Artemis flew for a long time and rested for a while and continued to fly. She had to push back the pain. She didn't know what had happened to X but she hoped somehow he had survived but it wasn't much to hope for as his situation was dire. He was probably dead. And it was her fault wasn't it? Or someone else's who knows. But she had a bad feeling that Cajet was responsible for his death. She knew it was Cajet she could tell with her echolocation and know she had to tell the Queen and the others about it but most importantly she had to keep the thing that X had given her safe. He was sacrificed for others to live or at least that's what most likely happened. Over the hours and days that she traveled she had taken the liberty of warning a few other creatures like the Crawlers, the Mice and even the rats. She had told them to send representatives to regalia and it was urgent that they meet. She had no idea where the diggers were and the flyers were some what near Regalia. She didn't warn the sliders as they probably didn't care and mainly lived in and around hades hall and the shiners lands. Now she neared Regalia now she neared the ones who would fight. As she touched down and into the palace she saw that Luxa was already at the top talking to Vikus about something. They both looked up to see Artemis making a swift landing. "Where is Gregor?" She asked them. "He is not here he went back to the surface for a bit. "Oh no" Artemis said he was the only one who knew what that device did and he wasn't here and that meant that she did not have any evidence to prove that Cajet was working with the ants. "What's wrong?" Luxa asked with concern. "It is Cajet, he played us all, me and X tracked him to the cutters land, he's started a war against us warmbloods" Luxa looked shock and with somewhat disbelief said "it can't be, he was so nice and kind" "is it possible that he was not the one you saw?" Vikus said grimly. "It was him" Luxa said. "He hasn't been seen in days" she said. "We just have to get Gregor" Artemis said. She showed them the device that X had left and said "we need him to figure out this thing" She said. "Well as far as Gregor has told us we all look strange in the over world which means in order to get him and not attract any attention we need a Overlander. They all thought of Hazard immediately.
They all went to go and get Hazard quickly because of the dire situation. "What is it?" Hazard asked as the three stared at him in anticipation he was just talking to a crawler friend. "We have a job for you" they said in unison.
Time, it's all that he had left was time. When the explosion went off his body was... well torn up real bad. While it had not been a big bomb it still did a lot of damage and even killed a few Cutters along with it. How than was Cajet still alive? Simple his sheer determination and his goals that he would not let go because of a minor or major injury, or the spinner silk keeping him together. Yes it was most likely that keeping him alive. His body aches so much and it hurt to even try and move. That stupid X what had he done to Cajet? Turned him into Frankenstein. At least in Cajet's shallow opinion. The truth is that even being blown up he still retained his good looks at least somewhat in the upper body. He wasn't going to lose the battle yet. He was not out and he wasn't done. "I'm coming for you" he growled in his cave thinking about his hatred for the Underlanders. He started doing push-ups trying his hardest to push back the incredible pain he was in. A lot of the cutters stared at him in shock, he was their leader now but they had never seen a human filled with so much Vigor, so much steeliness. It was almost as if he wasn't human in the first place. But he was right? No one ever said he was completely human. Cajet would push the pain back and bring his newfound anger in and become even stronger than he was. Cajet was a rager, ragers we're not all human, perhaps that is what fueled the fire burning within him. His rage. He had control over it but it was a bonfire now. At his peak before the explosion he would have been strong enough to take Ripred on easily and shred him to pieces with or without a sword. Gregor wasn't near that level surely. Gregor could be beat by Ripred even though just barely. And if Ripred was stronger than Gregor and Cajet was stronger than Ripred than that meant he could topple the great warrior or at least that was his mindset. Although Gregor and Ripred has never been in an all out fight and would probably never be so there was no way to powerscale them. Maybe it wasn't even power that they had it was all just rager ability but rager's had limits.
The war had technically not started yet. The ants were actually waiting until Cajet recovered because he would lead them to victory.
As Hazard stepped out of the cave and into Central Park he stared at the moon. He had never seen it before but he knew that it was beautiful. It was something special something he would probably never see again.
As Hazard stepped into the sunlight he was blinded by the sun. Not many people were around as it was a Sunday. Some people however stared at his weird clothes. He had no idea where to go but he was smart and could probably figure it out. Oddly he heard some people talking about a restaurant, whatever that was named Regalia. That's were he could go. It was at least something to help him find Gregor. He asked where to go and some teens a bit older than him led him to the restaurant kind of laughing at the squinting boy who looked like he hadn't seen the light in years. They kind of teased him a bit about his cloths but Hazard did not seem to notice. They found Regalia and Hazard went inside as the others left. He looked around the restaurant and did not see anything to really resembled Regalia, just a bunch of tables and chairs. "Can I help you?" An old looking woman asked. "I... um I am looking for a person named, Gregor" Hazard said. "Ah another friend of Gregor's I assume you come from the real Regalia?" She asked him. "Yes I come from the Underland, who are you?" He asked curiously. "I am Gregor's friend as well my name is Cormaci" ah so this was the famous Cormaci. She was of legend mainly from Ripred about her cooking but legend nonetheless. "I'll get someone to find Gregor he is somewhere here in the meantime I'll get you some food" said.
Cajet rose from his resting place tired and exhausted from his training as well as his nagging headache. But it was now time to get some other allies besides just the cutters after all when the war was over he did need some people to rule over otherwise it wouldn't be fun. The Najif clan who lived in the fire lands would be a good ally. Long ago they lived in Regalia but they were driven out by the Regalians when the United people had a quarrel which lead to a feud and lead to them being expelled from Regalia and sent wandering to find a new land to live. Most of the other lands were already occupied by the Flyers, Gnawers, Crawlers and the Spinners as well as the others had occupied different lands. So they finally settled in the fire lands where almost nothing dwelled which made finding food hard but they managed to survive the hot weather and Cajet was sure that they would have hatred like the moles did for the same reason kicking them out. Adding fuel to the fire could of course start something new perhaps he could convince them to weaken the Regalians.
As he flew to the fire lands to make some new friends he thought about his recovery it was swift but it shouldn't have been. Perhaps he was becoming something new. Something greater. He was now going to be called King Cajet the bloodthirsty and a very fitting name for him as it described him perfectly. He would make the Najif tribe join him if they did not willingly. But he was sure that they would agree to his all but good plans. As the heat intensified and the fire lands truly became hot the Queen of night revealed itself. Smoldering with an unmatched beauty as gold flowed like hair from the head with a crown of red magma spilling at the top. But it was truly a sight to behold. And it was beautiful one thing that Cajet could not destroy but one that he admired. He wished to have dominance over land with his armies spread across the entire Underland like lava flowed from the volcano. Not only would he have all the riches that the Underland had to offer he would rule supreme and eventually he would overthrow the Cutters every last pawn in his game would fall. But the King stays invincible as long as it is surrounded by its allies. It was like a game of chess. He was invincible as he literally had thousands if not millions of cutters at his command, the Queen however would make bold decisions and could move wherever she pleased and that is why she would fall first. And her bishop X, he was already taken now he had to take out the Rook which could be dangerous if left alone and that was Ripred. And finally her King Gregor who had limited mobility would fall and no one would be left to see the ashes that had become Regalia. As soon as he touched down in the Najif city of Mantlecore he knew they would follow him to the end.