Hypnotism (An Cloud SMP Continuation Au)

Chapter 8

(Third person POV)

Toby yawned and got out of bed, just like he had gotten up less than 24 hours ago. It was still dark out, with the sun starting to appear over the horizon. Stepping out of his sleeping quarters, he decided to walk to their houses and see whether he could find anything from there.

When he got to the supply chests to get a weapon, he saw that Clara was standing there, a look of panic on her face.

"Toby, I don't know who did it. I just found-"

Toby looked behind her, and saw that the chest had been ransacked. Toby pushed past her and examined the chests.

"How did you find this?" he said.

"I don't know. I heard noises coming from here, so I went to check. I saw someone in the dark as the lights here were off, searching the chests. They noticed me standing there and ran away, knocking over some chests to distract me." Clara said.

"Do you at least get a glance at who did this?"

"Nope. They were wearing a cloak. And it wasn't someone hypnotised, or they would have attacked me."

"Anything missing?"

"A bit of food, and Kyra's visor thingy she used to wear. Also they took a bow and some arrows."

"Kyra's visor thingy... I remember she gave it to Simon to keep before she left. He must have stored it here, and the person must've known about it's whereabouts."

Just then, Pastel flew in through the large door on the other side of the room.

"I heard everything. The person ran and seemed to know I had flown after them. They drank a potion of invisibility and I lost them." Pastel said.

"Damn it. We already have a robbery. But they should know about the current crisis happening right now, and they would know about how hard it is now to catch animals. I think they were desperate, so they broke in here to take some supplies." Clara said.

"Well, if there are any other survivors out there, they should have some special ability as well or have been outside the radius to not have been hypnotised as well. " Toby said.

"Well, we shouldn't be worrying about the intruder. Now, we should just clean this up. I was planning on going to our houses and grabbing anything we can find." Clara said.

"Same here." Toby said. "We all should go together." Pastel said.

"No, you stay here, Pastel. In case if the intruder tries to take more things, there'll at least be someone there to watch over them. And before you say that we have security cameras to watch every corner of this base and that they can record video and audio footage, we can't afford to lose more food. Getting meat from animals is already hard enough, and my guess is that it will get harder." Clara said.

Pastel sighed. "Alright, fine."
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(Toby POV)

Clara and I eventually made it to the other end of the tunnel connecting our homes to the base. Clara had told me to be careful for the hypnotised mobs. Who knows, there could be more than just silverfish.

"Ready?"

"Ready."

"One, two, THREE!"

Both of us leapt out of the tunnel, swords and shields at the ready, only to find nothing.

"Huh, there's nothing here." I said.

"Don't let your guard down." Clara said to me. "They could come out at any second."

Both of us looked at the many houses that surrounded us. Here were mine, Clara's, Pastel's, Kee's, Simon's, Cloudy's and Ember's houses.

Autumn lived at the base, Twilight was just wandering and homeless for the time being, and Aqua, John and Hazel lived god knows where.