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2 Weeks at Camp HerculeChapter 3 – Camp...food?
Written by RJ
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Disclaimer: No, I don't own DBZ, not matter how much I want to, no matter how much I wish I could, I don't. Don't own Creed either, I just really love their songs!!!
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"Get your butts out here now!" the voice of the mighty Hercule rang through the small clearing, amplified by his ever-trusty megaphone.
People poured out of their tents, or half assembled tents for the slower ones, and assembled in the centre of the clearing to see what the 'invincible' warrior had to say this time.
"Dinner will be served in half an hour, before it gets totally dark, you'll need to get into groups and come to the leaders to see what you need to do to help make the dinner" Hercule yelled through the megaphone again, then, satisfied that he'd got the message across, he retreated into the forest, to do goodness know what.
Gohan stood outside his tent with his roomies, Sharpener and a tall boy with black hair and gold highlights, called Tysun.
"Come on, guys, we can go partner up with my other friends" Gohan said, leading the way over to where he saw Reez and the others before.
He weaved his way through the crowd of people standing, doing nothing in the middle of the clearing, finally getting to the other side where Reez, Tobun and Kara were waiting.
"Hey guys" Gohan said
"Hi Gohan" the three girls said simultaneously
"Who's your friends?" Tobun asked
"This is Sharpener, my friend from school, and Tysun, he goes to a school across town" Gohan said
"Cool" Reez said "But we better go and get some jobs before Hercule has a hernia cause everyone's just standing there like stunned mullets"
The group of 6 made their way through the crowd again and went up to one of the leaders, ready to receive their job.
The leader, Daisy, as her name-tag said, handed them a piece of paper, which had their job written on it.
Kara took the piece of paper and opened it, reading out what was written on it.
"Peel potatoes" she said "Oh, how original"
The others shrugged, but they made their way over to where the potatoes were.
Tobun, the first one to get there, surveyed the area.
"Oh, you gotta be kidding" she said is dismay when she saw the dozen large boxes of potatoes.
"This can't all be for today," Sharpener said
"Actually, it'd probably be enough" Gohan said, after doing the quick calculations in his head, obviously taking in account his large appetite.
"If you say so," Reez said, still shocked by the amount of potatoes there were.
"We better get started, otherwise we'll be here until midnight" Kara said.
Tysun collected them some potato peelers from a nearby leader and they got to work on the potatoes.
An hour, and many potatoes later, they were finally finished. The sun had gone fully down by now and the clearing was lit up by a large fire lit in the middle by the mighty Hercule himself, who lit it the old-fashioned way, taking him the better part of half an hour.
Dinner was served not long after. The leaders served up mystery meat, mashed potatoes, carrots and peas.
Reez, Gohan, Tobun, Kara, Sharpener, Tysun, and Tysun's girlfriend, Linzey, all got their meal and went to sit down on a log, which had been dragged close to the fire.
Reez picked at her food, not really wanting to eat, as the meal looked like it had been dropped on the ground a few times, and the meat didn't look too good for your health. And by the looks of things, all the rest of them felt the same, bar Gohan, who obviously liked it, as he'd gone up for seconds...thirds...and fourths.
Dessert was peaches and custard. But as the tradition of camp food...it all looked bad and tasted worse. The custard was globby, half-cold (of half-warm for all you optimists out there), and it tasted like it had been burnt, then left in the pot for a while, and the peaches were slimy and sloppy.
Reez stared at the 'dessert' in her plate, still surprised that they would serve that kind of muck to any human. She looked at Tobun, who wrinkled her nose in disgust, and then they simultaneously tipped the contents of their plates into the bushes behind them.
Time passed and Hercule had decided to entertain the group with his spectacular stories of how he amazingly saved the world and how he had miraculously won the World Tournament.
The group of 7 along the log, all rolled their eyes and Reez pulled a bag of marshmallows and some sticks out of thin air and handed them down the line, and soon, they were all feasting on roasted marshmallows.
Halfway through the second telling of the story about Hercule saving the world, Kara faked a rather large yawn and announced loudly that she was going to bed.
Hercule looked rather irritated at being interrupted, but let her go.
Reez, Gohan, Tobun, Sharpener, Tysun and Linzey followed Kara away from the fire and towards their respective tents.
Reez, Tobun and Kara practically dived through the opening to their tent.
"Phew, I'm so glad I got away from all that" Tobun said "I don't know if I could stand another word from that phoney"
"I know aye, it's so obvious that he didn't beat Cell, and the World Tournament was probably just luck, I don't know how people can be so gullible" Reez said, flopping down on her sleeping bag at the side of the small tent.
Tobun and Kara copied her, flopping down on their own sleeping bags, murmuring agreements.
Gohan, Sharpener and Tysun made their way to their tent across the other side of the clearing, dropping Linzey off at her tent on the way.
They unzipped the opening of their tent and entered their tent, turning on the torch so they could have some light.
Sharpener pulled out some cards, and he and Tysun started playing poker, or some card game of the like. Gohan, being the good boy he always was, pulled out a book and started reading, occasionally being interrupted by the soft growling of his stomach.
Back in the girl's tent, Kara and Tobun were both reading magazines, Kara was reading a Martial Arts magazine, and Tobun was reading an animal one, and Reez was playing her GameBoy and listening to Creed on her discman, singing slightly out of tune to 'One Last Breath'.
At 11:00, the call came from Hercule, using his trusty megaphone "Lights out!!!"
Various groans reached Gohan's sensitive ears as he shut his book and tried to go to sleep, but the grumbling his stomach was making distracted him too much.
After waiting for a couple of hours, to make sure everyone was asleep, he slowly and quietly slipped out of his tent.
He padded softly across the clearing, past the fire, which was burning softly as it died down and to where the supplies were kept.
He began rifling quietly through one of the boxes, but he found it full of toilet paper rolls. Quirking one of his eyebrows in amusement, he shut the box and moved onto the next one.
'Bingo' he thought, because as he opened the box, he suddenly smelt the delighting aroma of food. Camp food of course, but it was food after all. (I wouldn't be so sure about that...)
He reached into the box and pulled out a packet of crackers.
'Ah, it'll do' he thought and retreated softly into the bushes to savor his treat.
He was almost to the deepest part of the bush, when he suddenly bumped into something...something warm.
He heard a small muffled gasp of surprise from the person as they clamped a hand over their mouth.
"Hey, don't scare me like that" a girl's voice whispered to him, "What are you doing anyway?"
Gohan remembered the crackers in his hand and hid it behind his back "Uh, nothing" he said nervously.
"Don't worry, we all need a midnight snack once in a while" the girl said, guessing the reason for Gohan's reaction.
"So, what are you doing out here in the middle of the night?" Gohan asked, changing the subject as he opened the packet of crackers and took a couple, offering the packet to the girl.
The girl took a cracker and took a bite, "I'm trying to dish some dirt on that dufus, Hercule" she said, "I love pulling practical jokes on people, and he's my next target, I just need to do some research first, unfortunately the research happens to need to be carried out in the middle of the night"
Gohan nodded "Oh, I see, well, why are you out here in the middle of the bush?"
"Well...just come with me and I'll show you. Oh, and by the way, I'm Chelsea, but you can call me Chels"
"Oh, I'm Gohan"
The two moved off deeper into the bush, Gohan eating the crackers as they went, making as little noise as possible, until they got to another smaller clearing with a capsule house fitting quite neatly in the middle, the moonlight lit up the area, glinting off the sides of the house.
"Bingo" Chelsea whispered and pointed to the house "I had it on good authority that Hercule wasn't gonna sleep in a tent and rough it, he's such a cheapskate"
Gohan looked at the house and quirked an eyebrow, wasn't it defeating the purpose of a survival camp if you had a capsule house?
Chelsea sneaked forward towards the house slightly more, and peeked into one of the windows.
She looked back at Gohan with a look of clear disgust on her face and motioned for him to come and take a look.
Gohan did as he was told and took a look through the window. He was greeted with a rather nice sight of the champion sprawled across the couch across from the window, his afro was more afroed than usual and there was a rather large drool patch on the couch where he'd been lying. But what made it even more funny was that he was wearing teddy-bear pajamas, he obviously didn't think that he'd be found out.
Stifling a laugh, Gohan turned back to Chelsea and quirked his eyebrow in amusement.
Chelsea gave half a laugh and they turned back and walked towards the camp, a rather devious plan forming in Chelsea's mind.
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Author's Notes: Hey guys, I hope you enjoyed that chapter, I wrote it all this afternoon, cause it's the only day that I don't have anything on after school. My life is so busy...well, enough of my complaining.
I'm glad you guys like Reez, I kinda based her on me. Reez is my nickname.
I put a bit more of Gohan in this chapter like I promised, I hope he's not too OOC.
And to the people I put in this chapter, I hope I did your characters okay, just tell me if it's wrong.
And I still need more guys to put in here, or I might need to make up some.
Well, I can't think of anything else I need to say...
Laterz!!!
