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Location; Hermitcraft

POV; Grian

I open my eyes and look up at the wood roof above me.

'Where am I?'

I sit up in bed and look around frantically.

'Oh right, the portal, and the Hermits'

I lay back down on the bed and gather my thoughts for the day.

That's when I notice that all my senses but sight and touch are gone again.

'What? But I learned the spell to undo the effects.'

I quickly recast the spell that gave me hearing, taste, and smell.

'Ah, back to normal. I guess my adrenaline from yesterday kept the spell up, but when I fell asleep last night my exhaustion undid it.'

Yesterday, I was shot out of a portal and faced with a sword. In the end, I joined a group of players that have little to no brain cells.

The Admin of the server is Xisuma, the co-Admin being someone named Tango. I'm pretty sure he was the one with red eyes snd golden hair.

After I had joined the group, we all split up to start work on our bases for the season.

I chose to start with a ship in a bottle but I plan on making something much bigger.

I glance down at my hands which I have folded in my lap. I quickly startle when I see a faint glow on the back of my left hand.

My Watcher mark is visible, and it's still purple.

'How is it still purple?! Purple meant that my Watch magic was top teir. I thought Zayne took the mask off, my powers should go back.'

"Unless it's permanent." I mutter out loud to myself after staring at it for awhile.

I quickly cast a small glamor spell that hides the mark before standing up and walking over to the door.

I pass a mirror though, and I take a few steps back to look at my reflection.

'My eyes are still purple!?'

Quickly I cast another spell to turn my eyes blue and look over myself one last time before walking out of the room and into the main room of my little boat.

I've made a small little boat house in the middle of a glass bottle.

I do a quick little jog over to the opening of the bottle. I jump in the water, and swim out through the top of the bottle.

.°•○☆○•°.(-°●°-).°•○☆○•°.

I soon reach the shopping district and fly over to the giant tree stump with an axe in it.

I giggle at the memory of helping to build the axe with Cub because he caught me red-handed as I stole some wood from his tree farm.

The axe was to promote Under Cut, which is a shop that sells wood for half the price as other shops.

After I'm done reminiscing the good memories, I walk down the path that leads deeper into the district.

I'm looking for a good spot to build a shop. I know I already built one, but it only sells pickles.

I need a shop where I can sell an assortment of different things.

As I walk down the path, I find a really good clearing close to I-trade and another shop that had waste chemicals pouring out of its sewer system.

"It's perfect." I say out loud while clasping my hands together.

I set down some of my shulker boxes and pull out some wooden items.

I start by making a wheel, then and another, soon I've got a chassis infront of me.

As I walk around the build, working on making the next parts for my shop. I notice I have an audience.

Xisuma and Tango have both stopped by to watch me build my shop.

They start making guesses as to what I'm building but I just ignore them.

"Wait, I know now! Is it a tiny house?" Tango shouts from where he was sitting a few feet away on the grass.

A smile spreads across my face and I shake my head at him.

I continue building till I'm almost done. All I have left is to finish up the back part and then stock my shop.

"Is it a cart of some type." Xisuma guesses.

I turn to him with excitement in my eyes. "No, but you're awfully close." I say.

"Is it a cart of fruit? No, a cart of boxes!" Tango shouts as guesses.

I burst out laughing at this, and put a hand on my cart for support.

Tango joins me in laughter while Xisuma tilts his head and studies my build.

"Is it a traveling cart?" He guessed.

"Yes!" I exclaim.

We all share good laugh, then the two part ways and I'm alone again.

I quickly stock my shop with sand and gravel. Both of which are hard for others to get their hands on because they take such a long time to gather.

I fly off, back to my in-progress-base that's off the shore over in the ocean of the Shopping District.

Right as I reach the top of my base, I angle myself so that I start to go down.

The wind whips by my face as I whiz down the space I left so that I could dive all the way through the layers and to the bottom.

I deactivate my elytra and plummet down to the concrete and cobblestone below.

As the ground approaches fast I activate my elytra...

Except it doesn't open.

'Aren't elytras supposed to open!?' I panic.

Terror runs through me as I watch the ground get closer and closer. I reach my arms out forward even though they won't stop my fall.

Then, suddenly I'm not moving and everything goes black.
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POV; Xisumavoid

A sudden vibration coming from my communicator on my wrist startles me out of the mining I'm trying to accomplish.

I put my pickaxe in my inventory and lift up my left wrist to see what caused the vibration.

<Grian fell from a high place>

<MumboJumbo> oh no

<ZedaphPlays> are you ok bud?

<Xisuma> He doesn't have a communicator yet, I'm on my way over to his base right now.

I grab my elytra and fly along the tunnel I've made while mining. Once I reach the exit, I fly off in the direction of Grians base.

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POV; Grian

Slowly I sit up in my bed. I press a palm to my forehead as a headache takes over.

"That hurt." I grumble while standing up.

I walk over to the center of my base past the growing chest monster I have. I collect my dropped items, thankful that none of them despawned.

I equip my armor and elytra and eat a few of my golden carrots. The sound of rockets pulls my attention to the sky.

Xisuma comes through the opening and lands infront of me with a worried look on his face.

"Hi X-eye-zoom-a!" I say to him, completely destroying the poor Admins name.

He ignores the name prank and instead grabs my hand and pulls me back over to my bed.

"Are you okay?" He asks me.

I look at him confused. "Yeah, of course I'm fine. I just had a bit of a mess up with my elytra."

"Oh thank goodness." X says while sighing.

"Why? What do you think happened?" I ask him.

"Well, I wouldn't want you injured when I take you to the MainHub to have the papers signed." He says while winking.

I feel the color drain from my face. "W-what?" I ask him.

"You know, to make it official. I thought you wanted to join Hermitcraft?" X ask me while tilting his head.

"OH! Yes, of course! I really want to join." I say, the relief flooding my body.

"Oh good, for a moment there I thought you changed your mind. Wait, what did you think I meant?" Xisuma asks me.

'Fiddle-sticks.' "Oh, nothing. Just a little mixed-up from the respawn, thats all." I said with reassuring smile.

Xisuma squints at me, from under his helmet.

"Is that all, not to be rude but I've got stuff to do, you know." I say while looking to the side and rubbing the back of my neck.

"Oh, yes of course. I'll be leaving now." He says while standing up from his spot on my bed.

He pulls out a rocket, ready to blast off. "Oh, but I almost forgot. Here, this is for you." X says while pulling out a metal band from one of his pockets.

He puts the rockets back in his inventory and walks back over to me. Xisuma holds a hand out and I give him my hand. X clips the band around my wrist.

"There, now you have a communicator so you can get in contact with us if ever you need help or just want to talk." Xisuma says after letting go of my hand.

I lift my wrist up and study the new accessory. It was a solid black band with a little red gem in the center.

"Click it." Xisuma says to me.

I do as he says, and the gem starts to glow. Then a holographic screen pops up displaying the chat.

"As you can see, you've got access to Main Chat now. You can make chats too. There is also a part where you can check your physique." Xisuma says.

I nod my head at him. "Thanks, this is going to come in handy."

"No problem, also the gems are personalized in case you didn't guess." He tells me.

I take notice of the color of his gem that's on his communicator. It was a bright green.

'Oh, it matches his armor.'

A vibration coming from my communicator on my wrist suddenly, makes me jump.

I lift my arm back up, and see that it was from Xisuma talking in Main Chat.

<Xisuma> Hey ya'll, just like to inform you that Grians got a communicator now.

<Grian> Hello!

<MumboJumbo> Hi!

<Goodtimewithscar> welcome to the chat!

Goodtimewithscar was slain by a zombie.

<Cubfan135> Hey Grian! R.I.P Scar

<Tango> Welcome to chaos Grian!

<Grian> o/

I look up to see Xisuma pulling out his rockets again, ready to blast off. "Have fun!" He calls before flying out, and up to the gap in the ceiling.

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Authors Notes; I physically and mentally hate this chapter... but it's done. I never have to see it again. *deep sigh*

My complaining aside, I hope you peeps enjoy the chapter.

If you do have any questions. Please feel free to ask. I love reading comments and replying to you all!

Stay safe, happy, and healthy!

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Editing; 1800

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