Chapter 63- the rescue of Carla and company begins
Jewel backed away with Gylfie and Aurum, her eyes laced with no sympathy whatsoever fixed on the seriously battered and bloodied humans as they struggled to stand up, the pain from their injuries the Spix macaw and two fruithawks had inflicted on them making them wince while Blu, Athos, Aramis, Phoebe, Benjamin, Poinsettia, Spinel, Tristan, Kira, Indigo and Victor, all of who were exhausted and puffing and panting from the fight with the group of humans, regrouped and backed away to glare furiously at them, Jewel and the golden fruithawks joining their side. Through the steel mesh above the half-wall, Frodo and Neytiri, together with some of the animals also glared or gazed at the humans as they winced in pain from the injuries inflicted on them by Athos and company. Lillie (who had returned to the safety of the artificial jungle), Gladion and the rest of the kids shuddered at the state of the group of humans while Dundee, Olympia and the other animals were utterly dumbfounded at the violence they had just witnessed.
Jewel, Gylfie and Aurum certainly did give these humans a serious clawing, biting, slashing and in short, a furore and had inflicted them with countless bleeding scratches and bites all over their faces, arms and upper bodies, decking the humans out with red stripes and gashes in their clothing such that they looked like they had been dragged through a briar of thorny plants. As they continued to glare at the seriously beaten humans, Kira growled, "That's what you get for messing with untamed birds that utterly DESPISE humans they don't trust or have mistreated them."
"You certainly did show them what for, you three," said Phoebe to Jewel, Aurum and Gylfie. The trio took the complement in thanks.
"They deserve it," growled Jewel rancorously as she glared at the seriously beaten humans as they continued to struggle to stand up and groan and wince in pain from their numerous scratches, "Mind you, I remember giving that slime-ball Nigel such a beating and clawing as that with Blu several years ago after what he had done to us, especially Carla, Bia and Tiago," she gaze then turned to Indigo, "which I really wished you'd have done when you encountered him rather than just scratch him across the face."
Indigo just shrugged and continued to gaze at the battered and bloodied humans.
"And I hope our savage attack on them will teach those thieves not to mess with birds like us," growled Gylfie.
"I agree," put in Aurum, "You deserve great credit for helping us to attack those uncaring humans."
Gylfie just smiled in thanks at the compliment much to the surprise of Blu and the others.
"That's the first time I've heard those two fruithawks congratulate each other on something," said Victor, "I thought those two hated each other."
"Well, never mind about that," said Blu as his mind turned to something else; "We've got some birds to rescue."
"Carla and the other seven, of course!" cried Athos in surprise, "I completely forgot about them."
As he said this, the sounds of shouting travelled through the corridor to the group's ears, alerting them.
"We don't have time to discuss this out here," said Blu when he realised that some humans were coming, "Let's go back into the artificial jungle before those humans turn up."
With that, he darted into the two-door compartment with Jewel, Gylfie, Aurum, Athos and the others in tow.
As Blu closed the second door after the last of the group consisting of Aramis, Phoebe, Poinsettia and Spinel had entered the jungle area and the group had touched down to meet the other animals, Phoebe moved onto the next important subject.
"Who will go to help D'Artagnan and the others with him in rescuing Carla and the other seven?" asked the hyacinth macaw. Blu was about to reply when Poinsettia spotted something approach the whole gathering.
"Guys, look," said she and pointed a talon to it. Blu sand the others followed Poinsettia's point and when their eyes landed on it, short gasps were drawn in by some of them.
"Soren, Luna!" cried Athos and with that, the scarlet macaw darted off to meet the two flying foxes as they flew towards the group. Blu, Jewel, Levi and some of the others as well as Dundee and Olympia followed. As the animals approached the two bats, Neytiri spotted someone else in Soren's foot claws.
"Isn't that…" she began as surprise tore through her.
"STELLA!" cried Athos, finishing Neytiri's sentence. The moment that name which was the name of one of the kidnapped victims, reached the others' ears, Blu and company accelerated over to the trio of flying foxes. Soren then gently lowered Stella, who was badly shaken and still frightened based on her trembling body, onto the sand, the couple, together with Luna, were swallowed up by a cloud of colourful feathers as Blu and company gathered round them to hug them. Jewel then hugged Stella.
"Oh, you're alright," she cried with relief, "We thought we lost you."
The others in Blu's group and the remaining kids including Adenine, Cytosine, Thymine and Guanine took turns to hug Stella as well. Soren and Luna also received hugs from the others in Blu's group while Dundee and the other animals looked on.
"Looks like one of the missing victims in question has been rescued," said one of the pandas who was Mulan's mate, to Dundee. Dundee just nodded in agreement. Then as soon as Stella's friends had broken the hug with her and Soren and Luna, Blu came up.
"Where are D'Artagnan, Aurora, Trixie and Augustus?" asked he.
"And also Carla, Bia, Tiago, Jasmine, Finn, Aiden and Spyro?" put in Athos. As he said this, Eragon walked in. Stella gazed up at Blu and the others with him as they gazed back at her with worried looks. Upon this question being asked, Soren walked in to answer on Stella's behalf.
"The other four including Augustus have ventured further into the carnivore grounds to search for the those other seven kidnapped victims including those three Spix macaws," he said. Horrified gasps rolled through the crowd, especially Dundee and his group.
"Those four are by themselves in the Compartment of the Carnivores!?" blurted out Olympia in disbelief.
"But that quartet could easily put themselves in danger," said Nick, Dundee's younger brother, "Especially the macaws since Carnassial and his gang are a bunch of parrot-eating wildcats."
Blu, Athos, Porthos, Aramis, Phoebe and Levi and some of the others with them including Tristan, Kira, Poinsettia and Spinel flashed worried glances at Dundee's massive group while some of the kids, among them Adenine and his siblings emitted worried and dreaded squeaks. Kira was especially wracked with worry for her three cousins in particular.
"Well if D'Artagnan, Aurora, Trixie and Augustus don't go after Carla and the other six," protested Stella, "Those seven, especially the six macaws, are likely to be served as dinner at the clutches of those wildcats."
As she said this, Dundee came in with another important question.
"Have you seen Dalek?" he asked, to Stella's confusion. Then Betelgeuse, Rigel and Antares stepped forward.
"He's that parrot-detesting chameleon who wears that strange domed cap hat," said Betelgeuse, before her gaze turned to Victor's fruit-shell hat, "Sort of like Mr Victor's hat but manmade. He's the one who tore the feathers out of my left wing."
Stella gazed at the little half-ruby macaw as she showed her tattered left wing with a confusion-laced look. However, the answer to Dundee's question came from across the clearing; the voice who Adenine and the remaining kids identified was Kiara the echidna's.
"We did try to catch that chameleon, Dundee," said the echidna as she walked towards the group with some more animals, among them some bats including Lusamine's father, the chimps including Herbert and also Mulan the panda, "But unfortunately, he escaped out of a nearby window."
Dundee and the others gazed at Kiara's group as they approached the gathering of animals and soon enough, a metallic glint shone in Herbert's hands. The animals including Adenine and company looked on in surprise as Herbert went over to Dundee and the other animals and presented him the sparkling object, Dalek's namesake alien race cap.
"The last we saw of him was on the ledge of the window," explained the chimpanzee as he set down Dalek's cap onto the sand for all to see, "When I and my chimp gang," he turned to face his chimp companions, "followed him through the window, he had disappeared and left behind that cap."
"Apparently, he must have fallen from the window to the ground far below us," added Marge, one of the female chimps. Surprised gasps rolled through the crowd. In Dundee's tent, the parrots all exchanged glances, some of them wearing sceptical looks.
"So, are you meaning to say Dalek has...?" asked Dundee.
"Well, based on how we found this cap," said Herbert, "and the drop below us, it would seem so."
Kiara and the others with her murmured in agreement to which Dundee put on a small smile while Blu and the others with him just looked on and said nothing.
"Well, if that chameleon has fallen to his death then that means that he has taken his murderous antics and attitude towards all the parrots here with him," he said, "So that means it is now safe for all the parrot members to come out of my tent," he flashed a smile at the parrots in the tent as they continued gazing out with surprise. However, some were ecstatic to hear that the parrot-detesting chameleon, the one who always caused the parrots trouble, had disappeared at last. Steven, Kevin, Greg and Sardonyx put on smug faces.
"At least there'll be no more parrot deaths at the hands of that scaly rat," hissed Greg bitterly.
"Absolutely," said Sardonyx. The other parrots who heard this including Steven and Kevin nodded in agreement but despite the smugness Steven's family felt for Dalek's apparent demise, the grief over the loss of Lars still gripped them hard and it will be a long time before they could move on from this loss. Dundee and the others then all thanked Kiara and company for the news but then the seriousness returned as the emu leader moved on to the next important thing.
"But first," he said, "We need to send backup to the rescuers who had gone into the Compartment of the Carnivores to rescue the remaining victims Dalek had likely shoved in there but at the same time," he turned to Olympia and said, "You set up some patrol groups to check the whole area to make sure that Dalek is well and truly gone."
The cassowary nodded and left to set up the patrol groups while Dundee turned to some more animals to select who will be entering the Carnivore Compartment and help with the rescue of Carla and company. As he did that, Blu gazed at the strange animals with his company gathered round him.
"I sure hope Trixie, Aurora, D'Artagnan and Augustus are alright," he said worriedly, "Based on the information that emu and his group have given us about that meat-eating animal place, it sounds awfully dangerous."
"Perhaps as dangerous as the territory of that colony of flying foxes led by… um… he-who-must-not-be-named," said Soren with a dark look. He daren't say the name of the dreaded flying fox colony leader for fear that he might stir up some sensitive nerves, especially Stella and Luna for they were the biological nieces of that bat but Blu and the others understood what he meant.
"Correct, Soren," said Blu with a serious frown, "But now is not the time to discuss the flying fox subject. Now is the time to turn our attention on helping D'Artagnan and the other three rescue Carla and the other six…"
As he said this, Eragon and his grandson Bambi stepped in, a frown on their faces.
"Hey, have you seen Sandalwood, Acerola and some of the macaw chicks anywhere?" he asked, "I've been searching for them during your dealing with those wretched humans out there but I cannot find them."
"They have well and truly vanished," added Bambi. Stern glares bore into the two archaeobirds, making them flinch.
"Are you meaning to say that Sandalwood and some of the kids have slipped away?" asked Jewel harshly. Eragon and Bambi flinched again and began to tremble, especially as worry began to well in the others. Kira began to look for Sirius, Bellatrix and Spica. To her dismay, the three chicks were absent as well.
"Sirius and the two girls have gone as well," she said. Then Frodo came in; dread plastering his face. Nearby, his son Sylvester looked on with some of the others including Betelgeuse, Rigel, Sugilite and Antares. Altair and Aldebaran began to shudder.
"It doesn't look good, folks," said Altair to the others.
"Regulus, Achernar, Polaris and Vega are missing as well," said Frodo, "As are Katniss, Canopus, Arcturus and Acerola." This sent immense horror tearing through the others of Blu's group, especially Stella, Soren and Luna.
"Oh, no, not Acerola as well!" cried Stella with her wings covering her face.
"Now we've got some missing KIDS to deal with!?" snapped Athos at Eragon, Frodo and Bambi.
"B-b-b-but I did t-t-t-tell those k-k-k-kids to stay with us," stammered the adult archaeobird timidly as Athos loomed over him with a look of thunder on his face. Behind Athos, Aramis, Phoebe, Levi, Neytiri, Poinsettia, Spinel, Benjamin, Kira, Indigo and Victor wore the same thunderous looks as the first scarlet macaw.
"Don't you realise that WHOLE of Jasmine's family could be in danger now!?" shouted Athos furiously. Betelgeuse, Rigel, Antares, Cytosine, Thymine, Adenine and Guanine flinched harshly and ducked behind some of the other animals. Whenever their grandfather got angry, they, together with Sol who was back in Brazil, always felt fear flare within them and dove into hiding. Lillie, Gladion and the other remaining kids also ducked behind some of the other adult macaws, especially as outraged looks formed on the faces of Neytiri, Tristan and Kira.
"I'm gonna GIVE THOSE NAUGHTY KIDS A GOOD HIDING WHEN WE FIND THEM!" bellowed the middle one loudly, "ESPECIALLY our SON AND DAUGHTER!"
Kira also bellowed the same thing about Achernar and Polaris.
"We'd better split up and find them on the double," said Blu but before he could turn to the other adult members of his group to speak to them, a voice came in.
"They might have left for the Compartment of the Carnivores," it squeaked. Blu and company's heads, along with those of Dundee and company, all turned and faced a small group of young bats, monkeys and lizards as they walked in. The group of flying fox pups, young lizards and monkey kids were led by a familiar Livingstone's flying fox pup with a familiar spider monkey by her side.
As recognition took hold within the remaining kids, especially Lillie, Gladion and Sylvester especially of the flying fox pup at the front, their feathers rose hostilely. However, the faces of the flying fox pup and her comrades were laced with concern, especially as they gazed at Blu and company.
"Lusamine," hissed Connie in Dundee's crowd with hostility. Shade and Sadie, her parents, just looked on as Lusamine and her group stopped before Blu and company. The moment they did, Spinel stepped forward.
"Have you seen Sandalwood and the other missing kids, little flying fox?" she asked Lusamine. Then Lusamine's spider monkey friend, Guzma, stepped forward. As he did so, Eragon cocked his ears to listen as did Bambi.
"We saw a group of chicks and two flying fox pups hurry off in the direction of the Compartment of the Carnivores," explained the spider monkey. Blu and company's upper bodies and heads jerked up in horror. Stella, Soren and Luna also gazed at Guzma as he went on to explain.
"We also overheard them that they are going to enter the Compartment to rescue some kidnapped parrots while Kiara over there," the spider monkey said, nodding to Kiara and her group, "were dealing with that Dalek chameleon…"
Glances were exchanged between the listeners. Olympia shot Dundee a worried look.
"Looks like we're gonna have to set up another rescue group, Dundee," said the cassowary.
"TAKE US THERE as FAST as you CAN!" bellowed Blu to Lusamine and her group. Lusamine and company nodded rapidly and darted off. Blu, Jewel, Athos, Aramis, Phoebe, Levi, Poinsettia, Spinel, Benjamin, Kira, Indigo, Victor, Tristan, Frodo and Eragon all charged off after Lusamine's group with Dundee and some of the others following. As they left, Blu shot Neytiri, Luna, Soren and Stella an alarmed look, Stella latching her membranous wings onto Adenine and some of the others when they tried to follow.
"Look after the other kids while we rescue Sandalwood and the others!" called Blu as he left.
"Okay, be careful!" called Neytiri. Sardonyx and Greg ran in to occupy the other kids of Sandalwood's group as well to prevent them from running after Blu and company, much to the kids' disappointment. As they watched Blu's group disappear in the direction of the Carnivore Compartment, Sugilite and Bambi looked on in worry.
"I hope they also help Uncle D'Artagnan, Aunt Aurora, Aunt Trixie and Mr Augustus rescue Aunts Carla and Bia, Uncle Tiago and the other three as well," squeaked Sugilite fearfully. Bambi and the other kids, especially Bambi who feared for his father Spyro, nodded in agreement as they and the others watched Blu and company hurriedly leave.
Meanwhile
Back in the Compartment of the Carnivores, Augustus, D'Artagnan, Aurora and Trixie hid behind some rocks and a bush, their horrified gazes on the scene before them. What the quartet saw was a pack of wildcats. Some of them were pure pale sandy brown and resembled a wildcat D'Artagnan, Aurora and Trixie had seen in a book called a lynx while some of the others resembled the wildcat Augustus had sometimes seen in the Amazon Rainforest called a margay based on their golden pelt decked out with black blotches and streaks. These wildcats which were called caracals and servals were gathered around an entrance to a den shaped like a gaping mouth full of teeth.
"That must be the group of wildcats that emu was talking about," whispered Aurora. Augustus then scanned the activities of the caracals and servals and saw that they were sat in an arc with a pile of leaves in the middle of the partial circle.
"Can you see Carla, Bia, Aiden, Jasmine, Finn, Spyro and Tiago anywhere, Augustus?" asked Trixie. Augustus scanned the surrounding area enclosing the caracals and servals as they continued to happily prepare for their meal until his eyes picked out a flash of colour being held at the paws of two caracals and a serval. That flash of colour was struggling and a familiar voice was emanating from it.
"There," said the flying fox with a point of his membranous wing. Trixie, D'Artagnan and Aurora followed Augustus's point and when their eyes landed on the flash of colour, alarm tore through them. Trixie then saw a pair of talons get pinned against something by a serval paw and then bound to it with some strong vines. Behind those talons was a trail of long blue tail feathers. However, before the short glaucous macaw could recognised who these talons and tail feathers belonged to, the trio of two caracals and the serval, along with several more caracals and servals, then lifted something into the air. Then what Augustus and the three macaws saw next sent coldness shooting through their blood and turned it into ice cold water.
"Oh, NOOO!" cried Trixie in a whisper. The other three did not say anything.
Held in the paws of the caracals and servals as they returned to the main group were six long sticks and tied to each of those sticks were a bundle of feathers. Carla was tied to one, Bia was tied to another, Tiago was tied to a third, Jasmine to a fourth, Finn, with his dislocated wing, to a fifth and Aiden was tied to a sixth. All six macaws were tightly bound but Trixie, Augustus, D'Artagnan and Aurora could see that all six of the macaws' faces were saturated with pure wrath and rage. Carla was especially struggling and writhing in her restraints, determined to free herself and perhaps give these wildcats a piece of her mind. Muffled chirps emanated from her bound beak and her talons tried to move but because she was so tightly bound she could not move them at all. That look of rage was mirrored on the faces of Bia, Tiago, Jasmine and Aiden and they writhed in their restraints as well. Finn, however, clearly had agony thrown into the acidic glare, his dislocated shoulder screaming in agony because of this, he could not writhe as much as the other five.
"Those six are tied to their sticks like how humans would handle kebabs, or lumps of meat, at a barbeque party," whispered D'Artagnan. Augustus did not reply for he had no idea what 'kebab' or 'barbeque' were, having never heard of them.
"Where's Spyro?" asked Aurora. D'Artagnan shot out a talon and pointed to something. The other three followed the Lear's macaw's point and saw two more servals walk in after the caracal carrying the pained and enraged Finn tied to his stick. The two servals were carrying some sort of bony cage which, based on the shape of the bones, was a tight ribcage the wildcats had salvaged from a pile of bones somewhere in the Compartment. Stuffed within the bony cage was a bundle of metallic purple feathers and based on his features, it was clearly Spyro and like Carla and the other four macaws, the young archaeobird's beak was bound shut and his wings and feathered legs were tied tightly with vines, and his face was saturated with pure wrath. Unlike the macaws, Spyro had been shoved into a bony cage as Stella described it. Augustus and the three macaws then all winced when they saw that a small cut ran close to Spyro's neck. That cut must have been inflicted on the archaeobird by a sharp tip of one of the bones of the cage when the caracals and servals shoved him into it.
While Aurora, D'Artagnan, Augustus and Trixie continued to watch Carnassial's group as continued to prepare Carla, Bia, Tiago, Jasmine, Finn and Aiden who were tied to the sticks with vines, and Spyro who was in the bony cage, another group of animals came in and hid behind a fallen log and another bush not too far away from D'Artagnan's group. Sandalwood, together with Sirius, Spica, Polaris, Achernar, Bellatrix, Vega, Regulus, Canopus, Katniss, Arcturus, Acerola and Atreyu then peered out from over the log or behind the bush and gazed at Carnassial and company with Carla and the other five in their talons. Sirius, Bellatrix, Spica, Achernar and Polaris emitted whimpers when they glimpsed the flashes of blue belonging to Carla, Bia and Tiago while Katniss, Canopus, Arcturus, Vega and Regulus shuddered when they saw the turquoise and grey form of Aiden and the navy blue forms of Finn and Jasmine. Katniss also picked out Spyro in the cage of ribs while Acerola spotted D'Artagnan, Aurora, Augustus and Trixie a short distance away from them, their gazes also on Carnassial's group.
"There's Grandpa with Mrs Trixie, Mrs Aurora and Mr D'Artagnan," whispered the auburn furred bat. Sandalwood flashed a glance at the older macaws and flying fox and returned his gaze to Carnassial and his group as they set up Carla, Bia, Tiago, Aiden, Jasmine and Finn on their sticks against a tree trunk or some rocks. Acerola frowned.
"Those caracals and servals have tied those six macaws to sticks," she hissed, before her gaze turned to Spyro, "While Mr Spyro's been placed in a cage of bones."
"They never tied Betelgeuse to a stick or shoved her into a cage when they had her," said Sirius in a low voice.
"Shh, that lead caracal's gonna talk," said Acerola. Sandalwood's group fell silent and began to watch a hulking caracal then approach Carla, Bia, Tiago, Aiden, Jasmine and Finn, a triumphant and hungry glare on his face. D'Artagnan, Aurora, Augustus and Trixie also saw Carnassial approach the six tied-up macaws and began to discuss a plan of rescue, unaware that they had a group of potential helpers, Sandalwood's group, nearby.
"I'm afraid today will be your final day of seeing the lovely sun, my pack's next lovely meals," crooned Carnassial as he began top pace back and forth before Carla and the other five, their glares laced with rage, confusion and fear. As Carnassial spoke, the tongues of the other servals and caracals all snaked out of their mouths and licked their lips.
"Dalek certainly has done a good job in nabbin' some adult parrots at our request," continued Carnassial, his mouth dripping saliva as he looked forward to a macaw meal. The other caracals and servals emitted titters. Then Carla's glare flashed with fury.
"Look here, you tuft-eared cat-face," the chubby Spix macaw snarled, "We do NOT have time for this NONSENSE! We've got a bunch of KIDS TO RESCUE FROM HERE!"
"By what?" asked one of the servals in a mocking voice whom Sandalwood and some of the others recognised was Alecto, "Wanderin' around the human's corridors after escapin' the artificial jungle where you should remain? Yeah, that's very smart."
"Well you shouldn't have been wandering around in the humans' corridors then, parrots," added another cat, a female caracal. Titters then rolled through Carnassial's group. However, Carla and company did not find this at all funny. Then Spyro struggled in his bone cage while Bia began to speak.
"We are NOT from this place," snapped the brown-eyed spitting image of Jewel, "We're from the OUTSIDE and we have COME TO RESCUE SOME KIDS that have been brought here by those humans and their poacher workers!"
Tiago, Aiden, Jasmine and Finn all screeched in agreement. However, to the disgust of Carla and company and to that of D'Artagnan, Sandalwood and their groups, Carnassial and his gang, mocking smirks marking their faces, just exchanged glances and shrugged, some tittering.
"I'm sorry, my pack's meals-to-be, we have no idea what you're talkin' about," said Carnassial.
"Those humans are human CARERS, not CLIENTS for some poachers!" put in Shenzi, another caracal.
"And to add, those kiddies of yours are not important now," added Banzai, another of the wildcats, "Neither are your pretty relatives. Now is the time to meet your fate and prepare for it."
The other caracals and servals all nodded in agreement and licked their lips again. Then Tiago writhed viciously in his restraints and spewed acidic threats at Carnassial and company while Jasmine, Aiden, Carla and Bia seethed in silence. Finn, his shoulder still screeching in pain, however, just looked on in pained fear. Then Carnassial nodded to four or five other caracals.
"Bind those macaws' beaks with some vines and shut them up," he commanded, "The sooner those five macaws are prepared for dinner, the better."
"Yes, I can't WAIT to have these REAL treats inside our tummies," cooed Alecto with wicked excitement. The five caracals nodded and seized some strong vines behind them and left for Carla and company. Then Shenzi came in.
"What are we gonna do with the four-winged bird creature in the cage of ribs, Carnassial?" asked she.
"Put him to one side for now," said Carnassial, "We'll have him for dessert or something after we have finished eating the parrots."
Shenzi smiled and left after the other five caracals to help prepare Carla and company for the rare meal the group had been waiting for so long for while Spyro in his cage was transported by three servals to a spot away from where the caracals and the servals will be consuming the parrots.
As the margay-like cats carried him off, Spyro clung onto the white 'bars' with his wing claws and gazed worriedly at the macaws and struggled, desperate to get out of his trap and free his friends. However, the servals screeched at the archaeobird to shut him up as they continued to carry the poor son of Andromeda and Eragon away. As the three servals did that, Carnassial nodded to some more servals and several caracals who had more vines in their paws.
"Tie the beaks of the macaws," said the caracal leader. His underlings nodded obediently and went straight toward Carla and the other four tied to their sticks. Some more caracals seized the sticks and moved them horizontally so that the macaws' beaks were within reach. As Shenzi and two or three other caracals prepared to bind her beak, Carla began to protest.
"What are you DOING!?" she screeched. Carnassial's face loomed over her, his piercing, menacing eyes hovering close to her own, terrified green ones.
"It is time, fatty," said the caracal casually, making Carla's eyes flash with hurt, "We don't have time for any more pointless talks."
Then before Carla could protest, a pair of paws appeared and began to tie a piece of vine to her beak. Carla's cries suddenly turned into muffles as her beak was bound tightly. Behind the rocks and bush, D'Artagnan, Trixie, Augustus and Aurora each exchanged glances and then moved on. They were prepared to put their plan into action. Augustus turned to Trixie and Aurora and said, "Right, you two go and rescue Spyro while D'Artagnan and I see to Carla and the other five," the flying fox flashed a glance at the servals and caracals as they bound Bia's beak shut with another piece of vine, and then Tiago's, "Come on, let's move it before those wildcats set to putting their plans to eat the macaws into action."
Trixie and Aurora nodded and left to follow the servals as they continued to carry Spyro away while Augustus and D'Artagnan left to continue to watch Carnassial and his gang as they then bound Jasmine, Finn and Aiden's beaks shut. Not too far away, Sandalwood and the others also prepared to move when they saw Trixie and Aurora pass them by in the direction of the servals and Spyro. Atreyu formulated a plan.
"Why don't we split up and have some of us follow those two blue macaws to rescue that four-winged bird creature and the rest of us rescue those other six parrots with the larger bat and the dark blue macaw?" asked the emperor penguin chick, "I'll go after the former two macaws with several of you?"
Sirius, Spica, Bellatrix, Sandalwood, Regulus, Vega, Katniss and Canopus waved to Atreyu, Achernar, Polaris, Arcturus and Acerola and with that, the group of kids split up. Sirius and company went after D'Artagnan and Augustus while Atreyu's group went after Aurora and Trixie.