A Quick Note From the Author-

Hello there, Underland Chronicles Fanfiction page. It's me, TaylortheOverlander (Also known as Wafflesrocmyboxers, SuzanneFann, and now She Who Twirls Flags) It's been a long time. We've both found new loves, with my role-playing, original fictions, and colorguard, and your wonderful new authors, but I think we've both really grown... Oh! Haithere reader! I didn't mean for you to read my confession to the TUC Fanfiction page. Older members who were here during my reign of terror (I call it such because my fanfiction was such a terror; it was horrid) may remember a crappy little fic that just wouldn't go away, called Gregor and the Gliders, the sequel, which was never finished, was called Gregor and the Traitor's Daughter. It involved out of character canons, Mary-Sue's out the wazoo, and WAY too many Overlanders. That was about three or four years ago. I always promised myself and my hardcore newbie gang (Chris, Allie, Alyssa, and Nike) to go back and rewrite it. I never got around to it until around a year ago, when I found my old Underland Chronicles books. I just had this urge to write it over.

I didn't take off and just start writing like I did with the original. I knew I had improved in that year or so, and I had better writing techniques. So I started planning. I wrote out my ideas, scrapped most of them, and I settled on one thing: I wanted Gregor to go back to the Underland. It was something I had decided when I started writing my crap right after I discovered fanfiction and read the last book. Secondly, I wanted it to be better written and I wanted the characters to be in character. And finally, I wanted the Land of Laun to be the subject of the plot. It was the original, main plot for my story. So I started. I wrote out a whole outline, improved that, and rewrote and rewrote outlines until I liked it. And then I started writing. Right now, I believe it's vastly better than the immature fifth grade creation it was born from, written by a girl with a need to satisfy everyone else, a girl who took too much input from her nerdy neighbor and literature oblivious friends.

Please, just because it's written by the same nobody from nowheresville (who butchered the Hell out of TUC with her fics) and the fact that it has a similar title disway you from reading this. It's still crappy and still needs to be rewritten, but it's better... it's getting there. Aside from the fact that it is an insanely different story with a very different feel to it, here are some of the changes.

Changes:

-Majority of Overlanders Omitted
Mia, Ash, Taylor, Hunter, Aaron, and Tyler are gone. I originally didn't plan on any of them, but just a schoolyard enemy of Gregor's who followed him to the Underland and was going to be manipulated into fighting for a gnawer uprising. The others were added in there when I let a few of my friends hijack my writing. They're gone now.

-The OOCness and EXTREME FLUFFINESS
Luxa will actually be the stubborn, rebellious queen she is, rather than a character I shove off to the side until it's time for fluffiness. The story doesn't suffer from EFD (Extreme Fluffiness Disorder) anymore and all will not be well in the world of relationships. This is [should] be a more developed plot where characters are actually behaving like themselves, and hopefully you won't be feeling in the dark halfway through the story, trying to hunt down the plot.

-No More Gliders
Where did the Gliders go? I don't know... (Yes I do) I omitted them, of course. They didn't have a place in the story anymore and I wanted to return to the original idea of the secondary land for Regalians, should anything happen to their city.

-The Land of Laun
This is now the central plot of the story, so I don't want to reveal too much. Just know that there is still a prophecy about it (no longer written by Nerissa) and the journey to find it.

-Others
Natives will have a larger roll
Wolves are gone
Other races included, but have lesser roles
One Overlander OC
A few Underlander OCs
And an insane amount of other changes

A Quick Thanks To...

Ari from TUC Forums, for helping me with my writing and never losing your patience with me and always explaining things to me
Saph from the TUC Forums, for not coming to her senses and banning me from the TUC forums and giving me encouragement to improve
Aya from TUC Forums, for giving advice
Dem from TUC Forums, for helping me and showing me what an insanely ignorant person I was
Chris, Alyssa and Nike, for being my hardcore newbs and loving my crap to death
Everyone else from the TUC forums and FFN
And Allie, FOR BEING MY AWESOME BETA!

Now, continue on the Chapter 1...