Author's Note: Part 15. The next part could probably be the last part of this story; however, this will lead into that one prompt about chickens I talked about once.

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 Grian: 

 " Oh, I know what's wrong with Meowbo." 

 Everyone turned around to face Evil X as he began to turn visible. His eyes glowed a mischievous red from behind his visor. 

 Mumbo was still hissing as a bottle of water was chucked at his face by Evil X. He immediately yelped and hid behind me. 

 " Now, that's see here..." Evil X put his hand to his chin. He carefully landed on the ground and took a good look at each of us. Everyone had taken out their swords except Joe, Tango, and False.

 Evil X looked towards False, " We've got Frostsymmetry..." he started.

 Evil X looked towards Cleo next, " ZomboyCleo...." Cleo let out a huff.

 He looked towards Iskall and Tango next, " Iskallalope and TinyTek." he let out a small laugh as the two looked at each other.

 He looked towards Mumbo and me with his arms crossed behind his back, " Grish and Meowbo." 

 The rest of us watched as he stood directly in front of Joe with his eyebrow raised. Evil X thought for a moment, " Finally, we have Joehooves." his laugh became an uproar as he stared directly at Joe. Joe simply shrugged as him causing Evil X to straighten up. 

 " Why aren't you acting all angry like the rest of them?" Evil X questioned as Joe shrugged, " They were nice play on words. I can respect the one towards me, but I implore you to apologize to the others." he answered with a small smirk as Evil X growled at him, " You stupid hermits and your niceness." he walked away to stand in front of all of us.

 Iskall straightened up, " So, what point are you trying to prove this time around?" Iskall questioned with a tilt of his head.

 Evil X stopped laughed as he looked at each other us, " Oh, just the fact that I will finally be rid of all you by teaming up with other villains from different servers." he shrugged his shoulders as his eyes widened.

 " You're going to do what?" Cleo questioned as Evil X straightened up.

 " Shoot... Just revealed my evil plan. Note to self: Erase all hermits memories of this conversation." he mumbled into a small tape recorder. Everyone looked at each other with raised eyebrows.

 " Is this the point where we beat you up?" Iskall questioned as Evil X shook his head, " Nope! I just came to laugh at your misfortunes." I could feel the smirk from behind his helmet. 

 " Can we at least have X back?" Joe questioned with a tired look as Evil X snapped his fingers letting X drop out of the sky. X yelped and landed on the ground with an uncomfortable look in his eyes. 

 X let out a sigh and looked towards the rest of us. His eyes widened in confusion as we all shook our heads at him.

 " Oh, and one more thing." Evil X looked towards Joe with an annoyed expression, " You're suppose to be a stupid horse-minded hermit." he huffed as something beeped. 

 The beep grew louder as Joe cried out in pain and dropped to his side. His eyes started to shift between being dull and normal colors as Evil X laughed and disappeared once more. This time for good.

 Everyone ran to Joe's side as his body twitched.

 " What do we do?!" Tango squeaked as he held onto Iskall. Iskall was breathing heavily and quickly kneeled down next to Joe, " Joe. Joe! Can you hear us!?" Iskall cried out as he grabbed Joe's shoulder and shook him.

 Joe continued to shake as both of his eyes lost their color. Iskall hopped backwards as Joe righted himself and stared at all of us. 

 Joe blinked as he let out a snort and continued to his snort.

 " Joe?" Cleo walked forward causing Joe to immediately back up with his ears perked up fully. Cleo stopped as his whole body tensed up, " Please have enough of you in there to remember us...." he pleaded as Joe stood there. 

 Cleo took another step forward as Joe looked back at the rope tying him up and at us. His ears twitched again as he scratched his hoof hand against the stone ground. Cleo walked forward and Joe watched him cautiously. 

 The horse-minded hermit kept watching Cleo as he untied Joe from the fence post and held the lead. 

 " I... I guess we take him and Mumbo back to Jevin's then?" I questioned as I looked back at False. Iskall walked over to the minecart, " I'll be pushing False along. Don't worry." he smiled as everyone nodded.

 I looked back at Mumbo as he laid down on the floor behind me. Mumbo let out a yawn as his ears twitched. He looked up at me with a tired look as he stood up on all fours again, " Come on Mumbo... Let's hope that Jevin, Stress, and Ren have an idea on a faster cure for all of us. " I sighed. 

 Mumbo let out a mew and nuzzled against my leg. He loudly purred causing everyone to look at him, " He's still acting like a cat?" Cleo questioned as he and Joe started to leave the base. I nodded sadly.

 Cleo shook his head, " I bet he'll snap out of it once we're on the move. This place has some bad vibes to it because of Evil X..." he sighed as we all left the base. 

 What Cleo said was true. It seemed sudden, but Mumbo immediately stood up while clutching his head. He had the look of utter confusion as he looked at all of us, " Did.... Did I turn again?" he mumbled as the rest of us nodded.

 Mumbo let out a sigh and looked at Joe, " Is he a horse now?" he continued as everyone nodded again.

 Iskall frowned, " Yes... There is more bad news though." he explained what happened with Evil X as we headed back towards Jevin's home. Mumbo's eyes widened as he nervously put his hand to his mouth, " When will that happen?" he asked as everyone shrugged.

 " We don't kno-" a bright flash erupted Iskall's words as everyone yelped. 

 I blinked as the world rushed back to me.

 " What happened?!" Mumbo asked in a panicked tone as everyone looked at each other. Something felt wrong.

 " Evil X appeared and forced Joe into his horse minded self." Cleo looked down at the leaded horse. Joe let out a neigh as he looked down at the grass.

 " We were also heading back to Jevin's base." Tango crossed his arms in wonder as everyone nodded and continued to walk.

 It felt weird as we walked back to Jevin's base. I kept getting that feeling of walking into a different room and forgetting what I was doing.

 It was probably nothing though. Evil X is just a jerk that likes to taunt us. He probably just said something like a compliment towards us and made us forget it happened. 

 The thing is that the word 'Grish' was floating around in the back of my mind.