Deleted Chapters
Well, here's the next of the deleted chapters, ladies and gentlemen of the alternative storyline.
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Shortly after discussing business with the captain of the light macaws, Blu made his way back into his bedroom and closed the door behind him. He was greeted by his beautiful wife, whom came over to greet him. "Hey, Blu. How did it go?"
"The captain says we're going to make a plan soon. In the meantime, he just asked us to get some rest for a while." Blu answered, while pushing himself towards the other end of the bedroom. "Jewel, can you help me get into a bed?"
"Anything for the bird I love." Jewel replied, walking behind her husband and kneeling down to him and pressing the button that released the waist strap holding him down. She threw it away as she stood by Blu and placed his wing around her neck. "Okay, be careful now, Blu."
As careful as she could be, Jewel helped Blu get off from his wheelchair and carefully laid him down in the nest, trying to prevent hurting him further. She was able to get him in safely without hurting him at all.
"Thanks honey." Blu thanked, as he leaned his head down against one of the pillows. He leaned his head back up however when he had yet another request. "Jewel, do you mind getting me those two pillows over there?"
"Another two pillows?" Jewel replied, folding her wings together for a moment while arching an eyebrow. "You need three pillows to sleep on? How big is your head?"
"No, it's for my talons." Blu explained, knowing he needed to be as comfortable as possible for his injuries to hell.
Jewel obeyed his requested and made her way over towards the end of the room, retrieving the two pillows. She carefully lifted each of Blu's talons up and placed the pillow underneath them.
"Ahh, that's better." Blu sighed in relaxation, closing his eyes as he prepared to get some sleep for the night.
Now that he was comfortable, Jewel joined him in the nest and laid down beside her, resting her head upon his chest with her wings around him.
The two slept off into a peaceful sleep, hoping they would get a lot of rest so they could prepare for their next plan of action in the morning. However, Blu had no idea what he was going to do this time, and for once, he may have to seek help, especially in his condition.
Meanwhile, a few miles north of the World of Darkness prison was, the World of Darkness castle, home to the evil hawk Nexus. At the moment, the castle was being run by Vadin and Kate until their leader would return.
The two macaws sat in comfortable chairs, a couple of feet away from each other a private room all to themselves as there was dark macaws with them, doing their bidding such as: fetching them food and drinks, checking on the prisoners, and doing a check on the outside of the castle.
Vadin sighed as he lied back on the comfortable chair he was sitting on with his talons resting against a cushion. He had to admit, for a place that was full of darkness, this was better than home. "This is relaxing. So much better than that hideout we were hiding in back at Rio."
"You can say that again." Kate agreed, sitting in similar way to Vadin relaxing as the smart macaw was massaging her shoulders while the stupid macaw rubbed her talons. "Oh, yeah. This is perfect."
"We can we stop?" the stupid macaw inquired, sighing as he continued to rub the yellow and blue macaw's talons with his wings, and this was not the job he signed up for.
"When I say so." Kate answered, closing her eyes as she laid her head back against the top of the chair. She spoke to the smart macaw while she was practically in her own world. "You, do me and favor and go and get me some water."
The smart macaw grunted in response, but he had no choice but to obey them until Nexus had returned. He stopped rubbing her shoulders for a moment to go and get her water like she requested.
"I can get use to this." Kate admitted, but her peace was ruined by a dark macaw that ran into the room without knocking. She merely sighed as she left up to Vadin to do the yelling.
"What is the meaning of this?!" Vadin asked, shouting slightly as he leaned up to see their intruder.
"Lord Nexus has returned sir." the dark macaw answered, panting slightly for making his way through the entire castle just to get to them. "And he's requested you and her to be at his throne room as soon as possible."
Saying this, Vadin and Kate soon jumped up from where they were sitting (Kate accidently knocking the stupid macaw down along the way) and ran out from the room. Vadin used his dash ability to get down the hallways quicker while Kate struggled to follow.
"Hey, wait up!" Kate called out to him, running as fast her talons would carry her since she was use to flying normally, but the rules were no flying in the castle except for emergencies.
The two eventually made it to the throne room at the same time (despite Vadin's super speed), both panting slightly as they knelt down to Nexus, who was standing a couple of feet away from them.
It was only them three in the throne room at this very moment, but Nexus was expecting company. He ordered all his top soldiers to be in this room, and those were Vadin and Kate, who were his captains, Mr. Kirilenko, who was his personally bodyguard and his lieutenant, and the warden.
Nexus approached the two macaws knelt down in front of him in respect. He placed his right wing onto Vadin's shoulder with a grin on his beak as he could sense that Vadin was fearful of him, but this was Nexus' advantage. "Vadin, Kate. I trust both of you have kept the castle in good condition?"
"Protecting it with our lives, Lord Nexus." Vadin answered, speaking for both him and Kate while Nexus gave them permission to stand back up.
"May we ask why you have returned, Lord Nexus?" Kate inquired, looking towards the evil hawk, who returned her gaze with his fearful red eyes, sending fear down her spine. "Did you find the scroll?"
"Not yet, Kate." Nexus answered, placing his wing to the side of Kate's face where he stroked it with his wingtip for a second before he walked back to his throne chair. "But we may have a lead, which is why I called a meeting. Now, we are just waiting for the warden, and Kirilenko. He will be bringing the Angelus here for us."
"A lead, you say, Lord Nexus?" Vadin queried, placing both of his wings back to his sides as he and Kate stood where they were.
"Yes." Nexus answered, sitting back down on his throne while placing both of his wings down onto arms of his throne. "I interrogated this macaw who had been hunting me down. He told me that he and his boss were protecting some valuable that they needed to keep from me, and I am positive that this is the scroll. I need to hunt them down. But first, we need to have a little talk with our good friend the Angelus."
"Do you know their names, Lord Nexus?" Vadin inquired, wanting to make himself useful to prove his loyalty even more to the evil hawk. "I know I am from São Paulo, but I know Rio de Janeiro pretty well."
"The macaw I interrogated said he works for someone named Exo." Nexus answered, having to think for a moment to remember the name since he has been alive for millions of years, and that gave him a lot of memories.
"Exo?" Vadin repeated, remembering that name from the past. "I know him! He use to work for my brotherhood."
"Really?" Nexus inquired, pressing his wings together with a smirk across his beak, thinking that the hunt for his scroll was going to be over sooner than he thought. He used his telekinesis to drag a couple of wooden chairs over to the two macaws. "Interesting. Take a seat, and tell me some of his origins."
"Certainly." Vadin replied, sitting himself down on the wooden chair that was not as comfortable as the one in the private room, but it would have to do for now. "Exo is a scarlet macaw. He was one of my best soldiers ever. We trained him so much that he was capable of taking on ten macaws at once without hardly breaking a sweat, and had the skills to even build us weapons. He was my personal soldier, but one day, during an attack on someone's tree hollow, we were forced to attack someone and his family because they did not pay us back for some business we did together. After the attack, Exo claimed that he did not sign on for this and just left. We tried to bring him back, but he just refused and left forever. We didn't hear from him again...Until today, that is."
"Hmmm, I see." Nexus replied, paying attention to every word the red-bellied macaw had just been saying. "He sounds like a worthy opponent. It's a shame we have to kill him. Someone like him on our team could be useful."
"I couldn't agree with you more, Lord Nexus." Vadin agreed, as he and Kate stood back up from their chairs as Nexus moved them back to where they were with his power. "But, he is too honorable to change sides."
"Then he will have to die." Nexus replied, not having a problem with killing someone so skilful and intelligent, according to Vadin anyway. He soon looked to the entrance where two dark macaws had walked inside, and Nexus recognized them to be from the prison. "Ahh, the warden has arrived. Excellent."
The two dark macaws walked aside where they allowed another dark macaw to arrive inside. It was indeed the warden, who arrived inside while still wearing his eye patch. He looked somewhat fearful, and this maybe because he just lost the prisoners he swore to keep locked up.
"Lord Nexus." the warden greeted, kneeling down to his king in respect like usual
"Warden? What happened to your eye?" Nexus inquired, suspecting something was wrong as soon as he saw the warden with an eye patch on his eye. He stood up as he slowly began to walk towards, the warden, who was trying to think of an excuse for his answer.
"Ummmm, I don't quite know how to explain this to you, Lord Nexus." the warden replied, rubbing the back of his neck with his right wing for a moment as tried to think of an answer. "But...But the prisoners you brought to me from Rio...Have escaped?"
"WHAT!?" Nexus screamed at the top of his lungs, causing everyone in the room to jump in fear. He angrily screamed as he dashed towards the warden, and in a split second, he pulled the warden up by force using the super strength of his talon, and threw him over to the other side of the room, hitting the wall with great force.
The warden collapsed to the ground as he groaned, holding his wing against his chest as pain shot through it upon impact. His troubles were not over yet as Nexus approached him and gripped his throat with his right talon and held him up in the air.
"You idiot!" Nexus shouted, throwing him yet again in the air where the warden landed in the middle of the throne room, breaking one of his ribs in the process.
The warden attempted to crawl away before the worse would happen, but there was no possible for anyway him to escape.
Nexus approached the warden once again, stomping down onto the ground on the way and gripped his throat and held him into the air, slowly choking him to death. "You moron! I give you one simple task, AND YOU LET ALL OF THEM ESCAPE!"
"Please, it wasn't my fault!" the warden begged, placing both of his wings onto Nexus' talons, trying to ease the pain against his throat. "Please, just give me a second chance! I can get them back!"
"I don't give second chances." Nexus refused, tightening his grip further, causing the warden's eye to turn read as he could just about breathe.
"Please...Lord...Nexus...!" he begged, chocking out his words as he was on the verge of passing out. "Here me...Out...I have...A...Plan..."
Nexus smirked as he brought the warden's face closer to his own. He looked into the warden's panicking eyes, and without hesitation. He wanted to kill him right now, but decided to hear his last words. "And what is this so-called plan of yours?"
"Lord Nexus...The blue macaw is...Is injured, yes...?" the warden reminded him, while he struggled to breath. "He...He's not a threat...He can't do anything to stop you...In his condition...I can get...Them...Back."
Nexus tossed the warden back over to the entire room and watched him land belly first onto the ground, followed by sickening thud. He beckoned him to leave his sight before he changed his mind. "Very well, warden. You have persuaded me this once. Now get out of there and find me those prisoners! If you fail again...Next time I will not be so forgiving."
"Yes, Lord Nexus, right away!" the warden obeyed in a fearful tone. He quickly made haste to escape, the two dark macaws who escorted him inside followed.
"Uh, Lord Nexus?" Vadin interrupted him, trembling in fear slightly as he feared this could be him if he was to fail any of Nexus' orders. "Don't you think that was necessary? I mean, he is very loyal and-"
Vadin was cut off when Nexus had suddenly dash over him in a split second and placed his toes around his throat. Nexus was not choking him yet, but he feared if said anything further, then the choking would start.
"Are you questioning my methods and the way I run things around here?" Nexus inquired, preparing to tighten his grip in a similar way he did moments ago. "If that is true, then that would make me very angry, and you really do not want to see me when I am angry, do you?"
Vadin's beak trembled in fear as he tried to get out his wings from his beak. He gulped as he finally answered the evil hawk's question, and he was just in time to answer because he looked like he was running out of patience. "No, Lord Nexus. Or course not."
"Excellent." Nexus grinned, taking his talons off of his throat for a moment before turning his attention to the main door where he could hear giant talon steps heading their way, and there was only one person who he knew was capable of causing the ground to vibrate. "Ahh that must be Kirilenko now."
Nexus was indeed correct where he huge dark macaw had to duck to get into his throne room where he had the Angelus held over his shoulder in his one wing. She had some of those dark essence ropes tied around her body and ankle again to keep her from using any of her powers.
"Put me down!" the Angelus demanded, squirming around as much as she could in his grip.
"Ahh, Mr. Kirilenko, glad you could join us." Nexus smirked, using his telekinesis power to pull up a wooden chair into the middle of the throne room. "Please set our guest there."
Kirilenko obeyed as he pushed the Angelus into his talon before sitting her down on the chair. He walked away seconds later, leaving the three villains alone.
After he was gone, Nexus used his powers to close the one way into his throne room so they could not be disturbed. He approached the Angelus, who struggled to get free from her binds, but she could not get free. "Hello there, your Majesty. Glad you could join us."
"What do you want, Nexus?" the Angelus inquired, moving side to side as she attempted to get her wings free.
"A lot of things, but that is not why we are here." Nexus answered, placing his wing to the side of her face where she bit his wing, but it did not look like it affected him at all. "Now, that was not nice."
"If you are going to kill me, just get it over with!" the Angelus demanded, growling slightly as Vadin walked behind her and placed his wings against her shoulders to keep her still.
"Oh, no. That would be too easy." Nexus replied, lifting his throat up and grabbed her throat, squeezing it slightly in an attempt to make her talk. "Now, all I want is an answer, and then, this will all be over. Now, I want to know one thing: the ancient scroll that you buried over one-hundred years ago. Where is it?"
The Angelus did not answer. Instead, she spat at his face. "I will never tell you!"
"You're funny." Nexus mocked, wiping his face for a moment before hitting her directly in the stomach, causing her to groan as the force from his incredible strength winded her. After all, without her healing powers, she was defenseless. "Now, let us try again. Where did you bury the scroll?"
"I won't tell you nothing, Nexus!" the Angelus refused, growling as she tried to stand up and attack him. "You're just wasting your time!"
"Oh, but I have all the time in the World." Nexus replied, referring to the fact they both could live for all eternity with their powers. He hit her again the same place, hurting her more than last time. "Now, have an answer this time?"
"Never!" she spat out, leaning forward where she attempted to bite him. "I cannot remember where I buried it, and even if I did, I would never tell you!"
"Don't lie to me!" Nexus warned, letting go of her throat as clawed her in her chest, digging his toes in slightly that caused her to scream out in agony. "Just tell me, and all this ends!"
The Angelus continued to scream for a few more moments, unable to do anything. She attempted to move, but Vadin kept her still as Nexus continued to torture her.
The evil hawk let go for a moment before he extended out a single demon arm and wrapped it around her throat. He held her into the air, choking her with his super strength, still demanding answers. "Where is it!? TELL ME!"
Nexus was still not getting any answers, and there he was getting even more frustrated than before. He wanted to end her right now, but he could see she was beginning to pass out so he dropped her down where she landed down with sickening thud.
He beckoned for Vadin and Kate to lean her up so he could continue to get answers. He used his powers to appear a blade into his talon that he held to her throat. "This is your final chance! Tell me, or I will personally cut off your head and hang it on my wall!"
"No!" the Angelus refused yet again, struggling as the two macaws beside her kept her still. "You will never get me to talk! I would rather die than ever help you!"
"Have it your way." Nexus replied, beckoning for the two to move her over to another table.
The Angelus struggled as she dug her talons down into the ground, but the two macaws dragged her towards a table. They both stood her up before slamming half her body down against the table, and both of them kept one wing on her back while keeping the other against the back of her head to keep her down.
"I gave you a chance to live, Angelus." Nexus stated, setting his knife down as he got something better from his powers which was a dark essence blade. "Now, you leave me no choice. Vadin, Kate, please hold our guest down while I decapitate her head."
"Yes, Lord Nexus." Vadin replied, holding her down further to keep her from moving her head.
"You should have listened to him." Kate said to the Angelus, smirking as she held her right wing against the back of her head. "It's a shame we got to kill you. After all, there was a better use for you."
As Nexus lifted his sword up and prepared to finish off his greatest enemy, he listened to Kate's words. "Better use? What could she possible help us with?"
"Well, we could have used her as bait to get the prisoners back." Kate suggested, pushing her wings further as the Angelus attempted to lean up. "But not that it matters now that we got to kill her, right?"
"Actually, there has been a change of plan." Nexus replied, vanishing the sword back into dark essence as he walked back towards his throne. "The Angelus lives for now. Take her back to her cell, but leave the ropes on. We do not want to make things too easy."
Vadin and Kate were confused about Nexus suddenly changing his mind, but nevertheless, they obeyed him and dragged the Angelus out of the throne room.
As the left, Nexus pressed his two wings together as he sat down on his throne, thinking of his next plan of action. "As soon as night time arrives in Rio, I will take Vadin and hunt down this Exo. If there is a chance that he has my scroll, than I must take it. Oh, this is all going to be too easy. Hehehehaha."
And that bring's us to the end of this chapter, folks. As you can see, the warden lives in this storyline. What else will change along the way? Stay tuned to find out, ladies and gentlemen.