Here's the second chapter! I hope you enjoy, and I made sure that it was longer than the first one. :D
Allen: Do I have to keep calling you RhiannonWolf or can I just call you Lynn now?
Just call me Lynn for the time being.
Allen: Thanks. RhiannonWolf is kinda long...so anyways, Lynn does not own DGM, myself or any other characters. Just the basic plot.
Thank you Allen! Now, let's get down to business, shall we?
Chapter 2: Camping
What felt like hours later, they finally arrived at a Walmart about half an hour away from the campsite they were going to be at.
"I thought it would never end…" Allen moaned, stumbling out of the car and almost crashing into another one parked beside them.
"Aw it wasn't that bad, Moyashi-chan!" Lavi said with an obnoxious grin.
"My name is Allen!" the white-haired Exorcist all but yelled.
"Let's get this over with." Kanda said, walking past them. "The sooner this mission is over, the better."
"Alright, alright." Lavi said, hurrying to catch up with the angry samurai while dragging Allen behind him.
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"How about this one?" Allen suggested, pointing to one of the many tents being advertised.
"Looks good Moyashi-chan!"
"My name is Allen stupid Lavi!"
Kanda rolled his eyes, watching the two argue with boredom. This was so stupid, why couldn't they just pick a damn tent and be done with it?
The swimming trunks and sleeping bags had already been picked out, and the tent was all that was left.
"I can't find any in my size!"
Kanda looked over when he heard the new voices and rolled his eyes at a group of three girls practically running around the shoe isle.
"Keep looking, I'm sure they're here somewhere."
"Any luck Caitlin?"
"Nope."
"Ugh…it's like our shoe size doesn't even exist!"
'Or maybe they're just out of stock…' Kanda thought grumpily. These girls were really grating on his nerves. The sooner they could get out of the store, the better.
"Are you finished?" he asked lazily as Allen and Lavi waltzed over to him.
"Yep; we picked out a tent!" Lavi announced happily, holding it up like some kind of trophy.
Allen noticed the three girls and raised an eyebrow. "…What are they doing?" he asked aloud.
Kanda shrugged. "Looking for a shoe or something. I don't know and I really don't care. Let's just get out of here before I kill someone."
"You can't do that Yuu!" Lavi objected, only to have a fist come flying at his face, which he neatly dodged.
"Don't call me that you Baka Usagi!" he shouted, drawing the attention of some shoppers.
"Guys, please…" Allen said quietly, looking anywhere except for the people now staring at them.
The three girls were still too wrapped up in their shoe hunting to notice what was going on a couple feet away.
Then the three Exorcists walked away with their chosen items and paid for them before leaving.
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~Girls~
"Did you see those guys?"
"Huh?" the brunette girl with glasses asked, turning to the one who had spoken. "What guys?"
"The ones who were standing over there; two of them almost got into a fight."
A blonde popped her head out from behind an aisle, eyes sparkling. "Were they cute?"
"Lynn…" brunette sighed, giving her friend an exasperated look.
"You bet they were!" the first girl said, fanning herself slightly for emphasis.
"Oh you two…"
"Oh come on Caitlin!" Lynn said, nudging her friend. "We are 17 year old girls; it's in our nature."
"For you and Gubbi it is." Caitlin said.
"Oh, that's right, I forgot about Smart-Alec." Lynn smirked, earning a playful punch from the brunette.
"Hey, I'm tender!"
"That red-head was really cute…" Gubbi said wistfully.
"Okay, I must ask." Lynn said, holding up her hands and looking at Gubbi seriously. "…Was there a blonde?"
"Nope, no blondes."
"Aw damn…" Lynn snapped her fingers. "Well, there goes that idea. Never mind, you can have 'em."
"Wow, you're nice." Caitlin said sarcastically.
"I know, right?"
"Hey girls," came an older man's voice from one of the isles. "Try this size on, it might fit you."
"Okay!" they said, rushing into the isle to try on the water shoes.
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~Exorcists~
It was around 8:45 when the Exorcists' car pulled into the camping ground.
"And where are we supposed to be?" Allen asked, looking out the window.
"I'm pretty sure we just pick a spot." Lavi replied. "How about…that one?" he suggested, pointing to an empty spot across from an expensive-looking camper and truck.
"Whatever." Kanda grumbled, his arms crossed over his chest. "Let's just make this fast so we can go to sleep and then move out tomorrow morning. I'm sick of listening to you two."
"Aw, but Yuu-chan…"
"Baka Usagi!"
"AH!" Lavi yelled as Mugen came out of nowhere and nearly sliced his head in two. He flung the car door open and practically threw himself out while the car was still in motion.
"Master Lavi, please don't do that!" the Finder cried out in worry. "You could have gotten hurt!"
"Che. If only." Kanda snapped as he too got out of the car. Allen was not far behind him.
Lavi already had the tent out of the bag and spread out on the ground. "Okay, who wants ta help me set it up?"
"Che."
"Since Kanda is obviously going to be a party-pooper," Lavi said, facing Allen with a grin.
"No." Allen said with a dead-pan expression.
"Aw, come on guys!" Lavi all but whined.
"Here, I'll help you, Master Lavi." The Finder said, getting out of the car as well.
"Yeah!" Lavi cheered. "You guys are gonna miss out on so much fun!"
"Oh too bad." Kanda said, not sounding disappointed at all. "I'll just sit in here and watch you make a fool of yourself, Baka Usagi."
"You know, I never did catch your name." Lavi said, looking at the Finder, who was in casual clothes as well.
"My name is Peter." The Finder replied with a smile.
"Alright Peter. By the way, please just call me Lavi." The red head grinned. "To 'blend in', ya know?"
Peter nodded a little uncertainly, not used to calling the Exorcists by their actual names.
"So Peter," Allen said, watching the two sort out the parts for the tent. "You're from around here, right?"
The sandy-haired boy nodded. "That's right. I'm from St. Louis, about an hour and a half or so from here."
"How'd you end up at the Order?" Lavi asked, connecting two of the poles for the tent, and almost pinching his finger in the process.
"Actually, I have a relative who's also a Finder." Peter said. "A couple years ago, things just weren't looking very good for me when he contacted me and told me about the Order. I was so intrigued that he came here himself and then took me over there. It's the best decision I've ever made, I tell ya."
"That's nice; who's your relative?" Allen asked, leaning forward a little.
Peter scratched the back of his head, pausing in his work. "Actually, I think you might know him. His name's Goez."
Kanda blinked in surprise. "That pathetic moron is your relative?"
Allen glared at the samurai for being so rude, but Peter ignored it. "Yes, that's him. I take it you know him then."
"I met him a while ago on my way to meet up with Daisya Barry, a former Exorcist. We got caught up in a stupid mess about witches and whatnot."
"Sounds like fun…" Lavi said, his tone of voice saying the complete opposite.
"Come to think of it, I've heard him talk a lot about you." Peter said, looking at Kanda. "He has the highest respect for you."
"Che." Kanda huffed, turning his head to the side. "…He's definitely not the worst Finder I've met…"
"Holy crap!" Lavi yelled, dropping the poles to the tent and pointing at Kanda in shock. "Did Yuu-chan just compliment someone!?"
"No way!" Allen cried, equally as shocked.
"…But he is one of the most pathetic, stupid, whiny and clingy people I've ever had the misfortune of meeting." Kanda continued.
"…So much for complimenting…" Allen said with a sigh.
"Oh well." Lavi said with a shrug, picking up the poles he'd dropped. "Let's get this tent up before it gets too dark out."
Peter nodded, and continued to work with Lavi.
A couple minutes later, Kanda started walking away.
"Hey, Yuu!" Lavi called after him. "Where ya goin'?!"
"Shut up." Kanda snapped, glaring back at him. "I'm going to look around. Keep quiet, we don't want to get thrown out, stupid."
"Okay, see ya Yuu!" Lavi said with an obnoxious wave.
"Do not call me that!"
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Ten minutes later, Kanda was still gone, and Allen was reduced to drawing in the dirt with a stick, to try and alleviate some of his boredom. After a couple failed attempts at getting the tent set up (none of which were Peter's fault), Lavi decided to try and put the tent up himself. Peter was instead assigned to start the fire in the little burn pit area.
"Okay…this part goes here…and this part goes here…" Lavi said, looking like he was playing a game of Twister with himself.
Allen was in the middle of drawing an awful looking flower-plant-thing when his stomach suddenly growled. He paused, put his hand over it and looked at Lavi with a dead-pan expression.
"…I'm hungry."
Lavi groaned. "But we haven't even got the tent up!"
"I'm still hungry."
The red head sighed in exasperation. "Can you wait a couple minutes?"
"No."
"But-"
"Oh just give me an apple or something!" Allen groaned, almost falling over in the dirt. It was getting very dark out, and they were the only ones without a tent up.
Well, they were, until a very large beige colored van drove up and parked across the road.
Lavi was too busy trying to disentangle himself from the tent fabric to notice that three of the people who got out were the three girls from the store. He did catch a glimpse of them, though. Right before he hit the ground.
"Hey, look more people!" Lavi said, crashing to the dirt the next moment.
"What?" Allen said, turning to look across the road. He couldn't see who it was because of the lighting, but he could count out six figures emerging from the large van.
"That's awesome; I wonder if they're going on the river?" Lavi said to himself, looking up at the sky.
"Oh well, it doesn't really matter, now does it?" Allen said, looking back at his friend. "You need to hurry and get that tent set up before Kanda gets back. He might kill you."
Lavi laughed lightly. "As he has promised so many times before."
Allen gave him a look.
"…Fine…" Lavi sighed, going back to trying to set the tent up.
Five minutes later, it was still the same.
"Stupid Lavi!" Allen growled, throwing his hands up. "Why couldn't you just let Peter help you do it?"
"Because I know I can, I'm just-"
"Stubborn?"
"-out of practice."
Allen rolled his eyes at the red head, silently wondering how on earth they were actually friends. And if that tent wasn't set up by the time Kanda got back…well…there would be blood.
"Lavi, you've spent almost twenty minutes trying to set the tent up; just let Peter do it." Allen sighed.
"Allen, Peter went to go check for Kanda a couple minutes ago."
"…You're kidding."
"Nope. Serious as a heart attack."
Allen groaned.
"Do you guys need help?"
The two turned and saw a tall, young boy with slightly spikey blondish-hair standing on the edge of the road.
"Oh no, we're good!" Lavi said, still tangled up on the ground.
The boy looked like he was trying very hard not to laugh. "Oh really? How'd you get tangled up like that?"
"…Well, ya see-"
"Yes, we would love some help." Allen said, interrupting Lavi before he could embarrass himself. "Thank you very much…"
"Will." The boy replied. "Hold on a minute, and I'll help ya out."
The boy walked over to Lavi and helped him get out of the tangled mess he'd made, and then helped set it up. It didn't take more than five minutes.
"Wow, you're really good!" Lavi said with a grin, clapping Will on the back.
"Thanks; we go camping a lot, and I usually help set up the tents. I take it you don't usually do this?"
"Not really…" Allen said, trailing off slightly. "We don't have a lot of free time to do much of anything."
"I see." Will responded, shoving his hands in his pockets. "Well, I'll see you guys later I guess."
"Bye!" Lavi said, waving erratically.
Allen gave Lavi a look that made him stop waving.
"Do you mind? You look like an idiot." Allen said bluntly, going to the car to get out his sleeping bag and put it in the newly constructed tent.
"Why are you so mean?" Lavi cried, going to get his as well.
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Not even two minutes later, both Kanda and Peter returned to the camp.
"Finally got it up, baka?" Kanda sneered.
"Yeah, no thanks to you BaKanda." Allen shot back.
"…Stupid Moyashi."
"My name is Allen!"
"Let's not fight, okay?" Peter said, going between the two. "We have a long day ahead of us, and we should go to sleep soon."
As soon as Peter had spoken, Allen's stomach began growling again.
Lavi looked around worriedly. "Was that a wild animal?"
"It was me baka Lavi…" Allen moaned. "I'm starving…"
"Shut up Moyashi." Kanda snapped. "Your whining is annoying."
"Not as bad as your face BaKanda."
"You wanna say that again Shortstack?"
"My name is Allen!"
"Allen, look, food!" Lavi interrupted, holding another apple in the white-haired boy's face. Allen's eyes followed it like a cat's eyes follow a bird outside a window.
He then snatched it from the red head and nearly inhaled it, before holding his hand out for another one.
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