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Will woke up few hours later and stood up," What happened?" He then looked down and saw a can that says incapacitating grenade. He immediatly realized that it wasn't a smoke grenade, but rather sleeping gas. Will then looked outside and saw the night was about to fall on Rio, so he quickly flew to Blu's hollow to meet them. He didn't use hyperspeed because it would cost him too much energy for the battle later on.
"Where is Will? Don't tell me he's not gonna come." Blu said impatiently and walking in the hollow.
"I'm here!" Will responded and landed in the hollow," Sorry I took so long, I went into some problems."
"Finally you are here." Blu said in relief," Do we have everyone now?"
Blu then counted everyone twice and knew that they didn't have much time to waste. He then said," Come on guys, we gotta go before the night hits."
"I'll guide you guys to Erico's base." Rafael said as he took off. Blu, Will, Julia, and Lucas followed behind him closely. They all thought that the only enemy was Erico and they can easily take him on four on one, but little did they know that Nigel is waiting for them to come.
After some time of flying, they reached the outside of Erico's base. It was a abandoned factory with rust all over its roof and inside. The machines in the factory are all covered in cobwebs and are just useless pieces of metal. Cages and bodies lies everywhere on the ground just as Jewel described. They carefully landed on the roof and inspected the inside of the factory.
"Alright everyone, we need to find where Erico is hiding Jewel and Maria, then we will try to rescue them without Erico knowing our presence. If he knows we are here, me, Will, Lucas and Rafael will fight him while Julia frees Jewel and Maria." Blu explained the plans to everyone," Ok, let's go."
"I'm so hungry." Jewel said as her stomach growled.
"At least I ate half a macaw yesterday, so I'm not that hungry." Maria was glad that she had eaten something.
"When is Blu gonna come?" Jewel sat and looked up the ceiling.
"I hope he comes." Erico suddenly said," Then I can capture him and torture him to death while you are forced to watch." Erico then laughed.
"You are a monster." Maria said to Ercio both in hate and disgust," Unlike Will."
"Will?" Erico suddenly stopped laughing," You mean that pathetic and weak eagle? Ha! He's never gonna beat me."
"Famous last word." Jewel said which made Erico looked at her. He then punched her in the stomach hard and grabbed her by the neck, then said very close to her face," You say that one more time, and I'll rip you alive."
"GET YOUR DIRTY CLAWS OF HER!" Blu charged toward Erico which took him by surprise. Erico released Jewel and was knocked far away by hard Blu hit him.
"How dare you touch me?" Erico said in anger when he saw Blu.
"Are you ok Jewel?" Blu said to Jewel in concern and clearly ignoring Erico.
"Not really." Jewel coughed out some blood," That punch was really hard."
Blu then looked at Erico who was now coming closer to him. Erico's size is three times as big as Blu, but Blu didn't seem to be afraid at all. Will, Lucas and Rafael all landed beside Blu which made Erico fall back a little bit.
"Well, it seems that everyone is here." Erico said," How convenient for me, so I don't have to find you one by one."
"AHH!" Blu charged at Erico first. Erico saw him and just basically stood there, he then felt Blu hitting him with both talons and wings, but to him were just massaging.
"You are wasting your energy." Erico said as he swinged his wing at Blu which knocked him a few meters away," My skin is hard as rock, nothing can hurt me."
Lucas and Rafael then charged at him at the same time. Erico first punched Rafael in the face with his wings, and blocked Lucas' attack with his other wing. Lucas saw this and went behind Erico and punched his back.
"Wrong move little bird." Erico turned around and scratched Lucas' chest with his claws.
"AH!" Lucas felt the pain and fell on the ground. Erico laughed but was then stopped by a powerful force that hitted his head. He went back a few steps and shook his head.
"Finally someone worth my time." Erico said cracked his neck then putting himself in a fighting stance.
"You won't get away with this Erico." Will said angrily looking at him.
Erico flew up in the air and charged down at Will with a great force. Will saw him coming down and dodged his attack. Erico's claw landed on the ground and created a small crater.
"Oh geez, good thing that didn't hit me." Will thought as he punched Erico's face with his claw. Erico blocked his attack and kicked his stomach. Will groaned and fell back.
"You can't defeat me." Erico said slowly walking up to Will, but was dragged by Blu and Rafael.
"Attack him now Will!" Blu said as he held Erico's left wing with all his force. Will recovered then walked back.
"What are you doing?" Rafael said to Will almost losing his grip on Erico's right wing. Will then flew up and charged at Erico with hyperspeed. Will had his head in front of him so he can hit Erico harder. Erico was set himself free at the last second but was too late to escape. His head collided with Will's head and was knocked 5 meters away. Will was also injured while doing this. He felt extremely dizzy after the collision. Will struggles to stand and fell down eventually.
"Ow, I haven't felt that pain in a long time now." Erico said still manages to get up," You are all gonna pay for this." Erico said and charged at Blu and Rafael.
Meanwhile at Jewel and Maria's cage
"What do you want Nigel?" Julia said walking back.
"Oh nothing really." Nigel said slowly advancing towards Julia.
"You better stay back or I'll cut you." Julia said in fear as her back touched the wall.
"Oh don't worry, I'm not gonna do anything bad to you." Nigel said as he grabbed Julia by the neck," Sike, I'm gonna do the worst things that could ever happen to you in front of your boyfriend."
"GET OFF HER YOU FEATHERLESS FREAK!" Lucas charged at Nigel and knocked him off of Julia.
"Well, look who's here to join my little party, how exciting." Nigel said sarcastically.
"This will be your grave Nigel." Lucas said to Nigel furiously.
"Try me." Nigel said and punched Lucas in the chest and made him fall down. Nigel then stood on him and saw the wounds on his chest, and said," Is this a cut? How pitiful, let's make it bigger."
Just as Nigel was about to claw Lucas' wound, Julia punched Nigel and made him groan. Julia then helped Lucas up and said to Nigel," Get away from him!"
"Feisty bird, I like it." Nigel said and attacked Julia again. This time Lucas and Julia worked together and dodges all Nigel's attack and eventually made him tired. Lucas saw that his attacks were slower so he went behind him and struck him hard with his wings. Nigel groaned as he got hit from the rear and fell down face first. Lucas then put his talon on Nigel's neck and threatened him," Don't move, or I'll twist it and make you bleed."
"Alright, Alright." Nigel mumbled with his face on the ground.
"Give us the keys." Julia said and kicked Nigel.
"Ow, I don't have the key, it's under the mattress over there." Nigel then pointed his wings towards the mattress under a table. Julia quickly flew there and flipped over the mattress and saw a key. She took it and flew to Jewel and Maria's cage.
"The lock is here." Maria said to Julia because she couldn't wait to get out. Julia put the key in the lock and turned it, and the sound of it unlocking was heard. Julia then threw the lock and the key away and opened the cage. Maria immediately flew out and went to help Blu while Jewel slowly came out of the cage.
"Are you ok Jewel?" Julia said then saw some blood on blue feathers. Jewel coughed some more blood out and fell down. She then knew that Jewel was injured and can not participate in the fight, so Julia carried her to the mattress and laid her down.
"Please kill Erico once and for all, we can't have him around anymore." Jewel said weakly to Julia who was now tearing up.
"Don't die Jewel, I don't want to lose you anymore." Julia said dropping a tear on Jewel's now purple feathers. She wiped her tears away and said," Don't worry Jewel, we'll take care of Erico."
Meanwhile at Erico
It was one versus one between Erico and Will. Blu, and Rafael were both injured and couldn't fight anymore. They tried to buy time for Will to recover and ended up with bumps and bruises. Will walked around in a circle while Erico did the same. Both of them looked at each other with hatred. After some intense staring, Erico suddenly charged at Will, Will saw him coming and turned to his side, then he raised his claws and scratched Erico's skin while he was still charging. Erico growled at the pain, he felt his the heat in his body rises from the pain and anger. Maria came behind him and tried to tackle him down, but Erico looked back right after Maria hit him and bumped his head against hers, and knocking her unconscious.
Will stepped back a little bit just in case he doesn't something crazy. Erico then flew up and wanted to grab Will by the neck. He was so delirious that he suddenly couldn't feel pain anymore. Will tried to punch him with as wings but Erico didn't seem to be bother at all. Erico then grabbed Will and threw him with all his force. Will's back then met the hard steel wall, he could feel the wall behind him was cracked by hard he hit it. By the time he could recover from the throw, Erico was already in front of him, ready to slash his neck. Unfortunately for Erico, Julia punched him in the eyes which made him turn his attention to her.
"Come and get me." Julia then flew away hoping that Erico would chase her which will buy Will time to recover again. Erico's eyes was glowing with anger, he chased after Julia and wanted to rip her apart. Will saw the weakness in his current form and quickly thought of an idea. He got up and closed his eyes. A flashbang grenade was then created in Will's claw. He then pulled the ring and aimed at Erico.
"Julia! Over here!" Will yelled at Julia to make her come his way. Julia heard him and flew directly at Will. Will saw the chance and threw the flashbang at Erico's face. It popped right before Erico's eyes which made him completely blind.
"WHAT THE HECK?" Erico said rubbing his eyes trying to see but his head was met by the wall and a loud thud was heard. Will closed his eyes and focused again. He created a HE grenade and pulled the ring. He threw it right beside Erico and flew away.
"JULIA! GET DOWN!" Will warned Julia and flew as far away as he could. Julia didn't have time to fly away so she tried to jump away and laid flat on the ground. The HE grenade went off and blew up everything close to it. Erico was blown up and the metal wall was partially damaged.
"JULIA!" Will quickly flew down to see if she was ok. Julia's back was completely covered in dust, some of her tail feathers were completely black. The explosion was so loud that everyone around this area heard it.
"Yeah I'm ok." Julia got up and saw the explosion behind her," There is no way Erico could've survived that."
"Let's see how others are doing." Will said as he flew over to Jewel and saw her lying down unconscious. Will didn't know what to do and tried to wake her up by shaking her, but Jewel was still motionless. Julia came up to her with tears and said," Is she gone?"
"JEWEL!" Blu yelled as he came up to her and saw her lying down on the ground. He placed his ears on Jewel's heart and closely listened to it. It was still beating. Blu sighed in relief and said," She's ok."
"Is she alright?" Maria came up with one wing on her head.
"We better take her to Tulio now." Blu said putting his talon on Jewel.
"What about Nigel?" Lucas came dragging him with his wings," Should we give him back to Tulio?"
"Yeah, let's go now." Blu said taking off followed by everybody else. No one seemed to be happy about their victory, their emotions were full of worries and tiredness.
After a few minutes of flying, they reached the aviary and Blu squawked as loud as he can. The front door opened and a man with white coat came out. He then saw the amounts of birds there were, he jumped back a little bit and yelled," Tulio! There's birds in front of the aviary."
Tulio was working on a macaw and heard his assistant calling for him. He stopped working and went outside, he walked to the front entrance and saw the birds. He then noticed that Jewel had blood on her feather and immediately said to his assistant," Bring these birds in, and prepare an emergency surgery."
Tulio and his assistant carried the birds all the way to the lab and set them down. He saw Nigel was in Lucas' talon so Tulio took him and placed him in the containment again. Tulio had to let Blu wait so he doesn't interrupt the surgery. He then laid Jewel down and started to run some tests on Jewel.
"I hope she'll wake up soon." Blu said walking back and forth impatiently.
"As much as we want to stay with Jewel." Julia said," We have to go home or the kids will start to worry about us."
"You are right." Blu said as he looked at Jewel one last time before taking off, he then saw Will lying on the table sleeping, so he said to him," Will wake up, we are going home."
Will still laid there with only loud snores to be heard. He was so tired from the fight that he fell asleep while standing up. Blu then decided to let him stay in the aviary overnight. Lucas stayed with Will too because his wound needed to be treated or it might get infected.
Blu and his friend all flew back to Julia's hollow with fatigue. Tiago, Bia and Carla hugged Blu right as he entered the hollow. They looked around and couldn't spot Jewel. Tiago then asked his dad with concern," Where is mommy?"
"She's in the aviary." Blu answered Tiago with a smile," Don't worry, we'll visit her tomorrow."
"What happened to y'all?" Nico asked them while looking at their dirty bodies," How big was the fight?"
"Let's just say it was brutal. Everybody got hurt from it and we are really tired right now." Blu said with his eyes half-closed. He fell asleep after his kids all cuddled around him. Everyone else did the same and after a few minutes, there was complete silence in the hollow.
"She just has some organ damage, it'll heal within a few days if treated with proper care." Tulio said and put his machines back. He then placed Jewel in a man-made hollow and left.
"There's an eagle lying on the table here." Tulio's assistant found Will and informed Tulio. Tulio then came back in the lab and saw Will. He quickly recognized this eagle by his looks. It was the same bird that attacked him in Linda's house but later found out to be friendly. He gently picked Will up and placed him in a soft pillow.
"Tell me when he wakes up." Tulio said to his assistant as he went back working on the macaw.
Will's dream
"Not this place again." Will thought as he found himself in an empty space.
"Well done William." The creature came out and landed in front of him.
"Don't call me by my full name." Will was irritated because he doesn't like being called like that.
"Ok then." He said without a care," Were the powerups useful?"
"Yeah definitely, just a bit tiring to use." Will said waving his claws.
"Of course it is, I'm actually surprised that you can summon more than 5 on the first day." The creature said.
"Really?" Will said with surprise," Then how can I improve my ability?"
"You'll have to use your powerups more, and your energy capacity will increase." He said.
"Thanks, but is there any new powerups I can use?" Will asked.
"Yes, and it's up to you to find out what it is." The creature said before disappearing into dust.
Yay, Erico's gone. Does anyone read this line?