One By One - Hermitcraft AU

Chapter 2 - A Strange Absence

[Zed POV]
Tango still hasn't returned yet and it had only been a day. He promised that he would be back in a few hours but maybe he was going through Hub traffic.

Zed shuddered at the thought, Hub traffic is the absolute worse. It's basically the reason why he never visits the Main Hub these days.

But had the traffic been that bad for Tango to be missing for a whole day? Zed had his doubts but that was the most reasonable explanation other than-

"Nope nope- don't think about that Zedaph" he said aloud before looking to see if any hermits were around. Thankfully none were around since it's early in the morning. Very early- the Sun hadn't even risen yet.

The goat hybrid then sighed, "I'm breaking his pinky when he gets back"

Hopefully the netherborne would return tomorrow for the monthly meeting. Well he would most likely- while Hub traffic is bad, there's no way for it to last two whole days. If Tango wasn't back tomorrow, then..

"Quit worrying Zedaph, he'll be fine" he thought to himself. Tango was one of the strongest hybrids of Hermitcraft, third strongest to be exact. Well not physically of course but power-wise? Definitely, you do not want to make that man angry, that's for sure.

Zed sighed again, gosh he was doing a lot of that. He placed down his ender chest and grabbed a shulker box out of it, he rummaged through the shulker box for a bit before finding a bed. The goat hybrid did not feel like walking all the way over to his bedroom so he just placed down the bed and crashed onto it, somehow falling asleep with his armour on.

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[Impulse POV]
"So we just go- bop! bop? bop!"

Impulse turned off the alarm, while he loved the song, he had edited it to be a little louder so it could wake him up in the morning.

He got up and stretched a bit before doing his daily routine.

After he was finished, he looked in the mirror for a couple seconds. The wither hybrid noticed that the dark purple and black flame on his left was flickering more compared to the one on his right.

"Probably nothing" he wasn't too concerned about it. After all it was just a flame that will just exist next to his head, only to extinguish if he died. He adjusted his comm which was right above the silver respawn braclet.

The wither hybrid grabbed his elytra, along with the rest of his armor. While the respawn braclets did their job, dying isn't exactly the greatest thing. Being stuck in a cold and dark void for a couple of seconds is bad enough, he couldn't imagine being stuck in the void forever.

As Impulse walked outside, he tapped on his comm once and the small screen lit up.

12:45 PM

Well it didn't hurt to go over to the meeting hall an hour early. He knew Xisuma preferred if the hermits were to gather at the hall early rather than late. He looked into his inventory and grabbed some rockets.

The wither hybrid took a deep breath before firing off a rocket, blasting off into the air. He continued to fire off more until he gained enough momentum to just glide over to the meeting hall located in the shopping district, occasionally firing a firework every once in a while.

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1:00 PM

His comm read, flicking his wrist to turn it off. He entered the meeting hall to see two familiar faces, well both wore something covering most of their face. The admin sat at the head of the table while on his right, a brunette with wide eyes and a mask.