Hello and welcome back to my lair, people of FanFiction! I have very much enjoyed making this story so far, and I think chapter 1 went far better then I would have expected. I read better writers stories and one of this first things I think of is how much better their story is, but then I think, and I realize that they to had so start somewhere, and from there you can only improve. So I am hopping for the stories sake, your sake, and my sake that I improve as a writer, and thus make my time on fanfiction more enjoyable for all of us. Thanks to The Toast Ninja for being the first to support and review on my story so far! It is because of this review that I decided to post this Chapter today, I was originally planing to post a chapter every sunday or so, but then I realized thats just not how I work, I go through periods of time (like the past 3 days) that I want nothing to do with writing, especially when at school Im working my butt off in writing class, but still doing terrible in that class. Ok so back to the story, I am going to try to do this chapter in Luxa's point of view, so tell me what you think about that, good, bad?So as usual all responses are encouraged and appreciated! See you all at the end of the chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not own any of The Underland Chronicles, though I wish I did, I do however own Alex, Zoey, Max, and characters yet to be seen.

Until next time,

-Tytonic

Gregor and the War of the Myriapods

Chapter 2: Her Life after

Luxa kissed Gregor good-bye, and backed down the steps. Luxa and Gregor held each others gaze, reading each others emotions, until the rock was slid back, and they were separated forever.

4 years later. . .

Luxa was struggling to keep her eyes open, she hadn't slept in 2 days, thus making her eyelids lead weights. She had managed to sleep about an hour earlier that day, but that wasn't near enough. Luxa, being queen, has always been very busy, especially since the war of time, were she gained many, many responsibility, it felt like the entire world was against her. The fact that she was turning 16 in a months time didn't help either, being queen meant that at the age of 16, she would need to wed a man, and that man would proceed to become king. After the war of time, the council was rebuilt, and they gained power once more, though Luxa never got a break, since forming a new council wasn't exactly easy. Once the council was finally finished, about a month ago, they had immediately started preparation for Luxa's coronation, and her wedding.

The biggest pain was that the preparations included was the council forcing men onto Luxa, trying to find one that she liked. If she didn't choose one of the men, she would be forced to wed a man of the councils choice. She hadn't liked any of the man, 13 men so far, and she didn't like a single one of them, they were all to cruel, or all focused solely on being king, and nothing else. Not that it really mattered anyway, she wouldn't choose any of them, she couldn't choose any of them, her heart was already taken, and it had been for the past 4 years, by a boy that she would never see again in her life.

Luxa found herself thinking of him, she hadn't seen him in 4 years, and she deeply missed him. However, she knew she couldn't be with him, that it was impossible, unreasonable. He had probably moved by now, to that place, what was it. . . Virgena? She had tried after he left, to figure out how far away it was, and after many failed attempts she resorted to books from the museum. She had found a map book of the planet while looking, though it took her a very long time to finally find the book, even longer to realize it was what she was looking for. After hours on end of looking through the book she found the place, and once she found New York, she compared them. They were very, very, very far away, around 400 miles, and from what she had previously know, 400 miles is a very large space, much much larger than the known underland.

Why did she even bother, why couldn't she forget him? It had been 4 years, it clear that he will never come back. He's probably moved on, found some other girl to love, and forgotten about the underland completely, forgotten about her.

"Your majesty, are you even listening?" Asked Arthur, a council member.

No, truly Luxa had forgotten she was in the middle of a council meeting in the first place. They were talking about new ways to feed Regalia, having allied with the rats, they had to help and support the rats, this included giving them food, thus leaving Regalia with much less.

"Oh, I am deeply sorry, I seemed to have. . . zoned out in thought for a moment, can you please kindly repeat what you said?" Asked Luxa, trying to hide the fact that she wasn't listening, and it clearly didn't wok very well, because she heard a few other council members chuckle.

"Well I was saying how I think that we cant simply grow more food, it will up far to much land, let alone money. I was proposing the idea that we attempt to find a new type of food, that can either grow much faster, take up less space, or be available in plentiful amounts, such as fish, that are almost always in the river." Proposed Arthur, with a surprisingly good, yet difficult idea.

"That is a very good idea, Arthur, however it would require us to either delve into the unknown dangers of the uncharted lands, or bring out search up to the overland. Both ways are absolutely dangerous and both very risky. I propose that we do both, however we approach them in very different ways than one would expect. We should not delve into the danger of the uncharted lands, rather we should take it very slowly and cautiously, only mapping out little bits at a time, and making sure that no danger awaits us. For the overland idea, I do have a feeling that there may be foods up there that can grow in the conditions the underland provides, I will take to the museum books to do further research, to discover if my theory is correct or not. All in favor of my idea?" Said Luxa, certainly taking the the role as queen head on.

11 of the 13 council members raised their hands, all with looks of confidence on their faces. Among these members Vikus had also raised his hand, well his right hand, due to part of his body being paralyzed from his stroke. He seemed very pleased with how fine of a queen Luxa was becoming.

Luxa, in public, or in the presence of other people held her head high, and had a stern serious, yet caring look, the look a queen should have. However, when Luxa was alone, she would think, and eventually the tears would start to role down her face, as she had 4 entire years of pain and agony built up in her, and she has yet to find something to release it all on.

The council, in the end, had decided on Luxa's idea, though it still took an extra hour and a half to decide this. Figures, leave it to the council to take an hour and a half to agree to an idea that 11 out for 13 people already agreed to.

When the meeting was finally over, Luxa found that she had fallen asleep part way through, though none of the council members noticed, and if they did they didn't say anything about it. She woke apparently 15 minutes after the meeting ended, it was Vikus who woke her.

"I am very sorry to awaken you Luxa, but do you not think it would be more. . Appropriate to retire to your own bed for the time being? This is the longest break you have had in weeks, you may as well get some good rest, you will need the energy later." said Vikus, with the intention of helping his granddaughter get some rest, though he didn't mention the blisteringly obvious fact that she had acquired a very deep wound that would never heal, she acquired this the day he left.

Luxa Headed to her room, though very groggily, she made it there nonetheless, and fell asleep in her cloths the second her head hit the pillow. She could care less that she was still in her cloths, and she could care less that her shoes were still on as she lay on her bed, making it dirty.

Luxa awoke what appeared to be 13 hours later, and by that time it was the middle of the night (I don't know how they know when its day or night when there is no sun, they did in the books so I'm going along with it) and everybody was asleep, or just inactive. Luxa knew she wouldn't be able to go back to sleep, and have another dreamless sleep. For the first couple month since he left, Luxa would have horrifying nightmares, and she would wake up in a cold sweat almost every night. After about 2-3 months of this her dreams became dreamless, just nothing, all black, and it always felt like forever when she was in that state, like time passed normally to her.

It was somewhere around 1-2 o'clock in the middle for the night, and Luxa would not be able to sleep once more, so she did the thing she did the only other thing save sleep that she did in her free time, she went to the museum. It took a few minutes to arrive in the large room full of overland artifacts. She would always come here in her free time, it was the only place she could think, and it was the only place that she could find even a remote sense of happiness, and even then it wasn't what you would really call happiness, it was simply not misery, but still very far from even neutral feelings. Luxa went over to the corner with the blankets laid down, the corner were she had spent the happiest moment of her life with him, the spot were they shared their first kiss.

Luxa sat down on the blanket, and flicked on the lantern from the overland that he had set up there. The lantern was actually a very good light source, it created a much brighter and larger light than a torch did, and you could change how bight it got. Once she was sitting down comfortably, she took out the stack of so called photo, squares of paper with a still moment shown on the, taken with a weird box that flashes. She started to look through the photos, and as they provided comfort to her, they brought new waves of pain as well. She sat there, looking through the photos for multiple hours on end, and once she first heard other people, she didn't even bother to get up for her morning meal.

Luxa could have sworn she heard her name being called, though she knew that if she truly was being called that they would know were to find here anyways, so why bother getting up if she didn't truly need to? What could be so important that they come searching yelling her name anyway? It probably was just her imagination.

Luxa allowed her imagination to drift a small amount. She could not help the fact that no matter what she did her mind drifted to memories of him. Luxa knew it would only hurt more if she thought about it. She had only ever felt such deep emotions for 2 people, and they were both of her parents. She loved Hazard as a brother, but the connection to him could not compare to her connection with the warrior of her parents. Luxa had been thought of as not normal in the aspect of crying. She had never been able to cry over anything after she lost her parents. She could not even cry over Hazard when he was about from a gash on his head after being caught in a flood during the prophecy of secret. This had been the case for years. The last time she had creed over anybody was when her parents died, but that changed a full 4 years ago. Very few people knew she had creed over him when he left, that she would never be able to see him again. He was the only person that could make her feel so. . . vulnerable, yet safe at the same time. Vikus had approved of their relationship, and he understood how Luxa was crushed by him leaving. Hazard knew she was destroyed on the inside, though he was to young to truly understand love. Ripred knew, and used it against Luxa at times, though on the inside he understood, he had lost his entire family. Mareth knew as well, though he never mentioned it, same with Aurora, she would never bring it up. Howard was the final person that knew, and he always began to lecture Luxa about how it would never work out, though she usually walked away, ignoring his demands that she return to listen,methought when he had her attention, he would always tell her to forget him. Luxa would never be able to forget him, the times she spent with him. She had saved his life multiple times, and he had saved her life many times as well. Luxa allowed the thoughts and memory's to flow freely through her mind.

This is what Luxa had her mind on, and kept her mind on until she heard it again, just this time much louder, she could even hear footsteps as somebody walked down the hall towards the museum.

"Luxa, you must get ready, go cleanse yourself then eat, your training started 10 minutes ago!" said Vikus as he walked into the room, talking before he even saw here, out of certainty that she was in there.

"Luxa, I know that you don't want to go, but as queen its your duty, you don't really have a choice, so come on now." said Vikus, his tone lightening up a bit as he saw her holding onto one of the pictures.

"Don't worry, I'm going, I'm going." complained Luxa annoyingly, as if she was a child being told to pick up some fish from the market.

About 15 minutes later Luxa had cleansed herself, changed, and crammed some food in her mouth. Luxa walked into high hall an whistled loudly, calling her bond Aurora to come fly her to training. Over the 4 years, she and Aurora had grown farther and farther apart, they were now just simply friends helping each other. As Aurora fly down and landed, they both exchanged simple nods, no more or less. This was much different 4 years ago, were they would greet each other happily and go into a deep conversation.

The ride was silent, neither of the 2 talked, and as they approached the arena, Luxa prepared her weapon to jump into the arena from above, allowing Aurora to go strait to training with the other bats. Once they were over the arena, Luxa quickly and nimbly jumped off and drove her sword strait into a training dummy as she came to the ground, thus splitting it in half right down the middle.

Training continued as usual for the next hour and a half, hack slash hack slash. . . Around 20 Minutes from the end of training, Luxa noticed a medium sized brown and wight bat flying over to the arena. Of course since it was training no body cared very much, that was until the bat came crashing down to the ground, dead from blood loss before it could even hit the ground.

As Luxa approached the bat, she could see 2 deep gashes going strait across its back, and a dead human, which the was armless, due to the same gashes, and clearly, very clearly, this was no accident. It was unlike any wound she had ever seen, and it occurred to her, and everybody that saw it, that a murder had just occurred, and by no known creature either. . .

And that's just about it for this chapter, ahh I know, its a cliffhanger, and I know everybody hates cliffhangers, but every good writer uses them, this is the best way to keep all of you from just forgetting about this story. So tell me what you though of this chapter, all feedback encouraged, and one more thing, what do you guys think killed the flier and its rider? I'm guessing nobody will get it, not with only a few people guessing, but once I get to, and I say once as to I will, get to many many people, then somebody would be able to guess it. So see you guys once I get the next chapter up!

See you all later,

-Tytonic

*Clickclickclick*

*poof*

Luxa- who what were?!

*Tytonic hands Luxa paper explaining everything*

Luxa- Oh, can we get this over with, I was in the middle of something you know!

Tytonic- Sure, once you tell me what you though of the chapter.

Luxa- Well it was a little miserable, and the ending was plain gross, I mean what could do that? I know not of any creature with that capability!

Tytonic- Well you will find out, you'll find out, patience.

Tytonic- Know since I know You really want to find out what happened, ill send you back in, good thing you didn't try to hit me like Gregor did!

Luxa- wait what, Gregor is here!?

Tytonic- Patience patience, all in due time, see you later.

*clickclickclick*

*poof*

Tytonic- All to jumpy, they need to take a chill-pill.