Hidden Magic (a Hermitcraft Fanfiction)

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Random note I feel like I needed to make, so, I know Iskall’s character is nonbinary, but in this book im going to continue using he/him pronouns just for consistancy, since I know i’ll confuse myself if I suddenly start using they/them, also I need to edge into it with oneshots (and a roleplay lol) and I need to get used to writing nonbinary pronouns since ive never done it and it confuses me sometimes lol (mainly because they/them is also used talking about a group of people) so ye, ill be using he/him, please dont yell at me, I’ll probably switch them all out in editing once the book is done. I hope that's ok. 

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Grian woke up early. the sun was barely rising, he could hear the peaceful sound of the ocean along with the sound of the sleeping hermits around him. 

Lying in the bed he let his mind wander, though unlike usual he didn't end up thinking about his many building projects or what he might do when he started the day properly, he ended up thinking about EX. 

First off, he was excited to see him again later today. even though it had only been a night since he'd seen his new friend, and the thrill of doing something he shouldn’t was new to him. Grian quickly shook his head, he didn’t want to do something that would make X mad, but he didn’t want to abandon EX either.

Grian finally got out of his bed an hour or so later. The sun was streaming through the glass walls of the base, dancing across his feathers as he stretched out his wings. With a yawn he moved towards his chest monster, beginning to rummage through the shulkers.

Iskall woke up as Grian was making some food for the hermits once they woke up, he offered to help and the two of them made some pancakes together, the smell waking up Joe and Stress, though X and Doc were both still asleep like rocks.

“Let them sleep.” Stress said to Grian, “They don’t sleep enough.”

He nodded with a smile, handing her a plate of food which she took gratefully, going over to a shulker box and sitting down on it.

“Did you guys sleep well?” Stress asked, her bubbly, energetic tone already in her voice, “I did, I slept great!” 

Joe yawned, stretching out his arms, “It was good, sorry to cut this short but I promised to meet Cleo today.”

“No breakfast?” Grain asked, looking over at Joe, who was already strapping on an elytra.

“I’ll eat something on the way.” Joe said with a smile, taking off without another word and flying out of the entrance to Grian’s base.

Grian took is own breakfast and began eating it, sitting down on a shulker box next to Stress. They talked for a while, mainly about projects and stuff, until they got onto the subject of hermitcraft in general.

“Oh!” Stress said, excited, “I came here a long time ago, I barely remember it, I was so little!”

“Stress you were four years old.” Iskall said, coming over, “Not exactly a baby.”

“Yeah but I was little.” Stress said, giggling, “Everyone here at the time basically adopted me. There weren't as many of us as there is now!”

Stress and Iskall began talking about events in the past few resets, Grian was listening, not really taking anything in, before he interrupted. 

“What time is it?” Grian asked, looking straight at iskall, who took out his communicator and checked before looking up at Grian.

“Hey wait- you have a communicator, check yourself! I’m having a conversation!” Iskall said looking back over at Stress, who shrugged and gave them both a smile. 

“You just looked.” Grian replied with a sigh, taking out his own communicator, almost dropping it when he realised how late in the morning it was, he’d have to go now if he wanted to get to the beach in time.

“Is something wrong?” Iskall asked, seeing Grian’s surprise.

“Oh- yeah! I just…” He tried to think of an excuse to leave on the spot, “Wanted to go get supplies to stock sahara this morning! See you around Iskall, Stress!”

At that, Grian spread his wings and took off, soaring straight up out of the top of his base, leaving Iskall and Stress looking in the direction he went, before looking back at each other, Iskall gave a shrug and continued talking with Stress.

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Grian scanned the shore as he approached from the sea, the golden sand was glistening in the sunlight and the waves were lapping calmly at the shore, but Grian’s gaze focused on the red-armoured figure standing at the back of the beach, watching the sky. 

He dived, slamming into EX and knocking them both to the ground, the latter let out a yelp, scrambling to get up out of the sand, while Grian burst out laughing, sitting up.

“Hello!” Grian chirped, jumping up as EX tried to brush the sand out of the places where his armour joined together.

“I’m never going to get the sand out of this now-” EX said, shooting Grian an annoyed look.

“Aw- I'm sorry, it’s fine though! There's other things you can wear!” Grian said, smiling. EX shook his head with a sigh before smiling back.

“What do you propose i do?” EX huffed, crossing his arms.

“Uh-” Grian looked around, “We could get you some other clothes! Like a hoodie! I know Cleo has loads of stuff, she uses it for her puppet thingies.”

“So you’re staying we should steal from the hermits.” 

“Yes.” 

EX shook his head with a smile, “Whatever you say, gremlin.”

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Two hours later the pair returned to the beach, Grian carrying a pile of stolen clothes in his arms, he looked up at the sky.

“I really should be going- it’s late, I don’t want the hermits to get suspicious.” Grian said, handing EX the clothes, “I’ll come back as soon as I can slip away.”

EX smiled, taking the clothes, already annoyed with his sand covered armour, “I’ll be waiting for you.”

“Good!” Grian said with a grin, running along the beach and taking off just before he reached the water, looking back as he rose into the air, beating his wings to gain height over the ocean. EX waved, Grian grinned widely, waving back before looking back forward, swooping over the sea back to his base. 

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Hehe soorrrryyyy :)

hopefully I'll upload next week, I already have a lot of it written

hehe, I feel evil ;3

anyway hope you enjoyed!

-Ash