Gregor and the War of the Myriapods Chapter 7: A Warm Welcome, an underland chronicles fanfic

Hello people of FanFiction! I know I haven't updated in a few days, but don't expect me to update as much as I have lately, I've just been having ideas flow through my head like a river, but right now it seems that that river is starting to dry up, and fill up with a sequel. Yes, I said it, a sequel, I've only just started the first story and I'm already planning a sequel. I have more ideas for this sequel then I have for this story anyway, so its weird. Basically the only thing I haven't decided is for the main character (I know, its not Gregor, but it will still be great!) if whether they are going to be a boy or a girl, I will probably leave that up to you guys. So, I have just started a community on fanfiction, it is name The Underland Chronicles, creative right? Well I have filled it with some of my favorite underland stories, and this story as well. If you want to join, you must have a story to post on it, and then you must contact me. I think a pm would work just fine. Well off of one topic and onto another, the story! I'm not very confident in this chapter, I honestly have no clue how to build it up, so I'm just running on vapors here. If it doesn't turn out well or if you guys don't like it I will probably re-write it. The problem here is how to stage the drama between Zoey and Luxa. Thank you guys so much for 500 views! Its been almost 2 week now and a whopping 500?! Well I'm speechless. So I say eyes on the horizon! Forth unto 1,000! So tell me how you guys like the chapter and as usual, all responses are encouraged and appreciated! See you guys at the end of the chapter!

See you guys later,

-Tytonic

Disclaimer: I do not own any of The Underland Chronicles, only the characters I make up, and of course the plot of this story.

Gregor and the War of the Myriapods

Chapter 7: A Warm Welcome

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.

Gregor has just jumped. . .

Falling, falling, falling, still falling. Why did Ripred do this to him? Using echolocation Gregor could see that a bat has already caught all 3 of the others, though both of his friends were still frozen in shock. He would never get used to the sensation of falling, especially since his nightmares always involved him falling to his death.

He could tell by echolocation that he was approaching the ground, or should he say water, due to the fact that he was above the waterway. He knew they would catch him, and that Ripred just intended to scare him, though he wasn't scared, but rather annoyed.

At around 10 feet from the water's surface Gregor felt a bat slip underneath him pulling him up and out of the fall. He was quickly being carried up the the group, and he was fairly certain he could see Zoey and Alex, both Slowly, but surely, grabbing hold of their senses. As Gregor got closer he prepared to Mouth off to Ripred.

"Really Ripred? I know you tried to scare me and all, and even though you failed, do you really have to do that?" Asked Gregor, very irritated.

"Actually yes I did have to do that, you have to get used to falling again, for you may be doing a lot of it during your stay here" Responded Ripred, with a devilish grin on his face. They both knew he had tried to scare Gregor, and yet Ripred came up with some stupid excuse. Why did Gregor ever miss this old rat?

"Well putting that aside, we are coming up quickly on Regalia" Said Ripred, breaking the awkward silence that was starting to form.

It took them around 2 more minutes before Gregor could see light, and a view he had missed all to much, but instead of flying to the palace, they flew around the city to the entrance of the arena, and landed around 100 yards from the entrance.

"Why are we landing here? Shouldn't we go to the palace?" Asked Gregor in confusion.

"Yes, but I have to have some run right? They wont recognize you, at least not the guards. There is a rather large performance going on right now, so it will be fun to see what happens, just don't tell them who you are ok? I have to go tell Luxa that I have talked to you, and that I will meet you at the gateway around midnight, I wan this to be a shock to everybody" Said Ripred with another devilish grin on his face. This type of thing was the reason Gregor had always missed the old rat.

By this time, Alex and Zoey had both regained most of their senses, but were still unable to talk do to shock. He could imagine why, giant rats, giant bats, stone cities. Who wouldn't have a bad reaction to that? Gregor had had a bad reaction as well. Gregor just waved his 2 friends to follow him, and they got the idea and started to put one foot in front of the other.

It took them about 5 minutes to walk the 100 yards, mostly because of his friends stumbling and tripping over rocks due to the darkness. Gregor guessed the could now talk, but were to surprised to want to.

Once Gregor and his friends reached the entrance to the arena, they could hear the loud roar of people cheering on whatever they were watching, probably some sort of sport. After a moment of mentally preparing, they walked through he curtain of moths and into the brightly lit arena. There were bad with riders playing some sort of game, kind of like basketball, just flying on bats instead.

Gregor assumed that he was not expected due to the sudden silence, the large gasp, and the circle of guards that had just surrounded them. Gregor did his best to act like he didn't know what any of this was, but he couldn't act surprised, he had partially expected something similar to this, just not the faces with the intent to kill plastered onto them.

"Umm, Gregor?" murmured Zoey Just loud enough for Gregor to hear, as she clung to his side. They didn't want them to know he was Gregor if this was to be a joke, though Gregor suspected that it wasn't going to be so funny after all.

"What is your purpose here overlander?" Asked the guard who seemed to in charge, addressing Gregor.

Gregor remained silent. He wasn't ignoring the guard, he just hadn't been paying attention, he had been looking at the girl with silver hair and purple eyes, the one that had a golden band on her head. Luxa.

Gregor assumed it had been a few minutes. This was mostly filled with the guard asking him things, and Gregor not replying. Eventually the guard had had enough of it and put op his hand, signaling something.

Gregor didn't know what it meant at first, but quickly caught on when 3 of the guards moved in on Gregor, 2 with swords held out and the 3rd with binds in his hands, ready to take all 3 of the overlander's prisoner. Gregor wouldn't allow that.

As the first Guard attempted to grab Gregor arm, Gregor grabbed the man wrist, yanked him towards himself, and then quickly with one quick jab to the neck knocked him unconscious. Gregor quickly, with speed only a rager could muster, swung his leg up and connected it to the side of the other guards face. If the kick hadn't knocked him out the impact of his head on the ground did. Gregor then proceeded to whack the guard that had the binds right in the forehead, knocking him out as well. By the time those 3 had gone down, the other guards had finally realized what actually happened, it was all to fast for them to react to.

Only 6 guards remained surrounding them, and the Man that seemed to be in charge stood just outside the circle, watching the whole scene go down. Gregor could feel the full rager coming on, and he let most of it take controls, just enough so that he could still prevent himself from killing the men.

Gregor quickly ducked beneath a sword swinging at him and elbowed the guard in the side of the head, while at the same time brining his left leg up to meet the side of another guards head. In that 1 move he had knocked out 2 guards, yet following that he quickly swept another guard off his feet, smashed his head into the ground, and dodged another sword strike. He grabbed the hilt of the sword, and pushed it right back into the guards head, thus knocking him out as well. He then jumped over a low swing of a sword, and kicked the guard in the gut, and at the same time whacked him in the head, knocking him out as well. All that remained was 1 guard and the Leader of this small team of guards. Lightning fast Gregor slid over the the last guard and jabbed his neck with his hand, knocking him out as swell.

Gregor had done all of this in around a 8 second time period. All who remained was the Leader. He stared at Gregor, and quickly raised his sword into a ready position.

"Well I assume its safe to say that none of us expected that, but now you face your challenge" Said the man in over confidence, Gregor knew that would be his downfall, overconfidence led to destruction, especially in the underland.

The man charged Gregor clumsily, and swung his sword at Gregor, but instead of swing through, he came up short on purpose and brought his elbow back around to meet Gregor's face. Gregor had to admit, the man was fast, but when the elbow swung, it never hit its target, instead the man fell to the ground as Gregor jabbed him in a few places very quickly. The man would never even have the chance to wonder how Gregor had gotten behind him so fast, he was unconscious before he knew what happened.

Gregor knew it was safe to assume that he had shocked everybody, due to the fact that a loud gasp erupted out of the crowd, and everyone in the crowd started whispering to one another. Gregor could see Ripred staring at him from next to Luxa as she whispered into Ripred's ear. He saw Ripred nod, and then jump out of the booth were royalty was seated, and into the center of the arena. This shut everybody up immediately.

"Pick up a sword boy, you may now face your true challenge" Said Ripred with a large grin plastered to his face.

Gregor, using his foot, threw a sword up off of the ground and up into his hand, he walked about a foot before doing the same to another. He now had 2 fairly decent swords, one in each hand. He knew Ripred had planned this battle since the moment they saw each other again. Ripred was going to try to humiliate him in front of an entire crowd.

They both slid into ready positions and started to circle each other, waiting for an opening. It was around 30 seconds before they both sped forward lightning fast and claws met swords, both attacks canceled out by the other. Their faces were about 5 inches from one another.

"Lets put on a show for these people shall we boy?" Asked Ripred, just quiet enough so that only Gregor could hear him.

"I though you would never ask" Responded Gregor, still quiet so only Ripred could hear him.

The 2 stayed int the position, both with huge grins on their faces, weapon on weapon. Gregor knew they were both waiting for the other to make a move, so he decided to end the block, and swung one sword around at Ripred. It was so fast it would have hit any normal Soldier, but Ripred being Ripred, h brought up his claws to block the blow. He almost blocked it when Gregor's sword got yanked down just inches before making contact with the claws. It was then pushed back up, a low that would have gone strait up through the bottom of Ripred's chin if he hadn't kicked him leg up using his foots claws to block the blow just centimeters before it killed him. The fight continued as a back and forth fight like this for around 20 minutes, neither of them obtaining so much as a scratch.

The pattern was soon broken by Gregor blocking a large blow from Ripred, with only 1 of his swords. The blow was so strong that Gregor had to swing up to stop the blow coming down. The blow was so powerful that it snapped the sword in half, thus letting Gregor's now half sword continue forward. Gregor stopped the sword as he held it onto Ripred throat. If this were a real fight, Ripred would have been killed instantly.

Ripred knew he had just lost, and stopped the counter attack that he was swinging, not that mattered, if the fight were real, Gregor would have killed Ripred before the attack came even within feet of Gregor.

Gregor was just as surprised as Ripred, and the crowd was even more surprised. Gregor had just bested the strongest being in the entire underland. Gregor backed off, ignoring the rapid yells and whispers from the crowd.

He backed up and went over to Zoey, he had to put both his arms around her to calm her down. She seemed to be having a panic attack, similar to what Lizzie used to have. After around a minute of hugging her and whispering soothing words into her ear she calmed down and was once again perfectly fine, aside from the fact that she was miles underground surrounded by people that could kill her without a second though in seconds flat. As Gregor stood back up he heard Ripred announcing something to the Crowd, while signaling Gregor over to him. Gregor wasn't concerned about what Ripred had to say, he was more concerned that he had just made it seem like he and Zoey were in love, while Luxa was watching their every move, he didn't know what this would do to whatever was left of their relationship after 4 years.

When Gregor got over to Ripred, he stood beside the rat, as Ripred addressed the entire crown, shutting them all up instantly.

"You may all be concerned that I, your best fighter, has just been bested in a fight by an overlander! I however am not concerned, I may have taken a blow to my pride, but it has done no harm! I am grateful to reintroduce you all to this overlander! I Introduce you all to Gregor, The warrior of legend, the savior of the underland!" Boomed Ripred as he addressed everybody in the arena.

The arena exploded in a tornado of cheers and claps, the savior of the underland had returned.

Luxa's Point of View

Luxa was so shocked when she saw this overlander best Ripred. He had bested the greatest fighter Luxa had ever know, and he was but a mere overlander, was everybody in the overland that good of a fighter? Luxa highly doubted it.

Luxa was sunken deep in an ocean of thoughts when Ripred's voice came ripping through the various sounds that were being thrown around the arena.

Luxa's heart stopped at the words that had just flooded into her head. It made so much sense, why he had been able to beat Ripred. It was because they were both rager's, not just Ripred. Only a rager could stand even the slightest chance against Ripred, let alone beat him.

She was filled with joy, yet at the same time nocked over by sorrow. She was ecstatic that Gregor had returned, but also sad due to the fact that he had just displayed what seemed like deep affection to this overland girl. She knew it, somewhere deep inside she knew Gregor would have forgotten her. She should have been able to forget him as well, she should have cut any strings that held them together in anyway whatsoever.

Luxa couldn't old in her emotions much longer, she would have to leave. She was about to turn around and walk away when she saw Gregor turn to her. She stared back at him, she couldn't see any trace of emotion on his face. She couldn't stand to look at him. She knew she had to forget, she knew that even if he still loved her they couldn't be together. They held this gaze until the overland girl noticed the gaze they were throwing at each other. The girl gave Luxa a death glare and grabbed Gregor's hand, pulling him out of the gaze they had been locked in.

Luxa Turned around and walked away, she needed to be alone, she needed to let her emotions out. The feeling she was feeling was worse then when he had left. He had forgotten her, he had forgotten everything they had gone through together. Luxa felt like dying. She felt like life wasn't worth it anymore. She had been fueled on the small possibility that he may return for her eventually. Now he has returned, but with somebody else, and he had forgotten about her. She now wanted only to get this upcoming war over with so that he would leave. So that she could finally begin to heal, so that she could finally begin to move on, for real.

All strings holding the warrior and the queen together had already been thin and weak, but now, it seems that they had just been cut through, destroying anything the 2 may have previously had together.

Ohhh ya, that turned out much better then I would have expected, though I think I could have made it better. I love the ending I used to this chapter, how any relationship Gregor and Luxa had was destroyed by a simple misunderstanding. Well there you go to everybody who has been saying not to pair them up immediately. Well now the next few chapters are going to be very interesting, especially since Zoey is like a wedge in between Gregor and Luxa. Well tell me how you guys liked the chapter! As usual all responses are encouraged and appreciated, so write a comment! I want to know what you think of the story! Well I am probably posting a new chapter tomorrow. I am so determined to finish this story, I don't wanna be one of those people that says ill update the next day and then just completely abandon the story. Well I guess ill see you guys soon!

R&R people of FanFiction,

-Tytonic

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Tytonic- Hello Gregor, Hello Luxa

*Luxa is crying, apparently over Gregor*

*Gregor moves over to her to comfort her and she gets up and runs away crying*

Gregor- Dude, you just had to didn't you!?

Tytonic- *sigh* Gregor, you will understand in due time, its all in the interest of the story, so now before you kill me, or before Luxa hurts herself on modern technology, I'm going to say goodbye to both of you.

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Tytonic- I need like a cage to put them in while here before one of them either destroys my house, or kills me. *sigh*

See you guys later,

-Tytonic