


Temp

by FelixTheReader



Category: Underland Chronicles
Genre: Friendship
Language: English
Status: In-Progress
Published: 2014-01-26
Updated: 2014-02-04
Packaged: 2014-04-06 08:53:06
Rating: K+
Chapters: 2
Words: 411
Publisher: www.fanfiction.net
Story URL: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10054460/1/
Author URL: https://www.fanfiction.net/u/5480565/FelixTheReader
Summary: Years before Gregor's father entered the mysterious Underland, Vikus visits a crawler nest, and finds someone who will play a key role in the Underland Chronicles





	1. Chapter 1 - The Meeting

It was cold in the hollow cave, Vikus entered as a row of crawlers appeared. "Bring you here, what does bring you here?" said the leader

"Does it still bother you, after so many years?"

The crawlers jumped up, ready to fight. But Vikus merely stood there, smiling, his snowy beard making him seem much older than he was. A smaller crawler whispered "Forgive, we do not, a mistake, did Hamnet make."

A tear started forming on the rim of Vikus's eyes. "Hamnet is gone. What has been done is done. The gnawers are reaching The Fount. We need your help." The crawlers returned to a neutral position.

Just then, Vikus heard a clear laugh, coming from behind the Crawlers. The laugh grew louder, and a little antenna stuck out. A baby crawler ran out, "Who is this one?" asked Vikus. The leader's face softened, "Temp, he is, Temp." The baby ran up to Vikus, and exclaimed: "Be Vikus, you be!" Vikus laughed, and sent him back to his father. "Take care of him Jakool, I see great potential."


	2. Chapter 2 - The Warning

Temp scurried along the many little crawlers as they prepared to meet King Shantzi. They stopped as a sentry stepped before them. The leader of the group, his father, whispered something to the sentry, and in they went.

It was a common tradition that the little crawlers of the royal family would meet the King on their 1st birthday. The king smiled as he saw them. "Too long it has been, Jakool, too long it has been!" Shantzi exclaimed. His father replied "An honor it is, brother, an honor it is."

After a while of the brothers talking about nothing of importance, Shantzi said "The pups, they are, the pups?" Jakool gently replied "They are, yes, they are. Temp, he is, Temp..." And so on, he said the names of the little crawlers. They were Tick, Tac, Tak and Shak, the children of Jakool's cousin Sala.

Shantzi touched each of their heads with his antennas. And said a word of blessing to each one. But as Temp, the last in line came to see him, instead he said to him. "Touch a princess, do not, touch a princess do not. Rage, war will, rage!"

Jakool asked "What do you speak of, brother, what do you speak of?" Shantzi swiftly replied "Comes the time, you'll know, comes the time."

PS Sorry for the chapters being short, but the story will be quite long.


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