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Chapter 4

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It's a few months into the new world and Grian sits on the edge of his mansion swinging his legs softly as he looks over the land. Iskall approaches him with an offer, "You know how last month I went to that tournament?"

"Yeah, why?" Grian asks, smiling.

"Well, I'm supposed to invite someone and I thought you would be a good choice," Iskall says rubbing the back of their neck.

Grian hums softy for a moment, "I'll do it, it'll be a nice distraction."

Iskall grins softly, "I'll send you the information you need."

Grian nods as Iskall flies back to his omega tree. Once he's out of sight Grian calls the watchers, "So, I'm allowed to go off-world right?"

"Since you bear no physical traits of a watcher, yes," Tilor says, answering Grian's question.

Rowan cuts in before Grian can continue, "Little Bird we were watching you, after all, go have fun with your friends."

Grian bids them farewell and hangs up. Back in the watchers palace the two girn knowingly at each other, "Should we tell him?"

Rowan looks offended at the question, "Nay, let him have a good surprise."

Tilor shrugs going back to his notes.

A few weeks have passed and it's time to start heading to the tournament. Ren, False, Cub, Iskall, and Grian. The five of them look to Xisuma who nods and teleports them to the championships.

Once there they split up into their respective teams. Cub, nods to Grian, before heading after the others.

Grian looks up at Iskall, "So what now?"

"Check-in, we just got to let them know that we're here," Iskall says, dragging Grian where they're supposed to go.

Grian looks around Curiously and spots some chaos happening. A pink-haired man with a scarlet cloak is chasing a man with a green and white striped hat. Iskall follows Grian's line of vision and explains, "That's Philza and Techo."

Grian nods and looks over and freezes covering his mouth with his hands, "Mini?" He whispers.

A teenager is running towards Techo and Philza as a man jogs after them. The man turns as his teammate reaches his friends. He leans against a wall passively watching. He looks up and makes eye contact with Grian.

"Yeah that's Mini Muka, how do you know him?" Iskall says looking confused at Grian's reaction.

Mini runs towards them grabbing Grian's shoulders and bringing him into a hug, "We thought you were gone."

By this point Grian has tears streaming down his face, "They couldn't find you EVO just vanished, we thought..."

The pair sink to their knees as In The little Wood and Solitary walk by with their team. The two look at the bright red sweater and look at Mini's face quizzically. He nods and gently pulls Grian back to his feet, turning him to face the others.

By this point, Iskall has realized something is happening and has rushed off to find the other hermits. They sent a message to Grian's communicator letting him know what they were doing.

Little Woods leans over and hugs Grian, "Didn't they take you?"

"They did, I'm technically in training right now," Grian explains in a hushed whisper, "Also please don't tell my friends. They're not supposed to know."

Solidarity nods, "That makes sense."

The four stand around talking about what has happened while they've been apart. After a bit, the teen Mini was watching comes over and taps him on the shoulder, "Yeah, Tommy?"

"Techno and Philza are going to go find Wilbur now and I'm supposed to stick with a teammate," Tommy says nervously looking behind him where Techo gives him a thumbs up.

Mini laughs, "Did you get the don't annoy your team talk again?"

Tommy nods as he starts grinning. He spots Grian standing next to Mini looking absolutely confused and explains, "Last time I managed to piss off some very important people, Techo apologized for me and he says he's not doing it again. I'm Tommy by the way."

"Grian, you're in the same team as Mini?" Seeing Tommy nod his face splits into a grin, "Do you want to hear about how he made a dirt shop and accidentally blew up a bakery?"

Mini puts his hand over Grian's mouth, "Let's not talk about that."

"Let's hear it," Tommy says grinning at Grian who has managed to get out of Mini's grasp.

As Grian explains some of the things that happened on EVO, Iskall comes back with Ren and Cub in tow. False is busy getting them signed in and told them to fill her in later.

Grian spots Ren first, and waves him over, "Ren, these are my friends from EVO."

Ren smiles, "Pleasure to meet y'all."

"I have a question for you, did he start a war on your server?" Solidarity asks as he shakes Ren's hand.

"Yep, I'm assuming he did something similar in your world?"

"Did he? Ha, he was the most chaotic thing," Mini laughs as he explains what had happened in EVO, leaving out anything to do with the watchers.

They stand around Sharing stories of the gremlin for a while longer then a buzzer goes off signaling five minutes till the start of the championships.

Most people start walking over to the arena, on the way Grian pauses as he sees the air shimmer slightly behind one of the admins. Squinting at it he sees the vague outline of a humanoid. A humanoid figure with wings.