Hermitcraft - Villlian Au

Painless

Cleo ran through the rain, she burst through the dead tree line into the ruins of the shopping district, checking through tents until she finally found someone.

Cub looked up from what he was doing. "Cleo, you're soaked. Are you alright?"

Cleo paused. Ready to burst out about Hels kidnapping her and taking her power. Before she did she suddenly remembered something else.

"Joe! He's hurt." She ran out, Cub running to catch up.

"What happened?" Cub slowed down to grab Zedaph by the arm and pull him along as well.

"Ow. Why are we running?"

Cleo slowed down from a sprint to a jog. "Hels ambushed us. He pushed Joe off a tower and kidnapped me and took my magic."

They finally made it to the bottom of the tower and found Joe sitting against the wall. "Hey guys. Uh, I'm fine. My leg hurts a bit though."

Cub knelt down. "I think it's broken. You're pretty lucky all things considered. You fell from pretty high."

"Now you're making me sound clumsy. I didn't fall, I was pushed." Joe winced as Cleo and Zed helped him up and supported his weight. "Dang it. This really hurts."

"You'll be fine when we get you back." Zed hesitated. "It's a pretty long walk back to decked out. Especially in this state."

Joe chuckled. "Yeah this could take a while. I still find it funny that we've made decked out our little makeshift base. Considering how dangerous it's always been."

"Yeah I guess Tango's pretty good at dealing with those ravagers." Zed froze in place. "That's it! I'll be right back."

Zed took off into the sky and Cub ran in to support Joe.

Cleo frowned. "Did he just leave us?"

"Uh, it seems like it. Maybe he's getting help?" They continued to slowly walk forwards.

There was heavy footsteps as Tango and Zed rode up on two massive ravagers. Tango jumped off and at his command the ravager lowered as low down as it could go.

"Here. Help me lie him on here. It's actually a pretty smooth ride and shouldn't hurt his leg or anything."

Cleo and Tango helped Joe onto the ravager. Tango sat back on the saddle and Cleo joined Zed and Cub on the other one. They quickly rode back to decked out and helped Joe into the main room.

Scar ran up to meet him. "Joe! What happened."

Cleo explained the situation to him and Scar nodded. "Take Joe to the medical tent."

Zed and Tango nodded and helped Joe walk away.

A few more Hermits met up with them, wanting to know what happened. Scar began to address the group. "Alright. We aren't all here but just pass on the news to everyone. So it's a bit of a good news, bad news situation. The bad news is that we were attacked by Hels. He broke Joes leg and took Cleo's magic. This both makes us weaker and him stronger. Before they arrived though I had just received some good news. Gem is alive. We don't know where, but Impulse and Jevin went to check out the ruins of Xisuma's base and they didn't find her body anywhere. She got away. It's possible that Hels or Iskall has her or she's injured somewhere. We're going to hope for the best case and try to find her."

Impulse spoke up. "I can head back there and start looking around that area."

Scar shook his head. "I have a job for you, Zedaph and Tango. But it will be dangerous so you don't have to do it."

Zed shrugged. "Danger is what we do. What's the worst that could happen."

Tango chuckled. "I think the word you're searching for is stupidity."