Rio the Darkness 5: Alternative Darkness
chloemcg: (this is a reply to your reviews from chapter 22 and 23) Rico is obsessed with drinking alright. :D And it's cool. Sorry to hear about your trip to London being delayed my friend. And thanks. And yep, the karate kid healing technique. I thought it would be good to put in. And is Blu going to be alive? Let's find out below. Thank you very much, and I will check out that song you told me about. And what do the spirits mean to? We shall have to find out soon.
(non-member) Haloplayer: Yep, Blu's alive.
(non-member) Dave green macaw: Thanks, and it would have been bad if Blu died, wouldn't it?
In the Jungle of Rio, the sun hung high in the sky, making a beautiful crystal-clear sky. Down below near the short river stream, a blue macaw laid unconscious in some wet mud, until he was beginning to groan as he struggled to open his eyes.
"Uuuuugh." Blu groaned, using his wings to get himself back up onto his dark grey talons. He rubbed the back of his neck with his wing while studying his surroundings to see he was still in the Jungle of Rio. "Ewww, I got mud all in my feathers. Man, that was some water I drank. Did it work?"
Blu studied his body by looking at his wings, his talons, his body, and his back down to his tail feathers. He didn't really feel anything different at all. "Hmmm. I don't really feel anything."
The blue macaw was then proven wrong when he could feel something in his body causing him a little pain. Blu was confused, but he felt like he could control something in his body that would maybe do something.
He closed his eyes for a few seconds to concentrate on this strange feeling in his body, and when he opened them, Blu gasped a little and was in a little shock when he could see he was invisible! "What the-I'm...I'm invisible! Wow!"
Now he understood what the spirits meant by whispering the word "Invisible" so many times. The sacred water and his journey had given him the ability to turn in invisible when ever he wanted to.
Blu tried his power out a couple of times and repeatedly kept making himself visible and invisible until he eventually got the hang of this power.
He could not believe he actually survived the journey, and now he was strong enough to beat almost anyone. "Wow, I don't believe it. With this power, I will find King Lenny and get some answers" Blu raised his wing in the air while continuing the rest of his sentence "once and for all."
"What did Raxos sound us here, anyway? Did we have nothing to do or something?"
"He thinks some of the rebels may be hiding around here. But good thing he went one of those expert martial-artists to protect us."
The blue macaw was soon interrupted by nearby voices coming from the other side of a bush nearby, and they didn't sound very friendly. Rather than panic, Blu turned himself invisible again and slowly made his way on top of a tree and onto a branch to eavesdrop on whoever was talking.
Down below, there was four military macaws discussing information with each other. Two of them were regular military macaws that were unharmed, one of them was holding a blade as a weapon, and the last one was one of the martial-artists.
"Protect us?" the military macaw quiered, folding both his wings together with a slightly confused face. "Protect us from what? Leaves, trees, fruits?"
"Didn't you hear the news about our guys getting beaten by those rebels?" the other regular military macaw asked.
"Yeah, I heard about that. Good thing we got old kung fu on our side." the military macaw with the blade knife replied, referring to the martial-artist they have with them to protect them.
Blu, who was still watching, decided to use this as an opportunity to test out his new ability in combat. He jumped down to the floor and caught the attention of the military macaws, who did not hesitate to attempt to have him killed.
"A rebel!" one of the military macaws yelled, as he turned towards the martial-artist and ordered him to attack. "Get him!"
The martial-artists began performing frontflips towards the blue macaw and was ready to strike against him.
Blu merely stood exactly where he was, his eyes half-closed, followed by a smirk on his beak. He waited for the martial-artist to get close towards him, and when he did, Blu went invisible and tricked the martial-artist into hitting the tree behind him, and the impact of the force had left him dazed and confused before he collapsed to the ground.
The other three military macaws looked around in every direction, completely puzzled about where he went.
"Where did he go?" the military macaw with the blade wondered, still looking all around the area for the blue macaw. He was soon surprised when he felt his blade be knocked from his wing and without knowing, he was flipped to the ground and got knocked out.
The other two macaws panicked as they looked around in every direction.
One of them ran over to the martial-artist macaw (since he was the toughest one out of them all) and began shaking him, trying to wake him up from his unconscious state. "Come on, you! Wake up!" but it was no use.
The two macaws panicked as they looked around in every direction.
One of them yelled out to Blu, trying to make him angry enough to show himself. "Come out, you chicken! What's the matter? Too scared to face us!?"
The military macaw spoke too soon and he was grabbed by something and got shoved into some mud before he was pulled back up onto his talons and slammed into a tree.
Now there was only one more macaw left, and he was scared now that he had no-one with him and he was all alone with the invisible blue macaw. To avoid being beaten too, he raised his wings in the air and decided to give up. "Okay, okay, you win! I give up."
The military macaw felt his throat be gripped tight and he was held by a tree. He struggled for air while Blu had finally gone visible again, and he had a serious face on him.
Blu kept a solid grip on the military macaw's throat and began demanding answers from him or else. "Listen to me: I want answers, and I want them now! Where is King Lenny?!"
"King Lenny?" the military macaw grunted, placing both of his wings onto Blu's talon. "He's at his pyramid like always. You didn't know that?"
"I'm the one asking questions here." Blu replied, tightening his grip a little more on the military macaw to show he was serious. "Now, how can I get into the pyramid?"
"You can't." the military macaw replied. "The pyramid is protected by a huge wall, and you can only get through the main gate, and they won't let you in without permission."
"That won't be problem." Blu smirked, extending his wings out from his sides to hover in the air, and then using his free talon to slam the macaw's head into the tree, performing a knockout smash.
Now that they were taken care of, Blu folded his wings together while looking at the knocked-out macaws laying unconscious on the ground. "Hmmm. I guess I should be getting back to the base. And I gotta get this mud out of my feathers. Yuck!"
Blu turned back around and prepared to fly into the air for the first time in days to make his way back to the rebel base. However, as he was about to take off, he just remembered that Rico's whiskey bottle and tools were still in Wei's home, and luckily, he was still outside of the cave where Wei lived.
He quickly flew inside the cave to announce to Wei that it worked and he survived. But when he got inside, he noticed there was no sign of Wei anywhere. Blu picked up Rico's army whiskey bottle and his small backpack with Rico's tools inside and was ready to leave. "Hmmm. I wonder where Wei could be. Maybe he went out."
The blue macaw was about to leave, but he looked back at the sacred water and something just hit his mind: what if the power he had already had not been enough? What if he could drink more and get even more powers? Now that he knew he could survive the journey, why not take some more?
Blu decided to take some with him so he got Rico's whiskey bottle and emptied out all the alcohol inside. "Wow, Rico sure is a heavy drinker."
He placed the army bottle into the sacred water and waited until it was completely full, and took it back out and made sure the lid was on tight. Now that he had some of the sacred water, it was time to do, and reunite himself with Sapphire, Joe, David, and Rico.
Blu walked back out of the cave into the Jungle and prepared to take off into the sky. As he was about to fly, Blu looked up, and something had caught his attention near the corner of his eye.
There, standing on top of a small cliff, a bird figure was standing right at the edge of the cliff, watching Blu all mysterious like.
Blu extended his wings out from his sides and flew up to the figure to investigate who he was, and why he was just standing there, watching Blu like he knew him, or was a spy.
When Blu got to the top of the small cliff, he studied the bird figure who was watching him. Blu could not tell who this bird was, or what type of bird he was.
The mysterious figure was wearing silver accented armor across his body and wings, two metal wrist gauntlets just above his wingtips, a red hood followed by a red mask around his head and face (except for the eyes), he was wearing a belt across his waist, and was wearing a sword holder belt across his chest to hold a sword on his back.
The mysterious figure looked towards Blu and spoke first before Blu could have the chance to ask questions first. "I have been watching you, Blu. To see if you are ready."
Without saying anything further, the mysterious bird pulled something from his belt and dropped a smoke pellet.
Blu waved the smoke away after a few seconds to see the mysterious bird was gone, and he was annoyed that he didn't get the chance to ask any questions. He flew back up into air and began to make his way back to the rebel base (keeping out of sight from the military of course).
While he was flying through the Jungle, he could not help but wonder who that mysterious figure was, and what did he mean exactly and what did he want? "Who was that? He didn't even tell me his name. He just said, "I have been watching you, Blu. To see if you are ready", and then he just vanished. Maybe I might find him again soon."
And our feathery blue macaw named Blu has the power of invisibility. Now we know what the spirits meant. Let's hope this power can help him in the future. And who could that mysterious bird be? And what did he mean by what he said to Blu? Maybe we will see him again in the future.