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2 Weeks at Camp HerculeChapter 16 – White Water Rafting (very creative title eh?)
Written by RJ
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Disclaimer: Meh don't own nadda.
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Kitty demon2: I would get rid of Videl, but she'll play a pretty important part in the future…I can leave her out a bit more if ya want…
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Everyone: Shhh, don't tell my mommy this but I'm ditching my studying to write this. *catches sight of the amount of reviews there are* Wow! *falls into a trance, staring at the number until little bro comes along and whacks me on the head* Ah! Chris! *mutters* little baka-chan! Heh heh he hates it when I call him that...that's why I do it...I'm so evil!!! Mwahahaha!! Anywayz, I think I'm becoming crazy cuz I haven't written for ages! Ahhh! Well I think this is more than enough of my blabbing for now...there's more at the end for ya mwahahahahaahahahaha!!! *Ahem!*
Sorri for interrupting again, but I have a question. Someone told me that I do too many pranks and I should concentrate on the plot and develop it more. I'm not sure what to do so I'll put it to you guys...so should I...
A) Forget the pranks altogether and concentrate on the plot
B) Less pranks, more plot
C) Keep the same amount of pranks
D) More pranks
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"Come on guys, gather round!" Sylver yelled, getting everyone in Activity Group 3's attention.
"Today we'll be white-water rafting," she said.
There was a mixture of reactions, some people cheered, some people moaned and some people looked totally and utterly freaked out as the aspect of hurtling down a frothy, foamy river and 40km/h speeds (actually I don't know how fast it goes, so I'm just guessing here...) and purposely falling down waterfalls.
"This activity is optional, you can either take the rough way or you can take the calm way as the river splits in two and joins back after the rapids. That's why we have another supervisor here today, guys, this is Daisy, she'll be supervising the people on the calm side and I'll be going with the rest of you down the rapids"
Sylver walked over to where the rafts and quickly filled everyone in on what to do.
"Everyone decided what they're doing?" Sylver asked "Good. Now I want you to get into groups of 6 and pick out a raft and which way you'll be going"
Gohan, Reez and Tobun joined up with Kara, Chelsea and Jade without a word and they chose a raft and grabbed a lifejacket each as they were compulsory.
As soon as everyone else was ready, Sylver helped everyone get their rafts into the water and then she joined her own group and they all took off down the river.
The river was quite calm for the first 30 minutes, everyone was getting used to paddling and their boats and they were enjoying the calm journey down the beautiful river.
"Okay guys, this is where we split up!" Sylver yelled "All those who want the rough trip downstream follow me to the left and all the other wusses...nah, just kiddin' follow Daisy to the right!"
Everyone then split up, Gohan's group decided to go down the rapids with Sylver, who was with Videl's group. So there were only 2 rafts going down the rapids.
"Okay guys, you with me, come on" Sylver yelled across to Gohan's group.
"Okie, we're with ya!" Gohan yelled back.
To Gohan, this river was basically in his back yard so he knew it like the back of hand, even though he'd never rafted down it, he'd swam down it countless times. He knew where all the rocks and waterfalls were.
He gained a smirk, this'd be very fun.
"Hey guys" he called to the rest of his team "How bout we start a race with the others?"
"If you want, but isn't it kinda dangerous, I mean rocks and all" Jade commented.
"Nah, I know this river like the back of my hand, I've been down here millions of times. For example, as we round this corner, there'll be a almost perfectly round rock sticking out of the water on our right."
They rounded the corner and sure enough, there was an almost perfectly round rock jutting out of the water on their right.
"Wow Gohan, you really do know this river," Reez said, "Let's race 'em"
Gohan turned towards Sylver and yelled to her "Hey, you wanna have a race downstream?"
"Yeah, come on, let's race them!" Videl said, always quick to take up a challenge.
"I don't know about that" Sylver said, "It could be pretty dangerous"
"Aw come on, Sylver, don't be such a spoilsport" Rini said
"Yeah, Sylver, we wanna race them!" Ashley added.
"Oh, all right" she said, then turned back to Gohan and his group "Yeah, you're on!" she yelled.
Gohan gave Sylver the thumbs up and then everyone in his raft then started paddling hard out to try and get a head start on Videl's group, who was also trying to get ahead.
"Okay guys, rock on your left just around the bend and then you can take a shortcut around a huge clump of rocks if you go around them on the right side" Gohan instructed.
They all did as Gohan instructed and when they'd emerged from the narrow gap in between the clump of rocks and the bank of the river, they were about 9 metres in front of the other raft.
Tobun turned around and waved back cheekily as they gained even more metres as Gohan had pointed out a faster bit of the stream, which they'd entered.
The other raft paddled even faster to try to catch up with Gohan's raft, but the rapids were ending and there were no more totally fast patches in which they could catch up.
Minutes later they reached the part of the river where the two separate parts joined up again and they stopped the raft and waited for everyone else to catch up to them.
"I think I can see them" Chelsea said, pointing at little specks upstream which soon proved themselves to be the rest of Activity Group 3.
The other raft pulled up beside them.
"Looks like you won then" Sylver said she held out her hand for Gohan to shake but instead of shaking his hand, she caught him unaware and pulled him into the water, causing their raft to tip over, making everyone else fall out as well.
"Hey!" they yelled, then Reez, Tobun and Chelsea swam under the other raft and emerged on the other side and tipped their raft over so they were all in the water.
They cracked up laughing and swam to the shore, pulling their rafts with them, where they sat on the bank, drying off while waiting for the others to come.
"How did you guys manage to finish that so fast?" Rini asked curiously.
"Ask Gohan, he's the one who told us what to do" Reez said
"This river's practically in my back yard" Gohan told Rini "I've been down it heaps of times"
"Wow, really!? That's so cool!" Rini commented.
"Ah, it's not all it's cracked up to be, but hey, you get used to it" Gohan said, lying back on the grass, soaking up the sun.
Meanwhile, Videl was sitting a little further away, listening to this information intently. She knew that there was something strange about Gohan but she couldn't quite place her finger on it. She'd thought he was a big time nerd but now she wasn't so sure, I mean, over the last 7 days, he'd surprised her in so many ways. Walking for 100km and not getting tired, being very knowledgeable about the bush, building houses out of sticks and stuff in less than 10 minutes, making a huge as raft and then it sailing perfectly and now him saying that this river was in his back yard. There was something definitely strange about Son Gohan and Videl was determined to figure it out.
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Author's Notes: There, I hope that chappie's okay, I had a bit of WB for it and it slowed me down a bit, but I think it turned out okay even if it is a bit short heh heh...If you haven't been writing for ages, it certainly does strike hard, so I'm really really sorri if this chappie sux.
And I'm also really pissed cuz they've taken DBZ off so I don't get to watch it anymore! My mom's pleased, she practically danced around the kitchen when I told her! But I'm not, I'm so totally pissed at the tv ppl in crappy old NZ. They sed that they'd put the new episodes on when they got them, but who knows how long that'll be, I mean, NZ isn't really important enough to get sent stuff like that eh? Crappy ppl!
Well, that's enough of my ranting for today, if u guys could tell me wat u think about the pranks that'd be greatly appreciated.
And I better advertise my mailing list b4 I forget again…I HAVE A MAILING LIST!!! Heh heh, nice advertising eh? If ya wanna be emailed when I update, just leave ur addy in a review and ta da! You'll get an email when I update…
Now I better stop writing b4 my notes get longer than the actual story. =S
Laterz!!
~RJ~
