Chapter 3: Heading to Camp Harmony
A week later Jojo and his friends are on the bus heading towards Camp Harmony, Marcus is sitting by Jojo, Mike is by his brother Cody, and behind them Mana is by himself sleeping on his bags. Cody and Mike both look back to see Mana with his legs on the seat beside him lightly snoring away. As the two brothers look forward and tap Jojo on the shoulder.
"Hey Jojo is Mana ok? I mean shouldn't he be excited about going to camp?"
"Yeah he is but he was too excited that he forgot to sleep, that's why he is sleeping now"
"Oh...Well Do you think we should wake him up?"
Marcus then speaks up, as he turns his head to look behind him at the two brothers.
"Na I think it's better if we let him sleep, that way at the camp he won't fall asleep on us"
"That's true, I mean just think if he fell asleep when we were at camp he would miss out on all the fun"
"Umm Kind of off subject but I wonder what Mana dreams about?"
Everyone begins to think to themselves as they begin to ponder the idea of what Mana could be dreaming about. While on the bus Jojo puts on his who pod and begins to listen to some light metal music. while Marcus is watching a movie on his portable DVD player, and the two brothers are bickering over random stuff to pass the time. Just then Mana wakes up and stretches out his limbs as he scratches the back of his head.
"Hey guys how long was I out"
Just when hearing his voice, his friends stop what they're doing and look at him as Marcus is the first to speak.
"Oh look who decided to grace us with his presents"
Jojo then replies mockingly
"it's sleeping beauty"
As both Mike and Cody just laugh before Mana speaks up
"you got the sleeping part right, ha as for the beauty part your sadly mistaken"
The friends then share a laugh with each other, as they look out their windows to see the ocean, the waves gracefully crashing against the shore line. Mike then decides to make trouble and punches Mana in the arm.
"Tag your it"
Mana just glares at him with his monotone expression as he says in an eerie voice.
"Do you really want to play that game with me" he says threatingly cracking his knuckles, this makes Mike face forward and slouch in his share, which makes Mana laugh as he replies
"I'm just messing with you, you know I really wouldn't beat you up... or would I?"
"Dun Dun DUUUNNN" Jojo says before laughing as well, Mike just folds his arms across his chest before saying under his breath
"Stupid emos", This makes Mana, Jojo, and Marcus all look at Mike with an evil blank stare, which causes Mike to raise his arms above his head to cover himself.
"I was joking.. Don't hit me", this makes them all laugh some more, as they sit down in their seats as they make their way into the camp grounds, after about five minutes the bus finally comes to a stop as all the friends shout "We're Here", their all cheering and whooping as they wait their turn behind other whos.
They finally get off the bus and make their way to the piles of bags as Cody is the first to speak,
"Ahh remember the first time we came here Mike"
"Yeah and then we met Marcus who kind of scared us a little at first but we got used to him in the end"
Marcus just laughs, before looking towards Jojo
"And then we got the runt of the litter didn't we guys"
Mike and Cody both look at Jojo and chuckle a little, as Mike ruffles Jojo's hair
"Yup then came Jojo, it was his first time so he was nervous like hell, let's hope you're not like that Mana", Mana then looks at them with that Monotone expression of his
"Don't count on it", as all the other friends oooh is response as Jojo puts up his fists
" Mr. tough guy huh" as Jojo gives Mana a playful punch to the shoulder which Mana retaliates with a slight growl.
"Ok ok we'll play later..sheesh calm down Mana we're at camp, let's enjoy it while we are here"
As the five friends Grab their bags and make their way towards the rooms, a who with a camp t-shirt that said "staff member Joey" comes up to them and stops them
"you guys don't get these ones this time, you guys get rooms B9 and B4" as the friends cheer because B9 and B4 are both connected to each other by a small hallway. Joey then looks at Mana
"Oh I see your new here, well you get to room with them, so aren't you the happy little camper" Joey then smiles as Mana remains mono and replies
"ecstatic", the friends make their way to the rooms as they all begin to toss their belongings on the bed of their choice, Jojo is the first to pick a bed and he chooses the one near the door, Mana picks the bed near the door in the other room, while Mana picks the one near the window, and Cody and Mike pick the two beds near each other in Marcus' room.
"Haha looks like the two brothers get to room with each other after all" Cody says mockingly
Mana just rolls his eyes and begins to go through his bag looking for something. Jojo walks over and places a hand on his shoulder, making Mana look up
"Hey we'll unpack later, it's lunch time let's go and grab a bite and then after if you want to unpack we will come back and do just that" Jojo then extends a hand to Mana who takes it as Jojo helps him to his feet, as all five friends make their way into the cafeteria Marcus, Cody, Mike, and Jojo are all greeted by random whos that are saying stuff like "long time no see" and "how you been" and the girls are going "Oh we missed you guys" and "wow you guys really matured over the years" all this makes Mana feel uneasy as he quickly grabs a sack lunch and makes his way out of the cafe. Jojo them all seeing this grab a sack lunch as well as they bolt out the cafe and begin to look for Mana.
Mana who is already back at the cabin goes into the room and grabs a small rectangular case as he makes his way on top of the cabin, as he opens it up and assembles this cylinder like object. Jojo them arrive at the rooms and begin calling out for Mana, But Jojo then hears the soft melody of what sounds like a flute being played but this flute sounded different, it almost sounded like it was living. As they make their way out they see two feet dangling on the roof as they run out they see Mana playing an instrument. Mana then sees them as he drops off the roof and lands on his feet in front of them.
"Sorry you guys I just wanted to play on my beast for a little bit"
"Beast?"
"Yeah that's the name of my flute"
"Why did you name it beast? why did you even name your flute in the first place?"
"You will find out if it ever came down to it"
The four friends just shrug their shoulders as they all sit down and begin to eat their lunches.
Disclaimer: I hope you guys are enjoying this story, and if you are wondering why I am able to write so much is because I have a lot of free time while I wait. please R&R and tell me what you think much appreciated.