"Last time on Total Drama Island..." Chris began the recap while polishing a bright red medallion with a fire symbol. "The campers got sent out on safari. They made like they were zookeepers. Although, some of them might wanna look at other careers. Dawn won, big shock there I know. And while some sucked big time, the biggest mess up came from Courtney who lead an angry bear into camp and caused everyone's stuff to be destroyed. So instead of the bear, it was her who was relocated off the island and became the next camper to bite the dust. This week, our remaining eight campers will face a challenge forcing them to rely on their instincts and fight for their honor! Will Dawn dominate once again? Will Heather avoid the Boat of Losers yet again? And who will be voted off this week in the most dramatic campfire ceremony yet? Find out tonight...on Total. Drama. Island!"
"Man…can't believe there are only eight of left." Sitting in the mess hall, Lincoln looked around the room and gave a quick eye to all the contestants still remaining on Total Drama Island. It was kinda weird seeing the lodge this…empty. Hard to believe just a few weeks ago more seats were filled up on each table. Not only that, but the gender count was once again completely balanced. Four males and four females. "Makes me kinda nervous…all of us are just ripe for the picking."
"Come on Lincoln, you can't think about that," Dawn reassured Lincoln as she placed a hand on his back and started to slowly rub it to comfort and relax him. But if truth be told Dawn was also pretty nervous. With the combination of sudden death rounds and the littlest thing making everyone turn against someone, such as with Courtney and the bear, one mistake could potentially be her last. They had to be at their A-game 24/7 and being nervous wasn't gonna help them at all. "Let's just relax and keep at it like we always have. Remember we're in this together."
Lincoln took some deep breaths to calm his nerves. Lincoln has said it before but he never expected to make it this far. And every challenge made him more and more nervous as anything could get him eliminated and out of the game…and away from Dawn. "Y-Yeah…you're right." Lincoln managed to form a small as he looked at Dawn. Nervous as he was, he needed to face his fears and push forward. No matter what may happen. "We're in this together, Dawn and Lincoln all the way."
"There's the man I love." Dawn placed a loving kiss on her boyfriend's cheek as an extra source of reassurance and just because she wanted to kiss her boyfriend. Dawn then separated from Lincoln a bit and held up a spoon full of food up to his face. "Now come on~" Dawn started speaking in a sweet voice as she waved the spoon in front of her face. "Open up~"
"Hehe, oh alright." This got a real smile out of Lincoln as the Loud boy opened up his mouth and allowed Dawn to spoon-fed him. A gesture that Dawn couldn't help but feel giddy about doing.
"Man would you look at those two." From the other table, Gwen, Leshawna, and DJ watched the scene of the couple with the former cringing a bit. "They're so sweet I think I'm gonna get a cavity!"
"I think it's nice," DJ stated as he held a sleeping Bunny in his arms. While most would find Lincoln and Dawn sickeningly adorable at the moment, DJ just found it adorable. It was nice seeing both Lincoln and Dawn so happy with each other. "Those two are what a teenage couple should be. At least according to my momma."
"Yeah, they're sweet and all. But when are those two gonna get to first base?" Leshawna asked as she picked at her food with a bored look on her face. From her neck of the woods, she's seen stuff like that all the time and wasn't really affected by it. But looking to her friends, Leshawna saw DJ and Gwen giving her raised brows and asked. "What?"
"What do you mean first base?" Gwen asked with a confused tone. If anything, those two are at second base…right? "I feel like those two have long passed first base a while ago."
"…Pfft, hahahahahahahahahah! Oh! Oh! That's, hahaha, a good one!" Leshawna started laughing incredibly hard, to the point where a few tears of laughter came out of her eyes. Eventually, Leshawna calmed herself down and looked to Gwen and DJ…looking more confused than ever. Leshawna's eyes widened a bit as she realized they were series. "Wait you two for real now?"
"Well…yeah?" DJ questioned as he scratched the back of his head. "What are they not on first base or something?"
"Ok look, here's how it goes." Leshawna began to explain the bases of a relationship to the two of her friends. "First up, home base is where there are right now. All the lovey-dovey mushy stuff. But then ya get to first base where the real fun begins! Exploring each other's bodies and seeing just what the other is made of! Then ya get to second base when clothes start dropping but you don't quite 'do it' just yet. Then third base is when ya finally do it. Get it now?"
"Yeeeeeah…more then I would have liked." Gwen admitted with her and DJ sporting red faces, feeling they had just gotten the abridged version of 'The Talk' and that was not something that needed to be abridged. Especially on reality TV. "Great, now I can't get that picture out of my head…"
"Well…what about when you get back home?" DJ dared to ask another question, making Gwen facepalm. "You always gotta head back home right?" Quite frankly DJ was a bit frightened about this question but it was too late to take it back now.
"Simple, ya put a ring on it." Leshawna gave a short and simple answer as to what 'going home' meant. "What'd ya think it meant?"
"Um…well…" DJ blushed harder as he twirled his fingers together, trying to find a way out of this. "Nothing! Absolutely nothing! Hehehe…"
Gwen and Leshawna rose an eyebrow at the jock as he sweated nervously and decided to shrug it off and leave it be. It was DJ, how perverted could it possibly be. "Anyway, those two have gotta move onto first base," Leshawna said in a rather firm tone as she pointed to the couple at the other table, who were oblivious to their conversation and just enjoying themselves together. "The most they have done is make out, they haven't touched each other yet."
"Can we please not have this conversation while we're trying to eat." Gwen quickly shut her best friend down. Leshawna was one of the best friends she's ever had, but this was not a conversation she wanted to have. Especially when she has to keep food that's already hard to keep down, down. "It's hard enough eating this slop normally."
Leshawna simply shrugged and was about to continue eating herself…until a familiar and irritating voice came in through the loudspeakers. "Attention campers!" Chris' voice was heard by everyone, making them all groan as they already guessed he was gonna rush them through breakfast in order to initiate another round of torture. "Hope you had your fill of breaky because in five minutes report to the opposite side of the island for today's a-maze-ing challenge! Haha!"
"Booooooo!" Chef said as he gave a thumbs down to Chris' words.
"What's that mean?" Duncan asked Chef with the delinquent carving the table he was sitting at with his knife.
"You'll see." Chef rolled his eyes before walking into the kitchen. "Just remind me to punch Chris later."
LATER
"Good afternoon campers!" After a long walk across the island, the campers found Chris sitting on a lawn chair while holding a long wooden stick. Behind Chris was a rather large wooden wall with eight doors and a monitor set up next to the eighth door. "How y'all feeling today?"
While some of the campers were just fine after their walk across the island, others were groaning about their feet hurting. "Why don't you tell us the next time you want to make us take a hike!" Heather complained as she rubbed her sore feet. "I swear if I have to walk that far in heels again…"
"Oooooo, hope those aren't your good shoes Heather." Chris chuckled with that bright yet evil grin still on his face. "Because today things might get a little messy, hehehe."
"Just…please…tell me…" Owen panted as he got on his hands and knees. Sweat dripping off the big guy as he breathed heavily from having to take such a long walk. "There won't be…anymore…walking…PLEASE!"
"Sorry Owen, but there will be." Chris patted Owen on the back as the big guy started sobbing over the fact. "For today's challenge, you all will have to rely on both your instincts and senses to the test. At least all but one of that last one as my lovely assistant will demonstrate."
Chris then snapped his fingers, signaling for his 'assistant' to come on out. Hearing some rustling coming from the bushes, everyone looked to see none other then Edward the Platypus come waddling out…wearing a blindfold. Everyone blinked a few times as the platypus waddled around the area aimlessly due to lacking his sight. "Edward? I thought you were on your morning walk." Lincoln asked in a confused tone as he scratched his head with Edward heading over to him by following the Loud boy's voice. "What are you doing?"
"Brbrbrb!" Edward answered as he turned his head upward so he could face Lincoln properly.
"Chris…" Dawn deadpanned before glaring at the host and crossing her arms. "Of course."
"Hey, I just wanted to keep the trend of him wearing something that goes with the challenge." Chris shrugged innocently as Edward once again started blindingly waddling around to show the effects of wearing a blindfold. The host did nothing wrong and he was in his rights, they had nothing on him. "Ya know, the useg." Dawn continued to glare at the host, making Chris just roll his eyes and hold up a bundle of blindfolds. "Look you're gonna be wearing blindfolds today. Alright?"
"B-B-B-Blindfolds…" DJ stuttered as fear started to take over him a little bit. "Again?"
"Yes DJ, again," Chris smirked a bit, making DJ start whimpering as he remembered how his last experience with blindfolds was.
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"Huh…kinda forgot DJ has a rough experience with blindfolds," Lincoln said as he scratched his cheek and memories of the trust challenge from a few weeks back came to him. "…I blame Courtney."
"Just tell us why you're making us go in blind for somethin again," Leshawna said as Chris handled a blindfold to everyone. "You seriously enjoy making us look bad way too much bro!"
"I think I enjoy it the perfect amount," Chris stated in an incredibly proud tone causing all the teens to grumble and glare at him. A gesture he took immense pride in. Their hatred for him sustains that grin of his after all. Chris then walked up next to the monitor set up on the big wooden wall and took out a remote. "Campers, what stands in front of you is…the maze!" Pressing a button, Chris turned on the monitor revealing various shots from inside the maze.
The campers saw that there was lots and lots of mud. Nearly every shot of the maze had a pool of mud at the bottom. They could also vaguely see hints of brail scattered throughout various walls of the maze. However there were some shots that didn't have mud and instead had thick layers of ice and the floor, dried and cracked ground like a desert, an area with a lot of fans in it, and just solid everyday ground. "Hope you like mud because you campers are gonna be swimming in it today!"
CONFESSIONAL – LESHAWNA
"Pfft, I got more mud then I would have liked to get on me in a lifetime during the last challenge!" Leshawna complained as she walked away from the hunting challenge with layers of mud covering her and a newfound hatred of frogs. "Mud is just wet dirt and this sista does not do dirt! Good for the skin my a-"
"So here's the basics of the challenge. You'll be going through this maze…blindfolded!" Chris revealed making some of the campers gasped. While they already knew they would be blindfolded, blindfolded through a maze was a bit much in their opinion.
"Um, we already won't know where we're going." Gwen pointed out the obvious as she gave the host an irritated look. "Isn't the blindfold kinda redundant?"
"You'd think that, but there's more to this maze than just making it to the end." Chris further explained as he pressed a button on the remote again making the monitor split into four screens showing off the ice zone, desert zone, normal zone, and swamp zone. "Inside the maze is four-zone representing four different things. The ice zone represents water, the desert zone resembles fire, the fan zone represents air, and the ground zone represents earth." Pressing another button, the four zones on the screen were replaced with a blue, red, white, and brown medallion having the symbols for water, fire, air, and earth respectively. "Each zone contains a medallion representing its respective element. Your challenge is to collect all four medallions and then make it to the end of the maze where I'll be waiting. The first one back with all four medals wins invincibility!"
"Hey wait hang on a minute…" Lincoln spoke up as something about the challenge gave him a massive case of déjà vu. Specifically the elements Chris was pointing out as key factors of the challenge. "Fire, water, earth, air…"
Owen was the one to find the connection as he asked. "Wait isn't that like-"
"Like Avatar, yes." Chris cut Owen off while confirming his and Lincoln's suspicions. Looking, the host saw most of the campers giving Chris a rather surprised look. "What? I can watch cartoons to ya know."
CONFESSIONAL – GWEN
"Well…ya learn something new every day," Gwen said with a bit of a surprised tone.
"Also in the maze, specifically on the walls, is a series of brail. This brail will tell you what zone you are in." Chris pushed a button on the remote once again and the split-screen went from four to five with five different pieces of brail being shown. There was brail labeled fire, water, earth, and air with a fifth being labeled as exit. "These will tell you where in the maze, even labeling if you're near to the exit. You'll have 15 minutes to try and memorize these before you head in!"
Chris was then about to go walk around the maze to his little station near the exit of the giant puzzle until he grinned more than usual and explained one last thing. "Oh, and before I forget." This quickly got the campers worried. They knew that look from Chris and it just meant a lot more pain from them. "There are a few…surprises in the maze. These surprises include but are not limited to bears, electric eels, fire ants, mines, freezing cold water, and so much more!"
CONFESSIONAL – DAWN
Dawn sighed a bit, not at all taken back by Chris' 'surprises' "Honestly it would be weirder if he didn't include any of that stuff." Dawn let out as she rolled her eyes before managing to smile. "On the bright side, I know how to read brail quite well! My father taught me and I must say it is a rather useful skill. The brail section of the library is quite nice."
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"I know how to read just a little bit of brail. Pretty just 'men's room." Lincoln explained which was quickly followed by an awkward silence as Lincoln moved his eyes around the outhouse before nervously clearing his throat. "D-Don't ask why I had to learn that…"
CONFESSIONAL – HEATHER
"Ugh! I am getting sick on tired of these messy and messed up challenges!" Heather yelled out in irritation. Chris has really been piling on the intense and hard challenges lately and it was really ticking Heather off. As shown by her pounding the walls of the outhouse. "Hey, Chris! How bout doing something normal and sane for once?!"
"I could do that, but where's the fun?" Chris' voice was heard coming from the loudspeakers outside making Heather huff and cross her arms. "Hahaha!"
After the 15 minutes Chris has given everyone were up, the eight campers all headed to one of the eight entrances of the maze. Thankfully each door was labeled with their initials, telling them which one to go through. Once they were in, they quickly put on their blindfolds and waited for whatever signal Chris was gonna give to officially start the challenge. "Alright campers! On your marks…get set…" All the campers proceeded to hold their hands out and got ready to feel their way through the maze. "MAZE!" And with that, all the campers took off, eager to be the ones to win invincibility.
DUNCAN
Currently, the delinquent was feeling pretty confident about this. While he was one of the few to not really try and learn any of the brail provided to him, he didn't think he needed it. He had a sound strategy for this challenge. "This is gonna be way to easy," Duncan smirked a bit as he walked through the mud that went halfway to his knees. As Duncan walked through the mud, he hugged the right wall of the maze the entire time.
CONFESSIONAL – DUNCAN
"I don't get why some people say they're are a challenge, mazes are freakin easy!" Duncan smirked as he leaned against the wall of the outhouse with a confident expression on his face. "You just hug the right wall and you get where ya need to go, this is in the bag for me. And Courtney, if you're watching this on cable, I miss ya babe."
"Where are your surprises now Chris?" Duncan smirked as he continued walking forward while keeping a hand on the right wall the entire time. He even began to feel some brail meaning he knew he was approaching a zone already. It was like they were just handing it right to him! "Well, well, well, looks like today is my lucky day. What's my first metal gonna-AH!"
Suddenly Duncan felt himself slip on a sleek and cold surface. Due to being unexpected, Duncan completely lost his foot and ended up falling onto his stomach and sliding all the way and crashing into a wall. "Oooowww…" Duncan groaned a bit before pushing himself away from the wall. But because he was on the ice he slid back further then he would have liked.
Growling, Duncan did his best to try and push himself up and stand his ground once again. But it was easier said than done. This ice just seemed to refuse to allow him to stand up as whenever he seemed to be able to stand up he would slip up once again quite literally and ended up flat on the ice on his stomach. "Grrrr, what kind of ice is this!" Duncan yelled in frustration as he lifted his head up. He knew that ice was slippery, but this was probably the most slippery ice ever.
After a few more failed attempted to stand up, Duncan sighed and simply decided to work around the situation in a different way. "Ok…there's still another way I can get around." Deciding to use the ice to his advantage, Duncan reared his arms back and pushed himself against the ice. So by embracing his inner penguin, Duncan made his way across the water zone on his belly. "WOOOOHOOOO!" Duncan cheered as he rather enjoyed the cold air hitting his face as sped through the ice. "Water medallion here I come!"
CRASH!
And then he crashed into something. "…I hate this show…" Duncan groaned as he rubbed his head after hitting the stone structure. But as he rubbed his head, Duncan's eyes widened behind his blindfold as he realized exactly what he hit his head-on. Something made of stone…in an area full of ice. Feeling the structure, Duncan smirked as he could feel that this stone thing was a column. Wrapping his arms around it, Duncan was able to use this column to stand himself up. While his feet slipped a little, the delinquent managed to stand up on his feet.
Feeling the column a little more, Duncan's hand eventually reached the top of it where he felt a basket glued onto the column. And inside the basket…was a bunch of circular metallic objects. Duncan quickly took one and felt it a little bit and was able to trace a symbol of a drop of water on it. "One down, three to go." Duncan quickly stuffed the medallion in his pocket and started to slowly walk over to the right wall, trying his best not to slip up again, with a confident expression on his face. It seemed to go smoothly at first…
CRACK!
"What the?" Duncan stopped as soon as he heard a cracking sound coming from nearby. So nearby…that it was coming from under him. Duncan heard the cracking sound again and looked down to the source and was easily able to piece together what was happening. "Oh crapbas-"
SPLASH!
Long story short, Duncan was blue and shivering for the remainder of the challenge.
DJ
"Everything's gonna be ok…everything's gonna be ok…everything's gonna be ok…" DJ whimpered to himself repeatedly as to try and keep himself from having a panic attack. Currently, the brick house was inching his way through the maze…quite literally as every tiny step he took only brought him forward a single inch through the mud-filled maze.
The lovable jock wasn't even feeling the walls for brail or holding his hands forward to try and feel anything that could be in front of him. Instead, DJ had his arms in front of him in a defensive position in case he ran into any of Chris' surprises, or if they ran into him. So DJ was both blind and cowering in fear right now.
DJ really hates being blindfolded. Even before the trust challenges. He had eyes, they helped him see, they helped him show things that could hurt him. So he should be allowed to use them! And DJ was already afraid of the dark and with a blindfold, the dark was constantly on so he also had to deal with that. All the while his mind always came to the worst scenario based on the surprise Chris said he left in the maze.
A bear could emerge from the mud and maul him. Eels could swim up from behind him in the mud and fry him. A bucket of cold water could fall on his heads years after that trend ended and was no longer considered cool. A giant monster's hand could emerge and drag him under where a bunch of mud trolls could bully him for his lunch money!
Ok that last one was mostly in his head but it's not like it could be impossible. He was blindfolded and in mud, just about anything could be lurking in there, especially considering it was Chris who set him up and to that mad man the crazier and deadlier something was the better it would be for ratings and therefore him.
"I'm to young to die…" DJ quietly cried as he started shaking in fear and started to move even slower than he already was as his head was filled with unimaginable horrors of what monsters lurked in the mud that he couldn't see coming.
"One hour in and some campers are already collecting medallions!" Chris gave everyone in the maze a status update on the competition so far and making DJ silently gasped. An hour had already passed?! For as slow as he was going, he thought he might stumble across at least one medallion at this point. But still, better safe than sorry in his opinion. But others weren't quite so fond of that mindset. "Meanwhile, others are demonstrating what NOT to do in a race! Won't say who, but pick up the pace already man!"
"Shut up!" DJ screamed into the sky with a frightened tone. He wasn't gonna let Chris get to him, he was gonna complete this challenge his own way. "Slow and steady wins the race…slow and steady wins the race…"
GWEN
"Ok…earth…earth…earth…" With Gwen, the goth was able to quickly memorize the brail Chris told them to study. While Gwen was no straight-A student, she was pretty smart and got good grades. And since there were only five pieces, they needed to learn it wasn't so hard. Thanks to that, by feeling the brail on the walls, Gwen was able to feel that she was coming in on the earth zone.
In fact, the brail seemed to get a little bigger and bolder the further in she went. "Hopefully this means I'm getting close…" Gwen mumbled to herself. She dare not say it out loud for the entire world to hear in fear of jinxing herself. At this point in the competition, a jinx could easily spell the end of her time on the island. Granted, as much as Gwen hated the island and some of the people on the island, she still wanted to win that big 100 grand so she was gonna play a bit more carefully from now one.
CONFESSIONAL – GWEN
"Quite frankly I have had it up to here with this camp!" Gwen complained as she rose up a hand to gesture just how fed up she was with this whole competition. "I swear the grand prize should have been a million dollars or something after being forced to go through all this…don't get me wrong, I still want the 100,000 bucks."
As Gwen took a step forward, instead of stepping into more goopy mud, thank God she had a higher tolerance for it then most girls, she found her footstep onto something solid and hard. Her eyes widened a bit under her blindfold as she stomped her foot lightly onto the solid ground to make sure her senses weren't fooling her or that it wasn't some sort of sick trap laid down by Chris. "Seems safe…" Gwen muttered before feeling the wall. Sure enough, the word 'EARTH' was in brail and was the boldest it's ever been.
Deciding to take another step forward, Gwen found both of her feet on solid ground. For extra precaution, she jumped up and down on it to see it if it wasn't some sort of trap door or something. But it wasn't, Gwen didn't find herself falling a great distance or some other sort of horrible thing happening to her. "Huh, neat." The goth said as she walked forward with her hands out to try and find the medallion in this zone. It was safe to say she was in the earth zone and the goth girl was finally glad to reach a medallion location after an hour of walking around in the mud.
Click
"Huh?" Gwen let out as she heard a clicking sound coming from under her feet. A clicking sound that…almost sounded like something being armed! "WOAH!" Gwen yelled and quickly jumped back, ending up diving back into the mud and getting more of it on her body. But better more mud then what would have happened to her if she stayed put as a mere second after she jumped out of the way an explosion went off. The earth zone was also a minefield! "Seriously?! UGH! WHAT THE HELL CHRIS?!"
"Hey, I warned you all of the mines didn't I?" Chris was heard chuckling through the loudspeakers causing Gwen to growl and grind her teeth a little in irritation and annoyance. "Make like an earth bender and sense the mines underground! Or don't and get blown up, either is good."
"Son of a-how am I supposed to get through a minefield!" Gwen shouted as she flung some mud forward towards the earth zone in frustration. Even if she wasn't blindfolded it would be difficult, heck the blindfold was even more redundant here then it was in the rest of the maze. The mines were already buried so it's not like she-
BOOM!
"AH!" Gwen let out in fright as another explosion suddenly went off. But Gwen was still in the mud so unless Chris was being extra jerkish today and buried some mines in the mud then it didn't make any sense…plus the fact that Gwen didn't explode herself. The best reason Gwen could think of was that someone else made it to the earth zone from another pathway. "Hello!" The goth called out as she held a hand over her mouth. "Anyone just blow themselves up?!"
…
No response. Gwen was left even more confused. She was sure that anyone who just blew themselves up would be flying through the air screaming and that would be hard not to hear. "Well if no one's here then…wait a second?" Just then Gwen's mind came to a different conclusion. When she threw mud at the earth zone in frustration, that explosion soon followed. "I wonder…" Testing her theory, Gwen scooped up some more mud in her hand and threw it in the direction of the earth zone. She held out her ear and waited a bit…
BOOM!
Just as she thought, another explosion went off. The mud she threw must have been enough to trigger the mines. Gwen smirked as an idea came to her head with the goth scooping up mud into her hands. "If that's the case, might as well clear the path." So Gwen did something she'd never thought she'd do before, started slinging mud. Quite literally in this case as the goth girl threw mud scoop after mud scoop towards the earth zone in random directions. While she couldn't see where the mud was ending up, she was hearing plenty of explosions meaning she was clearing out a good number of mines.
Eventually, the sounds of explosions became few and far between the more mud she threw. After a while of throwing and not hearing any booms, Gwen was satisfied and tried to get as much mud off her hands as possible and started walking forward again. "Guess I gotta hope for the best," Gwen told herself as she held her hands out and stepped onto the earth zone again.
Despite being sure that she cleared many of the explosives, Gwen decided to step slowly and carefully as to not risk being blown up and launched who knows where. Thankfully she was able to feel the spots that had mud on them from what she threw and was able to step easily onto those spots knowing that the muddy spots definitely had no mines under them.
"OW!" Gwen was forced to stop as she experienced something arguably worse than a mine. A stubbed toe. Gwen growled a bit as she held her foot and bounced up and down on her other unstubbed foot, briefly forgetting the fact she was on a minefield, as she experienced one of the worst pains known to mankind. "What did I even run into?!"
Putting her foot back on the ground, an act causing Gwen to wince due to the lingering pain, Gwen held out her hands in the direction of the object that she ran her foot into and felt that it was some kind of stone column. Gwen was rather surprised to feel something like this in her…until she remembered what she was looking for exactly. Feeling up the column, Gwen's hands managed to come across and basket and when she reached into the basket and found a bunch of circle-shaped metallic objects and the goth was able to put two and two together and realize she found an earth medallion. "Huh, looks like mudslinging is a useful skill." Gwen grinned as she put the medal in her pocket. Even with the pain in her foot, the goth girl once again carefully made her way out of the earth zone and went searching for a new zone.
LESHAWNA
"Ugh, figures. I wash off mud only to have to dive into more mud. Better not be any frogs in here." Leshawna grumbled yet another complaint about being in the mud. Leshawna had a rather long list of things she disliked. Her hair frizzing up, Heather, bugs, Heather, small bras, Heather, the jocks back home, Heather, and of course Heather. But mud was definitely something that was near the top of that list. "What's a sista gotta do to stay mud-free for at least a day!?"
As Leshawna went through the maze with an irritated mood the whole time, she didn't even bother to try and read any of the brail on the walls. While she did study it a little bit before entering the maze, the second she hit the mud the girl with a tude just wasn't in the mood for feeling words at the moment. But as she walked forward, she failed to notice something about the environment she was walking in.
The mud was getting less thick and more watery. "Huh?" Leshawna had managed to break out of her annoyed attitude, at least briefly, as she soon noticed that it was becoming easier to move around in the mud she was in. Moving her hand through it, Leshawna felt that it was more water-like then mud-like. "Hm, that's weird. Ah well, I sure ain't complaining. I'll take water over…what was that?"
Leshawna's relief over the less muddy environment was short-lived as she felt something brush past her leg. Something was in the water with her. "Who's there?!" Leshawna yelled as she rolled up her sleeves, ready to thrash in case it was one of the other campers pulling some prank on her. She felt something pass by her leg again and quickly put her hands into the water to grab whatever was invading her personal space. "Ah-ha! I got you now!"
Put when Leshawna really got a feel for what she grabbed, she was left confused and a bit disgusted. In her wands was something slimy, squishy, long, and it had had what felt like some sort of fin at the top of it. Not to mention a bit of static radiating through it.
It was at that point that Leshawna realized, she was carrying an electric eel.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"
CONFESSIONAL – LESHAWNA
"Adding eels to my hate list!" Leshawna yelled while her body was covered in electrical burns with her hair frizzed out.
OWEN
"This is the song that never ends! Yes it goes on and on my friends!" Being the jolly teenager he was, Owen decided to keep his spirits high by singing his way through the maze while keeping a feel on the walls and trying to find any brail on the walls to lead him to any medals. "Yes I just felt brail on the wall! I keep walking and walking along…wait a second…"
Owen quickly realized what he both sung and felt and stopped walking forward. Taking a few steps back, Owen felt the wall some more and, sure enough, felt some brail on it. Owen smiled as he tried to make out what the brail one the wall was. "Ok! Ok! I know it! Um…F…I…R…E? E! Fire! Yes! I found the fire zone! Hahahah! Awesome!" Owen took a moment to pump his fist into the air and cheer for himself for both remembering what the brail said as well for finding a zone…but he soon stopped cheering as he realized exactly what zone he found. "F-F-F-F-Fire…" Owen's mind was quickly filled with all sorts of images of a room with flamethrowers, methane and propane, and fire breathing dragons.
CONFESSIONAL – OWEN
"I'm kinda scared of fire…ok, really scared of it," Owen admitted with a fearful tone and expression as he poked his two index fingers together. "I mean look at me! Chris said there a bears in the maze! I'm not good at math but me plus fire equals an all you can eat barbeque buffet!" Just then Owen's stomach rumbled as his mind stuck to that last part he said as a hungry expression came to his face. "Mmmmmmm, barbeque buffet~"
"Just remember Owen, stop drop and roll…" Owen whimpered to himself as he continued making his way through the maze. He kept his hand on the wall and continued following the brail with the word fire became bigger and bolder, signaling that he was getting closer to the actual zone. "Maybe the dragons are vegetarians…"
As Owen walked through the maze, continuing to follow the brail, he found the temperature getting hotter. "Whoooo, somebody better get a bun because I'm feeling like a hotdog, hehe." Owen joked as he quickly started to sweat from the increased heat. But that didn't stop him from laughing at his joke…until his stomach rumbled. "Aw now I'm hungry."
Another thing that Owen noticed as he was walking was that the mud was walking in was getting more and more solid. Almost like stone as the mud quickly hardened to, more or less, normal ground to something harder and more crumbly based on what Owen heard from his footsteps. "Am I there yet?" Owen asked himself as he really couldn't tell if he was officially in the fire zone or not.
He couldn't see and he wasn't exactly a pro at bending down so he couldn't just feel the ground and see if it changed. Really the only thing that might have told him that was in the fire zone was that the wall suddenly disappeared and it was hotter than it had ever been. So much so that Owen began panting due to the rising temperature. "Oh…man…if this isn't fire hot…I don't know what is…" Owen panted as he slumped down and walked forward. Owen then gulped as his earlier fears returned. If this was the fire zone then this is where the dragons were. "Um…excuse me. Would all fire dragons in the room please address themselves…and possibly considering going vegetarian?" Owen whimpered a bit as he started shaking in fear.
…
After cowering in fear for a little bit, Owen heard nothing but silence. "Hello? Dragons?" Owen dared called out to the flying, fire breathing lizards he thought would be in the fire zone. But sure enough, Owen heard no growling, roaring, and felt no streams of fire being breathed on him and turning him into a medium-rare Owen. "Woohoo! No Dragons! This'll be a piece of cake! Ah man, now I'm even more hungry! Oh well, the faster I get these medals the faster I can eat!"
Bite!
"Ow!" Owen let out as he felt something bit his arm. The bite making his arm feel like it was burning. Instinctively, Owen smacked the part of his arm where he as bitten and was quick to assume that it was just a mosquito bite despite the fact that this bite burned rather than itched. "Well that wasn't so bad, I can handle a mosquito!"
Bite!
Bite!
Bite!
"AH! OW! OW! OW!" Owen suddenly felt more bites on various places of his body and was quick to smack the bugs biting him. Similar to the first one, these bites burned, and the more he got the more they hurt. "WHAT KIND OF DEMONIC MOSQUITO'S ARE THESE?!"
But Owen soon learned that these bugs weren't mosquitos at all. The big guy suddenly felt a few things crawling on him. Scratch that, lots of things crawling over him. Mosquito's rarely crawled on people from the bottom, and their bites didn't usually feel like a mini burn. Owen gasped as his eyes widened in horror behind his blindfold as he quickly pieces together what bugs were really attacking him. Bugs with a name that fit the zone they were in.
"AAAAHHHH! FIRE ANTS!" In typical Owen fashion, as the fire ants attacked Owen, the big guy ran around in circles while panicking in an effort to get all the fire ants on him. While he wasn't on fire, he was being attacked by something with fire in the name and decided to do the ultimate fire repelled technique. "STOP DROP AND ROLL! STOP DROP AND ROLL!" Owen quickly stopped running, got on the ground, and started rolling around the fire zone in an attempt to get the fire ants off him. It works…but due to being blindfolded, he did quite see where he was going.
CRASH!
"Owie…" At the very least, Owen crashed into where the medals were.
HEATHER
"I…hate…Chris…" Heather shivered as she walked through the maze. The queen bee had just come out of the water zone and managed to snag herself a medallion from said zone, but ended up falling in the same hole that formed under Duncan earlier and dropped into freezing cold water. Combine that with how muddy she was, completely ruining her shoes, and Heather just being Heather, the queen be was incredibly pissed.
Over an hour of walking around in the mud and she's only found one medal and it resulted in her entering freezing cold water. At this point, Heather was hoping to find the fire zone in order to warm up a bit. As much as she hated it, she had to power through these stupid challenges. She was in the final eight and she wasn't about to let it end here.
CONFESSIONAL – HEATHER
"That 100 grand is so close I can practically taste it." Heather gave an evil grin as she rubbed her hands together at the thought of winning all that money. "Just seven more losers to plow through and this whole competition is mine. I just need to throw them all off their game. The only problem might be Lincoln and Dawn. Those two are just too strong together. There has to be something that will throw them off…hmmmmm…."
As Heather tried to increase her body heat once more, she ended up running into something that blocked her path. "Ow! What the…" Put her hands to the blockade in front of her, Heather felt that it wasn't quite a dead end. Instead, it was something large, soft, and living based on the heat it gave up. Considering the size and width of the thing she felt, Heather quickly brought her hands back and recoiled a bit in disgust over who she pieced together was in front of her. "Ugh! Owen you fatty, get out of my way!"
"Grrrrrr…"
"What? Don't get upset that I called you fat, it's just the truth." Heather informed 'Owen' in a snobby tone as she crossed her arms and tapped her toe impatiently in the mud. "You really should consider actually dieting, or not eating 12 meals a day. Maybe then you might actually end up attracting a girl that doesn't belong in a mental hospital."
"Grrrrrrrrrrr!"
"Yeah, reality is harsh I know." Heather rolled her eyes behind her blindfold before stomping a foot in the mud. "Would you just get out of my way already!?"
"ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!"
Heather's hair was blown back a bit as a bunch of spit was splattered onto her face as 'Owen' roared loudly and viciously right in front of her. This actually caused Heather to feel fear a bit as Owen was typically the kinda guy to roar in your face. And this roar sounded awfully familiar. Like a creature, she has already encountered before. "Owen…" Heather let out fearfully as she held her hands out to fear the thing in front of her some more. Upon closer inspection, Owen felt a lot more…hairy than normal. Feeling up a bit, Heather felt what she thought was a face…but felt a muzzle on this face. "That…that is you right?"
"RRRROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAARRR!"
It wasn't.
CHRIS
Currently, with the host, Chris had a whole R&R station set up. A lawn chair, an umbrella for shade, and a cooler full of frosty cold beverages, and a little monitor station. It was like a mini version of the monitor tent he used during the slasher movie challenge but despite the smaller size the host still got a clear view of the events going on from inside the maze ranging from Duncan falling into freezing cold water, Leshawna getting electrocuted, Owen getting swarmed by fire ants, and finally seeing Heather get mauled by a bear.
"Hahahahaha!" Chris laughed so hard that the soda he was drinking nearly squirted out of his nose. Something about these teens just going through all of this, just made him feel so alive. Wiping a tear of laughter from his eyes, Chris said. "Man, I love this show."
"Brbrbrbrb!" From nearby, Chris watched as Edward the platypus waddled around…still wearing the blindfold and just waddling in random directions not seeing where he was going.
"Um, ya know you can take that off, dude?" Chris told the platypus as the demonstration was over a long time ago, no reason to keep wearing the blindfold. However, Edward simply let out a stubborn growl and kept waddling around blindly. Chris, not understanding what the platypus said, simply shrugged. "Hey, your funeral bro."
Chris then turned back to the monitors with his trademark grin as he looked for a different camper. "Alright, now let's see how Dawn is doing." Clicking on a button on his remote, Chris went through camera after camera trying to find where the moon child was. "Ah, there she is! In the air zone and-what the?! She already has two medals?!"
DAWN
Dawn was doing rather well in the maze. So far she had managed to collect both the earth and the fire medallions. All that left was water and the one she was quickly approaching, the air medallion located in the air zone. "Now what's going on here…" Dawn cautiously approached the air zone which was probably the easiest of the zones to find.
This is because of the loud sound coming from the zone due to all the fans that were producing many strong winds within the zone, living up to its namesake. While Dawn didn't have access to her eyes, she still had access to her aura, something she didn't need her eyes to use. With it, she was able to 'see' what was going on in the air zone at least to an extent. Hopefully, the information would be enough to let her figure out what to do to make it past this zone.
Take a deep breath, Dawn turned her focus on the zone that was right in front of her. She was able to sense many structures in the zone. There were lots of fans on the walls, but neither wall was completely covered meaning that the powerful breezes were meant to be focused. As for the rest of the zone, it seemed to be covered in spinning wooden structures that were constantly turning from the winds created by the fans.
Dawn quickly guessed that these pillars had mini walls attached to them that would push her around and keeping her from reaching the middle of the zone where the medallions were most likely located based on the other zones. Getting past those pillars would be a challenge…but only if she tried to force her way through the winds and fight them.
So the solution was simple…
"Be one with the wind," Dawn said that simple sentence before she held her hands out and walked forward without hesitance. After a few steps, Dawn felt the breeze of the wind zone trying to push her around. Inches in front of her was the many, many spinning pillars with the very middle of the zone containing the stone column with the basket of medallions.
Once she was in the wind zone…Dawn willed her body to go limp. With Dawn not putting up any resistance, the moon child allowed herself to be at the mercy of the wind. Mercy which happened to be the exact solution for getting through this zone. With Dawn letting the wind control her, she was able to breeze, literally, through the constantly spinning wooden pillars. Her body smoothly letting both the wind and the walls of the pillars take her to her destination.
After only about ten seconds of this, Dawn found herself in the dead middle of the maze. In this exact spot, there was absolutely no wind pushing against her and no wooden pillars in her way. The nature lover couldn't help but smirk a bit in her success as she reached into the bowl in front of her and took out a white air medallion.
"Just one more and then it's onto the exit!" Dawn cheered for herself before putting the medal in her pocket and making her way out of the zone so she could go look for the water zone.
LINCOLN
"Fire, earth, and now water!" Lincoln cheered for himself as he tossed a water medallion up and down in his hand. Currently Lincoln was able to get the earth medallion, and then the fire one, and moments ago he had acquired the water medallion. So far he's avoided any major 'surprises' as the worst he's gotten was a few fire ant bites from the fire zone and hitting his head against the wall in the water zone. The earth zone was surprisingly tame.
Now he just needed to find the air medallion and he would be golden. He wasn't sure if anyone made it to the exit yet but he suspected that Chris would have announced if someone had so he was still in the running for first place. So invincibility is within his grasp. "Now where is that air zone…" Lincoln questioned out loud as he put the water medallion in his pocket where his other two medallions were kept.
CONFESSIONAL – LINCOLN
"I've come to far to give up now!" Lincoln hyped himself up as he put a determined expression on his face. "If me and Dawn can keep winning invincibility, then we can easily make to the finale together! And that'll hardly be a competition since we're gonna split the money anyway."
"Come to papa medallion~" Lincoln smirked as he held his hands out and tried to feel around for the wall so he could find any brail to reader that would direct him to the last zone and-
SQUISH!
"Huh?" Lincoln stopped in his tracks as his hands ended up finding something. It wasn't the wall as he was able to grab onto it and…it felt rather nice. It was plush, round, soft, and squishy, almost like a marshmallow. He squeezed it a few more times to test its softness, his ears picking up the faint sound of a gasp with each squeeze, so he could find out what it is. "What is this?"
"L-L-L-L-Lincoln…" Lincoln's eyes widened behind his blindfold. That…was Dawn's voice coming from right in front of him. Like, just a few inches away from him…and her voice sounded strained and her words were followed by another gasp due to his surprise causing him to squeeze the object in his hand tighter.
Dawn…something round and squishy…strained and gasping voice. Lincoln's face suddenly exploded with red as he realized what was in his hands. "This…This isn't a medallion isn't it?" Lincoln's voice suddenly became all squeaky and nervous.
"Nope!" Lincoln and Dawn heard Chris' voice come in through the loudspeakers and they could practically feel the host grinning due to the situation Lincoln found himself in. "But nice find bro!"
Welp, that pretty much confirmed it.
Lincoln was groping Dawn's boobies.
"OH MY GOSH!" Lincoln yelled as he quickly retracted his hands from Dawn's chest. Just great, while a part of him was extremely glad that of all the girl's chest he could have ended up groping that it was Dawn. Leshawna and Gwen probably would have kicked his ass and he would have puked if it ended up being Heather. But still…he groped his girlfriend…without her permission. He looked like such a pervert. "D-D-D-D-D-DAWN I-I-I-I-I'M S-S-S-SO S-SORRY I-I-I-I-I SWEAR I-I D-D-D-DIDN'T M-M-MEAN TO TOUCH Y-YOUR BOOBS!"
Meanwhile, Dawn, after Lincoln had removed his hands, has holding her chest. But not because she felt violated. She was glad that her boyfriend was the one that groped her chest…even more so after he had actually done it. Lincoln's touch was soft yet firm, and his hands were practically a perfect match for her chest as he had managed to grab them completely with his hands and squeeze every part. She was actually trying to keep the feeling of his grip lingering. "I-I-It's ok Lincoln. Really." Dawn reassured her boyfriend with a red face and a smile that she wished he could see right now. "As l-long as it's you. I-I don't mind."
"R-R-Really…" Lincoln couldn't believe what he was hearing. After just invading her body, Dawn was letting him go without even a slap on the wrist and was even said she didn't mind. "Y-You d-don't think I'm a p-perv or something?"
Dawn giggled a bit and couldn't help but roll her eyes under her blindfold. Lincoln really was a gentleman, a bit too much sometimes but still. "It's fine Lincoln. I promise. Besides…" Just then Dawn leaned close to Lincoln's ear and whispered. "You have a nice touch~"
Lincoln's mind practically shut down as his entire head went read. He…had absolutely nothing to say and he was just stuttering over nothing. Dawn giggled once more as she passed him…and then used her butt to push him forward in the direction she just came from. "The air zone is that way," Dawn told her boyfriend with a grin on her face. "Little hint, just let the wind control you."
"Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Y-Yeah…" Lincoln managed to let out as he headed off, his movement practically robotic as his mind tried to reboot. "R-R-R-R-Right…"
LATER
Once again, we see Chris laying on top of his lawn chair. With a can of soda in his hand, Chris' remote suddenly beeped. Hopping off his chair and stretching out, Chris headed over to the exit of the maze as that beeping was signaling him that a camper was making their way out. After a few more seconds, Chris gave a little clap as the first person to make their way out of the maze was none other than Lincoln Loud. "Lincoln my man, take off your blindfold and present your medals.!" Chris told Lincoln with the white head doing just that. Taking off his blindfold, Lincoln reached into his pocket and pulled out all four medals and handled them to Chris. Looking over them for a second, Chris nodded and patted Lincoln on the shoulder. "Congratulations snowball, first place, and invincibility goes to you! Although you were a bit of an overachiever in there don't ya think? I said just get four treasures, not five if you know what I mean."
"Shut…up…" Lincoln said through his teeth as his face went red.
Chris simply chuckled once more as, not too long after Lincoln, another camper made there was out of the maze. And whether it was intentional and planned by them or just sheer coincidence, Dawn was the next one to come out. "Ya know at this point I ain't even surprised," Chris said as Dawn took off her blindfold and handed Chris her medals. "Also-"
"If you're about to make a joke about earlier, then save it Mclain." Dawn glared at Chris before walking over to her boyfriend. The moon child was quick to give Lincoln a sly smirk with her mind completely filled with their little 'encounter' earlier. It was the same for Lincoln as he blushed heavily and looked away from Dawn.
Soon after Dawn more and more campers came out of the maze and presented their medals to Chris. Unlike Lincoln and Dawn though a lot of the campers were quite messed up. Heather was covered in scratches and large bite marks, Leshawna was covered in electrical burns with her hair all poofed up, and Owen was covered head to toe in fire ant bites. Duncan and Gwen, along with Lincoln and Dawn, were the least injured but still had some scraps.
"Well looks like everyone's here. Everyone except DJ that is." Everyone watched as Chris pulled out a walkie talkie and spoke into it. "Chef! Come on down, we gotta get DJ!"
Just then everyone heard the sound of a helicopter blade was heard and soon enough the wind picked up as Chef flew down near the ground with a helicopter. Chris jumped in the flying machine and climbed up in it as Chef quickly brought it back up into the air.
They circled around the maze as Chris looked down at the puzzle with binoculars in order to look for DJ. When Chris found him…the host quickly deadpanned as he saw DJ was only a few turns away from the entrance. Grabbing a megaphone, Chris spoke down to the Brick House. "DJ! What the heck man!?" Chris yelled, making DJ stop and look up at the source of Chris' voice. "You've haven't made any progress, like, at all!"
"Slow and steady wins the race!" DJ told Chris as he refused to change up how he was doing things.
"Well, that's obviously not true, because everyone else already made it out with all the medallions!" Chris told DJ making him gasp and look down in sadness. "And this week just so happened to be a sudden death! So, DJ, you're outta the game!"
DJ, and the rest of the campers looking up at the helicopter from the end of the maze, gasped as this information. "WHAT?!" DJ yelled in disbelief. Just because he tried to be safe while in a maze full of death traps while blinded folded, he was getting kicked off!
"You heard me bro, not take off your blindfold and climb up here!" Chris ordered as he threw a rope down from the helicopter allowing for DJ to climb up to the helicopter. "We're airlifting you off the island! Consider this the Helicopter of Shame!"
"Hey wait!" Lincoln called out as he cupped his hands over his mouth. "Can't we say goodbye first!"
"Fraid not man! It's cheaper to just head there now then to make multiple stops!" Chris told everyone making everyone, yes even Heather, glare at Chris because of this. "Helicopter fuel doesn't grow on trees ya know. Alright DJ, climb on! You're outta here!" Sighing, DJ simply relented and did as he was told. No use in fighting it. So the brick house simply took off his blindfold and started climbing up the rope Chris provided as Chef and DJ flew DJ off the island.
All the while the remaining seven campers watched as sighed a bit. "Man, poor DJ," Lincoln said with a sympathetic tone as he watched one of his best friends on the island leave. "He didn't deserve that…"
"Yeah, I'm gonna miss him." Owen slumped down a bit followed by a sigh.
After a few more moments of silence as the campers watched the sky. As they did this, Dawn saw Edward still waddling around blindfolded and decided to go help the little guy out, and when she was gone, "Hey what do you guys think Chris meant by 'Nice find bro?" Duncan asked as he remembered Chris' saying that earlier over something.
As everyone else gained confused looks and tried to figure out why the host said that, Lincoln's face once again went red as a few nervous beads of sweat went down his face. "Y-Y-Y-Y-Yeah!" Lincoln stuttered as he desperately hoped no one would link this to him. "I w-wonder wh-what it could be. N-Not that'd I-I'd know of course! Hahahah…"
The guys raised a brow at Lincoln but decided to shrug and just head off. Duncan wanted to take a nap and Owen needed both food and ointment for his ant bites. Heather also left as she really didn't care what was going on anymore. Especially after her little bear encounter, the queen bee just wanted today to be over with.
The only ones left were Lincoln, Gwen, and Leshawna, and the goth girl rose a brow at the Loud boy. "What's going on?" Gwen narrowed her eyes at Lincoln a bit as that stuttering told both Gwen and Leshwana that he had something to do with it.
"Whaaaaaat?" Lincoln was quick to deny everything and turned his back to the two girls. "I-I got no idea what you're talking about…" Gwen narrowed her eyes more at Lincoln, but ultimately decided to drop it. Lincoln didn't want to tell her and it wasn't any of her business. So with the roll of her eyes, Gwen left leading Lincoln to sigh with relief and think he was off the hook. Leshawna though…
"So what'd you touch Q-Tip?" Leshawna suddenly asked, making Lincoln's eyes widened. "Top or bottom?"
"W-WHAT?!" Lincoln's face exploded an even deeper shade of red. "I…I…I have no idea what you mean! Nope! None at all!"
Leshawna simply laughed a bit before putting her arms on her hips. "Don't even try lyin Linc," Leshawna said as she snapped her fingers. "A sista, always knows."
Lincoln mentally facepalmed. Great, of course, Leshawna would end up figuring this out, she was an expert at this sorta thing like when she found out Harold ended up getting a peek at Heather's chest. Knowing that there was no lying to the girl with a tude, Lincoln gave in. "…..Top…"
"Huh, not bad," Leshawna said rather casually, surprising Lincoln a bit. "With a plumb booty like hers, I'd figured you'd go for that. But hey, bout time you start doing stuff like that."
"W-What?" Lincoln took a step back at Leshawna's words. She was…encouraging him to do stuff like this?! Seriously!? "What do you mean I-I should start doing stuff like that? If I did she'll start seeing me as some sort of perverted creep."
However, Leshawna simply laughed a bit at this and rolled her eyes. "You? A creep? That's a laugh." Leshawna said making Lincoln deadpan at her a bit.
"…Not sure if that's a compliment or an insult" Lincoln slowly said as he wasn't sure how exactly to interoperate the girl with a tude's words.
"Look, I'm just sayin that you should be bolder, that's all." Leshawna further explained to Lincoln as he tried to help him reach first base. "I think you might be surprised at the results. The worst she could possibly do is smack ya and I highly doubt she would. I've seen how she is and I can tell she's been waitin and wantin this for a while so it's time to pay up brotha!"
"…You really think so?" Lincoln asked as his blush remained with a part of him hoping this would be true.
"Just go with your gut, might be surprised." With that said, Leshawna gave Lincoln a supportive pat on the shoulder and walked away.
But Lincoln wasn't alone for long as he soon heard his girlfriend approaching him…with Lincoln turning and looking a bit down at her second pair of soft orbs. "Well finally got that blindfold off Edward, I swear he's such a trouble maker sometimes." Dawn smiled and chuckled a bit at their platypi's antics. "Anyway, he said was gonna go and find some dinner himself so-EEP!" Dawn was cut off…by a sudden jolt coming from her butt. Like someone pinched it…and the only one around them right now was her boyfriend. "D…Did you…"
"Just…trying to be bolder is all…" Lincoln told Dawn as he looked away a bit, hoping to keep his face out of smacking range, as his fingers twitched a bit after pinching her butt. "D…Do you like it?"
"…" Dawn was silent at first, worrying Lincoln…until a sly and flirty grin came to her face as she leaned in closer to her boyfriend. "Taking Leshawna's advice huh~?"
"W-W-W-Wha-how did you…." Lincoln soon cut himself off before he could finish his question. "…I really gotta remember that aura thing."
"Yes, yes you should." Dawn booped Lincoln on the nose in response.
"…So you don't mind?" Lincoln asked as his mouth started to form a bit of a grin.
Dawn put a finger on Lincoln's chest and started to trace a bit with it, a flirty look on her face and her eyes suddenly getting hearts in them. "Why don't we go into the woods and you can find out~"
…Lincoln didn't need to hear more as he quickly picked up Dawn bridal style and headed into the woods, thus bring an end to yet another episode of Total. Drama. Island!