Hello everyone. This is my story for prompt 4. Campfire or in the woods. This is a modern AU. And I thought it would be cool if Esben, Artham, Rudrick, Gammon, and Armulyn all were friends. This takes place before book one. (I'm sure you probably figured that out.) Also Artham and Gammon are 22, Rudrick is 21 and Esben and Armulyn are 20. But anyway here it is. I hope you like it.

-Joyful Wild. :)

"Alright do we have everything?" Artham asked. He and his brother and friends planned to go on a camping trip in the Hollows just the five of them. And Artham's car was the perfect size for them since it only had five seats. Artham was driving while Rudrick was sitting in the passenger seat and Esben would sit between Gammon and Armulyn. "Yeah." Esben said. Everyone stared at Esben knowing quite well that he forgot one thing and that was normally his phone. But Esben just looked at them confused and said, "What?".

"Do you have your phone?" Gammon asked.

"Of course I do." Esben said.

"Alright where is it then?" Rudrick said.

"In my bag." Esben pointed to a book bag at his feet.

"Show us." Armulyn said crossing his arms.

"Ok." Esben then unzipped a small pocket. But then a look of disappointment came upon his face and groaned. Then everyone else groaned too. "Esben don't tell me you forgot your phone all the back in Anniera!" Artham said.

Then Esben started to laugh and pulled out his phone. "Gotchya."

Everyone groaned again before Artham started his car and left to find the campsite. It took two hours to get there but they were able to keep themselves busy with music, which was always provided by Armulyn who collected a lot of CDs, and eat snacks that everybody picked out at the gas station before they left. And Esben brought sunglasses for everyone when a rock or an upbeat song came on, he would hand them out and everyone would put them on before they started head banging to the music. Until at last they arrived. They all got out and stretched and yawned. "Welp, Aerwiar!" Gammon said and everyone laughed.

Once they found a good spot they set up their tent that could fit everybody and started a campfire. They had dinner then smores. Then Armulyn pulled out his guitar and they sang songs together then told stories. "Hey Rudrick?" Gammon said as he whidled a stick. " Don't Clovens come by here?" Everybody froze and stared at Rudrick. "Well," He said, " As far as I know they don't come to often but they do come by."

"They do?!" Armulyn said holding tighter to his guitar.

"You'll be fine Armulyn." Artham said.

"Unless of course a cloven does happen to show up and it just happens to be hungry and it just so happens to like the taste of people with guitars." Esben said as Armulyn gulped and went pale.

"ESBEN!" Artham and Gammon exclaimed.

"What? It was just a joke." Esben said.

" Yeah, right!" Armulyn said. Soon everybody went to sleep in their tent, except for Armulyn no thanks to Esben of course. But soon slept came to Armulyn but was waken up by a scream. Everybody sat up and looked around to see what was going on. "Wait!" Armulyn said, "Where's Esben and Rudrick?!" Artham looked around more frantically. Another scream came from outside the tent. They all ran outside but no one was there. They all were yelling out Rudrick and Esben's names but they got no answer. Then they heard a noise and something came out of the bushes. "Guys what is that?" Gammon asked. The strange creature came into the light of the moon. Then Armulyn screamed, "CLOOOOOOOOVEEEEEEEEN!" and he was so scared that he jumped into Artham's arms as Gammon ran into the tent to get a gun but ran out empty handed, "Where are the guns!?" He said. Then laughter came from the cloven and collapsed to the ground like a blanket to reveal Esben sitting on top of Rudrick's shoulders who were laughing so hard that they were crying.

Esben jumped off of Rudrick's shoulders, who pulled out a small cassette player that was making a strange noise and paused it. "You guys should've seen your faces!" Esben said.

"Guuuuuuys." Gammon whined.

"You 'bout gave me a heart attack." Artham said as he helped Armulyn to his feet. "Are you okay Army'?" But Armulyn only stared with shock on his face and fainted.

"I told you he was gonna faint!" Esben exclaimed.

"Oh no I said that he was going to faint but you said he would be fine."

"No I didn't." Esben said. They all surrounded Armulyn who was just waking back up and said, "I think I just need to go back to sleep."

"I think we all do." Artham said.