New People comes New Discoveries

~|*Chapter 3*|~

I think I'm ok, but I'm not

(CW: mentions manipulation, and murder)

Grian sighs "So Mumbo, you know how I was an admin in the past and that I had my server right?" Mumbo nodded and Grian continued "well, something happened that I don't talk about that much, only those who were on it know about it"

Pearl took over for Grian "we didn't know at the time, but the watchers had found the server and we're watching over us"

Mumbo gasped "like the watchers from the myth?" both Pearl and Grian nodded

Grian took back over "they practically tortured us if we didn't follow their rules, if we did we were given stuff that most didn't have, like leaves and other unattainable items at the time" he sighed, talking about this server was a touchy subject "one time I took more than I was supposed to and got punished by having obsidian placed on all of my chests, for one simple thing!"

"That must have been harsh, especially being that the server was in beta and that there were no enchantments quite yet," Mumbo said, Grian nodding at the statement

"It took a long time, cause I had to find all of my chests and everything which I had a lot of" Grian mentioned getting sidetracked to what they were talking about

Pearl then took the lead for some of the story, "and then I joined kinda late, though it was a few months before the ender dragon fight, which was the goal for the Watchers, to get us to the end. Well it did happen but then one of us never came back"

Grian took back over "and I was that person who went missing and never came back, I tried but I couldn't" Pearl looked at him confused

"What do you mean by that Griba?" Pearl asked, Grian now looking down being that this part was hard for him to talk about

"They, uh, they took me, to make me their 'sucsessor' whatever that meant" Pearl looked at him shocked, not sure what to say, Mumbo too shocked "once they brought me to their facility to train me, they told me that EVO was a trick to find someone to 'join' them or to take them by force persay; the only reason we went to the end was to see if we would fall for their trick and take one of us" Grian continued "though I did escape before they could give me 'gifts' which is why I didn't have wings when you first met me Mumbo; it was also the reason why that I was mentally broken too" Grian let out a sigh, trying to hold in a sob though it was hard for him to continue, he went on "for a good year I was hesitant to talk to anyone, cause I thought they would find me again, that was until I ran into Mumbo and we instantly became friends after that he made me talk to X" Mumbo elbowed him "HEY! What was that for!" Grian laughed out

"I didn't force you to talk to him! You wanted to after hearing about the server!" Mumbo said correcting Grian, the two now laughing "you know, we wouldn't have met if I didn't have a shulker box of restone in front of me!"

"Yeah, I know! It would've been nice if I looked where I was going myself!" Grian said happily like he was glad to meet Mumbo at that time, and Mumbo was too being that Grian needed a safe place, that wasn't a public server

Mumbo looked at Grian with a serious face "is there something else you want to tell me bud?" he said with a concerned smile

Grian looks over to Pearl and then looks down at the embedded patch on his sweater that was on the floor, the patch a red and blue checker pattern representing something, but also covering a hole "I think you should talk to Mumbo about him Gri" Grian looks down knowing that this was a touchy subject for him and those who knew that person

Grian took a deep breath "I also had a friend who I had met when I was in school, along with his other friend who turned out to be a psychopath, when I transferred to the high school they went to, everything just got worse, worse as in murder" Grian took a deep breath, his breathing was starting to get shaky, both Mumbo and Pearl were in shock, Pearl had never heard this side of the story though knowing Grian for years, this whole story was a shock to both Mumbo and Pearl "Sam was the psychopath one, and Tarutis was the one that was dragged into the things Sam did, so was I. During high school, I had nightmares every night that was something like myself getting killed by my best friend and other much worse things. When I moved out and went to EVO the nightmares stopped after a few days and only happened every once. A while" Grian took a minute to calm down and steady his breathing before he went on "I eventually got Tarutis to join EVO with me which is how I got the patch cause Tarutis stitched up my sweater. Then something bad happened, like really bad" Pearl knew what Grian meant, and brought him into a hug. Mumbo was in shock pure utter shock, Mumbo too hugged Grian while he was a teary mess

"You're brave for telling us that G," Mumbo said comforting Grian "well anyway, what about the wings man?" Mumbo asked Grian still slightly crying

"Hah, right the scar, the scar that's on my wrist. At first, I thought that it was Professor Beaks that did it, but it wasn't, it was a random parrot that got stuck inside a stump outside of the Mansion near the end of the last season" Grian explained

"But how would you get wings from a bird scratching you?" Pearl asked, Grian just shrugged

"Magic I guess" Grian deadpanned, blatantly pointing out the obvious "wait, if it's some sort of magic, we could talk to scar about it"

"But isn't he doing a tycoon-type thing? I mean the whole wizard thing was the last season thing" Mumbo pointed out

"It is, but did you forget the whole part vex thing? Also if we needed to, we could go to Cub, but Scar is more skilled in the whole magic department" Grian said as he smiled, Mumbo simply opened his mouth to say something but then closed it being speechless

"Let me put my sweater back on and we can head over to, his 'starter base'" Grian said as he picked up his sweater off the ground and put it on, Scar was known for his giant detailed builds, his starter bases were known not quite to be starter bases, they seemed to be more known as mini megabases, although his megabases were quite literally mega

"you guys ready?" Grian asked, the two nodded and they headed over to Scars base hoping that he was home "Scar? you home?" Grian yelled once he got near the Swaggon

"Grian?" Scar asked, popping his head out of the Swaggon "what's up G?"

"uh, you do magic stuff right?" Grian asked with slight panic in his eyes, Scar nodded

"although that was last season, what's going on man," Scar asked, Mambo chuckled knowing that he was right about the magic thing. Grian just ended up rolling his eyes

"So you know about the scar on my wrist right?" Grian asked, Scar nodded "I think it did something that involves magic, do you know a spell or something that could give someone permanent wings by chance...?" Grian asked, kinda nervous Scar just stared at him blankly

"So from the clues that you're giving me, the scar that the bird made might've given you permanent wings?" Sacr asked. Grian nodded "I have heard something like that but the wings were temporary, there there is a spell that can give someone permanent wings, though it is a very risky spell"

"How risky?" Grian asked

"Death, or worse"