rookie - chris "ct" tamburello

chapter two

After we got off the plane, and got all of our bags, we were taken to a big truck, and CT walked behind me.

"Hell yeah baby, rookies have to ride regular vans," he stuck his tongue out at me.

I lightly punched him, "Shut up," he smirked after I said that. I watched as he went and got onto the truck. I rolled my eyes as he stood up and saluted me before walking away from the door.

I walked over to the vans and sat down in the back seat. Eventually, a girl came and sat next to me.

"Hi, I'm Natalie, or Ninja Natalie, who are you?"

"Hi, I'm Katie," I smiled.

"So this van is for all the new people?"

"Yeah, that's what CT said."

"You talked to CT?" she looked shocked, "He's like a challenge God."

I laughed a little, "Yeah, we sat next to each other on the plane, and talked a little," I honestly couldn't believe that happened still.

"Wow," she paused for a moment while the vans began moving, "What do you do, like for a job."

I really appreciated her taking to me, and I hoped that we would continue talking, and maybe become friends so that I wouldn't have to be going into this challenge alone.

"Oh, nothing yet, I'm on a break from college, I'm going to school to become a teacher," I smiled, "What about you?"

"I'm trying to become a personal physical trainer, I want to help people find their best selves," she smiled. I was really inspired. Which I know is kind of weird but that made me want to find my best self.

"I want a personal trainer now," she smiled at me saying this before talking.

"Hey I could be it. I used to compete in American Ninja Warrior, and I still do sometimes, and I had a personal trainer and he helped me a lot."

"Oh that's cool," I hated myself. That was such a stupid thing to say. "I mean like that's amazing that he inspired you to do this," she smiled.

"Yeah, I totally understand."

I really was starting to like this Ninja Natalie girl. I knew it was a cheesy question, but I went ahead and asked it, "So, wanna be friends?"

She smiled, "Yes, I would love that," she laughed.

"Alright, great," I laughed a little too.

We kind of basically got to know each other on the ride over there and it was really fun, I was so glad to have a friend/ally who seemed like she was gonna be an amazing, strong competitor.

"Who's your favorite vet?" I was honestly curious.

"Um, that's a tough one, I like Bananas, he just is like a fun person to have in the house, like he is super annoying but he's funny," she paused, "Does that make sense at all?"

"Yeah," I laughed a little, "Mine would definitely have to be CT or Darell, they're just really strong competitors."

She nodded, "What do you think this season will be called?" It was a good question. I had been wondering the same thing for a while, but I had no idea.

"I don't know, there's so many things it could be honestly. I dont think it's going to be Rivals or Vendettas, because I've never been on any show or anything before this, so I don't have a vendetta or rival or whatever."

"Yeah, I don't think I have any either."

We thought for a moment, "That eliminates one option at least," I finally said.

We talked with some of the other rookies in the van while we waited. Nothing too interesting, just what we thought the season would be called, and saying if it was an individual game, we should have each others backs, since we're rookies and the champs should probably crush us.

We got to know everyone, then we kind of just talked to whoever we were taking to before that.

After a few more minutes, the van pulled up to a dessert area, which had to stands and large Hollywood style letters that read "CHALLENGE" good, that told us nothing. We walked over to where we saw TJ standing, and waited for him to tell us what to do, I didn't see the vets anywhere, so I was hoping it wasn't one of those "rookies sleep in a disgusting tent while the vets sleep in a mansion" type thing.

"Hey guys, as you see, there are two different colored stands, a red one and a blue one. You rookies will be standing on the red one. In a random order, it doesn't really matter."

We all walked over to the red stand, and stood somewhere, I was on the second layer, on the edge with Natalie to my right.

"Okay, now we just have to wait for all of the vets to get here."

It took about five minutes before we heard a vehicle in the distance. Eventually, we saw the large truck coming towards us.

"I swear to God if they spray us with sand,"I whispered to Natalie at which she giggled.

The truck drove pretty fast over to us and didn't spray us with sand, but it did spray sand almost to us.

The truck stopped. We waited for like five minutes before anything happened. In this five minutes I realized that based off of size, this was probably a monster truck.

"Alright guys, get out here," TJ shouted next to us.

As soon as he said that, the door opened and a short ramp came out from underneath the door. I guess it was so that no one looked stupid coming out of there. For dramatic effect, a fog machine was on. The first person to walk out from the truck was none other than CT. I knew I would regret this but I wanted to tell someone.

"CT is like super attractive," I whispered to Natalie.

She laughed, "Someone's got a crush," I felt my cheeks get hot, so I rolled my eyes.

"Whatever."

We watched as all of the vets walked out, some trying to look intimidating others just walking.

After everyone got out, TJ started talking again, "Alright everyone, this season of the challenge is going to be Fresh Meat 3."

Authors Note: Hey, here's the second chapter, I promise there will be more CT in the next chapter, I just wanted to do this one this way. I hope you enjoyed this. Let me know if you have any suggestions. Thank you for readjng!