Rio the Darkness 5: Alternative Darkness
I hope you all enjoyed the previous chapter. It was without a doubt, the longest chapter I have ever wrote in my entire life as a FanFiction author, which is just over a year now. I hope you all enjoy the rest.
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The following day, Blu was now flying through the Jungle despite him being almost out of complete breath after he had just fought Exo; one of his toughest enemies ever. He was now on his way back to the underground rebel base.
As he was walking through the Jungle (rather than fly to avoid attention from military macaw soldiers, despite his invisible power, but if he used it too long, it would drain his energy). He looked above at a nearby tree hollow, and standing there was no other than the mysterious watcher, who had appeared to Blu for the fourth time now.
Blu merely looked at the mysterious watcher as he extended his feathery blue wings and used his dash ability to get closer to him quickly. He hovered in mid-air in front of the tree hollow, waiting for the mysterious watcher to do what he usually does every time: says a sentence to Blu and then uses smoke to disappear.
The mysterious watcher spoke to Blu once again, and this time, he had pulled something out from the belt he was wearing. "The moment is close. The truth will soon be revealed, Blu."
Before long, the mysterious watcher dropped whatever he was carrying in his wing onto the hollow floor before throwing down a smoke pellet, and disappearing out of plain sight like he was never even there.
After the smoke cleared, Blu flew down inside the tree hollow to see the mysterious watcher had left a small paper rolled up for him. Without hesitation, Blu picked up the note in his talon and decided to make his way back to the rebel base to read the contents there.
Blu finally made it back to the rebel base entrance/exit: a small hatch with grass covered over it so it would stay hidden out of sight from any military macaws. Blu opened up the hatch and jumped inside of the base while the hatch closed by itself.
"Ahhh, good to be back." Blu talked to himself, walking through the hallways of the underground rebel base, making his way to the private room where only he, Rico, Sapphire, Joe, and David were allowed to be in. "I guess I should go and see if the others are awake."
Blu made his way through the underground rebel base until he made it to the private room, and he walked inside where Sapphire, Rico, and David were talking amongst themselves until they noticed Blu had arrived.
"Good morning, Blu." Sapphire kindly greeted smiling, as Blu sat down in a soft chair with her.
"Where have you been?" Rico inquired, turning his attention towards Blu when he had saw him arrive into the room.
"Oh, I just had a little run in with Exo." Blu answered, causing everyone to be in shock.
"You encountered Exo!?" David yelled, quickly running over towards Blu before checking his entire body for any injuries. "Are you hurt? Did he get you?"
"Guys, I'm fine." Blu assured, chuckling a little while he beckoned for David to go and sit back down. "I managed to defeat him."
"You? A blue macaw with barely any training managed to defeat someone five times his skills?" Rico said, drinking out from the bottle of vodka he had been carrying in both of his wings. He merely shrugged, and did not care if Blu was telling the truth or not. "Well, I believe him."
"Wow..." Sapphire said, moving herself closer to Blu and placing her right wing on his shoulder. "I can't believe it. Did you kill him?"
"No...I left him tied up for the military." Blu answered, folding both of his wings together and leaning back on his chair. "When Raxos learns he failed, he will lock him in a cell as punishment for failing."
"At least you're OK, and that's what matters." Sapphire said smiling, before he stood up to go and get some breakfast for Blu. After all, he would need to get his strength back after he had just defeated one of the best combat, martial-artist macaws in the entire World. "Now, would you like some breakfast, Blu?"
"Sure. Thank you." Blu replied, placing both of his wings behind the back of his neck while inhaling a deep breath. He thought happy things to himself with his eyes closed and a smile on his beak. "Hmmmm..."
After finishing his breakfast with his friends, Blu had decided to go back to his room to read the letter the mysterious watcher had left for him. He walked into his room and shut the door behind him for privacy.
Blu sat down into his nest while taking off both of his gauntlets from his wings and setting them onto the floor beside him. He unrolled the paper he was carrying, expecting to see a letter with some important content of some sort.
As he opened the letter, the only thing written on the paper were the following numbers: 3-18-9-19-20-15 18-5-4-5-14-20-15-18
"3-18-9-19-20-15 18-5-4-5-14-20-15-18?" Blu read the numbers on the paper to himself, arching a eyebrow with a confused face as he placed the paper down onto the nest. "What in cheese 'n' sprinkles could that mean?"
He scratched the back of his head with a single talon, trying to figure out what those numbers could mean and what they were to serve as. Could they be coordinates? Could they be math numbers added up together to make a certain number?
"Hmmm." Blu hummed, rubbing his two wingtips on his right wing under his chin, thinking his hardest to figure out what the numbers could mean. But even with his high intelligence, he did not have a single idea what the numbers meant. "I don't have a single clue what they could mean...Oh, where's Linda and her books when I need her?"
For now, Blu would have to hide the papers and figure out it's puzzle at another time. He could not figure it out, no matter how hard he tried to think in that brain of his locked away inside of his head.
He stood back out of the nest and back onto his talons and decided to go join himself with his friends for a little while for something to do. After all, he was still a little tired after defeated Exo not too long ago.
The blue macaw exited his room, closing the door behind him, and made his way towards the private room again to be with Sapphire, Joe, Rico, and David.
When he arrived, Blu used one of his talons to open the door where he saw Sapphire and Joe talking amongst themselves as brother and sister. He smiled as he joined the other two blue macaws in the room. "Hey, Sapphire. Joe."
"Hello, Blu." Sapphire smiled.
"Good to have you with us." Joe said, folding his two wings together and leaning himself down on the chair he was sitting on.
Blu smiled in response as he sat himself down on a chair next to them, before he noticed there was no sign of Rico or David in the room. "Where's Rico and David?"
"David's attending to the injured and Rico's in his workshop building some random things as usually." Sapphire answered, placing both of her wings in front of her body. She then noticed Blu had a slightly nervous face like he was worried about something so she decided to ask what was wrong. "Blu, is everything okay?"
"Oh, yeah, everything's fine...But.." Blu replied, looking down by his talons while rubbing the back of his feathery neck with his right wing. "But...I...I think I need to leave from the base for a while..."
Sapphire gasped quietly to herself, wondering why in all of Rio would Blu just want to leave all of a sudden. Did someone upset him? Was he afraid? She decided to ask why. "Leave the base? Why?"
"I..I can't exactly explain why, Sapphire." Blu said, nervously rubbing the back of his neck. "I...I need to go and find whatever I am looking for."
"Oh...I uh..." Sapphire stammered, trying to figure out what words to say to Blu exactly. "Well, I don't know where you are going. But I wish you luck on where ever you plan to go Blu, and I hope you discover what you are looking for."
Meanwhile, all across the other side of the Jungle in the cliffs was the military macaw prison, home to all of the military macaws throughout Rio. Deep below the cliffs of the prison inside, General Raxos was all the way down to the bottom of the prison where there was water below connected to the ocean which was kind of like a indoor swimming pool.
Raxos stood on a metal catwalk while he looked down towards the bottom where he saw part of ocean connected to the prison from the inside like a swimming pool. And down below, was Raxos pet: a great white shark named Beast.
The evil general chuckled as he watched a a gangster, who was tied up and dangling a few feet from the ocean. He was being held there by rope tied around his body and talons followed by a long piece of rope tied to the ceiling, leaving him dangled there.
"Now. Are you willing to tell us where the rebel base is?" Raxos called out to his prison, folding his wings together with a smirk.
"No! I'm not talking!" the gangster said, before he forced himself to swing around when he saw the sharks swim up a little and tried to bite him and eat him for lunch. "Ahhh!"
"Aww, what's the matter? Don't like my shark?" Raxos inquired, before chuckling evilly a little as he prepared to leave with the rest of his men. "Well, give me a shout when you want to discuss. I'll just leave you hanging around.
"You won't get away with this, Raxos!" the gangster yelled out to him, before he watched the shark swim around in the large water below him that caused him to gulp in panic and fear.
The following day, Blu had packed his things and was now ready to begin his journey. He did not have much, but nether the less, Joe had gave him a backpack as a gift with only a couple of items inside such as: his army bottle with the sacred water inside, his gauntlets, the paper the mysterious watcher gave him, and a couple of small fruits for food.
The blue macaws and black hawk were outside of the rebel base go bid Blu farewell and hope he will find whatever he was looking for.
Blu was standing outside in front of Sapphie, who looked like she was about to cry. Joe and David merely had sad faces that he was going. Rico, however, merely watched while drinking out of a bottle of vodka.
Sapphire approached Blu and without saying anything, she hugged him and closed her eyes. "Goodbye, Blu. It was nice knowing you, and I wish you well on where ever you are going."
"Goodbye, Sapphire. I will miss you too." Blu replied, returning the hug to her while he watched Joe and David smile at him and were secretly wishing him the best too, but as for Rico, he merely waved his wing as a goodbye due to the fact he was still drinking out of his vodka bottle. "I hope you will take good care of your people."
"I will, Blu. I promise." Sapphire promised, finally letting Blu go out of her wing, but did have a smile on her beak though.
Blu smiled before he realized it was time to go. He turned around and used his dash power to quickly make his way through the Jungle and to avoid any military macaws around the Jungle.
He took one last at his friends before extending his wings to dash into the air quickly, and now he was soaring through the air once again, flying fast in the sky just like he did when he loved to fly around with his beloved wife Jewel while the beautiful sun sent a perfect weather through his feathers.
Now that he was out from the rebel base, he was heading the the one place he maybe able to get some answers. The one place he may be able to find answers to what has happened to his life exactly.
The city of Rio de Janeiro.
Well, this chapter is completed, ladies and gentleman. What could those numbers mean? I guess we will have to wait and see. And it's so sad to see Blu has left the rebel base to find some answers. Let's wish him luck.
Stay tuned for more.