The Pit
Now obviously you guys and girls have probably heard of what could happen in this scene! Have any of you played Dying Light? If so, the game inspired me to create this scene…but instead of flesh eating zombies attacking our favourite assassin…I've planned for something a bit more realistic…and a bit more dangerous! Also, we will be meeting…an old friend shall we say? A certain author knows who I'm talking about! Anyway, without further interruptions…I'm gonna stop yapping and start flapping!
2 Hours Later…
"Ughhhh…wh-what the hell?" A very dizzy blue and gold macaw male spoke in a muffled whisper. As he slowly opened his eyelids…only to be staring at some bright lights that were shone directly in his eyes. "What happened to me?"
He shot up from the ground onto his feet when noticing that he wasn't on the sand anymore. Which did obviously suit him due to his hatred for sand. But he was freaking out in a whole other level. He wasn't sure what he was doing in some kind of creepy stadium.
"What the shit is this?" RDJ spoke to nobody in particular, as he had a look at his surroundings. Noticing that there were a couple other birds in the arena with him. Both just as confused as he was. "Hey you! Pink macaw!"
"I have a name asshole!" The pink macaw revealed to be a female, and was pretty annoyed about him referring to her as just a pink macaw. "Or shall I just call you grey feathers?!"
"Sorry miss, but in case you didn't know…we are standing in a fucking arena?!"
"It's called the pit asswipe!" A grumpy blue jay called out to him, as he wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Don't you know what happens to birds in here?!"
"They get stuck with pretentious douche bags?" RDJ responded rudely as he narrowed his eyes at the blue bird.
"Fuck you amigo! You die in here! And the guy who brought us here…he brought us here to die!"
"Who?!" RDJ and the pink female macaw asked at the same time, before turning towards each other and rolling their eyes.
"The destroyer…" After hearing what the blue jay just said…the head of the assassins immediately froze up. As he felt a huge pain hit his brain…like an old memory which still haunts his mind.
"N-N-No…that's…that's impossible?!" RDJ widened his eyes in horror, and took a few steps backwards. As he placed both his wings on his head. As a terrible memory had entered his mind…his first day of assassin training in Cairo. "How is that…even possible?! He died in that fire! I killed him!"
"Well looks like you didn't do a good job! Shit! Is that him?" The pink female gazed up at this huge throne in the stands. Where she saw a bird sitting there relaxed on the seat, who wore a dark black helmet which was made from metal.
"I've seen him before…he nearly killed me 22 years ago…" RDJ whispered to the other two birds stood besides him. With both of them cowering in fear, hiding behind the muscular macaw who just showed no signs of weakness.
After a few more second of silence, the male finally spoke up. And soon, a huge crowd of birds entered the arena. Screaming and chanting for blood to be shed.
"Ladies! Gentlemen! Birds of all ages! I give to you…three new challengers to the pit!" The bird in the helmet spoke up as he had his eyes locked on the assassin who was stood in the middle. "Hello RDJ…I remember you from Cairo!"
Both the blue jay and pink macaw gazed at the assassin in the middle of them, and both of them stayed close to him. Due to the fact they were scared beyond belief.
"How are you still alive?! I thought I killed you?!" RDJ called out in anger as The Destroyer just cackled evilly.
"You tried to! But now, I am about to test how strong you really are! Release the soldiers!"
"Ahhh fuck! Have either of you been in a fight before?" RDJ softly spoke to the two birds besides them. And both of them shook their heads as a no. "If I were you, I'd take cover and let me handle this!"
"You? But you're like 50?" The blue jay spoke up in surprise as he continued to hide behind him.
"I'm 37 smart ass! Plus…I am the head of the assassins!" The blue and gold male beamed as he got prepared for battle.
Both of the other birds immediately went to find cover, as a loud scream was heard from the panel doors that quickly shot open. Revealing about twenty military macaws, all holding spears and machetes. As they charged towards the assassin in a tight formation.
"RARRRRRRRR!" The soldiers screamed in the loudest of war cries, as they flooded the pit with fire in their eyes.
RDJ quickly had a little scan around him to see if he could use anything to defend himself. But unfortunately for him, the only thing he could use was his hidden blades, that The Destroyer luckily didn't take off of him.
"Okay…you guys want to have some fun? By all means! It's been a long time since I had a party!" RDJ chuckled in amusement as he saw that a military macaw was about to ram his spear right through him.
(Immigrant song - Led Zeppelin starts playing)
RDJ quickly grabbed the spear from the military macaw, stabbed him in the throat with his hidden blade, then yanked it out of his grasp.
When another went to strike him on the back, he spun around quickly and rammed the spear through his head, splitting it like a watermelon. Then he tightened his grip on the spear and threw it vigorously at two more attackers. Killing both of them instantly as he went straight through them like a shish kebab.
Two more came from his left and two more came from his right, so he had to make a quick decision.
He performed a back flip behind two of them and stabbed them both in the back of their necks with his hidden blades. Then he quickly grabbed both of their machetes in his wings and threw them powerfully at the other two guards. Causing them to fall on the floor lifeless.
"Anyone feeling luck…Cough! Cough! Cough!…Lucky!" RDJ panted a little in exhaustion and he looked like he was struggling a little bit.
As this little battle was going on…a certain figure in a hood was circling around the birds on the stands near the pit. The very same bird who was following RDJ earlier in the day.
The female quickly ducked down behind one of the bollards, and pulled out what looked like some kind of wooden curvy stick in the shape of a crescent moon.
"Okay…this is for you mentor! And…for the assassins!" The female spoke in a quiet whisper as she dropped the curvy stick into the pit. And where the blue and gold male already found himself close to the wall. He was within reaching distance.
RDJ slowly backed away after being pursued by six of the attackers, while the others searched for the other two challengers. And he was finding it difficult to take on all these birds himself.
But after he took one more step back, he realised that he stood on something rather peculiar.
He quickly looked down and noticed the curvy stick that the hooded female dropped. RDJ leaned down to pick it up. Once he did so he examined it a little closer, and saw there was a button on the left hand side of the handle. "What the…"
Once he pressed the button down, the stick extended into what looked like some kind of boomerang? With sharp blades coming out the edge of it. Making him narrow his eyes in a sadistic manner at his attackers, who all gulped nervously.
"Gee, have any of you heard the saying…what goes around comes around?" The blue and gold male smirked in amusement, before throwing the boomerang type weapon around. And one by one the blades slashed all of their throats instantly. Causing all of them to drop to the floor. As their lungs slowly filled up with blood as they choked to death within seconds.
"I guess not? Now…time to save those other guys!" RDJ remarked as he saw that one of the military macaw corpses luckily had a bow and arrow attached to them. So he yanked it off of the corpse and flew towards the remaining attackers who tried to kill the other two challengers.
The Destroyer watched RDJ's movements very closely, and he placed a wingtip on his chin in a thoughtful manner. Whereas the crowd on the other wing, continued to eagerly watch for more blood to be shed.
"Here my sweet beak! Come down here so I can rip out your organs!" A military macaw spoke with a creepy voice, as he used his spear to take a swipe at the pink female, who used a rock to knock it out of his wings. Before trying to make a fly for it. "Oh no you don't!"
"HELP! HELP ME!" She screamed in fear as another one jumped on top of her back, and stood on top of her to prevent her escaping. "GET AWAY FROM ME!"
"Oooh I like you! You would definitely be worth all the ha…ACCCCKKKKAAAA…" Suddenly, an arrow shot him directly on the back of his head, and the female pushed him off of her. Before quickly jumping to her feet and she ran over to her saviour. Who was standing there with a smirk on his face.
"The name's RDJ…like Rio de Janeiro!" The blue and gold male quickly introduced himself, before firing another arrow at a bird approaching the pink macaw from behind.
"My name is Allie…" The female introduced herself to be Allie…but as soon as she mentioned her name. RDJ immediately paused in shock.
"Allie?! From Columbia?!"
"How did you…know that?" Allie asked as she widened her eyes a little.
"I remember you…you…oh shit! We are gonna have to talk about this later!" The assassin spoke in a panic as he quickly shoved Allie out of the way and quickly fired two arrows at the last two attackers who tried to kill the blue jay male. Who was hiding in between a couple of rocks in the middle of the pit.
"Shit! Thanks amigo!" The blue jay thanked him, before jumping back down to the floor. After all of the soldiers in the arena were defeated quite easily.
But the fight was not over yet…
The Destroyer continued to have his wingtip on his chin after watching RDJ kill all of those attackers by himself, and he was beyond impressed with his capabilities. So much so…he thought now was the time to really test his survival skills.
"Well done assassin! Once again you have proven how strong you really are! And let it be said that I am not an unreasonable bird!" The evil macaw spoke out, as he clapped his wings together twice. To signal two of his men to drop what looked like some kind of weapons box in the middle of the arena.
Allie, RDJ and the blue jay male approached the box with caution. And using his strength, the blue and gold male ripped the lid open. Revealing three large machetes. All sharpened and clean for the final fight.
"What are we supposed to do with these? Kill ourselves?" The blue jay male asked sarcastically, as he took his from the box, then passed the others their weapons.
"I don't know! But whatever it is…I don't think it's going to be good!" RDJ replied with a soft voice. As the entire crowd of spectators fell completely silent.
A hush came over the crowd…not a single bird made any noise. But the one thing that could be heard…was the sound of the panel doors opening. On the other side of the room.
When the door flew wide open, a large crate of some kind was wheeled straight into the centre of the pit. With a huge warning sign on the front which said the word…'Danger'…and that was clearly a sign that whatever was in that crate…could be far more worse than birds with spears and knives.
"We welcome everyone to witness the final round of the pit…a little something I like to call…sudden…Death!" The Destroyer muffled out of his mask, before standing up and turning to one of his associates. "See to it that all three of them are eliminated! I must head out and pursue my current affairs!"
"Yes master!" His associate nodded his head before his master left the arena in a hurry.
But before he did leave, the male macaw slowly turned to his left. He met RDJ's gaze in a evil manner. Even though the assassin couldn't see his face. He gave him a sarcastic wave with his wing, before disappearing from sight.
"Awww, what a shame! I was hoping he'd stick around to see me win the big match!" The head of the assassins chuckled in amusement.
Then when the panel door slammed shut again…silence filled the pit once more. As something seriously messed up was about to happen.
"RDJ? What is in that crate?" Allie asked in fear as she stood behind him shaking anxiously.
"Your guess is just as good as mine! Woah!" RDJ took a few steps back after the crate door fell off the hinges…but did it fall off by itself?
Or did something break it off?
The blue jay male didn't want to wait around and find out what was in there. So he decided to take the bravest option, and go to check out what was inside.
"Okay…I'll go and check what is in there!" The male spoke up, as he rose his machete up in a threatening pose. Then slowly but surely crept up to the crate.
The pink female macaw wasn't convinced that this was the right decision here. So she chose her safe option and stood behind the assassin.
"Kid…don't even try it! You don't know what's in there!" RDJ called out to the male, who had only reached the entrance to the crate. "Get back here! Who knows what's in there!"
The male blue jay took a little look inside…and all he could see was pitch black darkness. So he spun back around and began chuckling at the others.
"This is it?! Some stupid fucking test on not to be afraid of the dark?!" The male blue jay laughed so much that he kept pointing his wingtip towards RDJ. Mocking him with a little fearful look. "You should have seen your face!"
"Ummm…I don't think you know what's going on!" RDJ sensed that something was very strange here. He felt like something wasn't right. So he began taking a few steps back. "Kid…get out of there!"
"Why?! Because you are afraid of the dark?! Haha!"
"Just get over here!" Allie shouted in frustration, now siding with the assassin.
"Look guys! You need to relax! See…everything is…"
RAAARRRGHHHHHH!
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!" Suddenly, he got dragged into the crate by a very strong force, and you could hear his screams while trying to free himself. But to no avail…it was too late for him! "AHHHHHHHHHH…AHHHHHHHHH…AHHHHH-CKKKKKAAAAaaaa…"
Once the screaming had finally stopped. You could hear the sounds of flesh being ripped apart, bones crunching, and soon…
BRRRRRRRRB!
A pile of bones and a bird's skull came flying out of the crate, and it landed directly in front of the other two challengers. Who just now felt a huge amount of terror.
"Ewwwww! What in the hell?" Allie remarked in disgust as she looked at the pile of bones on the floor.
RAAARRRGHHHHHH!
"That doesn't sound good! Get behind me!" RDJ spoke to the pink female who instantly hid behind him in fear. While he pulled the string back on the bow and arrow.
After a few more moments of silence…out of the crate…walked a viscous enraged jaguar. With razor sharp teeth and claws. And it looked pretty hungry whilst staring at the blue and gold macaw.
"Oh, what is this?!" RDJ instantly felt terrified and quickly turned to Allie. "QUICK! FLY UP!"
Both of them luckily shot up in the air really quickly as the jaguar lunged towards them in a loud growl. And luckily for our challengers, he only managed to swipe a few tail feathers from the female. Who started to cry in fear, while they both clutched onto the top of the cage that surrounded the pit.
"I wanna go home!" Allie whined while holding on for fear of her life ending.
RDJ very much wanted to get out of this situation. But unfortunately for him there weren't a lot of options. So he tried to think of a solution on how to beat the jaguar. Who just stared up at them with an evil smile.
"Come down here little birdies! I promise I won't make your deaths painful!" The male jaguar chuckled in a sadistic manner. As he tried to taunt them.
The assassin quickly turned to his right and noticed that he saw a pile of bodies that looked like the soldiers they defeated in the first round. And that gave him an idea.
"Allie! Listen to me! I need you to do something quite dangerous!"
"No! I can't do this! I wanna go home!" She continued to cry, shaking her head in terror.
"I can't do this without you! So listen to me!" RDJ grabbed her shoulder and she looked up at him with teary eyes. "I need you to trust me! Then we will get out of here alive! Do you understand me?"
At first she didn't want to go along with his plan, fearing it would involve her dying. But without any other solution. She wiped away her tears and nodded her head. "O-k-k-kay! What do you need me to do?"
"I need to get over to those pile of bodies and rearrange some of them! As for you, I need you to create a distraction by throwing things at the jaguar! Make him really angry!"
"Oh fuck! He's gonna eat me though?!"
"Trust me Allie…I saved your life once before! I will do it again! Now just do what I say!" RDJ bellowed as he quickly retracted his talons from the cage and hovered in mid air.
Then while in mid air, he threw an arrow with his wing because he couldn't use the bow in mid air. And the jaguar rolled out of the way to dodge the attack.
"Hahahaha! You mis…huh? Where is he?!" The jaguar gazed up and noticed the assassin was nowhere to be seen. Allie however just hovered in mid air just like RDJ did and flew over to another part of the pit. And started picking up things she could throw at him.
"HEY! SHIT FACE!" Allie cursed at the top of her lungs, throwing a rock at his nose and left eye. Really irritating him. "COME AND GET ME!"
"With…pleasure…" The predator immediately shot towards the pink female, who flew over his head pretty quickly. And landed on top of another part of the pit. "GRRRRR STAY STILL!"
While this was going on, RDJ continued to sort through some of the bodies. What he was trying to do was stand them up and use them as decoys. To confuse the jaguar into attacking the dead bodies while trying to find an opening to attack.
But he hit a stumble, because he couldn't move all these bodies fast enough. "Shit! I could do with another pair of wings down here!"
"Maybe I could be of some assistance…"
"What the…" RDJ shot his head towards his left, and he saw a female bird standing there smiling at him. With a hood covered over her head. "Who the hell are you?"
"We kill the jaguar first! Then I tell you!" She quickly responded as she picked up a body and laid it up against the rocks.
"Are you an assassin?" RDJ asked in curiosity as he set up a couple more bodies.
"Yes! Now can we just hurry this up?! I've already had enough talking with the guy who has the multiple personality disorder! That guy is such a pervert!"
"What are you talking about? What guy?! Multiple…"
"HEY! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU?!"
Suddenly, RDJ turned around and saw that the jaguar was wrapped up in a tight grip. But that wasn't even the weirdest thing. He was wrapped in what he thought were thick black ropes. "What is happening?!" RDJ widened his eyes in surprise, as he went to go over there to check it out. Leaving the female alone to finish prepping the bodies.
"LET GO OF ME! I SAY LET GO OF ME RIGHT NOW!" The jaguar screamed as he quickly slashed one of the ropes with his sharp claws. But just when you thought it was ropes tying him up…a loud screech was heard.
(AHHHHH! YOU PIECE OF SHIT!)
"What the…No…there's just no way…" RDJ couldn't believe what he just heard. He strongly flapped his wings and flew around the corner. Only to see that Allie was hiding behind a pile of debris…and someone was standing in front of her in a protective manner. Someone the assassin knew all too well. "You gotta be fucking kidding me?"
(Hey there buddy! I've missed you!)
It was none other than Jameson who was standing there in front of the pink female, with his wings raised up in an attacking pose.
"What the fuck are you doing here?! I thought I told you to stay in Rio!" The assassin growled angrily while rolling his eyes at him.
"Hey, we decided to come here and help you find the keys! And this is the way you thank us?!" Jameson spoke this time, as he walked up to him.
"I don't need anyone's help! I'm fine!"
"That's not what Lila told us…" Jameson responded with a cheeky grin, before noticing the jaguar getting ready to attack again. "Just let me and Devil Darkness deal with this guy! You and Allie get to safety!"
(Awwww…I was hoping the sweet tail would stay? I wanna do some flirting action when we are done here!)
"I can see he's not changed a bit!" RDJ still found it amusing that Devil Darkness still acted the same. But he was still pretty annoyed that they went against his orders.
(And I heard from your wife that your marriage has gone down hill! I wonder if I could have a chance with her? I'd treat her right!)
"You fucking touch my wife and I will kill you without fail!" RDJ angrily growled at the black owl who immediately rose his wings up.
"Hey! When you two are done flirting? I'd like to actually kill you now!" The jaguar got really enraged and got prepared to attack again.
But just as RDJ and Jameson got into an attacking stance…
"HEY! SKUNK BREATH!"
"Oooooh now what?!" The predator started to get frustrated by all these interruptions that his body just became really shaky.
The female assassin was mimicking the voice of the corpses, just so she could distract him long enough to deliver the final blow.
"YEAH YOU! I BET YOU CANT EAT ALL OF US AT ONCE?!" She screamed even louder in a mocking voice. As she moved one of the bodies slightly by poking it with a large spear.
But at this point, the jaguar had enough! He was really pissed off now!
"GRRRRRRRAHHHHHHHHHHHH!" He sprinted towards the bodies at full pelt, and ended up running straight into them. Munching on the corpses, sinking his teeth right into their torsos and necks. Not even realising that they were dead already.
"For you…mentor!" Jameson passed RDJ some kind of huge baseball bat with a metal end. Strong enough to bash his skull in. "Say hello to my little friend!"'
(Hello!)
"NOT YOU! THE BAT!"
(I don't see any bats flying around in here?)
"Ughhhh…just kill the fucking thing already!" Jameson got tired of arguing with Devil Darkness and wanted this battle to end already.
RDJ nodded his head and flew straight towards the predator at an alarming rate. Then once he flew above his head, he leaned his wings back and prepared to strike him brutally on the top of his head. "Descanse em paz!"
"Huh?!" The jaguar didn't even get a second to look, because before he got the chance to. The baseball bat smashed him right on the head, bashing his skull in pretty badly. Causing him to spit out a lot of blood. Before slowly falling on the ground, and slipping into a lifeless state. Indicating that the battle was now over!
The crowd of birds immediately shot up out of their seats in shock, and couldn't believe that they witnessed the jaguar losing the battle. But…as rules were rules. One of the men opened up the cage door. And signalled towards them with his wing.
"Congratulations assassin! You are now free to leave!" The bird revealed to be a kind of red bellied macaw. But he was awful short for that species of bird.
The blue and gold male quickly motioned to everyone in the cage for them to follow him. And they all did what they were told and followed him out the exit of the cage. And proceeded to walk towards the exit. But just before they got there…RDJ turned to face the guard who let them go, and he pointed his wingtip at him. "You tell your master what happened here! Every single word! I want him to know who he is messing with. Do you understand me?!"
"I do…" He simply nodded his head before opening the exit door. Allowing them to leave unharmed. "Now please, enjoy your freedom…"
RDJ nodded his head and strolled out of the exit, followed by the female assassin, Jameson, and Allie also followed suit. Before the guard slammed the door shut and pulled out some kind of radio speaker. "Master…he survived! But there's more of them!"
"Shit! Just get back to base and I'll fill you in on what to do next!" The voice from The Destroyer was heard on the other side of the radio. Then the guard put it back in his holster and quickly fled the scene himself. Along with the crowd of birds who followed their leader.
Just Outside Of The Building…
"I…cannot…believe you disobeyed my direct orders! What do you have to say for yourself?!" RDJ angrily shouted at the black owl male, who flew along besides him and the other two females decided to join them.
"I'm sorry mentor! But we couldn't just sit by and let you do this yourself. You're in no condition to fight on your own!" Jameson beamed in response as they clapped their wings together as fast as they could.
(To be honest, I just want to get laid!)
"For the thousandth time! I'm not cheating on Kelly!"
(Technically it's not cheating, because it would be me doing all the work?)
"I don't care! We are not doing this right now!"
"Do they always argue like this?" The female asked the blue and gold male, who didn't even answer her question. He just shot her a questionable glance.
"And you! Who are you?" RDJ called back to the female assassin, who was following them closely behind.
"Let us find a safe place first mentor! Then I will explain everything to you!" The female replied with a smooth voice, as she didn't want to reveal her identity out in the open. "I think there is an abandoned church in the middle of the city! After I bumped into your friends, they told me your wife was escorted there safely after you were taken."
"Oh thank goodn…did you just say my friends?! WHO ELSE IS HERE?!"
Who else indeed! Now ladies and gentlemen, I bet you wasn't expecting that was you? The Destroyer who was originally the enemy from Cairo who lead the dominators before Felix took over is now leading the remainders in Mexico! RDJ bumped into the very same girl who he had saved in Columbia all those years ago! (Her back story is in the samba club Christmas special!) Also, a new character had entered the pit to help RDJ take down the jaguar in the pit! Jameson/Devil Darkness had returned! But not only himself had returned…who else came along with him? You'll have to find out in the next chapter! See you all soon!