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Chapter 7: Secrets

Gregor was frozen in shock. He didn't know what to do.

"Gregor" he hears his uncle call out.

"Yeah I'm here" he responds, still shocked.

"Are you ok" Gregor's uncle calls worriedly.

"Yeah" Gregor lied, he couldn't process everything.

"What are you doing" his uncle questioned.

Gregor was too shocked to notice that his voice was drawing closer and closer.

"Umm… nothing what I was looking for isn't here anymore." Gregor told him.

"How were you seeing without any light?" he asked but before Gregor could answer his uncle with Emma and Larry right behind him.

Gregor's uncle pointed his flashlight at where Gregor was standing and yelped in surprise.

He quickly moved the light and turned to Emma and Larry to tell them to go back but it was too late they had already seen it.

"Go back we'll be there in a sec." Gregor's uncle told them but there was no making them go back.

"No we deserve an explanation as well." Emma demanded.

"Pleases just go…" Gregor's uncle started.

"We aren't going anywhere." she said definitely.

"Ok fine." Gregor's uncle said defeated.

"Do you want to explain what this is?" Gregors uncle asked.

"No." Gregor said, still at a loss of words.

"Gregor you have to tell us what's going on, we need to know!" Emma exclaimed.

"Ok." Gregor sighed, "let's just get to 's apartment before I tell you guys."

"Ok." they all agreed.

They made their way back while Gregor stayed behind just a second longer.

"You coming?" his uncle asked.

"Yeah you guys go ahead I'll be right there." Gregor told him.

"Ok but don't go in any further I don't want to see something else like this." Gregor's uncle told him.

Little did he know right after that would lead them to The Underland.

Gregor stayed behind so he could search the body for any clues to what caused this or anything at all. Gregor was about to give up when his hand came across some weird texture on the man's skin. Gregor clicked very loudly to get a clear image of what it was and it was some sort of strange marking. Gregor burned what it looked like in his brain so he wouldn't forget. Next he went to the bat and clicked to get a clear image of it. He found the exact same marking on it.

Gregor couldn't find any other clues and decided to head back. What could have caused it is all Gregor could wonder.

Finally Gregor made it to the end of the tunnel where his friends and uncle were waiting on him.

"We were starting to get worried." Emma said.

"I'm here, let's get going before it gets too dark." Gregor told them, not in a mood to talk.

Gregor pushed the rock up and made sure the coast was clear. When he was sure it was safe to go up he quickly pulled himself up and helped the rest of them get up before placing the rock back in its spot.

Gregor led them silently to his apartment building lost in his thoughts.

When they finally reached there Gregor quickly made his way inside eager to talk to about what he discovered.

Gregor took the way up the stairs mindlessly from having gone up it so many times. He finally got to their floor and made his way down mindlessly. Gregor finally got to the door and immediately knocked.

"Coming" said except when she opened the door it wasn't .

"Umm... sorry wrong door" Gregor stuttered at a loss for words.

"It's fine." The lady said politely and closed the door.

How could this have happened, had moved? How had he been so dumb as to not phone and ask if she was still here. What were they goi…

"Gregor is that you?" He hears ask.

Is he imagining things? He looks around to see peeking her head from a doorway.

" ! I thought you moved or something. Why are you in this apartment?" Gregor yelled enthusiastically, relieved that still lived here.

"Gregor! Check which door you knocked on!" she told him.

Out of habit he had gone to his old apartment, not 's apartment.

"Oh" he realized. "I was so lost in my thoughts I didn't even realize."

"And who are these nice folks?" asked, noticing the 3 of them standing there.

"Nevermind that come in and then we can introduce ourselves." she told them.

So they all piled into 's apartment and started introducing themselves.

Once they were all introduced asked "I thought i'd never see you again Gregor, why are you here?"

"I have a band trip here so I thought I would come early to meet with you and take them around." Gregor replied.

"It's much more than a band trip now." Larry said speaking for the first time in a while.

"What does that mean?" asked worriedly.

"Umm.. well." Gregor started but his uncle interrupted.

"Are you sure you want to burden her with what we saw Gregor?" he asked him cautiously.

"It's fine she already knows about them she can handle it." Gregor told him.

"Gregor what's going on is there something wrong?" asked, getting increasingly worried.

"Yes there is, I went to the rock and went to just see get close, I had to I never know if I'd ever get the opportunity to. Not to go back but to just be close." he told her, his mind racing with thoughts and filing with emotion.

"Tell me what happened." whispered.

"While we were walking and got close to the end we saw a human and flier dead." Gregor breathed out not wanting it to be true.

gasped "What happened to them?"

"I don't know but they had some strange marking on them, both of them the exact same marking." he told her.

"What did it look like?" she questioned.

"Do you have a pen and paper? I memorized it, I can draw it." he said, still unable to process what has occurred.

So got up and got him a pen and paper and Gregor drew it.

"What is it?" she asked completely at a loss.

"I don't know…" Gregor started.

"Ok I think we need to know everything now before we go on, we're being left in the dark." Emma demanded furious.

"Yes it might be a while, get comfy." Gregor told them.

"Are you sure you want to tell them Gregor?" asked, wanting him to not regret his choice.

"They saw it they deserve to know." he said , determined to stop hiding his past.

"I guess they do." replied.

And so they all sat down with Gregero and sitting across from the 3 of them.

Gregor noticed that Emma was sitting next to Larry and was happy but that thought got disturbed when he had to start explaining everything.

And so the story begins.

Gregor explained everything, the fall, his first quest, all the details, he didn't miss a thing. THey all stayed quiet throughout it all. Gregor struggled through the hard parts like when he thought he lost Boots, when he thought he lost Luxa and when he lost Ares plus all the fighting he had to do.

Once he was through all of it they sat there processing all that they heard.

"So what's this Luxa girl to you?" Emma inquired.

"Umm... a friend." Gregor said not sure what they were anymore. He knew how he felt about her but he didn't know how she felt anymore. He knew if he saw her one more time he wouldn't leave her.

Gregor's uncle looked at him and knew that Luxa was much more than just a friend, he figured out she's the girl in the picture.

"Wow that was much different then I thought you were hiding from me." Gregor's uncle told him.

"So that claw is Ares's?" he asked respectfully.

"Y-Yes." Gregor said, choking just thinking about him.

"And all those scars are from all your battle's?"

"Yeah most have faded but the 5 I got from the Bane will never fade, they were too fatal."

"Can we see them?" Emma questioned softly.

"Are you sure they are pretty bad." Gregor sesponded, warning them.

"Yes I need to see if this is all real, it feels too unbelievable."

"Ok"

And with that Gregor lifted his shirt to show them the map of scars all of his chest.

All 3 of them gasped.

"None of those are close to gone Gregor, they aren't faded at all." Larry told him out of surprise.

"Yeah but they are a bit better then when I first got them." responded sadly.

"That was 3 years ago!" Larry exclaimed. "I don't think they will fade in a lifetime!"

"Maybe not" Greggor replied.

"So Gregor what are you going to do now?" inquired.

All 4 of them were staring at him waiting for his response.

He had said he wasn't going to go. He couldn't do that to his mother, but what if they needed his help? He couldn't turn his back on them, he couldn't turn his back on her. He was torn between what to do.

Gregor started "I'm going to…"

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