Hidden Magic (a Hermitcraft Fanfiction)

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Grian landed outside of Sahara with a crash, a lot of the hermits were already there, talking amongst themselves, Grian could sense the tension though he was certain he, besides xisuma, was the only one here who knew what had happened.

Iskall ran over and pulled Grian into a hug as soon as he saw him land.

“Grian thank god you’re alright.” He practically yelled.

“Yeah- why wouldn’t I be?” Grian replied, returning the hug, he tried to act as normal as possible as his mind was working at a thousand miles an hour.

“Everyone listen to me!” X yelled. The crowd silenced instantly, the urgant tone in his voice wasn’t what they were used to.

“I’m sure everyone heard the explosion, I know you’re all worried and you have every right to be.” X started, he took a deep breath before continuing, “My wards around hermitcraft came down, we’ve gone too long without a reset, two years was too much for the wards to handle, The authorities are undoubtedly on their way, some troops have already made it to the forests on the outskirts.”

Everyone was in a small amount of shock, their safety here in hermitcraft was gone, the authorities were coming and they had very little time.

“What do we do?” Scar called, his voice louder than the other hermit’s chattering, “Is there a plan?”

“I have no idea if it’ll work, but we need to reset, and we need to do it as quickly as possible.” Xisuma said firmly, “We need to get everyone to Area77. The infinity portal is what we’ll use. I just need a little time to get it ready.”

“So we just need to hold the fort?” False called, readying her duel swords.

“Exactly, buy me time and don't die, go back to your bases and get armour, do it quickly and meet back at area77, there is no time to lose, all of our lives depend on it.”

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The hermits scattered, most of them flying back to their bases, though Grian was rooted to the spot, his mind racing, if the authorities had already gotten to the outskirts, that meant EX could be in trouble, he had to help. 

“Grian! Grian come on, we have to go!” Mumbo said, grabbing Grian’s wrist and pulling him out of his thoughts.

“You go Mumbo, there's something I need to do.” Grian replied firmly, shaking off Mumbo’s grip and shooting off into the sky beating his wings at an incredible speed, quickly he became just a speck in the distance over the ocean.

“Iskall!” Mumbo yelled, running over to the swede as he was about to disappear into the nether, “Grian’s in trouble- I’ve seen it- he’s going to get hurt-”

“mumbo calm down!” Iskall said, stepping back out of the portal, “Where is he?”

“He flew off that way-” Mumbo pointed in the direction Grian had gone, “My magic- I can feel it, something bad is going to happen to him!”

“I believe you Mumbo, you have to calm down, grab your elytra and we’ll go.” Iskall said, putting a hand on Mumbo’s shoulder, the taller hermit nodded, running over to an ender chest to grab his elytra, Iskall quickly pulled on his own mechanical wings.

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Soon enough the pair were in the sky, flying over the ocean as fast as the could with the rocket propelled wings.

“Do you know where he went?” Mumbo asked, “Theres so much forest- he could be anywhere!”

“I have a pretty good feeling.” Iskall nodded.

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Grian landed quickly in a tree near the cabin, he was out of breath from flying so fast, he steadied himself on the branches of the tree before looking down at the scene in front of him.

Authorities were surrounding the house, there weren’t that many, but those that were there were enough to make it impossible to get into the house from the bottom floor, Grian shivered as he heard one of them yell, he had to get into the house, he needed to save his friend.

He jumped onto the roof of the house, as quietly as he could and hopefully avoiding being seen. He remembered when he first met EX there was a window with a large sill, where EX’s brewing stand was kept, that was how he’d get in. 

Pressing his back to the roof tiles he edged closer to the window. The authorities below him were talking using walkie talkies, probably to other squads.

“The house had been secured, moving in.” Grian heard one of them say, he didn’t have much time.

Once he was sure none of them were looking up, he swung himself down onto the window ledge, he pulled out his silk touch pickaxe and made quick work of the glass, quickly and silently slipping inside.

“EX?” Grian called quietly, he flinched as he heard a bang from downstairs, they were trying to force the door down.

“Gri!?” Came EX’s voice before Grian was engulfed in a hug, “Oh my god Grian what the hell are you doing here!”

“I came to help you! Come on, we need to get out of here!”

“They’re blocking every door- how did you even get in??” EX asked, “I was hiding in the closet.”

“The window! Do you still have the elytra Cleo gave you?”

“Yes, I-”

“Put your hands up and turn to face us.” Came another voice, “Come peacefully and nobody gets hurt.”

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oops I did it again-

>:)

hope you enjoyed

-Ash

ps: this chapter is out so early so I didn't get murdered by a certain Someone, you know who you are :)