Ok, first off I want to apologize to all my awesome readers and my super awesome reviewers

Ok, first off I want to apologize to all my awesome readers and my super awesome reviewers. Yes, I said I would add a chapter over the weekend, but I have been super busy lately; working all the time, hanging out with friends, trying to get at least like 6 hours of sleep a night lol. So, I guess here it is. I don't know when the next chapter will come out, but hopefully soon.

Like I've said before, I do NOT own The Underland Chronicles or any of the characters in them. They belong to Suzanne Collins.

Chapter Four

Gregor had imagined seeing Luxa again since the day he left, but the pure bliss he felt just from seeing her was almost more than he could handle. They had held each others gaze for a while until Gregor's mom interrupted them.

"Well, now, you two, shouldn't we start heading down, now?" Grace said with a small, suspicious look in her eye piercing blue eyes.

"Oh, uh, yes, let us take Aurora here back to Regalia" said Luxa blushing slightly as she stood taller and brushed herself off.

All three of them fit on Aurora's back. It was a little tight, but not too bad… That was, except for Gregor's mom. She was almost as pale as Luxa when the bat took off. She was shaking like a leaf, and hanging on so tight that Aurora started wincing a little bit. Grace would have started complaining and asking for another way of travel if it weren't for the fact that they were right above the Waterway.

They flew through mazes of caverns. They all looked the same to Grace and even Gregor didn't really remember the way to Regalia, but Aurora and Luxa seemed to know where they were going. After making one last sharp left turn they saw the palace looming up in the distance. Aurora gracefully came gliding in through an upper window to the palace. Grace asked to be taken to the nearest couch or any kind of furniture so that she could lie down for a bit after her experience. Luxa gladly had the nearest guard escort her. Gregor and Luxa were finally alone so they could talk, and maybe more.

"Hey, Luxa," Gregor said, "I just wanted to tell you how much that I—"

"Well, if it isn't the great big warrior, come back!" a sarcastic voice came from behind them. Both Gregor and Luxa jumped at the sudden voice, but they both knew right away who it belonged too.

"Hey, Ripred, what are you doing here?" asked Gregor, a little annoyed that he had interrupted his moment with Luxa.

"Well, first off, boy, it's now King Ripred. Second, not very good for me today. There are many nibblers visiting Regalia today for the festival, but many of them, especially the older ones, are very wary of me since I am a rat."

"That doesn't make sense!" Gregor exclaimed, "There's a treaty now and the rats, humans, and mice are all at peace. Plus you were also one of the rats who helped save them all!"

"Yes, that is true, but they older ones have seen too much in their time. They will never trust the rats, doesn't matter if it is a so called 'good' or 'bad' rat; we are all the same to them. I don't blame them after all that they have been through," Ripred replied quite seriously.

"I still don't think that it's fair," Gregor scoffed.

"Well, you can forget that. It's a festival we should all go out there and have fun. I know I will; I threatened all the chefs that I would put them in a pot and eat them all if they didn't make enough shrimp and cream sauce to fill me up. I think I should just leave you two love birds so you can get back to ogling each other," Ripred snickered slunk out of the room.

"Shut up, Ripred!" Gregor called after him, but Ripred didn't hear. Gregor shrugged and turned back to Luxa.

"Hey, I just wanted to tell you how much I've missed you. I've thought about you everyday, and I just wanted to tell you again that I l—"

"Overlander! You have come for the festival!" A voice rang out from behind them again. This time it took Gregor a second to realize who it was, but by then it was too late. He was enveloped in a huge and painful bear hug by Mareth.

"Hey, Mareth, what's up?" Gregor managed to gasp.

"Uh, do you mean the fliers or the rocks? I am not sure I quite understand or know 'what's up'," Mareth replied.

"I mean, how are you?" Gregor said.

"Oh, I fare well, thank you. How have you been up there in, what is it called, New York?" Mareth responded.

"Yeah, that's it. I don't know, it's been okay up there. I've missed you guys a lot." Gregor answered.

"Oh, wait, Gregor, Luxa, the ceremonies are about to begin, let us hurry down!" exclaimed Mareth.

"But waited I wanted to talk to Lu—"

"Sorry, but we must hurry," Mareth said, cutting off Gregor again.

They took their bats down the arena. There they were met a by giant crowds of children and young nibblers running around playing games. Gregor and Luxa watched the younger ones play and laughed a little at their antics. They joined in on some of the children songs that they all sang, even though Gregor could only come in on the choruses after he had heard them a couple times. They even had a dance like the one on Hazard's birthday and Gregor got to dance with Luxa again. He was having a blast there, it seemed like such simple things that would bore other overland boys his age, but just being with his friends made him ecstatic.

Gregor just finished a dance with Luxa, when a hand slowly reached behind him and grabbed his shoulder.

Yeah, yeah, sorry about this crappy cliffhanger, but I'm tired, it's late, I'm in a bad mood, and I rushed through this so it's overall not very good. I'm sorry that I didn't fit the prophecy in this chapter, but I didn't feel up to making it up. I want to thank Prophetess again for being my beta, and all my reviewers. Please review more to take my bad mood away. When I'm in good moods, I right more. Oh, and one last thing. I will update this chapter in a day or two, I'm waiting for Prophetess to beta this, I sent it to her yesterday, she hasn't gotten it yet, and I didn't want to keep you guys waiting so this is the rough draft. Yes this chapter has been revised thanks to ILikeAres.