Hidden Magic (a Hermitcraft Fanfiction)

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Note: I know basically nothing about the seasons before 6, so any events that i say happened in them are 100% made up in my head.

Also uh, I noticed that the chapter numbers were messed up, I'm pretty sure someone even told me they were messed up, but it's fixed now, YAY!

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“How did you end up out here?” EX asked Grian as the latter stood up and began looking around the room.
“I flew, I was bored so I went exploring.” Grian replied absent mindedly, inspecting the brewing stand on the windowsill as if it was a new concept he’d never seen.
“You’re from the main island, right?”
“Yah, are you?” Grian said, turning to face him, EX took another cookie from the plate and leant against the wall.
“A long time ago, yes.”

Grian looked curious, but decided not to pry, it might be a touchy topic, but he still really wanted to know, obviously it showed in his body language.
“My brother banished me after I almost destroyed everything when I lost control of my magic.” EX said with a sigh, “He even started to call me ‘Evil Xisuma’ to the other hermits.”
“Thats…” Grian didn’t know how to respond, “Horrible. But X is your brother?”
“Yeah.” EX said, before quickly changing the subject, “Won't the other hermits be worried about you?”
Grian nodded, fiddling with the stand, “Probably.”

(Back with the hermits)

X had called a meeting, it had been a few days since anyone had seen Grian, Iskall had reported it to X when he hadn’t shown up for a sahara meeting, X knew this was normal for Mumbo, but not Grian, especially when iskall had told him that Grian himself organised the meeting.

The hermits were gathering in front of Sahara, some were still arriving, the latecomers like Scar, who’d just woken up, and Mumbo, who was late as usual, stood at the back, waiting to hear what X had to say.

“Alright everyone, I’ve called this meeting because I’ve been informed that Grian is missing.” X said, the crowd broke out into a lot of chatter. “Everyone be quiet, you can talk in a minute.” Doc yelled, “Let X speak.” The crowd went silent, X took a deep breath, “Does anyone know where he was last seen?”

Mumbo raised his hand, “I last saw him working on his base.”
“I saw him flying over the shopping district a few days ago.” Offered Tango,
“I haven’t really seen him properly since the war but i could track where he last was on the island?” Doc suggested.
“That would be incredibly useful right now.” X said with a nod,

Doc quickly pulled out his communicator, waving a hand over it, causing a small glow of red magic before the screen turned to a map, the hermits crowded around him to look at it.

The map showed coloured dots, labeled with all of the hermit’s names, all of them were in a large cluster outside of Sahara, showing where each of the hermits was currently, except one which was right on the edge of the map, as if they had gone out of range over the ocean past Grian’s base. This dot was labeled “Grian”

“That’s him, there.” Doc said, pointing at the dot before tapping it, bringing up Grian’s stats, “He was last at that spot three and a half days ago, he’s gone out of range of my map.”

X looked closer at the stats, Grian’s health, hunger and XP.
“He seems to be doing ok, his health is good, his hunger is lo- wait it just went up, and XP doesn’t really matter, Doc can you expand the map to see where he went?” X said, looking up at the creeper hybrid.
“I can, it will take some time though.” Doc nodded, looking down at the shorter admin.
“Thank you, everyone stay here for now.” X said, going to sit on a bench.

(20 minutes later)

Most of the hermits had split off into their groups, discussing what might have happened to Grian. Doc was sat alone against the large Architechs logo, using magic to manipulate the map, trying to see where Grian went until finally he got it.

Waving X over to sit next to him Doc showed the admin the map, X looked carefully at it, Grian was out in a forest somewhere, the purple dot labeled with his name was clear to see against the green, but in almost exactly the same place was another dot, a black one, representing another person, which was labelled, “???”.

“Who’s that?” Was the first thing that X asked him, pointing a gloved finger at the black dot.
“No idea…” Doc said, tapping on it, it brought up the stats, full health and hunger, but still showing no name, “Who else is here?”
“I don’t know…” X looked thoughtful as the other hermits came over to look at the screen, each peering over their shoulders.

X thought for a while before he let out a sigh.
“What is it?” Stress asked him, putting a hand on Xisuma’s shoulder.
“I think i might know who that is, and if it is who i think it is, Grian is in danger.” X said, standing up.
“Who is it? I’ll fight them.” Iskall said, already with his hand on his sword, even though there was no current threat.
“No, Iskall, there shouldn’t be a need for that, hopefully I can reason with him…” X said.

“Who do you think it is?” False called out from the group.”

“I think… I think it’s Evil Xisuma.”

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I'm getting better! I'm only four hours and 18 minutes late today!

So I've decided I'm only going to upload this (or try to) on Saturdays, since in need more days to procrastinate and I also want to start working on something else as well, so I hope that's ok uwu.

Anyway hope you enjoyed! :D

-Ash