Okay- wanna make some quick notes real quick-

Some hermits, most specifically Wels, won't be shown that much on these beginning chapters . I'll try my best to give every hermit, even the ones that are not the main characters, at least a little time on the spotlight, so don't worry.(For Wels it's partly because of story reasons, and the other reason is that I'm pretty sure he's actually taking a break from hermitcraft at the moment, and so it wouldn't really make too much sense if he just appeared)

Also, I don't watch every single hermit in season 7, so sorry if your favorite hermit is out of character, you can correct me if I get someone's personality wrong. Also remember that this is all fannon, and nothing in this book actually happened, and was just written for the sake of entertainment. If any hermit is acting meaner than they are supposed to be, that's for the sake of the story.
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"You sure you're fine?"

"I'm fine. Thanks."

"Are you sure?"

EX sighed, "Yes, I'm okay, I can take care of myself."

"I'm not convinced. You just bumped into the Llama shop while flying. The freaking Llama shop." Grian huffed while inspecting EX's wounds from the crash, "Do you need me to teach you how to fly?"

"I told you, I'm fine."

"Yeah, no. I'm not believing that."

"Look, It's not my fault I'm bad at flying."

Grian grabbed a splash healing potion and healed EX's wounds, "And that's why I asked you, do you want me to teach you how to fly Properly?"

"Are you saying I'm not flying properly?"

Grian rolled his eyes, "Obviously. I saw you crash into one of the rockets on the rocket shop yesterday." 

"You saw nothing."

"Yeah, yeah right." Grian stood up, and offered a hand, "now follow me."

EX hesitantly took the hand and stood up, "follow you where-?"

"Just follow,'" Grian said dragging him to the front of the town hall, "I'm going to give you flying lessons."

"I don't need flying lessons-"

"okay, let's do this!"

"Wait wha-"

First, Grian flew around the HEP HQ, went through the middle without stopping his flight and up again, zigzagged between the two antennas, then he dived down through the barge's opening and swiftly turned and flew out through the door without breaking a sweat, flew gracefully through Hypno's trident shop, flew in between the Red Zone and Turf Time houses, circled around the HEP factory, flew back and went below the trees and up again, flew above the barge, circled around the rocket shop, went below the "We know how to deal with dirt" billboard, flew across the moon biome area a few times while doing dangerous stunts involving a slitter through the buildings, and then- 

[Yeah I think I'm just gonna skip this, that's enough description on Grian's flying lesson-]
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/-+* Author's POV *+-\
[Author Rachel has now taken over the storytelling]

Grian Finally landed back in fronted the town hall, an exhausted EX following behind and crashing face-first on the ground.

"How was that?" Grian said.

"You gave me more wounds than you healed me of!" EX shouted.

"Oh, Whoops! Did you get better at flying though?"

"Not sure. crashed into everything, and don't know how I'm alive after slapping my face on the barge floor. I'm in pain, help-"

"Okay fine, I'm sorry-"

"Liar, you're laughing at me!"

As you can clearly tell, they're getting along very well. 

Grian helped EX stand up, helped him heal, and then they chilled at the barge. Right now Grian is telling him about the season 6 war, but as EX listened, he began to drift away in thought. It has been 5 days since he was allowed back on the server. If you expected EX to have friends ...then you couldn't have been more wrong-

EX was thinking of the first day, when X announced that he was now a member of hermitcraft again. Sure, people like Grian immediately befriended him because he's a gremlin, but the other hermits were being hecking jerks to the poor boy, and honestly in my opinion-

[Author Rachel was put down for totally not biased writing-]

/-+* Third Person's POV *+-\

EX was still thinking about the first day when X announced that EX was allowed back on the server and welcomed as a member. Now, most of the hermits from the previous seasons did not like this, of course, since EX used, and was still considered a villain on the server. There were also the hermits that accepted him with open hands, like Grian. People like Stress are okay with him being on the server, but a big portion of the hermits of course didn't trust him.

-=[Flashback]=-

"What's going on here, X I suma? why are we here?" Grian asked with big curiosity, which grew bigger when he saw EX, who was standing next to X.

"The more important question, what is HE doing here!?" Beef pointed towards he obvious elephant in the room.

X looked around, "Right, It seems everyone is now here. Let me explain, then."

"As you all may already know, This is my brother, Evil X-"

"Yeah, the one that almost destroyed the server." someone in the crowd mumbled.

Silence went on for a bit, EX turned away from the crowd, not daring to look at anyone in the eye, and X continued.

"...anyways, as I was saying, this is my younger brother, EX. And I announce, that he is now considered a member, no matter if everyone agrees or not."

A bunch of sounds of disagreement came from the crowd, so X explained more further, "Also, I'm sure he won't do anything. He has changed, so please just give him a chance. IF you do catch him doing something, report to me immediately. For now, I ask everyone to treat him as an equal. Everyone is dismissed now. Also," X turned to EX, "EX, follow me.".

After X and EX left, chatter and gossip spread through the air like poison.

"Did X go insane or something?"

"So what are we going to do? do we really trust HIM being on the server?"

"100% guarantee he will try to destroy the server again. Wanna bet?"

Grian turned to Mumbo, who was there with an unsure look on his face, "Mumbo, who is EX and why is everyone trash talking him?" Grian asked confused.

"Well, Evil X, wasn't a good guy, that's what I know anyways. He tried to destroy the server on multiple occasions. He's X's younger brother, I heard he also used to be an admin at some point. I heard X banished him last season. I have no idea why X thinks he changed."

"Well," Grian commented, "If X I suma said he changed, doesn't that mean he did change?"

"Grian I'm not sure-"

"You're not sure? but you heard Xisuma, right? If he said he changed, I believe he's nice now, afterall, we shouldn't judge someone by their past. If that were that case, then nobody'd like me..."

"...I guess you're right- wait what was that last bit?"

"Nothing" Grian mumbled, "don't worry about it. It's nothing to worry about-"

Grian stopped when he saw at the corner of his eye, EX hiding behind a tree, listening to what everyone's saying about him with a sadden face. When He realized Grian saw him, he immediately ran away. Grian, feeling bad, decides to chase after him, "alright, I gotta go now, Mumbo, see you later!" he said while running away.

=-[Flashback End]-=

"EX? Are you still here? Have you gone to the realm of the spirits?"

EX snapped out of his thoughts to see Grian waving his palm infront of him, "Oh, you're still here?"

"O-oh, sorry Grian, I zoned out."

"It's fine, what's been bothering you?"

EX pondered what he should answer for a second, "just... the fact that everyone's avoiding me."

Grian gave him a sad, almost knowing, smile, "It's fine, EX, everyone will warm up to you in the long run, they just have to learn to trust you first."

EX stayed silent for a second, "Thanks Grian. I appreciate the support."

"Welcome, Glad you're alright."

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Another Chapter finished!
Wow I enjoy writing angst way too much what is wrong with me-