Hermitcraft superhero AU [Discontinued]

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Grian looked over the sky of the shopping district. Even tough right now he was dressed up as Poultry Man it was still the same Grian behind the mask. He didn't like to hide his identity, but here he was, lying about his identity.

Just a few minutes earlier Circuit and Iskallium had left for some sleep, but Poultry Man stayed at the rooftop. "True heros don't need sleep. Right?" He mumbled.

Many of the hermits never really looked up to Poultry Man because he would not use his powers, he didn't want to use his powers. Many thought he didn't really even have powers and it was just a rumor. He had never even explained his powers, but sometimes when he was alone or someone really pissed him off his hands would glow purple and his face would look almost emotionless. It scared some of the hermits, but most of them didn't care, to them PM was weak, and would always be.

Sometimes Grian thought about his friends true identities. Iskallium was easy enough to figure out, but he never got to know Circuit's identity. Nobody knew Grian's identity, not even his closest friend Mumbo. Grian wasn't even sure if Mumbo had a secret identity as a hero, but if he did, his hero name should be Spoon, because that's what he is, a spoon. "Spoon, the hero with the redstone skills of a genious." He mumbled to himself with a small smile on his face. "And I am the Spoon's sidekick... the man in the chicken costume!" He continued and started laughing

Grian didn't even notice how tired he was until he fell asleep.

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"Poultry Man? Are you ok?"

Grian woke up and looked confused for a moment until he realized that it was Mumbo speaking to him. He had passed out on the rooftop. "Great." He thought.

"Yeah... damn... I must have fallen asleep... stupid me."

"Even tough you do have that chicken mask on I can see that you haven't had a good sleep in a long time, I know you're a hero and all, but... you could get hurt or worse!"

Poultry Man looked away from the redstoner for a moment.

"I guess you're right... but being a hero isn't the only thing that's affecting my sleep."

"Huh...?"

"You see... I've been getting alot of nightmares... I seriously shouldn't be telling you this."

The redstoner looked confused for a moment. Poultry Man had never told him that he had nightmares. Mumbo felt little guilty of not noticing before. Like, it was so obvious! PM would always look like he hadn't slep in days, and acted like it too.

Mumbo knew that there was only a little chance of Poultry Man actually knowing him out of costume, but he still had some level of blind trust with him.

"I.. I should probaply go- I'm out of eggs and..."

Before Mumbo could do anything to stop the chicken he was already running away from his problems, like usual.

Mumbo sighed and eguipped his elytra. He was originally going to buy some rockets, but when he saw a chicken passed out on a random rooftop it did make him a little conserned.

                       Grian's POV
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"I knew that Mumbo was just trying to help me, but I just... I 'chickened' out! Ugh... I'm a big idiot... I hope he doesn't see Poultry Man as some kind of a big joke now. What was I thinking!?Ok Gri, calm down. He probaply doesn't mind it." I thought to myself.

Suddently I heard rockets from outside of my base. I guickly took the costume and shoved it in my inventory.

It was Iskall and Mumbo

"Hi dude- oh my god Gri! When have you last slept!? You look like you've been awake for weeks!" Iskall said worried for me. "Oh don't worry about it, I've been sleeping just fine."

Everyone in the room knew it was a white lie. "Ok, ok! I've been having trouble falling asleep! That's all!" I said lying to them again. Mumbo couldn't help but feel like I wasn't telling him the truth. Mumbo and Iskall exchanged looks. I could tell they both were very worried. Finally Mumbo broke the silence."Grian.."

He was trying to make an eye contact until he finally continued

"We are worried about you."

"I know..." Iskall and Mumbo were shocked of my answer.

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It had been weeks since Mumbo and Iskall had made their suprice visit. Grian did admit that he did feel lonely, but he also knew that he was the one keeping secrets from everybody.

Since 'Poultry Man' hadn't showed up to patrol with his friends Grian had alot of time to practise his powers. Well, they hadn't always been his. Man, Grian had been just a normal player, until...

Grian shook his head. Now wasn't the time to think about that. He never really did want to use his powers, but he had a good reason. If he would use too much of his magic he knew that he could accidently lose control over his actions, like the ones that gave him his power, X and Y, but now Grian had free time to try to master the power, as he didn't have any visitors. Of course some hermits missed him, but they were too busy to care. At least that's what Grian thought. Grian took a step torvards his ender chest. At the darkest corner of the chest lied a mask. Chills ran down his spine just for looking at it. He reached for the mask.

Suddently a familiar, too familiar voice came from outside his base

"Rockets."

Grian slammed the chest shut. It's not like anybody could have seen the mask, because it was in an ender chest, but Grian still paniced for a split second. Then he calmed himself down. It was just X.

"Hey, Grian? Are you in here?" X asked and stepped inside the base "Oh! There you are!" X sounded almost happy to see Grian. Grian stepped forward to see X better. Sunlight blinded Grian, so he guickly undid his step. X laughed at his friend. Grian was embarrased for a moment, then he started laughing too.
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