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"You should have warned us there were so many thorns on this path, Patricia! My legs are all scratched up now." Amber complained, gingerly stepping over another branch of thorns that lay in their path.

"I was in jeans last night, it was dark, and I was being pulled by an Eddie, Amber. Thorns were the least of my concerns, and I wasn't even paying attention." Patricia grumbled, jerking her bare leg back as a branch of thorns she had pushed away snapped back and hit it.

"Where are the guys?" Joy asked, grabbing Patricia's shoulder for support as she jumped over the same branch that had just hit her best friend.

"Alfie said that we were taking too long to change, so he and the others were heading down. And he said to stick to this path because it led straight to the lake." Amber informed.

"Let's hope this wasn't one of his jokes." Nina groaned, pulling her towel tighter around herself and flinching as a sudden breeze made the raindrops on the leaves drop down on them.

"What do you mean, Nina?" KT asked curiously, walking in pace with the dirty-blonde and wiping a raindrop from her forehead.

"I love Alfie to death, but getting us lost in the woods in only bathing suits and towels is something he – and most of the other guys – would find funny, isn't it?" Nina pointed out to the other American.

"Oh, Boo wouldn't do that!" Amber cried, shaking her head, "Jerome would, though."

"Hey, Jerome's no worse then Alfie is." Joy piped up again, defending her boyfriend.

"Yes, but, Alfie wouldn't do that to me unless someone else forced him to – and we all know how good at forcing people into things Jerome is." Amber replied, brushing some leaves off her shoulders. Joy's chest puffed indignantly as she prepared to argue back when Patricia, who was walking in the front, held up a hand to silence them.

"Shut up! All of our boyfriends are idiots, we get it. But I heard a noise." Patricia hissed, stopping in her tracks and looking around.

"You heard that too? It sounded like someone walking." KT said quietly, looking around as well. The girls all shifted nervously, feeling watched. Another crack of a stick was heard, making Willow jump and almost topple into the bushes.

"I just heard a voice!" Amber whispered, slapping a hand over her mouth, her eyes wide in fear. Willow nodded in agreement, her eyes scanning the woods and locking on a clump of thick bushes not too far away from them.

"I think it came from over there!" Willow whispered urgently, pointing to the bushes. Though, no sooner had those words left her lips did a noise sound from behind them. They all jumped and turned around, only to see a teasingly bare path.

"This is getting weird. Maybe we should head back to camp." Joy suggested fearfully, edging closer to Patricia.

"No. I'll never live it down if Eddie thinks I got scared of nothing in the woods and ran away." Patricia said, shaking her head.

"Patricia, why do you have to be so competitive? What if something is out here? Wouldn't Eddie be happy you ran away instead of getting eaten?" Joy tried to reason with the auburn haired girl, but to no avail.

"No, we're going to the lake, come on." Patricia ordered, waving her hand and walking ahead of the rest of the group of girls while they stalled. Patricia had only walked a few feet before she stopped again with a loud scream. The other girls quickly ran over, only to see the front of Patricia's towel all wet.

"They have water guns!" She managed to yell before jets of water came from hidden places all around the group of girls. The drenching and screaming only lasted for about a minute until the boy's guns ran out of water. All four boys then sheepishly stepped out of the bushes.

"T-they made me!" Fabian stammered, throwing his bright yellow water gun onto the ground in front of him and holding his hands up to the girls' angry glares.

"I can't believe you!" Patricia hissed, storming up to Eddie and tugging the gun from his hands. "My towel is soaked!"

"That's payback for that little water balloon prank you pulled last week, Yacker, remember?" Eddie grinned, watching her try to spray him with the empty gun. Amber made an indignant noise from behind them.

"You sprayed all of us, just to get back at Patricia!?" She said in disbelief, motioning to her drenched towel and hair wildly.

"You were all going to get wet anyway, we are going swimming." Jerome pointed out, twirling his green water gun around his finger as he leaned against a tall tree.

"Just you wait, boys. Just you wait." Joy warned before stalking up to Patricia. The rest of the girls followed, and the group stomped down the path to the lake, leaving the guys laughing loudly – if not a bit nervously from Joy's threat.

"Please?" Eddie begged, swimming beside his girlfriend.

"No."

"Please?" He asked again, propelling himself forward and getting in front of her.

"No, Eddie." Patricia said firmly, splashing his face and floating away. Eddie swam determinedly after her, grabbing her shoulders to make her face him.

"I'm just a tin can, standing in front of a tank, asking her to battle with me." He tried to say seriously, but the corners of his mouth twitched into a smirk as Patricia rolled her eyes.

"You're such a loser. I'm not playing that game, it's ridiculous." Patricia tried to hold back a laugh and smile as she pried his hands off her shoulders.

"But I bet Jerome and Alfie!" Eddie groaned, sending a splash of water back at her.

"Oh, so that's why you used that corny dance line, huh? Well, at least you admit you only want me to go with you this time to win a bet." Patricia said, narrowing her eyes at the blonde.

"Honesty's the best policy. Now c'mon, we can totally beat Joy and Jerome, and Amber and Alfie. And they're trying to get Nina and Fabian to play, too." Eddie grinned, looking at her pleadingly.

"But it's so stupid and… coupley." Patricia grumbled, crinkling her nose.

"We are a couple, Yacker. Did you not know that yet?" He asked, raising an eyebrow at her. His only response was a meaningful glare. "Okay, fine. I'll ask KT if she wants to play with me."

"You wouldn't." Patricia hissed, her eyes widening. She and KT were friends, and she knew Eddie… loved her…, but she couldn't help but feel the familiar twinge of jealousy when Eddie did anything involving another girl – especially KT.

"Oh, I would. I want to win." Eddie said seriously, nodding. Of course he wouldn't ask KT, mostly because Patricia would kill him if he did, but he knew playing the jealousy card would trick Patricia into playing. He wasn't proud of it, but he couldn't loose that twenty-five dollars.

"Fine. But if you drop me one time, I swear I will never trust you again." Patricia warned; sighing in defeat as Eddie gave a loud 'woop!' of victory.

"She's in, told you!" He called as he swam back over to Alfie and Jerome. "Fabian playing?"

"Guess so. Him and Nina'll be out first round though." Jerome snickered, glancing over at Nina and Fabian, who were blushing nervously.

"Losers!" Joy taunted, still on Jerome's shoulders after the game. He was laughing and shouting out taunts along with her as Patricia and Eddie glared at them. The game of 'Chicken' had boiled down to Patricia and Eddie versus Joy and Jerome after Fabian had dropped Nina in the first round (as Jerome had predicted) and Amber had given up after seeing just how competitive Joy and Patricia could get. The final battle was watched by everyone from the sides of the lake, cheering on each couple until Eddie had suddenly fell. Patricia had emerged again yelling at Eddie for being clumsy as Eddie blamed his sudden fall on stepping on a sharp rock and demanded a rematch. This rematch was dismissed, however, which brought them to the current taunts Joy and Jerome were throwing at them.

"That game was stupid anyway." Patricia huffed, floating over to KT and Willow, who, after seeing the violent battles, were glad that they had sat out.

"You looked like you were having fun, though." Willow pointed out, making KT chuckle quietly.

"We need to get back at Eddie – at all of the boys, for that water gun thing." Patricia said, pointedly ignoring Willow.

"I don't know, revenge isn't always good –" Willow began, frowning worriedly as she recalled Mara's obsession with revenge this past school year.

"No, we do. And I take it you have a plan?" KT grinned as she caught sight of Patricia's face.

"When do I not? I'm thinking we wait until they go to sleep and then scare the heck out of them." Patricia said, her eyes traveling over to Eddie and Jerome, who were still arguing about a rematch. Joy was now swimming towards them cheerfully.

"Hey KT, Willow, Loser." Joy called as she neared them, making Patricia scowl.

"We're busy, Joy. If you're not going to let that go then you can go play with the other little kids over there." Patricia snapped, still sore from her loss, as she motioned over to Eddie and Jerome. Joy rolled her eyes and playfully punched Patricia's arm.

"Sorry, sorry. I just rarely win against you, it's a nice change. But what's up?" Joy asked, raising her eyebrows. KT quickly filled her in on their revenge plan. Joy's mouth fell into a frown similar to the one Willow wore previously. "Revenge isn't always sweet, Trix." She warned.

"Yeah, yeah. We have to do this though, please? And it's not like there's going to be any long-term affects, we just scare them a bit and that's that." Patricia said, looking between Willow and Joy.

"I guess. But don't we need to let Nina and Amber know?" Joy sighed.

"Oh yeah, where are they?" KT asked, floating away from the other three girls some. Joy pursed her lips and looked up for a moment.

"I think they were by that little waterfall thing, Amber's all pumped about Fabina again." The brunette smirked, jabbing her thumb behind her. KT nodded and swam off to go get the two blondes.

The rest of the day was spent around the lake, with the girls secretly plotting and the guys wrestling in the water. Around four Alfie finally left the lake, observing his wrinkly hands with an amused look on his face.

"Who else is hungry?" He asked loudly, walking up towards the large flat rock most of the girls were lounging on.

"There's a bunch of sandwiches in our cooler. I forgot to bring them, though." Joy said, sitting up and fixing her bikini.

"Aww, man!" Alfie groaned, plopping down beside Amber on her towel. "Who's going to go get them?"

"You're the one that's hungry, Boo." Amber pointed out, stretching and cracking open an eye to watch Alfie groan again.

"But I can't walk that far on an empty stomach." He said, clutching his stomach dramatically. "What if I fainted in the woods?"

"If I didn't burn so much energy screaming when I was being sprayed by a bunch of water guns, I might have had enough to go get them for you. But now I don't, sorry." Amber replied coolly, making Joy laugh. Alfie frowned at the two and then crawled across the large rock over to where Patricia was sitting on the edge, her feet dangling into the water where Eddie was swimming in front of her.

"Trixie," Alfie began, stretching out her nickname.

"No." Patricia replied promptly, removing her eyes from Eddie and turning to him.

"You don't even know what I was going to say!" Alfie protested, throwing up his hands.

"Alfie, you're not exactly quiet, I heard you talking to Joy and Amber. I'm not going back to camp to get those sandwiches, guilt someone else into it." Patricia said, glaring at him.

"We have sandwiches?" Eddie asked suddenly, swimming back to the rock and pulling himself up, somewhat, so that his elbows rested on the rock as he looked between Patricia and Alfie.

"Back at camp in our cooler, yes." Patricia said, scooting away from his wet body.

"Then let's make Fabian go get them!" Eddie said happily, releasing himself from the rock and falling back into the water. "Fabian! Hey!" He called, swimming over to where Nina and Fabian were talking by the waterfall. Nina looked a bit annoyed as he interrupted them, but Eddie wasn't paying attention to her – he was hungry.

"We need you to run back to camp and get the sandwiches in the girl's cooler." Eddie said quickly, watching Fabian crinkle his nose. "Please? We're all starving." Eddie begged before he could refuse.

"I guess I'll go." Fabian groaned, looking apologetically at Nina before getting up from the submerged rock they were sitting on. All three swam to the bank and got out, Fabian walking to the woods while Nina and Eddie walked over to the rock the others were on.

"There you are, Jerry." Eddie greeted, sitting down on the edge with Patricia. Jerome looked up from the conversation – or argument – he was having with Joy and Amber.

"Had to make a pit-stop." Jerome replied, making Amber scrunch her nose before continuing on with her speech to Joy. Eddie snorted, looking over at Patricia.

"You didn't swim much today." He pointed out.

"I had other things on my mind." Patricia replied, turning her head so Eddie didn't see the mischievous smirk on her face. She couldn't wait until tonight.

"Will you get back in when we're done eating?" Eddie asked hopefully, cocking his head at her. Patricia shrugged, letting one of her feet drop over the side of the rock and into the water.

Fabian carried the bag of sandwiches in his hand, humming quietly to himself as he walked out of the camp again. He made it back into the woods without any big events (other then stumbling a bit on a large root). It was only when he paused at a fork in the path did he hear anything other then birdsong. There was a quiet rustling noise, and it defiantly wasn't the wind. Fabian did a complete circle, eyes searching the bushes nervously.

"Patricia? J-Joy? I really didn't want to spray you guys, I swear! If you want to get back at someone, it's Eddie – it was all his idea!" He said frantically, clutching the bag of sandwiches to his chest. The only response to this was even more rustling from somewhere nearby.

"Amber? KT?" Fabian called, taking a few steps forward and looking for a flash of hair or color. "Willow?" He jumped, seeing a flash of dull red out of the corner of his eye. The dark-brunette boy spun around again, only to see a red bird flying into a tree. Fabian frowned, pulling at the collar of his shirt worriedly.

"I'm going insane…" He muttered to himself, shaking his head and continuing on his way. The bag of sandwiches now hung loosely from his hand again, and he was tense as he walked down the path back to the lake. He had almost dismissed the sound as nerves when he heard it again – a quiet rustling just behind him.

"Guys, this isn't funny!" Fabian yelled over his shoulder, eyes scanning the trees and overgrown bushes and weeds. Still, no reply came. He gritted his teeth together and continued down the path, if not a bit quicker then he was going.

Fabian could hear the quiet sound of the little waterfall now; he was so close to getting out of these woods. The rustle of the bushes came even louder behind him now, and finally Fabian snapped. He dropped the bag of sandwiches and began running towards the sound of the waterfall. He was being followed – by what, he didn't know – and he had to warn the others incase it was dangerous. 'Let's just hope it's not another evil spirit.' Fabian prayed quietly as he darted out of the woods.

"There's something in there!" He gasped, clutching a stitch in his side. Alfie looked over, confused.

"Where are the sandwiches!?" The other boy called, holding a hand over his eyes as he surveyed Fabian. Fabian jogged over, gasping for breath.

"There's something in the woods!" Fabian repeated, pointing to the trees.

"Of course there's something in there, it's a forest. Where are the sandwiches?" Eddie asked now, sitting up a little more. Fabian groaned, glaring at the unconcerned others.

"Something was following me in the woods! I dropped the sandwiches and ran – w-we need to hide or something, what if it's –" He paused, motioning wildly with his hands, "Anubis related?" He said, looking meaningfully at the other Sibuna members. They glanced at each other before Alfie and Eddie both stood up.

"We'll go look." Eddie decided, motioning for Alfie to follow. Fabian sat down between Nina and Jerome, watching the two other boys go into the woods. Nina bit her lip, playing with the hem of her bikini-skirt nervously, memories of previous 'Anubis related' experiences flooding her mind.

Eddie and Alfie were only gone for a few minutes before they appeared again. Both were laughing, and Alfie was digging through the bag of sandwiches and sidestepping as they walked to keep it away from Eddie.

"Well?" Patricia was the first to ask as the two neared the rock again.

"There was a pretty big rabbit trying to get in the bag. There's a hole in the bottom, you must have left a trail of loose crumbs and the rabbit followed after you." Eddie smirked, slapping Fabian's shoulder as he walked back to his spot beside Patricia. Fabian blushed and stammered a lame excuse as Nina patted his knee sympathetically.

"You took the sandwiches from the poor bunny?" Amber asked, looking open-mouthed at Alfie.

"We have to eat, Ambs!" Alfie exclaimed, beginning to hand out the only slightly squished sandwiches. Sandwiches were passed around, being unwrapped, picked at, and switched. Eddie held two sandwiches in his hand, just out of Patricia's reach.

"Eddie, give me my sandwich!" She scolded, slapping his shoulder lightly.

"I'm really hungry, though. I need to eat two, Yacker." Eddie replied seriously, holding the sandwiches farther away as she leaned over him to reach them. "Do you remember last night?" He asked quietly into her ear. She stopped her scrambling for the sandwich for a moment, freezing mid-grab.

"What do you mean?" Patricia asked, narrowing her eyes. If he thought her sort-of saying she loved him entitled him to her sandwich, he had another thing coming.

"I mean… when you…" Eddie began, leaning forwards and moving slightly so his nose was almost touching her cheek. Patricia turned her head slightly to look him in the eyes, only to be suddenly pushed off of the rock and into the cool water. She emerged again, mouth agape. "When you pushed me in the water?" Eddie finished, cocking an eyebrow at her as the rest of the group laughed loudly.

Patricia pursed her lips and glared at all of them as they laughed, especially Eddie, who was now unwrapping one of the sandwiches. She was so scaring him so bad that he'd pee his pants, tonight.

A long one, oooh.

Re-watching season 2 is making me lapse into a Peddie prank war, hope none of you mind that ^^;

Added a bit of what ljsdancer1 suggested, Fabian getting scared by a rabbit in the woods (not exactly as they requested, as Amber wasn't involved, but I tried xD) I don't think I have much more to say about this… hm.

Thanks for the reviews, you guys are all great! Reading them certainly puts a smile on my face.

xGaloshes