|Mumbo|
I found myself in my mind again. Once again Feral was nowhere to be found but he was probably looking around at something new that popped up. I walked over to Grian who was staring at the ground.

"Hey, Gri. What are you looking at?"
"O-oh nothing..."
"Well, I'm here now I guess. I fell asleep under Iskalls tree... You don't know about Iskall do you?"
"Yeah, I know about Iskall... Braids said they were still there but...I don't really know... They said something about their body not being able to hold them anymore or something and that's why they are a tree? I didn't really understand them..."
"I- They might be right..."
"What do you mean?"
"Iskall might still be alive in there. T-the trees alive Gri..."

...

"I don't think Iskalls dead."
"Then how would they be alive? They're a tree for crying out loud!"
"I know Gri! I-I know... It's just the tree acts as if it can hear and see me. It shows sympathy with its vines and it tries to hug me with them... I feel like that's something only Iskall would do..."
"Y-yeah it does seem like them..."

I looked down at my hands to find that they weren't robotic-like out in the real world but instead like my old claw hands.

"Huh..."
"What?"
"My hands... I thought everything in here was supposed to change depending on the outside world? Maybe it doesn't anymore I honestly don't know..."
"What about your hands? Did something happen to them outside of here?"
"Y-yeah...T-they were hit by not you and started falling to d-dust... So I built myself mechanical hands... I was just wondering why they weren't here..."

"I mean if you think about it they look a bit dead, or at least what's left of em under the arm. So if they were dead I'm guessing that means they weren't brought in here and the old hands are here instead."
"O-oh Hi Feral..."
"Hi, Gri!"

I looked behind me where Feral's voice was coming from. He was standing a few feet away from us.

"Where have you been? I didn't see you when I came in."
"Oh, I found Xantho. Although he doesn't look like he usually would."

Feral brought out Xan from behind his back and Xan in fact didn't look the same. His legs, arms, and his ears were completely fluffy. He also was wearing a white mask.

"H-hi guys..."
"What happened Xan!?!"
"They got me I guess. I'm injured from a fall and my mask is no longer broken... I guess I'm done for G.....I guess I'll see you there...

Xan disappeared before anyone could ask what was happening.

"I'm not getting out of here am I... I probably won't be coming back..."
"W-what do you mean?"
"He means he's coming back home with us and is never coming back."
"Braids! What are you doing here?!?"
"I overheard your conversation little one. You shouldn't be talking such lies~"

They said the words with such malice that it was hard not to flinch and try to back away from them.

"Why would Gri be lying?"
"Your friend is not alive, he is rather dead in fact. Buried under that tree, his soul is trapped. You buried him, trapped him."
"N-no..."
"Mumbo don't listen to them. All they ever say are lies."
"But how do I know you're not lying? I'm not saying you're lying it's just you keep secrets from everyone..."
"Exactly. How could he be telling the truth when all he's been doing for the past season, is running from his past?"
"Well, That's the reason we're all here."
"What?"
"That's the reason every single hermit is here. Hermitcraft is a place to run away from your life before this. Even if everything seems fine someone might have unforeseen circumstances that need them to run away to someplace safe. Hermitcraft is that safe place. Hermitcraft is where you can go to forget your past."
"All he's done is lie to you. You're okay with that?"
"Everyone keeps secrets. Even I do. Most newer people don't know about my past outside of the server. Only a small amount of people know."
"But he's lying to you! He doesn't love you! He doesn't think of you as a friend! He hates everyone here! He's only pretending to be friends with you all! And you think he loves you!"
"That's a lie and you know it!"

I looked up at them. They were standing a few feet away. If they were just a little closer I could pounce on them-no! Not now-but we could pounce on them. We could kill them. Electrocute them-NO!

I put my hand up to my head in an attempt to ignore him talking. I looked around seeing him not here anymore. I realized that he must have been so angry he woke up and was going to find Braids outside... I looked back towards Braids who seemed to have a smirk on their face.

"Xelqua. Get him."
"W-what? No! That's not my name anyway!"
"Not you. Him."

I looked down to find the floor like a mirror. I saw myself. I looked like a monster. I am a monster. I'm a monster... I fell back from the floor and felt something on my back. I thought it was the floor but when I opened my eyes again I saw the same hallway I was in before. The one with all the doors and pillars. I looked around. I was up against the wall.

"̇/ᒷꖎᑑ⚍ᔑ, ⊣ᒷℸ ̣  ⍑╎ᒲ."

I heard stomping as something came around the corner. It was the same big black dragon I saw before. Once in a dream exactly like this and then when my eyes were affected by the watchers... I quickly got up and ran. I ran back to the same door I had gone through last time. I opened it and saw another hallway I ran and ran going through it seemed to take forever. I opened the door at the end of the hallways again only to see another. I ran down this one again and opened the door. I ran down this one again and opened the door. I ran down this one again and opened the door. I ran down this one again and opened the door. I ran down this one again and opened the door. I ran down this one again and opened the door. I ran down this one again and opened the door. I ran down this one again and opened the door. I ran down it again seeing no door at the end. I ran straight for the wall seeing it give away right before I hit it, into a dark room.

I looked down to see the same monster from before. I was the monster. I am. I'm a monster. I kneeled on the floor looking at myself. I saw a pile of Redstone looking dust a bit away and a plant-like monster near it. I realized that that was where I died here before. The monster saw me and charged towards me. I realized that I had my elytra on me and quickly flew into the air. The creature didn't like this and was hissing at me. It was too late when I realized the creature had pulled me down with vines. I struggled to try to get out of the vines and only failing as they were too thick to break through. A sharp pain went through my chest and I felt something like a thorn in my chest. I looked down to find a sharp vine stabbed through my chest. I respawned in the same room. I don't know if I was supposed to wake up or not.

I watched as a vine stabbed me in the chest again, this time hurting more than last time. Each time I would respawn on the same vine, dying over and over again. It got more and more painful but, sometimes there would be no pain, sometimes I would feel nothing. It eventually stopped hurting. I didn't feel anything. I didn't feel the pain or the vine. I couldn't feel the floor or anything I touched. I just felt blank. Like something had cleared everything out of me as if I was just a clay figure, not meant to do anything.

I gasped as I woke up, finally out of whatever was happening. I realized I still couldn't feel anything. I looked around me seeing my base. I was by Iskalls tree. I touched the ground seeing my hand faze right through the ground.

"What?"

Why couldn't I touch the ground?

I heard some shuffling as if someone else was here.

"Huh? That sounded like Mumbo. But he left a couple is minutes ago so it couldn't be him."
"Huh?"

I walked towards Iskalls tree. I stuck my hand a bit through. I walked into the tree to find someone I didn't expect to find.

"MUMBO?!?"
"Iskall? Is that you?"
"Yeah it's me but how are you here dude?!?"
"I don't know. I just woke up...crap I forgot about Feral. He woke up first...and went to find them..."
"Who?"
"Braids...wait! No no no! Iskall I need to go I'll be back again but I need to find Feral!"

I quickly ran out from in the tree. I realized I didn't have my elytra. It looked like I was in spectator mode so I went forward some, walking over the edge of my base. I floated in the air. I went forward, some still in the air. I continued running. I had to find Feral.

I heard fighting coming from the direction of X's base. So I immediately went that way, cutting through my base to save some time. I saw Feral and Braids over near where Braids and Xanthos had fought. They were fighting as well and very quickly moving towards Iskalls base. I called out to Feral with no response coming back. I called out a couple more times.

"FERAL!!"
"THE HELL DO YOU WANT!?! CAN'T YOU SEE I'M BUSY!!"
"STOP!"
"WHY SHOULD I! BRAIDS DESERVES TO DIE!"
"THAT'S GRIAN!"
"THAT IS NOT GRIAN! IT IN NO WAY CAN BE GRIAN!"
"THAT'S GRIAN'S BODY! IF YOU TRY TO KILL BRAIDS YOU'LL BE KILLING GRIAN AS WELL!"
"N-NO I WON'T! THAT'S NOT GRIAN!"

Feral came at me and tried hitting me, only going through me. I felt something pulling, and I looked down to see I was surrounded by a purple glow. I looked up to see me and Feral being pushed into each other by the purple glows surrounding us. Everything went black and I couldn't see for a second.

"You monsters are supposed to stay together. Not apart."

My eyes snapped open as I could feel everything again.

"I'm gonna kill you..."
"You can't kill them! That's Gri's body-"
"I DON'T GIVE A CRAP! IT'S THEM AND THEY NEED TO DIE!"
"STOP! I WON'T LET YOU!"
"Too bad-"

Before Feral had the chance to do anything, Braids fly at us and hugged us. But it wasn't them. It was Grian.

"Mumbo, please help me-"

Grian shot away from me as fire appeared in his hand and it was quickly put at his face.

"Braids!-You brat! Stop that or I'll burn more of you!"

They seemed to fall for a few seconds before catching themself and leveling with us. I looked at their face and it had purple and black burn marks that were quickly spreading. It had soon taken over half of their face but luckily it didn't look like it was going any further.

"You. You and that tree. You're both keeping him from us. From me."
"Iskall has nothing to do with this. I'm the monster here."
"No, you aren't Mumbo! You're not a monster! That thing is!"
"Iskall...I am a monster and I'm admitting it. I'm a monster and you know it."
"No, you're not!"
Vines came out of the ground and wrapped around me, trapping me.

"I'm gonna make sure you won't do anything stupid you spoon."
"Iskall!"
"You. You're that friend of his."
"Yeah. What about it. Am I not allowed to be friends."

A purple flame burst from their hand and the Iskall's vines were lit aflame. They quickly removed their vines from around me as they shriveled to the ground in a pile of ash.

"Well, that hurt."
"Iskall! Are you okay?!?"
"They're not going to be soon."

I watched as the fire started spreading across the ground towards my base.

"No-NO!"

I pushed Braids away, frantically trying to fly towards my base. I watched as it spread up through the bushes I had used to make my base overgrown. It engulfed the heart of my base in seconds, killing it. I had reached my base by the time the flames had set the grass aflame. As if it had a mind of its own, the flames seemed to jump out towards Iskall.

I flew in front of the flames, one of my elytra wings melting into a puddle of molten hot iron. I stood on the burnt ground in a defensive stance, readying myself to protect Iskall at all costs.

I'm not losing them again.
Never again.
Never!

Another flame shot at me. I blocked it with my arm, the metal, and Redstone seemingly melting together, rendering it useless. I tried moving it to no avail. Braids scowled at me, giving me a death glare as they tried to burn Iskall.

"You imbecile. Let me burn the tree. You both are stopping me from taking him."
"You're not taking him from us."

The flames rose higher and higher, trying to jump onto Iskall. I took the risk and tried to summon my red shields. I successfully got them working without my arm coming close to short-circuiting. Sure I could only use one hand, but I could still use it to protect Iskall. I kept making more shields while the flames died down.

I saw braids looking down to a very glitchy holographic screen. It was a bright purple that faded to yellow and seemed to sparkle in the light of the flames. I heard a rumble come from the ground as they put away the screen. They stared at me, simply smiling. I heard cracking and crumbling, and looked down to see chunks of the world falling into the void. I panicked as the ground shook and cracked as the ground down below continued to fall. Leaving nothing but some floating areas around it. ╎ heard a ding from my communicator. Many, many more came after. I looked down at it.

|Cubfan123 fell out of the world
|ZombieCleo fell out of the world
|Stressmonster fell out of the world
|Ethoslab fell out of the world
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A bunch of other hermits are dying too but ╎ can't remember who was to die so you guys get this

Have a good night y'all I'm gonna go post the little scrap of a chapter ╎ have for the last one and call it a night. Also this shit is over 2000 words and ╎ never fucking posted it until now

Not really I'm just gonna change and become old