Sorry I'm late with this chapter.
I've had a lot going on at school and home, but I'm back with a bang.
Thank you to Lukhas the Spix macaw for suggesting a part of this chapter.
(Look for the transformers 5 reference).
Enjoy, pls review :)
Magnus and Lukhas did not stop running, they were now 39 miles from Rio.
The Rio Lai had taken over with the power of the Eye of Agamoto and Blu's body.
The pair of defense force survivors were trying to get to the blue macaw tribe in the Amazon.
They could explain all that has happened.
The humm of Magnus's motorcycle engine filled the air as the 2 macaws retreated farther into the jungle.
But back in Rio, certain events were taking place.
Lai sat on his newly constructed throne.
Several jade soldiers bringing plates of food to the emperor.
He has had a couple problems with some birds who were not turned deciding to try and fight back.
These birds proved to be a thorn in his side, destroying warehouses and attacking patrols.
But they were slowly being dealt with.
Jade Soren had managed to kill 5 of them earlier that day.
Lai could now kick back and enjoy the fruits of his labor, and of the jungle.
He bit into a mango, a bit of the juice splashing onto the black charm Lai now wore as a necklace next to the eye.
He wiped the juice of the charm and held it in his wings, "ah Blu, you were the one foe I ever faced that proved to be somewhat of a match for my skill, but like the others you fell to me. Twice now. I'm tempted to release you, just to fight you again. But I am not stupid nor full of myself. Your friends shall come to face me, but they will only meet their demise".
He stood from his throne, motioning for his guards to follow him.
He left his castle, that sat on the mountain next to the christ the redeemer statue.
He wanted to explore the city he now ruled.
He closed his eyes and dug around Blu's memories.
He found a memory of the home Blu used to live in with his owner Linda.
Lai spread his wings and flew to the home, 4 guards following him.
"It is way easier to fly with these wings than my peacock ones" exclaimed a happy Lai.
He found the house, at least what was left of it.
The front had been blown away from an explosion, but the rest of it was fine.
Lai landed on a balcony, his talons scratching the stone patio.
He walked through a broken window and eyed the destroyed house, there were a couple stains of blood from birds who fought here during the big fight between the defense force and jade owls.
Lai creeped around, he searched for anything about Blu's life.
He eventually found a room of Blu's old possessions.
One of which was a photo of him with Jewel.
Lai gave out a chuckle before tearing the photo in half, "no point keeping around the possessions of a lost soul".
His jade guards walked into the room of all the photos and possessions and began pouring oil and gasoline around the room.
The room began to smell with the thick aroma of the flammable liquid.
After the books and photos were drenched, Lai stepped out of the room, "Let's see how these burn".
He lit a match and threw it into the room, an inferno began instantly.
The pictures began to bend and blacken as they burned.
Lai's one green eye saw a certain photo burning.
A photo of Blu, Jewel and their kids burned, until only the kids and Jewel were left.
Lai left the burning home, allowing it to smoke out and crumble as the inferno spread to the other rooms.
Lai now returned to his throne with his guard, relaxing on the throne.
A jade soldier enters the throne room, battle damaged.
"What happened to you?", asked Lai.
The jade soldier said nothing, allowing Lai to see his point of view.
Lai saw a group of blue macaws attack his jade warrior, being lead by one wearing black armor and a flaming sword, "Roberto" sneered Lai.
"Prepare the army, we leave in 7 days".
Amazon
Roberto and his patrol returned from fighting a group of jade warriors that had attacked them.
They returned to a frantic war hollow, various birds were running back and forth, carrying papers and conveying orders.
Eduardo was at the table, talking with the other tribe leaders and Felipe's friend (since Felipe died his friend has taken over).
Jewel was nowhere to be seen, Angelo and Alex were still in Atlanta and Zain was with Rico, training the troops.
"Rio may still be standing, we can reinforce our men there".
A deep, robotic voice echoed throughout the hollow, "there is no Rio, Lai made sure of that. Tomada, Sorell, Luca, Alondra, Scorcher and countless others died defending it".
All eyes turned to see a robotic macaw standing on the hollows edge, a spix standing next to him.
"Lai has taken the eye, and Blu's body and the chi of the entire defense force", Magnus now took a step into the hollow, "we have lost".
Eduardo tried to keep a straight face, but worry tainted it.
Magnus could tell he should leave, so he turned and jumped out of the hollow.
Upon reaching the ground he transformed into a bike and drove away, to find Jewel and tell her the bad news.
5 minutes later
Magnus found Jewel sitting on a tree branch overlooking the Amazon river, alone.
He transformed and approached her, she heard the gentle sound of crying coming from the female spix.
He contemplated whether telling her was the right thing to do, but he decided to go through with the plan.
"Jewel", he started.
The sound of a new voice shocked Jewel a little, but she turned to the newcomer, "Ah Magnus, how is Rio? Is it secure? Did you free Blu?".
Magnus shook his head solemnly, "Lai killed Alondra, Luca, Scorcher Tomada and Sorell to get the eye. Blu's spirit is gone, Rio is gone".
Jewel just stared at the mecha macaw, at a loss for words.
Tears began to slowly trickle out of her eyes before she began sobbing.
"No no no no, I just got him back. HE CAN'T BE GONE!" the last part was practically screamed.
Her anger and sadness began to blind her actions as she let her emotions run wild, "LIAR, YOU'RE A LIAR, HE'S STILL ALIVE, I KNOW IT!", Jewel then attacked Magnus, her talons tearing open the robot's armor.
Electricity crackled out of the wound as Magnus was sent back, and into the tree trunk.
Jewel followed up the attack with a punch to Magnus's face, sending the mecha macaw off the tree and onto the ground.
Magnus didn't know what to do, he could either hurt Jewel and end the fight, or take a beating.
Magnus decided to use his wings to fight off Jewel, fearing that any other weapon would seriously hurt Jewel.
Magnus sent a punch to Jewel, who dodged it and returned with a kick to the torso, tearing open the hole in Magnus's armor more.
Magnus now tried to punch Jewel, who evaded the strikes with ease.
Jewel sent a kick to Magnus's head, knocking the mecha macaw back.
Magnus now kicked into overdrive.
He popped a stun cannon out of his arm and began shooting at Jewel.
Jewel used her plant powers to put up a walnut, blocking the shots.
She threw a cherrybomb at Magnus, the explosion knocking the robotic avian backwards.
Jewel was about to open fire with a wave of peashooters when Magnus charged her.
Magnus sent a kick to Jewel's face, knocking out the raging macaw.
"Let's see how this works now", he transformed into a bike, with Jewel on top.
He fastened a seatbelt across Jewel, before gunning it straight back to the tribe.
Atlanta
Angelo and Alex had returned to the Raptor Corp headquarters again.
They were continuing planning with the head hawk, known as Finn.
Alex was still hungover from the Jack Daniels last night.
Angelo was a veteran drinker, from hundreds of nights spent drowning his sorrows in the bottle back in valhalla, so he was fine.
A falcon ran into the meeting, "Sir, Lai had attacked Rio".
This news caught the whole table off guard, except for Finn, "Tell our forces to meet at Los Entolos, from there we'll move for the Amazon to reinforce the macaws, then push through to Rio".
The falcon nodded and left to convey the orders.
"Well, tourist trips over. We got a war to fight", declared Finn as he got up and left the building
Angelo and Alex followed, "Now come on, we have a long flight ahead of us".
The trio of warriors took off, hundreds of raptors trailing behind them with guns, knives and swords.
Thousands more warriors were to come.
The army turned their heads to the south, and the biggest battle of their lives.
They flew for hours on end, through the freezing night and scorching day.
Over the mountains, the gulf of Mexico and the great jungles and deserts of central america.
They battled through the sweltering heat of the northern amazon as they reached the town of Los Entolos in Ecuador.
The army began to swell, the hundred or so birds they left Atlanta with had swelled to almost 80,000 raptors.
Angelo and Alex stood on a tree branch, overlooking the edge of the vast Amazon rainforest.
They could practically hear the sound of their home.
The 2 birds were worried, Rio had been attacked, Lai got the Eye of Agamoto and was preparing to attack their friends in the Amazon.
Speaking of the Amazon, let's see what is happening there.
Jewel had finally gotten a somewhat grasp on the situation and was working diligently to train and prepare the Amazon for the war they were to endure.
The macaw tribes had allied together, Hyacinths, Spixs, Scarlets, Buffons, Militarys, Lears and all the other tribes now had a collective army of about 20,000, including the various parrots and other birds that signed on.
Rico and Zain now worked to show a bunch of birds how to operate as an efficient military force.
The pit of doom had been converted into a practice area.
Lukhas repaired Magnus, welding together metal with his blue energy blades.
After that the 2 began setting up the bag of comm gear and organising the army into battalions, corps, brigades etc.
Lukhas was a smart and strong bird.
He could do very well in a fight, but after witnessing his best friends heart get torn out by Prev, he retired from the battlefield, instead opting to become a comms operator for the Rio Defense force.
Magnus's back story was very different.
He was built a year prior to the Rio attack by Blu, Alex and Duke.
They wanted to build a robot that could think freely, but after adding a TCOGG, they gave Magnus the ability to transform into a motor bike.
Magnus, due to being a robot, was incredibly smart, and a fierce fighter.
He was made leader of the Rio defense force, a part of the Rio Army (the other half being the Amazon force).
He now trained the tribe soldiers how to fight a foe like a jade warrior.
They had input from those who were jade warriors (Like Rico) and those who had to fight them (Roberto).
"As long as you outnumber them 2-1 you can win" stated Roberto.
3 young macaws sitting on a tree above listened to everything the warriors said.
These macaws were indeed Jewel's children, Tiago, Bia and Carla.
They wanted to know how to face these jade beings, and how to face their possessed father.
Tiago and Carla were listening, while Bia was taking notes.
They heard the sound of wings flapping and wind hit their back.
They turned to see Jewel, landing behind them.
She had a 'what are you doing here?' look on her face.
"Why are you guys here?", asked Jewel who already knew the answer.
"Studying" answered Tiago, trying to keep a calm demeanor.
Jewel gave a small chuckle before wrapping her wings around her kids, "C'mon you three, dinner time".
The 3 chicks smiled at the prospect of dinner and eagerly packed up Bia's notes and returned to their hollow.
They were eating a wide assortment of fruits when a shout was heard, followed by an explosion.
The family ran to the hollows entrance, to see the sky in the direction of Rio, growing greener by the minute.
"Oh no", said Carla.
They saw Magnus fly by, "Magnus, what's going on?" asked an increasingly worried Jewel.
"Lai is here" replied Magnus before flying off to fight.
Jewel, Tiago, Bia and Carla followed, activating their powers.
Tiago and his clones used their super speed to go off ahead, leaving the girls in his dust.
Carla groaned and continued on.
The tribe's armies were standing on an open field, where they had bested the Angelus years before.
On the other side of the field was a green macaw, holding a bleeding parrot in his wings.
The parrot had dropped a rocket launcher (the source of the explosion) next to him, and was looking Lai directly in the eye.
Lai's laugh flooded the ears of all the birds there.
The green macaw scanned the army in front of him, before spotting a metallic macaw.
"Hello Magnus, I see you have alerted the blue macaws of my victory in Rio, hmmm", Magnus just glared at Lai and made a laser cannon, aiming it at Lai.
Lai chuckled and broke the neck of the parrot he was strangling, letting it fall to the ground.
"This is bad comedy. Magnus, you of all birds should know I am invincible. I bested your entire defense force in mere minutes, and killed your heroes who defended the shrine".
Jewel, Carla and Bia had just arrived and looked at the lone macaw that stood across the battlefield, it appeared as Lai spotted her too.
"Ah Jewel, thank you for coming", said Lai, deviously.
Rico, Zain, Skyler and Lukhas stood next to Jewel and her kids, glaring daggers at Lai.
Lai chuckled, "This is your army? It is much smaller than I thought it would be. The Rio force was 30,000 strong. You don't have the numbers".
"OH YES THEY DO!", yelled a voice.
All eyes turned to see a snow owl, standing on a tree.
"Alex!" declared Skyler, excitedly.
Alex jumped down from the tree, with Angelo following.
Angelo carried a minigun he had borrowed from the hawks, he spun the barrels while looking around the clearing.
"Sorry we're late. Our invitation to this ass-kicking must have gotten lost in the mail", said Angelo.
"Angelo!" screamed Lai, "Long time no see, how was death?".
Angelo aimed his gun towards Lai, "How about you experience it for yourself?".
Lai chuckled before opening 2 portals.
From the portals came the 40,000 birds he had under his control, pouring out like a seething mass of green.
"How are you 2 birds going to help fight my army" chuckled Lai.
Angelo laughed back, "You really thought we came on our own?".
From the distance the beat of the song Dixieland was heard, as 80,000 birds of prey flew over the horizon, and towards the battlefield.
They all sung the lyrics to their song,
Well I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Old times there are not forgotten,
Look away, look away, look away,
Dixieland.
Finn landed next to Angelo and Alex, with the rest of their army lining up with the tribe forces.
Finn stood in front of his army, with Eduardo standing in front of his.
Finn began his speech, "Look to the bird to your right, that bird is your brother! Defend your brother! There will come a day, when our homes collapse, our friends die and we forsake our allies. But it is NOT THIS DAY! TODAY WE FIGHT, FOR ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THIS WORLD. FOR OUR MATES, OUR CHILDREN AND THE POOR SOULS WHO ARE ENSLAVED BY LAI! I BID YOU STAND, HEROES OF THE WORLD!".
A resounding cheere rose from the depths of the hearts of every bird there.
Finn and Eduardo turned to Lai, "CHARGE!".
To be continued...