The Lion Sleeps Tonight - A Hermitcraft Fanfic

Sherlock

Entry number eight.

As you, my definitely-not-imaginary reader can probably tell from the previous entry, Etho found this journal. That's fine, that's okay, he put it back afterwards.

What's not okay is what happened next. He... He told Doc. And Doc lost it. I'm writing this hiding up in a tree.

I'm scared. It seems to only get worse. And... It already seems to be at its worst. Just how bad can it get?

Long live the nHo
BDoubleO100

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Ren looked at the scene before him, thoroughly confused. Tomato Yoshi was nowhere to be found, and a traumatised ocelot kitten had attached itself to him. Ren guessed that the two were probably related, which led to a posse of other questions.

Ren sighed. He decided to contact Iskall, since they were both smart and, last time Ren checked, online. He sent Iskall a PM asking if the Swede could help with something. After a couple minutes of no response, Ren began to worry. He hopped back through the Nether portal, and began making his way towards the shopping district. That's where they'd probably be.

A couple minutes later, Ren arrived in the shopping district. He was about to begin his own search when he noticed Sherlock's place. Ren made his way over there, hoping to borrow some detecting equipment since there was no Grian to be Sherlock Grian. He was caught by surprise, however, when he noticed a sign posted on the door.

Cub's Sherlock now.
Remind him to change
the address
-G

Ren shrugged, and rang the doorbell. The familiar sound rang out, and he braced himself for the drop in. Despite this preparation, he still let out an involuntary yelp as the floor fell out from under him and he was rocketed about, then shot up into Sherlock Cub's office.

The man himself was sitting in the big chair in the middle of the room, looking professional, but also slightly nervous. Ren didn't know what gave him that vibe, but the vibe was there nonetheless. He stepped into the office, trying his best not to look too worried, despite the fact that his closest friend was missing in action.

"Ah. Renson." Cub remarked, drumming his fingers on the table. "I take it that something is wrong. You've made a valiant effort in keeping calm, though I can see you're worried." Cub observed. "How can I help?"

"I'd like to report a missing person, possibly two."

"Who is it?" Cub asked, concern entering his voice. If any of the hermits were MIA... It didn't bear thinking about.

"Tomato Yoshi, and possibly Iskall."

Cub was about to speak, when he realised something was wrong. He'd seen Iskall not five minutes prior. He pointed this out to Ren, and Ren showed Cub the PM he'd sent Iskall three minutes before, and its conspicuous lack of reply.

"Well, I last saw them heading to Sahara, so let's check there. Come with me, Renson?"

Ren nodded, and the two left the office à la Peter Pan, yeeting themselves out of the window. Apparently Cub didn't care for making proper exits either. They made their way over to Sahara, Ren half-running into the building in his concern.

As they entered, they saw a hole in the floor, likely where Iskall would go collect profits. The two made their way over, Ren gently dropping in, then Cub. They looked around, and realised they were in Sahara's Redstone. Cub looked around, Ren loudly calling for Iskall. But they found nothing- until Ren's heel bumped into something. Iskall's communicator. It was open to the PM conversation with Ren, reply half-typed.

Whatever it was had caught the mighty Iskall off-guard. The two knew they were in for quite the adventure.

Okay, so some of you might want context. In my s6 oneshots book, there is a chapter called "Sherlock Cub" which takes place in this same timeline. That's your explanation.

I've been Entropy, peace out from the present!