Boney Island's Secret

Week 1, day 4+5 forest+mountains

Pov change: bold
Thoughts: (encircled and bold)
Flashback: bold and italics

                   Zoey pov
When she woke up she was cold. (Why am I cold, I don't think the cave is cold) then she noticed that Mal was watching her so she stared back at him. (I know I should be creeped out by how much Mal watched me, but I'm not, I wonder why)
                   Mal pov
He noticed that these past couple of days, Zoey would stare at him while he watched her. (It's only fair, I'm just surprised that she hasn't told me to stop)
                    Mike pov
"When you said it was far away I thought you were exaggerating." He commented. (We've been walking all day and night, not only that but Chester started ranting about noon yesterday)
"It's a longer walk than I thought it was." Svetlana agreed.
"Yo, we might want to take a break before Chester collapses." Vito said, everyone looked at Chester who was still ranting but it was more subdued.
"Ok we'll stop for the time being." He replied, they all sighed in relief, then turned to watch the mirror.
"How long do you think the unofficial staring contest will last between Zoey and Mal?" Svetlana asked, before he could say something.
"Hopefully not long, but on another topic, do you think they'll find anything else in the forest?" He asked.
"For the sake of at least Zoey's sanity, I hope not." Manitoba replied.
"Is it just me or is it cold?" Vito asked.
"It's just you Vito." Svetlana answered.
"This stupid challenge is messing with everyone." Chester grumbled.
"Why do you think it's the challenge Chester?" He asked.
"Mike's right Chester, why do you think it's the challenges fault?" Manitoba asked, but Chester ignored them and stood up, then ranted about challenges and long walks.
"You ready to go Mike?" Manitoba asked him, he nodded his head and the rest of them went to follow Chester. (It looks like Chester is taking the lead, I don't know if that's such a good idea or not)
           Third person pov
Zoey and Mal were walking through the silent forest hoping that they would find something, but not anything like what they found the past couple of days.
"Mal?" Zoey asked.
"Yes?" Mal replied.
"How in a matter of a couple of weeks does that much mutated plant and animal life suddenly die, the animals we found were reduced to bones?" Zoey asked.
"It was probably the toxic fumes, coming from the toxic waste." Mal answered.
"And I guess with regular plants and animals, you feed it too much of something, it hurts it." Zoey said.
"Exactly." Mal replied.
"And those hair ties-"
"Were there to try and scare us." Mal interrupted her, Zoey sighed and nodded her head, then screamed as well as grabbed Mal's arm as they entered the clearing.
"What is it?" Mal asked shocked, Zoey just pointed her finger to the middle of the clearing. Mal's gaze followed where Zoey's finger was pointing and was beyond shocked when he saw a skeleton wearing tattered clothing, that he thought belonged to that one girl.......Dawn. Thinking quickly Mal led Zoey out of the clearing and tried to shake her out of her panicking but it wasn't happening.
"Zoey." Mal said, no result.
"Zoey." Mal repeated, again no result.
"Zoey!" Mal yelled, shaking Zoey's shoulders slightly.....he finally got a reaction. Zoey wrapped her arms around him and started to cry, Mal didn't know why he let her cry on him but he did..... when Zoey didn't stop crying Mal got annoyed and forced Zoey off of him.
"Zoey, calm down." Mal said, forcefully.
"Calm down, I can't calm down that..... that-"
"That is just a Halloween prop that Chris set up, your friend is not dead and if she was, which she isn't, she wouldn't be all bones and she wouldn't be here." By the time Mal finished talking Zoey had calmed down and was blushing.
"Why are you blushing?" Mal asked.
"I'm embarrassed.... I overreacted." Zoey whispered.
"I'd be worried if you hadn't, or maybe not since I probably wouldn't care, anyway try to remember that if we run into, if there are more, human skeletons that they are fake. As far as the animal skeletons go well we already talked about that." Mal said, he could tell that Zoey was grateful for him being level-headed because they both knew that if Zoey was on her own she would still be upset by seeing the Halloween prop.
"Now that you know that, that is just a Halloween prop, are you ready to go over there and see what else could be there?" Mal asked, Zoey nodded her head, they walked back into the clearing and closer to the skeleton, and was surprised to see that other than the skeleton that looked like it got mauled by a bear, there was nothing else in the clearing.
"Come on, there is nothing else here." Mal said, they left the clearing and walked along a trail for awhile but didn't see anything else until the end of their search of the forest. As they walked back to their cave they found a tattered and bloodied shirt and shoe and the both of them looked like they belonged to Duncan. Zoey winced but didn't say anything, Mal took that as a sign that Zoey realized that most of this stuff was fake..... Mal knew that whatever dead animals and plants they found were real because everything plant-wise or animal-wise was either mutated or prehistoric and you wouldn't be able to find that at a Halloween store. By the time they got back to the cave they both were exhausted and they decided to go to sleep.
                    Mal pov
When he woke up he did what he always did since he and Zoey got onto Boney Island, he watched her sleep. (Is Zoey a late sleeper, I'm always the first one to wake up, of course I don't actually know what time it is, Zoey looks uncomfortable, is she cold her lips are blue)
                   Zoey pov
When she woke up she knew Mal was watching her so she stared back at him. (I'm freezing it almost hurts, Mal doesn't look like he's cold or am I the only one that is cold)
                    Mike pov
"Chester are you sure you know where you're going?" He asked.
"Of course I know where I'm going." Chester said, annoyed..... but Chester was always annoyed so it didn't matter.
"We're lost." Vito commented.
"No we're not." Chester replied.
"Ok Chester we'll continue following you." He said. (It'll probably be tomorrow before he gives up, unless he gets annoyed enough)
             Third person pov
"You ready?" Mal asked, Zoey nodded her head and they left the cave.
  "It's going to take a long time to search these mountains." Zoey commented.
"Then let's get started." Mal replied, with a smirk.
"We haven't found anything yet." Zoey said, a few hours later.
"We'll find something eventually.......maybe." Mal replied, as he said this they saw next to a ledge one of Heather's high-heeled wedges. Zoey and Mal looked at each other and cautiously made their way over to the ledge and looked down. What they saw shocked them just as much as yesterday's discovery, there were two skeletons. One was wearing the shorts and the other high-heeled wedge that Heather wore, the shirt Heather wore was dangling on a rock, indicating that if the real Heather fell off the ledge, her shirt was ripped off. The fake skeleton itself had a broken leg and it looked like one of the ribs broke off completely, if it had been a real body the rib would have punctured the heart killing Heather immediately. The other fake skeleton was wearing Alejandro's clothes and from the way the skeleton was placed, it had a broken neck and spine, if the skeleton was the real Alejandro, he would have been killed immediately.
"I think I'm going to be sick." Zoey said, walking away from the ledge and Mal followed after her
"Are these the clues to whatever secret is on this island?" Zoey asked.
"I don't actually think there is a secret." Mal replied.
"What do you mean?" Zoey asked, confused.
"I think this is part one of a two part final challenge." Mal answered.
"But why try and scary us?" Zoey asked.
"To see if he can get one of us to leave the island and get eliminated, remember all the human skeletons are fake. We already established that the animals and plants in the 'Fun Zone' died of too much toxic waste exposure or killed each other." Mal explained.
"Then why should we search the island if there's no secret?" Zoey asked, Mal had to admit it was a good one.
"Chris probably lost a statue of himself here and he wants us to find it, then to make things more interesting for the viewers he's trying to scare us." Mal answered, bad thing or good thing, depending on how you looked at it Mal knew he was probably correct. After that they continued their search and hoped they didn't find anything else that day, by the time they were back in their cave they hadn't found anything else which they were happy for. Not long after they got back to their cave they called it a night and went to their own sleeping bags. It was two hours after night fell and Zoey wasn't able to sleep, so she turned to look at Mal, who appeared to be asleep, suddenly she got an idea.
"Mal." Zoey whispered loudly.
"What?" Mal asked, opening his eyes to look at Zoey.
"Did I wake you?" Zoey asked, apologetically.
"No, but if that was the only thing you wanted to talk to me about, then you're in trouble." Mal said, glaring at Zoey.
"No, I was going to ask you if I could sleep with you?" Zoey asked, sheepishly.
"What, why?" Mal asked, his eyes widening in shock.
"I'm freezing, and it's starting to hurt." Zoey answered, Mal just looked at her.
"Please Mal." Zoey begged, but she would deny it if you asked her. Mal sighed and unzipped his sleeping bag, indicating Zoey could sleep with him. Zoey smiled, got out of her sleeping bag and made her way into Mal's sleeping bag. Once Mal had managed to zip up the sleeping bag, they had to rearrange themselves to where they were comfortable. That ended up with them on their sides, one of Zoey's arms wrapped around Mal's back, while her other arm and her head lay on his chest. Mal had one of his arms wrapped around Zoey's back and the other he was using as a pillow.
"Better?" Mal asked.
"Yes." Zoey answered.
"Now go to sleep." Mal ordered and closed his eyes, Zoey rolled her eyes but she did go to sleep and luckily for her, she fell asleep quickly.