Trouble In Paris: Part 2
Now…I know what you all are probably thinking? Why would Eli start the fire in Paris when he is supposed to be helping RDJ not kill him? But as you noticed in other stories…there's always got to be a reason as to why they do things! Florence at the moment is heartbroken because her entire organisation had been destroyed! Her friends were burned alive! As for Tilly, she's still in her unconscious state! And for RDJ, at this moment…you've seen him when he was feeling sad…feeling angry…losing his feelings and emotions…but have you seen what happens when he becomes a bird with a lust for revenge? I guess you'll have this chapter to answer those questions! P.S As I told you before this story is dark…because I'm showing all you guys, how RDJ became the bird that he was when you first met him in the last story! Let's get to it!
"I couldn't believe it at first…Eli…my mentor…a friend of my father's…why? Why would he set fire to an organisation that helped the assassins? Why is he preventing me from doing my job? Is he hiding something? Was he the reason why Zenon knew where my parents were? Did Eli lead Zenon to Shira?! None of this made any sense whatsoever! I feel like my father's work might be the reason why Eli was tracking my every move! He was the head of the assassins don't forget? So he knows all and sees all…but wait until he sees me face to face…because I knew where he was now! So he had to wait for my arrival…or I'd be expecting his arrival…"
In City Centre…
RDJ was currently standing on the side of the bird bath in a park near city centre. He was still a little pissed off about the building being set on fire, considering that he had everything in order to find Ano and take that green winged male down.
Tilly was resting on the edge of it, still not making any signs of life and continued to lay there unconsciously. She didn't look like she was in any critical danger?
RDJ cupped his wings together to scoop up some of the water, and he didn't want to be harsh by throwing the water in her face. He wanted to be more respectful than that.
So he gracefully poured the water over her head, and then used his damp wingtips to clean the eyes, to get the smoke and ash out of her eyes.
"Mmmmmmm…" She murmured a small noise and started groaning in discomfort.
"Hey! It's working! Do that again RDJ!" Florence beamed with a wide smile, that was full of relief when seeing her come to.
He once again repeated the same action, and did it the exact same way by pouring it on her head and rubbed his wingtips on her eyes to clean the dirt out to prevent an infection. He also got some water to clean the dirt off of her beak and nose. Giving it a nice shiny glow. "There…all cleaned up!" He smiled at her warmly and placed a wing on her shoulder. "Wakey wakey!"
"Mmmmm…ughhh…Wha…What? RDJ? Is that…Is that really you?" The red bellied female whispered to her student softly. Coughing a couple of times afterwards, trying to get the taste of smoke out of her throat.
"Thank the Christ The Redeemer that you're ok Tilly! I was so worried about you!" RDJ remarked as he continued to smile at her.
"You were?" Tilly rose a curious eyebrow and smiled at him dreamily, but then she was thinking about something…hoping that it was true. "So…Erm…did you give me beak to beak resuscitation?" She blushed deeply at the thought of it. But what she heard afterwards made her incredibly disappointed.
"Actually…I believe I did that!" Tilly looked over her shoulder to see a hyacinth female standing there with a relieved smile on her beak. "I'm the one that gave you C.P.R!"
"I'm sorry…who's the Italian chick?" Tilly asked her student rudely, and looked back towards RDJ. Feeling a little jealous of her presence there.
"Oh you noticed? How clever of you!" Florence replied sarcastically while clapping her wings together and smoothly moved her hips in front of the male blue and gold teenager, making him cough nervously. "After I save your life this is the thanks I get?" She angrily growled at her, and placed a wing on her hip.
"Now now girls? Please don't do this? We need to come up with…" The blue and gold male immediately got cut off as Florence shushed him with her wingtip. "What are you doing, Florence?"
"Shhhh…Let the ladies handle this ok?" She seductively whispered and winked at him.
"Did you just…wink at my student? At my friend? What are you? Some sort of…Italian…bird…prostitute?!" Tilly angrily snapped at her, crossing her wings. "If you wanna cheap sexual encounter, then maybe you should try sticking a pine cone up your cloaca?"
"Actually…for your information sweet heart, I happen to be your contact! Plus, it's not my fault that guys find me more appealing than you!" She snapped back in a sassy manner and clicked her wingtips. "Huh, you could do with sticking a cactus up your cloaca, I bet you are attracted to pricks anyway?"
"Thanks Florence!" RDJ sarcastically groaned and rolled his eyes, prepping some things in the bag he was carrying.
"Oh please! I am so more attractive than you! Tell her RDJ!" The red bellied female confidently beamed and turned to her student, who immediately went pale when asked this uncomfortable question.
"Ughh…I…Ughhh…" He had no idea on what to say to her, he was so uncomfortable…but…Florence pretty much cleared that whole case up. Or…made things worse.
"Actually…Me and your student here…have already…what's the word I'm looking for? Oh that's right! Fucked!" She giggled in a petty way, and started licking her beak. "His sticky cloaca felt so…moist against mine!"
"God I hate that word!" RDJ cringed when he heard the hyacinth female say that.
"Wait what?! Is this true?" Tilly widened her eyes in bewilderment, taking a few steps back. "Did you and Florence…fool around?"
"Florence and I…Yes we did! But I promised her that if we did…cooperate, then she would give me information on Ano!" RDJ replied in a reassuring way and tried not to get involved anymore in this conversation…but the hyacinth female just carried on.
"Yeah! He did me a favour by satisfying my needs! So I could satisfy him twice! The sex, and the info! What do you have to say for that?!" She carried on mocking Tilly, and ran a wingtip down her hip to her butt. "Or am I just too sexy for you to handle?"
"Well…I…I…" She kept stuttering because she was upset that RDJ slept with Florence and not with her. She was very jealous, but RDJ had enough of this whole argument and stood In between both of them.
"NOW THAT IS ENOUGH!" He angrily bellowed, standing in between both females, who stood back in fear a little bit because of the outburst. "I don't know what is going on in your heads right now?! But we need to focus! Tilly! I understand that you do like me in more than a friend way! But I'm sorry that I don't feel the same back! Florence! That was only a one time thing because you asked a favour of me and I delivered on that favour!"
"But…" Both females responded simultaneously with sad expressions on their faces.
"NO BUTS! We have to find Eli before it's too late! He's the one who set the fire and we need to find out why! So can both of you set aside your feelings for one day and focus on what's important? Can both of you do that for me?" RDJ ordered both of his associates with a very determined booming voice.
Both females lowered their heads in defeat and nodded them to show that they agree.
"Good! Now…Did Eli mention anything before he burned the base down?" The blue and gold male asked his teacher who wiped away her tears and cleared her throat to speak.
"Apparently, he said something about Venice? He knew that after Paris that Florence would still be here with us to help take down Ano! But he didn't say anything to him for some weird reason? Why do you think he's working against you and against Ano?" She replied in a croaky tone and rubbed her damp cheek.
"Oh shit! Maybe he knows everything about my friends back at HQ in Venice! The base here knew everything about me and where I worked! Maybe there's a chance that the fire was a distraction to get us to focus on killing Ano! So that way when we travel to Venice he's gonna kill everyone at the other organisation?" Florence suggested and just started thinking about the worst.
"No…No something else is going on here! Why would Eli burn down an organisation that he was working with? It makes no sense? Unless…" RDJ paused for a moment and pulled the map out of his bag leaning it up against a fire hydrant. "Yes! Yes of course! The fire was not a distraction! It was a warning!"
"A warning? For what exactly?" The hyacinth female asked as she stood next to the blue and gold macaw, gazing at the map.
"Maybe he was hiding something? Maybe he knew that the organisation knew something that Eli didn't want anyone to know about? That's why he destroyed it! To burn the evidence and to make us think that Ano did it to throw us off his scent and…"
Clap! Clap! Clap! Clap!
Suddenly the trio of birds immediately turned around and widened their eyes in surprise.
RDJ placed the map back in the bag and gave it to Tilly to hold onto.
"Hold…my…bag!" He whispered to her, and jumped down from the bird bath. And he gazed at the bird who was sarcastically clapping at him…Eli himself!
"Bravo! Fantastique as you…Frenchwomen say? Or is it…tres bien? Ahhhh yes! That is the way!" The black hawk chuckled in amusement and cockily stood up in a strong pose. "You finally figured it out!"
"Eli…what are you doing here? Why aren't you back in Rio?" RDJ angrily glared at the male black hawk, and slowly tied his wing behind his back, to grab hold of his knife.
"Oh? You decide to disappear on my training techniques? To be honest…I would have hoped that you stayed longer? Otherwise I would have killed you last year!" He evilly remarked as he picked up what looked like…a rusty old machete? But not just any machete…
"Where…did you get that?" Tilly softly spoke, averting her eyes to a very familiar machete. "That's Felix's machete? WHERE DID YOU…AHHHHHH!"
Suddenly an arrow came out of nowhere and struck Tilly on her back, making her collapse on the floor in agony. But what was even worse…it went straight through her back out the other side.
"TILLY?!" RDJ and Florence simultaneously screamed as they ran to her aid.
"Oh god! Tilly! No! Come on!" RDJ spoke in shock as he gazed down at her struggling to breathe.
"Tut tut tut! You see RDJ? It was Felix who betrayed me for a reason!" Eli simply spoke as he turned around and stared at the weapon in his wings. "He knew that I wanted to kill you! Because I didn't want you getting involved in this…organisation shall we say?"
The blue and gold male slowly looked up and gazed at the black hawk in enragement. "What did you just say?"
"Are you fucking death kid? I didn't want you to get involved in our business! After all…I am the one who was hired initially to get rid of the assassins! Not train them!"
"Eli…don't tell me any more lies!" RDJ softly but bitterly spoke, gripping the knife tighter in his wing. "It was you wasn't it? You sold out my father to Zenon? Because his supplier wanted him dead! So that's how you knew him? You trained him up originally to be an assassin? To make him feel the same way that I did?"
"Mmmmhmmm…" He responded bitterly and nodded his head in agreement.
"So when my father left to start a family…you knew that he would eventually tell my mother and son about what he did? So you teamed up with Zenon and Nigel? You told them where we lived! So that they could silence him! Then eventually you planned to kill Felix and Tilly?"
"Mmmmhmmm!"
"So when Felix found out, he decided to train me himself? He was training me up to eventually kill you! But you found out from another contact that we were in Cairo?" RDJ got closer to the master assassin. "You warned the dominators of us entering the warehouse? So they could kill Felix to do the job for you?"
"Very clever!" He responded in a cold yet malicious tone.
"Then after time had passed…you found out that we'd be in Paris? But how?"
"Zenon told me…"
"Of course he did! Then you sent your guards to find Tilly? So that you could throw her in the fire and kill her too? Meaning that I would be the only one left?" RDJ finished explaining and started trembling with rage. "It was you…all along?!"
Eli smirked in amusement and started shaking his head. "Ahhhh, and yet…you have no idea who the main leader of our entire organisation is? Such a shame though…because he would have liked you!"
Before he could respond in any way possible, Florence noticed a very shocking moment.
"Erm…RDJ?" Florence whispered in concern while patting him on the shoulder.
"Not now Florence!" He snapped back in irritation, while trying not to look away from Eli's gaze.
"RDJ! It's about Tilly!"
"I SAID NOT…Tilly?" RDJ suddenly paused in confusion for a split second…but what he was about to see…would be a sense of déjà vu! "Tilly…"
He ran up to the red bellied female and looked at her eyes…that suddenly started to look pretty heavy.
"Oh no…No! NO! NOT NOW!" The blue and gold macaw suddenly ripped off the rag that was on his head and placed it on her back, after Florence pulled the arrow out. But it wouldn't do her any favours.
"RDJ…I don't…I don't feel so well?" Tilly softly muttered while trying to keep her strength up. But she coughed up a lot of blood on RDJ's talons…making him realise that nothing could save her now.
"Oh Tilly…No…Not you too…" RDJ paused again as he told Florence to keep pressure on the wound. "Florence! Keep pressure on that! We can't let her die!"
"You're too late son! Tilly was a good ally for me! But…unfortunately she's served her purpose! But what of you…assassin? What are you gonna do now?" Eli responded angrily and watched on as he saw that Tilly was dying slowly and painfully.
"RDJ…We have to go! She'll be dead in seconds! And so will we! We have to leave now!" The hyacinth female sadly whispered as she stood up onto her talons and gazed at the men surrounding them. "Fuck…we're surrounded!"
"RDJ…Go…Get…Cough! Cough!...Ahhh…Get out of here!" Tilly weakly spoke, and caressed his face with her wing. "I'm sorry RDJ…I should have…Ahhh! I should have kept my personal…feelings aside!" She whispered faintly and coughed up more blood.
"No…I'm not leaving you Tilly! I lost Felix! I lost my parents! I lost my girlfriend! I'm not losing you too!" He muttered softly and held her as she was slowly dying in his wings. "Please don't leave me too! Please…Don't!"
"Take the shot when you're ready…" Eli whispered to one of his associates…who prepared his crossbow to fire at his target. Which of course was going to be the blue and gold teen. "Aim for the head!"
"Go…G…G…Ackkkkaaaaa…ahhhhhhh!" With that being said…with the final breath that she took…Tilly was gone from this world!
The light that was in her eyes slowly faded…showing that she had now passed on to the other side.
"Tilly…no…" RDJ sadly whispered to himself. He used his wingtips to close her eyes gently. He then gave her a kiss on the top of her head feathers and pressed his beak up against her head. "Descanse em paz Tilly! May we see each other again in another life!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! Ahhhhh…how I love being an assassin!" The black hawk mocked the two of them with the cockiest smile he could give them.
As Eli stood there with that same smug look on his beak…he had…no…fucking…idea…what he had just done!
RDJ just stood there…not moving…very silently…just gazing at Tilly's dead corpse.
His breathing was very deep and very heavy…like he was struggling to breathe in a world with no oxygen.
"RDJ? Are you okay?" Florence cooed softly and tried to calm him down.
Suddenly his breathing was getting even heavier…rapidly breathing in and out through his nose.
His wings were trembling with god knows what he was feeling right now.
Soon his whole body was tensing up! And what he was doing right now, caused a few of Eli's men to back away in fear.
"Erm…Sir? He doesn't look too happy?" One of the green winged males spoke to the black hawk in a terrified manner. "What do we do? What do we do?!"
"Then fire an arrow at him like I told you to you, idiot!" Eli snapped back as he gave them the order. "KILL HIM!"
The male nodded his head in agreement and fired the arrow directly at RDJ. Thinking he was going to hit him on the back of his head! But boy…how wrong was he?
The blue and gold male ducked out of the way swiftly and threw his knife at the bird who fired the arrow. Killing him instantly.
"ELIIII!" RDJ screeched in rage as he went to fire yet another arrow. "YOU'RE GONNA FUCKING DIE FOR MY FAMILY'S DEATH!"
"Shit! Kill him! Kill the assassin!" Eli shouted in a a panic as he went to fly away from the battlefield.
"Oh you're not going to escape this time!" The blue and gold male whispered as he gripped his bow tighter.
"FIRE! FIRE YOUR ARROWS!" Pierre ordered his guards who all proceeded to shoot RDJ and Florence with their crossbows.
"RDJ! WE HAVE TO GET OUT OF HERE!" Florence screamed and flew away in the opposite direction.
"NOT UNTIL ELI IS DEAD!" RDJ replied in aggression and shot his arrow at Pierre, killing him and another bird as the arrow travelled straight through him.
She turned back around with a horrified glance and flew back to him.
"ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY?! THERE IS NO WAY YOU CAN TAKE ALL OF THEM ON AT ONCE?!"
RDJ narrowed his eyes at all of the guards, and cracked his neck from side to side. "Just…watch me!" He whispered in a badass way and prepared himself for battle.
( Sandstorm – Darude Is Playing In The Background ) Authors Note: I planned this scene out perfectly! Listen to the song as you read it for maximum effect!
RDJ stood there glaring at the birds who aimed their weapons at him…with so…much…hatred!
He snarled so widely that you could see that he was in no mood to play games.
"Enough of this shit! Let's just kill him!" Francois yelled as he pulled out a samurai sword and ran straight for the blue and gold male macaw.
"RDJ? You might want to do something?!" Florence shouted from besides him as she pulled out what looked like…a hatchet?
"Oh believe me…I'll be doing more than he thinks!" RDJ whispered as he went to his secondary holster and pulled out a small dagger.
As Francois went to swing his sword at him, he swiftly ducked and performed a 360 scissor kick. Tripping him up and then he immediately stabbed him in the throat with his knife.
"Holy shit!" Florence whispered as she went to help him out.
Another bird went to attack him and he grasped the sword that Francois dropped and swung it at his head, chopping it off instantly.
Two more approached him from the left hand side and he ran up to both of them at full speed, jumped on one of them and slicing their stomach open, and as the other stared in fear, he stabbed him in the head with one of his arrows.
Which he then fired into another attacker and struck him in the face.
Then he saw three more birds approaching him from behind him and he performed a back flip in the air, cutting two of them on the back of their necks.
As for the third one, Florence threw her hatchet at him, directly between the eyes.
"Nice throw!" RDJ praised her and glanced over his shoulder to see a whole group of them approaching. "Little help here?"
"Thought you'd never ask!" She giggled in amusement and stood besides him as they both posed for another attack.
RDJ fired an arrow at one of the birds, and threw his knife at another one.
"THROW ME THAT!" The hyacinth female ordered to her new friend, who threw her the sword. Which she used to stab one bird through the chest, which came out the other side and went through another birds face. "Double trouble BITCH!"
"Dayummm!" RDJ whispered out loud and pulled the hatchet out of the dead body. "FLORENCE! BEND OVER! BACKWARDS ROLL!"
The hyacinth female nodded and bent over, allowing RDJ to roll over her on his back and he stabbed another bird in the head, then threw the hatchet into another one.
"ON YOUR RIGHT!" RDJ told his associate who saw another male attacking her with a butcher knife. Which she blocked with her wing, kicked him in the stomach and grabbed both his wings to force him to stab himself.
"RDJ! BEHIND YOU!" Florence warned him as she saw two more approaching him quickly.
He picked up what looked like a spear? And threw it directly into one of the birds and it also went straight through the other one too.
"TWO O'CLOCK! ONLY FIVE LEFT!" Florence declared as she saw five very scared green winged macaws just standing there scared of him.
"Actually…they look like they are about to crap themselves!" RDJ remarked as the two of them just stopped what they were doing and took deep breaths.
Further Note: The music stops here because you can gather that the battle is pretty much over at this point! XD
"PLEASE! DON'T SHOOT! WE SURRENDER!" One of the birds cried as he immediately dropped his weapon. Followed by the other four males who all dropped their weapons and raised both their wings up in defeat.
RDJ picked up the hatchet from one of the birds bodies and gave it to Florence, and she also found both of RDJ's small weapons and gave both of them to him.
"Not bad Florence! Maybe we should fight in a duo!" RDJ chuckled and patted her on the back.
"Maybe we should! But first things first…we have to find Eli!" The hyacinth female responded sweetly.
"Agreed! Let's find the bastard who took my friends and family, as well as yours too!" He smiled at her again and put both his small weapons away.
Both of them walked up to the five surrendered birds and the two of them glared at the five enemies. "At ease assholes!" RDJ spoke and signalled to them to lower their wings. "Where did your master go?"
"If we tell you…you won't kill us?" The younger male spoke up while tearing up in fear.
"What's your name kid?" RDJ asked the terrified green winged male, who was so scared that he decided to tell them everything.
"Max…Are you going to kill me? I'm not the one who kidnapped your friend! None of us did! We only follow orders from Ano because he threatened to kill our families!"
Florence and RDJ gazed at each other for a moment, smiled and then gazed back into his eyes.
"Listen Max…Eli has taken very important loved ones from my friends life! It is with the upmost importance that we know where he is! Do you know where Eli went?" Florence smoothly asked the young teenager, who was a couple years younger than RDJ.
"He's going back to our base to warn Ano of what happened here! Then he's going to travel to Venice to find your friends miss!" Max replied nervously and rubbed one of his wings.
"Shit! We gotta get to that base as fast as birdly possible! Can you take us there?" The blue and gold macaw asked the young teen, who nodded his head smiling at him. "Good! Then you're going to lead us to them!"
"What about us sir? What can we do to owe you our lives?" One of the other males spoke up, still nervously staring at the deadly assassin.
"Take my friend Tilly to the Eiffel Tower and wait there until I return! You got that?" He ordered them in a serious tone. "And don't even try to run away, because I will hunt you down and kill you!"
"Got it sir! I mean RDJ! I mean assassin! I mean…"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP! JUST DO WHAT I ASK OF YOU!" RDJ bellowed in a deathly tone and pointed towards Tilly's body…who he dared not to look at right now.
The other four nodded their heads in fear and flapped their wings to get away from the trio. Two of them picked up the red bellied females corpse…and they didn't even think twice as they all helped to carry the deceased to the Eiffel Tower.
As he watched them fly away…he couldn't help but stare at Tilly's deceased body as they carried her away.
He felt so tense and so enraged that he couldn't even think straight. The only thing he was thinking about was…Eli!
"I…I haven't felt so angry in my entire life! Lila, you saw me when I defended you against Zenon and that wasn't as bad as how I felt that day!" RDJ started to tear up a little bit, and Lila nuzzled her beak against his cheek.
"Did you kill him? Did you kill Eli?" Tiny asked in curiosity as she rose her wing up.
"Yes…But I had to find out where he was! Back then, Florence was a friend of mine! Don't worry guys, she is still alive to this day! She lives back in Venice with her new husband Mason! Which reminds me…I better get to the part where we get to Ano's base of operations…"
Ano's Underground Base…
Max lead both of our trusty assassins under a few bridges on the west side of Paris, and landed on a perch just outside of a sewage door. Turning around and smiling at them with his warm eyes. "Here we are! This is where Eli and Ano went!" He announced as he opened the door, realising this horrific and disgusting smell.
"Ewwww! That stinks!" Florence remarked as she covered her beak with her wings to show her annoyance. "What is this place?"
"Looks like some kind of underground sewage dump? Max, are you sure this is the place?" RDJ asked the young macaw who nodded his head. "Good, then you lead the way!"
"Copy that!" Max responded happily and flew into the door, with RDJ and Florence walking just behind him.
Florence walked behind RDJ while holding his side with her wing. She didn't feel safe unless she was with him.
"Florence, there's nothing to be scared of!" RDJ reassured her and grasped her wing with hers to take it off of him. "This is just like the city of Paris! We have to be careful now!"
"I know! I just hate the fact that we lost so much in one day!" She softly replied and continued to walk closer to him. "RDJ…I wanna go with you to Venice! There's nothing left for me here anymore!"
"That's fine! Now…where does this passage lead?" The blue and gold teen thought to himself as he rose his bow and arrow.
After a few minutes of walking, Max suddenly stopped in mid walk…as he heard a very muffled sound from one of the tunnels.
"Erm guys? Do you hear that?" Max whispered to the two of them, and pointed his head towards a tunnel.
"Wait a second…" Florence paused in confusion as she walked closer to the tunnel. "Oh my god! I think I know who that might be?!"
She flapped her wings and flew down that tunnel, causing her associate to groan in annoyance.
"Why does everyone fly away from me?" He thought to himself as he gave Max a signal to follow him down the same passage.
"So? What was that in the tunnel? Was it your brother?" Tina asked with hopeful eyes, making the others all think the same thing.
"No it wasn't unfortunately! But…It was a certain someone that made Florence relieved…"
RDJ and Max followed Florence down one of the tunnels, until they came across an old jail cell that was guarded by three muscular macaws.
"Don't worry Florence! I got this!" RDJ reassured his friend, and pulled three arrows out of his bag and aimed all of them at the trio. "Triple threat!" He whispered in a cocky manner and fired all three of them, hitting all of them in their heads, killing them within seconds.
"Wow! You are a good assassin!" Max remarked as he walked with the hyacinth female towards where the sound was emerging from.
As soon as they reached the front door…Florence couldn't believe her eyes! There in the jail cell…was a certain someone who she hadn't seen in years!
"Mason? Is that…is that you?" Florence cried as RDJ bashed the lock with his bow, breaking open the door.
The hyacinth male slowly looked up from where he was sitting, and he instantly locked eyes with his old friend. "Florence? Do my eyes deceive me?"
"No! It really is me!" She cried happily and pulled the door open, then she ran to him and immediately tackled him to the ground. "Mason! It's been so long?!"
"Ten years! Can you believe it?" He happily chuckled and blushed softly as she was laying on top of him.
"Hey? You gonna introduce me or what?" The blue and gold male chuckled as he extended both of his wings to pull the duo up.
"RDJ…this is my old childhood friend Mason! Mason! This is…" she got cut off immediately when Mason covered her beak with his wing.
"Guys! We got company!" Mason announced to the other three, who all turned to the tunnel entrance, to hear that a group of birds were coming there way. "Quick! Into the barrel! Hurry!"
RDJ, Florence and Max all climbed into one barrel by the side of the jail cell, and Mason put the lid on top. Making sure that whoever turned up wasn't going to spit them.
"Mason! Why is your jail cell open?" One of the birds screamed in a French accent from the other side of the room. As the hyacinth male turned around to face the bird who shouted at him…it revealed to be Ano…the green winged macaw. "Please don't tell me you are actually trying to escape again?"
The hyacinth male rose his wings up in defence and tried to think of an excuse to get them to leave the room. But before he could say anything…another certain somebody walked into the room with a cold glare on his beak.
"Mason! Why is your jail cell open? Tell us the truth!" That said bird was in fact Eli, who had entered the room with a very enraged expression. But as soon as he looked at the jail cell door…he immediately figured out what was going on. "Hahahaha! RDJ? Are you so stupid? Entering the enemy's base alone? Do you honestly think you could fool me?!"
"There's nobody else here! It's only me!" Mason lies as he saw Ano approaching the jail cell. He pulled the door open and dragged Mason out with his wing and threw him on the floor in front of the black hawk. "HEY! WHAT ARE YOU…" He paused in shock as Eli pointed a pistol at his forehead, causing him to freeze in place.
"Monsiuer? You better not keep us waiting for too long? Otherwise we will blow his fucking brains out!" Ano cockily bellowed as he sent his guards to scout out the room.
In the barrel where our three friends were hiding, RDJ poked his head out the top of the lid, and looked at the position that Mason was held in.
"Well? What are we going to do?" Florence whimpered in fear as she stood besides Max behind him.
"If you give me a second I'll think of something!" RDJ replied with a little impatience. He checked that nobody was around them, and they could just slip out. But he also knew that if he was going to make the kill, then now would be the time!
"Listen assassin! You have five seconds! Then we will shoot your friend!" Eli announces as he took the safety off of his gun.
"No!" Florence cried sadly while Max comforted her. "Do something RDJ!"
"Alright! You two stay here!" He responded seriously as he jumped out of the barrel and rolled to the side without being seen.
"ONE…" The black hawk started counting as he rose the gun up against the hyacinth male's head.
"Ano…you will have a little longer left to live!" The blue and gold male thought to himself as he got himself into a good position. And prepared to aim his bow and arrow at the black hawk.
"TWO!"
"Come on Ano…move your fucking head!"
"THREE!"
"There you are…"
"YOU CAN'T HIDE FOREVER RDJ!" Eli shouted as he put the barrel to Mason's head. "FOUR!"
"FIVE!" RDJ screamed the last number in rage and fired the arrow directly at Eli. But unfortunately for him, the black hawk swiftly ducked and the arrow shot Ano directly in the throat. "Shit! Wrong enemy!"
"KILL HIM! ALL GUARDS! ALL GUARDS! KILL THE INTRUDER!" Eli ordered his men in a panicked tone, and decided to fly out of the tunnel to make his escape.
"Damnit! Not again!" RDJ thought to himself as he saw the guards approaching him very quickly.
"RDJ!" The blue and gold male turned around and saw that Mason and Florence already started attacking some of the guards, whereas Max was trying to persuade them to stand down. "GO AFTER HIM! WE GOT THIS!" Mason reassured him as he stabbed another bird in the throat.
He nodded his head in respect and quickly flew over the attackers heads in pursuit of Eli. There was no way in hell he was letting him escape.
"Alright Eli! Time for you to pay for what you did!"
"Oh no! I can't believe he tried to escape again! Some head of the assassins!" Lila remarked and wiped away the tears from her eyes.
"Have you been crying?" RDJ asked her curiously and wiped away her remaining tears.
"Well I'm emotional! Tilly was murdered by Ano's men, and now you're about to kill the bird who betrayed your father!"
"That may be Lila! But…I didn't exactly know how to feel after I finally caught the prick! Because…I lost every emotion and feeling! So as soon as I did catch him…What else could I have done?"
( Chariot Chase by Jesper Kyd starts playing in the background )
In Pursuit Of Eli…
RDJ flew down the same tunnel that his traitor of a mentor flew down to get away from him. Due to his older age he was flying much slower than RDJ was, and so he had to try and hide somewhere if he wasn't going to get caught.
"HAAAA…HAAA…GIVE IT UP KID! YOUR FATHER HAD TO DIE! IF HE DIDN'T…THEN EVERYTHING I WOULD HAVE WORKED FOR WOULD HAVE BEEN TAKEN AWAY FROM ME!" The black hawk shouted back as he threw some smoke grenades behind him to try and block the blue sand gold teen's vision.
But because he was filled with the lust for revenge…he just flew straight through the smoke with no problems and vigorously flapped his wings even faster.
"NICE TRY YOU SON OF A BITCH! YOU ARE GONNA PAY FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DID!"
Suddenly, Eli stopped what he was doing and ducked as soon as RDJ tried to tackle him.
Then he saw him turn around and try to hit him again, but this time he blocked his attack and punched him in the face, sending him flying into a wall. Which he crashed into upon impact and groaned before standing back up.
"Fuck! That hurts!" RDJ groaned as he got back onto his feet.
He saw that Eli was about to attack him again with another swing, and luckily this time he blocked his attack and headbutt him in the face.
If that wasn't enough to knock him over, he then performed a double drop kick, and sent him flying into a metal gate. Which unfortunately for the black hawk, ended up breaking one of his ribs.
"AHHHHHH! NOOOO! I'M NOT GONNA BE BEATEN BY THE LIKES OF YOU! I AM THE HEAD OF THE ASSASSINS!"
Eli limped up to him with his knife pulled out, and he went to swing it at the young teen. But RDJ was in no mood to play games.
He caught his wing with his vigorous grasp of his wing, then with all of his strength he twisted his wing around in a complete turn. Snapping all the bones in his wing.
"AHHHHHHHHH! YOU BASTARD!" Eli screeched as he stabbed RDJ in the shoulder with his knife, but luckily the knife didn't go too deep into his shoulder.
The blue and gold male slammed Eli's head into the metal gate, pulled the knife out of his shoulder with all the strength he could muster.
Once he managed to pull the knife out, he repeatedly stabbed Eli in both of his talons and his good wing. Permitting him to make no movement whatsoever.
"OWWWW! OUCH! OW! STOP IT! I SAID STOP IT!"
Once RDJ was done, he threw the knife away to the side, and picked up the machete that the black hawk dropped and pointed the tip of the blade at Eli's chest. He snarled at him in rage and gripped the paralysed hawk on his neck.
"Now…you are gonna tell me…EVERYTHING…you fucking know!" RDJ spoke in a dark and sinister tone. Giving him an incredibly cold glare.
Eli took one good look at the bird in front of him…and he smirked a little at the way he was being held down by the young bird.
"What's so fucking funny Eli? Do you see me laughing? DO YOU?!" RDJ bellowed before punching him in the face, making blood pour out of his beak.
After he spat out some of the blood, he put on a very evil glare, and nodded his head when seeing him currently in this difficult position.
"Wow…you remind me so much of your father? Except…he wasn't as fast of a learner as you are! He really was a weak ally!"
RDJ once again growled in rage and punched him in the face with his wing, then pulled out a few feathers from his head.
"Stop stalling! First…where is Zenon! I know you know where he is!"
"Yeah…I know where he is! But you won't find him! Neither will you find Armando!" Eli replied with an amused chuckle.
"I'm sorry…who's Armando?" RDJ arched a curious eyebrow and tightened his grip.
"I thought you knew?" He responded quite surprised by the question asked of him.
"No! Is he the supplier?"
"Yes…Armando is the leader of the entire organisation that Zenon and Nigel have been working for! Felix, Tilly, Florence, Mason, your father? They were all trying to find him for years!"
"But you knew all along didn't you? That's why you had to kill them didn't you? Because Armando threatened you?" RDJ softened his expression a little but continued to hold him down.
"He threatened to kill my wife! But after I had your father killed…Nigel killed her anyway!" Eli sadly replied as he lowered his gaze to the floor. "Ahhhhh…I really screwed up son! Your father was like a brother to me! I really thought that they would leave my wife alone! But after I betrayed him…I lost EVERYTHING! Do you know what it's like to lose everything?"
RDJ paused for a moment after hearing his explanation…a part of him felt sorry for the black hawk. But a bigger part of him still knew that he had to suffer the same fate for having his family killed.
"While I appreciate what you had to do to save the ones you love…you still must understand that I have to find who was responsible for my family's death!" RDJ explained in a string tone and pointed the machete to his heart. "I don't want to do this Eli…but you knew this was going to happen to you!"
"Ahhhh…You're right RDJ…you're right!" Eli softly spoke as he spat out some more blood from his beak.
"If there's anything you can tell me about Armando, Zenon or Nigel…now would be the time to clear your conscience!"
The black hawk male understood what was being asked of him. So after a few moments of thought…he finally told him what he wanted to know.
"Armando is a scarlet macaw, who leads an entire army in the Amazon rainforest. But you can't expect to take him on your own! You must take down all of his associates to weaken his defences!"
"I'm listening…"
"Venice, Amsterdam, Argentina, and all over Brazil! They are the places that you need to go to find his accomplices! But…It could take you years to do all that on your own!"
"So be it! Anything else I should know about?"
"Yes, there's also some associates by the names of Julio and Omar! They are brothers who reside within São Paulo! If I were you, save them until last! Because they only get involved when they are called upon! But if you really want to speed up the process? You could ask your friends to help you!" Eli finished explaining as he felt the effects of the blood loss hitting his brain.
"Just one more question…why did you do it? Betray the assassins and kill my family?" RDJ simply asked him, continuously staring at him.
"I didn't have a choice RDJ! They were going to kill my wife! Before they actually double crossed me! I'm sorry…I deserve this! Just please…make it quick!" Eli responded sadly, accepting that his fate will be decided by death.
"I'm sorry too mentor…I'm sorry too!" The blue and gold male sighed in defeat, and plunged the machete deep into Eli's heart…and he yanked it back out.
"Ackaaa…thank…you…aaaaaa!" Eli whispered in his final breath alive…and he quickly passed on to the other side. His body becoming limp and lifeless.
RDJ slowly leaned over to Eli's dead body and closed his eyes with his wingtips. "Obrigado por sua vida meu inimigo, que voce junte a luz em outra vida, descanse em paz!"
"In English please?" Tiny groaned as she rolled her eyes in annoyance.
"You are Brazilian? Don't you speak Portuguese?" RDJ replied confused and put a wing on his hip.
"Yes, but you are telling this story in English! Besides, Eli opened up to you pretty quickly? You knew about Armando back then? So what did you decide to do?"
RDJ paused for a moment as he knew that what he was going to say next, would start to make him feel emotional.
"I gave Tilly, Eli and Ano a proper burial! Then…then I only did what I had to do!"
"What was that uncle RDJ?" Tiago asked in confusion as he wiped one of the tables down.
"I had to find the rest of Armando's associates across the world! Mainly across South America…but I was only getting closer to properly getting my revenge!" RDJ explained as he placed his wings on the table. "I won't go into full details about what happened in each country! But I will fill you in on the details that you definitely need to know about…"
Now what could that be exactly? Yes I know I'm leaving you on another cliffhanger, but I have squeezed a lot into one chapter! In the next chapter we will skip to the part where RDJ will be hosting a funeral for Tilly, Eli and Ano! As he plans out his next move! But with the help of Max, they managed to convince Ano's men to work for him as they get inches closer to finding Zenon! But not only that…Armando was finally mentioned to RDJ! So the question is…where does he go from here? In the next chapter, it will be covering at least three years of RDJ's tracking! So I hope you've stayed with me so far? Because you will need to keep up to understand what will happen…in the future sequel! See you all soon for the next chapter!