Adapting to a new life. Chapter 5 (Searching)
It was a new day outside with the morning sun scorching everything it could and Daniel was out and about looking for a Taxi to the airport, the suspense was literally killing him and he needed to find out that hopefully Joe had been recovered and was just waiting on him. Suddenly as he was walking down a street he saw a yellow car with a Taxi sign on the top. He speed walked over to it.
"Taxi?" Daniel asked the driver.
The driver looked over at him and lowered the window, Daniel just repeated himself.
"Yes" The driver responded while unlocking the passenger door so that Dan could get in.
"Galeão International Airport" Daniel said.
The driver only nodded and started up the car, It would be another hour till he got there so he just stuck in his ear phones and started to listen to music. Eventually after his playlist was nearly over he arrived at his destination.
"We ahh..here" The driver said.
"Aye, sorry here you go and cheers" Daniel thanked as he gave this fare and left the car.
Dan walked on into the airport noticing that it wasn't as busy and it was yesterday and started to re trace his steps back to the place were he last saw the receptionist. He saw here writing note on paper and walked up to her.
"Hi, I've came back to check on the status of my pet?" Daniel spoke with his arm leaned up against the desk.
"Oh yea from yesterday let me check the status report" The receptionist said "Umm, we did manage to find your pet on the security cameras but.."
She slide a series of photos all showing the female paying the staff for the cage that Joe was him, His gripped suddenly tightened around the photo but then let go. Dan looked at the photos one by one, over and over again with each time his face becoming more angry and angry
"I want info on that corrupt disgrace for a person" Daniel ordered as he stuck the photos in his pocket
The receptionist felt intimidated and quickly printed out a sheet of the staff's job application Daniel snatched it and walked out of the building, eyes focused on were he lived and address.
Meanwhile...
It was cold and dark with the only source of light being a small window that could barley penetrate the thick layer of darkness, the sound of swinging chain was the only source of sound in the room and figures of all colours could be seeing in cages either hanging or put on top of each other. Lying in one was Joe who was placed on his stomach suddenly his eyes began to twitch followed by his wings moving to push him up. His eyes opened as he managed to stand, his face was pale from the re opened wound.
"N..not again it feels like I was bait with a baseball bat" Joe thought to himself as he poked his head.
Suddenly his vision came back to him and instantly once again he found himself still in a cage but this time it was hanging!.
"Need to..get out" Joe whispered as he tried to move but fell over from being too weak.
For the next five minutes he would be breathing heavily attempting to get some of his strength back. Suddenly he heard a door creak as it was being opened a fat male came walking in with another cage and a check list.
"Toucan...Silver teal and what about that macaw" The man said as he ticked boxes on his list before looking over at Joe "It's alive sweet! there's a extra zero on my pay check".
He then walked out but the door was slow to close and two people could be over heard talking.
"Boss that Lear macaws alive so is he still going?" The fat man asked.
"He is?, good I was fearing that we would have to make an excuse to our wealthy client" A squeakier man responded.
The door then closed blocking out all the sound on the other side with mumbles and quiet noises. Joe once again got up and fell onto the bars around his cage making a lot of noise in the process.
"Hey keep it down I'm trying to get some sleep here!" A female bird ordered.
"Screw you!" Joe erupted, rubbing his eyes.
The female started to shout and insult him but Joe just ignored her but the rest of the room didn't as they all began to argue amount themselves for no actual reason since it was between Joe and some random Joe was able to get a bit of strength back and took some time to look around the room for anything that came become a help to him. Due to the location his cage was being hanged from it was going to be difficult to get down since his wing feathers haven't fully grown back yet. But there was another option...what if he could swing the cage from left to right until it hit off a wall? hoping that the cage door would bust open. Quickly Joe ran from the far end of the cage to the other end soon eventually he could hear the corners tapping off the wall and when it was coming back again instead of running to the other side he basically jumped in it adding more force to the crash. The corner collided with the wall so hard that it sent Joe flying back to the other side falling on his back but also breaking off the lock of the cage meaning that he could literally just push it open.
"Oh god it actually worked!" Joe whispered to himself as he shook his head.
He then walked up to the door and slowly opened it trying not to made more noise than he had recently made, once he was on the outside of it he saw a small table sitting near the window, not thinking twice Joe jumped out of the cage and crashed onto the table.
"AHHHHH GOD DAMMIT! THAT HURTS LIKE HELL! AHHHHHHH" Joe yelled as he grabbed his own wing and started roll about.
He must of sobbed to himself for another five minutes before getting back up and letting go off his wing. By the way he was acting you'd think his wing was broken but once he removed his other wing there was only a small brose on it. Unknown to him how ever someone else herd his over dramatic cry's and started hitting the door. Joe froze on the spot thinking that he had already been caught...
"Ahhhh" Joe exhaled but then the door was quickly opened.
A Grey hound came walking in with its nose on the ground sniffing everything that he came apon slowly Joe moved his talons towards the small window while staring at the dog keeping his cool.
'SMASH!'
Joe swiftly looked over at his talon to see that he had tippled over a glass jar and smashed into pieces before he could respond the dog started to bark and attempt to make its way to him followed by the fat man who had now also walked in. Joe quickly bolted towards the small window that Joe could just about get through but apon arriving at it he didn't jump out straight away...he decided to agitate them so he rapidly stuck up his wing and bend all of his feathers except the middle one and pointed it to them.
"Next time don't get your cages out of a car boot sale!" Joe shouted to the man.
But suddenly the Dog jumped straight at his face causing Joe to freak out and fall.