Warless Battles Never End

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Steely blue...

Cosmic purples...

Stagnate stars start to spin...

"...Xelqua..."

My vision fades...Black...

                                                                     ...Please...

The Hermits glance back on the land behind them, it's been a great season but it's time to move on to the next season, looking forward to the portal they step in. After guiding all the Hermits through Xisuma walks through himself, Season Six is going to be different he thinks to himself. Making his way through the other end of the portal to the new lands, walking up to the group they make their way over to where he will set the spawn. Once at spawn they all feel their communicators buzz, followed by a deafening crack in the sky. They look down at the message:

[Grian has joined the game]

Almost as soon as Xisuma lifts his head up to face the group a winged figure in the sky barrels towards them and crashes into the ground. The group is stunned and looks towards their admin. Xisuma is speechless as he looks at the figure in the crater This must be Grian he thinks to himself wondering how the boy made his way to the server. "G-Gri...?1" Xisuma hears behind him, turning to see the mustached face of his friend and fellow hermit Mumbo. "Mumbo, do you know this man?" Xisuma asks, realizing his question falls on deaf ears as Mumbo rushes past him to the crater with the small man inside. Picking him up and bringing him out of the hole Mumbo cradles the smaller man the horror, confusion, and worry are visibly lined on his face. "Mumbo," Joe says, putting a hand on the Hermit's shoulder "Do you know this man?" Looking up Mumbo sees the worried faces of everyone around him, "Y-yeah, I do" Mumbo responds taking a breath "This is Grian, I've known him for years," he says with a bit of a strained chuckle before his eyes go somber again "He joined a server many years ago and... I never heard from him again..." he finishes looking at the cradled form in his arms, JoeHills sends a knowing look over to Xisuma.

As Grian shifts in Mumbo's arms, Xisuma gets between the two and the other Hermits, in a protective manner. Snapping his eyes open Grian pushes his way out of his confines, that being Mumbos arms startling the taller man, "N𝙹!" Grian screams trying to shuffle from the grasp of those around him "xᔑ!¡⍑ᔑリ, !¡ꖎᒷᔑᓭᒷ ↸𝙹リ'ℸ ̣ ꖎᒷᔑ⍊ᒷ ᒲᒷ!! "He screams again before encasing his ears in his hands and letting out a guttural scream causing the other hermits to take a step back. His wings take a defensive stance and he tenses up completely as Xisuma slowly approaches and kneels down in front of him, hesitantly putting his hand on Grian's shoulders "Hello Grian, Welcome to Hermitcraft'' Xisuma says gently as to try to calm him "I am Xisumavoid, you know Mumbo, and these are the Hermits" he finishes motioning to the group behind him, "X-eye-sumavoid?" Grian says the name sounding foreign on his tongue, Xisuma nods slightly chuckling at the pronunciation, "Yes, now how about you go with Mumbo and get settled in, Joe and I will be over later to check on you, okay?" he says as Mumbo makes his way over to the smaller form again "Gri..." he chokes out holding his hand out to help him up. "M-um-py...?" Grian questions, the words still not feeling right on his tongue. As soon as Grian's violet eyes meet the brown of Mumbos, they fill with emotions and escape in a glowing wetness, he jumps up and buries his face into Mumbos's chest. Crying "I'ᒲ ᓭ𝙹∷∷||! i'ᒲ ᓭ𝙹∷∷||! i ℸ ̣ ∷╎ᒷ↸ ᓭ𝙹 ⍑ᔑ∷↸!" into his chest with his muffled voice, it's been so long since the last time he has been allowed to speak his native tongue it does not come naturally anymore.