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2 Weeks at Camp Hercule

Chapter 13 – Hercule's New Hairstyle

Written by RJ

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Disclaimer: I'm not getting paid for this, although if you wanna pay me for this, you're very welcome. And if you wanna sue me for this you will get a grand total of 67cents which is all that's left in my bank account until I get paid again...

Responses to Reviews:

Wind: I personally like g/v, I don't find anything wrong with it (although like I said, I'd much rather have him for myself ^.^), so I'll probably make it g/v in the end, but it'll be just a background thing, the main focus of my story is torturing Hercule and Gohan...^.^ I'm just too evil, so if you don't like g/v, you can just ignore those bits cause it probably won't have a major part in this story.

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Everyone: Thanks heaps for all the reviews!! Especially to the people who review each chappie! You guys are the coolest!! Sorry this chappie is so late, I've just been pretty busy, I started a new job and I've been doing training and stuff there. And I forgot to advertise this in the last chappie, but I've started a mailing list...if you want to be e-mailed when I update, leave your addy in a review or email me at tigergal2121@hotmail.com and I'll get an email out to you when I update! Rightio then...onto the story!! ------

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The next morning, all the campers got a longer sleep-in because they didn't get the usual wake-up call. Eventually, the camp leaders got around to getting everyone up, and now everyone was assembled in the clearing, waiting for Hercule to come out and announce today's activities.

There were murmurs going through the group carrying rumours about what could have happened to the great hero.

Suddenly, Hercule came bursting through the trees and stood at the front of the clearing.

He was wearing his now usual baseball cap to hide his still pink hair, but he looked rather annoyed this morning.

"I think I can see something under his hat" Reez whispered to Kara

"What is it?" Kara asked

"Something green" Reez said, then turned to Gohan, who was on the other side of her.

"Hey Gohan, can you see something green under Hercule's hat?" she asked

"Yeah" Gohan said, "I wonder what it is"

Suddenly, a strong gust of wind (courtesy of Gohan) blew across the clearing and knocked Hercule's hat off.

Ripples of laughter made its way through the campers assembled in front of the great hero before it grew to full-blown laughter.

"What? What?" Hercule asked, looked around frantically, trying to find out what everyone was laughing at. His hands found his way up to his head and he was shocked to find that his carefully placed hat was missing.

He gasped when he remembered that he'd fallen victim to yet another prank and was now sporting a rather large green mohawk with pink streaks down each side from the last prank he was the victim of.

He turned around to pick his hat up off the ground and as he bent over, the back of his pants split, earning him more laughter from the assembled campers.

He turned bright red and tried to mutter an explanation, but words failed him so he turned around and high-tailed his way back through the woods to his capsule house.

Everyone was it stitches from laughing too much before any of the camp counsellors decided to do anything about it.

"All right, come on people, let's get some order around here!" Sylver yelled, getting everyone's attention. "That's better. Now get into your groups and we'll go to today's activity"

Reez, Gohan, Tobun and Kara stood up and made their way over to their meeting spot. About halfway there, Chelsea and Jade came running over to them.

"Hey, was it you guys who did the prank?" Chelsea asked

"No. I was just about to ask you that" Reez said

"Who do you think it was?" Jade asked

Everyone shrugged.

They moved off with the rest of their activity group, each of them silently wondering who the new pranksters were.

The group trekked through the forest until they were alongside with a rather wide river, which was moving rather fast.

Sylver stopped next to the river and the group stopped and stood in front of her.

"Okie guys, today we'll be doing life-saving. We'll be in groups of three again" she paused and waited while everyone got into their groups.

"Now, one person from each group will go into the water and the rest of the group has to save that person. Each group will get a set of various pieces of equipment and it's your job to save the person who will be going into the water. Points will be given for the quickness in assembling the equipment and how fast you save the member of your group. You will also get points for how effective your life-saving device is."

Sylver then went around handing random pieces of equipment to each group.

"All right people, you may begin" she announced

The clearing burst into activity as each of the groups decided who would be going into the water and deciding which piece of equipment would be the best for the job.

"So, who wants to go in the water?" Gohan asked

Reez and Tobun both shrugged.

"Don't care" Tobun said "How 'bout we do Rock-Paper-Scissors?"

"Okie" Reez said

They all put their hands in the middle and proceeded to do Rock-Paper-Scissors.

'This looks familiar...' Gohan thought as pictures of a purple alien and the other four members of the group popped into his head.

Tobun ended up having to go into the water, so she pulled off her jumper and made her way over to the water and swam out a little way.

"So, what piece of equipment are we gonna use to rescue her?" Reez asked

Gohan looked down and surveyed the equipment that they had.

Lying on the ground in front of them was a 3m piece of rope, a knife, a longish stick, some netting and a couple of empty 2L milk bottles.

"I think we should do a combination, that's the most effective way," Gohan said, quickly explaining his plan to Reez.

"Great idea" Reez said after he'd finished explaining his idea.

Gohan picked up the stick and the knife and started carving notches in it so he could tie the rope securely onto the stick while Reez made a cradle out of the netting and tied it onto the rope with the milk bottles for buoyancy (--- is that word spelt right. My spell checker says it is, but it looks wrong...hmmm).

Gohan tied the other end of the rope onto the stick, making sure it was securely tied and wouldn't fall off before they walked over to the water's edge.

"Ready Tobun!?" Gohan yelled

Tobun gave the thumbs up as an affirmative.

Gohan then threw the end of the rope with the netting into the water towards Tobun.

It landed right in front of her and she slipped into the cradle that the netting formed and Gohan and Reez pulled her into shore.

As soon as she'd got out of the water, they all yelled, "Finished!"

Sylver looked at her stopwatch and widened her eyes when she realised they'd finished in just over 2 minutes. Everyone else was still working out how to assemble their equipment, except for Videl's group, who had just finished assembling it and was running to the water to save Rini.

"Hey, congrats guys, this is the quickest anyone's ever done so far this week. You get 30 points in all, which is full marks!" Sylver said

"Sweet!" Reez said as she hi-fived Tobun and Gohan.

They then sat down by the water's edge and watched everyone else try to save one of the members of their group.

Time passed and soon everyone was rescued and everyone was either swimming or sitting on the edge of water, enjoying the warm sun.

Gohan, Tobun and Reez were sitting with Kara, Chelsea and Jade were sitting on the grass next to the river, soaking up the sun.

"Hey guys" a voice said from behind them.

They all turned around to see Zam and Krissanya behind them.

"Hi" they all greeted

"Hey, you like Hercule's new hairstyle?" Zam asked

"Yeah, was that you!?" Chelsea asked

"Yeah, there's a group of us, we liked your pranks, so we decided that we should also pull some pranks" Krissanya said

"That's cool, but the next prank's our, okie?" Reez said

"Yeah, okay" Zam said.

"So, who else is in your group?" Jade asked

"Well, there's Jack, it was kinda his idea, he got the rest of us into it. There's also Natari, Kasumi, Mikomi and Trevor, and me and Zam of course," Krissanya said

Meanwhile, Videl, Rini and Ashley were sitting not so far away from Gohan's group.

Rini and Ashley were talking about something and Videl was pretending to listen, but she was actually eavesdropping on the conversation that was going on at the next group.

She caught some parts of the conversation such as pranks and there being two groups of pranksters and that girl, Reez, said that the next prank was theirs. She knew that the pranks were aimed at her father, she didn't mind so much cause he needed to come off his high horse sometimes, but they were going just a little bit overboard here.

'I'll just have to catch them next time they do a prank' Videl thought and she smirked.

"Videl? Videl!?" Rini and Ashley called, Ashley waved her hand in front of Videl's face, trying to get her attention.

Videl snapped out of her thoughts and said "Yeah?"

"Videl, man, you're freaking me out, girl" Rini said "I must have asked you the same question about four times but you just got this weird look on your face"

"Heh heh, sorry" Videl said "Ask me again, I'm listening now"

"Riiight" Rini said, but continued anyway.

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Author's Notes: Well, there we go, another chappie finished, it took me a while, but that comes with being busy as I said at the start. Hopefully my next chappie won't take so long to do coz I'm not working so much next week. And it is holidays so I might get the next chappie out sooner, but I'm not promising anything...okie?

Laterz!!

~RJ~