Disclaimers: I don't own Rio but I do own the villain of this story. I don't own: Crexis the purple macaw, Rico the black hawk, Arlene the Scarlet Macaw or Rapper the red macaw. They ALL belong to their original authors'.
Unleashing the monster within.
Jewel sighed longingly as she stared out of the tree's circular entrance, waiting for a sign that Blu will return. She awoken to find that her mate was gone without leaving so much as a note. "C'mon, Pet. Where are you?" She muttered sadly.
Jewel then heard a familiar voice that forced her to lift her head in alarm and she saw none other than her young daughters and son: Jasmine, Savannah and Bobby "Where's dad?"
Jewel stood up and walked over to her young children. They were still young Chick's but they were old enough to understand what was happening. The cerulean blue macaw sighed shamefully as she knew she had to tell the children what had happened.
Standing up and turning to face the three chicks; she explained "Kids, you're dad's gone. He didn't leave a note or anything."
The three younger blue macaw's looked horrified to hear this news as their eyes were just about ready to pop out of their skulls. It was Savannah who managed to find her voice first "...Are you kidding!? Dad...left?!"
Jewel nodded to confirm that she wasn't joking but before anything else could be said or done, series of breathlessness mingled with each other outside the tree and when Jewel and the triplets hurried to the entrance, they saw both Rico the black hawk and Arlene the Scarlet macaw both breathing tiredly and they looked anxious.
"What's the matter, Uncle Rico and Aunt Arlene? Are you guys okay?!" Jasmine asked fearfully as she ducked her head. She could have sworn her heart was pounding from the shock of all that transpired this morning.
Rico managed to speak first as he panted ferociously, wrapping a strong wing over his skinny rib cage in a vain attempt to calm his beating heart as he let out gasps of perplexity of the situation "Jewel...Kids...Newcomers...Entrance!" Was all he managed to spill out and Arlene took over, yet she wasn't as bad as Rico was "There are...Some newcomers...At the entrance of the jungles looking for you,...Jewel."
Jewel tilted her head to one side in confusion "Newcomers?" She echoed in interest as she then hurriedly took flight but not before allowing Jasmine on her back and she rapidly flapped her graceful wings as she allowed her body to be airborne and she, with Savannah and Bobby tailing behind her, soared through the skies to quickly reach these 'Newcomers' Rico and Arlene spoke of.
After a minute of searching the jungles, Jasmine pointed a wing down towards a huge patch on the ground that was crowded by unfamiliar birds "Look! Down there!" Jewel, Savannah and Bobby looked down to see what Jasmine was talking about and saw that Rafael, his wife, Eva, and Crexis the purple macaw were trying to calm the panicked birds down.
Jewel and the children landed alongside the duo of Toucans and the Purple macaw while looking interested and Bobby asked in confusion "What happened here?"
It was then that the family got a great look at the multitude of birds and each of them found that their voices had abandoned them. Pretty much all of the birds had something different about them! Many had insectoid wings or an extra eye. They all had this certain yet noticeable difference to each other.
Mutations were what these birds were but from what Jewel could notice, many of these birds had been badly neglected for a long time.
It was then that an elderly macaw who had bright blue stripes on his wings and stomach while the rest of him was a silvery-grey pushed and shoved through the crowd as he licked the corners of his his beak and spoke strongly "A bird by the name of Blu sent us here, can you help us?"
Jewel went wide eyed. She stepped forwards and inquired with worry mingling with her every word "Wait...You know Blu?"
The elderly bird nodded once to confirm her suspicions and asked "Who might you be, young female?"
Jewel replied as she cleared the shock from her system and planted a wing over her racing heart "I'm Jewel," she pointed a shaky wing over to her children who looked just as nervous as she did "And these are my kids; Savannah, Bobby and Jasmine." The little Spinx macaw chicks just each gave a small curt nod as they hid behind their mother whom stood her ground "Blu's my husband. How do you know him?"
The older macaw opened his mouth to answer but a familiar young bird stepped out from the crowd and answered "He helped us escape from our prison last night."
Jewel bent down to meet the young bird at eye level and asked in a polite whisper "Whats your name?"
The young bird replied "I'm Tilias." Tilias looked down at her baby brother, Tamos, who slept calmly in her long wings "And that's Tamos."
Jewel asked with a small nervous smile, trying to mask her increasing worry "So, where did you see Blu last?"
When Tilias explained that they were experiments and Blu was captured by a mad scientist named Pablino, her heart sank. She desperately hoped that her mate was alright! She couldn't hold it in herself anymore! Without another word, Jewel swooped up into the air and flapped her wings as hard as she could as she took off for Linda and Tulio's Bookshop in the city.
It took about 5 minutes until Jewel reached the Blue macaw bookstore and urgently perched herself on the windowsill outside and tapped on the transparrent windows outside and almost immediately, a very familiar young boy whom gone by the name of Fernando rushed to the window and smiled at the sight of the female cerulean macaw.
He opened the door and Jewel hurriedly jumped from the windowsill and perched herself on the boy's finger, flapping her wings with a panicked expression on her face. She squawked.
"Woah, girl. What is it?" Fernando asked as he tried to calm to obviously distressed bird down but Jewel was having none of it as she continued to flap around.
Hearing Fernando's voice and Jewel's squawks, Linda and Tulio made haste into the room and were shocked to see not only Fernando making a big effort to calm Jewel but the latter had quickly flew up and tackled a bewildered Tulio to the ground as soon as her teal eyes landed on him.
Once everyone had simmered down, Linda asked the worried blue macaw "Jewel, what's the matter?" she looked a bit frightened "Is Blu alright?"
Jewel pointed to a sheet of paper that sat on the table and Linda hurriedly brought the paper over as well as a pen and watched as the female blue macaw adult scribble something down. Once she was finished, Linda picked up the sheet and read it out loud so Tulio and Fernando could hear "It says: Blu's been bird-napped! He left last night without saying anything and apparently he's been captured by this Dr Pablino character."
Tulio's eyes widened in horror at the sound of Dr Pablino's name. His heart pounded inside his chest like a drum and his throat went dry.
Linda looked at the grim look that her husband had on his face and asked the man "Tulio, what is it?"
Tulio snatched the piece of paper from his wife and examined it for himself and examined it seemingly thoroughly. Once he finished his examination, the Orthioligist turned on her heels to face the 3 other beings in the room and he sighed with regret "...Dr Pablino was..." Tulio released a heavy breath from his throat "...My partner."
A/N: Dun-Dun-Duuuuuuunn! Oh dear, Dr Pablino used to be Tulio's assistant! Luckily he might know what's going on. What's going to happen in the next chapter? Find out soon and please review.
I have some guests in this story, see if you can spot them out. Any suggestions you would have are welcomed with open arms and I wish you ALL a splendid Christmas.
-Chloemcg