Another hour passes as we travel through the zoo, now a jungle, and nothing much has happened since then. Because of Blaze and Crystal, most beasts have kept their distance from the group and meet stronger ones. We would have to travel deeper into the jungle.
Sakura also found another rare plant; this was also a flower. It was a lily flower all white, but it had seven petals instead of six. Although that was pretty obvious as it was swaying left and right by its self when Sakura came near it. According to Sakura, it should be on the verge to developed its intelligence soon.
"Dwayne, it feels like we have been in this jungle a long time. How much longer until we get out of here?"
"Michelle, just a little longer, and we should be through the outer perimeter."
"Yo Michelle, why are you in such a rush? I thought you wanted to find a battle beast."
"Joe, I did, but it's horrifying in here, and most of the beasts are staying away from us because Blaze and Crystal are too strong."
"I know, right my Blaze is too off the charts. Hahaha"
"By looking at some of the old street signs and debris, I would say we are not too far from reaching the other side. Plus, it would be best if you still had a battle beast, and I still have room for one more in my skill. I would love a flying one. How great would it be to travel through the air and not have to deal with stuff like this."
"Yeah, I would love to get a pet and a powerful one at that."
"You never know we might get lucky and run into the ones we are hoping for on our way out."
No more than 15 minutes later, we hear honking and growling noises up ahead. It sounded like birds and not birds at the same time. One thing for sure, though, is that there were a lot of them.
"Let us get a better look at what's going on, and guys be careful. Joe and Blaze stay alert in case they are aggressive towards up. Crystal, keep your danger sense in full effect just in case something tries to sneak upon us. Now, let's go and see whats all the fusses about."
Sneaking through the bushes after Sakura made sure that they were safe, we finally got a better look at what was going on in the clearing. There was a massive flock of flamingos all making honking or growling noises.
The flamingos are all bright red color, and now and then, you can see tiny sparks of flame coming off them. They are at least 8 feet tall, and by looking at their wingspan, I would say they are about 12 feet wide. The one that looked to be the flock leader was almost twice as big as the other flamingos.
There looks to be some disagreement between the leader and a few from the flock. Getting a closer look, we saw something out of the norm or at least the new standard. There was a small flamingo the looked like it might have just hatched not too long ago, but the thing is that it was blue instead of red.
"Crystal, translate what that leader is saying to the other flamingos."
"Yes, Master"
"We can not keep this hatchling because it's too different from the rest of the flock. There might be something wrong with this hatchling, why she's blue instead of red. Suppose it is a disease, and we all get infected? We should kill her to be on the safe side."
"No, this is our child. How can we kill her? There must be a reason why she's a different color from the rest of us. There is no need to kill her."
"As the leader of the flock, I have the final say, and she can't stay with us. We either kill her or leave her behind."
"Bro, these birds are crazy. It's easy to assume that the hatchling has a different color because she has a different element. What is wrong with them?"
"It's not that; they don't understand what has happened to them and the rest of the world, only that change can cause disasters."
"That poor little bird, Dwayne, we have to protect her if they try to kill her."
"Ok, because I feel that it might have a unique bloodline, why it has a different element. Let's continue to keep watch and see how it all places out first."
"Master, are a lot of snakes moving this way, possible towards the birds."
"Keep an eye on them from the air Sakura and let us know if they come in our direction."
"Yes Master"
"Snakes; Dwayne, I hate snakes lets go higher in the tree."
"Ok, but do not make too much noise."
As the flamingos were arguing, we started to hear snake hiss's coming from all around them. The flock leader also took notice of this and was surprised that a den of snakes surrounded them.
The leader of the snake den was a 30 feet long king cobra. The king cobra was as black as night on the top of its body, but it was as white as snow on the bottom when it stood up.
It raised its head to the same height as the flamingo leader and was having a stare-off with it. Both leaders were ready at any time to start a war.
We stood in hiding as we prepared to watch a battle between the two species. Michelle was getting nervous because of the danger we could get into if the two species decided to attack us together. Joe was ready for the battle ahead so that he and Blaze could improve more. Crystal didn't care too much because she had complete faith in me and that everything would be alright. Sakura was comfortably sitting on my head, not watching the show, as there were no plants of interest to her around.
The face-off between the two alphas was starting. The flamingo leader had flames all around its body, and the temperature was slowly rising in the area. At the same time, the king cobra was making space fluctuate around itself.
As soon as I saw that it was a space element king cobra, I had my mindset on it. It had to be my next pet.
The flamingo leader starts to hong at its flock, telling them to prepare to take flight and escape. While the king cobra was hissing at his den, telling them not to let anyone escape from the encirclement. A great battle was about to start, and we had front-row seats to it.
'Maybe we can play pick up and get the best benefits from this battle. Probably even catch that king cobra and get Michelle flamingo beast too.'