Author Note: Between soccer, busy weekends, and another thing I might want to do some venting on later, I have really been neglecting this story. Sorry.

Also, the Hermits have captured a werewolf and a vampire. What could possibly go wrong?

Ren POV

I groaned as I sat up. Where?...

I was laying in a bed in Falsey's base, sore, and tired. I didn't remember what had happened. Hadn't I just been outside... Oh. The memories came rushing back.

I'd turned into a werewolf. I'd tried to kill the others.

Doc walked up to me. His shoulder was wrapped in bandages, because of wounds I'd given him. I couldn't meet his eyes.

"Hey. You okay?" He asked.

"I didn't want to do it." I mumbled. "I'm sorry."

Doc sat down beside me and wrapped his arm around my shoulders. "It's not you fault." 

Inside, I knew he was right. I'd tried to fight back, but nothing worked. I had to remain helpless as I attacked my best friends.

"I know. Whoever did this to us though..." I growled. We needed to get this fixed. It wasn't just a matter of oh I don't want wings, no. 

Now it was a matter of life and death.

Doc opened his mouth, but Grian interrupted him.

"You guys need to come. Now." He spoke hurriedly.

"What's the rush?" Doc snapped.

"Wither just figured out what happened to False and the rest of us. Now come on!"

"What happened to Mumbo?" I asked Doc on the way.

Doc checked to make sure Grian wasn't listening. "He became a vampire and attacked the others." He said quietly. "They had to knock him out, and use a lot of duck tape."

"Oh." I was quiet.

We got to the place where False was being looked after. She was still unconscious. Wither and X sat beside her.

"You're here." Wither sighed in releif. "Did Grian tell you?"

"Yeah." Doc replied. "But how?"

Wither shrugged. "I'll show you."

He placed his hands on our shoulders and the world went black.

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I opened my eyes to find I was outside the shared storage system I had with False. She was there with Mumbo.

"Thanks for the help Mumbo." She said.

Mumbo smiled. "No problem." 

He was about to take off when something caught his eye. A dark figure wandering through the forest.

"Do you see that?" He asked False.

"Yeah. Should we follow it?" She answered.

The pair took off after the mysterious figure. It went through the shopping district, untill it got to the pickle shop. It placed its hand on the wall and a void of black opened up. The figure jumped through. So did False and Mumbo.

They emerged into a seemingly normal world. Green feilds, a few trees, sheep. The figure ran across the meadow, heading for a small wooden house. The Hermits followed.

They creaked the door open, and looked inside. The inside of the house was weird. Really weird. Wooden wall, yes, but that's where anything normal stopped. A huge black pillar with flashing green lights took up half the room. A small table was set up beside it, with a laptop on it.

The figure stepped up to the computer and started typing stuff in. False crept into the house.

"False." Mumbo hissed. "Don't go."

The figure pulled out a flash drive and plugged it in. 

A huge wave of energy burst from the pillar knocking Mumbo back.

False grabbed her sword and swing out at the person with it. The cloaked person turned around and intercepted with its own blade. False grabbed a second sword and lashed out at the person's face. They jerked out of the way, but the sword pulled the hood up so they could see the person's face.

Dark haired, and extremely pale skin, almost white. Yellow bloodshot eyes that glared at the Hermit grinning. With fanged teeth.

A vampire.

Mumbo rushed in, his own blade drawn. He kicked him off False, and hauled her up. They stood, weapons drawn over the vampire.

With impossible speed, the vampire stood up and shoved Mumbo into the pillar. He crashed into it hard. His limp form fell to the ground, electricity jumping all over him.

False howled, and swung her sword at the vampire. He simply grabbed the blade out of her hand, and the vampire tossed the blade aside. He shoved False to the ground, and walked over to Mumbo.

Oh no. I saw what was coming. I knew what had happened, and why Mumbo was so much worse than the rest of us.

The vampire grabbed Mumbo's wrist and bit it.

Mumbo screamed as the vampire clamped his teeth on him. Unlike other vampire movies though, what happened was different. The vampire dissolved into shadow, and it started rushing towards the bite on his wrist. The blood veins in Mumbo's wrist went dark as shadow passed through it.

He started to change. Mumbo's skin paled, and his eyes glazed over. When they finally opened fully, they were yellow.

He grinned, showing off his new fangs. Paying no attention to False, he turned back to the computer. Two words flashed onto the screen.

Transformation Commencing.

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Doc POV

I blinked as the real world came into view. Wither, Xisuma, and Grian were still there.

"What did you do?" I asked.

Wither shrugged. " I've been trying to do it for a while now. But I accessed False's memories of what happened."

Cool. Creepy, but cool.

"So that vampire did what exactly?" Ren asked.

X walked up to us. "That, my friends, was the code. Not just for Hermitcraft, but for other places too. Some we don't really know much about. Stumpt, Evo, Akademi, among others."

"Evo?" Grian's head shot up at the mention of the second place.

"It also is the code for 0r3ohuB, and Wattpad. I checked in with the other servers to see if anything happened to them. Apparently, Taurtis turned himself into the Hulk, and Aqua turned herself into a siren, but that's unrelated to this situation."

"Aqua... Wasn't she the person with the tridents back in Meatland?" I asked the others.

"Yep, that's her. She always wanted to be part of the ocean." Wither responded.

Ren blinked. "Okay... So he hacked Hermitcraft?"

X nodded. "Yep. Got a bug in somehow. We were just saying that I'm gonna need to go over with some others to try and get it fixed."

"And Mumbo... What happened to him?" Ren asked.

Wither shivered. "That vampire... It took him as a host so it could get onto the server. But it won't come out. They stay in their host for as long as possible before leaving them."

"You seem to know a lot about those guys." Grian remarked.

"There are some in the underworld. I've met them before, and I'll put it bluntly. They aren't good. They steal cookies too."

I always forgot that Wither technically lived in Hel.

"So what do we do?" I asked.

X answered that one. "We can't do anything untill I get to the code. That means a trip to 0r3ohuB, and then going to the code from there. You guys will have to wait."

I glanced at Ren. "So we just stay like this for now? With Ren turning into a werewolf every night, and having him hunt us down? I don't exactly want to become cabrito."

"Well, I think if he changes without seeing a person, Ren won't go insane. He'll kind of just go to sleep." Wither said.

"I'm right here guys." Ren muttered.

"What if it doesn't work?" Grian asked.

"Then we're screwed!" Wither replied cheerfully.

Timeskip, brought to you by Sahara... Wait, no, get her out, no-

SAND!

"Are you sure about this?" I asked Ren. We stood outside False's castle, the sun setting behind us. He nodded.

I handed Ren the lead, and he ties one end to a fence. The other end was tied in a loose slip knot, and he hung it around his neck. "So when I change-"

"You can't get out. The rest of us will be inside." I finished.

Ren sighed as he watched the sun go down. "You should go inside."

I nodded and walked in, closing the door behind me. Staying for a minute, I heard Ren changing, growling, and whining. A howl cut through the night.

Leaving my friend outside in the body of a monster, I headed through the halls to join the others.