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Scar grins as he flits around his drill, it’s getting better and better every day. Humming softly he lands on the enormous pile of shulkers, hearing his communicator beep he pulls it out to look at the notification.
It’s from Cub, the message reads, “I got a map for a woodland mansion, do you want to explore it with me?”
Flicking his wings Scar shoots up into the sky, he answers Cub saying that he would love to explore the mansion.
They decide to meet at the pyramids and go from there. Scar grabs a shulker filled with adventuring supplies and flies to the pyramids. Landing next to Cub Scar taps his leg, “Hi Cub!”
“Hey Scar,” Cub grins as he lets Scar settle on his shoulder, “You ready to go?”
“Yep.”
The pair take off towards the mansion. They bring cake and cookies to give to the Vex as offerings so the others in the mansion will leave them alone.
Landing on a tree around the mansion Cub sets up a base camp as Scar flits up to a window and looks in. An evoker spots him and looks at him curiously.
“You don’t seem Vex yet you are?” The Evoker questions, opening a window inviting Scar in.
“Something landed in the world and started changing players,” Scar explains as he lands on a bookshelf.
The Evoker nods, “We have a legend of something like that, it should be recorded in one of the books near you.”
“Thank you,”
“Wait, are you by any chance one of the ConVex?”
“I am, My name is Scar and my friend Cub here as well. How did you know?”
“A few months ago all my Vex started buzzing about the ConVex arriving in the world chased by a great evil,” The Evoker nods before realizing something, “Is your friend still outside?”
“Yeah,”
“Why don’t you go get him? We can discuss this further in one of the meeting halls. I’ll find the book I was talking about and show it to you.”
Scar nods and flies out the window and lands on a bed next to where Cub is sorting through a few boxes, “Hey, they want us to go to one of the meeting rooms.”
Cub looks up from his box, “While you were inside, the communicators went off, it’s doing something again.”
“That’s actually what they want to talk about, they have a legend about the meteor.”
Cub’s eyebrows shoot up, “Really?”
The duo make their way into the front entrance and are met by a vindicator, who nods and leads them safely through the mansion and into a meeting room. There’s a pair of Evokers with five Vex floating near the ceiling. A pair of Vindicators stand guard outside the doors.
“Scar, thank you for agreeing to meet with us. I never introduced myself. My name is Aulë, I am the lead Evoker here and I am in charge of keeping the records.”
The other Evoker speaks up, “I am called Mairon, I am the second in command and I am in charge of the staff.”
“My name is Cub and we’re exploring.”
“Ok, I met Aulë. My name is Scar.”
Aulë nods and motions for Scar to sit in one of the Vex sized chairs on the table, “If you do not mind we would like to hear the story of what has happened to you and your friends.”
“Oh, Um, so in the last world, I was watching a meteor shower with some friends, and one hit really close to where we were standing. It hit one of my friends and he got affected first.”
Hearing this Mairon whispers something to Aulë, who responds with, “ I noticed as well we will discuss that later. My apologies please continue,”
Scar gives a confused nod then continues, “Not too long after Mumbo was effected I got affected, it shrunk me down and gave me wings. We found out that I can go through blocks later, ” As Scar recounts what happened to his friends the Evokers nod.
After Scar finishes Aulë asks a simple question, “You said that the first person affected got hit by the meteor?” At Scars nod he continues, “That isn’t the same as being affected, he wasn’t chosen. It was bad luck.”
Cub cuts in, “Let me get this straight, you’re saying Mumbo never truly got affected?”
“That is correct.”
“How do you know all this?”
“Simple, we have a book. It describes something much like your meteor. The story goes; In a kingdom, there lived vile and evil creatures that destroyed the land. The people lived in fear until one day someone made a deal. A deal with the head Vex. As you know the Vex are tricky and often twist what you want. When the deal was made it helped end the evil that plagued the land but it left the deal maker in a monstrous form. Doomed to wander the land.
Of course, he didn’t like this, he swore revenge on the ones who cursed him. For years he wanders the lands learning magic in hopes to get revenge. After years of training, he returns to the Vex. He was able to curse the entire race, the once proud and mighty Vex, tied to us Evokers as a summon. Before he could finish off the Vex they used most of their remaining magic to trap him. Encasing him in unpenetrable stone. The lord of the nether in attempts to help stop him for good launched the stone into space.
This is where the story gets a bit muddled, it’s rumored that he remained conscious and plotted his revenge on the ones that cursed him. It is widely believed that he would return and rec havoc,” As Aulë finishes telling the story Scar looks up at him.
“That’s a lot to take in,” Scar mutters.
Cub leans forwards one of the Vexes has floated down and settled on his shoulder. Fascinated by the gems attached, “Do you know anything else about the meteor?”
Mairon speaks up, “I believe you’re currently getting affected.”
Cub frowns and looks down at his hands checking them for any visible difference, “Are you positive?”
“Very,” Mairon states just before he plucks Scar off the table, holding him in his hand. Scar had already been told of what Mairon was planning so he goes along with it.
Cub stands up and glares at Mairon. His lips curling into a snarl, noticing this he stops and carefully sits back down as he releases Scar, “I think I see what you mean.”
“If it’s any consolation, I can tell you a bit of what’s happening?” Aulë offers, plucking a bit of Vex magic off the table and throwing it upwards towards the Vex who swarm over to it. He hands Scar a small bit as well.
Cub nods.
“I can’t tell you much more than this, it’s related to the thing that you are building.”
“Pyramid, so Egyptian. But with the mythology that can mean almost anything.”
Mairon nods in agreement, “Here, take this with you,” He hands Cub a book with Beautiful engravings on the cover. “We have many copies, it’s the story we told you.”
Cub and Scar stay talking with the Evokers for a while longer before heading back towards Cubs base. They fly past spawn island and decide to drop the book off.
When they get back to the pyramid Cub stumbles into his room and flops down on his bed.
Scar walks in too exhausted to use his wings and awkwardly clambers up next to Cub.
The pair sit in silence for a while longer before Cub breaks the silence, “Alive without breath, as cold as death, Never thirsty, ever drinking, all in mail never clinking?”
“Riddles? Ok, Um… fish?”
Cub nods from where he’s laying, “A box without hinges, Key or lid, but a golden treasure inside is hidden?”
Scar sits for a minute thinking, “Egg.”
They sit like this asking and answering riddles until they fall asleep.
………...
Two days later Xisuma calls a meeting, “I’m sorry for the short notice but I feel we need to go over this as a group.”
As usual, the hermits have gathered in the shopping district this time in the area in front of the town hall. Xisuma is standing near the portal, Grian is perched on top of one of the polling stations. Beef is laying with his legs curled leaning against a wall. The rest of the hermits are scattered around and are sitting on the ground, or in Scar’s case, he’s sitting on Beef’s back.
“I’ll start with going over what happened to Beef as we haven’t done that yet and we probably should,” Xisuma continues, “He’s been turned into some sort of centaur, as you can see,” At this, he Gestures over to Beef who flicks his tail awkwardly, Xisuma explains more about what happened to Beef before continuing, “I have a question for everyone, who has been affected. Have you noticed anything else that’s changed?”
Jevin, Grian, and Wels all raise their hands.
“Uh, I can absorb other slimes, as long as they're the same kind as me,” Jevin murmurs.
“I’ve noticed I’ll make more dragon-like noises,” Wels hums as he flares his wings.
Grian blushes slightly before he explains what happened, “So you know how some birds have the feathers that look like horns? If I fluff up my head feathers I can do that,” As he explains he puffs his feathers up and gains two clumps of feathers sticking straight up looking like horns.
Xisuma nods and continues the meeting, “Scar and Cub recently went to explore a woodland mansion. While there they discovered something rather unusual, a book. The Evokers have a story, it describes a man who learned magic that was capable to alter the Vex. It changed them from powerful magic users into what we see today. The man was so corrupted by power that they sealed him away in stone and he was thrown into space.
This along with other details matches up with The meteor. If you want more information we’ll pass the book around so everyone can read it,” Xisuma nods and ends the meeting.
Walking towards Mumbo, Xisuma pulls him away from the main Group and into the town hall, “I didn’t tell everyone this because I’m not sure if you would be ok with not getting a warning. While Scar and Cub were in the mansion they were told that you didn’t get truly affected and something else might happen.”
Mumbo’s face leeches of color and he swallows nervously, “I thought that what happened to me didn’t quite fit in but…”
Xisuma swiftly wraps Mumbo into a hug, his tail gently curled and spines flat against his back, “It’ll work out.” The pair stand there for a moment before Xisuma needs to go talk to Cub.
As he wanders around trying to find Cub, Xisuma hears a muffled sound, confused he turns to see what the sound is. When he pushes the door to the tavern open he sees, Cub. Who is holding a hand over his mouth.
“Cub! Are you ok?”
“Oh, Um, I think I’m growing fangs,” Cub answers with a heavy lisp.
“Let me see,” Xisuma clicks, as he carefully walks over.
Cub slowly removes his hand to show Xisuma the sharper teeth. There was a small bit of blood dripping from his lip.
Xisuma’s ear twitches from inside his helmet, “Let me see your hands?”
Cub holds his hands up and inhales sharply, his nails are changing shape into claws. As they change Cub watches transfixed.
Xisuma lets out a puff of air, “Let’s get you home.”
As the pair walk through the Nether Team ZIT is spotted messing around with the striders. Impulse and Zedaph have taken fire resistance potion so they can hang out in the lava. Tango spots Cub and Xisuma walking past and waves to them before promptly falling off a strider and into the lava.