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No cw. You're lucky
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(About 15 minutes earlier) Pearl's pov
Pearl landed at Scar's tree. A handful of hermits had already arrived. They were all chatting about the topic of the meeting, which X hadn't announced.
"Do you think it's about Grian being missing?" Cleo asked.
"Probably," responded Gem.
"It could also be about what to do with the messed up economy," hypothesized Tango.
After about ten minutes, everyone arrived.
Grian walked outside, supported by Mumbo, and followed by Scar and Xisuma.
The gremlin looked... different. The majority of his face, neck, and hands were made out of stone. There were leaves in his hair that seemed to be attached to his scalp. On top of his head were two short antennae with copper tips. The tips were a gradient in the various stages of oxidation. His sweater and pants had slash's through in some spots.
"So," the prankster started, "you're probably all wondering why I'm partially made of stone and where I've been for the past 11 days.
"Well, now that the reason behind it can't kill me, I should tell you. The short story is that I was hosting an evil spirit who would occasionally possess me. I've also been slowly turning to stone for a little under a month, but thankfully that is reversing. The evil spirit is the Entity, as in my shop." The last sentence was greeted by confused and concerned expressions.
The builder continued, "The Entity tricked me into opening the Rift, I'll give details later. Then, I woke up, got dressed, blacked out, and woke up in the Entity. I, um, watched the last of my self turn to stone." That must have been hard. "I 'woke up' in the mind space, fought the Entity, and woke up in the hospital guest room. And now I'm here, and that stupid vengeful ghost is out of my head."
"Scar found a note in Grian's house the day he went missing," Mumbo continued, "While Grian was in the Entity and unconscious, the Entity was controlling him and made his body attack me. That's what the random coords in the chat were about. We tranquilized Grian and brought him here, along with X. We were keeping him in a coma and then paralysis for about a week." Xisuma, Grian, Scar, and Mumbo went back through the story, explaining it in more detail.
Grian finished the explanation by saying, "The Entity is still out there. We need to find it and make sure it's gone for good."
"How are we going to do that?" Ren asked.
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"We first need to figure out more history about the Entity, not just the happenings of the universe according to it," Scar answered.
"Where would we find that? I don't think any of us know anything about it," Pearl wondered, "We would need a place with old books that none of us knew much about."
"The astral library," Tongo said.
They selected a few hermits to find the mission. The group consisted of Pearl, Tango, Grian, Xisuma, Mumbo, Scar, and False.
The seven went into the nether, and arrived at the nether hub. Tango had said that it sort of just appeared. According to Tango, it was a fragment of a magic castle that ended up in Hermitcraft.
Grian's pov
After they arrived in the library, Scar gave Grian probably borderline dangerous amounts of healing and regen potions, along with a crystal of strength. Thankfully, those let him walk and fly on his own, although it was slow.
He flew around the library, searching through the many shelves for anything that could be useful. He grabbed a few titles and walked back down to the others. They had created a pile under the tree of books.
"Well, let's get started," False said. They each grabbed a book and began reading. There was the stuff that he recognized, like The History of Potions and The Discovery of the Nether and End, as well as things that he had never heard of, like Greek Mythology and Legends of the Clans. However, none of it contained anything regarding the Entity. Eventually, they all headed back to the overworld to get some sleep before continuing.
When Grian woke up, he noticed that his left hand, and half of his feet and face were all skin again, and that the number of leaves in his hair had decreased.
He headed into the nether portal. It was easier to walk. Once the nether sickness faded, the prankster saw most of the others. Only Tango and Scar were missing. The final two arrived, and they started the drag through the books again. They repeated this process for several days. After about a week, they had still not found anything.
On the plus side, at least Grian was all skin except for a small patch on his neck and cheek. Scar said that that would probably be permanent.
Mumbo's pov
At the end of the eighth day, the seven had finished the pile and found nothing.
They decided to search the library again. Mumbo and Grian went looking around. Mumbo was checking some of the shelves in the green section when Grian shouted out, "Hey, Mumbo come look at this," from a few shelves over. The mustachioed man jogged over to see what his friend had found. In front of the was a button that was partially concealed by books.
"I'm gonna press it," Grian announced, putting his finger on it. Before Mumbo could protest, the gremlin pushed it. Mumbo and Grian dropped into the floor, screaming. The pair fell down a deep, dark hole. They landed, surviving on half a heart. Mumbo looked up, and found that sitting in front of him was a whole new glowing, dusty, old, magic part of the library.
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Well that went great. Pushing random buttons is a fantastic idea.
-Meep
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Possessed
FanfictionThis is a hermitcraft fanfic that takes place in season 9. Ever since he thought of the Entity, there was something off with Grian. Sometimes he would just blank out for periods of time while building things, come back, and it would be done. And som...
