Chapter 2 - Small Problems, Big Fights

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Dream SMP / Krew

Nightmare. Dream told George about Nightmare. But not him. He is worse than Nightmare. Lucid.

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"RAINBOW! DRACO STOLE FOOD AGAIN!"

"NO I DIDN'T!"

Rainbow confronted the bickering siblings. "Get along Funneh and Draco. And Draco, stop stealing food."

"Fine," both siblings muttered.

"Tattletale," Draco said when Rainbow was out of earshot.

"Why can't I visit Blaze?" Kiera asked Sapnap.

"It's..." Sapnap began. "It's complicated..."

"But I wanna visit Blaze!" Kiera cried.

"I know Kiera, but you can't visit Blaze now." Sapnap glanced at his daughter who's bottom lip was quivering. There were tears at the edges ofher eyes, threatening to pour down her face. "But we can visit Blaze some other time."

"Promise?" Kiera asked.

"Promise." Kiera nodded and ran off to go play with one of her sisters.

"Silvia!" Sapnap heard Karl calling the poly relationship's time traveling daughter.

"Karl? Is Silvia missing again?"

"Yea."

"Do you think she managed to time travel?"

"I told you Sap. You can't time travel until you're 15."

"Maybe Silvia found a way?" Karl glared at Sapnap. "Okay, okay! Stop giving me that look Karl!"

"Karl, I found Silvia," Quackity said, coming in.

"Where was she?" Karl asked as Silvia left Quackity to cling onto Karl's leg.

"She was playing outside, behind the house playing outside, behind the house," Quackity said.

"I told you she can't time travel yet Sapnap," Karl said, turning away from his husband.

"What happened?" Quackity asked, confused

"I think I might've angered Karl," Sapnap admitted.

"And how did you do that?" The shorter asked.

"I suggested that Silvia might've time traveled even though Karl told me so many times that Silvia can't time travel."

"YOU DEFINITELY WERE ACTING STUPID," Karl suddenly shouted. Quackity quietly snickered as Sapnap blushed in embarrassment from Karl's remark.

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Bad and Skeppy were taking their kids on their first mining trip ever. The two kids were already struggling to hold a wooden pickaxe properly. Bad was struggling to teach them. Skeppy was finding that his husband and children struggling was simply just cute. Period.

"C'mon Geppy!" Bad cried out as Andrew copied his older sister who was holding the pickaxe backwards. "Help me out here!" Skeppy laughed at the demon who was struggling.

"It's not funny!!" Bad said, angrily.

"I know! I'm sorry!"

"Help me then!"

. . .

Everyone seemed happy...Everything seemed well...

. . .

Everyone hates you...They all hate you...You ruin everything...

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Hermitcraft / Empires SMP

Grian was worried. He was worried about why they were transported to another world again. He was worried about how the Hermits and SMP members would react around each other, especially the new members of the respective servers.

He was worried about the growing tension between Xisuma and Dream. If they weren't getting along 5 years ago, they definitely weren't getting along now. Dream had hurt the Hermits 5 years ago. He killed most of them and that emotionally affected the rest of the Hermits. Especially Xisuma. If Grian was honest, he constantly spied on other Hermits to see what they were up to. Everytime Xisuma thought he was alone, Grian noticed that he was more upset than he used to be. He cried. A lot, actually. Grian didn't know if he should be the first one to try and help X, or if someone else would.

Grian was worried that he wouldn't be able to keep his secret for much longer. Grian's real name wasn't even Grian. It was Xelqua. He was born to become a Watcher. He couldn't turn it down either. He had become a Watcher shortly after he left Evolution SMP, a bit before joining Hermitcraft Season 6. He hadn't told anyone. Not Jimmy or Mumbo. Not even Pearl, who was a close friend of his. She had also been on Evo SMP and knew about the Watchers. She just didn't know Grian was one. Ah, well it didn't matter now, Pearl was gone. Mumbo and Jimmy wouldn't understand. Xisuma was the only one who knew, with his being the Hermitcraft server admin.

Grian felt alone, and upset. Maybe he could be the one to help out X if they had similar emotions at the moment.

"Grian?" A British voice asked him. "You alright, mate?"

Grian looked up, and immediately dropped something he was levitating using his Watcher magic. "Oh- Hey Mumbo! I'm fine, nothing's wrong!"

Mumbo didn't look convinced. "Are you sure?"

"Yes!" Grian snapped.

He heard two voices arguing, so he quickly hid behind a nearby tree to eavesdrop. One voice was gentle, even with a tone of anger, and definitely had a British accent. The other voice had an American accent and was more bold, and somewhat scary. He recognized the voices to be the two admins on the server. Xisumavoid and Dream.

"Will you just leave me alone?" Xisuma asked.

Dream chuckled, responding with, "I'm not doing anything to you!"

"Not doing anything, huh?" X shook his head. "Understatement."

"That was 5 years ago!" Dream snapped. "Anyone ever tell you to not hold grudges?"

X rolled his eyes. "Anyone ever tell you that murder is morally wrong?"

"Why don't you shut up! I don't need to hear about morals! Like I said to Tommy how I don't give a fuck about spirit, I don't give a fuck about morals! I don't care that you guys are less violent than us! Why should I care? They weren't my friends, they were yours! I don't care if I hurt you by doing that, you wouldn't be the first person I've hurt!" Dream yelled.

X looked shocked. "What?"

Dream went on. "You're a weak admin. What do you even know?"

"I've been an admin longer than you! I know the difference between right and wrong!"

"But I am clearly the better admin," Dream said, smirking.

"What is wrong with you? Why are you always trying to compete with people like this?" Xisuma asked, furious.

"Why not? It's fun!" Dream said, laughing.

X glared at him. "No! It's not fun! It's mean! At least I care about the members of my server!"

"I care about my server members too." Dream said.

"You care about George, and that's it as far as I know. The rest you only like to manipulate." X replied.

Dream rolled his eyes. "Oh please, you make a big deal out of everything. Do you trust the other Hermits?"

"Of course I do!" X responded.

"How would you feel if another Hermit was keeping a large secret from you? A secret you should know." Dream was just saying things, but little did he know a Hermit was actually keeping a secret.

A voice spoke to Grian. "You're eavesdropping too, huh?"

Grian looked in the direction of the voice and saw Gem.

"Hi Gem...Just worried about the admin situation is all..."

Gem nodded. "Yeah, I don't see why they can't get along. I know Dream killed the other Hermits but, it feels wrong seeing X act like this."

"I agree." Grian said. "He's calm most of the time."

Just then X stormed by them, ending his argument with Dream.

He saw Grian and Gem hiding behind trees. "You heard the whole thing huh?" X looked absolutely pissed off.

It was getting late, so Grian decided to go home.

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The British woke up in some sort of dream world.

Two Watchers stood in front of him.

Xena looked at Grian. "Hello Xelqua."

Grian felt anger. "What do you want this time?!"

"You're one of us, Xelqua. You should be on our side. You've had enough living peacefully on Hermitcraft, ignoring us. But now it's time for us to step in." Xylo said.

"I'll never join you!" Grian shouted.

Xena frowned. "You already did Xelqua, by choice or not. We'll destroy the little server you're on now, Hermits and SMP members with it. Then, we'll destroy Hermitcraft itself."

Grian started tearing up. "No! You can't have Hermitcraft! I won't let you!"

Xylo looked down upon the young Watcher. "You're not the one controlling how protected the server is, now are you? You're not the admin, after all."

"But X is the admin! I'll find him and tell him what you'll do!" Grian said.

Xena shook her head in disapproval. "You tell Xisumavoid, and you'll be punished. You won't be able to get Xisumavoid to protect your little server, he can't put up barriers, as he's not the only admin."

Grian raised his eyebrow. "Then I'll get X and Dream working together to stop you two."

Xylo almost laughed. "Nice try. The two can barely stand staying within a meter of each other."

The two Watchers were towering over Grian at this point. They looked powerful, with the bobbing up and down of their glowy purple halos. Their wings were massive. Their magic was strong.

Xena smiled. "We'll find a way to infiltrate your server. There's no stopping us."

He woke up from his dream at the break of dawn. He was determined to find a way to stop the Watchers. But one thing was on his mind. Who was that person behind the Watchers? Whoever they were, Grian knew that that person wasn't a Watcher...

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Writer's block already... (#storyofmylife -Galactic) I'm doing a Galactic and jumping right into the angst. And now I understand Write It Down after watching The Maze...Pills needs his pills...#PillsIsQuackitysAncestorConfirmed Galactic was busy looking at memes while working on this...(Memes are da best, Hermitcraft and 3rd Life/Last Life memes are so funny- -Galactic) I admit- My writing style REALLY changed over the course of 1 year.
- Pleb

For some reason writing the last line of Grian's dream made me think of Queen of Mean from Descendants. Even though they're completely unrelated...(I wrote starting at "But one thing was on his mind" -Pleb)

-Galactic