Part 56

"We need to do something", Wes told Mike and Tina as they sat on the pier and ate their lunch. "Nothing happens at this camp anymore!"

"What do you mean", Mike asked.

"When was the last time the camp laughed?"

"Well", Tina said. "Not in a w-while. It is getting b-boring here. Only c-classes and work… e-even the b-bullies are being too bored to t-tease people. Jerry is also b-boring."

"I agree", Mike said. "We need to do something to liven up the place."

"Like maybe pulling some pranks", Wes asked and smirked almost evilly. Tina and Mike stared at him.

"Are you crazy", Tina asked. "We c-can't pull p-pranks! I'm not even sure I know how!"

"That is why I brought this with me to camp", Wes said and pulled out a book from his bag and put it on the deck so that Mike and Tina could read.

"The Epic Book of Epic Pranks by Epic Otthan, Epic Prank Kings of Dalton", Mike read aloud and cocked an eyebrow at Wes. Wes just smirked and Mike opened the book.

"Slushie shower from above", he read aloud. "Remember to make sure the target has glasses to protect their eyes and that the head boy and dorm prefect is not the target because that will cause a lot of hard cleaning up work afterwards. And beware of little wicked kids because their payback is horrible."

"Yeah uh that last part may be about me", Wes said and grinned. "Anyhow are you with me in this or not?"

Mike and Tina looked at him, then the book, then each other, then the book again and lastly they started grinning. Oh yes this would be fun.

It started like any normal day at Asian Camp. The kids came to their different classes and things seemed to go just fine as normal. Yes it would be a normal boring day… that was until the students in the cooking class were going to get water into their pots. As soon as a student turned on their water it sprayed everywhere because someone had put tape over the taps. Every student squealed or screamed, some even laughed and when the teacher/conselor turned her on nothing happened at first, not until she filled her pot and it exploded because there was added baking powder into it and she didn't notice so when she moved it around so much… poof! The kids started laughing, the teacher didn't look amused though. She started yelling but the kids just kept laughing.

What happened in the kitchen wasn't the only thing that happened that day. When the music class started the kids that played wind instrument realized bubbles came out of their instruments, the drummer hit the drums and small packages of pain exploded and splattered him in the face… and on the people closest to him. The orchestra director found his directors stick glued to his hand and the piano player pressed down the keys and they stuck. There were two pianos in the room and Wes was behind one of them, he watched his classmate struggle with getting the keys back up and then smirked when no one was looking. The piano he was by had a function where you could record how or what you were playing and then it would play back, with keys and all. The teachers didn't know this but Wes did and he had chosen a certain string of music that could easily get annoying. The intro to Mamma Mia but it just kept on playing and playing.

"Are you kidding me", Wes said loudly and everyone looked up from their own problems and watched the piano play by itself.

"Wes stop that", their teacher said without looking up.

"I'm not doing anything the piano is!" Wes said and backed away from it as it continued to play. Everyone stared at it. The keys were moving by themselves.

"A ghost!" a girl squeaked in terror and all students started screaming and ran outside. Wes and a few others hung back and started to check out the piano. They lifted the top but saw nothing in it, only it moving by itself.

"Uh kids maybe you better leave", their teacher said and moved them outside, while constantly staring at the piano in confusion. Wes smirked inside and wondered how Tina and Mike were pulling their roles off.

Tina was pulling her off perfectly, she and all the girls in their "classroom" screamed as the rat kept running across the floor as soon as someone moved. It wasn't a real rat, but only Tina knew that and only she knew it was remote controlled. She had a small controller on the inside of her sleeve and pressed the button as soon as someone moved. The rat was only constructed to run back and forth but it looked really real. Tina was having the time of her life watching the other girls scream in terror and climb onto furniture… and no one was coming to save them because a: they were in the classroom furthest away and b: everyone was in class so nobody would hear them. Tina had never had so much fun. She got to pay back at those that made her life hell before Wes got to Asian Camp and she would get away with it. Now she just wondered what Mike was up to by the lake where the boys his age were having swimming and water games.

"Snake!" someone shouted and the boys started panicking and tried to swim to the nearest rock. One of the boys, one of the bullies of the camp screamed worse than anyone.

"Coby it's after you!" a boy shouted to the bully because the snake really was following him. The boy screamed and swam towards a rock where some other boys were.

"Don't come here!" they shouted and splashed water at him. Coby swam on and kept screaming because he kept being told that the snake was following him. Mike was hiding behind some thatch, sniggering at what was going on. Then he saw Jerry and another male 'teacher' run towards them and getting into the water. He grinned when Jerry grabbed Coby by the shoulders and pulled him back, noticing the snake following. Jerry sighed and grabbed the fake snake that was hooked to Coby's trunks by a small hook.

"Very funny boys", Jerry said and everyone, excluding Coby, started to laugh. Mike swam under the water and appeared among some other boys. No one noticed him missing.

The rest of the day went by in the same way. Pranks that were very simple or very advanced kept happening. The kids found the sugar and salt shaker having their respective contents exchanged. The lids of some paper shakers fell off when turned and the lemonade wasn't lemonade… just lemon juice, 100 % of it. All these pranks caused laughter and raised the spirit of the camp but still… it was still something that wasn't really accepted. But Nina was having a blast with it all so she wasn't really doing anything.

"They haven't figured us out yet have they", Mike whispered as he, Wes and Tina sat on the roof to the grownups cabin, well one of them. They had two. Wes was attaching a small walkie-talkie to a line.

"I don't think so", he said. "They would've grabbed us or something."

"I'm j-just happy no one can see us u-up here", Tina said clinging to the tree they had used to get onto the roof. No one really could see them. There were trees blocking every view but that also meant they couldn't see anyone.

"So how does this prank work Wes", Mike asked and watched his friend send the talkie down the chimney and tying it so that it would hang far up to not be seen from underneath and low enough to make the noises being heard within the cabin.

"We wait until it is lights out and then we start the talkie we have and either put it somewhere noisy, like the cabin with only teenage girls or near that beehive. The grownups will go crazy trying to figure out what's going on."

"This will be amazing", Mike chuckled. "Your friends really are clever."

"Y-yeah", Tina said.

"I know", Wes said and smiled fondly. "I just wish they would use that cleverness to not get into so much trouble. They are constantly in trouble."

"Wasn't Nathan the guy that thought his boyfriend was cheating", Mike asked.

"He is and he was", Wes said with a sigh. "Which is another reason I want him to use his cleverness in other ways than think up pranks, no matter how epic they are. If he could just stop and use his head once in a while he would've walked up to Mitch and ask who the guy he was kissing is and he'd realize it was just Justin."

"I don't really un-understand that relationship", Tina said. "N-Nate is dating Mitch but l-let's Mitch and Justin/Justine k-kiss?"

"Yeah what's up with that?" Mike asked as well.

"It's not really my thing to tell", Wes mumbled. "And frankly I don't really know. I know Justine made Mitch come out of his shell sort of and that she loves him very much… I think they used to kiss each other to get unwanted suitors to leave and then it just turned into a way for them to say hello or I'm happy you are my friend or just that they love each other like brother and sister. It is going to be really weird at the school without the two of them next year."

"Are they both graduating then?"Tina asked.

"No just Justine… so it will be strange not seeing a girl at Dalton."

"I can imagine", Mike said. "Is she hot by any chance?"

"Mike!" Tina scolded and Wes laughed.

"Yes she is actually, she is known for her beauty", he said and made sure the knot was secure. "A lot of boys in Westerville is in love with her." Wes walked up to the tree and started to climb down. Mike and Tina followed him.

"Don't they know she's a dude at times", Mike asked and Wes laughed.

"Well they should do it now", he said as they started to walk. "Didn't I tell you about how she helped me get rid of a bully and embarrass him in front of his whole school?"

"That's just mean", Tina said in a scolding way.

"Maybe but he has been bullying a lot of people and I am sure it has piped down by now. He's one of those popular jocks after all."

"So what did she do", Mike asked eagerly.

"Oh she basically showed this douche that his rumors about him having sex with her was way off target because she was really a he. She entered the school a girl and left as a boy. Justine's not so popular anymore but she can live with that. She has a boyfriend after all."

"How does that work", Tina asked confused. "He does know that she's a boy right?"

"Of course", Wes said as they reached the dining hall where they would tell ghost stories tonight. "He's bisexual." With that he walked inside and the younger two followed.

The kids had shared some of their stories and so had the grownups and oldest teens that were counselors. Jerry had told one that wasn't really scary, it had most of the kids laughing. The lights in the dining hall were dimmed down a bit. Wes was laughing hysterically at Jerry.

"Okay hot stuff", Jerry teased and gave him a little shove. "If you think my skills are so bad show me what you got."

"Are you sure", Wes asked with a wicked grin. "I don't want to scare anyone beyond sleeping tonight."

"Oh just get on with it", Nina said eagerly and Wes chuckled. He got up from his position and nodded at Mike to get the things ready, poor Tina was going to be a subject of this prank as well. Wes looked around the room and then smirked evilly.

"In a small city in LA", he began. "There ruled the Prince of Darkness, and that's the truth. Every summer it gets so hot there that everyone turns their fans and air condition up to maximum. But that causes blackouts", the lights died out completely in the room. "almost every night. And in these blackouts walks the Prince of Darkness. He is not one of those fairytale princes you hear about or even dream about. He is a butcher." Wes looked at the kids around him as he slowly walked around.

"He walk into houses of sleeping families and climb in through the window to the children's room", he said and noticed a few couple cuddle closer. "He moves soundlessly but sometimes you wake up anyway. You feel that there is someone in your room and then you feel it…"

"Feel what", Tina asked.

"The stench of filth and cigarette smoke."

Someone screamed in fright because candle smoke had suddenly filled his nose and everyone laughed, nervously for a few seconds, some looked scared though.

"If you woke up to that you would not see anything above you", Wes continued. "Nothing but a dark shadow that was coming closer and closer… and since you are just a child you would feel two cold fingers caress your face slowly and a voice would rasp…"

"'Well, hello there'", Mike said as he did just this to Tina and she gasped in fright.

"Too terrified to scream you would just gape", Wes went on. "And the Prince would take you and carry you into your parents room. They would wake when they heard your scream in fright, screaming for them."

"Stop it", Lisa squeaked grabbed on to Jerry's arm. "Seriously you're freaking me out!"

"No it's amazing", a boy said happily. "Go on Wes don't stop there!"

"What's wrong with you", a girl asked, she was clearly horrified.

"I'm just not scared of tales."

Wes chuckled at them before he continued.

"Your parents would wake up and see you in the arms of a scary looking man", he said. "They would yell for him to let you go and he would… he would shove you into a wardrobe… into the cold and dark space… where you were all alone and no one could hear you scream. Then you would be forced to listen as the Prince of Darkness first hurt your mother and then murdered your parents. You would not know that he left after doing so, he moves silent like a shadow and there is no way to telling if he is there or not." Wes was the only one that noticed that Mike was by the big, noisy doors. "But after killing your parents he would leave, the same way he came in and he would walk out into the darkness, disappear like a shadow. Only to return to a new home, the next day… in the next dark of the night. Whistling ghostly as he walked down the streets of the town. No one could see him because no one can see a shadow in the dark. Some say he goes to other cities too. Some say he even goes to camps… like this!"

When he said that Mike slammed the door shut and a lot of people screamed in fright, including Tina and Jerry. Wes, Mike and a few others laughed hysterically. Tina got up and started to hit on Mike.

"You evil, stupid, mean, horrible, awful, horrid jerk!" she yelled as she slapped on him. Mike just kept laughing. "You just wait Michael Robert Chang! I will kill you for this!"

"For what?" he asked innocently. "It was Wes who told the story!"

"Hey don't blame this on me", Wes said. He was as well dodging slaps and things being thrown at him. "I was just told to tell a story. Help!" Jerry had grabbed him around the middle and slung him over his shoulder.

"Okay kiddo you are taking a bath", he said with a wicked grin on his face.

"No!" Wes laughed and tried to get loose. Jerry just carried him outside and the rest of the kids followed, some dragging Mike along to dunk him too. Wes was putting up a pretty good fight and Jerry was forced to admit that it wasn't an easy task anymore to just pick his little kiddo up and just carry him around. When they got to the pier Jerry had to put him down, but once again Wes was putting up a big fight.

"Just face it Wes", Jerry said with a smirk. "You are going to take a bath wheatear you like it or not."

"Oh yeah", Wes asked as they got closer to the edge.

"Yes."

"Okay then but just so you know…"

"What?"

Wes gripped Jerry around the middle.

"If I'm going do you're going down with me!" he said and threw himself backwards and into the water, dragging a surprised Jerry with him. The two were soon followed by Mike as he was thrown into the lake by some of the boys that got scared… and Lisa.

"That kid", Jerry said as the consolers and grownups in his cabin was getting ready for bed. "If I didn't love him so much I'd kill him for that stunt."

"You have only yourself to blame", the home-economics teacher said with a smile. "You tried to throw him in the lake."

"That kid is too smart for his own good", Jerry grumbled.

"Did anyone find out who's behind those pranks that kept happening all day", the music teacher asked. Suddenly there was a knock on the door and Jerry went to open… but when he did a tennis racket loaded with a tin foil plate full of flour hit him in the face. He blinked and then closed the door and turned around. Everyone in the room started laughing, but Jerry just walked up to his bed and lied down and pulled his blanket up. How could he fall for that… again?!

The next morning the consolers and grownups from Jerry's cabin and Jerry himself looked like zombies. They hadn't gotten any sleep at all, well a bit but not nearly enough. They had turned off the light and had tried to sleep when suddenly… a waterfall started sounding somewhere in their cabin. They looked at for dripping pipes or water bottles or just if it was the wind but it wasn't. It sounded like water flowing… like a waterfall. They didn't find the source they even checked the chimney but couldn't find anything. It was dark in there and sadly their flashlights weren't near strong enough. He didn't know why but everyone kept sniggering at him as well when he walked past… it wasn't until Wes said:

"Looking a bit blue today." That Jerry realized that someone had put blue paint in the head to his tap in the shower.

"Not again", Jerry complained. He walked up to the table where the consolers and grownups sat and plopped down. He may be really tired, but even in his sleep deprived haze Jerry was starting to see the whole picture.

All of the pranks that had been pulled, from the music room to the kitchen, to the incident at the lake, the flour in his face, the waterfall indoors, the plastic foil in doorways, fake rats, glue on chairs, content exchange in the sugar and salt, the loose lids on the pepper shakers… all these pranks were very familiar. And he knew he had been at the end of quite a few of them before. His breakfast had been ruined when Nathan and Otto exchanged the content of the salt and sugar shakers. His whistle had been glued to his hand by Nathan and Otto. He had walked into plastic foil. The duo had put tape over the tap in his bathroom making it spray everywhere. They had ruined his lunch once by loosening the cap of the pepper shaker. They had put paint in the head of his shower but it had been orange. They had made a catapult that threw flour in his face… now Jerry and Nathan was not at Asian Camp so how could their best pranks happen.

"I'll be right back", he said and got up. He left the cafeteria and went back to his cabin. He saw the tree that the trio had used yesterday and climbed up. He walked up to the chimney and saw the string tied around it. He pulled up the walkie-talkie and growled. That's when he heard voices from below the roof.

"I'll go up and get the talkie", a voice said, that was Wes' voice. "Then we can take it easy because all pranks have been released already."

"Okay", that was Mike's voice.

"J-just be careful up there", that was Tina.

"WESLEY!" Jerry yelled and hurriedly climbed down the tree and saw the trio stare at him.

"Uh oh", Wes said.

"Now what", Tina asked.

"Run!" Mike yelled and the trio scrambled away, with Jerry after them. Nina was watching everything from her window. She smiled softly, she had figured out long ago it was the trio who was behind all this. She was not going to punish them because truth is… they beat her to it. Wes would be too old to attend as a camper next year… but that didn't mean he couldn't go as a consoler right? The kids loved him and he seemed to love this place so… why not?

TBC Sorry for the delay and utter crappiness... again.

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