Epiphany *The wilds*

The boys

Day 1
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"You're smiling. That's a nice development." Faber muses to Gretchen, whose got a big smile on her face.
"I was just admiring our beloved control group." She smirks, nodding her head towards the screen.
"Beloved? Not what I expected you to call them." He hums, cocking his head in confusion.
"34 days, Daniel. They lasted 34 days, while the women lasted the full 50, so... and, god, all that begging for money and tap dancing like a fucking money for my investors, that was all worthwhile. The boys were the perfect failures we needed."
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What the girls from The Dawn of Eve didn't know, was that there were a group of boys on a different island, going through the same shit they were.
Well, not exactly the same...
The twilight of Adam consisted of 10 different boys, 8 of them not knowing the absolute hell that they were about to go through.
Kirin O'Conner, the lax bro. While his temper is short, he's always ready to defend his friends.
Ivan Taylor, an activist with an amazing sense of fashion, never afraid to use his voice.
Rafael Garcia is mostly quiet, gravitating towards people with stronger personality's.
Josh Herbert is an hypochondriac who struggles to fit in, even with his own family.
Scotty Simms an ambitious entrepreneur who dreams of making the Forbes list. But he would be nothing without his ride or die,
Bo Leonard.
Bo is a gentle soul whose fiercely loyal to his best friend.
Seth Nowak seems extremely charismatic, clever, popular, good looking.. but he's also a self admitted people pleaser, who knows how to get his way.
Henry Tanaka, The emo kid. Tends to be morbid, but he's actually Quite smart as he used to be a Boy Scout.
Noah Elliot appears to be charming, but he's nothing but a manipulative, abusive, confident, psychopath.
Dj Keating was cocky yet whiny, always complaining about something.
All of their lives were about to change, even the ones who knew who what was going on.
After the 'plane went down', all 10 boys were finally on the island. Nobody knew what to feel, the energy was rough, the air was suffocating.
"Good one, mother. Great idea. How about... how about we... we ship me off to some wilderness fucking circle jerk? 'Maybe it'll be fun' she said. Yeah, 'maybe you'll learn something.' Okay, sure. Yeah. Maybe I'll learn what it's like to almost basically drown. Maybe I'll learn what it's like to get a metric shit ton of water up my fucking nose! Or maybe I'll learn what it's like to absolutely and extremely hate you, you fucking dick tit!" Dj screams loudly before kicking a near by rock.
"Oh, Jesus fuck!" He groans, grabbing his now injured foot.
Scotty can't help but laugh loudly, watching the whiny boy sit down to inspect his foot.
"What? I'm sorry! I can't pretend that that shit wasn't funny. 'Dick tit.'" He grunts, causing ripples of laughter throughout the group.
The loud laughter is soon ended by the soft sobs of Josh, who is the most scared out of all the boys.
"Hey, you doing okay?" Seth smiles at the sad boy, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Nope. We're either lost, dead, or raptured. None of are okay." Henry sulks from beside them, glaring at his step brother.
"I'll rephrase. Are you doing okay, considering?" Seth questions Josh, earning a small nod back.
"Why the fuck are you doing that?" Noah snaps, staring at the crying boy with disgust.
"Doing what?" Josh mutters, keeping his head down.
"Crying." He huffs, taking the wet pack of cigarettes out his pocket to dry.
"It's fine, actually. It's healthy, really. And I think it should be more normalized as a behavior." Josh defends, mustering up the courage to finally look at him.
Noah gives him a wicked smile, putting a partially wet cigarette in his mouth, but he gets cut off before he could reply.
"Jesus fucking Christ. Who came with this kid?" Kirin yells out, giving Josh the same disgusted look Noah did.
Raf raises his hand slightly, before scratching the back of his neck.
"Is he always like this?" Noah teases, not taking his eyes off of Josh.
"I... i don't really know..." Raf answers, walking closer to the group with his hands behind his back.
"We're in different friend groups... hi, rafe." Josh smiles at the boy, who just nods his head back awkwardly.
"Look, we've been sitting on our asses for too long." Kirin starts, standing over the group.
"Let's quit fuckin crying and actually do something useful." Noah finishes for him, earning several glares from the group.
"Uh, hey, man. W-what's your name, again?" Seth questions the raven haired boy.
"Noah." He smirks, standing up to step closer to Seth.
"Uh, okay, Cool. What about you, blondie?" He gulps, avoiding eye contact with Noah.
"He'll tell you it's kirin, but we all know he's a natural born chad." Ivan mocked, smiling sarcastically at kirin who suddenly becomes angry.
"Don't start, Taylor. Don't even start." Kirin glares before walking over to Noah.
"Okay, uh, some history there... uh, look, kirin, Noah, why don't we just let Josh be Josh for a sec? We've all been dropped into this, like, live action fever dream. We should probably normalize having any reaction we want..." Seth trails off, nodding his head at the two boys.
"Like, if you want to call your mom a dick tit, then go for it." He laughs, causing Dj to roll his eyes.
"I did need to. She fuckin sucks." He whines, crossing his arms.
"God damn it, people. Can we get up and move?" Noah grumbles, glaring at the group of boys.
"And go where?" Henry mumbles, slightly afraid to look up at the older boy.
"To go look for shit!" He exclaims, throwing his arms up in the air.
"Deserted islands don't even exist. We fuckin found em all." Kirin comments, nodding his head in agreement.
"Yeah, see that's true. All these islands been snapped up by rich white dudes with, like, Illuminati money." Scotty laughs, looking around at the beautiful beach.
"Everybody up!" Kirin yells out loudly, causing most of the group of boys to stand up immediately.
"Why did I just do what he told me to do?" Henry mutters, cleaning his glasses off.
"It's that captain daddy voice. You just can't fight it. I mean, look at me. I've loathed him since middle school, and my ass got up." Ivan rolls his eyes, glaring at the blonde boy.
"Look, obviously, rescue's coming, but if there's some ass hotel around the corner and we're too lazy to go find it, we're gonna feel like total dicks." Kirin declares, causing several groans from the group.
"So I think we split up, head in deprecate directions. Just send someone back when you find something. Everyone from here over, you're one group." He continues, splitting the group into two.
"The others, you're with me. Let's go." Kirin leads Henry, Noah, Bo and Scotty towards the other side of the beach, silently praying they would find something.
After hours of no luck, both groups decide to head back, not expecting to find Dj in the sand, his body completely torn to shreds.
Eventually, the boys decide to put him in the water, afraid of any animal that could come near. The rest of the night was silent, only a few daring making small talk. Nobody knew what to say, everyone giving each other awkward glances.
Noah Elliot sat by himself, taking long drags of his cigarette.
While the rest of the group was terrified, Noah wasn't. He wasn't scared at all.
Honestly, he was annoyed.
Occasionally, he'd look around at the group of boys, wondering how the fuck he could of ended up here with them. He thought he was better than the rest, looking down on every single one.
Noah rolls his eyes at Seth and Raf chatting before putting out the cigarette on his wrist.
The thing about Noah, he likes pain. He likes giving pain, receiving pain. It's one of the very few things that give him joy. Drugs and alcohol being the others.
Some might say he has no emotions at all, that he's too far gone to feel anything.. But, the smile on his face after he hurts someone, says otherwise.
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Day 12
9 boys have been stuck on a stranded island for 12 days.
Most of them are staying tough, acting strong for the group, while others are clearly struggling.
"Starvation is a notoriously horrific way to die." Henry states morbidly, playing with the rubber band on his wrist.
"Right up there with radiation poisoning and crucifixion..." he mutters, earning a small laugh from Noah.
"Jesus, could you not? No one's fuckin starving the death." Kirin demands, crouching down to look in Josh's suitcase.
"This can't be all that's left, can it?" He questions Josh, grabbing the salsa from his hand.
"Yeah, I'm sorry, I just, uh... It can't end like this for me. I mean, my mom doesn't even where to look for my novella, so how am I supposed to be a published posthumously, hmm?" Ivan mewled, glaring at the salsa.
"It's on my Google drive, mother." He groans, before opening his mouth to speak again.
"Just click on the second folder marked 'novella-'" he begins again, but he's quickly cut off.
"Shut the fuck up! We just need to slow down on food since obviously, rescues not coming." Noah growls, glaring at Ivan, who throws his notebook down and looks away.
"Since they're taking longer than we thought." Kirin corrects him, giving a small sad smile to the rest of the group.
"We can play a game, like, as a distraction. I always play my Xbox when I wanna stop snacking on refined sugars. My nutritionist encourages it." Josh smiles, nodding his head at kirin.
"Not a bad call. Any suggestions?" Seth pipes up, scanning the group for ideas.
The group ends up playing a very quick game of two truths and a lie, only ending when Raf accidentally spills the salsa.
Noah watches as the embarrassed boy runs off, smirking slightly at the scene.
He doesn't understand why he let it get to him so much, why he couldn't of stood up to kirin when he yelled at him for it. If there's one thing Noah Elliot doesn't like, it's weak people.
While Noah's deep in his thoughts, kirin finally notices the lighter sticking out of his pocket, and decides to confront him.
"What the fuck, man? You had a goddamn lighter this whole time?" Kirin shrieks, glaring over at the teenage boy.
Noah just smirks, while taking the lighter out of his pocket.
"Oops."
"You fucking Moron! All this time, we've been freezing. And here we could have had a campfire, but no, you're too much of a fucking dick to fucking share it!" Kirin screamed, ripping the lighter out of his hand.
Noah's smirk drops, anger suddenly rushing through his body.
"Don't fucking touch me." He spits, pushing kirin on the ground hard.
Gasps erupt from the group, not expecting that from the raven haired boy. Some back away slowly, while others are frozen in place.
"Okay, somebody needs to deescalate." Ivan declares, standing up in between the two boys.
"Deescalate my ballsack, Taylor." Kirin snaps, standing up to push him out of the way.
"What else have you forgotten to tell us about, huh?" He gets in Noah's face, clutching his fists, ready to start a fight.
"I don't think you wanna do that." Noah smirks once again, glaring hard at the blonde boy.
Kirin notices the dark look in his eye, and decides to back down a bit, angrily throwing Josh's suitcase in the sand.
"You want a fucking spill, Josh? Stage seven suitcase some fucking something stupid fucking piece of shit disaster!" Kirin screams, grabbing Seth's camera to take a picture of the spill.
"Uh, kirin, if you steal my IP, I will have to send a cease and desist." Seth jokes, suddenly walking up with Raf, hoping that whatever was going on, will stop once they show the group what they found.
The two boys had found a box of food, water, and a case of beer. Enough to last the boys a few days, until they could go back to the bunker for more.
The group spent the rest of the night talking and laughing, even Noah.
Having actual food and water was a big game changer, everyone had hope again.
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Day 15 (Possible TW)
After yesterday's close incident with a jag, the boys decided it was time to 'Take that bitch down'.
A few of them were obviously scared, some were acting tougher than others, while a couple were... excited.
Kirin and Noah were the first ones out there, leading the group of boys behind them to the trap they set earlier.
Noah pauses, hearing a low growl come from the bunker, before motioning to the group to stop.
The two leaders slowly walk towards the trap, Noah smirking with pride when he sees the cat stuck in the trap.
"It's still alive." Kirin groans, causing an even louder growl from the jaguar.
The two boys back away quickly, both grabbing nearby weapons to throw at the animal.
"Fuck! It's rearing back. It's gonna fucking get out." Noah sneers, pulling at his hair.
Kirin turns around when he's finally out of weapons to throw.
"Ivan, throw it to me!" He screams, nodding at his pointed stick.
Ivan gasps, before throwing it the boy, gasping even harder when Kirin stabs the animal multiple times, finally killing it.
"Holy shit."
The group decides to head back to the beach and throw basically a frat party.
All of them were around the fire, screaming, chanting and getting drunk out of their minds.
"I am gladiator!" Kirin screams, throwing his hands up in the air, laughing when he gets picked up by three of the boys.
Noah stops listening when the boys go around giving thanks, but he perks up when he hears the extreme praise to Seth from raf.
There was something about Seth that Noah didn't like. Noah saw how badly he wanted to be liked, or included. It was sad, how insecure he was.
"I remember Noah and man... I gotta be completely honest with you, you scared the shit out of me. I mean, look at you, dude." Seth jokes, earning a smirk from the raven haired boy.
"But, you've been a real big help, man. Respect." He nods, before looking at the rest of the group.
"We were strangers.. and, what did we fucking do?! We were strangers who came together and we killed a Motherfucking jag!" Seth screams at the top of his lungs, causing loud cheers from the rest of the boys.
Noah's smirk flattens when he sees Kirin pull Seth's pants down.
"Nuclear pantsing!" Kirin laughs, jumping up and down to laugh at the boy.
Seth's face immediately falls, feeling extremely embarrassed and ashamed.
He quickly pulls his pants up before running away, earning boos from some of the boys.
"Come on, fuckers! Let's drink!" Kirin cheers, throwing a can of beer at Scotty.
Noah couldn't help but feel a little bad for the embarrassed boy. He's normally the one to make people feel that way, so seeing someone else do it was different for him.
He throws his cigarette in the sand before aimlessly walking through the woods, assuming he'd find Seth somewhere.
But when he finally sees him, Josh had already beat him to it.
Noah laughs at the sight, knowing Seth hasn't wanted anything to do with the boy since we've been here.
Noah watches Josh walk away towards the tent before looking back towards Seth, whose shaking and scratching his wrists.
Noah watches Seth for another half hour, before Seth finally gets up to leave.
He raises his eyebrows slightly when he notices Seth not walking towards camp, but towards the tent.
Seth looks around frantically, making sure nobody at the camp was watching before walking inside the tent.
Noah takes a cigarette out from his pocket and lights it, taking a long drag before slowly walking towards the tent.
He's shocked when he hears not only rough groans, but soft cries too.
Noah is a lot of things, but he isn't a rapist.
"I'm nothing fucking like you!" He hears Seth yell out, before walking out of the tent and straight to the group of boys.
Noah shakes his head, before walking back to the group too, making sure to catch Seth's eye.
Seth's eyes widen when he sees him walk from the same direction he did, quickly going back to scratching his wrists.
Noah says nothing, but Seth knows all too well.

Notes///
First of all, it's been a month lmfao and I wrote this a month ago but I had to finish it up a bit and ykkkk. I've kinda been unmotivated and depressed as shit bc I live in a 2 BDR w my mother and grandma and girl let me tell u... it's ass! But, we should be moving soon and hopefully I'll get back into it before then. I love writing and I wanna finish season 2, we only have a few chapters or so left until we have to wait until season 3 :( so if they don't renew it, I have my own plan lmfao