Rio the Darkness 5: Alternative Darkness

Well, everyone, here is the next chapter. And if you did manage to figure out what the numbers mean, I would appreciate it if you didn't leave the answer in reviews because it could spoil the rest of the story for everyone else. Thanks for reading.

chloemcg: Thank you, and I really did wish you reviewed the last chapter. It was the longest chapter I ever wrote. :D And thanks. Oh, and I was wondering, would you like me to put your oc character Chloe the Macaw into this story? It's your choice. :D

Now that Blu was no longer living in the rebel base, it was time for him to explore the once peaceful city of Rio de Janeiro to hopefully find whatever he was looking for.

While soaring through the air through the crystal-clear sky, he eventually spotted the city of Rio de Janeiro over the horizon and flapped his wings even harder to get there quicker. But when he got there, he was saddened after he saw the city looked like the remains of a war zone.

Buildings were broken, cars were crashed all around the roads, and the city was pretty much deserted.

The blue macaw flew down towards what use to be Linda and Tulio's bookstore. The only difference this time was it didn't even look like this use to be a bookstore. It looked more like a coffee store than a bookstore.

Blu flew inside through an open window only to see damage and destruction all across the entire room. He perched himself down on a table and studied the entire room, only to see nothing but damage that filled up his heart with sadness.

"This...This was Linda's bookstore." Blu talked to himself, wiping a slight tear from his eye with a single wingtip from his right wing. "It's...It's gone..How did the city turn like this? Who could have done such as thing?"

For a few seconds, Blu wiped the tears away from his eyes before he realized it was time to go. But where? Where would he go now? What's left for him in Rio? Should he go back to the rebel base and just stay there for the rest of his life, battling military for everyday of his life? Should he maybe leave Rio and head home to America in hopes of being reunited with Linda?

Blu extended both his wings from his sides and took flight out of the coffee shop, and back outside into the damaged city of Rio. He still needed to rest after the long flight so he landed down onto the roof on the coffee store.

"Whew. Sure is hot today." Blu talked to himself while he sat down and took off his backpack and placed it in front of him before opening it up to get a snack. He got himself a fresh mango from his backpack and began munching away.

He sat still on the ground while eating the mango from his talon and glancing up at the sky.

After he finished his mango, he was interrupted by a few birds, who did not seem to look very friendly. Six military macaws (all of them unharmed), cracked their wings together while chuckling evilly.

"And what do we have here?" one of them said, slowly approaching macaw with an evil grin on his face.

"Looks like we got us a hostage." another military macaw said, picking up a small rock in his talon and using it to sharper to tip of his beak. "The King mentioned he was looking for a blue macaw. He might be the one."

"Gentlemen, I would appreciate if you just got out of my way." Blu warned them, standing back up onto his dark grey talons with his wings up on self-defense, preparing to attack them. "I really don't want trouble."

"Well, you got trouble, macaw." the military macaw said. "Now, are you gonna surrender nicely? Or our we going to have to take you by force."

Blu grinned to himself while he rubbed two of his wingtips together. He slowly moved his wings into his backpack and got his gauntlets and placed them firmly around his wings before saying to the other military macaws: "Okay, don't say I didn't warn you."

In a split-second, Blu dashed to all six military macaws at the same time and hit all of them rapidly as he continued to hit each one of them once every time he dashed to them. Each of the military macaws tried to hit him, but he was too quick and none of them could take him down.

Blu eventually tricked two of them into hitting each other, knocking each other down. The blue macaw dashed behind another two military macaws before grabbing their heads and banging them into each other's, knocking them out too.

"Told you so." Blu chuckled, looking towards the fifth military macaw, who was trying not to show any fear to his enemy. Blu waited for the military macaw to strike before he dodged and easily used his gauntlet to take him down.

Now there was only one military macaw left, and he could not help but show fear to Blu, and without hesitation, he turned around and screamed out for help at the top of his lungs. "H-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-L-L-L-L-LL- L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L-L P-P!"

Blu covered up his ears with both of his wings, trying to block out the sound from the military macaws scream. He groaned in agony but soon noticed the sounds of his screams had stopped completely. Blu opened his eyes and looked up to see the military macaws was knocked down, and standing above him was a familiar friend. "Rico?"

"No, it's Sam Adams." Rico sarcastically replied, while throwing down the baseball bat he was carrying onto the ground. "Of course it's me."

"What are you doing here?" Blu inquired, sitting himself back down on the rooftop, tried from using his powers due to the fact they can drain a lot of energy from him.

Rico sat down next to Blu while pulling out a bottle of vodka out from the bag he was carrying and taking a quick sip. "I followed you here, Blu. I needed to know just what in all of Rio were you doing out here?"

Blu sighed in response, and had no choice but to finally confess the truth to the black hawk why he truly came out here. "Okay, Rico. I will tell you. I came out here because...Because, I am best friends with a human...A female named Linda."

"Human, eh?" Rico said, not sounding too bothered that Blu was friends with a human while he drunk out of his vodka bottle. "Let me guess, trying to find her?"

Blu nodded in agreement.

"No humans around here anymore." Rico said, while he looked over at the unconscious macaws scattered all across of the rooftops. "Not since Lenny found the Orb of Light."

Blu then arched a curious eyebrow, confused about how Lenny did get the Orb exactly. He was about to ask the hawk a question, but he was soon distracted when he heard nearby flapping. He stood back up onto his talons to investigate and what he saw next was not pretty.

All across the rooftops, lampposts, and other various things around them, a whole army of military macaws were perched on top of buildings and other things to stand on, waiting pationetly for the signal to attack, and with them was no other than General Raxos, who was standing right at the front of them.

Blu's beak dropped down, shocked about how many military macaws were just standing them watching him. "Woah."

"What is it?" Rico inquired, standing up beside Blu while about to take a sip from his vodka before he spotted what Blu was staring at, and now he too was shocked about how many military macaws were standing there. "Woah."

General Raxos, who was standing on the building just opposite of the coffee shop, called out to the blue macaw and black hawk while chuckling a little. "Greetings, macaw, hawk! Glad to see you're both here."

"Raxos..." Blu mumbled, growing silently under his breath before shouting in return to the military macaw General. "What do you want, Raxos?! We are not telling you anything!"

"Oh, I do beg to differ, macaw." Raxos countered, rubbing two single wingtips together on his right wing. "Now, are you both going to surrender like good boys, or do I have to send my whole army to take you by force?"

"I will never surrender to you, Raxos!" Blu yelled in return, a very angry expression on his face.

"Me, too!" Rico agreed, before taking yet another big sip out of the bottle of vodka he loved so much to drink.

"Then, you both leave me no choice." Raxos said, as he beckoned for a few of his men to fly in and attack. He sent in four regular military macaws, a military macaw carrying a stun stick, and a military macaw wearing body armor. "Now, I'm going to see how powerful you both really are. See if you can survive different types of my men."

Blu did not understand why Raxos was stupid enough not to send all of his men at once, but nethertheless, he and Rico moved back-to-back as the military macaws surrounded them in every direction. "Rico, are you ready for this?"

"You kidding me?" Rico asked, before laughing a little while he finished the rest of his vodka and threw the bottle away. "I was born for this! Come on!"

Blu dashed towards three of the regular macaws and used his speed to strike each one of them once at a time without getting hit until they were all down and unable to continue further.

Rico dodged the military macaw carrying a stun stick attack's, and eventually, got the upperhand by gripping the military macaw into a wing lock and taking his own weapon off him and using it to stun him to the ground. The hawk then manoeuvred behind the other regular military macaw and used the stun stick to take him down too.

Blu finished off the last military macaw (the one wearing body armor and a protective helmet) by doing what Rico had taught him: quick-focused attacks to break through his defenses and finally take him down.

Raxos, who had been watching the entire thing, hummed as he beckoned for tougher military macaws to attack next. "You men! Attack them!"

The next wave of attacks were ten different types of military macaws: two regular ones, four of them carrying axes, two of them carrying stun sticks, one of them wearing body armor, and the last one who was another one of those trained martial-artists.

Blu shouted out a battle cry as he used his gauntlets to block the military macaws carrying axes attacks, followed by him striking attacks into their faces, knocking them down almost instantly. He took down the military macaws carrying axes and the two regular ones.

Rico waited for the two military macaws with stun sticks to attack him from both sides, and he moved out of the way just in time and tricked them into stunning each other instead, using his quick thinking, despite him being a drinker.

Rico then looked towards the martial-artist, who leaped out of nowhere and struck Rico directly into the face with a fly kick, knocking him down onto his back. The hawk groaned as he got back up onto his talons and watched the martial-artist perform his kung fu moves.

"Ohh, I've just about had it with you guys and your kung fu." Rico said, before running over to the martial-artist with his wing curled like a fist before striking a direct hit straight into his face, knocking him down to the ground. "Now, that's my kung fu. The drunken style!"

"Rico, is that even a real move?" Blu inquired, while he hit the military macaw wearing body armor until he had enough and fell down directly to the ground.

"Nope." Rico answered, stretching his wings out to prepare for the next wave of Raxos men.

Raxos growled in response, not believing how in the World could they be winning? Those men were fully-trained military soldiers, ready for anything. He beckoned for only a couple of military macaws to attack, and this time, he too was going to battle them in combat. "I'm tired to these games! Men, let's go!"

Raxos and his men flew down directly onto the same rooftop as Blu and Rico, who were waiting for them. The evil General landed down on the same roof with his men and ordered them to attack. "Men, get them! Let's finish this!"

The military macaws, who were unharmed, attacked directly at the blue macaw and black hawk, preparing to finish this battle once and for all.

Blu and Rico would take anything that they threw at them and were willing to take on anything Raxos may throw at them. They worked together to take on all of the military macaws, and used communication to help each other in combat.

"Rico, one of your left!" Blu quickly warned, while he used his dash power to slam a military macaw off of the roof top.

"Thanks, Blu!" Rico quickly responded, dodging the military macaw who was going to hit him, and quickly responded an attack by striking the macaw in the belly with his left wing, and then in his face with his left wing.

Raxos could see his men were being defeated so he beckoned for a few more military macaws to arrive.

A few regulars ones joined in on the action, a couple of military macaws with weapons joined in, and one military, who was extremely huge, joined in too.

Raxos chuckled and decided to introduce him to Blu and Rico for a second time. "Macaw, hawk, you remember my little nephew Anton, don't you? He sure hasn't forgot about about you two."

Anton charged direction at Rico, who was battling off military macaws on his own, and knocked himself, Rico, and a couple of other military macaws off the rooftop.

"Rico!" Blu gasped, quickly dashing over to the end of the rooftop, quickly attempting to find and save the hawk. But due to him using his powers so much, it made him weak and almost out of complete energy.

While he distracted, Raxos took his chance and flew directly into Blu, knocking him down onto his back, causing him quite a bit of pain. The evil General placed himself on top of Blu with his wings curled like fists, and struck four direct hits onto the blue macaw's face. "Think you're so tough, do you?!"

Although Blu was weak, he had no choice but to hit back in order to survive. He waited until Raxos went for the fifth hit and used his wing to block before he slapped both of his wings against Raxos' eardrums, causing him to jump off of Blu.

"Ahh!" Raxos groaned, holding both of his wings onto his eardrums.

Blu swiftly got back up onto his talons and delivered two direct hits onto Raxos, striking him direction into the nest.

Raxos dodged the next of Blu's hits and countered him by grabbing his wings and headbutting him in the face.

Blu responded by striking an undercut under Raxos' chin, causing him shooting pain to shoot through under his face.

"I've just about had it with you!" Raxos yelled, dodging the next one of Blu's strikes by maneuvering behind him and striking him into his back, causing Blu to fall back down onto the ground. He placed his right talon onto Blu's throat and held him to the ground, slowly choking him.

Raxos watched Blu squirm around helpless, and chuckled as he slowly moved his face near him. "The King ordered me to bring you in alive. But I think I'll just kill you here and tell him I had to kill you in self-defensive."

Blu mumbled a couple of words in responses while holding onto his talon with both of his wings. "I won't...Let you...Win...Raxos..."

"Oh, but you don't have a choice." Raxos chuckling, before he placed his wing beside his belt and pulled out his sword, finally ready to end what they had started. "Now, let's see how tough you are without your head."

Blu struggled to get free as he looked around in every direction for something to aid him in his moment of need. He watched Raxos strike his sword against him, but luckily managed to stop him with his gauntlets.

He lifted both his talons and grabbed onto Raxos back and began to dig his claws in hard, causing another pain for Raxos to release his grip.

"OWW!" Raxos yelled, before he screamed in anger and charged straight at Blu again with his sword raised in the air. "Ahhhhh!"

"Ahhhhh!" Blu screamed, also charging towards Raxos with his gauntlets raised in the air.

The two macaws charged directly towards each other, and when they got to each other, Raxos attempted to stab Blu with his sword, but Blu blocked his sword with both of his metal gauntlets, and now they were at a stalemate. They tried to push the other back, but they both seemed to be equally the same.

Raxos was just getting warmed up. As for Blu, he had just about had enough of this.

Blu used one of his wings to strike Raxos in the face before knocking his sword out from his wing, completely disarming him. He grabbed Raxos and pushed him to the ground before he got on top of him with his right wing curled like a fist while folding him down with the other.

Blu rapidly hit Raxos in his face multiple times, screaming out in pain an anger each time he struck hits against the evil General. "You've caused so much trouble! I won't let you hurt anyone else!"

The blue macaw continued to rapidly strike hits against Raxos until he paused to get his breath back, and he gasped when he noticed Raxos was not moving. Blu placed his wingtip at the side of Raxos' neck, realizing he had no pulse beating, and was shocked to realize he had beaten him to death.

"I...I...Killed him." Blu said, shocked and traumatized that he had just killed him. "He's dead..."

While Blu was trying to calm down after killing Raxos, Rico had emerged back onto the rooftop, revealing himself to be alive. He quickly flew over to Blu and helped him onto his talons. "Blu...You killed him...Wow.."

"Rico...I...I didn't want to kill him.." Blu said, as his eyes filled up with tears. "I didn't mean..."

"It's alright. It's alright..." Rico assured, calmy hugging Blu to calm him down from his traumatic. "Now, come on. We have to go."

Blu nodded in agreement as he looked up to see the other military macaws were still there. "Uhh, Rico?"

"Yeah?" Rico replied, picking up his own and Blu's bag, and drinking out of another vodka bottle he had brought with him before he noticed the other military macaws too. "Uh-oh."

The military macaws suddenly charged directly towards them. Blu panicked and Rico spat out the vodka out from his beak. To escape, Blu placed one wing around Rico and used his dash ability to get them in the air quicker before he made them both invisible to stay out of sight and make their way back to the rebel base.

Well, everyone. I bet this was certainly shocking. General Raxos is dead by the wings of Blu, and now we know what the city of Rio looks like. Well, what's left of it. Now that Raxos is dead, the rebels may have a chance and some confidence to attack the King once and for all.