Ha ha! Chapter three is ready and waiting folkes!
Allen: *sigh* If only you were doing what you should be doing...
I'm relaxing.
Allen: No, you're just making excuses.
Shut up.
Allen: *shakes head pitifully* Oh well. Lynn does not own DGM or the characters. Just the plot.
Thank you good sir! Now, let's move out!
Chapter 3: Lots of Talking...
Kanda groaned and held his pillow over his ears. "What the hell are those idiots doing over there!? It sounds like they're raping someone!"
"Kanda, don't even say that!" Allen said, trying to punch the other. "And Lavi, get over here; you're being weird."
"Huh?" Lavi said, not moving from his spot against the tent wall. He had his ear pressed to it, trying to hear what was being said. It was quite obvious that the voices were all female.
"I said you're being weird." Allen repeated, attempting to drag Lavi away and back to his sleeping bag.
"Wait, I wanna hear!" Lavi cried, evading Allen's grasp. "I'll be right back; hold on."
"Lavi, don't you dare-" Allen began, but his words were lost on the red head as he leaped out of the tent and crept across the road to a blue tent, where he could hear the voices of the girls.
"Yeah, and I'm as straight as a bent pole." One of them said, resulting in quite a few giggles.
"I'm not sure what I am." Another voice said. "I guess I'll find out tonight."
"…That actually concerns me…"
Lavi crept closer, only a couple feet away from the tent.
"Wait…do you hear something?" asked a third voice. "…I think someone's walking around outside."
Lavi froze in his tracks. 'Dammit…'
"It's probably the forest ranger guy or whatever." The first voice said dismissively.
"Then you'd better shut up." A fourth voice snapped. "You're being really loud, and you're going to get us kicked out of the camp for it. So shut up and go to sleep."
"…Whoa…" the second voice said. "…That was kinda mean…"
"Thank you!" the first voice said in exasperation. "See Claire, even they think you're being mean!"
"Guys, I seriously think someone's outside." The third voice said, sounding a little nervous.
There was some shuffling around inside, and then Lavi bolted back across the road and to the tent he was sharing. He didn't want to get caught.
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"Oi, usagi! Wake up!"
Lavi rolled over, mumbling. "No…come on Panda…five more minutes…"
"I'm not that stupid Panda; now get up!" Kanda roared, kicking the red head in the side, making him wince. "We're gonna be late you idiot!"
Lavi opened his good eye to see the fuzzy image of Kanda standing above him. "Wha…?"
"You idiot; we have to go on the river, remember?!" the angry samurai yelled. "The stupid Moyashi and that Finder already went down there to get a canoe or some shit!"
"Okay, okay…" Lavi yawned, sitting up. He rubbed his eye tiredly before getting up and grabbing his swim trunks from his bag.
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Allen sighed as he waited for Kanda and Lavi to show up. He and Peter had gone on ahead to make sure they got a canoe. Turns out, there was one left over. Peter decided to stay at the camp, since only three people could be in a canoe. He said that he could also find out more about the river and such.
So Allen was just waiting.
There were so many people there too. It seemed like it was a family reunion of some type, since the majority of them seemed to know one another.
Some of the people were already floating down the river, yelling and whooping out loud. Some were quite rowdy in Allen's opinion.
There was a group of teenaged boys standing not far from him on the river bank, holding on to giant yellow inner tubes. Allen recognized the boy from the night before, Will, but didn't say anything.
Then a group of three girls ran past; well, two of them were running, the third was just walking. The one with short, very dark hair was holding out what looked like a square, blue butterfly net, filled with rocks. She was running away from another brunette with glasses, who seemed intent on catching the net. The third girl had on a sun hat of some kind, and she either had really, really short hair or it was all up in the hat. But Allen took a guess in thinking she was blonde. She was just walking behind the two.
"Hey Lynn! Take this!" the short haired brunette almost yelled, spinning around and shoving the net into the blonde's hands.
"…Huh?" came the intelligent reply. "What am I supposed to do with this?"
"Keep them away from Caitlin!" the girl cried, jumping behind Lynn as Caitlin stalked towards them, her hand held out.
"Lynnie, please hand over my rocks." Caitlin said in a voice that promised pain if answered incorrectly.
"Okay." She replied, plopping the net in her friend's hands.
Allen had to stifle a laugh at the expression on the other girl's face.
"Lynnie!" she whined.
"Gubbi, please stop that." Lynn said, continuing walking down the rocky shore. "If there are any fights in the canoe, it's gonna tip. And remember that if the canoe tips, our first priority is making sure we get Caitlin's glasses."
Gubbi nodded solemnly. "Yeah, not even our own lives come first."
"Hey, this is my second pair!" Caitlin argued, taking off said glasses and attempting to clean off the lenses with her shirt. "I can't lose this pair; my Mom will kill me!"
"And us." Lynn said, throwing her arm around Gubbi's shoulder.
"Hey hey," Caitlin said, authority ringing in her voice. "Don't make a scene you two."
"Why?" Gubbi asked innocently, drawing Lynn closer. "We lo-"
"You can stop right there, Gubbi." Lynn said with a laugh. "You know I love ya, but not in that way."
Gubbi made a face that reminded Allen of a cat hunting its prey. "Are you sure about that?"
"Wow, you girls are weird." Came Will's voice from the group of boys.
"Ha!" Lynn laughed, pointing at the boy. "Says you!"
Will looked like he was waiting for her to continue. "…And?"
Lynn huffed and put on a pair of large, round sunglasses. "You are so immature."
"What does that have to do with anything?" another boy asked.
"It just does." Lynn said as Gubbi laughed at the curly-haired boy's confusion.
"Oi, Moyashi!"
Allen's attention was directed behind him as he heard Kanda call out.
"My name is Allen BaKanda." Allen fired back, crossing his arms and huffing.
"Shut up and stop creeping on those girls." The samurai snapped. "I don't want us getting thrown out of here before our mission is over."
"Hey, you should be telling that to Lavi, not me!" Allen argued.
"Shut up and get in the damn canoe."
Lavi came up behind the samurai and threw an arm around his neck. "Now Yuu-chan, let's behave, shall we?"
"I told you not to call me that!" Kanda yelled, beginning to chase Lavi around the rocky shore, oblivious to the attention he was getting.
Allen face-palmed, trying to hide his embarrassment. He never liked being the center of attention, or at least having numerous strangers staring at him all at once.
Trying to ignore the looks he was getting, he quickly made his way over to where Lavi and Kanda had finally stopped and were climbing into a canoe.
"I call middle!" Lavi declared happily, jumping right in and almost knocking it over.
"Lavi, you can't just jump in." Allen reprimanded, though he knew it wouldn't do any good. He saw that Kanda was already in the front, and he sighed. "Okay, I'm in the back."
"You have to push us out first Baka Moyashi." Kanda sneered.
Allen bristled, at the demeaning tone and the stupid nickname. "My name is Allen, or are you just too stupid to understand what I'm saying to you?!"
"Shut up and push Moyashi." Kanda replied, irritated.
Allen growled, but started pushing all the same.
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~Girls~
Lynn knew she shouldn't be staring, but she couldn't help it.
First of all, the guy had pure white hair.
Second of all, he was pushing that canoe like it was hardly anything at all.
Thirdly…he was cute. Even if he wasn't blonde…
Fourthly, he was wearing a long-sleeved white shirt and white gloves.
…In this heat?
She blinked and rubbed her eyes a couple times, wondering if the sun was getting to her.
"Lynn, can we go now?" Caitlin asked, standing next to the canoe. The hat she was wearing – honestly – was an eyesore. But since she liked it, Lynn wasn't going to say anything about it.
Nothing too offensive, that is.
"I don't know, I would like to tell my Dad first, but I don't know where he went." She replied, looking around for her dad. "I think he went to park the van somewhere…"
"Okay."
With nothing really to do, Lynn wandered over to where her Aunt Bonnie was by the edge of the river. She was watching one of Lynn's cousins, who was probably about four to five years old.
And Lynn was feeling really bad since she couldn't remember the little girl's name…
"Hey Aunt Bonnie!" she said, wading into the water to join her relatives. Caitlin and Gubbi followed close behind, since they couldn't think of anything else to do either.
"Well hello Maggie!" the woman with graying hair said with a bright smile. She didn't notice Lynn wince slightly when she'd said her first name. "I'm glad to see you came this year."
"Yeah…funny story about that…" she said, laughing nervously.
"Oh?"
"Yeah…well, Dad decided to be funny and took my phone from me one day and texted Gubbi and asked her if she'd like to come…" Lynn said, scratching the back of her head lightly. "He did this right in front of me, and basically without asking."
"He did? Your Dad always was a trouble-maker." Aunt Bonnie laughed.
"Yeah well, since he did that, I didn't really have much of a choice." Lynn admitted as Caitlin and Gubbi waded farther into the river to look for rocks. "And since I was going anyways, I invited Caitlin too."
"And she goes to school with you?" Aunt Bonnie asked.
"Yep, we all go to the same school." Lynn answered brightly.
"Well I'm glad to see you here." Aunt Bonnie said. She looked down to the little girl hanging onto one of her legs. "Aren't we glad to see Cousin Maggie?"
The little girl grinned and shook her head no.
Lynn put a hand over her heart and gasped. "What?! That really hurts!"
"Oh you know who Cousin Maggie is, don't you?" Aunt Bonnie continued.
Again, the girl shook her head.
"Wha!? But I'd never forget you!" Lynn cried in mock sadness. "Let's see…your name is…Lizzy."
The girl shook her head again, almost hiding behind Aunt Bonnie's leg.
Lynn blinked, trying to look surprised. "It isn't? Oh well then it must be Lenny."
The five-year old giggled and said "No!"
"Really?" Lynn pretended to think really hard. "Then…oh, it's Libby!"
"Yeah!" the little girl squealed, splashing Lynn with some river water.
"Wha! Hey no fair!" Lynn cried, splashing her back.
Libby squealed in delight and hid herself behind Aunt Bonnie's leg again, using her as a human shield.
Both Lynn and Aunt Bonnie laughed at the little girl's display.
"Hey Lynn!" Caitlin called, waving her over. "I found a really cool rock, come and look at it."
"Alrighty then." Lynn replied. "See ya Aunt Bonnie!"
"Yeah, I'll be seeing you all day." Her aunt smiled as the blonde trotted over to her two friends.
"Let me see." Lynn said, holding out her hand. Caitlin set a rock in her palm about half the size of a baseball, with blackish-grey lines running across an almost orange surface. The rock itself was more in the shape of a triangle than anything, and it could clearly be seen that it had been broken off recently from a much bigger rock.
"Wow, that's cool." Lynn said, admiring the rock. "It looks like a tiger."
"I know, right?" Caitlin said with a smile, quite proud of her find. Caitlin was a rock fanatic; she loved all kinds of rocks, and one could even go as far as to say she was slightly obsessed with them. But she only showed this side of herself when she was around rocks; she didn't talk about them constantly.
Iron, however, was another subject entirely…
"Do you want it?" Lynn asked, looking up at her bespectacled friend. "If you do, then you can put it in the pocket on the front of my camel-back."
"Are you sure?" Caitlin asked. "I mean, it is kinda big…"
"But do you really want it?" Lynn asked seriously.
"…Sure, why not?" Caitlin said, taking the rock back.
"Okay, then unzip the pouch on the bag, will ya?" Lynn asked, turning around so her friend could do so.
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It didn't take long at all for Lynn to get tired of waiting for her Dad. So she hopped over to the canoe where her two friends were waiting.
"Alright, let's go." She said.
"Is your Dad here?" Caitlin asked, looking around.
"No, but I'm tired of waiting." Lynn responded. "Besides, it's a river. It only goes one way."
"She has a point…" Gubbi mumbled. "'Kay kay! I call middle!"
"Who wants to be front?" Caitlin asked aloud, looking at Lynn.
"I don't really care, I just wanna be in the boat."
"It's a canoe stupid." Came Will's teasing voice from behind her.
Lynn tried to land a punch but failed miserably while yelling, "It floats on water and carries people, and therefore it is a boat!"
Will merely laughed at her and ran off with his friends right into the river, hanging onto their big yellow inner tubes.
Caitlin climbed into the front of the canoe and Lynn got in the back. Gubbi was already in the middle, and she was looking quite happy at the moment.
"Alright
everyone, let's go!" Lynn cried, picking up her paddle and attempting to move the canoe into the river while the three of them were still in it. Caitlin did the same with her paddle, and got the same results.
Nothing happened.
Frankly, it was quite embarrassing, seeing as how many people were still standing on the rocky shore.
"…I don't think this is working." Caitlin said finally, setting her paddle against her legs.
"Yeah…" Lynn looked around and then spotted someone. "Hey, Aunt Lorie?" she asked with a somewhat sheepish smile. "Can you help push us out?"
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