Winged Beasts

III

A war broke out on Hermitcraft. Some hermits managed to escape via ender pearls and are now in hiding.

"Where are your... Friends. Grian?" The watcher asked Grian as he chained the remaining hermits, which were;

Xisuma, Impulse, Mumbo, and Ren.

All five hermits chained to the wall beside Grian.

"I don't know.." Grian mumbled. He was then grabbed by the collar of his sweater and pinned to the wall. "I SAID I DON'T KNOW. They're obviously hiding from you! Look what you've done to our home!" Grian gasped at the words he just spoke. "Good thing we're destroying it then." The watcher said dropping Grian.

After about 20 more minutes of chaos The watchers had killed two hermits. BDubs was gone, so was Scar. Their bodies laid bloodied in front of Grian and the other few hermits with him.

"We need to get out of these chains..." Xisuma whispered.
"What do you think I've been trying to do this entire time? I can't overwrite their magic." Grian replied.
"Come on Grian, you got this." Mumbo said, encouraging him.
"No I don't. You guys still don't get it. I'm a HEALER. Any magic I have is far less powerful than theirs. And I just can't keep fighting this with healing." Grian said, pulling at the ends of his chains trying to loosen them enough to where he could get out.

"Grian.. Psst.." A voice called out, Grian looked over and smiled.
"Jonya! What.. How?" Grian asked.
"I can't explain right now, but come on. You and your friends need to go." Jonya explained, unchaining Grian and his friends. 
"But.."
"Go. I'm creating a nether portal that will lead you to your friends." 
"Scar and BDubs..." Mumbo said. 
"I can heal them. I know it's gonna be gross and very awkward but grab them." Grian said healing his own arms and wrists. 

Three different watchers came in while the group was walking through the portal. But they hadn't seemed to notice immediately until the portal was gone and so were their prisoners.

As the gang ran through the Nether tunnels, Grian ran backwards healing BDubs and Scar. 

"C'mon, c'mon, c'mon.. Wake up guys." Grian mumbled.

"Why aren't they waking up?" Xisuma asked.
"I don't know! Their physical forms are healed, I don't know why they aren't waking up." Grian yelled as he fell backwards.

"I'm fine. Keep going." Grian said getting up and following behind. They found another Nether portal. "THERE! Through the portal. GO!" Grian shouted. Everyone went through as Grian was the last to arrive though.

"THEY'RE ALIVE! GUYS GET IN HERE!" Tango shouted running over and hugging Impulse.

"Put Scar and Dubs on the beds. NOW." Grian said, taking off his elytra, and bringing out real wings and other Watcher abilities.  "Where's Doc?! Or Joe? I need their help. NOW. Get healing potions, my power isn't enough." 

Tango stared at Grian, then turned towards the others. "What're you waiting for? Do as the man says!" Xisuma yelled. 

As Grian continued to heal Scar Doc and Joe came running in. 

"What happened to them?!" Doc yelled, splashing a healing potion on both BDubs and Scar.
"They got attacked by the watchers. You die almost for good unless you're being brought back by a healing watcher. Which is me. But it's not enough. Hold his head." Grian said as he put two fingers on his neck to feel a pulse. 

After about twenty minutes of working, Grian was absolutely exhausted. He put his ear against Scars' chest.

"Anything?" Doc asked. Grian breathed heavily but silently. Grian could hear faint, but strong heartbeats coming from Scar. Grian sighed with a smile. "There's a heartbeat!"

"Scar? Scar...? C'mon.. I know you're with us." Grian said, grabbing hold of his hand. Scar coughed and slowly sat up. Grian immediately hugged him tight. "I'm alright G-Man... I'm alright." Scar said hugging him tightly.

"Scar we thought we were gonna lose you forever. You... You weren't breathing, then you were.. I... I healed you... And BDubs.." Grian said looking Scar up and down, then scurrying over to BDubs and put his ear against his chest. 

"Is he..." Joe started, but BDubs started coughing scaring the life out of Grian, Scar, Doc, and Joe. Grian fell backwards and then immediately pulled himself up. BDubs pulled a hand to his head and groaned. "What happened?" he asked, "And why does Grian have beautiful angel wings?"

"It's a long story. I'll be right back, stay here and don't try and get up. Doc, Joe? Can you give them healing potions while I go talk to the others?" Grian asked, Doc and Joe nodded and got to work on their two friends. Grian walked out to the hermits in the other room.

"Grian! How are they? What happened? Is everything okay? Anything broken?" Many questions being asked of him to answer, but Xisuma silenced their friends. "One thing at a time guys. How are Bubs and Scar?" X asked putting a hand on Grian's shoulder.

Grian took a breath. "They.. They're alive to say the least. They are awake and wondering what the heck is going on but they are relatively okay." He said looking back at the room. "I'd rather not have anyone see them right now because they are still a little disoriented."

As night fell on the hermits, their entire world going to ashes, they set up a watch team and the rest of them slept. 

~Grian~

"Where are you?" Watcher said.
"You can't hurt me. You can't hurt them."
"We can, and we will. We already know you revived the two we killed. We will kill so many more if you don't show up."
"You've already killed two. What more could you want?!"
"YOU." 

"GRIAN WAKE UP! WE NEED YOUR HELP." Tango shouted shaking him awake.
"Wh.. What's going on?!" Grian shouted as the ground shook under them.
"They're taking all of them. They found us." 

Grian got up and ran unsteady on his feet. He saw Watchers knocking hermits out and putting them in chains and cages. "STOP. I'M THE ONE YOU WANT. LEAVE THEM OUT OF THIS!" He shouted, tears filling his eyes.

"Here to come home?" The watcher asked.
"Over my dead body." Mumbo piped up. 
"MUMBO SHUT UP." Grian yelled.
"That can be arranged. You know that. But, first before we kill your friends..." The Watcher paused, frightening Grian in his tracks. The Watcher shot his magic at Grian, forcing him to stand in place as he was brought to his knees and chained heavily. He screamed as he was unable to move from his spot. Noticing how the watcher moved him and his friends, they'd had chained up everyone and put Grian at the front where he watched people be hurt because of his mistake.

"STOP! Please, you're hurting them!" Grian cried as the Watchers brought Xisuma out and stabbed him in the chest, letting his corpse bleed out. Grian looked away from the dead body as they brought out more hermits, until they grabbed Mumbo.

"Mumbo.. NO, LEAVE HIM ALONE!" Grian cried, tears streaming down his face. 
"Oh pretty little angel. Don't waste your tears on these mortals." 
"STOP! I'LL DO WHAT YOU WANT. I'll do what you want. Just... Let me heal them." Grian pleaded. "Let me heal them... And I'll leave with you. I'll take whatever punishment you give me as long as you let me heal them."

The watchers looked at each other. "Fine. But make it quick." They said releasing Grian from his chains. He ran over to his fallen hermits and healed the majority. 

"Grian you can't leave with them.. They'll hurt you." Xisuma said weakly.
"Shh... X, if I don't go with them they'll hurt you guys more. And I already lost you, Scar, BDubs, Impulse, Tango, and Zed once I can't lose any of you again. I almost lost Mumbo just now. I was given the chance to heal you all, at a price. Now I have to leave. I'm sorry." Grian said getting up, and walking back over to the watchers.

"Ready?"

Grian looked back at his friends, none of them wanting to leave. "Yeah.." As they were about to enter the portal Grian mouthed, 

'I love you' to them as they disappeared.