Attack of the Flying Foxes and the Battle for the Sanctuary- edited

by VPVPVP

The Sanctuary de Amazon becomes threatened with takeover by a colony of winged mammals who view all birds of the rainforest as vermin. When all peaceful shots fail and the threat becomes critical, the avian inhabitants are left with no choice but to resort to extreme measures to protect their homes, even if it means using violence and waging the biggest war in history.

16. 16- another kidnapping attempt

Chapter 16- another report of a violent attack and attempted kidnapping

Later

Alexandre lay on his front in the mini-infirmary run by Nuvem, the cousin of Zephyr and Brisa and his mate Cassia. Roberto, Finnick, Felix, Spinel and Poinsettia stood around him and the tribe nurse group, including Tyler and Ricardo, the sons of Nuvem and Cassia, and Annie, Tyler's girlfriend as they continued treating the wound on Alexandre's back. With them were Blu and Jewel, Eduardo and Mimi. These four had been alerted to a group of flying foxes attacking Roberto's group at the Spix/red border by the macaws that had accompanied Roberto, Finnick, Felix, Carla, Kira, Turquesa, Músculo, Justin and Charlotte to the Brazil nut grove, and they had just sent out a patrol group only to find a group of red macaws haul a wounded Alexandre towards the ravine. Tito and Cherie had told Blu and the other three that Felipe, was on his way with Athos, some of the red macaws that had accompanied them, Alexandre and his two sisters to the Brazil nut grove before the attack happened, so Blu, Jewel, Eduardo and Mimi were prepared to meet the red tribe leader when he arrived with the father of Alexandre and his sisters.

As Nuvem and Cassia gently dabbed the weeping gashes running like jaguar claw marks down his back with wet moss to clean it of the oozing blood, Alexandre winced and flinched from pain each time the moss made contact, uttering cries of pain.

"Ow, ow, OOOW!" he yelped and jerked, his eyes tight shut and beak clenched.

"Oh, keep still you silly scarlet macaw," said Nuvem slightly irritated as the scratch twitched from under his moss as Alexandre tensed his back, "You're honestly as bad as Blu every time he is startled by a spider."

"Even after all these years of living in the jungle, I still can't stand those eight-legged arachnids," said Blu.

"I'm surprised," said Tyler as he tried to keep Alexandre still.

"Is it any wonder your youngest son and daughter, Luke and Linda like to prank you with one each time you tried to sleep in like how Tiago and Matilda did," said Ricardo with a titter. Blu just flashed him an annoyed look.

"Good way to give you a wake-up call," added Annie as she passed Cassia some more wet moss at her command. Eduardo smiled at his son-in-law.

"At least he's not doing that as often when he first arrived with my daughter and first three grandkids," he said with a slight smile. Mimi just tittered but said nothing. Alexandre flinched again as Cassia's moss contacted his scratch, much to her irritation.

"I'm sorry to keep wincing," he told the Spix tribe nurses, "But these scratches are so painful." He breathed a sigh. "I honestly could not believe those bats had the audacity to take us by surprise like that, but based on what that hulking brown male with the hideous scars all over his face and body spoke to me, it certainly did send shivers…" he winced again as Nuvem dabbed one of his scratches with more wet moss, "Down my spine. It didn't sound good…"

"That was Voldemort, didn't you know," growled Jewel, "One of the most dangerous bats in the colony."

"He was one of the murderers of Roberto's family and the one Aurora met shortly after the fire," added Blu.

"Hideous bat," put in Mimi disgustedly. Eduardo nodded in agreement.

"Most birds are terrified of that horrible piece of work and bundle of muscles and fur with membranous wings in particular," he said, "and are often too afraid to stand up to him. But you, Alex, seem to be an exception."

"Especially if he has companions with him," added Mimi. Alexandre just sighed and winced again as his scratches yelped as Nuvem and Cassia continued dabbing his injury. Then a pattering of talons reached the group's ears. Within moments, a pigtailed Spix macaw with maya blue feathers, along with her mate and her younger son and daughter, and also an older male and a female macaw arrived, concerned looks on their faces.

"Alexandre are you okay?" asked Aurora when she saw the red-orange scarlet macaw lie on his front.

"We came as soon as we heard from Justin, Charlotte and Carla about what happened," said Zephyr, his mother Gael and uncle Viento (who was the father of Nuvem and the grandfather of Tyler and Ricardo) flanking him.

"And when we heard that you had been attacked by some flying foxes," said Gael, we hurried off to see you in the infirmary."

"It must have been a terrifying ordeal," said Viento. Matilda and Virgil just looked on and said nothing. Alexandre just sighed again.

"Nothing serious folks, but thanks for your appreciation," he said. Eduardo and Mimi, however, shook their heads disagreeably, as did Blu and Jewel.

"Nothing serious, young lad?" repeated Eduardo in a disbelieving growl, "A group of bats trying to kidnap you using brute force; does THAT sound like nothing serious to YOU!?"

Alexandre flinched as Eduardo shouted this. Blu however, used a gentler voice.

"Alex," he said, "You can't simply dismiss what those bats tried to do to you back there in the Brazil nut grove as nothing serious at all."

"That's right," said Roberto with a frown, "This IS a serious matter."

Alexandre breathed yet another sigh.

"Alexandre," said Jewel, "What did those bats say to you when they tried to take you away?"

Alexandre gazed at the Spix matriarch with sad eyes. He could not remember much about the confrontation between Voldemort and his gang that would have escalated into a violent kidnapping had those tamarins not interfered. However, he told what he could recall.

"That hulking bat said something to me like, 'you're gonna come with us back to our territory!"' or something like that," he said. Then Alexandre launched into an explanation at how he was at sharp-stick point by those seven bats with some of the points dangerously close to the carotid artery area of the neck, how he told them just to kill him there and then only for them to refuse and some other things. After he had finished, Blu, Jewel, Eduardo, Mimi, Zephyr and Aurora, Viento and Gael exchanged horrified glances.

"What did those bats want to take you back to their territory for?" asked Blu. Alexandre was about to answer when the sounds of several flapping pairs of wings reached the ears of the group. The Spix macaws all parted and in came a familiar male scarlet macaw with green eyes and some other macaws from the red tribe, among them a familiar red macaw and the father of Alexandre and his sisters. Roberto, Finnick and Felix, Poinsettia and Spinel parted to allow the red tribe leader and Alexandre's uncle, through.

"Alex," said Felipe in horror, "We heard what had happened at the Spix/red border in the Brazil nut grove."

"What happened to your back?" asked Athos when he saw Nuvem, Cassia, Tyler, Ricardo, Annie and the tribe nurses continue to clean Alexandre's scratched back. Alexandre winced in pain.

"The flying foxes happened, Dad and Uncle," he replied through a gritted beak, "One of them has brutally clawed me down the back."

"We were jumped by a group of seven of them at the border," explained Roberto, "Most of us managed to escape but Alexandre was too slow and ended up caught."

"And before we knew it, we saw that he was surrounded by those bats armed with those spear-like sticks," added Spinel. Some of the Spix macaws flinched in horror as they recognised what Spinel was talking about. Some had seen those weapons carried by the previous intruding flying fox groups but they had been fewer in number.

"Sharp-sticks," hissed Mimi under her breath.

"One of the most common weapons wielded in the colony," added Gael.

"They tried to kidnap your nephew, Felipe," said Finnick. When Felipe, Athos and their companions heard this, shock and fury flared up within them.

"Don't tell me that deranged psycho of a bat colony leader is planning on targeting and kidnapping birds now!?" snarled the red tribe patriarch loudly. Roberto then bit his lower beak as Augustus and Melissa's words repeated in his mind.

Melissa: Cicatriz and Iracebeth are planning on kidnapping at least one member from your tribes, clans or groups to bring them back to our colony's territory so that they could extract information about your flocks, your homes and why there hasn't been any logging activity in your land for so many years.

Augustus: Our colony wants to drive you out and take your land.

Spinel, Poinsettia, Finnick and Felix also replayed these words and began to shudder. Fear and dread then began to take hold within Roberto as well. The former four, and eventually Roberto as well, wanted to tell Eduardo, Felipe and the others about what those two bats had said but they weren't sure of their reaction would be. After all, the flying foxes were the sworn enemies of every bird in the Amazon, always after land and treating anyone with feathers like dirt, such as driving tribes, clans and groups of them out of their land so that they could populate it and add it to their expanding territory. The conflict between the birds and the flying foxes had been going on for generations, even before Eduardo and Mimi and their generation were born. Should they trust Augustus and Melissa and their kids Sebastian, Stella and Luna? Were they being genuinely honest? Or were those five really just playing a trick on their minds, another thing the flying foxes were also infamous for? As the conflicting argument continued to play out in the five macaws' minds, there was commotion from outside. Jewel's gaze snapped to the entrance of the infirmary tree.

"Now what's up!?" she barked. Then Blu, Eduardo, Mimi, Roberto, Aurora and Zephyr, Viento and Gael bolted like frightened forest deer to outside, followed by Felipe, Athos and the other accompanying red macaws. Nuvem and his family stayed behind with the other tribe nurses and Alexandre but Annie walked to the hollow entrance to look out.

"That doesn't sound good out there," said Alexandre worriedly.

Outside, Eduardo and company's eyes had landed on a massive tidal wave of cerulean and blue dotted with an occasional splash of odd colours, some of them shiny like gemstones, for some friends from the Lear's, green and blue-and-gold tribes and Eragon and Andromeda's clan were visiting, as they converged on something entering the ravine.

"Blu, Jewel, LOOK!" cried Finnick with a point of a wing at the focal point. Blu and Jewel's eyes travelled to the said focal point and when they saw some familiar faces in a group of birds as they struggled into the ravine, their wings shot out and they lofted into flight. Roberto, Finnick, Felix, Zephyr, Aurora, Matilda and Virgil, Viento and Gael followed when they also saw some familiar faces in the group.

Coming into the ravine was a battered group of birds, most of them Spix macaws, but some of them were blue-and-gold macaws and two were archaeobirds on their bat-birds. Most of them looked as though they had been in a vicious fight with something for they were covered in cuts and bruises and some bald patches where feathers had been ripped out, and one of the bat-birds looked like it was struggling to fly. As the bedraggled group lighted clumsily down on the sandy floor as the sea of macaws and archaeobirds converged upon them, some of the macaws in the arrivals, Tiago, Lavender, Garrett, Brooke, Azul and their friend Bastian, and one of the archaeobirds, Spock, looked especially badly shaken. They, along with the other macaws, had been on a foraging trip when something had attacked them. As the crowd of Spix, blue-and-gold, green and Lear's macaws and several archaeobirds began to fuss over the bedraggled group, Eduardo, Mimi, Blu, Jewel, Zephyr, Aurora, Matilda, Virgil, Roberto, Finnick, Felix, Viento, Gael and Athos, Spinel and Poinsettia touched down along with Kira, Justin, Carla, Bia and Charlotte who had also heard the commotion while they were talking to some friends from the green tribe, among them Chlorophyll and Ashley. Then when Blu and Jewel's eyes, along with those of Matilda, Kira, Carla and Bia's eyes, landed on Tiago and saw that he had a scratch across his torso, alarm tore through them. Without hesitation, the six rushed over to him while Roberto, Finnick and Felix ran over to Lavender and Garrett, the former who had a small scratch on her cheek and a bald patch on her belly and the latter who was missing some tail flight feathers and was flying clumsily. Garrett's tail was nothing more than a stump of feathers with one or two tail flight feathers jutting out from the stump, but it affected his ability to fly properly.

Some blue-and-gold macaws, among them Wilbur, then hurried over to Brooke, Azul and Bastian through the Spix crowd while the archaeobirds, among them Ophiuchus who was visiting the Spix tribe with his mate Honeydew, fussed over Spock and the other archaeobird. Like their Spix friends, Azul, Brooke and Bastian looked badly shaken and Bastian only had a few minor cuts and scratches. However, Azul and Brooke looked worse. Azul's green tuft was almost entirely missing with only one or two green feathers hanging from his forehead and he was limping, his left talon dotted with tooth marks that wept blood while Brooke clasped her injured belly, her face twisted in agony similar to Azul. Spock had lost some flight feathers from his left fore-wing, right hind-wing (leg) and tail fan and scratches and bald patches marked his body from where some of his metallic aqua blue feathers had been ripped out while his bat-bird was covered in cuts and bruises, the largest of its cut on its right wing, hindering its ability to fly properly. Those that bore the worst scratches winced in pain. Then Aurora and Zephyr rushed over to Azul and Brooke.

"Azul, Brooke," cried Aurora in horror, "Look at the state of you both! What happened?"

"We were suddenly set upon by a group of flying foxes while we were foraging in the mango tree grove," replied Brooke immediately. Horrified gasps rolled through the crowd. Then Bastian explained further.

"Many of them were armed with spear-like sticks with some colourful feathers tied to one end," he said, "And they just jumped out at us from some nearby trees while we were chatting and picking mangoes to bring back here," his face then hardened into a darker look, "However, it was not just an ordinary attack."

More horrified gasps rolled through the crowd. Then Ophiuchus, who fussed over Spock with Honeydew, asked, "How was it not an ordinary attack?"

Bastian nodded to Tiago, Lavender, Azul and Spock and said, "While we were fighting back against that group of flying foxes, we noticed some of them fly off with these four in their clutches."

"We were forced to attack those attempted kidnappers to rescue those four," explained the other archaeobird, a metallic green female, "But sadly…"

"Some of us got badly injured," said Spock. "I was forced to violently fight back against my kidnapper but he proved more than a match for me, especially with that muscular build."

He then showed them his tattered tail plumes, and then his right leg and left fore-wing and added, "During the skirmish, two more bats came in and seized me by the right hind-wing and left fore-wing and tail feathers, resulting in some feathers getting torn out."

Some of the audience winced at the extreme pain Spock must have faced, and Poinsettia and Spinel remembered how their father Athos had faced a similar ordeal with the late cat Brutus during his group's escape from the smugglers' den years ago.

"My bat-bird also came to my rescue but he was violently attacked," added Spock. Then Tiago, while Blu, Jewel, Carla, Bia, Kira and Matilda continued to fuss over him, came in to explain.

"Three of our companions were badly injured," he said, "One of them being Annie's younger brother, Sergio. Those two were with us when it happened."

When Annie heard this from the entrance to the infirmary, she felt horror flare up within her. Sergio was her younger brother and he had gone out foraging with the group. Then Garrett continued, "When one of our blue-and-gold friends Winona viciously attacked the bat that attempted to kidnap Tiago, the bat fought back and dislocated her wing by grabbing her and spinning her around and around, faster and faster until she began to emit a piercing screech of agony. While that happened, Sergio and I attacked another bat attempting to take Lavender. However, Sergio was stabbed by that bat's sharp-stick and ended up badly injured while Lavender got scratched across the face and I was bitten on the tail by another bat who yanked out most of my tail flight feathers like how the flight feathers from Spock's wing, leg and tail were torn out. We had to take Sergio and Winona to the animal hospital with the third casualty, an archaeobird named Glimmergem who had suffered a broken wing."

"One of the flying foxes had violently whacked her on the wing with a sharp-stick with some sort of stone tied to it when she was trying to rescue me," said Spock, "As for her bat-bird, she hadn't been so lucky. Another flying fox had fatally stabbed her through the chest with its spear-like stick, killing her instantly. There was nothing we could do about that poor bat-bird."

"Winona, Glimmergem, Sergio, however, are safe at the hospital, being treated for their injuries," said Azul, wincing from the pain radiating from his bitten talon and standing on his other talon, the one that was unharmed, "while the rest of us had barely managed to escape. That group of flying foxes had retreated, thankfully, when a patrol of Lear's macaws from Waldo and Monique's tribe came to our rescue after hearing the trouble. They were, in fact, the ones who had taken the three casualties away while the rest of them escorted us back to here."

"We told them to leave and report this to Waldo and Monique quickly," said Brooke. It took a while for the listeners to absorb this information. During this time, Poinsettia and Spinel began to chat with Roberto quietly.

"Do you think we should tell everyone about what those two flying foxes told us, Roberto?" Poinsettia whispered.

"I feel that we should give out this information, regardless of how negative the reaction these guys might have against us trusting those two flying foxes by the names of Augustus and Melissa," said Spinel. Roberto gazed back at Alexandre's sisters and began to think about this. While the trio chatted, Ophiuchus came forward, a look of thunder on his face.

"I think it's about time we did something, Blu, Jewel and Felipe," he snarled. He then turned to face Tiago and the others including Spock and asked, "Were there any deliberate intentions those bats had when they tried taking Spock away or did they mistake him for another target?"

Tiago, Lavender, Garrett, Azul, Brooke and Bastian and the others with them all exchanged glances when Spock spoke.

"Well, after I was grabbed and I tried fighting back," he said, "that attempted kidnapper snapped back at me things like, "You're coming with me, four-winged varmint," and things like that, so that implies that those bats were trying to take me away," he then nodded to Tiago, Lavender and Azul and added, "the same with those three."

This sent more horrified gasps rolling through the crowd. In the crowd, Brisa, who had Oberon and Ophelia in her talons, flew over to the battered foraging group towards Lavender. She had just heard the news about what had happened. While she did that, her sons Finnick and Felix began to exchange glances with Carla and Kira, Bia, Justin, Charlotte, Matilda and Virgil.

"That sounds eerily like Alexandre's incident," said Virgil in horror.

"Brute force and attempted kidnap," said Carla, "And the violence involved resulting in injuries. It definitely sounds similar to what we saw what ordeal Alexandre faced."

"Andromeda and Eragon are gonna go berserk after hearing what had almost happened to Spock as well as Glimmergem and her bat-bird and also Sparklemoss," said Kira, nodding to the metallic green female archaeobird who wore a worried and frightened look on her face. Then Roberto, Poinsettia and Spinel went over to Blu, Jewel, Eduardo, Mimi and Felipe and began to explain something to them.

"Guys," said Roberto timidly, Poinsettia and Spinel flanking him, "There is something else we have to tell you as well, but you're not gonna like it."

The four Spix macaws and scarlet macaw eyed him suspiciously.

"What's that?" asked Jewel in a growl. Poinsettia then stepped forward.

"While we were looking over our brother and his scratch," he explained, "Five more flying foxes approached us. They were two adults and three youngsters, one adolescent and the other two pups, all with white fur."

"Oh, and what heinous plan did those five furballs have?" asked Blu suspiciously.

"Another trick hidden in those membranous wings of theirs, I believe, my niece," said Felipe, his wings crossed and eyes narrowed.

"Well first off, those flying foxes weren't hostile or determined to kidnap any of us," said Spinel. However, scoffing laughs escaped Blu, Jewel, Eduardo, Mimi and Felipe's beaks.

"Oh, yeah, perhaps they're feigning being timid so that they could trick you," said Mimi sarcastically. Finnick and Felix came forward to support their father and Alexandre's sisters.

"No, those five bats were being genuinely timid," said Finnick.

"And the adult brown female told us to warn you guys and the other tribes, clans and groups," said Spinel, and she nodded to Spock, Ophiuchus, Honeydew, Sparklemoss and the other archaeobirds with them and added, "Including, as she described those archaeobirds, 'weird four-winged lizard-like birds with the metallic feathers', that Cicatriz and Iracebeth are planning on kidnapping at least one member from them to take back to their colony's territory to extract information about us, our habitat and something else."

Roberto remembered Melissa's words again. "And why we have not seen logging activity for so long," he added.

"She also told us to not go out into our territories alone," said Poinsettia, "And to keep our chicks under strict supervision."

Disbelieving gasps rolled through the crowd as Ophiuchus stepped forward.

"Do you know the names of those pesky flying mammals who told you this?" he asked. Roberto, Spinel, Finnick and Felix shook their heads but Poinsettia stepped forward.

"One of them was named Augustus, he was the brown male," she said, "While another, the adult female with auburn fur was called Melissa and I think Sebastian was the name of the white male pup. I can't remember the names of the other two, which were both female white pups who appeared very young but…"

When Poinsettia mentioned Augustus and Sebastian, Carla and Ophiuchus mouthed these two names in surprise. Those two names sounded familiar. Bia, Tiago, Kira and Spock also felt familiarity prick at them. Blu, Jewel, Felipe, Eduardo and Mimi and most of the rest of the crowd, however, jeered at the names.

"Augustus, Melissa and Sebastian!?" repeated Blu disgustedly, "But those three are relatives of that deranged patriarch of the flying fox colony!"

"Yes," said Gael who stood with Zephyr, Aurora, Justin, Charlotte, Matilda and Virgil, and also another macaw who held Azurite and Aquamarine (Zephyr and Aurora's youngest chicks), in her wings for she was a babysitter. Viento, Brisa and Lavender also stood by, disbelieving looks plastering their faces.

"Augustus is the younger brother of Cicatriz while Melissa is his mate and Sebastian is their son," said Viento, "While the two other pups of those two bats are their daughters Stella and Luna."

"And because those five are related to Cicatriz through Augustus with Melissa being that one-eyed winged rat's sister-in-law and their offspring his nephew and nieces," added Felipe, "They're likely to be as deranged and as psychotic as him and his mate Iracebeth, and their pups Veruca and Iago!"

Roberto then moved on, a determined frown on his face.

"Well, as ridiculous as it sounds," he said, "We might have to trust them."

Then before Blu, Jewel, Eduardo, Mimi, Felipe and any of the others could protest, Roberto called to the other macaws and archaeobirds.

"May I have your attention please?" he barked so that all ears heard him. However, jeers and boos emanated from the crowd and travelled towards Roberto in reply.

"We can't trust that deranged brother of Cicatriz!"

"What if this is some kind of trick he's plotting?"

Brisa also shot her mate a disapproving glare and shook her head.

"You've got to be joking," she hissed to Roberto. Zephyr and Aurora also agreed with Brisa. Roberto, however, adamantly continued trying to silence the crowd. But the continued jeers and boos drowned out his attempts. Seeing Roberto's futile attempts, Blu and Jewel took action.

"SILENCE, ALL OF YOU!" the pair both bellowed, making Roberto jump. This was enough to quell the jeers and boos. Eduardo smiled at his son-in-law and daughter.

"That's my girl and her mate," he said proudly. Mimi also smiled at her niece and nephew-in-law as they fluttered up.

"If Beto here has something important to tell you then listen to him," Jewel called.

"Yes, absolutely," put in Blu. And with that, the couple touched back down and nodded to Roberto.

"Thanks, Blu and Ju-Ju," he said and with that, he turned his attention to the now-quiet crowd.

"Now, this may sound crazy since Augustus is the brother of that infamously deranged leader of the flying fox colony but what he and his mate told us about what the flying foxes are planning to do might be of great significance."

All ears braced themselves to listen to what Roberto had to say.

"Based on the two attacks that we have had today including one of Felipe's tribe members," he nodded to Felipe, "I believe that the flying fox colony is planning on invading our land."

Horrified gasps rolled through the crowd and mothers, including Aurora, Brisa and Annie, pulled their chicks closer to themselves.

"And also based on what Augustus and Melissa have told us at the Brazil nut grove," said Roberto, "Cicatriz is planning on kidnapping at least one or two members from our tribes, clans and groups, including Andromeda's clan…"

Spock, Ophiuchus, Honeydew and the other archaeobirds all shuddered as Roberto continued.

"… and then take them back to his colony's territory to force them into giving the bats information about our tribes, clans and groups, our habitat and why there has been no logging activity for the past number of years. They also told us that the reason why they are doing that is because the bats want to drive us out of our land so that they could take it for themselves. Therefore we MUST NEVER go out into our territories alone and we MUST keep our chicks under strict supervision. Do you all get that?"

More murmurs rolled through the crowd while Brisa, Blu and Jewel shot Roberto a thunderstruck look. Some of the macaws began to discuss among themselves. However, everyone agreed not to go out alone and to keep their chicks under watch at all times. Then as soon as Roberto had given out this important information, he finished with, "Right, dismissed!"

After this, the crowd, now feeling more at ease but still on edge, began to disperse. While the Spix, Lear's, green, blue-and-gold macaws and archaeobirds dispersed, Felipe, Roberto, Blu, Jewel, Mimi, Eduardo and some of the others helped Tiago, Azul, Spock and his bat-bird and the rest of the foraging group to Nuvem and Cassia's infirmary tree. As they went along, Felipe looked worried.

"I'm gonna have to pass on this important information to my tribe," he said, "And also to everyone else living on the Sanctuary de Amazon."

"Then make sure you do that," said Eduardo as he helped his grandson to the infirmary with Jewel, Kira, Carla, Bia and Matilda, "They have to know this."

As the group moved along, Brisa gave Roberto a stink eye.

"I can't believe that some of those sworn enemies of every bird in the Amazon would give you this sort of information, Roberto," she snarled bitterly, "Are you sure this is true!?"

"Well, based on what some of the truly hostile flying foxes attempted to do to our brother, Aunt Brisa," said Poinsettia, "And also to Tiago, Azul, Spock and Lavender based on their information, it would seem so."

"After all, how else are those flying foxes gonna know about us and our territories without running into serious trouble with us?" asked Spinel. Blu and Jewel began to think while Ophiuchus began to ponder over the previous time he had seen the two bats called Augustus and Sebastian. Then when it came to him, he said, "Wait, Carla, Bia, Tiago, Kira, Spock, Honeydew."

"What is it, Ophiuchus?" asked Honeydew. Spock and the four said Spix macaws also gazed at him.

"Do you six remember when we went to visit Alonso's tribe but had to be escorted back to your tribe's territory?" asked Ophiuchus. When none of the six answered, he said, "We observed a pair of bats behave rather strangely. In fact quite the opposite to the other bats; while the others were determined to spy on our land and cause trouble wherever they could, those two looked wary that they were in the wrong…"

As he said this, Carla pieced together both sightings of those two bats, named Augustus and Sebastian, in her mind. Then it clicked into place. The adult male brown bat and the adolescent white male had been the same pair she had seen with her brother, sister, cousin and Ophiuchus, Honeydew, Spock and Spyro and their bat-birds and Bellerophon and Pandora while they were being escorted back to the Spix/green border.

"Of course," Carla blurted out in realisation, "I remember seeing those two bats before!"

"So do I," said Kira.

The others shot her and Carla a confused look.

"Seen those two bats before?" asked Blu confused.

"Augustus and Sebastian," said Carla, "I remember the previous time we have seen those two in the green tribe's territory with uncertain looks on their faces before that Iracebeth called them away. He was the one who warned us that Cicatriz and his colony want to drive us out and take our land..."

"So it's true he and that white bat, and possibly the female red-brown bat and the two younger white pups are aware of what's going on?" asked Kira.

"You mean they know that our land is under the threat of their invasion?" asked Poinsettia.

"But how?" asked Azul confused. Brooke and Bastian only exchanged confused glances with Finnick, Felix, Lavender and Justin, Charlotte, Matilda and Virgil, unsure of what to say about this. Blu, however, interrupted.

"Look, let's just get these casualties to our tribe nurses," he said, "We'll discuss this later."

Carla and Kira sighed and continued helping Tiago, Spock, Azul and the others to the infirmary with Blu, Jewel, Mimi, Eduardo and the others with them while Felipe planned on returning to his tribe to pass on the information, regardless of whether it had come from a flying fox or not.