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.

"...Papa?" Jasmine asked slowly and cautiously, her light brown eyes wide and weary as she slowly approached her the malformed adult Spix macaw "...Is that you?"

Blu was very reluctant to turn around and show everyone his true form. He couldn't let them see him like this but he didn't really have a choice now since his only route for escape was the entrance of the house hole and Rico, Carlos and Arlene had blocked it and thus disabling any means of escape. He couldn't fly either so that would end up horribly.

His eyes closed and he very slowly turned around on his talons to reveal his new transformation to his daughter and when he did, sharp gasps had heaved from deep within the other birds throats.

Blu didn't look good at all!

A small wing was raised over Jasmine's beak as she tried to allow this to sink in. She was happy to know that her father was alive and relieved that he wasn't captured by hunters. Yet she was worried that her father had turned into this...thing. She wanted to run over to her father and wrap her little wings around him and never let go yet there was a shred of fear that stopped her from doing this.

She slowly lowered her wing, a full expression of disbelief sinking into her facial features as a downed frown had formed on her beak. She could even feel some tickling behind her innocent honey brown eyes as tears welled up, she began to sob worriedly as she could sense those loving, diamond-shaped eyes land on her. Those were the irises she knew since birth and while they were so much the same, they were also different.

It bothered her a bit.

Rico spoke up with his wise head cocked to one side in sincere confusion "Blu, is that you?"

Blu gave a heavy sigh, looking down at his raptor-shaped talons before meeting the small group face-to-face. He could feel his heart shatter whence he saw his poor little daughter just about cry her sweet little eyes out as she tried not to break down there and then. Whether it was from relief or fear, he didn't know...but he still felt ashamed to be seeing his daughter like this instead of back to his original form like he had planned initially.

His rough-growly voice spoke lowly "...Yeah, it's me." He craned his neck down sadly, refusing to gaze into everyone's eyes as he used a deformed, pointed wing to hide his deformed face even though he was sure that everyone knew far too well what he looked like by now. He didn't care, he just felt exposed now.

Arlene, now able to move, approached Blu with a meaningful look in her eyes. She was still startled over seeing her usually azure feathered friend look so much like a beast yet he seemed to have been in control of his emotions at least so he couldn't exactly be called a "were-macaw" could he?

She reached a wing to touch Blu's shoulder but he flinched away before she could lay a feather on him, as if afraid he'd hurt them if he lost control suddenly.

The scarlet macaw said nothing and watched in a bit of sorrow as Blu hid himself in the shadows, blending in perfectly to the darkness surrounding him inside the mouse hole that served as his home until he deemed himself safe to be around. Blu was clearly very hesitant on coming out free willingly so maybe some gentle coaxing should help him out of there.

"Oh Blu~" Arlene sang brightly, hatching an idea within her head "how would you feel if we dropped some ice freezing water on you?"

Blu sighed irritably, fighting off the urge to rub at his side-ways temples. He could not even begin to list all of the implications of that suggestion so he decided to just correct the scarlet macaw on that first.

"Erm, Arlene...I doubt that would even work since you can't really get any water through the mouse hole, let alone a bucket, and you can't get me outside." He gave a stubborn snort whilst closing his eyes in refusal. He wouldn't dare come out right now, especially not when his monster form was getting harder and harder to suppress within him.

He found himself sweating underneath that feathered pelt and he slowly began to tremble uncontrollably. He growled to himself quietly, squeezing his eyes shut. The pain was becoming unbearable now! He could even feel his fangs sharpen from the intense pain his body was succumbing to as he collapsed on to one knee.

Arlene had been ranting up until that point since she and Rico were a little bit upset to see their friend like that. Carlos shyly pulled Jasmine close to him as they watched in horror that Blu was beginning to grow even more hideous than before. His razor sharp fangs had doubled a little in size and his wings had began to spout little hooks at each bend of his deformed wings. Even his tail feathers were growing more slender and spikier in shape and form.

Growls of pain had echoed throughout Blu's domain as his voice turned into a surly, deep one as it slowly mellowed into roars and grunts. He was losing his voice now! Blu used his newly developed hooks to claw on the ground and try to relieve the pain he was in and even wolf-like whines escaped his throat for some bizarre reason.

Little did he realise, however, was that while Blu was undergoing yet another transformation; Jasmine, Carlos, Arlene and Rico backed off fearfully. They didn't want to rile Blu up while he was clearly becoming unstable for even them to talk him out of this.

Yet, as they backed off, they were suddenly grabbed by a familiar doctor (or psychopath) with a chubby, baby-face that was kind of sickening. Dr. Pablino stuffed the birds into a cage he had previously been holding with the intention of capturing the mutated blue macaw but now he had much more than he bargained for.

He smiled sadistically at his latest catch while he admired them each with a sly voice "Ah! Well, well; it seems that I caught some real beautiful subjects here..." He counted the birds whilst pointing them out one-by-one as if to intimidate them "Lemme see. A little strange toucan, a strange black bird, a feisty scarlet macaw and-!"

As this insane doctor (if he should even be labelled that) counted them off each bird gave their own reaction to this. Carlos gave an annoyed sigh whilst wing-palming, Rico gave a very deep growl from the throat as he glared daggers at the doctor as if to say "I will kill you in your sleep tonight" and Arlene lunged at the guy from the bars but she grew tired of trying to escape quickly so she reluctantly gave in. It was when Dr Pablino reached Jazz when he gave a heavy gasp.

"Great scots! This is yet another Blue macaw!" The squinty eyes blearing through his glasses was intimidating to the young chick whom hid behind Rico for protection, her eyes looking very glassy and fearful like a puppy who had been kicked a dozen times. She gave a worried chirp as Dr Pablino snarled through a snide smirk "Well...I have something special in mind for you, little one."

Jasmine swallowed a stone at the sound of that. What was this man going to do to them!? Was this the man who had captured her father and turned him into that form?! She didn't like that she was going to be the next target of this cruelty but she couldn't stop it so she tried the only logical thing she could think of as she rushed towards the back of the cage. and looked down at the mouse hole where her father hid.

"D-Daddy!" She squealed fearfully "Please save us, w-we need you!"

However her cries of fear fell on failing ears as Blu had already gone through his new transformation from monstrous to wolf-like and was now a heap on the ground below and his vision was dragging him under for a forced slumber. He was too weak right now but he knew that his beloved baby girl needed his help, he had to save her!

Yet...how could he? He was too weak to do much as his vision blurred into complete darkness. He gave a soft whine as he reached hopelessly towards the cage his daughter and friends were being carried off in.

'Ugh...Jasmine...'

That was his last thought before blacking out completely.

He fainted.

A/N: Sorry this took so long, guys. I was just busy but I hope I made you all happy by updating this.

Oh no, Jasmine and the others have now been captured by Pablino! Can Blu do anything to save them and try and suppress his new wolf-like instincts? What else can he do with those new abilities which he had gained from this?

We'll find out soon.

-Chloemcg