Nighttime in Rio has always been a dangerous, yet beautiful thing. There are always predators late at night trying to catch their meal for the night. With others just simply there to kill and move on.
There were no cars in the road at this time of night, as the early hours of the morning were close to approaching. Why does Rio have to be so peaceful at night? Where are all the birds this time in the evening?
All of them were currently preparing themselves in the samba club, picking up weapons and making other appliances that they can use for their big trip to the Amazon.
Everyone was doing their individual bit to help out their friends…but for some weird reason…Alex and Lucia were nowhere to be seen at this point.
Siax was currently helping Jewel with her new weapon, that was a pipe which was wrapped in barbed wire. But she was currently trying to make a handle out of a more comfortable grip.
"Siax? Are you sure that using erasers to wrap around a pipe is good? It looks like to me that they will keep falling off?" The blue spix's macaw female curiously asked the burrowing owl female who nodded her head towards her with reassurance.
"Absolutely Jewel! You cannot go wrong with a strong grip like this! Besides, that's exactly why Alex had to leave here yesterday!" Siax responded as she continued to wrap what looked like a bandage over the bottom of the pipe.
"Where did he go again, exactly?" Jewel asked unsurely as she gave her a look of curiosity again.
"When Nightfly requested that we recruit some more army members, Alex got excited and told me he knew three birds for the job! No idea who any of them are, considering that I've never met them?" Siax replied as she finished making the handle. "There! Give it a good swing!"
"Okay?" Jewel replied unsurely as she went to swing the pipe around, but unfortunately the handle ended up making the pipe shoot out from behind her and it smashed the window in the back. "Oh shit!"
"HEY! THAT AIN'T COOL HOT WING!" Pedro screamed in annoyance as he looked at the now broken window. "Damnit! Kipo! Where do we keep the spare windows?"
"I think they're in the closet where I found the crossbow?" Roberto replied as he was currently helping Jameson wrap up some bags with a weird substance in them. "Jameson, what are in these bags anyway?"
"Mostly just some rotten fruit with salt?" The black owl replied as he finished tying up his twenty seventh bag. "I know it doesn't seem like a lot, but if we hit them in the face, they will get grossed out, giving us a chance to attack them while they're panicking. Or even vomiting at that point!"
"Pretty smart actually! Who taught you how to do this?" Roberto praised the black owl as he finished another bag.
"My own invention actually! I remember tossing rotten fruit at these guys who caused my life hell back in Minnesota! So this was the one thing I remembered!" He proudly replied while filling up another bag.
"Astonishing!" The muscular blue male thought to himself as he currently placed the bag he finished next to the others. He didn't even notice his beautiful girlfriend approaching him from behind.
"What's astonishing honey?" Roberto turned around to face his girlfriend, Jacqueline. Who approached him while giving him a kiss on the beak.
"Jameson's creation on mixing rotten fruit and salt!" Roberto replied while smiling at the black owl, but Jacqueline just felt grossed out by the smell.
"Ewww! I can smell it from here!" The female spix's macaw moaned as she walked away from them towards Martin and Douglas. "Hey bestie! What you doing over here?"
"Ahh! If it isn't the best friend in the whole world! Me and Dougie are currently making some of these little spike thingy's to put on the end of Blu's metal pipe!" Martin responded while turning the pipe around to cover the other side. "Oooh, that's spiky!"
"What is Blu doing?" Jacqueline responded while looking everywhere in the club.
"I think he's on the roof with Tanya and Leona. No idea why? I think they are just talking about what everyone's roles are gonna be?" Douglas replied as the military male finished making his weapon. "Ahhhh! We could do with a guy who knows how to make sweet upgrades!"
Meanwhile…On The Roof…"Look! I don't want to stay behind at the samba club! I want to be out there with you guys in the battle! Just because I had two eggs, doesn't mean I can't fight!" Tanya shouted at the blue male in annoyance who only sighed in response.
"It's not coming from me Tanya. Nightfly was the one concerned about you going to the Amazon with us! I'd be more than happy to let you come with us, because I've seen you in battle! You're a good fighter!"
"Yeah well…what's my role in this? Sandro just asked me to talk to you about it?" Leona pointed out, as the other hyacinth female was quite curious about her role in this.
"Sandro wanted you with us! No idea why Sandro would allow you, and Tanya wasn't allowed by Nightfly? I think everyone should be in battle with us! But who's gonna watch the kids?" Blu replied in a defeated tone, while staring at his talons in defeat.
"Alice has already volunteered to? Plus you could ask Eva and Martin? Martin isn't really the character for battles anyway?" Tanya replied simply, as Leona nodded her head in agreement.
"Yeah but…" Blu tried to protest, but then a new voice cut him off from this stressful conversation.
"Blu? Is that you up there?" Jacqueline beamed as she flew on top of the roof, landing right besides Leona and Tanya. "Can I talk to you about something?"
"Erm…sure Jacqui! Leona, Tanya could you go inside and ask Nico what he wants you to do?" Blu asked the two hyacinth females, who nodded their heads at him and flew down from the roof to rejoin the others. "What's up Jacqueline? Are you okay?"
"Yeah! Well…no actually?" The blue female sighed in response, as she looked at the blue male with teary eyes.
"Oh no, what's wrong? Is it the fact that you're in the battle? Because you can stay here if you want?" Blu tried to calm his friend down, but it only made her feel more scared inside.
"No no! It's got nothing to do with that whatsoever! It's actually about…Roberto?" Jacqueline replied while keeping eye contact with him.
"Okay? What about him?" Blu replied as he placed a warm comforting wing on her shoulder. "You can tell me?"
"It's just that…I'm afraid that if I lost him…then…then I wouldn't be the same!" She confessed as she started to tear up a little bit.
Blu sighed in defeat, and wrapped his wings around her in a comforting hug. "We are all worried about losing someone! But we can't do anything rational! We need to be calm and smart about this! Don't worry Jacqui! I would die before I let anything happen to you or him!"
"Thank you Blu! You are so sweet!" Jacqueline smiled at her friend and gave him a quick peck on the cheek, before she flew inside.
"Huh? So Jewel isn't the only one who kisses their friends on the cheek?" Blu thought in his head, before he was abruptly interrupted by Michael, snapping him out of his thoughts.
"Blu! Did you hear what I said?" The white hawk male asked him as he tapped him on the face several times. It appeared that he flew in from out of nowhere.
"Sorry what? I didn't even hear you coming?" Blu blinked his eyes a couple of times before staring back at his friend.
"We are nearly done with the preparations! But the only problem is we can't supply enough weapons for everyone! Where the bloody hell is Alex?" The white hawk angrily shouted while looking behind him.
"I don't know alright? Siax suggested that he went to find some recruits or something? Plus, Lucia apparently knows someone as well? Who is this…other predator guy that's supposed to be joining us?" Blu asked him unsurely as he scratched the back of his head.
"I haven't got a clue my friend! But we better get inside and try to deal with what is already a difficult situation! Nightfly is still adamant that he doesn't want Tanya to be in the battle with us!" Michael replied instantly while crossing his wings. "We need her in the battle! Everyone but Helena and maybe Tiny? No disrespect to her of course!"
"You don't have to tell me twice! I honestly don't want Jewel in this battle either, but we need her! Anyway, after you!" Both the blue spix's male and white hawk nodded their heads at each other before reentering the club. The first thing they witnessed was Helena currently discussing with Tiago about what is going to happen.
"Helena, my dad says that I have to stay behind with my sisters and Tina. Meaning I can also take care of you! Raul will be needed in the Amazon in case anybody gets injured!" The young spix's macaw warned the dove as she waved her wing at him. "Sergio wouldn't want you to risk yourself like that! Especially since you are pregnant!"
"I can handle myself! I don't think my husband would want me to just sit around and do nothing about his death!" The Spanish female dove replied as she stood up on her talons.
"For gods sake, I'm not going to go through this with everyone! This is why we need more birds!" Michael remarked as he leaned on the door next to Blu. "Didn't you say that Malcom has someone who could help us?"
"For the last time, I'm not bringing that drunk green parakeet Chris with us! All he does is sit around and drink while hitting on everybody's wives! That's exactly why he was banned from the club last month!" Blu pointed out as he smiled at his wife who was helping Kelly and Chloe with their weapons. "Alex better know someone who can come in and help us out! When is he due to return?"
"You keep saying the same thing, over and over again! I told you I don't know!" Michael responded with annoyance as he raised a curious eyebrow at Blu.
"Alright! Alright! Calm yourself down Michael! Try and help Thomas and Purita with the Molotovs!"
"Remind me why we are using Molotov's? Won't we burn the Amazon down?" Michael replied as he rose a curious eyebrow at him.
"Of course not! Roberto told me the trees are already burnt enough from the previous fire, and could take a few years to grow again! Don't worry about it!"
"THAT WAS A FEW YEARS AGO!!" Michael argued back as he looked at Blu's thoughtful face. Blu was about to protest his case back to Michael, but he was immediately cut off when Raul approached then with a saddened expression.
"Hey guys? We have ourselves a little bit of a problem?" The white hawk whispered to them as he was checking to see if anyone was paying attention to their conversation. "We are running low on materials, and if we keep this up, then not everyone can be supplied with a weapon!"
"Oh damnit! What are we gonna do now Blu?" Michael shouted at the blue male in a panicked tone. Blu thought about it for a second, but luckily for him he didn't need to think that long!
Because the doors to the samba club burst wide open, leaving everyone startled when they saw four birds walking in together. With Alex leading them from the front.
"HONEY! THANK GOODNESS YOU ARE BACK…Who are these guys?" Siax beamed at first in relief as the snowy owl male returned with some friends.
"Woah Alex! You never told me you had a sister?" The harpy eagle who was standing next to Alex joked, elbowing him a couple of times. But this only made Alex groan in irritation.
"Dominic! I told you that Siax is my girlfriend! You didn't hear Apollo making any jokes on the way here about it?!" Alex responded while referring to the other owl who was stood besides Alex. Who revealed to be Apollo.
"Dude? That burrowing owl is your girlfriend? How is that even possible? Especially since she is like super hot!" Apollo spoke up as he admired the way that Siax looked. But this only made her cringe.
"Hey! Apollo is it? My eyes are up here!" Siax angrily growled at him as she snapped her wingtips in frustration.
"Sorry! My bad!" Apollo responded as he received a slap on the back of his head by Dominic.
"Okay, and how exactly is a harpy eagle and a little owl supposed to help us?" Michael spoke up as he crossed his wings, with Tiny who rested on his shoulder.
"Little owl? HEY! I may be little! But I am more useful than any owl! Of course other than Jameson, Alex and Siax of course?" Apollo replied as he backed off a little.
"How about me?" Kelly spoke up as she crossed her wings in response.
"Sorry Kelly! Didn't see you there!"
"WILL EVERYONE JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!" Everyone calmed down immediately and turned to face Nightfly, who was stood by a table with Sandro and Kipo. He looked like he was in a real stressful mood. "Can you just tell us what you guys can do?"
"Well…I am a great inventor! If you guys need an upgrade or a new weapon, I'm the man for the job!" Apollo spoke up as he gave Dominic a fist bump.
"What about you? Dominic is it? What exactly can you bring to the table?"
"I'm very good with guns! Like this one for example?" The harpy eagle pulled out what looked like some sort of bird sized pistol with some sort of weird craftsmanship on the outer layer.
"Bloody hell! When did you learn how to use that?" Blu spoke up as he was quite interested in how Dominic knew how to use them.
"Back in Russia I had a…owner shall we say? He was a Russian veteran from World War Two. He trained me on how to use guns for protection, and I kept it ever since! He unfortunately passed away a good few years ago, so I left Russia immediately for Brazil! That's where I met Apollo! Then Alex I met several days later when he was practicing with his nunchucks!"
"You mean he nearly kicked your ass with them? I saw the whole thing!" Apollo cockily remarked, while Dominic just smirked and put his pistol away in his holster.
"Now that leaves…the other guy! Another black owl? Wait…where have I seen your face before?" Jameson stood up from where he was sitting, and slowly walked over to him.
The black owl male just smiled at him and placed a wing on his shoulder, to reassure him that they do in fact know each other.
Jameson widened his eyes and wrapped his wings around him in complete surprise. "Cabot! I can't believe you're here! How did you find us?"
"Kelly invited me! I would have thought she would tell you?" The owl responded as he gazed at the elf owl, who nodded her head at them.
"I wanted it to be a surprise! Surprise Jameson! Everyone…this is Cabot! My brother!" Everyone in the samba club waved at him as he waved back.
"Okay! Okay! We are glad that you guys are here! But we are still missing Lucia and we want to know who she is bringing! Do you know who it could be Michael?" Nightfly asked the white hawk who shrugged in response.
"No idea! But I reckon it's probably another predator? Knowing the kind of birds she knows, he or she could be a…a…oh my fucking god!" Michael stuttered as he saw Lucia landing outside of the club entrance…with a huge bird!
"What are you staring…WHAT THE BLOODY HELL IS THAT?!!" Kelly shrieked as they all stared at the trio of birds entering the club.
While some were staring at the two smiling predators…Jewel, Roberto and Jacqueline were staring at the blue macaw that was walking next to them. But it was another female?
"Sorry for scaring you guys? We don't mean to?" The female macaw spoke up as she walked up to the frightened elf owl.
"We aren't scared of you! We are scared of…THAT GUY!!" Jameson pointed out as he decided to jump into Alex's wings who groaned in annoyance.
"Easy there Scooby Doo! I'm pretty sure that Lucia hasn't brought a murderous bird here…right?" Blu spoke up as he also stood back in fear.
Lucia giggled with the blue female, while the male predator just chuckled in response as he extended his huge wing to shake with Blu's.
"The name's Tomada! It's a privilege to meet you my friend! I thought my wife here was the only one left in existence!" The falcon responded as he grinned at the blue male.
When Tomada referred to the blue female as his wife, everyone widened their eyes in shock and surprise.
"I'm sorry…did you just say wife?" Nico blurted out from behind Sandro and Malcom. While Violet was still hiding behind him.
"Yes! My name is Sorrel! Yes, Tomada is my husband!" The blue female who revealed to be Sorrel spoke up as she shook her wings with Dominic, Apollo and Cabot. "And you guys are?"
"I'm Dominic, this is Apollo, and this is Cabot! We arrived here the same day as you! So I take it we are all here for the same reason?" The harpy eagle questioned, as he turned to Nightfly, who was still a little dumbstruck by the whole Tomada and Sorrel thing.
"Wow! She must be crushed every night, sleeping with him?" Pedro whispered to Lexi who punched him in the stomach. "Ow! Got it! My bad!" The cardinal whined in pain.
Nightfly smiled at the new recruits as they entered the club, and clapped his wings together in appreciation. "Tomada! Sorrel! Dominic, Apollo and Cabot…Welcome! To the team!!"
Everyone welcomed the new team members and brought them all to the middle of the club to get better acquainted with each other. As this was going on, Nightfly only stared out at the moon, and he had never felt more determined.
"Wherever you are Armando…you better get ready! Because we are coming for you!!"
Meanwhile…In The Amazon…It was late at night in the Amazon rainforest, and scattered around the jungle were all of Julio's former thugs. Armando's army members, Alexander and the Jongo Club team. Plus Nigel…who was currently sitting outside what looked like a dark tree with branches crossed around the centre…but there was a…blue macaw trapped there?
"LET ME OUT YOU FAT BASTARD! WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS?!" A female voice cried out as she was trapped in the hollow.
Nigel groaned in annoyance and walked up to her, grabbing her throat in the process. Making her suffocate as he lifted her up.
"Temper! Temper! Calm yourself down you stupid slut! I'm gonna make sure that you never get out of here! Now…SIT DOWN AND SHUT UP!!" The cockatoo screamed as he threw her into the wall, knocking her down. "Good! Now, keep your thoughts to your…"
"Nigel!" The cockatoo turned to the entrance to see Armando standing there, with his wings crossed, as he narrowed his eyes at him. "Leave the girl to me. Okay? Go to the pit of doom and help Alexander with the traps! Last thing we need is a surprise attack!"
"Yes Armando! As you wish!" Nigel chuckled evilly as he immediately turned away from the crying female and flew out of the hollow, to go to the pit of doom as requested.
Armando stared at the cockatoo as he left, and he shook his head from side to side in annoyance. Then he turned back around to face the female…and he sighed heavily. He walked up to the branch prison, and sat down in front of it.
"Apologies sweetheart. He isn't exactly the friendliest bird of the flock." The scarlet male apologised as he gazed at the blue female, who only growled at him in response.
"You can apologise, by letting me go! I haven't done anything to you?" The blue female responded as she stood up onto her talons. "Who even are you?"
"Sorry…the name as Nigel pronounced, is Armando. I am the leader of this little…establishment shall we say?" Armando replied as he extended his talon for a talon shake. But that was a wrong move!
The blue female leapt forward and bit him on his talon, making him yelp a little in pain. He quickly retracted his talon and gazed at her in amusement.
"Got a bit of fire in you, eh? I like that in a woman!" Armando replied as he smiled seductively at her, making the blue spix's macaw female growl in response.
"Don't flatter yourself your highness! I'm not some cheap bird that you pick up on the mango trees! I have some respect for myself!" She growled back in response, while trying to get as far away as she could from him.
"Oh please! You couldn't find a better guy than me? I am the only one who could set you free…" Armando paused as he was waiting for the female bird to tell him her name.
"Ha! You're not getting a name out of me buddy! You'll be lucky if you get a fingertip on my hair!"
"Birds don't have hair! But now that you mention it? It does look beautiful…like your gorgeous purple eyes!"
"Are you done flirting with me? Because I'm already feeling turned off right now!" The female grew angrier as she attempted to take a swing at him.
He reacted quickly by grabbing onto her right wing with both of his wings. Then he looked at her with a playful, yet sadistic grin. "Now you gonna tell me your name?"
"NO! GET OFF OF ME!!" The blue macaw female shrieked as she tried to retreat from his grip, but he was too strong.
"Not until you tell me your name?" Armando paused as he grew impatient of her trying to attack him. "NAME! OR I'LL BREAK YOUR FUCKING WING!!!"
"LILA! MY NAME IS LILA! HAPPY NOW?!!"
"THAT'S BETTER!!" Armando with his other wing, punched her in the face brutally, making her stumble backwards and she fell on her back as she cried. "You made a big mistake, trying to attack me! Now stay here and think about what you did! Bitch!"
Armando flapped his wings and left the hollow immediately…leaving Lila there to cry as she was still trapped in that hollow.
"What d-d-did I do wrong?" Lila cried as she stood back up onto her talons, and grabbed both of the branches from either side. Gazing up at the bright moon, that had illuminated the sky with it's crystal glow. Lila sighed heavily in sadness…and only managed to get out one more sentence. Before resting her head on the branches in front of her. "Oh Jacqueline…if only you were still here with me! I miss you so much!"
Back To Armando…"Ughhhh! That stupid little blue bitch! Now I'm gonna need some tree sap on my talon!" Armando mumbled to himself as he flew over to the clay banks. Where a certain body was there…but it wasn't Julio's. It wasn't Omar's. It wasn't even Xavier's! It was someone else's body!
The scarlet male landed next to the body and sat down. As he placed a wing on top of it, rubbing the head of the body as it laid there. Him sighing heavily in pain and sorrow.
"Wow! You gotta admit buddy…you realllly messed up!" Armando cackled as he gazed at the body, with eyes of hatred towards it. "You know that you deserved it, right? What am I saying? Of course you deserved it! Why else would you be here? Hahaha!"
The scarlet male stood up slowly and walked to the edge of the clay banks. Staring at the top of the trees, where his enemy will soon come to take back what is his. He started chuckling evilly again, pulling out his machete and aimed it at the corpse.
"You know my friend? I wish things could have been different you know? Blue macaws? Scarlet macaws? We could have been a great team! But…sometimes these things happen for a reason right?" Armando cackled as he started to cut off one of the talons on the body. Cutting it nice and slow as he watched the cold blood pouring out of it and running over his talon. "Oooooh, so cold! Hehehe! That tickles me!"
But just when you thought it couldn't get any weirder…he took…a bite! A bite, out of the talon! Chewing it like it was a undercooked french fry!
"Oooh! Tastes like chicken! You ever ate chicken before? Of course not! You only eat fruit! HAHAHAHAHAHA!!" Armando then placed the talon besides the body and sat down next to it…about to reveal the name…of that dead bird.
But he quickly glanced over his shoulder to make sure that nobody was watching him, and luckily for him…nobody was there!
"But it will all be okay when Nightfly…Blu…and even your beautiful little girl, Jewel dies! Won't it…EDUARDO!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! They are all gonna die! Now…we…wait…"
Armando simply said as he placed the talon back in his beak, and rested next to the deceased blue male!
And that is the first chapter completed my friends! Man it feels great to be back, doing what I love most! Writing stories and reading others brilliant work! A massive thank you to LoganJindrak for allowing me to use Dominic and Apollo as well! A massive thank you to the legendary Tomada who Is another great author! For allowing me to use Sorrel and Tomada in this story! A special thank you to Jameson for allowing me to use Cabot in this story! Plus another big thank you to Lila Macaw for allowing me to use Lila in this story! So…what a big start indeed! New recruits have been added to the team! And just a heads up! ( If there are any other OC's that you would like me to include in this story! Just PM me! Or if you would want to recommend me any other authors who I could ask, please do! ) Plus yes! Eduardo's body was found by Armando, and he is eating him? Ewww! Talk about cannibalism! Anyway I hope you guys enjoyed! I'll see you all soon for chapter 2!! It's great to be back!!