Shadows of the Past

Chapter 10

"Hi I'm Hazard, and who are you?"

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I look behind me, and see and tall boy, with bright green eyes, like grass during a warm summer day, in those movies, and ebony black hair, that curled into tight ringlets and that really pale skin, so pale, its almost translucent.

"I'm Maggie," I held out my hand, and he shook it, "Can you help me? I'm kinda lost,"

"Sure, where?"

"Ummm my room. I know the general location of it,"

"Okay, than let's go,"

My mind was blank, but I didn't concentrate on where Hazard was leading me. Hazard, that name sounds familiar. Gregor said that I had been down here before, when I was 2, but I don't believe him. The one story of the underground jungle, the only one he told me, seemed too far fetched to be true, but seeing these giant rats, bats, and almost translucent people, make it seen like it could be true.

"Hazard, Maggie?" I hear a familiar voice, I snap out of thought and look to see who it was.

"Gregor and Lizzie," I say happily, running to their side. Gregor walks up to Hazard they start talking.

"How have you been?"

"Good. I've been traveling all over the Underland to work out peace treaties,"

"Thats super cool,"

"So you brought the Princesses,"

"Yep, I'm their only family left,"

"Oh, I have to get to a meeting with the crawlers," He sighs. Gregor places a hand on his shoulder.

"Take it easy buddy," Hazard smiles and walks away, "What do you girls want to do?"

"Can we go to the library?"

"Of course," We follow Gregor, leading us the way he and Lizzie came.

"Can't believe he still remembers how to navigate this place after 10 years," Lizzie whispers to me.

"I can hear you, you know," Lizzie laughs, as do I.

"What's so funny?" It was Luxa, walking towards Gregor.

"Their being stupid," Lizzie glares at him and smacks the back of his head, "Ow," Luxa and I giggle, as Gregor was rubbing the back of his head. He turns around and chases after Lizzie, who promptly ran off. I follow him, I can hear Luxa's footsteps behind me, also following him. By the time I got there, Gregor had Lizzie pinned to the floor, and was tickling her.

"That'll teach you a lesson," He says getting off of her and walking towards Luxa. I hold out my hand and Lizzie takes it, I pull her up. She was wiping tears from her eyes.

"No it will not," She says to Gregor, who gives her the death stare. I laugh. This was normal, Lizzie irritating Gregor, or vise versa, and a chase down before a tickle fight. I stayed out of it, as often as I could.

It was a silent walk from where we were to the Library. Gregor had taken Lizzie and I there, before walking off with Luxa. Under the condition that we be quiet. We both nodded, and went our separate ways.

I found myself in a section, full of classics. Mostly Shakespeare, and other authors I didn't know. I grabbed one full of Shakespeare's poems, and walked to a chair.

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Luxa had business to attend to, she kissed me on the cheek and went off, shortly after dropping Maggie and Lizzie off. I wandered into the museum, it was as full as ever. There were large and ornate clocks, a violin, and a butt ton of other things. On one of the shelves was a small black velvet box. I open it and look inside.  I close the box, and shove it in my pocket and made my way back to the library.

I have to do it at the right time. When is that?

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Yay! Another chapter!!