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TW:
-Blood
-Bruises
-Punching
-Kicking
-Mention of injuries

Third Person POV 

Iskall woke up feeling dizzy and confused. 

He looked at his surroundings, he was in some sort of cage high up somewhere. The cage wasn't huge, but big enough for Iskall to at least sit down, his tools, armor, and trident were also gone. 

He was about to shout something before a voice interrupted him, "Iskall! Down here!" A voice whisper-yelled. The Swede looked down to see none other than Grian, his face was full of bruises and a bit of blood. 

Iskall looked scared and concerned, "Grian? I thought you were missing!" "Well, I wasn't, I got kidnapped." He was relieved to see that the avian was alive. 

"I'm sorry for what they did to you." Grian mumbled loud enough for the Swede to hear, "It's fine, it was my fault anyways. I followed the trail all the way here." Iskall chuckled, Grian tensed up. "Trail?" 

Iskall was confused, "Yeah? There was a trail from my base all the way here." Grian looked down and started shaking, "Grian? You okay?" The avian looked up and nodded, "I-I think you w-were lured in here." 

"What?" Iskall was even more confused now, "They lured you in and trapped you." 

Iskall was shocked, to say the least. "But why?" Grian just looked down, "I don't know, they did the same to me." 

"You know what they're planning." Iskall blurted out. 

Grian looked up in shock, "How- What!?" 

"You're pretty quiet and you keep looking down. You knew something, I've been your friend long enough to know." 

Grian looked down again, "I do know their plans, but I couldn't do anything. They took my admin bracelet." 

"What are their plans?"

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"Iskall? Iskall!" A voice called out, but there was no response. A gray-haired man walked around the shattered Savanna, looking for a certain brunette. 

"Did you find him Etho?" A blue-haired man asked, "Nope." Etho sighed, "What are we going to do Scott? We can't find him anywhere and he's not responding to my messages!" The ninja added worriedly. 

"Don't worry, we're gonna find him." Scott assured, "Wanna go check everyone's bases?" Etho nodded, "Do you wanna go through the nether?" Etho shook his head, Scott nodded before taking out his rockets and shooting into the sky. 

Etho jumped off the cliff, Scott noticed and went to dive down and catch him before remembering that Etho was a ninja. Then he realized something else, Etho jumped off a nearly 20-foot-high cliff. 

He shook his head and was about to dive down and catch him before realizing that Etho landed on a tree and was now jumping on trees and making his way to False's base, he sighed before also heading to False's base.

Upon arriving at False's base, False was seen exiting her house. The blonde noticed them and waved, Scott landed right in front of her bridge while Etho landed on a pole near False's bridge. 

"What brings you two here?" False asks, Scott and Etho gave each other a look before looking back at False. 

"We we wondering if you've seen Iskall?" 

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"What are their plans?" 

Grian glanced around the room nervously before looking back up at Iskall. 

"Their plan is to lure them in and kill them in front of us, but if they don't come here before the week is up then we b-both die." Grian admitted, stuttering a bit at the last part.

Iskall's eyes widened, were they both going to die? 

Just as the Swede was about to speak up, someone had entered the room. 

The 'cave of corruption' had 2 doors inside, each leads to a meeting room. Evil Scar walked out of the right door, he looked mad. 

"Well well well, is the little birdie telling our plans to his little friend?" Evil Scar's face turned serious as he got closer to Grian, the avian immediately started to shift around trying to get as far away as he can from Evil Scar. 

"You can't get away from me Grian." Evil Scar smirked, he kneeled down beside the clearly scared Grian and sighed. "How many times do we have to tell you to keep your mouth shut." 

Grian looked down and kept quiet, "Guess you need another punishment for not keeping your mouth shut." Evil Scar hummed getting up, Grian's eyes widened in fear. 

Evil Scar lifted his arm and punched Grian's right cheek, then kicked his shoulder. Grian let out a groan and tried to make as little noise as possible knowing that if he screamed he would get another beating.

"I'm going easy on ya only cause we have a guest alright?" Grian nodded quickly, Evil Scar's gaze went from Grian to a very terrified Iskall. 

"I'm not gonna do anything to you, but you're gonna have to see little bird boy suffer." Evil Scar chuckled before walking out of the room. 

Once Iskall made sure that Evil Scar left, he shifted his attention towards Grian. His already bleeding lip was bleeding even more, there was also a red bruise onhis cheek from the punch. 

"They've been torturing you!?" Iskall made sure not to scream but also make sure that Grian could hear him. Grian nodded, hissing in pain as he moved his shoulders around.

Iskall sighed, the man wanted to check on the avian but he was trapped. There was no way out, he didn't have his tools nor trident. Even if he did manage to get out, he would probably have to fight the corrupted people, and he was definitely outnumbered. 

All the 2 could do way stay there and hope that the hermits would come to their aid.