Beneath the horns || Grian

𖤐 4. Life Series 𖤐

Grian walked over to his friend and started a conversation. "How are you feeling Scar?" He asked and the taller man shot him a confused look. "Excuse me but who are you?" He asked and Grians eyes widened for a second before thinking that he probably erased all memories of himself when he did the cure.
"Oh, I'm just a friend of a friend, the name's Grian" he said and Scar lit up in a smile. "Nice to meet you Grian, let's go take over the desert together!" He yelled enthusiastically and Grian declined, he knew how often Scar got hurt on Hermitcraft, and also, why would anyone want to take over a desert?

The group were just talking about their plans when something green caught Grians eyes, a creeper, he grinned. "Why no play a little prank?" He thought to himself and lured the creeper closer to the group, a bunch of them backed away but then the creeper stopped following Grian and chose to target Scar instead, which was a big mistake by the blondes part.

Boom.

Then there was silence and a loud high-pitched noise filled the eardrums, then shouting erupted and Grian realized what he had done, he had killed Scar. Guilt filled him and he kneeled down in front of the hole in the ground.
"I'm so sorry Scar, it was only meant to be a prank. The builder didn't know how long he sat there, but eventually the scarred man cane back to gather his stuff. Grian ran to him with a hug. "I'm so sorry! It was just for funs and giggles! You weren't supposed to get hurt" he apologized and Scar gave him a small smile. "It's fine, I'm fine" he said but Grian noticed that one of the hearts on the tallers wrist was gone, he now only had a yellow and a red heart.

"Scar, you only have 2 hearts left, so how about a deal? I will stay with you and do whatever you want until I lose my first heart?" Grian asked and Scar looked at his wrist, then he looked at the blonde.
"Let's go take over the desert!" He stated enthusiastically and dragged Grian along him over to the llama, that would be their mascot for the season.

𖤐 Time Skip 𖤐

Grian and Scar had surprisingly been doing pretty well, none of then had lost more lives and they had a pretty nice sand-castle looking house that the builder was actually proud of with the material he had, the duo had tried to have a monopoly on both sand and dark oak, but the dark oak one had failed miserably and the sand one was just too difficult to be a complete success, but it wasn't entirely a fail either.
"Hey Scar, let's go unleash that enderman Cleo looked at, maybe it will kill her?" He asked and Scar immediately agreed as he was a sucker for chaos.
"Let's do it for science!" He grinned and they ran along the desert. Then Scar tripped and fell, a ravine that none of them had seen, Grian immediately tried to jump after him and unfold his wings, but the wings didn't want to appear, so in the last second he grabbed the side of the ravine, he still tried to reach for Scar but too late, the man fell to his death and Grian was hanging from the top, small rocks fell onto his head, and he grabbed onto more rocks on the top and climbed up. "Why didn't my powers work!?" He thought to himself, had he lost all his powers?

Scar came back and sat down beside the smaller with flowers in his hands.
"I'm sorry, can we still be friends?" He asked and Grian looked at him confused "why wouldn't we be?"
"Because I didn't remember you, when I died and you jumped I got a flashback of you flying as a demon, and then I remembered everything"
"Everything?"
"You gave your life to save me, how are you alive?"
"I- I don't know, I thought I would die, but I woke up here on this server"
"It's almost been a year since the demons attacked, how come you only first woke up now?"
"I have no idea, I also don't have my powers" Grian said and Scar put his hands on the smallers shoulder. "We'll figure it out together" the red-life said and the blonde gave him a thankful smile.

𖤐 Time Skip 𖤐

Bdubs stood with the Do Not Kill pass in his hand and waved it victoriously. Scar turned to his friend and raised his crossbow at Grian.
"Scar, please-" Grian started, but then Bdubs joined the fight and the blonde had to fight back. Inevitably, Grian lost and woke up in his saferoom under his bunker. He was now red, he hadn't felt so betrayed before, a wave of energy ran through his veins from his feet to his head and hands, then fingertips, and then it was gone as fast as it had appeared, fueled with anger he grabbed his spare stuff and got ready to get his revenge.

The ex-demon found his ex-friends and followed them by jumping from tree to tree, when he finally got ready he jumped them and forced them down in a lowering in the terrain, where he first targeted Bdubs, in the middle of the fight, Scar changed sides and helped slay the other male.

Bdubs lifeless body fell to the ground and Grian turned to his former friend and raised his sword, but before he made the final blow, Scar knelt down before him and lowered his head.
"I'm sorry, I thought the feeling of betrayal would get you your powers back, slay me, I deserve it" he said and Grian lowered his sword and pulled the taller man up into a hug.
"You're forgiven" he said and then let go.

The voices of the earlier slain players started ringing in his head, chanting for blood.
"They want blood Scar" he said and the vex gave him a painful smile. "Then let's give them blood, let's do the final fight at Pizzas grave" he said and the two friends walked to the top of Monopoly Mountain.

The two stood across from each other in a cacti ring, counting down from 3.
3
2
1
Go

The two started fighting and it was painful, the hits were definitely, but being forced to hit your own friend and ally was even worse. Eventually Grian hit Scar one last time and he stumbled and fell to the ground, but he wasn't dead yet.

The blonde coughed up blood, and felt the blood dripping from the sticky front hair from both sweat and blood, into his eye, mixing with the tears. He sat down on top of the brunette and put his hands around his neck, then he tightened his grip until the man had taken his last breath.

He sat still on top of the lifeless body, and cried, what had he done? He closed his eyes and then it felt like his whole body was on fire, his wounds healed and then a sharp pain erupted in his back, around his tailbone and his head.

He dropped down and his purple wings, horns and black tail grew again, he returned to his newer demon form with black skin and white hair.

After the pain disappeared it left a numb feeling where the new body parts had grown, besides that he got up and turned back to somewhat human, still keeping his wings, tail and horns visible, his eyes stayed purple.

He then walked over to the edge of the cliff and let himself fall down.

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