"I once did wear my helmet only for novelty.", X started, breathing a little heavily.

"Soo, what happened?", Grian inquired while crafting some beds.

X sighed.

"And take off your helmet, X. I've heard nobody can tell a story when their eyes are trailing off.", Welsknight said.

Xisuma bit his lip, but slowly took off his helmet and protectively held it in the crook of his right arm.

He cleared his throat, glanced quickly at False and told his story.

~~Xisuma's Story~~

Once upon a time, there was a soldier, part of the Starforce, a technologically advanced group of knights.

This soldier was X.

He had a good friend named Biffa.

They were sitting in their dorm, laughing their heads off at the tales they told each other.

"..And then, Clam menacingly pointed his trident at me.", Xisuma told while making wild motions with his arms.

"Just as I thought I would become a Shish-kabob, a small rabbit hopped by. It looked at Clam, and he stared at it. I was about to slip away and then all of a sudden.." X paused, and gave a funny half-scowl at Biffa.

Biffa snorted, and dug his hands into his bed in anticipation.

"What happened X? What did Clam do?", he asked.

"He screamed like a little boy and ran away SCREAMING! Imagine that? Big ol' Clam screaming and running away, hands sticking up in the air?" Xisuma chuckled, and then doubled over, laughing into his pillow.

Biffa joined him, rolling on the bed laughing, while pounding his fists on the bed.

X wheezed. 

Then his eyes widened as he saw the power bar on Biffa's arm charge up.

"Wait! Biff! Watch out-", he started to warn Biffa.

SMASH!

The bed now had a fist sized hole and Biffa looked at his arm bewildered.

"Oops.", was all he said while sheepishly shrugging.

X snorted, and started having a belly laugh, not caring if Biffa joined in.

Suddenly, the alarm above the door beeped and whined.

Biffa stared wide eyed at him, and Xisuma nodded.

They headed out the door.

(Timeskip as the two buddies ran through the halls.)

"W-we're here General.", Xisuma panted as he soluted in respect to General Dusk.

Biffa copied his movements.

Dusk nodded.

"You two are our best recruits. We choose you both to investigate suspicious activity at... here.", he said as he pointed to a spot on the map on the table.

"Go there, investigate, dispatch whatever is there, and come right back. Bring five others with you.", Dusk ordered.

"Yes, sir!", said Biffa and X in unison as they marched out.

Dusk was an aging but wise man with somehow naturally white hair. He had very pale skin and red eyes. An albino.

He had a son about X and Biffa's age named Etho, who had no interest in the Starforce and trained himself to survive in the wild.

"Would've been interesting to meet him.", X thought.

Biffa entered the code to enter the entrance and exit door.

With a puff of steam, the doors opened.

They both put their armor on elytra mode and flew off.

(Another time skip)

"ROOAAAAARRRR!!"

"What the hell is that thing?", yelled one of the recruits.

X gulped. He's seen something like these before.

"You're worthless. Biffa's only with you out of pity.", whispered the Hydra in his head.

Xisuma yelled back, "A wither and ender dragon hybrid! I saw someone on the cameras summon it!"

"WHAT?!", screamed all of the recruits except for X.

X grimaced as he tried to fight the hydra out of his head.

The Hydra was massive.

It had a normal body of a Dragon, with not one, but THREE heads! It also had a skeletal tail. It shoots fire, heads, and could whisper things to you to bring you down.

"KEEP SHOOTING!", Biffa yelled as he aimed and fired a laser.

X charged up his arm again and punched the middle head in the scaly muzzle.

The other two heads roared, and swiped at him with a powerful black paw.

Xisuma's eyes widened and tried to dodge.

But he was too slow.

The last thing he saw was the three heads snarling down at him, and claws swiping at.. something.

Everything hurt so much.

"This," X thought. "Must be the price of everything I've done. When I disappointed my parents. When I accidentally murdered Kelp."

And he blacked out just as the Hydra whispered "You're right. You deserve to die a painful death over and over again. All I need to do is find the 'Respawn' switch on your armor and manipulate it. You're a con, Xisumavoid. You'll never meet your goals."

At that moment also, all hope of future dreams were ripped out from X's struggling heart.

~Real Life~

"I don't remember anything after that.", X said with a troubled sigh while rubbing at a scar. "Then, I woke up."

~~Story~~

"No! No!", Xisuma cried in anguish as he looked in the mirror, a bit after the doctor told him that he would be scarred forever.

His face was still a bloody mess, with deep scars over one eye and a lot on his cheeks.

X trembled and touched one of the red trenches that opened up.

"This is my punishment.", he thought as Biffa attempted danced in front of him to cheer him up.

~~Real Life~~

The hermits listened to his every word.

"That sounds horrible", Stress whispered.

"That's... painful!", False agreed.

"Ah.", Xisuma thought as he looked at False with her deep blue eyes and gorgeous blond hair.

X had to furiously wipe off a blush.

"But, it's passed.", he said while looking out a window.

"But I still feel as if I was scratched every single day. I still tear up in dismay when Biffa left me.", X muttered, tears coming out of his eyes.

"I- I'm a horrible person.", he sniffed into the wall corner.