Rio the Darkness 5: Alternative Darkness

Okay, everyone, here is the next chapter. I hope you enjoy it. Don't forget to review, and as usual, any questions, feel free to ask me.

After encountering the King for the second time and keep up a good battle, Blu had passed out after from escaping King Lenny and seeing horrible illusions of his family screaming and yelling at him in disappointment and anger.

Blu was beginning to wake up from his unconscious state, and even with his vision slightly blurry, he could see two figures standing over him. One of them was a light blue colour and the other one was a dark black colour.

Blu finally got his full vision back and was happy to see it was his two friends-Rico and Cobalt. He leaned up and studied his surroundings, happy to see he was back in the Jungle and far from where he had fought Lenny for the second time.

"Blu, you're awake." Cobalt said, as he and Rico each took one of Blu's wings and helped him stand back up onto his talons. "Are you okay? What happened?"

"I fought Lenny." Blu answered, groaning a little while he rubbed the back of his head with his wing. "He was tough. I managed to keep him occupied with my powers. But he was too powerful."

"Going head on with Lenny without no combat training is suicide, Blu." Rico explained, picking up his army bottle from around Blu's neck and placing back over his own. "You were lucky to escape."

"I guess." Blu agreed, rubbing the back of his head with his right talon before he noticed that Rico and Cobalt had already made acquaintances with each other already. "I see you two have already greeted each other."

"Indeed we have." Rico smiled, placing his right wing on Cobalt's back and giving him a little pat on the back. But the hawk's expression soon changed when he realized they were not safe out there and should be going back to the base as soon as possible. "But now now, we should be getting back to the base."

Blu nodded in agreement as the three birds prepared to make their way back to the base to discuss their next plan and attack on the rebels.

While they were walking through the Jungle (rather than fly to avoid any attention), the three friends had no idea a figure was hiding in the trees nearby and was slowly creeping up on them, performing flexible shapes as the figure moved down.

Blu had for no reason stopped and gave a signal for Rico and Cobalt to stop too. He could feel that something was wrong and had a really bad feeling. "Wait, guys, stop...We're not alone..."

Before he could act, the figure emerged from the tree in a quick flash and jumped onto Blu and threw him into a tree. Rico and Cobalt watched in shock before Rico tried to grab the figure, who was wearing a black cloak, but the figure countered him and flipped him to the ground.

Blu managed to get back up onto his talons and studied the mysterious figure, who took off their cloak and through it to the ground, revealing herself to be a female lear macaw, and one who Blu recognised immediately.

He growled while he watched the lear macaw slowly move around in circles, and he already remembered who she is from Sapphire's meeting not too long ago. "Asya."

That's right. The attacker was no other than Asya, one of them four assassins hired by Raxos to get the rebels. She was a very pretty yet evil lear macaw, and according to her profile, she is known to be really flexible. Asya was also wearing a belt around her waist with two bird-sized daggers attached to them as weapons.

Asya laughed as she circled around Blu a couple of times like a shark. "You must be the blue macaw I heard so much about. I look forward to breaking you."

"Rico, take Cobalt and get out of here!" Blu called to his friends, knowing that Asya was here for him and not them. For now anyway. Blu growled as he watched Asya prepare to attack again.

As she was about to attack again, an arrow had shot out of nowhere and had almost hit Blu, but luckily he managed to dodge it in the nick of time. He followed the direction of the shot and was angry to see another one of the assassins had also joined the action.

There, laying down in a tree hollow quite a few feet away was Anox, the great green macaw who is known to be an expert sharp-shooter and known to never miss his target. He chuckled while reloading his crossbar he carried as his main weapon with a scope attached to it. "Not so fast, Asya. He's my kill."

While Asya was distracted from Anox's shot, Blu used his dash ability to get close to Asya and he grabbed her by putting his wing around her neck and holding her tight. "Give up, Asya."

Asya merely laughed in response as she placed both her talons onto the ground and pushed herself back, performing a backflip that knocked Blu down onto his back, but she landed perfectly fine on both her talons with her skills.

As Blu got back up onto his talons, he was reunited with Rico, who had came back to his aid. He was helped back up onto his talons and they both took cover behind a tree to avoid getting shot by Anox.

"What's the plan here, Blu?" Rico inquired, as he watched Asya perform frontflips to get close to them and attack.

"You take care of Anox." Blu instructed, while he lifted his wings up and prepared to battle Asya with his powers and his two metal gauntlets on his wings. "I'll handle Asya."

Rico nodded in agreement before he quickly moved out away from the tree and kept using his cover behind various environment objects to take cover and avoid being hit by Anox shot.

Now that Rico was gone, Blu stretched both of his wing, and while secretly hoped for the best he could defeat Asya with his skills. "Okay, Blu. You can do this. All I gotta do is avoid her attacks. I can do this!"

While Blu had been distracted by his own thoughts, Asya had leaped straight for him and kicked him directly in his face, knocking the blue macaw onto his back. She laughed while pulling out from her belt some bird-sized wing cuffs. "Now, are you going to surrenders like a good little boy, or do I have to take you by force?"

"I'm not...Giving up just like that, Asya." Blu replied, using both of his wings to get himself up back onto his talons. "I'm not gonna give up."

"Then, you will have to die.." Asya smirked, while pulling out the two daggers from her belt into a wings before diving straight for Blu. "Ahhhhh!"

Meanwhile, back with Rico, he had managed to sneak closer to Anox without him knowing at all. He was right at the bottom of the tree where Anox was camping, trying to get a steady shot at the blue macaw.

Anox was currently wearing black overalls across his entire body (except for his head and talons). He looked through the scope of his crossbow, trying to get a clear shot on Blu, whom he could see battling Asya in combat. "I can't get a good shot."

While he was trying to get a clear shot, Rico slowly climbed up from the bottom of the tree, using his beak and talons to keep his grip and trying not to make any noise so he could sneak up on the macaw.

Anox looked through his scope and now, he thinks he might just have a clear shot directly at Blu. "Hehehe. I almost...Got you."

Anox placed his wingtips around the trigger of his crossbow and prepared to fire at Blu, hoping the arrow would hit him straight into his head and killing him, and then Anox could collect his reward: an advanced crossbow he had always wanted but was very rare to find. But now that Raxos is offering one to him, he was determined to make the kill.

He slowly began to pull on in the crossbow trigger, chuckling a little with his left eye closed. "Hehe, time to collect my reward."

As Anox went to fire, his crossbow was suddenly pulled into a different direction, and it caused him to fire somewhere completely different. Before he was aware, he was pulled out of the tree hollow and now him and a black hawk were falling back to the ground. "What!?"

Rico and Anox fell to the ground, but luckily landed on something soft to break their fall.

Anox shook his head a couple of times before seeing Rico, who was holding his crossbow in his wings. "Hey, give that back!"

"What this?" Rico chuckled, as he snapped the crossbow in half, preventing Anox from using it to shoot anyone again.

"NOOO!" Anox screamed, clutching his broken crossbow in his wings, now knowing he could not kill Blu in other way. He yelled and jumped onto the hawk and knocked him and curled his wings like fists. He began hitting Rico across his face multiple times, angry of what just happened. "My crossbow! I'll kill you!"

"Get off!" Rico yelled, managing to flip Anox off of him and then knocking him to the ground instead.

Back with Blu, he tried his best to block both of Asya's knife attacks with his gauntlets. His gauntlets were unbreakable, but Asya was three times his speed and could easily beat Blu if she wanted too.

Asya lifted both her daggers and tried to stab Blu from above, only to be blocked by Blu's gauntlets as he held them both together to prevent himself from being stabbed by Asya.

The two macaws groaned as Asya tried to push back Blu's gauntlets to kill him, and as Blu tried to push back Asya's daggers to avoid getting killed by her. Eventually, Blu lifted his talon up and kicked one of her daggers out of her left wing. Asya quickly responded by moved both her talons under Blu's talons and flipping him to the ground.

Blu quickly got up before he was caught of Asya, as she jumped on Blu and slivered around him swiftly, hitting him in different parts of his body. Blu yelled and tried to grab Asya to get her off, but the lear macaw was too quick despite his dash ability.

She moved herself onto Blu's back and lifted up her one dagger and prepared to stab him.

Blu managed to block just in time with one of his gauntlets, and now they both trying to push the other back once again. Blu groaned as he tried to find a way to disarm Asya and to get her off of his back.

"Just give up, macaw." Asya ordered, as she put her efforts in to push the knife closer to Blu's face and slip through his gauntlet defensive. "You know you can't defeat me."

"Don't jump to conclusions-ah!" Blu said, using his free wing (left wing) to knock Asya's other dagger out from her wing, before grabbing her wing with both of his wings, seconds later, he flipped her onto the ground and placed his talon onto her chest to hold her down. "Surrender."

Asya lifted her talons up and gripped Blu's neck before throwing him at least ten feet away her. She performed a frontflip to get back up onto her talons. Asya then performed multiple different flips and stunts to approach Blu.

Blu manage to summon the strength to get back up onto his talons, and before he had the chance to even blink, he punched, kicked, and hit multiples times all around his body, leaving him dazed and confused. He held his head with both wings, his vision blurry, and a massive headache moving around in his head.

Asya then leaped into the air, preparing to finish Blu with a flying kick.

Although he was pretty much weak and defenseless now, Blu managed to grab her talon as she tried to kick him, and threw her away from him.

Asya managed to land back on her talons like nothing even happened. She laughed and noticed her wing was out of place so she cracked it into it's correct position and got ready to charge against Blu again.

Back with Rico, he and Anox were in a wing-to-wing battle, both hitting and block each other's attacks. The two then gripped each other in their wings and tried to push the other back, wrestling in the process too.

"I've just about had it with you!" Anox yelled, punching the hawk into his stomach and knocking him to the ground.

As Rico went down to the ground, he was currently wearing a shoulder strap bag on him and he felt something inside break. The hawk opened his bag and gasped when he lifted out his now broken vodka bottle. "My...My vodka...You broke me vodka."

"What's your point?" Anox inquired, placing both his wings together around his chest.

"My Vodka...AHHHHHHHH!" Rico screamed at the top of his lungs and dived onto Anox, knocking him onto his back and without hesitation, Rico stroke multiple hits at the great green macaw, finally losing it after his sweet vodka had broke and it was now spilt all out of the bottle. He continued to scream in rage while still striking attacks across Anox's face. "You broke my vodka! How dare you! AHHH!"

Rico continued to strike his attacks against him until eventually, Anox had been knocked out, and Rico had no choice but to stop, due to the fact he knew if he hit him while he was unconscious, it could possibly kill him.

The hawk stood back up and watched the unconscious great green macaw, barely moving. He looked around for some vines to tie him up before he would wake up and attack him again.

Meanwhile, Blu was on the verge of losing this battle to Asya, but he still had one more trick up his sleeve (even though birds don't have sleeves). He waited for Asya to get close and just before she attacked, Blu dashed away from her just in time to evade her attack and then he went invisible out of plain sight.

Asya was now completely puzzled as she looked around in every direction, trying to figure out where he was. "What the...? Where did he-go!"

Asya was suddenly hit in her stomach and before she knew it, she was hit rapidly in different parts of her body such as her chest, belly, face, and back.

Blu continued his focused attacks all around her body until she was too weak to keep her guard up. He went visible and grabbed her neck in his talon and slammed it onto the ground, knocking her out could instantly.

Now that she was down, Blu brushed both of his wings together, exhausted from the battle but happy that he managed to beat her in combat. "I...I did it...Wow, that was tough..I guess I better go and find, Rico and get out of here."

The blue macaw was about to go and find Rico, but Rico had already found him first. The hawk dropped the unconscious Anox next to the unconscious Asya and stretched his wings. "We did it, Blu. We defeated them."

"Indeed we did." Blu agreed, smiling while folding his wings together. "Now let's tie them up and leave them here. I'm sure Raxos will be angry that they failed and will want to punish them for that."

And chapter 31 is complete, everyone. Blu and Rico worked together and have defeated two of the four assassins. Now that Anton, Asya, and Anox are done, that only leaves one more assassins: Exo.

Stay tuned for the next chapter.