Rio the Darkness 4: Love and Light
RIO2lover100: Yeah, Blu is very sweet indeed. :D And why did Rico give Arlene those warnings? We will find out hopefully.
Rapper the red macaw: Yeah, it is sad when good things come to an end. And the riddles Rico had said to Arlene will hopefully be answered later.
Assassin's Creed Master: Yep, Rico appeared once again. And these warnings could be real, or they may just be a really bad dream for Arlene. And glad you liked the anniversary, and don't worry, Blu and Jewel shouldn't have an argument.
rio craziness: Indeed he did, my friend. :D And maybe we might start to understand these dreams from Arlene soon enough. And thanks.
Loco Vampire: Déjà vu? When did this happen before? :D
Arlene the Scarlet Macaw: Thank you, Arlene. Glad you liked the anniversary, and Rico's warnings are driving you crazy, are they? :D
spyrofan34: hate riddles, do you? And yes, I am aware when Rio came out. But it came out in March where I live.
cholemcg: Thank you, and you like a good riddle, do you? Cool. And maybe there might be new danger. And thanks for the offer, but you can keep your OC. :D
MCGamemaster90: Thanks, and maybe Arlene keeps seeing Rico because she misses him.
arttu solo: Awesome, and hope you enjoy the rest of the story.
Isaac the shapeshifter: Yep, let's hope Arlene and her friends can save Rio indeed.
Blu100-Jewel100: That will be revealed soon in the stories.
While things had been just perfect in Rio, and everyone was living peacefully, they had no idea what had been happening in the World of Light, home to the Angelus, he people, and her loyal Guards.
Inside the Castle which laid in the middle on the City, the Angelus was inside, sitting on her throne with her eyes closed; by the looks of it, she was meditating, finding peace.
However, her eyes shot open when she heard yelling coming from down the hallway by the entrance/exit to the throne room.
One the on the Angelus's guards came running into the room, panting while he held his staff in his wing. "Your Majesty! Your Majesty!"
"What is it, Guard?" the Angelus quickly asked, standing up from her throne, and the two guards beside her raising their weapons up, preparing to defend her.
The Guard began panting, trying his best to get out his words to the Angelus." An Army...Of... I don't know, but they have invaded the Castle and are coming here. We cannot stop them!
The Angelus gasped a little in response, while she moved away from her throne and over to the Guard. She lifted her glowing white wings up, preparing for battle. "You're sure you can't stop them?!"
"Yes!" the Guard quickly replied to his Queen, as he picked up his weapon again raised it in the air while looking towards the throne room exit/entrance. "There are too many-"
The Guard was cut off when a nearby explosion echoed throughout the entire Castle, startling everyone and causing panic. He and the two other guards raised their weapons, ready to face off the invaders. "They are here!" one of them yelled.
The Angelus and her Guards moved back when the saw a group of mysterious black macaws march into the throne room. The Angelus gasped when she immediately recognised who these macaws were. They were dark macaws from the World of Dark. How did they get out of their world and over to the Angelus's world?
Questions would have to wait. For now, the Angelus fired a couple of beams at the dark macaws, burning them and killing each one in split-second. The dark macaws kept coming, they walked inside carrying special weapons with dark essence inside.
One of the Angelus's guards threw his staff at the dark macaws and quickly ran back over to the Angelus. "Your Majesty, we have to get you to safety!"
The Angelus nodded in response and prepared to open a portal out of the Castle with her powers of light essence. "I'll open up a portal."
Just as the portal was close to opening, it was blew away and was forced the close by something. The Angelus and her remaining Guard turned around to see the dark macaws had invaded the entire throne room, and right at the center of the room was the leader.
He too was from the World of Darkness, but instead, he was a dark hawk. He had terrifying red eyes, his feathers were darker than his army, he was taller, he had dark brown talons, and to the Angelus, he looked familiar.
The Angelus quickly attempted to fire another light beam at the leader, but was shocked to see he had blocked it with his own powers. The leader chuckled while blocking the Angelus's beam. "Well, well, the Angelus I take it."
"You're indeed right." the Angelus countered, quickly firing another beam out of her wing, trying her best to kill this general before he would do anymore harm.
The leader blocked the other beam and laughed at the Angelus's failed attempts to kill him. He then magically made a dark essence fireball and checked it straight at the Angelus, to which she could not dodge in time.
The dark essence fireball hit the Angelus and caused her to fall down straight on her stomach. The leader laughed as he beckoned for one of his mean to give him something while he mocked the Angelus's pity attempts. "Hahaha, so powerful and yet so weak. Hahahahaahahaahaah!"
The Angelus was not preparing to give up just yet. She quickly attempted to fire another beam, but then discovered that the fireball the leader had hit her with had stopped her from using her light essence powers. She looked at her wings, confused and puzzled. "What did you do to me?!"
"Hahaha." the leader chuckled, as he got a dark essence glowing purple whip in his wings. He threw it at the Angelus and wrapped the whip around her neck and pulled her down. The whip then electrocuted the Angelus, making her weak and scream out in pain. "Not so tough without your powers."
"Ahhhh!" the Angelus screamed, wiggling around like a worm, trying her best to escape.
Eventually, the Angelus was too weak to move anymore and she laid down on the ground, her body completely weak from the electro dark essence whip. She mumbled a couple of words to herself while trying to keep herself conscious. "Uhhhh...I must...Defeat...I can't..."
The leader chuckled as he beckoned for his soldiers to take the Angelus away. "Hahaha, men, take her and the remaining Guards to the cells. I have an Orb to find.
"Yes, sir." two guards-who one seems to be smart and the other being stupid-replied as they picked up the Angelus and prepared to take her to the cells.
The Angelus had completely passed out, falling into deep unconsciousness. Had she failed to protect her people and her World? Why were her powers not working anymore? What was this leader going to do, and who was he exactly? He did seems very familiar.
For now, the Angelus was completely unconscious, now all that could happen was for her to wake up.
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Hours later, the Angelus was finally beginning to wake up after being defeated. She blinked her glowing laurel green color, and noticed she was in a cell. When the Angelus leaned up, she gasped when she saw the Castle had completely changed.
Instead of the whole place being a white colour with the cell bars being a glowing yellow light essence colour, the whole Castle was now a glowing darkness colour, and the cell bars were now a glowing dark essence purple colour.
"Well, well, look who's here." a too familiar voice said.
The Angelus leaned up and looked at the cell opposite of hers, to see a familiar yellow and blue macaw, who had a special power to turn into other birds. It was indeed Kate.
The Angelus groaned as she sat herself up to see Kate, who was sitting on a bird-sized chair, and her body and talons were tied up with glowing dark essence ropes, which were glowing light ropes before the leader and his dark macaws arrived and changed the Castle. "Well, what do you know, the prisoner."
"My name's Kate." Kate reminded, while she studied the Castle, wondering why everywhere had turned dark. "You locked me in here last year and tied me up and left me to rot in here."
"Well, it looks like its my turn." the Angelus sighed, while trying to use her powers again to turn of the cell bars, but it was hopeless as her powers were still not working.
"Expect your not tied up." Kate countered, as she struggled to try and get free from the ropes, but they were to tight and stopped her from extending her wings out and from walking anywhere. She looked back up at the Angelus, who was looking down at the ground sadly. "So what's happening? Who were those macaws that dropped you in here? And who's all of those other macaws?"
"An army of black macaws had invaded the castle." the Angelus answered, while she tried to look for a way out of the cell, but the only way out was the cell entrance/exit, and they were blocked off by glowing bars.
"Oh, that's great." Kate frowned, her eyes half-closed with a a not so happy face too. "Why don't you just use your powers to open the bars?"
"The leader of the army took my power." the Angelus answered, while looking at her glowing white wings, puzzled about how someone who isn't even that powerful as her could took away her powers, and change the entire World completely in darkness. Just who was he exactly? Why did he look like someone the Angelus had seen before?
For now, all the Angelus could do was rest to get her strength back. She laid down on the bed in the cell and tried to get some sleep. After all, she could be there for a very long while.
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A few more hours later, the Angelus was woken up by two dark macaws-they same ones who had picked her up and took her there. One of them who looked smart, and the other one who looked stupid.
"You, let's go!" the smart macaw ordered, carrying a weapon pistol in his wings.
The Angelus had no choice but to obey. She leaned up out of the bed and walked with the two dark macaws through the cellblock area. The two macaw brough the Angelus back to the throne room, which was now in darkness, and by the looks of it, it was now the leaders throne room.
The leader of the macaws watched his two soldiers bring the Angelus to the center of the throne room. The Angelus looked around and saw ten of her guards being held at gunpoint with their wings behind their heads.
The leader got up from the throne chair and walked over to the Angelus like he had nothing to fear at all. He walked around the Angelus a couple of times like a shark, with a grin on his beak. "Well, well, the Angelus. Now, I'm going to ask you one question: tell me, where is the Orb of Light?"
The Angelus gasped quietly to herself, puzzled about how anyone would know about the Orb. The Angelus put on an angry expression and looked away from the leader. "I'm not going to tell you."
"Is that so?" the leader grinned, as he took a dark essence pistol from one of his soldiers and walked over to the Angelus's guards. "If you don't tell me, I will execute all of your men, one by one."
The Angelus was now panickings and worried. She may have to keep the Orb safe, but she had to keep her guards safe too. Her guards would do anything to protect her, and she too had to protect them. "Okay. I don't have it."
"Not the right answer." the leader said, in a split-second, he shot one of the Angelus's guards, killing him instantly.
"Ok, ok, fine! Stop!" the Angelus panicked, quickly about to run over to the leader and stop him before he could kill anyone else, but she was stopped by the soldiers. The Angelus could not let him get the Orb either, so she had no choice but to lie again. "It's on the top of the castle."
The leader turned to two of his soldiers and gave them both direct orders. "You, go and see if it's there! And you, tie her up!"
"Yes, sir!" the soldier said, before flying out of the throne room to see if the Orb of Light was on top of the Castle.
"Yes, sir!" the other soldier obeyed, as he picked up some glowing dark essence ropes and begin to tie them around the Angelus's body and around her ankles to keep her from trying anything funny.
The Angelus struggled as the dark macaw tightened the rope around her and sat her down on the ground. The Angelus was now in even more trouble. The Orb of Light was in the place the leader wouldn't expect to look: under the throne chair.
The soldier who the leader sent to the top of the Castle returned and landed his talons down next to his boss. "It wasn't there, sir."
"Tsk, tsk, tsk." the leader then pointed his weapon at another guard, preparing to kill him to make the Angelus talk and reveal the location of the Orb of Light.
The Guard, who the leader was pointing his weapon at, quickly tried to warn the Angelus not to tell him where the Orb of Light is located like a true solider would do. "Your Majesty, don't listen-"
The leader shot the Guard to keep him from saying anything further and laughed to himself, like the sick-twisted monster he is. "That's two I got plenty of ammo."
"Nooo!" the Angelus screamed, squirming around the best she could, desperately trying to free herself with her strength, but the ropes were too tight, preventing the Angelus from going anywhere.
"Then tell me where the Orb is, or they all die." the leader threatened, as he pointing his weapon at another guards head, causing him to close his eyes in fear of being killed. The leader began to count down, trying to scare the Angelus into giving him what he wants. "I'm gonna count to 3.1...2..."
"It's under the throne chair!" the Angelus finally confessed, revealing the location of the Orb, and holding her head down in shame and sadness.
The leader chuckled as he approached the Angelus. He kneeled down to her and placed his wing under her chin to make her look at him. "See, that wasn't so hard, was it?"
While the leader was busy with the Angelus, one of his soldiers went under the throne chair and found the Orb of Light. He laughed and held up the Orb in his wings while walking back to his leader. "Boss, I got it."
"Excellent." the leader grinned, as the soldier walked back over to him and handed him the Orb. The leader took the Orb in his wing and examined it. "Hmmm, yes. One Orb down, one to go."
Now that he had the Orb of Light, the Angelus expected him to be finished with his work. However, he had decided to stay in this World for the other Orb. "Hmmm, this is a nice Castle. I might live here. I'll have to make some changes though."
He then ordered the smart macaw and stupid macaw to take the Angelus back to the cellblock area until he could decide what he would do next in his master plan. "You two, take her back to the cell."
The two macaws nodded in response, and the stupid one picked the Angelus up over his shoulder and began walking down the cellblock area.
While they were walking, the Angelus was beginning to feel really weak. Her light essence were weak, and with her being tied up and the Castle being all darkness, it was making her weak. "I...hate...the...darkness..."
The two macaws used what little powers they had to turn off the dark essence cell bars and dropped the Angelus inside. They turned the cell bars back on and left the weak Angelus in the cell.
Kate, who had somehow got free from the ropes, sat down on a bed and watched the Angelus struggling to breath. "Wow, they changed this place pretty quick. "You ok?"
"I'm...fine..." the Angelus replied, but she was quickly wrong. She was really weak from the darkness, and she could not escape. The Agnelud needed light to keep herself normal. Darkness will make her wing, and too much could even kill her.
"No you're not."
The Angelus leaned her head up to see a familiar bird in a cell next to Kate's. It was Vadin, former leader of the Brotherhood members, and one of Blu's main enemies.
"What...are...you...talking...about?" the Angelus asked Vadin, while she struggled to breath and rolled down on her side. "I'm..perfectly...fine."
"Then why are you wheezing?" Vadin inquired, while folding his wings together like arms and sitting down on the bed in his cell.
"These ropes are too tight, and there's darkness everywhere." the Angelus answered to the red-bellied macaw, still trying to breath normal, but she could not do anything at all. "They are going to kill me."
"You will live; they wouldn't dare kill a queen." Vadin assured her, even though him and her are sworn enemies, and enemies forever. "Trust me."
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Later the same day, the leader brought the Angelus back into the throne room to continue the rest of his mission. He watched the Angelus, who was still tied up and sitting down in a bird-sized chair.
The leader smirked as he walked over to the Angelus with his weapon still in his wing. "Ah, like the new Castle? Nice and dark."
The Angels looked at him with a not happy face, as she tried to figure a way out before it was too late. "Actually, I liked the old castle, nice and light."
The leader then pulled out his dark essence pistol and placed the end part right on the top of Angelus's forehead. He smirked as he prepared to fire the weapon and kill her so easily. "So, tell me? Where is the Orb of Darkness?"
The Angelus grinned in response, and decided to annoy him a little. She lifted up her tied-together talons and tapped her chin with a toes. "Ummm...Let me think.
The leader then got angry and pushed his weapon a little closer to her head. "Don't toy with me! I want to know where. And I want the truth."
The Angelus lowered her head sadly and had to tell the location of the other Orb. "It's at Rio."
"Rio? Hmmm." the leader said, tapping his chin with a single wingtip. He looked back down at the Angelus and took the dark essence from off of her head, and demanded the location of the exact location of the Orb. "Rio is a big place. I want to know the EXACT location."
"I don't know where the location is, but there might someone who does." the Angelus answered, but did say something she will regret in the future.
"Who is that someone?" the leader inquired, folding his wings together with his eyes half-closed.
The Angelus didn't want to say anything further, but she had no choice, and had to tell the leader of the dark macaws where the Orb of Darkness was located. She lowered her head down and confessed. "A blue macaw named Blu."
"Hmmmm, blue macaws? I thought they were extinct." the leader chuckled, as he turned to the stupid macaw and the smart macaw. He opened up a portal to Rio and ordered the two macaws to go down it. "You two, go to Rio and find either find the Orb, or this macaw named Blu."
The two macaws nodded in response and jumped down into the portal, yelling as they fell down through the portal tunnel. Now that they were on their way to Rio, things obvious are not going to go well if they find the Orb of Darkness.
Just what if this leader going to do with the Orbs, and what is he planning to do?
Author's note: if anyone doesn't know yet, the two macaws who the leader sent down the portal are the same ones Arlene tricked into fighting each other and assumed they were drunken idiots. It seems they were not drunken idiots after all.
Well, everybody the actions begins. The World of Light has been captured, and every bit of light has been turned into darkness. Let's hope the Angelus can think of something to save her her World before this leader finds the Orb of Darkness.