Welp, this is my first fanfiction, and I'm honestly not sure how good/bad it will be. I do not own Camp Camp, or any of the characters. They all belong to their respective owners, namely Rooster Teeth. I'd like to think this takes place some time after Season 2, and sometime before the Lake Lilac Summer Social. I might change that though. Possibly minor AU. Have fun.

It was an average day in Camp Campbell. Of course, the average day in Camp Campbell was anything but average; the entire population consisted of one of the most colourful cast of characters you could ever meet. Cool kids, space kids, theatre kids, nerds, bullies, optimists, pessimists, boys, girls; they couldn't have been more different.

Yet despite this, they managed to get along well enough. All except for two kids. Two kids who had ironically signed up for the same magic camp, but had completely different ideas on what magic meant.

All of the kids were in the mess hall, eating a questionably nutritious meal prepared by the equally questionable Quartermaster.

At one table, sat a trio of what we might call conjoined friends. Three people with one friend being the only reason the other two are within the same vicinity of each other. That one friend was called Preston, and the other two were called Harrison and Nerris. Like any other day, they were currently engaged in a heated argument over something that would seem trivial to most, but to them meant everything.

Magic.

"Why can't you just admit I'm the better mage, Harrison;" said Nerris nonchalantly, with a disinterested, uncaring, cold look on her face, "you'll never be able to keep up with my sorceress powers with your lame, stupid magic."

"My magic is not stupid!" Harrison responded with a slight grimace on his face.

Preston sat next to them, nervousness preventing him from speaking out against either of his two friends. It was like this almost every day; they'd start the argument over some stupid little thing, quickly segue into who's magic was better, and then the climax would usually be a personal insult that had no business being said, making the two huff and go their separate ways... or get into the occasional fight.

Preston hadn't the heart to risk losing one of his two closest friends, and he knew they'd eventually stop; but it didn't make it any easier watching them fight. He'd tried to get them to hang out with each other and become at the very least acquaintances, and they'd even try at times to get along when he wasn't there; but it never worked out.

Little did anyone know, this day was the day when it would be taken too far, and would take quite a bit to be taken back.

"Listen here you ugly little dwarf, you're so far beneath me it isn't even funny," said the larper.

"At least I don't glue stupid fake elf ears onto my real ears," said the magician.

"At least my parents actually like me!"

There was an unusual silence at the table. Preston sat with his eyes wide and his mouth slightly open; Harrison was frozen in shock, deathly quiet. Usually Harrison would have given a comeback by now, and to Nerris that was a good sign. It meant that what she said had struck a nerve, and for some reason she found joy in that.

She'd seen the way his parents reacted to him during Parent's Day; the way they refused to go up on stage, how he was upset he couldn't get them to enjoy his magic like she was able to with her parents, cementing her belief that her magic was superior. His parents probably found him as annoying as she did. She wished she'd said that earlier if it got him to shut up this quick; now it was time for him to get up and walk away like he did almost every morning, leaving her with a satisfied and confident grin on her face.

This, however, was not almost every morning.

Harrison's shocked face quickly twisted into one of pure rage as he flung his hand forward and fire spouted from his fingertips towards Nerris. Nerris had no time to react as her wizard hat and elf ears were caught on fire, and she quickly let out a screech, finally catching the attention of the other campers, and jumped up trying to find a way to put herself out.

Harrison's face once again changed to one of shock and worry; as David, the main councilor, quickly rushed into the kitchen to grab a fire extinguisher(which, by the way, was only there for legal reasons; typical AB, nothing too fancy), Harrison, looking down at his shaking hands, quickly leapt up and ran out of the mess hall, leaving a shocked Preston behind.

Gwen, the co-councilor to David, had quickly ran in and ripped the hat off of Nerris' head and stomped on it on the ground. The ears were glued on though, so the only solution was David coming in in a panic and spraying Nerris' head with the extinguisher he had acquired. Once she was doused, David gave her a once over.

Nerris' head was covered in foam, she was a bit out of breath, her heart was pounding, and she would have to replace the hat and ears; but, aside from some singed hair and a slightly reddened face, she was fine.

As soon as the threat of the fire was gone, Nerris immediately shifted the attention of her thoughts onto the cause of the fire. She was gonna let Harrison have it this time; he ruined her hat and ears, and he was lucky she had a couple extras. If Gwen and David hadn't been able to stop the fire she could be bald, or have some severe burns, or both, and she was gonna make sure he never did it again.

Nerris' eyes snapped to the table she was sitting at, and, realizing Harrison was no longer sitting there, quickly darted her head around the room looking for the object of her anger. All of the kids had been completely absorbed with what had happened to Nerris, and were notably confused as to why she was seemingly looking for something.

"What the fuck just happened?" Shouted Max, still sitting at the table next to Nikki and Neil.

Most of the other kids were equally curious as to what had just occured, and were quick to murmer small agreements of confusion.

"Harrison just lit me on fire! Where is he!? He's in for a couple lightning bolts, followed up with a couple kicks to the face!"

David was quick to interject and hopefully diffuse the situation. "Nerris, I'm sure he didn't mean to. If we can just have you two sit down and talk about this, I'm sure we can reach a reasonable solution."

"Didn't mean to my ass! Preston saw the whole thing, he knows what Harrison did!"

All eyes quickly snapped to Preston, still sitting in a form of shock. Once Preston realized he had been adressed, he started to stutter.

"W-well, I m-mean, sure he did it on purpose, b-but-"

"But nothing, I'm gonna wring his neck! Where did he go?"

David decided to step in once again, taking a gentle but firm hold of Nerris' shoulder.

"Nerris, I'm sorry, but I simply can't allow you two to fight each other. You sit here with Gwen, and I'll go look for Harrison, and see if we can't get you two to resolve your differences and be friends!"

Nerris was about to snarkily claim that she would never be friends with Harrison, but David had already walked over to Preston to ask if he knew where Harrison had went, and, once being pointed outside, began to go search for him.

Gwen came over and gently guided Nerris over to a table, shooing the other children away, and began to try to calm her down.

"Alright, what happened? What did you do to piss Harrison off enough for him to shoot fire at you?" Asked Gwen, smart, and observant, enough to realize that this likely wasn't an unprovoked attack.

Nerris was reluctant to admit that she was the one who instigated, but for some reason Gwen always managed to make her spill.

"We were having our usual magic argument, and then... I said that his parents didn't like him."

Nerris had mumbled the last part with her arms crossed and her eyes pointed indignantly to the side, but Gwen had heard her, and she immediately knew that resolving this was likely going to be a doozy of a problem.

With a sigh, Gwen said, "Let's go clean you off while David looks for Harrison. Let's hope we can get you two to not kill each other at the very least."

With that, Gwen walked with Nerris to the kitchen to get the burnt ears and foam off, and prayed that David could find Harrison and get them both to settle this reasonably.

Well, I think that came out pretty decent. Then again I don't think anyone likes to see fault in themselves. Next chapter, David looks for Harrison(with some help from Preston), and Preston thinks some things over.

If anyone thinks that the characters are OOC, or perhaps that I could improve the way I portray them, then please inform me. Personally, with the evidence we have, this seems pretty accurate for me.

Also, I'd just like to say, if there comes an episode in the future that settles Nerris' and Harrison's quarrel in a different way, or at all, then I'd like to think of this as a sort of alternative take, or even a minor AU.

Review, tell me what you think, and have a nice day.