Short Stories / Oneshots

Grian

Mumbo watches the new guy, Grian, walk stiffly up the stairs in the shopping district. He called out a greating but Grian hadn't even paused. Worried, he followed him to the rocket shop staying hidden in the bushes. He had a bad feeling about this. Glancing past Grian, who was stopped at the rocket shop, Mumbo did a double take. Grian was there, buying rockets. He glanced up, grimaced at the other Grian, and finished getting rockets. He walks over.
"Hello, my name is Grian! Would you like to learn how to make a rustic-" the Grian I followed cut off his almost pre recorded sounding greeting when Grian from the rocket shop pointed a sword at his throat.
"What are you doing here? How did you find me?" He growls. Mumbo had good enough sense to text the other hermits, particularly False, to come to the shopping district. When he glanced up he nearly jumped. Another Grian, looking very, very metallic and robotic, had a sword to Rocket shop Grian's neck.
"Aww, c'mon Grian! Is that any way to greet some old friends?" It says in a robotic voice.
"Robot. What's all this about, then? I thought I left you guys in the hypixel plot house. Did you let NPC out of his closet?" Grian didn't lower his sword. Neither did the Robot Grian.
False landed silently behind him.
"I think the middle Grian is the real one." Mumbo whispers. "NPC" snaps their head over.
"Hello, my name is Grian! There is someone in the bushes!" He declares. Mumbo stares directly into his red eyes.
"The middle one is DEFINITELY the real Grian." He whispers, leaping out and full on tackling the robot man.
"What the heck?" It says as Mumbo quickly gets up.
"Grian! Are you okay? What's going on?" He asks as False leaps from the bushes, knocking the sword away from Robot as she went and pointing her own at him.
"It is... A long story." He grabs the back of NPC's shirt, dragging him to the pickle shop before shoving him into a closet they hadn't noticed. X lands next to False.
"You shoved the other dude in a closet. What do we do with this guy?" False asks. X stares at her in confusion. Grian walks over, flipping a switch on the back of Robot's head. The red glowing eyes stop glowing and it seems to power off.
"He'll manage to reactivate himself in an hour or two, but that buys us enough time to surround him in obsidian or something." Grian sighs.
"Grian, what's going on? Who are they, and why do they look so much like you?" Mumbo asks.
"Those... Well, the robot one is Robot Grian. I created him to play mini-games with me because I couldn't enter a competition without a teammate- it's a long story" he says, shaking his head.
"NPC Grian is another creation of mine. I was trying to create the perfect builder, and summoned a demon to possess the body I made- I was really stupid okay- but now all he wants to do is build rustic houses." X stares at him, slightly surprised.
"I didn't really take you as an engineer, Grian, you don't even know redstone very well from what you told me." Grian laughs.
"I'm no good at redstone. I don't know how, but engineering is a lot easier. Anyways, I normally just call them Robot and NPC. NPC can't open doors so I lock him in closets and that normally holds him for a bit. As for Robot, he's smart and strong enough to punch through stone. I normally leave him encased in obsidian, but when I left I decided to let him roam around and play mini-games. I guess that was pretty stupid of me..." False puts her sword back.
"So, what're we going to do now? Just lock them up forever?" She asks, attempting to pick Robot up. Grian laughs as she struggles to pick him up. She's strong, but he is literally made of metal. Grian walks over, throwing him over his shoulder with relative ease. (Grian is the strongest boi, you can't change my mind >:3) False stares at him a moment before shrugging. The new guy was weird, yet Mumbo couldn't help but be curious. He seemed surprisingly calm when they had found him, he had already set up a small house and despite claiming he had never been to the end - going as far as to deny even knowing of it - Mumbo had caught sight of him flying around with what could only be an elytra. He shakes his head, following Grian to his base after False had grabbed NPC. This was going to be a strange year, he could feel it.

Hey I'm not super proud of this and have wrote like 5 different stories for this chapter but none of them were very good so I just decided to go with this one. It's better than the original, at least. Anyways, hope you enjoyed! See ya later, gods, goddesses, and other immortal beings!