Prompt: Doc was cursed when he was very young, and now, every month, Doc turns into a terrifying monster that looks like a combo of a creeper and a massive spider. Anyway, Ren finds him while he's transformed and comforts his friend.

Doc was afraid.

It had been exactly 30 days since his last transformation, and there just so happened to be a server meeting scheduled to start in the next hour.

Doc didn't have that long.

You see, Doc had been cursed at a very young age.

Along with being a creeper hybrid, Doc had been cursed to turn into a monster every month.

He kept careful track of the time and days since each transformation, and had worked out that every month meant every 30 days at noon, and the transformation lasted until midnight.

A full 12 hours as a horribly terrifying monster.

The meeting was scheduled to start at 12:30 pm, and it was 11:30. Doc had half an hour before he changed.

He was screwed.

Quickly flying away from spawn and to his perimeter project, landing on the tall platform he had made for the checklist and supplies.

Doc quickly put away most of his stuff before gliding down into one of the massive trenches surrounding the area, landing on the bedrock at the bottom before ducking into a moderately sized cave and stripping down to nothing, as his clothes would always be ripped to shreds when he transformed, no matter what he tried to do.

11:53

Seven minutes.

Seven minutes until Doc's personal hell began.

He hid in one of the more out of the way offshoots of the cave, waiting out the little time he had left before transforming.

11:56

Checking his communicator, he saw that he had four minutes.

Some of the other Hermits were talking via chat, confirming when the meeting started and where it would be.

Doc decided to say he was working on the World Eater and wouldn't be able to attend, as he was in the middle of a critical part of it.

<Docm77> I won't be able to come to the meeting, I'm in the middle of a very important part of my project and can't stop or put it off

<Docm77> Sorry guys

<Xisuma> That's okay Doc! The meeting shouldn't include too much important stuff, it's mainly to check in and see if there's any major errors or glitches

<Xisuma> If you absolutely can't make it, someone can come by and catch you up on what happens :-)

<Docm77> Sounds good, thanks X

Doc put down his communicator as he saw it was 11:59, quickly storing it in a small chest along with his clothes and everything else he had on him.

Double checking that his inventory was empty and he was wearing nothing, Doc anxiously waited for it to turn 12:00.

12:00

Doc's body started to shift and change, his arms and legs elongating as they each split in two.

Once his body was finished with the transformation, Doc looked himself over to make sure nothing about this form had changed.

Seven organic legs, each with sharp talons at the end? Check.

One missing leg where his right arm would have been if it weren't for his right arm being fully robotic? Check.

Tiny-looking robotic arm detached at the shoulder and laid near the chest? Check.

Terrifying mouth filled with sharp teeth, mandibles growing out of the corners of his mouth to form an extra set of almost-jaws? Check.

Three more eyes around his right eye? Check.

Doc was the same as he was every time he transformed, a terrifyingly huge green, furry spider with the capability to create explosive web-bombs along with normal web(that one single strand was strong enough to hold three of him in this form stacked on top of each other).

Carefully exiting the cave, Doc wandered his trenches for around 3 hours before he heard something that wasn't the normal mob sounds.

Ducking into a cave, Doc Carefully looked up at the sky from a hidden place as someone flew through the trenches, obviously looking for something or someone.

The person landed after flying at least three rounds of the trenches, looking around with a worried look on his face as his doglike ears twitching back and forth.

Ren.

Doc shifted backwards farther into the cave, into the shadows while trying to be as silent as possible.

He wasn't successful.

Ren heard the slight scraping and clicking of talons on stone, and decided to explore the cave he heard it coming from.

Seeing him stepping into the cave Doc was hiding in, the creeper hybrid carefully climbed higher into the cave and hid in another cave entrance that opened about 20 blocks up in the wall of the main cave.

Ren slowly crept into the large cave, a torch in one hand and a diamond sword in the other as he looked around for what was making the noise.

The glint of sunlight on a shiny talon drew his eye to something huge retreating into a cave entrance, and Ren's ears went flat with fear as he realized just how big the thing was.

The creature was barely able to fit into the large cave entrance, which had to have been roughly ten blocks tall and almost ten blocks wide, and whatever the creature was, it's legs were tight to it's side as it tried it's best to hide from Ren.

"Hey! I see you-" Ren was cut off by the creature bolting out of the hole, scrambling past him and out into the trench with a combination of a growl and screech, it's sharp talons clicking against the stone and eventually the bedrock at the bottom of the trench.

Ren ran out after it and threw an enderpearl onto it's back. Landing on the creature, which was trying to climb into another cave entrance, Ren prepared to stab his sword down into the creature.

Doc felt Ren pearl onto his back and panicked, screeching and rearing up. Ren fell off and just barely managed to land safely, brandishing his sword and getting his shield onto his left arm.

Spinning around, Doc faced Ren, unsure what to do as Ren clearly didn't recognize him.

The dog hybrid charged Doc, almost slicing one of his forelegs before Doc dodged out of the way.

Doc had an idea and picked Ren up with one leg, scaring the dog hybrid enough that he dropped his sword.

Lifting Ren up to his eye level, Doc half-purred-half-growled, internally cursing the fact that he couldn't speak English, let alone German in this form.

Still carrying Ren, Doc went to where he had stashed his stuff and set the dog hybrid by the chest.

With the same foreleg that had been carrying Ren, Doc carefully pointed to the chest, prompting Ren to cautiously open it and look inside.

"What the he- wait- that's Doc's clothes and communicator! What did you do with Doc?" Ren turned to Doc, looking up at him with a half scared, half confused look on his face.

Doc carefully opened the chest and hooked a talon through one sleeve of his lab coat, holding it up and then pulling it towards himself.

Managing to drape it over himself, Doc looked pleadingly at Ren as he prayed that the other man would understand.

"Hang on... You put Doc's lab coat on you, do you know where- wait a damn minute- Doc is that you?! What the hell happened?" Ren realized what must have happened, and took off his armor.

Doc happily cooed and carefully put the lab coat back in the chest, crouching down and gently headbutting Ren as the other hybrid tried to figure out what had happened.

"Okay, so you're some kind of giant, furry spider and I would assume we're trying to hide from everybody?" Doc nodded.

"Okay. How long will you be like this?" Ren asked.

Doc carefully attempted to scratch something into the stone walls of the cave, and managed to scratch a 12:00 with a crescent beside it.

"12:00... and that's a moon I would assume... Midnight? You'll be like this until midnight?" Ren asked, correctly interpreting the sketch.

Nodding, Doc carved a crude version of him, surrounded by a bunch of stick figures with swords and other weapons all pointed toward the large spider-like figure in the middle.

"And you were scared that people would attack you if they saw you, so you hide when it happens?"

Another nod.

"How often does this happen?"

Doc scratched thirty lines into the wall, circling the last one and repeatedly tapping the collection of thirty lines.

"Hmm, that's thirty of something, with one circled. A month? Every month you transform into this form?

Another nod from Doc.

"That certainly explains why every month you seem to drop off the face of the server for roughly a day. I'd just assumed you were taking a day to not do anything and unwind." Ren admitted, frowning.

Doc shrugged slightly and carefully pulled Ren closer, hugging the dog hybrid carefully as he purred.

Ren chuckled and returned the hug as best he could, deciding to wait with Doc until he turned back to his normal self.

Right as their communicators hit midnight, Doc started to shrink, his extra limbs merging into themselves to create two legs and one arm, the extra eyes closing and dissapearing as the rest of his body became humanoid again.

Quickly grabbing his clothes, Doc put them on and was just finished with securing his pants when Ren woke up from where he had fallen asleep.

"Hnng- oh hey Doc. Wait did you just transform back or somethin'?" Ren asked sleepily, rubbing his eyes to try and wake up a bit.

"Oh- y-yeah, I just changed back. Thanks for staying with me, it really helped to have someone know and not totally freak out about it." He smiled and pulled on his lab coat. Doc had already attached his robotic arm again, allowing himself full mobility and the ability to do things normally.

"No problem my dude. We should probably go somewhere that isn't a giant cave though, I think the mobs stayed away purely cause you were some huge spider thing and they didn't wanna mess with you." Ren got up and grabbed some stuff that he had set down, walking over to Doc with a smile.

"Yeah. We can go to the center chunk platform or we can go to the main spawn area, I don't really mind."

The duo ended up flying to Doc's starter base and crashing there for the rest of the night, getting up after a few hours since they had both slept in the cave for a little while.

"Thanks again, Ren." Doc smiled at his old friend as the South African prepared to go back to his own base.

"No problem. And hey? You may think you're some kind of monster, but I don't think you are. You're Docm77, redstone master and the goatfather. Just because every month you become some giant freaky spider thing doesn't make you all that different than anyone else. Don't forget that, alright?"

And with that, Ren took off into the sky, leaving Doc with a smile and the knowledge that he had a true friend on the server, one who didn't cower in fear because of something that Doc couldn't control.

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