This is my first fanfiction so please go easy on it. If you like the story I'll keep chapters coming. If not keep it to yourself, please don't hate on it. If you find any errors, whether it be spelling, grammar or anything else please just let me know. I've been reading many of the fanfictions on this site but I just wanted to add my own to them.
Disclaimer: I do not own the Underland Chronicles or any of the characters, save the ones that I will be adding. Both the Underland Chronicles and the characters within belong to Suzanne Collins.
-Ssi
"Gregor?" he heard again, breaking Gregor out from his stupor. "Gregor, what do you think?" Zoey said.
"Sounds good," Gregor replied.
"And I'm going to guess you have no idea whatsoever to what you just agreed to, am I right?" Kyle laughed.
Gregor's expression alone was all it took to tell his friends that he had not the slightest clue as to what was going on. It had been just over a week since Zoey had joined their group and in that time she and Kyle had made it their self-assigned job to push Gregor out from behind his anti-social shield.
"Perfect, then I'll see you at 7?" Zoey smiled as she stood up from the lunch table.
Gregor's conscious mind snapped back into reality, "Wait! What's happening at 7?" Zoey sighed as Kyle continued cracking up at his friend's short attention span.
"You said that we could go out to that new bowling alley on Maple?" Zoey asked slightly annoyed.
Gregor didn't like where this was going, "you and me?"
"…and Kyle," Zoey corrected him as Gregor noticeably exhaled.
"I'm sorry, but I-uh have to do work on the farm this evening, rain check?" Gregor tried to weasel himself out of the social event.
"Nope, nice try, I already asked your dad this morning if you were free tonight and he said yes!" Zoey said smirking at her own genius. "Besides you already said yes and you're driving because Kyle's too stubborn to go back to the DMV and apologies for spilling coffee on that poor instructor."
"Jez, it's not like I murdered someone, the guy ran into me, it's not my fault." Kyle protested, "and even if it was, that's not a very good reason to revoke someone's license!"
"Well good reason or not, it happened, and my parents are using the car tonight so that leaves you, Gregor," Zoey said looking back towards him.
Trapped against a Zoey and a hard place, Gregor had no choice but to comply with the evening of high school society norms that his friends had ingeniously prepared for him. "fine fine, you said 7?" Gregor said.
"Yepp, I'll meet you at your place then we can go pick up Kyle," Zoey grinned at them before she turned to depart. "See you two on the bus!"
By the time school got out Gregor was actually beginning to warm up to the idea of going bowling. He hadn't bowled in years, not since a small gym unit back in jr. high. Gregor knew he wasn't very good at it but still he couldn't help but get a bit excited for it. Was it excitement or just anxiety? Gregor thought to himself as he and Zoey got off the bus and went their separate ways back to their houses.
After getting Keela out for a run and finishing his homework Gregor took a cold shower and started to get dressed up for the evening. Gregor put on a pair of jeans and his steel toed work boots. He sifted through a couple drawers of shirts, all of which were long sleeved. He eventually just decided on a plain black shirt with some random foreign logo on it and a brown hoodie.
At a quarter until seven Gregor walked downstairs and nearly bumped into his uncle on the bottom of the stairs.
"Hey, George, have you seen my dad?" Gregor asked his uncle.
"Not yet," he responded, "but I did just get home, do you need something?"
"I was going to go hang out with some friends and I wanted to ask him if I could borrow his car," Gregor said.
"Ah," George nodded. Reaching into his pocket Gregor's uncle pulled out a small key chain with a single key on it and tossed it to Gregor, "that's to the Chevy in the barn, have fun."
"Really?" Gregor hesitated.
"Why not?" George smiled as he turned to walk up the stairs. "If I smell any alcohol in that car when you get back, we'll have some words, got that?" He said as he climbed the stairs.
Gregor grinned, "of course," he called out as he walked out to the barn.
Opening up the barn Gregor revealed an old, partially rusted Chevy pickup with a benched front seat and a flatbed in the back. This was the car that Gregor's father and uncle had both learned to drive in. As of late he only ever saw his uncle use it to move some hey and farm equipment around maybe once or twice a year.
Gregor opened the door and sat on the leather bench as he buckled the strap around his waist. Closing the door, Gregor inserted the key into the pickup and listened while the older engine hummed to life.
Gregor pulled out of the barn and turned off the car to lock the barn up behind him.
"You really expect me to get in THAT?" Zoey laughed as she walked up towards Gregor and the pickup. "That thing looks older than my grandfather."
"Well you asked me to drive, so this is what I'm driving," Gregor shot Zoey a glare; "if you want a Porsche next time I guess you'll have to drive."
"You're just too old fashioned, Gregor, first its old trucks, then carriages," Zoey joked, "next thing you know you'll be back to medieval times riding horses and trying to fight with swords."
"You have no idea," Gregor mumbled under his breath as he and Zoey got into the Chevy and started towards Kyle's house. "So what's the name of this new bowling place? I haven't heard about it yet."
"Oh," Zoey stammered, "I don't remember, but its right next to the school on Maple Street."
"Zoey? What aren't you telling me?" Gregor questioned.
"Nothing," she said in an innocent voice, "I would never lie to you," she smiled mischievously.
Gregor sighed, "There's no new bowling place is there?"
"Gregor! Would I lie to you about something like that?" Zoey asked in an overly dramatic voice.
"I get the feeling that the answer to that question is 'yes'," Gregor stated annoyed as they pulled up to Kyle's driveway.
Zoey scooted in closer to Gregor to make room as Kyle climbed into the car next to her.
"So did you know that there isn't a new bowling place?" Gregor asked Kyle as he was buckling in.
"Please, you're the only one in school that could've been tricked into thinking that, when's the last time you did anything in town besides go to school?" Kyle didn't even wait for a response to continue, "Exactly! You have no clue what's new and what's nonexistent in your own town."
"Fine, I get it I don't pay attention to social stuff, so where are we really going than?" Gregor gave up fighting them.
"We're taking you to your first football game!" Zoey cheered and wrapped her arm around Gregor's as he scowled.
Oh great! Gregor thought, just as I was looking forward to getting out of the house, this is what I get.
In less than a half hour Gregor, Kyle and Zoey were sitting in a giant crowd of high school students screaming and shouting as they watched the kids on the field barrel into one another like a bunch of barbarians.
Gregor sat through the entire game without so much as a single good thought as to how the evening was going. When it had finally ended Gregor immediately pulled his friends away as quickly as he could and started towards the pickup.
Gregor reached into his pocket for the key and as he pulled it out he felt his wallet slip out and fall to the ground. Gregor was about to pick it back up when someone else reached it first. At first Gregor thought it was Kyle but quickly realized the person who picked it up was wearing a football jersey.
Seth was standing in front of Gregor and his friends holding Gregor's wallet in his hands. Behind Seth was three of his posse from the football team.
Gregor held out his hand, "give me back my wallet, Seth."
"Or what?" the senior said with a sneer.
"Just give him the wallet back," Zoey said from behind Gregor.
"Why?" asked the bully as he opened the wallet and started to pull out the money from inside it.
"You really don't want this to get physical, man," Kyle tried to act tough from Gregor's side.
"Just give it back, Seth." Gregor repeated.
"Or what?" Seth said dropping Gregor's money on the ground "Is this going to get physical?" he snickered.
"No just hand it over." Gregor held his ground.
Then Gregor saw it. Seth's fingers gripped the folded up photo and removed it from Gregor's wallet. Gregor moved faster than anyone in the small crowd could've thought possible. Before Seth could unfold the picture Gregor grabbed his wrists and twisted.
The senior dropped to his knees as he released the photo and wallet. The sole of Gregor's boot made contact with Seth's chest and pushed him to his back on the ground. The rest of Seth's posse jumped into the action and came at Gregor from all directions.
Dipping under the first punch from the kid on his left Gregor grabbed his arm and pushed down on his shoulder as he passed forcing him to bow. Immediately the first kid was redirected into the gut of one of the kids on Gregor's right. Blocking the second blow Gregor retaliated on the third of Seth's group and knocked him to the ground with a single quick blow with his knee to the soft side of his thigh. At this point in time Seth was back on his feet charging at Gregor. Seth swung his arm for the punch and met with Gregor's arm blocking it. Twice more Seth tried to punch Gregor and each were just as easily blocked. Finally Seth tried to charge his shoulder into Gregor chest after the third block. However Gregor had seen it coming a mile away.
Gregor spun around Seth's side as the bully tripped over his own move and fell face first into the asphalt. Standing up straight Gregor looked at the four kids laying on the ground, one was laying on his side grabbing his stomach, another holding his leg, and two were passed out. Without a single scratch on Gregor he had single handedly taken out all four of them without giving them any more than a bruise, or in Seth's case maybe a bloody nose.
Gregor walked over and kneeled down to carefully pick up the photo that lay on the ground of the parking lot.
Chapter 5 ladies and gents. Story is beginning to pick up now that we've had a little bit of character development. I hope you all enjoy it. Please rate and review. Any and all feedback is welcomed
-Ssi
