Okay guys! We are just going to go right into chapter 4! Man… Two chapters per day… My mind is really fired up or something!


Chapter 4: Trip Preparations


While Blu, Jewel, and the kids were preparing for the long trip ahead to the Amazon, Alex went to Rafael, Nico, and Pedro to tell them that they would be away for awhile.

In the city of Rio, Rafael, Nico, and Pedro were busy doing auditions for carnival, which was coming up pretty quickly and this year was hard on the party birds as they wanted to do something different and new, but it just always has to be the same.

And they certainly were out of inspiration for Eva, Rafael's wife, was doing her audition and of course, it was terrible…

You can't see it coming,

You won't find it anywhere else,

As Eva sang the last word, she repeated it, going higher and higher until the lightbulbs in the room broke to the high pitched tone. As the party birds were behind a plank of wood, Rafael clapped his wings in joy to Eva's singing while Nico and Pedro felt their ears burst at Eva's voice.

"Bravo! Bravo!" Rafael shouted and flew over and held Eva close to him. " That was amazing, Eva darling, you hit every note! Right guys?"

"Yeah." Pedro said slowly. "Along with a bunch of notes I never heard of." He lowered his voice.

"Rafi!" Eva shouted in anger and looked at Rafael.

"Don't worry." Rafael bowed slightly to her. "We will find the perfect spot for you."

"You better. Chao, chao, bye boys." And Eva flew up and out from the room through the ceiling.

"See you back at home my tasty mango." Rafael said to her.

"None of these acts are inspiring." Nico sighed. "I'm just not inspired, carnival is right around the corner and out reputations are on the line."

"Copy that. We need something that can make us wiggle. Something that can make us jiggle. Something that pops." Pedro replied and processed to say. "Pop! Pop! Pop! You know what pop is backwards. Pop!" And Pedro stretched out his body in a popping motion and then just as quickly folded his wings in disappointment.

"Next." Nico called, expecting just another disappointment.

However next bird did not come in and Nico and Pedro started tapping their talons.

"I said, next!" Nico called out again, a bit louder.

"BOO!" A voice shouted behind Nico and Pedro, to which the two jumped up and felt their hearts skip a beat.

It was Alex and he was laughing his tail feathers off as he saw the two jump up. He came from behind and moved quietly to scare the two and have some fun.

"Really man!" Pedro said at Alex while catching his breath. "That's not funny."

"Says you." Alex chuckled. "That was the funniest thing ever!"

"Can you just get to why you are here?" Nico asked, a bit annoyed now.

"Okay, okay." Alex replied.

Alex, Rafael, Nico, Pedro, and Luiz decided to talk about it on the roof where Alex told them about the big news in the Amazon.

"The Amazon?" Luiz wondered. "Wow, that's wild."

"Yeah it is." Alex sighed.

"What's wrong Alex?" Rafael asked s he noticed Alex's sad mood.

Alex realized he never did tell the four about his past, now seems like it was a good time as ever to tell them.

"I came from the Amazon guys, I was captured from there and watched as the forest burned, my family was in that part of the forest." Alex told them, getting sadder and sadder. "Even thought I have Blu, Jewel, and the kids, I just wish I had my real family. And to go back to the Amazon, it's too scary, I have nightmares from time to time about that day."

The four understood and Rafael came up and put a wing over Alex.

"I really don't want to go, but the family will be so disappointed if I don't." Alex was on the verge of crying.

"You can do it Alex." Rafael comforted him. "Family comes first, right?"

"Okay Rafi, you're right, I can do this." Alex said, more confident this time.

"That's the spirit." Rafael patted Alex on the back.

"Okay, thank guys." And Alex flew off back to the birdhouses. "See you guys in a couple of weeks." Alex called back, turning his head while flying to look at them.

"Safe travels Alex!" Rafael called out.

"Bring me back a souvenir!" Luiz shouted.

Alex just smiled and laughed a bit while turning his head back froward to focus on flying. He just got back in time to see his nephew swinging on a rope.

"Amazon!" Alex's nephew shouted out as he beat his chest and grabbed onto a rope while swinging down to Blu, who was wearing a fanny pack. "Let's go! Come on dad!" The little chick said excitedly.

"Okay, bug spray, water purifier, band-aids…" Blu told himself as he thought of all the things the family would need on their trip. "I think I'm forgetting something." And while blu was not looking, the little male chick was digging through the fanny pack.

"Yeah, you are missing one brother." Alex called out as he landed on the platform.

"Oh there you are Alex." Blu replied. "I guess I am missing you, but really what am I…"

However before Blu could finish, his son finally found something he was interested in.

"Cool! The all-in-one adventurer's knife!" And the chick activated it. "I'll be in charge of this."

"That's not for you." Blu took the knife from his son and lifted him up until his son lost his grip and he fell down on the platform.

As Blu put back the knife in the fanny pack, the light blue girl landed down with a book open behind her uncle Alex.

"Hey dad, uncle Alex, did you know that the Amazon has snakes that can swallow you whole?"

"Actually Bia." Alex said. "I heard those stories are highly exaggerated." Alex replied, revealing the name of the girl.

"No, really. Look!" And Bia turned the book and showed Alex a pop up of a snake from her book, which scared Alex, Blu chuckling a little at his brother.

"Very funny Blu." Alex stared at his brother.

Jewel then flew in with a smile to see if everyone was ready.

"All right, ready to go?" She said as she landed in front of Bia and her boy. "A fanny pack?" Jewel looked at Blu.

"Yeah seriously Blu, why do you need a fanny pack?" Alex agreed with Jewel.

"What? we might need some stuff, like the GPS." And Blu showed a surprised look. "Oh, that's what I forgot!" And Blu peeked his head into his birdhouse to find it.

Alex sighed at his younger brother while Jewel called for her other daughter.

"Carla!" Jewel called, revealing her other daughter's name. "We're leaving."

"I'm not going, it's going to be lame." Carla replied in a rude manner.

"Teenage years coming up, maybe?" Alex said in response.

"Yeah, don't remind me Alex." Jewel sighed.

As Jewel finished that sentence, Blu found his GPS snd held it in his wings, he was going to use it to help them find the Amazon.

"Okay, here it is, the voice recognition makes it totally foolproof. Here watch." And Blu started speaking to the GPS. "Find Linda and Tulio."

The GPS clearly got the message wrong for it said. "Searching for Dinner in Tokyo."

"Yeah, completely foolproof." Alex commented and chuckled, while Blu blushed.

"Well that does sound like a good suggestion." Blu thought of a comeback.

"You trust this woman?" Jewel asked.

"Yes, I do." Blu replied in a robotic voice, but was snapped out of it as he heard a familiar voice.

"Hey, wait up family!" Rafael's voice shouted. "I'm coming too!" And he landed on the platform and slid to Blu and Jewel. "Don't worry buddy, we got your back."

"We?" Alex questioned.

Before Alex could think of who it could be, Nico and Pedro silently appeared behind Alex and went, "BOO!" behind his back.

Alex shot up and felt his heart skip a beat, Nico and Pedro laughing.

"Oh ha ha." Alex replied. "Okay you guys got me."

Carla, hearing Nico and Pedro opened her birdhouse door to see her two favorite uncles.

"Wait, you guys are coming too?" She asked, excited now.

"We wouldn't miss it for the world. We gonna scout the wildest, coolest talent in the jungle!" Pedro explained while dancing along with Nico.

"It's out inspiration for this year's carnival show." Nico then added, spinning his bottle cap with his wing, throwing it in the air and then sliding, the cap landing on his head, while saying. "Amazon Untamed."

"Cool!" Carla shouted in joy, but then hid it. "I mean yeah, I guess I'll go." And Carla then put back her headphone she was wearing back in her ear.

"Amazon jungle or bust, baby!" Nico said while hovering in the air.

"who is ready for a tropical adventure?" Pedro came next to his canary friend.

Everyone, except for Blu shouted in joy and started flying off from the birdhouses, while Blu took out a whistle and wanted to get everyone's attention.

"Wait, we didn't do a headcount." Blu tried calling to everyone and as he looked, he noticed Bia put her book in his talons, and after talking a quick look at it, he started to fly off. "Hey guys, wait up!"

And Blu, underestimating the weight he was carrying flew off and went down rather than up.

"Recalculating." The GPS called while Alex, seeing his brother having trouble went to help him.

"Seriously Blu, you don't need that much stuff." Alex said as he took the GPS and Bia's book from Blu.

"Thanks bro." Blu said as he was able to fly now.

"Don't mention it." And the two brothers quickly flew to join the others.

As the group flew over Luiz's garage, the bulldog wanted to go too and was calling to them.

"Hey birds, wait up!"

Alex noticed Luiz and looked at him.

"Sorry Luiz!" Alex called in a sympathetic tone. "If only you could grow wings."

"Oh man!" Luiz returned. "Thanks a lot Alex!"

Alex chuckled. "Don't worry, I will try to bring a souvenir for you!"

And so the group started their long journey to the Amazon to find the rest of the Blue Spix's macaws.


Well guys, looks like it's Amazon or bust!

I could have finished this earlier and posted it earlier, but my family yet again decided it was a good time to anger me again… So much for a good time.