Rio the Darkness 3
cholemcg: Actully, the part with Nico was a plan I had been planning since chapter 20. But hey, at least you like it. And the chicks are being taken care of in the World of Light.
RIO2lover100: Let's hope Blu can defeat Nexus, indeed. And thanks.
bobi4500: Hey, hey, hey, hey! No review, no list. And the battle is not going well? It looks fine to me. Well, at least the Light is winning for now.
Arlene The Scarlet Macaw: Well, it would hurt getting shot in the wing. Trust me, I cut my hand open once, so I know the pain. And if I was Blu, I too would've fallen for Nexus's trick.
mnero1996: Yep, everyone of the main villains are defeated for now. It's just Nexus they go to get rid of. And thanks.
rio craziness: Yeah, it is great that Rico has finally got his revenge on Johnny. And let's hope Blu can complete all 3 of those tasks.
Rapper the red macaw: Thanks, and yes Johnny is gone for good. And I hope you were patient for this chapter.
century99: Well, here is the great Rio war for you to read, and I'm glad you enjoyed the first Rio the series.
Blu100-Jewel100: Fantastic? Really? You need to write better reviews. Just kidding. :)
Blu Razgriz: No-one likes cliffhangers, but it's something we have to deal with. And I heard what happened in Boston, it's so tragic. And you said Rio release was on April 15th. I thought Rio was released in the USA in April 8th. And no I was talking about Rio the series (which you have read). And yes I did like your story with Rico in. It was good, I enjoyed it.
Jeff117: Does war ever change? I really don't know. And if you can't stop saying it, try saying something else. XD
zwolfmacawzombiez: Thanks! And I will try to keep it going the best I can. :)
mw4fan: LOL, The Shining. I remember that movie. And there's nothing wrong with a little confidence in a war. And Blu is trying his best; remember, Nexus's has 3 times the powers Blu has, so it will be a challenge for Blu.
killhell: Yep, Arlene has been shot in her wing and Johnny the snake is finally gone for good.
MCGamemaster90: Completely out of words? I know the feeling. I was like that when I read one of Kraft58's stories. Anyway, yeah, Copacabana is a really good song. And thanks.
Kraft58: Copacabana is one of my favorite songs, too. And thanks. (and I hope you get better soon).
"Die, you stupid Hawk!" Blu yelled, rapidly punching Nexus's stomach.
"Bah!" Nexus shouted, punching Blu back and knocking him back with great force. Nexus finally had enough of Blu and summoned the Siphon into his wings. Nexus charged up the Siphon with dark essence-"I've HAD ENOUGH!"-and fired it at Blu with great force.
The Siphon powers it Blu really hard and knocked him back almost a full 20 feet. Blu grunted and tried to get back up, but he immediately fell back down on his belly. "Oh...Ow."
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Meanwhile, back over at the battlefield, Rico and Arlene were still working together as a team and knocked the Brotherhood members down.
Nico, who had been freeing prisoners, ran over to his friends who were still battling for their lives, Rico and Arlene. "Rico, Arlene! Blu's in trouble, we gotta help him!
"We're coming!" Arlene screamed, quickly kicking a Brotherhood member back and flying after Nico.
Before Rico followed his friends, he saw a dagger on the ground next to him. Rico picked up the dagger in his talons and followed his friends as they were flying into the direction Blu and Nexus were. "Let's go!"
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Back to Blu, Nexus placed his talon on Blu's neck and pulled him up while using the demon arms to restrain Blu's wings. Nexus laughed and lifted the Siphon back and whacked it so hard it hit Blu's chin and knocked him all the way back into a tree. "Hahahaha! That should weaken you!"
"Ugh, I won't bow down to you..." Blu grunted, managed to get back up onto his talons.
Blu stood in the center of the area and closed his eyes as he began to control the light essence in his body and created a giant essence fireball in both his wings. Before Blu could throw it, he felt a slight pain in his face. "Ah, what the?"
Blu opened his eyes and looked at the light essence ball to see his face on the reflection. In the reflection, a new tattoo had grown on Blu's face in the shape of a claw mark, with each three of the claw toes in the shape of lighting. "Hmmm, nice."
"Another tattoo yet grows on your face." Nexus said, with a grin followed after. "Why don't you just give up?"
"NEVER!" Blu bellowed, throwing the giant fireball at Nexus, which knocked him back at least 6 feet back.
Nexus growled and got so angry, his entire body began to glow with dark essence in rage and anger. Nexus pulled out the Darkness serpent heads and demon arms, and prepared to finish Blu off with Nigel's strength and Johnny's aiming ability. "I will not be defeated, by A BLUE MACAW!"
"I am not just A MACAW!" Blu screamed, charging directly at Nexus and tackling him to the ground. Blu leaned up with his wings curled like fists and quickly began hitting Nexus again across his face. "I hate you! I hate you! DIE!"
"AH!" Nexus yelled, lifting his wing up and hitting Blu directly in his face and pushing him back a few feet.
Blu and Nexus got back up onto their talons; both of them with angry faces. Nexus took his attention off of Blu when he saw Nico, Arlene, and Rico flying over to them.
Nexus chuckled and created a massive dark essence force shield around the area him and Blu were battling so his friends couldn't help him. "This is just between me and you."
"So be it." Blu replied, firing two beams from both his wings straight at Nexus, who protected his body with the Darkness serpent heads and demon arms.
Nexus turned his face away to keep himself from getting blinded by the light. As he got right next to Blu, he quickly kicked Blu in his stomach and without thinking, Nexus wrapped the demon arms around Blu's legs and wrapped the serpent heads around both of Blu's wings to keep Blu completely restrained. "Got you!"
"Let go of me!" Blu ordered, trying to pull his wings and talons from the serpent heads and demon arms.
Nexus once-again lifted his talon up and grabbed Blu's throat. "You have impressive powers, Blu, but my strength and ability's are more advance in every way!"
Nexus tightened the serpent heads and demon arms tighter on Blu got make him weaker and weaker.
Blu growled as the tried his best to get free from the Darkness powers he once had. Though it was very painful, Blu managed to pull one on his wings forward until it was aimed directly at Nexus's face. "Not every way."
Blu fired a beam out of his wing; Nexus managed to divert the beam into his chest instead, but it caused the Darkness serpent heads and demon arms to let him go. Nexus grunted and used the Darkness powers to heal the wound. "Very clever, Blu."
"This has gone on long enough!" Blu said, powering up the tattoo's on his wings.
"Then allow me to end it!" Nexus shouted.
While the Blue Macaw and Hawk continued to battle, Nico, Arlene and Rico arrived in the area. They landed down on a branch and looked below them to see a glowing ball in the middle of the area with two dark blue and dark black figures inside.
"There they are." Rico said, quickly flying down to the shield.
Arlene gasped and landed down just outside the shield. She leaned up against the shield and yelled: "Blu!"
"There's a shield around them." Rico said, though it was quite obvious. He began examine the shield to see if they could get in there. The shield may be indestructible, but it wasn't sound-proof.
"Should we break it?" Arlene suggested.
Rico didn't reply and tapped the shield a couple of times to look for a weak spot. "It's made out of dark essence. Almost impossible to break."
"We got to try!" Arlene said, banging against the shield to try and break it.
"AH!" Nexus yelled, throwing a large dark essence fireball at Blu, which missed him and hit the shield from the inside. The impact of the force had caused a slight hole to open up in the shield.
Rico took his chance and dived into the shield before Arlene and Nico could join him. Rico stood back up and picked up the dagger in his wing.
"Rico!" Arlene shouted, banging her wing at the shield. "What are you doing?!"
"Making amends." Rico answered, looking at Nexus.
Nexus charged up as much dark essence as he could in his wings and fired them directly at Blu, knocking him back first to the ground and causing him great pain.
"Oh...Ow...I can't..." Blu grunted, trying his best to get back up onto his talons but the great pain held him down.
Nexus created a dagger into his wing and finally prepared to kill Blu once and for all. Nexus placed the dagger in his talon and walked right next to Blu and lifted his talon up in the air. "Now, you die!...Time to join your wife, Blu."
Rico gasped when he saw Nexus seconds away from finishing off Blu just like he did with Jewel. "NO!"
Blu closed his eyes tight ready for his lift to be taken away from him. Before he would meet his end, Blu thought one last thing to himself. "Well, at least I tried. I'm sorry, Jewel, I couldn't stop him."
However, it had been at least 7 seconds and nothing had happened. Blu opened his eyes and noticed Nexus was standing a few feet away from him. Blu looked up and gasped with his jaw dropped.
There, a couple of feet away from where Nexus was standing, Rico looked up at Blu, while holding one wing over the left side of his belly.
Blu looked up where Rico had his wing over his stomach, and saw blood dripping from the Hawk's stomach.
Nexus was standing right next to Rico, with the dagger in his wing and with a grin followed after.
"NO!" Blu screamed, before putting on the anger-est face he could get.
"RICO!" Arlene screamed on the other side of the shield.
Nexus lifted his talon up and grabbed Rico's throat and pulled him right next to him. "How does it feel to die, Rico?"
"Not die... Sacrifice!" Rico quickly grabbed the dagger he was hiding and stabbed it directly into Nexus's chest.
Nexus yelled and through Rico to the ground, before looking at the dagger that was stabbed into his stomach. Blu watched his once-best friend fall to the ground, with his eyes closed after.
"Hahahahah!" Nexus laughed, easily pulling the dagger out of his stomach. "Is that the best he can do?"
"Get him, Blu!" Arlene yelled, while still on the other side of the shield.
"AH!" Blu screamed, extending his wings out and jumping directly onto Nexus. Blu placed both his wings on Nexus's face and fired his beams into him.
Nexus grabbed Blu in his wings and threw him back onto the ground.
While Arlene watched Blu and Nexus battle with each other, she saw a glowing shadow next to her. Arlen turned her head around to see the Angelus standing next to her. "Arlene?"
"Yes, your Majesty?" Arlene replied.
The Angelus moved her wing on the shield and managed to make a hole through the shield and jumped inside. Before the hole closed back up, the Angelus turned to Arlene and said: "We must finish this."
"Yeah!" Arlene whooped, before watching Blu and Nexus who were both gripped each other in their wings.
When the Angelus got inside, she saw Nexus had Blu pinned against the ground. The Angelus growled and fired two beams at Nexus which knocked him off his concentration on Blu.
Nexus chuckled in response and turned his attention to the Angelus. "Well, well, if isn't the Angelus."
"Your rule comes to an end now, Nexus!" the Angelus yelled, quickly firing two beams at him.
"Ggrr, clever," Nexus blocked the beams and used Vadin's dash ability to dash right in front of her, and then used Nigel's strength to punch her down.
The Angelus grunted and quickly jumped up at Nexus and managed to kick him in the face with her talon.
The Angelus tried to hit him again, only for Nexus dodge her second attack and kick her back right into the shield wall. "Even you don't have a chance against me."
"Don't be too sure." the Angelus doubted, using her wings to sit back up.
Blu finally managed to recover from a couple of injuries, and then saw Nexus near the Angelus, ready to kill her.
Blu quickly got back up and dived straight over to Nexus. He jumped over to him while yelling a battle-cry. "AHHHH!" Blu landed down and punched Nexus straight into his face.
Nexus kicked Blu back and pulled out the Darkness serpent heads and demon Blu or the Angelus had the chance to even blink.
Nexus extended one of the demon arms out and wrapped it directly around Blu's neck and slowly began to choke him. Nexus lifted the serpent head up and extended the serpent head right by Blu and command the serpent head to bite him directly into his chest.
"AH! OH! OW!" Blu screamed, while holding onto the demon arm with his wings, trying to pull it from around his neck.
The Angelus blinked her eyes a couple of times and saw Blu, who was choking under the demon arm and with the serpent heads teeth sinking deeper into his chest.
"NO!" the Angelus screamed, while firing two beams at Nexus in an attempt to save Blu.
Nexus smirked and used the other demon arm to wrap around the Angelus's neck and pulled her up onto her feet. Nexus also placed the other serpent head onto her chest and made the serpent head bite into her chest. "Hahaha!"
Both Blu and the Anglus stood on both Nexus's left and right, with demon arms tied around their necks and serpent heads biting into them.
Nexus looked to his right, where the right demon arm was tied tight around Blu's neck and slowly choking him, with the right serpent head bit into his chest.
Nexus looked to his left, where the left demon arm was also tied tight around the Angelus neck and slowly choking her, with the left serpent head bit into her chest.
"Hahah, now you both die." Nexus laughed, as he was now finally read to end Blu and the Angelus.
What can they both do now? Neither one of them has a chance to defeat Nexus with their powers.
The Angelus may be the Queen of Light, but she didn't know what to do to save herself and Blu out of this situation.
Blu however, had one idea left over. It was very risky, but it seems they both don't have another more options at this very moment.
"Angelus!" Blu yelled, quickly catching her attention and also trying not to choke. "Put your wing up."
"Why?!" the Angelus asked, also trying to get free from the demon arm.
"Just do it!" Blu yelled, as Nexus was trying to pull Blu closer to him to finish the job.
The Angelus didn't know what Blu was up to, but obeyed and lifted her left wing up. "I hope you know what you're doing!"
"So do I." Blu hoped, also lifting his wing up, but the right wing instead.
Nexus saw both Blu and the Angelus charging up the light beams in their wings. "Huh, what are you doing?"
Blu and Angelus fire beams fired at each other, causing both of their beams to created a large explosion of light essence right into Nexus's body.
"No...No...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Nexus screamed, as the light explosion fired directly into his body and traveled light essence into his heart where the Orb of Darkness was located.
Arlene and Nico watched the explosion from outside of the shield and covered their eyes from the explosion.
After one entire minute, Arlene opened her eyes and saw the dark essence shield was destroyed and Blu and the Angelus laying down on their backs, groaning in pain.
However, there was no sign of Nexus anywhere. Could he have finally been destroyed once and for all?
The Angelus was the first to get back up onto her talons. "Uhhhh...It worked..."
"Yeah, it worked." Blu groaned, while putting on a smirk.
"Blu, are you okay?" the Angelus asked, helping him stand back up onto his talons.
"I'm fine," Blu answered, as he looked over near a tree, where he had found Nexus, who was laying on his back in the middle of the area, slowly dying from the explosion.
When Nexus had took the Orb of Darkness into his body, that's what was powering all of the abilities and dark essence in his DNA.
The chain reaction of the explosion had caused the Orb of Darkness to drop out of his body and onto the ground.
Though he was dying, Nexus muttered a couple of words to himself. "I don't understand. I had so much power."
"Strength isn't everything." Blu said, glazing over at the dying Hawk.
Nexus looked to his side and saw the Siphon laying right next to him. Nexus tried to extend his wing to get it, but Blu walked over to him and kicked the Siphon away before he could get it.
Arlene quickly ran over to Rico's corpse and began shaking him. "Rico?! Are you okay?"
"All I wanted was power..." Nexus said, as he slowly began speaking his last words, with his body leaking with dark essence, as he his body was slowly burning out.
"Wanting something does not give you right to take it." Blu explained, as he kneeled down to him, knowing that Nexus was dangerous, but he can't do anything now.
"What would you know?" Nexus asked, with a growl followed after.
"I know that when you want something, you earn it." Blu replied, with an angry face. "You wanted to be a God. A God does not enslave his people, he cares for them and shows respect."
"Respect?" Nexus scoffed, before managing to give a slight chuckle. "Pathetic people like them, don't deserve respect."
"They are not pathetic!" Blu yelled. "...You were too greedy, Nexus."
"You're still nothing but...A boy..." with that last word, Nexus slowly closed his eyes and hit the back of his head down on the ground.
Blu looked at him, before standing back up onto his talons. Blu picked up the Orb of Darkness, which has been laying near Nexus the whole time.
When he had the Orb in his wings, Blu began to walk back over to his friends; before he left, he took one quick look at Nexus's corpse and said: "O que você disser, Nexus. (whatever you say, Nexus)"
Arlene, who was on her knees next to Rico's corpse, was on the verge of crying as Blu kneeled down next to her. "Rico..."
"Rico...No..." Blu whispered, with his eyes closed
"Rico..." Arlene sniffed.
The Angelus, who had just recovered from the battle, walked over to Blu and Arlene. "I'm sorry...About Rico..."
"It's...ok..." Blu replied, not removing eye-contact with Rico. "I wasn't your fault."
The Angelus lowered her head down, before she suddenly noticed Rico was glowing. "Wait a minute, his body is glowing."
Before Blu or Arlene could reply, Rico's eyes suddenly opened and he shot up really fast. "Oh, my head."
"Rico?" Arlene said, making sure her eyes were not playing around with her.
"That's my name." Rico grinned.
"RICO!" Blu yelled, quickly pulling his friend into a hug. Arlene joined in seconds later. After a whole minute, the three friends broke the hug and stood back up onto their talons.
"Wow, the power worked." Rico said, looking at his glowing body amazingly.
"What power?" Blu asked.
"Well, when I first was revived by Nexus, he said if he was to die, I would have a special power activated inside of me to bring him back..." Rico explained, while looking at Nexus's corpse. "And it looks like it works for me, too."
"Wow, so you have a power to bring one person back?" Blu said, surprised at the power he thought was impossible.
Rico nodded in response, while looking at the sky. Rico had just had a sudden flashback of what happened a few days ago. He remembered tears, pain, and sadness. "Hey, Blu, tell me: do you still have Jewel's corpse?"
"Yes, why?" the Angelus replied, wondering what he was up to, also answering to Rico instead of Blu.
"Take me to her." Rico requested, with a slightly nervous and excited face.
The Angelus didn't both to ask why, instead she glad used her powers to open up a portal to her World. Before anyone could step inside,
"What are you gonna do?" Blu asked.
Rico formed a grin at Blu before he continued any further. "Make things right."
Blu and the Angelus have defeated Nexus once and for all. Now all they have to do is clean up the Jungle and get rid of all of those prison camps. And what is Rico gonna do? Let's find out next. Another cliffhanger, ladies and gentleman.