Broken (discontinued till further notice)

Chapter 8

So I decided to draw Xisuma so there is not confusion as to what he looks like. Anyway let's get on with it.
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It was quite. Too quiet. Grian could hear Xisuma's heart beat pounding louder then what should have been humanly possible.
But X wasn't a human. Was he.
He lied.
He said he was human, why would he lie? Why would he lie about what he was? Was it dangerous for him? Was someone out to get him? Why would someone want to hurt him? Is he in danger? Do I need to lock the server?

"You probably all have questions don't you?" Xisuma finally broke the silence. "Nows the best time to get them then."

Grian was the next to speak. "Are you in danger?"
"Hmm?" That got X's attention "danger? Why would I be in danger?"
"You have a rather nasty looking scar on your face. You felt the need to hide who you were, not that I'm one to judge. You were scared, you still are... is someone out to hurt you?"
X didn't know how to answer. He didn't know how to tell his friends that he was scared of THEM, of what they could do to him. So he decided to address the smaller issue the other hermit brought up. "This scar was from when I was a kid. My brother and I got too into our fight, he lost control, and caused me to go blind in one eye. No ones after me. Don't worry."

Doc decided to voice the next question. "I know a lot of glitches, myself included, don't like to talk about how they were created so I won't judge if you choose not to say, but what exactly happened? Creating something from a vast of literally nothing couldn't have been easy."
X chuckled a little at that.
"It wasn't, my father was a rather strong admin, he wanted to see if he could combine his admin magic with void magic to make himself stronger. The void is already unpredictable as it is so when he tried to bring the void into himself he accidentally placed a part of himself in the void. Twice. When nothing happened the first time he tried to do it again but again nothing happened. Over a period of 3 months my brother and I formed in the void. It's air is so clear, so pure, that it becomes almost impossible to breath in places like the nether, it's hard enough to breath in the over world, that's why I originally created the mask and armour. It regulates the air around me and purifies it, and it monitors my body's health to make sure nothing bad is happening. Why do you think I spend so much time in the end, going to end cities? It's the closest place I can be to home. And it allows me to go home easily. But I'm getting of track. Sorry."
"No no it's okay! Is it safe for you to be without your mask right now? You can put it back on if you want." Etho tried to reason.
"It's fine, a little painful but it's fine."
A snap of someone's fingers and a shimmer of purple magic sent a small transparent barrier around the void glitch.
"Can't have our admin in pain now can we?" Grian said with a grin. Xisuma looked shocked.
"Did you just-did you just create a pocket of void around me?"
He didn't say anything, just grinned.
"Grian!"
"What?!"
"Why?"
"Because you were in pain and I could do something!"
"You made a pocket of void!"
"And?"
"And what the heck! How!?"
"X. I'm a watcher, I create things. I have no idea how but I've always been able to make little pockets of void, I don't use it for anything but now I can!"
"How?"
"I don't know, don't ask me. Ask the superiors! They might know, but I don't."
"Oh my holy wither..."
"What?"
"Do you know anything about yourself Grian?"
"I mean I know quite a bit but if you're wondering in terms of what I am and what I'm capable of. I have no idea. I have even less of an idea since I started sprouting these horns. Which should be our next topic of conversation once your situation is cleared up."
"My situation?"
"Yes your situation, don't try and change the subject Mr!"
Xisuma sighed. "I was hoping that it would work." He mumbled looking down at the floor now instead of at the winged hermit he was previously talking to.
"Yeah, typically it would have but I'm far to curious to let this conversation fly away."
"Alright. Then what questions do you guys have? Might as well get them all out now."
"I know you said that it was your brother that gave you the scar on your face but what exactly happened?" False said next. Xisuma scratched his chin.
"Well actually I don't remember much of it. My brother, Xaviell, typically fights with two swords. When we were younger we didn't know that much about glitches, we didn't often leave the void due to it being painful so we didn't get chance to meet others like us. One day Xaviell and I were sparing and he snapped. Our father had been rather mean to him earlier in the day so we were fighting to get our anger out. Unfortunately he let too much of it out. And I couldn't block it. I remember him coming closer but then the next thing I knew I was back at home in quite a bit of pain. My whole body hurt, it felt like I was on fire. I remember feeling like my head was going to split in two and curling up on my bed just trying to block it all out. I remember Xaviell running in crying, I remember him curling up next to me. He didn't leave my side the entire time I was bedridden, nor when I was able to leave. He didn't want me to get hurt again. He blamed himself. This was the first time either of us had been killed. Neither of us had ever been in a situation like that. We had no idea how painful a glitches respawn could be, especially if it's the first time."
Both Doc and Etho winced at this. They remember their first time. And it hurt. A lot. But they knew what they were expecting, Xisuma and his brother didn't. Neither of them could imagine what that must have been like for the two brothers.
"Do all your injuries scar too? I know that all of mine do, but I don't know if that's all glitches or just me."
"I don't know."

"It's all glitches" Tango answered this time.
"How do you know?" Etho asked.
"I know a lot about glitches. When I first came here I was scared that I might hurt one of you, this is the most glitches I've been around my entire life. I did extensive research of both mob and block based glitches. All of them have been recorded to scar from any injury still on the body when they respawn and they are almost always discoloured and stand out more then normal scars."
"Seriously?" False said, she didn't know that it was that hard for glitches. She knew it took longer for them to respawn sure but not that it was painful to do so. She felt so bad now.
"Yeah. If an injury is present on the body of a glitch when they die then the injury will scar over and remain permanent. That's why not all injuries show up on glitches."
"How long did you spend researching?" X asked, information on glitches wasn't that hard to come by but from the sounds of it Tango probably knew more about glitches then most glitches did.
"I spent quite a while. It was actually during my research that I came across merging."
"Merging?"
"Yeah. The thing that I suspect it happening to Grian, remember?"
False decided to but in, "yeah well a lot of information had been fired during that conversation including someone called Revena? I don't know. You can't expect us to remember everything."
"I suppose"
"Anyway" Grian asked "now that I can't think of anymore questions for X we can go onto the other subject at hand. Tango what exactly IS merging?"