POV: Fizzy

I woke up on a stone floor. I glanced around, wishing I could call for someone, but being mute, the best you've got is sight.

And what I saw confused me.

This was a type of storage room, and some type of farm in front of me, except all the farmable items were replaced with mob heads. I expected to be in a cadge that Hit the target had made, but no. I was not.

I stood up, glancing around. It felt... odd here. I fished in my pocket for a cookie, happily pulling one out and taking a bite out of it. I walked around. 'How do I get out of here?' I thought stubbornly. Eventually I found that the farm didn't touch the wall, and squeezed around it, in hopes of finding an exit.

I did find an exit, made out of sandstone. When I got out, I smiled at the fresh air. There was a giant archway, a small building, a weird cadge type thing, an upside down ice cream, the whole place being surrounded by mountains.

I looked up and noticed a half complete rainbow, my smile growing even wider. If I wasn't mute, I would've screamed with joy.

Suddenly I heard the spark of fireworks, and noticed someone flying far above me. I had to do a double take. 'People can fly????' I thought, surprised. The person landed on the rainbow and that made me happy. I decided to set off my own fireworks as a signal of...connection? I dunno what to call it.

I pulled out a firework from my pocket and lit it, watching happily as it went high into the air and exploded peacefully.

I waited for a moment, smiling, not knowing what to do. All of a sudden I heard a shout, presumably from the person who flew above.

"CLEO?"

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POV: Joe

I flew to Cleo's base to finish the rainbow as she requested. I quickly sped to her base, spamming rockets.

When I saw the rainbow come into view I landed on it. 'So how would I do this?' I wondered, looking at the multicolored glass. All of a sudden I heard the tell-tale sign of a firework being ignited, and looked over to see one exploding in a ball of purple flame, quickly fizzing out.

'Now that's something you don't see everyday on the hermitcraft server.' I thought sassily. My mind went through the possible people who could've set it off. I first knocked out a good portion of the hermits because, who would be at Cleo's base? But the thing was, the only two hermits who could've set it off were either me or Cleo, and by process of elimination-

"CLEO?" I called. No response. I waited a moment later. Still no response. I decided to fly down to check what was going on.

Instead of Cleo however, there was an elephant looking-person who wore gold pants and boots. "Howdy!" I greeted, confused. "Who are you?" I asked. The person did something in sign language and I realized- 'this person is probably mute.' "Sorry, I don't speak sign language. Could you write your name down?" I asked politely.

The elephant nodded, pulling out a sign. They quickly scribbled on it and showed it to me. It read: 'I'm Fizzy Elephant! But you can call me Fizzy. What's your name?' I smiled. 'Fizzy. Okay, remember that.' I thought to myself. "Well howdy Fizzy. I'm Joe." I said with a wave of my hand.

Fuzzy smiled, quickly doing something in sign language. They quickly realized I didn't understand it and taking the sign back to write. They erased the words already there and scribbled more words down. They turned the sign for me to look at. 'Why did you yell Cleo?' It read.

"Oh, Cleo's my friend. They live here. I thought the firework was set off by her because she'd be the only one here. Turns out I was wrong!" I said, giving a light chuckle. 'Where is Cleo though?' I wondered, a light fear trickling up my spine.

Fizzy nodded, before looking like they realized something. They turned the sign back around and started writing again. They turned the sign back around for me to see. 'Pronouns? Mine are He/Him and They/them.'

"Oh, I use he/him and they/them too! That's neat!" I said happily. 'I should probably bring you too Xisuma...' I thought. "Is it okay if I bring you to Xisuma? He's the server admin here and I think he should