Hermitcraft 7 Short Stories

Bangungut

This might get a little dark at the end, sorry

Trigger warning by the way

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Grian had started working with sleepless nights recently, and the other Hermits obviously noticed this, nearly falling asleep at some meetings.

It's day three of it and Grian is already experiencing many mood swings from the deprivation of sleep and gained major paranoia of things. Despite the others protests, he refuses to go to bed, claiming they would come for him.

He's never mentioned who they is, but they only guessed it was some myth he started believing in.

It was now day seven of Grian being an insomniac. His attention span was even shorter than before, and he's forgotten many recent events like the mayoral race. Luckily he remembers them when one of the Hermits reminds him about them.

Xisuma being Xisuma, grows extremely worried for the young hermit, knowing that if he doesn't get any sleep, he could die. Not many of the others know about that though.

On day nine, however, during a meeting, Grian claimed he had seen a creeper or some sorts. Sure he saw something green, but it was definitely not a creeper, just a bush on the shelf.

As the sleep masters of the server, Wels and Bdubs try their hardest to get him to go to bed, ultimately giving up after hours of convincing. All of them knew that Grian was extremely unhealthy from his body temperature despite still living in the dense jungle. His eyes were red from the lack of sleep.

Stress tried giving him some sleeping potions, non of which were working for some reason. They had always worked so well on Scar when he overworks.

It was day eleven since the insomniac came about. Many had given up, but some kept trying.

They had another meeting that day. As they were about to go on to the mayoral campaign, Mumbo quickly shushed everyone as he looked at Grian.

He's finally fallen asleep.

Relief came over all the Hermits, not having to worry about the blonde's deprivation of sleep. Of course, they ended the meeting early, and they brought him to his large mansion to put him to bed.

Xisuma got Iskall and False to stay in the mansion to make sure he didn't try getting out of bed. They happily obliged, wanting their gremlin friend to be protected.

As they were walking out the mansion, they all heard a blood curdling scream coming from Grian's bedroom. After that, silence. . . Dead silence. . .

The Hermits rushed in to see what happened. Grian was still laying in bed, but it didn't feel right to Scar. He went over to the bed, lightly shaking him while quietly calling his name. The rest searched around looking for a source of the sound.

Joe and Cleo searched around his room, finding that he had not actually consumed the sleeping potions given, and was instead drinking and unhealthy amount of coffee to stay awake.

Tango and Impulse had found a note on a little bulletin board Grian had put up for himself. They read it to themself silently, eyes widening at what was written. Zedaph looked over their shoulders to try and read it, but Impulse had pushed him back down. Poor Zed, too precious to see it.

Many heads turned back to the bed as Scar's voice got significantly louder and more unsteady. He bit his lip, holding back tears. He looked up, making eye contact with Doc. He's studied medical, he should know what to do.

The creeper cyborg looked down at the pale youngling, denial setting in. He quickly checked for a pulse. He couldn't believe what he was afraid of actually happened. He turned to the rest of the group, stuttering slightly.

"G-Grian is gone. . ."

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Word count: 631 words

Got a little dark as I said. If you have no idea what just happened, Bangungut is SUNDS in Filipino. SUNDS stands for Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome. This mostly affects men aged 20-40 years old. As the name of it says, how the person died is unknown, therefore unexplained. Looking at the timeline under 1988 it's probably fueled by trauma because 'refugees in U.S'

I got the idea to write this while watching MatPat's theory on Try To Fall Asleep. I was originally thinking about using Bdubs but then I thought I could probably link it back to EVO cuz why not

Hope you enjoyed (even though it's short)