Well, this is my first attempt at writing a fanfic for The Underland Chronicles. I hope you all enjoy it. Please review if you think it's good or if you have some advice/helpful criticism for me. Thanks!

Here is a basic disclaimer. Okay, obviously I do not own anything in The Underland Chronicles; they belong to their author respectively. I do not take credit for anything in this story except for the plot, and any characters that I may add to it.

Chapter One

"No! It wasn't my fault! I did everything I could!" Gregor yelled at the council.

"Gregor the Overlander, we find that you are to blame for the death of Queen Luxa, and therefore, we sentence you to death," was the response of one of the council women.

"But I'm telling you, there was nothing I could do!" yelled Gregor desperately.

"Overlander, calm yourself! There is no use in arguing anymore," replied the same council woman with a glare that chilled Gregor to the bone. "You are just worsening your position!"

With that, Gregor was taken away by two huge guards, dressed in armor. He felt the rager side of him flare up, but they had his arms and tied already and they were much bigger and stronger than him. He felt just like he had when Solovant's guards had taken him away to the dungeon as he was helplessly dragged to the edge of a cliff. At the edge he gave one last pleading look at his executioners before they ceremoniously threw him off. There he was, falling. Memories of jumping off the cliff when he killed King Gorger came flooding back. The horrible dread came flooding back. Without even thinking about it he shouted for Ares' name, but of course, they was no reply. Gregor's life flashed before his eyes and he knew that he was alone, with no one to help him. Alone, to plummet to his death.

Smack! Gregor quickly grabbed his face as he sat up on the floor of his room. His pajamas were soaked in sweat, or what he hoped was sweat (ha ha sorry had to add that) and he had fallen on his face the hardwood floor of his tiny room.

"Huh…. What? It…it was all a dream…. But, it was all so vivid. Oh, well."

It had been only about three months since Gregor had left the Underland. His parents decided to stay in New York, mostly because they knew that if they moved to Virginia, Gregor would lose the few friends he had left and probably never make more for a long time. Gregor's grandmother had died in the hospital about two months ago. He was sad to see her go, but he knew that she didn't have much to live for, since she would be bedridden for the rest of her life.

Gregor's parents sent him back to school as soon as they felt he was ready to return. Gregor just went through the classes without much thought, he barely passed pulling C's and C-'s. He practically had no social life; he would occasionally hang out with Larry and Angelina, his two best friends, when they invited him to something, trying not to be rude. But, other than that, he basically just kept to himself.

All of this time, his mind had been on one thing: the Underland. He just couldn't get it out of his mind. All of his friends there…. True friends, like Mareth, Vikus, Aurora, Nike, Howard, Nerissa, and of course...Luxa. She was Gregor's first and only love. She was constantly on his mind. He often wondered how she was holding up after the war. She was queen of the city of Regalia, well not quite queen. She would be queen when she turned sixteen, but even so, she was basically queen already with all the responsibilities they gave her since the council had died in the recently fought war.

Gregor would have done anything to go back to the Underland, but he knew that if he went down, his parents would find out. If they did, his mom would flip and then they would move to Virginia for sure. Still, Gregor couldn't help but pass by a certain rock in Central Park twice day on his way to and from school. That one special rock, where he said goodbye to his true love forever…or so he thought. Until one day, when he found a scroll shoved under a corner of it.

So tell me what you think of it so far! It's my first try and I'm completely making up this story as I go along, but if you people like it, I promise I'll finish it. I've looked a little ahead and some skeleton plots and I think that if this story turns out good enough, I will turn it into a trilogy. So please review and tell me what you think! And yes this is the revised version! So thank my beta ILikeAres! She rules.