Broken (discontinued till further notice)

Chapter 5

Genuine question for all the people reading this, I've got 3 more chapters on top of this one already written so do you want me to just put them all on now or should I save them for later and update each week? Please say in the comments so I know what to do! Anyway! Let's go!!!!

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Violet blue eyes continued to stare into the empty vastness that laid out before them. He didn't think, he didn't move. His mind was blank, thoughts being to hard for him to comprehend.
Grian snapped out of his trance when the sound of rockets entered his ears.
'Who's flying around my base? Why would they be flying around my base?' He didn't remember, that was until he looked down and saw that it was Etho that had landed. 'Oh, right. I blacked out because of the voice.'
"I hope X will be okay." He said to the wind, his voice once again falling to deaf ears. He looked back up and saw False and Doc also flying towards him. 'I best hide again, can't have them asking questions just yet.'
With that Grian sluggishly rose to his feet and went behind one of the towers turrets.
'Why doesn't this bother me? It should bother me. I hurt my friend and I don't even know how.' He knew he should feel bad but it was like there was a barrier between himself and his emotions. He was tired, exhausted even; he just wanted to lay down and never get back up again, but that wasn't an option. And so he once again settled down back to the same spot and watched as the commotion between the 5 hermits unfolded. 'Perks of having heightened hearing I guess.'
He decided to tune into the conversation now, maybe then he would find out what exactly happened.

"-happened here? Why did Grian have to leave?"
"I don't know, god I wish I did though."
"Hey, it's not your fault Mumbo, right now we just need to focus of making sure X is alright. Can you tell us what triggered him?"
This was the perfect moment for Grian, maybe now he would actually get answers.
"Look, I don't really know, Grian came back to his mansion and we were here looking for him because no one had seen him in over a week so we were worried. We asked if he was okay but he started to shake and panic. Then we saw that he had horns. I don't know how. We tried to ask him but he just started crying and fell to the floor. X and I were worried obviously but then all of a sudden he just stopped, steadied his breath, looked directly at X and said 'remove your hands from me this instant Xisuma Void' and then X started to freak out and I don't know why, so obviously I try and help him too but then Grian flew off and sent out that message. Don't know how he got his communicator though. Last I saw it was in the library, which for some reason was a mess, not even an organised one-"
"Mumbo!"
"Right I'm going off track. But yeah that's basically what happened."
"So Grian said for X to get his hand off him and he started to freak out?"
"Yeah."
The 4 coherent hermits stayed silent for a moment, X still unconscious in Mumbo's arms having passed out shortly before the others got there.
'So that's what happened. That must have been the voice then.' He was becoming more coherent now. He was less apathetic and guilt started to raise its ugly head. 'I should go down, it's best if I explain everything, they know about my horns now anyway.' Sadly as he was thinking these things he had missed a part of the conversation and the start of Xisuma waking up.
"Thank the watchers! You have know idea how worried we were for you!" False hugged X and he hugged back.
"Sorry, I don't know what came over me."
"Maybe it has something to do with the warning on your helmet?" Doc supplied
"Oh right! I forgot about that!" Xisuma stiffened again. "How long has this warning been going off?"
"It's been there since you started panicking." Mumbo said "why what's wrong?"
"This is a warning for a class 5 entity. Power level..."
He stopped taking. "X?"

"Power level 17..."

All hermits fell silent. They knew what this meant, well at least some of what it meant. The ender dragon has a power level of 15, the wither has a power level of 14. Those were the strongest mobs you could fight against.
"Did that warning come from Grian?" Etho asked the question going through everyone's mind.
"I don't think that was Grian. Or at least not entirely. It couldn't be." Mumbo tried to deny the facts in front of him. His friend couldn't be like that, it had to have been a malfunction or something.
"I don't think it was. The warning would have gone off every time I saw him if that was the case."

'Unless someone interfered' Grian though.

There was a reason only Tango knew he was a watcher. And that's because Tango has met other watchers and was able to tell from the look of Grian's wings. Not everyday a person sprouts purple and gold wings for no reason, those colours were reserved for watchers only. If he hadn't tampered with the scanner then Xisuma would have known the second he saw Grian. He couldn't have that. Not then anyway. Guess it was all for nothing.
"Well. Best get down there."
And with that he unfurled his wings and started to glide down the were his friends were talking.