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My FIRST OCs!
…and they're JERKS… :P
So I'm going to be posting chapt 4 up pretty soon, mostly because it's pretty short. No not now soon, tomorrow morning soon.
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Scratch that, I have swimming signed up for me, so it'll be up by afternoon. After the next chapter I'm going to start to update in parts of chapters so I get longer chapters. You guys may think it doesn't matter but because chapters jump over an amount of time I think to have events happen together is pretty important.
We samba-ed the night away… well we samba-ed for 2 hours, then we went to get a drink, you would get tired too after dancing for so long. (Don't worry, it's water. Where are birds going to get alcohol?)
It looks like Nico and Pedro were taking a break too, because they found where we were sitting and came to talk.
"So, Blu, thought you hated Samba?" Pedro said as he and Nico sat down at the covered crate we were drinking on.
I cringed, remembering the things I had said that night when Jewel and I were freed. Not a very pleasant memory.
"Comeon, you guys know I didn't mean it." I said feeling blood rushing to my face in a blush.
"Yeah, we do. We also like messing with ya." Nico piped up earning a quick high-five from Pedro. "Man, you guys were kickin'! I was kinda worried when you told me you were going to sing Blu-"
"Hey!" I interrupted him, but Nico didn't seem to care in the slightest.
"-but man that was pretty impressive!"
"Well… thanks… I guess." I sputtered for words to say. Sure I was slightly offended, but first of all Nico was my friend, and second of all for performers like Nico and Pedro to say they're impressed… it's quite the achievement. I mean they're the best entertainers I know! (Granted all the other performers I know are human… and the trans-species-barrier kinda destroys some of the appeal, they're still quite good!)
"No problem bro! With enough work you could be a regular here!" Pedro spoke wrapping his arms around Nico. "Just like us!"
"Oh no. No, no, no, no… I couldn't possibly do this every night, in fact didn't you see fall on my face back there what if next time I do something far more stupid?" A small dose of panic edging in to my voice at the very thought of all the things I could possibly mess up on in front of all those people. "It's a miracle that that was the only thing that I did wrong through the whole thing."
"Man, you did a great job, no one even cares that you fell." Pedro continued, earning a vigorous nod from Nico. ""Why d'you doubt yo-self so mu-"
"Yo, Nico! Pedro! You're up man, party can't keep going without you guys at the center." A voice called out from somewhere at the head of the club.
"Oh dang, that's our cue, we gotta go." Nico flew off with Pedro flapping behind him, with the usual amount of flips and rolls and aerial acrobatics to pump the energy of the crowd to a much wanted maximum.
"Can you imagine that?" I muttered to myself. "Me as a regular performer."
I looked up at Jewel who didn't say anything throughout the encounter. I couldn't tell the emotion on her face but it seemed to look disappointed. She set the half-shell of a nut she'd been drinking from and said. "Well actually I have to agree with Nico there Blu, why do you always doubt yourself."
I thought for a second and then answered back. "Well I'm clumsy and awkward and I never seem to be able to say the right things. It's one of the reason I love you Jewel, when I'm with you all of that goes away, all the doubts, all the insecurities I can let go. I can be myself when I'm with you and trust that it'll always work out the right way, with us being together."
Jewel just sat there, staring at me with no expression at all. Then all of the sudden she wrapped her wings tight around me and cried into my shoulder… Oh no! I thought. What did I do?
Just as I was going to ask if she was okay she looked up at me in the most heart-wrenching smile I've ever seen.
"Oh, Blu. That's the sweetest thing anyone has ever said to me." She said, squeezing a little bit tighter and then letting go. "I love you too."
My beak moved forward to connect with her own and euphoria washed over my consciousness. This time we didn't close our eyes, they never left each other. It was as if something was being built between them, connecting us in a way other than our kiss. I ran my wing down her neck feeling her warmth and pulse push against the metacarpus of my wing.
Once again we break apart for air, my sight forever set on the twinkling of the wonderful sapphires that was, by grace of God, or by luck given to the beautiful girl I love.
"Hah, well isn't this sweet." Called an unfamiliar voice in the background. Me and Jewel both turn around to see where it came from.
Just landing on the little crate we were romancing on was 3 birds, all about my size all of them were Macaws, but each one was a different color, one was an Anodorhynchus Leari or a blue Lear Macaw, his color almost exactly like mine. The patches of yellow around his eyes however were large, and gave away the point of our difference.
Another was an Ara Ararauna or Blu and Gold Macaw, who in comparison to the Lear was much more different to me. The patch of yellow that was his chest and belly area was ruffled and unkempt, and the white feathers around his eyes were stained cherry-red from berries.
The third and obviously the one in charge was a centimeter taller than me (a good amount for a bird, but not exactly Nigel) and was a deep green all over save for some high-lights around the edges of his wings, he was an Ara Severus, or a Severe Macaw. He in front of the 2 other macaws and had a pointed look in his eyes.
"Ummm. Hi, can we help you?" I said, timid, but already perfectly willing for them to go the hell away.
"Well if it isn't the little performer." The green macaw said chuckling in the most aggravating way a chuckle could possibly sound, thus earning agreeing grunts and eager nods from his cronies. "Why don't you just go and make acquaintances with the floor like you did earlier this night?"
The oven that was pre-installed into my cheeks flared to the setting of super-nova, and I glanced down at my claws, shame and embarrassment funneling back into my world. The lead macaw saw this and without the decency to look at me as he did it, shoved me out of the way as he approached Jewel.
"Hey, you must be his girl friend." He said in what must be the most clichéd way of talking I've heard since Nigel abducted us, lust clearly branded onto his voice. Immediately the shame and embarrassment flew away with anger landing into their places.
"Hey, buddy! I'm RIGHT, HERE." He didn't seem to notice.
"Now what's a hot babe like you doing with a sorry piece of work like him?" He walk right into Jewel's personal space. "You know, that you'd be better off with Reggie."
Apparently his name was Reggie, well, I hope Reggie has some ointment back home cause Jewel does NOT look happy.
"JUST WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?" She shrieked, and tried to claw him in the face. However, though he was surprised, Jewel's enraged tone tipped him off to what she might do to him and he back up before she could do any damage.
"Yo baby girl, don't be like that." His voice still sounding so sure that he was going to get what he wants. "Everybody loves Reggie, whether they want to or not."
I'm socially competent enough to realize that was a threat. I felt my eyes narrow and my breath snort out from my nose. I walked up to Jewel and place my wings protectively around her, then turning to Reggie, I told him. "Look here Reggie -"lifting my free wing to form air quotations"- I think you should be leaving now. I didn't just say that cause he's a Jerk and I want him to leave, leaving would be in HIS best interest too as I could feel Jewel trembling with bottled anger, just waiting for a chance to claw out his eyes and beat him to death with them. Hey I wouldn't mind that!
The good people of the club were well aware of what was happening after Jewel's outburst and closed in around us.
"Hey lady." One of them said.
"Are these people bothering you?" Said another.
The two birds backing the repulsive bird up looked ready to fight but Reggie clearly more intelligent than that cut in before that could happen. "Oh no, no, no. See we were just leaving" Dipping his head in the way of his Cronies. "We were just saying good-bye."
"Oh yeah, just saying good-bye." Said the Blue and Gold macaw
"Yeah, good-bye." Echoed the dirty one.
"Then maybe you should be going then?" I added for good measure.
The moment those words left my mouth Reggie's head whipped back at me. I'm surprised that I didn't flinch. His eyes narrowed and his entire face grew just a little more ugly (or maybe that's just me). Hissing under his breath he said to me. "Don't ever try to insult me."
They flew off before the birds of the club could beat them to a bloody pulp… damn, I was hoping I'd get to see that.
I read up a little on bird anatomy and realized that birds get oxygen much better than humans, and breathe while both inhaling and exhaling so I don't think Blu and Jewel would need to break apart because they needed more oxygen, but hey, like I said. It's a story.
