Well I'm back! I know I posted a chapter yesterday, but I'm really in the mood for writing, I just watched The Lone Survivor in the theater like an hour ago, and I'm not in the mood to play battlefield 4 right now, I've had enough blood for one day. You should really go see that movie though, it's a really good story, well if you can stand a lot of blood, and I mean a lot of blood. Well of that topic and onto the story. Thanks to everybody who reviewed and read last chapter, I spent a full 5 hours writing it. Believe me, not only that but the crap I'm getting at school for actually liking to write and read is unbelievable, but so far I think this story is worth it. Well, I have 1 more thing to say, or rather ask. How do you guys think I should drag Gregor, Zoey, and Alex down to the underland? I have no clue how I will get Zoey and Alex to get to New York, I can get them to the underland but how will I get them to New York? Well give me your ideas, cause I'm clueless here. As usual all responses encouraged and appreciated, so I guess I'll see you guys after the chapter, bye!

See you all later,

-Tytonic

Disclaimer: I only own Zoey, Alex, Max, and Hayden, oh and the myriapods to.

Gregor and the War of the Myriapods

Chapter 4: They Arise

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 slices going strait across its back, and a dead human, which the was armless, due to the slices, 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.

Later that day. . .

When the bat had crashed into the arena earlier that day, Luxa had guards sent out to investigate, and attempt to figure out what had transpired earlier that day. So far they had found nothing but a few spots of blood that had dropped from the bat when flying, though they were still trying to figure out were it had occurred. It was a slow process, but they were getting through it, and slowly they were finding were it had occurred, but at this rate it would still be a couple of days.

Luxa also had the bat and its rider sent to the hospital. Even though both were very clearly dead, they would still look over the body and try to find any clue as to what had caused this, but so far they had found nothing, and the only possibility was a small bug found near the border to the uncharted lands east of regalia, though this bug was far far to small to be considered a possibility. Though some people thought that it may still be that same bug, but a much larger version residing deeper into the uncharted lands.

Currently it was just after luncheon, and Luxa had some very rare free time, that she took full advantage of by sitting in a corner of the museum, practically in tears over all of the stress that has been hanging over her like a cloud since the day he left the underland. She couldn't handle all of it, not alone at least, and if she tried to confront anybody about any of it, they would only bring up her future husband Hayden, the man the council had decided to force on her just recently.

Honestly Hayden wasn't a bad man at all, he was strong ,handsome, and smart. There were a few problems though, one Luxa's heart was already stolen by him and two, Hayden was very selfish, didn't truly love Luxa, and only wants to be king, nothing else.

Thankfully Luxa had been to busy most of the time to be with him, and when she did have free time she was in the museum, and he didn't know about this as her little hangout place. When she did have free time, he would have work then, and if he did have free time at the same time as her, she would make sure that he didn't find her.

"Luxa, you are needed by the council, it seems the search party has found something on their search, and they need you to decide the next action they will take" said Vikus, as he walked into the museum. At this point Vikus always knew were to find Luxa when she had free time, either sleeping or in the museum, or sleeping in the museum.

"Ok, thank you for telling me Vikus, I will be right over" responded Luxa, a slight edge of irritation on her voice, for she had only been in the museum for 10 minutes.

Luxa slowly and annoyingly got up off the ground, and onto her feet. Forcing her legs to move, she slowly started to make her was to the council room. On the way she got a few Judgmental looks from servants, she knew she looked like a wreck right now, the stress was really taking a tole on her.

Once she got to the council room, she could see all 13 council members sitting impatiently waiting, and a guard from the search party in the middle of the room, holding a. . . a something in his hand, it was a dark brown, long shell of some sort.

"Hello your majesty, thank you for gracing us with your presence" said one of the council members.

"Yes, you are very welcome, now what is the matter?" asked Luxa, attempting, but failing, to keep the sleepy and irritated tone out of her voice.

"Yes, well, just on the border of the uncharted lands, one of the guards discovered this, a dark brown shell of some sort. To our knowledge, it doesn't belong to any know species. The only know creature it could belong to is a myriapod, though they are far to small for this to belong to, and that leads me to consider the theory some of our researchers have made, that deep in the uncharted lands they may be able to grow to much larger sizes" responded one of the council members, a hint of curiosity in his voice.

"This brings up a matter of witch you need to resolve, do we continue into the uncharted lands, mapping it of course, in order to learn more on this entire case. I suggest we do, because this new creature is clearly a threat, and as it seems, very capable of inflicting lethal damage, and I believe that if we do not take action, the threat will only continue to grow" said another council member, not even giving Luxa a chance to respond to the last comment made.

"Well, this is a very pressing matter. I do indeed believe that we must continue on into the uncharted lands in search of this new creature. Double the number of guards sent, give them better weapons and armor, and somebody find Ripred, I want him to accompany the group. If by any chance this new species is hostile as a whole, nobody is better suited for combat against them than Ripred. If the chance is presented, I want one of these creatures brought back for study, either as an ally of a prisoner. I will insist that I accompany the group on this journey" said Luxa, straitening up and becoming every inch the queen she should be.

"We will follow you orders immediately, but I highly suggest that you do not accompany the party, but knowing you will go anyway, I insist that you beloved Hayden join alongside you for this journey" responded a council member, whilst Luxa rolled her eyes at the mention of Hayden and silently cursed to herself.

2 Hour later. . .

After the council had decided on a detailed plan, which took them an hour and a half, Luxa had set off to her room to prepare. When she had gotten there there were cloths fro traveling laid out, with some light armor alongside it. Luxa would have to go to the armory after getting ready, to look for a weapon.

After Luxa had gotten ready, she set out for the armory. On the way, she still got strange looks from people, though over the past 4 years she had gotten used to it, she always looked like an emotional wreck, though still headstrong and every inch a queen (that is in public).

Once she got to the armory she went on in. There were a few men in there sharpening their swords, but they paid no attention to Luxa. She went over to the lighter thinner swords and started testing them out 1 by 1. To heavy, to light, not balanced, to small, to big, to thin, not thin enough. She had gone through about 15 swords by the time she found the one she liked, decent balance, great weight, perfect size.

She also had Solovet's knife on her hip, the only thing aside from pictures that she had left from him. After she was ready from the armory, she went to the museum, to do 2 things. The first was to take one last look at the pictures, in case she didn't come back, and the second was to grab a flashlight and a roll of duct tape, an idea she had acquired from him during the prophecies.

Once Luxa was completely ready, she headed up to the high hall, were they would begin there journey. Once she got there she could see that everybody was ready and waiting on her, seems she spent a little to long in the museum.

"Well well well, we though you would never show up my dear bond" said Ripred in his sarcastic tone.

Luxa said nothing to this.

"Fine ignore me if you want, but you'll have to say something eventually" snarled Ripred

Once Luxa had mounted Aurora, they greeted each other, but said nothing else. The two had been drifting farther apart ever since he left. Luxa never had time to fly with Aurora, and when she did have free time she was always in the museum. Because of this growing depression, mentally they were growing apart.

Hayden had attempted to greet Luxa, but she simply nodded to him and said nothing else. The entire group took off, all 23 of them, 20 guards, Ripred, Luxa, and Hayden. The group started to head east, to were the shell had been discovered. It took a good hour before the group arrived. When they landed, they looked around for any immediate dangers, and set up camp for the night. Luxa and Ripred took first guard, were both could swear they heard very quiet and distant clicking noises, but not like the crawlers, much lower pitch, and much longer of a sound. It was to quiet and to distant to be considered a threat, so they discarded the danger of it. After their 2 hour watch was up, Luxa had sharpened her sword during it, they switched with one of the guards and Hayden. Hayden kissed Luxa on the cheek as she passed by him, though this made her feel more miserable then she had previously been. That night, after the hour it took for Luxa to fall asleep, she had a dreamless sleep, which was very rare for her, but was a relief from her usual nightmare.

Luxa awoke to Ripred flicking her in the face with his tail, and then Hayden getting pissed at Ripred for it. After a minute of arguing Ripred just slapped Hayden across the face with his tail, and left a huge red line right across his face, which immediately shut Hayden up.

After eating a morning meal, all 23 of them set off once more. It was a long boring flight, which had to be halted just about every 10 minutes for the map maker to map the path they were taking. The clicking noises started to get a bit louder, but very slowly, it would be a long time before they arrived at the source. Everybody seemed to hear the clicking noises, and multiple of the guards seemed to be shifting nervously back in forth on their bats.

In around 5 hours they landed beside a river for luncheon. In order to save food for later on in the trip, the bats went fishing, and they all eat cooked fish for luncheon. They rested fro a couple of hours while the bats slept, hanging form a ledge just above them. Around 3 hours later, all the bats had rested, and were ready to continue the journey.

The flight went on for around another 4 hours. There was an erie silence over the group for the entire time, excluding the bone shaking scratching from Ripred gnawing on a fish bone. This was very unsettling for Luxa, especially since the clicking seemed to be a few more hours off.

The entire group froze and landed when they heard a very loud clicking noise from just below them. Within a second 2 sharp spikes whipped out of darkness and cut one of the guards into 3 parts, his head, torso, and legs. Immediately Luxa whipped out her flash light and shone it to were the attack came from, there was nothing there, absolutely nothing. Then suddenly behind her another Guard got taken out, this time being cut strait on both shoulders, cutting both arms off, and then one more quick slice to the neck killing him instantly.

After about 5 minutes of this, only Luxa, Ripred, Hayden, and 3 other guards remained, even fewer bats remained. None of them could move anywhere, when 5 of the guards earlier had tried to move out, attempting to get to safety, all 5 had been taken out within 10 seconds.

A tail whipped out of the darkness, this time aimed at Ripred. He hardly blocked it in time, but when he did he grabbed it and yanked the creature into the light, were he then let out a storm of strikes on the creature.

There lay the creature, dead on the ground. Luxa had once read a book from the museum on overland animals, and from her knowledge or it, this seemed to be a 10 foot long millipede. By the looks of the damage Ripred had done, the only reason it was dead was because one of his strikes landed in between 2 plates of shell, just by the neck, every other strike did nothing more then scratched the shell.

By the time Luxa had finished looking at he dead bug, she realized that the other 3 guards had all been killed. When Luxa saw this she didn't even have time to register what she was looking at when she brought up her sword to meet 2 stingers coming at her. These stingers broke right through her sword, though lucky for Luxa, the sword slowed down the strike enough to were it only left 2 deep cuts in her armor, and 2 long scratches on her chest.

"Luxa are you alright?" screamed Hayden from somewhere to her left.

"Yes I'm Fine" responded Luxa.

"That's go-" said Hayden, as a stinger ripped right through his back, and out his stomach.

Luxa didn't scream for him, she just stared as Ripred yanked the stinger out of Hayden, and brought the bug in, and with 1 quick slice at the neck, killed it.

Ripred had yelled something Luxa didn't catch, but she knew what was happening when the bats dropped down, picked everybody up, and an extra bat picked up the carcass of on of the bugs.

The Flight back was all a big blur to Luxa, but before she knew it she could see regalia in the distance. When they got to the high hall, every bat crash landed and fell asleep immediately.

Doctors rushed in and dragged Hayden off to the hospital. If it hadn't been for Ripred shoving dirt in Hayden's wound, he would have bleed to death hours ago. Some other doctors attempted to attend to Luxa's wounds, but she waved them off, because she had only mere scratches, compared to Hayden with a huge hole in his Stomach.

Luxa slowly dragged herself to her room, were she just collapsed from how tired she was on her bed, this was when the pressure of what happened set in. Two bugs had taken out 20 men and 19 bats in 5 minutes, and almost killed another man. This was a new enemy, and very clearly a powerful enemy. Luxa then realized that all of the Humans would have to prepare for all out war.

Luxa had awoken from another dreamless sleep, and from what the servant that woke her said, she had been asleep for around 18 hours. She slowly and groggily made her way to the royal bathroom. She then proceeded to take a scolding hot bath for the next hour.

Once she had finished her bath, and cleaning herself up, she went strait to the council room, just like the servant had told her to. When she arrived they were in a deep argument with Ripred.

"Well what do you propose we do? We don't have the materials to make better weapons and armor!" yelled one the the council members.

"Well we need to get more then! I told you, use steel! Your to stubborn to use the method the Overland has discovered that could possibly save our lives! Get over your freaking pride! All of Regalia is at stake here!" Yelled Ripred back, very very pissed off, and it took a lot to piss him off.

"What is this steel you speak of?" Asked Luxa as she walked in the room.

"Well your highness, its a overland method that I read about before, it is a way to strengthen iron, making it more then twice as strong, sharp, and kind of lighter" Explained Ripred.

"Well why are we not using it then?" asked Luxa.

"Because this freaking old man wont swallow his pride and allow the usage of an overland method!" snarled Ripred.

"Well, knowing how dearly we need this advantage, as queen I order the usage of this steel, and I request the first sword made from it so I may test it" ordered Luxa.

The council member that had been arguing with Ripred opened his mouth to say something, but quickly closed it when Ripred shot him the death glare.

This was it, this was the advantage they needed to fight there new enemies, steel. Hopefully this new type of metal could provide enough power in order for the humans to survive the war that was sure to come in.

"Ripred, I have a job for you" said Luxa, here heart rising at what she was about to say.

"And that would be?" asked Ripred

"I need you to find the warrior, and I need you to bring him here, his help is required" said Luxa, her voice showing signs of excitement, knowing that Ripred would be able to find the warrior.

"Way ahead of you my dear bond, I'm getting weekly reports on his whereabouts, his family is going to travel to Maine, which to do they need to come close to New York. From what my spies hear, the warriors parents plan to stop in New York, to visit Mrs. Cormaci, who I am aware that you know is his old neighbor. I could probably, assuming I can get him away form his parents, get him here within 5 days, but I warn you, he has changed in many ways, some of witch you will not like" Said Ripred.

Luxa didn't care if he changed, she was going to see him she was going to see the boy who had stolen her heart, she was going to see the warrior. She was going to see Gregor for the first time in 4 years. This hit Luxa so fast that she almost fainted right there. The day she had hoped for for years, was coming, and it was nearly upon her, she could hardly keep in the excitement.

Well I hope you guys liked that chapter, cause I spent about 7 hours on it, I got MAJOR writers block after like the first 400 words. I am really exited for the next chapter, even though I know what is going to happen, its not set in stone yet. So a hint to people who actually read my author notes, Zoey and Alex are going with Gregor to the Underland, now imagine the possibilities with that? Get ready for some drama between Zoey and Luxa. Well you guys have all been so good to me on my first story here, so I thank you all very much! See you guys on the next chapter!

R&R guys,

-Tytonic

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Tytonic- Hey guys, Luxa, explain this is Ripred before he kills me, please.

*Luxa explains everything to Ripred.*

Tytonic- Ok now that were all on the same page, what did you guys think of the chapter?

Luxa- It was great! Well at least the end, not when everybody died.

Ripred- Well is was all worth the fighting just to see my bond about to blowup when I told her about the warrior.

Tytonic- Well that's good to know, you know Luxa, he's been very exited to meet you again.

Luxa- He has?!

Tytonic- yes but I'll only tell you that's he misses you a lot, and that he's completely alive.

Luxa- cant you tell me more?

Tytonic- Yes, but that would ruin it for the readers.

Luxa- oh. . .

Tytonic- Well ill see you guys later, bye.

Luxa and Ripred- See you later.

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*POOF*

Ripred- Why am I still here?

Tytonic- I just needed to tell you not to mention Zoey to Luxa, I want the drama full force when they meet okay?

Ripred- Ok got it, wasn't planning to anyway, your not the only one that want to see the drama.

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See you all later,

-Tytonic