Stage 6.1 - Need for Feed: The Buffet
as I have typed too much for the post limit, I need to split it up. And bringing the morning mess so early means other teams can adapt to it in their writing before publishing their stage 6 events.
Teams involved (in order of appearance): Team Firulais by @Angelustyle, Shift Happens by @Madrias, Hillbilly Rollers by @Knugcab and Highway Hooligans by @Madrias
Early in the morning, Thomas got up for breakfast, also dragging Chanty out of her bed, who, realizing that it was about food, got up in record speed. She was a bit sad that her magic jar she got from Janne did not help yet, but she felt like she might have done something wrong, at least she did not have a nightmare this time, so she felt like this thing worked somehow. As the Rhinos had their room on the same floor as the Firulais, and Jan noticed that Ana now had her hair colored exactly as his girlfriend.
“Eh, for not liking you, she seems to be quite a fan of you.”
“Oh, you mean the blue hair? Well, I guess it wasn´t her idea.”
“Chanty! Was that your work… as a prank?”
“Ehm… maybe??”
"CHANTY! But… yes, yes, it´s fun. And she deserves that considering how she treats Angel. “Actually, some other campers were very surprised how you told her a lesson some nights ago to stop her forcing him to drink booze. You`re propably a real lion if you want.”
“But a cute one. Like this: RAWR!”
, said Chanty, imitating a lion, and both laughed when going downstairs to the buffet.
Thomas stayed for another five minutes in the room, cuddling with Rudolph.
“Ah, Rudy, please continue to make my daughter´s live a bit easier. I am really… at the end of my power. I am exhausted, please make her feel better, no matter what you do.”
Chanty and food is a difficult matter, and after half an hour, she more or less plundered the breakfast buffet. People became really annoyed, but also didn´t want to tell her, since it was well known by now how sensitive she can be. Lauren from Shift Happens debated with her mates what to do, and prankster Kiva came up with the solution, and Lauren politely told the upset hotel staff that Chanty is a bit special but does not do that on purpose, as she suffers from a rare disease that forces her to eat absurd amounts, if she doesn´t, she would get mindreading attacks.
The staff felt sorry for Chanty and just refilled the trays, and all problems seemed solved… until Marie finally got up, causing her chair to make frightening noises, being late for finally grabbing food because of her hangover that had to be cured with tea and aspirine first. She just grabbed the whole tray with sausage and casually walked to her team´s table, while the other teams watched in disbelief.
“WHAT ARE YOU STARING? I am hungry.”
“MARIE! YOU JUST CANT GRAB IT ALL!”
“Andreas, I am eating exactly the same amount as that discount smurf, just without getting up five times and bumping into everyone else, this is more efficient.”
“For fucks sake, bring it back, you have embarrassed us enough by now”
“JANNE! WHY IS IT OK THAT THIS FAT SMURF IS ALLOWED THIS JUST BECAUSE SHE´S CRYING ALL THE TIME, BUT I AM NOT?”
"Marie, you are twice her age. Just look at her. That´s still a confused kid, so b r i n g i t b a c k N O W!
It seemed to go well… but exactly at the moment Marie has put the tray back after… taking a significant amount of food out of it… Chanty already grabbed it, and Marie was in a too bad mood to not make a comment about it.
“DON´T YOU THINK YOU ARE FAT ENOUGH?”
“Funny that you are the one asking me that, gollum!”
Meanwhile, at the table of the Firulais, Ana leaned towards Andrés:
“Oh, wow, the two fattest here starting a fistfight, that will be sure some fun!”
“Especially for Angel, as a jap he surely enjoys sumo fights.”
, added Josué.
“This is not funny. Marie could process Chanty to cat food if she wants.”, said Angel, being very worried.
“Well, it looks like she wants to, so I bet 10 bucks on Marie”
, laughed Josué.
“Where the fuck is Thomas now?”
“I am here!”
“Not you Tomas, I mean Chantys father, I think she could need his assistance now. I better get Maries teammates here to stop her, they are propably sitting to far away.”
Ana held Angel back.
“Her old man is outside smoking, and her boyfriend is already back upstairs. You do nothing. Let´s just watch and enjoy.”
What was Ana said before Ángel pointed to nowhere, Ana got distracted, and Ángel began to run as fast as he could (he ran quite fast) to outside of the Hotel, looking for Thomas. There, he found him smoking, and tapped his shoulder.
“トーマス、トーマス！ マリーとシャンタルが喧嘩中！ レストランでは、今すぐ行きましょう！”
(Tōmasu, tōmasu! Marī to shantaru ga kenka-chū! Resutorande wa, ima sugu ikimashou!, translated: Thomas, Thomas! Marie and Chantal are fighting each other! In the restaurant, go now!)
“What ? I don’t understand Japanese.”
, replied Thomas.
“Oh, god, I-im sorry ! I meant, Chantal and… Uhh… Marie ? Yes, Marie, have gotten into a fight…!”,
Ángel tried to explain.
He wasn’t able to finish the sentence, but Thomas got the message and began to look what was going on in there.
The discussion between Marie and Chantal heated up to the point that Marie pushed Chanty away, with surprisingly low effort, propably as a warning sign before she really explodes, then grabbed some cheese.
“NOT THE LAST CHEESE! THIS IS MEAN!”
Chanty complained and stole the gouda from Maries plate, and that was finally enough: Marie pushed Chanty hard against a table, the one of the team Highway Hooligans, and she fell over it. Cody immediately felt like entering the slugfest.
“God damn it! You two spilled my fucking coffee!”
“Jake, cool it. Chantal, when we get you up, I want you to go right over there and punch Jabba the Slut right in the throat.”"
The trio helped her up again, and it could have been over without too much trouble, but Chanty made the mistake to feel encouraged by the Highway Hooligans to run towards Marie and start a second attempt to steal her cheese, and this time Marie gave her a slap, causing Chanty to fall, but as it was no longer restrained as Marie lost her temper now, Chanty crashed into multiple tables before hitting a pillar head first. Marie grabbed a chair and was about to smash it on her opponent, and it became very silent, nobody dared to deal with 150 kilo of hillbilly rage - yet. But as she was about to potentially kill Chanty, the first got up from their chairs, but were relieved to see that Marie put the chair back where it was and continued walking to her table. Thankfully, this incident was nowhere as violent as the one after stage 2.
Thomas, having heard the noise, came just in to watch his daughter begging for her life to Marie, and had no time to react, so he was also relieved that Marie was not a mean person - she just has no temper management - seeing Chanty defeated and crying on the ground, made Marie abandon her attack and walking off as if nothing happened.
Janne meanwhile joined Chantal and Thomas, passing Marie and giving her an angry look.
“Oh, I apologize for Marie, is Chantal alright?”
“I think so… I mean, she begged for NOT to be killed, finally. Usually she would have asked Marie to do her the favor of ending her misery, so I think she is totally fine.”
“NOTHING IS FINE! I WANTED THAT CHEESE!”
When they took off for the next stage, Chanty insisted on driving and was soon raging at the locals with her primitive vehicles moving rather slow through the capital, so thankfully the translator ring failed at dealing with her dialect.
“ORRR! DIE FAHRN HIER ABORR WIE DIE HEGGNPENNOR!!!”
(better not translate this)
“ORRRRRRRR! Statt Schatzi kannste ooch ne Schaufenstorrbubbe ans Steuer setzen und trotzdem sind wir schnellor als de Schlafmützn!”
(she considers Jan an equally good driver to a mannequin, but the Holsians still manage to be slower)
“CHANTAL WATCH OUT! THIS IS A PEDESTRIAN ZONE! STOOOOP!”
Thomas left the passenger seat and took a seat in the back. When Chanty asked what was wrong, he just answered that… he felt last stage that the backseat is also comfortable…
Chanty was singing loudly along to Thomas 80s cassettes, a thing worrying both other occupants.
“SLAY! That´s a good one. I DONT CARE IF MONDAY´S BLUE, TUESDAY´S GREAT AND WEDNESDAY TOO…”
“Pssh! Thomas! I don´t think this is a good sign.”
“Me neither. Where have you been? I am gone five minutes for a smoke and then everything ends up in chaos again. What does Slay even mean in that context? That she will slay us… by crashing?”
“No, in our generation that means something really cool… and according to Chantys mother, it´s quite clear where she has that from.”
“A LIE! Nothing against my ex, but this… nah, as if I was causing trouble all the time.”
“Thomas, … all your relatives tell different stories.”
“They are all liars. Damn, that´s disappointing.”
The highway - surprisingly close to earth ones and quite well maintained - was where a car like the Primus Legacy felt at home. The mighty V6 was roaring, the expensive suspension filtered all of the few bumps - as Chanty was in some pain after her wrestling with Marie, this was welcomened - and the weight and size of the luxury car made it easy to pass this stage. While many others had trouble with overheating, the Primus was exactly made for frequent travellers driving long distances with high average speeds, and even after 33 years, the car still fulfilled the purpose it was engineered for.
