AN: my first Fanfic! I've been reading many of the Fanfics on the Rio page and let me say, there have been many stories I love and inspired me to write a story of my own. In my opinion, I would call myself a not-so good writer, so don't take my story as if it was written by a professional. Please take it easy? But let me know if you like this. If not, please PM me and let me know what I should improve on, OK?

Also another thing, I put a little twist in the movie, at the end of the movie in the credits you see them open a Linda's bookstore in Rio de Janeiro. INSTEAD, I decided the bookstore is still in Minnesota. This story takes place after the plane incident and Jewel's broken wing, but before the eggs.

ALRIGHT. Enough talk let's start the story.

Chapter 1

A Good Day…right?

The jungle of Rio was the tranquil and beautiful lands of Brazil. The droplets of water slowly being brought down to the tips of the leaves by the laws of gravity. The clouds being pushed by the forces of wind, leaving Rio de Janeiro towards the horizon precipitating on the lands and sea below them. Rain was common on Rio, leaving plenty of rainwater on the jungle to make it look simply amazing. But one certain macaw just wasn't use to all this rain.

"Ah! Jewel, the hallow, It's all wet!"

Blu was once again being a baby about the hallow, trying to dry the hallow floor with leaves. His futile clean-up was interrupted by the angelic voice of his one and only love.

"Blu… just let it dry. It's going to be a hot sunny day, so it'll dry itself off." Jewel slowly got up from her nest and stretched her muscle aching wings, facing the sunrise to feel its warm touch on her slim body. She took a look at Blu with the corner of her eye, seeing him mesmerized at the sight of her beautiful body under her wings. His pupils dilated and his talon slowly loosened its grip from the damp leaf. His stare was quite charming to her, seeing his rich brown eyes made her heart melt; making her eyes dilate at the sight of Blu's dazed state. She slowly repositioned her wings back in place and turned around facing the still-dazed bird.

"So…pretty…" Blu mumbled a few other words complimenting Jewel's appearance. Jewel let out a slight giggle and brought his face towards hers.

"What are you staring at my blue bird?" She said in a soothing yet slightly seductive voice. She loved teasing Blu and watching him stutter and nervously trying to talk made her laugh and always put her in a good mood. She waited for a response but there were none. Instead, a mischievous smile grew across his face, his eyes in a seductive stare towards Jewel. Just then, a breeze entered the hallow moving Blu's feathers in a slow yet cool movement, moving along in the direction of the wind. This time it wasn't Blu who was one mesmerized, it was Jewel. Her eyes grew large exposing her sapphire eyes largely; she was in a daze herself.

"He…looks so…handsome…wow…" A few other thoughts crossed her mind of how he looks hot, but were interrupted by Blu's voice.

"What else?" Blu chuckled, still keeping his seductive eyes on her. His eyes were half closed and his beak was still in a small grim. "Mi amor, the sight of your appearance is absolutely beautiful and…I…I…"

Jewel got closer to Blu, secretly hoping for him to say those three words spoken from his beak. Those three words would send her mind into the world of euphoria, she would throw him to the ground and start kissing him like there's no tomorrow. She saw Blu's beak open up once again to say another word but kept it open as he just froze in time.

"Yeah…yeah…"Jewel was eager to hear him say it. Her heart raced and her beak opened in anticipation of his words. "C'mon Blu, say it!" She quickly thought. Blu exhaled and took a deep breath of air and finally spoke.

"I think I'm getting better at speaking Portuguese, you know!"

Jewel went quickly from anticipated to dumbfound. Her expression hinted Blu he made a possible mistake. Her beak was wide open and her eye's pupils shrunk to its limit. As she stared at Blu, her wings drooped and she quickly discovered her reaction and quickly changed it to a fake smile.

"Oh! Well that's really good haha!" Jewel put on a big smile and turned away.

"Really! He had all that time during my recovery to prepare to confess!"

She fumed ferociously in the world of her mind. But she realized the stubborn side of her was really showing. She dropped her head low to the floor in defeat.

"Well, I guess we shouldn't just start being mates after just two weeks of knowing him, before that I knew nothing of him. I'll give him some time to warm up to me. But…"

A quick tear fell down Jewel's cheek, her eyes all watery of her thinking of that feeling. Her feelings towards Blu she felt to no one else.

"I already love him. I fell in love with him that day when we danced in the club and when he saved me from that flying human-made thing." (Jewel doesn't know what a plane is.)

She let out a quick breath a lifted her head up to turn back around to Blu. But to her surprise, she felt Blu's wing on her back. His slow caressing let Jewel relax but quickly realized what was going on.

Blu quickly lifted her head up and looked deeply into Jewel's eyes. Blu's eyes were full of worry and regret, his face showing the deep worrisome Blu she saw when she was recovering.

"Jewel, did I say something wrong? You didn't want me to learn Portuguese? If you don't like it, I can just forget all the words I learned."

He was being serious. He clenched his eyes repeating to himself, "forget" for five seconds.

"NO, no no no no no… It's great you learned Portuguese, Blu! Seriously, I'm happy!"

"Oh, but you were crying…"

Jewel quickly thought for a second. But of course, she knew Blu would easily fall for lies or lame excuses.

"I…was crying tears of joy!"

Blu's face brightened a little and a smile grew across his face. He let out a quick breath and straightened his feathers out. He hopped over to Jewel and slowly patted her left wing.

"I'm glad I made you happy, so how's your wing?"

"Blu, its fine. It's been four days since my recovery was done. So, I think it should be healed by now. Don't worry, OK?"

"Alright, so you said it's going to be a hot day?"

Jewel remembered the fact she did state that fact and was glad Blu brought it up. It would most likely eliminate the entire awkward atmosphere in the air.

"Oh! Yeah its going to be a good day!"

As they finished up there little conversation, they heard a familiar voice in the distance. They took a peek out to see Linda waving at there tree. She had a bright blue tang top with shorts that seemed a little to small with her. Her skin was a little darker by that fact she was tanning in the beaches of Rio while waiting for Jewel's recovery. She had the hat she first wore to Rio and her hair seemed a little longer.

"Blu! Jewel!"

They quickly swooped down and landed on Linda's shoulder's playfully squawking in her ear. Linda giggled and put the both of them on one arm to see them both. Her smile quickly changed to a sad, depressing face. She looked at Blu and sniffled trying to hold back any tears she can possibly handle. Blu let out a whispering squawk to his companion, worried the fact she turned sad when she looked at Blu. Linda took a deep breath stared at Blu's rich brown eyes.

"Blu, I have to go back to Minnesota to take care of the bookstore. I won't be coming back anytime soon."

Blu let out a loud gasp followed by a whispered "no…" Jewel sadly looked at Blu, starting to cry as he stared at Linda, Wishfully thinking that the day would turn out to be a "good day"

AN: That's it for this chapter! Hope you enjoyed it. Don't forget to review!