Chapter 4: Enter the Rager.

Disclaimer: I don't own Inheritance or the Underland Chronicles. And yes, the title was taken from Enter the Dragon, and you'll see more references to it, and I don't own it either.

So, hi. My name's Angelina. Well then, today was a pretty weird day.

Well then, it all started with me going to school in the morning. On the way, I met Gregor and Larry, my two best friends.

"Good morning!" I said cheerfully. We had just had a play, and I had done pretty well. Well, Larry did reply, but it took a few seconds for Gregor to. He's been acting pretty weird for the last year. I mean, his parents were divorced, so he was a bit reserved, but now his dad had come back. You'd have expected him to cheer up, but now he was more gloomy and reserved than ever. Also, he hardly spent any time with us now.

So, Larry and I had made a plan. I gave Larry the signal.

"So, Gregor." He said. Gregor seemed to have snapped out of a trance.

"Huh?" was what he said.

"Well then, I was thinking you know, why don't we come over to your place today?"

"My place?" I might have imagined it, but Gregor seemed to have gotten a little nervous "Err, well, that might not be a good idea." He hastily said.

Okay, something weird was going on.

"Why not?" I realized the plan was on me now. "Look, the winter break is about to begin now, so why don't we start to enjoy. You almost never spend time with us."

"Yes I do." He said quickly. "The thing is, well," Gregor looked at his feet, and I knew he was thinking of something to invent. "Yeah, my dad's caught the flu too, so it won't be such a good idea."

"Gregor." Larry said. I could hear a trace of anger in his voice. "Since when have you started to lie to your friends?"

"I don't—"

"Yes you do." He cut in. "You've been avoiding us, and I can you're always thinking of something. You're distracted all of the time."

"Come on, Gregor." I said. "We're you're friends, if you have any problems, tell us. We can help." Gregor gave us a look that said, "Trust me, you couldn't understand or help me with my problems." Then, the bell just rang.

I decided to go to class and deal with Gregor later.

Well, then most of the classes passed on as usual. Strangely enough, Gregor being distracted in class seemed to be usual.

Well, Gregor was told off during Maths class for not paying attention, but then again I wasn't really paying attention either. The weird part was that he seemed to be paying a lot of attention in history, even though we were just being taught about some boring tactics the Vikings used in battle.

Then, lunch came. We all sat at the same table. I began eating when Larry said,

"Gregor, you do realize that you're putting ketchup on your apple, don't you?" I looked up, and certainly enough, Gregor was actually doing that.

Gregor didn't even look up. He was still thinking.

"Yo Gregor." Larry snapped his finger a few times in his ears, and then he seemed to come to his senses. Definitely weird.

"So, guys." Gregor said, I think to fill up the awkward moment, "Rather than coming at my house, why don't we go see a movie today?"

"Sure." I said. "Which one?"

"I don't know, what are they showing?" Gregor said. Well then, we just deliberated on which movie, and then we finally decided.

"So, we'll come over to your house at five." Larry said. He winked at me and I understood that we were still going on with the plan.

"Um, well okay." Gregor said. He probably couldn't think up an excuse.

So, then, the rest of the day passed. I went straight home; my mom's pretty strict about that. I asked her if I could go for a movie, and she said okay as long as I was back by eight.

So, we were barely getting any homework, and I had finished mine, so I just read some Shakespeare. I'm pretty fond of doing that. Then, I called Larry.

"Hi Larry."

"Hi. What's up?"

"Well, we're both going to Gregor's. So, let's meet at his apartment at four thirty."

"Still going on with the plan?"

"Yeah, we'll try to stick a while, and then have a look around and see if we can find anything. Also, ask his parents." I said.

"Okay then. Bye."

"Bye." I hung up.

It was four, so I started to dress up. It was starting to get cold out. While I was going out, my mom told me to take this wooly cap. It's black, and to tell you it doesn't look nice would be an understatement.

"Mom, it isn't that cold."

"Say that after you get the flu or something." So, I just took it and then wore it. Moment I got out of her sight, I took it out and stuffed it in my jacket.

I saw Larry at the entrance. We both went up. Gregor's apartment is old; I could see the walls chipping off in some places. The cold must me much worse here.

So, then we knocked on the door. Gregor's sister, Lizzie opened up. She was shyer than Gregor, but pretty smart.

"Hi. We're here to see Gregor." I said. She opened the door. Then, I saw Gregor's dad on the sofa.

I have to say, if he had the flu, he looked much worse than that. He looked like one of those people you see that are rescued from crashes and are stranded on islands or whatever. Larry was just as shocked as I was.

Anyway, he was asleep, so we decided not to disturb him.

"Hi guys." Gregor said. He had just reappeared, and his home was pretty small, especially when you look at the size of his family. "My mom's at work, and she says I have to be back by eight."

"Same here, I have to be back at the same time." I said. Then, Gregor woke up his dad. He must have been feeling much better than he looked, because he smiled at us, shook our hands and then told Gregor to be careful, and all.

Well, we had seen some pretty weird things today. I thought that now, it couldn't be weirder. Boy, was I wrong.

Don't get me wrong, the movie went by smoothly. We chose comedy, to maybe lighten Gregor up a bit. He did seem more happy than usual. It's what happened afterwards.

While we were returning, I had worn my hat again. It was cold enough for me to be seen putting it on.

That was the first thing that struck me as odd, there was no wind blowing strong enough, but then my hat just flew off my head and into an alley. We went to go retrieve it.

I saw someone smiling. They had what looked like a fishing pole. They must have been pretty good, because they snatched up my hat without me noticing.

Someone moved behind me. There were three more people, and all of them had knives.

"So, just hand over the money and you'll go free."

After that, things got really weird. The next scenes reminded me strongly of Enter the Dragon, a movie I was forced to watch by one of my cousins. Since when did Gregor learn kung-fu?

Then, after all of it was over, he seemed to have gotten out of some trance. He hadn't got a scratch on him. He grabbed my hat, gave it to me, and then muttered something about having to go home now.

He ran off, and both of us were stunned. That was it. Something was weird with Gregor, and Larry and I are going to find out what.

So, now I'm concentrating on Gregor from now on.