Darkness Reborn

Hello, my fellow authors. In case you did not know, Rio 2 is being released in a few days where I live (according to what I have heard). The long wait is finally over, but the question is: will it be good? Let us wait to find out.

In the meantime, enjoy a chapter to read.

Meanwhile, back in the Jungle of Rio de Janeiro, the blue macaw family sat in a circle together in their nest as the father told them a story to pass the time. The kids were eager to hear, but Jewel merely watched, knowing this story already as she held sleeping Jessica in her wings.

"And then I confronted Vadin in the attic an abandon penthouse suite at the Blue Tree Berrini Hotel, and finally, we battled to the death." Blu continued, keeping his three children excited while continuing the rest of his story. "Although I did not have all of my powers, I finally managed to defeat him, and take the Siphon for myself!"

"And then you kicked Vadin's butt, right, Dad?!" Rey asked, jumping up from where he was sitting for a moment in excitement.

"Indeed I did, Rey." Blu smiled, continuing his story as his youngest son sat back down in the nest. "And now, I opened up a portal, sending Vadin into a world like a prison where he would stay for the rest of his life to pay for his actions. The end."

"Awww, but what happened to Johnny?" Crystal inquired, wanting to know what happened next in her father's story.

"I'm afraid story time is over, honey." Blu replied, stretching his wings out from his sides.

"Awww, but we wanna know what happens next!" Azul whined, pressing his wings together while he gave his father the famous puppy dog look. "Please."

"Not until tomorrow, Azul." Blu answered, trying to make it fully clear in a calm voice that it was over, but all three of his children gave him the puppy dog look at once. He looked towards Jewel for advice, but she merely shrugged. Blu sighed, not standing to see them like this. "Oh, okay. I suppose I can tell you a bit a more."

The kid's expression changed from a sad one into a happy one, and they paid close attention to their father as they sat back down into the nest. All of them listened carefully to their father as he continued his story, but to be safe, he did not tell them all of the scary parts.

Meanwhile, back at the World of Darkness, the King of Darkness known as Nexus had organised a meeting in his castle, wanting to make an important announcement, and to celebrate his return. Inside a huge room known as 'The meeting room', Nexus stood on the stage as an entire army of dark macaws standing in front of him, waiting patiently for him to begin.

Beside him on the stage were Vadin and Kate, who were standing behind him during his speech (just like before when Nexus made his announcement during the invasion of the jungle).

"My fellow brothers and sisters!" Nexus began, spreading out his wings from his sides as the entire army listened carefully to his words, fearing the consequences if they were to ignore. "Today we are here to celebrate the return of me: your powerful King Nexus!"

The army of dark macaws cheered for him as they began clapping their wings for a moment. Standing right in front of the army were the smart macaw, the stupid macaw, and Mr. Kirilenko, who listened carefully to their leader.

"Alright, settle down." Nexus kindly requested, waving his wings slightly before he began to pacing up and down across the stage, rubbing his wingtips together slightly. "Now, as you are aware, we are planning to invade Rio's jungle again, and this time, take it over for good. We have the Angelus in our position. But first, we are going to catch our main target: a male blue macaw named Blu." Nexus paused as the crowd began mumbling to others slightly so he continued his speech to further explain. "Yes, yes, he does not seem so great, but did not underestimate him. He once had the powers of light, and I am not sure if he still poses them or not, but it is likely he may. And he was the one who got me defeated in the first place, and he was responsible for killing my nephew! He is our main target. Before our plan to take over Rio, he must be dealt with. Now, as you are aware, with have Vadin and Kate with us, and I know they are not our kind, but they are the captains of this army, and if they give you an order, you are to follow it. I am understood?

Everyone nodded slightly in fear.

"Good." Nexus smirked, standing still in the center of the stage while continuing his speech. "But before we go after Blu, we have recently tracked down a couple macaws that are in the position of rare powers. They live in different parts of the World but we have their location, and I want them brought here alive. Now, after we catch them, I am planning to send some of you out there to apprehend Blu, but! I want him alive! Understood?" he paused as the army of dark macaws nodded yet again. "Excellent. Now, all of you are dismissed. Do what you will until further orders."

The army or dark macaws dismissed, and scattered all across the room while making their way to the nearest exit. After they were gone and the room was completely deserted, Nexus shifted his attention back to Vadin and Kate, who were waiting patiently for further orders. "Now, as for you two, I want you both to give me part of your powers again. I may need them for the future."

"Of course, Lord Nexus." Vadin agreed, nodding slightly.

"But, how?" Kate inquired, placing a wing to her hip. "Without the siphon, how can we share part of our powers with you, Lord Nexus?"

"You leave that to me, my dear." Nexus answered, folding his wings together as he began walking towards the exit of the meeting room. "Just leave some of your blood samples to the doctor here. I will take care of the rest. But for now, go and help capture these macaws with powers."

Vadin was willing to obey his master, but he was curious to why Nexus wanted them. He used his dash power to catch up to Nexus in a hurry as the evil hawk was walking out from the room. "If I may ask, what do you plan to do with them, Lord Nexus?"

Nexus froze in his steps as he shifted his attention towards Vadin, gazing at him with his fearsome red eyes that did cause fear to send down Vadin's spine. He smirked while answered the red-bellied's question like it was obvious. "I plan to extract their powers of course. If I plan to take over Rio, I will need to get as strong as possible….Now, if you did not mind, I have work to do."

Nexus left the meeting room and made his way to the secret room only he had access to unless he gave any of his men clearance to go in there. He made his way to that room where he entered through a wooden door, revealing a small room (similar to the way he was locked in) where only the Angelus's cell was in the center of the small room.

He chuckled as he looked through the dark essence glass where the Angelus was sitting on the bed with his legs crossed into a lap and her wingtips touching each other, quietly meditating to herself.

Using his powers, Nexus opened up the glass, making it disappear where he walked inside of her cell. He smirked as he watched the Angelus' attention, and she already knew who had entered her cell.

"Nexus." She spoke, knowing it was him without even opening her eyes. "What do you want?"

"You already knew it was me without opening your eyes." Nexus said grinning, crossing his wings together. "Impressive."

"What do you want with me, Nexus?" the Angelus inquired, opening her eyes fully as she stood up in front of him, trying to show she was not afraid of him.

"Oh, just thought I would say, "Hi", Angelus." he sarcastically answered, rubbing his wingtips together. "But, first, since I am in such a good mood, I would kindly ask that you do not attempt to escape. Until I have a purpose for you, at least."

"I take it you are not going to let me go anytime soon?" the Angelus inquired. She looked behind Nexus' shoulder for a second where she could the cell glass was gone.

"No, but as soon as I complete my destiny, I may consider-" Nexus paused as the Angelus struck him in the stomach with her wing before attempting to run out of the cell.

He quickly extended out his serpent heads and demon arms, and in the quick of an eye, he wrapped a demon around the Angelus neck and dragged her back and held her into the air.

The Angelus struggled for air as the placed her wings onto the demon arms tied around her neck.

"Now, now, that was naughty." Nexus smirked, pulling her close to him as he magically appeared some dust in his wing and blew it into her face. "Sleep."

The Angelus attempted to look away but ended up inhaling the dust, and in seconds, her wings fell down as she passed out completely.

Nexus chuckled as he dropped her to the ground before he left her cell, and brought the strong dark essence glass back up, locking her inside yet again as he left the room, needing to do work for his next plan and action.

Back in Rio de Janeiro, the duo Nico and Pedro had just got back into the city after visiting Rafael and Eva at the jungle for the day. They both had a long flight to take, and they had been flying nonstop since they left.

Exhausted from the flight there, the two collapsed as soon as they entered the samba club. Both of them continued panting for a moment as they rolled onto their backs, trying to catch their breath back.

"Man….That was…." Nico trailed off while continuing to pant.

"A long…Flight?" Pedro finished for him, spreading out his wings to the ground.

"Yeah!" Nico agreed, managing to summon the energy to get back up onto his talons. He stood up fully and turned around where he walked straight into a figure's body. "Ow! Hey, watch where you're….Going…."?

Nico paused and watched in shock as a dark macaw stood in front of him with a smirk across his beak. He stood there with his beak dropped as Pedro got up and walked beside him.

"Hey, Nico, who's this?" Pedro inquired, tapping his best friend slightly.

"Remember those dark macaws I told you about?" Nico asked, getting a slight nod from Pedro in return while looking towards the evil macaw. "Well, this is one of them."

"Oh…" Pedro trailed off, realizing they were in trouble as the dark macaw merely stood there with his wings folded together, still smirking. He walked closer to Nico and pulled him away slightly while chuckling nervously. "I...Think we'll just...Be going...Now. RUN!"

The two jumped as they prepared to run straight towards the exit of the club. Nico and Pedro made it to the exit where they ran into yet another dark macaw. Both of them gulped, knowing there was no way out of this as they spoke simultaneously. "Oh, boy."

Back in the World of Darkness, Nexus smirked as he held up the two blood samples from Vadin and Kate using his telekinesis power. He chuckled slightly as he placed both of them carefully into a small container near his throne room.

Before long, the evil King was greeted by a few dark macaws, which walked into his throne room and knelt down to him in respect. The leader of the group spoke first as Nexus watched them from his throne. "Lord Nexus, we did what you asked and searched Rio. We manage to capture two birds who are friends of the blue macaw."

"Is that so?" Nexus inquired, pressing his wings together. "And who are these two birds?"

"One of them is a small canary and the other one is a cardinal." the dark macaw answered. "We have taken them to the prison a couple of miles away from here. We think they may be able to tell us some useful information."

"Do what you will with them." Nexus ordered, not really interested in these prisoners since they were not who he asked for. "But keep them alive though. They may bring us valuable information."

"As you wish, Lord Nexus." The dark macaw replied, standing back up to full height as he and his colleagues left the throne room.

After were gone and he was left in his own, Nexus grinned as he held his wings pressed together, knowing full well who his men had just captured. He thought to himself quietly while keeping a grin across his face. "Ahh, Nico and Pedro are now in my position. I did not think it would be this easy, but now that they are in my captive, I know Blu would not dare let anything happen to them."

"Lord Nexus?"

Nexus dazed out from his thoughts where the smart macaw, the stupid macaw, and Kirilenko had entered his throne. He growled slightly, not liking to be interrupted. "What is it?! Can you not see I am busy?"

"W-We are sorry to bother you, Lord Nexus." the smart macaw apologized, fearing for the life when he remembered what happened to the last macaw he annoyed Nexus: he got his wings and talons cut off. "But we have discovered the blue macaw's location."

"I already know where he lives." Nexus countered, creating dark essence fireballs in his wings as they just wasted his time just by telling him something he already knew. "That's all you wanted to tell me?"

"No, no, we also discovered his powers are gone!" the stupid macaw quickly responded.

"He no longer has light powers?" Nexus inquired before chuckling slightly, knowing that this was going to be almost too easy. "Interesting. Did you find anything else out?"

"He has three kids and a wife." the stupid macaw added, shrugging his shoulders slightly. "Not that they are a threat."

Saying the word "wife", this left Nexus in shock slightly. He placed his wingtip to his chin, shocked about the impossible? "Jewel...? No, it cannot be. I killed her myself. There was no possible way she can be alive!"

"You sure he didn't just find another wife?" the smart macaw inquired, not wanting to worry his leader, but then again, he was basically the God of chaos and feared nothing.

"Don't be stupid!" the smart macaw snapped, slapping his partner across the head with his wing like he usually did on a daily basis. "Jewel was the last female of our kind."

"Hmmm, I suppose that is interesting." Nexus admitted, rubbing his chin slightly with his wingtip as he thought back to the day when he had taken Jewel at his own mercy. He did not have any interest on killing her and was attempting to kill Blu, but instead, she took the damage for him, sacrificing her own life.

Flashback

Jewel quickly pushed Blu out of the way, just before the dagger would hit him.

Blu grunted and used his wings to sit up. "Jewel, are you ok...Jewel?"

Blu turned around, and was in complete shock when he saw Jewel standing still, with the dagger stabbed in her stomach. Jewel looked over at Blu and extended one of her wings out, and was about to say something.

Blu watched as the love of his life, the lovely Jewel let out a pained gasp. Without any other words, she fell forward, landing with a sickening thud. Blu couldn't believe his eyes, he charged forward, clutching Jewel in his wings.

"Jewel! Jewel! GET UP!" Blu begged, slightly shaking her, but she didn't answer his desperate pleas, her head bobbed as he attempted to shake her awake. There wasn't a single inch of life about her...Jewel was taken away, by the deadly dagger that the Nexus held. The blade which robbed her of her life.

"Jewel...Jewel, baby...No...NO!...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Blu screamed, with his head looked up at the sky, and his voice screaming anger and sadness. Blu closed his eyes, and held his head on Jewel's head. He used his wing to keep her head touching his. "No...Please, Jewel...Come back...No."

Nigel, Vadin, Johnny, Kate, and Rico merely watched the Blue Macaw holding onto the love of his life in his wings.

Johnny beckoned for one of the Gangsters to give him a gun. Johnny accepted the weapon and aimed it at Blu. "Should we finish him?"

"No." Nexus said, pushing Johnny's gun down. "Leave him to suffer. For now, we leave."

So, Nexus, Vadin, Johnny, Kate, and the Gangsters who dragged Nigel along, walked away into the Jungle, leaving Blu next to his wife's corpse. Blu closed his eyes and held Jewel's wing in his. "I'm sorry, Jewel."

Nexus dazed out from his thoughts where he saw the three macaws still knelt down in front of him. He smirked as he beckoned for them to stand up. "Well, it seems that was valuable information. Good job. In fact, you two are now sergeants. And as for Kirilenko, you are now a lieutenant."

"Thank you, Lord Nexus." the smart macaw thanked, giving his full gratitude to Nexus before he and his colleagues left the throne room.

Nexus watched as the trio left the room, and using his strong hearing, he could hear what they were saying as they were walking away into the distance.

"Why does Kirilenko get to be the lieutenant?" the stupid macaw whined, not thinking it was fair.

"Maybe it's because he's two foot taller than us, three times the strength than us, and is very scary?" the smart macaw stated like it was completely obviously, but he knew his partner was so stupid, he could not even spell his own name some times.

"Yeah, but at least we have both wings!" the stupid macaw countered, yelling slightly in jealously to the bigger macaw.

"I will leave you smeared across this room!" Kirilenko threatened his voice deep and serious.

"Settle down, gentleman." the smart macaw ordered, not wanting there to be any arguments between them, or worse, Kirilenko losing his temper and could easily crush the stupid macaw if he wanted to.

The three macaws were eventually out of his hearing, and he was left in peace once again. Despite them pretty much being useless most of them time, Nexus had to admit they did a good job this time, and now he could use this information to his advantage in so many ways.

"Idiots." Nexus chuckled, finding all three of them to amusing to his entertainment. "But this is interesting. Not only will I have my revenge on Blu, but I will also make his wife watch as I slowly torture him with my bare wings. And with the canary and cardinal, they will surrender. Mwhahaha!"

Looks like Nexus has Nico and Pedro in his captive, and we all know that is not going to end well. Will Blu and Jewel soon be attacked by Nexus and his army? Can he be stopped? Stay tuned for the next chapter.