Rio the Darkness 5: Alternative Darkness

Well, everyone, here is the next chapter. Let's see if Blu had survived the journey. And maybe he might even have another power to use once again.

"Blu...Blu...BLU!"

Blu slowly opened his chocolate brown eyes after he heard his name being shouted out multiples, and he managed to lean up to see his was still in the storage closet with his new friend-Cobalt the blue macaw. He groaned and rubbed his head wing his wing. "Oh...Man...That was rough..."

"You're awake." Cobalt said, while he was examining Rico's army bottle in his wings. "Wow, what was in this stuff?"

Blu merely took his army bottle back into his talon and then used the rope around it to hold the bottle back around his neck. "It gives me powers. But only the strongest can survive the journey."

"Wow, that's cool!" Cobalt enthusiastic said, excited about Blu's powers that he had, before he arched a curious eyebrow. "Is that what just happened? Did that water give you a power?"

"It's my second power." Blu answered, as he looked at both his wings,observing them closely. "I'm not exactly sure what he did though. But for now, let's get out of this prison."

"There's an air vent right here." Cobal said, moving a crate aside from the wall and revealing to Blu an air vent-like the Blu used when he and Raxos saved Lenny from Vadin and Kate. "We can use this to get out."

Cobalt opened up the grate and crawled inside the air vent to make his way out. As he began to crawl through the air vent, he heard the grate close, and turned around to see it was Blu who had closed up the air vent. Cobalt asked his new friend why he had closed the air vent. "Blu, aren't you coming?"

"I got some unfinished business with Raxos and Lenny." Blu answered, before be pushed the crate over the air vent grate to keep his tracks covered. "You go on ahead. Just head for the Eastern area in the Jungle and look around until you either found any gangsters, a black hawk named Rico, or three blue macaws. Just tell them I sent you."

Cobalt nodded in agreement before he began to crawl through the air vent to make his way out of the prison, but before leaving, he looked back behind him over his shoulder and wished Blu good luck. "Good luck, Blu."

Blu smiled in response before fully covering up the grate with a crate. After that was over, Blu looked over at the unconscious martial-artist, who laid motionless on the ground. Blu placed both his wings on his hips before beginning to plan his escape.

He opened up the storage closet door to test out his new power down the hallway of the downstairs cellblock area. Blu closed the door behind him and without hesitation, he closed his eyes and tried to concentrate on the new power he should have gained.

Without saying anything, he took one step forward and before he knew it, Blu had moved at least five feet down the hallway in one quick dash. The sacred water had gained him the ability of speed-just like Vadin's dash ability.

"Wow, this is awesome!" Blu cheered, before dashing down the hallway again until he got all the way down to the bottom where the stairs were to take him upstairs. He went switched powers and used his invisibility power to keep himself out of sight and slowly make his way out of the prison.

Blu made it out of the downstairs cellblock area and past the main cellblock area until he was upstairs where he could see the way out of the prison all the way at the end. He slowly moved away and was being careful not to touch any of the military macaws nearby.

If Blu was to touch any military macaws when not in combat, that could possible make him visible again, and he knew full well that would not end well at all. The blue macaw continued to make his way down to the prison entrance/exit and while he was walking, he could hear a few of the military macaws talking with each other.

Three military macaws near the exit/entrance were talking with each other about General Raxos and his nephew.

"Man, the General can be crazy sometimes, can't he?" one of the military macaws said while folding his wings and leaning himself back on a wall.

"Shh, don't let him hear you talking like that." the other military macaw carrying an axe replied, as he made sure no other military macaws were listening to their conversation. "If he heard you saying that, he would cut off your head!"

"Alright, alright, my bad." the military macaw admitted, waving his wings in the air a little to calm his partner down.

"Hey, did you guys see Raxos' nephew today?" the third military macaw who was carrying a mace.

"Who, you mean Anton?" the military macaw inquired, crossing his wings before his partner nodded in response. "That bird is huge! How does a macaw get that big?"

The military macaw with the axe in his wings merely shrugged in response, but replied to him anyway. "Must have been drinking his milk."

"Taking steroids is more like it." Blu thought to himself after eavesdropping on the three military macaw talking with each other. And now Blu was at the exit of the prison, and without hesitation, he got out from the prison, out of the cliff, and into the Jungle. "I'm free!"

Blu decided to go visible again as he spun around in the air for fun, not believing that he had actually managed to escape from the toughest (and the only) military macaw prison in all of Rio de Janeiro. But now was not the time for fun. Sapphire, Rico, Joe, David, and the others back at the base must be worrying about him.

"I have to get back to the base." Blu talked to himself while preparing to travel back to the Eastern Jungle. He flew high in the sky to stay out of sight from any military macaws and with his blue feathers, he could blend into the sky and be difficult to spot.

However, as he hovered in mid-air, Blu could also see the city of Rio de Janeiro over the horizon, and he really wanted to go there to explore, but he also had to get back home. Blu sighed as he tried to make up his mind about which way to go.

For now, Blu had decided to land down on top of another cliff and rest for a little to save up his energy. He sighed as he sat down on top of a cliff and looked up at the quiet and beautiful sky. It was such a shame the whole world could not be peaceful.

Blu quietly thought to himself while he closed his eyes and lowered his head down. "I...I don't understand what is going on...Lenny was my friend...So was Raxos. They kidnapped me, tried to kill me. I...I thought they were good guys...How has this happened? And where is Jewel and my family? I miss them so much...Why has this happened?"

A slight tear shredded from the blue macaw's eye but he soon wiped it off with a single talon toe. He slowly peaked open his eyes when he heard someone approaching him. Blu, still with a sad expression, saw it was once again the mysterious watcher, and this time, he did not bother to ask any questions because he knew the mysterious watcher would just disappear before he could ask.

The mysterious watcher looked over at Blu with only his eyes, and he spoke to him for a few seconds. "I have been watching you for a long time, Blu."

Without saying anything further, the mysterious watcher dropped smoke and vanished like a ghost.

Blu had managed to summon to strenght to get back up onto his talons on top of the cliff. But just as he prepared to take off, his surroundings suddenly changed into a purple and black colours all around him, and before he could panic, a portal had opened, and out from that portal came a very angry military macaw.

Blu backed away as the evil King threw off his cape and approached Blu angrily. "I do not care for those who meddle in my plans!"

Blu had nowhere to run and now he understood that his surroundings had changed because of Lenny's powers. He may have done it to prevent Blu from escaping from him due to him escaping last time when Rico had rescued him just in time.

Lenny stood in the middle of wherever they were, and without hesitation, he charged up the scepter with the power of the Orb of Light "I will send you back to hell!" and slammed it to the ground, sending a shockwave across the ground and knocking Blu onto his stomach.

"Ohhhh." Blu groaned, while he managed to get the strength to get back up onto his talons. And although he was in pain, Blu was determined not to lose this time. "Okay, now I'm angry..."

Lenny charged up the Orb again and slammed it to the ground, sending another shock wave through the ground. He chuckled while watching his powers approach Blu. "You cannot reach me."

However, the evil King was wrong there. As the shockwave spread, Blu used his dash power to leap into the air in a quick flash, and before Lenny could understand what had happened, Blu had leaped down onto him and knocked him to the ground on his back.

Blu curled his wing while using his right wing to keep Lenny down, and delivered two strikes to the evil King's face.

Although he was surprised that someone had managed to dodge his attacks, Lenny blocked Blu's third attempted and used the power of the Orb to whack him away. He got back up and watched Blu land down on his talons. "What? Impossible."

Lenny charged up the Orb once again and sended yet another shockwave through the ground in kill the blue macaw he had almost killed not too long ago.

Blu did the same tactic once again and leaped into the air in a quick flash with his dash power and knocked Lenny down once again and began hitting him across his face. He yelled while hitting the evil King's face. "Stop this, Lenny!"

Lenny growled as he returned a hit to Blu with his own wing and then used the Orb of Light to whack him away again. Lenny got back up onto his talons and rubbed his chin with his wingtips, trying to figure out how he did that. "What black magic is this?"

To prevent Blu from reaching him again, Lenny activated a shield over his head to stop Blu from attacking from above.

Blu attempted to dash in different directions to confuse and to to get close to Lenny again. This time however, Lenny fired a beam from the Orb and knocked a few feet away from him.

"Haha!" Lenny chuckled, while he powered the Orb again to fire another beam. "Burn by divine fire!"

Blu understood his dash ability was not going to work against Lenny this time. Instead of panicking, he smirked and before Lenny had the chance to fire again, Blu went invisible and slowly sneaked closer to the King, who was now even more puzzled.

"What? Where are you?" Lenny said, looking all around in different directions for his enemy.

Blu sneaked right next to Lenny and went visible in plain sight before hitting him in the face that caused Lenny to spin around a little.

King Lenny quickly recovered and fired his beam to knock Blu away a few feet. He looked towards Blu, who was waiting to attack again, and he angrily shouted at him. "How is this possible?! I am the only bird with powers."

"Nothing is truly impossible, Lenny." Blu countered his sentence with his own while folding his wings together.

"It's KING Lenny to you, macaw!" Lenny screamed, firing another beam from his scepter, only to miss when the blue macaw had went invisible again out of sight. He looked around, listening carefully for Blu's talon steps. "He vanished...How?!"

Lenny was once again unexpectedly taken on by surprise, and Blu went visible and grabbed onto the scepter in both his wings to try and take it for himself. The two macaws fought over the scepter until Lenny got the upperhand and managed to power up the Orb and blow Blu away from him.

Blu landed down flat on his stomach and watched Lenny recover and power up the Orb. Blu knew for now he would have to retreat because he was not ready to take on Lenny yet and needed to train.

Blu dashed away from Lenny and leaped into the air while flying away into nothing. All he could see was around him were the colours purple and black still, and he really had no idea how he was going to escape.

"Escape!" Lenny yelled out to Blu while he decided to chase after him. "Escape the best you can!"

Blu flew as fast as his wings would carry him and did not stop for anything.

As he flew, a ghostly figure had appeared in front of him, except it was not a ghost. It was an illusion of his beloved wife, whom he had not seen for so long. She angrily yelled at him as he continued to fly into nowhere. "How could you leave me, Blu!? You were suppose to protect me!"

"Jewel!" Blu called out, not believing his wife would yell that to him.

"Dad, why didn't you help us?!"

Blu looked around and saw three illusions of his children. He yelled out to the illusions of his children while continuing his flight into darkness. "Rey, Azul, Crystal! Of course I tried to help you!"

One more illusion had appeared right in front of him and it was a very familiar baby macaw, who was crying out to him.

Blu would never forget that cry, and he flew even more to try and reach out to her. "Jessica! My baby! I'm coming! Daddy's here!"

As Blu approached the illusion, it disappeared, and he panicked and tried to find her again. "No, Jessica! Where are you!?"

Blu stood perfectly still on the ground, and all of his surroundings were fading away and everywhere was turning pitch darkness. He looked around in every direction, looking for a way out.

Soon, he did not know what to do and collapsed onto the ground as all of his surroundings went dark, and he was left all alone in the shadows before Blu had passed out and laid motionless on the ground.

And chapter is complete, ladies and gentleman. A lot has happened in this chapter. Blu has the power to move quick, the mysterious watcher returns for a second time, and Blu and Lenny had their second encounter.

Let's hope Blu will survive what ever has happened.