Grian Oneshots

✮Xisumas idol✮

When Grian joined Hermitcraft season 6, he didn't immideatly recognise his admin - courtesy of the mask covering his face, but at the start of season 7, the first time he saw the indigo eyes under the mask and the X-formed scar across his face, he recognized him.

"Oh, X I'm sorry, I didn't know you weren't wearing your mask!" He apologized to the admin who dismissed his apology,
"No worries Grian, it's fine, I usually wear my mask because the air of the overworld is toxic to me, but in my base I've coded the air to be breathable, I once had a pendant with a charm that helped me, but I destroyed it" X trailed off, a sullen smile on his lips as he recalled his old mentor, the one who had trained him. He had never known his real name, only ever calling him Sun. Sun was the famous admin of Evolution SMP and the one who had made him the pendant. He had unfortunatly disappeared and had been presumed dead years ago.

Grian had an idea of what his admin was talking about, he was sure his admin was once his student, the one he had called Void, but he had to ask if it was the same pendant he had made him to be sure, because he could certaintly make him a new one if the admin wanted him to, "oh, what kind of charm?"

"It was a necklace with a sun pendant, it was enchanted to make the air breathable for me, but I accidentally dropped it in lava at some point" X's voice faltered as his fists tightened, "It was the only thing I had left from my old mentor"

"Oh, I'm sorry X" Grian said, he wanted to tell his admin that he was alive, that the Watchers hadn't killed him but rather turned him, but he didn't know how the admin would take it, so he kept quiet. "Anyways, what did you want Grian?" the admin asked and the parrot paused, he had forgot, "oh, I forgot, sorry X, I guess it wasn't as important then!" he said, and waved goodbye to the admin.

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Grian thought back to his conversation with his admin, or his student as he had found out, and decided to make him a new necklace so he could take off the mask if he wanted to. He pulled out a feather from his colorful wings and got to work on enchanting it, his Watcher magic coming in handy, making it much easier for him than it was with only admin-magic. His red-yellow-blue feather was glowing a faint purple when he finally was done with the enchantment, the feather attached to a silver chain. It served the same function as the one before, but this time it also had emotianal value as the feather was personal, everyone from Evo had also gotten a feather-pendant, as a symbol of being a part of his family, so the hermit set out to find his admin again.

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"Hey X!" Grian cheerfully called out but stopped when he saw the furrowed eyebrows of his admin, "what's wrong?" he asked and X sighed, "there's been Watcher magic detected on the server but I can't find any Watchers here"
"Oh" Grian replied, mentally cursing at himself, he had forgotten his magic was detectableby the admin. "Sorry about that" he said and X paused, looking at the blonde, "what?"
"I'm a runaway Watcher, I know I should've told you, but I really just wanted to put my past behind me, I used my magic earlier, I didn't know you could detect it or that it would worry you, I'm sorry" Grian explained and the voidwalker sighed of relief, "Alright, I'm just happy that there isn't a Watcher with malicious intent on the server"

"Good, anyway, I was wondering about your mentor, who is he?" Grian asked and Xisuma started to tell his story, "Well, I never knew his real name, he didn't want to share it becuase of something in his past, but I knew him as Sun, and he was the famous admin of Evo, he found me after I escaped The End realm and took me in, no other admin wanted to teach me, but he did, he ran the most demanding server while still teaching me how to be an admin, then he disappeared, Watchers attacked the server and nobody has seen him since" X's eyes turned glassy, "I think you're doing a great job Xisuma, you're the best admin I've ever had" Grian complimented, he had started to look up to Xisuma as an admin and as a fatherfigure before he knew that the admin of Hermitcraft had been his own little Void.

"Sun is my idol and each day I'm trying to be more like him" X stated, and a laugh escaped Grian at the irony of the two of them having each other as idols. X unfortunatly took the laugh the wrong way. "Do you think its funny that I chose my teacher as my idol! He saved my life and made me able to become an admin, and he's dead now and I should've been there for him!" The admin yelled and the parrot smiled at his admin, "It's not your fault and that wasn't why I was laughing. Besides, why should you have been there for him when the Watchers took him? It would've been too dangerous for you!" Grian exclaimed, the last thing he wanted was for a member of his family to get in harms way because of him.

X froze at his word-choice and stared at the smaller, an emotion Grian couldn't quite place in his eyes. "How do you know what happened to him!?" He asked coldly and the Watcher froze, he would have to tell the admin everything now, "I thought he was dead, not a Watcher! Did you do anything to him when you were a Watcher!!!?? DID YOU TAKE HIM!? X yelled, shoving Grian against the wall, the smaller smirked and with a wave of his hand X was off him and the avian had the enchanted necklace in his hand, he handed it to the admin, "for you, X-i-suma" He said and X looked at the glowing feather, "G-Grian, I'm sorry, I shouldn't have yelled and I definitly shouldn't have shoved you, and thank you for the gift, I know what a feather symbolises for any winged species - even Watchers"

"You said you broke your last one"

"What?"

"Your last necklace, with the sun pendant, I enchanted this one to do the same"

"Grian that's so sweet of you, but it wasn't just the enchantment, it was also the sentimental value of it, I miss Sun." The admin paused, "Grian, I'm asking you this, and no matter what you answer I wont hold it against you, I know the Watchers forced you to do whatever you did, but you knew more about Sun's disappearence than even I did and I was his student, so please tell me, for the sake of closure, did you take him? Did you kill him or is he still out there somewhere as a Watcher?" X asked, and Grian smirked. "Awwhh, it's nice that you care that much, but I didn't take myself, that would've been stupid, right Void?"

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