A few days have passed since the meeting with Xisuma and nothing else has happened. No new instincts had popped up. He is eating just fine, occasionally he is eating grass. Everything was normal, well as normal as being half sheep can get.
Zedaph is heading over to Tango's base, he's walking over to check out the falling piano that Beef had made and that Tango somehow got to float. As it comes into view he grins at the sight. It's not every day you see a floating piano. He stands there for a moment staring up at the magnificent sight.
As Zedaph stands looking at the piano, Tango spots him from an upstairs window. Grinning he jumps up and rushes up to the roof. Preparing his wings he jumps, free-falling for a moment before snapping them open. He sores up into the sky before swooping down and landing next to Zedaph.
It may have been a mistake to suddenly appear right next to someone who's recently been turned into a rather skittish animal. Seeing a form appearing out of nowhere Zedaph screeches. This causes Tango to fall over startled before he bursts out laughing. As he stands up wiping tears from his eyes he turns to Zedaph and freezes, "Zedaph? Zed, where'd you go?"
"Tango? What are you talking about?" A voice comes from next to Tango, starting to laugh as he recovers from the shock.
"Zedaph?" Tango asks, turning towards the voice.
"Yeah?"
"Did you drink an invisibility potion?" Tango asks, feeling around and tapping Zedaph's shoulder.
At this Zedaph slowly starts fading back into sight. His tail is quivering nervously and his ears are flicking almost hitting his face, "No," He replies, voice shaking.
"Ok, we just gotta figure this out," Tango says, As he paces back-and-forth, his tail flicks hitting Zedaph's leg, "I'm going to call Impulse over here."
Zedaph nods as Tango ushers him inside one of the towers. Once there inside Zedaph softly bleats as he recovers from the shock of turning invisible. Impulse flies in carefully before landing before he rushes over to where Tango and Zedaph where.
Once they had explained what happened, Impulse nods, "It could just be doing because sheep are skittish and the meteor just felt like stuff needs to be more complicated."
Zedaph shrugs, "I just feel like there's something more to this like we're missing something."
Tango nods in agreement, "Yeah, something about this doesn't seem right."
Impulse nods considering something for a moment, "Do you know what triggers the invisibility?"
"I think it's some kind of fight or flight response," Tango says puffing up his wings, as he grabs some tools and starts preening them.
Impulse rolls his eyes and gets up to help Tango with his feathers. Tango grins and waves Zedaph over. He trots up his hooves making little clicking sounds as they hit the floor. Tango; Being careful not to smack Impulse in the face with his wings, pulls Zedaph onto the floor. With his tail he smacks a brush over and starts brushing out Zedaph's tail. They sit like this for a while not really talking but helping each other out and by the end Zedaph looks like a big ball of fluff.
.............
The next day Zedaph is just finishing cleaning out the cow pen and was exiting the greenhouse when he receives a message from EvilX asking him to meet him at the town hall.
When he gets there Ex is leaning against the diamond pile. He's taken his gloves off and is picking at his nails. Once he spots Zedaph he grins, "Hello."
"Hey," Zedaph says, ears flicking gently.
"So, you're aware of the mayor stuff right?" Ex says as he gives Zedaph a high five.
Zedaph's tail twitches as he blinks at Ex for a moment, "Exy? Do you want to run for mayor?"
"Um, kinda, I think it'll be fun," Ex explains rubbing at his helmet.
At this Zedaph's face becomes a smile as he jumps slightly, clapping his hands, "That's really cool."
"Uh, thanks? There's no chance of me winning, but it might be fun," Ex says switching his helmet's mode to nether, "Follow me I want to show you something."
Zedaph nods and follows after Ex, as he hurries to catch up to him he trips over a loose stone in the road. As he falls he's about to smack his face on the Beef thieves wanted poster. When he hits the ground without making contact with the wooden poster. He opens his eyes a bit shocked.
Ex is staring at him open-mouthed and shocked, "Um, I don't know if you noticed, but you kinda... went through the sign."
Zedaph bleats annoyed before standing up and brushing the dirt off of himself.
"That sound was adorable," Ex laughs as he helps Zedaph up onto the nether portal platform.
Zedaph mock glares at Exy before sitting down and picking grass out of the wool on his legs.
Ex sits down next to him and helps pick the grass bits out of the wool, "So, do you want to talk about what happened?"
Zedaph shrugs, "There's not much to say. The meteor has been doing stuff that's not matching up with the sheep thing. I turned invisible yesterday and now I'm falling through stuff."
"Do you have any idea why?"
"No... wait, I have one Idea. Last year I got-" Here he pauses as he thinks of the word, "possessed, by what was effectively Death. He took control over me and I don't really remember what happened. A few months ago on Halloween he took control again and Forced me to make a clock. I think the meteor might be doing Something about that."
Ex looks rather taken aback by this knowledge before he grins softly under his helmet, "So you've been possessed as well?"
"Yeah. Wait what?"
"You know all those times I attacked the hermits? Every time that happened it was because there was this thing in my head making me do things I didn't want to. I hurt so many people, I even took control of Xisuma and made him do awful things. You know the rest, I broke free, made friends with you and worm man, regained Xisuma's trust. Then I went back to the void."
Zedaph flicks one of his ears before giving Ex a hug, "I'm so sorry, that's awful that you had to go through that."
"Well, it's not a problem anymore, I've got all of you."
...............
As Zedaph and Ex leave the nether returning to the cave of contraptions they decide to experiment a little bit with Zedaph ghostly power. After a few hours of trying Zedaph and Ex have Figured out that Zedaph has little control over when he can turn invisible or intangible.
"I have one more thing I want to check," Ex says switching his helmet's voice modifier on. Zedaph takes a few steps backward as Ex steps forwards.
"Um, what are you doing?" Zedaph asks, then pauses confused, Ex has taken off his helmet and is grinning at him, "What?"
"Thought so, you're invisible," Ex says, turning the voice mod off, "Sorry for scaring you. It was the only way I could think of to test this."
After a few more hours of testing Ex and Zedaph figure out that it's a bit like a fight or flight response. If he gets startled or knows something that'll probably be painful is about to happen then he will turn invisible. If he doesn't interpret what's happening as a threat nothing happens.
"Hey, do you mind going to the end for a bit, I've got to get some void dust in my helmet," Ex asks as he starts heading towards the stronghold's nether portal.
"Not at all let's go," Zedaph answers as he steps carefully towards the portal.
Just as they jump into the end portal an urgent message from xB pings all the communicators.
The message reads Don't go to the end! Wither on the loose.
As the pair stand on the platform together they look over at each other then Zedaph blinks out of sight. Ex Gives a slight smile before rushing forwards looking for the wither. Once he spots it he does some magic and hits the wither with lightning. From behind one of the obsidian pillars arrows start flying hitting the wither. After about thirty minutes the wither is defeated.
Zedaph shakily walks over to Ex who has pulled his helmet off and his grinning, "Your still invisible,"
He says to what seems to be nothing, "You were amazing! Thanks for covering me."
"It's no problem," As Zedaph says this he stifles a scream. His voice has shifted sounding like Death's voice from when he was possessed. In his shock he flickers back into the visible spectrum.
"Is that what death sounded like?" Ex asks as he gives Zedaph a hug and gently pats his ears.
Zedaph bleats softly, "Yeah. Hey! My voice is back to normal."
"That was the longest you've been invisible for, right?" At Zedaph's nod he continues, "Then it's probably just because you were invisible for so long."
Zedaph nods, "Can we just go home?"
"Yeah, let's go."
As the two leave the end Zedaph sends a message out telling everyone that the wither had been taken care of.
As they arrive at the cave of contraptions Impulse and Tango are waiting inside. Once Zedaph walks in, Tango immediately runs up to him, checking him for injuries. Impulse laughs as he walks over, he greats Ex before pulling Tango away from Zedaph.
Next to be effected is Grian, however I'm going to write a welcome back thing with Wels next so that will be done a bit later.
Anyways I hope you enjoy.