A/n: Last chapter, Hercule said that it was the last day in the Satan
mansion. I meant to write that it was the last full day at the Satan
mansion. Read and enjoy! (and review, LOL)
By noon, the entire milk conflict had clamed down, and it was clear that Angela was not poisoned. The students didn't get a lot of information on what had happened, But they new that it would be treated with the same seriousness that the tipeeing was. Theresa was invited back into the camp. She started her evening (she returned near the end of that day) by walking up to Gohan, and Lang in the back yard, where they were waiting for Garret and Intung to get back out from inside. Outside, people were calming down and playing sports. "Hey guys! How's it going? I wanted to mention that I was right, wasn't I?"
Gohan stared. "Right about what?"
Theresa laughed. "You're supposed to be smart! I was right about Hercule liking me, duh."
Garret was near laughing, so Intung spoke up. "He kicked you out of his house."
Theresa looked annoyed. "Well, duh! (She likes that word.) He didn't like treating me like I was one of those everyday students, so he wanted to make it so that he didn't have to pretend he didn't' like me anymore. Now his excuse is worthless, so he has to treat me like an annoying student!" Theresa looked proud of herself. "Hey, do you two want to play Barbies with me? I brought along some extras!" She took a Barbie out of her bag. At that exact moment, Garret showed up behind Gohan and Lang. "Hey Garret! Wanna play Barbies?"
Garret stared at her, then said to Gohan and Lang, "Just walk away from her. Just walk away." And that's what they did. Theresa looked in confusion at them, shrugged, and went back to her game.
Elsewhere.
"Trunks, your idea isn't working. All we got was a bunch of bumps on the head from my mom's frying pan, then some smaller bumps from your mom's frying pan."
"Goten, stop complaining! I know what happened."
"At least your dad's letting me into the Gravity Room now!"
"Goten, you really shouldn't be happy about that."
"Trunks, I know you invite me a lot, but an invitation from your dad is still special!"
"Any time but this, it would be. Has anyone ever told you that you're an idiot?"
"Yea! Lots of times!"
"Oh please..."
Back to Hercule's House!
OK, I'm gonna skip the rest of the day because I honestly couldn't think of anything entertaining that could possibly happen, sop they played sports outside all day and made bets while they were inside the warehouse. Gohan often let people win, and Garret, Intung, and Lang didn't bet because Gohan tipped them off that he'd let people win sometimes and they wanted to play volleyball and swim race anyway.
The Next Day! Last Day at the Satan Mansion!
Gohan set his alarm clock, so he didn't' have to wake up to Hercule's screeching voice over the PA System. But, he ended up hearing it anyway, he just covered his ears so he wouldn't hurt them. "EVERYONE, IT'S 6:00 ON YOUR LAST DAY AT SATAN MANSION! I'M SORRY TO SAY THAT A LOT OF STUDENTS HAVE DROPPED OUT FOR SOME ODD REASON. (Gohan laughed silently. He knew who'd dropped out, and Hercule didn't sound too unhappy.) WE WILL RIDE A BUS TO THE EDGE OF THE CITY LIMITS, THEN TAKE A HIKE TO THE CELLS BATTLEGROUNDS! BUT THE BUS IS GETTING HERE IN AN HOUR, AND YOU NEED TO GET READY FOR THE DAY, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ANYTHING, AND REALIZE THAT WE HAVE SEVEN WOMEN LEFT ON THE TRIP, THE OTHER TWENTY-ONE DROPPED OUT. GOODBYE! AND WAKE UP!"
Gohan laughed again. He knew that a lot of girls had dropped out, but he didn't think that all but seven of them would. He knew who probably stayed. Videl and Lang, of course, and he had a pretty good idea of four others. Chante Market, Olive Spark, and Shantey Zetter. They were in a group together during the morning workouts, and they hadn't complained at all. In fact, they had all been looking forward to the hike, so that was figured out. But Gohan didn't know who the last girl was. But then he realized that he had to hurry before the PA system came back on.
Gohan checked his bags. He saw everything, including his mini fridge capsule that refilled whenever it became empty. He knew that he'd be using it at camp, and had already used it when nobody got breakfast the day before because of the food coloring... incident... Gohan looked around the room. Everything that belonged to him was gone, and it looked like another room in the house of someone who thought a little too highly of himself. He heard the beginning of another announcement, and covered his ears.
"EVERYONE, HURRY TO THE MAIN HALL! BUSES WILL BE HERE AT 8:00! I NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE ALL HERE."
Gohan didn't need to be stuck in the room with the PA system any longer, so he hurried out and down to the main hall. This time he wasn't first or second. He was near tenth. He saw Garret, and began walking towards him. Then he realized who the seventh girl was.
"Hey Gohan! What's up? I can't wait to go hiking, I'm going to go to the front of the line and impress Hercule by (she pulled out a list) Not getting tired, fixing my hair, not complaining, keeping up with the group, telling him about my wonderful life, showing him pictures of my dog..."
Gohan and Garret didn't let her finish. They walked away from her in a group that had just walked in. Hercule then came out.
"Everyone, I've made a final warning over the PA system. We're going to make sure everyone's here! I have all of your names, so say 'Here!' when I say yours. The names are backwards in alphabetical order. Shantey Zetter?"
"This reminds me of taking attendance in the first grade." Garret whispered to Gohan, who nodded. They waited through all the names, and finally, Hercule yelled that everyone was there. They spent an hour in the backyard, playing their last sports games until the wilderness was reached. Hercule then led everyone out the door to wait for the bus, which wasn't supposed to arrive for another fifteen minutes. Gohan and Garret met up with Intung and Lang, and they tried to figure out what the Cell Battlegrounds would be like, and if it would be very easy to play pranks like it was at Satan Mansion. But, their thoughts were cut short when they heard the school bus.
Hercule rushed to the door of the bus. "You're ten minutes early! I told you not to be early!"
The bus driver stared. "Weren't you all out here waiting for me?"
"Well that's not the point! You should've been on time! EVERYONE, GET ON THE BUS, EVEN THOUGH IT'S EARLY!" Hercule shot an angry look at the driver, who was just plain confused. The students all piled on, and spoke about how excited they were.
It took exactly a half-hour to reach the edge of the city limits. The bus drive was dull and boring, so I'm skipping it. Before taking the long walk through the wilderness/desert, the large group stopped at a large breakfast café. Nothing much happened, but some people seemed to lose their appetite as they watched Gohan eat. The restaurant stop lasted an hour, and Hercule went to a convenient store. Hercule counted who wanted a bag of regular, barbecue, or sour cream potato chips. The owner didn't except Hercule's money, saying that the bags of chips were on the store. Each person took the type of chips they had said before and headed off. It was 9:00.
But remember, the arena was still farther from the city. Hercule took out his portable microphone. "EVERYONE, TIME TO BEGIN WALKING! THIS WILL TAKE AWHILE, AND IF YOU COMPLAIN, I'LL HAVE TO DEAL WITH YOU MYSELF!" He laughed into the microphone at his own joke, and Gohan covered his already sensitive ears. Others laughed along with Hercule, and then, he continued talking. "EVERYONE, BEGING THE WALK, AND DON'T FALL BEHIND. IF YOU DO, YOU COULD GET LOST. BUT THEN AGAIN, DESERT STRETCHES OUT FOR MILES, SO YOU CAN'T REALLY LOST SIGHT OF US! AND PLEASE KEEP UP!" Hercule walked on, with students following willingly. But within ten minutes, people were constantly stopping to take drinks out of water bottles, slowing down, and falling behind. Theresa kept her promise as she walked on and on. She was at the front of the line, and didn't seem to be tiring too fast. Gohan, Garret, Intung, and Lang started out at the back of the group, but as people slowed down and got behind them, they found themselves near the front. They were some of the only people who were keeping a good pace, along with Sharpner, Videl, Theresa, and some others. Not many people were talking, but Gohan, Garret, Intung, and Lang were having a conversation as they walked. They didn't even notice that Hercule had stopped until they took a moment to look ahead at where they were going. Theresa was enjoying her break gulping down water and sitting down, and Hercule stood and waited for people to catch up with the group. Once nearly everyone was caught up, they headed on again. Theresa was still hanging on to her dignity, trying to keep up, and doing a pretty good job... Kind of... Anyway, The students kept walking... And walking, and walking. Every half-hour Hercule unwillingly stopped and waited for everyone to catch up. It was how most of the students without watches were keeping time. Every hour and a half, Hercule turned and waited for everyone to catch up. It had been four stops (two hours) before they reached an oasis in the dessert. The group again stopped, it was 11:18.
The large group first stopped in a motel. The rooms weren't necessarily small, but weren't large. The students had their own pick for their rooms, one or two people a room. Gohan was fortunate enough to get a room of his own. After an hour of showers and cleaning up after the long walk. The students then headed down to the lobby, where Hercule had told them to meet at 12:00. They had lunch in a hotel restaurant. It was not first class, but it looked above middle class, somewhere in between. Hercule made everyone sit four or more people to a table, so they wouldn't take up the entire reserved section. Hercule was sitting at his own table, as little kids outside of the reserved section to get Hercule's autograph. He enjoyed all the attention, and when the orders had been taken and the food delivered, the doors to the reserved section closed. When almost everyone was done, Hercule reopened the doors, and kids, teenagers that weren't on the trip, just in the restaurant, and adults came in to talk to Hercule. Hercule told them about the field trip and the audience listened with painstaking concentration. They agreed that Hercule was being extremely generous, and some of the kids wondered over to the students, where they asked questions. Only a little girl went to Gohan, Garret, Intung, and Lang's table, but walked away immediately when she saw Gohan eating.
The four (Gohan even stopped eating to do this!) Laughed when the girl was gone. "Gohan, I remember telling you the first day we came here that you would scare someone the way you ate!"
Afterwards, everyone went to their rooms and put on their bathing suits. They went down to the hotel pool. The hotel owners closed the pool to the public and let only Hercule's party in. The pool was about two thirds the size of a public pool, so it wasn't too crowded even with all the students. At five, everyone headed up to their rooms to dry off and have some time to stay in their rooms, or in some cases, trash the room until you can't see the difference between it and a garbage dump. Some people (guess who) entered other rooms and visited their friends. By 6:30, people didn't want to leave, but they headed down under Hercule's instructions and met in the lobby. They headed to a restaurant for a memorable dinner. It was an extremely fancy French restaurant, the kind with hard-to-read menus and the waiters and waitresses speak in French accents and everything is decorated. Napkins were hand-embroidered and the carpet is wine-red and the expensive type.
After dinner, everyone returned to the hotel. They settled in and fell asleep early, for the next day they'd walk farther. They'd only walked about twenty-five miles, and the next day they'd be walking fifty, about a five hour walk.
A/n: I wanted to ask something. I've been thinking that it shouldn't really ttake me seven chapters (not counting the prologue or chapters 4 and 9) to get through three days, and I wanted to know if you thought I'm being too descriptive in my story. Tell me what you think in reviews! Next chapter= Review 90!
By noon, the entire milk conflict had clamed down, and it was clear that Angela was not poisoned. The students didn't get a lot of information on what had happened, But they new that it would be treated with the same seriousness that the tipeeing was. Theresa was invited back into the camp. She started her evening (she returned near the end of that day) by walking up to Gohan, and Lang in the back yard, where they were waiting for Garret and Intung to get back out from inside. Outside, people were calming down and playing sports. "Hey guys! How's it going? I wanted to mention that I was right, wasn't I?"
Gohan stared. "Right about what?"
Theresa laughed. "You're supposed to be smart! I was right about Hercule liking me, duh."
Garret was near laughing, so Intung spoke up. "He kicked you out of his house."
Theresa looked annoyed. "Well, duh! (She likes that word.) He didn't like treating me like I was one of those everyday students, so he wanted to make it so that he didn't have to pretend he didn't' like me anymore. Now his excuse is worthless, so he has to treat me like an annoying student!" Theresa looked proud of herself. "Hey, do you two want to play Barbies with me? I brought along some extras!" She took a Barbie out of her bag. At that exact moment, Garret showed up behind Gohan and Lang. "Hey Garret! Wanna play Barbies?"
Garret stared at her, then said to Gohan and Lang, "Just walk away from her. Just walk away." And that's what they did. Theresa looked in confusion at them, shrugged, and went back to her game.
Elsewhere.
"Trunks, your idea isn't working. All we got was a bunch of bumps on the head from my mom's frying pan, then some smaller bumps from your mom's frying pan."
"Goten, stop complaining! I know what happened."
"At least your dad's letting me into the Gravity Room now!"
"Goten, you really shouldn't be happy about that."
"Trunks, I know you invite me a lot, but an invitation from your dad is still special!"
"Any time but this, it would be. Has anyone ever told you that you're an idiot?"
"Yea! Lots of times!"
"Oh please..."
Back to Hercule's House!
OK, I'm gonna skip the rest of the day because I honestly couldn't think of anything entertaining that could possibly happen, sop they played sports outside all day and made bets while they were inside the warehouse. Gohan often let people win, and Garret, Intung, and Lang didn't bet because Gohan tipped them off that he'd let people win sometimes and they wanted to play volleyball and swim race anyway.
The Next Day! Last Day at the Satan Mansion!
Gohan set his alarm clock, so he didn't' have to wake up to Hercule's screeching voice over the PA System. But, he ended up hearing it anyway, he just covered his ears so he wouldn't hurt them. "EVERYONE, IT'S 6:00 ON YOUR LAST DAY AT SATAN MANSION! I'M SORRY TO SAY THAT A LOT OF STUDENTS HAVE DROPPED OUT FOR SOME ODD REASON. (Gohan laughed silently. He knew who'd dropped out, and Hercule didn't sound too unhappy.) WE WILL RIDE A BUS TO THE EDGE OF THE CITY LIMITS, THEN TAKE A HIKE TO THE CELLS BATTLEGROUNDS! BUT THE BUS IS GETTING HERE IN AN HOUR, AND YOU NEED TO GET READY FOR THE DAY, MAKE SURE YOU HAVE ANYTHING, AND REALIZE THAT WE HAVE SEVEN WOMEN LEFT ON THE TRIP, THE OTHER TWENTY-ONE DROPPED OUT. GOODBYE! AND WAKE UP!"
Gohan laughed again. He knew that a lot of girls had dropped out, but he didn't think that all but seven of them would. He knew who probably stayed. Videl and Lang, of course, and he had a pretty good idea of four others. Chante Market, Olive Spark, and Shantey Zetter. They were in a group together during the morning workouts, and they hadn't complained at all. In fact, they had all been looking forward to the hike, so that was figured out. But Gohan didn't know who the last girl was. But then he realized that he had to hurry before the PA system came back on.
Gohan checked his bags. He saw everything, including his mini fridge capsule that refilled whenever it became empty. He knew that he'd be using it at camp, and had already used it when nobody got breakfast the day before because of the food coloring... incident... Gohan looked around the room. Everything that belonged to him was gone, and it looked like another room in the house of someone who thought a little too highly of himself. He heard the beginning of another announcement, and covered his ears.
"EVERYONE, HURRY TO THE MAIN HALL! BUSES WILL BE HERE AT 8:00! I NEED TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE ALL HERE."
Gohan didn't need to be stuck in the room with the PA system any longer, so he hurried out and down to the main hall. This time he wasn't first or second. He was near tenth. He saw Garret, and began walking towards him. Then he realized who the seventh girl was.
"Hey Gohan! What's up? I can't wait to go hiking, I'm going to go to the front of the line and impress Hercule by (she pulled out a list) Not getting tired, fixing my hair, not complaining, keeping up with the group, telling him about my wonderful life, showing him pictures of my dog..."
Gohan and Garret didn't let her finish. They walked away from her in a group that had just walked in. Hercule then came out.
"Everyone, I've made a final warning over the PA system. We're going to make sure everyone's here! I have all of your names, so say 'Here!' when I say yours. The names are backwards in alphabetical order. Shantey Zetter?"
"This reminds me of taking attendance in the first grade." Garret whispered to Gohan, who nodded. They waited through all the names, and finally, Hercule yelled that everyone was there. They spent an hour in the backyard, playing their last sports games until the wilderness was reached. Hercule then led everyone out the door to wait for the bus, which wasn't supposed to arrive for another fifteen minutes. Gohan and Garret met up with Intung and Lang, and they tried to figure out what the Cell Battlegrounds would be like, and if it would be very easy to play pranks like it was at Satan Mansion. But, their thoughts were cut short when they heard the school bus.
Hercule rushed to the door of the bus. "You're ten minutes early! I told you not to be early!"
The bus driver stared. "Weren't you all out here waiting for me?"
"Well that's not the point! You should've been on time! EVERYONE, GET ON THE BUS, EVEN THOUGH IT'S EARLY!" Hercule shot an angry look at the driver, who was just plain confused. The students all piled on, and spoke about how excited they were.
It took exactly a half-hour to reach the edge of the city limits. The bus drive was dull and boring, so I'm skipping it. Before taking the long walk through the wilderness/desert, the large group stopped at a large breakfast café. Nothing much happened, but some people seemed to lose their appetite as they watched Gohan eat. The restaurant stop lasted an hour, and Hercule went to a convenient store. Hercule counted who wanted a bag of regular, barbecue, or sour cream potato chips. The owner didn't except Hercule's money, saying that the bags of chips were on the store. Each person took the type of chips they had said before and headed off. It was 9:00.
But remember, the arena was still farther from the city. Hercule took out his portable microphone. "EVERYONE, TIME TO BEGIN WALKING! THIS WILL TAKE AWHILE, AND IF YOU COMPLAIN, I'LL HAVE TO DEAL WITH YOU MYSELF!" He laughed into the microphone at his own joke, and Gohan covered his already sensitive ears. Others laughed along with Hercule, and then, he continued talking. "EVERYONE, BEGING THE WALK, AND DON'T FALL BEHIND. IF YOU DO, YOU COULD GET LOST. BUT THEN AGAIN, DESERT STRETCHES OUT FOR MILES, SO YOU CAN'T REALLY LOST SIGHT OF US! AND PLEASE KEEP UP!" Hercule walked on, with students following willingly. But within ten minutes, people were constantly stopping to take drinks out of water bottles, slowing down, and falling behind. Theresa kept her promise as she walked on and on. She was at the front of the line, and didn't seem to be tiring too fast. Gohan, Garret, Intung, and Lang started out at the back of the group, but as people slowed down and got behind them, they found themselves near the front. They were some of the only people who were keeping a good pace, along with Sharpner, Videl, Theresa, and some others. Not many people were talking, but Gohan, Garret, Intung, and Lang were having a conversation as they walked. They didn't even notice that Hercule had stopped until they took a moment to look ahead at where they were going. Theresa was enjoying her break gulping down water and sitting down, and Hercule stood and waited for people to catch up with the group. Once nearly everyone was caught up, they headed on again. Theresa was still hanging on to her dignity, trying to keep up, and doing a pretty good job... Kind of... Anyway, The students kept walking... And walking, and walking. Every half-hour Hercule unwillingly stopped and waited for everyone to catch up. It was how most of the students without watches were keeping time. Every hour and a half, Hercule turned and waited for everyone to catch up. It had been four stops (two hours) before they reached an oasis in the dessert. The group again stopped, it was 11:18.
The large group first stopped in a motel. The rooms weren't necessarily small, but weren't large. The students had their own pick for their rooms, one or two people a room. Gohan was fortunate enough to get a room of his own. After an hour of showers and cleaning up after the long walk. The students then headed down to the lobby, where Hercule had told them to meet at 12:00. They had lunch in a hotel restaurant. It was not first class, but it looked above middle class, somewhere in between. Hercule made everyone sit four or more people to a table, so they wouldn't take up the entire reserved section. Hercule was sitting at his own table, as little kids outside of the reserved section to get Hercule's autograph. He enjoyed all the attention, and when the orders had been taken and the food delivered, the doors to the reserved section closed. When almost everyone was done, Hercule reopened the doors, and kids, teenagers that weren't on the trip, just in the restaurant, and adults came in to talk to Hercule. Hercule told them about the field trip and the audience listened with painstaking concentration. They agreed that Hercule was being extremely generous, and some of the kids wondered over to the students, where they asked questions. Only a little girl went to Gohan, Garret, Intung, and Lang's table, but walked away immediately when she saw Gohan eating.
The four (Gohan even stopped eating to do this!) Laughed when the girl was gone. "Gohan, I remember telling you the first day we came here that you would scare someone the way you ate!"
Afterwards, everyone went to their rooms and put on their bathing suits. They went down to the hotel pool. The hotel owners closed the pool to the public and let only Hercule's party in. The pool was about two thirds the size of a public pool, so it wasn't too crowded even with all the students. At five, everyone headed up to their rooms to dry off and have some time to stay in their rooms, or in some cases, trash the room until you can't see the difference between it and a garbage dump. Some people (guess who) entered other rooms and visited their friends. By 6:30, people didn't want to leave, but they headed down under Hercule's instructions and met in the lobby. They headed to a restaurant for a memorable dinner. It was an extremely fancy French restaurant, the kind with hard-to-read menus and the waiters and waitresses speak in French accents and everything is decorated. Napkins were hand-embroidered and the carpet is wine-red and the expensive type.
After dinner, everyone returned to the hotel. They settled in and fell asleep early, for the next day they'd walk farther. They'd only walked about twenty-five miles, and the next day they'd be walking fifty, about a five hour walk.
A/n: I wanted to ask something. I've been thinking that it shouldn't really ttake me seven chapters (not counting the prologue or chapters 4 and 9) to get through three days, and I wanted to know if you thought I'm being too descriptive in my story. Tell me what you think in reviews! Next chapter= Review 90!