[No one]

     The Mains and Leads were sitting in the meeting room. Everyone was listening to Alden and Mao, who were holding the meeting since Sherenidy had gotten herself injured. (Sherenidy had fucked up) They had decided that the Rookie trials had to be redone. It was definitely going to be a lot of work.

"We will redo the trials and choose around twenty to forty new Rookies, who can actually do their job," Alden spoke.

"But we'll also just straight away keep five of our old Rookies because I know that we can trust them and they've earned their positions," Mao continued.

"This is going to be a lot of paperwork," Edita mumbled.

"Mmh," Kasen hummed in agreement.

"And that one idiot had to fuck up right now," Mao mumbled.

"ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷ ᒲᔑ╎リ ᔑ↸ᒲ╎リ ᒲᔑ𝙹, language, please," Alden reminded.

"Oh shit- I mean- Damn!" Mao tried but ended up banging his head on the table.

"Just end me please," He mumbled as the others laughed.

"Silence, please," Alden spoke but no one could stop laughing.

Some tried to hold laughter, but only Jaylee and Alden managed to stay silent. Mao was still laying on the table and some others, like Oskari, Upton and Kasen, had joined him as well.

"Looks like this meeting has to be dismissed," Alden sighed and got up. "Come on mr. I'm-laughing-my-ass-off, we got work to do," He continued and bonked Mao's head.

People started to leave the room, still laughing. Xelqua was sitting next to Upton. He looked at his laughing friend.

"Come on, we have to go," He tried.

"Hahaha, I-I can't," Upton laughed.

"It's not even that funny!" Xelqua tried but also giggled. "Come on, let's go," He said and started dragging Upton out of the room.

[Grian]

     I ran to the portal hub. I had just realized that I had just left my friends in Hermitcraft and never told them anything. I ran through the portal and ran straight into someone. We fell down and they made a weird scream noise.

"Oh my, I'm sorry!" I apologize and got up looking down.

I looked at Biffa, who was the victim of my fall. He got up and looked at me.

"Oh Grian, I wasn't expecting to see you come out of the portal, like that," He was surprised.

I realized why he was surprised. Usually everyone fells as they walk out of the portal and it takes long to actually get used to traveling through the portals. And he had just seen me just casually ran through the portal without any kind of struggling. Mistake had been made.

"Oh, guess that I've just gotten used to traveling through portals," I shrugged.

Biffa shrugged. "Well, I would love to talk more with you but I have to go see one of The Leads," He explained.

"Huh, what is it about?" I was curious.

"Just basic admin-stuff," He answered.

I nodded and waved as he walked through the portal and disappeared. I turned around and spread my elytras. As I was about to fly away, horrible pain hit me. I fell to the ground coughing furiously. The spawn was starting to get bloody. I knew exactly what was going on. Xavier appeared next to me in his ghost from. Luckily no one else was close.

"It will be over soon."

I tried to answer but the pain hit so hard that I started screaming on top of my lungs. Blood was falling from my mouth, ears and eyes. I was now laying in the ground screaming while the blood was giving the spawn a new color.

"TAKE CONTROL, PLEASE! PLEASE, XAVIER, PLEASE!" I screamed.

"I can't. If I do, you'll die," Xavier shook his head.

"I DON'T CARE! I'M ALREADY DYING!" I cried.

"No, you're going to survive," Xavier said.

I was about to say something but my mouth was filled with blood. I tried to scream but I was no longer in my own body. All I saw was black.

"Great to see you here," I turned around to see a-weird-angel-like-creature.

It was all black, except white glowing eyes. It looked like an angel but at the same time it didn't.

"Who are you?" I asked.

"You can call me by the name Ar'an," The creature spoke.

"Where am I?" I asked another question.

"What might you see?" Ar'an spoke.

"Uh, black.?" I was confused.

"Are you alive?"

My eyes moved to Ar'an right as I heard the question. I was shocked.

"Are you?" They tilted their head, or at least it looked like they did.

"I-I, don't know," I whispered.

"I see," Ar'an nodded. "Looks like you might be in a kind of similar situation as I was," They spoke.

I tilted my head.

"You don't seem to know," Ar'an continued.

"Can you explain to me what's going on?" I asked.

Ar'an shook their head. "The one whose guilty, knows more than they should."

Then everything disappeared. I screamed as I fell to the darkness.

=Six months ago=

"Any last words Ar'an?" A male Watcher laughed.

"W-why would you do this?!" She screamed to her brother.

"Aw, don't be mad Ar'an! You know why I am doing this!" The male laughed.

"I don't understand," Ar'an cried.

"They all see you. Only you! It's always you! That's why you need to go!" He shouted.

"I-I," She tried.

The male put his hand on short female Watcher's shoulder and whispered something. The female nodded slowly and then walked to Ar'an.

"I'm sorry honey, but your time is over," She whispered and stabbed Ar'an.

Then the Hell broke out. The ritual had failed and they had summoned an extremely dangerous creature. Ar'an screamed in pain as she was forced out of her own body. Then the pain was gone and she opened her eyes.

Everything was black.

[No one]

     Grian opened his eyes. He was in his own base. Xavier had probably moved him and cleaned up the mess.

Ar'an

Why did that name sound so familiar? He tried to think but nothing came to his mind. He got up from the bed and took his elytras. He had to go back to the G-teams base and hide his flag.

Grian landed to the base and saw Cleo and Stress talking to each other. The females noticed him and waved. Grian walked to them.

"Hey G! Is your friend alright?" Stress asked.

"Yeah, she is alright now," Grian answered.

"She? Is she your girlfriend?" Cleo joked.

"Hah, I would be in a big trouble if she was," Grian laughed. "She happens to be 15," He smirked.

"Ouch," Cleo laughed.

"And I don't have any spare time for dating," Grian continued.

"Busy guy, eh?" Cleo asked.

"Yeah," Grian nodded.

"Are you going to make one of the flag rooms?" Stress asked.

"If I can, then yes," Grian answered.

"Great, here's the third flag!" Stress smiled and gave Grian a flag.

"Who's doing the other rooms?" He asked.

"Me and Iskall," Stress answered.

"We also have to start planning how we are going to get the other teams flags," Cleo jumped in.

"Yeah, we should probably send some spies to their base," Grian nodded.

"What if I go there with Mumbo and Jevin?" Cleo asked.

"That sounds like a good idea, you can go when it gets dark," Grian answered.

"Great, I'll go inform Mumbo and Jevin," Cleo smiled and walked away.

A silence fell over as Cleo left. Grian looked at Stress who had taken out her communicator. He was about to turn around as one thing from the brunette's communicator got his attention. He saw name Ar'an.

"Uh, sorry but I saw a name in your communicator and it caught my attention. Who is Ar'an, if you don't mind answering," Grian struggle to ask.

Stress looked a bit surprised and then she smiled slightly. Grian saw the sadness in her eyes.

"Ar'an was my best friend ever since childhood. Six months ago she disappeared from The Main HQ. Some people believe that Error took her life," She spoke quietly.

"Oh my, I'm so sorry Stress, I didn't mean to," Grian whispered.

"It's alright, there's nothing that can be done about it anymore," She smiled sadly.

"I bet she was an amazing person," Grian said quietly.

"Definitely, she was a Watcher and really good at almost everything. Everyone loved her and she was really pretty too. She had a brother called Xakey, but for some reason Xakey didn't like her that much," Stress told.

Grian knew that he had heard that name before. He just couldn't place his finger on it.

"I'm really sorry for your loss," He said.

"I've kinda gotten used to living without her," Stress whispered. "I just kinda wish that she would have gotten change to be a Main Watcher, like her brother," She continued.

Grian froze. Know he knew why Xakey had sounded so familiar. Xakey was the first name of The ex Main Watcher, Zenith. He had been Sherenidy's mentor. Did Zenith have something to do with his sister's disappearance? He had to ask if Sherenidy knew anything.

"Sorry Stress, I have something I really need to do right now," Grian said quickly.

"Alright, thank you for listening me," She smiled slightly as Grian flied away.

Grian shocked as he saw the spawn. It was all bloody. Xavier hadn't cleaned it up. He didn't have time to deal with it right now. He quickly ran through the portal and changed to Xelqua behind The HQ. Then he headed to Sherenidy's room and knocked on the door.

"Come in," He heard his mentor's voice and walked in.

"What brings you here?" Sherenidy was sitting in her bed.

"There is something I wanted to ask you," Xelqua said.

Sherenidy tilted her head and nodded.

"Have you ever heard about someone named Ar'an?" Xelqua asked.

He noticed how his mentor froze. She definitely knew something.

"She was ⨅ᒷリ╎ℸ ̣ ⍑'s younger sister. That's all I know about her," She spoke.

"Are you sure?" Xelqua had a feeling that his mentor was lying to him.

"Yes," She answered.

"Then why did you froze when I said her name?" Xelqua continued.

"I was just surprised to hear her name," She spoke.

Xelqua hesitated. He still felt like she was lying but he just nodded.

"Anything else?" The female tilted her head.

"Not really," Xelqua shrugged.

"Okay," She nodded.

"Well, I got some work to do, see you!" Xelqua waved as he left the room.

He closed the door behind him. He knew that Sherenidy hadn't told him everything. There was something more about the story. He felt like Sherenidy knew more than anyone else and was hiding information. He didn't get it, why would she do that? She was on the same side as us, wasn't she? Then why would she lie?

Xelqua started slowly walking towards the library. He wanted more information. He wanted to know what his mentor could be hiding from everyone.

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