Mumbo stared into the distance, wishing that Grian would come back. But eventually, the night rolled in and there was no sign of his best friend. Mumbo knew that there was no chance of Grian coming back, so he went to the first person that came to mind- Xisuma. Mumbo had seen Grian and Xisuma hanging out a few days before, so maybe X new where his best friend had gone.
The flight was relatively short, but Mumbo arrived, after getting lost twice. He arrived at Xisuma's base, seeing the helmeted man checking derpcoin stock. Mumbo landed with a thud, falling beside X.

"Mumbo? What are you doing here?" Xisuma asked, slightly shaken by Mumbo's entrance.

"Grian's missing! And I think it's my fault!" Mumbo said, pushing himself up from the floor.

"What? Come on, let's go inside. We can talk in there since it's pretty cold out here..." Xisuma smiled, comforting the anxious Hermit.

Mumbo made his way into Xisuma's starter base, and sitting down at the table, whilst X brewed some cups of warm tea. Xisuma placed two cups on the table and sat down opposite his friend.

"Alright, Mumbo, why don't you tell me what happened earlier. Slowly, this time." Xisuma asked, seeing Mumbo hesitate.

"I-... earlier, me and Grian were in a fight and... I said something that made him run away... I don't even know where he's gone!" Mumbo explained, feeling tears prick the corner of his eyes.

"Alright, listen. He can't have gone too far, and I doubt he would've flew away from the entire island. We can ask the others if they've seen Grian, if you'd like?" Xisuma suggested.

"Oh, yeah, that could work!" Mumbo smiled, pulling out his communicator.

Xisuma did the same.

(General Chat)

XisumaVoid~ Has anyone seen Grian?

MumboJumbo~ Yeah, he's missing right now and I can't find him

SamGladiator~ I saw him crying in the woods earlier

XisumaVoid~ Which woods? And when did you get a communicator?

SamGladiator~ In the woods near the Big Eye Crew! And I've had this communicator since I joined the server!

TangoTek~ Actually, Grian is with us right now, Sam

XisumaVoid~ Who else is with you, Tango?

TangoTek~ Me, Grian, Bdubs, Keralis and Stress. We're at Stress' base

BdoubleO100~ Yep!

Keralis~ Grian got injured so we're getting Stress to heal him

MumboJumbo~ What!? We're on our way!!

Tango~ I'm not sure whether that's a good idea, Mumbo

But it was too late. Mumbo had turned his communicator off and he was spamming his rockets, making his way towards Stress' base. Xisuma was following, struggling to catch up with the taller Hermit. They made their way to Stress' small ravine base. Mumbo landed, and slammed the door open with a loud bang.

Grian looked shocked, but mostly terrified. He also looked hurt. There were three cuts, the one on his cheek looked more like a wound. And the other cuts still looked bad. Stress was with him, and seemed unfazed by the two Hermit's large entrance, comforting Grian.

"I said you shouldn't have come!" Tango said, standing up from the chair he was previously sat on.

"He's my best friend! I had to be with him if he was hurt, which he is!" Mumbo shouted back.

"Maybe he doesn't want to be with you, considering what you said earlier this morning!" Tango shouted, becoming angrier with each word.

"STOP! Just... stop, please. Grian is terrified and hurt. Shouting at eachother doesn't help, at all! If you want to fight each other, or just talk about what happened, feel free to go outside. Stress needs to do her job, and it's very difficult when you two are screaming at each other like little toddlers! Grow up!" Xisuma said, indicating that the two should step outside for a moment.

Tango and Mumbo made their way out, leaving Xisuma with questions.

"I'm sorry about Mumbo, he's just worried." Xisuma said, making his way towards Grian, who was sat on a table.

Grian stayed silent, not saying anything.

"What happened anyway, those cuts don't look too good." Xisuma continued.

"I don't think Grian would want you to know right now, X." Keralis said, standing up to go outside with Mumbo and Tango.

"No. I'll tell him... he deserves to know..." Grian suddenly murmured.

"Alright, we'll be outside, if you need anything" Bdubs said, going outside with Stress.

Now it was just Grian and Xisuma. At first there was an awkward silence, and no-one knew how to fill it. But then, Xisuma walked forward to Grian and embraced him in a hug. Grian hugged back, burying his face in Xisuma's chest. He couldn't take it anymore. He started crying, feeling like a weight had been lifted.

After a few minutes, Grian pulled away, rubbing his eyes and wiping away the tears. He didn't care if the cut on his cheek or neck hurt anymore, he was just happy that someone was there for him.

"Listen, Gri... we can only help if you tell us what happened, but I don't want you to push yourself. I mean, you've already told 4 people what happened. I don't want anything to go too far." Xisuma smiled.

"I-... I think I'll tell you another time, but I can tell you that my school life wasn't great. We had a murderer at our school. He killed everyone except a lucky few. I was obviously very lucky..." Grian explained, not able to look into X's eyes anymore.

"Oh my god... I- I had no idea, Gri... I'm so sorry you had to go through all of that... but... I'm still glad you told me." Xisuma said, feeling guilty for asking Grian to open up to him.

Grian leant forward, hugging Xisuma again. He felt so tired and drifted off into a peaceful slumber, tight in Xisuma's embrace.