Kidnapped
Eva desperately searched around their area where she lives looking for her daughter. Rafael on the other hand took all his kids to Tulio (who said he would help anyone in need) to be safe.
"Maria! Maria!" Eve called for her toucan baby but got no response. "Maria!" Eva called again. "Where could she be?"
Meanwhile Rafael had just finished getting his seventeen children in the artificial jungle
"But Daddy, we don't wanna stay here alone." One of them moaned.
"Kids, trust me, it's for the best. So don't worry, Tulio here is a nice man, he's the one who healed your Aunt Jewel's wing," Rafael said trying to calm his children down.
"Fine," they all said in unison.
"Good," Rafael smiled. Rafael then motioned for Tulio to close the door.
Tulio locked the door making sure it was secured then proceeded to walk off with Rafael on his shoulder who kept looking back.
"By the way, I have seen birds have up to five children, but how did you end up with seventeen?" Tulio asked.
Rafael just shrugged in response as he took flight outside also looking for his daughter.
"Maria! Maria!" Rafael called out for his daughter.
"Maria!" Another voice called out. Rafael looked to his side and saw Eva also searching.
"Eva, over here!" Rafael called to his wife as they both perched themselves onto a tree.
"Did you find her?" Rafael asked.
"No," Eva replied slightly crying.
"Eva, my love, it's okay, we'll find her, don't worry." Rafael said as he hugged her.
"Okay," she replied. "Did you drop the kids off?"
"Yeah, don't worry they're safe." Rafael replied.
"Come on it's too dark to search," Eva said taking off.
"Actually, Eva, you go on ahead, I'm going to go find some help." Rafael replied taking off in another direction. "Maybe the monkeys can help."
The following morning Rafael flew to Mauro's home area desperately in need of help. Rafael touched down on a branch where he saw Mauro break dancing on the ground with his right hand man Vinnie and the other marmosets.
"Hey, Mauro!" Rafael called out.
"Hey, Mister Big Nose, what's up?" Mauro said as he did a back flip.
"I need your help," Rafael replied.
"Whataya need?" Mauro asked.
"Listen, my youngest daughter Maria went missing this morning, you haven't seen her have you?" Rafael asked.
"Nope, sorry." Mauro replied.
"Aye-yi-yi," Rafael shook his head. "Well, thanks anyways." Rafael turned and was about to leave.
"Wait!" Vinnie called out.
"What?" Rafael replied.
"I did see a baby toucan earlier," Vinnie admitted.
"You did, where?!" Rafael quickly asked.
"I saw her fly past here but I think she was with someone too. I couldn't make out who he was, but he looked like a type of macaw."
"Okay, now I know that she's been taken, thanks amigo!" Rafael called out as he took flight looking for Eva.
Back to where Eva was searching she still had no luck finding Maria, not a single bird had seen her. Eva had flown to the far side of the forest, hoping she would be around there somewhere.
"Maria, are you out there?!" Eva called but still received no response. Meanwhile in a tree close to where Eva was searching there were the two Spanish lear macaws named Eddie and Carl, the two brothers who saved Jewel.
"Maria!" Eve called out.
"Yo, bro, did you hear that?" Carl asked his brother.
"I heard it," Eddie replied.
"MARIA!"
"Idios mio (oh my god), I'm getting a headache!" Carl complained.
"Come on, let's go see," Eddie said as the two brothers took flight outside.
"Mariaaaaaa!" Eva yelled.
"Hey, Lady!" Carl called.
"What!?" Eva replied.
"What is with all the yelling?" Eddie asked.
"Have you see my little girl? Have you? Have you?!" Eva yelled as she grabbed Carl by the shoulders and shook him. "Have you!"
"Yo… Bro… she's shaking meeee!" Carl yelled.
"Okay, lady, calm down." Eddie said as she stopped shaking Carl.
"Wait… I know you two," Eva sighed.
"You do?" Both of them said in unison.
"Yeah, didn't you save my friend, Jewel?" Eva asked recalling what happened between, Johnny, the snake, and Jewel.
"Oh, yeah, you're Rafael!" Eddie said which made Carl slap him.
"Ow, what was that for?" Eddie pouted, rubbing his head.
"Does she look like a man?" Carl replied.
"Guys, listen, my youngest daughter Maria went missing this morning, have you seen any sign of her?"
"No, sorry," They both said.
"Okay, thanks anyways," Eva said taking off.
"Good luck finding your little girl… actually, wait up, we'll help!" They both said in unison following Eva.
"You will?" Eva replied slightly surprised.
"Yeah, we'll search the northern part, you search the eastern." Eddie said as he and his brother joined in the search.
As Eva continued to search she bumped in Rafael who was flying in her direction.
"Did you find anything?" They bother asked in unison.
"I talked to the monkeys and one of them told me they saw Maria with a macaw they couldn't tell what type though." Rafael admitted.
"Oh no… well, I have got those lear macaw brothers to help too, you know the ones, they saved Jewel." Eva replied.
"Well, we have to ask some macaws some questions." Rafael frowned.
"You do that, I'll keep looking in the forest," Eva said. They both nodded in agreement and took flight in different directions.
Meanwhile at the local Blue Macaw Bookstore, the Blue Macaw family appeared to be enjoying a day out together. Blu was on Linda's computer, trying to explain to Jewel about the solar system.
"Look, Jewel, I'm telling you the moon goes around the Earth, and the Earth goes around the sun." Blu explained like a science geek as he browsed on the internet.
"But how do you know?" Jewel replied.
"Because I just do, jeeze." Blu sighed in frustration.
"But how do you know?" Jewel asked again.
"What-I-oh forget it…" Blu said walking from the computer which made Blu chuckle.
"Awww, my bluey wuey doesn't like it when he discovers science." Jewel smiled.
"Yeah, yeah, go on, have a laugh." Blu said sarcastically as he lied down in his old cage, fiddling around with his bell with his son Rey.
"You always make us chuckle, Blu, and that is why I love you." Jewel said sweetly.
"Yeah, yeah," Blu said not removing eye contact from his bell as he swung it up and down in his talon.
"Come on, Daddy, Rev, come out of the cage!" Crystal said.
"No!" Blu and his son replied.
"Tsk, Tsk, Tsk, are there any mangoes around here, I'm hungry." Jewel said looking around.
"In the fridge." Blu replied.
"Yummy," Jewel said as she flew in the kitchen where Linda was reading a newspaper. "Ugh, uh, ugh!" Jewel moaned as she gripped the fridge handle in her talons trying to pull it open.
"Need a hand, Jewel?" Linda offered.
Jewel nodded as a yes and Linda opened the fridge for her and pulled out a mango.
"Here you go, Jewel." Linda said passing the fruit to Jewel.
Jewel squawked as a thank you and carried it back to the living room.
"Mmmmm, mango." Jewel happily said as she dove her head into the mango and began to devour it.
"Jewel, can't you chew with your beak closed?" Blu asked.
"No," Jewel replied still eating.
"Mommy, Mommy!" Crystal said tugging her mother's wing.
'Yes, Crystal?" Jewel asked taking her head out of the food.
"Can I have some of Daddy's hot chocolate, please?" Crystal begged with her light blue eyes wide open.
'Well, I shouldn't really…" Jewel replied making Crystal look away like she was going to cry. "But since you said please, go ahead." Jewel smiled.
"yay!" Crystal cheered flying directly into the cup of hot chocolate causing a short splash.
"Crystal!" Blu and Jewel said frowning.
"Sorry," Crystal smiled climbing out of the cup.
"You are going to need a bath." Jewel said.
"I'll go run a shower," Blu said flying into the kitchen. Blu flew into the kitchen and picked up a pen and paper and wrote a letter for Linda.
"Hi, Blu," Linda said stroking his head. Blu relaxed as Linda stroked his head. When Linda stopped, Blu handed the note to Linda.
Can I run a shower?
"Okay, sure, Blu… but you don't look that dirty." Linda admitted. Blu shook his head and wrote another note for Linda.
It's not for me, it's for my daughter, she fell in the hot chocolate.
"Sure, Blu, your daughter can use it." Linda smiled.
Blu flew back into the living room where his family was. "Come on, Crystal, lets-" Before Blu could finish multiple knocks were heard on the window.
"Rafael?" Blu asked as he opened the window for his toucan friend.
"Blu, Jewel, I need your help now!" Rafael screamed as he flew onto the table.
"What's wrong?" Jewel asked.
"It's Maria… my youngest daughter remember? I think she's been kidnapped!" Rafael explained.
"What how!?" Blu yelled.
"Well, last night when me and Eva counted our children to make sure they were all home, Maria wasn't there but when I was searching I talked to the monkeys and one of them said he saw Maria with some macaw!" Rafael said taking a couple of breaths.
"Oh my, we gotta help Uncle Rafael!" Crystal was about to say but her father stopped her.
"Sweetie, first you need a bath, and seconds it's not safe for you four to come." Blu explained.
"Does that mean, we're not gonna help Uncle Rafael?" Azul joined in.
"No, we're going to help, but you three are going to stay here." Jewel replied. "Kids we're not doing it because we don't want you in our way, we 're doing it because we don't want you to get hurt."
"We understand, Mommy," the kids said in unison.
"Good," Jewel smiled. "Come on, Blu, let's go."
"Okay, okay, wait a sec," Blu said as he wrote another note for Linda. Blu flew back into the kitchen handing the note to Linda.
Me and Jewel have to go out, can we leave our kids here?
P.S. if you say yes, make sure my daughter takes a bath.
"Of course your kids can stay here, Blu," Linda smiled. "And I'll make sure yout daughter has a bath as well."
Blu put his head into Linda's hand, she understood what he meant as they both performed their special handshake.
"Bye, Blu," Linda called as Blu flew back into the living room.
"Okay, I'm ready, let's go." Blu said. So the lovebirds and their friend flew into the sky for another attempt of finding Maria.
Meanwhile somewhere in a really far part of the jungle, Maria was trapped inside of a bottle. She banged on it with her big beak trying to break herself free. "Let me out, Mom, Dad!" Maria called and demanded as she tried to open the bottle cap but it was stuck tight from the outside.
"Shut up, will you," Maria looked outside the bottle where she saw her kidnapper who was wearing a black uniform robe around himself hiding his face.
"Who are you, and what do you want?" Maria asked.
"There are a lot of things that I want, little girl. But at this moment, all I want is your friend, the hawk, and the crazed cockatoo." The kidnapper replied.
"Uncle Rico, but-" Maria was about to say "Ah!"
The kidnapper jumped on the bottle knocking it sideways as it rolled a little.
"I hope you like it in there because it does get a little hot, and I hope you're not claustrophobic." He smiled as he sat down on the ground, watching the sky.
"I hope Mommy and Daddy are looking for me." Maria thought as she lied down trying to sleep even though it was only daylight.
Back to Rafael, Blu, and Jewel, they continued to search around the forest hoping to find any clues to the whereabouts of Maria.
"Maria, Maria, Mariaaaa!" They all called in unison.
"Still nothing," Jewel said, "Is there anyone else even helping?"
"Yeah, remember those two lear macaws, Carl and Eddie, who saved you a couple of weeks ago?" Rafael asked.
"Oh, yeah, I remember." Jewel said.
"Let's go check back at my tree, maybe Eva found something." Rafael sighed. So they all took the same direction. After a few minutes of flying they flew back to Rafael's tree hoping to see any sign of Maria but all they saw was Eva sitting in her nest crying.
"Eva, what's wrong?" Rafael said as he put a wing on her shoulder.
"Look!" Eva replied as she handed a bit of paper to Rafael.
"Aye Corumba," Rafael said going wide eyed.
"What is it?" Blu asked.
"Look!" Rafael handed the paper to Blu and Jewel.
"Oh my," they both said.
On the paper was a picture of Maria in the bottle and there was some writing below it.
"Can you read that, Blu?" Eva asked still crying.
"Yeah, it says… well… it's in Portuguese, and I still don't know how to speak it." Blu replied. "Jewel, can you read it?"
"No, Blu, I still can't read as good as you." Jewel replied.
"well, maybe I can read it to you and you translate?" Blu asked.
"Yeah, sure, that could work." Jewel replied.
"Okay, it says s-se voce q-q-quiser a s-s-sua m-m-menina de v-voltage, traga-me o f-falcao e da c-c-catatua," Blu said having a little trouble reading it.
"Se voce quiser a sua menina de volta traga-me o falcao e da cactua, oh Blu it means, if you want your little girl back bring me the hawk and the cockatoo." Jewel corrected.
"Well whoever wrote this by the sounds of it wants Rico and Nigel." Rafael admitted.
"Oh, jeeze, well that's a problem considering they're both dead, no offence Rico!" Blu called as he looked up in the sky.
"This is just great, how are we going to find her now?" Eva said.
As the four birds thought, a shout came out of the sky.
"Rafael, Rafael!"
"HEY RAFI!"
From the sky Carl and Eddie came flying down panting.
"I was flying, well, we were flying-"
"And we saw Maria, and we saw this big macaw in robes."
"Oh, he was ugly, wasn't he?" Eddie said quickly to his brother.
"Yeah, yeah, anyway let's get to the point."
"So we saw the macaw right and he just… he just… he just grabbed her didn't he?" Carl fastly explained.
"Yeah, he just grabbed her and pulled her up and he was like, you're coming with me right now, and you're going to be a prisoner!" Eddie said in a deep voice.
"But Maria thought, I mean, she fought back, though and she was…" Carl said making punching noises.
"I ain't you prisoner, you ain't taking me alive." Carl said in a girly voice putting his wings on his hips.
"Stop! Just get to the point!" Rafael yelled.
"We found where Maris is," they both yelled in unison.
"Where!?" Eva yelled.
"At a dark and far part of the jungle over there!" They yelled again in unison pointing.
"Well, why didn't you just say that, come on!" Rafael screamed flying to the far part of the jungle with his wife and the two blue macaws, but the Lear macaw brothers flew somewhere else.
Will Rafael, Eva, Blu and Jewel get to Maria in time? Read to find out, ladies and gentlemen.