[No one]

The meeting room was completely silent. Everyone was waiting for the meeting to be started by one of the Mains, they all knew that this was going to be important.

"The meeting begins. We'll be using English because we have visitors who don't speak Galactic," Sherenidy began the meeting and nodded to Alden.

"The Main Admin Edita, you may speak," Alden nodded formally to the blonde admin.

"Thank you Main Leader Alden," Edita nodded back to him before turning to face everyone else, "So, we have a huge problem," She began. Everyone looked at each other with hesitation and nervousness.

"This is serious, isn't this.?" Kasen asked quietly the question everyone had and Edita nodded sadly.

"Sam has gotten Technoblade and Teni under his control and is using them to guard his "territory" in the End," Edita explained with uneasy feelings.

"Does this mean we have to attack as soon as possible?" Xenex asked hesitatedly. He didn't like where the conversation was going, no one like it.

Edita stepped back to show everyone she wasn't capable to answer that question because it wasn't her decision to make as she was the 6th in command.

"We're afraid that we have to start planning now before it's too late," Alden admitted hesitatedly. None of them wanted a war, but it wasn't really up to them anymore.

"We're going against Jean, Sam and their army? Great!" Zanax rolled her eyes and got everyone to give her a death-stare. She was chained up between The Few.

"We need a plan and everyone needs to help with that," Sherenidy spoke. She sounded now dead-serious, nothing like the child he usually 'pretended' to be.

"Alden, Chet, Kasen, Oskari, Upton, Winslow, Xenex, Friede, Jaylee, Lyndon, Yenny and Topaz, you're all End-borns and probably have knowledge of the place," Mao began. "Zanax, you have informed about Jean, and so do Niki and Ranboo," He continued listing people. "Xelqua, Lady Thor, Taurtis, Sherenidy, maybe Godiva and Dexter, you have knowledge about Sam," He ended his list.

"But all of you have knowledge we'll need to get our plan to work," Sherenidy added.

"I can take care of Jean," Zanax spoke getting her sibling's attention.

"Does that require any sacrifices, because if it does, you have to sacrifice yourself," Sherenidy shrugged casually, making the older roll her eyes.

"No, it doesn't require sacrifices, just some potions," Zanax sighed. She wouldn't have minded sacrificing some humans though.

"Then we'll let Zanax deal with Jean, but she's not going to do it alone," Alden decided and turned to face his siblings.

"I'll take the lead of the group," Lyndon stepped forwards, "And with me will come Edita, Kasen, Blake, Winslow, Xenex, Jaylee, Reed and ZloyXP, plus Zanax," He continued.

"Sounds good," Mao nodded and Sherenidy seemed to agree too.

"Jean has an army, who wants to fight that?" Edita raised her eyebrows.

"I'm ready to sacrifice The Few," Aphmau stepped forwards, smirking.

"WHAT THE FUCK JESS?!" Sly exclaimed, but Aphmau just smacked him on the back of his head.

"The Few apart from me is gonna fight the army. I'm going against Sam," Aphmau explained.

"I agree with that," Sherenidy nodded, "Who else wants to fight Sam?" He asked turning to look at the others.

"I will," Xelqua whispered coldly, surprising everyone.

"Alright," Sherenidy nodded, hiding her surprised look.

"I'd say Xel should lead the group that goes against Sam," Mao spoke.

"You and me are gonna fight that bitch too," Sherenidy said and looked at Mao, who just mumbled something between the lines 'I knew it'.

"Me and Cod are following you too, and Taurtis too," Dexter spoke and Godiva and Taurtis' hologram nodded.

"I'm coming too," Tommy decided and crossed his arms.

"If the child goes, I'm coming too," Dream added.

"The healing side will be in my hands," Haylie promised.

"Me, Topaz, Tubbo and Ethel will be joining her," Yenny nodded in agreement.

"I'm going to the battlefield with The Few and I'm asking Chet, Upton, Hypixel, Friede, Tatton, Evior, AppleG and Meadow to follow me there," Alden jumped in and got everyone to agree.

"Of course we need backup, I'm gonna be taking the lead of that," Oskari stepped forward, "Ozinelle, Ned, Van, Defek7, Pixlriffs and Caton, you with me?" He asked, looking at his siblings.

"Definitely," Ozinelle smiled.

"You got us!" Van gave thumps up.

"We'll follow you," Pixlriffs agreed and everyone else did the same.

"We'll be joining the backup," Niki spoke and squeezed her brother's hand.

"Looks like we have teams, now we just need a plan," Sherenidy hummed.

"Group leaders, Lyndon, Xelqua, Alden, Oskari and Haylie, please come closer," Mao added and they did as he said.

[Xelqua]

     I glanced out of my hobbit hole's window. I had two days time before we actually started with the plan. I go a change to spend those two days in Hermitcraft, but I was having a hard hard time trying to be Grian.

'Xelvier will have to do a comeback when we fight Sam because you're not strong enough by yourself,' Xavier broke the silence.

'I know.. I don't like the idea, but no other opinions..' I answered to him.

'We have to end him. Sam can't live anymore, he's supposed to be dead, and stay dead.'

'You have a spare plan, don't you?'

'I know a trick, but it'll straight away kill both of us.'

'Wanna explain more or just use it without telling me?'

'It's an ancient spell that'll destroy his soul forever, but the spell is strong enough to also hurt our connected souls and will probably kick us both out of this body.'

'If a situation comes where you have a perfect chance to use that and there aren't other opinions, you can do it,' I agreed.

'Understood.'

'Our plan better work or the whole universe is doomed..'

'I guess.'

'You sounded like it doesn't really matter to you, why is that?'

'It isn't really our problem if everyone dies, because we'll end up in a place only a few have gone to. A place where the shared souls go, it's far too deep for any dead souls to get to.'

'But we care about others, don't we.?'

'If everyone is gone, is there someone to care about?'

'...'

'That's what I thought.'

'Can you leave me alone for a moment?'

'You can never be truly alone, but fine. I'll just stay quiet, but you remember that I'm always here with you.'

'I know, I know.'

[Grian]

     Okay, I had to do something to get my mind of things, to look like Grian. So, I decided that it would be a good thing to go restock my barge.

I pulled out a few shulker boxes and set them on the wooden floor of my barge. I had stolen stacks of sand and gravel from the HQ because I hadn't had time to go collect them myself. I knew that no one in the HQ wouldn't even notice that we were missing a few shulker boxes of sand and gravel.

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"What?" Ozinelle looked at the storage. Her voice was confused.

"Something wrong?" Tatton inquired as he put down a shulker box.

"Why are we missing 25 boxes of gravel and 23 boxes of sand?" Ozinelle turned to face the Watcher.

"Oh, must be  ̇/ᒷꖎ," Tatton shrugged. "He always does that thinking we don't notice, but I do notice. Every. Single. Time," He sighed. "That little shit," He mumbled, face-palming.

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     I stared filling the barrels with the stock and collected the diamonds from the sold items. I also thought about upgrading the barge, but I knew I wouldn't have enough time to do that before the war against him.

"Hey Grian!" I heard someone call and turned around to see Scar and Mumbo.

"Oh, hey guys! I haven't seen you in a while!" I smiled to them. I tried to act as normal as possible.

"I haven't see you in a while, how have you been?" Mumbo spoke. It was true, we hadn't seen in a while since I had been busy with The Council.

"I've been alright, done a lot of building and such," I answered shrugging. It was basically a lie, but they didn't need to know that.

"Have you heard about the Player Protection Agency's new plans?" Scar inquired. I looked at him with visible confusion.

"No? What're they doing now?" I tilted my head. I hadn't heard about them after the Hermitcraft-case.

"They're going against the current Watcher and admin council. They're actually pretty successful and people are afraid that they're gonna get The Council to fall," Scar said quietly like it was some sort of secret information.

"What?" I did my best to hide the shock.

"Yeah, it's possible that we have to choose a new council soon. They say that the current council might be a threat to the players," Mumbo added.

"What do you think about this?" I had to ask.

"I think that the current council is good, but if the Player Protection Agency can prove that they're actually not what they seem like, I'm gonna have to change my mind," Scar answered running a hand through his hair. He looked a bit unsure about the whole subject.

"Someone brought up the whole case with Kira Fang. She was reported missing and when The Council tried to look for her, she was informed dead, but there's one thing everyone forgot.." Mumbo started darkly, "The Main Watcher Xelqua along with Technoblade and Hypixel arrested her from the Portal Hub. The Council never mentioned anything about the arresting," He explained making my blood run cold. I had totally forgotten about the arresting.

"Yeah, some are assuming that The Council actually killed her.." Scar added quietly.

"Are you talking about the whole Council-case?" False jumped to the conversation. She had been just passing by, but decided to join us.

"Yeah," Scar nodded.

"The new Rookies have been kept in dark about everything that has been going on. They were interviewed and they had no idea what The Council had been up to," False pointed out. "The only ones the interviewers couldn't find were, Meadow, Caton, Topaz, ZloyXP, Pixlriffs, Dream and Teni," She added.

"Non of The Mains or Leads confirmed anything when the interviewers tried asking them. They just walked away saying they were busy," Tango joined the conversation too.

"I heard that they might be in a war with something currently, but they haven't even held public meetings," Scar mentioned.

"Someone saw The Few members in the HQ," Mumbo added.

"What if they're just keeping secrets to keep us safe?" I finally said something. "I have no idea what's going on, but I think they just try to protect u like they always do," I continued.

"Grian has a good point. I think people might be overreacting or then it's just a misunderstanding," Xisuma walked to us. Of course he was on The Council's side because he's brother was a Main Watcher, but the Hermits didn't know that though.

"I have to agree with that too. The Council has always protected us and risked their lives just so we could be safe," Cleo followed Xisuma.

"I think that the Player Protection Agency might be just trying to make the situation seem worse than it already is, like they did with our case," Joe was now here too.

"Let's just hope everything goes well and no one starts a huge war that'll kill us all," Mumbo spoke and everyone agreed. We really didn't know what to actually expect.

I had a really bad feeling about the PPA's doings and I was already positive that it wasn't going end well, at all. We had seen how they behaved and they wouldn't give up.

The Council was going to be in the eye of the hurricane soon.

Words: 1986

(Finally some action!)

(Also today's Caton's birthday 13.6.)

(Definitely messed up his hair and eye color because I didn't have the right ones. His hair is actually platinum and eyes olive. Anyway, he was 23 in 2018 and 25 at this point of the story (2020))

(5 facts:

1. He lost his voice in ODF (If I'm not wrong). It was never really mentioned how, but it happened in a fight. He uses sign language and everyone in The Council understands him.

2. He is one of the Original Rookies along with Meadow, Topaz, Pixlriffs and ZloyXP.

3. He was born in the Overworld.

4. He's full name is Chalfont Caton Crowe. He's second name is the same as Van's first name.

5. He's the same height as Kasen, Quinn, Haylie and Yenny. They're all 159cm.)