Word Count : 1399

Requested By : dragonesmaster

Warnings : wAtCh yOuR pRoFaNiTy- attempt at murder,

Info : Hiding on the Hermitcraft server is easy. There's a lot of builds to fly to and camp out for awhile. But that's only during fun games of joking hide and seek.

This is not joking hide and seek.

This is Hide and Find with ZombieCleo; and she is ruthless when she's determined to hunt your ass down and break your legs.

She's given Joe a 5 hour head start. Then she'd begin to hunt him down.

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Hour 1 - Joe's POV
Joe took off into the sky in a panic. He hopefully had everything he needed to hide and wait out the ever coming rage storm that was ZombieCleo. He knew he had little of a chance if she caught up to him.

Joe had to keep reminding himself that this wasn't hide and seek. This was Hide and Find. A game that he- no- Cleo had come up with to give her an excuse to hunt him down.

There was a Hider and there was a Finder. The Hider- him- would do everything in their power to prevent the Finder from finding and killing them.

He needed to make an underground base or something somewhere far away. He needed to hide his gamer tag. He needed to keep a low profile.

But how does a player keep a low profile when there's an admin who can teleport anyone to him or anyone else; a god in disguise that has mines that reach across the whole infinite server; a sprinter who acts like their on haste bullshit half the time- multiple active hosts and finally to top it off- a whole server with magic and extra abilities that could top his own.

Joe bit the inside of his lip then landed down in the middle of the shopping district.

"I can't do this on my own."

Hour 3 - Perspective Switch
Xisuma stared down at his honeycomb base. He was crouched on one of the large jungle trees that surrounded his base. He knew something was off about it- he knew that it needed something extra. But he couldn't put his finger on it.

X's eyes narrowed behind his helmet visor as his brain thought and the cogs turned.

Then it hit him.

With a snap of his fingers and a wide grin spreading across his face, the Admin spread his bee wings and flew down to the inside of his Honey cone base to see if he had any extra vines in his storage area.

Landing on his feet on the floor of his storage area, Xisuma headed over to a bunch of his chests and began to rummage around through them.

He had only gotten started when an u familiar sound caught his attention.

With hesitation and now on full alert, Xisuma quietly shut the double chest he was in and drew his sword and comm.

"If it's the Watchers again..." X thought to himself before listening again.

The unfamiliar sound sounded like footsteps from everywhere. Whatever it was, it wasn't good at being secretive whatsoever.

Standing near deathly still, Xisuma took two paces to his right and shot around and struck something with the butt end of his sword. Or someone.

"Ow!"

Jolting at the vocal protest, Xisuma took a single jump back and put himself in a defensive position. "What the fuck?!"

A groan came from the air and now Xisuma could see them, the particle effects coming off someone.

A person under a potion effect.

After a moment of silence and a couple of drinks from something, Joe Hills materialized in front of X with an empty bucket in hand and a hand to his cheek.

"You my friend have a very strong swing." Joe complimented with a shaky tone.

Xisuma felt his whole body defuse like a bomb. He put his comm away and let his sword's blade touch the floor. "Oh for the gods above, Joe, you can't be sneaking around with potion effects on you! What I'd been FalseSymmetry?"

Joe placed the empty bucket back into his inventory and sheepishly rubbed the back of his head and offered a grin. "I know X, I know, its just that I've got bigger things to worry about than some of my fellow Hermits attacking me- sort of..."

The Southener trailed off and averted his eyes down to the floor.

The action alone perked Xisuma's curiosity. "What's wrong Joe? Something happen?"

Xisuma leaned against his sword and stared at Joe who's eyes were becoming hidden behind his glasses.

"Oh! Well, see the funny this is- I'm hiding from ZombieCleo right now who's given me a headstart."

The Admin blinked once and frowned behind his helmet. Arguments between Hermits did not end well, they usually ended after too much blood, sweat and tears had been spilled and shed. "Why are you hiding from her? Did you and her have some sort of fall out?"

Joe quickly raised his hands and waved them dismissively in front of himself, a panicked look going across his facial features. "No no! No fall out! I mean- well no. It's just-"

Joe stumbled over his words for a second. "You could call it a Not-So-Passive game of Hide and Find."

"Hide and Find." The name of the game sounded odd.

"Don't you mean Hide and Seek?" Xisuma questioned with confusion lacing around his mind.

Joe Hills barked out a laugh. "Ha! No- I mean Hide and Find."

"I'm not sure I'm familiar with the concept."

"Hide and Find, it's like Hide and Seek, but its just me hiding and Cleo trying to seek me out to kick my ass." Joe explained sheepishly.

Xisuma blinked once, trying to understand. "You... willingly participate?"

Joe let out a nervous laugh and twiddled his thumbs. "No, the game isn't even a game, it's just stressful but how can I say no to Cleo when shes just... really scary?"

Xisuma sighed. "Have you tried talking with Cleo?"

"Have you?"

"Touche. Alright, then what do you think I could do to help you?"

"Do you think maybe I could hang round here for awhile? The game only lasts till the end of each declared day."

Xisuma cocked an eyebrow up. "If that makes you feel better, sure."

Hour Five - Perspective Switch
Cleo smirked as the minute hand passed the big number. Joe's headstart was up.

Brandishing her sword she flew off to the Shopping District with her elytra. She would start there to try to find clues and if she couldn't find any she'd go to Joe's base.

Landing in the Shopping District, Cleo could already tell that there was a lot of busy Hermit activity. Today was a more active and fun day today, a perfect day for Joe to try and hide in plan sight or something.

Putting her sword in her inventory so she didn't frighten anyone, Cleo gazed around and spied the nearest Hermit. As soon as she had her target, she headed over to them.

"Hey Hypno! Do you have a moment?"

Hypnotized- who was carrying two purple shulker boxes in his arms- stopped walking and locked eyes with Cleo momentarily. He offered her a smile in return as his arms were too full for him to wave.

"Hi Cleo, I have a moment to spare I guess. What do you need?"

The undead player smiled. "I'm just wondering if you've seen Joe around. He forgot his books at my place again."

The red head pulled out three books from her inventory and held them up for Hypno to see.

Hypno though and adjusted his hold on the two shulker boxes. "Well, I thought I saw Joe with TFC earlier today when Tin was out..."

Cleo simply smiled in appreciation then put the books away. "Alright, thanks Hypno!"

"Anytime."

Cleo took off again with her elytra and rockets. TFC always was in the Shopping District before the mad rush of his hermit peers, so he was most likely at his mine base again.

Once

Cleo had air, she complemented herself on her acting skills and improving.

Fin

To be continued?

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