Hello people of FanFiction, and welcome back to chapter 6 of Gregor and that War of the Myriapods! I know you guy must have gotten used to me uploading 1 a day for 3 days strait, but I did that simply out of boredom. I will continue to upload as often as possible, though I will not have a set schedule. Thank you all for supporting me and my story, I've gotten nothing but good feedback so far, even though I personally think its more than a deserve. As of now, I am sitting at a great 340 views, and its only been a week and a half! I mean thats crazy, I never expected anywhere close to this! Its very early in the story, so if anybody has any suggestions whatsoever. Do not hesitate to tell me, its not to late to add key factors in! As usual all responses are encouraged and appreciated! See you guys after the chapter, bye!

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-Tytonic

Gregor and the War of the Myriapods

Chapter 6: The Return

He needed time to think. He had just told 2 people his biggest secret ever, and he was now wondering if it was the right thing to do. He assumed they would both need some time to think everything over as well. All Gregor knew as of now was that he had just set himself up for a very very awkward trip to Maine.

3 days later. . .

It had been 3 days since Gregor had told Zoey and Alex, his two best friends, about the underland. He hadn't talked to them since then, though in a few hours he would be forced to see them whether he wanted to or not. They were both supposedly going with him on his trip up to Maine, though Gregor couldn't imagine why they were going, they just were.

Gregor had awoken from a very unsettling nightmare, but it was different from his usual nightmare, this time it was scenes of every person he loved dying right in front of him, in terrible terrible ways to. When he tried to move to save them he was frozen in place, like he was a statue, he couldn't more at all. He was being forced to watch them meet their demise over and over again.

Gregor and his family would be leaving, in their rented minivan, to go to Maine in around 3 hours. They would first pick up Alex and Zoey, then continue onto the route that the GPS designated.

Gregor had a square 3 hours to get ready. The first thing he did was take a shower, and then get dressed. He then continued to grab a suitcase, and then start to pack it full of things he may need. He took $1,000 of his savings, and an LED light, that supposedly had 100,000 hours of charge in it, and it was extremely bright. Gregor had bought this special light for $120 around 3 months after he left the underland, he always kept it with him. Since his time in the underland, he would never feel comfortable in the darkness, not scared, but like something wasn't right. He knew that the underland was behind him forever, and that the shadows would never hide creatures trying to kill him now that he had moved, but even with his echolocation he didn't feel comfortable with being in dark areas without light. He didn't care if it was like a little kid, but with the experiences he's had, you always want to have light, just in case. He also packed a bunch of essentials, though mostly cloths, things you always pack for a trip.

Gregor grabbed a piece of toast with butter on it, and even that surprised him and his family, since he never ate in the morning. He grabbed a few more little things to bring with him. This included a small key chain light that he clipped to the belt around his waist.

Once Gregor was sure he was ready, he triple checked to see that he had extra pictures, extra picture of him and Luxa. He had photocopied the original a few times before, but the original held something more. . . sentimental then a piece of paper with the picture printed onto it. He usually kept the original with him, and he was doing so now, but he still kept the copies, 1 of which he was bringing, a couple he was leaving, just in case. He already knew he had Ares claw hanging from his neck, but because of the memories attached to it, he looked down at it to make sure it was there anyway.

Gregor must have drifted away in thought at some point because he suddenly realized that they were leaving in 5 minutes. He quickly grabbed his suitcase and loaded it into the back of the van.

"Gregor were going now, make sure you go to the bathroom one more time before we go, we don't want to have to stop halfway for no reason" Yelled Gregor's mom from the front seat of the van, ready to go.

Once Gregor was done with his "business" he went back out to the van and got into the middle of the 3 rows of seats. Both Zoey and Alex would be sitting in the same row as Gregor, he didn't mind but he knew that Zoey would be all over him the entire trip. He could stand it, he just hoped that neither Zoey or Alex brought up the underland, his mom would be pissed if she found out that Gregor told either of them, though Gregor knew it would come up one way or another.

Once everybody was ready, they set off on their trip, though it didn't truly start until they went and picked Zoey and Alex up. Once they got to Alex's house, they could see Alex dragging his bags out to the van.

"Hey guys how you doing?" Asked Alex once he had shoved all of his bags into the very back of the van.

"Good, you?" mumbled Gregor in his raspy voice.

"Well I'm very bored, and I assume hours of driving wont help that, so I brought every form of entertainment I could" responded Alex.

The entire group proceeded to drive down the street to Zoey's house, completely silent the entire time. Once they got to Zoey's house, Alex helped Zoey with her bags, and then allowed her to go in the car first, sticking her right next to Gregor. Gregor knew that he had done that on purpose, just for Zoey's benefit.

"Hey Gregor, hey Gregor's family" Said Zoey, her voice changing slightly when she greeted Gregor in particular.

"Hey" responded Gregor. It was amazing that Zoey still hadn't noticed that Gregor doesn't like her the way she like him, and if she has noticed, then she doesn't know that its hopeless.

The ride then began. Both of Gregor's friends had looked at the GPS, and realized that it was set to his old apartment, though they didn't tell Gregor when they noticed that he hadn't bothered to look at the GPS, they both knew that he was in for a surprise, and they both wanted to see that.

The drive continued for around 2-3 hours, all filled with dead silence. Zoey and Alex were both using their phones, and Gregor suspected that they were texting each other, probably about stuff that they didn't want Gregor to hear. Gregor could have sworn that he saw a picture of him as Zoey's background through the reflection on the window. Gregor knew that she had a huge thing for him, but really? That was just plain creepy. Gregor didn't say anything about it, because he knew it would only cause trouble.

By the time that the silence was disturbed, it was by the GPS.

"In 2 miles, make a left and continue for 1 mile to your destination"

This really caught Gregor's attention, it should be at least another 2 hours till they stop, so why were they stopping now? Gregor had been fixed in an awkward position, focusing on the back of the seat in front of him, but now he looked out he window and realized were they were. They were in New York. Gregor's thoughts instantly went strait to the underland. Would he be able to go back? Was everybody okay? How was Luxa doing? Then Gregor realized something else. His mom had invited Alex and Zoey, so that Gregor couldn't go down to the underland. This hit Gregor very hard, he knew exactly how it would work, and it mad shim miserable. He knew that he couldn't go back now, but he knew that even though he can control the urge at the moment, he wont be able to later, even with his friends here with him.

Both Alex and Zoey saw the sudden change in Gregor's mood, and they both knew that he was thinking about the underland. This made Zoey kind of sad, because she knew he wouldn't be able to resist the urge to go down, and she knew that in doing so that he would leave her in the overland. She knew that she only had so much longer left with him, so she decided that she would have to make the best out of that time.

"Gregor, are you okay?" Asked Zoey.

"Yes, I'm fine, it's just. . . never mind" responded Gregor.

Gregor's mom shot his dad a concerned look, and was about to say something when his dad just shook his head. The ride went for another 5 minutes, mostly because of all the traffic, but once they parked, Gregor was the first out of the car, and had all of his bags out by the time everybody else had started to pull their bags out.

"So kids, we are going to stay with Mrs. Cormaci for around 4 days, and then we are going to continue up to Maine, and Gregor, before you ask, NO NO AND NO" Addressed Gregor's mom to the entire group.

Everybody continued into the apartment complex. Once they reached the door, they all set down their bags, their arms were tired from carrying everything up the stairs, since the elevator still didn't work, even after all of these years.

Once they were all ready, they knocked on the door. The door opened up within 10 seconds, and Mrs. Cormaci appeared and started to greet them.

"Oh hello! Its been so long! You've all grown so much!" Said Mrs. Cormaci as she went around hugging everybody. It was one of those weird awkward moments when she hugged Zoey and Alex.

"Hey Mrs. Cormaci" Responded Gregor

Everybody proceeded to go into the apartment, Gregor went in last, and when he did Mrs. Cormaci whispered into his ear, "Sorry, no mail".

Gregor knew exactly what she had meant, she had meant whether or not she had received any new from the Underland. Once everybody was in the apartment, they all got spots, and then set up for the next 4 days. Gregor had noticed that Zoey had purposely set up within 2 feet of were he had set up, since it wasn't a very big apartment, that was just about all the space they could muster up in between them anyway. She was seriously taking advantage of every little thing to get closer to Gregor.

They all ate lunch that Mrs. Cormaci had prepared for them before they arrived, and then all settled down to do whatever. Gregor didn't know what to do, so he did what he usually did, he laid down, and stared up at the roof, sunken deep in an ocean of thoughts. It was only around Dinner that somebody bothered to shake him back to his senses.

"GREGOR, EARTH TO GREGOR, HELLO?" yelled Zoey in Gregor's ear as he stared at the roof.

"I'm here I'm here, now can you get out of my face please?" Asked Gregor as Zoey pulled away blushing, realizing that their faces had been inches away as she yelled in his face.

"Ok, now whats up?" asked Gregor.

"Dinner is ready, come on or Alex will eat it all!" said Zoey.

"ok ok, I'm going" responded Gregor.

Zoey just gave him one of her weird smiles, the type you have when staring at somebody you like, but when they don't see you staring. Gregor noticed this and just looked back at her, and she quickly looked away blushing. Gregor rolled his eyes at Zoey's actions. He was getting use to her being like this, but it was really starting to get excessive.

They had homemade pizza for dinner. It wasn't bad, in fact it tasted great, man, Gregor really missed Mrs. Cormaci's cooking. After dinner, Zoey wanted to go up onto the roof to watch the sunset, so Gregor took her up onto the roof to watch the sunset. While they were watching the sunset, Zoey decided that she wanted to chat a little.

"Gregor, your going to go back aren't you?" Asked Zoey, a pang of sadness in her voice.

"Well. . . I really want to, and I know I wont be able to resist the urge very long, I'm amazed that I've been able to resist for this long already" responded Gregor.

"I really don't want you to go, what if you go and don't come back?" Asked Zoey.

"Well when I left there was peace, I trust Luxa was able to keep it for 4 years, so it shouldn't be that dangerous, at least not as much as last time I was there" Responded Gregor.

"Well just. . . just please don't go. . . I don't know what I would do if you went and didn't come back" pleaded Zoey.

"I cant make any promises, I'm sorry but I just cant, I hope you understand" replied Gregor.

"I want to understand, but I can't. Why do you want to go back down so badly?" Asked Zoey.

"I'm sorry, but I can't tell you, it wouldn't be good if I did. You'll find out eventually whether I want you to or not" Said Gregor as he sat up and walked back inside, due to the sunset being over.

Gregor got into his makeshift bed, and laid there facing away from Zoey's makeshift bed. He heard he come back in and get in bed to. Using his Echolocation he could see that she was staring at him, with a look of sadness and concern.

The next morning he awoke without dream. He knew that Zoey and Alex were already awake, and they were still laying in bed, trying to act asleep. It was an awkward morning with little talking but eventually Gregor's mom broke the silence.

"So Gregor, why don't you take out Alex and Zoey to see around New York? They have never been here before you know" Said Gregor's mom.

"Ok, we can go once you guys are done Breakfast, ill be waiting outside the door" said Gregor as he walked off.

Gregor went to his bag and pulled out a few things. He always had his flashlights, and while he was in New York again, he really needed to make sure that he had them with him, the risk was much higher. He grabbed everything of possible use, though that wasn't much at all, it was basically some gum and the flashlights, plus a small pocket knife, with a blade around 3 inches.

Once Zoey and Alex came out of the apartment, they set off. Zoey and Alex wanted to go to a few famous landmarks, but they didn't have enough time to see many, so they took a cab to the empire state building. Once they were done there, it took so long that they went and got lunch. They all got burgers with fries, though Gregor only took like 3 bites from his burger, he wasn't really hungry.

Next they wanted to go to central park, so they took another cab to their destination. They took a nice long walk until both of them wanted to see the rock. He had tried to argue against it, but he only lasted around a minute against their combined efforts.

He took them to the rock, and they seemed fairly interested in it, though Gregor had to keep them from moving it aside.

As they were messing around a tail whipped out sweeping Zoey and Alex off of their feet, while Gregor saw it coming and jumped over it. He then spun around and caught it in his hand, but once he had a grip on it he was meant with a couple of claws held to his neck.

"Hello warrior, nice of you to come here" said a voice that Gregor instantly recognized as Ripred.

"Ripred!" Yelled Gregor as he spun away and threw a rock right into Ripred's face.

Gregor could see that Alex and Zoey and finally gotten back to their senses, and could see the giant rat. They both just stared in disbelief as Gregor and the rat started to talk.

"Well, I'm assuming your gonna drag me down now aren't you?" asked Gregor, kind of exited.

"Well, well yes, and seeing as to these 2 pups here have see so much already, I'm dragging them to" said Ripred.

"Oh no, bad choice bad choice, you don't wanna do that" responded Gregor

"Well I didn't ask you, know come on" Said Ripred while he literally picked them both up, they were both still frozen in fear and couldn't move.

Seeing that Gregor couldn't stop Ripred, he followed him down into the tunnel. They walked for a few minutes until they came to a hole. Ripred then tossed both Alex and Zoey through the hole, and then jumped himself.

"Oh god, what have I gotten them into? Mom is going to kill me!" Murmured Gregor to himself, he knew he was in for some sort of trouble soon, so he braced, and then he jumped.

Well that's the chapter guys! I know it's kind of boring, but it had to be done, but now that Gregor has arrived in the underland, things may start to get more interesting. Now let the Drama begin! So as usual, all responses appreciated and encouraged! See you guys later!

R&R peeps,

-Tytonic

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Tytonic-So what you guys think?

Zoey-Well you just had to make him go back didn't you!

Tytonic- Yes, yes I did

Zoey- How dare you!

Alex- Zoey, calm down, you know you cant do anything here.

*Zoey shut up, but was still fuming*

Gregor- well I'm exited, but pissed about these stupid cliffhangers!

Tytonic- well I had to, and seeing as to how I'm pissing everybody off here I'm sending you all back, bye!

*Everybody looks at Tytonic with looks that would kill somebody*

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See you guys later,

-Tytonic