Happy Chistmas Everyone! Hope you have a really great time with your presents weither it be a game or a piece of clothing. But enough of this chit chat, let's get onto Chapter 2.

I fled out of the kitchen and into the 'Engineering Room' where all of the weapons and equipment made small enough for us macaw to use were.

As I needed to be stealthy for this mission, I readied a good old Remington 700 with a suppressor and subsonic rounds. It's gunshot is so quiet the bullet impact is louder than it, which suprised me when I tried it out myself when some of my teammates kept nagging at me about it.

My sidearm was a Welrod, a classic and reliable stealth weapon of WW2 that's still effective and popular with our Special Forces to this day.

My CQC weapon was an M48 Tomahawk, as I'm not a big fan of knives cause of how my feathers would block the blade.

Some grenades I chose were flashbangs for effective getaways incase a wild harpey, snake or other predator decides to attack me, sleeping gas to knock out any macaws that spot me and a gas mask to counter the previous grenade.

I also decided to take a sort of ghillie cloak that slips over my body and wings for camoflauge and a pair of talon gloves to help improve my grip on rocks and branches. As I readied my equipment, I heard an all to familiar British voice behind me.

"Getting ready for another mission, Reece?"

I turned around and it was Simon, my close friend and teammate. He was a Lear's macaw who has a strong build similar to mine along with bright yellow contact lenses on his iris due to poor eye sight from huge amounts of flash bang exposure and to match the rings around his eyes.

A dark blue beanie is situated on top of his head to hide the mess of feathers on it. Apparently he got his accent from watching lots of British shows when he was younger.

He probably used to watched them on a TV somewhere around the Sanctuary when he was getting treated by a doctor. He never tells me how, which still bothers me to this day.

"Yeah. I'm actually going to the Amazon this time."

He looked at me with what seem to be disbelief in his eyes.

"You're bloody joking, aren't you? I would have been told about this already."

"It's a solo mission, secretly given to me by the big man himself."

"Dr Monteiro is a strange bloke to be honest. Why'd he choose you then?"

"I'm Ethan's bird, remember? If I can earn the trust of the Spix Macaw flock's leader, then I can send you and the others in too."

"I call this mission bolloks! If this leader trusts the doc, then he can trust us!"

"It's our weapons, that's what it is! He's scared an enemy of the flock might steal and use them to wipe the whole species out! I need to prove to him they will be safe as long as he helps us protect them!"

"I thought this leader was a tough wanker!"

"He's afraid of human equipment! Of what they can and have done to his flock!"

Simon tried looking for another excuse, but couldn't find one. He then looked down at his chest where some injuries he got some time ago. I got a peek at his face and it had a sort of wincing expression, I immediatly knew they were acting up again.

I quickly looked away and loaded up my ammunition in a crate, ready to be shipped onto the heli for tomorrow. I then checked my weapons for any potential jams or malfunctions and tried on my ghillie cloak and talon gloves, incase they were too small, keeping the latter on, before also loading them up too.

As I was about to leave the room, I felt one of Simon's wings pat my shoulder before giving it a rub.

"Be safe Reece. Try not to mess up this mission."

"I'll try Simon. I know how to live in a jungle."

"Of course you do."

I hung onto the crate with my talons and hoisted off into the living room where Ethan was waiting. I dropped the crate onto the table before landing onto the edge of the couch.

"You set for tommorow?"

"Yep! Everything's set!"

He had a look into my crate, assessing the gear I had chosen.

"I'll pack this up for tommorow, you can rest for today."

Ethan gave me the TV remote and Amazon Fire Stick remote so I could Neflix and chill. Simon then rushed in, landed on the couch and settled in on the opposite side of me.

"Hey Simon! You here to relax too?"

He gave a simple nod, since he couldn't speak human english like me.

"I'm going to the airport, gonna prepare the Pavelow. You guys can help yourself."

Ethan then left the appartment locking the door behind him. I hover over the amount of movies and shows we were offered and couldn't decide what to watch since they were all too good to pass up.

"How about we watch some Luther? Haven't seen that show in a while."

"Sounds good to me."

As the intro had started for Luther, me and Simon got comfortable and ready to binge watch this show's first season.

End of Chapter 2. Reece has packed up his equipment for tommorow and Ethan has left for the airport. Simon isn't really happy with it, but he couldn't deny a bit of relaxation with Reece while Ethan is out loading up the equipment.