Well, it's almost Halloween, and I decided to make this chapter! Though this chapter is more on melodramatic, and a little comedy in the beginning, but there will be blood and gore in this chapter.
Enjoy… while you can.
In a bright and hot sunny day, the birds, pigs and eagles were having a fun time on the beach. It's like a summer vacation again. They all went together as a family and best of friends. Some were eating, some were playing beach sports, like volleyball and frisbee catching, and some are just relaxing.
Since this is a family moment, Mighty Eagle, Zeta and Debbie have their spot on the shore, ready to have a picnic.
"It's good that we all can take time to relax here on the beach," Mighty Eagle put on his shades
"Especially after last week's fiasco," Zeta pulled out a cake from the picnic basket, "Aggie's birthday is not what I have in mind,"
"And this is our first family vacation time together here in the beach since the wedding!" Debbie giggled as she held a tray of drinks. Despite that she's still her parents' daughter, she still wanted to serve drink. She got used to serve.
"Speaking of, how was Aggie?" Zeta asked.
"She's a little mad after we ruined her birthday," Her husband chuckled.
"No, not her birthday, I'm talking about her relationship with Red? How were they anyway?" The purple eagle asked.
When the three looked behind them, Aggie held a full bowl of punch with serving spoon. Not so far from her, near the show, Red, Chuck and Bomb were about to make sand castles, but red wasn't in a mood for sand castle. All of a sudden, Red and Aggie accidentally gazed at each other, despite their distance from each other were far, they can still see each other's eyes.
They stared at each other in a long awkwardly silently while. Red then waved his wing at Aggie, and slightly smiled at her. But, in response, Aggie hung her head down, and proceeded walking away, much to Red's disappointment as he looked away as well.
As the Eagle Family observed, it's worse than they thought.
"Not well," Mighty Eagle answered
But Zeta groaned frustratingly, "Can that girl ever move on? I moved on. Everyone else do!"
Debbie said, "Except for them, Zeta. I can see that… they really love each other."
"Aggie is very sensitive; she easily gets hurt. Everytime she looks at Red…" sighed Mighty Eagle, "She's still hurt."
"I wish they can get back together again," Debbie hoped sadly.
Zeta admitted, "Me too. I made a mistake for my niece, and I want to make things right."
"Maybe it'll take a miracle to get them back together," the young eagle said.
Meanwhile, Leonard, Courtney and Garry, who the two carried a huge cake behind their king, came down from the ramp of their ship. The pigs did arrive early, but Leonard was doing something before he and his two companions came out of the ship.
"Hey, hey, buddy, I brought a little something from Piggy Island!" Called Leonard to Red as he showed a picnic basket.
"Thanks, Leonard, I needed that," Red took the basket from Leonard, and put it down.
Courtney then explained while she a carried held a huge cake between them, "And we brought Aggie a new cake after her birthday cake from last week got thrown up, so… we baked a new one."
"Just give it to her, I don't want to bother her," Red frowned.
The pigs moved their eyes, and saw Aggie mixing up a bowl of punch with a serving spoon using her magic without looking at Red at all.
Garry then told Red, "Oh, she's still not moving on? I thought you two are friends again."
"Friends? Yes. But… well, I still want her to be my girlfriend again, but… she still doesn't' want me," Red hung his head down.
"Doesn't want you? Doesn't want you?!" Chuck repeated what Red just said, "Hey, if Aggie doesn't want you anymore, she should've left you to die back in Magic Island."
"And I like to tell you that it is your fault!" the red bird still pointed his finger at the yellow bird.
"Okay, okay, I can share the blame, but can she just forget what happened between you two?"
"Can she ever forget that she killed me?!" The silence happened between the them as Red confessed, "I don't blame her… I deserved that kind of punishment. I changed her life… back to misery…" Red then shook his head and cleared his throat, "Look, we're here to just have fun, okay? I don't want to talk about it."
When Red gathered up some tools for making sand castles, Chuck, Bomb and the pigs still felt pity for Red after what happened between him and Aggie. But they don't want to talk about it right now or Red will lose it again. They'll just ignore the issue, and proceed to have fun.
Meanwhile, Denzel was watching a good show on TV in his garage in home world. While he was laughing, he accidentally elbowed his dimensional remote control, activating it to open a portal behind him.
"Oops!" He exclaimed. He wanted to turn the portal off, but, out of curiousity, he wanted to know where the portal lead him to as he passed through.
When he did, he saw the ocean in front of him, but when he looked down, there are trees and small mountains all over. He also saw the birds, pigs and eagles enjoying themselves on the beach.
"Oh, I'm in Bird Island," Denzel said, then gasped happily when he realized he was standing on a mountain, "And I'm on Hero Mountain! Cool!" But then, his excitement faded when he looked down to check that he was on top of Aggie's monument of Hero Mountain, "Oh great!" He couldn't he was on top of his nemesis' head statue. Suddenly, the portal closed behind him, "Uh-oh." He tried to turn his dimensional remote control on to open a portal home, but he realized the remote was ran out of batteries. He began to shake in anxiety. He's now stuck on top of Aggie's head statue on Hero Mountain with no way down or no way home, "Oh, no. Oh, no. Hey. Hey. Help! Help!"
Meanwhile, Aggie returned again to the beach after leaving to get more food. This time, she approached Red, Chuck, Bomb, Silver, Leonard, Courtney and Garry who were settling a picnic blanket on the sand.
"Hey guys, want some Buko Pandan Salad dessert? Mom made them. It's perfect for hot day." Aggie said while carrying a bowl of green creamy dessert called Buko Pandan Salad.
Suddenly, everyone heard a loud cry coming from nowhere, until they all turned their attention to Hero Mountain.
"Hey. Hey, Aggie! Aggie!" Denzel shouted as loud as he can to make the birds and pigs hear him.
They all saw Denzel on Aggie's statue on Hero Mountain.
"What the heck?!" Exclaimed Aggie.
"Call the fire brigade! Get a ladder! Get me down!" Denzel cried.
"What are you doing?"
"Scratching your head! What do you think?! I'm stuck!"
"How'd you get on Aggie's head… on the mountain?" Silver asked.
"What am I doing an interview?! Shut up and get a ladder or something!" the human boy yelled.
"Actually yeah. Maybe we are doing an interview," Aggie smiled as the birds and pigs snickered. Some couldn't handle the laughter of Aggie's joke as they held their wings and hooves on their mouth to cover their laughter, "So, Denzel, tell us about that new project you have coming up."
Denzel shouted, "What are you talking about? Get me down, you douche!"
"No. First you tell me about that new project."
"Oh, you're so dead."
"Is that the title of your new film?" Bomb added to the joke
"Grr!" Denzel growled, but he has to go with the joke to convince Aggie and her friends to get him down, "Uh... I've been working on a new movie and it's really great. Toss me a rope!"
"No, that's not good enough. We want details." Aggie grinned.
"Grr... I'm gonna slit your throat while you sleep," Her nemesis yelled before answering, "Um... Well... When you working with Jack Black... Uh... You just got to keep up, you know. I mean he's doing his thing and you got to... You got to match his energy level. Without looking like you trying to warm up him 'cause, you know, that's the game you just not gonna win."
Chuck then asked, "What was it like having a privilege of performing the words of Oscar winner Diablo Cody?"
"She's an overpriced cool girl who's got lucky once!"
"Ooh... That doesn't sound like an interview answer. Say something nice about Diablo Cody," Red told him.
Denzel tried to think of something as he replied of what's in his mind, "I... envy the tattoo artist who had that huge canvas of arm fat to work with."
Aggie laughed, "Wonderful. Wonderful. Hey, listen, could you hang with us through the break?"
"What?"
"We'll be right back with Denzel's boss Donald Trump," Aggie then walked back to the village as her friends followed her.
"No! No, I hate Donald Tru... Where you going?" Denzel shouted as he watched Aggie and the birds and pigs walked back to the village.
While she was following her, Ruby then told Aggie, "Do you think it's mean to leave Denzel up there? He doesn't have powers or can fly like you."
"Eh, he'll be fine," Aggie answered.
On Hero Mountain, Denzel is still stuck on the mountain, sitting down while feeling so angry.
"Oh, she'll going to pay for leaving me here! But how can I do that? I can't expose anymore of her secrets. I ran out of secrets to tell."
Suddenly, two eagles flew around as Denzel eavesdropped to hear what they are saying while flying.
"I really wish Mr. Red and Ms. Aggie will get back together," a male eagle said.
"Yeah, they were meant for each other," a female eagle agreed.
After overhearing this, Denzel then has an idea as he rubbed his hands together, "So, that's the issue today, huh? Well, I'll give them what they want… they'll see!" He laughed maniacally, until he realized he's still on the mountain, "Right after I find a way out of here."
Later at night, Aggie came into the Eagle Family's house after taking a fly around the island. She felt so tired as she hid her eagle wings back in her back.
As she walked so tiredly to the direction of her room, her extended family watched her.
"Hey, Aggie," Mighty Eagle called her as Aggie turned to him. He was a little scared as he thought she's going to pounce once he mentioned something or someone she doesn't like, "I know you don't want to talk about it, but…" he nervously fiddled his fingers.
"Whatever you want to talk Mighty Eagle, just say it," Aggie insisted him to talk.
Mighty Eagle exhaled and said, "Can you at least give Red a chance?"
Aggie said, "I did give him a chance. We're friends now,"
"What he meant is… Could you just get back together with him?" Zeta clarified the issue.
Aggie rolled her eyes, and groaned, "Ugh. Do you have to bring that up? I already told you. I can't take him back. We're just friends now"
"Cousin Ags, I know it hurts after what happened between you two, but we all know you still love Red. Maybe it's time you can start all of again," Debbie suggested.
"I told you, I don't want to start things with him again…!" Aggie shouted before turning around, and headed to her room. But before she can closed the door, she said to her extended family, "We both might get hurt."
She slammed the door behind her, and dropped herself on her bed. Her room is dark and quiet. She didn't want to turn the lights on. She's not in a mood for switching on the light. Before she has a chance to went to bed, Aggie remembered when she and Red used to date. They don't sleep alone in their own houses anymore. Sometimes, they slept together. She remembered how they cuddled each other while sleeping, but they didn't get too intimate, they just one to hug and tickle with each other while they're in bed.
Aggie smiled while remembering what was like to snuggle with her love. But now she was all alone in her room on her bed as she frowned. The only things she could snuggled were her pillows and blankets. She wiped the tears from her eyes as she tried not to think about it. She turned her body around before falling asleep and beginning to dream.
Aggie walked in a dark room where there's nothing but… dark room. It's like she's in a dark void where she's all alone. She saw nothing and heard nothing but the echoes of her footsteps and her own voice.
"Where am I?! Hello!" She tried to call for someone, but she only heard her voice echoing. It's creepy and dark in here.
While she was walking, Aggie saw something on the floor, which she almost stepped on, "What's this?" She looked down to take a closer looked. When she saw the object, she gasped. She took it from the floor, and held it up.
It was a knife.
A sharp pointy knife.
This isn't good.
Ever since she was under her alter-ego's control and killed Red with a knife, Aggie has PTSD whenever she held a knife. She felt so guilty when using that to kill Red. She doesn't want to held a knife again. But it happened again. She's holding a knife, which memories flashed in her head, showing how she brutally killed red with lots of blood flowing out from his chest.
"Oh no. Oh no no no no no no no!" Aggie stammered as she started to sweat, and her wing shook. She doesn't know how to let go of the knife as she felt so anxious.
Suddenly, she heard someone in this void. She's not the only one around here, and this voice is very familiar.
"Hello?! Is anyone here?!"
That voice and a shadow was closing by. Aggie recognized that voice and the shadow figure, "Red…" Aggie knew that was Red. But then, she turned to the knife she's still holding. While she's still shaking and sweating, her wings were trying to tell her to kill Red with it, and this time, she's going to end it so she won't feel miserable anymore. But in her heart, Aggie doesn't want to kill Red. She still loves him, and too afraid to show it. It's all happened again. Her worst fear… but Aggie couldn't allow it, "No. Not this time." Instead the pointy tip of the knife facing upward, she faced the knife in front of her chest.
When Red arrived at the scene, he was shocked when he saw Aggie pointing the knife on her chest.
"Aggie, what are you doing?!"
When Aggie saw him shock of what he sees, she started to cry while sweating, "Taking my punishment."
Red extended his wing, gesturing Aggie to stop, "No, stop! Aggie! You can't do this!"
"I have to!" Aggie cried, "I was so evil! I'm so selfish! I did something worst… without thinking! Because I'm so jealous! Why do you deserve someone like me?!"
When Aggie asked the question, Red was speechless. He doesn't know what to say. Yes, he still loves her, but the way Aggie thought of herself that Red doesn't deserve a killer like her as he realized it.
Aggie knew there's nothing for Red to explain about her question as she was about to drove the knife into her chest, but then, Red jumped forward, and held both of her wings while still holding a knife, pulling it away from Aggie before it can reach her chest.
"Aggie, please! You don't deserve this!" Red tried his best to keep the knife far from Aggie's chest, which where her heart is.
"Yes, I do! I killed you! I hurt everyone! I deserve this punishment, Red!" Aggie cried a lot as she wanted to accept this fate. She shed her tears as she thought of herself as a bad person, so she wanted to kill herself for all the mistakes she had done, especially to Aggie.
Red doesn't want Aggie to get hurt or kill herself for something that it wasn't her fault. It wasn't her fault that she's murderer. It wasn't her fault that she killed him. It wasn't her fault that she imprisoned everyone to destroy them for "betraying". Red felt so guilty that his ex-girlfriend experienced this kind of trauma. Suicide is the last thing she ever do, but not in this way. He has to change this fate, but it's not her fate.
Red looked at Aggie with tears in his eyes, "No… I do,"
"What?" Aggie looked up in surprised.
But before Aggie wanted an explanation, Red was able to turn the pointy tip of the knife from Aggie to Red as he quickly drove the knife into his own chest, hitting his own heart. He believed he's the reason Aggie became like this, and her life turned back to being miserable. It was all his fault. He abandoned her, he betrayed her, he made her think he doesn't love her anymore. Now, he's paying the price…again. Aggie couldn't move on as long as Red exist. To make her move on, Red decided to end this misery.
Aggie gasped in shock when she felt Red purposely faced the knife to him, and pulled the knife into his own chest. Though she's still holding the knife when Red pulled it towards him, she could feel that it's like the same thing that happened between them back in Magic Island, but this time, Red insisted to have himself killed. When the knife was plunged into his chest, the blood flowed out onto both Red and Aggie's wings. Aggie quickly let go of the knife as she was started for this, but there's already blood on her wings. Red groaned in pain as he dropped his knees on the floor, and held on the knife as his body lied down on the floor, gasping for air.
In the real world, Aggie squirmed on her bed, breathing for air, and her head also sweat. It's like she's trying to get out of her nightmare, but she's still trap.
Back in the dream world, Aggie just watched her former beloved bleed as he tried to live for Aggie before he can die.
"NOO! Red, what have you done to yourself?!" Aggie knelt besides Red as tears shed from her face, "It would've been me!"
"No, Aggie! I deserve this, not you," Red coughed as she still groaned in pain, "It wasn't your fault you did all of those stuff. It was mine. I made you feel miserable and betrayed. I— I accept this."
"No, Red! Just… let me help you!" But Aggie can't accept this. She didn't want this to happen. She held the knife again, trying to pull it very slowly from Red's chest. She doesn't care anymore that she still has Red's blood all over her wings. She wanted to save Red.
But she was interrupted and stopped when Red held her wings, stopping her from trying to pull the knife out, "No! It's okay. I just want you to live your life, I don't want you to feel miserable because of me," Red then lifted one of his wings, and touched Aggie's cheek. There is still blood on his wing, but Aggie decided to ignore that, "Just remember that I will always love you, no matter what. And I don't care if you… hurt me, or you don't want to be with me. I love you, Aggie."
Aggie cried so hard as more tears flowed out from her eyes. She felt so heartbroken that Red took thus suicide attempt for her because he blamed himself for Aggie's misery, not her. This proves that red loves her very much, despite that Aggie doesn't want him to love her anymore. He still loves him. And now, she couldn't help but confessed, "I…" She used one wing to touch his cheek, while the other grasped his bloody wing that held her cheek, "I love you too, Red. I still love you… I'm too ashamed to show it. You were never been part of my misery, Red. I am… to you."
"You were never been one, Aggie. Never," Red said as he admitted that she wasn't been part of his misery ever since.
Red still had the strength to lift his upper body to reach for Aggie, and hugged her. Aggie hugged him in return as she sobbed, not wanting to let him go.
Back in the real world, Aggie is still dreaming, but there was a tear shedding from her closed eyes.
Back again in the dream world, while Aggie is still hugging Red, she realized the body she was hugging is no longer solid.
"Red? Red?!" She wanted to make sure if Red is still there alive, but when she looked down on her arms, she saw that Red wasn't there anymore but only his red feathers, "No! No, please don't leave me, Red. Please!" She whimpered as she hugged the feathers that were left in her arms, "I love you!"
Suddenly, a wind whistled around her as it carried all of the feathers from her arms. Aggie wanted to keep some of her feathers, but they all flew away to nowhere… except one as she caught one with her fingers. She could feel that Red was no longer with her when his feathers were blown away, and the only thing left to remember him was this one small feather. Aggie then cried again as she nuzzled the feather on her cheek.
"RED!"
Aggie was startled as she woke up from her nightmare. She looked around, and realized she's in her room again on her bed. She looked down on her wings, and saw there was no blood at all. She panted heavily after seeing that nightmare. She still has sweat on her head.
When she looked down, Aggie realized that her nightmare is not just a nightmare, it's more than that. It's like a warning… that if she ever gets near Red, then… she might kill him all of a sudden. She doesn't want that again. Aggie knew that she's still part of Red's misery, and she's also a threat to him. She doesn't want to hurt or kill him again. It was the biggest mistake of her life, and she regretted of doing that to him. Even though it was all on her dark side, Aggie is still the only who killed Red, and she has to prevent that.
Aggie folded her legs, curled herself into a tightly-squeezed ball, and hid her face on her knees, crying about her nightmare. She doesn't want to get near Red as long as both of them live. She couldn't go back to sleep either or she would have the same nightmare again. This is too much for her to handle. And she can't get out of her room until further notice. She doesn't know how long she would stay in there. She just hoped this is the best way to keep Red safe… from herself.
In the morning, Red was walking down the street where he was greeted by his fellow birds. He greeted them back happily as usual, but something or someone is missing.
All day as he tried to hang out with his friends, Red noticed that Aggie wasn't around in Bird Village. Everyday in the morning, Aggie flew down to Bird Village, and took a nice stroll, singing happy songs and brining smiles to all the birds. But now, she wasn't doing those stuff this time.
"Hey, has anyone seen Aggie? I haven't seen her strolling around whole morning," Red asked his friends.
But the birds shook their heads, replying no.
"Nuh-uh," Ruby shrugged.
"No," Stella added.
"Haven't seen her," Matilda said.
"She hasn't flown out of Mighty Eagle's home all day. Where is she?" Bubbles pointed.
"Do you think something's wrong?" Hal asked in worry.
Red looked on the mountain to see the view of the Eagle Family's house, beginning to worried what happened to Aggie. She isn't like this since… before she forgave him.
Back in the Eagle Family's house, Aggie is still in her room, sitting behind the door so no one would attempt to come inside. She's still crying from last night's nightmare, and she didn't do anything but cry. Zeta did attempt to give Aggie pancakes for breakfast, but the purple couldn't get the sparrow out of her room. So Zeta put the pancakes near her door, and Aggie quickly snatched them into her room to eat, and left the empty plate outside.
When they realized the sparrow hasn't come out of her room all day, the Eagle Family decided to check on her, but the room is locked. They have nothing to do but knock.
"Cuz?" Debbie called.
"Aggie?" Zeta knocked on the door.
"Hey, little girl buddy, are you alright in there?" Mighty Eagle spoke while knocking.
"You haven't come out of your room all day," Zeta added.
But Aggie couldn't answer as she's still not in a mood to confront her extended family about what happened last night as she ignored them, and continued to whimper.
After an hour of trying to convince Aggie the door, the eagles just walked away from the door, and tried to think of something to figure out what happened to Aggie.
Debbie then reported her mother with a cellphone on her wing, "Hmm, Red just texted, wanting to know why Aggie hasn't come out yet."
"Should we tell him?" Mighty Eagle inquired.
Zeta sighed as she looked at Aggie's door. Zeta knew her niece doesn't want Red around, but all this happened because of these two, and she wanted to fix this mistake for her niece.
This is actually part 1 of my Halloween theme for this chapter. Part 2 will be a lot more blood than this.
The part where Denzel is stuck on top of Hero Mountain on Aggie's head statue is a reference from Family Guy where Stewie was stuck on the roof when he tried to fix the TV dish
Buko Pandan is a type of Filipino cold dessert made of jelly cubes, young coconut, and sweetened cream infused with pandan or screwpine flavor. This tropical salad is usually enjoyed as a snack or dessert and often made for holiday parties and other special occasions.
