Adapting to a new life. Chapter 14 (Port)
Meanwhile near the outskirts of the city a tired Daniel has been powering walking threw pathways and open areas since he was informed that Joe had been rescued and was currently healing in some aviary. He couldn't think about anything else except on how fast he should be going with his expectations growing as he came closer to an eventual lie for little did they know Joe was actually being taken to a unknown location to be sold. Never mind The sun didn't look like it wanted to stay up high in the sky for much longer as it could see seen slowly heading down towards the horizon making time of the essence.
"Come on!, They said it would be around here somewhere." An agitated Daniel grunted as he looked around his surroundings.
It was just as he finished his rant that a bright light caught his glaze from the corner of his eyes, past a couple of trees a dazzling yellow beam could be spotted. A hint of relief ran threw him as he at least could relax and start walking at a casual pace. Upon entering the aviary the first thing he was greeted to was a blue bird jumping on top of a keyboard typing out words with two staff members watching the screen. For a second Dan wondered if he was actually still asleep or maybe in a nuthouse.
"Phweeep." (Its meant to be a whistling noise but I don't think there is a actual write spelling for it :P) Daniel made the noise to alert the two staff of his presence.
Instantly everyone stopped and stared at him for a moment before the male doctor approached while the female one watched the bird continue.
"He's a vey talented bird if you were wondering." The doctor answered the question circling Dan's head. "Anyways.. how can I help you?."
"Umm okay, I was told by the police that you had recently rescued a Lear's macaw?." Dan asked with his arms crossed.
"Yeah are you the owner of Him?." The doctor asked.
"Yeah I lost him straight after we landed here now can I please see him?." Daniel asked.
The doctor nodded and proceeded to walk towards a long hallway packed out with doors on either side but just as they were about to Blu flew onto Tulio's shoulder and kept pointing towards the screen with his wing. Tulio and Daniel both quickly looked over to see a sentence on the screen.
"Joe isn't there, he escaped and somehow got caught by smugglers and put into a car. Jewel and the others are after him as we speak!." The screen read with Blu adding in a little lie along with it.
"Wait!, what? I thought all the rest of the smugglers in the city would flee after 3 experts smugglers were arrested." Tulio asked.
"We've got no time to waste then!." Daniel said with hitting his fist against the palm of his other hand.
Just then he became to run towards the main door but within literally a second of him dong so he slipped on wet surface and fell on his back.
"Sorry, should of placed a caution there." A janitor walked in and apologized.
"Ow!." Daniel silent yelled out in pain.
Everyone else looked at Dan for a moment as he squirmed to get himself up then Tulio looked over at Linda and Blu.
"Linda get the car keys." Tulio ordered.
(Meanwhile with Jewel and the others...)
Jewel and Katie were still following the car even as it approached population areas of the city making sure they didn't lose it. Before hand Jewel took her kids to go back to the club with Rafael, Nico and Pedro also Katie would of been with them but her constant denying lead her to come along. They were now currently at the middle of a bridge with the car stopped at the side.
"Come on where is Blu and all." Jewel asked herself.
"I don't know but look there leaving the...the..." Katie who was obviously struggling to finish her last word was interrupted by Jewel.
"Car?." Jewel intervened.
"Yeah!, see?." Katie agreed while pointing her wing towards the group of people exiting the vehicle.
As soon as everyone left the vehicle they all started to walk towards some stairs leading below Joe who was spotted by Jewel looked like he was sleeping...either that or they just knocked him out for being annoying perhaps. The two spy birds took flight once more and steadily glided around the stairs and noticed that it they were close to an old building near the water some thoughts of what might happen started to pop into Jewels mind and her speculations were well justified. The group of smugglers struggled to open the rusty door but it was only a small problem for them as eventually they were all inside.
"What is that?." Katie asked.
"Its a port, have you never heard of them before?." Jewel answered..
"Well yea but I never seen one in real life." Katie explained to Jewel.
"Come on then." Jewel ended the short talk.
Jewel and Katie landed beside the door and tried to move it but it was too heavy also it was quite noisy so they went around the other way if it was really an abandoned port there would be an opening at the other side. As soon as they reached the side they were greeted with a very dimly lit area just about able to see.
"Should we wait on the others?." Katie asked.
"Yea, because they have psychic abilities don't they?." Jewel sarcastically answered. "We will just have to try and do what we can from here hopefully they leave and give us time to break Joe out or something."
Although Dan, Tulio, Linda and Blu were trying to locate them via the police security cameras on the roads they would take time to arrive...time that they don't have.
Suddenly Jewel other heard taking coming from mark who had Joe's cage in his hand.
"Listen boys, don't let this cage out of your site you here me! I need to go and inform our customer that his product is ready for collection." Mark ordered two others then disappeared out sight.
A smile grin appeared on Jewels face as Katie angled her head to see over her shoulder.
"Ok I have a plan, I need you to distract the guards while I unlock the cage or break it open I heard Blu mumbled the code out earlier so it should only be a snitch." Jewel explained.
"Okay if you say so." Katie said while taking flight behind a couple of barrels.
Using her body weight she became to make the barrels wobble and eventually tipple over, attracting one of the guards while the other still stood his ground. Katie notice this and lured the wondering guard out of sight before dropping a rock onto his head causing him to yell in pain.
"Are you okay!" The stationed guard shouted before running other towards the source of pain.
It was Jewels turn to play her role as she glided down a piece of rope, upside down like Spiderman and without making a peep she began to adjust the digits.
"1...9...1...6 perfect!." Jewel proudly whispered to herself as she forced the cage door open. "Joe...Joe wake up."
Joe's eyes began to twitch and he also started to move around before slowly opening his eyes.
"Ahhhhhh my head! I feel like I'm going to be sick." Joe said with both of his wings on his beak.
Jewel backed off a bit.
"Hey, don't vomit near me I just washed myself!." Jewel instructed.
"Can you give me just another minute." Joe asked as he positioned himself in a sleeping matter.
"What?, Do you even know where you are? we need to get out of here now!." Jewel shouted.
"Right! calm down I'm coming now" Joe apologised before getting back onto his talons, walking out of his cage "Excellent, everything's still a bit blurry."
"Right come on!." Jewel said while taking flight.
But suddenly she was hit by a bucket of water causing her to fall to the ground with someone grabbing her soon after, the same happened to Joe but without the water. Jewel looked around to see Mark holding Katie by the talons in his hand and a phone in the other.
"I knew it! as soon as I leave my no good guards to protect my values something would always come along so that's why I hired more people to make sure that didn't happen again." Mark happily said. "Throw them all into that cage."
Just then Jewel and Joe were tossed into the same cage with Katie being thrown in after, landing on top of Joe. Without a hesitation Joe blushed and pulled Katie off him to which she also had a blushed face as well joint with an shocked expression.
"Now this just got awkward..." Joe quietly said to himself.