Yeet. Get ready for a cringy mid-night chapter.
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"Uh... I think I'll get going now, Gri." EX excused himself before flying away not daring to look back at Wels.

He flew away to the portal, wanting to just go back, but froze for a second, remembering what happened in this area this morning, and suddenly he realized there was loud chattering coming from the town hall. He listened for a second, but immediately just went into the portal as he realized they were talking about him. He sighed to himself as he arrived at the other side of the portal. He somehow has managed to survive the awful today.

He went back to his base to continue building his base to wait for X, which said he would want to talk to him about the events. He was all alone with himself as he made some pretty good progress. After a while he decided to take a short rest. He sat down underneath the nearby forest trees. This was apparently a bad idea because he started thinking about the events that happened. Few minutes later, he fell deep into his anxious thoughts.

What do the other Hermits think of me now?

Is this nightmare of a situation really over?

Is X really going to let it go just like that?

Probably not.

Are the other hermits really just going to accept the fact that I'm still allowed on the server after the incident?

And multiple other thoughts keep repeating in his head. After minutes of nothing but negative thoughts, he decided to just shrug it all off, and continue building.

I'm sure everything will be okay, X will believe me, after all, we're brothers. He thought to himself reassuringly... but...

"Are you sure about that?"

EX jumped at the voice, "Who said that!?"

"Who else is there? It's me."

"Who the hell are y-"

He paled as he realized who the voice was, "I-I thought I got rid of you!"

"Did you really think you could just get rid of me like that? I am a part of your childhood and mind. You can't erase me, you can't get rid of me, Xanthus."

This was something that he never thought would happen again. He immediately knew this could mean nothing but bad things.

He is starting to hear Evil Voice again.

"Just go away, I don't want you back, you caused nothing good!" He shouted at the voice, A.K.A himself.

"Saying that I caused all of it is a little much, don't you think? After all, I am you. You are talking to yourself. You were the one that made all the trouble, I am just a manifestation of your hatred and stress."

"Shut up. Shut up! Don't talk to me!"

"Won't you even listen? I'm not your enemy. I'm you-"

"Just shut up. Don't even try to deceive me again. I won't do shit!"

"That's what you said last time, and just look what you did. Face it, I'm just you, trying to convince you to do what's good for you, and what you actually want to do. Instead of just pretending to be nice and happy and but be revengeful and pained on the inside, just let it all out like you did in the past, you felt better when you did-"

"Just shut up. I don't want to talk to you, I don't want to hear what you want to say. Just shut up. I'm not doing anything you tell me to do."

"And yet you attacked the Vex. Like I told you to."

EX froze for a second, "You were the voice that told me to attack Cub-?"

"Like seriously, stop asking obvious questions that you already know the answer to. Yes, how many other voices do you have in your head, stupid?"

"Have you been here all this time, waiting for the right opportunity to make me do horrible things!?"

"Don't you even know how I work? Like I said, I am a manifestation of your stress and hatred, and can't appear otherwise. When you attacked Cub, it wasn't just because I told you to, it was because deep in your heart, actually, no, even on the outside, you wanted to attack him. I mean, remember what he said about your clueless brother? Doesn't hearing all his words make you want to destroy... or even kill him? Didn't his words make your blood boil? If it weren't for your brother who just arrived at the scene at the most fortunate time, you probably would have killed him. You'd probably do more than just that, maybe you'd even-"

"Shut up. Hearing you talk is making me sick. Stop existing, stop talking to me about all that. I changed. I'm not going back-"

"You're only saying that to reassure yourself that there is another way out. But like you discovered earlier in your life, the only way to survive your cruel fate is to fight back and become evil itself. You're doing this for your brother, right? You want to "Change" So you can impress your brother and prove everyone that you aren't evil. But why try to convince people that aren't even listening to you? You've been blinded ever since you've entered the void. Why are you even trying to change? For the worst too. The only reason you want to change is because you're tired of being called a nuisance, correct? But why try to change the unchangeable? No matter what, you are a nuisance, so you should at least be good at being the nuisance-"

"JUST.SHUT.UP!" EX shouted, covering his ears. He waited for Evil Voice to continue talking anyways... but all that came was silence after that, "Evil voice? ...Are you actually shutting up?" He said in disbelief, "Odd. They never usually just... randomly stop talking."

He ended up just shrugging it off with a sigh and continued building, hoping that was the last time he would have to hear from Evil Voice.

Moments later, his communicator beeped. He checked it, and saw that it was a private text from X.

10:23 XisumaVoid whispered to you: Okay, now can we talk?

10:24 XisumaVoid whispered to you: Where are you at the moment

10:26 You whispered to XisumaVoid: At my base

10:29 XisumaVoid whispered to you: Okay, I'm heading there right now

10:30 XisumaVoid whispered to you: See you soon.

He sighed as he put down his communicator again, feeling anxious. Is everything really okay?

He tried his best to reassure himself. It doesn't seem like X is mad at me... but I don't know for sure. No. I'm sure everything is going to turn out fine. Even if there will be some bad things, I'm sure everything will turn out okay. X is my brother, I'm sure I just have to tell him the full story, and he'll believe me, he cares about me-

"Is that really true though?"

EX nearly tripped when he heard the voice again. Oh god not again-

"I thought you've finally left me alone!"

"Like I've said before, that's just not how it works, I'm afraid. Xanthus, about your brother, X, does he really-"

"Who the fuck is this Xanthus guy?" EX said realizing what Evil Voice was calling him.

It was silence for a good minute, it was like Evil Voice was trying to process what EX just said, "...What do you mean "Who the fuck is this Xanthus guy?". Did you hit your head or something?"

"Is he someone I'm supposed to know? Who is he?"

"What are you, an amnesiac?"

"I'm asking you this seriously, who is he!? And why do I sometimes hear his name in my memories?"

"... Do you seriously not remember? You know what, forget it and just listen to what I have to tell you. Why are you trying to change-"

"You can't just tell me "Forget it"! Who is this Xanthus guy!? That's all I want to know."

"You seriously bumped your head? You're Xanthus! That's your fucking name!"

EX took a moment to process this, but couldn't, "what do you mean I'm Xa-"

"ANYWAYS. Can't you just listen to what I want to tell you-"

"No. I won't listen anyways. Just shut up! I want to know more about Xanthus!"

"It's not my problem that you forgot your own name! Stop being difficult!"

"I'm not interested in becoming Evil again! And that's final! I want to know more about why you've been calling me Xanthus, what do you mean I forgot my own name?"

"I told you to shut up about that!"

Very suddenly and surprisingly, EX fell on the ground, knocked by some non-existent and invisible entity, and felt as if something was choking him. But luckily, that immediately stopped when someone unexpectedly called out-

"EX!? Are you alright!?"

EX vision was a bit blurry, but he could see X running over to him. X proceeds to help him stand, or more precisely sit, up right. EX's breaths were short and heavy.

"What happened!?" X asking, visibly worried.

"X. This is bad... Evil Voice is back." EX said. He was shaking, but slowly getting and feeling better.

"...Evil Voice? You mean the one you kept talking to before when you wanted to destroy hermitcraft!?" X said completely surprised, "but didn't you say I defeated him, and how did he just do that to you!? I thought you said he was just a hallucination of yours?"

"I'm... beyond not sure to be completely honest." EX sighed, "I think I was starting to annoy him, so he did that, but I don't know how he did it. He's supposed to be just a voice inside my head that nobody else hears. He should be able to interact with anything physically."

"This is very worrying. EX, are you going to be alright?"

"I'm fine. I'm fine. That didn't do much to me. But it was surprising." EX said, trying to stand up, but X prevented him, "It was also him that made me attack Cub, apparently."

"...Well damn. I was coming here to talk to you about what happened about yesterday, but now we need to worry about this." X sighed, "He didn't tell you anything bad, right?"

EX got the urge to ask X about Xanthus, but decided to just keep it to himself for now, "nothing too bad in particular." EX shook his head, "he just attempted to make me change my mind, with a very poor attempt. I'll be fine. Everything is okay."

Everything was in fact not okay.

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Words Count: 1860 words

Short but full summary of the chapter: Evil Voice tries to bring EX back to the darkside, but ultimately fails.
Yes, I know this chapter is shorter than usually, but give me a rest!
I'm working on making a christmas special for my oneshot book, and at the same time I'm working on another AU book (That I haven't published) So please let me RESTT-
Also, Merry Early Christmas, I know it's already Christmas for some of you folks, but it's still a few hours for me.
See y'all later, Rachel out! :v