


The three missing are assumed dead, and Gregor finds himself emotionally frozen at the thought of having lost his baby sister. Gregor and his bond Ares' worst trouble, however, is when they and the remaining questers become separated from the human queen Luxa, the cockroach Temp, and Boots during a fight with some serpents. He is what the Underland creatures call a "rager", a person who is overcome by a kind of "battle-fury" when they fight, making them completely deadly even without training. Gregor himself begins to struggle with a new "power" that manifests when he is in battle.

The Underland humans supported the siblings' mission because they believed it was prophesied by their founder, Bartholomew of Sandwich.ĭuring their journey, the questers are caught in a whirlpool, encounter an island of carnivorous insects, which results in Howard's bat, Pandora, being eaten alive, and are betrayed by the two shiners (fireflies) who were hired to provide them with light. Several months have passed since the events of the first novel, when Gregor and his baby sister Boots first fell into the subterranean city of Regalia (a part of the "Underland") and undertook a quest to save their father, who was being held prisoner by a group of Underland rats. Gregor and the Prophecy of Bane by Suzanne Collins
