Chapter 9 - Solutions and Problems

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Dream SMP / Krew

"We haven't seen Funneh or Lunar ever since they went missing," Rainbow said.

"Well," Draco said. "They're missing."

"Now's not the time Draco," Gold said. "Two of our siblings are missing."

"Sorry," Draco said sheepishly.

"We need some clues," Rainbow said.

"Hey," Gold said. "I just remembered something." Her two siblings turned to her. "Remember ItFunneh?"

"Don't remind me," Rainbow said. "But Gold does have a point. I Remember that ItFunneh's most infamous line was 'you'll feel alone too!'" Rainbow continued. "So based on what we have so far, Funneh is now her clown counterpart?

"Evil clown," Gold corrected.

"So, she must be underground where there's water!" Rainbow said, now figuring it out.

"That solves the Funneh problem," Draco said. "But what about Lunar?"

"False said that she saw Lunar with cat ears, right?" Rainbow asked.

"Yeah?" Draco responded. "What about it?"

"Cheshire Cat Lunar," Rainbow said, trying to remind her little brother of their Falice in Wonderland counterparts.

"And Cheshire Cat Lunar likes prankish people," Gold said.

"So wherever there is a prank where we can't figure out who did it," Draco said. "Then Lunar has to be there!"

"Now we know what our siblings are and how to find Lunar, but how do we find Funneh?" Rainbow asked. "We know what her location's surroundings probably are, but we don't know where."

"We can go around and ask everyone if they've seen a red balloon," Gold said. "And if they have, then we'll know we're on the right path."

"But what if we're going backwards?" Draco asked.

"We'll have to take our chances Draco," Rainbow said.

. . .

"We'll need to come up with a plan," Techno said.

"Clearly," Dream responded. "The Watchers are smart. We don't even know if they're watching us right now."

"Well," Techno said. "We'll have to be secretive then."

"You'll have to come up with a plan yourself," Dream said. "Lucid is friends with the Watchers."

"Lucid?" Techno asked. "Who?"

Dream realized he said too much. "Ignore what I said," Dream said, quickly. "But you're still going to have to come up with a plan by yourself." Before Techno could ask why Dream couldn't help and who the hell Lucid was, Dream had gotten on his horse and left.

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Hermitcraft / Empires SMP

Grian seemed bothered by Awesamdude. Just by his name. Sam. His name brought back terrible memories.

Memories of high school.

Samgladiator was horrible to Grian. Grian despised him.

Well, he was just glad Sam wasn't around anymore to torture him.

It was as if the Watchers could read his every thought.

He heard Xena giggling. "Alarmed, are you? Let's make this a bit more interesting."

Grian turned around to see Xena snapping her fingers. "What was that supposed to do?"

Xena smiled. Someone appeared in front of her. Someone Grian hated. He was a brunet, with black eyes and a bunny hat. He wore blue jeans, red sneakers, and a beige suit jacket over a collared white shirt and red tie.

samgladiator joined the game.

"Hello Grian!" The brunet said, an evil glint in his eye. "It's so good to finally see you again!"

Grian sobbed. "No! Stay away from me!"

Sam chuckled. "Oh come one, I haven't seen you since high school."

"You did horrible things to me! You killed Taurtis!" Grian snarled.

"Oh, him. I refuse to believe he died. And even if he did, wasn't he brought back to life somehow before joining your server? Evolution SMP, was it?"

"Grian, what's he doing here?"

The small Hermit turned to see Taurtis, whose eyes were widening in fear. Taurtis didn't know what Sam did to Grian after he killed Taurtis since Grian never told him. But Taurtis did know Sam was bad news.

"I don't know," Grian said in a panic. "He just showed up, Xena summoned him. He's done horrible things to us both."

<EvilXisuma> Who is samgladiator?

<falsesymmetry> I have no idea, Xavier

<Grian> He was an old friend of mine from high school. But he quickly turned into an enemy

<EvilXisuma> Aha! So you brought him on to kill more of us?

<samgladiator> I would never kill anyone!

<Grian> I KNOW YOU STABBED TAURTIS! DON'T LIE TO MY FRIENDS!!!

<EvilXisuma> Funny how you still call us friends. You killed some of the Hermits and expect us to keep you on our good side? NO WAY

<Biffa2001> Why don't we all calm down?

<Georgenotfound> Yeah, I agree. We all need to take a chill pill

<Grian> Y E S

<Quackity> LAS DROGAS!!!

<Grian> :D

<Quackity> :DDD

<GoodTimeWithScar> I have no idea what's scarier, the fact that Grian killed people, or the fact that he said ":D" at the mention of drugs...

<awesamdude> Who the hell is this person and why does he have the same name as me

<EvilXisuma> WE HAVE NO IDEA

<GoodTimeWithScar> Grian I know we all have a grudge against you but can I show you something quickly. I'll come to you.

Scar went over to Grian and took his shirt off.

<GoodTimeWithScar> Abs :)

<Grian> SCAR PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON!!!!!!!

<GoodTimeWithScar> No hehe.

<Quackity> Good idea.

<TommyInnit> DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE QUACKITY

Then Quackity took off his clothes, leaving only his underwear.

<Quackity> Scar where are you, we can be the shirtless bros

<GoodTimeWithScar> I actually love the sound of that

<Sapnap> Oh crap

<KarlJacobs> Quackity please don't

<Quackity> Too late

Scar and Quackity met up at a town building that False had built. They were dancing shirtless in front of it.

"This is a disgrace to my build." False said.

"Talk about it," Grian agreed. "SCAR PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON!!!"

"Put your clothes back on Big Q!" Tommy yelled in annoyance.

"No!" Scar and Quackity said in unison.

"THERE ARE MINORS HERE," Tommy said.

"QUACKITY!" Karl said. "YOU PUT ON YOUR CLOTHES! OR ME AND SAPNAP ARE GOING TO LEAVE YOU!"

"Fine..." Karl, Tommy and Quackity left, leaving Grian and Scar alone.

Scar huffed. "Well I won't."

"Scar, put on some clothes and I'll give you reputation points." Grian said.

Scar shook his head. "No thanks, that's my job."

Grian stared at the vex/ human hybrid, and sighed. "Well what can I do to get you to put your clothes back on?"

Scar thought about this for a moment, looking up and finger to his chin, until he finally decided and looked at Grian. "Who is Samgladiator, and tell me truth about what happened while you were in your Watcher form and killing everyone. Maybe background information on the Watchers will help."

"Fine..." Grian nodded. "I knew Sam in high school. He killed Taurtis then forced me to dress up and act like him."

"As for the Watchers?" Scar innocently asked.

A tear snuck down Grian's cheek. "Apparently I was destined to be a Watcher, so the Watchers took me in to teach me how to be one. This was shortly after they destroyed my server. It was called Evolution SMP, or Evo for short. This was also before I joined Hermitcraft. I've kept this secret every season since I joined, only Xisuma knew. Not all Watchers are bad, but most are. They're under the influence of Xena and Xylo. Watchers can do almost anything. Especially use dark magic to kill."

Scar's face darkened as he stroked Jellie. He stayed silent, waiting for Grian to finish.

"What you saw me doing back there, was me. I just didn't have control of my body. So maybe it wasn't me. But Xena was under control of me. I was scared, Scar. I was scared of myself. And now the Hermitcraft side of the server is falling into chaos because X is dead."

At this point, Grian was crying in the middle of a plains biome. Scar sat down next to him, and pulled the parrot-winged Hermit into a hug.

"I understand now. I finally understand that it wasn't your fault. I honestly didn't expect you to tell me anything." Scar said gently.

"Thanks Scar," Grian said through tears.

He wiped the tears off his face, and Scar helped him stand up.

Grian smirked. "Don't forget your promise. I didn't tell you all that for nothing."

Scar laughed. "Oh, yeah. Almost forgot about that."

He slipped his shirt back on. After he did, he noticed a plastic handle sticking out of his pocket.

The vex hybrid looked confused. "What's this?"

Scar pulled it out his pocket. It was a spoon. Engraved on it were words.

This is a spoon. We worship spoons. You are invited to the Spoon Cult. Let the spoons rise.

Grian acted surprised. "Oh my, how did that get in there?"

"No idea! I think you slipped it in here!" Scar said. "I'll definitely join to worship Mumbo. This is great. Season 7 we have a mushroom cult. Season 8 we have a moon cult and now we have a spoon cult. So many cults!"

The blond gremlin chuckled. "The moon and spoon are the 'oon' cults."

The two happily chatted while Grian led Scar to Spoon HQ 2.0.

They were ready for mischief.

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We just had a huge mood swing in the chapter...(lol. -Galactic) I feel like George would've fit perfectly into the Mushroom Cult...
- Pleb

Grian autocorrected to Grinch...I mean he was the Grianch in Season 6...I PUT IN A 3RD LIFE REFERENCE!!! By the way. As of March 1st, 2022, this book is #69 in EMPIRESSMP. Quite a special number indeed! :DDDD (69, funny number -Pleb)
-Galactic