Chapter 3

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The beach house was a mess this morning. The girls had just been informed that they would possibly be filmed and shown on tv. They scrambled to get ready in flurry of screaching, flying clothes, and half eaten food.

An hour later, they were all dressed in their work suits and black shorts, preparing the beach and themselves for whatever the day threw at them. By now, the stories of the interesting events from the past day had spread and the girls hummed the gossip excitedly while they waited for the visitors. 

Two vans pulled into the U-shaped driveway and stopped. Alan stood waiting, his hands clasped behind his back. The doors opened to reveal a large group of boys, and a few frazzled men and women in suits. Equipment was unloaded from the back and placed on the dry pavement.

"Welcome to our beach," Alan said, spreading his hands. 

"Thank you for letting us use it for our show, we know you don't usually allow anyone to come. I am Park Jia" One of the women shook hands with Alan.

"I'm sure you realize this will not be a reoccurring accommodation for you or your show." Alan's eyes narrowed and he pulled his hand away from hers. She seemed shocked but hid it quickly, taking her hand back and holding a folder with both hands.

"This place is amazing," Jungkook said, looking around the house to the beach. 

"I'm glad you think so, the girls are probably waiting down at the beach. You will have to explain things to them." Alan led the group through the house to a back porch.

Waiting in a cluster just off the porch, were all the girls. The screen door slammed behind a manager, startling them so that they looked up. Staring at the group of people and cameras watching them.

"Hello ladies. I'm sure you have many questions but I have to ask you to keep them to yourselves because we have a lot of work to get to today. We have prepared several tasks for these gentlemen and we need you to be prepared for anything. Including whatever is asked of you and any little surprises you come up with," said Jia.

Taehyung elbowed Suga in the ribs, and Suga just glared at him. 

Wei and Ten grinned at each other.

Lay looked scared, but Chanyeol and Baekhyun hit eachother childishly.

Mingyu slapped Taeyong's shoulder, and Taeyong stuck his tongue back out at him.

Alan grimaced but stepped forward. "To your posts ladies." He waved them off as they scattered across the beach.

Jia turned to the boys and the crew. "Time to reveal the teams and give out the first challenges. The punishment for the losing team will be revealed at the end of the day. Now, team blue is: Suga, Baekhyun, Taeyong, Ten, and Lay. Team red is: Taehyung, Wei, Chanyeol, Mingyu, and Jungkook. Each team will recieve a card with their first task on it. Good luck."

Lay was handed the blue card and turned to his teammates. The card says

Your first challenge is to find the flag on top of a tall mountain. 

"A tall mountain?" Asked Taeyong. "Where is there a mountain around here?"

The five of them looked around, stumped.

"I don't get it. We're on a beach, where are we going to find a mountain?" Baekhyun crossed his arms.

Suga points towards the water. "There!"

They all turned and floating off shore is a giant inflatable mountain with climbing handles on three of the sides and a flat side for sliding. Two of the girls floated nearby on paddle boards with rescue tubes, ready for anything to go wrong.

The blue team took off their shirts so that they were only wearing swimsuits and sprinted towards the edge of the water. Ten was the first to reach it, but he immediately turned and ran back to shore screaming "Cold! Cold!"

Taeyong ran in after him, he wadded in up to his waist and then stopped. "It's not that bad, come on!"

Lay never stopped, he made it to Taeyong and then started swimming. He put his head in to the water and kept on going.

Baekhyun dunked himself under and came back up sputtering. "You lied! It's cold!" Suga came up behind him and shoved him back under, but Baekhyun grabbed his ankle, pulling him back under.

Still on shore, Mingyu is handed the red card. This card said

Win your first flag at the circle.

"As vague as possible of course." Mingyu shook his head. "Now what?" He looked around at the faces of his teammates. Taehyung  stared at Wei's feet, frowning in concentration. He looked like he was offended by the imaginary smell coming from them. Wei stared at the producer as if asking for the answer with his eyes. Chanyeol scratched his ears and looked around with a blank expression. Jungkook blinked rapidly as he twisted the necklace he was wearing.

Taehyung looked up and said "I saw what looked like a circle of games on the side of the house when we first got here, do you think that's it?"

Chanyeol grinned. "It must be! Why didn't you mention it earlier?" Wei clapped Taehyung on the back and started running. He called over his shoulder "Well, let's stop wasting time!" Taehyung and Chanyeol followed him quickly, leaving Jungkook and Mingyu.

Jungkook looked at Mingyu with big eyes, here it seemed he was the leader and Jungkook trusted him. Mingyu shook his head and waved Jungkook towards him. "Come on, we don't want to be left behind."

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I am very grateful to anyone who is still here reading this, even though it's been who knows how long since I last posted. I am determined to finish this, so please stick around!

Since I have recieved ten applications I have to change the groups to five members each. So I need one person from Infinity who is willing to switch to zero. If no one answers I'll probably just make the change myself.

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