Hello eveyone, welcome back, and welcome to the sequel to my other story, 'Gregor and the Prophecy of Gray 'AU' '. This book (for those of you who didn't read the first one) is an AU (Alternate reality) of Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane, except Gregor fell down to the Underland when he was 9, and is now 16. Also if you didn't notice, I'm spacing the books out more than they originally were spaced out (hint Gregor being 16, when he was 15 in the first one) for some reasons you'll understand later on. Any ways, enjoy the story, and God bless.

I, do not, and never have owned the Underland Chronicles. Other than the plot, and characters I create, all rights go to Suezanne Collins. Please don't sue me.

Gregor quickly side stepped the attack, heading for his face, and jabbed his sword foward, which the attacker just barely side stepped. Gregor then did an overhead swing, bringing his sword down, but stopped short. Half way through the swing he brought his sword back up stopping at the guards neck. Gregor smirked. "Got you." He said sheathing his sword.

"Yes, yes you did." Mareth sighed, also putting away his sword. Gregor turned aroumd to see Luxa cheering him on.

"Good job!" the princess said, giving him a high five.

"Thanks, although i could have done it alot quicker, if Ripred was not so picky." Gregor jokingly pouted. Ripred had been telling Gregor not to use his rager senses when training. Why? He didn't know.

"Come on." Luxa said taking his hand. "Supper is soon." She said pulling him into the streets, and out of the arena. "Are we not going to fly?" Gregor asked, confused.

"Yes, well i felt like walking there, if that is okay with you." Luxa responded.

"Oh, yeah sure, i don't care." Gregor said looking around. Sometimes he forgot how amazing all of the buildings were, with different intricate carvings covering every inch, you could almost learn the entire history of Regalia from looking at them. "So." Gregor said, breaking the silence. "Are you excited, for tommorow?" He asked.

"Oh yes, it will be comforting know that you are not older than me." She responded, with a smirk.

"Really? Tommorow is your sixteenth birthday, the day you officially become a queen in training; And the thing you are excited about, is saying that I'm not older than you?" Gregor said shaking his head.

"Well. . . . . . yes!" They both laughed. The couple then arrived at the palace, the guards were lifting the platform when Luxa spoke up. "My birthday party is required to be big, and extravagant. I am not looking forward to that." the princess said with a frown. Gregor knew she usually liked a small party for her birthday, just family, and friends. "It will be fine. Just act like they're not there." He said, smelling the food as they walked through the doors of the dining hall, still hand in hand. "Luxa, Gregor! It is good to see you!" Vikus said with a smile. Luxa sat at the head of the table, Gregor to her left, where he always sat. "Hello Vikus." they said in unison. The servents brought out there dinner, and left as quickly as they came. "So, Luxa. . . is there anything in particular that you would want, for your birthday?" Vikis asked, trying to break the silence. the princess shrugged. "Not really." she said picking at her food. Dinner was silent from then on, everyone understanding Luxa didn't want to talk. When they were done the two teens walked back to the royal living quarters, hand in hand. "Goodnight, Lux." Gregor said giving her a kiss. "Goodnight, Gregor." She responded, returning the kiss. then they seperated into there individual rooms, next to each other in the Royal wing. Gregor lay on his bed slowly drifting to sleep. . . . . .

"Gregor. . .Gregor wake up! It's Luxa's birthday!"

Gregor slowly sat up to see Ares leaning over him.

"Okay, okay, I'm up." Gregor said getting out of bed. Ares quickly fluttered out of the room to let him change. what did Ares think he was doing, waking him up so early? And on Luxa's birthday. . . wait! It's Luxa's birthday! Gregor smiled, quickly dressing in the underland equivalent of a collared shirt, and pants. Not to nice, not to casual. He then headed out of the royal head quarters, heading to the mueseum. "Were are we going gregor?" Ares asked fluttering beside him. "To the meuseum, to get Luxa's present." Gregor responded, spotting the doors to it. "Ah." the bat said, understanding. Gregor pushed open the doors to the meuseum, hearing the all to ear shattering, 'creeeeeeak.' Walking to a corner he had hid his present, pulling it out he examined it. The peice of jewelry was a gold, chain necklace, with a little red heart on the end. Opening the heart, you could see Luxa, and Gregor at his birthday party. They were standing, arms around each other, heads leaned against each other. Gregor smiled, turning around and walking out of the door, hiding the present in his pocket. "The party starts after breakfast." Ares said, before fluttering off. Gregor went to the dining hall and ate, before making his way to the arena were the party would be held. Getting there he saw all of regalia there, bats, and even cockroaches. Man he didn't blame Luxa if she didn't show up at all! Gregor spotted Howard, and the rest of Luxa's cousins and made his way over to them. "Hey Howard! How are you!" Gregor said giving Howard a quick hug. "I am good, it is good to see you." He responded. Over the years that Gregor had been down here, Howard and Gregor had become friends, Howard's siblings. . . not so much. "Hey Greggy." Stellovet said with a smile, and a wink. "Hello Stellovet." Gregor said in a tone that said he wasn't interested, and her smiled dropped. "People of Regalia, we are here to celabrate the princess's 16th birthday." Vikus boomed from the royal box. "And I am honered to announce to you, Luxa, the official, Queen in training!" He yelled, motioning with his hand to the entrance of the arena. Gregor turned his head to see Luxa come out of on top of Aurora. She was wearing a violet dress, that matched her eyes. Her hair was long, waving down to the middle of her back. Her cheeks were flushed from all the attention in a soft shade of scarlet. Long story short, she was drop dead beautiful. She landed, everyone clapping, then it became a normal party, everyone either going to dance, or to converse.

"Hey, happy birthday Lux!" Gregor said giving Luxa a quick kiss.

"Hello Gregor! Thank you." She responded, smiling.

"Oh" Gregor said reaching back to his pocket. "I got you this!" Luxa's eyes widened in half amazment, the other part in exitment, the Underland not having the technology to make things out of gold. Gregor reached over and pressed the button that opened it, and she gasped.

"Oh Gregor. . . it. . . it's amazing!" she finally said jumping on him giving him a hug, the force causing them to fall on the floor, Luxa on top of Gregor. They both laughed, danced, and had fun for about an hour, until they grabbed a small cake, and headed to the top of the seats to be alone. "You know, you are not that bad of a dancer." Luxa said, chuckling to herself.

"Yeah, right!" Gregor said not taking his eyes off Luxa's. After a moment the princess raised an eyebrow.

"What?" She asked.

"You look beautiful. Have i told you that recently?" He responded. Luxa blushed, and answered.

"Only everyday." She said leaning in for a kiss. Gregor wrapped his arms around her waist, Luxa doing the same aroumd his neck. Gregor pushed Luxa's back against the wall. They stayed like that until they heard some gasp. They quickly broke apart and turned to see Stellovet, face full of anger.

"How could you, at your own birthday party!" She said. Gregor responded.

"Lux can do whatever she wants! Its her birthday!" Stellovets eyes sharpened when he said Lux.

"How dare you address Princess Luxa so! She is a Queen in training!" She yelled at him. It was now Luxa's turn to speak.

"No! How dare you address him so!" She yelled, steaming. "He is the warrior, And has saved regalia! As the queen in training I hereby make it law that everyone in regalia must bow to him when greeting him! They are going to have to soon anyways!" She finished, gaining her breath back.

"I d-! " Stellovet started, but was cut off by the look Luxa gave her and stormed off.

"I didn't know you could make laws." Gregor stated.

"Yes, as Queen in training i can make a law, unless it is directly challenged by the council." She said with a smirk. "Now, where were we." She whispered leaning back into the kiss, Gregor moving one hand up to her hair. They stayed like that until Gregor heard someone walking up. Sighing in despair, Gregor turned his head to see Vikus looking amused. He had seen them kiss once, on the quest to fulfill the prophecy of gray, but he had never seen them. . . well, making out.

"Yeah?" Gregor asked sighing, Gregor and Luxa still holding on to each other, not embarrassed since Vikus was family.

"Well. . . " Vikus looked at luxa. "It is ready." He said, walking away still shocked. At this point Luxa grabbed Gregors hand, with a grin.

"Where are we going?" Gregor asked as luxa lead him onto Ares. (Who he had just noticed was there.)

"You will see." She said simply, mounting Ares behind him. After a few minutes they landed, and Gregor gasped, seeing a huge. . . something, covered in cloth. Luxa nodded to a guard who pulled the cloth off. Gregor took a sharp inhale as he saw what was under it. It was a statue of Gregor, on top of ares. He was holding his sword- no, sandwiches sword to the sky.

"I. . . it's. . . i don't know what to say." Luxa smiled, Gregor was never speechless.

"Do you like it?" She asked, nervous.

"Like it!?" Gregor asked "I love it! Thank you so much!" He said picking up Luxa by the waist, and swinging her around.

"Gregor!" She said giggling. "Put me down! Put me down!" Gregor gentley sat luxa on her feet, giving her a quick kiss. Gregor then walked over, and mounted Ares.

"Come on! You've got a birthday party to enjoy!" He said, pulling her up.

"I would much rather spend the rest of the day with you." Luxa said, joking a pout.

"Well that's not my choice is it? You have to be there for the crowning." Gregor said, then added. "I wish you could to." He said giving her a kiss on the forehead.

Gregor and luxa dismounted Ares, just as luxa was called up for the crowning. They switched the gold band on her head, for one that looked the same except for the small amethyst in the front. "It is so pretty." She admired to Gregor. Gregor hummed in response.

"It matches your eyes." He said with a smile, which his girlfriend returned. Soon the party was over, and Gregor and luxa walked back to the royal chambers, people bowing to luxa, and Gregor as they went. Man word travels fast! Finally they reached the royal quarters, and Gregor gave Luxa a kiss good night. "Good night, Lux." He whispered. "Goodnight sweetie." She whispered back, and Gregor smiled at his new nickname. Walking over to his bed, he collapsed on it, falling asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

Gregor walked up to the bloodball cannons, and held his sword out, ready to swing. Stellovet had challenged Gregor to do it, not knowing he could hit the total, since he was a rager. He heard the cannons fire and within seconds, there lay the shells of 15 blood balls. Gregor smirked and walked back over to where Stellovet sat. Ha! She looked like she had seen a ghost! ,"Wha. . . how. . . . . . huh?" She mumbled. Luxa burst out laughing. "Oh, dear Stellovet! Did you not know Gregor was a rager? " she said, now falling down to her knees. "Well. . . it does not matter if you are a rager if you aren't actually a skilled fighter." She pouted storming off. "She is right, you know." Gregor turned around to see Ripred walking up, and the teen raised an eyebrow. "what do you mean? Gregor is a good fighter!" He heard Luxa defending him. "Good isn't good enough!" Ripred replied. "sure, he is a rager, great! But if he was an amazing fighter, that would stack with his rager. Rager plus amazing fighter equals. . ." Gregor thought for a second going over what Ripred had said. So if he was a great fighter, he would be an even better rager? Makes sense. Gregor nodded to Ripred, showing he understood.

"Gregor?" Gregor heard Luxa's voice echo throughout Ares cave, as they enjoyed there picnic. "yes, Lux?" The boy responded.

"Well. . . " She started, nervous. "I've been meaning to tell you something. . . Since i am officially a queen in training. . . and i am courting you. . . by regalian law. . . you are officially a. . . a prince." she said hesitently as if expecting Gregor to get mad. But was surprised to see Gregor just stare at her for a second and say. "Are you pranking me?" He asked, fully serious.

"What? Of course not, i would not joke about such things." She responded. Gregor just gave a small smile with a "huh."

"Well. . ." Luxa said, getting to the point of this conversation. "As prince- of course you don't have to- it is regular for you to help me with my queenly duty's. . . like, meetings and the such. . ." The princess said hesitently. "oh, ok that would be fine." Gregor responded. Luxa stared at him absolutly floored, Then slowly smiled, and gave him a hug to which Gregor returned. Luxa slowly pulled away with a mischievous smirk. "You know that, as prince, you are able to give orders, and even create laws."

"Really?" Gregor reaponded with the same mischievous smirk. "Yep, you could throw people in the dungeon if you wanted to." To this gregors eyebrow shot up. "Wow-" Gregor started, just to be cut off by the horns. Gregor and Luxa were on ther bonds in a minute, reconizing those horns to warn that gnawers had invaded reglia.

Gregor got there first, Ares being way faster than Aurora, to see a handfull of gaurds fighting a rat, who semmed to be protecting a smaller one. Upon closer inspection he instantly recognized the fighting style. It was Ripred, doing his all-to recognisable rager spin. "Stop!" Gregor yelled to the gaurds, who looked at him questionably. "It's Ripred!" he yelled again, causing them to glide down, meeting him at the ground.

"We are sorry your majesty, we did not realize. . ." One of them said, while they all dropped to a one knee bow. Gregor looked behind him for Luxa, to see her still a little ways away. Then why were they acting like this? What Luxa had said a few minutes earlier hit him, and he quickly responded.

"Oh, it is fine. . . it is fine." he said walking over to Ripred.

"Did you and Luxa get married while i was gone, or something?" The old rat asked, generally confused. Gregor just rolled his eyes and said.

"I'll explian later." Then continued, with a sigh, "Why couldn't you just tell them who you were?"

"Well they obviuosly needed training." He explained with a smirk. "But, anyways." He said turning towards the rat he was protecting, who had there head shoved in the moss of the arena floor. "This is Twitchtip." The rat said gesturing to the smaller one.

"Hello Twitchtip, i am Gregor." Gregor introduced himself. The rat just snarled and stuck its head back in the moss.

"She's a sent seer." Ripred said catching Gregor's attention. "I have brought her as a present, for your quest." He continued, which confused Gregor.

"What quest?" Luxa asked from his side taking his hand. Ripred just laughed at this.

"You to need to have a chat with Vikus! Anyways, Twitchtip show them your skill." He said turning toward the female rat.

"The prince's sister is in the dining hall of the palace, wearing a pink shirt, brown shorts and eating grilled fish." She blabbered out. Gregor's eyes widened.

"My sister!?" Gregor asked wistling and jumping, to have Ares catch him.

"Have a good day!" Ripred called after him jokingly. Luxa soared beside Gregor.

"What do you think this could mean? A quest? Maybe another prophecy coming into the light?" She asked quickly.

"That's what I'm guessing." Gregor said, adopting the overlander-ish accent he always did when he was worried, angry, sad, mad, or- you get the point. They landed in the high hall, walking to the dining hall hand in hand (as always) Gregor pushed open the doors to see Boots, eating (surprise! surprise!) fish.

"Gregor!" She yelled giving him a hug, his little sister then turned to Luxa, giving her a hug as well, which surprised her to no end.

"Vikus!?" Gregor all-but screamed, feeling anger overtake him. There was a quest? And yet again Vikus had hid something from him, there had been many times Vikus hadn't told him something, and then told him it was because he didn't think he needed to know. Well he definitely needed to know this! "Why the hel-!" Gregor stopped himself before he could yell the prophanity, taking a deep breath. Luxa was stunned, never hearing Gregor -almost- curse before. "Why is Boots here?" the prince said calming himself down. "And what does Ripred mean, when he says were going on a quest?" Vikus collected himself, since Gregor rarely lost his temper he was pretty surprised.

"I was going to tell you over dinner. . . our scouts have comfirmed that there was a white rat born among the rats." the old man said in a sad tone. Gregors eyes slowly widened, and he knew exactly what was going on.

"The Prophecy of Bane?" Gregor asked barely above a whisper.

"Yes." Vikis replied. "We can talk about it over supper, for now you must get ready for your crowning as prince." He said swaying out of the room. It took Gregor a second to transfer what Vikus had just said.

"Crowning?" The teen asked, turning to his girlfriend.

"Yes." She replied. "You must officially be crowned, just like me." the princess stated, leading him out of the room, just as Boots was taken by Dulcet.

Gregor slowly walked up to the 'stage' as the crowd cheered around him. He looked at Vikus infront of him holding the crown that was meant for Gregors head. It was a metal band, with a gem in the middle, similar to Luxa's, except the band itself was a royal blue, and the gem in the middle was a crimson red, triangle. Gregor neeled down on one knee, facing the ground. Vikus boomed through out the arena.

"I present to you, Gregor the warrior, and now, the king in training!" He slowly lowered the crown on his head. Gregor stood up, facing toward the crowd. "Ladys and gentleman! Prince Gregor!" With that the crowd burst into cheers. Gregor walked down the stairs and over to Luxa.

"How does it feel?" She asked. "Knowing that responsibility of Regalia is in the hands of you and me?" Gregor thought for a moment before responding.

"Well. . . to tell you the truth not so different." She quirked an eyebrow in questioning.

"I mean, as warrior, i already felt like regalia was, in part, my responsibility. Although while saying that, I'm happy that people will finally listen to me." Gregor said the last sentence with a wink, to which Luxa laughed at.

"Yes, that is a pretty cool perk." Gregor smiled at her use of the word 'cool'

"So, shall we?" Gregor asked offering his arm.

"Yes we shall." His girlfriend responded with a smirk. After a long meeting about the quest, they walked to dinner, arm in arm talking and giggling. They arrived to find a guard walk up to Gregor.

"Prince Gregor." He said declining to one knee. "The nannie taking care of the princess has gotten sick, and your sister insists on either you, or her getting her for dinner." Gregor sighed.

"I'll go get her." He said turning to the door, but not before giving Luxa a kiss.

"If you take to long, i will come get you."

"of course." the teen said walking out the door.

Dulcet was sick? he hoped she was okay. She had really helped out with boots, not to mention them being best freind since she took care of him when he was a kid.

Walking around the corner, he noticed a certain cry come out of the nersery (Which was just down the hall) and broke into the run, recognizing that sound. It was a cry of pain, shock, and fear. Bursting into the room Gregor was horrified by the sight on the floor before him. A nannie he recognized, although he wasn't sure of her name, was laying across the floor with a gash strewn across her right thigh. Hearing a snarl he turned head towards the source; a black rat was creeping slowly up to a, despite the situation, sleeping boots. Instantly reaching under his shirt for his hidden dagger, he through it with deadly percision strait through the gnawers head. the corpse sat there for a second before falling onto its side. spinning on his heels Gregor stuck his head out the door. "Gaurds!?" He yelled positivley fuming. Within a few seconds, five gaurds ran up to him, shocked at the scene before them.

"Y- yes, prince Gregor?" One of them asked.

"You, and you." He said pointing to two of the gaurds. "Get the nannie to the hospital." They quickly obeyed his orders, as he turned to another two guards. "You two, throw the gnawer in the river, and alert the Queen of what has happened." As soon as his words were uttered they split up to do the tasks assigned to them. turning to the last guard he asked; "Do you know who was supposed to stand gaurd here?" he asked.

"w- well. . . it was. . . me." the guard responded, averting his eyes, to which Gregor's sharpened.

"Are you firmiliar with the prophecy of bane?"

"Well. . . yes, it was recently anounced it is suspected to be revealing itself at this time."

"Okay, and do you remember these lines; Die the baby, die his heart, die his most assential part?"

The gaurd stuttered a little bit, "I- yes." To which Gregor continued.

"And, you know we assume that's about me and my sister?"

"Yes. . ."

"Then tell me!" Gregor fumed getting louder. "How you could have left your gaurd duty, gaurding what is suspected to be one of the Underlands only hopes!" He could see the gaurd shaking in his boots.

"W- well i thought. . . th- that i could get a little snack and-" Gregor interupted him.

"That little girl in there is being hunted by the entirety of the rats!" At this point he could sense (with echolocation) that Luxa, Vikus, Ripred, and the rest of the crew was watching. "You have specific breaks for food! tell me how you would feel if you knew because you went to get 'just a little snack' the entirety of Regalia was going to be destroyed, by a monterous white rat, and you were to blame!" The guard's mouth opened and closed like a fish, not sure what to say. "I trust that you've learned not to leave your post un-ordered?" He asked, calming down.

"ye- yes sir!" He said sharply nodding his head in a short bow. Gregor nodding his head, as a symble that he could leave.

As the gaurd left Gregor turned towards Boots and leaned against the wall running his hand through his hair. It almost happened. He had almost lost Boots. What would he have done? He knew one thing for sure, the Prophecy was right. Die the baby, Die his heart. If Boots died, it would mosy definitely break his heart. How would his dad have reacted? While it took a bit of convincing, he had gotten his dad to understand, (this is of course, talking about right after the Prophecy of Grey.) that he couldn't go with him to the overland, that he belonged in the underland. If Gregors dad found out Boots had been killed on a not-so-planned trip down here. . . it would crush him. Gregor was starlted out of his thoughts to see Luxa give him a small, sad smile. "She's okay, you do not have to worry." She whispered, reading his mind. Nodding, he stood up from the wall straitening his clothing, and wiping away the tears he hadn't realized formed.

"I'm hungry, anyone else?" Luxa nodded.

"Yes, but let me go get cleaned up." It was then then Gregor noted her bloody cloths, to which Gregor raised an eyebrow.

"I didn't believe them when they said you threw a knife strait through the gnawers head." She responded, as she walked off, gaining and eye roll from the prince. Turning to walk back to the dining hall, Ripred walked up next to him.

"You handled that situation well boy." He whispered so that it was just the two of them that could hear the conversation.

"What? Throwing the knife?" Gregor asked.

"Well yes, but also with the gaurd. . . if you will take it from me, I think you would make a great king." He said in a kind voice that Gregor knew he only used with his closest friends.

"Thank you." Gregor responded thankfull for the rare kind words.

"Also," Ripred said now loud enough for poeple to hear. "You forgot this." He said lifting up Gregors hidden dagger, which had been left in the room.

"Aah." Gregor said taking the dagger. "I will make sure they serve double shrimp and cream sauce." He finished with a smirk. Within ten minutes Everyone was at the dinner table, including there guests from the fount.

"So Gregor." Stellovet piped up a little ways through. "I heard you threw a knife strait through a gnawers head a little bit ago."

"Yeah." Gregor responded. While Stellovet was usually rude, every once and a while she would be in a good mood. "Luxa was so surprised she had to inspect the gnawer itself to believe it." This apparently was not one of those times.

"Of course she waited till after it was dead to do anything." Gregor heard her whisper to her sibling, Chim.

"I'll have you know, she's killed more gnawers than me doubled." He said staring right at her.

"Yes, she's somewhat of an expert on gnawers. . . no many how many legs they have." Low blow Stellovet, low blow. He could see the look of thankfullness towards Gregor, morph into one of sadness, and anger on Luxa's face.

"Have you ever seen a rat Stellovet?" He asked glaring knives at her.

"I- wel- yes! I was as close to it as I am to you!" She exclaimed.

"But stelly," Chim chimed in. "That one had been dead for weeks."

Stellovet blushed, and whispered a quick, "Shush Chim!"

"That's about what i thought." Gregor said with a winning smirk, sitting on his new chair at the head of the table, next to Luxa. Speaking of Luxa,

"The journey should start tomorrow, with the attack on your sister," The princess said, at this point motioning towards Gregor. "I am afraid that there will be more."

"I agree." He responded, dreading every bit of the thought. "Can you remind me who's coming?"

"Of course; You, Boots, Mareth, Twitchtip, Howard, Temp, and the respective fliers." Luxa paused for a second. "Of coruse I'm not allowed to go since ' i'm the Queen ' and ' It's to dangerous for a lady like me.' "

At this Gregor leaned over and whispered in the Princess's ear; "Try not to make me wait to long." with a wink, and a smirk. Luxa smirked at how well her boyfriend new her.

After a long dinner Gregor and Luxa walked back to the royal chambers. With a quick kiss goodnight, Gregor walked into his room and went to bed, exhausted from the long day. . . . . . . .

Gregor awoke to a sound, Luxa, she was crying. He jumped out of bed and rushed to her room to see her lying in her elegant bed, pale, and shaking. "Luxa, Luxa." He said, gently shaking her awake.

"Gregor?" She asked, eyes wide and terrified. "Oh, it was horrible! It- and you- and then-." She burst into a fit of sobs, at the last word.

"Shh, shh, its okay. I'm here now, don't worry." He whispered, climbing into her bed and embracing her.

"Please- don't leave." she whimpered.

"Don't worry, I'm not going anywhere." He whispered. "Goodnight Lux, I love you." he said the last to words without an effort.

"Goodnight sweetie, I love you." After a few minutes they both dozed of to sleep, content with each other by there side. . .

"Gregor! Get out of Luxa's bed!" Gregor awoke to the soumd of Howard screaming.

"Huh?" Gregor murmured, sitting up and rubbing his eyes, Luxa mirroring his action.

"Get out of her bed! How dare you do such a thing! The penalty for such actions is exacution!"

"Howard! We didn't do anything!" Gregor yelled, annoyed.

"Huh?" Howard asked, confused.

"I had a nightmare, i didn't want to be alone." Luxa whispered, ashamed at having to show her vulnerable side.

"Oh. . . " Howard said, his face flushing furiously. "I- wel- I'm sorry for intruding. . . I. . ." He quickly walked out of the room, extremly embarrassed.

"Well." Luxa said. "I'm awake." After sighing, they both got up and walked to breakfast, flustered from Howard's actions.

"So. . . When are we leaving?" Gregor asked, breaking the silence.

"Well, we leave mid day but. . . I've been meaning to talk to you about something. . ."

"What is it?" He asked, sensing the seriousness in her voice.

"Gregor. . . If I don't make it through this journey," She saw Gregor about to reject, but cut him off. "Please Gregor, I need this." Recieving a nod from Gregor. "If I don't make it through this journey. . . I need you to promise to me that you'll be the best king you can be for this city." Gregor saw that she was more pleading him than anything.

"Of course, I promise. But that won't happen, I won't let it, I promise that, as well." Luxa smiled.

"Thank you." She responded, seeming like she had just had a million pounds lifted off her shoulders. At that moment Gregor swore to himself that if it came down to it, he would save her life over anyone's. If it came down to it, he would protect her life with everything he had, and if anything happend to her on this quest, he would never forgive himself.

"Ah! Gregor, Luxa! Welcome!" Vikis exlcaimed as they walked in.

"Good morning, Vikus." They said in unison.

"Are you ready to depart?" He asked, trying (as always) to seem hopefull.

"As ready as I'll ever be." Gregor responded, stuffing his mouth with food.

After a hardy brealfast, Gregor went to the museum, walking down the hall with his camera bouncing around his neck. When arriving, Gregor found a stack of flashlights he'd put together, and got them, plus a bunch of batteries. While Gregor had learned echolocation over the last year, (It only took Ripred locking him in the dungeon for him to learn it.) he still didn't go on any long trips without light. It was as valuable as. . . well, light. So after grabbing that, some parchment, a pen, (incase he knew he wasn't going to make it, and wanted to write something to someone) two Root beers, two Sprites, and two lifejackets, he set off.

Making it to the docks, he saw two big boats bobbing up and down in the water. "Are you ready Gregor?" Vikus asked.

"Yeah Vikis, I'm ready." He was ready. He was ready to find this thing. And when he did, he would chop it's bloody head off.

Well that's the end of part one. Please rate and review, you really have no idea how much a review can motivate me to write. Hopefully you noticed the better Grammer/spelling in this story, i really pushed myself to write better. Also, i do plan on correcting the mistakes in the first book eventually, since it was, well to put it blunt, horrible. Anyways, thanks for reading, goodbye and God bless.