Pain And Suffering

Now I understand you all must have predicted what will happen in this chapter! But of course it has been a few chapters since we've had another fight scene am I right? Well…in this one, Aiden has somehow managed to turn himself into this Feral Rage, and broke through the ceiling with no difficulty! Also, we will be getting a glimpse of Fernando and Tomada back at the church setting up the supposed 'Surprise' that RDJ has set up for Lila. But…how do you think he will react when he is told where his wife was while he was searching the city for her? Or will he be told? Let's find out shall we…

Let's Start With Lila, Andy And Jacqueline…

"Gosh it's been a while since he went in there…I hope they're okay?" Lila remarked full of concern, as she was tending to one of the females. "I'd hate to lose my husband after the argument we had earlier…"

"That blue eyed hunk is your husband?!" The female yellow macaw asked in surprise, while looking at Lila with a slight touch of jealousy.

"Yep! We've been married almost 13 years now." The purple eyed female responded quite proudly as she was finishing up with her burns.

"Well you are a lucky lady! I wish I had a boyfriend who had abs like that! I'd literally wreck him every night…"

"Yeah it is pretty amazing! Have you noticed what's in front of us yet?!" Andy immediately interrupted both of them and they turned their attention towards the street.

Pretty soon, a group of 50 of The Remainders turned up. All twirling their weapons around in their wings. As they smiled sinisterly at the group of females plus Andy outside of the recreational centre.

"Hehehe! I'm gonna enjoy this! Much more now I'll have a pick of which pretty lady to take home with me!" One of the males creepily spoke, as he licked his beak while staring at the group who shuddered in fear.

"Shit…there's way too many of them! He better hurry up in there, or are we all really in deep sh…" Jacqueline was just about to finish her sentence, a huge blast came from the building they were standing in front of. And it was none other than Aiden who burst right through the roof.

(Monster – Skillet starts playing. A song Recommended to me by Emily The Scarlet)

"GRRRRRRRRRRRAHHHHHHHHHHHHH! ALL OF YOU WILL DIE FOR THIS!" Aiden bellowed in a thundering roar, and without even thinking about it. He flew straight towards The Remainders, with his friends shocked by his decision.

"NO! AIDEN! THERE'S TOO MANY OF THEM!" Lila calls out to her friend…but what she was about to see…would completely shock her to her core.

"Hahahaha! What is this boy doing? He's asking for a death…" Suddenly, Aiden grabbed the top of the military macaw's head, and ripped it clean off of his shoulders. Then he kicked it away into a couple of the guards knocking them over.

Then he started huffing and puffing while running up to the two guards, and he used some kind of makeshift sword that had been modified to his machete. And he cut both of their bodies in half.

"Holy shit!" Andy remarked in astonishment as many of The Remainders began charging all at him. But Aiden wasn't even breaking a sweat.

"TAKE THIS!" Aiden cuts off a guard's wing, then shoved that wing down his throat before twisting his neck to the side breaking it. Then he took the mace that he was holding and bashed another one's skull in brutally. Then he threw it vigorously at another military macaw, striking him straight through his chest.

Then he jumped up in the air and performed some acrobatic spinning kick, and sent two guards flying into the burning building. Causing their bodies to burn alive as you heard their screams from within the building.

RDJ ran out the front entrance after following Aiden and he saw all the commotion with The Remainders. And instead of looking impressed by what the scarlet male was doing. He was rather concerned for him.

"Honey! You're okay!" Lila noticed her husband was safe and she ran up to him and hugged him tightly. As he kissed her on the cheek and stroked her back. "I was really worried about you!"

"Don't worry, I'm fine! But Aiden is not! Something inside him has snapped! That's not him right now!" The head of the assassins reiterated as he saw that Aiden grabbed a bird by the scruff of his neck, plunged his fist deep into the chest and ripped out his heart before squashing it in his wings. "See? That's not like him!"

"What do you want us to do? He's keeping The Remainders distracted?" Jacqueline pointed out, as it seemed the scarlet male didn't need any assistance.

"Lila, you stay here with me and help me try and get through to him! As for Andy and yourself, I want you two to get these women to safety! Take them back to base and have them stay there for a while. They will need protection after what's happened here!"

"Yes mentor!" Andy and Jacqueline both nodded, and gestures with their wings for the four females to follow them. Just so it gives RDJ and Lila some more time before helping out Aiden.

"Okay…so…about today…" RDJ spoke as he wanted to try and clear the air with his wife before joining the battle. "I just wanted to apologise for…"

"Listen…I know that I was so hard on you. But…Fernando and Jacqueline explained it to me what you were really doing…" Lila replied calmly as she smiled at him warmly.

"They…They did?" He answered unsurely, as he didn't know what she was talking about.

"The birthday surprise you've been putting together for me? You didn't have to go through the whole forgetting but not really forgetting thing! You could have just gotten me something simple." She sweetly spoke while dreamily gazing into his eyes.

"Oh…right! The birthday surprise…Yeah, well…I knew that I was being a bit dry with the surprises lately. So I wanted to do something special for you." RDJ went along with what Fernando and Jacqueline told her, just to avoid him getting into more trouble than what he already is in.

"Awwww RDJ! Come here you!" Lila went to go in for a kiss, but suddenly a guard came flying at them at full speed. And without even looking, RDJ just threw a throwing knife over his shoulder and it hit him right between the eyes. "Wow, your fast reflexes never cease to amaze me."

"Well, I've been killing thugs for 22 years now. You must have been expecting me not to…hang on a moment…" RDJ then saw another guard approaching his wife from behind and he fired an arrow at his chest. Which was a direct hit which caused him to fall flat on his back lifeless. "You know what? Let's carry on this conversation a bit later."

"I agree." Both of then chuckled in amusement and prepared for battle themselves, to help Aiden in any way they could. Despite him already wiping out half of the army by himself in quick succession.

Now Let's Quickly Shift To Fernando And Tomada At The Church…

(So let me get this straight…RDJ and the others are currently fighting off The Remainders. So you asked Keith, Monifa and Jaime to help them? Even though I'm the second strongest individual in the team?!)

Devil Darkness angrily grumbled, as kicked over a bucket to show his frustration of not being picked to join the fight.

"We have to set up a romantic setting for RDJ to surprise Lila with! And considering that we are not fast enough to do this just ourselves. We know how fast you can get things done after how well you did with the samba club?" The military macaw male explained as he nervously smiled at the black owl.

"Yeah, cmon DD? You know that this makes sense?" Jameson tried to persuade him, completely on board with the arrangement.

(But Devine might need me? I don't wanna let her down?)

"You can talk to your girlfriend later! Right now, let's just do this favour for our mentor!"

(She is NOT my GIRLFRIEND! We are just…close friends…)

Devil Darkness emphasised in irritation, grumbling when Jameson referred to Devine as his girlfriend.

"Okay. Okay. She's not your girlfriend…" Jameson replied with a cheeky grin. Thinking this was absolutely hilarious.

"More like a fuck buddy…" Tomada whispered in amusement, and this just made him more annoyed.

(WE ARE NOT FUCK BUDDIES!)

"Jeez, what are you getting so worked up about? You haven't stopped going on about her since seeing her again?" Alex pointed out as he too offered to help out after his workout.

(It's just…Okay! Okay…We…used to be lovers…)

"I…KNEW IT! So…why do you always feel nervous around her compared to other females?" Jameson pondered in curiosity, even though he was rather amused at the same time.

(I don't know? I suppose it's because…we had a really good thing going since The Legion Of Thugs tragedy. And I haven't seen her since)

"The Legion of what now?" The snowy owl male rose his eyebrow in confusion.

(Haaaaa…take a seat for a minute and I'll tell you all about it…if you can promise me not to tell RDJ I told you this…)

"We promise!" Tomada beamed as he already found a comfy seat. Everyone listened to him and sat down on the seats that were opposite of him so they could listen to his story.

(So we are talking over 2000 years ago. When the assassins were in control and had peace and democracy in the world. We all loved serving the assassins as they protected the innocent. But…soon there was this…guy in a dark black helmet. Like what The Destroyer wears, and he lead this group called The Legion Of Thugs. And they only wanted to cause pain and suffering to the innocent and attempted to overthrow the assassins for many years.)

"So…what happened?" Fernando asked as he edged closer to him.

(One day…this thug leader built…a staff. A strong and powerful staff that has the ability to heal any wounds, cause destruction upon the world, and potentially rule over the world! The very same staff that RDJ has been using…)

"Hold on a second…you're telling me…that the staff is a thug tool?!" Jameson widened his eyes in surprise.

(Yes…and one day…they used it upon the innocent and they all either died in a fiery explosion, bent down to their will, or they began fighting each other to kill off each other one by one. It was an utter blood bath…)

"So how did Jair manage to get his wings on it?" Tomada asked as he was so captivated by the story.

(Jair was the only one who could repel the effects of the staff. As he was born as the head of the assassins, he could repel any effect possible. He fought against him to the death. And the battle lasted for several hours. But eventually Jair won and managed to retrieve the staff.)

"So then what happened?" Allie came into the room as she overheard what he was talking about, and sat down next to Tomada.

(Well Allie…For many days and nights the thugs tried to steal the staff back and failed many many times. Until one individual stepped up…and managed to take the staff back…and did something so horrifying…that it lead to where me, Jair and Devine ended up all those years ago…)

"What?! What?! Tell us!" Alex got way too excited and ended up banging his head on a wooden pillar. "Ouch! My big head!"

(Right…So that individual…was Jair's own…son!)

"WHAAAAAAT?!" All of then shouted simultaneously, as they couldn't believe what they had just heard.

(Yes…Jair fell in love with a blue spix's macaw who was born into the assassins…but she ended up betraying him and taking the son with her! Raising him to be a thug leader…)

Devil Darkness carried on explaining as he lowered his head in defeat, rubbing his forehead. Which of course was Jameson doing it, but he could briefly control him.

(So Jair decided to hide the staff away in another country…away from Mexico! Away from Rio! So…they decided to go to Belarus! And he went to hide the staff away…while hiding many of his secrets and treasures away that weren't allowed to be seen by the thugs!)

"That's why he created the keys to unlock the door? With hidden messages to the assassins who had to unlock them to know his story!" Tomada realised, as he was getting a little choked up.

(Exactly my friend! But…his son one day found him at the sanctuary and tried to take the staff from him once more…that's after he sealed the door of course!)

"Oh my god…"

(Yes Tomada! Soon he defeated Jair in fair combat, and took the staff from his possession. Then when he waited for the sun to reach the mid-point in the sky, then he used the staff to connect with the power of the sun. And began sending balls of fire down from the sky to destroy everything in his way all over the world! Trying to control a world that was already suffering.)

"Gosh…this is terrible!" The falcon began to tear up, as Allie patted him on the back comfortingly.

(So…Jair had to make a decision himself and had to do something dangerous in order to stop the tragedy of The Legion Of Thugs. He told me and Devine to use these Ancient cubes that we built years ago. Told us to trap ourselves within the cubes for the plan to work. So, obviously we agreed to go along with the plan, as we wanted to protect our master… We then said our final goodbyes and both myself and Devine trapped ourselves inside the cubes! Then Jair told Adelmar, my old host and Alexia, Devine's old host. To get ready to take the staff and run. But the only problem was…Devine was the only one who could hold the staff without dying. No idea why, but she had that ability.)

"And…then what happened?" Alex asked next as all of them were on the verge of tears.

(Jair had to kill his own son just so he could stop the madness…but…Jair knew that even with the thug leader dead…the staff was still in full control! So he then came up with the decision to trap himself inside the staff! Therefore ending the brutal fiery attack. Which worked like a charm! And after that…I…I don't remember anything…Oooh…My head is spinning.)

"It's okay…I think we have a rough idea of how the staff was brought to the Maracana anyway." Alex remarked as he patted him on the back. "Do you need to lie down for a minute?"

(I'll be fine after a couple minutes. Usually I'm pretty quick at regenerating focus back to my brain)

"Unlike someone I know…" Tomada referred to Alex, who in return gave him a middle wingtip.

"Haha fuck you!" Alex rolled his eyes and turned to face Fernando and Tomada. "So? What's the plan here?"

"We set the top floor out into a romantic setup for RDJ and Lila! But we need to make it super quickly! And super romantic!" Fernando beamed as he turned towards Jameson. "DD, set up the room on the top floor to make it look beautiful! Alex, Tomada I want you guys to find some fruits and nuts from the city! Allie, could you get some flowers for Lila? Preferably purple ones?"

"Yeah! I know a beautiful garden where they grow them!" The pink female replied with a warm grin, and immediately left the church to get to work.

"Perfect! As for myself, I'm gonna go back and try and see if they need anymore help! I hope they aren't struggling too much…"

Let's Go Back To Aiden…

"AHHHHHHHH! POP GOES THE WEASEL!" Aiden bellowed in a loud growl as he squeezed a guard's body tight enough for his head to pop clean off of his shoulders. Then he threw him roughly into a group of birds who were trying to heal some of their men.

RDJ fired three arrows into three different guards who were trying to make a fly for it. And Lila then threw a throwing knife at one who was attacking him from behind.

"Thanks sweet hips!" RDJ cheekily winked at his wife, who giggled and blushed at the flirty compliment. "We are sending them on the run!"

"I know! How many are still left?" Lila asked in excitement as she blocked an attack from another and then cleanly slit his throat.

"There's only 15 left! And most of them were ripped apart by Aiden!"

The scarlet male noticed five more guards attempted to flee the scene, and he wasn't going to let any of them get away.

He flapped his wings super fast due to his feral rage, and he shot right through all five of them knocking them on the floor brutally. Then he shot downwards and landed on two of their heads, squishing them like insects. Then he stabbed one in the throat with his machete, then he countered the second one's attack and stabbed him in the neck. Before grabbing the weapon he was using and rammed it right through the other one's chest. Causing him to spit out a lot of blood.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH! WHO'S NEXT?! WHO IS FUCKING NEXT?!" Aiden screamed in a full amount of rage. As he saw the ten remaining birds all flying away in fear as he did a loud war cry. "YYYYAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! YOU MAY HAVE ESCAPED WITH YOUR LIVES THIS TIME…BUT I WILL HUNT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU DOWN UNTIL THE BLOOD SEPARATES FROM YOUR BODIES!"

After he screamed these last few words, he slowly descended to the ground. And he gradually turned back into his normal self. As he managed to finally calm down after this small victory.

His heavy breathing was slowing down…and then it became lighter, lighter…and lighter until he was fully back to his original self. And Devine was completely confused the entire time, as she felt like she had no control over him whatsoever during this battle.

(Dude? What the hell was that about? I couldn't have any control over you! It's like you shut me out for some reason?)

"Devine…please…leave me alone…" Aiden sadly mumbled, looking like he was just standing there holding in all of these emotions.

(What the hell happened?! Don't you EVER do that to me again!)

"Seriously Devine…Do…Not…Push me!"

"Kid…"

Aiden subtly spun around and laid his eyes upon his mentor. Who was concerned himself after witnessing this display. As was his beloved who stood there in complete disbelief.

"Kid?" RDJ spoke again softly, with his wife joining by his side. "Aiden…What you saw in there…"

"I know…what I saw…I saw…Kids…Innocent kids…burning alive!" The scarlet macaw male whispered softly, trying not to think about it.

"I told you to look away Aiden! You were not meant to see that…"

"HOW COULD YOU JUST STAND THERE AND ACT IF THIS WAS OKAY?!" The scarlet male burst at him with anger in his voice. "WAS IT THEIR TIME?! DID THEY DESERVE TO SUFFER LIKE YOU DID?! LIKE I DID?!"

"Now you just wait one second kid! I didn't say this was a good thing! You just have to learn what you must see, and what you must avoid…"

"OOOOH, THAT IS GREAT ADVICE! COMING FROM THE MOST STRONGEST ASSASSIN IN THE WORLD!" Aiden rose his voice even louder in sarcasm and got right up in his face. As RDJ stood there as cool and laid back as possible. Because he already knew what he was feeling like. "YOU'RE NOT A GOOD ASSASSIN! IF YOU WERE, THEN YOU WOULD BE AS ANGRY AS I AM!"

"How…DARE YOU!" RDJ finally snapped and grabbed Aiden by the scruff of his feathers.

"RDJ?!" Lila shouted in surprise, with her eyes widening large.

"YOU THINK I WANTED THIS TO HAPPEN?! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I HAVE BEEN THROUGH, YOU SPOILT BRAT!" RDJ threw Aiden backwards slightly, not strong enough to throw him to the floor. But just enough to make him stumble a few paces backwards. "Go back to base right now! And don't leave the church until I say otherwise…"

"But…" Aiden tried to protest, because he didn't want to be held up in that church. "I…I'm sorry for disrespecting you…I…I just…"

"That's an order Aiden! Get back to base now!" RDJ pointed his wing towards the edge of the coast.

Aiden sighed heavily and kicked a pile of sand on the ground before flying away from the blue and gold macaw.

He shook his head from side to side when sending the young macaw back to base. And he just put his face in his wing while sighing heavily. "Haaaaaa…what am I gonna do with him?"

Lila noticed that RDJ was feeling upset about his little disagreement with Aiden, and she casually wrapped her wings around him from behind and kissed him on the cheek. "You must understand this from his point of view sweetheart? He just saw a bunch of children massacred in the building? Surely when you were his age, you would have done exactly the same thing?"

"I don't want him to be like me Lila. I want him to be better! I never had it easy growing up, because I had to raise myself when being born into this life! I just wish he saw things in my perspective."

"And he will one day. But…I think right now we should just head back to the church. I don't like being out here before the humans show up!" Lila nervously replied as she noticed that some of them already began to start their days.

"Okay…let's recover for a little while, then we can get to your birthday surprise?" RDJ narrowed his eyes playfully, as he rubbed one of his wings against her butt. Causing her to shiver in delight.

"Great plan! I've been so…hard on you! I just…I get worried that you pay attention to your work more than me?" Lila spoke as she looked down at her talons.

"Hey…" RDJ lifted her head up with his wingtip and smiled dreamily at her purple eyes. "Nothing in this world means more to me than you do. I love you Lila…I love your astonishing eyes…your sexy thighs…and your smooth beak. Not to mention your soft plump butt!"

"Hehehe Now you're even cuter!" The blue female passionately kissed him on the beak again as she wrapped her wings around the back of his neck. And he moved his wings to her thighs as they loved every second of this beautiful moment.

Just Above Where They Were Standing…

As the thick cloud of smoke appeared at the top of the burning building…a silhouette of a figure stood there looking down towards the city.

On the rooftops above where the couple were kissing each other lovingly…a figure wearing a hood stood there and watched on as the couple were deeply into their moment. And the bird started shaking in rage as they saw them down below. "Grrrrrr! There's always a fucking victory for this guy isn't there?! No matter what we throw at him!"

"Would you relax? We got everything under control." A bird emerged from behind them, and it revealed to be none other than The Destroyer himself. "Sure, we may have had a little setback? But we are getting closer to our goal?"

The figure strolled up to him slowly and slapped him across the shoulder, as he just stared at her in a confused manner. "Did you not learn anything from me at all?! You know that we need the girl and the keys before the year is up?! I don't have long left on this earth…and we are running out of time…"

"I already told you that she will leave him! He can't keep impressing her if we take things to the next level?" The Destroyer remarked as he circled around the figure who looked quite confused. "I believe…that they are close to securing the second key! And we will be there waiting for them to come out with it! Then when they do…we send our men to the church to kill their friends! We are so close to getting back what is rightfully ours…I can feel it!"

"Just remember…Cough! Cough! COUGH!…The girl is essential to the final piece! We can't let RDJ figure out what happened all those years ago…because it will further complicate things! I put you in charge of the thugs for a reason!" The figure replied as they turned away from the male, and flapped their wings to go back to where they had emerged from.

The Destroyer then turned back around and cackled evilly, when noticing that RDJ and Lila were now leaving the city to head back to the church. "Oh don't you worry…I think that hot blue piece off ass will leave him! All I gotta do is…intensify matters even further…hehehehe!"

Finally We Head Back To Aiden…

Aiden continued to vigorously flap his wings, as he didn't want to talk or think about anything right now.

He had been silent since the fight with The Remainders, and he didn't want to see what he just saw in the burning building. But the images of those suffering children kept circling around in his mind…that he didn't concentrate on the sky properly.

"AIDEN!"

"Huh?" The scarlet male shot his head up and noticed that Keith, Monifa and Jaime almost clashed right into him. "Wooooah!"

The young scarlet male swerved out of the way quickly, and just managed to regain his focus. As all three of them hovered in mid air next to him.

"Are you okay Aiden?" The muscular blue jay asked, seemingly knowing what the answer was going to be.

"I don't wanna talk about it…there's no point you coming now…RDJ and Lila will be coming back to the church shortly…and all 50 of The Remainders are either dead or they've escaped…" He spoke in a quiet manner…even though he was showing no emotion whatsoever.

"Oh…well I guess we just better head back then?" Keith replied disappointed that he didn't get to fight in any battle yet.

"Yeah…" Aiden replied bluntly, as he carried on with his flight. Leaving his friends surprised by his behaviour.

"What's wrong with him?" Monifa asked next, cocking her head to the side in confusion.

"I don't know…but one thing is for certain…either way, it's not good!" Jaime replied calmly, as all three of them then spun around and flew back the way that they just came.

That's the end of this next chapter dear readers! Obviously Aiden somehow managed to take on all of those guards by himself without fail. RDJ and Lila look like they have made up again after another intense argument. DD told his story on how all three of the Legends got trapped in the cubes and the staff to the others back at the church. All of them are now prepping a secret birthday surprise for Lila that RDJ would need to take credit for. Now another enemy has turned up at the scene giving orders to The Destroyer?! Plus…why is getting Lila so essential to their plan? And what do they have planned next? I'll see you all soon for the next chapter!