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~~Chapter 3 ~ Fear~~

Freak!

Monster!

Mistake!

Those were the words they were saying to me, over and over again. But then I started hearing another one.[Ima sensor this one cause it is a truly awful word to say to anyone.]

F*ggot!

Those words hurt me. It felt like they were crushing my very soul, cracking it, making me feel like it had shattered into millions of pieces.

Those same four words repeated each being said by different hermits. Suddenly one spoke above them all.

"I'll save you"

I looked around seeing nothing but the misleading hermits which quickly melted into shadows, slowly disappearing. Then out of the shadows came a creature. It was tall and lanky, it looked like it was made out of melted shadows and it had noticeable bright reddish-pink color eyes and horns.

"Hello, Grian"
"H-how do you n-now my n-name?!?"
"I know many different things Grian"
"Your name,
everyone you know,
everyone you love,
your likes,
Dislikes,
...
Fears..."

I shivered at the last part.
Everything seemed to get colder as soon as it said that.

"W-what do you m-mean my f-fears?"
"You're afraid of being left behind
You're afraid everyone will hate you
You're afraid of not being accepted by the other hermits
...
You're afraid of him
HATING you

MOVING ON FROM YOU

NEVER LOVING YOU

YOUR JUST A LOST SOUL"

I was woken up by Mumbo who was shaking me.

"Grian are you okay?!?" "Wha- yeah. Why?" "You were crying! How could you be okay if you were crying!" "I don't know... I wasn't sad I was more..."

...

"Scared"

I remembered what the creature told me.

I hugged Mumbo making him jump a little at the sudden contact. He slowly wrapped his arms around me, sitting on the bed.

"Promise me, Mumbo"
"Promise you what?"
"Promise me you- and the other hermits will never leave me."
"We would never leave you~"
"Promise?"
"Promise."

We heard rockets in the distance getting closer and closer.

"MUMBO! GRIAN!"

"Mumbo! Whys iskall here!?!"
"Calm down Grian I called him here to help you."
"O-okay..."

"Mumbo, Grian what's the prob- uhh did I catch you two at the wrong time or...?"

I felt my face flush a light red color.

"Umm- w-well Grian had a nightmare and i was just comforting him..."

Iskall came over, picked me up, and hugged me. He but me back down on the floor but was still hugging me. Mumbo came over and starting hugging me from behind. I was unfortunately squished in between them, Mumbo on one side of me and Iskall the other making for a sandwich effect.

"G-guys! I'm being s-squished!"
"Oh sorry Grian!"

Iskall let go which made Mumbo fall on top of me pulling Iskall with him. We all fell down in a heap. Unfortunately, I fell down onto one of my wings, making me scream in pain, It was gone as soon as it came tho.

"Gri are you okay?!?"
"Im fine Mumbo I just landed on my wing-"
"Are you sure?!? Let me see?!?"
"Mumbo I'm fine I don't need you to-"
"No. I'm checking and making sure you're okay."

I sighed and sat on the bed so Mumbo could examine my wings. I looked at Iskall who winked at me. I felt my face heat up but tried to ignore it.

"Grian take your shirt off."

I felt my face heat up, turning a deeper shade of red.

"I-i mean I-you to take your shirt off cause n-need to see what's wrong with your wing where it-hurt?"

Iskall facepalmed at Mumbo's explanation.

"I understand what you mean Mumbo, here."

I hesitantly took my shirt off slightly blushing and laid it onto the bed beside me.

"A-alright let's see..."

...

"Grian there's something wrong with the base of your wings..."
"What's wrong?"
"It's a dark grey and compared to the rest of your wings that are a white color it doesn't look good..."

"Yeah, dude that doesn't look like its supposed to be there"
"I think it's been there? I've seen it before and it usually goes away."
"So i-it's okay? If so please put your shirt back on."

I picked up my shirt and quickly put it back on, trying not to get it caught on my wings.

"Okay, so are we going to tell the rest of the hermits that you randomly sprouted wings?"
"Well, first of all, they didn't just appear out of nowhere, I was born with them, I think they were just hidden too long and were starting to be in pain? I honestly don't know why they came out now..."
"Well do you wanna tell the other hermits or?"
"I mean we could ask X if he could gather all the hermits in one place? Im just nervous about what everyone will think of them..."
"Well, let's go to Xisuma right now!"
"Right now? In-person!"
"Why of course!"

We all flew over to Xisumas base, minus me who used the nether cause I couldn't wear elytra and I couldn't fly with my wings yet. We were hoping the admin was there and luckily he was there organizing his storage system.

"Hey X!"
"Oh, hey guys! what brings you here?"
"Well, I was hoping you could help me with telling the other hermits about these..."

I slowly unfolded my wings from my back.

"Of course I can help you! But why do you need help telling the other hermits? Everyone on the server is really nice I don't think anyone would hate you if you had wings."
"Well can you call a server meeting or something?"
"Sure."

He started typing something on his communicator looking up at me to make sure I really wanted to do this.

"Well, we better get going. I've told everyone to meet at your base in the next 20-30 minutes."
"O-okay..." "Hey everything will be alright my friend, don't worry."

"I-I'll catch up with you guys I need to get something..."

We watched as Mumbo flew off, almost crashing into several things.

We decided to go through the nether to get to my base.

We came out through my bases portal and saw some people were already there. We waited for everyone to arrive until we started.