A Whole New World - Chapter 13: Freedom
Alright, another chapter for another story on another day. Now let's get started.
Anon: Was wondering if someone was gonna yell at me haha! And you should consider getting an account, I'd be interested talking with you a bit more outside of these reviews.
FoxDemon1023: I've already replied via a PM but for others, you wanted to know how they could dance when they're chained? Well, amazing and unexplained things can happen, plus, I don't think Shadow is going to be focusing on the chain and going 'oh look! The chain isn't getting all tied up'. Sometimes there are things that just can't be explained, I know it doesn't make sense and I'm sorry about that, but think of it this way, they just coincidentally happened to spinning in direction that didn't get the chain tangled. This bit is added on from me now, I don't mean to sound rude or anything in my explanation, I'm just trying to look at things from all angles.
Rio Review: Well, yeah gotta have those moments in it. Shows Shadow is fed with dealing with shit and is just gonna get straight to the point now.
Jewel's POV
Of all the times I get to have a little bit of alone time with Shadow, freaking monkeys had to come and ruin it all. I mean I was having a great time, I haven't had so much fun in a long time...at least from what I can remember...
Now is not really the time for sad thoughts...
"Come on! Can't we all just get along?" Rafael asked one of the wings around a monkey.
"No we can't and you should stay out of our business, big nose." The monkey replied.
He went to hit Rafael but a flamingo grabbed the monkey's arm before looking him dead in the eye, very seriously.
"You mess with my friends, you mess with me." He threatened.
Now that's what I like to see from birds. Birds willing to stand up for others and not backing down.
"And us!" Pedro shouted.
It then got very tense. All birds in the ruined room, and I mean all the birds started staring down the monkeys who stared us back down in return. In the background there was a single monkey, beating away at a can to symbolise how tense it was and tense was an understatement. Suddenly, a little green bird who was scared out of her wits said she didn't know what was going on and flew away.
Okay, so maybe it wasn't all the birds...
"Birds vs monkeys!" Pedro suddenly shouted and we all charged the monkeys.
Sapphire and I moved off to one side opting to stay together, not that we had any other choice besides sticking together. Monkeys decided to try and get us from behind so we split apart and tightened the chain causing the monkeys to trip over and crash into some nearby boxes. Out of nowhere, a monkey lunged at Sapphire and tackled her to the ground, I quickly raised the chain finding it to be an effective weapon as it hurt the monkey where it hurts badly it would seem.
I had a smug smile on my face as he crumpled to the ground allowing Sapphire to get back up, she quickly thanked me for helping her and then we watched out for monkeys to defend ourselves from.
Blu's POV
What was these monkeys problem? We didn't do nothing to them at least nothing that I can ever remember doing. In fact, we've never come across them in our travels. I didn't really know how to deal with them so I was just staying back to let my brother deal with them and honestly, I want to know where he learned to fight.
The monkeys would come at him, two or sometimes three at a time and he would easily deal with them. He bat one of aside with one of his wings and then swiftly move out of the way of the other one or two and waited for them charge at him again where he would then knock another over the head with his hard beak effectively knocking it out and if there was one more, he would grab it and hoist it over him but the thing is as he lifted it he would let go, causing the monkey to fly past him into some boxes, again knocking it out.
If he fought like this against these monkeys, I'd hate to see what it would be with him fighting Razor, that hawk that taunted him back at the smuggler's hut. It would be nasty.
Monkeys however, were successful in one thing. From what I could see, they rounding us up by backing us up towards the other two and when they had, they surrounded us. Escape from here seemed impossible however, it would seem I was wrong.
"Need a lift!" A flamingo cried and then grabbed the chain that linked Shadow and I together then flew towards the carriage. Another flamingo that I never noticed did the same thing for the girls.
However, the monkeys weren't going to give up that easily. They started grabbing onto us and formed a link to hold us back though it didn't last long as the monkeys let go after a few seconds and I faintly heard Nico shout something along the lines of 'take that you funky monkey!'
The flamingo deposited us on top of the carriage, the girls soon following.
"Thanks!" I shouted as the flamingo flew away.
"Anytime!" They replied.
"Whoo hoo! Now that's what I'm talking about!" Pedro laughed.
"Man, we threw down!" I exclaimed. Sure I may have not done much, but oh well.
"Yeah, we did!" Jewel and Sapphire agreed.
"You all were like fire and ice." Rafael smoothly stated.
"Thunder and lightning!" Nico added.
"Hip and hop!" Pedro further added.
"Cheese and sprinkles!" I added and everyone went quiet and stared at me. I felt somewhat embarrassed, "It's a Minnesotan thing."
They all laughed at my embarrassment expect for Shadow, he still seemed annoyed by the fact that I was raised by Linda. I guess that may never change unless he got to see what Linda was like.
"See! Nothing you say makes any sense!" Rafael stated again.
Shadow's POV
I'm still thoroughly annoyed that a human raised my brother, that he was forced to be a pet to some human. It angered me honestly, if it hadn't been for those bloody smugglers in the beginning then none of this would be happening. We'd be happy, safe and enjoying our time with our mother.
Our mother...
It's obviously been years since I last saw her and I can no longer remember what she looked like, what she was like. I miss her so much and even a tough bird like myself can turn soft which was evident by the fact that I felt tears welling in my eyes. I'll cherish the day I'm reunited with her, it'll be amazing.
"Hey..." Jewel whispered in concern, "You alright?"
I looked over to her. She must of noticed my down mood.
"Not really. Thinking about how I haven't seen mum in a long time...technically, I haven't seen her since I was a little bird..."
Jewel wrapped her wings around me to reassure me.
"You'll see her again, once this is all over. We'll go looking for her."
It warmed my heart that Jewel was willing to do that for me just cause I hadn't seen my mother in ages, but what about her? Didn't she want to see her family again? I now feel guilty that she wants to help me and not go find her family.
"Thanks, but now is not the time to be dwelling on such things. The time now is for us to be together." I replied with a nuzzle.
Jewel responded in kind by returning the heartfelt gesture and seeing as she still had her wings wrapped around me, I wrapped mine around her to return the gesture. I held onto her tightly, as if this was all a dream and at any moment I would wake up, back in the cage that the smugglers had put me in, without Jewel being there to help me.
We moved to one side of the carriage but not too far cause of the chains and sat down. Jewel leaned against me and sighed as she closed her cyan eyes, she then rested her head on my shoulder as I wrapped one of my wings around her again and finished our moving around with me resting my head on top of hers, also sighing and closing my blood red eyes.
Then everything went quiet...I couldn't hear anything else other then Jewel's steady breathing. The area around us seemed to fade leaving us to ourselves, I'm sure I've said this before but I love this moments, just the two of alone...together.
"Don't you just love this moments?" Jewel whispered.
"Yeah, I do." I whispered in return.
Silence fell between us again for a few moments before Jewel spoke up again.
"You know you can be a real softy, you know that?" She giggled.
I chuckled slightly. I've known that for a while now, six years to be exact.
"Yes I do but that's cause I love you, Jewel. Your my one and only."
"I love you too, Shadow." She sighed.
Again a silence fell between us but it didn't last for long before I heard what sounded like a hopeless romantic to our left.
"I have very nice eyes."
That hopeless romantic would seem to be my brother, sounds about right as well. I laughed quietly at his expense then sighed, if I have to listen to him then this was going to be a long ride, plus it seemed it Rafael trying to play matchmaker.
Oh this was going to be rich, but at least I was spending some more quality time with my lovely Jewel.
Sapphire's POV
I get that Blu likes me and all because I like him as well, but if he really wanted to win my heart and wanted me to be his mate, he was gonna have to do better than this as well as without help cause I could see that Rafael was trying to help him but that help was failing.
After a few hours of awkward silence between us and Blu failing in his advances before we arrived where we were suppose to be. We got of the carriage and made us into the nearby building. It was creepy and something about the place wasn't right and it annoyed me too no end.
Seems my fears were placed correctly and I hate when that happens.
Out of nowhere, a dog comes running at us ultimately scaring us all. All those that could fly at the moment, including Jewel and I, jumped into the air flew out of the reach of the dog. The two boys weren't as lucky.
They had to turn and run but didn't get far before the dog knocked them to the ground growling at them. I seriously thought that was going to be the end of them before dog suddenly start laughing.
"I got yous good!" He said, "I could've ripped your throats out! But I didn't!"
He laughed a bit before realising something and staring off into the distance for a moment, "But I could've."
"Hehe, hey, Luiz! Stop scaring my friends like that!" Rafael said as he landed on the ground while the rest of us landed on the human vehicle.
"Hey Rafi! Come 'ere!" The dog now identified as Luiz said, grabbing Rafael in slobber filled hug, "You look good."
"Whoa, whoa wait! Luiz...is a bulldog?" Jewel asked from beside me.
Luiz didn't seem to take the remark to nicely, as he stared up at Jewel with a slight glare in his eyes, "You got something against dogs?"
"I do when their drooling on my mate."
Luiz didn't seem to take note of anything else Jewel said expect for 'drooling.' He seemed saddening straight away, "It's a medical condition."
"No, no Luiz..." Rafael began.
"She's mean bro..."
"No, no," Rafael continued and moving over to Blu and Shadow to hold up the chain, "We need your help."
Luiz moved over to the chain and looked at it intently before smiling in way that I didn't like, "I know just the thing."
And before we knew it, the boys were standing in front of another human thing that looked very sharp...very sharp. Blu was staring at it in shock and fright, Shadow on the other hand, I don't know what he thought of it cause I couldn't read his emotions.
"Uhh, I'm not so sure about this..." Blu said fearfully.
"Don't worry, there's nothing to it." Luiz replied as he came up behind them. He then flipped down a thing over his face, "Now if something goes wrong, scream really loud, cause I can't hear too well with this thing on."
That's reassuring, I'm sure it totally is for the boys.
"Hey Rafi! Get the switch!" Luiz called.
"Don't worry he's a professional!" Rafael assured as he flipped the switch.
The machine whirred to life and it started spinning, causing the sharp things become a blur off sorts. I could see Shadow's expression now and it wasn't good.
He was scared.
"Now try not to move too much either, I can't see too well out of this thing."
And with that, the bulldog started pushing both birds forward while they tried to resist and push back but it was of no use, Luiz was much stronger and much larger than they were so it was easy for him to push them along. However, it seemed disaster struck...
Shadow's POV
Just as we were almost at the blade that was scaring the absolute shit out of me, I noticed Luiz slip on some of his own spit which threw us forward. I leapt into the air and flew out of the way of the blade. I latched onto the light as it swung away from the blade, hopefully pulling Blu along with me in time as well. Thankfully, it did but a feather from his head was still clipped off.
We swung back and Blu hit Luiz on the back of the head causing him to hit the blade, cutting his helmet thing in half. We swung back again but this time, I was pulled off of the light and we flying into Luiz who held onto to us via the chain which was in his mouth. Then the next thing that happened was gross but it helped.
Luiz's spit worked its way down the chain and lubricated our feet causing our feet to slip through the chain where we fell onto the ground...then I realised something...
I was free...
And that ends this chapter. We are approaching the end of the story now, probably four maybe five chapters to go and that includes an epilogue. I hope you all have enjoyed this story so far and I thank you all for your support.
EDITED 19/04/2015