Rise of the Zealots
Return of the blue macaws
Chapter 3: kidnapped
Hello everyone, I'm back with chapter 3 of the story. Nothing much to say in this author's note, other than enjoy the chapter and don't forget to drop that review.
The next day during early afternoon, Blu and Jewel were spending the day outside near their home with their children outside. As the family of six were enjoying the day to themselves, they never expected the worse to happen anymore, especially after these past six months. Blu was playing a game of soccer with his family. It was the guys VS the girls and since they were three boys and three girls in their family, then this team worked out great.
Blu kicked the ball with all his might and scored a goal past Crystal, who was in goal. The goal was more of a group of vines together to serve as a net. He cheered with his sons in celebrating of their victory. "We won! We won!"
"Woo-hoo!" Rey and Azul cheered simultaneously.
"Great game, everyone." Jewel praised with a smile
Now that was something to pass the time for a while. The family was going to agree to another game in a few minutes as soon as they rested up.
Blu took a drink out of some water he brought for everyone earlier this day. "Refreshing. Nothing like a good game of sports with my family."
"It's good that we can finally spend the time together we couldn't before." Jewel agreed as she took a sip of her own water. "All the craziness we had to deal with took up a lot of our time. I'm glad it finally ended those six months ago. This is the life I wanted, Blu."
"I couldn't agree more, beautiful." Blu said smiling. He leaned over while they were flying and pecked her on the beak. "Now what do you say we-"
"DAD!" Rey screeched at the top of his lungs.
Before Blu even had the chance to blink, he was tackled out of the sky by a large powerful figure who took him all the way to the ground. As if Blu and Jewel's previous conversation was to be proven a lie, it looked like they had even more trouble to deal with. The large figured knocked down onto the ground and proceeded to pick him up in his gigantic talon.
Blu gasped as he felt his throat being crushed. He clutched his wings against the attacker's talon as he was lifted off the ground with his talons dangling. Now he finally got the chance to identify the mysterious bird attacking him. He was a scarlet macaw with the usual appearance of an average scarlet macaw but with a hairstyle spiked up slightly. To finish off, he was huge! Around the size of Kirilenko, that huge dark macaw he faced during the fight with Nexus and the dark macaws.
"LET HIM GO!" Jewel demanded as she flew down as fast as she could like a missile. She landed on the scarlet macaw's back and dug her claws deep into his back.
"Ahh!" the scarlet macaw grunted and released Blu from his grip.
Blu collapsed down onto his stomach and coughed for oxygen.
Rey, Azul and Crystal watched in fear as they merely stood nearby and hoped their parents could defeat this big macaw. Jessica, however, hid behind some large grass in fear and remained silent. She tried to call out to her brothers and sisters and tell them to hide, but due to the commotion and her low voice, they could not hear her.
The large scarlet macaw lifted his wings and grabbed onto Jewel, pulling her off of his back. He pushed her in front of him and did not hesitate to deliver a single powerful blow to her stomach. Jewel grunted and tried to cope with the pain. It served as enough of a distraction for him to kick her into a nearby tree, knocking her unconscious.
Blu, who had witnessed this just after recovering, cried out in rage and charged towards the scarlet macaw. He curled his wing into a fist and struck a direct hit to the scarlet macaw's stomach. Due to the scarlet macaw either being strong or Blu's lack of training, or maybe both, Blu's strike did not seem to affect him in anyway. The scarlet macaw laughed and grabbed Blu in his gigantic talon.
"Put me down!" Blu ordered, slamming his wings against the scarlet macaw's talon.
"No-one gives the orders around here except me." the scarlet macaw responded, speaking in a Spanish accent. He used his wings to balance himself and slammed Blu to the ground with one talon while using the other talon to grip his beak.
Blu struggled and attempted to get free, but the large scarlet macaw was not letting go. He attempted to tell his children to run away, but they could not understand him. After a moment of struggling, Blu was put to sleep from lack of oxygen. Now that he and Jewel were subdued, the large scarlet macaw proceeded to turn his attention towards the blue macaw kids who stood together in fear.
The scarlet macaw chuckled and began to approach them, slowly to make them feel more terrified of him. "What do we have here?"
"Leave us alone!" Crystal barked as she and her brothers stepped back away from him.
"I am afraid none of you are in any position to make demands." the scarlet macaw informed them. He spoke in a much more calm attitude compared to the other villains they faced in the past. "Now the three of you are coming with me. If you refuse, then I will be forced to dispose of your parents."
The kids were old enough to understand what he meant by this. By now, they were back up against a tree with nowhere else to go.
"NO!" Rey yelled in fear of his parents being killed.
"Don't hurt our mom and dad!" Crystal pleaded with fear in her tone.
"Then cooperate and they were will remain unharmed." the scarlet macaw reassured. He knelt down to them, causing the kids to lean their heads back when he got closer to them. He chuckled and placed his gigantic wing around the three. "Now, let us take a walk, shall we?"
"Dad...Daddy!...Daddy! Please wake up, Daddy! Please! Wake up!"
The sounds of his youngest daughter pleading for him caused Blu to finally open his eyes after being put to sleep by his attacker. He groaned and used his wings to lift himself up. His vision was not clear at first, but after blinking his eyes a few times, he could see again fine. The first thing he noticed was Jessica standing in front of him with Jewel nearby.
"Daddy!" Jessica cried in relief, jumping into her father's wings.
"Jessica." Blu sighed in relief and hugged his youngest daughter close, relieved to see that she was safe. "Are you okay?"
Jessica nodded and rested her head against her father's chest.
Blu hugged her for a few more seconds until he heard someone else groaning. He quickly jumped onto his talons and ran over to Jewel, who was recovering herself after being knocked into submission. "Jewel!"
He used one wing to help her stand and checked if she was okay and not injured fatally in anyway.
"Blu." Jewel sighed and hugged him for a few seconds. "I'm glad you're okay."
"I could say the same about you." Blu smiled and stroked the side of her face.
Jewel noticed that Blu's right eye had sustained injury. It was now bruised and slightly swollen. "Blu, you're eye."
"It's just a little swollen, Jewel." Blu assured while he set Jessica down onto the ground. He touched his injured eye for a moment, but then it occurred to him that Rey, Azul and Crystal had not yet said a word since he woke up. "Rey? Azul? Crystal? Are you kids okay?"
There was no response.
"Kids!" Blu called out, now beginning to worry. He quickly picked up Jessica with a worried expression across his face. "Jessica, where are your brothers and sister?!"
"I...I don't know." Jessica admitted sadly. She looked away, ashamed that she did nothing to help, but then again, there was nothing she could have done to prevent what had occurred. "I...I hid when that big bird attacked. I was scared."
Blu did not respond and looked towards Jewel, who in return, looked extremely nervous. He placed Jessica onto his back and quickly began to look around the area of their home just in case there was a slight chance Rey, Azul and Crystal may be hiding nearby and were just waiting to be found.
Blu desperately searched the entire area of his and Jewel's home for any sign of their children or the mysterious stranger who kidnapped them, but he was unable to find anything. "Kids! Kids!" he called out to no avail. "Kids!"
"Kids!" Jewel called out, searching inside nearby tree hollows that were uninhabited, but she too was unable to find anything.
The two blue macaws search desperately for their three children, but they were gone. Whoever had taken them was long gone and there was nothing they could do to find them.
Jewel, feeling heartbroken without her children, collapsed to the ground, crying heavily out from her eyes. "No!...My kids...My babies..."
Blu was deeply upset and wanted nothing more than to get his children back, but it was his duty to take care of his wife too. He landed down on the ground beside him and comforted her with a hug, allowing her to cry tears into his chest. "It's okay, Jewel. It's okay."
"Blu, how is it okay?" Jewel inquired, closing her eyes as her tears had left damp marks under her eyes. "Our children have been kidnapped. I want them back!"
"Jewel, I promise you, we're going to find our kids and then we're going to make however took them pay." Blu assured his wife, stroking her head down to her neck to comfort her. "I promise. No-one takes our family and gets away with it."
"But...But what are we going to do?" Jewel inquired, trying to prevent herself from crying further. "We have no idea where they could be, no leads, nothing."
"I'll get them back, Jewel." Blu reassured, as he rose a determined expression. He leaned back and placed his wings upon her shoulders. "Jewel, Jewel, I need to look at me know. I know you're upset, I am too, but this is important."
Jewel obeyed and looked up towards him, her eyes filled with tears.
"Take Jessica and go to Linda's bookstore." Blu requested, lifting her chin up when she looked away again. "You and Jessica will be safe there, I promise. I'll find Nico and Pedro and send them there too, okay?"
Jewel nodded in response. "Okay, but after that, I'm coming back. You'll need my help."
"Jewel, no. I can't risk something happening further." Blu explained, but his words did not look like they were getting through to her. He sighed, knowing she was not going to take no as an answer. "Okay. Stay there until I find some leads. I promise that the second I find out where our children are, I'll come and get you, and we'll get them back together."
"...Together." Jewel sniffed and held Blu's wings in her own.
Blu and Jewel looked into one another's eyes for a moment while holding wings. They moved their faces closer to one another's until their beaks locked and they shared an romantic yet farewell kiss for now. After they finished their kiss, Blu placed Jessica onto Jewel's back before bidding the two farewell. Jewel extended her wings and took flight into the sky, setting course for the city of Rio de Janeiro where they would be safe.
Now Blu was alone, just like when he was in that alternative world. He had no idea where to start looking yet. The place he decided to check was his home. He only took a quick look in there a moment ago, but now he could look properly.
Blu flew up to his home and landed inside the hollow to begin his investigation. His eyes were averted towards the end of the tree hollow when he nothing something that was not there before: a normal cell phone. He walked over to investigate. There was a note beside the phone with the text saying.
Speed dial 1
Hesitating for a moment, Blu picked up the cell phone and pressed the one key before pressing the ring key. Blu held the phone in his talon against his eardrum while listening to the rings, waiting for someone to pick up. After three rings, the phone was answered and the person on the other end of the line spoke first.
"You got my message, I assumed?" the caller on the other end spoke. He clearly did not sound the same as the large scarlet macaw who attacked them earlier, hinting that whoever had taken his children was not working alone.
Blu tried to prevent himself from getting angry and kept a cool head for as long as possible. "Who are you and what do you want? Where are my children!?"
"I can assure you that they are safe. I apologize if my associate caused you much trouble." the caller assured him. "I will be more than happy to explain why I have taken them, but not just yet. I have important matters to be dealing with."
Blu was not going to just sit back and allow this kidnapper to hold his children in who knows where. This kidnapper obviously had no idea who he was messing with.
"I want you listen me and listen to my very carefully." Blu suggested as he kept a cool head for now. "I may not know who you are, or what you want. If you're looking for something in return from me, I can assure you now that I nothing to give you. I do, however possess a very unique set of skills that make me a nightmare to birds like you. I've battled birds you would never believe existed. I'm going to give you one chance and one chance only...Give me back my children right now and that will be the end of it. I will let you walk away from this. But if you refuse, I will use all of my intelligence to track you down. I will hunt you, I will find you...And then, I will kill you."
The caller on the other end did not seem to be fazed by his threats. He chuckled on the other end of the line. "Good luck with that. I assume you want to discuss this like civilized birds? Meet me at the coordinates written on the back of the note. I look forward to meeting you in person. Keep the phone too. Consider it my gift as compensation."
With that, the caller hung up on the other end of the phone. Blu angrily placed the phone down and slammed his wing against the wall of his home, taking out his frustration. When he found whoever had taken his children, he vowed that he would make them wish they never even looked at him once.
Before Blu could proceed to the location, he had to go and get help from his friends to make sure Jewel and Jessica remained safe. Fortunately, Nico and Pedro did not live that far from Blu and hopefully they had not yet gone to their club as usual.
Blu flew as fast as his wings would carry him, dodging every obstacle in his way until he finally made it to Nico and Pedro's tree. The two best friends looked as if they were about to leave. Blu got there just in time. He quickly landed on a tree branch and caught his breath as quick as he could.
"Hey Blu bird." Nico greeted until he noticed immediately that something was not right. "Blu, you alright?"
"What happened to your eye?" Pedro inquired, noticing his friend's injury. "Is everything a'ight?"
"Guys. I need your help." Blu explained after he finally caught his breath. He caught straight to the chase. "This morning, Jewel and I were attacked by this large scarlet macaw. We tried to stop him, but he bet us and he took Rey, Azul and Crystal!"
Both friends gasped in response.
"Oh snap!" Pedro exclaimed while he placed his wings into fists and began to act as if he were boxing. "Where he at? Nobody messes with a friend of Pedro's!"
"Pedro, I think you better sit this one out." Nico suggested. He did not forget the last time he tried to act tough when they tried to safe Jewel from Nigel. "Blu, what can we do to help?"
"I need you guys to do me two favors." Blu requested. He handed Nico the note that was left for him by the kidnapper. "Go to the military and tell them to meet me at this coordinates. I spoke to the kidnapper and he told me to meet him there, but I got the feeling he's not a man of his words. After you do that, go to Linda's bookstore. Jewel and Jessica are there and I can't protect them and search for my children at the same time. Can you guys do that for me?"
Nico and Pedro could not deny that they were worried what would happen to their blue macaw friends, but they had to do this for their friends who they consider family now. Scratch that, they were family.
"We're on it, Blu." Nico assured him with a nod.
"You can count on it." Pedro nodded.
"Thank you, guys." Blu thanked and leaned down to share a hug with the two.
With that taken care of, Blu departed in one direction while Nico and Pedro flew in the other to do as Blu instructed. Along the way to his destination, Blu could not help but wonder why this had to happen. For half a year he had finally been living the life he wanted with his family and now this big scarlet macaw had to appear out of nowhere and attacked Blu and Jewel, kidnap three of his children, and for what? What reason did these kidnappers take his children?
Hopefully these wonder could be answered when Blu confronts this kidnapper. Taking him down was going to be difficult for more than one reason: his children's lives may be in danger, that big scarlet macaw would protect the kidnapper, who's to say the kidnapper isn't a master of martial-arts?
Blu did not want to think about that right now. His main focus to get his children back no matter the costs. He was going to get them back one way or another and if these kidnappers hurt them in anyway, they were going to be sorry.
Oh-uh, looks like tension is beginning to rise. Rey, Azul and Crystal have been kidnapped and Blu must hurry to find a way to save them. Let us hope he can rescue his children before it's too later. Stay tuned for chapter 4.