A/N: Here you are, a news update along with another chapter to Winds of Madness. Keep reading along once you finish the preview for I have a couple things to cover.
Chapter 11: The Motives of the Majini Part 1
"Ah Exsirec. Please, come to me."
Deep in the mines of the Bat tribe's territory, a lone, burly bat cloaked in an array of feathers collected from several macaws. The truly feared and mighty leader of the Majini, Lord Osmund stood near to what appears to be a makeshift altar, placing offerings of unknown material onto the pedestal. Osmund's second in command called Exsirec approached the figure in a royal fashion, bowing to the figure as a sign of respect.
"You require my strength Lord Osmund?" Exsirec asked.
"Not quite, just two things to cover." Osmund replied, turning to face the Bat leader. "First, Majin informed me of your 'secretive' operation regarding my subject Crexis."
"Darn you Majin, can't even keep his beak shut for his life." Exsirec growled to himself.
"Are you trying to hide something from me my loyal servant?" Osmund asked, reaching into his cloak for what looks to be some kind of weapon.
"To be honest my Lord, yes." Exsirec replied quickly in hopes of saving himself from facing the wrath of his master.
"And what plans are you plotting behind me?"
"Majin and I were hoping to persuade the young, purple macaw of the truth behind his species using the U-3 serum." Exsirec admitted.
"I see." Osmund muttered, scratching his chin with his wing. "What use does this macaw have for us anyhow?"
"Since you and the bats vowed to bring the end to the Blue Macaws, Majin and I thought of a way to get an insider into the tribe to reveal to us their patrols, battle strength and so forth. Our scouts inform me that Eduardo and Solaris are gathering the leaders together. At this rate, we'll be outnumbered."
"Indeed we will." Osmund commented glumly. "But I do appreciate the idea. And for that, I will forgive you for your actions. I do find your plan rather brilliant and well thought out."
"I'm flattered." Exseric replied. "But that's too much coming from you Lord Osmund."
"No no Exseric, I'm sincere about it. Never I seen a servant more useful and intelligent while the creatures I'm dealing with in this tribe seem to fall short. Just make certain our insider knows the truth before that dreaded Blue Macaw I loathe starts meddling into our plans. He may be paranoid, but I heard he's quite clever."
"Of course. Oh, and what was the second matter of business you wish to cover my Lord?" Exseric asked.
"Gather several of our strongest bats and Majin to accompany me. I wish to stop hiding behind the scenes and meet our foes for the first time."
"What are you planning if I may ask?"
"I just would like to say a greeting to our foes before I declare war. We may be outnumbered, but I will not stop until we get our rightful lands by those corrupted macaws."
"You wish to provoke them?"
"Indeed. Stir them up so we could have ourselves a worthy war to be remembered for ages." Osmund stated.
"Would that be wise Lord Osmund? I'm not saying I'm disagreeing to your plan, but this doesn't sound like we'll be benefiting it for exposing you."
"Oh believe me Exseric, I'm all for war. After all, my collection of 'toys' will spell the end of those Macaws."
"Of course, how could I forgotten we have the advantage?" Exseric chuckled.
"You are correct there. Oh boy I can't wait to see the bloodbath once I deploy 'that' during the battle." Osmund laughed menacingly.
"I too can't wait for our time to reclaim our lands as well, my Lord." Exsirec commented.
"Then we should take action now. Gather my escorts and tell them to meet me by the mine entrance." Osmund ordered. Exsirec nodded and flew off to his duties. "Oh, and before you do Exsirec."
"Yes?" Exsirec asked, turning around while hovering near the ceiling of the cave's interior.
"Make certain Majin takes three doses of the U-3 serum before you use some for our insider. I need Majin transform ready when the time comes."
"Heard." Exsirec replied before taking off.
"Oh what a good day this is going to be. Eduardo, Solaris, I do hope you're ready to face justice for what you've done to the Majini Tribe." Osmund mused in his thoughts.
As ordered by Eduardo, the macaws set off to prepare for a worst case scenario with the Majini Bat tribe. Roberto and Ray headed towards the outer groves of the Brazilian Nut Grove, one of the main areas where it's the most patrolled.
Roberto organized groups of Blue Macaws to circle around the groves after every certain interval, having a second group at the ready not too far from the first group patrolling the grove. To ensure the macaws won't be easily beaten by any intruder, each group would be composed of two of the strongest macaws tagged with several volunteers from the tribe.
Once the patrol groups were assigned, Ray pulled Roberto aside to cover an emergency protocol should the groves be taken by the Bats. Or Roberto so thought.
Ray roughly pulled Roberto behind a nearby tree, out of sight from the patrolling Blue Macaws. The crow glanced back and forth quickly to ensure no one saw his sudden dash for grabbing Roberto.
"Ray, what's the big deal!?" Roberto demanded as he struggled to break out of Ray's grasp.
"Shh!" Ray whispered, releasing his grip over Roberto and placing his wings over the macaw's beak. "Keep it quiet man."
"Fine." Roberto muffled through Ray's wings.
After being released, Roberto leaned and grabbed two nearby Brazilian Nuts, tossing one to Ray.
"Now, what's so urgent that you have to ruffle my feathers?" Roberto asked, fixing his crest feathers while breaking open the tasty contents of the Nut.
"It's about that wound Jewel got from the intruder attack." Ray answered.
"Yeah, I was going to ask before you treated her. How did you know how to treat it?" Roberto asked.
"Because…I've seen a similar wound before, when I used to work for Migal many months ago." Ray confessed.
"So meaning?"
"That means the wound came from a certain bird, not bat. Whoever bit Jewel dosed their beak in a neurotoxin to paralyze Jewel's systems before biting, rendering her immobilized without doing any major harm to her body."
"And why didn't you tell us this sooner?"
"Because for two reasons. One, Blu and his family cannot know about this or it will create some problems. Only you and Eduardo know about this for I trust you two more on holding a secret than the Gundersons. My second reason, I may have possible leads on the attacker. All the leads narrowing down to whoever was close to me when I used to work as a crook."
"Oh that means whoever attacked Jewel used to work with you months ago." Roberto beamed. "At this rate, we could avoid a conflict with the bats hopefully. Who was it?"
"The only birds who knew how to use this neurotoxin were myself, and my brother…Kroh."
A/N: Short yes, and I should stop there because it will get too juicy from here if you catch my drift. Now that you've finished the chapter, it's time to cover some news.
Recently I stumbled upon some Rio forums and discussions from various sources, some I rather not reveal for it will create some tension to those posters/submitters. I read several of the posts from these sources, and was appalled on what I found out on one particular trend. There's a list of people who are marked as Rio's haters, for that reason, the community vows to defend the franchise and cast these people as scum.
My name was on this list, added by an anonymous user. Because of that, some folks consider me a jerk to the Rio Community for the wrong reason. Now this update is meant to clear the air. To all who think I hate the Rio movies and its franchise, you're gravely mistaken. Just because I write bleak stories with Rio characters in it doesn't make me "a terrible and inconsiderate person and should be killed for hurting Blu."-Anonymous Author.
Besides, I have a share of pleasant stories…right? Moving on.
There's a line in this fan base of Rio I love and hate. What I love is how open Rio is for there's endless possibilities on what to write. Fans and wonderful authors like Assassin Creed Master, Ricardo the Black Hawk, and Sorrelwing for example helped me catch up to speed and welcome me warmly into the Rio fan base.
What I hate are the diehard fans saying their opinion is right and stories should be written to be retaining close to the original film. Sure, you do what you believe in, but an opinion is an opinion. I mean, you're terrifying me on how you worship a movie. If you don't have anything to back up your claim, be ready to be ignored. But then again, it would be better to just ignore the ranter either way.
What I'm trying to say is that I want you all to know I'm not that kind of guy. Yeah, it's hard to express it in typing, but I do hope you can understand that I just write to entertain you guys, not bash on a movie that has been taken too seriously to the folks that enjoy spamming my PM inbox with hate mail.
Thankfully, the user pulled down the hate trend for he or she posted on her Journal that it was getting out of hand. Since then, I've been getting peace. The original source of this trend was on a DA (Deviantart) account I stumbled on, but it's gone sadly.
Sorry for you guys to listen on my rambling. Just hoping you could hear me out. Another chapter of Winds of Madness should be up hopefully this weekend. Thanks for the support and hope to hear from you soon!- Poshil
Characters excluding Exsirec, Ray, Crexis, Kroh and Osmund belong to Blue Sky Studios. Crexis belongs to Crexis the Purple Macaw. Everyone else belongs to YootisPoshil