Gregor and the Prophecy of Death (Book 7)

Chapter 17

Out of all 'foreign brutes' anyone could imagine, this wasn't one of them. The creature that appeared out of the loom in front of them was at least 6 feet or the average size of a rat. It had a lean longish body with 4 short legs armed with 3 inch claws. And don't even get started with it's teeth. The creature has 7 inch fangs that stood out on either side of its face. The rest of the teeth sharp as a blade. Gregor had no time to take a good look at their new found friend who immediately attacked them. As the only person who was trained in combat, Gregor had to protect both homeland Hazard from the creature's attacks. It seemed every move he just managed to reflect another one was coming for him again, and again and again. Then he heard the door open. The huge stone door that blocked them from the palace. Someone was coming to help them. This made Gregor relax a bit and he unfortunately forgot he was fighting for two people. Just as his opponent left him to descend on Hazard it made a squeaking noise of pain and dropped lifeless. Gregor looked towards the door. In the faint light of the torches on the outside of the door, he saw a shaking Lizzie, still paralysed I'm the position she shot the arrow in. Hazard has gotten off the floor and was looking at Gregor.

"You alright?" Gregor asked him.

"Yea I'm fine," he said shortly. He was mad. Really mad. At something Gregor didn't know. He knew for sure it wasn't him. Then who? Lizzie? That wouldn't really make sense since he was supposed to be in love with her.

He stormed towards the door of the tunnels. "Are you ok?" Lizzie asked him at the door.

Hazard seemed to snap. "Yes, I'm ok but why do you care? What are you even doing here anyways? You know what, just stop helping us with this. All you're doing is putting us in danger!"

He then stormed off with his bloody, injured arm. Lizzie stared after him with a defeated look on her face. She finally gave in and burst into tears running away from the tunnel. Gregor walk towards the door until he met Ripred right beside it.

"What's going on here?" Ripred asked raising his eyebrows.

"I don't know. You tell me," Gregor replied jokingly.

"I think you know enough boy," Ripred said giving him a playful shove.

"At the moment I don't think things are going so well," Gregor said as the walked out of the tunnel and bolted the door shut.

"Forget that. Is all this about the prophecy?" Ripred asked him.

"What, no. Why would you think that?" Gregor said.

"You're a horrible lier. You tell me everything you know after lunch or your done," Ripred threatened as the both made their way to the High hall.

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Lizzie POV

Great. Now Hazard is injured and is mad at me for putting them in danger? Caring about him? This is all so stupid and on top of it, I'm lost. Like really lost. I know I've been here before but the memory and trauma of what has just happened made my brain fuzzy. I had stopped crying by now but tears threatened to roll out my eyes. I sat down in a random hallway with my back to the wall and let them take over. I didn't even know what the tears were for. Frustration? Shock? Maybe even a potential heart break. I sit there tears rolling down my face. That was until I heard foot steps. I quickly scrambled into the nearest room to me that was covered by a curtain. I sat in the corner of this unknown room hardly breathing. The pair had just entered the hallway and I was met with voices.

"We'll what happened is Hazard found out the moon part of the prophecy we talking about the song 'Over the moon'. So then we got the song and it was talking about sandwich's book 'Wonders of the Overland' that we couldn't get until the day of the wedding. The song pointed to look at page 153. This is where Lizzie comes in. The page was blank and needed this special light we have in the Overland so Lizzie used her phone for that. It told us to go to the cave where I met Fangor and Shed. And there were marks of secret all over those walls. Hazard translated them and we found out it wanted us to go to one of the entrances to the Overland. So Hazard and Lizzie went the day after the wedding and got some clue that Lizzie decoded and it told us to go to the caves under the palace. I guess now we have our 'foreign brutes' but I need to talk to Hazard," I heard Gregor explain to Ripred. I decided to come out to them now he was done. "About multiple things act- Oh! Lizzie there you are. What are you doing?

"Umm I was just calming down?" I said not really knowing my answer.

"Did you look around the museum?" Ripred asked me.

"What museum?"

"You were just in there dumbass," Gregor said with a grin. He always found a way to get back at me. He went into the room I was just in. "Come on."

While I was too focused on distress and panic to notice the shelves and shelves of random Overland junk. They had everything from old pennies to umbrellas and cameras. "What is all this?" I asked.

"Items Overlanders have lost to the grate," Ripred said.

I kept looking around the room at all the random items. "It's like thrifting," I said to Gregor. "Hey! Look what I found!"

Gregor came over to where I was kneeling over and object. "Remember when I was obsessed with getting these?"

"Oh yea. The binoculars with built on lights. I don't know why you wanted those so bad," Gregor said.

"Yea I don't either. I guess I thought it was just so cool. Can I keep this?" I asked.

"Of course. You can keep anything down here. Maybe it might even come in useful."