Chapter Four

The rest of the day

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Artemis, Ashleigh and Alex still sat in shock near the tent one hour after the duck incident. Jenia sighed heavily; she had tried really hard to get them to snap out of the state they were in.

"C'mon, it's just three ducks, it's hunting season anyway!" She said. Ashleigh snapped out of shock land then Artemis. Artemis grinned evilly.

"You're right there Jenia, it is hunting season huh?"

"It is, and how I'm starving!" Ashleigh said grinning as evilly as Artemis.

"I've never had duck before, but I'm willing to try. You girls start the fire, I'll go get the ducks!" Artemis said as she got up and ran off.

"Duck, huh?" Katrina said thoughtfully, "Doesn't sound too bad. Better than the shit they give us!" Katrina slapped her hand over her mouth and looked over at where Mr. White was sitting, he hadn't heard her. "Whew!"

Alex finally snapped out of shock. He saw Artemis come over carrying the ducks they killed and he practically fainted but Rick came over and caught him.

"Alex, sit up straight, you're in front of the ladies!" He said grinning sexily. Ashleigh went starry eyed. "I guess my son is the real ladies man. All the boys over there are green with jealousy. Hehehehe."

Ashleigh near fainted from hearing his sexy chuckle. Artemis sat down with the ducks. Rick looked surprised.

"You're eating duck? Did you kill them?"

Artemis laughed nervously, "uh, hehe, yeah, it was an accident!"

"Hehe, do you know how to cook duck?"

"Of course, it's the plucking that's the hard part. Hey, Ashleigh, hello! Earth to Ashleigh," Artemis said snapping her fingers in front of Ashleigh. Ashleigh snapped up.

"Huh? What?"

"You want to gut the duck?" Artemis asked taking out her knife. All the girls cringed.

"No thanks!" Ashleigh said. Artemis looked around; every girl shook her head.

"I'll gut it and pluck it," Rick said taking the ducks and started to pluck them.

"Oh, thank you very much, Mr. O'Connell!" Ashleigh said starry eyed. All the girls looked at her strangely, then they grinned and chuckled.

"What?" Ashleigh said, not wanting to miss out on any joke.

"Nothing," they said holding back their laughs. Ashleigh just shrugged and was about to look at Rick plucking the ducks but now he was on gutting them.

"I'm so glad I don't have anything in my stomach now," Ashleigh said as she looked away.

"I'll go us some apples," Selena said as she got up.

"Don't bother, Mr. Fat White Bastard ate them all," Rick said as he cleaned out the ducks gut.

Terry started to make the fire, "Good thing you did kill those ducks, you three, or else we'd starve. Hey, tomorrow, how about we fish?"

Artemis put the first duck on a stick, "Sure! That'd cool! I'll catch them! There's old native way I've been wanting to try out."

"I'll gut 'em," Rick said as he helped Ashleigh, who was drooling a little, put the duck on the stick and show her how to cook it.

"Maybe we should share our meal with the other campers," Katrina suggested. They thought about then shook their heads and said, "Nah!"

The meal was good and just enough for all of them including Rick. The campers looked on drooling and licking their lips.

"Back off you heathens!" Katrina yelled taking a piece of her duck and chewing loudly to taunt the campers.

"You owe me one Katrina! Remember!" A voice called out.

"Shut up Stephanie! I don't owe you anything! You owe me twenty pounds!"

"This is good," Selena said. "For get fish, let's have duck again."

Artemis looked behind her and pulled out something she was hiding, "Here's a little duck, it can be desert!" The little duck was squirming all around and quacking loudly.

"Listen to the little idiot! That's all you got buddy, come on do that again!" They heard a lot of loud quacking. Arties looked back, "Huh?"

Just then a huge mother duck ran up honking loudly, "Bloody hell!! Mad DUCK!!" Artemis got up and ran from the duck as it chased her all over the place.

"Just drop the duckling Artemis!" Terry yelled. Artemis nodded and dropped the duck on the rising and falling of a snoring Mr. White who had then put his hand on the duckling. The mother duck literally went red in the eyes and started to attack Mr. White. Mr. White shot up, holding the duck still and was chased by the mother duck. The whole camp and counselors laughed at this. Artemis jogged over to her friends and sat down next to the fire.

"That was fun! Thanks for the advice Terry," Artemis said catching her breath.

"No prob," she said as she started to play her gameboy advance.

"I think I had my share for the day," Rick said as he put down his plate. "Nice talking to you ladies." Rick tipped an imaginary hat.

"It was really nice talking to you Mr. O'Connell!" Ashleigh said starry eyed still.

"Call me Rick, all of you call me Rick," Rick said. He went back to his tent.

"Rick," Ashleigh said dreamily. Alex shook his head.

"Sorry Ashleigh but my dad's take by my mum, they go at it all the time practically!" Alex said as he got up and went back to his camp.

"A girl can dream!" Ashleigh yelled after him. He just waved his hand at her.

"You may not be able to have Rick Ashleigh, but how about you try him," Katrina said teasingly.

"Who?" Ashleigh said.

"Alex."

"NO!! NEVER!! NOT IN A MILLION YEARS!!"

"Oh, c'mon, we all know you like him!"

"I do not!!"

"Do too!"

"Do not!!"

They continued that, Artemis and Terry put on their head phones and listened to their music and fell asleep, finally after about two hundred 'don nots' and 'do to's' they fell asleep.

-------In the forest------

"I hate ducks!" the shadowy figure said.

"Shut up! It doessssssssssss not matter. What mattersssss isssssssssssssss if they are in the knowledge of their powerssssssss."

"I do not think so milord."

"You do not think ssssssso? You need to know sssssssso! Not think! I do the thinking, idiot! Jusssssssst do what you are told!" Then the vortex vanished.

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