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2 Weeks at Camp Hercule

Chapter 6 – Trials and Tribulations

Written by RJ

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Disclaimer: I'm a blonde female New Zealander, do you think I could pass for a Japanese male??? Don't ask stupid questions.

Responses to reviews:

Aurelia Lothlorien: I agree, white men with afroes just aren't right. Akira probably wanted to make him look like an idiot though. After all, he did steal Gohan's credit, so he probably wanted to make him look like an idiot so everyone would hate him. As for what's on the stick, I took your suggestion, so if u think it's that, then you're right!

Samara-chan: Yea, I probably will get them to find out his secrets, I know its clichéd, but it makes for fun typing.

Kinto'un: Dammit! Are my pranks that predictable??? Well, I'm glad that wasn't the only thing in there...hehehe! And about the re-runs, I think we should get together a really big group and go on a protest march or something like that. I want my (teenage) Gohan back!!!!!

Flying High: I didn't forget about you, I just didn't wanna have a big huge group. (My excuse for Kara is that she was sleeping...). I'll put Kara in the next prank for ya, how's that???

DeathStorm: At the moment, I have about 36 people wanting to be in the fic and so far I've put in about 5 or 6. And I have 2 Jessica's and 2 Ashley's wanting to be in it so I guess I'll have to put them as Ashley 1 and Ashley 2 and Jess 1 and Jess 2. But I am planning on putting everyone in by the end of the story, which I think, will be quite long.

Zam: You didn't put a name that you want to be called by, so I'm just assuming that it's Zam, is that right?

FireAngel-Kayona: Happy Birthday for the 18th.

Everyone: Thanx heaps for reviewing!!! (I've almost broken 100!!!) I hope you like this chapter.

A/N: I just love pranks, (except when they're on me of course...^.^) especially prank phone calls. I once rang up a butcher and asked them if they sold meat! It was really funny. Then my brother's friend rang up a hardware shop and asked for a butt-plug, not spark plug, butt-plug and all he said was butt-plug, butt-plug, butt-plug in a funny accent. It was such a crack-up!

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The next morning, Gohan woke up before dawn, despite the late-night adventures of the previous night. He heard some noises out over the other side of the clearing and with his Saiyan hearing, recognised the soft voices as belonging to Chelsea and Jade.

Wondering what they were doing, he exited the tent and walked over to where the duo were.

"Hey guys, whatcha doin'?" he asked softly

Chelsea and Jade greeted the demi-Saiyan good morning and opened the bag slightly to show Gohan what they'd put in the bag the night before.

Gohan pulled a face "Ewww, no wonder you used the stick. Are they clean?"

"All I can say is I hope so" Jade said before she stuck her hand into the bag and pulled out...dun dun dun...a pair of Hercule's boxers which had hearts all over them and the quote 'I love me' spread across the back.

Chelsea pulled out a length of rope and pegged the boxers to it, next to a rather large, neon pink sign that said 'Hercule's boxers'.

Chelsea took one end of the rope and holding it in her mouth, scaled a nearby tree and tied securely onto one of the branches.

Jade grabbed the other end and tied it to a branch on a tree over the other side of the small clearing.

Once they'd done the deed, they stepped back to admire their work.

"Beautiful, isn't it?" Jade said, quite proud of their accomplishment.

Chelsea and Gohan nodded and watched the pink boxers flap softly in the slight breeze.

Reez, Tobun and Kara all woke around the same time this morning. Reez and Tobun looked rather disappointed that they didn't get to pull another prank on Kara, but decided that it was probably best that they save their prank energy for the big hairy one.

They quickly got changed and walked out into the clearing and saw Gohan, Chelsea and Jade standing in the middle of the clearing, staring up at something.

Following their gaze, their eyes met with a rather large, neon pink sign that said 'Hercule's boxers' and they saw his pink boxers flapping in the breeze.

"So that's what you got last night" Reez said "I was wondering what it was"

"Yeah, we were gonna get his megaphone too, but we couldn't find it" Chelsea said as the three turned around to face Reez, Kara and Tobun.

"Wake them up now" Chelsea said, nudging Jade, who gained an evil glint in her eye.

She took a deep breath "WAKE UP EVERYONE, GET UP NOOOWWWWWW!!!!!!" she yelled, which had Gohan covering his sensitive ears in fear that he'd be deafened.

The call obviously worked, as startled cried came from the tents as everyone was woken up.

Giggling slightly, Jade returned to her normal sweet self.

The first two people out into the clearing were Craze and Marek, two guys from OSH.

They noticed the boxers hanging in all their glory in the middle of the clearing and burst out laughing.

They walked over to the 6 and asked, "Did you do that?"

"Yeah" they all answered

"We figured that it was time to get out own back," Jade said, smirking "I can't wait to see what he says about this and our other 'little' prank"

By this time, more people had assembled in the clearing and had noticed the boxers.

Suddenly a rather large, girl-like scream came from the forest.

The 6 friends exchanged an amused glance. Hercule had probably used his shampoo by now.

The other people assembled in the clearing looked around in shock, wondering what the scream was about. A few of the braver ones were gonna go and see what it was all about, but they couldn't quite figure out where it was coming from. The camp leaders were trying to regain order, but weren't quite managing until Sylver decided to take it into her own hands.

"WOULD EVERYONE JUST SHUT THE HELL UP!?!?" she yelled.

That got everyone's attention, quick.

"That scream was probably nothing, maybe even some people pulling a prank on us, so just ignore it and start packing for today's hike"

The teenagers took her explanation as true and went off to pack up their things.

Sylver, satisfied that she'd sorted the situation, went back to thinking about how she could get out of this thing and back to civilisation.

It was then that Hercule decided to make his appearance. He walked into the clearing, but not in his usual 'I'm-here-now-pay-attention-to-me' manner, but more like an 'I-don't-want-too-much-attention-right-now' manner, which is very unlike that 'great' hero. And what topped it off, was that he was wearing a baseball cap.

When the 6 pranksters noticed this, they started laughing really loudly.

"I've got an idea" Reez said and motioned for the group to huddle in so she could explain it.

"Everyone, go get ready, we leave in half an hour" he yelled.

Everyone went off to pack up their tents and get ready for the 3rd 100km.

Half an hour passed, and soon they were ready to start on the next installation of the 100km.

Hercule had decided to give a motivation speech, which mainly consisted of him saying how great he was and how everyone should aspire to be exactly like him.

Deciding that now was the best time to put their plan into action, Reez dropped her pack down with her friends and crept to the bush and circled around the clearing to where Hercule was.

She stopped at a tree and quickly scaled the branches and orientated herself onto a large branch above Hercule's head.

Putting her hand in her pocket, she pulled out a length of string with a hook at the end.

Hooking her feet around the branch to keep her balance, she lowered the string down so that it was above his head.

She moved the string around a bit so that the hook would hook onto the back of the hat and after a few tries, she finally got it hooked.

She silently counted to 3 in her head and on 3, she tugged the hat off his head and quickly pulled up into the tree.

The group of teenagers assembled in front of Hercule weren't prepared for the sight they were greeted with.

His normally afroed hair was now plastered down on his head, giving him a much more 'little' look and to top it all off, it was bright pink.

A hushed silence came over the group.

As soon as the hat had come off, Chelsea, Gohan, Jade and Tobun went to work on their part of the task and snapped away with their cameras. Gohan had a Polaroid, Chelsea had a digital, Jade had a video camera and Tobun had a normal one, they wanted to get as many copies as many different ways as they could to lessen the chance of them all being destroyed.

Finally, the silence ended with Kara, who burst out laughing cause she couldn't hold the laughter in anymore, which made everyone else laugh.

Reez, who was still up in the tree, was laughing so hard that she almost fell out.

Hercule looked up into the tree and saw her up in the tree and his angry face changed to an even angrier one.

Reez stopped laughing almost instantly. '*Gulp* Uh-oh' she thought as she scrambled higher and jumped to the next tree, still holding on to the hat for dear life.

She eventually made it all the way around to the other side of the clearing and hid behind Gohan for safety, not knowing just how safe it really was.

Her friends had hidden the cameras again and Hercule hadn't noticed them taking the pictures, so they were safe for now.

Hercule was about to shove the others out of the way to get to Reez when he suddenly stopped.

"Daddy, don't" Videl said, grabbing his arm "You might hurt them" (Poor thing, she still believes that lie)

"Okay, honey, but only for you" he growled, giving Reez one last glare before turning around and walking back to the front of the group.

He donned another baseball cap and pointed up the trail.

"Onwards and upwards" he yelled and marched up the trail, the teenagers following closely behind.

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Author's Notes: I'm feeling kind so I thought I'd post another chapter for you. Actually it's cause I'm bored and there's nothing else to do...hehe. And I really wanted to write this chapter cause I knew what was gonna happen. It was really easy too, cause all the words just kinda fell out of my brain and onto the computer screen. (Messy, don'tcha think?) Lol.

Anywayz, I'm gonna go have some lunch now cause I'm starving and I can smell it all the way from my room and it smells delicious (I'm glad it's not like the camp food I'm torturing them with, hehehe!!!)

Well, you guys better go review now, I have to break my goal of 100, and at the moment, I only need 13 more reviews...easy peasy!!! You guys will help me achieve that won'tcha?

Laterz!!!