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Chapter 9

When they had finally made it to the amusement park, and made it through the long ramblings from their supervisors, the campers were free. In a Juniper group with Murasakibara as their counselor, Clarisse was determined to get all of her groupmates, including the purple-haired counselor, to tackle the Zipper Zoomer, a crazy roller coaster that loops, twists, corkscrews, then does the whole thing backwards. More than one person has thrown up after it.

"Come on, guys! It's fun!" Clarisse said. "Halle's doing it!"

"Clarisse, you're the only one with the guts to go on that death trap." said Jenna, who was completely terrified of heights.

"I'll do it." Julia said reluctantly. "But if I barf, I'm blaming you."

"And I'm dragging Jenna on, so what about you, Atsushi?" Clarisse asked.

Murasakibara nodded as if it was the most obvious thing in the world, figuring they were asking if he wanted to come with them to the snack stand.

Clarisse grinned. "Awesome. Let's go guys."

The five of them had no wait. Thrill-seeker Clarisse popped down in the first car, dragging Jenna, who was completely freaking out. Halle and Julia took a middle car, and Murasakibara was standing on the side, confused.

"Candy?" he asked.

"Of course." Clarisse mumbled. "Atsushi, take a seat. We'll get candy afterwards!" she yelled.

"Candy now," he insisted, and to his camper's horror, began walking off in search of the stand.

"We'll ride this, then find Atsushi. He'll likely be stuffing his face, as usual." Clarisse said, throwing caution to the wind.

"Clarisse, that's a bad idea. We should get him. We'll get into trouble if we don't." Jenna said.

"You're just looking for a way out of it." Clarisse said.

Jenna would've said something else, but the harnesses clamped shut and the cars started rolling backwards up the hill that would give the roller coaster its thrust. At the top, the cars lurched and zoomed forward, riding a loop, a corkscrew and more twists and turns than you could count. The the car went to the top of another hill, and did it all again, except backwards. Everyone exited the ride shaky and dizzy, except for Clarisse of course.

"Shouldn't we find Atsushi now?" Julia said.

"Right." Clarisse said. "He likely found the snack shack."

"Yep." Halle said. "If there's food anywhere, Atsushi'll likely be there too."

Maybe, though, it hadn't been their best idea to let a confused teenager who barely spoke English wander off by himself.

~~O~~

A group of four boys and Hyuuga waited in line for the Boulder Run, a high-paced, very bumpy wooden roller coaster. Three of the Pinewood boys, Ryan, Aidan and Dylan were talking quietly. Zach and Hyuuga seemed to be having a very intense staring contest.

Breaking the (sorta) silence, Zach pushed past Hyuuga a bit to be farther in line, which of course prompted some chastising.

"Hey! Brat! Stay behind me, I'm supposed to be watching you or whatever," he finished slightly unsurely, showing just how much he'd been paying attention during instructions.

"I'm trying to get a better car. Geez, you're so high strung." Zach said, rolling his eyes.

"I don't care what your reasons are, idiot! Just get behind me! And you think I'm high strung, huh? Won't be saying that later tonight when you get your punishment," he added, with a smile filled with hints of malice.

"I'd like to see you try." Zach said. "Now if you excuse me, I've got a ride to go on." The gates to the cars opened, and Zach took his seat.

Hyuuga followed with a snort of fake amusement, thinking the kid really did need some discipline. What he'd wanted to do was shove past the camper himself, but as he knew, that was against the camp's rules, and he'd never stoop so low as to hit a kid. That being said, he wanted to find a way to assert his dominance or whatever.

After he had gone through the ride, Zach took a seat at a table near the end of the ride to wait for the rest of his group and his annoying counselor. When the rest of them finished, Zach was sitting there, drinking some of the park's famous free soda. The relaxing mood quickly went away as he saw Hyuuga approaching, as usual looking pretty angry.

"You idiot!" he screeched, still not even all the way to the table. "I told you to get behind me for a reason!"

"What're you going to do, Four Eyes? Give me more empty threats?" Zach said.

"You can't run off on your own! You guys are like four years old, what if something happened?!" he shouted vaguely, no one quite positive of what he meant by "something."

"FYI, dude, we're 11. What kind of counselor doesn't even know the age of his campers?"

"That's not the point!" Hyuuga shouted back, but also added, "If you're 11, then act your own age instead of like a baby! Sit the next few rides out until you learn to listen!"

"Yeah right." Zach said. "You really need to learn how to handle these situations more. You can't leave a camper alone. And you should probably read the camp rules. There might be something, I don't know, important, there."

"I wasn't planning on leaving you alone! I'm sure the supervisor is very busy and won't be happy with having to be called over to watch you! Why would I leave you alone, idiot?! You're in trouble in the first place because you were alone!"

"Whatever."

~~O~~

Over in the other group to come out of P2, things were a lot more happy, especially with Kiyoshi as their group counselor.

"This is so much fun!" he mused over bites of cotton candy. "You guys are really fun!"

Walking around the park, the campers caught sight of another ride.

"Hey guys, you up for Spin Cycle?" one camper asked, pointing to a ride that spun you in circles while going up and down a track.

"What's that?" Kiyoshi asked, before unsurprisingly adding, "Sounds fun!"

"Teppei's in, so let's do it!" the camper said.

They piled on to the car, a circular disk with seats facing the outside. The ride started going, spinning in circles and moving up the track. It wound up putting them almost vertical, while still spinning. Everyone came off a little dizzy.

Kiyoshi seemed to like it maybe a bit too much, and after steadying himself, asked, "Again?"

"I don't think so." the camper said, dizzy.

"Oh man, I don't feel so well." one camper said, turning green. And that camper proceeded to puke.

"Dude, that's nasty." said another camper.

"Yuck." said the first camper. "Uh, Teppei, I'm pretty sure it's your job to take care of that." He motioned to the guilty looking camper and the pile of barf.

"That," Kiyoshi began in response, looking at the disgusting puddle as if it had murdered his entire family, "does not look very fun. Do they not have, um, staff or something here to deal with it?"

"Probably, but you should probably take Eli to Seth. Chances are if it happens once, it'll happen again, and that's a thing for our supervisor and the trip nurse to handle." the camper said.

"Oh." He apparently didn't have much to say on the subject. Kiyoshi gently grabbed the sick boy by the arm, presumably to lead him to the nurse, but somehow forgetting about the rest of his campers.

"I half expect that he doesn't even know where the trip nurse is." one camper snickered.

"Uh, guys?" said another. "I think we've got a bigger problem. We're pulling a Fraser!" The older boys group had become infamous for running around without counselors.

"Great. What'll we do now?"

One boy smirked. "We're pulling a Fraser, so let's make like them and enjoy it!"

The two other boys shrugged, then followed their friend off to the next ride.