The winds rushed up beneath Xelqua's wings as he flew towards a dome roofed building in the centre of a place called the Main World. Surrounding the dome roofed building was a town bustling with players, admins and watchers all interacting with each other updating each other on what's happening with their servers or what recent pranks had been done. The dome-roofed building was the headquarters for The Council which was known as the ᓵ||∷╎ℸ ̣ ⍑⚍∷╎ᓭ. The Council consisted of six watchers and six admins representatives that were led by the High Leader. The reason that Xelqua was flying to ᓵ||∷╎ℸ ̣ ⍑⚍∷╎ᓭ was that he was one of the watcher representatives that was meant to the at the meeting, but he was late. Back in Hermitcraft, Mumbo had sent him a sapling with coordinates on it and he was now challenged to steal the other hermits' doors for the whole of the season and he had called it 'Hermit Challenges'. With minutes to spare Xelqua landed on his seat in the council. The meeting room was in the centre of ᓵ||∷╎ℸ ̣ ⍑⚍∷╎ᓭ and was a rounded room. There we balconies overhanging the seating area decorated in both red and purple, for the admins and watchers respectively.

There was a large double door that lead into the room and directly across from it was a box booth where Aleria sat, on either side was a podium slightly higher than the rest of the councils' seats. They were for the leaders of the watchers and the admins, for the admins the leader was Gryff who sat on the right. He had dark blue hair and signature purple watcher eyes, he looked very tough and had a scar over his left eye but was the kindest in the council. Lysabel was the leader of the admins, she had soft green hair and the red eyes of an admin, she seemed like she would be the softest since when not in admins robes she wore pastel coloured dresses, but she was the toughest out of the council. For the rest of the council the closer we sat to the middle the longer we had been in the council. On the left of Lysabel was Via who, along with her twin, were two of the first people to join the council, she had purple hair and red eyes which mirrored her twin. Next was Cirrus who had light orange hair, red eyes and dark skin and he had joined the council around the time that I did. Erin was to Cirrus' left and they were in charge of creating the weapons for the council and the armies reserves, Erin had short dark brown hair that wasn't easy to keep out of the way during working. Hayden was next to Erin and was the jokester of the council who always seemed to be everywhere he wasn't meant to be, he had fizzy orange hair which seemed to match his jokester attitude. The last admin on the council was Tory who didn't speak English as well as the others but was the most confident at speaking galactic out of everyone, she had black hair with streaks of red. On Gryff's right was Blaze who was Via's twin. He was a mirror of his twin with red hair and he had decorated his wings with patterns in black ink. Xelqua was next to blaze with his dirty blonde hair and his eyes which are normally disguised as a dark brown turned back to their original purple. Next to him was Zyrex who had a twin called Xisuma who was the admin of Hermitcraft. Zyrex wore a helmet to cover his face and had only shown it to a few people, he also came for the old watcher academy Xelqua did. Kelin sat to Zyrex and he was the shortest out of the council but was only second to Lysabel with ferociousness. He had half black hair and half green hair split straight down the middle. The last person in the council was Neferus who was the newest to join and the healer of the group, she had a bubbly personality and her jokes, unlike Hayden's, were funny.

"You know you are always cutting it close ̇/ᒷꖎ," Zyrex said.

"Not my fault this time, let's just say that I had a random jungle sapling come in the mail," Xelqua said.

"The new season of Hermitcraft sounds like it starting great," Blaze grinned

"No doubt about that, and I've ended up being neighbours with Mumbo again," Xelqua told them

"I can already sense the shenanigans that you're going to do," Blaze replied.

Zyrex said, "I'll have to drop by and see your base when visiting X," Blaze replied, "Don't they still think of you as Evil X?"

"Not important," Zyrex said, "Oh look the meeting is beginning."

Stepping out from behind the door in the booth box was a figure dressed in a purple cloak with a full face mask with no eye slots and instead, there was the watcher symbol on it. It was the High Leader of the council, Aleria. She formed the council after she had stopped the admin and watcher war, but no one had seen her face before. Watchers all had eye masks but they only wore them on duty but the High Leader wore her's all the time. "Let's bring this meeting to a start!" she said.

Lysabel spoke up next, "There have been glitches appearing on servers and they are stronger than a regular admin,"

"The watchers have also noticed that the code has been affecting players mobs hearts, none seem to be hostile yet, it seems to be only affecting pigs and cows,"

The High Leader thought for a second then said, "Try and see what you can do to change the code, also see if you can gather the names of the servers and see if there are any patterns."

Both Lysabel and Gryff nodded and the High Leader said, "Try and track where the code is coming from and if it is more than the regular pranksters then will launch a bigger investigation."

The rest of the meeting was mainly just brought up thoughts and suggestions of players, watchers and admins from the different servers around. Zyrex dragged me from my chair with Blaze closely behind, "Come on Xel let's hang out before you go back to the hermits,"

"I really should be getting back before the hermits start to worry," Xelqua said. "Nope you are going to stay with us for the day," Blaze replied, "Plus it's been forever since you've been here!"

"He's not wrong you know," The voice was coming from Cirrus, "We do miss hanging out with you,"

Via nodded in agreement, "Maybe we can hang out for a few hours," Xelqua smiled

"Let's go to The End and have a picnic like we used to do!" Zyrex yelled taking off into the air with Blaze and Xelqua taking off. "Hey some of us can't fly," Via called out and Blaze just stuck his tongue out, "Bitch," she muttered under her breath Xelqua flew down with Zyrex just behind him.

"Come on Blaze!" Cirrus called out. Blaze slowly made his descent back to the floor, "Fine but let's walk fast!"

At The End the group set out a picnic blanket by an end city just off the coast of the void, they had to be careful though since the void meant permadeath and with the void's magic they couldn't fly, but it was still the best view in The End. Zyrex had a basket full of food prepared so Xelqua guessed that they had planned to drag him whether he liked it or not. "So did anything interesting happen while I've been away?" Xelqua asked the group of friends.

"Not much really, it's quite boring except when I get to annoy X," Zyrex grinned

"Pretty much the same for the rest of us. Minus the annoying bit of course," Cirrus replied.

Via chimed in, "Well maybe not annoying Xisuma but definitely my worse half,"

"Right back at you my better half," Blaze called back smiling. "Come on Xel let's fly!"

Zyrex said taking off into the air with Blaze also spreading his wings. Xelqua turned to the admins, "Do you guys mind? It's been a while since I've been able to use my wings,"

The other two nodded understanding how Xelqua had to keep his wings hidden so the hermits didn't know he was a watcher. His purple wings spread out to their fullest and Xelqua started to flap them and make himself rise up into the air and he followed the others, he felt the wind rush through his hair which was a nice feeling. He did normally have elytra but flying with wings was always so different. He caught up with the others who seemed to be seeing who could do the best trick with both looking like they were going to fall out of the sky. "How about we race?" Blaze suggested to the two of them

"That's fine with me," Xelqua said preparing his wings to race.

Zyrex being cocky said, "We'll finally prove that I am 100% the best flyer,"

"In your dreams," Blaze said, "3, 2, 1... GO!" Xelqua took off ahead but then something hit him, a purple light of sorts. He started to fall but not on land to the void he kept dropping and dropping down. "XELQUA!" he heard his friends shout but he thought to himself it was too late.

The pain hit him in his stomach first then started to spread as the end islands faded from view. Then a sudden updraft came, he was lifted up he could feel it. His eyes were rapidly opening and closing so he only saw small glimpses that were going on but with those few seconds he could see the islands above growing bigger, the warm ivory stone made him smile, or at least started to make him smile. Instead of going to the island where he knew his friends were, he was taken to the island opposite, as he landed he tried to make a noise but failed. The person who had saved him came around, they had long white hair and they seemed to be covered in burns but they were purple. They came closer to Xelqua towards his wrist. That wrist had the communicator on it, he tried to stop them from taking it but they said, "Don't worry, I'm alerting your friends where you are."

She typed something a placed it back on his wrist, then wings sprung from her back, watcher wings. As Xelqua lost consciousness all he could think about was how could the watcher that had saved him flew into the void.

W/C~ 1806