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2 Weeks at Camp HerculeChapter 2 – Did you know that 100km is a reeaally long way???
Written by RJ
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A/N: Wow! I have so many reviews! And heaps of ppl wanna be in my story! I feel so special! Thanks guys!
Disclaimer: Oops, I think I 4got 2 put 1 in tha last chapter so if there's any lawyer types around, here's one for ya'll now...I don't own DBZ
A/N: Some of this chapter will be written from Reez' POV, hope that doesn't confuse ya...well on with tha story!
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So far, the walk was so uneventful, Hercule had stopped yelling 'Hup hup' at every step, probably cause he was getting tired, and he most likely was tired because the group had rapidly slowed from the fast pace they were going at the start.
Gohan and Reez were walking in silence. 1, because Reez asked most of the questions and at this moment was concentrating on keeping her feet moving and 2, even though Gohan wasn't tired, he was deep in thought, but about what, is anybody's guess.
Suddenly there were footsteps running behind us, although who would run and use up all their energy is beyond me.
"Wait up" a rather breathless voice came from behind Reez.
Reez and Gohan turned around to see a short girl with white shoulder length hair and blue bangs running towards them.
She was almost to the duo when suddenly she found herself flat on the ground.
"Are you okay?" Reez asked as she held out her hand to help the girl up.
The girl grabbed Reez' hand and stood up, dusted herself off and handed Reez a GameBoy.
"Here, you dropped this" she said, "Your bag was open"
"Oh, shit" she said and quickly shoved it into her bag and closed it. They weren't supposed to bring electronics, but being the good girl she always was, Reez had brought her GameBoy, discman, walkman and cell phone.
"Thanks" Reez said "Oh, and I'm Reez and this guy here is Gohan"
"Hi, I'm Tobun" the girl said
The duo, now upped to a trio turned and followed the rest of the group up the hill.
"Hey, Tobun, where are you from?"
"Well, I live in the city, but I used to live in the mountains, but my parents split up and now I live with my mom in the city, and I really hate it" Tobun said sadly
"Ah, don't worry, it's not all it's cracked up to be, living there all the time, it's a real pain getting to school and going out with your friends" Reez said
"How old are you?" Tobun asked
"I just turned 16" Reez said proudly
"I'm 15"
"Really? You don't look it"
"Just cause I'm vertically challenged" Tobun said, pouting slightly.
Silence grew over the group for a second.
"Hey Gohan, you haven't been talking much, what's up?" Reez asked
"I've been thinking, if we walk the 100km per day as Hercule says we will, we'll end up somewhere near my house, probably near the place I train" Gohan said, but it was more like thinking out loud.
"What kind of training do you do?" Tobun asked eagerly
"Martial Arts" Gohan said
"Really?" Tobun said, looking at Gohan all starry-eyed "I love Martial Arts"
"Yea, Martial Arts is so cool," Reez said
"Yeah" Gohan said
Not wanting to waste much more breath, the group fell into silence, well Reez and Tobun did because they didn't want to waste their energy, Gohan could walk all day without breaking a sweat, but that's beside the point. They didn't talk, so there was silence.
Time passed and soon 12:30 came and everyone was getting hungry and complaining to Hercule, who soon got really sick of it and yelled for everyone to stop.
"Everyone, listen up!" he barked through his megaphone, which had magically appeared in his hand "We will stop now and eat lunch!"
Most of the teens cheered and immediately found little places to sit in with their friends.
"Come on, let's go sit up the front" Tobun suggested
The three teens walked up to the front of the group and sat on the trunk of a fallen tree.
"I wonder what my mom packed me," Reez said, rifling through her bag looking for her lunch. After a bit of rifling, she pulled out a plastic bag with a very squished lunch in it, it was like if you didn't know better, you would have thought it was a pancake.
"Ummm, oops" she said, putting on a sheepish smile.
"Here, I have extra" Tobun said, handing Reez a sandwich
"Thank you!" Reez said and took a rather large bite out of the sandwich.
"Whatcha got, Gohan?" Tobun asked
"I got a few small sandwiches," Gohan said, pulling out half a dozen foot-longs.
Reez and Tobun both simultaneously fell off the back of the log in surprise.
"Hey, are you guys all right?" Gohan, being his usual sweet self, asked.
The two girls nodded dumbly as they climbed back onto the log, and resumed eating their lunch.
The three teens finished their lunch at the same time, despite Gohan's relatively larger portion and were quite bored waiting for everyone else to finish.
Gohan and Reez had started a conversation and Tobun was more interested in getting the rabbit sitting in the shadows to come to her.
"Lunch is finished, move it, move it, move it!" Hercule's loud, gruff voice rang through the clearing, startling many of the teenagers and making Tobun's rabbit run off in shock.
Tobun scowled in the direction of Hercule, but nevertheless, she followed her two new friends who'd joined the rest of the group again.
The group moved off again to finish the rest of their seemingly endless journey.
They kept on walking until it started to get dark and finally, Hercule told
them to stop on the edge of a clearing.
Hercule stood at the front of the group, he had beads of sweat running all down his face, he was breathing heavily and his afro was even more afroed than they'd ever seen it before.
Reez, Tobun and Gohan exchanged a glance and they all had to try very hard not to crack up laughing at the superior afroed dude.
He whipped his megaphone out of a pocket, which had to have more than 3 dimensions, because it always managed to fit no problem, and brought it up to his mouth and spoke.
"This...is a camping ground" he stated, making the megaphone make an awful squeaking sound and it sent birds fluttering out of the nearby trees.
"No shit, Sherlock" a voice muttered sarcastically from behind them.
The three teens turned around to see a girl with light brown hair and green eyes, standing behind them, arms folded in front of her in defiance. You could really tell that she didn't like this guy.
"Yea, he always tends to state the obvious aye?" Reez said to the girl.
"Yeah, I really don't like his attitude and I really don't think that someone as dorky as him would have really saved the world. He's more the type of person who would steal the credit," the girl said, not knowing just how right she was "Oh, and by the way, I'm Kara"
"Hi, I'm Reez, this is Tobun and this is Gohan" Reez said, indicating to her friends.
"Hey!" Hercule's voice shook through the forest clearing, louder than before, making the four teenagers look around at him, "Listen to me when I speak!"
The four teenagers rolled their eyes, but turned their attention to the afroed freak again.
"You will be issued tents and you will sleep three to a tent, no mixed boys in girls tents and vice versa" Hercule yelled, "Dinner will be in an hour. You must have your tents set up before then or else you will get no dinner. Go now!"
The crowd of people rapidly dissipated as everyone hurriedly sorted themselves out into groups of three with their friends.
"Well, there's me, Tobun...and Kara, you wanna join us?" Reez said, working out what was gonna happen.
"Nowhere else to go" Kara said "Might as well"
"Good. But that leaves Gohan" Reez said as the group turned to look at the one in question, "What do you wanna do?"
Gohan shrugged "I do know a couple of people from school, I could tent with them" he said and walked off to find his friends.
The three girls were issued their tent and walked around the clearing, looking for a good spot to pitch it.
They finally found a good spot and dumped their packs under a nearby tree and got to work.
The tent was pulled out of the small bag and bits of it went everywhere.
"Um, oops" Reez said, doing her sheepish smile again and she collected all the pegs and ropes and all and shoved them back in the bag, pulling out the groundsheet instead.
The groundsheet went...surprise, surprise...on the ground, and Tobun and Reez ran around putting pegs and all that in, while Kara read out the instructions.
The sides and roof went up, Tobun had taken over reading the instructions cause she somehow managed to hit her hand with the mallet when she was banging the peg in.
Kara pulled the tangled guy ropes out of the bag and they spent about five minutes trying to undo them, most of the time tangling them up more than they were before, but eventually they were untangled.
Finally, they were all tied onto the tent and pegged down.
"There, all done" Tobun said, as the three girls stood back to admire their handiwork.
It was then, that they decided to look around to see how everyone else was doing.
They couldn't help but laugh at the sight.
Most people were still halfway through putting their tents up. One of the people from the ground next to them was tangled in the guy ropes and the other two were trying to untangle her, but not succeeding too well. A group on the other side of the clearing was still trying to figure which way up the tent went. Another group was stuck inside their tent when it suddenly decided to collapse with them in it.
But what really took the cake was that when Hercule was walking around, inspecting each group's handiwork, he managed to trip over a guy rope, fly through the air a few metres and crash into another person's tent, totally knocking it down, needless to say, they weren't very amused.
Reez, Tobun and Kara gave each other an amused look, then grabbed their packs and went into their tent, away from the goofball they call Hercule.
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Author's Notes: Well, there's another chapter for ya, I hope you liked it. Thanx heaps for all the reviews!!!
Sorry for those people I didn't fit into this chapter, I think I'll be putting 1 new person in each chapter.
Aah, there's so many people! Please don't be offended if u don't get put in…
If any guys wanna be in it, that'd be cool, cause Gohan needs some guy friends (to be his roomies) as well as girl friends...otherwise I'll have to make someone up.
Oh, and to Tobun and Kara, I hope I did your characters okay...just tell me if I suck...
And sorry that there isn't much of Gohan in this chapter (and in think he's kinda OOC...oops), I only just realised that, and I couldn't be bothered changing it...he'll be in it more in the next chapter, and I have a really good idea of how to torture him...mwahahaha, and don't worry, I'll be torturing Hercule heaps more too...mwahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!! Wow, these author's notes are getting really long, I'm gonna go now before my hands drop off...
Laterz!!!
