MCYT RANDOMNESS 2

Therapy

PoV Cub

I'm bored.

I curse silently as the Sculk's voice rises in my mind. Again. As it's been doing consistently since the start of Season 10. Since the end of Season 9. Since I pretended I was ok with it by making it my Halloween costume.

'Of course you are...' I mutter back, before returning to the newest flower farm I was halfway through trying to test. 'I'll prank someone later or go to an ancient city... I'm busy now.'

I'm BORED now. Make a warden farm if you want farms. Then you will get catalysts and...

'No.'

Prank? Prank hermits? Sculk prank? Yes, yes, Sculk prank now please please. The vex join in what shouldn't be a discussion, their whispering voices overlapping excitedly in my head.

It wouldn't be as much as before... I can do some if it would become too tedious for you.

'I'm not spreading sculk over Hermitcraft, I'm not letting you control me again. You don't control me.'

But WE do. WE control you. WE like pranks. We want sculk. So do it. Do it. Do it. So it.

Their power rises more and more as they keep repeating until I can't ignore it. Until I realise they want to take over. I have to have to fly away, find safety, find something to entertain them... I search my pockets... There.

A pen.

I start clicking it, over and over. The vex fall silent, enjoying the noise, the repetition, the annoyance it'd cause myself or other hermits passing by if I kept doing it. I glance in the window as I land outside my starter house to see myself normal, the vex gone.

I'm still here.

I don't stop clicking the pen. Instead, I speed up as the Sculk speaks again. The voice I don't know how to fight off. The part I got too brave around, to the point of mocking it. And it returned as a little voice constantly in my head.

That was when I realised it wasn't left behind in Empires. That was when it started plaguing me again.

'You're just a voice. You don't control me.' I tell myself. The pen clicking, as it always does, has become an unfightable urge. Just click, click, click, click until-

Ink covers my hand as the pen breaks. I pull it out, cursing, to see it covered in black.

Sculky black.

The vex screech with laughter, calling me a silly, stupid vexling, but don't pester me again. They're content with me blowing up a pen for now. I stick my hands back in the pockets and head inside to clean up.

Prank him prank him kill him it's funny kill him make him mad push him in a hole.

I'm talking to Ren when the vex return next. He's explaining what permits he has and the plans for his shops. A casual conversation in the shopping district. And now the Vex want him to die.

'...Sculk permit from Keralis and...'

'What?'

What?

Ren pauses.

'Y'know? Sculk? Do you want to trade for it, because I already have plans...'

'No, no...'

Kill him and steal the permit.

Steal yes steal and death kill him make him die kill him. Steal it. Get it. We want it. Give it to us.

'I just... Thought... Keralis still had it but I guess you've traded so... That's alright.' I quickly lie. Ren frowns.

'Are you alright, dude? Is this about...' He steps closer, whispering. 'Empires... Sculk?'

'I'm fine.'

'Sure?'

'Yeah, I'm fine.'

'You've... Drawn your sword?'

The vex break into laughter anew as I realise and switch to fireworks instead.

Shoot him. Kill him. Firework him. Make him go BOOM. Explosion fun. Killing fun. Kill him. End him. Steal his diamonds. Steal his permit.

'Cub, dude, I'm worried about you...'

Kill him.

Kill him.

They talk over each other, keep repeating in my mind over and over. Ren's panicking, talking about telling Scar, or Xisuma, and making sure I'm ok asking over and over and saying my name over and over and kill him kill him kill him kill him kill...

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Well done.

'No- no I didn't mean to...' The vex are screeching with laughter, celebrating me murdering Ren. I killed Ren. What will the hermits think? What will HE say?

It was a normal death, I realise, as I see his stuff spewed everywhere and my netherite sword unstained. Just a normal death. That's all that can calm me down. They didn't pull out any vex knives or sculk weapons. I'm not left with a dead body and unending grief. Which also means he'll be coming back for his stuff. Coming back to confront me. I don't even remember killing him. One moment he was talking, the next he was gone.

'Dude! What was that about?!'

Ren.

Get the permit. Now.

Get it. Steal it. Win it. It's ours. Get it now. Get it. Chaos. Cause chaos. Make him mad. Steal it.

Get the sculk permit.

I fly away.

NO!

The screech of the vex and the fury of the sculk rises to a deafening cacophony in my mind. Tears run down my face from my speed, or the terror, or the volume. The Vex slowly stop demanding I turn back and start trying to take over my mind. The Sculk still keeps shouting, blaming me, threatening to hurt me. It can't do anything, right? They're just threats. It can't hurt me. It can't hurt me again.

I reach my base, crashing outside. The Vex's power pushes further and further. I catch my eyes glowing near-white, in the glass, blue and pink across my face, wings behind... I can't look any longer and duck inside, past the redstone, through the wall and down into my Safe Room. The old familiar laughter drowns out the door clicking shut behind me. The world spots with black and I collapse onto a pile of blankets, cushions and squeaky toys. The only stuff I can hurt in here aside from myself.

I grab the closest teddy, squeezing it until the noise slowly falls silent again. My focus snaps entirely to the teddy. My heartbeat slows. The vex's power fades. I squeak it again. And again, and again, placating the Vex, calming my racing emotions until I'm just crying. The Sculk's left me alone. I'm alone. I don't check chat, not even the private messages from Scar. I don't move. I keep squeezing the toy obsessively, a kind of comfort as I stay curled up there, half crying, half gasping for breath until I'm too exhausted and I fall asleep.

There will be part 2.

There will be more therapy.