|Scar|

I was walking through the shopping district when something came out od the town hall portal and came straight for me. It started to fall and it was Mumbo with something fluffy, I soon discovered that the fluffy thing was Grian.

Grian!?!

They said they hadn't found him, but looking at him I could tell that he had been stuck somewhere. I looked over to Mumbo and he seemed to be more stressed than Grian, even though they were passed out. I called Xisuma over and he seemed worried. He told me that he saw some sort of creature flying after them that had retreated to the nether. I told Xisuma that I was going to bring them back to my village doctor to see what happened.

|Grian|

I woke up in a black room or what I thought was a black room. I saw someone else in here with me.

"How'd you get here?" "I-i don't know, I just passed out is all- Wait where even is here?!" "This is one of the far corners of your mind." "Okay? Another question who are you?" "I'm Ex-" "YOU! You were that person it that wretched place!?!"

"Yes and no." "What do you mean!?!"

"That was my body. Some shadow thing was controlling me." "So it wasn't your fault that I was injured?" "No." "Okay then, alright."

"Do you have anything else I can call you instead of Ex?" "Xanthos." "Okay, well, nice to meet you Xan im Grian!" "Nice to meet you too Grian."

|Xanthos|Xan for short|

"So is there anything we can do here?" "I mean you can materialize anything in this place, so anything You and I can think of I guess." "Ohhh! Could we play connect four!" "Sure thing! If you want you could make a house or something for us to meet in the next time you come." (if there even is a next time.) "Okay."

I watched as he seemed to materialize a rustic looking house, right before he did he seemed to gain these robotic face plates and then they disappeared. Then he added some modern things and flowers with some color, each time he seemed to gain different features every time. Like when he did the modern touch-ups he seemed to turn robotic looking with black hair for a few seconds, and then the color and flowers he seemed to have a bead and feather necklace and a flower crown for a few seconds.

"Uhhh-Grian?" "Yes?" "Why did you look different for a few seconds?" "Oh! Those are just my alter-egos! There's NPG, Robot Grian, and Hippie Grian!" "Why did those appear?" "Probably cause im doing something that usually would be done by them!" "Like what?" "Well, NPG likes rustic houses to the point that he would build nothing but them, Robot Grian likes building modern things and structures, and Hippie Grian likes to add lots of flowers and colors to everything he sees!" "Ah, so that's why they happened."

"Yeah... Now, let's go play connect four!"

I watched him run off like a little child that got the best gift ever imaginable.

|Time skip - 1 hour|

"Grian." "Yes, Xan?"

"Have you ever heard of watchers?"

...

"Y-yes. I was going to be one until I found out what they were going to do with me."

"Oh, I had just finished my watcher training when I was kicked out and told to put the mask on, I knew what the mask would do to you so I snapped it in half."

"Oh"

We had been playing games for a while when Grian started to fade.

"W-what happening!?!" "I think your waking up." "O-okay. Does this mean goodbye?" "I mean until we see each other again." "W-well goodbye then!"

He slowly faded, waking up.

|Grian|

I looked around the room I was in and instantly saw what appeared to be a blanket beside me hung on the ceiling. I started coughing up black goop as Scar walked over with a paper towel and some water. I drank the water once I was done with the coughing fit, I tried to say thank you but it came out in Galactic which was strange since I could still hear.

"Your welcome!" I looked at him in shock amazed he could understand me. "I learned how to understand a few phrases from X when you were out." Ah, so that's how he could hear me. "Mumby was dumbed into water can you go treat him." "I have no idea what you said except Mumbo and water which I assume is a bad sign." Scar went around the blanket over to Mumby when I heard coughing. "Is Mumby okay!?!" "X come over here and translate Grian for me!" "Alright im coming!" "Hi, Grian." "X you don't have to talk Galactic, I can hear you just fine." "Okay, well, what do you need?" "I was trying to ask Scar if Mumby was okay cause I heard him coughing." "he's fine he just has leftover water in his lungs. By the way, what happened to you guys? Mumbo and you came out of the town hall portal beaten with two creatures flying after you."

I started to panic seeing images flash in my mind being stuck in that 2 by 2 cage barely able to move, then I noticed how small the area I was in was. X noticed my panicking and was picking me up asking me if I wanted to go outside, I nodded my head as I didn't feel like talking anymore. "Scar, im bringing Grian outside!" "Okay, just make sure not to stay out there too long!"

When we got outside I relaxed a bit knowing I wasn't in the confined space anymore. We sat there for a bit before I tried to stretch out my wings then right before my eyes, Xan appeared.

"Xan!?" "Hi, Grian! I finally figured out how to appear out of your mind! Oh hi, bro!" "Xan you realize he can't hear you cause your in my head." "Oh, right I forgot! Hold on a sec!" Xan proceeds to unclip a ghost version of the necklace I was wearing allowing me to take it off. "HOW'D YOU DO THAT!?!" "X calm down its just your brother." "BUT XANTHOS IS SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE CORRUPTED WORLD!?!?!" "Hold this." I hand X the necklace pulling his necklace out. He proceeds to put it on and I assumed he could see Xan by there expressions. Xisuma did something I don't know what but Xan materialized right before my eyes.

We talked for a bit as Xan and X caught up on some things as they hadn't seen each other in months.

I tried to heal my wing, forgetting that I was still very weak and stressed from being in the Woodland Mansion, almost passing out due to energy loss. "Grian would you like some help bud." I nodded slightly asking him for help. He proceeds to heal my wing without even looking fatigued. I start to flap my wings slightly lifting me off the ground before I flew around in the fresh air, relaxing like nothing ever happened, then I started to slightly fall due to me not flying with my new tail and horns. Once I flew around some more finding the balance I needed to fly properly, I came back down to the ground.

"Grian could I race you!!!" "What are you going to fly with elytra, those aren't going to do any good against me!" "I know that's why I have this."

He pulled out half of a watcher mask and put it on, instantly gaining black wings with very dark purple feathers at the tips and base.

I and Xisuma were shocked (he still had one of those! I didn't even receive mine to know what it did!) He quickly said that he wouldn't be controlled as he had broken it enough to only have the wings left. When the race finished I won since he hadn't flown that much before and needed more practice.

We decided to go back inside to check up on Mumby and Scar. We found Scar at his desk trying to finish a project of his, and Mumby still asleep in the bed. I sat in a chair and layed my head on Mumby's chest, soon falling asleep.

|Mumbo|

I was in a dark room or something. I just sat there as I stared into the nothingness. I sat like that for a couple of hours occasionally hearing a shuffling noise behind me.

I decided to turn around and I saw a box that had two walls white and the other two I was looking through made out of glass. I saw hermits in the room, all of them dead. I quickly went over thinking it was real, but when I touched it, it disappeared and I heard someone telling me not to touch their stuff.

I turned around to see who it was.

His hands had red electricity like what shocked me and he was covered in blood.

This thing-

This Monster.

Was My alter ego-

Feral.

I tried to look away but I couldn't seem to, as I watched him kill everyone.

He was made in an incident in early season 6 when I bottled up my emotions until I snapped, going on a killing spree, killing anything in sight- even hermits.

I watched this thing to be born into the world by my own pent-up emotion and distress.

When I and him were both in control at times I still couldn't control it-

The lust for blood.

During that time when both I and him were in control, it was pure insanity.

I always felt like I was the different one, I felt like I had truly gone insane-

It always felt nice to express those feelings onto the Hermits.

....

...

He was the bad side of me.

He was just pure insanity and emotions bottled up in one living, breathing thing.

That's why half of my eyes are red and not dark chocolate brown, he, on the other hand, had full blood-red eyes and sharp lightly gray teeth. When I was slowly picking the Hermits off one by one my eyes slowly turned redder and redder, until he was born, most of the Hermits didn't respawn for another 12 or so hours. They also don't know his name.

But he was still me and that was a side of me.

I enjoyed torturing and killing every hermit, even if it was mainly driven by emotions.

I sometimes still have a lust for blood like I needed it to live, so I end up just going out and killing some poor animal.

I hadn't told anyone that I still liked to see the blood of living breathing things come out and the aroma of it.

There was one time a little after the first incident, where I was tired and felt like I was going to fall asleep any minute, then I saw one of the hermits bleeding. I tried to hold him back, and right when I thought I had him under control, I suddenly lunged toward the Hermit. I yelled for them to watch out as I still had parcel control over my body, telling them to get away from me and run. They did promptly that,

And ran.

Then I felt dizziness in my head and Feral took over.

Those insane eyes and that sickening grin, it made me want to puke.

But it felt kinda relaxing just sitting there doing nothing, fatigue slowly drifting me off to sleep.

When I awoke only a few hours later I could still hear Feral yelling at the Hermits telling them that he'd kill them all and all that I wanted was to kill every single Hermit, that I still wanted more blood, I wanted to see there blood and body all across the floor, that I just wanted to watch all their blood spew out onto me, that I still had a lust for blood.

As I slowly gain my body back I groaned in pain feeling my slightly wounded arm and the fatigue that washed over me. I saw everybody relax a bit around me knowing there kind and loving Mumbo was back, but then everyone started to question me. "Mumbo what happened? If you need to talk to us you can, but just don't bottle up your feeling like that again!" "I wasn't bottling up my feelings." "Well, it looked like you were!?!" "That thing is just bottled up emotions from the incident, that stayed with me." "Then how did it even come out!" "I was tired and he's partly powered by blood lust, so, when he saw the blood from one of the Hermits arms I couldn't hold him back and he tried to attack the Hermit."

That's all I could remember from that incident.

I noticed that I started fading

Then he spoke

Bye-bye, Mumby~

See you soon~

I woke up and looked at my arm which felt numb I regained control over my senses in that arm and noticed little sparks of red electricity.

He was coming.

Feral was coming

"Feralferalferalferalferalferali'mferal"

"I'm feral"

I sicking grin spread across my face

(No stop thinking that! Even though he's apart of me im not him!)

I noticed Gri began to wake up

|Grian|

I woke up to Mumby moving and whispering. I did know what he said but it was something like feral? I don't know.

I looked up at Mumby and saw how tense he'd got. I went in to hug him when he pulled away and looked at his arms, his arm braces had electricity coming off of it so I took them off thinking they were burning Mumby's arm.

I looked up at Mumby and could've sworn I saw his eyes flash a blood-red color. I thought nothing of it as I hugged him and he relaxed into my arms.

Yay fluff ending and four alter egos in one chapter! Im going to torture Mumbo and Grian for like the rest of the book. >:)

See ya next chapter >:D

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