P.S the way that this works, is that in both season 1 and 2, all the hermits were old college friends. from then on, hermits that joined were people they met along the way.

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The years passed.

The seasons passed.

Hermits came and gone.

But Mumbo never forgot him- He never forgot the times his blonde friend would shout at him for burning everything he tried cooking, their goofs and derps, he never forgot grian.

He made new friends, he met Iskall and stress, cleo and false.... and the list goes on and on.

But he still couldn't forget his friend, Xisuma, joe, and keralis, who had recently rejoined, couldn't either.

They all assumed he was dead.

I mean, how would he survive being caught in between worlds?

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It was a frantic day on the hermitcraft server, as they prepared for a world hop, to 'season six'.

"Iskall wake up!" Mumbo shook his friend awake.

"wha?"

"I'll be making breakfast!" mumbo said, Iskall looked horrified.

"Oh no- what did I do to deserve this? please don't! we both know how bad a cook you are!"

"Well at least i'm better than you at it- ohh, wait, you can make scrambled eggs... i'd just burn them...never mind"

Iskall's insanely contagious laughter broke out after this sentence.

something about this moment had a strange deja vu feeling to mumbo.

He ignored it.

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"Remember, we must cross as quickly as possible, we don't want to take the risk of being caught in between worlds" Said X, not taking his eyes off mumbo, who in the last world jump had nearly been trapped.

they all nodded as the portal began opening.

"in we go!"

they crossed through with zero issues, now the world before them stood, completely new, fresh and empty!--

Wait... there was someone already there...?

He was awfully familiar to joe, x, keralis and mumbo.

Sort of like an old college friend?

But there was no way that was him... he had burn marks all over the visible parts of his body (face, and arms from the shoulder down), His hair was frayed, and... one of his hands were missing... OH MY GOD, THIS GUY'S MISSING ONE OF HIS HANDS.

Apart from that he looked like- no... it couldn't be... It looked like, Grian, From the red sweater to the dirty blonde hair.

This was impossible.

Grian was dead.

What kind of sick games were their brains playing on them?

It couldn't be... He can't possibly be alive, can he?

X walked towards the person, despite the hermit's shouts-- the man seemed to be no older than 25, around the age grian would be-- the moment he told this to the others, mumbo, Joe and keralis were shocked , mumbo looked like he was going to cry, Joe like he was about to blurt out a poem, and keralis, was, well, wide eyed-- the rest of the hermit's were confused, not knowing who grian was.

"Whoever this 'Grian' is, whoever you think this person is, he needs immediate medical attention..." said Doc, who then starts spouting something about being able to make a short term robotic hand with primary materials (such as, wood, stone) and a bunch of medical terms that most of the hermits didn't understand.

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When the blonde had woken up, Stress had been treating his burns--

"AH!" Grian fell out of the bed, staring at the other in disbelief, seemingly surprised at human presence, "Who...Who are you? Where am I? I'm not in between worlds anymore, am I?"

Stress smiled at him, "I'm stressmonsta, but you can call me stress! You're in hermitcraft--"

The other's eyes widened, "H-Hermitcraft? My notch, i'm really lucky, aren't I?"

Stress stared at her patient confusedly, but continued treating his burns without a word.

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the first hermit he'd met was doc, when he came around to test the prosthetic, sometimes he'd come around to just talk.

At first Grian found him to be terrifying, but soon warmed up to him.

When Doc came with the finished prosthetic Grian awkwardly accepted it, not knowing how to react.

Doc, thought the newbie wasn't all that bad, maybe even cute.

"Sorry... What did you say again?"

Doc looked up from his laptop, where he was trying to make a few final tweaks to make it compatible, "Hm? Nothing, just talking to myself"

"Here" Doc begun to strap the prosthetic onto grian's arm.

Grian grinned for the first time since he'd gotten there, "You made this? Fits like a glove!- well, hand"

Doc cut him off, "So what's your name anyways? You know mine, but none of us know yours"

Grian looked perplexed for a minute, "didn't I tell you before? My name's grian"

Doc froze, so this was Grian after all.

"Doooooc? Hello? You in there?"

"Yeah, just thinking about how happy some of my friends would be to see you"

"Could you be a bit more specific?"

"Why not? X, Keralis, Joe and Mumbo, especially Mumbo, he's been talking about you non-stop--"

"M-Mumbo's here? Where is he!?" Grian stood up, swaying, he took a step forward--

Everything went black.

Doc's pov

"M-Mumbo's here? Where is he!?" Grian then stood up-- WAIT GRIAN YOU'RE STILL RECOVERING-

I dived towards him as he fell, somehow managing to catch him in time, my Notch grian... I go to place him back on the bed.

I grab my communicator, still in shock, I type mumbo's number.

"Mumbo? Please head over, I think you should be the first face he sees when he wakes up."

"What? Now? What do you mean 'when he wakes up'? I thought stress told me he was awake...?"

"No matter, just head over" I cut the call with a sigh, why couldn't he had told us his name before- why couldn't I have asked his name before? This would've been way simpler.

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I sit by Grian's bed, when I heard fireworks in the distance-- OH! THAT MUST BE MUMBO!

Mumbo crashed in merely a few minutes after, "WHAT HAPPENED!?"

"He reacted badly when I mentioned you, he recognized your name, went crazy, tried to stand up to go looking for you, he was still recovering so he collapsed"

I was cut off by Grian's mumbles as he woke up.

"Mumbo? Are you here?" He asked drowsily, rubbing his eyes.

I watch as Mumbo walks towards Grian, an indescribable expression on his face, could it be happiness? No... it was far too potent...

"You're alive...?"

"You can't get rid of me that easily!" answered grian playfully

"How much time has passed since...?"

"Five years."

I saw as Grian covered his mouth, tears threatening to roll out of his eyes, I suddenly had an impulse to comfort Grian... So that's what I did.

"No way..."

"Can I see the others?..."

"sure, why not"