Rio the Darkness 5: Alternative Darkness
Well, everyone, here is the next chapter. And now that General Raxos is dead, it may be time for the birds to figure out a plan to attack against the King. But first, let's see what happened after Blu and Rico had escaped.
chloemcg: Traumatizing indeed, isn't it? And sure, I will add your oc into this story. And take all the time you need on Birds of a feather. And I understand, don't worry about it. And thank you very much. I will try my best to continue.
Deep in the Jungle's or Rio de Janeiro, King Lenny was standing outside of his pyramid (behind the protective wall of course), and was waiting patiently for General Raxos to return to him with news. He folded his wings while looking towards the main gate, his eyes half-closed, his cape blowing because of the window, and his scepter firmly in his grip.
But what the evil King did not know is that Raxos has been recently killed in the city of Rio de Janeiro by the wings of a blue macaw.
After a couple more minutes of waiting, the main gate opened, but the bird who flew inside was not General Raxos. He was just a simple message. And he flew towards the King as quick as he could, panting from the long flight.
The message macaw landed down in front of the King and bowed down to him in respect, still panting of course. "Your...Your Highness...General Raxos...Is...Is dead."
"He's what?!" the King shouted, not believing if either Raxos was truly dead or this messenger was lying. "Dead?! How?!"
"He...He was beaten to death, your Highness." the messenger macaw answered, finally catching his breath back from the exhausting flight. "He was killed by a blue macaw."
The messenger then noticed the King was not looking so happy about the news he had just heard so he quickly ran away before the King would do something stupid with his powers.
King Lenny growled in response, immediately remembering who that blue macaw was, and now he was angry that this macaw killed the best solider he ever head. He screamed in rage as he charged up the Orb of Light on the scepter before slamming it down onto the ground, sending a huge shockwave through the entire area. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The screams of the King had attracted the attention of many military macaws guarding the area. He waited for the shockwave to end before he ordered every military macaw around the area to come to him. "EVERYONE! To me! Now!"
All of the military macaws obeyed and quickly flew towards their King and bowed down to him in respect. Most of them were regular military macaws, a few of them were archers, a couple of them had weapons, and one of them was wearing body armor. They waited for their King to speak and did not say a word to him in fear.
King Lenny slowly paced up and down the ground while briefing his men about the situation. "All of you. In case you are not aware, General Raxos has just been murdered by a rebel..."
All of the military macaws gasped, not believing that their General was dead.
Lenny continued his speech while he stood still in front of all the military macaws. "Yes, yes, it's a tragic, I know. But we will not let his death be in vain. We will band together, and finally stop these rebels ONCE AND FOR ALL!"
All of the military macaws cheered in response and agreement while standing back up onto their talons.
King Lenny smirked in response, now knowing he had their trust and slowly stroked the Orb of Light with his wing. "Now, we cannot be stopped."
Meanwhile, in another part of the Jungle or Rio de Janeiro, Rico the black hawk and David the blue macaw were outside in the Jungle together, both of them carrying backpacks on their bags to collect supplies for Sapphire.
"What are we even going out here, anyway?" Rico asked together, while he looked in every direction, keeping a close eye out for military macaws that may be patrolling the area.
"Sapphire wants us to find some food and possibly some medical supplies." David answered to him, before he just remembered about what Rico had told him about what Blu did recently, and decided to ask something. "How's Blu doing, Rico?"
"He's doing okay." Rico answered, remembering how traumatized Blu was after he had beaten General Raxos too death. "It's good we have him back, but he's still kinda shocked. He just stays in his room at this moment."
"Poor guy." David said, looking away sadly, feeling so sorry for Blu that he has to put up with his for a a short while. "How do you think he will recover?"
"Do what I do." Rico answered, lifting up his new army drinking bottle (since Blu took his old one) and taking a sip out from it. "Drink until I don't even know my own name."
David sighed in response while rolling his eyeballs around, not believing Rico thought the answer to every problem was alcohol. "Is alcohol the answer to all of your problems, Rico?"
"Aaaaaaayep." Rico replied, taking yet another sip out of his drinking bottle.
The two birds continued their walk through the Jungle, searching for the supplies they needed until they heard shouting come from a nearby area. "We told you, we don't no anything!"
"You hear that?" David asked, searching around from where ever that shouting had just came from.
"Yep." Rico replied, before sneaking over to the area where the shouting came from the investigate the situation.
Rico and David made their way over to a small open area where they saw two military macaws interrogating two birds. One of them was a female blonde macaw who looked around fifteen years old, and the other one was a unusual macaw with purple feathers, who was a male and looked around the same age as the blonde macaw.
"I'll ask again!" the military macaw yelled, pulling out a blade from his belt to show he was serious and was not messing around. "Where are the rebels?!"
"We don't know!" the female blonde macaw replied.
The military macaws were now getting frustrated because they were not getting anywhere with the information they needed. They both prepared to hit the two macaws in order to force them to talk, but they were soon stopped when there heads were banged together, knocking them out instantly.
The blonde macaw and purple macaw opened their eyes to see their heroes who had saved them from possible certain death: a black hawk and a blue macaw. The two macaw hugged their heroes as a thank you.
"Thank you. You saved us!" the blonde macaw thanked, hugging Rico on his stomach.
"Oh, it was nothing, ma'am." David said smiling, holding out his talon to them while the two macaws released their hug from their heroes. "May we ask your names?"
"My name is Chloe." the blonde macaw introduced, accepting David's talon shake with her own.
"And I'm Crexis." the purple macaw introduced, accepting Rico's talon shake instead. "Are you two rebels?"
Rico looked over towards David, who winked in agreement, secretly telling him that it was safe to tell them the truth. "Yes, Crexis. We are rebels. My name is Ricardo-but you can call me Rico. And this is David."
"Please to meet you both." Chloe smiled, bowing down to them. She looked towards Crexis and they both gave a little signal to ask the same question. "Hey, guys, we was wondering...Can we go back with you?"
"With us?" Rico quiered, cocking his head to the side with an eyebrow raised.
"Yeah. Please?" Chloe begged, getting down on both of her knees with her wings pressed together. "We can give you anything! Our tree hollow is filled with fruits."
"Fruits?" Rico and David simultaneously said together, looking at each other with a smile. "Enough too feed a whole group."
"Yes." Chloe answered, before asking them the same question again for the second time. "So, can we go with you both."
Rico smiled in response as he set one of his silhouette wings on the young macaw. "Of course you can. You will be safe with us, Chloe. I promise."
Meanwhile, back at the underground rebel base, Blu had been staying in his room, laying in his nest, still dramatized about killing Raxos. Although he had defeated Nexus before, he knew that he had no choice but to kill him. But Raxos did not have to die.
Blu could have taken him hostage for the rebels, but he got carried away in his own anger, and that anger had caused him to take a life. He laid on his side and folded both of his wings around his chest. "...I never wanted to kill him...I...I got so carried away...I didn't mean..."
Blu could not decide on what to do to help him get over his dramatized state. For now, he closed his eyes and tried to get some sleep in hopes he would wake up completely fine and would overcome his current state.
However, he could not get to sleep, no matter how hard he tried. He groaned as he got out of his nest and now was about to do something really stupid.
"I've had it with this world!" Blu shouted, picking up his army drinking bottle with the sacred water inside. "If Lenny thinks he can take over this world with powers, well he's not the only one who has powers!"
Without hesitation, Blu finished the rest of the sacred water inside of the drinking bottle, and in seconds, he was feeling agonising pain shooting throughout his entire body, causing him to fall to the ground while groaning. "Ahhh! Ow! The pain!"
In seconds, Blu was beginning to fall into complete darkness. The last thing he remembered was the sound of a familiar beautiful voice, and Blu could not tell if he was imagining it or not, but he knew that sound anywhere. He whispered one more word to himself before falling into complete darkness once again. "...Jewel..."
Blu slowly began to open his eyes and for the third time once again, 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 the second time. "Well, I guess I'm here again. Just gotta wait. And wait...And wait..."
It did not take long for the spirits to arrive once again like the last time he drank the sacred water. But unlike last time, this spirit looked different.
Out from the Darkness, a huge ghost-like-spirits had emerged , and approached Blu and stood right in front of him. Without saying anything, the spirit whispered the word "Strength" multiple times, and then the huge spirit slammed down into him and merged together inside of him.
And again for the third time, 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 first and 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, but this time, he was passing out. The same words shot through his head from the spiri multiple times while Blu got back up onto his talons. "Strength." "Strength." "Strength."
"Strenght." Blu repeated, feeling his now power inside of his body, blending into his DNA.
As he adjusted to his new power, Blu looked forward to see a huge illusion of King Lenny. The evil King yelled out to Blu as multiple small illusions of military macaws emerged surrounded him, and ready to attack.
"You cannot match my power. I am power itself!" the huge illusion of King Lenny yelled out to Blu. "This time, I'll make certain of your death."
Blu watched all of the military macaws surrounding him and without hesitation, he could feel his new power ready for action, and slammed his wings down to the ground, sending a huge shockwave through the ground, knocking all of the illusions away.
His new power was to slam strength onto the ground and send a shockwave throughout the ground.
Before he had the chance to celebrate, he was beginning to get a massive headache. In seconds, he fell to the ground stomach first and fell into a deep sleep.
Well, everyone. Blu once again has a new power. Let's hope it can be useful. And shoutouts to chloemcg and Crexis the storyteller: I hope you both enjoyed me putting your oc's into this story like you requested.
Stay tuned for more.