The Return Of the Warrior

by Cobrakab

Gregor returns to the underland after six years leaving Luxa behind but what will he find? and will Luxa love someone else will anyone remember him? FInd out here also their is something wrong with time but what? can Gregor fix this mess or will time collapse

19. War on the brink 5,000 words

The Future- or something

In the world There are many questions that exist for example What are the Scales? Well they are an old type of creature legend tells that they come from earth. Although this can not be confirmed because nothing like them has ever been recorded in the New Earth Chronicles which is a library of all the content from Vorlex back to old earth. Also new earth is a nickname for Vorlex. Vorlex had taken a lot of damage since the war had begun only a few days ago. Regalia had survived though since it was surrounded by multiple rockets that were designed especially to shoot down enemy fire. Regalia was also surrounded by force fields that were the strongest that the earth republic owned. Who would win this war though? Would the galaxy ever see peace again? Will the universe ever see peace again? Who knows *Jk I do but no spoilers :(

The Future-

There was a constant buzzing on the ship. People were shouting at each other often. There was also a continuous clatter and clank of tools. People were repairing the holes in the ship. The gravity field kept everyone from falling out into space and the air bubble around the ship kept the air in so all was good. The shield generators were also active in case of another attack which was most likely imminent. Captain Helen was on the command deck controlling the warship. As she was working on her tablet in her command chair something came out of a worm hole. "Somethings coming from out of the wormhole Captain!" One of the staff on deck reported. "On screen" Captain Helen replied. The staff turned to the screen. The thing was massive it had multiple ports it also had a big shield generator. "Dear God... it's Scepter 2" Helen said in shock. Scepter two was a fully armed battle station. It had enough room four sixteen Heavy warships and two Star sweepers which were even bigger warships built to send out thousands of fighters. The station was burning. The staff all gasped in fear. The shield generators were destroyed and the only two heavy warships on the battle station were on fire as well. The station looked as if someone had hit it with a bat. The observation dome at the top was shattered. The can like station was truly a disturbing sight to see as it would be hard to do this much damage to it and for another thing the station didn't have a way to jump into wormholes like that. "Any life signs on it?" Helen said in a hopeful voice. "None...they...they are all gone...Captain" said the distressed chief scanner. Helen was deeply saddened by the loss a lot of the crew had known people who had been on Scepter 2. Helen had lost some old friends and it made her angry but she knew that she had to stay cool. She sighed in some relief that her old friend who was an admiral of lower rank than her father who was a supreme admiral which was the second highest rank in the ER forces. Her dad was not always nice to her but he was still her dad he treated her nice in the way that she was his daughter by giving her gifts on her birthday and treating her good in most situations except when it came to their work. Her dad was serving in the ER forces just like Helen was. He had been serving since before she was born. She was his only child so he wanted her to follow in his footsteps which he had signed her up for military academy which she graduated with high honors due to her father forcing her to study and train constantly. That's how she had ranked up to captain in only five years. She was still young she was only twenty eight. Her father was proud that she was a Captain. Helen sometimes ignores her father when he tried to get something but became annoyed when he tried to use his status of Admiral to get something from her. Helen love her father and all but she missed her mother who had died when she was four and barely old enough to remember her. Helen felt that if she had not died maybe she wouldn't be here in this mess fighting a war that she had not expected. Than again she felt proud to serve her country and she had good judgment and she was glad that she could try and save lives by protecting them from the Scales.

Regalia-

Gregor had gotten to his room the room that they had given him. He realized that it was the same one he has always gotten. One thing that shocked him was the sword that was laying by his bed. It was the sword he had destroyed the one that had killed the warrior it was Sandwhich's sword. Gregor looked at it in hate but at the same time he also felt drawn toward it. Luxa stood in the doorway and she said "we found your sword after the battle of the bane as we call it but others call it the battle of the warrior" Luxa explained. "Thanks I may need it if all the things you are telling me are true." "They are they will be coming soon now get your rest or else you will be tired tomorrow." Gregor slept deeply and so did Lizzie who was given her own room. Gregor dreamt once again about Ares. The big black bat had been Gregor's friend and non matter how many times he thought about the fact that Ares wanted Gregor to live and wanted to die in Gregor's place Gregor's mind always drifted back to the prophecy that said that Gregor was going to die. It was the warrior that was supposed to die not Ares. Gregor knew that he was supposed to die. The fact that Ares had died and not him made him angry. He also dreamt about the Bane the big white rat that he had saved when it was only a pup but soon it was twisted into a monster by the trickster Twirl tongue. Although Gregor always had the feeling that Ares was alive although it was just a feeling but maybe just maybe Ares was alive somewhere. Gregor knew that he should not be angry and that Ares was always with him in his heart but he could not shake the feeling that he was meant to die and that's all there was to say. In a way Ares had been a sort of mentor to Gregor even though they had not talked very much. When Gregor had returned to the Underland the first time for the prophecy of the bane Gregor had demanded things of Ares and interrupted him many times which Ares responded by throwing Gregor to the ground and teaching him to respect Ares and not be selfish and unkind just as Henry had been. A pang of anger swept through Gregor when he thought of Henry, Luxa's traitorous cousin. Henry had been convinced that if he joined the Rats led by king Gorger who sounds like Gregor which had somehow helped the codebreakers break the code of claw he would become a hero and that he would rule over the humans which made both Luxa and Gregor mad that he had betrayed them to Gorger. Luxa never talked about Henry very often because she hated him and thoughts of him still angered her to the point where if anyone mentioned Henry she would shoot them a mean looking glare and sometimes storm out of the room to go brood in some dark part of the castle. Ares had taught Gregor to be kinder and respect everyone for their opinions he had also shown Gregor what it meant to truly be loyal as Ares was very loyal to Gregor and he had offered to die in Gregor's place when they were arrested fore treason after they failed to kill the bane which made lots of people turn against Gregor and it made even more people hate Ares who was always mistreated by most bats and humans alike. Gregor felt anger towards the people and the bats who had mistreated Ares because he knew it was not fair for them to abuse Ares like they did because Henry had betrayed them he knew that Ares shouldn't have been punished because of some stupid rule and that they should have made an honorary pardon. Ares had saved the warrior of he had not been there than Gregor would be dead. Gregor's status of warrior should have excused him because he knew that most Regalian's respected him because of the services he had done them all but sadly it did not which disappointed him deeply. Gregor woke up once during the night and he lay thinking about what Luxa had told him. Gregor knew he did not want to join another war but he was already a veteran and he knew that it was only right to fight, "I will fight to protect the innocent people who live here the Cutters will not hurt them as long as I am here!" Gregor pledged to himself.

A cave-

Somewhere a distance from Regalia was a decent sized cave that was hidden in a gulf. A creature that was big resided in the cave. The cave was wet. Darkness loomed everywhere like fog it surrounded everything. It was a cave that most humans and bats didn't know about so there was no light. Inside a big bat that had fur as dark as night itself hung around. The bat has been lost for a long time. The bat who's name was Ares had fought in the war. The biggest war that the underland had ever seen the war between the rats and the humans along with the bats and their other allies. It was very lucky that Ares had survived the battle with the bane. Ares fought along with Gregor trying to end the Bane. The bane had injured Ares really badly. The bane had ripped out Ares's throat he could remember it happening before he fell to the ground and he had passed out for a long time. When he had awoken he was confused and he had his throat which for some reason felt brand new. His claw also felt like it was new. "But I should be dead" Ares had said to himself. He had also awoken to an unpleasant surprise where he found the dead Bane's rotting corpse on the ground near him. Ares had flown off to a nearby cave which he decided to try and recover. His echo location had also been impaired so he depended on the humans torches which had been left in the cavern. He found a source of food and he had stayed there for a while. He kept on trying to use his echo location he would practice often and it would slowly get better until he could see more than a few feet which had been a while ago and than he had come here. He knew the cave was somewhere near Regalia but he didn't know where exactly it was. He had also practiced in that cave as well which also helped repair his echo location. He had stayed in the cave until this day which he had finally recovered his echo location. "Home I know where Regalia is now" Ares squeaked to himself. Ares had taken off towards Regalia which was a day's flight from his cave.

The Jungle-

In the cutters lair many cutters were gathering. The cutters had massive numbers ready for the assault on Regalia they also had divisions ready to invade the Rats and the Crawlers and after that the Diggers, Spinners and Flyers. The Cutters had done all of this to please their Queen who ordered it. The Cutters knew that the warrior was in Regalia due to spies placed at the far end of Regalia. The spies reported that a bunch of crawlers had came to Regalia with a few people which could only mean that the warrior was there in Regalia. The Cutters were rallying their troops. They had grown powerful and they would not be driven back. They had made troop transport machines based off of the transports that the Regalian's had invented to to a sudden age of innovation in Regalia. The Cutters would move out when the time was right but now it was time for the pep rally. "Ladies and Gentleants the time is now and the time is right tomorrow we march towards the humans and Regalia!" The speaker ant announced. There were thousands of cheers coming from the crowd that gathered there perhaps even millions of cheers. "For the Queen tomorrow we rid ourselves of the Killers and then the rest of their allies for victory!" The announcer yelled. There were many shouts and cheers and snapping of mandibles. The Cutters had taken the anger of their own and were using it to fuel their war machine. This time the cutters would not be denied. "We will destroy everyone and than the Rats!" The announcer continued. "We all know the Rats smell and they are greedy and foul creatures we cannot Stand them any more it's time we teach the greedy creatures who's boss!" The announcer said. To this there were even more cheers. "And the spinners they catch us in their webs and they eat us alive are we to ignore this or will we stand up and fight back?" We will fight back we will fight for the Queen" the ant crowed chanted. "We are not cowards if they don't want to fight us than we will bring the fight to them and they will suffer just as we have" the announcer said. "We are not cowards we are not cowards we are not cowards" came the chants one again. "And the diggers they dig into our territories and they annoy us with their holes I can't stand them they cover our lands and now it's time to send them to the place they come from!" The rally finally ended after a long time and all of the ants were satisfied with their cheers. The war machine was coming and so was the war it was only a matter of time before all hell broke loose. The Cutters hated every creature in the Underland it was hard to believe that a creature could have such anger and hatred towards many other creatures. The Cutters had become things that were perhaps no better than monsters if even that but they had become evil and they were almost like the devil himself.

The Rats land-

The rat who had been hiding in the cave had heard it all. He scurried off to tell the other Rats. The rally had scared him because he didn't want to die and he would not die to those Cutters. It seemed to Perevil the rat who had been listening to the rally that the cutters seemed like they were were even more hateful than the Rats if that was even possible. The rat ran at a pace that seemed hard even for a rat. He quickly ran to his fellow rats and told them the news. "Is that so?" Said the rat named Forsake. "Well it's time to teach them a lesson they will never forget!" He said gnashing his teeth together. "Perevil inform the humans about the threat this time we will fight as their allies and not their enemies but it doesn't mean that we will like them" Forsake said. Perevil scurried off to tell the humans or the killers whatever you prefer. Perevil travels throughout the lands that the Rats called their home it was a dark and miserable place the humans had given them some nicer land so they could get along better and some Rats had moved their but others would rather stay in the darkness and disappear rather than accept human help which was a small amount. Most rats had forgiven the humans and were on better terms but not on the BFF terms with the humans most rats still retained some dislike of humans. Perevil weaved his way through his homeland and eventually he got to the far border of the humans land he dived in to tell the humans what was coming.

Regalia-

Most of Regalia was asleep. Nothing was going on so the Regalians slept like logs they also slept for the moment in relative peace. Luxa was sound asleep. Gregor was sound asleep. They were about to get a rude awakening call by the Rats. Although a certain Rat named Ripred was on patrol and he noticed the Rat closing in to Regalia. Ripred climbed down the wall to meet him. "Ripred they are coming for us all!" Perevil said frantically. "Who?" Ripred said. "The Cutters they are coming for all of us, the humans, spinners, diggers, nibblers, crawlers,flyers I heard them at a rally they are marching to Regalia today!" Perevil said. "Alright calm down I will tell Luxa the situation meanwhile you ready the Rats and I will have a messenger send a note to all of the other Underlander creatures informing them of this war." Ripred said. Ripred ran to the Royal quarters where Luxa and Hazard slept. He knocked on the door. Luxa opened the door a minute later. "What's going on?" Luxa said "The Cutters are coming but not for the warrior they are coming to destroy most of the other Underland creatures except for the stingers which have their own land and the twisters who they care nothing about" Ripred explained. "All right I will rally my troops I assume you have already told the Rats?" Luxa said "Yes I have and they are willing to ally themselves with us" Ripred said. "Good please don't wake Gregor we will need two ragers in order to hold them away from Regalia" Luxa told him. "Alright I will also send word to the other Underland nations" Ripred set off to do his duties and Luxa got dressed to do her own things. Luxa first went to the war room where only a few people resided since there was no current war. Luxa told them the situation and they rushed to go wake officers and soldiers to tell them what was on the horizon and they all spread the word to everyone else which put Regalia on high alert which Luxa wanted to avoid but it was most likely was unavoidable.

The Kingdom of the Bats-

A bat flew into the massive cave where a bunch of bats were resting. The bat went immediately to the Queen. "Your highness we have disturbing news from the humans they are going to be attacked by the Cutters the Rats have allied with the humans they also know that we will be attacked by the Cutters soon after and than all of the other Underland creatures!" Leo the bat said. "Tell them we will fight on their side and we will help protect the others!" Queen Athena told him. As soon as he left she started rallying the bats to her cause. The bats were all loyal to their Queen and they would fight the Cutters off. The Queen went down a long passage way to her cave. In the cave was some food and a statue of past kings and queens and also heroes of the bats. There was a small statue of Ares and another one of Thalia. Even though many people still distrusted Ares when he died *cough cough* they still did not like him because they thought he was a traitor still since the prophecy of Bane Queen Athena still insisted that he deserved a statue. Obviously bats could not make statues because they have claws the humans made them which made most of the Underlanders wishing they could make statues. Thalia was there because it was a great sadness that Thalia has failed to come back from the canyon when Gregor, Luxa, Howard, Hazard, Boots, Ares, Nike, Thalia, and Aurora Went to try and find out what in the world was happening to the nibblers. They had also found Ripred on the verge of death literally! Queen Athena knew that she would need to do the best she could do to protect her fellow bats. She took a minute to ready herself before they would fly out to Regalia.

Kingdom of the Crawlers-

Leo the bat flew into the Crawlers cavern. The place was wet. He could see many Crawlers walking around the place. The Crawlers did not seem to mind him much although some stopped to look at him. Leo knew that the Crawlers were not great fighters and he was not expecting them to fight with them although the knew that if he told them the Cutters would come for them than they would fight and they needed the Crawlers as allies because they were not great fighters but they would make up for that with their sheer numbers which was a lot. Leo flew into the King's court. King Arthur asked him why he was there. "I bring word from Regalia that the Cutters plan to attack Regalia and than they will advance on you and all the rest of the Underlanders if we work together we can drive them back and we can stop them from killing every last one of us" "think about it I will think about it I will" said King Arthur Who was only a little bit more intelligent than the most average of his cockroaches. He went into his chamber and came out a few minutes later with a war helmet and a few Crawler banners. "Join you I will Join you I will" King Arthur repeated. Leo nodded and left to go to the spinners next. The King started passing out banners to his subjects and the rest of the Crawlers started putting war helmets on and letting other Crawlers attach banners of the Crawler nation on their backs. "To war we go! To war we go!" The Crawlers chanted as their war cry.

The Kingdom of the Spinners

*lol I forgot what the Queen Spinners name is I'll just make something up I'll say the old Queen died or something also why does it seem like Queens rule the Underland their is like one King in the entire series*

The bat than flew into the kingdom of the spinners. The bat was getting nervous because he saw webs all over the place. He could see Spinners in their coves watching him closely. He saw some looks curious and others looked suspicious. The spinners slowly crawled out and they looked at him. The new Queen who's name is Daniel *lol there is a girl in my class named Daniel I used her name because I don't know a good name for a Queen* emerged from her lair. "What is it flyer?" The Queen said in a not very friendly voice because the Flyers and Spinners don't get along in the best way. "I bring word that the Cutters are going to attack your allies the humans and they are also going to attack you after we need your support to stop them or all of the Underlanders will die in a horrible death to the Cutters we cannot let this happen so I ask you for your help the Humans, Gnawers, Crawlers and Flyers have already become allies to stop them" Leo said. "Let me think about it I have a kingdom to manage" she talked to her advisors for a minute behind a spider silk curtain. They came out and Queen Daniel said "We will fight with you as allies in order to stop the cutters but may i ask how many Cutters there are?" "We do not know the exact number but somewhere in the thousands or possibly even the hundred thousand the point is they are dangerous and we need to stop them from destroying us all" "I understand my forces will be there when the battle begins I will begin readying my troops right now and spreading the word" Leo flew off going next to the nibblers who had gotten land in the fount as there permanent home along with the human sans since the last war with the Gnawers which was a good thing because it had allowed the nibblers to regrow their numbers which had made them a healthy race they were in better shape there were more of them. They had their own government and they had alliances with the Flyers and the Humans. The nibblers had come out as heroes of the war as they had fought bravely for their rights. They had risen to do great things in that short six years but they would be ready to defend their home Leo was sure of it.

The Fount Home of the Nibblers-

Leo flew into the nibblers home he was tired by now but he knew he had to keep going because Underlanders were relying on him. He immediately saw a few nibblers that were keeping watch just in case something came along. He exchanged conversation with the watch nibblers. They told him where he could find their leader. He went to a cave where he saw a circle of nibblers surrounding a bigger nibblers who appeared to be the leader. "Leader Switch I have urgent news that you need to hear it involves all of the Underlanders and the safety of every being in the Underland" Leo said. "What is it have the Gnawers declared war again?" Leader Switch asked. "No it's the Cutters they want to kill everyone in the Underland they are leading heir army to Regalia first and than to everyone else" Leo said. Leader Switch began to sweat and he appeared to be nervous from the news. "Who is already at war with them just you and the humans?" Switch asked nervously. "No we have formed an alliance with the Humans, Gnawers, Spinners, Crawlers, and us the Flyers" the leader spoke to the surrounding nibblers and said "we will fight with you and the others to protect my people and we will help all of the other allies to defeat this menace!" Switch said. The nibblers scurried off to tell their fellow nibblers they were at war. Leo flew off to his last destination the burrows also known as the home of the diggers.

The Burrows Home of the Diggers-

Leo flew on and on it seemed he was very tired from his flight and he was just about to drop but he knew he had to make it. He flew into a burrow were a massive digger stood guard protecting a hole behind him. "I need to speak with your leader about a war that had begun involving you" the digger grunted and lead him to his leader. Leo as a bat did not like being in holes in the ground. He had to do a sort of waddle to get across the dirt that laid on the floor of the diggers home. He saw diggers as he was waddling through the burrows. They were all around sniffing at him which Leo found very weird but he knew that's how they saw as they were moles and did not see very well if they could see at all. Some of the diggers backed away from him much to Leo's relief but some got closer to get another sniff. He finally reached the leader who's name he couldn't pronounce. His name was unbegunkpf probably the strangest name he had ever heard. Leo started explaining himself "I bring news to you that the Cutters plan to invade Regalia and then they will attack you and all of the other Underlanders we want you to ally with us we already have the Humans, Gnawers, Spinners, Nibblers, Crawlers and the Flyers as our alliance we want you to help us fight them" Leo explained. Unbegunkpf said "we will join you in your war expect us to be at Regalia when the fight starts I will spread war with the domain I control and we will push the Cutters back and make them pay for plotting against us. Leo waddled our of the cave and had more diggers sniffing him as he left. He felt awkward getting out of there but he rejoiced when he finally could fly out. Leo began his long journey back to Regalia.

The Future-

Captain Helen stood in the war room. The map of all of the Earth Republics land was showing. There were red, blue, green and yellow tiles on the map representing sectors of space. Sector 1 was red which meant that it was captured. Sector 2 was yellow which meant that it was under attack. Sector 3 was blue which meant it had not been attacked but was ready for an attack. Sector 4 was green which meant that it had been recaptured from the Scales and that the ER now had it in their possession. Sectors 5,6,7,8,9 were all red. Sectors 10, 11,12,13,15 were all yellow, Sectors 14,16,17,19 were all green. Sectors 18,20 were blue. The war was not looking good at all. An ally was fighting and old ally who was now the enemy who that ally was and how they had gotten to space was a question to be asked. A message appeared from an unknown source. "We have begun to fix what I have broken time will begin to fix " a female voice came. "Where was that coming from?" Helen asked. "It sounds like a woman but it came from an unknown source it appears to come from the... the past" the scanner told her. "The past... how far back?" Helen had heard of things like this happening but she had never thought them as true. "Almost a thousand years ago" the look on Helens face was indescribable. "A thousand years ago?" "Yes from earth" Joe reported.

Regalia-

All hell had broken loose in the past few hours. Troop transports had been filling up for a while. Canons were being placed on the balcony's. This would be the first modern war the Underland would see and it would be massive. Fortresses for archers were being set up. Spikes surrounding the walls were placed. Oil was being cooked for wall defense. Holes were being dug around the city. Trenches were being constructed. Generals in the war room were preparing themselves. Troops had been recalled to Regalia and just in time as the Cutters were marching towards Regalia at a quick pace. Spikes were being st up on the walls. Luxa finally went to wake Gregor up. She told him to get dressed fast and bring his sword to the armory. Gregor dressed and grabbed his sword and scabbard. Regalia was going to war and the allies were coming. This war was to be war like no other. This was the war to end all wars. This was the Great War. The Cutter war. The death walk war. The Cutters were strong and they were fighting against a massive alliance. Gregor rushed down to the armory where he found Luxa getting him some pitch black armor. "Here this looks like your size and your style at least from the last war" Luxa joked. "Yeah everyone found that armor hilarious." "Ah there is Vikus!" Luxa announced. "I have been studying for a solution all night there is no choice we have to fight" Vikus said disappointment was clear in his voice because he did not believe in war. "Solovet will command most of our armies but another will be commanded by none other than you!" Luxa said. "Me?" Gregor said shocked. "Yes you who else is here you are brave and worthy of command after all you have led us to victory before" Luxa said. "I will fight and we will win for justice!" Gregor said in a suddenly courageous and confident voice. "This is not the old Gregor he really has grown up he has become a true hero" Luxa thought "and he will surely lead us to victory"

Geez I have been writing for a while I sure hope this was a long chapter also I hope you like it War is at Regalia's doorstep but what will happen and what are the Scales? All will be revealed soon. Also make sure to listen to I'm sorry which is a song in the Death Cure soundtrack it sounds amazing it helped make this chapter awesome. Anyway peace out.✌️