MCYT RANDOMNESS 2

Vexed pt 1

THIS IS THE ORIGINAL FIRST ONESHOT IN THIS BOOK. FROM HERE THIS BOOK BECOMES SLIGHTLY CRAPPY, BUT NOT AWFUL.

What better to start this new book with?

I came up with this at 1am for an animatic

(A couple days after the end of Season 4)

Tw: implied torture

Pov: Cub

'This place is so CREEPY!' Scar whispers, shuffling closer to me as we enter the first woodland mansion either of us have been in. I laugh.

'It's not too bad.' I place a torch, searching for loot. 'Come on.'

'But it's dark! And there are creepy evil guys in here!'

'Scar...' I stop, sighing with amusement. 'If you're really too scared to raid a woodland mansion...'

'I'm not scared!' He insists, hurrying after me with mock bravery. 'I'm the bravest hermit on Hermitcraft! I'll defeat the evil mansion people with the passion of a thousand- CUB PROTECT ME FROM THE NASTY AXE MAN!'

He scrambles behind me as one of the vindicators runs into view. With a laugh, I shoot it down quickly.

'...You were saying? Come on, there's better treasure upstairs!'

Scar follows as I sprint up the staircase to level 2, looting some flowers from the first room. We continue to what appears to be a bedroom, where another one of the new mobs waits - an evoker.

'Oh, he looks less dangerous!' Scar notices his lack of obvious weapons quickly, drawing a sword 'Come on fancy robe man! You're no match for GoodTimesWithScar!' He runs closer, swiping and hopping from foot to foot. I watch from afar, unable to keep a straight face. The evoker, unintimidated, raises its hands, mumbling, summoning.

'What in the world?! It's a- what are THEY?!' The little ghostly vex laugh as they dive at Scar... I run forwards to help, killing the evoker in a few hits while it's distracted... But the vex turn on me too, swooping, swiping with their little swords and-

'Ow!' One bites my wrist. I shake it away and it vanishes into the air.

'It got you too?!' Scar holds onto his shoulder as the last of them vanish. 'They're NASTY! Their swords are bad enough but...'

I notice his eyes grow unfocussed, stepping closer, then running as he collapses, barely catching him. He's unconscious. Why is he unconscious? What's going on? The same faintness washes over me, as does a sense of dread.

'This- this isn't normal...' I mutter, staring at the bitemark as it starts glowing, shifting into the shape of a grinning face. 'This really isn't...'

The world turns black.

Laughter surrounds me as I wake. It's cold, the room lit blue.

How did I get here?

Where IS here?

I look up, still fighting off the faintness, through iron bars.

Iron bars...?

'No- no no...' I scramble to my knees, barely keeping balanced as I realise I'm trapped... Some kind of cage surrounds me. But I'm not alone. Someone else lies on the ground.

Scar.

'Scar!' I whisper, crawling over. He glances up, eyes wide, taking in the room.

'Cub? What's- what's going on? Where are we?'

'I don't know.' The strange blue vex that attacked us swarm the cage. A few laugh at us through the bars, flocking to mock us. Scar shuffles close.

'This isn't good...' He whimpers. 'Cub, what are we going to do?!'

'I don't know- HEY!' My attention shifts as another person enters, face hidden by a mask of a vex's grinning face, dressed in the same black and gold of an evoker. 'What's going on? Why are we here?'

'You have been chosen.'

'We didn't want to be chosen!' Scar insists. 'I didn't choose creepy cages and creepy laughing... ghosty... meanies!'

'You don't choose the vex. The vex choose you.' A mutter in a language I don't know and the door of the cage clicks open. I hug Scar close, but the evoker-vex-magic-guy is stronger, dragging him to his feet and away from me.

'CUB HELP!' I scramble up, trying to pull him back to safety as he struggles to escape, his feet digging into the ground. The vex assist in dragging him from me. His eyes shine with terrified tears. The cage door slams in my face as I try to follow. 

'SCAR! NO!' I yell, ramming my shoulder against the bars. Nothing except pain. The vex swarm closer, laughing, blocking Scar's terrified expression from sight as forced out of the room. 'No- no no- SCAR!' I sink back to the ground as I'm left alone again. This is my fault. This is all my fault. I didn't have to send the message to the hermits, seeing if anyone wanted to join me. And now it's not just me in trouble but Scar.

But where have we been even taken? We were attacked by the vex at the mansion. And then... Chosen? Taken captive? But what are they doing to Scar? What do they want with-

A scream.

'SCAR!' The vexes around swarm closer, laughing again, chittering in a language I don't recognise. 'DON'T HURT HIM! PLEASE!' I slam my shoulder against the bars again, a last-ditch attempt to escape that just leaves me even more bruised, sinking to the ground. 'Let us go. Please let us go.' My yells fade to terrified mutters. 'Please...'

The vex keep laughing. Constant. Another scream above and even my mutters dissolve into sobs. How long have we been here? Has Season 5 started without us? Will Xisuma find us or are we stuck here forever? Will they let us go? What's happening to Scar?

It's crying... crying little Vexling... Poor Vexling... Angry Vexling... Can't do anything... Stupid... Weak little Vexling.

Flashes of words, whispered high pitch voices overlapping each other in a babble of conversation... After a moment of confusion I realise who.

The vex.

'You- you can-?'

It understands! It knows!  Welcome Vexling! Hello! Welcome! Who is it? What is it called? It can hear us!

Their voices mutter over the top of each other again, louder, darting closer, repeating their constant excitement and surprise.

'Wh- why are you talking? What's going on? Why am I here?'

Chaotic... Daring... clever new Vexling... Came to us... Wanted to find us... Adventurer Vexling... We like bravery... It's not scared...

Vexling? I hook on. What is it? Why are they talking about it? Is it... me?

The door opens again.

I turn, the vex dispersing to their places in an instant as Scar's dragged back in, bleeding, pale, shaking. Before I can ask anything, the cage door opens. He's shoved inside, hitting the ground hard.

'What did you do?' I question as he hugs me, sobbing. 'Why- why would you hurt him?'

Evoker-guy just walks away, locking the cage again.

'He wasn't cooperating.' 

'Who are you? What do you want from us?' I continue questioning, glaring through the bars.

'I am the High Evoker. Now get some rest, Cubfan.'

They know my name. The vex buzz with excitement, repeating it.

'Tomorrow will be busy for you and GoodTimesWithScar.' I can hear the High Evoker's smile beneath their mask. 'There's a lot here for new Vexlings to get used to.'

And, without explaining, they leave.