Hows it going my peoples? So I'm back. I hope you enjoy this chapter. This is the chapter where Gregor will finally go back to the Underland! Yay!
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Song of the Day: Wolf Drawn - Emancipator
Ch 2: New Beginnings
Gregor just sat there with his sisters...devastated over everything lost in such a short time.
Until his phone rang. It was Anya.
"Hey Gregor..." her voice was trembling.
"Anya...Whats wrong..."
"I...I don't wanna talk about it...Can I...stay with you for a while?"
"Anya...what happened?"
"I'll tell you later...so can we?"
"I'm leaving Anya. There's nothing left for me here. I'm taking my sisters too."
"Where are you going?" Anya sounded even more panicked than before like the thought of losing something else terrified her.
"...Its a place that I like a hell of a lot more than here."
"Can I come?"
"Wait what?"
"Everyone's gone Gregor...you're all I have left. Can I come with you?"
"...Sure...I guess but... Just come to the Laundry room in my apartment."
" The Laundry Room?"
"Yeah, just don't ask." With that he hung up the call.
He went over to Lizzie and cradled the two crying girls in his arms. Boots was asleep. Thank the lord.
"Lizzie...are you alright?"
"Gregor. I don't understand. Why doesn't life want us to be happy?"
"Sometimes the world is a crueler place than we realize. Maybe Ripred will be more consolation than I. I'm sorry Lizzie."
Lizzie just cradled her head in her lap and waited.
Gregor had gotten up and brought his fathers limp body over to the laundry room. At Lizzie's shocked and trembling demeanor he reassured her that he was just unconscious. But seeing your father without an arm could only be fixed by so much consolation.
She had already suffered so much.
Gregor wanted to go up to Ms. Cormaci. There were few people who could act as a guardian angel to his sisters now other than Ms. Cormaci. But he wasnt about to leave Lizzie alone with an unconscious father, Boots, and 3 corpses. Why was Anya taking so long?
When Anya walked in with Callaway limping against her, Gregor couldn't help but feel a twinge of anger. He had been waiting so long so she could go get him.
"Anya wait here. I need to go find someone"
"Gregor..." The reaction was to the 3 corpses on the floor, one of them being his mothers.
"I don't want any pity...Just wait here with my sisters." He ran back up through the shambles of the building to Ms. Cormaci's apartment.
The door was busted open of course.
"Ms. Cormaci! Are you still here?" He looked through the house. The entire place had been torn to shreds but he saw no blood.
"Ms. Cormaci?! Are you okay?!" Gregor wanted to weep but no tears would come out.
"Gregor over here." Panted a voice from the closet.
"Ms. Cormaci?! he thurst open the doors of the closet to absolutely nothing.
"Under the floors. Get me out of here please!"
Gregor tried using all his strength to pull the floorboards up but they came up quite easily.
"How did you have this spot?" asked Gregor in shock.
"I used to store my son's old stuff in this compartment. The soldiers who ransacked the building didn't know that something like this could be here."
Gregor could almost cry in relief. Almost.
"Ms. Cormaci you need to come with me to the Underland. New York is no longer safe. Can you wait by my sisters and my friend in the laundry room?"
Ms. Cormaci didnt need to be told twice. She left without a word. He found it odd considering what a chatterbox she usually was.
He proceeded to sprint to his apartment to gather some supplies.
He took his Dad's North Face backpack which he had used for work. Much more durable than anything in the Underland. He took 4 bottles of water, 2 rolls of duct tape, a flashlight, 2 packs of new batteries. He made sure the picture he had with Luxa was still in his pocket as well.
When he got back to the laundry room he looked at everyone he had brought. Ms. Cormaci, Anya, Lizzie, and Boots. His father and Callaway were unconscious. The two men. Fantastic.
"Are you all ready to go?" No one responded. They were all in shock. Ms. Cormaci was staring at Grace's never moving form.
"Perhaps you could explain to us where first?" said Anya.
"Simple. The Underland."
"The what?"
"I cant explain it. Just drop into this vent." His ghost of a smile was all he could manage at the moment to reassure the girl. "Make sure you hold Callaway with you. It was you who wanted to bring him"
Anya looked at him as if he was crazy.
"Just trust him" said Lizzie. "I've been there before. Its better than here by a long shot."
"Well...okay...Ill trust you. But one of you go first."
"Ill go down first with Boots" said Lizzie.
As they went up to the vent they removed the flimsy cover and they dropped into the vent.
"See? Trust us."
"...Ok fine." Anya went up to the hole and she dropped into the vent. Except she screamed.
"Ms. Cormaci? Ready?"
"As ready as I'll ever be to go to such a place." She was shaking her head in disbelief at herself. Then she dropped down.
Gregor took one last look at his apartment building, his laundry room.
He didnt have enough strength to bring down his mothers corpse and his father. He bent down to give his mother a kiss on her cold cheek.
"I'm so sorry Mom." The sadness in his voice surprised even himself. He sounded dead inside. He looked at the two soldier corpses and decided it a good idea to take the pistols off of the two soldiers. He quickly pocketed the pistols and two refill magazines. You never know in the Underland after all.
He picked his father up and dropped down into the vent. His mothers face being the last thing he saw.
"Well goodbye, Overland" said Gregor as he closed his eyes.
When Gregor reached the bottom he looked around to no avail. He took out his flashlight to look for Lizzie, Anya, and Ms. Cormaci.
"Lizzie? Anya?"
"Over here dumb shit" He swerved around to find the voice and looked down only to see Anya clutching her Ankle.
"What happened?"
" What do you think happened! I sprained my Ankle while landing"
"...How? The currents are gentile."
"She tripped on a rock while landing so her leg twisted" said Lizzie.
"...Wow. Can you walk?"
"Dont give her that kind of sass Gregor!" said Ms. Cormaci making herself known.
"Yeah I think so. Where are we anyway" grumbled Anya.
"Welcome to, The Underland!" He said while sweeping his arms in a welcoming motion.
"Um Dude...This is a big rock."
"Uh yeah...Just follow me for a while. All of you."
"Ok..." She said while rolling her eyes.
It was rather easy for Lizzie and Anya to get tired considering they were carrying their own respective unconscious people. Gregor himself was tired carrying his limp father.
Gregor started walking the way he went the first time he ever came here. They were silent as they walked. However with nothing around them but darkness he could sense Anya start to tense up. His echolocation made it easy for him. The others however...
"Relax Anna, were almost there"
"Don't worry about it. I'm fine"
"Okay."
Suddenly as they took a turn a fiery light hit all of their eyes. Gregor kept on walking until he reached an arena. There was only one other person in the arena. He looked up to find a black streaked white bat with a tall, white haired boy riding it. He looked older than ever. Around 19 almost.
"Hey Howard!" Gregor screamed.
Howard looked down incredulously. "GREGOR?"
Nikes reactions was the same. "Gregor!"
Right as they flew straight into a rock wall.
"Ouch..."
And from behind him he heard. "Why the FUCK is that bat so FUCKING big?"
Ms. Cormaci and Lizzie looked at her with shock. And then burst out in snickers.
'Oh Anya...that's not that big.' thought Gregor.
TO BE CONTINUED -
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