Running from the past...(ABANDONED)

"AAAAAAA SCARY RED GREMLIN." -Iskall

"welcome to Hermitcraft, Tommy."

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-Tommy's POV-
That was a short pause of silence before I was swarmed with people- er hermits. "Nice to meet you Tommy, I'm Cleo!" A zombie girl( ? Do zombies have genders?) said "Hi..." I was still a bit wary of these people. Suddenly more and more hermits started introducing themselves. I was surprised when Xisuma sighed and said "Guys, stop crowding him, he's probably overwhelmed." Upon hearing this the crowd of hermits slowly backed off and scattered again. "Right, well, anyways." Xisuma said "Tommy will be staying with Stress for now until he gets enough resources to make his own place. Feel free to introduce yourselves again but try not to overwhelm him next time." Xisuma said. The hermits murmured sounds of agreement and starting leaving.

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—A FEW HOURS LATER—

"Im going out for resources!" I shouted walking out the door. I heard Stress yell back "Alright! Be careful!" as I walked out.

I started exploring the server. "There were tons of buildings that are way more advanced than the Dream SMP." I murmured to myself. Everyone here seems so nice...

Then again, Everyone in the Dream SMP were nice at the beginning as well. I dug my hands into my pockets. This jackets was warm, not as warm as Wilbur's- but still warm.

I was lost in my thoughts when all of a sudden, someone with a robot eye fell out of a tree. Without thinking I caught him. He was kinda heavy..

Wait a minute! I remember him from the ceremony! His name was Isk..is? No no. Iskalt? No. Iskall. Yes! that was it. Iskall!

"Iskall?" I said laying him on the tree. I shook him in hopes that he would wake up. He slowly started to regain consciousness.

"AAAAAAA SCARY RED GREMLIN-"  I couldn't help but erupt into laughter at that. "Pffttt. 'scary Red Gremlin' ?" I asked still giggling.

"Listen- I just awoke and my robot eye was adjusting- You were blurry." He tried to defend himself. "Pfft well anyway. I'm Tommy as you know, You're Iskall, innit?"

"Yeah, how did you know?" He asked confused. "Oh, you were one of the first people to introduce themselves before they started crowding me." I replied. "Oh right- sorry about that by the way." He apologized getting up.

"It's..fine big man." I wasn't expecting him to apologize, not many people on the SMP apologize for their actions.. "I'm looking for some resources, any places good for mining?

"Probably near Mumbo's van—" (AN:This takes place in the beginning of season 8 but Grian isn't there therefore Mumbo doesn't have a treehouse from the tree war at the beginning.) "—All the good stuff is near there. Just be careful of Impulse's giant hole to the void." (AN:Another thing- because Grian isn't there BOATEM also doesn't exist. Impulse just made a giant whole to the void.)

"That sounds like a death trap-" I said concerned. I tried to cover up my concern, I don't know these people, if they know I have an attachment to something- or someone, they could use it against me..Maybe these people aren't as safe as I thought. "Yeah, it is." He chuckled. "Mumbo, Impulse and Scar have fallen down there too many times to count. Pearl has fallen down a couple times as well."

"What? How are they still alive?" I asked confused. Are..they like me and Wilbur? Maybe the hermits have something like the revive book? "What do you mean?" He asked equally as confused. "I mean..don't you all have only 3 lives big man?"

"..No we don't. We have infinite lives." I felt my eyes almost bulge out of my head at that. "What- how?" How advanced are these people? "What do you mean Tommy? The default setting for serves is infinite lives + respawns. Unless..did you're admin mess with you're lives count?" He asked the last part horrified.

"..He must have. I didn't even know having more than 3 lives was normal until now.." I looked away. "I..Well you don't have to worry about that here Tommy. I promise you'll be alright here." I don't know why, but I believed him. "Thanks big man.." I said softly.

"So uh, ima go get some resources big man. Cya!" I waved quickly and started walking towards Mumbo's house. There's a lot of things I needed to think about...

AN: screw me and using quotes for the title-
Also so sorry! I tottally forgot about shoutouts! Here you go :>

Don't expect another post from this book soon- I'm kinda busy and school is starting up again sooo back to one one-shot every week probably— I'll try and work on RFTP chapters and I might post updates or a chapter from time to time but I doubt I'll start until 2 weeks into the new semester. Sorry!

-Siren(yes I changed my name— deal with it. I prefer Siren over "Van", and "Kylo" is too close to what my IRL friends call me.)

Written on:Feburary 2nd, 2022
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