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2 Weeks at Camp Hercule
Chapter 11 – The Plot Thickens...Wait...There's a Plot!?!?
Written by RJ
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Disclaimer: Ooh, this is a toughie, I woulda guessed you'd have figured this out from the last 10 chapters...
Responses to Reviews:
Jade: Yeah, I have noticed that, it's kinda strange aye? And thankies for your comment about this fic steering away from the usual Gohan camp fics! ^.^
Megami-sama: Knee slapper!?!? How did your sister come up with that!? o.O! Oh well, I spose I can identify with that kinda stuff, I come up weird things too sometimes...
Natari Son: Luv your description of Cell! Classic! And thankies for the choc bar! ^.^! And I luv your motto! That really sounds Goku-ish. I took this quiz on a website once and it said that I was like Goku...yeah, pointless information, I know, but I felt like adding it...^.^ -- has anyone noticed that I do these faces a lot?
Chrissie-chan: I was actually gonna put one of them in...but I'm not saying who yet...you'll hafta wait! Mwahahaha! Yea, I love doing evil laughs! And as for being mean to Videl...well, I wasn't trying to, it just kinda came out that way, yea, I know that I'd like to have Gohan for myself, but I've told myself that that'll never happen and I hafta accept that fact ^.^ anywayz...I'll try and be nicer to her, kapeesh?
Princess Keisei: Hmmm, I never thought about Gohan's dinosaur friend, maybe I'll find room for him in here somewhere.
kitty demon: My original plan was to have the group made up of some guys too, but not many guys wanted to be in the story until after I'd established the group and I didn't really wanna change the plans, but I brought Goten and Trunks in to kinda make up the guys numbers, and I think (but I'm not sure yet) that they'll have a part in the story throughout most of the rest of it. As for adding a hot guy for Reez, well, that just wouldn't be fair for me coz I'd make him perfect and then I'd get depressed that my anime self has a hot guy and I don't...
Everyone: Thankies for all the reviews! And thankies for all the good luck wishes for my exams, I've only got 2 more to go and I get a 4-day weekend and on the day after exams finish, I go on a 3 day geography camp! Sweet!
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Well, onwards and upwards we go! Here's the chappie!!!
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The group of teens and two chibis snickered as the copies of the video were passed around so that each of those present had a copy, just in case a terrible accident happened to one or two of the copies.
Just as the copies had finished being distributed, the call came for breakfast.
"Yay! Food!" Trunks and Goten yelled, overjoyed at the prospect of breakfast.
The rest of the group sweatdropped, even though they were semi-used to Gohan's eating habits, they were pretty sure that he was the only one...seems they were mistaken.
Goten and Trunks ran off in the direction of the food, standing at the front of the line, using the cuteness factor to help them get what they wanted seeing as technically, they weren't supposed to be eating their food as they weren't supposed to be on the camp. But cuteness overruled rules anyday in most of the camp supervisor's books and they let slide just this once...and twice...and three, four, five times. Each time the chibis came up for another serving, they relented and gave them what they wanted.
So by the time breakfast was over, there were three satisfied demi-Saiyans, which is always a good thing.
After breakfast they were instructed to separate into their activity groups again for today's activity. Surprisingly enough, Hercule was nowhere in sight. He was probably still sad about losing Mr Flufflebotty and fuming about his capsule house being toilet papered (I forgot to mention that in the last chappie I think. Anyway, that's what the others were doing while Reez and Gohan were stealing Mr Flufflebotty).
Today, for Activity Group 3, they were going to be going to a nearby lake (not the one just out of the clearing, one about 2km away) and they had to build their own rafts out of materials from the forest.
"Okay everyone, grab your stuff and off we go!" Sylver yelled, heading off into the woods, the activity group following closely behind.
While most of the group trudged along behind Sylver, Goten and Trunks skipped along, sometimes running around the whole group itself, playing tag, then they consented to swinging from branch to branch in the overhead trees, making everyone else envious of their seemingly endless energy. (Heck, it's even making me envious just writing it!)
Finally they reached the lake and Sylver quickly briefed them and sent them on their way.
They had to be in the same groups of three as the previous day, so Reez, Tobun and Gohan, and the chibis tagging along behind shot off into the woods, collecting all the stuff they'd need for their raft.
They took their time, knowing that they'd most likely finish before everyone else, even with Trunks and Goten hindering more than helping.
They met back at the side of the lake with all the equipment they'd need and set to work.
The next group back was Videl's, which consisted of Videl, Rini, Ashley.
They quickly got to work on their raft, Videl setting the pace as the result of an unspoken competition with the neighboring group.
"Hey Vid, why are we working so fast?" Rini, one of Videl's best friends asked.
Videl mumbled something in reply, trying to pour all of her attention onto the raft.
"What was that, Vid? I didn't quite hear" Rini teased, knowing full well that Videl didn't really wanna share her thoughts, but she was gonna force them out of her anyway.
Videl groaned and looked up at her friend "I said that I think that Gohan's hiding something and I wanna find out just what it is"
"Ohhh, so you're becoming obsessed with this guy now too? What about that superhero guy, Saiyaman? Isn't he your main obsession?" Rini asked
"Yeah, but there's something about Gohan, and you've seen him at school, he's such a nerd, but in case you haven't noticed, he's pretty experienced with survival" Videl said, looking in the direction of Gohan's group, who was nearly finished their raft already.
Rini followed Videl's gaze and noticed what she was talking about, and even though he wore a baggy t-shirt, you could still see the lines of well-defined muscles underneath.
Then a thought struck her and she smirked evilly, but looked down quickly at the vine she was tying to the raft so Videl wouldn't see her smirk, because knowing the feisty daughter of Hercule, she'd get it out of her somehow.
Meanwhile, back at Gohan's group, they were putting the finishing touches on their raft. They'd had to start from scratch three times when the chibis had 'accidentally' smashed, broken or ki blasted their raft.
Getting tired of the interruptions, Gohan tied the chibis up with a long piece of vine and tied a large knot in it and dared them to escape, but there were two conditions. One was that they weren't allowed to rip the vines or ki blast them and the second was that they had to undo the knot before they escaped, they couldn't just slip out the bottom or top. This kept them busy for a while, because whatever Goten would try and do, Trunks would disagree and try and do the opposite and vice versa, so it ended up more like a constricted game of tug of war.
When the raft was finally finished and ready to go out on the water, Gohan snapped the vines easily and let the chibis go. They ran and took a running jump and landed smack-bang in the middle of the raft, which was already in the water, but being very careful to slow themselves down before they touched down because they didn't want Gohan being mad at them and send them back to Trunks' house where Vegeta would make them train.
The raft sailed perfectly and it was large enough for all five to have a generous amount of space, so they all lay on the raft, looking up at the clouds. Goten and Trunks were pointing out shapes and of course, they disagreed on what all of them looked like.
One by one, the other groups got their rafts out onto the lake. Most of the rafts floated pretty well, but none rivaled theirs in size. Most of them had trouble fitting three people on the raft.
A raft nearby suddenly capsized, flinging all three arguing occupants into the water.
One of the occupants surfaced near their raft beside Gohan, grabbing onto the side of the raft and taking a deep breath as she surfaced.
"Hi" Gohan said, "You need some help?"
The girl flicked her sopping wet ruby-red braided hair out of her eyes and smiled "Yeah, that'd be nice"
Gohan moved over slightly and pulled her aboard, slightly underestimating his strength and pulling her up rather fast.
"I'm Krissanya," she said
Gohan quickly introduced himself and the rest of the people on the raft.
"Come on Kris, get your ass back over here!" one of the other members of her group yelled from the raft.
"Looks like they're all sorted now" Krissanya said "See ya"
She slipped back into the water and swam back over to the other members of her group, Zam and Emerald.
Videl's group floated by on their raft. Videl didn't take her eyes off Gohan for the whole time and she seemed to be deep in thought.
Rini watched Videl, the same smirk playing on her face as her idea unfolded in her head.
Ashley looked at the other members of her group strangely, they were sure acting weird these days. She shrugged and went back to sunbathing, if they didn't want to tell her, it was fine by her, she'd find out eventually.
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Author's Notes: I hope this turned out okay, I kinda had a minor case of writer's block for this chapter, I couldn't figure out how to start it. I knew what I wanted to happen, I just didn't know how to start it, so if the starting is a bit random, then blame it on every writer's worst enemy, Darth Writer's Block. -- Yea, so I've been watching Star Wars...^.^
I'm trying to put Videl in it a bit more, and I'm planning on putting a rather large group of new people in soon, so don't worri if I haven't put ya in yet, coz I'll get around to it very soon.
Well, chairs, tables and frying pans (-- don't ask coz I don't know...^.^)
Laterz!!
