At some point I'm gonna give these chapters interesting names... but for now we have something else! Read on and you will see...

Xisuma paced outside the townhall of the season 7 shopping district, waiting. Something bad had happened when he was working with the vanilla tweaks... he needed to tell the other hermits, and hope one of them knew what it was, so he could solve it. 

The first sign of the problem came straight away. False symmetry, skipping peacefully over holding some flowers. 

'Good morning, Xisuma!' She greeted cheerfully. X just nodded, and watched as the trio of a jumpy Tango, an uncertain Impulse and a dutifully normal Zedaph. 

'Welcome...' X started, as Jevin arrived, chucked down a boat, and burnt it. 

'No boats. No more boats ever. I don't like boats...' 

Ren came next, looking as boring as Zedaph. X understood what was wrong. The hermits were their opposites!

Five more hermits, Grian, Iskall, Mumbo, Stress and Scar, arrived shortly after. Grian fiddled with redstone, complaining to Mumbo, who was talking about building while soaring overheard, about how bad he was at flying. Iskall wore a suit of diorite, had pockets stuffed with diorite, and hugged a huge rock of diorite. He was talking to himself about how amazing it was, and how great Hermit challenges was. 

Behind them, Scar was ranting about Jellie, about how annoying and ugly she was. Stress held the cat, asking Scar if she could murder the innocent feline. 

'I'll take her...' Xisuma intervened, rescuing Jellie from the situation. 'Who else are we waiting for?' 

Keralis, Etho and TFC answered that question by arriving, and like the others they were complete opposites of normal.

'Get out the way! I don't like you! Or snow!' Etho raged, storming through the ground. Tango politely stepped out the way, while the youthful tinfoil chef and city-hating Keralis followed. 

'This seems like everyone...' X began uncertainly. 'So, let's just say that this is all my fault.'

'It's always your fault!' Etho interrupted rudely. Jevin agreed, setting more boats on fire. 

'So... none of you are supposed to be like this. False, you normally love murdering stuff. 

'But, why would I do that? It's really impolite...' 

Cub disturbed everyone by arriving, yelling about how rubbish the idea of magic was. He sat down, complains about sand too. X waited for him to finish, but Wels arrived before he could. 

'I was too busy being lazy.' The knight excused. 'And hanging out with Hels.' 

'Right then.' X quickly changed the subject. 

But then the biggest disturbance of the lot arrived. Bdubs comforting a weeping Doc. 

'It's ok... everything will be fine...' 

'B...but the goats! They scare me!' Doc blubbered tearfully. 'I want them to leave...' 

Bdubs looked up at the sky for a moment, and sighed when he saw it was midday. 

'Still daytime... it's always daytime... when will it be night. And why do people keep sleeping and making it day again? It's stupid. I say we burn the beds!'

Bdubs took a bed from absolutely nowhere and threw it on Jevin's fire. Then, with all the madness of a pyromaniac, he yelled.

'BURN THE BEDS!!!' 

Jevin threw several more boats on the fire. 

'BURN THE BOATS!' 

The two began what can only be described as a tribal chant, dancing around the fire screeching 'burn the beds! Burn the boats!' At the top of their lungs. Etho joined in, plus Mumbo, Stress and Scar. 

'HEY! LET'S BURN HERMITCRAFT TO THR GROUND!' Etho roared insanely. 

'No! That would be rude! And I don't like fire!' Tango yelped. The pyromaniac cult ignored him.

'We are not burning Hermitcraft!' Grian intervened, fed up with the childish behaviour. 

'We could cover Hermitcraft in flowers.' False suggested. 

'That's WEAK.' Etho criticised. 'It needs to be fire.'

'Why fire though?' Impulse whimpered. 

'Because I like fire. Now, shut up.' Etho continued his rude streak. 

'Everyone! Listen!' Xisuma shouted, unable to quell the chaos. 

Joe, hypno, and Cleo, whom X had also forgotten, turned up. Joe joined the madness, adding 'burn the dogs' to the list of burning things. Cleo ran around, seeing if she could help the hermits, worried about them having broken legs, and if she could help. Hypno was unsure whether to join the mess, but Jevin dragged him into it, still shouting 'burn the boats!'

Just when no one thought if could get any worse, TFC took some TNT from nowhere and threw that on the fire. Obviously, it exploded. 

'Let's blow everything up!' He added to the mix. There was silence at the explosion, but the chanting began again, with booming at regular intervals. Tango ran away. 

Etho began questioning the uncomplying hermits about what they wanted to burn. But choosing Grian first wasn't the best choice. 

'So, what would you like me to set on fire?' The Canadian asked passive aggressively.

'Yourself.' 

'Lovely...' Etho moved on to Iskall.

'How about you?' 

'Don't burn my diorite!' The swede tried to hide the diorite from view, but Etho stole some and chucked it on the enormous pile of flames, beds, boats and ash. 

'Burn the diorite!'

'Noo!!' Iskall moaned, running away to save the diorite. Stress and Scar chased him.

'EVERYONE SHUT UP!!' Xisuma screamed as loudly has he could. Everyone looked up at him, even Etho. Bdubs looked from the fire, to Xisuma, to a bed he had got, and back to the fire. He threw it on.

'I'm not sorry.' He whispered. 'I'm really not sorry'

'Hey! Let's burn Xisuma!' Etho butted in. The strider admin was silent, everyone else had stopped making noise. The only sound was Doc's continual goat-related crying. 

'Yeah! Burn Xisuma!' Keralis agreed, before charging for X. The hermit scarpered, chased by all the pyromaniac cult members, who now had flaming torches and tridents as pitchforks. 

'Stop running!!!' Bdubs ordered maniacally. 'I want to set you on fire!'

'Jeez! Stop trying to kill me!' Xisuma replied, running even faster. He enabled his elytra and began flying, Mumbo took to the air behind him, and with his new prowess at flying, quickly caught X. He was taken to the ground, tied up, and forced towards the fire. 

'OK! STOP!' X commanded. 'NOW.' 

But, as predicted, none of them obeyed, chanting 'Burn Xisuma' again. So the admin gave up. 

'Sorry to interrupt, but surely burning X would be very unhelpful and mean.' False intervened. 

'Hey, False! Can you SHUT UP?' Etho replied, smiling. X shook his head. The hermits were rowdy normal. As their opposites, they were literally insane. Stopping them would be almost impossible. 

Almost. 

So this was immensely fun to write, and a nice cliffhanger so I can continue this later. ^^ 

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