Chapter 77- attacked and the kids kidnapped again
Meanwhile
The spot where Bia, Carla and Tiago and company were supposed to be stargazing had erupted into chaos. The night air above the area was flooded with angry squawks, screeches and the sounds of struggling and fighting as Carla, Bia and Tiago's group struggled to fend off their toucan attackers and protect the terrified kids of Bia's group. However, because there were so many toucans present, around more than twice the number of members in Bia's group, Carla, Bia and Tiago and the rest were fighting a losing battle.
Zephyr, Aurora, Roberto and Brisa viciously drove away several adult toucans and some of the toucan chicks away from Carla, Bia, Tiago, Justin, Matilda, Virgil, Kira and Finnick as the latter Spix macaws tried shielding the Spix macaw chicks. Sirius, Einstein and Miles cowered under Virgil and Bia while Sonia, Melody and Spica hid in Carla and Justin's wings; Bellatrix and Byron hid in the wings of Tiago and Matilda and Kira and Finnick kept a firm hold Achernar, Diego and Polaris as they screamed in their wings while Roberto helped to drive away one of the adult toucans, one type of target they had in mind.
"Where are your CHICKS!?" snarled one of the toucans, Marco as he charged in at the Spix macaws, aiming for Tiago and Matilda, his two most hated macaws. Matilda let loose a frightened shriek and held Bellatrix and Byron closer to her while Tiago jumped up to meet Marco in mid-air, resulting in the two birds colliding, flying and then rolling along the hard tarmac, a full-blown brawl finally erupting between the toucan and the youngest and only first-brood son of Blu and Jewel as they struggled in the tumble.
"TIAGO!" cried Matilda as she watched her mate begin to viciously fight the aggressive toucan. Black and blue feathers flew everywhere as Tiago and Marco's beaks lashed at each other and tore out beak-fuls of their opponent's feathers while their talons raked over one another's skin. Tiago let loose an agonised cry as Marco's beak clamped onto some of the primary flight feathers and begin to tear them out, Marco's mind and eyes completely warped by pure insanity. Matilda continued to watch on when suddenly, several smaller comets, some of Marco's kids, shot in and tackled her from behind, sending Matilda flying forward and accidentally throwing Bellatrix and Byron out of the safety of her wings. Then Matilda was forced to fend off the attacking little toucans while the other Spix macaws began to lose the other Spix kids as well. Carla and Justin were savagely tackled by some more young toucans, the chaos sending Sonia, Spica and Melody flying from their wings while Bia and Virgil were forced to defend themselves from more toucan chicks and three of the adults, their minds diverted from Sirius, Einstein and Miles. This also happened with Kira and Finnick as they were forced to fight off the toucans attacking them or help Zephyr, Aurora, Roberto and Brisa as more toucans began to tear out some of their feathers.
While the Spix macaws struggled with the group of toucans attacking them, Sheldon and Wilbur were having a hard time protecting Poinsettia, Spinel and their chicks from more toucans as these macaws tried shielding Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Betelgeuse, Rigel and Antares from those same toucans as they tried to fight their way past the defensive adults to reach the chicks.
"There are TOO MANY of them!" cried Wilbur as he tackled one of the adult toucans away from Spinel and Poinsettia as they held the frightened chicks close to them. Then another adult toucan, his face laced with pure insanity that went WAY beyond the mischief he had had when he was young, lurched towards Wilbur, clamped his big orange and black beak onto the blue-and-gold macaw's wing flight feathers and began to pull as hard as he could, sending excruciating pain tearing through Wilbur's wing and making him screech and flap his other wing to free it. Porthos shouted his son's name when he heard him yell in agony as he tried helping Orquidea fend off another toucan. Then Sheldon and Wilbur were struck and thrown by several more toucans away from Poinsettia, Spinel and their chicks and were sent crashing into Porthos and Orquidea. The four all fell to the ground, dazed, and then they and Poinsettia's group were immediately swallowed up by a small cloud of smaller toucans who began to mercilessly attack them, their minds set on one certain target.
Nearby, Aramis, Esmeralda, Phoebe, Cobalto, Victor, Petunia, Indigo and Benjamin were struggling with even more toucans while Sugilite, Altair, Aldebaran and Violet were being herded to safety by Zebedee and Iris. As the two hyacinth macaws guided the three chicks and Zebedee's younger sister, they found themselves confronted by more adult toucans, among them Anastasia and Sofia who shot Zebedee and Iris a particularly acidic, mocking and scornful look.
"Goin' somewhere, cutesy pair of hyacinth lovebirds?" crooned Anastasia wickedly.
"Or should that be Scarface and show pet girl?" said Sofia, much to Anastasia and the other toucans' tittering. Zebedee and Iris stopped and glared bitterly at the two girls and their comrades and Iris stormed over to Sofia and shoved her black beak right into the bratty toucan's face.
"Who are you callin' Scarface and show pet girl," retorted Iris right into Sofia's face "Tremaine toucan!?"
This was retaliated by a hefty shove from Sofia as she was stung by this remark. However, Iris managed to stop herself from stumbling while Violet hid behind Zebedee, his bandana still missing from his scarred left facial side. Then Anastasia glared at Zebedee.
"Do you think you'd make a great father with that face, Scar?" she crooned, before turning down the pH of her insults, "Or should that be Cicatriz instead, like that bird killin' bat in the Amazon that almost slaughtered your tribes, clans and smaller bird groups?"
This was followed by more tittering from the two girls' comrades but this also sent pure outrage flaring within Zebedee and Iris.
"How DARE you!" bellowed Iris and without thinking, she launched herself at Sofia and collided with her, much to Zebedee and the kids' shock.
"IRIS!" cried Zebedee as he watched his girlfriend then began her own brawl with Sofia. However, the scarred hyacinth macaw found himself at the mercy of a number of spiteful and horrible glares from the other toucans.
"Now it's time to hind those kiddies over for us to take away, Scarface," crooned Anastasia evilly. Behind Zebedee, Violet, Sugilite, Altair and Aldebaran all whimpered timidly while Zebedee refused to budge. When he refused to move, one of Anastasia's male comrades came forward and flared the claws on one of his talons.
"Would you like us to slash you over the other side of your face and blind you in the other eye, Cicatriz?" crooned the toucan, much to Zebedee's sudden burst of fear. The hyacinth macaw then began to quiver as Anastasia and the other toucans then giggled wickedly as this threat sent shivers down his spine and skin. Behind Anastasia and her comrades, Iris and Sofia continued fighting with Sofia clamping one of her talons around Iris's neck and Iris's wing clamped onto one of her wings as the two tumbled in a blurry barrel roll of violet, yellow, black, orange, and reddish-cream, the black feathers from Sofia and the unusually violet feathers from Iris flying everywhere like strands of plant material from a tumbleweed as the pair continued to roll like one. Zebedee continued shaking at the sight of the toucan's flared claws, the fear of losing sight in his other eye burning higher and higher and sending his entire body into a tremble and his breathing and heartrate skyrocketing, especially as the toucan said, "And I'm not jokin', Scar boy," before his claw-flared talon was directed at Violet who hid behind her older brother, "And your cute little sister there will be the next one to lose her sight!" making Violet tremble and whimper as well. Anastasia and the others with her tittered as they watched the fear of Zebedee and Violet escalate to the point of the two of them panicking. Nearby, Phoebe was thrown back by one of the toucans into Cobalto and Esmeralda (despite her being bandaged and was able to use her wings and feet) and the pair crashed into a heap on the floor. Sugilite then flashed her grandparents and great green 'great-aunt' a horrified look before turning her gaze to Indigo and Victor as Victor drove away another toucan by throwing his fruit-shell hat into her face, knocking her down, before returning her terrified gaze at the toucan as he approached Zebedee with his claw-flared talon.
"UNCLE ZEBEDEE!" she screamed. As his name escaped the hyacinth macaw chick's beak, the toucan finally gave into the urge to slash Zebedee's right facial side and he raised his talon, aiming for the area. The kids screamed but then Aldebaran lurched at the toucan without a second thought.
"Aldebaran!" cried Altair as he watched his brother launch himself at Zebedee's would-be attacker with an enraged screech, landing square on his face. Then as soon as he was on the toucan's face, Aldebaran began to savagely score his claws in the toucan's skin, making the toucan scream and bolt top shift the Verde (scarlet/great green hybrid) macaw off his face. Anastasia and the others then rushed in to help but found themselves on the receiving end of a furious one-eyed hyacinth macaw. Zebedee, having managed to push aside his fears of losing sight in his right eye, then let loose a screech of pure rage of his own and launched himself at the group of toucans, knocking them down as he charged into them. After he had knocked the toucans down, Zebedee quickly yanked Aldebaran off his would-be attacker's face and barked at Sugilite, Altair and Violet to flee. Aldebaran screeched and squirmed in Zebedee's wings as he struggled to free himself from his grasp and launch himself back at the toucan that attempted to slash Zebedee down the right side of his face, especially as the toucan cried and wept with his wings covering his bloodied face.
"LET ME AT HIM!" bellowed the son of Benjamin and Petunia, "I WANNA CLAW HIS EYES OUT!"
He continued struggling violently in Zebedee's wings as Zebedee carried him away but before he and the kids could get to safety, more toucans came in, especially the mate of the toucan attacked by Aldebaran. Zebedee and company stopped dead, eyes flooded with terror as the lead toucan said, "Goin' somewhere?" while the others tittered meanly. Zebedee then gazed at this new threat of toucans while Iris continued brawling with Sofia nearby.
Close by, D'Artagnan, Sapphire, Finn and Jasmine the Lear's macaws and Trixie, Aiden, Tristan, Neytiri, Levi and Lapis Lazuli the glaucous macaws, together with Broccoli, Collette and Daisy the cats, were warding off more toucans while Frodo, Ellie, Spyro, Marella and Tom, together with Rita and Carlos, Augustus, Melissa, Stella, Luna, Sebastian, Soren and Anabelle desperately tried leading Regulus, Vega, Katniss, Canopus, Arcturus, Sylvester, Bambi, Gladion, Lillie, Sandalwood, Acerola and Ferdinand to safety. However, no matter how hard Frodo and company tried to escape the inferno, toucans came in from all directions and attacked, forcing the adults to fight them off. Tom tackled away one of the toucans as he tried getting to Gladion and Lillie while Ellie drove off some of the young toucan chicks threatening Bambi and Sylvester.
"What's taking Diantha so long?" demanded Ellie as she drove off more toucan chicks only for one to grab onto her wing flight feathers and pull, causing her pain and making her screech.
"I don't know but she should be back with help by now… OOOOW!" screeched Tom as three of the toucan chicks jumped onto his back and began tearing feathers from that area and the back of his head. Tom then began to bolt and writhe to shake off these chicks but they refused to let go. Spyro struggled as more toucan chicks began ripping tail feathers from his long, solid tail while Marella and Frodo struggled with more toucans. Nearby, Augustus angrily wing-slapped more toucans as they threatened Sandalwood and the others to drive them away.
"I don't know WHAT has caused these toucans to become THIS bad but THEIR BEHAVIOUR certainly is OUT OF ORDER!" he bellowed and with that, he chased off another toucan as he kicked Stella in the stomach but the toucan had managed to send Sandalwood flying from Stella's breast and into the space amongst the chaos. However, Augustus and Stella, together with the others, were too engrossed in fighting off the toucans to notice that he was thrown from his mother's breast. Then Sandalwood rose to his feet and began to shoot terrified gazes at the cloud of brawling toucans and Bia, Carla, Tiago and company. As he did that, an auburn flying fox pup and some macaw chicks, among them Kevin and Steven and also Connie the grey-headed flying fox pup who had been separated from Greg and Sardonyx amidst the chaos, rushed in and helped him to his feet. Lillie also rushed in.
"Are you alright, Sandalwood?" asked Acerola. Sandalwood only gazed at Acerola, Sirius, Einstein, Miles, Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Lillie and Bellatrix with terror-flooded eyes before those eyes turned to face Connie, Steven and Kevin, all of who wore disgusted looks on their faces.
"You two are descended from some bird-killing psycho bat, aren't you, Sandalwood and Acerola?" growled Steven bitterly. Sandalwood and Acerola flinched while Sirius and the other eight chicks present shot the scarlet macaw chick looks of astonishment and outrage.
"What did you just say about Sandalwood and Acerola?" asked Lillie fiercely. Adenine, Thymine, Guanine and Cytosine's colourful plumages also bristled.
"Some relative of yours was a bird murderer and slaughterer?" added Connie.
"And led a colony of other flying foxes on a killing spree of countless flocks of birds?" put in Kevin. Sandalwood's eyes flashed with hurt while Acerola gave the trio a furious eye.
"Look, while that's true, we're NOTHING AT ALL like that great-uncle who led the colony of flying foxes who fought against the bird tribes and other flocks for the Amazon Sanctuary and slaughtered countless birds before then," growled she, "Neither are Grandpa Augustus, Grandma Acerola, our parents, Aunt Luna and Ferdinand, my brother."
Sirius, Einstein, Miles, Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Lillie and Bellatrix fiercely nodded in agreement as did Sandalwood. However, the moment those nods were finished, a scornful voice emanated from behind Connie, Kevin and Steven.
"Sandy-bud and Ace-roll-y are indeed like their relative Cicatriz, you three," it said. Connie, Steven and Kevin turned round and to Sandalwood and company's immense fear and outrage, the speaker turned out to be Isabella, one of Anastasia and Marco's daughters and the one who led the horrible plank-of-wood scene with a bound Sandalwood on the end of the branch leading to the incident in which Sandalwood was knocked off that branch. Isabella was accompanied by around three dozen other chicks, and all of them wore scornful and mocking glares on their faces.
"Isabella!?" barked Bellatrix as Sandalwood jumped behind Acerola, Einstein and Miles who took up a defensive stance as the group of toucan kids walked in. Isabella and her comrades just continued to walk towards Sandalwood and his group and stopped.
"How is Sandy-bud?" crooned Isabella meanly, "Still flightless, is he?"
"Especially after what Bellatrix had done to him when she bound his wings to his sides and knocked him off the end of that branch," said one of Isabella's brothers from the chick crowd. This was followed up by a titter from the other toucan chicks. Bellatrix's eyes flashed with hurt but then outrage fired up within her.
"I was NOT the one who knocked Sandalwood off the end of that branch, folks," she growled, her two pigtail-like crests she had got from her grandmother Aurora and mother Matilda flaring out. Her blue feathers also bristled. "YOU WERE!"
"Yes, when you lot scattered and one of you carelessly charged into Sandalwood during the chaos when Bellatrix surged towards him in alarm to rescue him," put in Einstein. Sandalwood behind him timidly nodded in agreement.
This was only met by the mocking laughter of Isabella and her comrades.
"Oh, we were only fleein', Bella," crooned Isabella spitefully and with amusement and began to come up with a story to deny her and her comrades' involvement in the incident leading to Sandalwood's fear of heights and flying, "When we scattered, YOU deliberately rammed into that little bat and knocked him off the end of that branch."
Bellatrix's eyes morphed into a look of astonishment, much to the sickening amusement of Isabella and company.
"We thought so," crooned Isabella when she saw the look on Bellatrix's face, "You're nothing but a PSYCHO-CHICK an' a MURDERER," her gaze then turned to Sandalwood who remained ducked behind Einstein and Miles, "just like Sandy-bud behind two of your cute cousins!"
And with that she, along with her comrades, burst out laughing, especially as Bellatrix's eyes flashed with hurt again. Connie, Steven and Kevin looked on with confusion while Sirius, Einstein, Miles, Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Lillie and Acerola threw on furious looks. Then what happened next astonished them all. Sandalwood, having had enough of the toucan chicks' torment of Bellatrix over the incident, especially as tears and sobs threatened to stream down her cheeks and escape her beak as self-blame began to well within her, felt courage flare within him. Boldly emerging from behind Einstein, Miles and Acerola and storming right up to the laughing Isabella, the amber son of Stella and Soren let his anger explode through his mouth but in a controlled way. Isabella continued spewing laughter from her beak but that fountain was cut off abruptly when she felt a sharp pain explode from her left wing as it was seized and yanked forward. Isabella gasped in shock until she found herself in the fiery green glare of a furious flying fox pup.
"Bellatrix is a murderer and a psycho-chick!?" repeated Sandalwood furiously as he held Isabella by the wing feathers firmly, "I think THAT STATEMENT should be about YOU AND YOUR COMRADES," he flashed a furious glare at Isabella's siblings and cousins accompanying her who only gazed back at him with stunned eyes. Sirius and the others including Connie, Steven and Kevin only watched on in amazement.
"YOU were the ones who bound me in those vines and stashed me on the end of that branch," growled Sandalwood furiously, "ALL because I absolutely REFUSED to participate in causing those blue-and-gold macaws trouble by playing pirates."
He practically spat these words right into Isabella's face and she actually shuddered. Acerola, Sirius, Einstein, Miles, Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Lillie and Bellatrix could not help but admire Sandalwood's newfound boldness. Before, he had been extremely timid and shy but now he seemed to have emerged as a bold flying fox pup. Could his time at the fake Paradise Sanctuary place have helped him develop his assertiveness? Sirius, Acerola, Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine and Lillie had formed a conclusion in their heads that this was plausible, especially on how he had dealt with Dalek.
"And when Bellatrix and the others came zooming in," Sandalwood continued, his membranous wing firmly gripping Isabella's feathered one as she tried prying it free, "ONE OF YOUR COMRADES carelessly flew into ME AND KNOCKED ME OFF THE END OF THAT BRANCH! Now I'm TOO AFRAID TO FLY, Vincent is HURT AND Hunter is DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU and your comrades STUPID CARELESSNESS!"
"Yes, absolutely," put in Sirius equally boldly. Kevin, Connie and Steven just exchanged glances and shrugged but they felt a flash of sympathy for Sandalwood and outrage at Isabella and her comrades for the incident. Sandalwood continued.
"And as for US being like Grandpa's brother Cicatriz, that is absolutely NOT TRUE!" bellowed the amber flying fox pup loudly with another yank of Isabella's wing as he said this, "Grandpa has already explained THAT and the story of how he, Grandma, Mom, Uncle Sebastian and Aunt Luna and some other flying foxes, including Dad and Aunt Anabelle, had helped the bird flocks in the Amazon against the evil flying fox colony and helped them deal with that massive threat. DO YOU GET IT NOW!?"
He shook Isabella again by the wing as he said this. Isabella continued gazing into Sandalwood's eyes timidly while Acerola, Sirius, Einstein, Miles, Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Lillie and Bellatrix shot the other toucan chicks accompanying Isabella a furious glare. They clearly knew that some of these chicks were the ones responsible for Sandalwood's incident, alongside the collateral damage it has caused, such as Vincent's broken wing and Hunter's fatal plunging into that thorn-bush. The confrontation was frozen for a few seconds while in the background, the brawl between the toucans and the rest of Bia's group continued. Isabella continued gazing into Sandalwood's eyes for another few more seconds, and finally came to an understanding.
"Okay, I'm sorry for calling you a bird-killer," said Isabella gently, prompting Sandalwood to calm the flames of anger down and release the toucan chick's wing from his own membranous one. Isabella continued gazing at Sandalwood and the others with him as she rubbed her wing, some of her comrades coming in to check on her. In the background, Betelgeuse, Rigel and Antares came in and watched the confrontation.
"And I'm also sorry for that careless incident the other day as well," continued Isabella, much to the satisfaction of Sandalwood, Acerola, Sirius, Einstein, Miles, Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Lillie and Bellatrix who formed smiles on their beaks and mouths. Connie, Kevin and Steven could only look on. Isabella then continued.
"I think we'll put that in the past and help you to fly again," said she, much to Sandalwood's widening and hopeful smile. However, Isabella's spiteful and bratty attitude soon emerged and broke through the apologetic outlook, which was merely a façade, deliberately set up by the spiteful brat to trick Sandalwood and the other eleven with him. As astonishment tore through Sandalwood and the other eleven, and also Connie, Steven and Kevin, Isabella then lurched forward and seized Sandalwood by the head hair and yanked him towards her face.
"Heh; didn't see that comin' did ya, Cicatriz bat?" she growled spitefully as Sandalwood's face twisted in sheer agony as his head hair was pulled by the toucan chick. Then Acerola, Sirius, Einstein, Miles, Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Lillie and Bellatrix all surged forward but were caught by Isabella's comrades. Isabella then yanked Sandalwood's air down, inflicting him with more pain.
"I think we oughta tie your wings and feet up again in vines and set you on the end of another branch like last time and push you off its end like last time," said the wicked toucan chick spitefully, "Let's see if that helps you to learnt to fly again, eh?"
The moment these words came out of Isabella's acidic orange and black beak and into Sandalwood's ears, any assertiveness the little flying fox pup harboured was suddenly vaporised like a drop of water landing on the heated surface on a very hot sunny day, and the bat pup began to tremble, much to Isabella's delight and sickening titter. Behind Sandalwood, Acerola and Bellatrix struggled in the grasp of the other toucan chicks.
"Let him GO!" barked Acerola furiously as two toucan chicks held her by the wings. Bellatrix also silently begged the same demand but Isabella ignored the two and began to drag Sandalwood away by the hair, causing him more pain and making him whimper from both it and the timidity whipped up by Isabella's threat. Isabella then turned to several of her comrades.
"Look around for some vines," she said as she continued restraining the terrified Sandalwood, "We're gonna bind him wing and foot and then we're gonna look for a high branch to set him on."
The toucan chicks nodded and left but before they could leave; a trio of red blurs with colourful wings shot in and one with an orange tint and another with a pink tinge; shot in and knocked them both out of the air before they could gain height. Isabella gasped in astonishment but then she was tackled hard in the side by one of those blurs.
"LET SANDALWOOD GO!" screeched the blur, which was none other than Betelgeuse, as she knocked Isabella away and rescued Sandalwood. Isabella, as she landed on her back, then leaped to her feet and head-butted Betelgeuse right in the stomach, knocking her down. Then she seized Sandalwood and shoved her into Betelgeuse as she struggled to her feet while the other toucan chicks seized the other two red blurs, Rigel and Antares.
As Sandalwood and Betelgeuse struggled to their feet, Isabella came in with a few of her comrades who were not holding any macaw chick, Lillie or Acerola.
"You sure have an attitude problem, you violent beetle bird," muttered Isabella to Betelgeuse, intentionally spitting that dart of an insult right at her and making the oldest daughter of Spinel and Sheldon flinch, for it was one of her most loathed insults. Betelgeuse glared bitterly and offended at the toucan chick, her pineapple-stalk crest spiked out while Sandalwood gazed at Isabella with a frightened look. Then suddenly, Isabella heard the sounds of one of the adult toucans shout.
"SOMEONE'S COMING WITH SOME HUMANS!" he cried, making Isabella and her comrades shoot startled gazes in his direction, "LET'S GET OUTA HERE!"
And within seconds, the night air erupted with the sounds of wing-flaps as the toucans excluding Tom, Lillie and Gladion hastily took to the air. However, they did not leave empty-taloned. Isabella then let loose a hiss and began to chase Sandalwood, forcing him to run for it while Betelgeuse, Rigel, Antares, Acerola, Sirius, Einstein, Miles, Adenine, Guanine, Cytosine, Thymine, Lillie and Bellatrix were seized by the other toucan chicks and carried away.
"You're coming with us, you pathetic insects," said one of the chicks as he carried Acerola away by the wing.
"Yes," said another who carried Acerola by the other wing. Acerola struggled as the toucan chicks carried her away after the other chicks who carried Sirius and the others off.
Within moments, the chaos had finally subsided but the damage has been done. Blu, Jewel, Travis, Sunset, Andromeda, Eragon (on their bat-birds), Diantha, Athos and Ruby either ran or flew in with the group of humans, among them Tulio, Jack and Jill and those armed with net-guns, behind them. Blu and Jewel made a beeline for the badly shaken Roberto, Brisa, Zephyr and Aurora and the terrified Carla, Bia, Tiago, Justin, Matilda, Virgil, Kira and Finnick as they limped and struggled to their feet while Diantha went to see Tom, Rita and Carlos. Bia, Carla and Tiago and company were in a terrible state. Many of them were covered with cuts, bruises, and bald patches and some of them were missing flight feathers from their wings. Some, such as Finnick and Virgil, bore black bruising around their eyes and Finnick and Roberto were missing some of their head feathers, those feathers having been torn out by the toucans during the brawl.
Porthos, Orquidea, Poinsettia, Spinel, Wilbur and Sheldon were dotted with bald patches where feathers had been torn out, and some bore bleeding scratches on their faces and bodies. Aramis, Esmeralda, Petunia and Benjamin; Phoebe, Cobalto, Indigo, Victor, Violet, Zebedee and Iris; and D'Artagnan, Sapphire, Levi, Lapis Lazuli, Jasmine, Finn, Trixie, Tristan, Neytiri, Aiden and also Tom, Frodo and Ellie were also covered in cuts and bruises, some of them bearing torn out flight feathers and black eyes. Augustus, Spyro, Marella, Melissa, Stella, Luna, Sebastian, Soren and Anabelle, and also Broccoli, Collette and Daisy, were also covered with cuts, bruises and torn out feathers and fur but thankfully, these twelve did not bear that many injuries and bald patches and the bats' wings did not suffer any damage for the three cats had managed to seize them and take them out of the inferno before the toucans could damage their wing membranes.
As Tulio and the others began to examine the area for toucans, the catchers with their net-guns cocked and ready, Athos, Blu, Jewel, Ruby, Travis, Sunset, Eragon and Andromeda began to fuss over the battered and bruised Carla, Bia and Tiago and company.
"WHAT IN THE WORLD HAPPENED!?" demanded Athos as he shook the battered Spinel worriedly with one wing. Then the pair heard Jack and Jill's voices ring out.
"Folks, let's get these birds and bats to Tulio's Aviary, QUICKLY!" shouted the two. Then Spinel was about to answer Athos's question but before she could speak, a blood curdling screech exploded from some of the macaws.
"THE KIIIIIIIDS!" screeched those macaws. Blu, Jewel, Athos, Ruby, Travis, Sunset, Eragon and Andromeda and Diantha felt their blood plunge into ice and their hearts drop. Diantha then quickly began to examine the group for any smaller animals but to her immense horror, she saw that there were none, and many of the attacked members of Bia's group, especially Carla, Bia and Tiago and their mates Justin, Virgil and Matilda, were crying hysterically and shouting the names of their chicks. Many of the other parents were doing the same and Stella, Soren, Anabelle and Sebastian had only just noticed that Sandalwood, Ferdinand and Acerola were messing. Athos and the new arrivals then backed away, dread coming over them like a rogue wave.
Sandalwood and the other kids have been abducted by the nasty toucans and this time, ALL of them, including Ferdinand, Diego, Sonia, Melody, Byron, Einstein and Miles, had been taken.