|Mumbo|

"GRIAN!!"

Grian looked towards me and I saw his eyes. Both of them were all black with red slits for his pupils. He lunged at me, trying to pin me to the ground.

"YOU! XEL TOLD YOU EVERYTHING!!"

Grian materialized something out of thin air. It was a claw that seemed to be made out of the shadows around us. I saw Xan's face lose every ounce of color it had as they looked at the claw in absolute terror. Grian lunged at Xan, swiping the claw in their direction. He suddenly stopped and mumbled something to himself before turning towards me. He lunged in my direction and I made a shield in front of myself. It seemed to surprise him and he ran straight into it.

He backed up a bit and looked at the shield. He lunged again but attacked the shield instead, dissipating it in one swipe. I forced another shield to come up in the shape of a sphere around me. He flew towards me and swiped at the shield. It immediately disappeared as he flew through it and into me. He pinned me to the ground and tried to swipe the claw at me. I brought my arms up and he hit my braces instead. They instantly broke and were flung to the side. He hit my arms in the process, sending a burning pain through them.

He went to hit me again when something dove onto him, pushing him off me. I looked to see who dove into him and saw Xan trying to fight him. Grian pushed them away and purple fire materialized in his hand. Xan did the same but their's was more blue-ish than purple. Grian flew at Xan while Xan stood there. Grian was about to hit them when a pair of giant purple wings opened and they shot up into the air. Grian flew after them and came at them with his claw again. He blocked the claw with something I couldn't really see. I watched this happen a couple more times before Grian had Xan pinned in the sky. It looked like they were having a conversation or something like that.

|Xan|

Braids had me cornered. I couldn't move unless I wanted to get killed. Permanently.

"Braids stop this! Don't you want Grian to be happy!"

"That's why I'm doing this. Don't you see,"

Braids motioned around us.

"This server. It surely can't make him happy. Surely not with that Monster."

Their words were laced with hatred as they looked down towards Mumbo.

"What do you have against him? He and Grian are perfectly happy together. Sure Mumbo has his alter and water hurts him, but that doesn't stop them from being happy. Sure Grian is a Fae cursed player but that doesn't stop em. They're perfectly happy together. Nothing you say will say otherwise."

"He's a Monster. Cant, you see that? He cannot be controlled. He could kill Xel. I'm taking him back home and destroying this world and everyone in it."

"WHY?!? There's no reason to destroy this world!?!"
"There is more reason to destroy it than to not."

"WHAT REASON!?! THERE'S NO REASON TO DESTROY EVERYTHING HERE!!

"YES THERE IS!! I CAN'T LET THESE PESTS STAY ALIVE!! THEY WILL TRY TO TAKE XEL FROM US!!!"

"BRAIDS!! LISTEN TO REASON!! THEY ALL LOVE HIM LIKE A FAMILY AND YOUR TAKING THAT AWAY FROM HIM!!! BY TAKING HIM AWAY YOU'LL ONLY MAKE HIM HATE YOU!!"

"He can't hate me if he doesn't remember this..."

"NO!! YOU'RE NOT DOING THAT!!! YOU'RE NOT WIPING HIS MEMORY!! I WON'T LET YOU!!!"

"YOU WON'T BE ABLE TOO!! NOT IF YOUR MEMORY IS WIPED AS WELL AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO!!! ONCE THIS IS ALL DONT YOUR COMING WITH US QUILL!!!"

I flinched as they said my watcher name. I hated it. Even if people said it was a nice name I don't like it. It reminds me of them and I hate them.

They broke off from me and dove towards me again. I flew up and over them, pulling my sword out. They shifted their magic to form a sword and swung at me. I blocked them and swung from below, catching them off guard. You could tell that they weren't very good at sword fighting and were much more skilled at magic. I swung my sword straight at them and they swung back, shattering my diamond sword. I made my own sword out of magic and tried dueling them with that. They ended up shattering it after one blow.

"Quill your magics week. If you come back with me we could train you. Your magic could be stronger."

"I don't care about that! All I care about is my friends and family!"

"You fool! Your brother will just hold you down! You could have magic that could overpower admins! Magic that could overpower your brother!"

"Why would I want that! I love my brother! Even if I tried to destroy the server before because I hated him! I wouldn't do that now!"

"WHY WOULDN'T YOU!?! YOU COULD HAVE POWER BEYOND HIM!! YOU COULD SMITE HIM DOWN FOR BANNING YOU COUNTLESS TIMES!! FOR TRAPPING YOU IN THE RED FOREST!!!"

I dove down and dodged their sword. I flew back some to get away from their sword.

"BECAUSE I FORGIVE HIM!!! I DONT HATE HIM FOR WHAT HE DID!!! HE DID THE RIGHT THING WHILE I WAS IN THE WRONG!!!"

We were at a standstill now. They had their sword pointed out, ready to attack me at a second's notice. But they didn't.

"Quill..."

I dove towards them, slashing them right across the face. They looked up at me. Their eyes were filled with hatred and sadness.

"Braids. Don't do this-"

"You're already too late."

"What?"
"Karma. She's here. She's getting ready to destroy everything. All I need to do is make sure no one interferes. And you, Quill, need to come with me."

"What-No! Absolutely not!"

"Then I will have to force you."

Braids flew towards me, putting their hand up to my mask. Searing pain shot through my head as my vision suddenly went dark and I could see the faint glow of purple. I couldn't see through the mask anymore. Why couldn't I see through the mask? I screamed in pain as my mask was forcefully pulled off my face. I could feel the burn marks on my face as they took the mask for my face and held it in front of them. Without my wings on my back, I started falling. Luckily they caught me with their magic.

"You shouldn't be wearing this. You have no right to wear it. You must be a watcher, and you are not one of us."

I watched as they repaired all the cracks in my mask and held it out once more. I took it back from them. I couldn't wear the mask anymore. The only reason I could wear it was cause it was broken. I held it out in front of me, giving it back to them. They suddenly held me still with their magic and forced the mask onto my face. I felt a searing pain as everything went black and then purple as the mask let me see through it. I couldn't move my body.

I laid on the floor of the jungle as I heard people moving closer to me. Based on their expression I could tell that I was hurt pretty badly. I couldn't tell who was carrying me but I guessed it was one of the taller people on the server. I wasn't as tall as Mumbo or Docm but I was almost. We entered someone's base and they laid me on a bed they had laying around. I slowly dozed off as they bandaged my arms and I think my legs.

|Mumbo

[Back to Mumbo peeps I know he had a bit of a short thing this chapter already but I wanna catch up on what happened while Xan and Braids were talking.]

I watched as my arms and hands seemed to lose their color a bit. One went faster than the other, slowly turning into this ashy reddish-pink with black bits all over. Soon I started noticing that it was disintegrating into dust.

Dust...

I'm turning to dust.

I'm going to die-

We'regonnadie-we'regonnadiewe'regonnadie-

"Relax Mumbo it seems it's only going to your arms. It doesn't look like it's affecting anything other than your arms."

"HOW DO I USE MY ARMS THEN!?!"

"Make some. You've already made your mask, your braces, elytra-and another thing-you can surely make something like them again."
"I-yeah I could-but what if the other one starts turning to dust too?"
"I mean it seems like that one isn't going anywhere yet so you better make something."

I slowly got to my feet and started walking to my base. I looked down at my arm to see it slowly falling into little pieces of dust. I made it to my base and went down to my storage system to pull out materials. I grabbed a bunch of Redstone and iron and went over to my desk tucked away in a corner. I sat down and clipped my hair back so I could see better. I realized I didn't have my mask on and started frantically looking around for it.

"Nonono-where did it go!?!"
"Relax I think it fell off when the not Grian hit you."

"I need to go get it then!"

"You should make these hands of your first before you can't grab anything."

"Y-yeah... Your right. I'll grab it once I'm finished."

I walked back over to my desk and started working on something that looked like a robotic hand. I looked down at my arm to see that most of it had turned to dust already. I moved what was left of my arm and put it on my desk. I looked down at my other hand and saw that it was slowly turning to dust as well and was going to be gone in a few minutes.

I finished the last few parts to my arm and tried putting it on. I fit almost perfectly. I had designed them like my hands, not my normal hands but the ones that were more like claws. I had grown fond of them and decided to make them after em. I worked out a few tweaks before it was finally on and secure. I finished the other arm and placed it where mine was supposed to be. It took longer than the last one cause I didn't fully know how to use my new hand. It was hard to try and get it to moe at first but once I got it working it moved fine.

I got up out of the seat and moved my new hands and arms. Only the first half of my arm down past my elbow was affected by it. I grabbed my elytra and flew up to the top of my base to where Iskalls tree was. I got up there and saw that it was almost a full tree now with holographic, cyan leaves, and the trunk had cyan on it that looked like a circuit board.

I sat down and leaned against its trunk. I was exhausted. I just wanted everything to be normal again...

"Why does anything have to happen the way it does? Why can't we all just exist without something happening to us..."

I watched as one of the many vines wrapped around my arm.

"Oh, are you wondering what happened? Something happened and someone who looked like Gri but not?- they-they did something to my arms. My arms started turning to...dust..."

More vines came from the tree wrapping around me in a sorta hug. I hugged them back. Maybe Iskall was still here after all...But that couldn't be possible. He died... I continued to lay against the tree slowly drifting off the sleep. I could feel the vines move to pull me closer to the trunk and hugged me close to it.

|Iskall|

I watched as Mumbo came into my view. Over a bit of time, I could see in some areas but not much. I looked down at his hands and saw that his whole arm down from his elbow was robotic. I could see a little bit of what looked like his arm underneath it but it looked blackened and gray. What happened? I didn't know what happened due to the angle I could see out of. I wrapped a bit of one of my vines around one of his robotic hands. He looked at me with a reassuring look as if he knew I was worried.

"Oh, are you wondering what happened? Something happened and someone who looked like Gri but not?- they-they did something to my arms. My arms started turning to...dust..."

So that's why his arms are mechanical.

Since I couldn't really hug him to comfort him I wrapped some of my vines around him in a sorta hug. He hugged me back. I watched as he slowly fell asleep. I pulled him closer to my trunk and wrapped him in another hug. He dozed off and I was left watching over him.

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Here's what Braids looks like. I thought id draw them so you'd know what they look like. Also, I don't feel like drawing their legs right now.