Ren's POV:

"This is why we don't run off." Tango sighed.

Yet again, we found ourselves lost in the middle of nowhere, a thick fog has settled in and it was starting to turn a night from us walking around aimlessly.

"You didn't warn me that I was turning the wrong way!" Zed argued, a bit agitated.

"When you first came into this forest, I yelled 'Wrong way' at you!" Tango said, arguing back.

"Well, you didn't yell it loud enough!" Zed claimed.

"Guys, why don't we settle this like normal functioning adults." Impulse said.

"People settle down. It's too foggy to see far, let's just group back." Cub said with composure.

Scar sat on the ground, "It's going to be foggy for a long while."

"What do you mean?" Zed asked.

"The grass is wet; I can feel it through my pants." Scar complained, taking off his hat, under Scar's hat was his horns, they are curved backwards and looked like mountain goat horns.

"I don't understand but that's ok, I'll trust you," Zed said, sitting down on a nearby mossy rock.

"Grian, do you think you can fly up and see anything?" TFC asked.

Grian nodded and flew upwards.

"We should stay here for a while, it's dangerous to go anywhere else," TFC added, nodding to Impulse.

"Oh! I'll start a fire!" Impulse start rubbing his hands together, and murmured "Oh, uh- I need some firewood."

Stress giggled, "Oh, Impulse, you're way too impulsive.

"That's why they call me that." Impulse proudly said.

"I'm grabbing some firewood!" Tango proposed.

''I'll go too!" Zed said, appearing out of thin air again.

Xb warned lightly, "Try not to get lost."

"I wouldn't I swear!" Zed said, hitting Xb's shoulder lightly.

"What was that for?" Xb laughed, rubbing Zed's head.

Tango waved Zed to his side, "We'll be right back!"

And at that, Grian came down, "It's too foggy to see anything."

Xisuma shrugged, "I wonder if this weather is because of Zeus."

Ex added, "He's probably using this to get away from Hera."

I sat on a rock, "Gather around, we don't have anything else to do."

Scar (who was already next to me) asked, "What you are suggesting, Ren?"

"Oh, I don't know, tell some stories, play a game; anything to pass the time!"

"Horror stories?" Ex said, giggling mischievously.

"If everyone else agrees," I added. (Consent is important people.)

"We don't have much else to do." Keralis shrugged and sat down.

"Man, you were right, the grass is wet," Xb said, sitting down.

We gathered around in a corner and started chitchatting, it was nice to forget every else for even a second, the worries around us were numbed down.

"Then, Aphrodite just came into us playing Craft-Mine, wearing nothing but her nightie!" Cleo said, waving her hands in the air.

"It got better, we were playing some PVP games right, she just looked at us and went-" Joe stopped for a second to clear his throat, "-She went 'Are you winning, sweets?' and blinked at me a few times."

"Oh no." Scar giggled a bit.

"Then I threw a pillow at her face." Joe calmly added, toning his ukulele.

"It was so embarrassing!" Cleo said, burying her head into her hands.

"Say, Cleo, does the pillow still have her makeup on it?" Joe asked.

"Yes, it won't wash off!" Cleo groaned.

Beef laughed, "You know, flex tape claims that they solve any problem."

Cleo shook her head, "I am not going to sleep on flex tape!"

"Hey! What did we miss?" Tango said, walking out of the fog, lifting a bunch of firewood.

"Not much, hey where's Zed?" Impulse said, peering over his shoulder.

"HEereEe-" Zed floppily slurred, dragging some more firewood.

"Woah, you look tired," Ex said, pointing out the obvious.

"I have noodle arms." He said, waving his lifeless arms around.

"This is why you need a good amount of rest before doing exercise." Hypno groggily added.

"You don't ever do exercise." Xisuma rubbed in.

"I do! I swear!" Hypno said, trying to not fall asleep.

"You somehow fell asleep mid archery." Joe recounted.

"You got any water, I'm thirsty," Tango asked the group.

"Did you say water?" Jevin plopped up.

"Please not summon a sea on me, I rather not walk-in wet clothes."

"A sea? What's the limit? Just summon all of Earth's water!" Zed said, eager to cause chaos.

"Stop encouraging him!" Stress chuckled.

"I don't listen to anyone, I'm a free man!" Zed proudly sat down.

Impulse who was starting a fire using wood (don't do this at home, kids.) "Hold on, on releasing Noah's Ark part two on us."

"You're no fun," Jevin said, sitting down on his log.

"And I honestly don't care." Impulse poked the fire he started.

"If for whatever reason we somehow started a forest fire, then can I release the flood?" Jevin asked.

"Sure. I don't care." Ex nodded.

Zed looks at Etho again.

"Etho-" Zed suddenly got irrupted by Etho's hand.

"I know, I know, you want ice cream?" Etho asked.

Zed said something, but it was indecipherable, so he just nodded.

"Alright, but you need to pay." Etho sighed.

"I'll pay in having fun times with you by playing a game!" Zed mumbled under Etho's hand.

"A game sounds fun, but don't ever use that sentence in public."

"Why not?"

"It just sounds very, very wrong, if you catch my drift," Etho said, his hands outstretched to Grian.

"I don't have any more ice cream cones left" Grian whispered to Etho.

"Ah, whelp the universe doesn't want Zed to have his ice cream." Etho chuckled.

Zed fell on his knees, crying in defeat over his longing for ice cream.

"We can still play some games if you want." Etho patted the heart-broken Zed.

"What games can we play right now, maybe 'I spy with my little eyes?" Tango said, drinking some water that Jevin magic-ed out of nowhere.

"The only things I can see are trees, grass, and your annoying faces," Ex said, resting his head on one arm.

"Never mind, uh- maybe connect the sentences?" Tango continued listing.

"Yeah, that sounds fun!" Xisuma said before Ex can say anything more to hurt poor Tango's feeble ego. (Just kidding I love you Tango, -Ren)

"Ok, I'll start, uh 'Etho'" Tango said, nodding to Cub.

"Is-" Cub continued and passed a marshmallow bag to Joe.

"A-" Joe said, poking a marshmallow onto his stick and passing the bag to Keralis.

"Big-" Keralis eating a marshmallow.

"Meanie," Zed said still sobbing over not getting his ice cream.

"Ouch." Etho whispered, Mumbo continued the line, "And-"

"Smells," Grian said.

"Like," Iskall said with a blank face.

The next person to continue the line sentence was Beef, who sat there idly for a few seconds with a wide grin, "You are letting me have a lot of options, most of which aren't good." He giggled.

"Don't say something you may regret." Etho sniggered.

"Woah, alright. Uh... Beef." Beef continued.

"Oh, wow. Real Creative." Ex joked half-heartedly.

"I was being threatened!" Beef joked, pointing at Etho.

"I am still going to freeze your toes tonight." Etho coldly said.

"Not cool," False said, making a tent with Jevin in the background.

"You mean, very cold," Etho said, rubbing his hands together malevolently.

"Stop with the ice puns Etho, anyways our sentence so far is 'Etho is a big meanie and smells like Beef' I'll continue I guess 'He'" Cleo said preparing some tea with Xisuma.

"Also." Stress said, her mouth full of marshmallows, she elbowed an asleep Hypno who muttered something indecipherable.

"I didn't hear that, pardon?" Xisuma said.

"I think he said... fart?" Jevin said, starting another tent with False.

Iskall busted out laughing, "No idea, but alright!"

Xisuma facepalms in the background, "We're adults."

"With the minds of a nine-year-old on their last brain cell," Mumbo said, getting some tea from Cleo.

"Anyways, do you think two plus size tents will be enough for all of us? I hate packing up tents." False said, standing next to her tents. (Which was big compared to her.)

"They are a pain to stuff back inside the bags." Jevin nodded, agreeing with her.

"You just... actually yeah I agree." Ex nodded.

"What? Who are you and what have you done to Exy?" I joked.

"I just agreed once and you mock me for it, come on you also agree that they are hard to pack up," Ex said defensively.

"They are rather easy honestly my dude," I replied,

"Lier, I saw you lie on the ground sobbing because you can't get one in," Ex said.

"Gimmie a break, I was like young and dumb!" I spoke.

"Aww, Ren you're not dumb." False comforted.

"Aw, thanks." I chatted.

"It's getting late. We should sleep for the night." Wels said looking at the sky.

"I don't really want to, it's fun chatting with all of you," Cub said.

"Ok, change of plans, if you don't get to bed, I will force you to bed," Wels said, polishing his sword.

"Ok! We're going, we're going." I said, walking to the tent.

The inside was somehow bigger than it seemed.

"Wow, that's a lot of space for pillows." Etho scanned.

"Can we have a pillow fight?" I asked.

"No. Go to bed." Wels said going to the other tent.

Like children we disobeyed, we sadly didn't have enough pillows for a fight, but we chatted until we naturally fell asleep.

The dreams were pleasant for once. It was all alright, as long as we'll together, this quest will just be fine.

Sweet dreams, Hermits. I love you all.

TLDR:

Watch the hermits get lost again and have a campfire in the middle of the woods and Etho smells.

Author's notes:

HAHA SHORT CHAPTER GO BRRR-

This is probably the last fluffy-ish chapter before you know, the last fight.

Maybe you should go back and examine the prophecy a bit closer, I guess I should help out a little bit...

Any text that looks scrambled up is actually readable when bringing in Base 64.