Hello Everyone. Sorry for the long wait. Here is chapter 10 and I hope you will enjoy it. :)
While the Smugglers were talking in the main room, Leonardo along with his brother Blu and Jewel are still in the cage.
Leonardo was sitting with his back to the cage while Jewel was trying to find a way out and Blu was trying to keep himself calm.
"Ok, the key is not to panic" said Blu, to himself.
"Am not panicking" said Jewel, thinking that Blu was talking to her.
"I wasn't talking to you, I was talking to me" said Blu, defiantly. "But it's ok because any minute now, Linda will find us".
"Oh great and she will stick us behind another set of bars, right?" asked Jewel, sarcastically.
"Yes...I mean no" said Blu, agreeing at first before changing his mind.
"Look pet, cages might work for you and your friend but I don't want to belong to anyone" said Jewel, determinedly.
"You might want to think about that, Jewel" said Leonardo, staring at something right in front of him.
"Why?" asked Jewel.
"Because the big insane Cockatoo is here" said Leonardo, angrily.
Blu and Jewel then followed his stare only to see Nigel, the same Cockatoo that they have met before.
Nigel was in the dark room walking when he stopped at a cage filled with small dark blue birds who were shivering were fear at the mere sight of him.
"Something Seems to be lodged in my beak" said Nigel before turning his head towards the small dark blue birds. "Would you mind?".
All of the Small birds ran to one end of the cage before pushing one of their own to Nigel where the small bird tried to get the sticky substance out of Nigel's beak.
Nigel then clamped his beak down but the small bird was fast as it managed to get it's foot away in time before Nigel can try to eat it's foot.
Nigel then started to laugh manically before going to where Blu, Jewel and Leonardo were and shook the cage making Blu go flying into the back of the cage with Jewel landing on top of him while Leonardo landed face-first into the floor of the cage.
"I may not be a pretty bird but I used to be quite the looker" said Nigel, turning his head towards a picture of himself. "The star".
Nigel then started to sing while the other birds joined in out of fear until they were told to be quiet by Nigel who then grabbed Jewel by the throat and threw her into Blu before flying away.
"Sweet nightmares!" shouted Nigel, Evilly.
"Not cool man, scary but not cool" said Blu.
"You tell him Blu" encouraged Leonardo. "That Cockatoo has no respect for females".
"Hey are you ok?" asked Blu turning to Jewel as he said the last part.
"No I am definitely not OK!" said Jewel, angrily before beginning to throw herself at the cage trying to break free.
"Hey what are you doing?" asked Blu, worriedly.
"Getting out of here" said Jewel as she continued to slam herself against the cage. "You gonna help or what?.
"Our survival guide said that to sit and wait and help will come" said Blu.
"No one is coming" said jewel, angrily. "We are on our own and if we just sit here, we are going to die".
"Jewel, you do realize you are making a loud racket" said Leonardo, annoyed. "I bet by now that Nigel will hear us".
As if on cue, Nigel did indeed hear the loud noise that Jewel was making and began to getting the rest of the smugglers attention (Their boss left by then) with only mid-success.
Back in the dark room, Blu had finally found a way out and it didn't involve slamming.
"Wait a minute, why don't you just open the door" said Blu, picking the lock and opening the door of the cage.
"You kidding me? asked Jewel, shocked.
"It took us THAT long to figure out that we should OPEN THE DOOR!" shouted Leonardo in disbelief.
"It doesn't matter" said Jewel. "Let's go".
Jewel then began to fly out of the cage and out of the window along with Leonardo when Blu then held the cage with his beak for dear life.
"What are you doing!" shouted jewel, annoyed.
"I can't-" said Blu, before being cut off by Jewel.
"What?, you can't what?" asked Jewel.
Leonardo then looked behind him only to see that the two remaining Smugglers and Nigel were heading straight for them.
"Blu, let go of the cage!" said Leonardo.
"But Leo, you know that I am sc-" said Blu, before being cut off again but this time by Leonardo.
"Just do It, Blu" said Leonardo. "Trust me, it will be alright".
Blu then finally let go of the cage which then slammed into Nigel.
"Take that Nigel!" cheered Leonardo before realizing that they were they about to fall. "Oh come on".
"Has your friend answered my question yet?" asked Jewel ,Angrily.
"The answer should be coming right about now" said Leonardo just as Blu then gave his answer to Jewel's question.
"I can't flyyyyy!" shouted Blu as he, Leonardo and Jewel then began falling to the ground until they were soon zip-wiring on a washing line.
"You couldn't have told me before now?" asked Jewel, annoyed.
"It didn't matter before now" answered Blu as they crashed into a wall.
"I hate you" said Jewel.
"Jewel, be nice!" said Leonardo, sternly before they fell to the ground again and landed in a box of pink Styrofoam.
"Is there anything else, I need to know?" asked Jewel, furiously.
"Yes, I can't fly, I pick my beak and every once in a while I pee in the bird bath" said Blu. "Happy!?".
"You had to ask" said Leonardo to Jewel with a 'really' look on his face.
Before they can argue further, the two remaining Smugglers had finally spotted and started to give chase.
"We have gotta get out of here" said Jewel, pulling Blu and Leonardo along until they fell over.
"Listen to me" said Blu, panicking. "Flying may not be my thing but walking is, follow our lead, inside leg outside leg".
"Trust us Jewel or we are going to be put back in that cage" said Leonardo.
"Ok" said Jewel as they began to run again while muttering the four words repeatedly.
They kept on running until they saw a cat lick it's paw which gave Blu a idea because he then made some dog noise which startled the cat and it jumped and attack the two remaining Smugglers.
"See? I'm bilingual too" said Blu, confidently. Nigel then flew in to try and stop them.
"Oh this is great" said Jewel, annoyed. "I am stuck with the only bird who can't fly".
"Actually, there are about forty species of flightless birds" said Blu as Jewel and Leonardo then saw a box about to be put down.
"Duck!" shouted Leonardo and Jewel in unison.
"No ducks can fly" replied Blu.
"No!, duck!" shouted Jewel and Leonardo which this time Blu saw the box as well and ducked under it as they carried on running.
They carried on running until they fell onto a overhang and into a bucket which began to roll past people until it hit piece of metal which sends the three Macaws flying out of the bucket and onto a metal slate and they began bouncing up and down with Nigel getting closer and closer with each passing minute.
"Hold on!" shouted Leonardo as they swept the slate away at the last minute while Nigel went flying into the electric wire causing the power to be cut all over Rio.