CHAPTER 10

Just as everyone started planning, with the kids left out so they wouldn't get involved, a scream sounded out. Everyone stopped moving and one of the kids yelled out "JANE!"

"TJ! Stephan! What happened?" Jewel asked the kids. Blu and the others were calling out for Jane.

"W-we were sitting and playing, w-when a-a big white bird that looked like Uncle Nico swooped down and grabbed her and flew off with her!" TJ sputtered out. Him and his brother were crying and Rafael's kids were hiding behind Eva shaking in fear.

"Damn it. Roderick musta taken her." Nico stated. He thought for a moment before remember something his brothers told him earlier and flying off. Everyone stared after him in surprise.

"Where's he going?" Blu asked, still staring in the direction he went.

"He probably went to go find Jane. Someone should go follow him if he did." Rafael said.

"I'll go!" Pedro offered. He flew off in the same direction as Nico yelling, "Yo! Wait up, bro!" as he flew.

"Well…they won't do much good against Thomas and Roderick but we can worry about that later. We need to keep looking ourselves and think of a plan to get rid of those two brutes." Jewel stated. The others that were left nodded and went back to what they doing.

"Hey, Nico, where're we going?" Pedro asked. He had finally caught up to the speedy canary and was starting to get tired. He wasn't the fittest of birds.

"We're going to get the asshole's who think it's a good idea to use a little chick to get me to go to them. Sick bastards." Nico cursed. Pedro was slightly shocked. He'd never heard Nico swear so much in such a short amount of time. He couldn't help but wonder how such a tiny bird can hold so much anger. His life really has stunk. Even the way he got that hat of his wasn't a good, happy time. Though it did cover up his matted head feathers.

"How do you know where they are? They could be anywhere." Pedro stated. Just then they came to an abandoned house near the beach.

"They told me they were staying here. And when we were kids they would always hide my things in old, burnt down, destroyed places 'cause they knew I wouldn't go in. They freaked me out. So, why not check here?" He said. He didn't look happy. He looked scared, tired, and utterly upset. Pedro wasn't sure how well they'd do if the twin brothers attacked, which was most likely. He gulped.

"Man…what are we supposed to do if they attack? I'm wiped from trying to catch you and you don't look so hot either."

"Don't know. All I know is that right now we need to find out if they're in there. If they are we act from that. If not we go back to looking. Sound good to you?" Nico looked to Pedro. Nico had a glassy look to his eye and he seemed to be staring more through Pedro than at him. Pedro had a bad feeling the stress was getting to Nico and if it was then he wouldn't be of much help in getting Jane back.

The two of them flew to a window and looked inside. What they were looking at was a one room, one floor house. In the middle was the twins and Jane sitting on the floor. The two bigger birds were struggling to keep her still.

As Pedro and Nico snuck further into the house through the window the conversation they were having became clearer.

"Sit still! Jeez you squirm more than our sister did when she was a baby." Thomas was saying well helping Roderick keep the girls wings pinned down.

"Bite me!" Jane spat back. Nico and Pedro silently cheered for her bravery. "You guys are just a couple of jerks! Uncle Nico told us about that fire and everyone agrees you two were the cause of it. You tried to kill him more than once! Meanies!" She bit Roderick when he tried to close her beak to keep her quiet.

"Ouch! Why you little-"Roderick was about to smack her but she ducked and he hit Thomas instead.

"Hey! Watch it would you! We can't hurt her anyway. You know what happens when that runt gets too pissed off." Thomas stated. Roderick stopped talking and looked around for a minute.

"Yeah I know. He's the smallest, but when he gets pissed off his rage gets the better of him. Man, he broke that twig hard over our heads. Dad said the thing broke into 5 pieces. I couldn't believe it. Course, the twit didn't even know how hard he hit us. Left without seeing anything." Roderick chuckled nervously. He was obviously still scared of the wrath of the runt.

"Yeah. That was a close call. Good thing his strength only comes out when he's mad though, or we would be nothing. He could sing, dance, calm down Serena and he fly early. Man I hate that brat. We shoulda made sure those leaves were tighter." Jane started squirming and making noise again so the conversation ended there.

"Whoa, man. I knew you were strong from when we were attacked by those monkeys, but breaking a stick over someone's head so hard it breaks into 5 pieces…that's beast." Pedro whispered. Nico smiled, for the first time in a while, and looked at him.

"Imagine what would happen if I weren't to take out all my anger on them now. It wouldn't be pretty. That time they just ticked me off after making fun of my singing for 3 days straight. I've got 10x that much anger in me now."Nico had an evil look to his eyes and Pedro smiled in a devilish way. Them brutes were going down. 2 big canaries against a cardinal with a gut that could kill and a pissed off bird with hidden strength? No problemo.

"Yeah man. Do you think we should try now? Get Jane outta here and send her to go get the others well we hold off them?" It sounded like a good plan to Nico, so he nodded his agreement.

I just think I should give people a warning, there's only three more chapters and they aren't very good. i'm trying to get around to fixing them but i might not. so, yeah. but i am working on other stories; one for this and two or three for the book series of The Guardians of Ga'Hoole. so yeah. later :D