The Crew's Book of Hermitcraft Season 7 Oneshots

Hivemind

Hi! Welcome to Season 7! Let's go!

The first chapter of my s6 book was about Xisuma, so let's do the same for s7.

Enjoy!

Xisuma Void was doing something which could, in the vaguest of terms, be described as gardening. Or whatever the word is for gardening when trees, bees and bonemeal are concerned. Well, however you phrase it, he was gardening.

Despite problems with the biomes, X had built up a reasonable stock of beehives. The air was, no pun intended, absolutely buzzing with the creatures. X found himself involuntarily making his own little buzzing noises as he worked. Probably just a slightly funky side effect of his skin resonating with nearby mobs. He'd had the same problem with turtles last season.

He walked away from the bees, going silent as he made some distance. He got back to his base area, and sat himself down on a log. He stared into space for a couple of minutes, before deciding to see if he could buzz at will. He soon found that it came quite naturally to him.

Of course, this meant one thing: pranks. He pulled up the tab menu, checking to see who was online. Doc was online (when was he not, to be honest) and Stress as well. Deciding not to bother Doc with his G.O.A.T, X decided to prank Stress. He rummaged through his chests, retrieved a boat, and set off for Stress' place.

He arrived in the other jungle after a painstakingly long journey - he couldn't wait to get himself some elytra - and boated his way down the river. Stress waved enthusiastically at him as he pulled up into her little lake in his boat. So much for the element of surprise. He sighed, and rowed slowly up to her central island, defeated.

He looked at the bees she was farming as he and Stress aimlessly chatted, making mental notes of the bees' specific voices. He couldn't do the prank he was planning, sure, but that didn't mean he couldn't prank her at all. He readied himself, then began.

"Stresszz..." He piped up, feeding a bit of buzz into his speech, "I think szzomething iszz wrong."

Stress turned to him, concerned. "What... X, what's going on?"

"It'szzz weird... Like szzzomething elszzze iszzz invading my head." He began to say on his feet for dramatic effect.

"ZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzI can'tzzzzzzzzzzzzz zzzztalk..."

And he fell to the ground. Stress paused for a moment, then leapt back startled. The suddenness of the movement caused X to burst out laughing, rolling from his side onto his back. Stress blinked, gave him the Look to end all looks, then muttered (to both herself and Xisuma):

"You absolute plonker."

"Gotcha!" X called up from the ground.

"Yeah, yeah." Stress sighed. "You win a bottle of honey."

X propped himself up on one arm to see what Stress was doing. She reached into the hive with a glass bottle, before realising her mistake at the angry buzzing that filled the air. She'd forgotten to put a campfire underneath.

The bees swarmed out, diving towards her. She put her arms up to protect her face from the dangerous stings, and cried out each time point went in. But eventually all the stings were delivered.

Stress turned around, shaking, she wondering why X hadn't helped. She saw he was just standing there. And then Stress realised a lot of things at once. Firstly, his eyes were glowing red. Secondly, he had his sword out. Thirdly, he was literally buzzing with rage. Something was dreadfully wrong here. Or he was just pranking again. Stress didn't know. And that was terrifying.

Oh noes a cliffhanger whatever shall we do.

I hope this chapter is a good start to the season, and this book. And with that...

OdalRune, signing off from the past!