Slayers Summer Camp

By Courtney Kays "Verdigris"

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Luna Inverse was drinking her coffee and looking through the paper in the late hours of the morning. She sipped at her cup and turned the pages to the local section. She came across an ad and glanced over it. "Well I'll be.." Luna smiled and put the paper under her arm and walked to her little eight-year-old sister's room.

Lina was sitting on the floor in her room, hunched over her toys. She was holding a toy girl doll with long blond hair and moving the doll's legs walk across the floor.

"Dum dee dum dee dum, I'm so stupid, all my brains have seeped into my chest to make them unporportionally large, dum dee dum dee dum." She reached behind her to grab another toy while she continued to make the doll hop around with the other hand. "I'm so pretty, oh so pretty I'm so….oh no!" Her other hand produced an evil looking wizard action figure from behind her. "It's Pogo the Wizard of Black Magic! I must run away on my toes of my dainty feet because my arches are too high! AHH!"

Lina took her Pogo figure and started pounding the girl doll with it. "Die! DIE!"

Luna peeked her head in the door. "Lina? Are you killing your Barbie dolls with Pogo again?"

"Yeah." Lina giggled sinisterly. "Malibu Hoochy Barbie didn't have a chance." She hugged her grossly detailed evil wizard figure. Luna sighed; the girl always had a thing for evil wizards for some reason. Hopefully it's just a phase.

 "Lina, I just was looking through the paper and I saw an ad for a summer camp for kids." Luna said softly, holding the paper up through the door.

Her little sister stuck her nose at her and crossed her arms over her chest. "I don't wanna go to summer camp! It's stupid!"

Luna tried to keep her cool, but a vein was popping up on her forehead. "But it's at Camp Winnabago. You must be so bored playing by yourself in the summer time. If you go you'll meet lots of new friends and your big sister can finally buy normal portions of food at the store." She forced a smile.

Lina looked away from the door and went back to her toys. "I'm not going to camp this summer. No way, no how." She suddenly felt the room get warmer and red haze of light covering her walls. Lina gulped and turned to the door to see the angry, red eyed Luna with the paper in her hand.

"IF YOU DON'T GO TO SUMMER CAMP AND GET OUT OF MY HAIR I'LL STAPLE YOUR HAIR TO THE GARAGE DOOR AGAIN, SO HELP MEEE!"

Lina's eyes were wide and said with a weak voice, holding her action figure in front of her face for protection. "I'll go….to summer camp."

Luna cooled down in two seconds and said cheerfully. "Oh wonderful! I hope you're not doing for me."

"No not at all…"

"Gooood!" Luna said sing-song like. "It starts next week! Get your bug spray!" Then slammed the door.

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"Zelgadis my dear boy, where are you?" Rezo called from the kitchen with a frying pan in one hand and an apron around his waist. "Your grilled cheese sandwich is ready!"

A young boy around nine years of age walked slowly into the kitchen, wearing a gray t-shirt and cargo dark blue pants. He didn't look up at his grandfather and sat in one of the table chairs.

Rezo flipped the sandwich onto a plate and handed it to Zel. "So what were you doing in your room?"

"Nothing."

"Sounds like fun." He gave his grandson his sandwich and watched the lavender, spiky haired boy depressively pick up his boring lunch that he's had everyday for five years.. Zel sighed and looked at his grilled cheese criticingly and took a bite, chewing it with an expressionless face.

Rezo gritted his teeth and put the frying pan away. "That boy ain't right."

"Sweetie!"

"Ah, Eris! How are you?" Rezo smiled and hugged his girlfriend. Zel made a disgusted face with his mouth full at Eris. "What brings you here so early?"

Eris jumped up and down, her tight black crop-top with a 'Foxy Gal' written in gold letters in front. "Oh Rezo darling, I just couldn't wait till this evening to start our two week vacation!"

Zel leaned his elbows on the table. "Vacation? Grandpa, what's this about?"

Rezo untied his apron. "Eris and I both have the same vacation time this year. Two full weeks."

"So…..you'll be going out of town?" Zel's eyes sparkled at the thought. His grandfather and his girlfriend away his sight for a whole week meant peace and quite for him. He could tolerate his grandpa, but not his girlfriend.

Eris giggled. "No silly! I'm staying her with your grandpa!!"

Zelgadis nearly fell off of his chair. "Two full weeks? I can't take one day with you and Grandpa making out in the living room!"

Rezo shrugged. "Then don't come in the living room."

"I live here!" Zelgadis cried. "I have rights you know!"

Eris rolled her eyes and hugged Rezo. "I'll pray for you when his teenage years come along."

"Well, he doesn't like us together in the house, maybe he could go to one of his friends house." Rezo thought, glancing down at Zel.

Zel looked down at the floor, his voice lowered. "I don't have any friends."

"Surprise, surprise.." Eris grinned. "Why don't do what other kids do, go to summer camp or something."

"Would you like that, Zel? Go to camp for awhile?"

Zelgadis blinked, "Let me think about it…"

Rezo and Eris started to make out in front of him.

Zel quickly covered his eyes. "Okay I thought about it!"

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"DA-DEE!" Amelia squealed loudly, running through the hallway to her father's office. "Daddy! Daddy!" The seven year-old slid down the smooth tiles of the large room and pounced on her father's back, knocking him out of his chair and unto the floor.

"Daddy!" Amelia jumped on his chest. "I wanna go to Summer Camp!!"

Phil gasped for air and picked his daughter off his chest, holding her up as he lay stunned on the floor. "Go where?" He asked breathless from her attack.

"Summer Camp!" Amelia wiggled as his arms held her up. "Gracia told me all about it! She went when she was younger and told me all the neat stuff you get to do! Can I go? Please daddy??"

"I don't see why not." Phil picked his daughter up, putting her down on the floor. He cracked his lower back. "For a little girl you sure pack a punch." He gave her a huge grin and tickled her, "That's my daughter! All that energy and no where to put it! If you want to go to camp, you can go to camp!"

Amelia's eyes twinkled, and two golden stars appeared where her pupils once were. "Oh thank you Daddy!"

Gracia glanced in the office sleepily. Blinking at the scene her sister and father were in.

"Daddy!" Amelia hugged Phil.

"Daughter!"

"Uh….not again. All this loud affection…" Gracia tottered out the office sleepily. "I think caffeine runs in my family's blood."

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Luna parked the car near the summer camp bus in the park. "Alright Lina. We're here, so take out your stuff and get on the bus now."

The redheaded little girl was thinking up an excuse. "Um…..I left my bug spray at the house! Heh, guess I can't go to Camp Winnabago after all. Oh well, maybe next year."

Luna opened up the glove department and a pile of bug spray cans rolled out. She grabbed one up and thrust it into the back seat with Lina. "Here ya go!"

Lina blinked, "How did you…?"

"When I said you were going to camp I meant it." Luna growled. "Now get out and a have a good time, god damnit!" Lina didn't waste time and ran out of the car with her pack.

Zelgadis was unbuckling himself from his seat in the back of Rezo's car. Eris was sitting shotgun next to him. "Now Zelgadis please behave yourself and make some friends, okay?" Rezo told him.

Zel sighed. "Yeah, yeah." He looked up to see Eris and his grandfather making out again and he rushed out of the car covering his eyes. "IT BURNS!"

Amelia was giving her father a big bear hug and ran full speed to the bus to get in line with other kids. Six children were lined up in a row outside a yellow and white bus, waiting for the leaders of the camp to greet them. The bus door opened and a long blonde haired young woman with a microphone stepped out to stand at one of the steps of the bus.

"Good morning everyone! I'm Filia, one of Camp Winnebaggo's counselors! I am in charge of the girl's section of the camp and I know we're all going to have a splendid time together." She giggled and clapped her hands together. Filia glanced over her shoulder to see Xelloss annoyingly imitating her hand clapping and she shoved the microphone into his shoulder.

"Counselor Xelloss? Why don't YOU take over.." Filia clenched her teeth with a fake grin.

"I would be honored!" Xelloss cleared his throat. "I am the other counselor of Camp Winnebaggo! I am in charge of the boy's section of the camp, so I hope everyone of you has had their shots before coming because the cesspool of bacteria littered throughout the camp will probably kill you the first day without them! Come aboard everyone!"

The kids obediently gulped and walked up the steps and got into their seats. Lina sat in the back, hiding from the other children. Amelia sat up front, bouncing happily. "Summer camp summer camp! Yahoo!"

Martina, a little green haired and spoiled little rich girl, gave Amelia a weird look and sat in the seat a few rows back. A tough kid with teal hair and a horn in his forehead stomped down the row to sit in the middle, hissing at Zelgadis when he tried to sit next to him. Zelgadis gave him the stink eye and sat in the seat behind Lina.

Lina peered over her seat at Zel. "Hey, whatcha in for?"

"My grandpa and his girlfriend in the same house together for two weeks." He shuddered.

"Just two weeks?" Lina asked confused. "This camp six weeks long."

Zel slammed his head into the back of Lina's seat. "Oh great! Arrrhh….Now they tell me." Lina sighed in response and slumped back into the cushion.

Another kid walked on board and sat next to Lina. "Hi! My name's Gourry!"

"I'm Lina." She blinked at his happy expression. "You're really happy to go to camp?"

"This bus goes to camp? I needed to get on the bus to get to grandma's…….Oh well. " Gourry shrugged and chewed on a baloney sandwich. Lina sighed and shook her head.

Filia and Xelloss walked up on board. Filia announced, "Next stop is Camp Winnabago! We want to teach all of you the Camp Winnabago song, so repeat after Xelloss and me!"

"There once was a man from Nantucket…"

Filia smacked Xelloss in the head.  "Not that one!"

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Author's Note: Want me to continue? I'll continue the story if anyone is interested.