The third chapter in Rio of The Dead, so far mostly positive reviews. So I'll keep this up. This chapter will be a truing point, for the rating and the story. So here it is. ~Hyrum
Chapter Three: Going Downtown
Jameson walked into the master bedroom. He sighed at what he saw Arlene resting her head on top of Hyrum's chest , but didn't think much of it.
"Ah… guy's. Pack it up lets go." His voice woke Hyrum up from his rather nice sleep, also Arlene moved slightly as he spoke., but didn't awake her. Hyrum rolled his eyes when he saw Jameson's expression.
"She couldn't sleep." Hyrum said as he nudged her awake.
"Is it morning already?" Arlene asked.
"Yep, we have started a plan and we need you guy's to help us with it" Jameson said. Hyrum sat up as Arlene got off him. Hyrum walked into the living room. Tomada was sitting on the sofa watching the news. As soon as Hyrum walked in with Arlene he asked:
"Did you sleep well? Or was it to pleasurable?" Hyrum rolled his eyes and Arlene winked, for she took humor better. Hyrum was about to retort, but Sorrel walked out of the room her feathers all messed up.
"Wow, what a night." she said and groggily walked in.
"I could ask you the same thing." Hyrum said with a giggle.
"She fell out of bed three times." Tomada replied.
"Well, well, well by the looks of it four people lost their virginity last night." Alex said as he walked in.
"No I didn't!" Tomada, Sorrel, Hyrum and Arlene said at once.
(PS I wrote this before Tomada and Sorrel became mates in Armageddon so they're aren't mates.)
"Yeah sure, an we keep personal stuff out of trying to survive the outbreak?" Jameson asked clearly irritated. Alex looked
"Okay, mom." he replied. Hyrum softly laughed.
"Well were going to need food patrol," Roran began as he looked in the empty shelf. "So who wants to go first?" Tomada raised his wing.
"I can fly faster then 230 miles and hour when I'm diving." Sorrel also raised her wing, (Or 370 Kilometers an hour for some.)
"I can heal people with my green eco." She said.
"Well ten you go get us food while we chill here." Hyrum said and plopped down on the couch. Roran looked out the window.
"I will go with you guy's, I now my way around. Com' on guys lets go." So Tomada, Sorrel and Roran flew out of the hollow. Leaving Hyrum, Alex and Arlene with the task of waiting.
"So what do we do?" Alex asked. Arlene walked into the kitchen and grabbed three margarita glasses.
"Get rounded." Arlene said with a devious smile. Alex and Hyrum exchanged a glanced then Hyrum said:
"Who gives a shit anyway. It's the apocalypse anyway were probably all going to die." Alex flew towards the refrigerator and opened the door, to his own surprise there was tequila and rum. Up in the wine holders there was what was meant to be in them, white and red wine.
"We could have one hell of a party." Alex said as he walked back into the living room where Arlene was
"Well? Come on then lets get the music blasting and the drinks pouring!" Hyrum said. Jameson, who wanted no pat of it, just went to his makeshift room.
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Meanwhile in the jungle,
"Okay, we need fruit and I'll get my own food, I'll be back in five." Tomada said as he flew away. Leaving Sorrel and Roran together too gather as much food as possible.
"I'll get mango's." Sorrel said as she scanned the tree line.
"Then I'll get starfruit." Roran said and he flew up into a nearby tree. He heard a rustle in the branches, "Umm... hello? Who is it?" He called. The only answer he got was a zombie bird come flying out of the lush leaves and knocking him down to the ground. To fight back he pulled out one of his knives from his ankle holder. "Let's tango." He said as the zombie bird charge. Roran easily killed the thing off with on slash to the head, ripping the face in-two. Blood dripped from the end of his knife. Roran began to walk away, then suddenly two zombie birds leaped in front of him. (My zombie birds are gonna become more demotic.)
"No!" the screeched in a raspy voice. Their bright red beady eyes locked on him. He was able to push one away just as another knocked him aside.
"HELP ME!" he screamed as one more zombie bird joined the fight.
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The words 'Help Me' drifted across the air as Sorrel picked two more mangoes from the tree.
"Tim to head back." She mumbled under her breath. Sorrel flew above the trees. ounce she neared the return spot, she landed neatly on the ground t find Roran bitten and bleeding on the forest floor.
"Help... me..." He weakly said. There was tons of evidence pointing towards the zombie birds. Sorrel looked up and took off leaving Roran still lying there.
"TOMADA! Tomada help!" She called though the forest as she sprinted with increased using one of her ecos. Once she spotted her boyfriend he ran up into his wings.
"Whoa, there Sorrel." As her momentum knocked Tomada back, once he saw the distressed look on her face he immediately asked: "what's wrong, beautiful?"
"The zombie birds the- they got Roran." She said shakily. Tomada looked around
"Is he alive?" Sorrel nodded to Tomada's question. "Is he hurt?" He asked as well.
"He's been bitten, we need to save him!" Tomada put a feather to her beak,
"Calm down, we will. Just take me there alright." Sorrel nodded. So Tomada and Sorrel tour though the forest, once they arrived at the seen, Roran was still bleeding from his bite on the neck.
"Roran were here." Tomada said, the Macaw looked up.
"Okay I'm using my eco." Sorrel said as she placed her green eco on his bite wound. It did nothing.
"Wha- what? What the Hell! We need to get him back to Arlene's were we can properly treat him." Tomada said. Sorrel rushed and took a big peice of bark from a tree and used it as a stretcher.
"Okay, Tomada on my mark, one, two, three lift!" She said as they flew back to Arlene's with Roran on the makeshift stretcher.
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Hyrum rubbed Arlene's back as she threw up more alcohol in the toilet, for she had four to many.
"There, there Arlene. It's okay I got you." Hyrum said to comfort her. While Alex still danced to the beat. Jameson was still in the room. Hyrum had one wing around Arlene as they walked back to her room.
"Where you guy's going to?" Alex asked as the song stopped.
"She needs to rest-" The rest of Hyrum's sentence was cut of by Tomada hawk kicking in the main door.
"Damn. what an entry." Arlene manged to say while Sorrel and Tomada brought a wounded Roran back in.
"He needs medical help." Sorrel said. Tomada placed him on the dinning table and ripped the Ipod out of the amp and threw it crossed the room, shattering it.
"My Ipod!" Alex said. Arlene pointed with her wing to a cabinet
"The first-ad kit is in there." She said
"Okay." Sorrel said and grabbed it with one wing. They started to patch Roran up, but then he jerked and his eyes turned red. Roran was turning, he lunged for Tomada. Then a gun shot rang out from the other side of the room. The new Roran dropped dead like a stone.
"I'm so sorry Roran." Jameson said as he walked in with a pistol in his hand. "This place isn't safe your lucky I found this in the room. We head for Downtown at dawn rest up." Jameson finished. They all went back to their sleeping spots. The moon was high in the sky when Tomada found the courage to speak.
"Good night Sorrel, I- I love you." Tomada manged to get out as he lay there still awake. Sorrel opened one eye to gaze at him.
"I'm glad, Tomada, because I love you too." Tomada blushed and Sorrel planted a kiss on his cheek before dozing off. Meanwhile Arlene cuddled up next to Hyrum. He reluctantly placed his wings over her to keep her warm. She let out a sigh and then fell asleep. Hyrum after watching the beauty of her sleep, said something he never thought he'd say before.
"You know Arlene, I think I'm in love with you." He didn't know if she heard him or not, all that mattered now was to stay alive.
Well third chapter done, I'd like to thank Skyler The Elf Owl for joining the Survivors, and it looks like were gonna have a love story o our hands here. ;) See ya soon! ~Hyrum