Chapter 7: Kumbaya

A few nights later, the campers were sitting around a bonfire as they roasted marshmallows. The full moon showed brightly in the sky illuminating the entire forest. It had been raining off and on all day so everyone had brought out chairs to sit on instead of the wet ground.
"Okay everyone." the counselor said standing up, "For our next game I thought we could play Two Truths and A Lie. Everyone think of their three things and then we'll all try to guess which one is a lie."
They started with the person sitting to the right of the counselor and went around the circle. Once they were about half way around, it was Duo's turn.
"I was raised in a church, I was part of the alliance, and I'm the God of Death. Which one's the lie?"
"The god part." The boy to Duo's left said quickly.
Duo leaned over and put his arm around the kids shoulders. "Don't you wish." He said with a wink.
Quite suddenly there was a two foot gap between Duo and the other kid as he drastically jumped away while holding his chair.
"Okay next person please." said the counselor rather quickly.
Heero's turn. "I am a trained assassin, my gun collection holds more than 100 firearms, and I've never killed anyone before."
(Silence)
"Next..." the counselor ushered.
"I have 29 older sisters, a personal army, and 6 mansions." Quatre said with a smile.
"Easy!" Duo yelled triumphantly counting on his fingers. "You own 10 mansions."
"Moving along..."
"I've been a clown, I've never ridden an elephant, and I've never purposely thrown knives too close to someone before."
"What's wrong with elephants?" Quatre asked Trowa.
o.O (other campers)
"Okay maybe we've had enough..." said the counselor as he filled the awkward silence. "How about we sing some campfire songs instead?"

Meanwhile at the other camp, Wufei and his captors were making their way over to the bonfire where the other girls were before they stopped walking.
"What are we doing?" Asked Wufei suspiciously.
"We're letting the other campers get ahead of us so they won't interfere." One of the girls said looking around.
"Interfere with what?" Wufei asked. His pulse starting to quicken. All of a sudden, Wufei felt something hit him on the back of the head knocking him out.
When he woke up, his hands and feet were tied to a long pole and he was being carried into the woods like a hunted pig.
"What the heck's going on?!" he yelled as fear started to sink in.
"We're just going for a little hike."
"We're here!"
Wufei looked around a clearing that had one lone tree in it. Roughly the two girls that were carrying him dropped him onto the ground.
"Uhh could you tell me what's going on?"
"Fun times over Wufei, time for your punishment." They untied him from the pole but made sure his hands were still bound. They pushed him up against the tree and started wrapping the rope around binding him there. One of the girls was digging in her backpack.
"This is a joke right? Some kind of initiation ceremony??" Wufei tried putting on his flashiest smile.
The two girls tieing the ropes finished. "Okay he's tied up."
"...He?... YOU KNEW I WAS A BOY?!"
"Well duhhhhh." They all giggled. "Why do you think we kept dressing you up in those stupid costumes? All the other campers loved seeing you humiliated like that."
"But the head counselor.."
"Just cause he's needed prescription glasses since the stone age doesn't mean he actually wears him."
"We just had to wait for the cook to fall off the wagon again before we could sneak in and get these without her knowing." The girl that had been digging in her pack showed Wufei what she was looking for. Two large jars of honey.
o.O "Eek..."

"Kumbaya, My Lord, KUMBAYA!! Come on Heero liven up." Duo said wrapping his arm around Heero's shoulders this time and swaying back and forth.
"Let go!" Heero shot back trying to pry himself away.
"Duo stop." Quatre and Trowa said trying to intervene.
"Oh fine." Duo said suddenly letting of Heero just as the boy gave a mighty push against Duo.
Heero went tumbling backwards out of his chair right into a patch of mud.
"Oh man you should see yourself!" Duo cried out laughing and pointing at Heero.
"It's okay Heero remember the counting..." Quatre said.
"SCREW YOU AND YOUR COUNTING!!" Heero screamed as he lept after Duo giving a mighty roar.
"AAHHHH!!" Duo took off running jumping over a couple of campers who were trying to scramble out of the way. Heero was right on his heels snarling like an enraged dog.
"Oh boy." Trowa said shaking his head, still seating.
The circle of people around the campfire didn't move or say anything as they stared at the last two companions.
"Well I suppose we better go save Duo again." Quatre said looking at his watch. "What do you think level four or five punishment?"
"I'd say five. Mainly cause Heero was trying even though Duo wouldn't lay off." said Trowa calmly.
"Sounds good." Quatre agreed and turned back to his watch. "Okay 25 seconds. Let's go."
The two boys finally stood up and took off after their comrades.
"Excuse us please." said Quatre as the passed the two unfortunate boys where Duo and Heero ran trough. They still had not dared move from off of the wet ground.

Wufei was covered from head to toe in honey and was furiously working on escaping.
"Of all the nastiest, evilest creatures on this planet..." he grumbled to himself as he tried slipping through the ropes again.
Finally he was able to use the honey enough to sleep out of his confines.
"Freedom!" he yelled excitedly and took a step away from the tree only to trip on a rock and fall head first onto the ground.
Wufei picked himself up and used his teeth to get the rope binding his wrists off. He was now not only covered completely in honey but also in leaves and sticks as the stuck to him. "This has been the worst couple of weeks in my entire life."
"RROOOAAAARRRR!!"
o.O Wufei took off like the hounds of Hades was after him as the words of 'bear's den' came floating back into his mind.

"Okay okay Heero enough." Quatre said as they managed to catch up to the others right by a river.
Trowa grabbed Heero from behind and held onto him as Heero struggled to get away.
"Hey guys? Which way back to camp?" Duo said as he bent over with his hands on his knees catching his breath.
"Umm..." Quatre and Trowa looked at each other.
"NOT ONLY HAS YOUR STUPID PRACTICAL JOKES GONE TOO FAR YOU GOT US LOST IN THE WOODS!!"
Trowa had to redo his grip a couple of times as Heero ramped up his attempt to escape.
"No worry guys." Quatre said reaching into his pocket. "I'll just call in and get a helicopter come find us."
"Ooh ooh let me." Duo said enthusiastically as he grabbed the cell phone from Quatre. "Oops..."
SPLASH

x.x "He he, oops. My bad guys!"
Instantly Trowa shot is arms into the air releasing Heero. "Sic him."
Heero rushed after Duo howling.
"Ahhhh come on guys!" begged Duo as he started running again.
"Hey wait." Quatre said being ignored.
After about 5 seconds Trowa rushed after them.
"Guys!" Quatre tried again before sighing.
He reached into his pockets again and pulled out a small metal case no bigger than a nickel. Quatre opened the case and pushed the tiny red button inside it. "I still have my distress beacon at least."

Quatre waited at the camp talking to a couple of the Maganac Corps members including Rashid. All forty soldiers had shown up in their mobile suits within minutes causing quite an uproar among the campers and counselors. Everyone was hiding in their cabins peering out the windows.
One of the soldiers ran up to the group. "Master Quatre, the other three have been found and are being brought here right now."
"Thank you very much." Quatre replied back sincerely.
"Luckily we found them when we did. There's reports of some strange creature covered in mud and leaves running around."
Five mobile suits and a helicopter landed and the guys started walking over to Quatre. As they got closer he could see Heero had cooled off enough to only give Duo a black eye and a huge goose-egg on his forehead.
"I think we might have overstayed our welcome." Trowa said looking around at the deserted camp.
"I think you're right, let's head back." agreed Quatre as he waved at the window of the nearest cabin.
They piled onto the helicopter and were flown over to Quatre's house.

The four boys decided to watch a movie together. Heero was already sitting on the couch and Quatre was sitting over on the recliner in the huge front living room.
Quatre put the phone down. "Still no answer over at Wufei's. Must of gone out."
Duo walked into the room with the popcorn and Trowa next to him was carrying the sodas. Suddenly the front door banged and there stood a horrible beast of mud and leaves baring his teeth. Duo screamed like a girl and jumped Scooby-Doo style into Trowa's arms. Trowa rolled his eyes and deposited Duo onto the floor.
They all stared at Wufei as he walked into the room breathing heavily and slammed the door behind him. "Not. A. Word." He turned and made his way across the marble floor towards the downstairs bathroom. Nobody said a word even as they heard the door banged shut. Even Duo knew when to keep his mouth shut sometimes.
"Well hope he's in a better mood tomorrow for poker night." Duo said as he left to go get more popcorn.