Grian Oneshots

𓅪 Past Grians 𓅪

Grian woke up with an uneasy feeling in his stomach, his senses screamed danger but nothing was in sight. The blonde got up from his bed and got dressed in hope that the alarm he felt in his gut would fade, but to no dismay, his nervous eyes flicked across the room, scanning for whatever might have caused his distress. His eyes landed on the rift, it was bigger and shone more brightly than the night before and he came with horror to the conclusion that something - or someone - had passed through the portal. Grian didn't waste any time and took off, his wings carried him through the air faster than any elytra could. He found Xisuma wandering around the shopping district and landed right in front of him. The admin jumped back in surprise and let out a relieved sigh as his eyes landed on the small hermit instea of a threat.

Xisuma gathered himself again, and straightened his back "Oh my Xelqua! Grian you scared me! Is something wrong?"

The parrot folded in his wings and looked at his admin, ignoring his Watcher name - he had gotten used to most of the server treating Xelqua as their God. "Sorry X, I just- Is there any unnatural activity on the server right now?" Grian took a breath before fiddling with the botttom of his jumper while continuing "I think something or someone passed through the rift"

Xisuma scrathched the back of his head, the rift had always been a mystery to him, for some reason it had been in the cliffside in the cave Grian had decided to call home, the first time Grian had called him to check it out, he had thought it was some sort of elaborate prank, but the panicked glimpse in Grians eyes had made him think otherwise. Nothing indicated it had been created by a player, so naturally X had been panicked and tried to pursuade Grian to move away from it as it could be dangerous. The cheerful hermit had declined with a smile, and had insured the admin that he would be okay, as it was for the best to have someone near it to observe if any changes happened. As much as it dismayed the admin he couldn't argue with the parrot and made him promise to keep him updated if anything happened.

The voidwalker pulled out his admin panels. A few minutes went by in silence as Xisuma searched the code and Grian waited anticipating the results. At last Xisuma made a little yelp as he found what he had been seaching. "There are three unlisted people on this server - I can't see their names, but I can track them down-" X made some motions with his hand and his eyes widened. "- one of them is right behind you"

Grian whipped his head around, expecting to see a Watcher or any other dangerous being, but instead saw a figment of his past he had hoped never to see again. In front of him stood a teenager with dirty-blonde hair, his curls pressed down by a pair of red and blue checkered headphones. Blood stained his blue shirt and hands and tears were streaming down his face. Xisuma was quick to approach the scared teenager while Grian was frozen to the ground in fear.

Grian saw Xisuma kneel down, "what's your name?" he asked and the teenager shook in fear. "It's alright, I'm not going to hurt you, honey" the admin spoke in a calm tone and Grian saw the teenager - himself - calm down.
"M-my namme is... Taurtis" the teenager muttered in a soft voice and Grian flinched, he had hoped to never hear that name again, not after what happened at Evolution.

"Let's get you to somewhere safer where we can get you cleaned up, and then we'll send you home" The admin reassured the younger Grian, who tensed up. Xisuma didn't seem to notice the sudden tenseness in the air and led the way, Grian ran up to his teenage self and couldn't help himself but pull him into a hug, "you're not him" he whispered softly into the young students ear and the teenager let out a sob. X turned around to see what the hold-up was but before he could ask, the servers communicator plinged.
Goodtimewithscar: "uhhh, guys, isn't the admin of EVO dead or something?"
Xisuma: "or something, he hasn't been seen since the Watchers took him, why?"
Goodtimewithscar: "uhhh, he's here on hermitcraft"

Grian's eyes widened, two past versions of himself had shown up, he needed to figure out a way to send them home quickly or something could go wrong, if any of these past versions were to die, that meant that he would be killed as well. The admin quickly tracked Scar's location and flew over there, Grian spread his wings and grabbed his smaller self before following his admin. He would make sure never to let these two out of his sight.
The avian put his younger self down on the ground as careful as he coud and caught up with the voidwalker.
"Grian, you don't need to be here, it could be dangerous" X stole a glance at the blonde guy in front him, his tight grip around his raised diamond sword and a cautious glimpse in his eye. Xisuma took a careful step towards the smaller figure with his hands visible, the Evo player took a step back.  "DON'T COME CLOSER!" He yelled and Xisuma stopped while Grian stayed away. "We're not going to hurt you" the voidwalker promised but the young Grian scoffed. "As if! They said that too"
Grian sighed. "The Watchers aren't here", Scar, Xisuma and the young version of himself whipped their heads around to face him. "I promise, and we don't know why or how you're here, your players are fine and we'll try to get you back as soon as possible" the diamond sword was lowered and Grian breathed a sigh of relief.

A lot of things happened at once. Their communicators plinged. 

Impulse: [OMG THERE'S A WATCHER AT SPAWN!!]
Tango: [WHAATT!!]

Xisuma got a panicked look in his eyes before muttering "watchers" under his breath and before Grian got the chance to react, the admin grabbed the smaller Grian and teleported to spawn. The parrot couldn't help but have a bad feeling about this as he didn't feel alarmed by the presence of a Watcher, but before he could react the Evo version of himself had pushed him to the ground, the diamond sword at his neck. "YOU PROMISED THEY WEREN'T HERE! IS THIS A TRAP!?" He yelled and Grian tried to move, but a foot was planted on his chest. "ANSWER ME OR I'LL KILL YOU!"
"Try me, Grian" he scoffed and the young him stumbled back. "H-how?"
"I have my ways, and I have just as much reason to fear the Watchers as you, if not even more, but I have a feeling that the Watcher here isn't evil like the ones on Evo were, now take my hand and I'll teleport us to spawn" the young him did what he said and they arrived at spawn in just enough time to see the Watcher - himself - being attacked by X, and the parrot reacted quickly and teleported in front of the Watcher, blocking X's sword.
"GRIAN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" The admin scowled and Grian lifts his sword to get the admin to take a step back, the past versions of himself hiding behind the admin. "SAVING YOU FROM MAKING A BIG MISTAKE!"
He could feel the eyes of most of the hermits on him, "they must be thinking I'm some sort of traitor" the avian thought to himself, all he wanted to do was to keep himself from dying.
"A MISTAKE!? THIS WATCHER COULD BE TRYING TO DESTROY THE SERVER FOR XELQUAS SAKE!"
The Watcher flinches at the name Xelqua, while the avian had just enough practice to not react.
"Xelqua..? I'm Xelqua" The watcher behind Grian says and the rest of the server falls to their knees, as they were in presence of their God. "I apologize Xelqua" Xisuma says and the Watcher doesn't move.

"Xisuma" Grian finally breaks the silence "They're from the past, that's the admin of Evo before things went wrong with the Watchers, and that is Xelqua before he fled the Watchers and became the Deity of freedom"
"And the last one's Taurtis?" Xisuma interrupts with a seemingly innocent quistion but all versions of the hermit flinch.
"Don't call him that!" All three other versions of Grian yell in unison.
"They are all the same person X, we have the highschool one who was abused and forced to dress up as his dead boyfriend Taurtis, and date his abuser, who so happens to be his boyfriends killer, he fled and created Evo where he's from." Grian pointed at the green clothed admin. " - before the server was destroyed -, and then the Watchers took him, and here we have Xelqua, still in Watcher training, despising the Watchers more than ever but before fleeing and becoming a Deity." Grian finishes and the silence of the server is heavy, a pin could easily heard if it hit the ground.
"And how do you know that Grian?" The voidwalker asks the winged hermit, not knowing what revelation were about to come as all the Grians tense at the name.
"Because they're me"

"EXCUSE ME. WHAT!?"

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