The Sadness After ( The Underland Chronicals )

Chapter 1

Gregor lays on the floor in his new house in Virginia, next to his bed because it was to warm in the room. He tries to drift into unconscious, but he can't. He doesn't want to while he does. He knows if he falls asleep he'll go back to hell. He doesn't want to go back but his eyelids get heavy, he tries to keep them open but the darkness envelopes him.

      He is sitting near a bed in a Regalian hospital he looks around, there are rows  of beds of soilders and fliers, he watch's them all moaning and crying in pain. He looks down to the bed in front of him... Luxa. He tries to cry out but he can't. She opens her mouth to speak, " Why would you run Gregor, what were you thinking?". The endless beds of soilders turn to look at him, they all screech "Why" "WHY" louder and louder. He tries to cover his ears but he can't stop the noises.

"Aaaaaaahh!" Gregor screamed as he returned to the real world. He looks to the clock, 6:30. How could such a horrible dream come from only an hour of sleep. He hears his door slam open as his mom rushes in. "Are you ok honey?" She asks in her normal perinpiod voice, Gregor thinks that she isn't perinpiod anymore, she fakes it.

" I'm fine mom" he says.

"You sure?" She asks.

"Yeah, I'm ok" Gregor says as he gets up and heads to the door to go to the shower. His mom moves and he walks to the bathroom. The shower is cold but he doesn't notice, he stands there, lost. His mind takes over and the outside is gone. The images of Ares and twitchip come back in waves, each one punching him, hurting him, destroying him.

The only thing that takes him put of his trance is the pounding of the door. "GREGOR ,my turn for the shower." Yells boots over the water. He shuts it off and wraps a towel around his waist and opens the door. There stands boots, the embodiment of happiness, always smiling, on her toes, always wanting to play games.

She's happy because she doesn't remember.   

"Move Gregor, I need to go." Boots tells him, pushing him out of the way and closes the door. Gregor walks to his room and gets dressed. First day of school. Yay.

In the kitchen he finds a plate with eggs and toast with a side of pills. Do the pills even do anything, doesn't seem like it. Ones and antidepressant another is supposed to help with the PTSD, he also has one for ADHD. He throws them to the back of his throat and swallows. Nothing. Nothing changes. Feels the same.

He eats his eggs and toast while staring blankly out the window at the dirt road out front his house, on the other side is the corn field. It's almost harvest season so all of that's gonna be gone at some point so he'll see the cows on the other side of the corn field.

"You better get going, you'll miss the bus." Says his mom eyeing his bag on the ground.

"What time is it?" He askes.

"7:30" she replies

"Oh crap, I gotta hurry, give me a sec" he says as he bolts to his room. He barges in and rips into his bed side drawer. He digs to the bottom and grabs his picture of him and Luxa, he gazes into her photoed eyes and puts it in his pocket and goes back in for his black bat toy. He finds it and puts it in the same pocket.

He leaves his room and gets his bag at the door, "Bye, mom" Gregor says on his way out

"Bye Gregor" she says as he closes the door. Gregor runs to the street corner where he catches his breath for a second and hears the bus coming. "Ok, Gregor, act normal and try to keep a low profile." He wispers under his breath as the bus pulls up. "Huh?" Says a voice. Gregor jumps and looks to see the voice, it's a boy with long wavy, brown hair with an average build.

"N-nothin" Gregor spits out.

"Ok, also hi I'm Brandon." The boy says "Your the new kid right?".

"Y-yeah, I am." Gregor says. "I'm Gregor".

"Hey Gregor, wanna sit with me and my friend on the bus?" Brandon asks.

"Yeah, that'd be cool." Gregor says as he regains composer.

"Ok follow me" says Brandon as he gets on the bus, Gregor follows to the back of the bus. Brandon sits next to a small ,blonde boy who looks pretty strong.

"This is Ryan, Ryan this is Gregor." Says Brandon.

"Hi Gregor, I'm Ryan, you're the new kid right?" Asks Ryan

"Yeah I'm the new kid." Says Gregor

Gregor sits down and the bus starts moving towards the school. At least he has some people he 'knows', maybe this new school won't be so bad. Then the heckeling comes.

"Hey new kid," yells a voice, then Gregor feels a kick in the back of his seat and a head comes over the seat. He had jacket on with a J on it, probably for the school. He was a large kid and was probably over 6 foot and had a decent amount of muscle. "What are you doing, huh, thinkin you can come to my school." He said.

"My family moved so I had to go here." Gregor responds.

"Well," The boy hisses, "Don't expect a good time, newbie."

They sit in silence until they reach the school and get off the bus and after they get near the school, Ryan tells Gregor to not worry about him he is a popular kid and hangs with the group of jocks and football players.

Gregor looks at the doors of the school and stands there, scared and excited of what's to come. His new 'friends' call him to come in and he walks towards the doors.