Winded and shocked at the sudden collision, the red hooded cardinal sat, before shaking his head to get his bearings again. The small yellow canary however was extremely dizzy and couldn't see very well from his abrupt leave from the beach and from his unfortunate crash. Neither of the birds had any idea who or what had crashed into them as they were still back to back until the canary, who had been hoping he'd flown into a wall or the top of a power main, heard movement behind him.

Scrambling to his knees to face his opponent, clasping his wings together and squeezing his eyes tight shut he cried out 'please don't hurt me! I'm sorry man! I didn't mean to fly in to you! I was just trying to get away from the beach, cause there were these seagulls and they were all laughing at me and calling me names and all I wanted to do was get into Rio and see the sights ya know but I've been flying for days and the winds getting harder to fly against and all I wanna do is find somewhere to sleep so I'm real sorry bro!'

Half way through the canary's rant, the cardinal had turned around to see the pleading bird at his feet, and glanced around just to check it was him he was pleading to. Instead of stopping the bird he was curious to what he had to say and since he hadn't opened his eyes to see that his 'predator' was nothing more than a red hooded cardinal around the same age as him with not much more height.

Once the smaller bird had finished he stayed on his knees with his eyes tight shut as if waiting for the blow in the face. It never came. Instead he felt a wing on his shoulder causing him to snap his eyes open to see that the bird he had been fearing seemed pretty harmless and rather kind looking but he wasn't going to judge to soon, his vision was still impaired due to his tear filled eyes.

'It's ok bird, I ain't gunna hurt you. Just easy up a little on your breathing or I think you're going to pass out.'

The canary hadn't been aware of how fast or hard he had been breathing until till now. He could hear his own heart thundering against his chest, creating a humming sound rather than a steady beat.

'Now you're gunna have to explain to me again how you ended up like this,' he gestured to the few missing yellow feathers and the few smeared red 'I couldn't really hear you, you were talking so fast.'

The small yellow bird flicked his eyes about before answering the cardinal, stuttering his way through the story of how he had flown from Tenerife, making the tough decision and leaves his parents and siblings behind, battled with the weather and escaped the seagulls. The short story had really taken its toll on the tiny bird, flooding his mind with the events, breaking him down into tears.

The cardinal wasn't the kind of bird that was used to this but it didn't mean he didn't have a heart and felt sorry for the yellow one and put his wing around his tiny frame pulling him closer to his large grey chest hushing him.

'Whoa, hey now come one little bird, thing's will be ok. Hush now, settle down. Sure you've been on one hell of a journey and you're exhausted so I'm guessing you wanna sleep huh?'

The smaller bird sniffed up and nodded against the larger bird.

'You don't have anywhere to stay do you little guy?' he continued

Again, the smaller bird said nothing but only shook his head and looked at the ground. The red hooded bird sensed his sadness and fear on the subject and lowered his head to rest his beak on the top of the canaries head, rubbing into his feathers lightly hoping it would comfort him before saying 'Well little bird, tonight is your lucky night because you flew into Pedro, and Pedro has a pad you can crash with him, well me. That is if you want to of course.'

The canary twitched and looked up and Pedro with a small smile and spoke in a small voice 'I would very much appreciate it, as long as it's not trouble for you.'

Pedro smiled down at him replying 'not at all bird!'

The canary then hugged into Pedro once more as a thank you before wiping off any tears with his wings, hopping back and smiling at him and breathing 'Thank you. Thank you so much Pedro.'

'Anytime little bird!' Pedro spoke back 'You ready to fly then?'

The small bird nodded and hopped towards the edge of the building, looking out at the dark city as Pedro also readied himself for the flight.

'Ey, before we set off, what's your name? I can't keep calling you little bird.' Pedro called over

The little yellow canary laughed lightly and grinned 'Nico. My name is Nico.'

'Well Nico, let's fly.'

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So! Chapter 2 is done! I rather liked writing this chapter. I know I've given them both a very soft edge but don't worry, I'm not breaking down the characters too much, I'm just saying that they have more about them than shown.

Read and review please, your feed back is helpful and so are your flames to be honest because I've said, I CAN TOAST MARSHMALLOWS! (:

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