Laughter filled the room. Iskall and Mumbo sat on Iskall’s bed, and they were chatting happily about recent events in Hermitcraft, building, redstone, their plans for the future, anything you could think of really.

“Have you seen Joe’s latest shop?” Mumbo asked out of the blue.

“The axolotl shop? Yeah, it’s epic,” Iskall respond. “The names are just-”

They got cut off by Grian poking his head into the room. Without a word, he sat down on Iskall’s lap, then laid down so his head rested on Mumbo’s.

“Grian?” Mumbo said with a questioning tone. “What are you doing here?”

Grian didn’t reply. Awkward silence started to fill the room, and Grian just laid there. After a while, Mumbo noticed that Grian looked sad, and also was a bit pale. Mumbo discreetly pointed this out to Iskall, who seemed to understand. Still being silent, the both of them moved away from Grian, only to lay down next to him and hug him. Grian seemed to appreciate it, and they remained like that for the the whole night.

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When Mumbo woke up, Iskall and Grian were still asleep. He took the fact that he was the first one awake as a small victory, and then went to prepare breakfast. Soon Iskall joined him and when they were done, they went to wake Grian.

Except that would turn out to be... Difficult.

The first thing they noticed was that Grian’s face was significantly more pale than the last time they checked on him. His chest moved up and down, barely.

“Grian?” Iskall said. “How... How are you?”

No response.

“Grian?!” Mumbo exclaimed. “Wake up!”

But Grian continued to lay still with no movement. Before Mumbo could even react, Iskall had spammed Stress and Joe with messages telling them to come over with a bunch of healing items.

Only a few minutes after that, Joe dashed into the room with Stress behind him. She carried so many shulker boxes with potions and bandages and that stuff as humanly possible with her.

It took just a quick glance at Grian to understand that something was wrong. Joe told Mumbo and Iskall to leave whilst Stress made some quick tests to see what was wrong. Suddenly, a high-pitched scream left her throat and she collapsed on the floor. At this sight Joe was shocked, to say the least. But he didn’t get much time to think about what just happened, because soon he fell down on the floor too.

And Mumbo and Iskall? Well, they never saw the sunlight again either.

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Yeah sorry, this was really short-
Dunno if this even counts as angst, but it surely wasn’t fluff

Many poor axolotl lives were lost when X and Joe went into an ocean monument :'(