Dex waked up and started to preen his feathers. He wanted to look good when he is going to spend day with Bia and her siblings. Dex scratched wood wall to sharpen his claws, then he washed his talons in water to shine them. Look strong, confident and friendly at the same time. Dex met her siblings before, but still he has to look good to them.
He was plucking his brown feathers out from his chest, Dex knew that he shouldn't pluck his feathers, but with brown feathers on his chest, under wings and back he looked strange. At least he though so. Everyone hated or ignored him, only cause he was demeor. Of course demeors were known as killers, but he was different.
--Gunderson's family hollow--
"I'm curious about that Dex guy." Tiago flied behind Bia and Carla. "He looks like he has a good sense of humor." Carla rolled her eyes. "Is that the only thing you care about?"
"I know we met him already, but I forgot even how he looks like." Tiago cringed.
Bia looked at Tiago. "Well he is taller than you, he has bigger wing span so he is rather fast. Big sharp talons, sticking out feathers on head and really curved beak. He has few brown feathers on his chest, back and mostly under his wings. And charming green eyes."
"Charming green eyes?" Carla and Tiago laughed. Bia looked away and blushed. But then Dex showed up, when he saw them, he took of and flied straight to them.
"Hello sir charming green eyes!" Tiago called and continued to laugh with Carla when Bia blushed even more. I'm going to kill you both. Bia said in her mind as she frowned at them.
"Ummm what did I miss?" Dex asked.
"Oh nothing, just a description of what you look like from Bia." Carla replied. Dex just looked at Bia and smiled.
"Okay enough laughing, let's go eat somethig." Tiago flied to the direction of the brazil nut grove. Dex flew closer to Bia and whispered before following Tiago. "I didn't know that I have charming green eyes, well good to know." Bia sighed I'm going to kill those two for sure now.
--Brazil nut grove--
"Brazil nut, the best food in the jungle." Tiago said as he opened brazil nut. "Yeah, however you called it wrong. Here in brazil we are calling it just nut." Dex joked. " See? I've told you he have good sense of humor!" Tiago laughed.
"What about race between me and you Dex? Carla will stand on the start and Bia on the end of racing track."
"Sound good to me." Dex stretched his wings.
"...ready...set...Go!" Carla yelled as Dex and Tiago took of into the sky. Tiago was fast, but Dex was using streng of wind to push him forward. While Tiago was fastly flapping his wings, Dex flied with outspreaded wings and flapped only time to time. If you fly high enough that wind will catch you, wind will push you forward. Audun words echoed in Dex mind. Dex was so lost in his thoughts that he didn't saw Bia howering before him on the end of the racing track.
He crashed into her but thankfully no one fall. Dex looked into her brown eyes and she into his green eyes. They were just howering in the air and staring into each other eyes. It was embarassing but no one could look away.
"Hey, hey you two..." Dex heard a quiet voice that was getting louder.
Hey are you both alright? Do you hear me?!" Carla screamed. Her voice finally bringed Bia and Dex back to their senses.
"Wow Dex, you are really fast. I never saw macaw with this flying style. Usually predatory birds like hawks and eagles use flying style like that." Tiago sat on brench next to Carla.
Bia winked at Dex, she didn't tell his secret.
The four teenagers flied back to the tribe.
"...and that's why I hate bats." Carla, Bia and Dex laughed at Tiago's story about bats, but then ...
"You again?!" Male voice yelled at Dex.
Please tell me It's not that moron. Dex thought in his head with closed eyes.
It was one of the tree birds that called him murder.
"Why can't you just get lost murder?!"
"I'm not a murderer! I didn't kill nor hurt anyone!" Dex yelled back at the adult male.
"Maybe you didn't hurt anyone now, but you will in the future! No one can trust demeor!" Male turned and flied away.
"Why everyone think that demeors are murders? I just don't get it." Carla asked Dex.
"I will tell you a story of demeor Asger. Asger was raised by his parents, female falcon and male spix macaw. Asger didn't play with other kids, he just sat on a branch and stared at others. He was just staring from branches. His mother and father tried to talk to him, but he wouldn't listen. When Asger become teenager he befriended one spix macaw girl and one spix macaw boy. Asger was talking only with them."
"But one day his predatory instincts came alive, he came in the hollow of his friend. Poor boy didn't know that his best friend changed. Asger brutally killed him. He literally tore his head off. When it was done, Asger washed himself in river like nothing happened. When parents of boy came home, they only found their headless son's body. They told leader of the tribe about murder, but no one though it could be Asger. Girl spix macaw and Asger were still friends, she didn't know that he is a killer."
"Probably 1 year later they found headless girl too. Asger was again alone, staring from branches. He was only a teenager, not older than we are, but he had already two victims."
"After month he killed older female. He started to hunt. He was hiding in a tree, looking for his prey, and when a macaw flied around the tree he killed them. He killed his spix macaw father, his falcon mother tried to stop him, but she ended up headless too. No one could stop him."
"Asger yellow eyes were everywhere. He was a teenager but he had killed 56 spix macaws and 4 scarlet macaws. 70 macaws were dead thanks to Asger. He was too mentally disturbted to live with himself. Everyone thinks that he drown himself in amazon river. No one know if it's true, maybe he is still alive. Asger's yellow eyes could be hiding in the branches." Dex ended the horror story.
Dex feathers spiked out, he had that feeling that someone is watching him again. Yellow eyes could be hiding in the branches. He said in his mind. The feeling that someone is watching him was scary, but now after the horror story that feeling was even more scarier.
"Dex what's wrong?" Bia concerned asked when she saw his spiked out feathers.
"N-n-nothing, I'm pretty tired, I didn't sleep at night. What about meeting each other again tomorrow?" Dex lied about being tired, he just wanted to get home into the cave, away from the scary feeling of being watched.
"Okay, but tomorrow Carla and Tiago can't come. So see you tomorrow!" Bia replied.
"Bye!" Dex yelled and flew home into tje cave. He had that feeling the whole tome flying home. When he entered the cave, he looked to the trees, ho couldn't see anyone.
Yellow eyes could be hiding in the branches.
Well demeor murder Asger, could he be alive?!
I'm sorry for not publishing new chapter for almost a week, don't worry I will not leave this story unfinished!