Thanks for all the awesome reviews, guys!

Anyway, here's the sketch of how the story could have gone, if I hadn't ended it.

The last time we left Joey, she was hanging from a monstrous vine over the blackened ruins.

1) While she was hanging high above the ruined rooftops, she saw all of London for what it truly was; a sprawl of a city covered with trees and vines, like a world consumed by the forest. It wasn't the London that she expected, nothing like she had ever seen in the history books.

2) I won't go into detail, but I will only say that Joey did escape the vines, with help from Will and Balder. She told them what she saw.

3) Later on, Will, Balder and Joey travelled through the city, exploring this horrible new London. Everything was in shambles, in ruins, with vines and trees and plants crawling over the flagstones, up along the brick walls. The people were shadows, frightened, cold people, living among the ruins, hiding and running. There were soldiers marching about this macabre city, British soldiers with their guns and swords, catching people, persecuting innocent lives. Black-clocked figures lead them about, silent as night itself. It was a mad city, ruled by blood and fear. Joey couldn't understand what had happened into those short two weeks she had been away.

4) Soon enough, they met a young African girl called Mary (A name given to her by her master). She rescued the confused three from a platoon of marching soldiers, who had chased them through the thorny city after Balder had stolen a banana from the market. Stealing, after all, was punishable by death in this new London.

5) Mary brought them to her master, an old chemist, Professor Fournier. It was he who finally told the three what had happened:

First of all, it had not been two weeks since Joey and Balder had gone to the underworld but 21 years. 21 years. Time, as Balder quickly explained, might have passed differently between the two worlds. Two weeks down in the underworld for Balder, Joey and Will, had been 21 years up here in the world of the living. Time had moved much slower for the three of them. Joey is shocked, and beyond furious. Will is confused beyond belief. How had they lived only two weeks while the rest of the world had lived over 21 years?

During those 21 years- or two weeks in the underworld-, the gods had awoken. They had stirred after Balder's return and Rygor's death, the gods emerged out of their hiding and began to fight, blaming each other for releasing Balder. They began to go to war against each other, and soon, a great war erupted over the world. Gods were no longer myths as Balder's siblings gathered arms and fought each other, unleashing their own armies all over the world. Calypso rose from her watery bed and stormed across the seas, her sirens and mermaids and watery spirits fighting against Ra's eagle-headed warriors. Spirits of the goddess of air, Neuth, tore against the dark shadows of the god of war, Seth. Brother and sister waged war against each other.

It was Ragnarok, the end of the world, the prophesy come true.

( If you guys don't remember, the prophesy was that Balder's return to life would bring about the end of the world).

It was a mess, and in the end, the humans were involved too. Countries took sides with the different gods, pledging allegiance, protecting themselves from the madness of this great war. England, for example, was pledged to Gaia, goddess of the earth. It was why London, and the rest of England, was covered with vines and giant trees; the goddess had claimed the country for herself, decorating it to her likeliness. She turned any rebels into statues and paraded them in the city squares, reminding the people of who was in charge now, and what was punishment for any kind of rebellion. It was the same all over the world, with different gods controlling different countries, torturing the citizens and destroying the cities. Humans were enlisted by their new "rulers", to fight for their cause, against the other gods. Balder's family waged their war throughout the world, casting a dark, stormy shadow over all of existence.

The last 21 years had been rewritten, a dark, horrid time, the darkest time the world has ever seen.

After this revelation, Joey instantly blames herself. She felt terribly guilty about bringing Balder back to life for her own sake. Will was quiet, still confused about had happened, but not at all keen about the world he had returned too.

The professor also revealed that Joey was sort of a legend; well, at the very least, many knew of the tale of a girl who had started the war by releasing Balder from his grave. There were also rumours of the prophecy, and many truly believed that the war of the gods will bring about the end of the world. Balder and Joey realized that the prophecy was coming true.

6) After hearing the terrible news, and after recovering from my anger, despair and shock, the trio asked the professor if there was any way to get out of the city. Joey wanted to her find her brother, 21 years or not. The Professor revealed that London was on lock-down, and that there was no way to get out of the city.

7) They stay the night with the Professor. That night, Joey and Will had a huge argument; Will blamed her for everything that had happened, angry that she had brought him back from the dead, only to bring this ill upon the entire world. Joey was distraught by his accusations. Drowning with guilt, she marched out of the house into the dark neighbourhood. Balder was already fast asleep in his room.

Outside, Joey found an alley and sobbed silently to herself. Mary found her and comforted her. Mary then told her of a way to get out of London; hidden at the old, abandoned docks of London was a ship, an old ship, as dark as the shadows. The government didn't know of the ship. It was said that the ship could help people get out of London. The person in charge of the ship was a mythical figure called, "The Captain". Mary then told her that the "The Captain", however, had been arrested, and was now in the King's castle.

8) Joey went back to the Professor's place, and told Balder and Will what had happened. Together with the professor and Mary, they planned a way to get into the castle, free "The Captain" and get onto his ship.

9) A few days later, they commenced the plan. Joey and Will went into the castle, met the King, pretended to be rulers of distant lands, got caught, got arrested, got sent into the dungeons, got saved by Balder…and then found "The Captain" in a neighbouring dungeon.

Only it wasn't a man.

It was a young women, barely older then Joey. She was tall, big-boned, with bright red hair and dark green eyes. She was very feisty and very loud-mouthed, stubbornly fighting her way out the moment they freed her. Will and her began arguing almost immediately as the group escaped from the prison.

10) "The Captain" brought them to the old ship at the docks. When they saw it, Joey and Will immediately recognised it as The Black Pearl. They confronted "The Captain", and the charming young girl revealed that the ship had been a gift from an old friend. That could only have meant Jack.

TO BE CONTINUED