A Whole New World - Chapter 1: Captured
Across the world in Brazil, the sun is beginning it's morning trip and in a nearby rainforest, the birds are starting to wake to the suns call as a rhythmic beat resonating throughout the forest, caused by the birds comes to life, singing as they went about their business.
All the birds of a feather
Do what they love most of all
We are the best at rhythm and laughter
That's why we love Carnaval
Each morning for the past few years, the birds of the rainforest started their day usually by singing and dancing along to the music and beat.
All so clear we can sing to
Sun and beaches they call
Dance to the music, passion and love
Show us the best you can do
Everyone here is on fire
Get up and join in the fun
Dance with a stranger, romance and danger
Magic could happen for real, in Rio
All by itself
Birds of all colours flew all around the place laughing with glee and simply enjoying the morning. In a tree, two blue birds, known as Spix Macaws, were sleeping side by side. Brothers these two birds were and the music was slowly waking them up.
They both woke to hear the music around them and moved to the opening of their tree hollow where they watched in awe of everything that was going on. They watched the colouful birds twist and turn, dive and simply fly around.
You can't see it coming
You can't find it anywhere else
It's real, in Rio
Know something else
You can't feel it happening
You can feel it all by yourself
The two brothers looked at each both knowing that they both wanted to fly out there and join all the birds in the fun. The youngest of the two was eager to get going and moved to the edge if the hollow where he slowly opened his wings, a big smile adorning his beak.
However, just as he was going to jump, the rhythmic beat of the music came to a sudden halt as all the birds started screeching and squawking. Nets flew around the place capturing birds, giving them no chance escaping and the same for those who flew into cages.
The young macaw was scared and backed up a bit, even his older brother was moving forward to pull him back but was too late. The youngest slipped on the bark of the opening causing him to fall out of the tree to forest floor below.
The oldest looked out of the tree to see if he was ok and sighed in relief when he saw the young blue bird was ok but very, very frightened. The oldest had flown before, it had been the ultimate freedom to him and prepared to fly down to grab his brother but his eyes widened in horror as cage slammed down, trapping his younger brother.
He jumped out of the tree and went to dive bomb down to save his brother, but a net caught him and he fell to the ground flailing his wings to stay airborne but it was useless. He could hear his brother squawking.
"Brother!" The young bird called from his cage, eyes filled with tears.
The oldest looked at his younger brother, tears also filling his eyes. There was nothing he could really do, he had failed to protect his brother which was he job as an endangered species.
"Don't worry! I'm fine! We'll get out of this together!" He called back, trying to calm his brother down as they were placed in separate boxes.
"They were lifted, causing the birds to stumble slightly, and put on a plane destined for somewhere other than Brazil. The oldest tried to see where his brother was through the holes in his box but it was no use.
The plane jolted as they took of then was smooth for several hours, causing both blue birds to sleep but were jolted awake again when the plane landed. The jolt also stirred up several other birds in the plane that had been also captured.
"The boxes were moved again and into a truck this time. During the change of vehicles, the birds could feel the rapid change in temperature. It made the blue bird wonder where they were that would make it so cold.
They atmosphere started warming up again after a while and the vehicle started moving. Again, it went for several hours causing the birds to fall asleep again but were jolted awake when the vehicle slammed to the side causing the oldest's box to hit another, causing it to fall out.
Little did he know it was his little brother...
Hours later, the vehicle stopped again and the boxes were moved one last time to an aviary where all the birds were released and free to fly around but contained in the aviary. The blue bird instantly jumped out and started looking around for his brother.
"Brother! Brother!" He called.
"He frantically looked around but couldn't see him anywhere. The other birds noticed his distress and knew why they started looking around for another blue bird just like the one in front of them, but couldn't find him anywhere.
The blue bird then realised what happened to him. The box his had hit had to of been his brother. His fell down and sat on the ground somberly...he had lost his brother and was fairly sure he would never see him again
Meanwhile...
Inside a box on the side if the road covered with snow was a blue bird, much the same as the one in the aviary. He was Spix Macaw and was wondering what was going on.
"Brother! Brother!" He called.
But there was no reply...
Saddened, the macaw and huddled up in one corner and shivered. He cawed softly as he tried to stay warm. He was suddenly alert when the lid of box was lifted and a human was looking inside to see him.
The human reached in and the bird tried to back away but the human cooed softly.
"It's alright. It's alright, I'll take care of you." The human said.
The bird cooed and snuggled up to the human to stay warm.
His life was going to be completely different to what it would've been...
The rest if the story will now take a first person point of view from the oldest macaw's view as we already know the story of Blu.
EDIT 19/04/2015: I am going back through to story to re-read it and edit it, fixing mistakes here and there as well as changing somethings that I feel could be done better.