Rio the Darkness 5: Alternative Darkness

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(non-member) Haloplayer: How did they get beaten? I guess their confidence to beat anyone was their downfall.

(non-member) Guest: Where's Blu? I do not know myself. :D

(non-member) Guest: Rico does rock indeed. XD

The following day, down below near the cliffs of Rio near the military macaw prison, a short river in the Jungle slowly traveled through the Jungle of Rio, and was a really calm and relaxing type of river for people to enjoy if they ever decided to go there for a picnic.

Near the side of the river, a male blue macaw laid motionless on the riverbanks with his good wing spread out, and half his body still in the water. He wasn't moving a little tiny bit, and could possible be dead.

While his body laid there motionless, a figure emerged from the Jungle, and slowly approached the possible-dead blue macaw. He stood his two yellow talons right above Blu's head and leaned down to investigate him.

The figure placed a single wingtip on Blu's pulse before he pulled him up with his wings and carried the possible-dead blue macaw in his wings, and began to walk back through the Jungle.

A couple of hours later, the mysterious figure (wearing a cloak and hood for disguise) had taken the motionless macaw back to his home-an underground cave while torches lit up for light. He placed Blu onto a small nest and got some flame into his wings, and began to using a secret healing technique known as 'Cupping therapy'.

He spread the flames across Blu's body (not lighting him on fire of course) and hopefully, it would help mobilizes blood flow in order to promote healing for the blue macaw. He finished spreading it across Blu's body and bad wing, and now all he could do was wait, and hope Blu was going to be OK.

Inside the mysterious figures cave was not very much to look at. There was a nest, a couple of swords hanging up on his wall for weapons, and right in the center was a small hole-like-pool with some water inside, but it did not really look like the kind of water anyone would like to drink.

The mysterious figure turned his attention back to the blue macaw when the sounds of groaning shot through his eardrums. He looked over at Blu, who was now awake, and was alive!

Blu leaned up and rubbed his head with his right wing, and what was a complete shock, his wing was completely healed, and he never felt better. "M-My wing. It's healed! Wow."

"You are awake, I see?"

Blu jumped a little from the voice and panicked when he saw the figure wearing a hood over his head and cloak around his body. "W-Who are you, and what do you want?"

"Relax..." the mysterious figure said, as he extended his wings out from his cloak and moved his hood back from his head, revealing himself to be a black eagle, and by the looks of it, a friendly. "If I wanted you dead, I would have left you where I found you."

"And, where exactly did you find me?" Blu inquired, still a little fearful of this mysterious eagle as he sat back down in the nest.

"I found you washed-up on a riverbank nearby." the eagle answered, while he took of his entire cloak and placed it down onto a small table he had. "Do you even remember what happened?"

Blu struggled to remember what exactly had happened not too long ago, and rubbed his head with his wing, not remembering a single detail of what happened after the prison break. "I...I don't really remember that much. The last thing I remember was jumping from the prison, and then, I don't really remember much until now."

"Do you have a name?" the eagle asked, sitting himself down on a bird-sized chair.

"My name is Blu." Blu introduced himself to the eagle, and now it was time for the eagle to introduce himself too. "What is your name?"

"My name is Wei." the eagle introduced, revealing his name to be Wei. "I am a trained medical doctor, and have learned the alternative ways of healing. That's how I managed to fix your wing."

Blu examined his right wing, and he did not feel any pain in it at all. He was completely fine, and surprised to see he was fine. "Wow, that is incredible how you did that, Wei."

Wei smiled in response as he folded his wings together, but now, he was wondering something: Blu is a blue macaw, and he did not expect there to be no blue macaws left. The last blue macaw he had met had tried to drink the water, but what happened next, did not end well. It had killed him.

"You seem to be strong." Wei complimented, as he looked down into the hole-like-pool that was filled with the mysterious water. "Maybe, you could be the one I've been searching for."

"Searching for?" Blu quiered, cocking his head to the side in confusion with an eyebrow arched up. "Searching for what?"

Wei sighed quietly to himself as he got up onto his talons and approached the small rockpool and beckoned for Blu to make his way over to him. Blu got up onto his talons out of the nest, and made his way over to Wei.

When he was over, Wei began to explain to Blu about this water, and what it could do for someone like him. "This water is known as 'The Sacred Water of The Shadows'. Once drank from, this could give someone a special power each time it is drunk from. However, there is a strong risk. Only the strongest can survive this."

Blu hummed as he examined the water inside the rockpool and began thinking the whole thing over. Blu did want to take some of this sacred water in order to obtain some power, defeat the military, and get some answers. But he did not want to take the risk of dying.

After a couple of minutes, Blu had an answer for the black eagle, and he had decided to agree to drink some. "Okay. I'll do it. I'll drink some of this water."

Wei nodded in response as he picked up a small wooden bird-sized cup and dipped it into the water to gather some of the sacred water into the cup. When it was full, he handed the cup into Blu's talon. But before could let him drink some, he had to be certain Blu was ready. "Are you sure you want to do this, Blu? Once you drink it, there's no going back, and I can't help you."

There was silence from the blue macaw for a few seconds.

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"...I'm sure." Blu finally answered, lifting up the wooden cup to prepare to take sip.

"Then I wish you good luck, Blu." Wei wished Blu the best of luck for his journey that he was about to take.

Blu nodded to Wei and finally drank the sacred water from the cup, a little fearful of what could happen if he was not careful, and hoping this would work. He did not feel anything at first, but then a sudden pain shot through his head, causing him to collapse onto the floor, groaning in agonising pain.

He closed his eyes tight and grunted while panting a little, now a little scared of the decision he had just made.

The last thing he remembered was the sound of a familiar baby crying, and Blu could not tell if he was imagining it or not, but he knew that sound anywhere. He whispered one more word to himself before falling into complete darkness. "...Jessica..."

Blu was beginning to wake up after from drinking from the sacred water, and he was okay for now, but did not understood what was going on now. He got back up onto his talons, and all around him was a huge place with the colours dark blue and black glowing everywhere.

"Oh, where am I?" Blu talked to himself while studying his surroundings, trying to figure out just where he was exactly. "Man, what did that water do to me?"

Blu looked around everywhere, and called out in an loud voice, hoping someone would reply. "HEL-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O-O! Is there anyone there!?"

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There was no answer.

"Cheese 'n' sprinkles!" Blu mumbled quietly to himself-even though there is clearly no-one around to hear him.

The blue macaw was soon spooked by a strange voices coming from all around him, almost too much for him to handle. Multiple voices called through his brain, giving Blu a headache, and causing him to cover up his ears with his wings to try and block out the sound. "Aaah, ohh. Make it stop."

"Blu, where are you?!" a familiar female voice yelled out.

"Jewel!" Blu yelled.

"Blu, what have you done with my whiskey?" another familiar male voice called out.

"Rico!" Blu yelled for a second time.

"Blu, we need you." another female voiced called out. "Where are you?"

"Sapphire?" Blu said, taking his wings from his ears when he had noticed the noises were gone. "It...It stopped. Whew."

Blu placed both his wings back to his sides while he looked into the darkness in front of him when he could hear someone (or something) heading towards him. He called out into the darkness to see if he would get any reply. "Hello? Is someone there?"

Out from the Darkness, three ghost-like-spirits had emerged, and they approached Blu and circled him a couple of times like sharks circling their prey. Without saying anything, the spirits whispered the word "Invisible" multiples, and then they all suddenly charged into Blu, and merged together inside of him.

Blu yelled out in pain as he collapsed to the ground, his eyes closed tight, his wings spread out, and his body glowing a mysterious glowing black colour. He tried his best to cope with the agonising pain.

Blu had eventually felt the pain had stopped, but he was exhausted, and collapsed onto the ground, stomach first.

The same words shot through his head from the spirits multiple times before Blu could fall into a deep sleep. "Invisible." "Invisible." "Invisible."

Now you have it, everyone. Blu is alive and well from the jump, and has drank some of this sacred water and began his journey. Is he going to be OK? And what could the spirits mean by "Invisible."? Let's hopefully find out in the next chapter.