Mumbo slowly woke up, he felt a bit cramped. his legs hung off the couch and there was a heavy warmth on top of him. His eye's slowly opened and he was rather surprised to see messy blonde hair. "Grian?"

The smaller hermit mumbled a bit about something but doesn't wake up, he just snuggles into Mumbo's chest. Mumbo tries to move but that causes Grian to whine a bit, Mumbo stops moving and just accepts the cuddles. Mumbo sighs and stares up at the celling while waiting for Grian to wake up. Heck Mumbo couldn't even check his communicator. 

It was around ten or so minutes before Grian finally woke up and he did not want to get up. Mumbo tried to move Grian a few times which only caused the smaller hermit to whine or growl at him.  Mumbo huffs and pokes Grian. "Get up you lazy bird"

"Nooo! I demand CUDDLES!" Grian whined and just snuggles into Mumbo's chest even more.

Mumbo chuckles a bit but keeps trying to get Grian up. "We cuddled all night.."

"I don't careeeee! I need moreeee!" Grian whines.

Mumbo sighs and picks Grian up and gets up. Grian squeaks and squirms as he tries to get free. Mumbo continues to hold Grian up in the air almost like a fish squirming. "Put me down! Put me down! Put me down!" Grian whined.

"I won't put you down until you stop squirming." Mumbo said sternly.

Grian whines and refuses to stop squirming for about ten minutes and Mumbo just gives up around the 11 minute mark, he just sets down Grian who just grins up at Mumbo. 

"what are you planning.."  Mumbo asked hesitantly while taking a step back from the pastel gremlin.

"Nothingggg~" Grian said with a sing song voice while grinning mischievously.

Mumbo looks at Grian a bit worriedly but shrugs it off for now. "Grian we should head off to your Mansion to meet up with everyone"

"O-Oh yeah we should go" Grian rather looks uncomfortable with the thought of going to his mansion so soon. He fidgets a bit and his grin fades.

"You good Grian?" Mumbo noticed the fidgeting and not looking up from the ground.

"Yeah, I'm good.." Grian spoke quietly.

Mumbo was worried for his friend but hoped he'd feel better or at lest cheer up while they fly. Mumbo grabs Grian's hand as they flew up into the sky. Mumbo and Grian flew to Grian's mansion. Grian was the first to land, mumbo nearly crashed into one of the mansion walls. 

"Grian I swear your mansion will kill me!" cried Mumbo.

Grian laughs a bit. "You should be more careful Mumbo! We don't need someone else waiting to respawn.." His tone changed a bit as he finished his words.

"Yeah.." Mumbo spoke with a bit sad voice. "I know you didn't mean to actually kill her.. It was a mess and she'll respawn soon enough and everyone will forgive and forget about this"

Mumbo's words somewhat cheered Grian up. "Thank you Mumby!" 

Grian tackled Mumbo into a hug and nuzzled his face into the mustached man's chest. Mumbo laughed a bit and hugged back, he smiled to himself. there was a quiet cough from someone which startled the two hermits stop hugging to see Scar standing there with a razed eyebrow. They stared at him with a look of surprise as they didn't even hear him coming.

"Well hello there my fellow hermits" Spoke mayor Scar.

"Er- Hello Scar.." Grian spoke while slightly cowering behind Mumbo, it wasn't that he was scared it was more of he was embarrassed to be caught hugging Mumbo.

"Hey Scar.." Mumbo said.

Mumbo could feel the tension between the two other hermits. It was confusing with how much the two seemed to suddenly dislike another when they were just joking a few weeks before. Like how they built the town hall in the shopping districted.  The funny little pranks that the two did. Mumbo questioned how two friends could be torn apart from a silly turf war.

While Mumbo was lost in thought soon all of the other hermits that talked the other night showed up. 

Everyone started to talk about what happened and what they should do about the fact that False an HEP member died, and how it will take awhile for her to respawn.

"Shouldn't we have a resistance member die then? It would only be fair! We just lost one of our strongest members" Said Cub. He was trying to be a bit reasonable which was to have any mycelium member killed.

"Absolutely not! That sounds inhumane!" Grian cried out in anger.

"I do say it does sound inhumane but look at it this way Grian.. False is currently waiting to respawn, which is your fault-" Scar spoke in his mayoral voice of command. 

"MY FAULT!? Scar you sent her after me and you know as well as anyone that False is somewhat of a fan to murder people!" Grian was getting upset with Scar now. to Grian it was like Scar didn't even care for his own team at this moment.

Etho pats Grian on the shoulder. "Calm down G. I'll talk now."  Grian nods and allows to Etho talk.

"That's rather interesting to have let happen Grian. I would think you would rather be the only one talking about this as you did murder her!" Said Scar still declaring Grian to be a cold hearted killer.

"Scar stop riling up Grian, you have no reason to do so. If you don't mind shutting your mouth about sacrificing someone just because you lost your best fighter. Doesn't mean you can just bombarded them with this kind of rudeness." Etho was rude but what to expect when someone says something rude to your leader.

A few hermits were a bit taken a back by how Etho spoke, as he's normally the light hearted joker and not someone who would usually speak out like this. Grian and Impulse weren't as surprise as the others, mostly because Grian has both Etho and Impulse as his seconded in command and they were told to speak loud and rudely if it was needed and that is what Etho is doing. 

"I think we should end this meeting, it is rather clear that we aren't going to get along. We should wait for False to respawn which should be about three to four days." Said Impulse he could tell both sides were getting pretty upset and if they weren't stopped now who knows what kind of fight would break out.

Scar give's Impulse a look. "You weren't given permission to make that kind of decision." 

"Actually I have that power to make that kind of decision. Myself and Etho are both second in command so I would like it if you were much kinder to us." Replied Impulse while keeping a calm facial expression. 

Scar was a bit shocked. "But-.. Grian why would you make a decision like that?"

"Because If I were killed or attacked where I couldn't take charge both of them would have the skills to take care of everything" Grian spoke with a calm yet menacing tone.

"Fine, we shall go now." Said Scar.

The HEP members were the first to leave next was the resistance members other than Grian and Stress. The hermit challenges gang decided to hang out for most of the day.(Stress was the one who suggested it)

Hey guys I hope you like this longer chapter! It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to write with out it being too short or anything!

Sunshine out!