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2 Weeks at Camp Hercule

Chapter 12 – The Food Eating Competition

Written by RJ =)

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Disclaimer: I'm sure all of u know this by now so I'm not gonna bother...does anyone read these anyway???

Responses to Reviews:

Wind: I was going to put g/v, but I'm still deciding. I could always make him go with me...hehehe, but then ppl would get mad at me.

Onna, tay-chan: Erasa didn't come on the camp bcuz it's a survival camp, and it wasn't her type of thing, but if u really want her in, I could always make her come in, that's the cool thing about being an author, u can do stuff like that ^.^. It mite be g/v in the end, I'm still deciding and it's hard trying to please everybody. I personally like g/v...even though I would prefer Gohan/Reez (Reez being me) hehe ^.^ but seeing as that probably won't happen (even if it did, ppl mite not like it so much), I guess g/v is the next best thing. I think this would be set after Buu, but I haven't seen the end of the Buu saga coz DBZ restarted, or it could just totally be AU, but I dunno.

Aurelia Lothlorien: Lucky u, having soccer! I wanna play soccer again, but my season's already finished =(!!!

Everyone: I'm soooooooooo sorry this is so late!! I've been sooo totally busy!! I finished my exams and then I went on a geography camp for 3 days which was so cool (except for the fact that we went to 4 museums which were so boring, and we were in Rotorua, which, for those who don't know about NZ, is veeeerrryyyyyy smelly coz it's got volcanic stuff like hot springs and geysers and stuff). And like I said, I'm very sorry that this is late...and remember, DON'T KILL THE AUTHOR!! ^.^

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The members of Activity Group 3 trudged back to the campsite. Most of them were soaking wet from going for an unexpected swim in their clothes when they fell off their rafts.

Gohan walked near the front with the Reez, Tobun, and Kara. Goten and Trunks were, as always, full of energy and jumping around, occasionally throwing a punch at the other.

They finally got back to camp and everyone separated and each went into their own tents so they could get changed out of their wet clothes.

Gohan, Goten and Trunks sat on the log while Reez, Tobun and Kara made their way off to their tents to get changed.

Reez wore a yellow singlet top with jeans, Tobun wore a blue top with board shorts and Kara wore cargo pants with a purple t-shirt.

They left their tent and joined Gohan and the chibis on the log.

Suddenly, Hercule came barraging out of the woods and prepared to make an announcement.

He pulled his megaphone out of his dimensional pocket and brought it up to his mouth. Gohan, Goten and Trunks all quickly covered their sensitive Saiyan ears before Hercule started speaking.

And they were just in time too, because as Hercule started speaking, the megaphone emitted a horrible squeaking sound, which had all the other campers holding their ears in an attempt to save their hearing.

"Listen up, campers!" Hercule barked through the megaphone after the squeaking had stopped "Tonight before dinner, we will have an eating competition"

Gohan, Goten and Trunks all looked up eagerly, forgetting about holding their ears. Food had been mentioned and that was all that mattered at the moment.

"The cooks have been busy all day making cherry pies and we have 200 pies ready to be eaten and the person who eats the most will win a big prize"

The three demi-Saiyan's attention was fixated on Hercule, all three of them were drooling slightly.

"Only 200" Goten said sadly "And I thought this would be a challenge"

"Now" Hercule continued "Anyone who wants to enter the competition, please come and see me right now"

As soon as Hercule stopped speaking, Gohan, Goten and Trunks raced off towards the afroed dude as quickly as they could without showing off their powers.

Lots of other people entered the contest, mostly guys, but there were a few girls up for the challenge.

After everyone had entered, Hercule stepped back up on his rock and announced the competitors.

"In the eating competition will be: Gohan, Goten, Trunks, Marek, Arianna, Defafaeth, Jimbo, Gia, Tobun and Rowena" Hercule said "Will all the competitors come over here to hear the rules. The competition will start in 5 minutes"

"Hey good luck, Gohan" Reez said "And you too, Tobun"

Gohan, Tobun, Goten and Trunks made their way over Hercule to hear the rules.

"Hey, who do you bet will win?" Kara asked when they'd all left.

"Well, we all know what Gohan's appetite is like, and from what I've seen, Goten and Trunks have the same sort of eating habits, so I'd say it would be pretty hard" Reez said.

Just then, a girl with long brown hair in a messy ponytail and a boy came over to them.

"Hey, I'm Ashley and this is my twin bro, Adam" Ashley said

"We're taking bets for the competition, you wanna bet on someone?" Adam said

Reez and Kara looked at each other and smirked.

"Yeah, sure" Kara said, pulling out some money and handed it to Ashley "I'll bet $20 on Gohan"

Reez got out her money and handed it to Ashley too "Yea, I'll bet on Gohan too"

Adam wrote down the bets and Ashley put the money in a pocket in her cargo pants.

"Thanks for betting" she said and they moved on to the next people.

About five minutes later, Hercule got up on his rock again and announced that the competition was about to start.

"All right, campers. In a minute, the contestants will start eating. The rules are simple, the person who eats the most pies in the least time will be the winner, if someone stops eating or is sick, they have to drop out and can no longer compete" Hercule stated, then looked at the contestants and asked then "Is that clear?"

All the contestants nodded.

"Okay, on 1, you start. 3...2...1...start!"

Suddenly, the contestants lined up along the table started digging into the pies. Some attacked them fast, others paced themselves.

Some of the audience looked away with disgust as pie was flying in all directions and most of the contestants were eating rather messily.

"GO GOHAN!!" Reez and Kara cheered for their friends "GO TOBUN!!"

Suddenly, after 2 ½ pies, Arianna turned slightly green and raced for a nearby bush.

"And that's Arianna out of the competition" Hercule commentated from the end of the table.

Shortly after, Jimbo and Gia left in a similar fashion.

Tobun, Defafaeth, Marek and Rowena were still managing and were each on their 5th pie and Gohan, Goten and Trunks were still going strong.

Gohan was on his 10th pie and Goten and Trunks were each halfway through their 9th.

"I can't do this" Rowena said, getting up from the table and stumbling away, hand on her stomach.

Marek and Defafaeth had slowed quite a lot and were each slowly chewing a mouthful of pie.

Defafaeth dropped her fork and left the table, stumbling in the opposite direction from Rowena.

Shortly after, Marek dropped his fork and gave up as well.

It was now down to Tobun, Gohan, Goten and Trunks.

Tobun was onto her 12th pie, Gohan was on his 20th and Goten and Trunks were on their 19th.

The audience was still dodging flying food, mostly from the Saiyan's end of the table, as we all know what messy eaters they are.

"Mmm, mfis isfh delifshus" (Translation from Goten-ese: Mmm, this is delicious) Goten stated while gobbling down a mouthful of food.

"Doten, dnt ftlk wif youa mouf fullm" (Translation from Gohan-ese: Goten, don't talk with your mouth full) Gohan scolded his younger brother.

Trunks just laughed, and polished off the remainder of his 14th pie.

Meanwhile, Tobun had decided that she had eaten enough pie and stumbled from the table over to her friends, leaving Gohan, Goten and Trunks to duke it out.

The competition continued and none of the Saiyans had shown any signs of slowing. The audience was gasping and looking away, feeling for sure that one of them was gonna hurl any moment now. But of course, none of them knew about the boys' Saiyan heritage and how it enabled them to eat much, much more food than the average human being.

Suddenly, around Gohan's 74th pie, all three of the boys stopped eating and looked up towards the sky.

"I think it's time to leave" Trunks said

Goten nodded his agreement and he grabbed one last pie and the two chibis raced off into the woods just before Vegeta emerged from the trees over the other side of the clearing.

He spied Gohan and stormed his way over to the demi-Saiyan, who was still gobbling down cherry pies, getting a good feed for once.

The campers split down the middle, making a path for the short, but fierce-looking man.

"Brat!" Vegeta growled

Gohan looked up, still eating a pie "Hi Vegeta" he said after swallowing the last bite of his pie.

"Brat, where's my brat and Kakabrat #2?" he growled "They've been missing their training"

Gohan pointed over his shoulder in a different direction that the chibis had gone as he grabbed another pie.

"Brat, you better not be lying to me"

"Nmmoo, whyf woulfd I do tat?" (Translation from Gohan-ese: No, why would I do that?) Gohan asked

Vegeta gave Gohan one last smirk before racing off in the direction that Gohan had indicated.

Gohan continued eating his pies, unfazed, while the other campers stared in the direction that Vegeta had gone, mystified about what had just happened.

"Ahem" Hercule interrupted "Seeing as the competition is now down to one, I think we'll have to declare Gohan the winner" then added as an afterthought "Although, I, the World Champion, could eat more than that"

"But I want to finish my pies" Gohan complained.

Everyone sweatdropped.

"Uhhh, if you say so" Hercule said, amazed as Gohan quickly polished off the remaining pies and left the table, patting his now full stomach, satisfied at last.

"And now to present your prize" Hercule said, and pulled a bag out from behind him and handed it to Gohan who looked at it curiously.

The campers all gathered in to see what Gohan won.

He reached into the bag and pulled out a large white t-shirt with a large picture of Hercule emblazoned on the front of it with the caption 'I love Hercule!'

Gohan pulled a fake smile at Hercule and tossed the t-shirt back into the bag.

Reez and Kara ran over to Gohan, and Tobun followed more slowly, obviously having minor arguments with her stomach, which was constantly saying that she'd had too much food, and it didn't like the arrangement too much.

"Man, Gohan, how'd you eat so much!?"

Gohan stuck his hand behind his head in his typical Son fashion, laughed nervously and said, "I really don't know"

"Who was that guy anyway?" Kara asked

"Oh, that was Vegeta, Trunks' father, he was annoyed at Trunks for skipping his training, so he came to track him down. I felt sorry for Trunks, so I pointed him in the wrong direction"

"Oh" Kara said

Suddenly, Gohan was surrounded by campers with a multitude of questions similar to the ones Gohan was just asked by Kara and Reez.

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Author's Notes: Oh, poor Gohan, being surrounded by all those people like that...I'm so evil! Hehehe! Hahahaha, Hercule's present was so dumb! Well, there ya go, I even made this chappie longer than usual, I hope it was good enough for ya, considering it whipped it up this afternoon and I had an hour's precious writing time taken away when I went to baby-sit some kids. Oh well, I finished it now and you guys hafta review this chappie now or I'll sic my Gohan on ya!

Laterz!!

~RJ~ =)