Adapting to a new life. Chapter 2 (Not even 5 minutes in...
It had been a couple of hours since the airplane's doors were closed and while most of the birds were asleep apart from Joe who was thinking to himself about what the others said earlier.
"I wonder how these domestic pets are going to react when they actually meet some of their own kind" He thought to himself "Oh I totally forgot about the amount of wild birds in brazil... hmm yea... I probably shouldn't of forgot about that."
But as he was thinking about his situation he could hear someone calling him, he turned around to see another macaw looking at him, It was a tall hyacinth macaw.
"I take it that your not used to be having freedom huh?" The macaw said.
"I do have freedom and I also have food, protection and shelter so don't lecture me" Joe calmly responded .
"Ok, first off you don't have the luxury of flying an...?" The Bird was about to finish but was interrupted.
A alarm could be hear from above.
"Ladies and Gentlemen we will be starting to descend so I will activate the safety seat sign thank you" A man on the speaker spoke.
The macaw looked back towards Joe with a grin.
"You wont even last 5 minutes here" The macaw laughed to himself.
But just as Joe was going to say something back to him the airplane touched down onto the air strip which nearly made him sick once again. Soon later the back of the airplane started to slowly open revealing two people on the other side one was in a transport vehicle and the other was just loading the cages onto the transport to be token to the airport.
"Yes finally!, fresh air" Joe cheered but then quickly realised that it came with something else.
A sudden heat wave slow to a complete halt as he rapidly started to breath faster than normal and falling onto his back.
"Ahh...the heat! how do you all stand this" Joe yelled as he felt like his feathers were being lit on fire.
"You'll get used to it" A female voice shouted from behind.
After he had heard some confidence from others he noticed one of the staff sticking the top of a water bottle to suck on. Without hesitation Joe quickly jumped up and ran over to the source of water, it must off been a couple minutes since he started drinking, finally the staff removed the bottle and went on to another cage. After everyone had gotten water the human began to lift all the cages onto the transport since Joe was near the end when he went he wouldn't have to wait much longer. Soon it was his turn to be lifted onto the transport but just as the person grabbed his cage an unexpected figure appeared behind him and stopped him from mounting the cage on. It was a female with black hair, wearing a suit and had a pair of aviators on her head. Before the guy handling the cages could ask anything she asked first.
"Sir may I ask, where do you live?" She asked.
The person looked at her for a moment before responding "Rio, the part were most of us live" He responded hinting about the favelas.
She then reached into her pocket and pulled out a bag of money, Joe in the meanwhile was worrying about what might happen.
"Give me this bird and you can help your family" The woman said with a grin on her face and waving the bag in his.
Suddenly the man handled over the cage to the female and took the money, Disappearing around the corner with the guy in the transport while the women waited until they was out of site and looked down towards her latest purchase dead in the eye.
"Finally a Lear macaw hopefully you loved your owner because by the time I'm done with you well...you wont even recognize him or her.
"Ha!, doubt that how about you take your ugly face away and unlock this cage huh?" Joe mockingly asked "I really need to find my true owner"
Her face slowly got closer and closer to the bars of the cage with Joe moving back until his back met with the other side.
"Your starting to creep me out here please stop!" Joe asked with a hint of mixed emotions behind his voice
"Ok I think we have wasted enough time here..lets go" She said while walking towards a parked car with the cage
"Aww you look a bit frightened what happened to that brave act you were doing back there?" She softly said
He was then set inside the back seat of the car beside the window while the girl seating beside him with her arm on top of his cage. She looked over at the driver who was also wearing a suit and pair of glasses.
"Traga-me a minha casa de uma só vez" The woman ordered the driver who just nodded. "I think the others are going to like you"
Joe imminently looked at her with wide eyes and a hung open beak.
"Others?, What do you mean others" He shouted but she couldn't understand him and just smiled
Once the car started Joe knew that this was serious and that it wasn't even 5 minutes after landing and he was already being kid-napped.
Meanwhile with Dan.
"What do you mean he's not here?" Daniel asked with concern.
"I'm sorry sir, are you sure he's not a Hyacinth Macaw?" The receptionist responded.
"No!, he's a Lear's Macaw look I don't have enough time to argue now can I just have my bloody bird so I can leave" Daniel calmly said.
The receptionist huffed and began phoning people while Dan looked over his shoulder to see a guy counting a huge amount of money from a bag just before left the building he dropped something that looked very familiar to a feather. Without hesitation he ran over to were they guy was at and confirmed his suspicions. A small blue feather lay on the floor. Quickly he took out his phone and snapped a photo of him just incase he had something to do with this.
"Here who is this guy?" Daniel asked while returning to the receptionist.
"That's one of our transport staff why did you take a photo for?" The woman asked with his the phone being covered by her hand.
"Umm. He walked in my way when I was trying to take a photo of the area" Dan stated.
"Well your birds not here and I have sent security to scan the whole airport, if he is here he will be found" She finally said as she was about to go through the door "My advice just go to your hotel and wait, we have you information."
She then fully closed the door behind causing a dilemma for Daniel does he leave and hope his bird can be returned to him or does he wait. He made his mind up thinking he wouldn't do any good and just hoped to find him nipping on some food later on."
"Please be safe" Daniel said as he got into a taxi.