Prologue

He knows that he shouldn't be here. He knows that if he is caught in the queen's bedroom the night before her wedding that he will be executed. Even if it's against the queens will. He knows that anyone could have seen him sneaking through the halls to get to her room, but damn it, he had to see her. There must be some way she could call off the wedding, she's the queen for fucks sake!

He silently opened the door to her suite. Thrown haphazardly on the couch, taunting him, was her wedding dress. The dress she will wear when she walks down the aisle to meet David and not him. Damn it. It should be him. He didn't come all the way back to New York just to fall in love with the girl again and then have her taken away from him like that. His moment of self pity was interrupted when he looked up and saw her, standing and staring out her balcony window. She casually turned to look at him, with a slight smirk on her face.

"Well, do not just stand there Gregor, come in." Following her instructions, he went up behind her and wrapped an arm around her waist. She tensed momentarily, not expecting him to do that, before relaxing into his embrace.

"You should not be here Gregor," she whispered, "you know that once I marry David he will be in charge of my life and of Regalia. Right now your safe, because you are the Warrior. But I do not want him to have any type of vendetta against you."

"Trust me, I'll be fine," he said kissing her head.

"No Gregor, I do not think you will be fine. You know that there are those who hate you for coming back. They think you have ruined the Underland. They will be the ones influencing David, and he is such a spineless man, that anything that they say he will listen to! You know you should leave, but you are too selfish to do so! Leave! Do not stay here for me! Think of you sisters and your parents, how would they feel if you were killed? Do they even know that you-"

"Don't talk to me about them! You know that they don't know I'm here! But Luxa, I just can't stay away, you mean everything to me, and I wish you would just realize that I'm not going to abandon you to some loveless marriage!

Her gaze softened for a moment before she sighed. Her shoulders slumped and he knew that she was tired of their fights. That's all they seem to do now, fight. It's because she has already accepted that the marriage is inevitable, while he can't. What am I doing? he thought, It's the night before the marriage maybe all hope really is lost... No, the plan will work, it'll be risky, but it should work. Maybe I should give Luxa a bit of space, we still have some time before we would have to put the plan in action...

"Do not leave." He turned around to face her. She looked so miserable with her head hung and her eyes brimming with tears. "Gregor I love you, but I am getting married tomorrow no matter what I do. It is pointless to even hope that we could call it off."

"What if we don't have to call it off?"

"What do you mean? If we have any hope of getting married, then I cannot get married tomorrow!"

"Don't worry about that Luxa, I've got a plan."

In David's opinion, Luxa need not be at the wedding, she just has to give her consent to get married to him and all will be well. He will finally have the throne, the Underland will no longer have to suffer under a female ruler, and he could finally do something about their gnawer problem. He never did like gnawers, they were pesky animals who were to fond of killing humans, but for some reason Luxa has a soft spot for them. She even bonded with the worst gnawer of them all, Ripred. Just the name sent shivers up his spine. He distinctly remembers the first time he met Ripred, the uncouth creature had his face buried in a bowl of shrimp in cream sauce. Apparently Luxa has tried to teach him manners, but the old gnawer will not listen. Just shows how weak of a leader she is if she cannot even get her bond to behave for the important occasion of meeting her fiancé. David tugged on his shirt sleeve and rolled his shoulders. Time to get this over with…

"Sire!" yelled his out of breath servant, "You must come to the Council meeting immediately! Luxa, Aurora, and the warrior Gregor are missing!"

"What?" shouted David, "Have they been kidnapped?"

"I do not know sire," sighed his servant, "I am not privy to that information. However, I do not think that the Council even knows the answer to that question."

David sighed, of all mornings for this to happen, it had to be on his wedding day. "Well alright, tell the Council I will meet them in 15 minutes."

"Yes sir."

I cannot believe that the rats would be so bold as to kidnap her and the warrior on our wedding day, David thought, Could they not have taken her a week later, when I'm already on the throne? Sighing, David got ready for the Council meeting.

"Well gentlemen, I believe we have come to an agreement. Luxa, Aurora, and the Warrior could not have simply vanished into thin air. They must have been murdered, and I am glad we all agree on how the killer is. Now if we can all-"

"Sorry if I am late," interrupted David striding into the hall. "My servant sadly informed me after the meeting started. Then you can imagine my distress at realizing my fiancée is missing and-"

"That is enough David. You are not needed here. Go."

"But it's my fiancée who is missing. Now, since no family member of hers is sane enough to take the throne, I assume it will be my responsibility as her fiancé to-"

"And that is what we were just about to talk about. She does have an admittedly distant cousin who could inherit the throne…"

"But Victor, I thought he was not the sane. I heard that he was so brutal in the army his commander had no choice but to dishonourably discharge him? And did not Vikus forbid him from being mentioned to Luxa because he was afraid that he would try to influence her? What about someone like Howard? He is related to the Queen and he has a respectable job. The people will love him."

"Do you not understand? His viciousness is why he must inherit the throne. If we do not offer it to him, he will come rampaging into Regalia demanding it. We must offer it to him, or we could be putting our entire city in danger…"

AN: Welp. Here it is. I've had this idea in my head for the past 3 years or so, but I've finally decided to publish it now. Right as school is starting to get busy. Expect infrequent, possibly monthly, updates. Another warning, I haven't read the series in 4 years. If some things are inaccurate I'm sorry. I'm gonna try to see if I can read one of the books soonish to try and make this as accurate to the books as possible. Also, I meant to start publishing when I was closer to finishing the book, but instead I decided to publish it when I'm not even close to finishing chapter 1. Oops. I do however have everything planned out so that's good. Also this is my first book, so please excuse any formatting mistakes, and be as honest as possible when reviewing. Fair criticisms will only make the story better. Also, the rating might eventually be bumped up to an M. There won't be any sex scenes, but some other things might warrant the rating change. I'm not to sure yet.