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It was just a normal, boring day in the Septic household, everyone going around to do their daily things. Jack was just on the couch, having finished recording for the day, Jackie just walking around with nothing to do. The others were randomly spread out around the house.
"Dudes! We just had an awesome idea!" Chase exclaimed, suddenly rushing into the room, his hat looking like it was about to fall off his head. Anti then walked in behind him, his hands in his jacket pockets.
"We're going to go camping, no objections," Anti continued, a glint in his green eyes, Chase nodding along with the demon. "It's near a place called Burkittsville."
Jack looked at them as if they were crazy, which they might as well be, opening his mouth to talk, "What about YouTube? I can't just ditch it for a couple of days."
"You can upload a video and tell them you're taking a break for a few days," Jackie suggested with a glimmer of hope in his eyes, the hero wanting to go. "It won't be too bad! We need to get out of the house anyway!"
"Alright," Jack concluded with a sigh, glancing around at his egos currently in the room. "I'll go."
Jameson then bounded into the room, having heard everything as he grinned, clapping his hands excitedly, Henrik and Marvin then entering afterwards, the two also having heard the conversation.
"I suppose I could go," Henrik said, fixing his glasses on the bridge of his nose. "It vill take my mind off of vork."
Marvin sighed, not seeing why he couldn't go too, "I'll go as well. Might even disable my magic until we come back to the house. When do we leave?"
"Tomorrow," Anti said bluntly, one of his eyebrows raising at the looks he was given before the demon shrugged, not seeing the problem with how soon it was.
"Tomorrow?!" Jack exclaimed, his eyes wide, wondering if he had enough time to do things as it was already late in the afternoon. "I better start recording that video now."
Jack rushed to his recording room, trying to record a short video to tell his subscribers why he won't be uploading for a few days, everyone else rushing to their rooms to pack a camping bag.
Anti and Chase had already packed their bags, so they didn't bother moving from the living room, the two now sitting on the couch, Anti slouched forwards while Chase leaned into the cushion.
"Dude, we're going to scare them so good!" Chase said a mischievous look on his face, smirking at Anti who had the same look on his face.
"Can't wait," Anti huffed, being able to hear Marvin messing around in his room from down there.
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The Septics placed their camping bags into the back of both Chase and Henrik's car, needing both cars to give the seven people room when travelling.
‘Did someone pack a tent?’ Jameson signed, looking around at the others. ‘Or do we have to go out and buy one?’
Chase nodded, closing the trunk of his car with a slam, "I've got three. Had to buy two extra ones earlier, though."
Anti then snatched the car keys out of Henrik's hands, to which the doctor tried to get them back but ended up failing. Anti made the statement that the doctor didn't know where they were going, so it was best if the green-haired demon drove.
As Chase started driving, he couldn't hide the excitement on his face, the other's in the car with him not having seen him this excited in ages.
'Glad he's happy,' Marvin thought, glancing at him from the front seat, a small smile on his face, Jameson and Jack also thinking that from the back seats.
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Chase pulled up at a small hotel in Burkittsville after hours of driving, Anti doing the same as he was following Chace's car the whole time. The dad then got two rooms which both had three beds as well as a sofa bed, which was plenty of room for everyone. Jackie, Henrik and Anti got into their room and started to check their camping bags, the other four doing the same in their separate room.
After Anti finished looking through his bag, he realised they didn't bring a map so he texted Chase and told him to go to the store to buy one, the dad groaning from his room.
'Why can't he get it?' Chase thought, asking if anyone wanted to come, Jack saying he would join to get to know the town a little more.
Chase and Jack strolled along the sidewalks of the town, trying to find the store. Chase was glad Jack had come with him as he didn't want to walk around the foreign place by himself.
They soon found the store and walked inside, grabbing a map before exiting the building. They got back to the small hotel within five minutes, the walk not being long.
"Alright," Chase started, everyone gathered in his room that he was sharing with Marvin, Jack and JJ. "We're going to get up at nine in the morning, so everyone set an alarm and make sure we leave at half."
Everyone nodded and went into their respective rooms, it already being ten at night thanks to the long car ride here. Everyone knew that both Marvin and Jackie had a poor memory, so them two didn't even set an alarm.
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The next morning, Anti had to wake everyone in his hotel room up, seeing as they never got up at the alarm that was set. Everyone in Chase's room, however, woke up pretty quick, JJ being up before the alarm went off which was pretty normal for the dapper male.
Jack told Chase he brought some walkie-talkies and earpieces so they could communicate with each other if any got lost. He even brought a few tripods and camera's to film anything interesting.
"Did you bring your phone, as well?" Asked the dad, Jack freezing in place before he felt through his pockets and searched through his back, shaking his head in annoyance. "Well neither did I, so I guess we're doomed."
Soon, it was time to leave and they all gathered the bags they needed to go on the small camping trip. Chase and Anti both had to drive again, so they were closer to the forest and so that they didn't have to walk miles to get there.
The cars were parked a little aways from the forest and everyone began to walk in the direction of the woods with their heavy camping bags on their backs.
They all entered the forest and followed Chase and Anti, who went south, wanting to set up camp there. They didn't exactly know what was in the south of this place, but they hoped it wasn't something bad.
Jack let Jackie take one of the cameras he had brought, so the hero was just speaking to the camera and filming everyone, making comments here and there.
"Hey Marvin," Jackie spoke up, pointing the camera really close to Marvin's face, making the magician raise a single eyebrow in question, continuing to follow the others. "Didn't you say you disabled your magic for this trip? How long will it be gone for?"
"Until I step foot back in the house," Marvin answered simply, shrugging his shoulders as he glanced sideways at the fellow ego. "And if you're going to film me, make sure you get the good angles."
Henrik snorted, walking past the two who started walking way slower, JJ waving at the camera Jackie had pointed at them.
"Stop worrying about your appearance," Jack said from slightly in front of them, a smirk on his face. "And focus on where you're stepping."
"What?" Marvin questioned, looking down before letting out a dramatic gasp, jumping back with a squeal. "I stepped in shit!!"
"Your own fault," Chase smirked, Anti chuckling from beside him.
'Did you bring a spare pair of shoes?' Jameson signed, Marvin shaking his head no, making Jack laugh loudly, Jackie just snickering from behind the camera.
"Good luck with that," Both Henrik and Chase said at the same time, smirking behind them at the magician who huffed, rubbing his shoe on the grass in an attempt to get the shit off, but it didn't work as well as he thought it would.
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Soon enough, the group came across a stream of water in the middle of their path, Chase suggesting they walk in the water to get to the other side. The group started to argue whether they should walk in the water or just go in a different direction.
Anti rolled his eyes, wondering how stupid everyone else was if they didn't see the HUGE log making a path across the water, the demon tutting at them as he walked over.
"Assholes," Anti muttered, walking carefully over, deciding he won't even tell them it's there so he can see how long it would take them to find it.
Anti stood at the other side of the stream, watching most of them argue, JJ and Jack staying out of the argument as they found it funny.
The green-haired demon grew tired of waiting, so he crouched down and picked up a large stone.
He stood back up and glared at them from the other side of the water, lifting his arm and throwing the stone at the group, hitting Jackie at the back of the head.
"What the fuck?!" Jackie screeched, turning around to see Anti smirking at him, the hero rubbing the back of his head. "What is wrong with you?!"
"What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you guys! How blind can you be if you can't see that huge ass log making a path across the water!?"
"Oh," Chase mumbled, walking over to the log and stepping onto it, carefully walking across with everyone else following him. "Nice shot, by the way."
Jackie just grumbled, glaring at Anti as he hopped off of the log, both Anti and Chase smirking at him, Jackie flipping the two off in return.
"Stop bickering," Henrik sighed, standing beside JJ who had a compass in hand, the doctor looking at it with his arms crossed. "We need to find a clearing to set up the tents."
Chase hummed, Marvin snatching the map out of his hands, him and Jack reading it and locating where they were before starting to walk.
"That's my map!" Chase yelled, running up to them and snatching it back from them, JJ just sighing in irritation.
Chase grumbled as he looked down, walking ahead of everyone with his head stuck in the map. He wasn't looking where he was going as he was so involved in the map, the male heading straight for a tree. Jackie jogged to catch up with him, having to pull him away and redirect the other male before he ran into the thing.
The group soon entered a clear area and set up the three tents. Jack shared a tent with JJ, Marvin shared with Jackie and Henrik while Chase and Anti shared one.
Their tents took a little while to set up, as Jackie was messing around and Marvin sat back to record everything, Schneep getting annoyed at the two which caused him to yell, Marvin dropping the camera in shock.
This caused everyone to look at the three. Marvin recollected the camera and handed it to Jack who had finished with his tent, Jackie having stopped messing around and eventually helped the doctor as did Marvin.
Everyone just sighed, crowding Chase as the other three finished with that tent, marking where they were on the map.
"I'm going to look around for firewood. Anti, come with me," Chase said, already walking away making Anti jog to catch up, but not before grabbing a walkie-talkie from Jack as well as an earpiece that had a small camera built in.
"How are we going to scare them?" Chase questioned when he was sure the others couldn't hear them, being somewhat far away from the other five.
"We could walk around outside the tents to freak them out. If they open their tents I can glitch us into ours," Ani shrugged, trying to think of anything else as he attached the earpiece to his ear.
Chase hummed before clicking his fingers, an idea coming into his head, "Your glitches can make things echo, right?"
Anti nodded, furrowing his eyebrows as they both collected some wood while discussing this, as they didn't want to go back empty-handed.
"Well, we can snap a few sticks and you can make them echo," Chase said, already having a big amount of firewood in his arms. "Don't know if it'll work, but we can try."
Anti nodded along with everything Chase was saying, humming along, thinking it was a good plan for someone so brain dead.
"They won't trust us after this," Anti countered, standing up straight and looking at Chase who did the same.
"It's not like they trust you completely, anyway," Chase hummed, following the glitch demon who had started walking back, "But they'll forgive us eventually, dude."
Anti nodded, taking a small detour, but made sure they didn't wander off too far to get lost. The two just talked a small bit, but other than that, they were quiet until the two finally got back to where they had set up their camp.
The sun was going down when Anti and Chase returned, both having a mischievous look on their faces, but everyone ignored it, being used to the two looking like that.
They set the firewood down and helped start a fire so they could cook some food, which also took a little while, seeing as JJ, the only one who knew how to do this, decided to let them suffer, the dapper sitting back to record the amusing event.
They all sat around the fire once it was done, eating their food and talking until it was very dark, around eleven, maybe? They put out the fire and everyone went into their respective tents.
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Chase and Anti waited for thirty minutes before quietly unzipping their tent and walking around, making sure not to make a sound until they got to where they wanted. But, it didn't go too well, as they couldn't even see the ground as they walked. Luckily, no one woke up.
Anti started glitching, which made loud noises, Chase then picking up some sticks and breaking them, the glitching Anti was doing causing them to echo quite loudly.
Chase then started to stomp on the ground pretty loudly, Anti then doing the same, some static sounds being made from his glitching.
Anti then held a hand up, signalling for Chase to stop what he was doing. The demon crouched down and picked up a heavy rock, Chase knowing what he was about to do.
Chase copied what Anti did, but picked up two this time, holding them up. Anti threw the one he held at Jack and Jameson's tent, hearing a small squeal coming from inside it.
The dad then did the same to Henrik, Jackie and Marvin's tent, hearing almost the same reaction. Although, this time, Marvin screamed like a little girl, the two outside being able to hear the five scramble around in the tents.
"What the fuck was that?!" Marvin screamed, someone from his tent shushing him.
"How the fuck am I supposed to know?!" Jack replied from the other tent. Chase then stomped on even more sticks, Anti, once again, making them echo quite loudly, hearing another squeal from one of the tents.
The tents then started to unzip, Anti glitching himself and Chase into their's, trying to hide their laughs as they heard the other five walking around outside.
"What ze hell?!" Schneep exclaimed, almost getting hit by a random falling branch, Anti and Chase jumping when they heard it hit the ground, growing confused as they didn't plan that.
"Are Anti and Chase still asleep?" Jackie questioned, kicking the branch that fell, glancing around at the dark woods surrounding them.
"Probably, zey are pretty heavy zleepers," Schneep said, massaging his temples as he sighed, glancing at everyone else.
The group then checked their surrounding's before JJ suggested they went back to sleep. Well, that they should try and sleep.
After making sure everything was alright, they went back to their tents and lay down, Anti and Chase still trying not to burst out in laughter.