The rain was falling on the amazon that night, it was a dark and fresh night, jewel was with her chicks and as always she sang for them to sleep, she was worried about ty, many feelings were clouded in her mind she felt blu for a few moments and then blu disappeared as if a darkness consumed him, what was in the mind of that being who was once called blu gunderson was still incompressible, jewel walked slowly to the entrance of her nest and over the rain the dark lord approached in the nest
Jewel just walked away quickly and lay down in her nest straw pretending to be sleeping, soon a flap of wings was heard by her at the entrance of the hollow, with a heavy breathing by his mask lord ty watched the nest around, jewel despite knowing who it was she felt chills down her spine, ty walked a few centimeters forward and looked to the side, when he looked to the side he saw jewel and her children sleeping close to each other, the lord took a deep breath through the mask once more, a few seconds passed and the lord removed his metal mask lifting it above his head, he also removed the metal claws on his feet leaving only the cloak over his body
He soon began to breathe heavily as if he was feeling free, he looked at the lying jewel and walked lightly towards her avoiding making noises, the lord knelt next to the female looking at her and around, ty lifted one of his feet and approached of jewel's body, he stopped a few centimeters before touching her thinking to himself if he should do this, defeated by his feelings ty put his foot on jewel's waist and started to make small caresses, jewel couldn't contain a smile, the lord's eyes ty turned off his light green and for a brief moment his eyes returned to their natural brown color, ty felt tears along with the pain of his past approaching, ty held his pains and felt more hate, he soon started to take his foot a little higher above jewel, his foot was soon on her neck, and suddenly the caresses became a light grip on the female's neck, he could easily break her neck as he had done with many ones before
A mixture of feelings was over ty, his eyes started to alternate between the natural colors and light green color, haunting voices came into his mind
'KILL HER...
'She can still save you, doesn't blind yourself with hate...
'Kill her now...
'She is our... love...
'Do IT...
Ty made his grip a little stronger, inside his mind it felt like a struggle, he forced himself to tighten his grip but at the same time he couldn't, after a few minutes ty felt something touching his foot, it was jewel's foot who gently intertwined her fingers with his, ty eased his grip completely feeling jewel's touch, jewel looked at him with a warm smile, ty couldn't smile back, soon another four wing beats were heard and were not known to jewel , there were two birds that landed there and pulled out two ktchans, obviously they were imperial spies, jewel gasped a little and sat up scared
Ty looked back not turning his face and his expression turned to anger and hate, the soldiers approached, lord ty felt that their intention was to hurt jewel and the cubs, he took his iron mask again and put it on his face, the soldiers stopped when they saw that, they could hear ty breathing through the mask and they felt a deep and excruciating fear in their stomach, one of them was already taking steps back in fear, the lord also took his ktchan and walked towards them, jewel put a wing in front of the children's eyes and covered their eardrums in case they woke up, ty held one of the soldiers by the neck and broke it easily
"NO" shouted the last one running
Lord ty did the same and held the bird, but ty with his ktchan cut one of the soldier's wings he started to scream, when he did the lord held the soldier by his beak preventing him from making sounds, the soldier let tears fall looking in the eyes of that nightmare through the metal mask, lord ty took the soldier with a flight to the entrance of the hollow and threw him out, the soldier screamed falling to his death, the lord simply looked at jewel and took his metallic claws again and took flight out
The female just hugged her children
THE NEXT MORNING
Jewel and eduardo were getting ready to talk to the sinister dark lord, jewel was scared by what she saw yesterday she felt her old companion blu for a few moments but it was as if he was totally overshadowed as if he was... dead
"Dad, he killed two birds yesterday, he didn't look anything like blu it was like this was a routine... something normal, it was like for a few moments he was with me but..., then I didn't feel anything, appreciation, love, nothing" said jewel disappointed
The female looked at her father, eduardo was breathing deeply and shaking, he was checking if he was keeping himself in a certain posture, there in a few minutes they would decide their deal
"Dad, are you ok?" asked the incredulous female
"I'm just a little huh...
Jewel couldn't contain her laugh
"It's going to be all right dad, you'll get along fine... but why are you nervous, he won't hurt us... I think" finished jewel muffling her last sentence
Eduardo looked at her confused.
"Why am I like this?, let me see, supposedly your husband is a bird totally changed by what you have told me, he is nothing like the old blew drew gunderson" said eduardo
"It's blu, Dad" finished jewel
"Second, this monster defeated our entire army single-handedly he is known to kill birds with a minimal provocation, in addition he is the sinister lord of darkness, and a skilled warrior trained in the art of shadow knights, sorcerer of Rio de Janeiro, do i need to say more?" said eduardo with emphasis
Jewel looked aside sad
"I told you so much about blu... I told you what a wonderful bird he was, I told you how he saved and protected me... and yet you know more about lord ty than blu" said jewel annoyed
"MY daughter... sorry...
Soon they heard heavy breathing there, jewel and eduardo felt cold in their spines, when landing lord ty caused a lot of dust on the ground almost forming a smoke, jewel and eduardo looked ahead keeping their posture, from the smoke the lord appeared walking abruptly, then he walked a few more steps soon eduardo and ty were face to face
"Leader Eduardo...
"Lord ty...
The lord walked a few more steps to the side
"You seen unsettled" said the lord mocking
Eduardo swallowed hard and got into posture again, he needed to show leadership
"Are we ready to start boy?" said eduardo
Ty hearing this stopped walking and went to Eduardo with a quick step, but instead of confronting him, Ty walked to the side and went to a stone on the ground, Ty put one of his feet on the stone, and Eduardo looked at him curiously, ty soon started pushing the stone as if it were light, and soon he put it in front of eduardo and did the same with two other stones symbolizing a table and chairs, eduardo and jewel stood with their beaks open seeing such force
"Sit down... eduardo" he said gesturing for him to sit down.
Eduardo looked at jewel, and jewel made a gesture with her head indicating that eduardo should obey, eduardo walked lightly to the stone and sat on it, although the stones were irregular it would serve for the brief conversation, the two were silent for a few seconds
"Can I offer you something to drink my love?" Jewel said in a caring tone
Eduardo continued looking at ty and his green eyes, ty's gaze was serious and lifeless, it took a few seconds quietly until ty lifted his foot, indicating that he would accept the drink without saying a word, jewel quickly flew away, after a few seconds she returned with two coconut shells at her feet, what was inside was a kind of juice mashed with grapes and water, she gently took one to her father and the other she placed with the same gesture on the foot of the lord who was still risen
"It's an old fruit recipe its very good they...
Suddenly the lord's foot crushed the shell with the juice falling on his foot, the rumbling sound startled jewel and eduardo
"You have a lot of things to solve... eduardo, and for your sake I expect results" finished the lord putting his foot down
Eduardo finished his juice and put the coconut shell on the rock
"Dark lord... so that we can help each other I need to know your goals I...
"My goals does not concern you, what you will do is, you will provide food and security for my empire, I will have full control over your soldiers, you will still be able to lead the tribe I have no interest in this pathetic land, in exchange the empire and I will be at your full disposal to help...
Eduardo soon got angry and hit the coconut shell, breaking it on the stone.
"You come here, you invade our tribe, and want full control of my soldiers?, listen here boy... if you don't give me specific details forget our agreement" yelled eduardo
Jewel started to get scared, ty got up from the rock and walked to eduardo staring at him, eduardo walked a few steps back
"You, your tribe, the children and the wife of tyler blu gunderson...means nothing to me" ty said
Eduardo's face remained steady, his expression said that he didn't believe him, ty walked to Jewel's side and Jewel looked to the side, ty quickly put his foot on Jewel's neck, she barely had time to react, then she began to indicate that she was choking
"What are you doing, let go of her" shouted eduardo
"You can stop me, just accept it" said ty coldly
Ty squeezed even tighter jewel was starting to panic and started to squirm slightly
"Love... I can't breathe... blu, I can't breathe, 'coasp'... my love...can't brea...
Eduardo couldn't keep up anymore
"Alright... Alright, YOU WON" shouted eduardo
The lord quickly released jewel who walked a few steps back in fright, ty walked a few steps to eduardo
"If you fail...she dies" said ty turning his back
"So I'm still in charge?, maybe I should talk to the emperor, let's see if he...
The lord soon grabbed eduardo by his neck, but didn't lift him off the ground, eduardo tried to hold himself for a moment looking into ty's eyes, ty squeezed even more and eduardo gave in falling to the ground, but ty kept his foot on his neck
"Be careful not to shoke... on your your aspirations... eduardo" finished ty releasing eduardo
Eduardo took another breath and jewel helped him up, jewel started to shake now she finally realized that they weren't safe with their bonds, the love between ty and her wasn't nearly enough to protect them.