Rio the Darkness 5: Alternative Darkness

Well, everyone, here is the next chapter. I bet you were all wondering what was going to happen since the previous chapter, right? Well, let's find out.


After being knocked out from the strong blow of Raxos' weapon, the blue macaw named Blu had been captured and was taken to the military macaw prison and was now locked in a cell in the downstairs cellblock area which was normally for only the most dangerous prisoners. And he had been stripped of all his things: Rico's drinking bottle with the sacred water inside, and his new metal gauntlets.

He was laying down on a dirty mattress, groaning, and had a couple of pieces of rope tied around his body, securing his wings to his sides. "Oh, I can't believe I've been captured...I failed...I'm going to die...I am never going to see my family again...My Jewel...Rey...Azul..Crystal...And little Jessica..."

Blu then leaned up when he heard (and saw) a military macaw banging on his cell bars to wake him up. "Hey, you! Get up, now!"

As much as he didn't want to obey, Blu got back up onto his talons and made his way towards the cell bars-from the inside of course. The guard moved away over to the wall, and then Blu was greeted by two familiar faces: General Raxos and King Lenny.

Raxos smiled evilly in response while talking to the King with a kind tone. "This is a gift for you, your highness. This is the same macaw you attacked in the village not too long ago."

"He survived?" Lenny quiered, slightly shocked that Blu had survived the powerful attacks from his power. "Incredible. But now that he is here, I suppose he's not going anywhere."

Blu merely stared at the evil King with his eyes half-closed at a angry face while he placed one of his talons onto one of the cell bars.

King Lenny chuckled for a second, quietly to himself before he prepared to leave the prison and make his way back to his pyramid for the rest for the day. "Come, Raxos. We have much to discuss."

"Yes, your highness." Raxos said, before leaving, he looked back at Blu with an evil smirk on his beak, and in the blink of an eye, he moved his talon through the cell bars and got a solid grip on Blu's throat. "Now, you listen to me, macaw. You're going to stay in this cell and if you even THINK of escaping...Well, let's see how well you can move without your coat of feathers...Your wings...And your talons."

After that, Raxos released his grip from the feathery blue macaw's neck, and before leaving with the King, he looked towards the military macaw who was guarding the hallway and gave him a strict order: "YOU! Don't let him out of your sight, and whatever you do-don't let him escape."

"Yes, sir." the military macaw said, saluting his General as he walked away down the hallway with the King. After they were gone, the military sat back down on his chair and placed both his talons on a table with one wing behind the back of his head while holding his blade.

Blu had decided to go back over to the mattress for a little rest-despite the fact he hates dirty things and wishes it was nice and clean.

He laid down sidewards on the bed and watched the guard outside his cell. "Oh, this is just great. I'm going to spend the rest of my bird years in a cell. I have to get out of here. And even if I do get out of these stupid ropes" he struggled a little while continuing the rest of his thought ", I still can get out of this cell..."

Blu had then just realized that even though they have taken away his gauntlets, he still had his invisibility power inside of him, and he remembered that even with something attached to him like metal or rope, he can still be invisible out of plain sight.

He stood up from the mattress and made sure the guard was not paying any attention to him, and with quick thinking, he made himself invisible and now it looked like no-one was in the cell at all.

It took a couple of minutes, but the guard sitting on the chair turned his attention towards Blu's cell and noticed the prisoner was gone. He panicked while running over to cell, worried of what General Raxos would do so called the other guard for help. "Help, he's escaped!"

The other guard at the end of the hallway quickly made haste and ran up close towards the other military macaw. And was shocked to see he was correct-the prisoner was gone. "How in the World did you let this happen?!"

"There must be a hole in there or something!" the military macaw said, as he pulled out the keys from his army belt in his talon and quickly unlocked the cell doors, and he and the other military macaw ran inside to investigate.

While the two military macaws were searching, they had no idea that Blu was still there, and while they were still searching, Blu slowly snuck out of the cell, and when he got out, he went visible and quickly closed the cell door, followed by locking it with the keys the guard had left inside.

The two military macaws noticed they Blu had escaped and now they were the prisoner instead. The two macaws ran towards the cell bar and watched Blu, who was using the military macaw's sword to cut himself free from the ropes.

"How did he get out?!" one of them yelled, not believing that he had just managed to escape. "Impossible."

"Oh, I would not agree with you there." Blu chuckled, while rubbing his wings together to get the feeling back in them. He looked down both ways of the hallway he was standing in.

On one side was the way out which would take him to the upstairs cellblock area, and then he would have to walk up more stairs to get to the next level, and then would have to try and make it out of the prison. The other side was a small storage room, and possible where his stuff are.

Blu prepared to walk down the hallway towards the storage room, but before he could, he heard a voice calling out to him in a cell. "Hey, can you get me out of here, please?"

The blue macaw followed the sound of the voice to another cell where there was another bird prisoner. However, he was not just an ordinary bird; he was a blue macaw, just like Blu. He had light brown eyes and light blue feathers unlike dark blue feathers like Blu.

Blu decided to help him so he took the keys from the table and used them to unlock the cell door for the macaw. After he was free, Blu raised his talon up to introduce himself and greet the new blue macaw. "Hi. My name is Blu."

"Glad to meet you, Blu, and thanks for saving me." the blue macaw thanked while smiling, and accepting his talon shake. "My name is Cobalt."

"Please to meet you, Cobalt." Blu smiled, as they finally finished shaking talons and now had to make their escape before anyone would notice they were gone. "Listen, I'm getting out of here. Do you have anywhere to go?"

"Uhh, not really." Cobalt answered, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly while looking at the ground. "I was hiding in a village, but it was destroyed, along with the others."

Blu could not believe that this blue macaw he had just met did not have anywhere to go. So Blu decided, why not have him come to the rebel base? There is still plenty of room in the shelter room where they rescued other birds. "Well, listen, I work with the rebels and I can take you to their base for safety."

"You would?" Cobalt said, slightly happy as Blu nodded in agreement. "Oh, thank you so much! But I guess we need to get out of here first."

"Way ahead of you, Cobalt." Blu said, beckoning for him to go down to the storage room to search for Blu's things. "Come on. Let's go."

The two blue macaws made their way towards the small storage closet to search for Blu's gauntlets and Rico's army drinking bottle and then to escape. As they got towards the storage closet, Blu tried to pull the handle with his talon, but it was locked.

"It's locked." Blu said, even though it was way obvious that the storage closet was locked, so now he got the keys and tried to find the right one to open it. "Keep an eye out while I unlock this."

Cobalt nodded in response as he looked down the cellblock hallway, hoping no more guards would arrive near the area.

After a few more seconds, Blu opened up the storage closet and opened the door to get inside. He got inside where a bunch of crates were stacked up, and lucky for Blu, his equipment was laying on a nearby table.

Cobalt soon followed after and he shut the door behind them just in case. He watched Blu put on his metal gauntlets on his wings, and he had to admit-they looked awesome. "Wow, those are cool. Are those yours."

"You bet." Blu grinned, making sure the gauntlets were securely tight across his wings just above his wingtips too.

As Blu made sure is gauntlets were on tight enough, the sound of talon steps shot through his eardrums, and out of nowhere, a martial-artist macaw had jumped out of nowhere and was carrying a katana blade in his wings.

The martial-artist jumped towards Blu and prepared to cut him up. He struck his sword straight for Blu's head, but the blue macaw blocked his sword attack with one of his gauntlets, and as quick as a flash, Blu used his other wing to kick the katana out of his wing, followed by Blu grabbing the martial-artist and slamming his head against the wall.

Blu dropped the unconscious macaw down to the ground and looked over at Cobalt, who had been watching the entire time, and he seemed surprised of what just happened between Blu and the martial-artist.

"Wow, man. Awesome!" Cobalt complimented on his good job of taking down that martial-artist.

Blu smiled in response, but before he decided to leave, he took off Rico's drinking army bottle and decided to take the risk of gaining another power. Even with the help of the invisibility power, he was till captured. He looked back at Cobalt and told him to keep watch. "Cobalt, I need you to keep watch for me. Lock the door."

Cobalt did not have a clue why, but decided to obey anyway.

And without hesitation, Blu took a big sip from the bottle, and in seconds, he felt the great pain shooting through his body and it caused him to collapse onto the ground before entering complete darkness once again.


Blu slowly began to open his eyes and like the last time, he was in a strange world where there was only the colours blue and black glowing everywhere. He used his wings to get back up onto his talons and placed both his wings to see his sides. He talked to himself while waiting for the spirits to arrive like last time. "Well, I guess I'm here again. Just gotta wait."

It did not take long for the spirits to arrive once again like the last time he drank the sacred water.

Out from the Darkness, the three ghost-like-spirits had emerged once again, and approached Blu and circled him a couple of times before the spirits whispered the word "Speed" multiples, and then they all suddenly charged into Blu, and merged together inside of him.

And again, Blu yelled out in pain and collapsed to the ground, his eyes closed tight, his wings spread out, and his body glowing a mysterious glowing black colour. He tried his best to cope with the agonising pain, but like last time, it was too much to handle for him.

Blu had eventually felt the pain had stopped, but he was exhausted, and collapsed onto the ground like the last time, and he knew he was going to fall into another deep sleep.

The same words shot through his head from the spirits multiple times before Blu could fall into a deep sleep like last time. "Speed." "Speed." "Speed."


And chapter is completed once again. Blu has escaped from his cell, and has met Cobalt, another blue macaw. But has decided to take on the journey of gaining another power once again. Will he survive? And what could the spirits mean by "Speed"? We will find out in the next chapter.

And thanks to Cobalt the Spix Macaw for letting me put his oc into the story. :D