The Entity

A New Start

WC: 934

POV: Grian

Setting: The Void/Spawn

Grian, Mumbo, Scar, Impulse, and Pearl were floating in the void. Staring at the emptiness, Grian was laying on his back as though on a bed, just one made of nothingness. All of a sudden and at once all their communicators went off. Grian sat up quickly, forgetting he was in zero gravity and started somersaulting through the air. Mumbo reached out to pull him back in by reflex at this point. Grian finally got his communicator open and practically laughed out loud at the news.

"Season Nine is starting, the landing point has been found.

Please give the 'okay' one you are ready for transportation. -X"

The Boatem crew shared cheers. A couple of them started somersaulting again and everyone ended up bumping into each other. Grian found himself holding onto Mumbo's leg so he wouldn't float away, and if he did at least he was taking Mumbo with him. But Mumbo and the others managed to grab onto each other, pulling back in a circle. Everyone shared a look, nodded, then they all typed 'Okay' and waited for transportation.

It was sudden, one moment they were floating in nothingness, the next, falling from the sky. 

Grian yelped, the wind rushing past his ears, too loud for him to hear the other's reaction. He got hold of himself, flipping over and spreading his wings. He hovered for a second, then realized that the others were still falling, except for Pearl who had moth wings she could use for flight. They nodded to each other then dived for the three still falling. Sure they could respawn if they died, but it would still hurt. Especially this early in, with no gear or healing items. Except Scar maybe. Scar died so much that he probably didn't feel it anymore. Grian dove, the wind whistling in his ears. Mumbo saw him diving and stopped flailing so Grian could grab his shoulders. He saw that Pearl managed to get Impulse but Scar was still in free fall. Grian dived, and Mumbo screeched. But before Grian could reach Scar, he crashed on the stone, disappearing as he died.

"SCAR NO!" Grian shrieked, and anyone else who had spawned in already shared yelps. But moments later Scar spawned back in with nothing but a small limp and gave Grian a thumbs up. Grian sighed in relief and sent Scar a thumbs up as well. Grian and Pearl safely dropped off Mumbo and Impulse before landing themselves.

"Next time aim for the water if it doesn't look I'll make it in time!" Grian scolded Scar. Grian being very small and Scar being pretty tall. He was sure that Scar was laughing to himself as a small bird boy chided him. This was basically confirmed when Scar let out a chuckle.

"Sorry, I'll try that next time." He flashed Grian a smile. They spent the next few minutes waiting for everyone to arrive. People spawned in quickly, and once everyone was there Xisuma started explaining the season. How they were to build their starter bases closer to spawn, but mega base builds could go farther out, there was of course the usual rules, no blowing up the server, stuff like that. Grian didn't really listen as he had heard it before. Instead he decided to punch stone for ten minutes. Finally the speech was over and the Hermits separated, going their different ways. First order of business: punching trees.

So that's what he did, punch trees, mine stone, then iron. Unfortunately no diamonds yet but that was fine. He was emerging from the caves and his communicator went off, a new death message popping up.

Scar fell from a high place.

Grian sighed, then smirked. Grian bet he'd die at least three more times before the day was over. He turned back to his communicator and typed: 'You okay?' Then decided to head back to the area by spawn. He wanted to scope out a good area for his starter base before all the best spots were taken. On his way back he heard the

"No no no nooooooooooooo......" That could only belong to Scar. He expected a death message but instead heard a loud splash. He heard laughter and 'Scar no!' from the area of the yell. Grian headed over, grinning as he recognized Mumbo's voice.

"What's going on here?" Grian asked, emerging from the bushes. Mumbo stood next to a deep hole that led into the caves.

"Oh you know, just Scar. He landed in the water this time, he keeps falling down while trying to mine iron." Mumbo laughed. Cleo and Xisuma were on the other side of the hole and they were all laughing as well. In a few minutes Scar climbed back up, panting. He was in different clothing than when Grian had last seen him. He was in green robes and his ears were pointy now.

"What are you?" Grian asked.

"I'm an elf! A luscious tree elf!" Scar said, as though it were obvious. "Why is this hole so deep?!" He asked, approaching the edge of the hole.

"Oh Scar.. no.. you know I can't...." Grian said as Scar stood directly on the edge of the hole and peered down.

"Wha?-" Scar started to say as he turned around. Too late. Grian pushed him off the cliff and again he heard him yell. "No! No no noooooooooooo!" before the splash sounded once more. They all burst out laughing.

"Scar knows, if there's a button I have to press it!" Grian exclaimed. Scar climbed back up soon and sent Grian a pouty look. Grian flashed back a smile. Then he did it again.

"No! No no nooooooooo!" Another splash.