[No one]

The End was cold as the groups made their ways towards the fight. Everyone was quiet and no one really knew what they were in for.

Xelqua was walking between Taurtis and Tommy. Behind him were Sherenidy and Mao, who were having a silent conversation, reading the sentences from each other's lips. Aphmau was walking next to Taurtis and Dream followed Tommy. Dexter and Godiva were leading the group for unknown reason, which didn't exist.

The travel had already lasted for half and hour, but they weren't even halfway through. They were walking because everyone didn't have wings.

All of the groups were close, but not too close. They would separate later, which meant they would say goodbye to each other incase something went wrong.

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     "Has anyone seen Grian?" Etho asked from the rest of the Mycelium resistance.

"He hasn't been on in two days," Xb mumbled, glancing at his communicator.

"Should we go ask someone like Mumbo or Scar? They are close to him," Ren suggested.

"Let's go check out Grian's base and look for Scar and Mumbo," Impulse nodded.

     Grian's base was empty, no one was there and any progress hadn't been made. Scar and Mumbo hadn't seen him either. Everyone's warnings bells began slowly ringing, they had no idea what had happened to their newest Hermit.

"What're we going to do?" Jevin asked from the Mycelium resistance and Mumbo and Scar.

"I think we should go contact X, maybe he knows something," Mumbo suggested. He was getting really worried about his best friend, who had just disappeared.

"I agree with Mumbo," Etho nodded.

"Same," Impulse nodded and so did everyone else.

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     "This is where we separate from each other," Alden spoke out loud, making everyone feel a bit uneasy.

"This might be a goodbye, be prepared for that, but we're not letting our hoped die," Mao joined their leader.

"We won't go down without a fight, we stay strong 'till the end!" Sherenidy ended.

"∴⍑𝙹'ᓭ ╎↸ᒷᔑ ∴ᔑᓭ ℸ ̣ 𝙹 ꖎᒷℸ ̣  ||𝙹⚍ ᓭᔑ|| ℸ ̣ ⍑ᔑℸ ̣  ꖎᔑᓭℸ ̣  ꖎ╎リᒷ, ᓭ⍑ᒷリ?" Godiva smirked.

"She said; Whose idea was to let you say that last line, Shen?" Dexter translated for the people that didn't understand Galactic.

"That is a pretty good question because I went and killed myself without fighting against Sam," Sherenidy grinned.

"If you do that again, I swear I'll end your whole existence," Xelqua promised. He didn't want to lose his mentor again to the man he had once loved.

"Thank you," Sherenidy grinned.

"If this ends badly, it has been a honor to fight with all of you," Jaylee raised her voice from the crowd.

"Definitely!" Oskari agreed.

"Let's try and stay alive, okay?" Lyndon took his turn to say something.

"Try not to get injured too badly," Haylie begged.

"We all get each others' backs!" Ned smiled and Reed nodded proudly.

"It's a rare moment, Dexter is actually wearing his cloak," Van smirked and looked at the mentioned brunette.

"Fuck you!" Dexter groaned.

"If you get badly injured, please come to us immediately!" Yenny smiled sadly.

"Use your non-existing brains while fighting," Chet smirked.

"My non-existing brains are perfect," Upton laughed.

"Don't do anything stupid," Edita sighed.

"I will do everything stupid I get a change to do," Kasen smirked.

"Fight carefully, don't do moves that might not be needed," Sly joined in with The Few nodding.

"Don't underestimate your opponent," Ethel hummed.

"Don't let your guard down," Aphmau added.

"Keep your eyes on your opponent," Taurtis mumbled.

"But remember to make sure everyone is alright," Blake added.

"Don't fool 'round," Winslow surprised everyone by speaking English instead of Galactic.

"We're doing this to protect everyone else!" Zloy reminded and Pixel nodded.

"We don't know their plan, they might ruin ours," Zanax reminded.

"We have to make sure they don't do something that'll hurt the players," Hypixel added.

"We'll stay together 'till the end," Friede added with her a bit broken English.

"We won't let each others down," Tatton said.

"Some of us haven't known each other for long, but we're all here together," Evior hummed.

"Let's all do our best, no matter what!" Meadow smirked.

"Let's just hope everyone stays alive," Tommy added as his time came.

"And let's save our friends!" Dream added, referencing to Techno and Teni.

"Remember who we're fighting for!" Ozinelle added smiling sadly.

"Let's not leave anyone behind," Defek7 hummed.

"Sadly for you, I can't really say anything," Van translated what Caton signed.

"We really appreciate you all for letting us stay. You really helped us," Niki smiled. Ranboo and Tubbo nodded behind her.

"We don't have many healers, so please don't all get injured at ones," Topaz begged with a sad smile on her lips.

"Now everyone had gotten a chance to say something, or is there still something left unsaid?" Alden let his glare ran through everyone in the group. "Looks like we're ready to go and fight for the players safety!" He hummed and everyone shouted in agreement.

"Now we're going to the battlefield and there's no turning back, good luck everyone!" Mao saluted before the groups began separating.

Ethel hurried to hug Tommy and Xelqua once more before running off with her group.

"Are you ready to fight?" Xelqua asked from Tommy.

"I've fought for independence, I can fight for this too," Tommy mumbled. Xelqua could tell that the kid was nervous, but he knew they all were.

"It'll be alright. I can't promise that, but I really hope that," Xelqua hummed quietly and Tommy nodded slightly.

"Are we ready to start moving?" Sherenidy asked from the group and got hums and nods as an answer. She nodded and began leading the group towards the unknown enemy.

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     "He's player code is glitched, I don't understand this!" Xisuma exclaimed as he looked at Grian's player code.

"What does that mean..?" Scar asked quietly. It definitely didn't sound good, at all.

"It means the player is out of reach, in a glitched world, or dead," Biffa listed. Xisuma had called him to come to Hermitcraft from the Main World, where he was nowadays working with Hermitcraft-related problems.

"He can't be dead.." Stress whispered as tear began forming in her eyes.

"He probably isn't. There's a possibility that he has accidentally gone to a world that was glitched and is stuck for a moment. If that's the case, there's nothing to worry about because The Council deals with those," Joe explained.

"Why would he be in a glitched world? He is usually in his own test world or in the Main World," Iskall pointed out. He had an uneasy feeling.

"It's possible that his own world has glitched," Joe hummed.

"What can we do now.?" Etho asked.

"We can't really do anything. We just have to wait," Biffa answered.

"Can we ask The Council to do something?" Stress inquired, running a hand through her hair.

"If we don't know what has actually happened, it might be useless," Xisuma sighed. He really wanted answered, but looked like they weren't going to get those.

"Now we're just playing the waiting game.."

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(So so sorry that it's so short, but I didn't know what else to add here. In the next chapter there will be the fight!)

(Also the heat is literally killing me, it's 30°C and that's so fucking hot. I would say it feels like a fucking sauna, but sauna is actually usually around 120°C or something like that, so)