Darkness. Pain, just searing pain, all throughout their body... until they opened their eyes... into a white room. Ember looked around in confusion, sitting up. They stood after a minute and jumped back suddenly. A tendril of skulk creeped towards them, and they smacked it away. The tendril drew back and sucked into the ground, melting into another hoard of skulk a few steps away. Feeling something was important about the hunk of invasive plants, Ember ripped it open. Or... tried to... Skulk is much harder than it looks, okay?! 

Ember yanked and pulled and got a glimpse of something- something pale pink, and moving- before the vision ended.

Naya huffed with effort, climbing up the large oak to get a high point. Once she was at the top, she scoured  the sight with fear. Blood, skulk and purple goop covered the lands of HermitCraft. Hermits and skulk-covered Watchers fought, screaming with pain and fury as they dropped, one by one, to the ground like flies. 

Naya spotted Cleo fighting off four Watchers at once, with Stress just behind her. Scar, Iskall and Mumbo all wrangled one, while False killed her fifth. Another horrid scream spilt the air as Stress was scraped on the chest by a Watcher's sword. She collapsed to the ground, and False raced from nowhere. She sliced the Watcher in half and continued to stab it, letting out furious shreiks.

Naya shielded herself against a stray arrow. Grian suddenly landed beside her in the tree, eyes wide with fear. 

"We can't fight them- they'll know who we are." He whispered to the non-hermit, fear edging his tone.

"⊣ᒷℸ ̣ ̇/ᒷꖎᑑ⚍ᔑ! リᔑ||ᔑ'ᓭ ∴╎ℸ ̣ ⍑ ⍑╎ᒲ! ⊣ᒷℸ ̣ ℸ ̣ ⍑ᒷᒲ ʖ𝙹ℸ ̣ ⍑!" One of the Watchers screamed. Naya recognized the words and fear spread through her. Translated, the Watcher was saying,

"Get Xelqua! Naya's with him! GET THEM BOTH!"

Grian froze beside her. "I suggest we run." He said before taking off, grabbing the non-hermit's arm and pulling her with him. The two ex-watchers flew faster and faster away. Grian smiled at Naya. He was about to say something when a net of purple magic grabbed him and pulled him down. Naya screeched as she was caught in another net. Everything started to fade, black spots appearing on her vision.

She saw Watchers, tons of them, dragging away Grian. She felt herself being lifted up, and almost lost consciousness when a horribly glitched form made of many colours- gray, purple, white, red, and blue- appeared for a millisecond... it raised a hand...

And it all went black.