Chapter 5 - The Trouble With Watchers

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Dream SMP / Krew

Xelqua. Xena. Xylo. Those three names were looping in Dream's mind. He had eavesdropped on the conversation between Xisuma, Grian, Avery and Jake.

When George saw Avery and Jake, he was disturbed by their eyes. Those colors of Lucid's eyes were etched into his mind. The color wouldn't leave him alone. Although George knew that the eyes were purple, they seemed blue to him. When he saw the eyes of Avery and Jake, he was reminded of Lucid. The eyes of the three all matched. Those purple eyes...

Dream found Avery and Jake building their house. He walked up to them. Jake noticed him.

"Hey Dream!!" Jake said. Avery looked up to see the SMP admin in front of the two.

"Do you need something?" Avery asked.

"I was just wondering," Dream said. "You two aren't from the Dream SMP. Are you from Hermitcraft?"

"Uh..." Jake glanced at Avery. "Yea," Jake said. "We're from Hermitcraft!

"Oh." Dream stared into their purple eyes. "Well...I'm going to be honest. You remind me of someone that I know."

"We do?" Avery asked. "Who?"

"Oh...Well..." Dream hesitated. "Just a friend of mine."

With a yelp of surprise, the admin was slammed against a tree by Avery. Avery was glaring at him with those purple eyes. Wings had sprouted out of her back. Wings with a purple glow. The same shade of purple as those eyes. The same shade as Lucid's eyes. Avery and Jake put on their Watcher masks. There was a glowing purple symbol on the masks, like a rectangle but dots replaced two corners.

"Don't try to lie to us," Jake said.

"Wha-" Dream started before Avery tightened her grip around his neck.

"We know that your 'friend' that you're talking about is Lucid," Jake said using air quotes.

"Please-" Dream gasped. "I can't breathe!"

"Avery." Her grip loosened.

"Let us talk to Lucid," Avery said, letting Dream go. And almost immediately, Lucid took over, but Dream resisted. Whenever he was controlled, sometimes he resisted. Sometimes. Most of the time, he was caught off guard and so he didn't have time to try and resist.

"No." Dream said, ignoring Lucid in his head. Ignoring Nightmare telling Dream to let Lucid take over.

"WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" Avery roared.

"I said NO!" Dream said.

"YOU BITCH!" Avery said. She lunged at him.

Just as Avery was about to choke him again, Dream was picked up by someone and brought into the air. Jake and Avery both flew up after him, shouting at whoever was carrying him. Dream looked up to see that it was Phil who was flying.

"Phil?"

"I heard everything."

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Hermitcraft / Empires SMP

Grian and Xisuma rushed over to see what was going on. Phil was flying through the air, their lives were in danger by the Watchers.

And it was all Grian's fault. If he had never accepted X's invitation to join Hermitcraft, the Hermits' lives wouldn't be in danger. But he did accept.

Though X thought it was his. He knew Grian wouldn't do anything to hurt the Hermits, on purpose anyay. But he still took the risk of inviting Grian onto his server. Inviting a Watcher onto his server. Xisuma knew from the start Grian was a Watcher. He knew from the start that Grian's real name was Xelqua. He knew from the start that the blond gremlin was always destined to become a Watcher, that the Watchers finally took him in after Evo.

But he also knew that Grian needed Hermitcraft. That Grian didn't like the Watchers.

A group of Hermits and SMP members were watching what was going on. It was hard to hear what Phil and the Watchers were saying.

Xisuma blanked out.

He was flying across End islands in a different server. He noticed a short man with parrot colored wings sitting against an End City wall. He had blond hair and black eyes. He was wearing a red jumper and gray pants. He looked scared.

X decided to walk up to him. "Hi, I'm Xisumavoid, but you can call me Xisuma or X! What's your name?"

The man looked up at him. "Xelqua, but I prefer to be called Grian."

"Alright Grian!" The Hermitcraft admin replied. "What are you doing out here all alone? Are you ok?"

Grian sobbed. "A while ago, my server was destroyed by the Watchers. I have no idea where my friends are."

Watchers. Xisuma knew who they were. They were dangerous, godlike beings that had a lot of power. Xisuma knew that if he ever encountered a Watcher, he should run immediately.

"What was your server called?" He cautiously asked.

"Evolution SMP, or Evo for short. Many of my friends were on there. Martyn, Pearl, Taurtis, Solidarity, BigB, Netty, Mini Muka, Tomohawk, Salems_Lady, and systemzee." Grian said.

Xisuma sighed. "Well, maybe you'd like to join my server. We're about to begin Season 6!"

"I don't think you want me on your server..." Grian muttered.

Xisuma looked confused. "Why not?"

"I'm a Watcher!" He blurted out.

That left Xisuma speechless. Watchers were dangerous, and Xisuma knew better than to let one onto his server. But he sensed something different about Grian. He sensed Grian had a good heart.

The admin took a deep breath. "That's fine. You seem like a good Watcher, not a bad one. The invitation is always open."

"Fine, I'll come." Grian said. "Will you tell anyone who I really am?"

Xisuma shook his head. "No, you can tell them yourselves when you feel comfortable enough. It's your decision to make if you want to tell them, not mine."

The small man nodded his head, grateful, and softly smiled. "Thank you, Ex-eye-zooma-void."

Xisuma laughed. "It's pronounced Isuma, for your information."

"Nah, that's what I'll call you now." Grian said.

The admin smiled. "Alright, alright. Grain."

Grian looked around, and his expression turned a playful type of angry. "Hey! I am NOT bread!"

The two were laughing and giggling all the way back to the server.

Xisuma introduced Grian to all the Hermits. "Guys, this is Grian. He'll be a new member of Hermitcraft."

"Not to be confused with Grain." Grian laughed.

2 Seasons later...

Everyone was standing around a cave entrance in the ground. In there, stood two new Hermits.

GeminiTay and PearlescentMoon.

Xisuma saw the relief in Grian's eyes as he saw his old friend.

Who cared if he was a Watcher? He was the Hermits' friend. He was kind, not cruel. Though he did get a bit mischievous at times.

Xisuma smiled, Grian fits into Hermitcraft perfectly.

"'Suma! Wake up!" A voice pleaded.

Xisuma opened his eyes to see Xavier. "Hi...I blanked out didn't I?"

His brother nodded. "Yup."

Xisuma looked up at the sky.

Chaos was breaking loose.

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Phil...You said you were going to kill Dream when you saw him when Tommy told you Dream traumatized him...What ever happened to that? (For some reason when you wrote "You said" I thought of "Mom said it's my turn on the Xbox." -Galactic)

- Pleb

I skipped this chapter to work on Chapter 7...Then came back to it of course- I PULLED A PLEB, DIDN'T I

-Galactic