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Now…

I bet when some of you were little, always wondering about stuff… You asked your mom or dad the question of, "Mom, (or dad) where do babies come from?"

And your parents either were stunned, gave you a very confusing answer, or pretended that they had something to do to avoid answering.

Well… This one shot for this series is inspired by that question!


Where do Chicks Come From?


Right on the border of the Blue and Scarlet macaw tribes was a tree with a hollow, a familiar family of four living in it. This is where Alex the Scarlet macaw lived with his mate, Lily the Blue macaw, as well as their two hybrid Blue and Scarlet macaw chicks, Cadence and Eddie.

Cadence, in particular, always had something tugging at the back of her mind, something that has been bothering her for a few days now and she wanted to know the answer from her older uncles or her father. She wanted to know about where chicks came from, she understood that she of course, was a mixture of Blue and Scarlet from her father and mother, having most of her father's red feathers, but with a blue feathered tail. However she was still lost as to how she was created.

As the family gathered together to eat some breakfast, Cadence was eating slower than usual, which Lily noticed.

"You alright sweetie?" Lily asked, a bit worried. "You're not eating as fast as you usually do."

"I'm fine mom, I just have something on my mind right now." Cadence answered.

"You want to say what it is?" Lily wondered what was on her daughter's mind.

"No, I want to be answered from someone else first." Cadence replied as she went back to eating.

Lily looked at her mate, Alex, who looked at his mate at the same time, both with confused faces on as they were not sure what was up with their daughter.

As everyone finished eating, Lily left to spend a day with Sorrel, while Eddie went to spend time with his older cousins. Meanwhile Alex decided to just spend a lazy day and sleep in for once, Cadence, however, decided to go see her Uncle Tom to ask the question. She didn't feel too comfortable asking her dad first and plus, Alex was already napping heavily as he was snoring. Cadence giggled hearing her father sleep.

Taking a deep breath, Cadence lifted off and flew through the rainforest, enjoying the good feeling of the air rushing through her feathers and the sunlight warming her cool body from being inside her hollow. After a short flight, she found her Uncle Tom's hollow in the Blue macaw tribe, hoping that Uncle Tom was still home.

Tomada was indeed still home, like Alex he decided to spend a lazy day, given that Sorrel was with Lily and Junior was of course spending his day with Bia and Bobbie was out with her friends. Tomada was just relaxing when he heard a knock against the hollow side, wondering who could that be. Tomada got up and stretched his wings, and walked to the hollow entrance to see who it was, surprised to see Cadence here.

"Oh hello there Cadence." Tomada greeted with his friendly smile and accepted a hug from his adoptive niece. "What can I help you with?

"Uncle Tom, I have something to ask that's been bothering me for a little time now." Cadence replied.

"And that is?" Tomada raised an eye, curious.

"I was wondering if you could tell me where do chicks come from?" Cadence asked slowly, while dragging a talon across the branch she was standing on.

Tomada was shocked and he couldn't answer, he was so unprepared for this that he froze up completely, so much so that a passing bird would think that he was a statue. Tomada was so lost in space that he didn't even blink and Cadence thought she said something wrong to her Uncle Tom that caused him to freeze up. Tomada was still frozen up until Cadence decided to snap him out of it.

"Uncle Tom, hello?" Cadence said, as she flew up in front of Tomada's face and waved her wing at him to snap him back to reality.

"What, what." Tomada said, shaking his head and clearing his frozen mind. "What happened?"

"I asked you a question and you just froze." Cadence answered.

"Oh, what was it again?" Tomada asked, forgetting what Cadence asked.

Cadence, not wanting to make her uncle freeze up again, decided to not say it again and she decided it was best to ask her Uncle Blu her question.

"Never mind, have a nice day Uncle Tom." Cadence saying her goodbyes, flew off, while Tomada was left scratching his head with his wing, trying to remember what his adoptive niece was asking him.

"Well, that went well." Cadence said sarcastically as she flew on to her Uncle Blu's hollow.

Blu would most likely be out, since he was the Blue macaw tribe leader now of course and would be very busy to just stay at home all day. However Cadence was still in luck because Jewel was at home, tidying up the hollow, with Bia who volunteered to help out her mother. As Cadence landed on the branch outside the hollow entrance, she called for her Uncle Blu.

"Uncle Blu? Are you home?" Cadence called out, as Jewel heard her and greeted her niece.

"Well hello Cadence, your Uncle Blu is not home right now, but I can help you if I can." Jewel smiled, but also wondering why Cadence was here alone.

"Well Aunt Jewel, there has been something in the back of my mind that I was always wondering about and I was hoping if you can give me an answer, because Uncle Tom just froze up when I asked him." Cadence said, Jewel wondering what could Cadence have asked that had such an effect on the falcon.

"And what is that sweetie?" Jewel smiled, wanting to really know what it was.

"You see, I was wondering… Where do chicks come from?" Cadence asked, pausing in between.

Jewel understood why Tomada would freeze up at this question and really didn't know what to say to Cadence. She needed to think of something fast and it came to her.

"Oh, I think I hear Bia inside calling for me." And Jewel tried her best to imitate Bia's voice, while keeping her beak as closed as she can so Cadence would not notice it was her talking. "Mom, I need your help with something."

It must have been convincing because Cadence didn't notice her aunt imitating Bia's voice and fell for it.

"Sorry sweetie, your cousin is calling for me, maybe I can answer later?" Jewel said.

"Sure Aunt Jewel, thanks anyway." And Cadence flew off while Jewel breathed a sigh of relief.

As Cadence flew off, she decided that it was now time to ask her dad the question. However she was not sure she would get an answer, seeing her Uncle Tom and Aunt Jewel not giving her one. However she knew it was worth the try, she really wanted to know before she felt her head would burst.

As Cadence arrived back home, she spotted her dad, snoring loudly, his beak opening and closing as his saliva dripped out of his beak, making a small puddle next to him. Cadence quietly walked to her dad and began poking him to wake him up.

"Dad, dad, wake up, I need to ask you something." Cadence said as she continued trying to wake Alex up.

"Stop poking me Liz." Alex said, annoyed as he was clearly lost in dreamland and not paying good attention to his daughter.

"Dad!" Cadence actually yelled out, raising her voice, which got Alex up.

"What!? Is the hollow on fire!?" Alex shouted, shooting up and turning his head rapidly from side to side.

As Alex panted, he relaxed seeing everything was fine and noticed his daughter standing before him.

"Oh, it's just you sweetie, what is it?" Alex asked, smiling now.

"Dad, I need to ask you something." Cadence once looking down at her talons, while dragging one across the hollow floor.

"Let me guess, it's the thing thats been bothering you." Alex thought correctly.

"Yes, I need to know, where do chicks come from?" Cadence asked.

Alex was really baffled by this as he was confused as to why Cadence would wonder about this. However he decided it was best to try to answer his daughter's question in the most appropriate way for her age.

"Okay sweetie, come here." Alex said and sat down, Cadence coming into her's father's lap, Alex putting his wings around his daughter. "You see sweetie, chicks come from their parents. When a mommy and daddy love each other a lot, an egg comes from the mother and soon that egg hatches to reveal a chick, like you." Alex tried his best to explain it.

"I'm confused, don't you and mom love each other a lot now? And how does the egg come from the mom?" Cadence asked, her father's answer made Cadence ask more questions.

Alex sighed. He couldn't explain the whole process of mating and how it worked, for Cadence was way too young to know about it, it would certainly make her get nightmares if she knew and of course Alex didn't want that.

"I'm sorry sweetie, you are just going to have to wait until you are much older, I can't really tell you." Alex said, a bit nervous now.

"Fine dad, I guess I got my answer." Cadence said, satisfied.

As night fell and Lily and Eddie came back home, to enjoy dinner with Alex and Cadence, Alex gave Lily the look, "We need to talk after" look. After which, the the couple went into their room and made sure their chicks did not hear them as they talked.

"What is it?" Lily asked, curious to know.

"Cadence asked me, "Where do chicks come from?" question, boy was that such a talk." Alex got out as he sighed.

"What did you tell her?" Lily was a bit worried Alex told her how it all worked.

"Well, I only told you how it worked in a very short way, leaving out the details of course." Alex told Lily the truth, which she believed.

"Oh, well that's fine." Lily replied, in relief. "Man, chicks those days, so curious."

"I know, right?" Alex perked up. "Anyway, I'm tired, lets go to sleep."

"Sure." Lily smiled, the two getting in their nest, wrapped in each other wings.

"Love you." Alex kissed Lily on the beak.

"Love you too." Lily replied as she kissed back goodnight.

And so, Cadence has received her answer, sort of… She was way too young to know, but she accepted the answer from her father, as she loved her dad and trusted him. And she was patient, she would wait until she was old enough to know where do chicks come from.


Well I hope you guys had some laughs!

And of course, I'm the one who has to give the confusing answer! Boy I would feel so awkward in real life if my child asked me that question!

And as always, Lily belongs to Skyler the Elf Owl, while Alex, Cadence, and Eddie belong to me!