The new hermitcraft world was just starting up. Everyone was very excited, waiting on the island, except for a few who were tired of starting over after making so much progress. Some people were tired of being in the same universe, working to collect blocks and diamonds to spend. They were tired of the fact that they were stuck in a never ending universe that would go on forever.

Grian had been looking forward to it, as he was still newer to Hermitcraft and didn't know about the trap he'd been pulled into yet. He was almost like a small innocent child, new to the world, curious about everything he saw and came across.

Mumbo on the other hand, after being in this trap for over 5 years was not excited. He was bored of doing the same thing. Of course there was always something new to do, and as long as Grian was around, stuff wasn't too boring and Mumbo was happy. Grian always had the best pranks to play on people, and being new made it more fun for everyone to answer any questions he had. Mumbo still remembered when Grian had asked about villagers "for a friend" and he had replied with "no one knows". He would never forget about anything he'd helped Grian with, or anything he'd done with Grian.

Many other people on Hermitcraft were getting ready for Xisuma to send them off on their ways to begin a new journey once again.

"...and begin!"

Mumbo had missed a lot of what Xisuma had been saying while thinking about Grian, but his thoughts were burst when he'd said go. Mumbo caught up with Grian and walked alongside him.

"Hey Grian!"

"Oh hey Mumbo! Excited to start all over again?" Grian laughed a bit, already knowing what Mumbo's answer would be.

"Oh, yes of course I am." Mumbo replied sarcastically.

The two laughed, and started looking for somewhere to build their starter bases.

Everyone ad already gone separate ways, and Grian and Mumbo were on their own. Mumbo was starting to get a bit more excited for thing to start up, since Grian said he had planned on making his base quite close to his. Grian couldn't wait to start building, and now neither could Mumbo.

"I've got to get on with resource gathering, and I'm sure you do too. I'll catch you later Mumbo!" Grian called as he started off on his own way.

"See ya around, Gri!" Mumbo replied with a smile on his face.

Grian slowly gathered up resources, a few diamonds, some lapis, some redstone dust, basic first day things that many of the others collect.

Mumbo had done the same thing, as well as started to work on his starter base.

It was small and simple, and it looked quite nice. It was just a regular house, large enough for some storage and a few decorations. He put in a small cactus in a pot which really added to the house.

Meanwhile, Grian had built a cottage styled house in the woods nearby Mumbo's base. It looked amazing. He had decorated the inside beautifully; plants, item frames with different blocks in them, he'd even managed to get a painting for it.

While Grian had been building, Mumbo managed to link their bases the same way Grian did the previous year with their hobbit holes. He sent 7 messages to Grian, hoping he would see them soon.

It didn't take Grian long to notice the messages, he went and looked at them as quickly as he could, already having known who they were from and what was going on.

Messages:

1. Hey

2. I linked our bases like you did last season

3. Do you like it?

4. I hope I did good.

5. Come to my base sometime.

6. Or should I come to yours?

7. We'll just come to each other's bases sometime to see them.

Grian laughed at the pile of messages that were there as he read them, and sent a message back to him.

Mumbo checked his messages to see that there was one there from Grian.

Message:

You come to mine first.

Hey all! Sooooo I wanted to mention a few things...

First: I know this is quite late coming out, this was supposed to be out early on Friday. My dad came home from work so I wasn't able to continue, and I have been SUPER busy. It is currently midnight (literally my clock just changed)and so it is late... And I'm supposed to be up early tomorrow... But whatever.

Second: keep in mind I'm not shipping Charles and Oli irl, I just ship Mumbo and Grian with each other.

Also if you read my description and didn't exactly understand what I was trying to say, I can totally answer any questions that anyone has about what's sort of going on because I think I kind of made it confusing. It's one of those things that you know what it is but you can't quite explain it.

Anyways, I really hope you enjoyed the first chapter of my Grumbo fanfic! This is really fun to write and I've got some seriousl y good ideas for this book! Can't wait to update more!!!

It's not midnight anymore.

I had to fix some of this. I woke up about an hour ago and realized I needed to fix some things, so it is actually 10 am instead.

I think I'm going to do another chapter today cuz I'm bored.