Hello there,
Ive noticed there has been talk about this band called The Rascals. I have looked into their music, and their music and Rio are perfectly intertwined. I swear to god, cross my heart hope to die, stick a needle in my eye that they sound just like Nico and Pedro. Felix Cavalire (the lead singer) sounds exactly like Nico but has a distinguishingly more fluctual voice, hearing one of their albums had me fooled into thinking it was the soundtrack for Rio 3. My top 5 Rascals songs include "A Place In the Sun" "Groovin" "Island Of Love" "People Got To Be Free" and "Good Lovin", but my all time favorite song is "Groovin'". The Rascals are still around to this day and still doing music, it would be a great achievement if blue sky were to hire them or use one or two of their songs for Rio 3. But please, listen to their music before you judge.
Not to mention they were signed to the exact same record label that made the soundtracks for Rio. If you listen to the songs posted in bold it will honestly feel like Nico and Pedro are singing.
If you really like the Rascals and agree with this strong statement then I would strongly urge you to help spread the word.
Here is my story….
When we last left Blu and Jewel in the amazon…
(grooveshark)
A Beautiful Morning
The Rascals
(wind chimes)
It's a beautiful morning,
I think I'll go outside for a while,
And just smile,
Just taken in some clean fresh air cause
They ain't no sense in staying inside
If the weather's fine and you've got the time,
It's your chance to wake up and plan another brand new day,
Lead the way,
It's a beautiful morning,
Each bird keeps singing his own song,
So long,
I've got to be on my way now,
They ain't no fun just hangin' around,
I've got to cover ground you couldn't keep me down,
It just ain't no good if the sun shines and you still inside,
Shouldn't hide,
Still inside,
Shouldn't hide,
Shouldn't hide,
Still inside,
Shouldn't hide,
There will be children with robins and flowers,
Sunshine caresses each new waking hour,
Seems to me that the people keep seeing more and more each day,
Gotta say,
Lead the way,
It's okay,
Brand new day,
It's okay,
On our way,
Lead the way,
On our way,
Bird aria as the music fades and so do Nico and Pedro as the Birds play trumpet with the flowers.
Yes the Amazonian world had done a lot of good to Blu, Jewel and their family since they can remember. This had been a big step for Blu, but with his mate and his three kids by his side he was apt to make the most for them since it was his responsibility to care for them.
But for now he was leading them to a big surprise he came up with all on his own…
"Blu what's this all about?" Jewel muttered brassily irritated over whatever it was her mate was dragging them into.
Her eyes were veiled over the feather tips of his left wing, while their kids eyes were drapped over his right.
"We're almost there," her mate Blu assured them with total confidence "No peeking or you'll spoil the whole thing,"
"A surprise?!" their son was getting anxious that he peeped through a slit in his wingtips.
But his father wasn't going to let his only son ruin this for them.
"No peeking," he smiled
"We've been waiting approximately five minutes four seconds fifteen milliseconds," Bia stated with a rash anxious attitude "we feel stupid,"
"You look stupid," Tiago retorted.
"Oh look who's talking," his older sister snapped back, the sooner they knew it they were getting into a scuffle with each other.
"Hey, hey knock it off," their mother demanded "Now both of you sit still, and Blu, how much more do we have to wait?"
"Here it is,"
Blu unveiled his wings over his family's eyes and revealed to them something that very well might have taken away the physical ability to blink.
They found themselves dumbstruck, especially Jewel who stood perched next to her mate with a gaping beak and a blank expression.
"Our new home, this is where we're gonna be living from now on. What do you guys think?"
"Blu, it's. I mean it's…"
"It's awesome!" Tiago jumped.
The kids were especially anxious to each own a room of their own without having to share sleeping conditions.
The parents admired their brood taking in the spacious living arrangement their dad provided them, Jewel was ready to step in but before she could her mate caught her off guard with open wings ready to carry her inside by himself.
"Oh," Jewel startled "...Blu really I'm not.."
"C'mon,"
The joy the two were feeling overruled his actions and they both spun around at the center of their brand new home. Surrounded by their three chicks they both felt right at home, home, a word Blu never dreamed he would ever use in an environment he wasn't used to, or was now that he was a more refined bird of nature.
To be honest Blu still felt a sense of backlash over this sudden change of habitat that happened just a few weeks ago. A boy doesn't just look back at his fifteen years of memories without feeling a sense of attachment, but it was only fair since Jewel had done the same for him when they were living together in Rio, torn apart from family and freedom until out of nowhere she meets someone she would give it all up for, to Blu that was all the convincing he needed.
Life in the wild had done justice for the macaw family, Blu and the kids were learning to flourish in the tribes' way of life, and Jewel had her place with her family again. But to Jewel Blu was her family, and none of this would have been possible without her mate by her side.
Drawing on that thought she nuzzled her head the side of his cheek very tenderly.
"Thank you," she sighed so innocently "…for everything,"
Blu was kind enough to return the rub, with closed eyes all they had was each other to think of.
"Happy anniversary,"
Which was his way of saying 'your welcome' to his mate. Returning back to the recent state of mind, however, Jewel had one thing on her mind.
"Blu?" she asked in a sweet tone.
"Mmhmm,"
"Where's our bed?"
"Huh?" this was a confusing question "I was kind of hoping I'd show you that last, besides, isn't it a bit early to take a nap,"
"Nap?" Jewel questioned him as she rubbed his neck tenderly with her curvaceous beak.
"Ohh," Blu had finally caught on to what she was hinting at "heh, uh Jewel, there's children present,"
"And so is your father," a familiar voice said from behind.
Blu missed a few breaths that he accidently dropped his wife.
"Smooth, tarzan," Mimi joked at her nephew in law's awkward disposition.
Blu lifted Jewel off the ground, she was more than pleased with greeting her father and aunt on this certain occasion.
"Jewel I brought you these lovely berry's I picked up," she presented them to her niece "they're perfect beauty treatment and do so much for showing up that beak,"
"Thanks Mimi," Jewel smiled "I'm guessing you're here to help us decorate,"
"What else, I mean look at this place, sure I'd live in it but I wouldn't breathe in something so tasteless,"
"Mimi," she sighed "Blu did this for us,"
"Oh and I know you mean well," she pinched her nephew in laws cheek "but don't worry, your auntie's here to save the day,"
"Yeah thanks," Blu rubbed the side of his cheek.
"Grandpa!" the kids were excited upon seeing their grandfather, dropping what they were doing to greet the rest of their family.
"Hey, kids, come here," he pulled them in with his wings "How's my favorite grandson,"
"He's your only grandson," Bia stated.
"I'm fine and still cool as ever Pop-pop," Tiago went on "Look…"
He rushed towards the side of the tree to swipe it with his talons, standing beneath the mark.
"…I grew an inch,"
"That's my grandson,"
"Tiago, no scratching on the walls," Jewel scolded him.
"Aww," the feisty chick kicked the leaves on the base of the tree where he stood.
"Besides," said Bia "it's five millimeters that you grew anyway,"
Carla plucked one of his head feathers, he winced at this teasing gesture.
"…and now it's zero, sorry bro,"
"Give that back!"
The three chased each other throughout the hollow interior.
"Now you little rug rats, that's no way to break in a new home," said Mimi but the kids were to energetically drive to pay any attention.
Mimi and Eduardo did their best to settle them down but to no avail, this rambunctious scene went on for several moments that Jewel decided to leave the scene with her mate. But they couldn't help but laugh at what her family was getting into, not to mention feel a sense of relief.
Blu had decided to honor his mate's wishes by taking them to their bedroom nest.
"I thought we'd never get outta there alive," Jewel joked. Turning back to her mate her wildly driven instincts fluttered back to her.
Blu was busy over viewing their nest to make sure there weren't any rough patches or rough exteriors. He had been handy with basket weaving when he was little back in Minnesota, to him a nest was roughly no different other than excluding the handle.
"I was thinking about using a different set of assorted leaves for this…but I guess these are just right where they are. What do you think Jew –"
Of course the second he turned around Jewel was trying on the berries her aunt gave her. Mimi was apparently right since they stimulated her image like a special type of gloss that emulated around the tips of her beak like a sort of lipstick, as well as stimulating a certain arousal in her young mate.
"I don't know what do you think?" She smiled suggestively.
"I, I-I uh, well," Blu stammered nervously.
"I especially like the flowers you brought in Blu," Jewel stroked the pink lilies that were wrapped around the side of their entrance that Blu had brought especially for her, she decided to pick one and wear it on her head.
"Y-yeah, well, pink uh happens to be one of my favorite colors," he shrugged innocently.
She neared her face towards his, their beaks meeting halfway, the tension was getting to Blu the more this moment seemed to last.
"My favorite color happens to be Blu," she said voluptuously, kissing him at the tip of his beak. An instant later, not too soon, Blu locked beaks with Jewel.
Their instincts drove the better of them and found themselves making out heavily in their nest. To Blu, the berries tasted as good as they looked, to the happily married couple nothing else mattered to them but what was going on in the privacy of their own master bedroom. Privacy however had to be a short lived experienced as soon as a heavy shadow fell over them, followed by the sound of a clearing throat.
"Huh?" Blu lifted his face from Jewels' with his usual clueless look, unlike Jewel who was still feeling high in the moment.
"Oh uh, sir, y-you I mea.."
One could only imagine the kind of embarrassing picture displayed, a father walking in during one of his daughter's romantic moments with her lover.
"Jewel if it wouldn't kill you I'd like to talk with your young mate about an important subject," Eduardo said cynically.
"Dad I think it's a little late for that," Jewel joked.
"That's not what I was referring too," he looked pretty annoyed.
"Huh, oh uh sure, whatever you say," Blu consented "This won't take long will it?"
"You'll live," Eduardo assured him.
"Oo, oo," Tiago and his sisters barged in "we want to go with Dad,"
"If it's alright with your mom,"
"No, go on ahead, Mimi and I could use the space to finish decorating,"
"Well, alright then,"
"You two have fun,"
With nothing else left to say the five of them flew out of the tree straight into the canopy.
Not much had changed since before; the main difference now in their habitat was a more breathable atmosphere of safety and assurance not to mention peace with neighboring territories.
They were still a lively bunch of birds as ever, ready to scout food and explore the different parts of the amazon without having to worry as much about the potential dangers.
A family could travel or wander as far as it wanted to, the species was free to expand itself all over the amazon.
Passing by a fluttering flock of families beneath them, the crystal clear rivers that spread out like a web on their land. Maybe it was a broader sense of open mindedness that Blu was able to admire what it all looked like from up here, the more his life passed by out here in the wild the more he had to wonder, 'maybe Jewel was right', not stemming from the protruding fact that she's lived longer…but maybe there was more to a bird's life than just the same boxed in place.
"Here we are,"
"What?"
Eduardo had brought the four of them to what seemed like the highest altitude this part of the habitat. A bird couldn't get lost if he knew his sense of direction, especially not with such an expansive view such as this one that sat beneath their feet.
"Wow," the kids admired in unision.
"What is it?" asked Tiago.
"This is where your manhood begins Blu," Eduardo explained, maintaining a serious look while still fixating his attention to the view "You see.." he turned to face his son in law but something was wrong.
"What?"
"What's that on your cheek?"
"Excuse me," Blu looked at the spot he was gesturing at, he still had a berry imprint of Jewel's kiss on his face. "Oh, that,"
The kids giggled. Tiago teased him "You love mom, you love mom,"
Blu chuckled, he wiped the contents of the juice on his face with his wings.
"Anyway," getting back onto the subject "…all of this is what I have sworn myself to protect even with my own life. But I can't go on forever, but what matters most is what you think about all of this,"
"Mmm…" Blu licked the juice from the tips of his feathers, falling deeply in the pure ecstasy of Jewel's kisses "…raspberries,"
"Hey!" he snapped
"Huh, oh you have a very beautiful daughter…"
They laughed to themselves.
"…I-I mean I like the view of your daughter, I mean. That's a hot view – no, you wanted to know what I think?"
"That's all you teenage boys ever think about…sex,"
Like lightning Blu plastered his kid's ears shut.
"Whoa…I thought we were talking about something else,"
"We were talking about something else,"
"Then why did you change the subject?"
"I didn-you changed the subject,"
"I just said what a nice view this was,"
"You said what a beautiful daughter I had,"
"Then," Blu scrunched his face "…what's wrong with that?"
Eduardo let out a loud groan, taking a few moments to pause he paced himself back to the start.
"I'm going to make this easy. Blu, I may not have expected much from you in the beginning, but you gave yourself a chance to prove me wrong. You've done more in your youth for my flock, but most importantly for my daughter and my family than I could have ever hoped for in a life time,"
"Oh, sir you don't have to say that…"
"No, don't be modest, I can't stand that," he silenced him "The evidence is clear in my face…
I, guess there's no room for such a big responsibility for an old bird like me,"
The tone in his voice was enough to make any bird feel a sense of remorse, even the kids were feeling a little down for him.
"Gee, I had no idea…"
"It's fine," he breathed "My point is that I can't go on forever. Some bird has to take my place, but it's up to you to make that decision,"
"What do you mean?"
"I mean that all of this," he spread out his right wing to show the whole land that belonged to the tribe "…I leave in the responsibility of your wings when my time passes,"
"Cool!" said Tiago "I get to rule a tribe when dad dies,"
"Technically dad hasn't made a decision yet," said Bia.
"Well what kind of decision is there to make?" Eduardo put his wing around his son in law but it did no help in easing his insecurity about such a big responsibility "You can do it, I believe in you,"
"Yeah, but the thing is sir, even though that's a generous offer…"
"It's more than just generous," Eduardo explained strongly to him "Son, this is the greatest gift I could possibly give you. It's a symbol of our close ties, you're more than just a son in law to me, in some ways I even consider you my own son…if it helps I find it weird too, but aside from that I want to let you know that I am grateful for everything you've done for me, and that I wouldn't possibly object to you calling me 'Dad',"
"Uh…"
"I know, I know. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't dream of wanting to get in between the relationship you have with your father,"
"That's not it…"
"I mean your own father must be very proud of you. And I wouldn't blame him…"
"I don't have a father,"
That was an odd summation for everyone, never had that particular subject surfaced before in all the years Blu knew Jewel and the kids or anyone else. Directly out of the blue it just happened be brought up.
This was news to the kids, and Eduardo, nobody knew this side of Blu before.
"Oh," Eduardo felt a glimpse of what it feels like to be his son in law stuck in a weird position, he decided to change the subject "Well, what's your decision? I don't want to wait until it's too late,"
"Well…sir…"
"Dad…" he corrected him.
"…Dad, I'd love to. But I'd like to go over it with your daughter first during dinner, I'm taking her out and we'd better get going,"
"Of course, take all the time you need. But remember Blu, none of us may be as young as you are but we do know for certain what's best for you, and maybe it's time you think about what's best for your family and mine,"
"Jewel is my family, Sir," Blu admitted "and I would do anything to keep her and my kids happy,"
"Daddy," Carla squeezed tightly to his waist.
"You're awesome Dad," Tiago punched his sides playfully.
With those words in mind everyone went back to their own business and Blu would take the kids back home.
They fluttered on to the west with the image of Eduardo waving to them as they flew, Blu had taken one last glimpse of him and he could tell his father in law was serious about this. He thought if anything, he'd choose someone like Roberto as a successor, but then again he remembered how unreliable and unconfident Roberto was in the face of danger.
But to chose Blu himself really had him thinking. 'He really wants me to do it,' I mean god what a generous gesture of appreciation, but to actually go through with something that big, it's just…
"You gonna do it Dad?" Tiago wondered.
"Maybe, maybe not," he was still unsure.
"I say you should do it,"
"I say you shouldn't," said Carla "then you wouldn't have enough time for mom and us,"
"I suppose I could help figure out your schedule for you Dad," Bia suggested "you know work out all the kinks, the pros and cons. All the little stuff,"
"Look, kids it's really nice of you to try and help, but this is something I'd rather take up with your mother,"
"She'll say no I bet," Tiago complained.
Night fell by this time, few to many animals were asleep. The active birds around this time could be found in what could have been one of the biggest trees in the central region of the Amazon rainforest. Not just noted for its expansive size but all the activity going on in the inside.
Decorated with the most colorfully exotic pedal vines that displayed a vivid moonlight aura, snaking around the branches they enfolded. Whilst in the interior were various settings where mates of all species sat, the fungus growing on the trees provided excellent makeshift tables.
And at each 'table' was a light vigil that was a lightning bug in a flower pod.
Who else but Blu and Jewel would find themselves there surrounded by couples and friends. Rafael and Eva were stationed at a table high above where they sat.
"Hey blue dudes," Rafael waved down at them.
"Hey Raff," they greeted the taco billed couple.
But a celebration just wouldn't be a celebration without the wildest feathery duo this side of the Ipanema.
"Hey whas up whas up," Pedro introduced themselves.
"You know, tonight's a special occasion," said Nico "we're here to celebrate one of our favorite couples. But they couldn't make it so instead we'd like to greet that nice lady and her husband,"
The lightning bug swiftly cast a light on the table where Blu and Jewel sat.
"They been married together…how many years now?"
"Two," Blu and Jewel answered.
"Ain't that sweet everybody? Two years and still in love. You're a really lucky bird Jewel,"
"That's why I'm here," they held each other's wings.
"And we're real proud of you Blu, got yourself a keeper there, don't lose her now,"
"I promised not to," he smiled.
"You may not know this, but I was once in love –"
"Aww here we go," Pedro threw his wings in the air.
"Jealous,"
"She wudn't even much to begin with, whatchu talkin bout jealous?"
Nico looked intimately into space "She was beautiful,"
"She was a fish,"
"Don't listen to him folks. He just doesn't understand love like we do, I do, and I know what it means to lose,"
"I'll get the base guitar," Pedro moaned.
"It all happened when I was my buddy Blu's age…and her name…was.."
He shielded his eyes dramatically with his bottlecap as soon as Pedro plucked the base on the strings to get the rhythm going. The lightning bugs switched their thorax to the blue flower pods to match the mood.
Nico sings…
(grooveshark)
Nubia
The Rascals
Oh nubia, nubia, nubia, nubia,
The Word is love to me..
Yo beauty in the magic of the soul who live here in my memory,
Time flashes the other way,
Life sweet shadow makes the nightest day,
Brings me closer to you,
Fire glows in deep, Blueueue
Oh nubia, nubia, nubia, nubia,
The ringing in my ears,
As I wonder through a life in search of something sweet I once held you,
Hold them into the deep white vails,
Sounds of the river making ancient tales,
Brings me closer to you,
Fire glows in deep, Blueueue
The band provided the flute sounds as the lights played a symphonic theater of shadows that revealed the story.
Soft heart waits another day,
Flaming boat,
Will take you away,
Your at the mystery's end,
I won't have to preteeeend, eeeeend,
Now you are at the journeys end now,
Buuut,
My life goes on slow now,
I'm not gonna search search search any longer,
I'm not gonna search search search any longer,
Fade
As usual they received an ovation, the two birds took a well deserved bow. Only Pedro got up, while Nico kept blubbering to himself.
Apparently the song had touched him as always that his eyes were soaked with tears.
"Uh bear with us folks," said Pedro "We gonna take a little intermission. I told you get over her already your making us look bad," he muttered to his friend.
All the couples retreated their attentions to each other. Jewel found their friend's position a little humorous.
"Poor Nico," Jewel smiled and shook her head.
"I know who he feels,"
"What do you mean?" Jewel was curious.
"Oh it's uh nothing, just a little boring story,"
"No, no I'm interested in what you have to say,"
"Half the time," Blu questioned her with a synonymous look that said 'oh really?'
"C'mon you can tell me,"
As much as he didn't want to he couldn't say no to Jewel, it was his nature to cave in to her wants and needs "Well uh, see back when I was little in Minesota. Gosh this is embarrassing. There was this pet store,"
"Was she a dog?" she teased him.
"No," he moaned "but you could say that, anyway Linda took me to get me more bird feed. There was a series of cages but in this silver one was a…I guess for want of a better word…"
"Hottie, sweet chick,"
"If that's the way you want to look at it, but she was so radiant, and she had these gorgeous green eyes. And a nice sleek curve down the end of her back, with a yellow marking around her face,"
"What was her name?"
"I, didn't really ask her,"
"Oh that's a really slick move there romeo," jewel smiled at him.
"Look, it was an innocent crush, anyway she was way out of my league but I thought she was pretty and maybe it wouldn't hurt to try…"
"Why couldn't you just get yourself a nice little girlfriend instead?"
"Okay, I'm going to level with you…I never really had much luck with girls,"
"And I guess that's why the Blu I know prefers the female of a much larger species?" she placed her wings beneath her head "Just what kind of books did you read in Minesotta anyway?"
"Very funny, but I ended up with you after all,"
"I know,"
"Oh and Jewel, I've been wanting to talk to you about the discussion I had with your dad,"
"What's wrong?
"Oh, nothing's wrong, really," he assured her "it's just that I, well, it's a pretty big thing. And, I'm not so entirely sure about it.
Jewel placed a wing gently on his with a look of deep admiration "You're the most interesting bird I know,"
"Very funny," he skulked
"No I'm serious," she explained while stroking his wing gently, never taking a sweet eye off him for a second "You're an amazing bird Blu. It's because of you that we don't have to live in fear anymore, and you take good care of your wife and your kids. You're a wonderful father, and an equally amazing husband," Blu felt a sense of relaxation and deep pleasure hearing her every word, he loved being married to Jewel "I love you,"
"I love you too,"
"I mean you do so much for a bird your age without your mom and dad's guidance," all of a sudden there was that same tone shift, only this time it hit Blu a little more seriously "…I never really could expect…'
Blu pulled back his wing "Whoa, wait what was that last part?"
"'Your mom and dad's guidance'?"
"What does that mean?"
"Nothing, honey, all I meant was that you turned out great without them,"
This was starting to get interesting for Blu. "Yeah, but, my parent's guidance, you're saying I probably would've been better off had I known my mom and dad. What's wrong with who I am now?"
"Nothing," Jewel felt a little uneasy at the moment.
"No, no let's be honest. I mean isn't that what a husband and wife are supposed to be, honest? How do you think I would've been had my parents been involved in any part of my life,"
"Well, different I guess?"
"Different how?"
"Well for one thing you would've been growing up in the wild instead of the city-"
"Oh there it is," he rolled his eyes "You're saying I'm not good enough,"
"That's not what I'm saying," she was getting stern with him.
"Well what are you saying? Maybe ma and pa Gunderson never wanted their little baby boy. Have you ever thought of that?"
"You don't know that?"
"Don't defend them,"
"I'm not defending anybody. Haven't you ever wondered that maybe somewhere out there there's some part of you that was meant to be wild, some part that maybe knows your identity?"
"My name," he sarcastically replied "What's wrong with my name?"
"You're family obviously named you,"
"That's great, that's just great. Maybe my name is Cindy, or Layla, or Gena what's her name. Well I'm sorry I'm not good enough for you Mrs. Gunderson, but I guess your married to a no name husband,"
"Blu stop acting like this, the point is that you turned out fine,"
"Fine *pfft*, maybe I could've turned out better,"
"Did I say that?"
"In so many ways," he grumbled to himself.
He got up from his table to excuse himself.
"Blu don't leave," she pleaded him.
Blu gave a sigh "Happy Anniversary, Mrs. Whoever you are, or whoever your husband is. I'll see you back home,"
Blu left the tree, leaving Jewel all alone at her table. How could such a wonderful night turn out so sour, what was Blu's deal anyway? But then again try and to imagine yourself in his place, she thought, it's not easy learning to adapt when you don't even know who you are, where you came from, maybe it was pretty miserable being Blu.
She loved Blu more than anything, whoever he was, city or no city, jungle or no jungle.
Back in the tree of what was now referred to as home for a woman and her three chicks lived, a sad lonely macaw sat at the base of the tallest branch, occasionally he looked back at the three chicks, wondering what kind of father he was supposed to be, what kind of man his wife expected.
More importantly what his purpose in life was, if he had any, as far as it concerned himself he may as well have to go through with his father in laws' proposition, what else was he good for?
'what am I good for?' he repeated to himself. You wouldn't know it but after that thought the moisture in his eyes became just a little too much, gestating at the bitter end of his curved beak. He buried his face beneath his cupped wings, silently sobbing the night away.
As soon as he got tired of that he went into a gentle doze, his eyelids couldn't sustain his weary self, all he could see was clear blackness, fading away into the night.
The second he opened them he all that appeared at the front of his cornea was a blurred out morning hue. Two shadows stood tall over his head, the world seemed much larger to him for some apparent reason.
He rubbed his weary eyelids, his wings had shrunken. Not only that but his whole body features had been contorted to a childlike appearance. He couldn't make out these auspicious looking birds, words came out of their beaks from what he could hear, but what could he hear? It was all muffled and echoey murmurings going on.
The first figure, a leaner much more slender type put its face around his head feathers. As much as he wanted to fight it there was no use or hope in getting out of whatever it was these birds were planning to do to him.
"It's flying time," the second image said profoundly.
No, no, no, no no no. They let him go, time shifted by very slowly and these birds were fading away the faster he fell.
"Daddy!" the little chick Blu shouted desperately. "Mommy, Daddy, Daddy…"Dad?" a little voice said.
Blu instantly transferred out of wherever in hell he found himself and back into the present state of reality. He turned around, sniffling, and saw his son Tiago standing wearily, rubbing his eyes with his right wing.
"Oh, hey buddy, what's wrong?" he sniffled some more.
"I had a bad dream," he moaned.
"I know what that feels like," he grumbled to himself "What?" asked Tiago. "Nothing, uhm come here," he gestured him with his left wing.
Tiago retreated in the comfort of his fathers' soft feathers, to Blu this was at least a stimulating sense of relief in a way, still better than how he was feeling before.
"Want to watch the stars with me?"
"Uh, huh," he yawned "Dad?" he said innocently.
"I like the way your heart beats. Better than a warm glass of milk,"
"Thanks,"
"Dad?"
"Yeah Tiago,"
"You're my very best friend,"
"…Yeah," Blu decided to agree.
"And we'll always be friends forever, won't we?"
"Maybe even longer buddy,"
"Promise," he looked up at him.
Blu looked down at his son, no one could ever know why he managed to work up a smile, but he did. His son returned it generously.
Blu gave him a kiss on his tiny pear shaped head.
"I promise,"
Tiago fell into a deep sleep in the comfort of his warm feathers like a pillow. Blu still had a lot to think about, but now he was thinking more seriously.
'Dad', he was a stranger to the word, just as much as his own father was to him. But in all honesty was Jewel wrong to look at things from all sides? How could he have turned out had he have known his family, aunts, uncles. Jewel turned out the way she did being raised by a nice caring family like her father, mother, and aunt, they gave her strong values, a sense of living. What did his own parents ever leave him?
Tiago stirred in his sleep to interrupt his trance for a moment, Blu fixated his attention on his son. 'Son' that's another thing he was a stranger to. But maybe, maybe he could be different, maybe he could give something to his son, maybe…
'maybe I should go through with it,' he decided mentally. But for now that would have to wait, tomorrow would be a day unlike any other, right now all the father and son could think of was sleep.
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