INSIDE AN EMPTY CAGE (HermitCraft AU)

Chapter 8

"Oh, your here!" Xisuma exclaims as mumbo flies through the entrance "yep just had to grab a couple more rockets" mumbo sighs as he steps into the towering base. Mumbo spotted 4 people behind xisuma

"I haven't told them the situation just yet" xisuma started as mumbo peeked at the people behind him, iskall, scar, stress and ren all stood with understandably confused faces "well I'm here we should tell them now," he said crossing his arms

Xisuma nodded and turned back to the group and started to explain

"I guess you're wondering why your all here... well to put it bluntly... Grian has been taken.." xisuma pauses as voices of concern start to erupt "what do you mean he's been taken!!" yells a voice "is he alright!?" another voice asks

Xisuma motions his hands pushing down to quiet the hermits around them "we don't know much more than he's taken..." he lets out a small sigh "and the person who took him..." ren puts his hand on his hips and looks at xisuma "well then who?" he looks at ren for a second contemplating whether he should reveal that

He glances at mambo who nods then turns back to the group "all we know is they are an old friend of grians and their name is sam... he has a bunny hat on and a white shirt with a blue undershirt" xisuma explains, scar steps forward as he spoke up "you saw them?"

before xisuma could reply mumbo nodded and spoke "yeah after me and xisuma found grians communicator he... well he confronted us, we tried to catch him but he disappeared"

"So you're saying the reason we were gathered here... is to help find grian" iskall concluded "but why just us what about the others"

Xisumas face falls slightly "I hate to say it but we have no clue if any of the hermits are working with this Sam guy... it's extremely unlikely but we have to be cautious," he says slowly guilt seeping into his words, he doesn't want to suspect his fellow hermits would work with this guy but he can never be so sure

Iskall crosses his arms and nods "makes sense, im in" iskall declares as he steps forward

"I'm in too!" Stress yells stepping forward

"Same here" scar joins

...

There's a moment of silence then the hermits turn to face Ren

"What?" Ren asks as he crosses his arms, "oh.. nothing, you don't have to help if you don't want to, but please don't tell anyone" xisuma replies

Ren gives an exaggerated sigh as he turns to xisuma "I'll help but how are you so sure that this Sam guy is to blame" mumbo steps forward raising his voice a little "he got on the server without anyone knowing, he confronted us when we found grians communicator. Which was thousands of blocks out and he referred to himself as an old friend when introducing himself, something grian himself had said about someone he used to know"

"I'd guess he's been watching grian for a while now considering he knew to say "old friend" you know" mumbo finished as ren nodded "ok guess it makes sense... fine I'm in"

Mumbo let out a sigh as he looked over the group around them. Hopefully, they'll find him

"Hey now that I think about it" a voice rose above everyone, it was scar "about what mumbo just said, about sam watching grian... it did always seem weird how he lost his memories" he started "yeah he got hit with a huge stone remember... you are the one who told us after all" Ren sighed as leaned onto one of the pillars lining grians base

"No, no, no," scar protested "the stone was too big to fly with the wind, I only assumed that cause what else would I have known at the time? You know what im saying"

A minute or two passed as some of the group started to realise what scar was hinting at "wait you're not saying..." mumbo started as scar nodded "yep if it's what im thinking sam was the cause for his memory loss throwing the stone at him when I was taking him back!... which explains why.." scar trailed off "scar what's up" xisuma asks as scar moved his hand to his chin

"Just before... It happened grian seemed to have stopped like full-on stopped in his tracks, he must have seen him or something right!" scar said turning to xisuma

(Back to good ol' grian (: )

The pain subsided after a small amount of time, only to return seconds later this time much stronger

Grian grabbed his head as he held in his screams. He screwed his eyes shut as his head filled with the same pain

He was gasping for air... wait when did he stop breathing?!

He sat there pain surging through his body in waves

Then it stopped... Without warning

His head had an excruciating headache but something was... off

Wait.. he remembers

He remembers everything

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I will be taking breaks now and again I didn't with my last novel and got horrible writer's block I stopped writing for months almost

Also gave chapter 1 an edit to match what scar had said

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