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2 Weeks at Camp Hercule

Chapter 14 – Would you like some baked beans with your tomato sauce?

Written by RJ

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"Why do we have to do this again?" Tobun sighed as she stirred the muck in a huge pot, which they called 'dinner'.

"Because it's our turn" Kara supplied with a shrug of her shoulders.

"I don't know why anyone would actually want to eat this stuff," Reez said, eyeing the mixture suspiciously as she pulled some toast out of the toaster "It looks pretty unidentifiable"

"It looks okay to me," Gohan said, eyeing the food hungrily as he grated some very old smelling cheese.

"Gohan, you'd eat anything" Reez said

Gohan shrugged and smiled innocently.

"It's funny how when you know exactly what the food is, then you suddenly lose your appetite" Kara commented.

Murmurs of agreement immediately went round the group.

"What is this stuff anyway?" Reez asked

"It looks a bit like baked beans," Tobun said after a moment's scrutiny of the sparsely populated beans. (Oohhh, technical language ^.^)

"Uh-oh, bad smells tonight for sure," Reez said.

"Remind me to get a peg" Kara said.

"Yeah, but you'll hafta do that later because the people are coming" Tobun warned as people quickly lined up by the tables, snatching plates and utensils from a pile at the start.

The teens walked past the servers in a line, each holding out their plates ready for the slop which was being served tonight.

They eventually finished serving everyone and Tobun had taken to saying "Would you like some baked beans with your tomato sauce?" due to the scarceness of the small beans.

They served their own dinner—very reluctantly I might add—and went and sat down to eat it.

They'd just finished when a girl came over to them.

"Hey, I'm Natari" she introduced herself "I was wondering if you wanted to do a prank tonight"

"Sure" Tobun agreed, getting that evil glint in her eyes.

"Who else is doing it?" Reez asked

"Me, Jack and you guys"

"Cool, what's the plan?" Kara asked

Natari motioned for them to come in and she whispered the plan to them.

Later on that night, the pranksters met down by the lake.

They all got there at around the same time and Natari and Jack began to explain the plan to them.

"Here's the stuff," Natari said, chucking a box of oatmeal and some paints onto the ground.

Jack pulled out a container and proceeded to mix the box of oatmeal and skin-colour paint, forming a very messy mixture.

Natari pulled out 6 paintbrushes and handed one to each of the people present.

"We're gonna paint this onto Hercule, it'll make him think he's got leprosy" she smirked.

"Come on, let's go" Jack said, motioning for them to follow him into the forest.

The treaded lightly through the undergrowth towards Hercule's house.

"So, how did you find his place?" Reez asked

"We were exploring one night" Jack answered "We saw that he had been the victim of a few pranks and we wanted to leave our own mark as well, so here we are"

"Shhh" Natari said as they neared his house.

They tip-toed around towards the door and looked in the window for any signs of activity. All the lights were off.

"Good" Jack whispered "Come on, let's go"

Gohan quietly pushed the door open and they entered Hercule's Capsule house.

They entered his bedroom and saw Hercule sleeping on the bed, drooling heavily on the pillow.

"Ewww" Kara whispered.

Jack pulled out the container of paint and set it on the bedside table, dipped his brush in and started painting a blob on Hercule's arm.

The moment the paintbrush touched his arm, Hercule sneezed and turned over.

Shocked, the 6 teens hastily left the room, but watched him through the door.

"When he settled down again, they cautiously entered the room again and resumed their painting.

"This is easier than what I thought it'd be" Kara commented

No sooner than that comment was made, Hercule's hand suddenly shot out and grabbed the nearest paintbrush, which happened to be Kara's.

"What are you doing!?" he growled as he sat up.

None of them waited around to answer that question, instead they all raced for the door, trying to all get through it at the same time while Hercule was trying to untangle himself from the bedsheets so he could chase after them.

"Run!" Natari yelled and they took off towards the woods.

"Quick, climb a tree" Reez said as they got deeper into the woods.

"Why?" Jack asked

"Just do it...and quickly!" Reez said as she stopped and scaled the nearest tree.

Moments after they were out of sight, Hercule thundered through the forest underneath them and didn't even look up.

"Stay up until he comes back" Reez said.

About five minutes later, Hercule came walking back from the way he came from and passed under them again, a bit slower, he was looking in the bushes for them, but not once did he look up.

He walked out of sight again, and then came back and walked out of sight the other way then came back again, this time he was muttering something.

Gohan was using his sensitive Saiyan hearing to listen to what Hercule was muttering.

"—Dammit, I knew that I shouldn't have gone that way. This looks familiar....actually it doesn't....I know I'm not lost, I know where I am....I just don't know where everything else is—" Hercule muttered.

Gohan tried not to laugh at the hero's predicament, but instead he hoped that Hercule would find where he was and go back to his house so he could get down from this tree, it was getting uncomfortable.

He wriggled around a little bit, trying to get comfortable, and then remembered that he could just fly. It seems that not using your powers for so long makes you forget that you have access to them.

'Duh' Gohan mentally slapped himself on the forehead.

He pushed his ki underneath him and levitated in the air.

'Now that's much more comfortable' he thought, putting his arms behind his head and stretching his legs out.

Hercule walked under the tree once more before disappearing in the direction of his house and not coming back. So they all guessed that he'd found his way again.

Each of the 6 teenagers slowly climbed down the tree and silently made their way back through the forest and to the lake again.

"Well, that was successful" Kara said sarcastically.

"It'll work next time, we'll just have to plan this better...or we could just spike his drink with sleeping pills" Natari said.

"Sure, and where would we get sleeping pills?" Kara asked

"Oh, I have my ways and my means" Natari answered, smiling mysteriously.

"Well, I'm beat, I'm going back to my tent now" Reez said.

"Yeah, I'm coming too," Tobun said "Come on, Kara"

The group split up and all left for their own tents to make the most of the rest of the night.

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Author's Notes: There, finished another chappie. Now if you guys are all as confused as I am about how far through the trip we are at the moment, I kindly went through all my chapters to see how many days Gohan and co have been enduring this camp. After careful analysis of all the chapters, I've come to the conclusion that they have been on this camp for 6 days so far, which means that there are 8 days left, which will probably account to around 16 more chapters. Phew, that's a lot of work left for me! Well, I'm enjoying writing this so I don't really care...

Now, I have a favor to ask you all, could you pretty please press the little purple button down in the corner and review my story? It'd be cool if I reached 300 reviews before I finish this story. And it'd be even better if I got to 400!

Well, I'm gonna go before the author's notes get to big and they decide that they're more important than the story and take over ff.net. (Yeah, I'm insane...)

Luvs and kisses...

~RJ~ =D