Darkness Reborn

Hey, everyone, how are you doing? I hope everyone is enjoy the rest of the story so far, and for those who like kid friendly stories, I have to warn that this story may be a little dark sometimes, but I won't go too far like blood or swearing, or anything major, so don't worry about that.

The following day, Jewel had decided to go home after the dramatizing dream she had not too long ago, and this had left him quite shocked and afraid. She thought the best thing to do for now was to stay in her home and wait until either the mysterious figure returns, or that something bad happens to her home.

Inside her tree hollow, Jewel was laying down in her nest while lying on her side with her wings folded around her chest, and a nervous expression on her face. She did not know what to do and this moment, and she needed to tell someone (especially Blu). Her mind was telling her to tell him, but her heart was telling her not to.

It was like that old saying: "Between rock and a hard place".

But why was this happening to her and not for Blu? He was the hero out of all this on the other occasions, and all she did was pretty much nothing. To prove this, she remembered back to the day when all this began.

The first encounter was with the brotherhood members, and they were defeated by Blu and the Darkness while she was recovering. The second encounter was with the Angelus, and Jewel was in a coma at that time when the Angelus possessed her mind and body to use her as a human host.

Their third encounter was with Nexus, and Jewel was dead for most of that time until being brought back by Rico. And to top it off, there was that incident with Ivan and his army, and all Jewel did then was hide due to her being pregnant with her four baby.

So why? Why would this be happening to her now? Why would this mysterious figure not tell Blu this instead?

While resting and thinking things over in her home, Blu was outside of the tree hollow, playing games with his four children. He did ask if she wanted to join them, but Jewel made some excuse for now by telling her husband she did not feel too well.

She sighed, placing a wing to her face nervously. "What am I going to do? This is driving me crazy...I...I got to tell someone, but I can't! This isn't fair. Why me? Why couldn't it have been someone else? I...I need to wait and hope for now...I hope this whole nightmare will be over soon."

Meanwhile, back at the World of Light, the Angelus had been sleeping peacefully for the first time in a while after things in her world had gone peaceful for a short while. No attacks, no dark macaws, just peaceful, like she had always dreamed off and tried to keep.

The next morning in her world, the Angelus had just woken up from her peaceful, loving sleep and made her way to her throne room, getting ready for a new day. As she got to her throne room from the top of her tower, she sensed something was not wrong as she walked inside.

In her throne room, a few of her royal guards had their weapons raised in a defensive position while a couple more locked down the main door into her throne room, blocking it off completely.

The Angelus was shocked as she approached the officer in charge of those soldiers, demanding answers right this moment. "CAPTAIN! What is the meaning of this?!"

"We're under attack, your Highness." the guard answered, picking up his golden staff as he prepared to take on their enemies. He clutched his weapon tight as he led the Angelus to behind of her throne chair. "Your Highness, you must stay down! These are power enemies."

The Angelus nodded as she ducked down behind her throne chair, carefully peaking over it as her guards stood their ground while pounding on the other side of the giant door shot through their eardrums while they stood in complete silence.

A couple more moments had passed until finally, an explosion of dark essence from outside of the throne room door shot down the door, smashing it to the ground as the guards stood their ground, protecting this place no matter would.

The Angelus peaked over her throne chair where a red-bellied macaw (holding what looked like to be the Orb of Darkness in his wings) walked inside with a yellow and blue macaw, two dark macaws with the size of normal macaws, and one big dark macaw with one wing walked inside the throne room.

She growled silent under her breath, remembering full well who this red-bellied macaw was in a minute. "Vadin."

The guards attempted to attack their enemies, but Mr. Kirilenko acted first, and knocked everyone who got close to them away with his incredible strength. He may only have one wing, but he sure knows how to use it well.

The only guard that remained was the captain, and he attempted to charge straight towards Vadin with his weapon raised above his head while crying out a battle cry. He got too close for Vadin to easily blast him away with the power of the Orb of Darkness.

As soon as he was down, Vadin smirked as he looked towards the throne chair, knowing the Angelus was hiding behind it. "Come on, your Majesty. We know you are there."

The Angelus had no choice but obey as she walked back from around the throne chair with her wings raised above her head in surrender. "There is nothing worth taking here, Vadin. Just give up the Orb and leave before my guards arrive."

"Please." Vadin snorted, finding her words to be amusing. "A couple of guards cannot stop me."

"We'll see." the Angelus countered, lifting her wings down in the quick of a flash as she attempted fire light beams to the evil macaw, attempting to kill him.

Vadin acted first, and easily used his dash ability to dodge her light beam attacks while his men behind him merely took cover. He continued to same tactic over and over until he got a couple of feet from the Angelus where he took off a small bag he was carrying and emptied out a dozen rocks made out of dark essence.

The Angelus soon groaned as she fell towards the ground, already unable to barely move as her one weakness kicked in. She could only watch as Vadin knelt down to her with a smirk across his beak. "Let...Me...Go. Vadin. You...Cannot...Win...I will...Stop...You."

"We'll see about that." Vadin countered, standing back up to full height as he took some dark essence rope from out of his bag, and threw them over to Kate. "Tie her up while I take a look around. I got the feeling she is keeping something from us."

After a few minutes of carefully surveying the entire castle, Vadin and his men discovered it was completed empty after they cleared it out from the Angelus's guards. Now to finish what they came here for.

Vadin and Kate walked down the hallway of the prison area with the smart macaw and stupid macaw beside them, and Mr. Kirilenko was following behind, carrying the Angelus in his one wing over his shoulder.

The Angelus groaned as she wiggled around in the huge macaws' grip, pulling hard on the dark essence ropes tied around her body and talons. She could get free if only the ropes were not made from dark essence. "Ugh...LET! Me go! Do you not have any idea who I am? How dare you treat the Queen of Light like this."

"Someone tie her beak shut if she carries on." Vadin ordered, until the sight of the wall at the end of the hallway caught his attention. He dashed towards it where he could tell that the wall was not real just by looking at it with his talents. "It's fake."

"How can you tell?" Kate inquired, walking beside him as she placed her right wing to her hip.

"Like this." he replied, firing a small explosion of dark essence to make the wall beak apart where it revealed a small room with a glowing golden cage locked in the center of the room. "And what do we have here?"

"No! Don't you dare go in there!" the Angelus warned, struggling the best she could to escape but the ropes were too strong, and Kirilenko's grip was not going to let her go anytime soon. "You cannot go in there! Please, no! It can't get free!"

Vadin and Kate walked inside while he gave the others a signal to stay where they were, not wanting to risk anything. Inside the golden cage, they could see a figure restrained in a golden stock, with a round gold metal restraint secured around his body, and his talons held together with golden cuffs.

Vadin could not quite tell who was locked in there because of how bright the cage was, but to be sure, he used the power of the Darkness Orb to force the dark essence inside like a darkness mist, turning the golden restraints in a darkness color before they fell apart.

The two macaws watched as the restraints fallen apart, causing the prisoner inside to collapse onto the ground with his body burning slightly. They both watched as he summoned the strength to get back up onto his talons and approach his saviors.

Vadin was about to greet the mysterious figure and ask him a couple of questions until his break dropped in shock, not expecting to see someone familiar every again. "No...It can't...Be..."

The mysterious figure growled slightly as his fearing red eyes shot a glare to the red-bellied before walking towards him, revealing himself to be at least a foot taller than Vadin, but not as big as Mr. Kirilenko of cause.

Vadin was still in shock as he raised the Orb of Darkness up to the mysterious figure, allowing him to touch it that somehow gained him the ability to stop himself from burning further, and making himself fully recovered like the Orb was some sort of medicine to him.

The mysterious figure laughed as he stretched out both of his silhouette wings out from his sides. He looked like a dark macaw, except his body was glowing with dark essence, and he was much darker than the average dark macaw would usually be.

There was silence as Vadin tried to puzzle together how this was possible, and why he was hear, or better yet, how he was hear. He and Kate knelt down to the mysterious figure as he remained silent still, his expression almost like he had seen a ghost.

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"Lord Nexus...?"

Cliffhanger! Stay tuned for the next chapter, folks, and I hope this chapter as got you worked up to read the rest of the story. And not to spoil anything, but the action is on it's way.