Finding Helena And A Close Call
Now, in the last chapter we saw that Raul and his friends have flown to a park in the city to find their missing friend! Elenor…from the prisoner camp in Viana from 'The Origins Of RDJ' had found them and knows where Helena is! Jameson and Kelly ran into some trouble at Beltran's family home. Plus Félix! Félix is alive ladies and gentlemen! I'm not going to explain how he survived in this chapter, because he will have his own chapter in chapter 4! In this one, we will see how Raul reacts when he goes to the underground base that Elenor is leading him to! Anyway…let's get to the chapter!
Time was of the essence for our feathery friends from Rio de Janeiro! They were in no mood to slow down under any circumstances! They had to get to Helena is quickly as they could, to get her out of harms way!
Raul lead the group with Elenor flying just besides him, with Cabot resting on the male white hawk's back as he still felt out of breath.
"Sorry Raul! I don't know what's wrong with me! Maybe Chloe was right? I have gained a bit of weight!" The black owl spoke to him in disappointment as he was moving his belly about.
"Even though you've known Chloe for a week or so? Don't forget that you met Chloe a week before you did anything with her?" The white hawk male chuckled in amusement, as he flapped his wings harder to puck up the pace. "Be that as it may…I believe that you are not gaining weight! I just think you need to do what Alex does!"
"Fight with nunchucks while letting Siax whip me?" Cabot responded innocently with a weird glare on his face. "I'm not that kinky in the bedroom!"
"Wh…Wha…No! Where did you get that idea from?" Raúl replied a bit disgusted by the comment that his friend just made.
"I don't know! Siax does that because they have a kinky side!"
"Oh god! Please spare me any disturbing details until the end of the trip please?" Elenor cut into the conversation with a real grossed out look. "I don't know what you guys do in your free time, but this could be a conversation after we find your friend!"
"Sorry, anyway…where is this…base of yours?" Raúl asked curiously as they looked ahead of them. "Why are we flying towards that sewer?"
"Because that's where it is! Sorry…I should have mentioned that before!" Elenor replied as they got just a little bit closer. "Alright…it should be just through there!"
After a few more moments of flying, they finally landed on the street just on top of the sewer gate. Cabot hopped off of Raul's back and landed directly on top of Elenor's talon, making her yelp in pain.
"OUCH!" She whined as she slightly shoved him away from her. "Cabot! That really hurt me!"
"Sorry! I didn't realise you were there!" The black owl male pleaded for forgiveness as he started rubbing one of her talons, making Raul incredibly confused.
"What the hell are you doing?" He asked in surprise as he saw him in this position.
"He's doing a nice thing! It's been a while since I had my talons rubbed!" Elenor giggled and blushed as Cabot got back onto his talons.
"Anyway…let's get down there! I'll go first!" Raul demanded as he took a deep breath in and then out. Then he jumped into the sewer, landing on the ground of the underground tunnel.
"Okay…I guess I'm next?" Cabot spoke nervously as he saw Raul standing there waiting for him to drop down. "Does it stink?"
"Only when you fly down slowly! If you drop straight down then you should be okay!" Elenor replied while placing a comforting wing on his shoulder. "Would it help if I gave you a little bit of a helping wing?"
"You know…that actually might be a very good ide…AHHHHHH!" The scarlet female macaw didn't even let Cabot finish his sentence, as he was kicked straight down into the sewer by a giggling Elenor. Before you knew it, he once again landed on his head on a pile of garbage. Which luckily for him managed to break his fall. "Woah! Looks like my luck is finally coming around!"
"Incoming!" Cabot looked up and noticed that Elenor was arriving at a fast rate and landed just besides him. "Sorry about that! I had the sudden urge to do that!"
"You and RDJ seem to have that same effect! He did that to my friend Pedro in The Amazon the day of the battle!" Cabot replied as Raul pulled him back onto his feet.
"I know, I'm the one who taught him that!" Elenor smiled with pride as she dusted her feathers of any dirt.
The three of them looked around the tunnel to see whether there was anybody in sight. Luckily did the three of them, they couldn't hear the sound of rats or enemies lurking in the shadows. So they managed to keep calm and composed before going down the tunnel that their new guide was going to take them down.
"Okay you two…stay close…stay low! Who knows who may be lurking around these parts! If I know Javi…he definitely took Helena to the safest spot around here!" Elenor spoke as she started walking in one direction, with the two males from Rio following closely behind her.
After a few seconds of walking, a little yelpish scream came from Cabot as he saw something. "Ahhh! What was that?"
"That's a shoe!" Raul remarked as he rolled his eyes and continued on his path.
"Okay…Okay…WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?!" Cabot screamed again as he saw an object floating in the water.
"That's an empty water bottle! Will you stop fooling around?!" Elenor shouted con a low whisper, giving her friend a slap on the back of his head. "We need to keep moving!"
"So…why didn't you ever join your mentor on any of his journeys? Surely he would have liked to have you along with him? You're a badass!" Raul praised her with a warm smile, as she continued to lead them through the sewer.
"Oh believe me…nothing would have made me more than happier if I could have joined him on his journeys! But now I realise it's better for me to stick around here! I'm the leader of my own Assassin team! I'm always seducing the enemy to give up important information! Plus…I already heard about RDJ's new partner in crime! Lila, if I'm not mistaken?" She smirked at the thought of it, making the two of them gulp nervously in fear.
"Well…yes! This girl has made him feel emotions again! Lila is just so right for him…that she even got him to cry for the first time in like seven years or something!" Cabot spoke up in surprise as he smiled softly.
"Really? Wow…good for him! I'm glad he's found…someone who makes him…happy!" Elenor spay the last word out as she felt a little jealous of this girl that she barely knows. "Is she pretty?" Elenor asked with a warm smile…but for some reason it felt like it was forced when Raul and Cabot looked at the way she stared at them.
"Oh yes, very pretty!" Raul spoke up as he felt uncomfortable already about this conversation.
"Huh…that's a shame…" She whispered out loud as she continued on her path. "Is she Erm…does she have beautiful feathers? Or are they like old and dirty?"
"Nnnnope? Pretty much clean and shiny! She works hard on her appearance!" Cabot replied as he tiptoed over a puddle of sewage water.
"Is she…normal?" She asked again with a sarcastic grin, placing a wing on her hip. "Not got any…problems with her at all? Like…she's not crazy right?"
"What? Of course she's normal! Why do you ask?" Cabot asked the next question, as he tilted his head to the side. "There's nothing wrong with her at all? Are we missing something here?"
"Oh nothing! Just making conversation!" She sweetly but brutally snapped back, as they continued down on their path. "Is she fat? Like…really really fat?!"
"Nope! Quite slim actually! She's got a good slender body!" Cabot replied to her question as he saw that she did look a little jealous.
After a few more seconds of silence, she decided to ask more questions that would make this a more awkward conversation.
"Have they…kissed? Or…hugged? Or…fucked each other?" She asked another load of questions as she continued to pull a faked smile. "Does she like have a disease or something?"
"Look, we don't know! Maybe all three, but that's none of our business!" Raul snapped back in annoyance as he got tired of this conversation. "Not as far as we know! Are you…are you jealous?"
"You're right, I'm sorry! I'm just…I'm just a bit upset that RDJ didn't choose me!" She sadly replied and sighed in defeat. "Even I would have thought that after he did it with Florence in Paris…maybe I could have had a shot with him!"
"Who's Florence?" Cabot asked another question, and tilted his head in confusion.
"She's a hyacinth macaw female who runs an assassin guild in Venice with her husband Mason! The reason I know it is because she always helps us out when we need her to! I still can't believe he wouldn't be with me!"
"Believe me, a lot of women are going to feel like that!" Cabot chuckled, before noticing in the corner of his eye a lit up room. "Hey Elenor? Is that where your base of operations is?"
The scarlet female paused for a moment…because what was weird about this was that she couldn't hear a single noise emerge from that room.
"Hold on…something's not right here? But I don't know what?" Elenor softly spoke as she pulled out a knife and flew into the room to see what the problem was.
Raul and Cabot looked at each other confused for a moment, but it didn't last long when they heard her calling them.
"Guys? I think you might want to come in here! NOW!" Elenor ordered to them in a panicked tone from the other room.
The black owl and white hawk both flapped their wings and joined her in the room…and as soon as they got inside…Raul's heart was in shock. "Helena?"
There inside of the room, was Helena! But the problem was, she was sitting up against the wall with a knife in her thigh. Making the white hawk male cry in fear.
"Oh no! NO! HELENA!" Raúl screamed as he ran over to her and lifted her face up with his wings. "Come on! COME ON! I KNOW YOU AREN'T GONE YET!"
As he shouted this, he saw her slowly opening one eye, and she immediately closed it again. But she was still breathing.
"Okay! Erm…Elenor! Tomada has my medical kit! Do you have a pin, a bit of thread, a towel and alcohol?" The white hawk shouted at the female assassin who nodded her head and flew around the room to gather the items. "It's gonna be okay Helena! You're gonna be okay! WHERE ARE THOSE ITEMS!"
"Right here!" Elenor called as she dropped the towel in front of him, and placed the pin and thread on top of it, along with a bottle of vodka. "Will vodka do?"
"It's fine! We can make do with it!" Raul responded as he laid the Spanish female dove on the floor. He grabbed the handle of the knife with his wing and yanked it out, making Helena groan a little.
"Mmmmm…ow!" She softly groaned before closing her eyes again.
"Okay, CABOT! COMPRESS THE WOUND WITH THE TOWEL!" Raul shouted at the black owl and he immediately nodded his head and placed the towel on the wound to cover it up.
"What do you want me to do?" Elenor asked as she clapped her wings together.
"As soon as Cabot takes the towel off, soak the other side in the vodka and press it on the wound! Then, I need you to make sure that she's still breathing!" Raúl shouted as he got the needle and thread ready.
Cabot immediately lifted the towel off, and Elenor poured the vodka on the towel. Then after a few seconds, the two of them dabbed the wound roughly. Before Raul decided to jump into action.
"Okay, now I'm going to stitch her up! Elenor, I want you to open Helena's beak and blow air into her lungs! Cabot, press a wingtip on her neck to check her pulse!" Raul ordered as he pulled the towel off and proceeded to stitch her up.
"Okay! Okay! I can do this!" The scarlet macaw female spoke to herself, as she opened her beak with her wings. She took a deep breath and blew air into her lungs. "Okay…that has got to be the most embarrassing…"
"ELENOR!" Raul screamed with impatience as he saw her stopping.
"Okay! Okay! Jeez!" She rolled her eyes and blew air into her lungs again.
"Cabot, start pressing her chest with your wings while Elenor gives her beak to beak resuscitation!"
"Got it! Okay…One, Two, Three!" The black owl counted to himself, before Elenor blew air in her lungs again. "One, Two, Three!"
They repeated the same action for at least a couple of minutes. By the time that Raul finished sowing up the wound, he cut the thread with his beak and threw the needles aside.
"Okay…is she still breathing?" Raul asked in concern as he saw the two of them running out of energy.
Cabot placed a wingtip up against her neck…but he immediately turned to him with a shocked expression. "It's a very faint pulse! I think we are losing her!"
"NO! NO! MOVE ASIDE!" Raul pushed the black owl and scarlet macaw aside as he got into position, and proceeded to give her C.P.R. "Come on Helena! Don't leave us yet! I love you! Please! Don't leave me now!"
He continued to press his wings on her chest, counting out loud every time, before he took a deep breath and blew air into her lungs.
"Come on Helena…you can do it!" Elenor whispered as she placed a wing on Cabot's shoulder, who in return stood closer to her.
"Come on! One! Two! Three!" He chorused once again as he pushed even harder on her chest. "Don't go Helena! Okay! I love you more than anything in the world! I'm sorry I waited until now to say it! But I do love you! Come on! BREATHE! HIIIYYYYAAAA!" He pressed her wings harder for the fifth consecutive time. And the most wonderful thing happened…
"HUUUUAAAAAAAA! Ahhhhh! Haaaa! Hoooo! Wha…" Helena immediately burst open her eyes and took a deep inhale. Breathing heavily like she was flying in a marathon!
"Oh my god! He did it!" Cabot beamed as he jumped up in the air with an excited expression.
"Good job Raul!" Elenor praised her new friend while patting him on the back.
Raul's eyes widened in surprise, when he saw that the girl he loved was currently coughing and heaving due to her little unconscious state.
"Helena…are you okay?" The white hawk male asked sweetly as he brushed a wing up against her cheek.
"Cough! Cough! Ughhh…Ra…Raul? Is that…is that really you?" The female Spanish dove weakly replied as she gazed into his eyes. "Or am I dead?"
"No…you are still very much alive! Which I'm so happy to see!" He beamed in a relieved tone, as a tear started rolling down his cheek. "I thought I lost you!"
"What? What are you doing here anyway? I thought that…I thought that you wanted to stay in Rio?" She softly spoke as she finally managed to gain her eye sight.
The white hawk male took a deep breath, and started rubbing her wing affectionately. He gazed into her beautiful brown eyes again, and his smile grew wider.
"Helena…I couldn't stay in Rio…if you weren't by my side!" He smoothly spoke as he continued to rub her wing.
"What? Raul…what are you saying?" Helena responded a little choked up, by his romantic words.
"Helena…I came all this way…because I'm in love with you! Look…I'm sorry I waited until now to say it! But I do love you! And I want you to come home with me to Rio!" Raúl spoke with so much sincerity, and he brushed a wing up against her cheek lovingly.
Helena was at a loss for words at this point! She couldn't believe that the guy that she's in love with came all this way to see her! But not only that…but to tell her what she wanted him to say the day that she left Rio.
"Oh Raul…I love you too!" She sweetly spoke and started tearing up as the white hawk male wiped away her tears. "Of course I'll come home with you! It's about time you asked me! Hehe!"
Raul leaned in and gave Helena a passionate kiss on the beak. They both closed their eyes as they enjoyed this beautiful moment. And what was only a mere few seconds, felt like an entire eternity to them.
"Awwww! That is so sweet!" A voice emerged from the entrance to the room.
Raul and Helena parted from the kiss and turned their attention to where the voice was coming from.
"Oh no! He's back again!" Helena gasped in fear, as she hid behind Raul. Who lifted up a knife that he found in the corner of the room and pointed it at the intruder.
"Who the fuck are you?" The white hawk growled at the male standing a few feet away from them.
Elenor and Cabot slowly backed away from him, and stood alongside Raul, all raising their weapons towards the new member.
"Oh? I would have thought your buddy RDJ told you about me? What an absolute shame! Because then you'll know what you're up against!" The male revealed to be Félix, as he clenched his machete in his left wing and threw it up a couple of times, and caught it with his wing.
"Félix…we finally meet!" Elenor growled in rage, as she got herself into a defensive pose. "So…you didn't die in that explosion after all? What a shame! Because I would have loved to have seen you all cooked up like a rotisserie chicken!"
"Oh believe me! I had no intentions on dying in that fire! Especially after I found out about Eli's death! I am here to kill the birds from Rio! So…you can either stand aside? Or you can join them in the same fate!" Félix chuckled as he saw that Helena was very much alive. "Awwww, you saved her? Just like I thought you would!"
"Look, we don't want any more trouble as it is! You are completely surrounded by us! You have the chance to walk out of here alive!" Cabot added as he pulled out his fighting staff and prepared to take him on.
"Whoever said that it was just me here?" The scarlet macaw male chuckled as he clicked his wingtips together, then used his other wing to make a huge announcement. "Destroyers! Assemble!"
"What?" Elenor gasped in shock, as she started looking around the room. But before any of them could make a single move, a lot of birds cane flying in to the same room as them.
There were over at least fifteen to twenty enemy gang members joining Félix by his side, and they all pointed their weapons at the party birds and Elenor. Taking them completely by surprise.
"You were saying? Little owl!" Félix chuckled as he leaned up against the wall and crossed his wings in a threatening pose.
"I think I regret saying that now!" Cabot softly whispered to his friends who all subtly nodded their heads in agreement.
Félix pulled a chair up, and sat down on it. Pointing his machete at the birds in front of him, with a very psychotic smile. "Do any of you know who I am?"
"You're a fucking traitor! That's who you are!" Elenor snapped as she continued to stand alongside her new friends. "How could you betray the assassins?! RDJ was like a brother to you no matter what!"
"Woah! A brother? Ha! Hahaha! You actually think he was a brother to me?! He killed my master!"
"Eli's death was the best thing for all of us! He was the reason that…"
"RDJ's parents died? Yeah! But he wasn't the one who made the call! He wasn't the one who did it on his own…at least…without a little convincing!" Félix chuckled as he twirled the rusty machete around in his wing. "I was the one who convinced Eli to kill Leandro!"
"WHAT?!" Elenor screamed in surprise as well as a strong essence of rage. "You're the reason that RDJ's parents are dead?!"
"Indeed I am! His father was a traitor to leave the assassin order to start his own family! He could have spoilt at least twenty seven years of hard work and assassinations! If anyone was the traitor…it was that kid's father! Which I enjoyed seeing him die!"
"So why did you help him? Did you want him dead too?" Elenor asked again as she tightened the grip on her weapon.
"Hmmmhmmm hahaha! Ahhhhh! No! I wanted to morph him into the killer that his father always was! But after what happened in Cairo…I had to find him again!"
"What do you mean by that?" Raul asked as he continued to protect his new girlfriend.
"For me to explain that…you have to know from the very beginning…"
Yep…you heard that right ladies and gentlemen! Félix has caught them in the act as Raul was trying to save Helena's life! He isn't alone either! He has now joined forces with the destroyers to fight against the assassin order! And…Félix is the reason why RDJ's parents did die that day! He convinced Eli to betray his own best friend! I wonder how RDJ is gonna react? But without spoiling anything else…in the next chapter we will find out about what happened after Félix survived the fire in Cairo! See you all soon for chapter 4!