𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜

basic straining (12)

"Listen up you little cockroaches. I want all campers to report to the dock of shame at 0 900 hours." Chef screams through the intercom. We look around at each other confused that it's him and not Chris. "That means now soldiers, now!" We drop what we're doing and run towards the dock.

Once we're at the dock, I end up between DJ and Duncan as Chef is dripped out head to toe in army gear. He has the camo pants, the whistle, the hat, the combat boots, and a red mega phone in his hand.

"Line up and stand at attention. You call this proper formation?"

He uses a stick to correct our form, he hits Geoff's legs to he'll stand with them together, he gets Duncan arms and makes him uncross them, he yells at DJ for him to face forward, he tilts Heather's chin up, and then he hits Harold several times because he needs to be corrected for many things.

"Oh this is gonna be a fun day." Gwen whispers to Trent.

"What did you say to me soldier?" Chef yells in her face.

"Uhh nothing."

"And you'll continue to say nothing until I tell you that you can say something. Today's challenge will not be an easy one. In fact, I do not expect everyone to come out alive."

Owen laughs and gets hit in the butt with the stick. "Owww that hurt!"

Chef goes on to explain that we will be put through several strenuous activites that will test our willpower. The final camper remaining will win immunity for their respective team. Then he goes down a list of rules, such as we have to refer to him as Master Chief. And we're only allowed to do things on his command. If we want to give up, we have to walk to the end of the dock and ring the bell.

"Now get your butts to the beach soldiers. Now!"

***confessionals***

Gwen: "Whoever's sick twisted idea this was to put him in charge of our challenge, I gotta say, I'm a little bit impressed."

***confessionals end****

Before us are two canoes. Chef, or Master Chief, instructs us to hold the canoes over our heads. The first team to tap out loses. We're also not allowed to remove our hands for no reason whatsoever. We hoist our canoe over our heads and start the challenge.

"Pshh, this isn't that hard." Owen says aloud.

"Piece of cake." Geoff says looking at him.

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As the challenge goes the sun gets hotter and it's harder to focus. We're all hot and sweaty. Leshawna's stomach growled and we all looked at her after the sudden noise.

"Come on you sissies, it's only been three hours."

"Looks like they've missed lunch today."

"Mhmm, guess they just weren't hungry!" Chef yells as he and Chris sit atop of our canoes. "Unless someone wants to to quit now?"

Owen's stomach growls and he's so tempted to give in, until Gwen stops him.

"Don't even just think about it Owen."

I look over at the bass and see Geoff has a fishing rod hooked to Harold's undies. He reels the line in and rips Harold's undies off of him. He gasps and removes his hands from the canoe. Chef notices, but not before he's able to settle his hands back to where they were before.

"Hey he took his hand off!" I say looking up at Chef who's seated ontop of the bass canoe. "So we should win."

"What are you talking about his hands have been here the whole time." Duncan says feigning innocence.