Chapter 4 is here at last for those of you who are enjoying this story so far, I won`t keep you too long so we`ll jump straight in shall we?
Enjoy...
"Uhhh, wh" Blus vision seemed to fuzz around for a few moments, a light blue haze a front from him
"Shh" came a low and rushed voice, his vision started to come too, soon coming to the realization of where they seemed to be, the slight swaying motion coupled with the dark surroundings leading him to believe he was yet again in a cage only this time covered by something.
"You ok? you were out for a while" came the voice again which He soon pinned to the slowly focusing blue figure in front of him
"uh, yeah, where are we?" he asked quietly letting his head drop again as he lay there.
"uhhh, some kind of path, there are houses everywhere, I actually have no idea" she said to herself turning back to him only to turn back to a slit in whatever cloth like thing covered them.
"Hmm, by the way, I never got your name did I?" Blu questioned the Female who still watched from the cage
"really, you`re going to ask now?" she replied turning back to him with a bewildered expression.
"Wasn`t aware there was going to be a better time to ask" he replied shrugging his shoulders as he lay there to the sway of the cage
{Sigh} she looked back through the slit in the cage "Jewel, My names Jewel" she said hushly as her eyes darted around what little area she could observe, "Hmm" Blu huffed to himself finding it an interestingly fitting name as he looked up at her back.
"I`m Blu" he said back a moment after
Jewel turned to face him, her beak a sight of exasperation
"ha, My name is Blu, without the E" he sniggered to himself, it was always something birds got confused by, either that or they just thought he was retarded. Jewels face lifted as she came to the realization of what he was talking about soon looking back through the slit in the cloth aside her.
"We need to play dead" Jewel quickly spoke up an obvious plan quickly taking over her thought process.
"Why?" Blu proceded to question not entirely sure where it would get them "Just do it" she replied annoyed that Blu wanted her to explain herself.
"Alright... pst, you want me to do some like twitchin things an all, you know make it look believable" Blu mocked as he closed his eyes and shuffled into somewhat of a place that he thought could trick the minds of others
"what the Fu...No just, do it" she annoyingly retorted her voice changing direction as he presumed her to be laying down as well.
Blu sniggered to himself while he lay his eyes closed soon his quite laughing coming to a cease
"Honestly" she replied a slight sense of a chuckle in her voice which only raised a smile across his beak.
The only noise the both of them were left with were that of the occasional harsh chatter between men, occasional bright lights flashing over their eyelids which they could only presume to be the overhead lights streaming through the cuts on the fabric which covered them coupled with the slight distant noise of song...
{Knock, Knock, Knock} the sound of at least three muffled locks started shifting around in their ears, Blu attempted to lighten the rise and fall of his breathing as he anticipated what may unravel in the next few minutes
"Ayeeee, good job Fernando, see what did I tell you guys {slam of a metal door followed by chains} told you he`d get it done, Armando, Tipa!?"
"Uhhh yes , yes you did" came a conglomeration of two slightly panicked male voices.
"Ugh, fucking hell" a person spoke silently to himself " alright here you go kid"
"But this is only half?" spoke a quiet and young voice
"Yeah well" suddenly a bright blanket of light erupted over their eyelids, this was it, what they said next could determine where their lives would be lived out and for how long
"What is this?" Blu heard a quick movement to his side and a metal clang against the cage "I said Alive, Does this look alive to you? Hm?" a man began to shout as he pressed his sentence onwards to which no reply seemed to sound.
"So wh, ARGGGG!, Get it, Quick!"
Blus vision flew open, the light which had blanketed his vision became a slowly swaying yellow glow, the walls and ceiling above a crusty and peeling douce of concrete, he pushed himself quickly up making a straight b-line for the ajar metal gate, Just before he managed to impact the Gate it was jammed shut by a Humans hand of whoms face tutted to him then proceeded to crain around the the wooden ceiling bars above
"Nigel, Alive" he sinisterly ordered a shadowy white cockatoo which lay its claw firmly around a weekend and out of breath Jewel, The cockatoo seemed to give a somewhat reluctant look out of the corner of his eye to the human but soon obliged taking off with jewel still straining in the his claw groaning as he lifted off swinging her under him flying straight towards Blus cage, The human aggressively swung the cage door open followed by a rag-dolling Jewel who collided with Blu the both of them falling to the solid metal floor which clanged under their weight, The Human then swung the cage shut sliding the pin across quickly after
Blu brought himself quickly and aggravatedly to his claws looking around for the bird which had just chucked Jewel back into the cage, his eyes soon falling upon the ruffled cockatoo which had planted himself upon a wall mounted Harpy Eagles neck
"What the fuck bird?" Blu Called angrily up to him
"Oh save you`re whining you pitiful creature" the bird replied not even bothering to look over or give a glance down upon him
"Aye, you`re the one from the bird place ain`t you?" Blu questioned shuffling his claws underneath him forward towards the bars of the cage.
{Sigh} yes, well done, good to know your observation skills are in check" the cockatoo replied huffing to himself as he stood there as if he fed up with life.
"you`re actually a fucking cunt you know, that how you treat all your women?" Blu pressed his angry thoughts forward upon the bird.
"Ugh, yes, to be honest though you`re mother seemed quite into it, Hmm your father actually just watched, Hmp...funny" the cockatoo replied still rather calm shuffling his shoulders soon after
"Haha, yeah you`re pretty funny, nice you`d only say that when I`m in a cage ain`t it, ha funny thing ain`t it how your balls don`t carry across some bars" Blu retorted, his blood pumping aggressively throughout his body.
The cockatoo just smiled to himself his beak falling to the floor whilst he smiled finally looking to Blu when he lifted it "Ha you`re a funny bird, remind me of myself" from then on the cockatoo didn`t bother to reply but just sat there high above the cage awaiting the conversation between the humans to come to an end which had been rithling on whilst they had been speaking.
Blu turned his body sideways looking over his shoulder to jewel who was now standing behind him slightly shaken by the experience. "you ok?" Blu asked, managing to change his voice into a somewhat sympathetic one.
"yeah, yeah I`m all good" she replied her eyes flickering up to him as she straightened her image "dame human hit my head on the bars when he pulled me out" she continued now looking up at the cockatoo which clung to the stuffed eagle thinking through the argument that Blu and the bird had just had.
Suddenly without warning a large Human opened the cage door thrusting a large metal clanging chain against either of their claws which wrapped themselves tightly around their lower legs before they could try and scratch back
Blu sighed to himself knowing what this now meant for the likeliness of their escape "dammit" he cursed to himself in a low hush whilst he caught Jewel attempting to cratch at the seem of the gripping metal.
a few minutes later the boy who Blu presumed was the one to bring them here in the first place was ordered to leave them in the back with the rest, what that meant he could only imagine, the corner of his eye catching Jewel gently squeeze her eyes closed as they were lifted up and carried to another metal door covered in metallic scratches, The door squeaked as it slowly opened into a darkened room filled top to bottom with Gloomy back cages sizing from giant room-sized ones to small money safe ones.
his head stooped as they passed a Green female bird of whom was pacing up and down her cage obsessing over her being a "pretty bird" as she put it, He could only guess howl ong she might have been here for, not only here but how long she perhaps may have been in captivity of this treatment.
Other Cages seemed crammed with birds which flinched at the light which streamed from the open door behind them, others just sat there a look of disdain upon their beaks but many of them had little to no emotion which took to their beaks upon their passing shadows.
A low hung metal wire seemed to softly swing in the distance amongst all of this, a bard window behind which allowed a small hope of moonlight to curve its way into the darkened room, sure enough Blu couldn`t find anything else to say aside sighing upon the buy steeping back after anchoring their cage onto a hook with pertrewed the end of the wire.
They both watched as the boy walked slowly away back to the doorway, The boy had a look on his face he knew all too well for he used to feel it all the time, the kind of feeling that makes you wish you were somewhere else but you were where you had to be, because if you weren't there you wouldn`t gain that one thing you were there for...
The light stream slowly cut itself out completely dissipating following a soft clanking of metal.
He looked to Jewel who just stood there completely lost for what to do next, for him, he had another idea as he stood there looking from Jewel to the single lock which held them to this hell-hole
"So, where do you think you`re going after this" came a deep and mocking tone from amongst the shadows "Perhaps... Hawaii no, no, to predictable, Myself I`d like to think you`ll each end up thousands of miles from each other both in holes a thousand feet deep, hmm no maybe a bit extream, either way you`ll both end up in a place you don`t like, and that one fact keeps me content" The voice finished his rant which seemed to be aimed not at just them but every bird that currently sat solitary in this room.
"So, where do you think you`ll end up?" the voice asked which seemed to echo around the full yet lonesome room.
Blu didn`t reply he just stood there his eyes scanning the area, he knew it was most likely that cockatoo, but there was something unnerving about not seeing the body of which the words came from.
Jewel herself was watching their back unsure herself exactly where the voice came from
"Nigel, that is your name isn`t it?" Blu asked the darkness, all the other birds seemed to fall back to the corners of their cages pushing themselves as far into the shadows as they could without making a pep.
"Oh well done, you are observant" the voice calmly shot back from somewhere, a few moments the shadowy white bird emerged from the darkness making the birds jump in the cage he now stood next too, He looked to the birds with content "Hmm" it was clear to Blu that the Nigel was thinking about doing something but thought better of it looking back to him.
Nigel then continued by flapping his wings taking off only to harshly land atop some cages which drew eye level with where Jewel and Blus cage hung "so then, you think you have a pretty smart beak on you, don`t you?" Nigel questioned, there was a certain thing about his gaze which told Blu he was looking straight past him to Jewel yet asked him the question.
For Jewels sake, he looked from here slightly back to Nigel replying "No, I don`t" to which Nigel surprised looked now directly to him "No?... pitty, you`re a smart bird?"
Blu knew he was trying to catch him out and so he saw past this question "Blu" he said keeping his voice to a low and calm tone
"Hmmm, you really are a smart bird, see I thought for a moment there you were going to say Yes, clearly I have you wrong?"
"No, you don`t" Blu replied watching Nigel as he had now decided to take up the journey around their cage hoping and flying between cages adjacent to their eye level tapping on birds cages for amusement and watching them retract to the floor of their cages.
Blu knew these games all too well, after all he used to take part in them, but those times were long ago and he now knew what it was like to be the one trapped, and knowing what birds like him were like he feared more so for Jewel then himself, and knowing was the worst thing.
"Where do you think you`ll end up then?" Nigel asked as he tapped a cage which belonged to three macaws of red, yellow and green.
Blu paused for a moment thinking as fast as he could "thousands of miles away from Jewel, in a hole a thousand feet deep, like you said" he continued in his calm manner
"Are you mocking me, because if I do recall correctly that is what I said isn`t it?" Nigel looked slowly to Blu awaiting his answer which either way was wrong
Either he said No and lied because that was what Nigel said or say yes and admit to mocking him.
Shit, was all that ran through his mind as he searched every corner for a loophole, A smile creeping its way across Nigels beak, "Your a smart bird Blu, you`re not replying which means one thing, you know there is no way out no matter what you say, which means another crucial thing... You`ve done this before, haven`t you?" Nigel stood there now awaiting another answer for a new question a smug smile still stretching its way across half his beak.
"Yes" Blu reluctantly admitted knowing that to keep him from Jewel for longer he`d have to spill a bit more then he would like to in front of her.
"No, no... no, you`ve done this before, but not from inside there, but rather closer to where I stand, didn`t you?" Blu felt his beak fall slightly open as he thought through "Or am I wrong?" Nigel pressed forward, Blus eyes darting from Nigel to his left here Jewel stood a bit further around his vision.
"yes... I did" Blus eyes fell, he didn`t have to look around to Jewel to know what sort of look she was probably giving him, either that or what she now thought of him, He looked back up to Nigel, it was getting harder and harder to maintain his cool.
"Tell me Blu, did they enjoy it? better yet, was it bad birds, rapists, murderers perhaps? Blu paused his mind as he awaited Nigel to finish his sentence "Or was it maybe families, birds which annoyed you and your group of hmmm, Friends? I don't know, I`m just taking stabs at the dark much like you must've" Nigels beak had fallen to a straight expressionless one as if he pretended to be the interviewer of a murderer for a job he really wanted.
Blu didn`t reply, he couldn`t and he definitely didn`t want too...
"I knew I`d get you some time" Nigel soon spoke after the long silence of no answer, Blu felt his throat grow dry taking a slow gulp thinking now of what he may do.
"However I am not you Blu, so I will I guess, leave you both alone" and with that Nigel stepped backward before taking flight into the shadows and soon becoming but a blur of darkness which soon evaporated through the window and into the nights' sky
Blu stood there somewhat frozen afraid that Jewel may ask further questions, Nigel had managed to make him spill his guts, perhaps not entirely but definitely enough, made worse by the fact he didn`t do anything just to enforce his point and make him look worse.
Slowly Blu took his vision turning to Jewel over his shoulder, to which they soon fell upon Jewel who`s eyes told the story, A story of uncertainty doused with a droplet of fear
"I`m not that bird anymore," Blu slowly said aloud not wanting to look to her eyes anymore, he didn`t feel he deserved it, Yet he could still see her shuffle her claws out of the corner of his eye, "It`s fine, I get it, we all do things we regret" jewel responded a fair while after a small stutter in her voice as she started, yet there was still so much truth in her words and he couldn`t help but want to believe she forgave him in some sort of mannerism
He took a step toward the lock a few moments after he re-gathered his mind up, "so, are we getting out of here?" he asked as he slid the bolt across, gently swinging it open with his wing turning around shuffling his claws belong him as he went, his beak soon meeting level with hers who stood on the other side of the cage
The surprise on her beak was almost enough to make him smile but he found himself wiping his eyes shortly after instead...
There we go guys, the first chapter to have some proper action, not action in terms of physical combat but some conflict, and the conflict has come in many forms here, does he have feelings for her yet do you think or was he doing what he did out of the fear of what she may have to further endure otherwise, who knows apart from me, anyways if you enjoyed please follow/ favorite and or comment on what you thought of this chapter or the story as a whole up to this point
hope you are all waiting eagerly for chapter 5 which will hopefully see a large push in the story-line especially when it comes down to new characters and the early meet ones
Anyways cya...
