Hidden behind the mask {DISCONTINUED}

Chapter 8 Grian POV

Wassup people! I am alive! Before we dive into this rabbit hole of a story shoutout to TheWatcherXelqua for translating the galactic name in the previous chapter 🙂 now without further ado... Let's get into this cringey chapter!

Grian POV

I freeze as I stare at that message... I stare at it in shock...

How did he get here? I thought I had protections up!

A million thoughts are running through my head as I try and process this... I jump slightly as a hand is placed on my shoulder...

"Grian? Who is that?" Xisuma asks calmly...

"I-" I freeze as I try and figure out what to say... "Prime Watcher Xenon..." I eventually mumble...

Xisuma stares at me for a moment before turning to the hermits gathered...

"Everyone gather your valuables quickly! The person that just joined is bad news! We will need to evacuate the server! Alert all other hermits and meet back here!" The gathered crowd of hermits all nod before I shout out...

"NO!"

Xisuma stares at me... "Why?" He asks me in a soft tone...

I breathe in and out deeply... " Nobody should split up... Xenon is skilled in perma-kill... I can get everyones valuables in roughly a minute... You only need to give me a list..." I say firmly...

"And how can we be sure that you won't be perma-killed?" Doc says from the middle of the crowd...

"Because I can fight him..." I say confidently... "I can fight him and hold my own..."

A few hermits look at me in shock for a moment before False pipes in "don't you suck at PvP?"

I shake my head... "I can PvP... I just dislike it immensely... But if you don't believe me then check who last killed Dream and Techno..." I say slowly... "Now... Everyone list what they need to bring to the next world... I will gather them here and get the other hermits as well..."

The hermits stare at me for a moment before one by one they list important things... Soon I have a full list...

I nod before flying up into the air and creating a platform just out of their view... I then focus as a golden glow comes from my hands and brings things and animals to the platform...

I focus again and teleport the missing hermits to where all the others are before clearing my inventory and grabbing shulker boxes that are labelled with a hermits name... I quickly shove all the items into their respective boxes before grabbing Gellie, Pearl, Maui, Jellie and a baby dragon of mine and flying back down to the hermits...

I nod to Xisuma and he focuses for a second before a green glow comes from his hands... I watch as Xisuma creates a portal to the next season of hermitcraft...

Eventually an obsidian portal with bedrock in the corners lights and turns a light purple colour... We file into a line and step through in pairs...

I regain my footing before the others and then turn to the portal to see it closing... I nod to the portal as it's frame breaks and turns to dust... I then take the chance to look at our surroundings...

I step back in shock as I recognise the odd lilac tint this world has... I look around and my eyes lock onto the massive underwater base that is created with snow and clay...

I let out an odd strangled sound as I stare at the glitchy mob farm that is slowly killing mobs... I stare at the face that looks like it's crying and has multiple poppies around it... I don't even comprehend when someone touches my arm gently...

"Grian? Where are we?" Xisuma asks... I just shake my head slowly before backing away and sliding down a cobblestone wall... I wrap my wings somewhat around me as I shiver from the cold atmosphere... I then realise something...

"X..." I say slowly... "How many backup masks do you have?"

Xisuma stares at me for a moment... "What- why?" He says slowly...

"The atmosphere here is different... You, I and maybe Scar or Wels are the only ones who can breathe this air..." I say with a panicked tone...

"WHAT!?" Xisuma says with a shocked tone...

I shake my head to clear it before standing up and spreading my wings... I fly quickly down towards the underwater base before flying down and into a storage area... I fly towards a wall before landing neatly in front of it and touching it... My touch opens the wall quickly with a few glitches...

I step through into a large white room with chests and item frames... I step towards a specific chest and rummage through it before pulling out about 15 masks that were similar in design to Xisuma's...

I rush over to another chest before grabbing a few more of the masks... I then rush out and fly back to the hermits with the masks in hand...

I give each hermit a mask and show them how to put it on... I then step back towards X...

"Mind explaining?" X says to me with hands on his hips...

I sigh before running my hand through my hair... "This is... EVO... My old server..." I say slowly...

"I have the masks because of EX occasionally visiting... Somehow they always ended up breaking their mask... Anyways... I replicated the masks because before... Events... Happened I was getting complaints of it being hard to breathe... I tested the code and found that they had changed the air in this atmosphere..." I explain calmly...

"You own this server?"

I nod... "I owned this server..." I say confidently...

"And EX was here?"

I nod... "We've been best friends for years... They never took any interest in joining... But they didn't mind dropping in every so often " I explain...

"How- never mind... But what changed the air here?"

"Watchers... Rogue Watchers..." I say with a hint of bitterness in my voice...

"What- how... Never mind but... Why this server?"

"Because one of their own was here..."

1017 words!
Longest chapter in this book so far!
Sorry for the cliffhanger but I need sleep... It is six am and I haven't slept all night... Anyways I hope you enjoyed and if you did feel free to leave a comment or if you feel comfortable with doing so leave a vote! I am off to sleep and I will see you next chapter!
Have a great day or night and goodbye for now!
-Flamingo Girl WP