Well here it is! My final Chapter! Please enjoy.
Everyone was silent. Awkwardly silent.
"Uh oh." Melvin whispered. I gave him a worried look.
"Uh Tulio, Why are there all these birds here?" Linda said to the scrawny guy with glasses who im guessing was Tulio. He shrugged.
"I don't know. Must be a rescue mission for Blu and Jewel."
"Tori!" I heard Nico yell from across the room. I glanced at him and noticed he looked overjoyed to see me. I then made the mistake of looking at Nigel as he gave me a death glare.
"Quick! What's the plan?" Melvin whispered to me. I thought for a second.
"Okay, Melvin you're going to open Nico, Brittany, Pedro, and Rafael's cage. I'm going to open Blu, Jewel, and the kids' cage. Everyone else, you're going to go after Nigel and the bird smugglers." Everyone nodded. "Okay…GO!" I shouted and almost instantaneously all birds lashed up into the air. I went straight the Blu and Jewel's cage. I opened it and the 'Mini-Macaws' came scrambling out. Before Blu or Jewel could even move something hard knocked me away and closed the cage. I looked up and saw one of the bird smugglers carrying Blu and Jewel off. Linda, Tulio, and the boy they entered with ran after followed by Nico, Pedro, Rafael and Melvin. Where's Brittany? I looked around the room and saw her standing in a corner looking terrified. I flew over to her.
"Brittany, What are you doing? We need your help. I thought you wanted to win Nico back?" I hesitated.
"Yeah that was before I saw the look on his face when he saw you were here. He's never given me that look. Nico really likes you. And I've been so selfish. Im sorry for being so mean before." She looked at me. I slyly smiled.
"Thanks but right now I need you to help the 'Mini-Macaws'. Hide them from Nigel and calm them down okay?" She nodded quickly and flew off towards the 'Mini-Macaws'. I looked around the lobby and saw about 10 birds from the club were wounded and laying on the ground. Everyone else was gone. They must be going after Blu and Jewel and the Bird smugglers.
"Hello there pretty birdie." I whipped around and saw Nigel perched on top of the cage Nico, Brittany, Pedro, and Rafael was in. He had a mischievous grin on his face.
"I thought y-you were after Blu and Jewel." I stumbled.
"Nah. I thought I'd stick around here. Glad I did. Now it's just you and me." He smirked.
"I'm not afraid of you." I breathed.
"Funny…you should be." He smiled a crooked and disturbing smile. I gasped at that.
"Well im not." I said trying to sound confidant. Judging by the look on his face I knew I was failing. Before I could even take a breath the large cockatoo charged at me. He unexpectedly slammed into my stomach and sent me flying across the room. The sudden blow knocked the wind out of me. I looked at Nigel horrified as he flew up to me and grinned in my face.
"Afraid yet?" He smirked. I shook my head. I wasn't letting him get the upper wing. I gathered my breath and flew upward fast before he could get me again. I dove back down and hit him head on. I didn't even leave a mark.
"Why don't you just give up?" Nigel laughed. "You can't beat me." I continued to hit him and claw him and slam against him but I didn't do anything besides hurt myself more. "Alright I'm getting tired of this. If you don't mind, I've got better things to do then sit here and let you make a fool of yourself so I'm just going to finish you off already."
I yelped in pain as he swung his wing around and hit me in the face. I fell to the floor. He flew up and started to dive down. I braced myself for impact but for some reason I felt nothing. I opened my eyes and saw Nigel was on the floor a few feet away. I was surprised to see Blu flying over him.
"Blu? What are you doing? You have to get out of here!" I groaned in pain. I tried to get up but was forced back down by the agonizing pain in my stomach.
"Relax yourself Tori. The pain will get worse." Blu yelped as Nigel flew up and chased him.
"Blu! Blu." I breathed out as I slowly started to lose consciousness. I blinked trying to keep myself awake. Suddenly I saw 5 familiar birds floating over me as I painfully drifted into a sleep of blackness.
I slowly woke for the third time. Maybe dad was right about the dangers of Rio. I looked around. At least my vision was getting clear faster. I didn't recognize where I was. Some sort of lab or vet office maybe.
"How are you feeling?" Nico's voice startled me. I turned and saw that he was sitting next to me. I smiled softly.
"In a lot of pain but im doing better." I said in a raspy voice.
"That's expected. Nigel really knocked you out." I shuddered at the thought of Nigel.
"What happened? Is everyone okay? Is Blu okay? Where's Blu?" I panicked. He started laughing.
"Whoa whoa calm down, Blu's fine, everyone's fine. A few birds were injured but nothing too serious. Nigel is taken care of so we don't have to worry about him anymore. Everything's fine. Don't worry." Nico smiled reassuringly. I sighed in relief.
"Good." I laughed. "Better make room in that nest of yours. Because im staying with you."
"Oh boy!" Nico smiled and took my wing in his. "You know this is the first real moment we've had together."
"Yeah but isn't there something you want to say to me." I gave him a knowing look. He chuckled softly.
"Tori, I love you." I stared at him in shock.
"I was talking about you saying 'thank you for saving me'." I smiled at him. He started to get flustered.
"Uh yeah that, that's uh what I was going to say. N-not the I love you part um-" Nico stumbled. I laughed.
"Fine. Be in denial. But I love you too." He smiled at me. Then before thinking I kissed him. When we parted he stared at me with a grin. I was about to apologize when I looked at his face and saw that he was smiling. I smiled back. I was happy. For the first time in a long time. Knowing everything was going to be okay. Knowing i wasn't Invisible to anyone. But that's not the point. The point was that I was happy. Because everyone else was happy. And to me that's all that mattered. I had friendship, love, and happiness, all in the wonderful place of Rio, I now call home.
I just wanted to say Thank you! For reading and reviewing and enjoying. I had alot of fun writing this story. and who knows maybe i'll make a sequel. What do you guys think? Final reviews please! Thank you! :)