Keralis looked around the forest with his wide eyes, something was off. He had started to see the trees glitching slightly. But it wasn't happening anywhere else. Then before he could react he was snatched from the air, he screamed as bird-like claws dug into his chest, gripping him. His wide eyes were even wider now.

Keralis was slain by ???

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Grian watched as a few worried messages were sent by other Hermits, he sighed. He put his communicator back to his inventory, which almost made him lose balance and fall off the half-finished storage base he was building. He stretched his parrot wings, thoughts flooding his mind.

What was with these strange mobs?
How did they get here?
How does Xisuma not know how this happened?

He rubbed his head, shaking them off. He had a building to complete!

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Phantoms flew toward Grian as he was still building, he swiped at them with exhaustion. He sighed, he had to stop to sit down to prevent himself from passing out. Maybe he should rest a bit... Your friends would want you to have some rest, not being killed by some Phantoms. He thought as he opened his large parrot wings and took off.

He was looking at the night sky, the Moon its usual size. I'm glad we ended Season 8. He was still having some nightmares about Season 8 and The Moon. He gazed at the stars, spotting some zodiac signs.

Then a sharp pain struck his wing, he felt it pierce through.

He screamed.

He hit the ground.

He couldn't breathe.

And just to make it worse, the sound of hissing filled his ears.

He was too hurt and exhausted to scream again now, he was flung 10 blocks away.
Now he laid on the ground, his ears ringing.
His vision started to get blurry, the last thing he saw what something red and black approaching him.
Probably another weird creature to kill me. He thought as he drifted into unconsciousness.

He mumbled quietly, not opening his eyes. yet. Once the ringing in his ears started to fade he could catch some words of two people speaking.

"Sh__, I _et__r g_ no_, _'s _wak_n_ _p."
"Alri___y, th__ks _X."

He couldn't exactly figure out what they were saying. He heard some faint footsteps fade away, followed by rocket sounds. One of the voices sounded like Xisuma... No, both of them sounded like Xisuma. He slowly opened his eyes, seeing a green and gray armored player sitting near him.

"You good Gri?" The server admin asked as he tilted his head, Grian could see his worried eyes behind the helmet.
"I'm okay... I guess... What happened..?"
"Well um, a Skeleton had shot your wing and once you hit the ground a creeper exploded near you. Uh... I.. found you.. there."

Grian slowly nodded, he knew X was bad at lying. But why would he lie about rescuing him when someone else did? He didn't question it further, looking at himself. He was covered in bandages, his wings were outstretched to both sides, the one that got shot was bandaged too. He didn't dare moving anything. Guess I'll be like this for a while.