“Oui!”

“I think we’re going to die now.” Viola stated. As the subtle sound of foot prints echoed into the chamber. The little light they had from the angler fish moved around the large room as the fish moved.

Sam, who was holding the camera groaned. “But Colin hasn’t admitted to being gay yet!”

The American let out a laugh, “I’m bi dude.”

The thirsty teen blinked and grabbed hold of Hannah. “We didn’t account for this.”

“Well, is he the blip on your gaydar?” Hannah whispered as she lavished in the light that hit her skin.

Sam paused and closed his eyes as he listened for his gaydar. “No! There’s someone else!”

A soft breeze entered the room sending chills down the teens. “Maybe we should be in the act of walking? Non?” Fleur whispered.

“For once I agree with her.” Hannah chuckled. She pointed to a doorway on the other side of the dome, the light from an angler fish shone its light on it. “There.” “Why walk, when you can run?” A cold voice whispered somewhere close to the teens, concealed by the darkness.

“Run!” Colin shouted as the team bolted for the door. The screen is filled with darkness. Light sporadically lights the way. The sound of heavy breathing replaced the sound of their voices.

“Close it!” Colin shouted. The door closed behind Sam as he threw his body against the door. Something banged against the other side before it fell into silence again. The lights in the hallway were dim, but it was enough to see. “Roll call! Colin!” The teen shouted.

“Hannah!”

“Sam!”

“Viola,” the teen muttered.

Silence.

“Fleur?” Colin, Hannah and Viola all whispered, but to no reply.

Sam quickly opened the door back up. The light from the fish shone on Fleur’s wide brimmed hat, and a manhole that led into the tunnels beneath. “Why did you make me close it!” Sam gasped.

Elyar led his team into a chamber. He lit a conch torch and laid Zaina down on one of the large seaweed hammock beds. “I’ll take first watch. You four should rest.” The agent said and started to leave the room.

Sarah grabbed onto him. “Don’t leave us! You could get hurt!”

He smiled down at Sarah, “Don’t worry about me. You make sure that every is safe in here ok.” She nodded. Once the boy was out of the room she turned to the girls. “Who's ready for the first official Tides slumber party!?” She grinned but everyone else just grimaced.

“I don’t think now is the time, Sarah.” Yasmin stated and returned to her book on the Atlantean knights. “Not while we are being hunted by an ancient civilization in their city.” Sarah frowned and turned to Wing.

The pirate captain was lying in her own bed. “What is a slumber party? Will there be bananas?” She questioned staring at Sarah who nodded.

“Of course! It’s not a slumber party without them!” Sarah gulped, hoping Wing still had a collection in her hat. She turned to the final girl on the team, Zaina who laid in the fetal position. “It’ll be fun, Zaina. I know you’re not feeling the best right now… but it could help cheer you up. Make you happy!”

“Happy?” Zaina whispered and peeked her head out from underneath her sweater. “I want to be happy.” Sarah smiled and join Zaina on her hammock.

“Slumber parties are the best cure for sadness.” She wrapped an arm around the flower girl and watched as Wing eagerly shoved a banana down her throat.

“Now what?” Wing questioned as she tossed the banana peel at Yasmin who scoffed.

Sarah giggled, “We talk about whatever we want!” Sarah turned to Zaina. “What was it like being on the first season!”

Zaina pulled herself out from her sweater and turned to the girl. “Lonely. But then,” She whispered, “I met Lexi.” She smiled lightly. “She was my first true friend.” She sniffled, “I thought that Tameron and Wing were my second and third.”

Wing gasped. “Don’t be such a landlubber, we’re friends like Jack and his Black Pearl!”

Zaina stared up at the pirate. “You weren’t just pretending?” Her voice rose a little.

The band geek frowned. “I’m glad you guys are friends.”

Zaina wrapped her arms around Sarah, “You were my second real friend!” She assured which made Sarah blush. She sighed, “But Tameron… was my brother?”

“Aye. That he be.” Wing confirmed.

“How do you know that?” Yasmin questioned, as she put her book down and stared at the pirate.

“He said so.” She quickly replied.

“No. You sound almost certain. What do you know of Tameron. You used to call him Tam-Tu, what are you not telling us.” Yasmin questioned.

Wing slid out of her bed and walked towards the door, but Sarah and Zaina blocked the exit. “This is a slumber party Wing, we can trust each other.”

The pirate captain sighed and returned to her seat. “Fine. The truth, but Elyar must not ever hear of this.”

Sarah stared, “Why not! He’s a good guy.”

“Is he?” Wing spat out. “Tam-Tu, and I were ship wrecked when we be nothing but babs. Mother,” She started.

“The pirate queen?” Yasmin questioned.

“Aye. She took us in. Raised us as her own.” Wing smirked, “Then he abandoned me with her. He went back home,” a tear fell down her face, “He escaped back to Floria and I turned into this.” She spun in a circle as her pirate clothes spun with her.

Zaina jumped out to give her a hug, “That’s terrible! That should have never happened. On behalf of my brother, I am deeply sorry.”

“He… broke me heart that day.” Wing fell into Zaina’s arms. “We used to plan our escape picking bananas. We were the best of mates and he left me.”

Yasmin nodded, “This is making much more sense now.” She pulled out a parchment of paper where she had the members of their team listed with lines connecting them. “We were not an accident. We were hand picked. She pointed at Wing, you were connected to Tameron. Tameron knew of you and Zaina. Zaina, you were related to Tameron, you just didn’t know it.” Yasmin paused. “My family is somewhere is Floria. They were there doing research, but I haven’t heard from them in a very long time.” She whispered, “Elyar is an agent who protects the islands, I’m assuming he had something to do with the night that all of this happened in Floria.”

“Nonsense!” Sarah shouted. “He couldn’t have! He’s our age! That doesn’t make any sense.”

The scholar thought for a moment, “His father is the right age. In either case, that leaves us with you,” She turned to Sarah. “You said you were recruited, like the rest of us. But why. You know Elyar closely, how.”

Sarah blushed. “It’s complicated.”

“It’s a slumber party,” Zaina assured, “We understand.”

The singer sighed and told her story. “It’s Zac.” She gulped. “We used to date.” The girls gasped. “We were on a sail boat sailing the world. We had always dreamed of traveling. But the engine blew, we crashed on an island. I’ll never forget the scent it was fragrant and the flowers they were so vibrant.”

“Floria.” Wing stated.

“And I never saw him again until the show started.” Sarah finished. “Elyar rescued me. He took me back to Canada and he’s been near me ever since.”

“Do not trust him. He’s a turncoat.” Wing promised. “He could have rescued me and Tameron many times, yet refused.”

The room fell into silence. On the other side of the door, Elyar listened carefully. He spun his watch around, and spoke into it. “The mission could be hitting a hiccup. I will keep you informed.”

The scene switched to show the Hotties. Sam still had the camera, the team had managed to find their way into an elaborate library. Bioluminescent starfish hung from the ceiling and were pressed against the walls. “This has to be a challenge, right?” Colin asked as the group caught their bearings.

“It’s pretty elaborate to be a challenge.” Hannah said. “Lindsay never did anything like this.”

“You do know that you guys went into a tower with zombie snowmen, correct?” Sam reminded.

“I mean yes, but that wasn’t on purpose. Lindsay obviously just has a low stat count in intelligence. For as quote unquote Zactastic Zac is, he’s more of an evil mastermind than she ever was.”

“I think that this is the end for us all.” Viola stated again as she motioned to the shadows that were closing in on them.”

“RUN!” Andre shouted as he and Grayson showed up panting. “We’re all going to die.”

“Why are you a team captain again? You’re more like a minion.” Hannah chuckled.

“Not the time, Hannah, or should I say captain.” Grayson winked.

“WHAT! I tried so hard to make sure you didn’t join my party!” Hannah groaned.

“Less flirting, more running?” Andre suggested as he pointed to the shadow behind them.

“Where’s Damien?” Colin asked, slightly upset.

“Hopefully dead,” Grayson muttered.

“I like you!” Sam beamed.

“Guys? Seriously, time to run!” Andre shouted and grabbed Grayson’s hand.

The scene switched to the Sharks. They had found an underground lagoon. Emmett was stripping down to his boxer briefs. Youri rolled his eyes. “Really? Is now the best time?”

“If you guys want to lose the challenge, can we at least enjoy ourselves?” The captain offered.

Alfie was the first to dive into the water, showcasing his superman boxers. “I haven’t gone swimming in forever!” Youri facepalmed, “You do realize that one, we’re usually on a pirate ship… that floats on the water. And two, that we are currently getting chased down by a knight who wants to kill us all?

Trixie pulled off her clothes leaving nothing but her bra and underwear, “If you’re so brave why don’t you take care of it?” Emmett grinned as Trixie joined him and Aflie in the water. “Come on Malia!” Trixie sent a splash of water towards the girl.

“I… don’t understand. My friend is gone and you just want to swim?” The girl questioned and turned to Youri. “Will you help me avenge her.”

“Yes.” He grinned. “Because I’m not afraid.” The pair left the underground lagoon.

“This is a challenge… right?” Trixie asked.

“I think so…. I hope so.” Emmett corrected.

Alfie appeared in the water between the pair and started to make otter sounds and splashed them. “Come on!”

“It’s nice of you to let Youri try and save the day.” Trixie put a hand on Emmett’s shoulder. “Rosalie would be proud.”

The scene switched to show a pair of white vans as they approached a fallen camera. The figure picked it up and revealed herself to be Angel. “Malia, if you ever see this, I lived. I knocked out the knight. I will find you.”

The scene switched to a brightly lit room. Monitors filled the walls. Seated in a chair was Rhonda with a manic grin. She stared at a screen that showed Zac cowering beneath a blanket. “That’ll show you I have what it takes to be a host.”

“See. You have all the power,” Damien grinned. “Zac is nothing.”

“I am not in the understanding. Zac is like honey, sweet.”

The pair turned to Fleur. “Girl you crazy.” Rhonda let out an evil laugh, and Damien joined her.

The screen returned to the slumber party, as Elyar opened the door and saw the four girls fast asleep, with braids in their hairs. He smiled softly to himself. Behind him, an Atlantean knight raised its trident to knock the teen out. “Not this time.” The agent chuckled and jumped out of the way.

“Wrong way.” A voice laughed in response as a second knight grabbed onto Elyar and knocked him out.

“RUN!” Wing screamed as she woke up to see the knights. She tried to wake her companions, but she was outnumbered. The pirate grabbed onto the closest person, Sarah and used her sleeping body as a baseball bat to knock the knights out of the way as she escaped with a groggy Sarah in tow.

The pirate dragged the girl as she marched aimlessly. “Why does my body feel like it got marched over by the marching band again.” Sarah groaned. Wing let the the girl go, and helped her to her feet.

“The knights captured the rest of our team. Arrr. This be not good.”

“Will the be ok?” Sarah shouted, but Wing covered her mouth.

“Yasmin be right, ye be loud. Aye, they be ok- if this be a challenge.”

“If not?” Sarah gulped, but Wing was already starting to walk away.

The scene switched to show the remaining members of the Sirens and the Hotties. They sat around a small bonfire made from the vast amount of pages around them. Viola led the discussion. “According to horror movie rules Sam and Colin will be the last two standing. LGBT people are immune… Unless they make out then even that can’t save them.”

“I’m sorry what?” Grayson questioned. “Kimmi made me watch all kinds of horror things the pretty girl always makes it to the end with the geeky one. He pointed to himself and then Hannah. “I’m obviously the prettiest one here, and she’s the dweebiest we’ll survive.”

Colin laughed, “Nah guys. Maybe in Canada that’s how it works but in America,” he pointed to Andre and Viola. “We’re all about the sequels. Andre has a girl pining for him back home, Viola will likely be regarded as a g.oddess for not really caring about any of us. They’ll be fan faves for sure.”

“You know, I completely forgot that you were American.” Hannah gasped, “I can’t believe I ever had a thing for you.”

“Aren’t you dating Sam?” Everyone questioned. The pair looked at each other and then raced to say “I think we should break up.”

“We were just trying to make him jealous.” Sam groaned. “But that’s fine now, because my gaydar is going off. There’s another one somewhere close.”

Grayson jumped in, “Are you sure it’s not just Zac?”

“No. They’re close. Real close.” Sam sniffed the air.

Andre stared at the Hotties. “And here I was thinking my team had problems.”

Hannah rolled her eyes, “Need I remind you your party got KOed.”

“Wait what do you mean?” Viola questioned.

Andre sighed. “My team was too small, so during the last challenge, Emmett, Hannah and Zaina were supposed to try and convince us which team we should join… Some tried harder than others.” Hannah whistled innocently.

“What! They don’t meet the minimum level required!”

The group of six burst out into a group laugh. “For people who are about to die you’re all rather cheery.” A voice echoed through the room as the starfish all faded into black.

The scene switched to show Zac underneath the covers. “One thousand, four hundred and twenty-three bottles of maple syrup.”

The scene jumped to show Youri. Malia followed closely behind with a camera. “You don’t think they… killed her do you?” Malia gulped.

Youri turned around. “No. If anything they have her captured somewhere. We just need to find out where. But you HAVE to stop humming that ridiculous song.” Malia blushed and nodded her head.

“Why do you hate Emmett so much?” Malia innocently asked.

The petite boy groaned. “He’s everything I hate about highschool. A big jock who thinks that he can do whatever he wants and we’ll just follow blindly. I’m not just some wimp who needs to be protected!” The boy walked into a spider web and instantly panicked. “GET IT OFF!”

Malia rushed over and began to pull the web off of the boy. “I don’t know, I think he’s just looking out for us all. In his own… aggressive way. He wants us all to be the very best!” She smiled as she pulled the last of the spider's web off.

“No. He just wants all of the credit for himself.” Youri muttered.

She shook her head, “That’s not true! Trixie won us the first challenge, and then Alfie did,” She ran a finger through her hair, “we all lied for you during the third challenge, and then I won us the fourth.” She paused and then continued, “And for the first time Emmett won us a challenge last time.”

“He’s just making you think that.” Youri argued. “Can’t you see he’s trying to make it seem like you’re helping! He’s prolly gushing about how amazing he is in the confessional!”

Malia gulped, “You know what, I think I’m just going to go back with the others. I think Angel can handle herself.” The scene panned around to show the Atlantean knight that Malia just walked into. The girl yelled for help, but Youri raced off.

Angel jumped down in front of Youri. “You will not be forgiven for this.” The crazed-fan stared at the boy before he ran past her. Angel raced after the knight.

The scene returned to the blue lagoon. Emmett filmed the pair in the water as they splashed around and had fun. The country boy himself sat on the rocky cliff. “I wonder when they’ll find us.” He chuckled.

In the water Alfie swam close to Trixie. “Thank you Trixie. For helping me with Youri. I don’t know what I would do without my sweets.”

Trixie blushed. “I had to do whatever it took to make sure you were in the best possible shape for the team.”

Alfie grabbed onto Trixie’s hat and placed it on his own head. “You know how they say the person with the hat comes up with the plan?” He grinned.

The cowgirl blushed even more, “Yes?”

“Emmett could you be a pal and look away?” The buff teen nodded and turned away. “Well, here’s what I’m planning.” Alfie smiled as he leaned in and kissed Trixie on the lips.

“Are you guys done yet?” Emmett groaned. “The rocks are kinda boring to look at.” His voice echoed off the walls. “Guys?” He turned back around in time to see the pair getting dragged into a runnel beneath the lagoon by the knights. “Oh come on!”

The scene returned to Rhonda’s evil lair - as announced by the sign she had put on the door. “This was the best challenge yet,” Andre decided. “Sucks that I was out so early.” He frowned and looked over at Hannah and Viola who were also captured in the library.

“I don’t get it though, Zac seemed really shocked to see your sweater. He’s not that good of an actor.” Yasmin noted, “And this book, and all of the writing on the walls.”

Rhonda smirked. “Zac doesn’t know.” She let out an evil laugh. “And all planted to ensure it seemed as real as possible.”

A knight entered the room and dropped off Malia. He pulled off his mask and he was revealed to be a cameraman. A few seconds later Angel kicked the door in and slapped the cameraman silly. “WHERE IS SHE!” She shouted, before realizing what was happening. “Well this is just a little bit awkward.”

“It’s nice to see that you care about your friend so much,” Zaina smiled softly.

“That means there’s only seven left.” Elyar noted and pointed to the screen.

“Let’s go Sam!” Hannah cheered.

“Weren’t you two arch nemesis?” Zaina asked.

“No! I thought they were dating?” Damien asked.

Hannah shrugged. “It’s a long story with a whole lot of filler and eye candy. But in the end every protagonist needs a GBF. That’s gay best friend.” The contestants and Rhonda shook their heads at the delusional girl.

The scene returned to show the two remaining pirates. Wing was trying to bandage Sarah so that her bruises didn’t hurt so much.

“I still don’t know where all of these bruises came from.” Sarah sighed.

“Ay… not a clue.” Wing gulped and shoved a banana down her throat.

Wing laid her hand against Sarah’s face, “Ye know, ye could be from Floria. Such fine skin, and ye have the hair and eyes.”

“Thank you… Wait does that mean Zaina is from Floria?” Sarah gasped as she started to piece together the puzzle Yasmin proposed.

Wing nodded slowly. “Ay.” The pirate lord looked up to see a knight approaching. “Close ye eyes Sarah. Rest now.” She assured. Once Sarah’s eyes were closed the pirate lord threw a banana at Sarah, knocking the girl out. She grabbed hold of the girl and used her to knock the knight out. She paused, “Why did I just use the banana for the knight…” She shrugged and raced off, leaving Sarah behind.

The scene switched to show Colin, Grayson and Sam as they rode on giant seahorses across a small river. “Of all the ways we could have escaped,” Grayson huffed.

“We’re alive! That’s all that matters.” Colin argued.

“For another second or so,” Sam shouted at Colin to jump, but the fishing net had already trapped the teen.

“Win for us!” Colin shouted at the pair.

Grayson and Sam kept moving forward. “Grayson?” Sam spoke softly. The teen didn’t reply. “Grayson.” Sam spoke louder. “Oh Grayson, I know your secret.” Grayson’s face paled he turned around just in time to see Sam get dragged into the sea below.

“It’s not true.” The teen muttered, as if to assure himself. He grabbed the camera and started to record himself. “My name is Grayson LeChance, I am one of the last remaining survivors of the attack of the Atlantean Knights.”

“Me name be Captain Wing, and I will not allow such knights to float away alive.”

“My name is Youri Sun… and I am afraid.” A tear fell down the teens face.

“I am Emmett Cullen, and I be strong for those who are not here.”

“Ten-thousand, eight hundred and one, maple syrup bottles.” Zac whispered.

Rhonda grinned at the contestants, “It’s time for the grand finale!” She pointed to the screens and where the four teens were all headed.

The screen revealed a large chasm filled with water. In the centre was a familiar stone statue of an Atlantean knight. Grayson was the first to arrive as he jumped off of the seahorse. Emmett was next, as he jumped off of the rocky cliffs. Youri appeared next as he walked out of the darkness and into the sun-lit casm. Wing jumped out from the water beneath and stared at the others. “This be it? We are all who remain?”

Emmett nodded, “We can move in their honour.”

Grayson walked towards the others. “But do we really know them well enough to honour them?” He frowned.

Youri huffed. “If you guys haven’t figure it out yet, this is just a stupid challenge designed to get us to reveal our deepest darkest secrets!m Any second know four big bad knights are going to appear and challenge us to a duel.”

“Youri. Not everything has to do with a challenge!” Emmett shouted, but sure enough, four knights rose from the water below. Each one targeted a survivor.

“Don’t forget to save the day Emmett!” Youri shouted as he faced off against a knight. He swung his legs at the knight but he parried most of the blows.

At the opposite end of the statue, Grayson was fencing with a knight. They matched blow for blow.

Around the corner, Wing squashed banana after banana, as she fired the yellow fruit at her opponent.

Emmett wrestled with his knight in a fight for dominance. “Youri, you can do this! Prove me wrong. Show me how brave and strong you are!”

Youri managed to land a kick and the knight stumbled for a moment before he regained his composure. “Don’t tell me what to do! You won’t take credit for this!”

Wing’s eyes went wide ashe reached for another banana but failed to find any hidden within her hat. It was only a matter of seconds before a splash was heard and Wing and her knight were out of sight.

“Guys? Who was that?” Grayson shouted as he parried another blow from the knight. A few seconds later he could hear Emmett and Youri argueing. “Of course they would still be here.”

“I don’t need your pity Emmett. I just want you to admit it. You just want to win to go back home and prove you’re not as weak as everyone thinks.” Youri threw another punch at the knight but he wrapped his hand around the small boys wrists. Emmett didn’t reply as he tried to pin his knight to the ground. Youri’s knight grinned as he spun Youri around and into the water.

A second knight appeared behind Grayson and shoved him into the water. “NOT FAIR!” He screamed.

Confetti fell from the ceiling. The knight announced, “Congratulations you have won the challenge.”

Emmett stared at the knight in disbelief. “It really was just a challenge?” The knight nodded.

The contestants and Mana all silently piled into a secluded room. In the centre was a bed with a person cowering beneath as he counted bottles of maple syrup. Mana motioned a count down. 3…..2….1…. The teens all jumped in place as they watched Zac jump from the bed and scream.

The teens all started to laugh. Emmett spoke up, “Zac it’s time for the elimination see you there in five minutes.” He grinned and high-fived Andre.

“Ch-challenge? What challenge? Elimination?” Zac questioned but quickly readied himself. “Ah, yes the challenge I had prepared.” He blushed.

The scene switched to show all of the contestants sitting around a giant water globe that seemed to float in the air. Mana and Zac walked towards all of the contestants. “For the first time this season you are all available to be eliminated. Emmett having won the challenge will get to decide which of you he will be sending home.” Zac announced, but when he spoke a number of contestants snickered.

Mana spoke up next, “To clarify, Rhonda is still M.I.A, no one has seen her since the the previous challenge. During the previous challenge the team captains were given a second challenge of trying to recruit the members of the Sirens. In doing so, Andre has decided to join the Sharks, Grayson has joined the Hotties, and Damien the Pirates. You may now choose to eliminate someone.”

Emmett gulped as he looked around the room. “Before I eliminate this person I would like to apologize. To my team, and to Youri. I have not been completely honest. Ever since I found out Rosalie eliminated me from Frozen, and with all of the media attention on her I’ve been afraid that she would leave me because I wasn’t good enough for her. I was afraid I wouldn’t be strong enough.” He paused as the other contestants awwwed. “So it is with a heavy heart that I choose to eliminate a member of my own team.”

The other contestants gasped. Youri glared at Emmett as he stood up. Emmett continued, “I have decided to eliminate this person because I believe they have proven all they can here. I have decided to eliminate… Myself.”

The teens erupted into another gasp. Andre walked over to Emmett. “Good luck with Rosalie man… If you see Dania can you tell her I miss her?”

The big teen wrapped his arms around Andre, “Of course man. Look out for them ok? They’re strong but they need a helping a hand.” The musician nodded. The other Sharks walked over and joined the group hug - all but Youri who stood in disbelief.

Zac turned to the camera. “Well that’s all from us here at Total Drama Tides! Tune in next episode for the first episode of the companion show, After The Drama! With veteran hosts, Britt and Jade!”

“What?” Hannah laughed, “Because that’s a trainwreck waiting to happen.”

“Watch and find out what our eliminated contestants have been up to and how they feel about their eliminations now that they’ve had time to digest. ALSO! Be sure to vote in the latest poll to decide which of our first six eliminated sailors will be returning at the merge! And find out who in the next episode!” Zac tried to seem excited, but his normal Zactastic attitude just wasn’t there.

“We can refilm that later,” Mana assured. Zac nodded as he walked away.

On a yacht kilometres away, Rhonda is seen relaxing as she sipped from a glass of pink lemonade. A petite girl in a green shirt and overalls walked over to her. Her purple high top sneakers lit up with light with every foot step. “Why did we have to drive this thing all the way to the middle of the ocean, and why did we need to bring you this?” The girl groaned as she tossed a purple hoodie at Rhonda. Her red ponytail bounced as the ship moved.

“Because,” Rhonda grinned, “You’re both going to be my co-hosts on my new hit television show!”

A tall boy with sleep-stained eyes approached. He had a grey flannel top that somehow was covered in wood chips and worn light wash jeans stained with grease, likely from the engine of the ship. He dipped his finger into Rhonda’s glass and moved it to his permanent frown of a face and tasted it. “Not fun juice in here.” He turned to the girl, “Jenny, she might actually be serious.” Jenny’s eyes went wide in horror. “JUST because we fell asleep in your yard that one time doesn’t mean you can make us do whatever you want!” She turned to Toby, “Turn this ship around! We can’t do this!”

“Come on Jenny, it could be FUN!” He said, almost monotonous. “I thought you liked fun. Afraid Rhonda is going to outshine you on national television?”

“She could never! Just look at her!” Jenny shouted as she stared at her plain looking friend.

“I don’t know. She could become a hit sensation.”

“TAKE THAT BACK!” Jenny shouted as she jumped on the boy.

Rhonda pulled out two contracts, “Our dreams are just a signature away!” Once the two friends were done wrestling they each signed a contract.

“What are we going to tell your mom?” Toby asked.

“YOUR MOM!” Jenny replied as if it was a challenge. Behind the pair Rhonda is grinning as she pulls the pair into an unwanted hug.

Chapter Eight: Shipwrecked!
The screen is filled by the crystal blue colour of the ocean. Dolphins ebbed and flowed through the waves. The sky was clear, the sunbeams dancing across the surface of the water. The camera panned over to a large cruise ship, the letters S.S Total Drama clearly imprinted on its side.

The screen zooms in and shows the deck of the ship, and quickly leads the camera through the cruise ship; The sauna room, the kitchen, the casino, a long hallway and finally the screen goes black as it enters a room without lights.

“We’ve been watching them for weeks now,” a familiar british voice echoed. A spotlight flashed on, revealing Britt. The teens dark brown hair was pushed to one side with a hard cut. His bright blue eyes seemed dimmer than normal. He wore a tight-fitted floral print button down with a beige trench coat over it. He wore tight beige khakis with dark boots. “As they’ve competed against one another for the attention of the nation and for the grand prize!”

A second spotlight turned on revealing Jade. She moved her hands up in order to block the bright light from her green eyes. Her brown hair was held down by a jade-coloured headband. She wore a green flannel dress with a denim jacket. “... With seven episodes down and nineteen more to go, the drama is really starting to heat up.” The girl cowered as she pulled down on an elastic band on her wrist. Britt looked over at Jade and their eyes met, and then they quickly parted their gazes. Jade sighed, “For now! We’ll be taking a look back at the six, lucky, losers. And you’ll,” she gave a weak smile at the camera, “will be giving one of them a second chance to ruin their lives!” She snapped down on another one of her elastic bands.

The screen lit up as the studio lights turned on. The room had a window that filled the entire back wall, a screen slowly retracted revealing the bright sunshine outside. Britt clapped his hands together as a colourful beach umbrella dropped from the ceiling shielding him from the rays. Jade walked hesitantly to the center of the room and sat on one of the large beach balls. Britt sat on the ball next to hers. A rhythmic beating of bongos filled the studio. Britt flashed a smile at the camera. “This is After the Drama!” A neon sign that said “applaud” lit up above the stage, and the audience erupted into cheers.

Jade groaned, “Now, let’s find out what our eliminated cast members have been up to.” She read off in a monotone voice.

The glass window lit up with colour as it digitalized. The sky was replaced with video footage. A cave with a small fire is shown. The walls are covered in cave paintings, most portrayed a giant maple leaf being set aflame by a bald eagle. At the center of the cave a teenage boy cuddled a hockey puck. “Sam I will find someone to rescue us! Fear not! It is the Canadian thing to do!” He muttered and stroked the hockey puck.

A rock fell nearby. The teen jumped to his feet, grabbed a nearby stick and whacked the puck at the sound. “OWW!” A voice hollered out. The camera turned to face a boring looking man, with nothing of significance. “Hey Brennon! You know what would be cool, if you came and helped me out on my show!” The intruder mocked, “Yeah sure, Zac! That sounds like a great brotherly bonding time!” He rubbed his head where the puck had hit him. Brennon looked around to see where his target, Blake had run off to. To his right he noticed the hockey puck was missing. “He’s gone feral. I hate you Zac!” Brennon groaned. He pulled out his Canadian Mounties Badge and used its reflective surface to spot the teen running behind him. The Mounti jumped backwards and landed on the boy. “Blake. It’s ok. I’m going to help you.”

The hockey star growled and banged his hockey puck against his attacker’s head. Brennon stared down at the gnat of a target before he knocked him out. “I’m going to kill you Zac.” He groaned once more and stared at the camera.

The video faded, and the bright sunshine filled the window again. Rising through the floor on a platform was Blake. “Let’s give a warm welcome to… Blake.” Jade pulled back on one of her elastic bands as she muttered something under her breath.

Britt got up from his seat and walked over to give Blake a bro-hug. Blake blushed. “Don’t worry mate. I’m sure Brennon forgives you water under the bridge, yeah?” He turned to face Zac’s brother who sent a glare back at the pair. “You could always come stay with me in Britain, I do have a spare room now.” He said and then quickly returned his gaze to the ground. Jade snapped another one of her elastic bands.

The hockey player smiled lightly, “I think I’m good. But really, thanks for the offer. I don’t need all of Canada thinking I’m gay… again.” He chuckled and walked over to wear 6 beach chairs were laid out.

“You’re not gay?” Britt questioned. Blake shook his head. The brit muttered into his headset, “Don’t send in pride stick. I repeat do not send in the pride hockey stick.” He returned his gaze to the hockey star and gave a shy smile.

The window lit up with colour again, as a new scene appeared. A group of monkeys huddled around what looked to be a stage. A coloured teen stood on the stage dressed in a banana skirt and a leafy top. “Oh Romeo, oh Romeo…” He shouted at a nearby monkey.

Seated with the monkeys was Brennon. He used a tuft of monkey fur to wipe away his tears. “This is all too much, why can’t they just be together.”

The performer looked at Brennon. “Oh praise the great apes of this island. SAVE ME!”

“But the show must go on, Leo!” He replied as he wiped away another stream of tears.

“Do you really,” Leo stared at Brennon, “want to mess with me right now?” The actor banged on his chest and shouted something and pointed at Brennon. The monkeys all turned around and stared. “Will you please take me back to civilization?” He batted his eyes.

“But the show.” Brennon groaned and walked over to Leo. “You owe me the finale!”

“Fine. Whatever. Just get me away from these dirty chimps already it’s been over a week since my last proper shower.”

Brennon sniffed the air, “I can tell.”

The screen dedigitialized. Leo waved out to the crowd as he appeared from beneath the stage. “Glad to know that I’m not entirely hated!” He grinned.

“Welcome to S.S Total Drama.” Jade muttered. “You remind me of myself, when I had total star power!” She flipped her hair. Britt gave her a worried look, when she realized what she had said she snapped down on the elastic. “That’s not who you are. Be you Jade. Be you.” She whispered.

“Well… That’s cool. I’m just gonna go sit over there.” Leo nervously said.

The screen turned to static. “Footage not found.” Flashed over the screen, below it a image of Cherry was in black in white. Brennon spoke up. “I’m sorry to announce the exact wherabouts of Cherry at this time are still unknown. When we returned to the island we found no sign of the Inca, or of Cherry…. Except for,” he pulled out a paper coffee cup with a cherry-red lip imprint on the side, and the word Cherrylicious written above it. “At this time we do not believe Cherry to be held captive- we believe that the Inca are being forced to work for her.”

“BUT SHE’S OUR GODDESS!” Someone shouted out in the audience. “It’s not even worth being here if she’s not!” The man announced and got up from his seat. Before he could take a step, a bacon lasson had him seated again.

Brennon stared at the rude audience member. “There will be no leaving. This is a live show.” The Canadian Mounty continued, “Besides, where would you go? We’re on a cruise ship.”

“But do you know which mate we do have here?” Britt grinned, “KIMMI!” He announced as the crowd erupted into cheer. A large portion of the crowd was dressed in pink team Kimmi shirts.

The screen switched from the black static to show Kimmi hugging a worn-out plush teddy bear on the beach. Surrounding her were the letters S.O.S formed out of sticks and rocks. “Don’t worry Jamie, I’m here for you. I won’t let anything happen to you this time. I won’t let him get between us again. Sisters before misters.” She rubbed her hand against the plush bear, her wild eyes stared out to sea.

Brennon approached the frail girl. “Kimmi?” He asked.

She turned to face the man. “I’m dreaming Jamie. I see someone here. I’m going crazy… Maybe he’s my new imaginary friend.”

“Kimmi. I’m real. I’m here to take you home. Do you want to go home?” He offered her his hand.

“Can Jamie come? We promised to be best friends forever. I can’t leave her.”

Brennon bit his lip. “She can come too. No one gets left behind.” Kimmi nodded and grabbed onto his hand.

The screen returned to being a window, the bright rays seemed to create a halo around Kimmi as she rose from the ground below. The audience went wild.

“YOU’RE MY HERO!”

“You helped me break up with my cheating ex!”

“YOU MADE ME A BETTER BOYFRIEND!”

Blake turned to Leo, “What exactly did I miss?”

“I… don’t really know.” Leo replied and stared as Kimmi blew a kiss out to the audience before joining the other eliminated contestants.

The pig-tailed girl giggled, “Thanks so much everyone! I just thought that the truth had to be shared, you know? For all the girls out there, we have to be strong.” Blake and Leo looked at each and shrugged,

Jade glared at Kimmi. “She’s not right Britt.”

“Calm down, she’s fine.” Britt turned back to the screen, “And up next we have Zaina’s long lost brother!”

The screen switched to show Tameron seated on a makeshift throne in the middle of the jungle. “I’ll find her mother. Sister will be our salvation. She will take her place on the throne and the rebels will quiet”

“Talk about an ego problem.” Brennon muttered as he approached the butler. “Look bud, it’s time to go.”

“Who dare speaks to the lord in such a tone.” Tameron snapped his fingers but something happened. “Just because I am not female does not mean you can simply not listen to my orders!”

Brennon sighed as he approached the teen. “I thought you were supposed to be the sane one. The logical one.” He groaned as he knocked the boy out and carried him over his shoulder. “Who do you think you are? A prince to a long lost kingdom or something?” He laughed, “Where does my brother find these people?”

The window returned to its transparent state. As Tameron rose from the stage. He bowed before the crowd. “Mi’lady, mi’lord,” he offered both Britt and Jade a kiss on their hands but they both refused.

“There is only one true Queen, and I am not her.” Britt sighed. “But a lad can dream.” His gloomy attitude was quickly lifted once he saw Emmett join them on stage, he was soaking wet.

“Where am I? Where is this? Britt? Jade.” He questioned as he looked around the room.

“Welcome to After The Drama! Considering you’re a tad wet, I’d going to assume you were just recently found… Oh my.” Britt concluded.

“Where’s Rosalie?” Emmett asked.

Jade snickered. “Oh lover boy, she’s not here this is for losers only.”

“Jade.” Britt muttered out. The two guys shared a bro hug before they returned to their respective seats.

The female co host stood up. “And now, for the news that you’ve all been waiting for! To discover who will be returning out of these six… er five losers, at the merge!”

Emmett shook his head, “What? No. I just left there to talk to Rosalie.” Jade snapped her fingers as a screen with the six eliminated contestants dropped down.

Britt stood up and walked over to the screen. “Ever since the very first episode Canada, and the past contestants have been ranking the cast on who their favourites were! Today, for the first time, we’re going to showcasing the results. By the end of this episode whichever loser is ranked the highest will be given a spot at the merge.”

“No shockers here.” Jade announced as the list started to assemble, and revealed Kimmi to be first. “Ever since her quote on quote heroic elimination the nation has been in love with her.”

“What did she do?” Emmett asked the other guys but they all shook their heads - they were just as confused as he was.

Kimmi stood up, “I’m just glad that the nation knows the full truth about Grayson. I’m sorry that I had to deceive the nation in order to get the truth out.” She smiled at the camera and brushed her hair back.

Jade rolled her eyes and returned to the screen, “Emmett is ranked second. Mostly due to Rosalie campaigning across the nation in his honour. She’s been on the Emmett tour rallying fans together. Who knows what she ever saw in you.”

“Jade!” Britt hissed. “So… she’s not mad at me?” Emmett blushed.

“Nah, mate.”

“In third we have Blake.” She paused, “I’m not really sure why, but I feel like Rhonda has something to do with it.” She pointed to the window-screen that revealed a number of shirtless photos of Blake, and one where he was cuddling Sam. “It seems the nation doesn’t think we have enough LGBT cast members.” She chuckled and snapped onto a rubber band.

“I’m not gay! Guys, I swear!”

“Then kiss me!” An audience member shouted, but Blake recoiled in disgust. Britt chuckled.

Jade rolled her eyes. “In fourth we have Cherry who has some how managed to elude the Royal Canadian Mounties. If only we were all so lucky.” Jade groaned and stared at Brennon, “I’m not going to hurt anyone!”

“I have my orders.” He replied.

“Cherry gained a very elusive fan base due to her typical white-girl attitude. A social media campaign was started to get her back on the show but was quickly shut down by the white girl community who thought Cherry was offensive.” Jade sighed. “Are we done yet? I do have things to do.”

“No you don’t.” Britt teased. “We’re stuck on this ship until the show ends.”

Jade jumped in place. “Woo hoo?” She pointed at the screen, “In fifth we have Tameron. Obviously due to his treatment of Zaina. Who again, is somehow popular?”

Tameron nodded. “I only did what i thought was best for my sister. She has not had the easiest of paths. I only wished to not burden her further.”

“And in last, we have Leo!” Jade shrugged, “I’m pretty sure that the only person who enjoys you is the new intern Mana. Even Kaleb has more fans than you.”

Leo laughed, “Hey now! That’s not true. Right?” He turned to the crowd but no one made a sound. “Oh… Well then.”

Britt jumped in front of the screen, “But don’t worry mates! Jade and I have been working hard ever since day 1 to pick out some of our favourite, unreleased scenes of yours to try and turn the tides for you! And that goes for all of you! So grab some popcorn and get comfy!”

The screen faded and revealed Mana and Leo. The intern had snuck into Leo’s room. “What are you doing here?” Leo demanded as he finished doing his push ups.

“I was lonely.” Mana shrugged and walked over and sat on Leo’s bed. “Cheetos?” Mana offered the bag to the teen.

Leo jumped to his feet and pulled on his shirt, “So you decided to come visit me?”

“Yeah. Why not?” Mana hugged his plush manatee. “I thought we could have a…. Slumber party!” The intern grinned and pulled out his mp3 and played Regina Spektor.

“I thought I said that the last slumber party was going to be the last one! Zac almost caught you!” Leo rubbed his hand over Mana’s back. “You don’t want to get fired do you?”

“No….” The inten looked up at Leo. “But sleeping besides Zac’s bed in case he gets a nightmare or wants a midnight snack is really depressing.”

The actor smiled, “Don’t sweat it ok. You can stay the night. But this is the last time. Ok?”

“Ok!” Mana grinned and gave Leo a giant hug. “Sometimes I feel like you and Rhonda are the only ones who like having me around.”

The scene was replace by Emmett and Trixie as they prepared breakfast for their team. “You remind of her a lot.” Emmett sighed and cracked another egg.

“You’re the reason why I auditioned,” Trixie admitted. “You showed that just because you grow up in the country doesn’t mean that you have to be a country lass for life, you know?”

“Really?” The muscular teen blushed. “I thought everyone just thought I was Rosalie’s second fiddle.”

Trixie shook her head. “Not everyone.” She finished chopping up the garlic and herbs and started to mash it together with the butter. “I remember being devastated when you were eliminated! I refused to go to class. My dad had tie me up just to get me to my exams!” She looked over to Alfie.

“Maybe you’re like me in more ways than one?” He pointed out. “Do you like him?” He pulled the toast off of the grill.

She sighed and began to spread the butter over the toast. “I don’t know. Maybe? I’ve never really… dated anyone before? At least not for awhile.”

“Oh? Afraid to get attached?” Emmett teased as he wiped some butter across her face.

“No! Well, yes. But it’s not because i have daddy issues or something!” She reflected.

Emmett wrapped his arms around her. “I never said you did. I’m here if you ever need to talk, ok?” Trixie nodded. She picked up four of the plates filled with food, and balanced them along her arms as she walked over to the rest of the team. Behind her, Emmett grabbed a piece of bacon and munched down on it. “Girls.” He chuckled to himself.

The scene faded. In its place Rhonda appeared, beside her were both Damien and Tameron. “May I ask why you’ve brought us here? Mi’lady RHonda?” Tameron asked as he bowed slightly to the co-host.

“If this is about the green hair dye I put in Zac’s shower…” Damien blushed, “I can explain!”

Rhonda paused, “That’s a great idea!” She burst out laughing, “Why didn’t I think of that!” She offered a fist for Damien to pound, and he did. “No, I’m here because as co-host I have taken over the responsibility of hosting the social media accounts… And you both aren’t in any potential ships. And that’s a problem. It’s really hurting your popularity.”

“I’m sorry but I do not understand.” Tameron said confused.

“She means that we’re not being flirty enough, and no one thinks we’re crushing on anyone.” Damien stated. “Sorry but have you seen my team?”

Rhonda nodded, “Exactly, well asides from Wing and Zaina but I can’t really consider those a ship with you, all things considered one if your sibling and the other your sworn enemy.” She sighed. “But don’t worry! I have a solution!” She grinned.

Damien turned to Tameron, “He’s not my type. He’s too stuck up.”

Tameron huffed, “Yes, because I’m the problem in this relationship!”

The cohost shook her head. “No no! Not each other! ME!” She grinned.

“Mi’lady, I believe you have forgotten how old you are.” Tameron said as he patted her on the back.

“I’m sorry what!”

“Dude, you never call a girl old!” Damien laughed.

“I’M THE SAME AGE AS YOU BOTH!” She growled and pulled out her ID. “SEE! Eighteen!”

“Feisty,” Damien winked.

Tameron bowed, “I am sorry, I did not mean to offend, it would be an honour to date you Rhonda.”

Rhonda frowned. “I can’t date you! That’s wrong, and Zac would kill me!”

The butler stared, “Then I am confused again.”

“You just need to be flirty with me! We need to have some kind of chemistry! Gawsh, you’re just so innocent!”

Damien chuckled. “What do you say we go shrink all of Zac’s clothes before he wake up so he thinks that he’s gaining weight?” Rhonda grinned and gave the boy a giant hug.

“You know me so well!” She turned back to Tameron, “See this, this is how you get shipped!”

The scene was switched out for one of the ocean. Blake sat with Sam on a small row boat. “I wonder where the rest of the team is?” Sam asked as he leaned over the ship trying to find them.

“I’m sure they’re around. It’s nice to be away from Colin though.” He chuckled. “He really gets me going, y’know?”

“Oh trust me, you both get me going too.” Sam smirked.

“What?” Blake asked as he continued to paddle.

“Nothing. Oh no! I’m falling overboard!” Sam slowly said as he let himself fall overboard. Blake launched himself on top of Sam to stop him from falling.

“Hey now! You’ve got to be more careful!” He smiled and got off of Sam - who still managed to fall into the water. “Sam!” He shouted and pulled off his shirt and jumped in the water after him.

A few minutes later the pair were both back on the boat. Blake had torn Sam’s shirt off and searched for the sound of his breathing but found none. “Come on buddy!” He groaned as he began to perform CPR. As if it were a complete miracle, the second his lips touched Sam’s, Sam returned to life.

“My hero!” Sam blushed and wrapped his arms around Blake. “How will I ever repay you!?”

Blake scratched his head, confused. “I’m sure I’ll think of something. But hey look our team!” He grinned and waved at their team mates.

“Why are you guys shirtless…” Hannah questioned.

“Huh?” Blake muttered, “Oh yeah!” He blushed and pulled his shirt back on.

“It’s a long story!” Sam smirked.

The scene faded and was replaced by the Sun rising. Kimmi was curled up in Grayson’s arms as they cuddled in the dingy boat that hung off the side of the ship. “Do you ever miss her?” Kimmi asked as she clutched her heart-shaped locket.

Grayson looked out towards the sea. “Sometimes. You know, I like to think that she’s out there somewhere. Just waiting for us to find her.”

Kimmi nodded. “I dream about her sometimes. I hear her laugh everywhere. I can smell her sometimes if I try really hard.” She reached out to the rising Sun. “What I wouldn’t do to touch her again.” Kimmi giggled. “So what’s all of this with Cherry eh? Are you cheating on me?” She teased.

“Majorly. I’m not a one-woman type of guy.” He laughed and gave Kimmi a giant grin.

“You’re not an any woman kind of guy.” She retorted. “I see how you look at Sam.” She poked her best friend's cheek. “You could just tell him! I’m sure he’d be all over you in an instant!” She beamed.

Grayson looked around making sure that there was no camera. “You know that my parents would disown me if they ever found out.” He gave her a quick peck on her forehead. “You’re the best friend I could ever have.”

Kimmi looked away. “Sometimes I think that you’re just afraid of being alone. Why do we need to pretend to date? Why can’t you just be single.”

The prep shrugged, “I’m not the single type.” The screen faded back to the sea.

“And that’s all the behind the scenes, top secret footage we have for you today!” Britt announced. He turned to Kimmi who was trying to blend in with her chair. “I think that you have some explaining to do.”

Jade smirked, “But we do have one last bit of information to share before the voting ends.” She turned to britt who seemed confused. “Call her.” She announced.

The screen cut to a young girl with heart-shaped glasses and deep purple and pink hair. Her pale blue eyes stared in regret at the camera. “Why did you do it Kimmi.” The voice questioned without any emotion.

Jade turned to the screen, “I’m sorry but you’re going to need to be a bit more clear.”

Britt walked over to Kimmi who stared in disbelief at the screen.

“I’m sorry allow me to introduce myself, my name is Jamie. Kimmi’s ex-best friend and I’d like to clear up a little something about my mortality.” The crowd and the guests all stood in shock, not a sound was made not even from the mice.

Jade frantically pulled on the elastic bands that covered her wrists. Britt watched in silence he wanted to go over and hug her but he would only make it worst. The female co-host spoke out first, “I’ve done some cruel things but what you’ve done is lower than low.” Jade spat out as she pressed a button to show the popularity rankings. Kimmi was a solid first while Grayson was ranked last.

The peppy girl let out a tear, “I thought she died… I looked for you.”

Jamie laughed. “And how long did it take for you to start dating Grayson after that?” The Skype caller spoke louder. “It all happened that night at the party. You begged me to take you. I thought you were just jealous you had to share me with Grayson. But no, you were just jealous of me for being with Grayson.”

“Jamie…” Kimmi uttered, “Please. “

The girl did not stop. “Preach, preacher preach. How can you be leading the country against Grayson when you forced yourself upon him. Grayson isn’t perfect, I know that. You KNEW that. He’s Grayson Hunt! Cheater by night but teen heartthrob by day. I understood what it meant to date him! So did the entire town.” Jamie paused, “Now why don’t you tell the country how I died.”

“Y-y-you jumped off of a bridge.”

“A bridge I was dared to jump off of. Yeah, you never saw me after that because I didn’t exactly want to see my supposed best friend after she made out with my boyfriend.”

Kimmi’s usual cheery demeanor fell. “I had to show you… You had to know he was a cheater.”

Jamie scoffed. “A cheating boyfriend and a liar for a best friend. That’s who Grayson and Kimmi are. Not a deranged killer and not an advocate against cheating boyfriends. If you want to hate Grayson for being an alpha male go ahead but stop hating him for something a nut job said.” The girl finished by pulling off her heart-shaped locket and dropping it into the trash dispenser. “Isn’t it ironic? You thinking I was dead - But just so we’re clear here. You’re dead to me.” The screen turned black.

The studio was silent except for near the entrance. “I’m sorry we’re live we can’t allow anyone else on stage.” Brennon said to the girl.

The girl gasped. “Do you know who I am? I am the Incan Goddess of beauty, Cherry. So I like think you should let me on before my people arrive.” She rolled her eyes and tried to step past Brennon but his arm stopped her. “Well, like you can’t say I didn’t try.” Cherry clapped her hands together and suddenly throughout the studio Incan warriors appeared. Including a very buff one by her side who picked her up and carried her towards the stage. “Fear not people of Canada! For I, Cherry, Incan goddess of Beauty am here to take my revenge on like the biggest lying ho in the room. KIMMI!”

Kimmi jumped up and tried to run away, but Cherry and her escort blocked her path. “You’re too late! Canada’s already voted! I’m going back on the show!”

“Like, i think, not totally sure, that you need to be breathing to be on the show.”

“Cherry? We all hate her too, but that’s a lil’ bit extreme, don’t you think?” Britt gasped and tried to get in between the two girls but he was easily tossed to the side.

“She like left me for dead, and not the good kind!”

Blake added, “To be fair they all left you for dead.”

Cherry paused. “You make a good point. And if it weren’t for you.” She glared at Kimmi. “I may have never created the best coffee chain on the planet!” She pulled out a Cherrylicious cup of coffee, “Well, like soon to be! The Inca are still like conquering rival tribes to use them for production.” She rolled her eyes. “It’s so hard to find good help these days.”

“Fire!” Leo shouted as he launched the cannon at Cherry, sending Jade flying out of the cannon. She soared through the air and landed on Cherry, as she pulled her to the ground.

“People think I’m insane. Clearly they haven’t met you.” Jade growled. “Now call off your army before I go psycho Jade all over you. And you better hope that Britt’s ok!”

“NO!” Kimmi screeched. “How can this be!” She gasped in horror as the popularity rankings changed one last time. 6th. Leo. 5th. Kimmi.. 4th. Tameron. 3rd. Emmett. 2nd. Blake. 1st. Cherry. “WHY!”

“Probably because she makes for great T.V,” Leo acknowledged, “Plus you might have surpassed both Grayson and Hannah as the most hated in Canada with your lies.” He sighed, “But somehow you’re still more popular than me.”

“What!” Cherry gasped. “Like, I can’t go back! The Inca need me! My company needs me! They’re like my people!” Brennon slowly walked over to the girl as she began to freak out and planted his fist against her face - knocking her out.

“I think we’re done here.” He announced. Britt and Jade nodded.

The hosting duo returned to the center of the screen and waved at the camera. “Well, this was certainly a dramatic episode of After the Drama… the title is kinda ironic now…. Stay tuned next week when Total Drama Tides is back! And coming up next, Total Drama Genesis, with fan-favourite, Rhonda!”

Chapter Nine: In Her Memory
The camera zoomed in on Mana the intern, his long hair blowing in the crisp wind. His arms rested against the rail of the balcony of his hotel room. “Welcome back to Total Drama Tides!” He announced, “I hope you all loved the special as much as I did! It had so much drama!” He smiled and walked towards the camera. “It was nice to see Britt and Jade again… even if they’re only a little heartbroken,” he sighed.

He pushed through the glass doors into his clean resort room, and jumped onto his king-sized bed. “We’ve watched our sailors travel to historic, and dangerous locations! They’ve faced off against pirate lords, ancient civilizations and a rebellious co-host, Rhonda! Now, 18 remain!” The intern jumped back onto his feet and peered through the curtains that led to a separate room, Zac is seen cowering beneath his covers. In a hushed tone Mana continued, “As you can see, Zac is still a little shaken up about the loss of Rhonda - mostly because he thinks that he killed her. But that’s ok! Because we get to stay in a resort while he cheers up!”

“Mana is that you!?” The host whispered, and pulled the covers away. His hair was a mess, and his eyes a deep red. “I’ve missed you! Come give me a hug!” The intern obliged then quickly hurried out of the room- bumping into Sam.

“What are you doing here?” Mana gasped.

Sam blinked. “He used to be so attractive!” The teen groaned, “He’s so… so… needy now. Not even in the cute way.”

“That’s none of your concern right now!” The intern hurried the contestant away, “Go spy on Colin I think he’s in the hottub!”

The thirsty teen shook his head, “As if. We’re over him! He’s too American.” He followed Mana as he walked through the halls.

“Well excuse me! It’s hard to keep up with you and your man-crushes.”

Sam shrugged, “There haven’t been that many!” He started to count on his fingers but then stopped, “Ok so maybe there were! But I found someone new! And this one is going to stick!”

“Whatever you say,” Mana stopped, “Now leave me alone! I have a show to plan!” He closed the door and returned to his room. He glanced over at the manatee plush and the pen and paper by his desk. “Rhonda…” He sat at the desk and stared at the nearly blank page and read over what he had written ‘Dear Rhonda’. “I miss you.” He stated and banged his head against the wood.

The screen jumped to the boys half of the Killer Sharks room. Andre is seen on the edge of the large bed. Behind a large pillow wall, Alfie had just woken up. The blond teen rubbed his eyes and looked over at Andre, “Morning Andre.” He smiled.

The musician chuckled, “I was thinking of leaving, but then again, I only just met you.” He teased and offered Alfie a mug of hot chocolate. “You like sweets right?” Alfie quickly grabbed the mug and sipped down the sweet syrup. “Do I ever!” The boy quickly got on his feet and threw on his clothes for the day. “See! I told Trixie you’d be a great addition to the team!”

The musician pulled his t-shirt on over his messy hair. “What do you mean?”

“She was worried you’d drag us all down like your last team.” Alfie quickly said while searching the room for more sweets.

(CONF): Andre is shown in a silver elevator. “Is this… the confessional here? Weird.” He turned to the camera, “I know I don’t have the best track record with Total Drama but I was hoping my new team would have had hope for me, y’know?”

In the room next door, Angel is seen painting Malia’s nails, while Trixie applied makeup to the girl. “Girl, are you sure you want all of this?” Trixie asked, “You already looked stunning.”

Angel nodded, “You really don’t have to Malia. I remember the time when I first put on makeup to go see Cody Simpson in person.” The fangirl daydreamed as she painted Malia’s toe. The pair giggled and Angel wiped it off.

“I want to!” Malia reassured and blushed slightly.

Trixie gasped, “Is it a boy!?” She stopped applying makeup and stared into Malia’s eyes who gave back a weak smile. “OH MY GOD! It is!”

The fangirl pinned Malia to the bed and started to tickle her. “Tell us who it is!”

“But---” Malia started to giggle uncontrollably, “You might,” she tried to breath, “Tell him!”

Angel and Trixie both gasped. “Never!” Trixie announced

“It would completely go against girl code!” Angel reassured. Malia blinked, confused. “You do know girl code… right?”

“Didn’t your mom ever teach you?” The cowgirl winced, “I don’t know how you’ve managed to live so long!”

Malia turned away from the pair, “Well, that’s just it. I really haven’t lived.” She sighed tears welling up in her eyes.

“We’ll teach you. You won’t have to be alone,” Angel wrapped her arms around the girl, “Not while we’re here.”

Youri is shown seated at a tiki bar on the beach, the three pirate ships docked in the pearly white sand. He grabbed a glass bottle with ‘Definitely Just Soda’ written on it’s label and took a sip. The teen looked out at the ocean with his big eyes and sighed. “Why do I feel like this.”

Sam stumbled over taking the seat next to Youri. “Why so glum chum? Relax!” The teen chugged from his own similarly labeled bottle.

“It’s whatever. I don’t want to talk about it.” Youri grunted, and tried to jump off of his high stool but fell onto Sam.

Sam rolled his eyes. “Fine, I’ll leave. I bet Grayson is probably sunbathing nearby anyways.”

Youri’s face turned a brighter red. “See that’s it just there! Why don’t you even consider me?!” Youri pulled off his shirt to reveal his slim- but toned body. “Am I not man enough for you to stalk!” He dropped to the ground and started to do pushups. “Now that Emmett’s gone everyone was supposed to see! That I’m a man! That I’m not just some wuss! It was all his fault!”

The blond shook his head. “Is that why you’re always so hot and bothered?” He let out a laugh and handed Youri another bottle. “You’re like, at least a 7 out of 10 on the hotty scale but you don’t act like it.”

“Act like it?” Youri asked silently.

“You don’t understand your own worth. It’s off-putting. Almost pathetic. Like you want us to feel sorry for you because you can’t even do it yourself.” Sam groggily took another sip. “Even though Emmett was a pathetic, massively sexy sack of meat, he knew deep down he was worth it - he wanted to prove it. He wanted to show he was a man.” Sam grinned, “It was hot.” He returned his gaze to the Youri who was in the sand. “You just wanted to be better than him, like a child. Not hot, and also illegal.” Sam let out a burp and bubbles floated out of his mouth.

Youri managed to stumble away, “Whatever man! You, you, you’re just jealous!” He grumbled as he fell into Mana’s arms.

The intern blinked, “What have you two been drinking?” His eyes narrowed, “And where can I get some of that.”

The scene switched to show Colin and Fleur as they ate beneath a large pink umbrella on the beach. “This is in the how you say, le romantic!” Fleur giggled.

Colin grinned, “See I knew you would come around.” He poured her a glass of bubbling water.

“Why are you not here with pretty girl?” Fleur questioned and Colin facepalmed. The french girl pointed to a nearby girl in a bikini, “I would be in the thinking she would like to kiss!”

The American scratched his head, “Yeah, one would think.” He paused and looked over to where Sam sat alone at the bar. “Can you believe him? He spent all season fawning over me and then he just stops?” He groaned. He looked the other way and saw Hannah failing to flirt with a topless male. “And her? Like come on!” Fleur blinked. “Tu est, how you say, jello?”

Colin stared at her, “Of course not. Not of those two.”

(CONF): Colin is seen in the silver elevator. “It’s just not the same when they’re not trying to make out with me every minute, ok?”

The camera showed Hannah as she failed to flirt with yet another guy. “I don’t get it! Why does no one ever want to kiss me!” She jumped into the sand upset. “I checked my romance skill! It should be more than high enough.”

Damien walked over to the teen, “What’s wrong?”

“Nothing!” She muttered. “I don’t need YOUR help! You’re probably just like your sister.”

“Coming from you? That’s fresh.” Damien laughed and started to walk off. “But maybe no one wants to date you because they only know the way that the show showed you. Everyone knows you as the insanely bitter girl who cheated on her boyfriend and then made him lose in the finale.”

Hannah looked up at Damien, “Is that what they did to Heather?”

Damien shrugged, “At least in her case, it wasn’t true.” He turned back at Hannah, “You’re basically satan.”

The screen panned to show Grayson as he tanned beside Viola. “Living in 2017 sucks.” She groaned, “All these beauty standards we have to conform to.”

Grayson chuckled, “Tell me about it!” He removed his shirt to show off his fit torso. “This is a lot of hard work!” Grayson paused, “You know, I’ve never noticed but your voice is really familiar.”

Damien appeared next to the pair, “Viola, don’t trust him. He’s a liar, a cheater and a murderer.” The prep said nothing.

“Thanks for the advice,” Viola stated and offered Grayson some of her pizza.

“Did you not hear what I just said?” Damien said shocked.

“It excites me.” Viola shrugged. The legacy sailor muttered under his breath and walked off.

Grayson looked down at the pizza- the red tomato sauce was replaced with a white donair sauce, and was topped with donair meat and onion and cheese. “I know I’ve heard of this before.” He grinned and looked over at Viola, “You host the This Is It Podcast don’t you! Me and my friends watch that all of the time! Your view on life is so wild!”

Viola smirked and bit into her donair pizza. “I do wholeheartedly enjoy meeting my fans - especially those of the killer variety.” She laughed.

“Wait! That means you go to school with Kimmi!” His eyes went wide, “You know about Jamie… and Kimmi.”

The gloomy girl shrugged. “It’s all going to come to an end sooner or later why not indulge in the pleasures while you still can.”

Grayson started to pack up his stuff. “Thanks Viola but if you know about Jamie than you know what happened to her.”

“Yes, I know she recovered and is perfectly fine and is pretending to be dead to punish her ex-best friends.” She took another bite of her pizza, “This is one of the few things that gives me life.”

“WHAT?” Grayson gasped and turned to Viola. “What do you mean?”

“It tastes so good?”

“About Kimmi.” He laughed. “And Jamie?” He pulled out Kimmi’s locket.

“Oh.” She took another bite. “She hates you and Kimmi for making out and betraying her. Which I don’t even understand because you’re gay.”

Grayson jumped on top of Viola and covered her mouth. “KEEP IT DOWN!” He looked into Viola’s brown eyes. “Jamie’s alive?” She nodded. Without hesitation Grayson threw the locket into the ocean, and watched as a shark conveniently jumped into the air and ate it. “And you couldn’t tell me before this?”

Viola blinked. “It was the little bit of humour I found here.”

“I need more pizza.” Grayson muttered as he laid back down on the sand and Viola handed him a slice.

The scene switched to Wing and Yasmin at the tikki cafeteria. The pair sat as they ate their tikki burgers. Yasmin looked up at Wing. “When we were in Atlantis… You… you said you used to live in Floria?”

Wing looked away from the girl. “This be not the case.”

Yasmin nodded, “Your dad was a pirate king. Captain Wing. He attacked Floria.”

“NEVER!” Wing growled. “He did no such thing.” The pirate removed her hat and started to peel a banana but Yasmin stopped her.

“They attacked him didn’t they?”

Wing nodded. “I be just a child then. But I never laid me eyes on him again.” She turned away to wipe a tear away.

“And somehow you and Tameron both ended up together.” Yasmin asked staring at her.

Wing nodded. “Aye. This is what I said.” She glared as she watched Zaina walk over to sit with Elyar.

The camera panned to focus on the pair. “Elyar? May I sit here?” Zaina asked before she took her seat. He nodded and she sat down.

“Have you seen Sarah?” He frowned, “She’s been distant ever since Atlantis.”

Zaina stared at him, “That’s why I’m here. I don’t think you should speak to her anymore.”

Elyar shook his coffee before he took a sip. “Is that so?”

She nodded. “You’re bad mojo. Us girls can take care of her from now on.”

The agent removed his shades so that he could stare into Zaina’s eyes. “In order to properly take care of someone else you must first be able to care for yourself.” He brushed the crumbs off of his shirt and continued, “besides, you’ve been down this path before. Do I need to remind you of Lexi?” He stood up and looked down at the girl, “I’m going to go speak to my friend now, enjoy your food.” He picked up his shades and returned them to his face.

“At least I care about her.” Zaina spat out.

“Her being is of the utmost importance to me as well.” Elyar grinned.

Wing sighed and returned her gaze to Yasmin. “It be time ye know the truth about Zaina. She’s the heir to the throne of Floria.”

Yasmin’s eyes went wide as she looked over to where the girl sat by herself. “That makes so much sense.” She pulled out a notebook and looked over her notes. “This entire team it makes so much more sense. But how did Rhonda know! How did she find all of us, and Sarah? How does she connect to all of us? She can’t just be here to bug Zac.”

Wing shook her head. “I am uncertain.” She returned her gaze to Elyar who removed his shades so that he could give a wink to the pirate. “But he must not be allowed near her. If Elyar and the agency be interested in Zaina then she is in danger.”

(CONF): Yasmin frowned. “I know my parents are in Floria somewhere. And I am almost certain someone on my team knows where. I just don’t know who.”

Sarah is seen walking down the beach, following a small duckling. “Come here lil’guy! I just want to help!” She called, and looked behind her to where a duck family seemed to be walking in the other direction. “I know what it’s like to be the ugly duckling! I was in band for how long!” Not looking where she was going, Sarah tripped over a sunbathing Viola. “Ahhh!”

“Ah yes, this is why you don’t wear heels when running in the sand.” Viola remarked, “It’ll be the end of you.”

The singer picked herself up and groaned. “Hey now! There’s no reason to be sassy! Or a big ball of doom and gloom!” Sarah adjusted her jewelry and her hair and began to chase after the duck once more.

“But why even bother trying if you know you’re just going to fail.” Viola stated as Sarah fell face first into the sand again. “Why are you even chasing a duck? I know you enjoy the better things in life but do you really need to eat a duck today?”

“It’s not like that!” Sarah angrily said. “It’s just important to me ok!”

“An ugly duckling? Important to you. Ha. Ha.” Viola forced a laugh.

Sarah picked herself back up from the sand and looked around, but the duckling had vanished. “See! Why did you have to scare it away with all of your negativity!”

Viola shrugged. “It had nothing to do with you chasing it.”

Sarah pouted, “You know what, I don’t have time for people who don’t even care! Good luck being alone!” She shouted and ran off.

Grayson returned to the scene, with two glasses in his hands, “What was all of that about?”

“Nothing.” Viola muttered.

(CONF): Viola rolled her eyes. “It’s not my fault that I understand there’s no point in having a friendship because your friends are just going to abandon you. There’s no point in loving because they’re just going to move on.”

The screen switched to show all of the contestants gathered around Mana who stood in front of a tiki totem. “As some of you may know, Zac isn’t exactly…”

“Nice?”

“Smart?”

“Happy?”

“Good at his job?” Mana stared in disbelief at the contestants who were laughing. “He is nothing of the sorts! I was going to say that Zac is currently feeling down about the ill fate of Rhonda.”

Yasmin adjusted her glasses, “You mean he is still unaware that Rhonda ditched him for her own show?”

Mana jumped down so that he was directly in front of Yasmin, “And he must never know!” He walked in front of all of the contestants, trying to be brave. “He is sad. And your challenge today will be to cheer him up! I have tried everything that I could think of…” He sighed, “But to no luck.” He paused, “And if you even think about letting him know the truth about Rhonda you will be instantly eliminated - and will NEVER be allowed back on the show.”

“Can you….. Even do that?” Youri slurred.

“Don’t test me. You have until sunset.”

The three teams split up and held meetings. The Hotties grouped up in the sauna. Hannah sat beside Sam in her power flower one piece. She stood up and began to rub her finger through the steam on the glass wall, writing ‘Zac’. “So. What do we know about Zac? Have we discovered any of his secrets? Or his traits?”

Colin got up and moved between Hannah and Fleur, resting his arm close to Sam’s. “Well, we know he likes to look hot, and hot people.” He slowly removed his shirt, flexing his biceps. “Speaking of, it sure is hot in here.” Grayson stared at the teen and gulped.

“It’s a sauna. What did you expect?” Viola stated, she sat between Sam and Fleur.

Sam spoke up, “Well, he really hates the Frozen cast.” He looked around the room, “And I think he likes Sarah? He’s always sneaking around her.”

“He likes to play games with our heads too.” Grayson added. “Like a lot.”

“HAYDEN!” Fleur shouted out, remembering Zac’s boyfriend. “He is in the missing of his blonde!”

“I think we just figured out how to beat the level!” Hannah exclaimed excitedly, “I’m so happy I decided to like you again!” She cheered and gave Fleur a giant hug. The team captain quickly split her team into three pairs and give them all jobs to do. “We can do this!” The teammates moved in for a group hug, Colin seemed disappointed.

Back in her hotel room, Sarah could feel the eyes of the other pirates staring at her. “What?” She asked.

“Well, I mean,” Damien started, but wasn’t sure how to approach her.

Elyar tried to move closer to Sarah, but Wing blocked his path. “You do have history with him,” he offered. “If we are to have any chance at winning this it’s going to be because of your inside knowledge.” Yasmin contributed.

Zaina wrapped her arm around her friend. “You don’t have to do anything if you don’t want to.” She smiled. “We understand it’s not the best history.”

Wing huffed, “But if ye want the treasure…” Zaina shoved a banana into Wing’s mouth to quiet her.

Sarah started to laugh, “What? Do you guys think I wouldn’t want to help?” She shook her head. “I’m actually SO happy I finally get to be useful!” She grinned and hugged her team. “Look, the past it just that. The past, and besides despite not hearing from Zac in over a year we have a lot of good history too.”

“So? How do we do it? How do we win?” Damien asked.

“It’s a long shot! But it’s the best option,” Sarah smiled and began to explain her plan.

(CONF): Elyar growled. “The mission can not become a failure. I can not afford that.”

The Killer Sharks were still standing around the tiki totem, argueing. “Hold up! Why do you get to be the captain?” Trixie groaned after Andre suggested they perform a musical number.

Andre shrugged, “I just assumed, I have the most experience…”

“At losing!” Youri muttered.

Malia spoke up in Andre’s defence, “A team is only as strong as their weakest link.” Andre smiled at the girl causing her to blush. Trixie and Angel shared a surprised look.

“You guys sound like Cody’s bodyguards whenever I snuck in,” Angel sighed, “It was your fault! No yours!” She giggled and mocked the bodyguards. She pulled out a bottle. “Common, we’re friends right?” She placed it in the centre of the team, “We’ll spin the bottle and whoever it lands on will be the leader.”

“I think Trixie should be the leader,” Alfie suggested, “She has the hat! That’s how this is supposed to work!” He walked closer to Trixie who seemed uncomfortable, “She did win us the first challenge.”

“What about me?” Youri hissed.

“You left Malia for dead last time!” Angel muttered.

Andre started to walk away. Trixie shouted after him, “Are you just going to abandon us like your last team?” The group went silent.

“I thought I was joining a team,” he looked around at other Sharks who looked like they were about to start a fight, “I guess I thought wrong.” The Sharks went silent, and after Andre was out of sight, they also went their separate ways.

Mana took a deep breath as he returned to his desk and stared down at the letter he’d written to Rhonda. “I just… Why did you have to leave me with him?” The intern wiped a tear away. “I’ll get a teaching job in Canada… All of this, it’ll be worth it.” He assured himself and grinned into the mirror meekly. “How long until the finale again?”

“Tell me about Cody,” Malia asked as she and Angel build a sand castle. “You talk about him a lot, did you… Did you love him?”

The brunette paused, her hands in the sand. “I did, at one time.” She gave a smile to the girl. “But that’s in the past now.” She blushed. “Besides I’m totes over him now!”

Malia moved her hand over her friends. “Are you really? Is love so… Forgettable?”

Angel put on a smile, “No! It’s not.” She assured Malia. “We just had a… complex history. A lot of people thought that we shouldn’t be together.”

“How did you know you were in love?”

“You just know. It’s like staring into the night sky and making a wish, except there’s nothing to wish for because you already have everything you could ever dream of.” Angel wiped away a stray tear.

“That sounds… wonderful.” Malia spoke out.

“Well don’t believe it. Everyone knows she’s lying Malia. She’s just some crazy fan girl who tried to make out with her teen idol.” Youri grumpily muttered as he stumbled past the girls. Angel shot daggers at the teen.

Andre arrived and carried Youri away. “Come on budd, I think it’s time you lie down.” He sighed and turned to the girls. “I hope he didn’t bother you.”

(CONF): Andre banged his head against the side of the silver elevator. “Dania, I don’t think I can do this. The Sirens were dysfunctional, but the Sharks are no better. I don’t know how Emmett managed to lead them, and I don’t know how I’m supposed to. I can’t win with them.”

Damien and Zaina are seen walking down the beach. “Do you miss her?” Zaina asked and glancing over at Damien.

“Who?” “Heather,” Zaina clarified.

Damien looked out at the ocean, “It’s hard being here without her, but she’s my inspiration. But yeah, I miss her. Why do you ask?” He turned his attention back towards Zaina.

“No reason. It was a dumb question.” She quickly responded. “We should keep looking.”

The legacy contestant stopped, “Is this about Tameron?”

Zaina exhaled. “I… I miss him. Does that make me a weak person? I barely even knew him and he lied to me… but…”

Damien grabbed onto her hand, “You’re allowed to miss your brother. It’s in your blood to miss him. I’m lucky I knew my sister, the real version of her before she came here… The show changes people, you have to know that. I’m sure that Tameron never meant to hurt you Zaina.”

She smiled and wrapped her arms around an unsuspecting Damien. “Thanks! I’m really glad that you chose to join our team.”

The scene switched to show Colin and Viola as they stood against one of the walls in the hotel. Viola stared at the clock on the wall, trying to not make any more awkward than Colin was already making it. “I just don’t get it. Why can’t Fleur see that I’m into her?”

“I don’t know. Why don’t you try asking her.” Viola stated.

Colin grunted. “I can’t just ASK her! She seems to really like you, do you think that you could… Y’know put in a good word for me? Or at least give me some advice?”

Viola’s eyes went wide as she tried to contain her surprise and vomit. She forced a smile and turned to the boy. “Sure.” The hands on the clock ticked over and Viola pulled the fire alarm.

“Now it’s up to the rest of the team,” Colin shouted as he and Viola ran from the water that began to rain down on them.

(CONF): Viola stared at the camera. “I have three options here, and none of them are overly exciting. One. I can give the guy a break and speak highly of him to Fleur and let him be disappointed by love itself. Two. I could do nothing and let the game of life play itself out. Or three, I could….”

(CONF): Colin grinned at his own reflection in the elevator. “Viola’s so nice! I knew she was a true friend after all, I’m glad that I have her and Fleur around.”

Alfie smiled and joined Trixie by the sundae bar. “What’s my sweety up to?” He chuckled.

Trixie bit her lip and turned to the teen. “We should talk.”

“About?” He asked as he shoved a spoonful of cherry ice cream into his mouth.

“Us and the fact that…” Trixie started, but Alfie cut her off.

“I know. I like us too.” He moved over to wrap his arms around the girl but she stood up.

She looked away from Alfie, “No Alfie. That’s the thing, I don’t think there should be an us.” Trixie sighed. “It’s not you, it’s me.” The cowgirl walked away, leaving Alfie with a scoop of ice cream in his mouth.

Alfie looked pulled out a small pouch from his pocket and poured out the candy hearts into his hand. He frowned as he read them “#DreamTeam,” he plopped the heart into his mouth and chewed on it, “#Tralfie” he tossed it into his mouth, “#HatLove” he put the final heart into his mouth and crunched down on it.

(CONF): Trixie tearfully opened up her journal and turned to the swimmer's page and scribbled Alfie’s name down. “I can’t Alfie… I don’t want to be broken hearted, I can’t become my mother. I have to keep my eyes on the prize.”

“You won’t stop me my little Wing. The plans already in motion, it’s been in motion for years. My father started it when you were taken and now I’ll finally end it.” Elyar shrugged as he and Wing searched the resort's garden.

Captain Wing shook her head. “No. Ye can not be wrecking the heart of a pirate, nor will you plunder the kingdom of Floria. If ye think ye be so smart, why not tell me ye plan?”

Elyar raised his eyebrows, “Oh little Wing, I’m not an idiot like those on the tele. Besides right now we have a challenge to win.” He reminded as he pointed to a duck on the ground. He grabbed Wing’s hat and tossed it at the lone duckling.

“Does the man behind the shades have a heart, or is it just darkness?” She muttered.

“You’ll find out soon enough,” He paused, “If it makes you feel any better you’ll have a chance to see your mother very soon.” Wing’s eyes went wide as she cradled the small duck.

Elsewhere Mana is seen rushing out of his suit. “OF COURSE THERE WOULD BE A FIRE ON THE ONE DAY I HOST!” The intern yelled at himself, “I should have seen this coming!”

Hannah put her hand across the door frame before the door could close. “I always knew my sneaking skill was high enough to be a secret agent.” She grinned and pushed the door open for both her and Grayson. She shut it behind them and stared at the new comer to her team. “I’ve heard a pretty rumour about you.”

“And I of you.” He shrugged and began to search the interns room.

Hannah put her hand on the teen, “You don’t understand me. I don’t want you on my team. Not now.”

Grayson nodded, “I see where you’re coming from. But I’m giving you a second chance here, at least give me the same opportunity.”

The gamer stared at the prep and remembered her conversation with Damien, “Fine.” She muttered. “But don’t make me regret it. I’ve played Attack on Titans!”

“Let’s just find the phone ok?” Hannah nodded as she and Grayson tore the room apart in search of the cell phone.

(CONF): Grayson groaned, “It seems Kimmi’s story is getting around… But I can’t come clean about it. It would ruin me!”

Andre is seen sitting by the poolside with a sleeping Youri. He played a beat on the beach balls and sang a soft song to himself. “It’s been a long time coming, the low from your eternal high. But boy was it worth it? Did you get everything you wanted? It doesn’t matter now, because we’ll set things straight and raise your spirits.”

“You know you’re actually decent.” Youri stated, rubbing his eyes. “I have a killer headache.” He groaned.

Andre quickly wrote down the last of his lyrics, “Thanks. Glad to have you back.”

“So what are we doing for the challenge?” Youri asked.

The musician shrugged, “Nothing.”

Youri’s face paled. “What!” He jumped to his feet, “No! We can’t just do nothing! We’ll lose!”

Andre sighed, “Well the team doesn’t seem to care.”

“Well I Care!” Youri shouted and raced out of the room, “I’ll go home!”

(CONF): Youri repeatedly banged his head against the silver elevator. “I screwed up! My team hates me, and now they’re throwing the challenge to send me home!”

Yamin stared at Sarah as they waited outside of Zac’s room. “You still care about him, don’t you.”

Sarah looked away, “He’s an old friend now. I love him like a brother. Seeing him like this…” She glanced through the door at the boy, “It’s not a good feeling.” She huddled closer to Yasmin who was using an umbrella to protect them from the sprinklers.

“Sarah. I need to tell you some things. Things that will be hard to believe, but you if we are going to be a team going forward you must know.” The scholar started, but the low-pitched quacking interrupted her.

“Elyar.” Yasmin grumbled.

“Yasmin, Sarah.” He smiled as he and Wing brought the duck to the pair.

“Elyar…” Sarah whispered out.

Yasmin returned her gaze to Sarah, “Are you sure this will work?”

Sarah nodded, “It will. And.. we’ll talk later ok?” She replied to Yasmin and then looked over at Elyar, “Us too.” The singer gently took hold of the duck and walked into Zac’s room.

“Mana? Rhonda? Hayden?” Zac’s voice quivered from beneath the covers. He peeked out just enough to see Sarah. “S-sarah? You’re dead! Is this the ghost of Christmas past?” He shrunk back beneath the blanket.

His old friend took a seat on the bed beside him. “Oh Zac, my friend. It’s ok.” She rubbed his back over the covers. “I’m not dead, I’m not a ghost. We were separated, Elyar kept me hidden, he kept me safe.”

Zac took a calming breath. “I missed you. I looked for you. I didn’t stop.” He peeked out from the covers. “I loved you.”

Sarah entangled her hands with Zac’s. “I know. I know. I know. I’m so sorry.” She wiped the tears away from her eyes. “I found this,” She giggled and showed him the duckling.

“Oh my god.” Zac burst into a smile. “An ugly duckling, my ugly duckling he stared into Sarah’s eyes. “I can’t believe that’s how we met.” He covered his face as his cheeks turned red.

Sarah giggled lightly, “Hey now, you gave me the best makeover Canadian reality tv has ever seen, I’m not an ugly duckling now.” She smiled.

“Debatable. Your hairs a mess and your makeups running, were you out in the rain?” Zac teased.

“It’s a long story, there was a fire alarm and-”

“THEN WHY ARE WE STILL INSIDE!”

“Because you’re more important.”

“D’awwww!” Elyar, Wing and Yasmin are whispered to themselves from outside of the room.

Zac nodded, “Well, you’re important to me too, but y’know I like my life so let’s go.” He encouraged as they stood up.

Sarah stopped him, “I’m sorry but you can’t go out like that.” She pointed at the sweat shorts the boy wore, and the tear-filled tissues that clung to his torso.

“Good point.”

The scene switched to show most of the cast in front of the giant tiki idol. Mana and Zac exchanged glances as they approached the mic. Zac grabbed it, “So, I hope that you’ve all enjoyed your time here! But the shows budget isn’t that big, so we have to do a challenge and then we’re going to have to leave.” The host announced.

“We already did a challenge…” Damien coughed.

“We did?” Zac questioned. Mana walked beside him and whispered into his ear. Zac turned red and yelled at the intern, “You turned ME into the challenge!? What am I supposed to do with all of these tiki spears now!” Mana winced, thinking Zac was going to spray him with water.

“So far, the Pirates are in a commanding lead, considering how they somehow managed to get Zac out of his room, showered and dressed so good job!” Mana smiled as the pirates cheered. “What about you?” He turned to Andre and the Sharks.

“Well uh,” Andre scratched the back of his head.

“We baked you a cupcake!” Youri grinned and presented a cupcake with Zac’s likeness iced on top.

“We did?” Alfie, Andre, Angel, Malia, and Trixie all questioned.

“We did.” Youri replied. Before he knew it Zac had engulfed the cupcake.

“Tastes great!” He commended. “Now what do you have to present to the greatest host ever?” He asked as he turned to the Zactastic Hotties.

Elsewhere… “Come on Fleur! We don’t have much time left!” Sam urged, “let’s just find his number and go!”

“It is tres hard!” Fleur shouted, feeling the pressure as she clicked through all of the Hayden’s on Zac’s friends list. “He knows so many!”

“It’s that one!” Sam declared pointing at a random Hayden.

“Quoi? How do you knew!?” Fleur asked startled.

“It’s the hottest one, it’s the one I’d do.” Sam chuckled.

“But ack, he looks… Americano.” Fleur said, trying her best to be Canadian.

Sam nodded, “Good point,” He clicked the mouse a few times, “Oh boy, won’t the others love this! Turns out Zac has a soft spot for it below the border.”

“Le gasp!” Fleur announced as she and Sam raced back to the others.

“It’s about time!” Hannah shouted.

“We were about to lose!” Grayson added and handed the pair Mana’s cell phone.

“Dial it!” Viola urged.

“You got this Fleur!” Colin winked and the french girl blushed.

The pair walked up to Zac and dialed Hayden’s number. “We thought you might want to hear his voice, it’s not often that we have cell service.” Sam smiled and put the phone on speaker phone. Zac’s face lit up as he heard the phone ring.

And ring.

And ring.

And ring.

Rhonda’s familiar voice was heard, “Thanks for calling Hayden! Sadly he’s competing on Total Drama Genesis and can’t come to the phone right now, or for the next few months! Sorry!”

Zac let out a scream, and all of the contestants ran, including Mana.

Later that night, Mana arrived on the Zactastic Hotties ship, where they were waiting for him. He called everyone over for the elimination ceremony.

“Well, I hope this doesn’t come as a surprise to any of you.” Mana said, “I just managed to calm Zac down after the stunt you all pulled. Ironic considering how you’re his team, but it is what it is.”

“We didn’t know that was going to happen,” Grayson groaned.

Hannah frowned, “Why would she cast his boyfriend for her show and how? He’s Canadian!”

Sam let out a laugh, “About that.. Hayden’s American.”

The teens shared a gasp. “He is?” Colin asked. Fleur nodded, “It’s how you say, true.”

Viola facepalmed, “If you know how to say the word, you don’t have to say, how you say.”

“Anyways.” Mana continued, “You’ve all had time to cast your votes, and now one of you will be leaving.” He turned to Colin, “What is the most important thing to you when it came to this vote?”

Colin looked over at Fleur, “Staying with the people who I care about, it’s what we do in America.”

“What about you Fleur?”

“I am in the wanting to keeping team strong like Canadian beaver!” She giggled.

“Because that makes sense,” Sam chuckled, “Besides this was the easiest vote we’ve had yet.” He looked over at Grayson and winked.

“It was?” Mana questioned. “Well ok…” The intern walked over to the cannons, “If you see your face light up in the sky you’re safe.” He shot the first three cannons, as Sam’s, Hannah’s and Fleur’s face all appeared.

Grayson gulped, “Viola? I thought you believed in me.”

She raised an eyebrow, “I do. But I am not the entire team.” Viola’s face brightened the night sky, ironically.

“I know you guys don’t like me anymore but I thought we could still be friends…” Colin turned to stare at both Hannah and Sam.

“This team is like a soap opera.” Grayson muttered.

“Trust me, I am fully aware. I’ve been trying to off myself for a long time. It just doesn’t work.” Viola grunted.

Mana turned to Colin and Grayson, “The nooby, and the American. Let’s see if the team values loyalty or their country.” He shot the final cannon into the sky as Grayson’s face appeared.

“Guys?” Colin asked, shocked. “I thought we were tight?”

Sam shrugged, “We were, but I mean you know the whole power couple thing, we really don’t need another Zoey and Mal over here, sorry.” Sam rolled his eyes and pushed the American over the edge of the ship. “That’s for Blake!”

Mana looked at the teens, “You confuse me and make me not want to work with children. But I want to be a teacher so…. I am conflicted.” He chuckled as he walked away.

(CONF): Viola’s confessional from before is continued, “Or three. I could lie and turn the team against him.”

Fleur turned to Viola, “Thank you,” she wrapped her arms around Viola which caused her to blush. “For telling me how he really felt about my accent.” Viola stared at the camera, her face filled with more regret than normal.

The scene changed to Sarah’s cabin, as Yasmin leaves the room and Elyar walks in. “Sarah… Things are about to get revealed and you need to know the truth.” The agent walked closer to the girl and tried to put his hand on her shoulder but she back away.

“I know the truth Elyar. About everything.” She stepped back, “I know what you said to Wing, I know about Zaina, I know.”

The agent shook his head, “You do not know Sarah!” He sat down. “Sarah, you’re my first and most important mission while I’m on this show. I needed to keep you here until this point.”

“What? Why?”

“Zaina can not be allowed to take the throne, she’s unstable. You are to pretend to be the long lost princess in her place.”

“You’re insane!” Sarah shouted.

“No. You have all of the features of a florian, the blonde hair, the green eyes. You have the bubbly personality, and most importantly you’re strong and smart. You can rule them.” He reached out to her again but she backed off, “I know you can.”

“Why would I do this? Zaina deserves to be home!”

Elyar smirked, “Yes, but the agency wants you on the throne. You will do as we ask, if anyone else rises onto the throne we won’t guarantee their safety, we are more than willing to end the civil war in Floria if you take your place on the throne. Besides, Zaina is just beginning to be happy again, do you really want to take that away from her?”

“This is too much Elyar!” She shouted. “This isn’t some soap opera! Things don’t just happen like that in real life! Can’t I atleast think about it?”

“You have a day, Sarah. We’re on our way to Floria right now.” He paused, “And do not think about telling the others, the agency will have agents throughout Floria tomorrow. I will find out.”

Elimination Table
NAME: This contestant was on the Screaming Sirens

NAME: This contestant was on the Killer Sharks

NAME:  This contestant was on the Zactastic Hotties

NAME:  This contestant was on the Pillaging Pirates

WIN: This contestant was on the winning team.

SAFE:  This contestant was not on the winning, or losing team.

IN: This contestant was on the losing team but survived elimination.

LOW: This contestant was on the losing team and was part of the bottom 2.

BOTTOM: This contestant was on the losing team and was recieved the most votes, but was not eliminated.

OUT: This contestant was on the losing team and was eliminated.

OUT:  This contestant was on the winning team and was eliminated.

LEFT: This contestant left the competition.

RETURN: This contestant returned.