Liquid Sunshine
Disclaimer: Huh? Nuuh uhh! I don't own DBZ silly heads!
It was a dark and rainy night. The wind howled, and from the depths of a dark swamp in the middle of the forest of the forgotten rose…this fic! EET EEZ AY-LIIIIYVE! Mwah ha ha ha! Ok I'm done. You can read the chapter that I FINALLY wrote now! Yay!
Chapter 5: To the Trails!
"Gohan! Hurry up! You have to be at school soon to leave for wilderness camp! You don't want to miss the field trip bus do you?"
"I'm comin' mom!" Gohan called out to his mother as he quickly stuffed some items into a backpack. "I knew I should have done this last night." He muttered. "But noooo! I had to come home and be pestered to death about the stupid movie that I didn't even watch, and about Videl!"
"I hear you up there Gohan!"
"Arg!" He grabbed some changes of clothes and stuffed them on top of his toothbrush. Gohan zipped up the medium sized bag, and for the first time looked over the checklist the school had passed out to the participants. "Let's see…Clothes, check. Toiletries check. Flashlight…umm…no. Who cares. Tent…uhh…guess that's a no too. Sleeping bag…well, how about this blanket?" He asked the list as he took a fleece blanket from underneath his bed. "Yep, that'll do." He said as he unzipped the bag again and smashed the blanket in there. "And finally, swimming trunks/bathing suit. Huh. I think my trunks are right…" he started again as he shuffled through some clothes in his dresser. "Here! So check for that. Well, That's it! Guess I'd better get some breakfast now!"
"Gohan! For the last time, quit talking to yourself! It's not healthy!"
"I'm done mom! Coming!" Gohan rushed down to the kitchen and gave Chichi a kiss on the cheek as a greeting, and sat down at the table where his food was set out for him. He dug in with the speed that only Saiyans possessed when it came to food, and was done quickly, and just in time to leave for school.
"Thanks mom! That was great!"
"Thank you honey! I tried to make it extra special since you're leaving today!"
"Gohan…"Goten said, coming into the house, since he'd been playing early that morning. "Gohan I don't want you to gooo!" He whined. "I'll miss you lots!"
"Awww, don't worry about it squirt-o! I'll be back before you know it! It's only three days, and I'm sure you and Trunks will have lots of fun together!"
"Yeah, I know, but I still don't want you to go away." He said in his cute little sad-boy voice.
"Ok, ok. How about when I get back-and assuming that mom lets me of course-" he began, taking a glance at his mother to make sure she was paying attention. "I won't go to school the Monday we get back, and I'll play with you as much as you want ok?" He glanced at Chichi again. She rolled her eyes and sighed before slowly nodding a yes. She couldn't believe she was doing this. Oh well. She'd make sure that it never happened again. Ever.
"Yay! Does that mean that you'll train with me too!"
"Sure squirt-o! Whatever you want. Come Monday, I'm all yours."
"Whoo hooo! Now hurry up and go so you can come back faster ok Gohan?"
"Yeah yeah, I'm going already!" He said, laughing at his little brothers 'logic'.
Gohan said his last goodbyes to Chichi and Goten, before he started to fly off to school. He landed at his usual spot and walked the rest of the way to school.
Gohan sat in his usual seat and boredly twirled his pencil around his fingers as he listened to the morning announcements drone on. They really shouldn't let that guy on the announcements anymore. Ski club, blah blah blah, drivers ed, yadda yadda.
Will all students scheduled to go on the camping field trip please report to the main doors immediately after announcements. Again, all students going on the trip report to the main doors immediately after announcements. Thank you from OSH studios. I'm…Fred, I guess. Have a nice day. The announcer guy said in a monotone voice. Yeah, they definitely needed to get someone who didn't practically put you to sleep just by talking.
Gohan was jolted out of his thoughts by the scraping of several chairs as some of the people around him got up to go to the front of the school now that the announcements were over. Gohan pushed himself away from the desk and wearily trudged along behind the group. He saw that many people had left their bags and tents in piles in the hallway and were now collecting all of it. He went to his locker and got his backpack and slung one strap over his shoulder before going over to where his friends were congregating.
"Hi guys. Ready yet?"
"Duh." Videl said. He saw that she had only packed a little more that he had in a backpack, but also had a small, light, one-person pop-up tent.
Sharpener had two bags. One for regular stuff, and one dedicated to supplies he needed to tend to his 'precious' hair.
Erasa had packed surprisingly light, and only carried two bags. Undoubtedly, she had many, many capsules stuffed into them.
The four walked silently to the main doors and stood around, waiting for everyone to get there. A somewhat decent charter bus pulled up to the sidewalk, and the chaperones told the students what to do. The compartment under the bus was opened, and they all had to throw their stuff in there, and then go sit in the bus. Attendance would be taken before they left.
Gohan got on the bus after he deposited his bag under the bus, and took the window seat in a row near the back of the bus. He closed his eyes and wondered what exactly they would be doing. Whatever it was, he just knew that it wasn't going to be easy to hide his super-human abilities. Or how he ate. Or how well he adapted to the environment, after having so survive on his own for six months in the wilderness when he was four. Why, oh why did his mother force him to go on this trip! So what if he was failing gym? It's not like it was because he couldn't pass or anything!
He felt someone sit down in the isle seat next to him and looked over to see Videl staring freakily at him. Sharpener and Erasa were situated in the seats across from them.
"Gohan, you're weird. There's something not right about you, and I'm gonna figure out what it is!"
"Gee, thank you Videl. It's nice to see you too. Oh, I'm just fine by the way, how are you?" He said sarcastically. Videl was his friend and all, but she just wouldn't let the subject drop!
"Lose the 'tude Gohan. We're going to be stuck together for three days, so there's no where for you to hide to, and no excuses for you to make!"
"Fine." He huffed. Gohan returned to staring out the window and attempted to ignore the girl next to him. Suddenly, he shifted and looked out the window at all different angles, and then slouched down a little bit to look out of the windows on the other side of the bus. He finally spotted the sun, and was able to figure out what direction they were going in based on the position of the morning sun. Thank goodness they were going in the opposite direction of his house. He had been worried that they would run into Goten and possibly Trunks if they camped near there.
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Two hours and many interrogating questions from Videl later, the bus stopped and the students were instructed to get off and collect all of their bags, as they would be walking to the campsite from their current position. Since they were near the back of the bus, they were some of the last people to get their bags. When Gohan bent down to get his, he could have sworn he saw something moving inside the compartment. Videl began attempting to shove him out of the way, and his thoughts were immediately forgotten.
"Man! This trip is gonna be over before we even get to the campsite!" Someone behind Gohan complained. Gohan had settled into a nice easy pace and was situated near the middle of the group of hikers. Sharpener suddenly came up to his right side at a slight job and yelled as he ran by.
"Let's catch up to Videl and Erasa!"
Gohan also jogged a little, and they quickly met up with Erasa and Videl, who were up at the front of the group.
"Wow Erasa. "Sharpener said. "I never would have expected you to be up front!"
"Yeah." Videl had to agree.
"What?" Erasa said in a hurt tone. "You think I can go shopping for eleven hours straight with innumerable shopping bags, but I can't handle a little nature hike?"
It was true; the girl hadn't even broken so much as a tiny sweat, even though they had been hiking for two and a half hours already.
"Heh. I guess we underestimated you Erasa!" Gohan commented.
"Speaking of which…" Videl said as she directed a glare at Gohan. "You don't seem to be having any trouble either. What's your excuse? Don't tell me you go shopping all the time too, and that's how you got all those muscles."
"Ummmm, yeah! That's it! My mom and her friend used to always make me come with them to carry their bags and stuff when they went shopping!"
"Riiight. Momma's boy."
"Yeah. What! Hey! No! I am not! I just-" Gohan suddenly whipped around and started staring through the forest as if looking for something.
"What's the matter nerdy? Did you see a big bad squirrly?" Sharpener taunted. "Don't worry brains, I'll protect you from it."
"Oh joy." Gohan said flatly. "You're my hero." He still kept looking, and then closed his eyes for a second. "Oh crap."
"What's crap Gohan." Videl questioned.
"Uhh, nothing? I just remembered that I, ummm, forgot something?"
"Oh really? And what would that be?"
"I forgot umm, my uhh, tent!"
"Well brains, since I'm such a nice and generous kinda guy, you can share with me since it's a two room tent. That way I can protect you from all the scary small woodland creatures at night better."
"Thanks Sharpener?"
"Alright now everyone!" The director announced. "This will be your home for the weekend, so everyone find a spot to set up, and meet back at this point in an hour. Don't go to far away though!"
Whew! I finally finished that! Well, I hope you liked it! Please review! And maybe it won't take me so long to getting around to writing another chapter! Toodlez and noodlez!
